nation into the dark history of argentina why didn't they kill me in the end rewind interrogating a torturer on al-jazeera. the un warns of a humanitarian catastrophe as nearly a 1000000 people flee syria's last rebel stronghold turkey is threatening an offensive against the syrian army. i'm going with al this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up newly released figures in the china coronavirus outbreak that the death toll of more than 2100 with fewer new cases reported in the the center of the crisis. billionaire mike bloomberg joins a democratic debate in the vado where voters will decide who should face donald

trump in the presidential election. the u.k. comes out with the post breaks it immigration policy that will close doors for unskilled workers and non english speaking it's. syria is experiencing its biggest exodus and 9 years of civil war nearly a 1000000 people most of the women and children have now fled the province the country's last rebel stronghold pro-government forces backed by russia are trying to seize control of the reach of turkey has warned of an imminent attack unless the assault ends mike hanna begins our coverage from the united nations we have missed repeated weiland confrontations between turkish and syrian government forces were it support the russian federation is actively engaged in support of the syrian government's military operation. u.n.

special envoy offers a bleak view of the political crisis in syria which in turn has resulted in a devastating humanitarian situation that continues to deteriorate on a daily basis close to a 1000000 displaced people being squeezed into an ever decreasing space by advancing front lines on all sides i am getting daily reports of babies and other young children dying in the cold imagine the grief of a parent who escaped a war zone with their child only to watch that child freeze to death many members contend the crisis is a direct consequence of russian support can only and with the plea to our russian colleagues to stop the support of syria if you tell the syrians that there is no longer military support to the syrian regime they will have to stop the onslaught on their own population so we will get one schoolgirl again to my german colleague

we will not stop supporting the legitimate government of syria which is conducting a legitimate fight against international terrorists how can you justify carrying out such indiscriminate and inhumane attacks what are you doing to uphold international humanitarian law what are you doing to protect the people who are fleeing where do you expect those people to flee to and another question posed by the u.s. ambassador the question i asked before the council today then. what will tomorrow's headline be in what are we going to do about it the answer today as it has been on so many occasions in the security council before nothing the security council has been deeply divided since the very beginning of the syrian conflict russia has wielded its veto on 14 occasions preventing any form of united security council

action in the face of what is becoming the greatest humanitarian crisis of the 21st century the international community appears unable to act political interests continuing to take priority over the suffering of millions of civilians mike hanna al-jazeera united nations. turkey's president read to type one has warned it is ready to launch a military offensive against syrian government forces if damascus doesn't stop its attack reports from hard time near turkey's afford it with syria. turkish troops in have been asked to expand their military outposts their presence here is the result of an agreement between turkey russia and iran 2 years ago to establish safe zones but these turkish soldiers might soon get involved in the biggest military campaign or their deployment president up by. a military

operation is imminent to get. on the subject of id lip turkey has made all preparations to carry out its own operational plans as with every military operation on the subject i'll say we could enter it lip suddenly one night. undeterred by the turkish warning the syrian army stepping up its offensive government warplanes struck the town of to many in. the attacks have intensified over the last few days earlier this week president bashar al assad said in a rare that his troops won't hold their campaign until it live forced into their hands talks between russia and turkey to diffuse tension have stalled each side is accusing the other of failing to implement the terms of the escalation in sure the guerrillas the key agreement on it was to separate the syrian armed opposition who cooperates with turkey from the terrorists

a terrorist according to the agreements regarding adlib was not be involved in a cease fire regime russia considers hay at the head of an alliance of rebel groups in it live a terrorist organization and therefore excluded from the ceasefire agreement of 2018 turkey seems to want the syrian government troops to go back to the areas behind the demilitarized zone but for president said such zones are no longer relevant since his army has advanced further into it and taken over more territory if there's no agreement by the end of this month the chances the escalation in the fighting about turn into an outright war between syria and turkey would significantly increase. the tie in turkish border with syria. the global death toll from the corona virus has now passed through 1100 after 108 more deaths were confirmed in the epicenter province on wednesday but local

authorities have reported significantly fewer new infections with 349 cases on wednesday compared to 1600 the day before outside of china the 1st 2 people to contract the corridor virus in iran have both died of the 1st deaths in the middle east on kong has also announced a 2nd death meanwhile china's government says it's expelling 3 wall street journal reporters after an opinion piece about the country's handling of the outbreak comes as china is lead is placed even tougher restrictions on movement within the country between your reports from beijing cleared at the new coronavirus these blood donors are hoping to contribute to a cure there plasma contains antibodies that could help patients who are seriously ill their identities have been concealed to avoid them suffering any stigma when they return to their communities. my blood may help more patients used to be here and a critical conditions go home and reunited with their families as i did. china's military

has said more supplies and medical staff equal bay to help fight the outbreak there are almost 12000 critically sick patients in the province alone in addition to salary bonuses the government has announced new incentives for health workers the children of frontline health workers received 10 extra points in key high school exams younger children were given preferential access to public kindergartens and those who die fighting the outbreak because in washington martyrs status meaning their family roots and allowances and benefits after they pass away tough measures have been imposed to protect the healthy. tens of millions of people have been restricted from leaving their homes and have to rely on local teams to deliver food the world health organization says controls on movement have helped to contain the outbreak measure on the movement restriction of delayed. the dissemination of the

outbreak of 2 or 3 days within china and and weeks out to 3 weeks so based on these then choose the measure if were implemented could have an impact on the propagation of the restrictions have brought much of china to a standstill but some threes are starting to resume production some analysts say the outbreak will slow china's growth by up to 2 percentage point this quarter but it's still too early to count the longer term economic cost of the coronavirus trini you al-jazeera beijing former new york mayor and billionaire mike bloomberg is preparing to confront a rival democrats in a us presidential debate for the very 1st time in nevada the media mogul as a late entry in the race to take on donald trump and november's election and hundreds of millions of dollars on t.v. ads 5 other candidates will join the debate days before the state's caucus.

bloomberg will be up against a veteran senator sanders who tops our voices poll with 25 percent of registered democrats and independents think they'll vote for him the 78 year old lost out to clinton in the 2016 nomination bloomberg has surged to 2nd place in the paul on 17 percent he's ahead of barack obama's former vice president joe biden who ended the race as a frontrunner but as now and he managed 13 percent to judge sanders and i were and finished a close 2nd in new hampshire is backed by 11 percent senator elizabeth warren of message truces will be fighting for her political survival she is currently on 9 percent and minnesota senator amy klobuchar rounds out the pack with 5 percent she managed 3rd place and then you have your primary after a strong debate performance. well rob reynolds is live for us in las vegas so all

eyes on bloomberg taking the safe for the very 1st time what should we expect. well you know in the american system kim it takes a lot of money to be elected president and mike bloomberg as a lot of money as a personal fortune estimated at $68000000000.00 and he spent about $400000000.00 on television and internet advertising that's why he's risen to the position that he has in 2nd place behind senator bernie sanders so tonight will be the 1st time that u.s. viewers journalists on the panel questioning the debating candidates and the candidates themselves will have a chance to actually ask bloomberg questions about his positions and he's given them quite a lot of ammunition if they wish to attack and which they no doubt will for example he warmly endorsed then president george bush in 2004 at the republican convention

. when bush was running for reelection he was as mayor of new york a republican so there's a lot of criticism of a billionaire trying to essentially buy the election you can expect to hear a lot of attacks along those lines and. bloomberg as mayor had a reputation as being rather thin skinned if you was asked questions by reporters during press conferences he would sometimes get angry lose his cool a little bit so some of the other candidates will be trying to make that happen as well meanwhile this all comes at a crucial moment the new hampshire nevada caucuses are happening on saturday that could be a make or break moment especially for candidates like joe biden elizabeth warren and pete buda judge and we shall see tonight if the. if any fireworks on stage here in las vegas make

a difference in the voting that takes place on saturday jim thanks for that rob live from las vegas at least 8 people have been killed in 2 separate shootings in germany they have been smoking boss in the western city of homs now now frank fat. still ahead on al-jazeera. impossible for me to do my job. donald trump's attacks on john just in prosecutors is making life difficult for us . and the e.u. unveils plans to try to resolve the real life dilemmas caused by an artificial intelligence.

however got high pressure dominating the weather across eastern parts of asia at the by was a logically and some places the floods have been nothing much to speak of you can see this is where we got our area of high pressure just still around south korea and it acts as a lid on the atmosphere so you keep seeing settled sunny light winds as well as the folk always a possibility early on in the day but isn't decent spells of sunshine 13 celsius the you might just catch the odd rogue shower to creep away as we go on into friday by friday you could see some wet weather just sliding across the yellow season career wintry weather possibility towards to the south of that we've got some sickening clapp which will spill in across western parts of china basin pace to sharon but for many it's going to be dry and fine and they thought high shanghai getting up to around 70 degrees celsius the sunshine stretches down across the philippines as well but a chance of want to see a shower as human fall between the heat of the day shows the heaviest showers are

going to be across malaysia and indonesia and more of the same than this we go on into friday the northeast monsoon continue to drive those showers down across the region could see want to see showers gradually pushing into sri lanka but for india is fine dry and sunny. motor sport is big news in libya but staging car and bike rides here comes with its own particular risks our club couldn't take part in the 26th probably because we were fighting a war against isis sir al jazeera world travels to the libyan desert to see how schooled on full wheels can be a unifying force you know war chill country video a rally for hope on al-jazeera.

watching al-jazeera the reminder of our top stories this hour the un has warned of catastrophic human suffering in syria the government and its ally russia continue their bombardment of the last rebel held strongholds of the northwest turkey says it will launch another military operation in syria unless the regime and its assaults. find its who bear province the a.p. center of the corona virus outbreak has reported significantly fewer new infections with 349 cases on wednesday compared to 1600 days before 108 infected people have lost their lives there in the last 24 hours. at least 8 people have been killed in 2 separate shootings in germany they happened in smoking bars in the western city

of the now now frankfurt. and the u.n. says it's hopeful that talks in geneva aimed at reaching a cease fire in libya will be able to resume negotiations were suspended on tuesday by the internationally recognized government of the warlord holy for hostile forces attacks the port in the capital tripoli the head of the government says he's fed up with the discussions a good sobs all the head reports from tripoli. got across to libya's prime minister face saraj visited the site of an police main port. but child containers a clear example of what faisal raj says is the international community's pheidias to enforce its own embargo national policy we requested the holding of the weapons embargoed 4 years ago not just these days if the weapons embargoed had been respected we would not have been in this situation today if it is to be respected

it must be upheld of all out that land sea and there are the attack happened on tuesday shortly after the e.u. approved a naval appreciation intended to enforce the weapons in burgo that however will be insufficient according to the government in tripoli as weapons and fighters continue to pour in from those backing the warlords leave for have to turkish president treasure and has promised to help survivors government uncle opposes the e.u. mission as well. i want to specifically mention that the european union does not have the right to make any decisions concerning libya the e.u. is trying to take charge of the situation and interfere in. the conflict in libya has consequences across the mediterranean region the greek foreign minister has accused turkey and the tripoli government of making the

situation worse the attack by half the us forces led to the prime minister. from the talks in geneva and he says he won't return to the negotiations until the world firmly responds to what he calls health care surveillance and what are the. tripoli the un's libya envoy has been trying to convince representatives of the internationally recognized government to stay in geneva and resume cease fire negotiations on diplomatic editor james bases there. the un has been talking all day to those representatives from the g. and a we believe got some salami the u.n. envoy has been chatting to them has been meeting but also talking to their bosses prime ministers seraj and others in tripoli to try and keep them engaged in this process remember that we have the u.n.

security council resolution at the end of last week we had a meeting in munich which had 13 foreign ministers representing all the key stakeholders and in the international community including the key supporters of the g n n a and of general hafta and all agree there should be these talks taking place and despite that we've seen the same thing that happened back in april last year general haftar going ahead with his military action and basically destroying the peace efforts everyone has said publicly they're committed to the u.n. process but clearly some of the countries supporting general haftar gave him the green light in april to march on tripoli and try and take the capital and since then general have to supporters have been sending in of those to his forces planes have been coming in from the united arab emirates weapons of be coming over the border from egypt and there's been support from other countries as

well. a battle over control of the world's largest aid operation is putting millions of yemenis at risk that's according to the associated press which says who the rebels have blocks hof of the un's aid programs are pushing for a share of humanitarian funds for months the who these demanded a 2 percent cut from aid budgets amounting to between $60.00 and $80000000.00 a year aid agencies rejected the demand leaving nearly $300000.00 mothers and children under the age of 5 without nutrition supplements for over 6 months the a.p. says at least $2000000.00 people have been affected by the days $10000000.00 people in yemen are on the brink of famine and 80 percent of the population is in need of aid. bill law is a middle east analyst and editor of the arab digest he says these are winning the battle of aid in the human. the hoodies have been very successful in how they have

used the situation used aid really as a weapon they have withheld aid they have been prepared to allow their own people to to star they have seen a situation where children are dying as you mentioned with rolling nutrients from women pregnant women and expectant mothers and children at the age of 5 so they have been very ruthless and how they have played the aid game and of course the u.n. and all of these supporting aid agencies are faced with this almost impossible choice because the duties are saying you give us more access give us more control or we will simply let these people die and it's a very harsh and awful approach but very much a useful tool for the who g.'s and as i said in the front the humanitarian war front they are winning this battle aid organizations are faced

with this really impossible choice and the who these are are playing a very very tough game and in a in a sense calling the bluff of these organizations what are they going to do they have said that they would recalibrate indeed they might lure them out of it they're going to put into into yemen the who these are not pushed back on that they pushed back on that very strongly and said you know what we don't we don't really care the u.s. justice department has refused have reports that the attorney general william barr is considering resigning other president donald trump's tweets recently called on trump to stop tweeting about criminal cases the president's comments particularly those about the trial and said some of his former advisers want to start have only intensified more than 2000 former department officials have now signed it open letter calling for barr to stand down. as i said during my confirmation

i came in to serve as attorney general and i'm not going to be bullied or influenced by anybody and i said it and whether it's congress newspaper editorial boards or the president i'm going to do what i think is right but i cannot do my job here at the department with a constant background commentary that undercuts me. the british government has unveiled plans to limit access to the u.k. the job market for immigrants when the breaks the transition period ends in 10 months time the government says it will move toward points based immigration system but critics say it will be bad for the economy for a talons reports. price breaks it the u.k. government insists the country will be open for business but on the new immigration rules outlined on wednesday many kinds of people have been able to live and work here for decades are having the door closed on them we all know longer going to have a route for low skilled workers to come to the u.k.

this will now be a single global system that does not discriminate as to whether or not you come from the you will from el side of the e.u. so how will this new system work well it will be points based. on the number of people eligible and no longer will e.u. citizens get preferential treatment. there off 3 things that incoming workers will need a job offer from an approved employer job must be at the right skill level and speak english is a must. but workers with all of these will still need something else to make up the points maybe they've completed all their school qualifications maybe they'll earn over $33000.00 or above the going rate for their fields or maybe there's a shortage of workers in their occupation. but there's an issue with shutting out all the highly skilled and many business leaders are pointing it out so low skilled

or low paid jobs are essential for the economy and the u.k. doesn't have enough of its own citizens willing to do them shut out the immigrants who've been feeding them for decades and you've got a problem if we have a turning off of any access to that lower paid end of the job market care workers laborers on construction sites hospitality workers waitresses. kitchen workers food processors we will potentially see some business is unable to expand and grow and it will affect the growth rate of the economy. the home secretary says the slack could be taken up by the 8400000 british adults who aren't working drill into the data though and most students sick carers or retired perhaps only a 1000000 brits are available for these jobs even if they want to reach alan's al-jazeera london hundreds of done driven their tractors through the hague to protest against the government's emissions policy that i just demonstration opposes

the government's plans to rein in nitrogen oxide emissions farmers believe they're being disproportionately a target saying aviation construction and other industries are also major there says. their opinion is planning to invest billions into us official intelligence over the next decade many see the technology is vital to the future economy in the e.u. hopes to forge a different path from that of the u.s. and china that unveiled a strategy that aims to develop machine learning without compromising people's does or writes these barker reports from brussels. on a tour of the future european commission chief ursula von delay in bringing. the use it a technological crossroads he wants to protect the rights and privacy of millions of citizens but it also wants to compete with china and the u.s. where access to people's valuable data is more relaxed artificial intelligence is

about big data data data and again data and we all know that the more data we have . the smarter our algorithms this is why we want to give our businesses but also our researchers and the public services better access to data and the data can be used to create some sort of personally identifiable information about you use personal data so that it can encompass a wide range of different things from very personal of history personal character things around your health your genome but also to things when combined might also give information about you in the way that you live access to people's data is vital for machine learning that's a branch of artificial intelligence where machines talk to each other without any human interaction or the european commission want to do is increase access to people's data without compromising their rights they want to create a safe data ecosystem but that requires rules and regulations. 80 percent of all of

the information this digitally stored on people in europe is held outside the e.u. in huge storage facilities such as this one in iceland or using base technology but in the near future much data on people their habits preferences and how they interact will be stored on smart interrelated devices from household appliances to medical equipment and factory machines that will be used to shape supply chains new technologies and public transport but some high risk data such as medical records or police files requires tighter controls there are also concerns about the potential abuse of facial recognition technology china's mass surveillance of its citizens including the use of facial recognition is well known the e.u. stepped away from a 5 year ban on the use of the technology in public areas leaving it up to member states to decide the commission also wants to protect small companies from the dominance of tech giants of monopolies allowing for fair competition and for data

storage to be environmentally sustainable they are ambitious goals that come at a price $21000000000.00 a year over the next decade that level of investment is vital say the e.u. to ensure trust in technology needs barker al-jazeera brussels. i'm kinda nell with the headlines on else there are the un has warned of catastrophic human suffering in syria the government and its ally russia continue their bombardment of the last rebel stronghold in the northwest turkey says it will launch another military operation in syria unless the raising ends its salt. china's who bear province the epicenter of the coronavirus hour break has reported significantly fewer new infections with 349 cases on wednesday compared to 1600 the

day before us 108 infected people have lost their lives there in the last 24 hours on wednesday the death toll from the outbreak in china crossed 2000 the 1st 2 people in iran to contract coronavirus have both died authorities have applied extra screening measures at airports to help prevent passengers carrying it in. at least 8 people have been killed in 2 separate shootings in germany they happened in smoking bars in the western city of hama now near frankfurt police are looking for suspects who fled the scene in the car the u.n. says it's hopeful the talks aimed at reaching a cease fire in libya will be able to resume negotiations were suspended on tuesday by the internationally recognized government of the warlord who lay for half the hours forces attacked the ports in the capital tripoli libya's prime minister fires seraj visited tripoli's poor saf to choose days attack national by the request of

the holding of the weapons above goes 4 years ago not just these days if the weapons of bergen had been respected we would not have been in this situation today if it is to be respected it must be upheld all. their former new york mayor and billionaire michael bloomberg is preparing to confront rival democrats in the u.s. presidential debate for the very 1st time nevada the media mogul is a late entry in the race to take on donald trump and november's election he spent hundreds of millions of dollars on t.v. ads 5 of the candidates will join the debate days before the state's caucus. those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera to inside story stay with us through.

who runs afghanistan after the disputed presidential election results and how will that impact the talks with the taliban with us for afghani declared the winner by the smallest of knowledge and this is opponent. says he'll form a parallel of ministration the u.s. wants to pull out while pushing for peace at the same time after 40 years of war and conflict how will the key players from the old this latest crisis this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program on peter w. .