come on al jazeera. no more time for talk turkey's president issues a warning to syria's government as concerns grow over a wider confrontation in a province. hello i'm maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program scores of companies with links to illegal israeli settlements united nations says their activities raise human rights concerns and italian far right leader says he's no kid now as the country senate says he can go on trial for detaining migrants at sea. 10 trillion dollars over 30 years potential cost to the

global economy if the natural world isn't to protect it. hello welcome to the program our top story turkey's president has warned that his military will strike back at syrian forces if turkish soldiers are targeted in edler province but syria's ally russia has accused of aggravating the situation by having its forces on the ground meanwhile a syrian civilian has been killed in a clash between american troops and pro-government supporters. has more on this now from a sample. the russian patrolled the northeast syria near publish the after u.s. troops in the area over the killing one civilian the u.s. issued a statement saying they came under attack and had to fire the incident is now under investigation. that attack came all the same day turkey's president issued

a warning to the syrian government and its russian allies down to the little that the president has of jordan has given damascus until the end of february to put out beyond observation posts it is. says if talks with russia paid to stop syrian troops targeting turkish forces will respond harshly she was very strong the color we are determined to remove the syrian regime to beyond the boundaries of the thought she agreement that is behind our observation post by the end of february we will do whatever is necessary without hesitation without unwavering on land and by air. damascus has dismissed the comments saying turkey is out of touch with reality but despite his anger and frustration president jiang is still hoping he would be able to narrow differences with russian president vladimir putin. the 2

signed agreements into $1018.00 which allowed for save lives and respect of the rebels movements the deals also prevent a syrian president bashar assad from launching a military campaign to take over the last stronghold of the rebels as turkish russian relations remain strained the u.s. has stepped in. during a meeting with turkish officials u.s. syria ovoid james jeffrey delivered a sharp rebuke of russia iran and the syrian government which the us blamed for the escalation of. us don't share mts turkey sending more troops into it adding more out opposed to the 12 already established after that agreement with russia and iran 2 years ago the syrian government has been increasing its offensive in the north

taking over highways in towns from rebels but it can only do this with a close support of russia's military and its up to the russians and to the turks to decide what happens in syria next. board. those who are hearing that the u.s. military has started investigating an incident where its forces opened fire civilians in the area say they want u.s. troops to leave the province. this is an occupying state coming to our country and this is a sensitive area but there are only civilians here boy is the united states here what do they want with us. america get out of syria these are children in schools why would knowing turnings drive through the village where our children are tanks cowering weapon is going to the school yard fired these children we pick them up from school they were terrified narya tanks coming through religion what are they here for. palestine as welcome to un report that lists companies with

ties to illegal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank calling it a victory for international law in 1000 ations identified 112 business entities saying their activities raised human rights concerns the list includes tech giant motorola travel website trip advisor and u.s. based home renting company b. and b. israel has built more than $100.00 settlements in the area will stephanie decker has the latest from leicester asylum and explains that the report's only highlights international position on this but is likely to have little practical effect. 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 where xing 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 after the palestinian president mahmoud abbas addressed the u.n. 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 the nixing immediately and axing those settlements following these upcoming elections it's something that the americans have indicated they will give a green light for with this report does is highlight it get the international community starts the start of the united nation that these settlements in the occupied west bank are legal and illegal under international law or some of the international companies it highlights air b.n. b. expedia a 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's the boycott divestment and sanctions movement. a world health organization is that the number of nearly confirmed cases of the coronavirus from china has stabilized but it needs to be interpreted with extreme caution the u.n. agency gave its latest update in the last hour director general ted ross says the outbreak is still volatile and calls for united efforts to contain it spread. there are 44730 cases of corbett 19 in china with 1114 the. outside china that 441 cases from 20 countries and one death. the number of newly confirmed cases reported from china has to be lies over the past week.

that is to me that much to be interpreted with extreme caution this outbreak could still go in any direction or china's government has announced a series of measures to restart economic production while fighting the outbreak at the same time formula one has just confirmed the chinese on prey in shanghai originally scheduled for april aspire and katrina you has more from beijing. the beijing's noisiest and detainment districts is now silent and empty these restaurants karaoke rooms and nightclubs have been closed until further notice or to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus who were killed 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 that you feel you are these really 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 know 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 susan thing must walk a fine line between controlling the epidemic and minimizing 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. we've tried to lower derisive action by preventing passengers from sitting next to each other in vehicles trying to send planes. implementing these infection

temperature monitoring chinese factories are beginning to resume production but the damage has been done say the service and manufacturing sectors will be the hardest hit if we assume the virus that will be contained by and large then we would on some signs of recovery from drawing for recovery one start into the 2nd quarter of 2021 and the reason for that is it will take some time for our industries toward just on the production patterns to recruit new yorkers and a lot of them or go bankrupt if the economic impact of the outbreak is be felt lewdly i phone maker apple and south korean car brand he and day are among those expecting losses and outbound tourism could drop by an estimated 30 percent this year with many chinese choosing will be forced to stay home country you al-jazeera

beijing or in other developments a major technology conference has been cancelled as concerns over the virus escalate the annual world congress was due to be held in barcelona in 2 weeks' time but major firms like facebook amazon and sony have withdrawn from the event with vodafone a nokia also joining the boycotts in the past 24 hours because participants often spend tens of millions of dollars to exhibit at the show. and then a cruise ship that was turned away by 5 territories of the fears of the new coronaviruses docked in cambodia westerdam is carrying more than 2000 passengers japan taiwan the philippines and thailand all refused entry to the ship despite there being no confirmed cases on board in japan though another $39.00 people on a quarantined a cruise ship have contracted the virus bringing the total to $175.00 it's become host to the highest concentration of cases outside of mainland china where the virus was 1st detected. now our other top story this hour the upper house of

parliament has cleared the way for a controversial far right politician to go on trial but to sell the uni can now be prosecuted for kidnapping after the senate lifted the immunity he enjoyed as a former interior minister a conviction over his decision to keep more than 100 migrants aboard a coast guard ship last year could possibly end his political career john holl reports. as italy's interior minister. had promised his right wing support base that he would reduce immigration across the mediterranean from libya so in july last year when he refused to allow $131.00 migrants to disembark in sicily salvini was keeping his word but prosecutors say he was also breaking the law and a vote that has narrowly gone against him in the italian senate means his immunity as a former minister is lifted and a trial can go ahead. the migrants spent 6 more days aboard the bruno gregory to

rescue ship or salvini waited for other european nations to take them in italy he didn't sisted would no longer shoulder the migrant burden alone now at a sensitive time in italian politics with regional elections due on sunday sell beanie may try to turn the possibility of legal action to his advantage. my children have the right to know that their father is often away from home not because he's spending time kidnapping human beings but because he is defending the borders and security of his country and that this was his precise duty it was not his right it was his duty and this is a kind of historic thing in italy. 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 cell there's a victim of the system what selvin e did could have fateful consequences for the far right politician who hopes one

day to be prime minister charges of illegally detaining migrants on the gregory ready kidnapping in other words could result in a jail sentence of up to 15 years a conviction would in cell be nice political career journal how al-jazeera. still had fully. rejects a controversial proposal which call for married men to be or dank as priests the latest country to announce it will regulate social media in an effort to crack down on harmful content. to. follow their way in a survey slightly across northern parts of here for the time being but there's more wet and windy weather coming in as we go on through the next couple of days you see this little. rates here that see slightly quads weather for the next system. i will

bring some more wet weather small wintry weather as we go on through thursday snow would know in parts of england through scotland they were deposited as well west a weather further south up to around 101112 degrees celsius here that said white in the wings as the storm dennis that's something for them to watch out for for the weekend ahead of that comes out latest bad of cloud and right tended to snow as it moves across central parts of europe through the high ground i will continue to drive its way further east which as we go on through friday down towards the balkans and easing down towards the southeast and call it dry weather coming in behind but there you go you can see that wet and windy weather which will pile in for the weekend across more western parts of the year or maybe not across in all the merriest of africa no such problems fine and dry some decent spells of sunshine will see temperatures fairly quite nicely getting up to around 1920 celsius the coast northern parts of africa even more still left for car of the top temperature 24 degrees that you can see a slushy fine and try the most. played

to protect his life. but denied asylum a congolese activist must return home facing an uncertain future he once again trying to him self at the forefront of a political revolution to try to promote prosy can come at a heavy personal cost. back to kinshasa i witnessed documentary on al-jazeera. the evening.

come back here with al jazeera live from london the top stories turkey's president has warned that his military will strike back at syrian forces if turkish soldiers are targeted in into that province but syria's ally russia has accused her of aggravating the situation by having its forces on the ground health officials in china say the number of new coronavirus cases has dropped for a 2nd straight day but the world health organization is one of the epidemic should still be treated with extreme caution and palestine is welcome to u.n. report that list companies with ties to illegal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank calling it a victory for international law united nations has identified 112 business entities saying their activities have raised human rights concerns. in all the news the un is saying that forces loyal to warlord fully 5 to have blocked flights carrying its staff to and from libya the u.n. mission in libya has condemned the obstruction warning of severe consequences if

its to its humanitarian efforts after us forces have been trying to capture the libyan capital tripoli from the internationally recognized government u.n. envoy her son salam a has been mediating between have to and the tripoli administration. or protesters have rallied outside libya's national oil corporation have courses in tripoli they are angry about the closure and the blockade of many of the country's oil assets by forces loyal to him after analysts say more than a $1000000000.00 in oil revenue has been lost since the blockade began a month ago. u.s. democrats vying to be the presidential challenger to donald trump have turned their focus to nevada and south carolina following the new hampshire primary for months senator bernie sanders now only beat pete beach a judge in cheese days vote while senator amy klobuchar charts surged into 3rd place elizabeth warren came in filth while the former vice president joe biden trail in 5th and next votes in the state by state battle will take place later this month. let's go live to the white house now and our correspondent kimberly heloc

and of course the democrats hoping that they will finally get that moment of clarity in the field will be narrowed but so what did we learn from the new hampshire result. we learned that democrats are going to have to wait a while for that moment of clarity and many of this talisman democrats getting extremely nervous that the man who once had led the polls for months who looks like the shoo in favorite former vice president joe biden has really been struggling now he has spoken out since new hampshire saying that voters of color have not had a chance to weigh in largely white states in iowa and new hampshire but that will all change at the end of the mob when there is a nominating contest in south carolina his campaign really pinning its hopes on the outcome there but another individual who is also looking to voters of color is the former mayor of new york city mike bloomberg who is sort of the wild card in all of

this so in terms of clarity not much you have sort of the outsider looking in mike bloomberg you have self-proclaimed democratic socialist bernie sanders the senator also doing very well and then the surprise candidate of course from the mayor of south bend indiana pete bidder's edge so it's messy and many had hoped that there would be some clarity so that they could colas this against donald trump the one that they're hoping to beat in november but that is certainly proving to be a challenge with democrats fighting themselves instead of the one they hope to replace yeah and you have to wonder if this plays nicely into president trump's hands what is the likely reaction then from the white house to all this. well he watched those contests very carefully tweeting throughout it seems that he is sharp and is not against every single one of those candidates he himself not sure who will ultimately be the front runner and in the midst of all of this he's also been sharpening his nobs that many of the democrats who are expressing outrage in the

last 24 hours that a decision by the attorney general william barr to reduce suggested sentence for a trump ally roger stone there was some deep concern about the fact that this was something that the president weighed in on on social media prompting this reversal of the recommended sentence and many democrats in congress say this is exactly what they were talking about the abuse of presidential power that of course the president was impeached on and then ultimately acquitted just last week now they say that the president is acting with impunity in this latest case this of course comes on the heels of firings of 2 white house officials who testified against the president making democrats in congress very nervous in fact they're calling for independent investigations even hearings into all of this but the president is not backing down in fact we're watching very carefully to see what he might say in the coming hours he welcomes the president of ecuador but his tweets so far as well as

some of the statements coming from republican supporters indicate this is exactly what the president was promising to do when he was elected is to drain the swamp if you will of the liberal bureaucrats in government that he believes are the enemies of american conservatives white house correspondent kimberly halkett thank you kimberly. pope francis has dismissed a proposal to let older married men become priests bishops from latin america put forth a controversial plan to address a shortage of priests in the amazon it would have challenged the roman catholic tradition to sell a bit of celibacy but the point of says the solution to the priest shortage is to send missionaries to the region instead john homan has more now from rio de janeiro . 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

over the sorts of married men of some standing in these communities be allowed to them the old thing to make up for a bit of a chronic shortage of priests in the region this is a region that's composed of knowing countries really have parts and cells in the summers and region and it's estimated that at least 85 percent of the images in the amazon region on able to celebrate mass every week so there is a real sure to cheer in 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 army as a region the worry was that it could spread and start to end the tradition of celibacy in the catholic church. australia has identified more than 100 animal

species which need urgent help after the recent bushfires qualis and wallabies are among those needing the most help experts say some highly threatened species face imminent risk of extinction because almost all of the habitat has been destroyed or such as previously estimated that more than a 1000000000 animals might have perished in the fire. protect the natural world or risk losing trillions of dollars from the global economy that's the message from the world wildlife fund which ones at the loss of natural assets like forests and fisheries wipe off nearly 480 $1000000000.00 a year by 2050 with amounts to a total of more than 10 trillion dollars over the next 30 years unless the world changes to a more sustainable path the united states and japan stand to lose the most money with this with more than $61000000000.00 being wiped off their annual g.d.p. by 2050 karen ellis is the director of sustainable economy at the world life fund

and says poor countries will be hit even harder. we're destroying nature incredibly fast globally we're destroying the area of a size of a football pitch of forest every 2 seconds so what we wanted to do with this report was to look at the economic costs of that destruction so we used for the 1st time a new methodology that combines analysis of how nature delivers benefits to the economy with a global economic trade model that looks at how economies sell goods to each other to look at how those nature losses will affect different countries in the world and it showed that overall we stand to lose at least 10 trillion dollars of global g.d.p. by 2050 so the the hardest hit countries in terms of percent of g.d.p. are of the poorest countries so a country like madagascar for example stands to lose 4 percent of g.d.p. per year by 2050 which is massive for for

a country like madagascar to probably wipe out their growth prospects so yeah the poorest countries are the hardest hit but richer countries are the hardest hit in terms of absolute volumes of g.d.p. the u.s. japan in the u.k. of the top 3 countries to be hit and for them the risks are more related to coast on ability increased coastal vulnerability as a result of sea level rise but also as we've destroyed some of the natural capital things like sea grasses and mangroves and coral reefs that protect the coast from storm surges and flooding so as a result of this nature loss they stand to lose a huge amount going forward. so he's from india a man has been arrested in the capital new delhi after he opened fire on an aam aadmi party convoy killing one person and injuring another it happened hours after a landslide victory for the party in the area's regional election shooter targeted a convoy carrying one of the party's newly elected assembly members naresh yet of the victim was a volunteer. well the man accused of masterminding the 2000 men by attacks has been

jailed for 5 and a half years in pakistan but on separate charges pakistani court has found hafiz saeed guilty of collecting funds for a terrorist group at least 166 people were killed when members of the. group carried out a shooting and bombing attack for 4 days in mumbai which is india's financial capital denies being involved in the assault former head of mexico state oil giant pemex has been arrested in spain in mexico issued international arrest warrants against emilio last year over corruption allegations he led pemex between 20122016 is also suspected of having ties to a brush brazilian construction company accused of paying bribes to officials across latin america as though it denies the allegations. and important story here in the u.k. the country's has become one of only a few countries to regulate social media companies the government says it will make social media companies responsible for harmful content on their sites companies and

executives could face substantial fines or even prison sentences if they fail to act or brennan has mall my name is megan hence pressurized to send a nude photograph of herself to a boy at school within a day meghan hinton's private image had been circulated across the internet it can take days even weeks to be removed from the social media site so that could have a devastating impact you know when something's up there not only is out in the wide web people can save it's their phone so even when the social media company remains it's still in people's possessions social media is largely self-regulating platforms like facebook you tube instagram and to talk largely set their own rules and standards sometimes relying on the platform users themselves to flag up anything inappropriate the u.k. government has been consulting since last summer on how to introduce a new online harms law to put the responsibility on social media companies to

remove harmful content child protection charities certainly support that ultimately regulation is required that's what we would argue the big tech giants need to be held to account the regulator needs teeth so they not only need to monitor what's going on and talk about it publicly but also hold to account these multi-billion pound platforms one of the social media giants were available for interview prefer him to issue written statements the boss of jujube u.k. said to help keep our community safe we haven't waited for regulation we've created new technology hired experts review has worked with external specialists and reviewed our policies to ensure they're fit for the evolving challenges we face online facebook's head of public policy said we have clear rules about what is and isn't allowed on our part forms and are investing billions in. we look forward to carrying on the discussion with the government parliament and the rest of industry as this process continues the regulation of web content is a complex area which touches on issues such as freedom of speech censorship and

jurisdiction and there's also the question of defining what is subjectively offensive and what actually qualifies as harmful but it seems the u.k. government is prepared to try to tackle the issue on the full details of the new law will be published later in the spring paul brennan al-jazeera london. quick recap of the headlines turkey's president has warned there is military will strike back at syrian forces if turkish soldiers are targeted province but syria's ally russia is accused raising the situation by having its forces on the ground in the 1st place or have type i don't want his vow to push syrian troops back from parts of the country's last rebel stronghold syrian troops and their allies have been trying to retake the area from opposition forces early seventies don't think know where the these attacks are directly targeting our soldiers and directly

targeting turkey there's 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 borders whatever is needed on the ground when we are not going to have any hesitation and we are going to act on it. meanwhile a syrian civilian has been killed in clashes between us troops and pro-government supporters syrian media says the protesters tried to block an american convoy in pelted it with stones u.s. forces then reportedly find a live ammunition and slope bombs the american led coalition says its troops came under fire 1st and only shot back in south defense. health officials in china say the number of new coronavirus cases has dropped for a 2nd straight day while health organization has warned that the epidemic should still be treated with extreme caution over a 1000 people have now been killed and over 45000 infected palestine has become a un has welcomed a u.n.

report that lists companies with ties to illegal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank calling it a victory for international law the un has identified $112.00 business entities saying their activities raised human rights concerns the list includes tech giant motorola travel website trip advisor and the home renting company at b. and b. and italy senate has voted to allow far right you don't need to be prosecuted over his refusal to let dozens of rescued migrants disembark in italy salvini was a sleaze interior minister when he forced a 131 migrants to stay on board an italian coast guard vessel for several days last july the stream is next looking at the soaring demand the hair extensions and of poor women are being exploited for it.

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