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an through the children a sneak peek at 2 critically acclaimed works debuting at the berlin film festival. and in sport rivington is the tennis jobber clinched the biggest win of her career in doha ranked 44th in the world and jabber stand at 30th carolina just about 3 support the finals of the qatar open. the syrian government has launched a cancer offensive to recapture the town of sana keep in the province. but was taken by turkish bank rebels overnights to turkish soldiers were killed or airstrikes jury that fights now here's why sort of keep this in. oughtn't sits on

the junction of the m 4 and m 5 highways whoever controls the highways gains considerable military and economic advantages the m 5 links aleppo with the capital damascus in the south the growing raids in areas you can see are controlled by the governments the shrinking green are rebel territory or yellow in the north and west is controlled by the kurds let's get more now from our he's in a in syria and turkey rather near the border with syria and this is a fast moving situation and it's changing every hour was the very latest you're hearing from the ground. well hello the rebels are sending in more reinforcements 'd more fighters into the city of sirte archive a while ago one of the top military commanders was was in the city saying that this is just the beginning of a major military offensive to reclaim the territory the opposition lost over the

last few months the rebels we do understand from our sources have also managed to rig up the other villages of the outskirts of sokoban they seem to be moving to worst button a man another major stronghold that they were forced to abandon about a month ago the biggest challenge that is going to face the opposition in the upcoming days basically holding ground in the problem is that for them to be able to do that they will need. cover from turkey what we seeing it over the last few hours is that syrian government is russian are like are starting to strike rebel positions inside arc up to prevent the rebels from establishing their 1st defense lines in those areas ok. here's an update there from the turkey syria border are familiar thank you let's get some analysis now from john my greek lee he's

a defense analyst and heads of the global of global risk rather for the geneva center for policy thank you very much for speaking to us live from geneva just give us some context to start with this is always been a very complicated war but now turkey is in the mix just explained to us what exactly turkey is doing there what are they hoping to achieve with this intervention. roy so you have to put that into the broader context of the syrian war sort of 1st goal that all the parties underground had was to destroy the islamic state and that has been basically achieved now you end up with the 2nd course and obviously the schools are do not know longer alive for turkey it was 1st and for most to avoid having. control of the tricks at its southern border and therefore they moved

into turkey to prevent that hindley front it is a bit different because italy was part of an agreement between iran and russia that was agreed in 2018 to create deescalation zone 4 of. 11 was one of it the free of the zone where be the cleared of the rebels and then we moved it leaps and now you end up in a situation where italy gathers all the opposition to. assad regime as well as parity of from al-qaeda former. sharm and here basically turkey for such agreement in. 18 has agreed to turn. up the reason for that is that for turkey it is a key area because they want to prevent a flood a rift of refugees in they can treat turkey has already more than 3500000 syrian

refugees and it's to retreat and therefore for turkey it's vital to try to curb the influx and the flux of this of this refugee is well if we just take a look at where we are no mean adlib is no longer you cannot say this is a safe place. escalation zone anymore because we're hearing horrifying stories from civilians on the grains turkey's wanting to try to prevent more refugees coming in but that position also puts it with the syrian government's and also with with russia at the same time so how likely do you think it is we're going to see turkish soldiers starting to come in and play a more active part in this conflict what exactly does a win look like for turkey at this stage. he writes a basically these discolorations and has not been respected 3 1 reason being that

turkey has not been able to to pacify the area and what we've seen now is that since last december. sad regime purty good bye russia has pushed through its cleary the area of italy and that led to direct confrontation between turkish soldier. regimes soldier and also russia russia using mainly air power night in turkish soldier have been killed so far in italy so it is very likely that the situation will continue to escalate there is a meeting that is for syria to be. next week in europe between russia and turkey germany and france in order to solve the situation but the facts under ground are that the syrian regime supported by russian air power has the upper hand

over the turkish military ok well we'll have to wait and see where turkey goes from here and i thank you very much mark rickly defense analyst for global risk for the geneva sense and thank you for joining us we will continue or syria coverage later in the program will take a specific look at the human cost of this war the u.n. calls it a horrifying situation also ahead on the news are suffering on both sides hindus and muslims mourn after violent street battles in india. plus warnings that cities powering the world's economy could soon be lost beneath the waves. and in sports or for streets ignites for the italian champions as they look for their 1st european title in 24 years sunnah we'll have all the details for you in the sports . my.

i pod of course there's travel restrictions and trade routes have been suspended governments aren't cool saying ever tougher measures to control the spirits of coronavirus south korea's confirms another 505 cases meaning it's overtaken china in huge daily infection numbers in the middle east so if your a.b.s. holds and visas for the pilgrimage and restricts interest travel from affected countries now iran iraq rather has closed schools and universities and bans public gatherings as well as flights from several countries and of course in iran 22 people have died donald trump has promised the u.s. government will spend whatever is needed to deal with the outbreak and he's put vice president mike pence in charge of america's response in europe italy's confirmed its 12th death and there's been a seconds over in france overall some 82 thousands infections have now been

recorded in 44 different countries and territories what we've got to reporters on this story this hour is in south korea but 1st us joins in the shrubbery his interrogatory as by skype saying we've seen another spike in numbers in iran but also some significant you confirmed cases just bring us up to date which is. well we've got a number of deaths that have happened since yesterday the death toll that we saw yesterday was at 1000 that has been confirmed as 22 today so we have seen 3 more people unfortunately died as a result of this that's according to official government figures and there are a confirmed $141.00 cases including another member of the iranian parliament this time a conservative member of the parliament so people on social media people saying that this disease knows no political boundaries now the government is taking this

seriously again the numbers that we are seeing coming from official government sources far smaller than what we initially heard from a member of parliament in her home who said that the figures were far higher putting the initial death toll in one closer to 50 and again the government not saying that that is the case efficient understands at 22 they're also taking seriously any misinformation or any spreading of what they consider rumors very seriously they've made it illegal to spread any sort of information that is incorrect about the spread of the coronavirus saying that could have negative economic implications for the country and that that has been made it legal and punishable by one to 21 to 3 years jail time as well as flogging and that's according to several state media sources now looking ahead to tomorrow it is friday friday prayers are an important part of the week here in iran and friday prayers in affected areas and mosques in affected areas have been suspended for this week but

the government guidance is that those places that have seen cases of coronavirus should not hold those prayers going into iran it the main mosque friday prayers will still go ahead they will still go forward the government is said that they will be sanitizing this main the large main mosque in the capital and have advised the children elderly anyone with a respiratory illness anyone with a medical condition like heart a heart condition they should stay home and they should. like coming to the main mosque in the capital but again friday prayers go forward in the capital but have been suspended in many other countries and the same day the government is taking the serious as you say but let's not forget that one deputy health minister and i member of parliament have contracted the degree disease what on earth is the iranian public making of all of this. well certainly there has been a lacking in public trust in what government officials are saying that's been the case for a number of months now for

a number of crises that this country has faced the flow of information has been very controlled we can't forget that it runs government is very tightly controlling any information that feeds out to the public on really any given issue and that's been the case over a number of things that have happened in this country a number of incidents that we've seen play out since the beginning of the here the idea is to control information to maintain primarily the writ of the state that is the primary goal of the leadership here and iranian people how are arguably tired of that they are overwhelmed and exhausted by this slow flow of information and so social media is where a lot of information proliferates that the government can't always control directly so the iranian people are certainly struggling to cope with whether or not to believe their own government present us with iranian in recent days has over and over again stressed that the government is to be believed that he is pushing for

transparency now we have seen one example of this playing out on the roads the roads leading the capital tehran today the government is saying are 20 percent more congested and then normal and that house minister sayed no makee was actually known to have complained that the reason that they shut down schools and universities was to keep people in their homes to try and control the spread of the coronavirus not for people to try to get out of the city and try to go to other parts of the country now that is that is something that people are doing against the advice of the government but it may be to get to or climates where this disease is no it's not proliferate as the quickly so many people seen go into the north of the country there is some positive news to border crossings with iraq are said to have opened to continue supplying food and other goods to iraq one of the country's main economic partners. bring us all the latest there from tehran thank you very much indeed let's get more from brides ains saw in south korea has recorded its highest

number of new cases in a single day. tell us about the situation where your. it is something of a grim milestone we've gradually been witnessing the numbers of new cases in china declining while the numbers of new cases in south korea have been going up and this it seems is the point at which the 2 graphs have crossed south korea taking over recording more daily cases of the corona virus so it is something of a milestone if you want to find something positive in the statistics then it is that at least more people are being identified that the testing does seem to be working tests for the virus are being carried out in the epicenter around the city of daegu in the southeast of the country almost on an industrial scale now literally thousands every day people are who are sick are being identified they are being treated and of course we know that the main focus is still the members of

this one church who underwent who got to this mass infection at a couple of services now the 2nd of those services was on february the 16th so health officials are telling us that this would be the end of the incubation period of the virus and that's why you are seeing that reflected a spike in the numbers of of cases what happens in the coming days well the same health officials will be hoping that with the emergency measures that have been in place in the alarm was raised over a week ago people told to self quarantine and so on that that would start now to be reflected in the daily tallies of new infections if it's not and if we continue to see big increases big spikes then what that tells us is that the members of the congregation the 1st infections are gradually being accounted for and what we're now seeing are secondary and tertiary infections which is far more worrying indeed it is and it's a situation that's being taken so seriously that we now have confirmation do we

know that the u.s. and south korea will in fact be calling off those joint military exercises because of the virus. it would have been surprising if they had not been called off this is a government that is telling its own people to avoid crowds avoid gatherings could hardly then hosted these war games bringing together thousands of troops in close proximity the south korean military forces they have a number of their own confirmed cases on wednesday it was confirmed by the u.s. military that they had their 1st case of coronavirus you have at various military bases restrictions on access some self quarantining has been put into effect in some barracks these exercises they take place every spring they are always controversial as you know north korea will always attack them they say that they are very provocative and yet they have gone on for decades despite hostility to the

hospital hostility level on the korean peninsula despite the past couple of years the reconciliation process they have gone on through all of that it seems they have not survived the coronavirus ok rob mcbride their life isn't so thank you. well across the demilitarized zone north korea is ramping up efforts to prevent an outbreak tourists are being banned international flights and trains suspended and hundreds of foreigners have been quarantined in secretive country is yet to report a single case north korea has say poor medical infrastructure after years of sanctions russia says it sent hundreds of virus testing kits. well as we heard earlier saudi arabia is also implementing strict measures including stopping travel to holy sites in the country he is the editor in chief of international interest in middle east focus current affairs news magazine he joins us now by skype from city

busied in good to have you with us on the news hour just give us a sense if we could put it in perspective for viewers who are perhaps not as familiar with islamic culture in the traditions how significance is that this has been no been cancelled. it's unprecedented is the 2nd largest pilgrimage of course is the largest we're only 5 months away from the edge which brings millions of people from around the world from all 4 corners of the world to . hundreds of thousands of people every month they go to another they go to mecca people from all over the world from iran from korea from japan from these countries that are hit by the corona virus and this is why we see saudi arabia taking that step to prevent pilgrims from coming to saudi arabia because everybody in mecca is in that environment everybody is grouped together and according to many health experts it's a haven if anybody does have the coronavirus it's

a haven for the krona virus to spread it is unprecedented it's very controversial there's a lot of debate going on in the muslim circles on social media whether it's right for saudi arabia to do this or not put that on top of the geo political context where the saudi government is seen as engaged in the islam isaac society there's a lot of controversy going on on social media but nevertheless it's a huge it brings that 100000 people together and this is why saudi has decided to temporarily suspend it well well surely this is it's a sensible measure given the trial number of infections are that have been occurring up in iran the other holy site for shiite muslims is the city of corm so surely there was a controversial decision could surely see that it's about the sensible step to take because now. no of course and even in islam a tradition it's well known that whenever there is a plague or outbreak of disease or virus it is one of the islamic teachings that

the people of that city should not leave the city and people should not travel to that city where there is disease or where there is a plague so in terms of health reasons it makes sense you have to remember that the countries that have the outbreak of coronavirus countries like iran countries even in europe are now where the corners are suspending algeria reported its 1st case there were rumors in tunisia that even reached here in tunisia as well saudi receives hundreds of thousands of people tens of thousands at least from these countries so it makes perfect sense for it to put measures in place in order to prevent the spread of a coronavirus especially given that the hajj season is coming after 5 months which brings those millions of people together into a side arabia saudi arabia will think if i can contain the virus at least in these 5 months then i want to have to prevent the hajj season and of course of the hatches and prevented then that is that will be a huge debate across $1600000000.00 muslims but i think there is a general consensus but the decision makes sense i think the worry is how long will

these measures stay in place given saudi arabia has yet to record its 1st case of a coronavirus ok great to get your thoughts thank you so much for speaking to us live from his ear. as the number of people killed in days of violence in the delhi has resonance in 33 after some critically injured patients died in hospital relatives of some muslim victims of accused police of standing by his hands in crowds attacked allegations the government denies they've been they've been months or nationwide protests against the citizenship law which is seen as anti misson tony berkeley as the reports. of the after the street battle subsided wednesday was a day hindus and muslims mourn the loss of loved ones after some of the worst violence delhi has suffered in decades this is the funeral of mohammad for can a father of 2 who was killed when the violence began a few days ago he was on the way to shops to buy food for his kids. i received

a call saying that my brother has been shot i couldn't believe it i was with him an hour earlier i rushed to the hospital but i found that he was already dead he doesn't know who was responsible. for that both sides of the community hindus and muslims have suffered outside the morgue of the state run hospital relatives await the completion of post-mortem examination is on victims so they can take the bodies for cremation or burial. this man says his nephew died from a bullet to the neck he says it was fired by a muslim as. someone who was but when he was pressed he says he never witnessed the killing was the violence stopped after a group of muslim women were persuaded to abandon their city in protest that have blocked a busy road and angered hindu nationalists and the government sent in paramilitary forces and rapid reaction units to reopen the suburbs.

the death toll is rising and hundreds of injured people are being treated in 3 local hospitals many of the dead are said to have died from bullet wounds it's not clear who was responsible. there was a physical cost to these of the scarred remains of muslim owned businesses in cardwell nagar in northeast delhi some people have lost everything the major violence may have stopped at least for now but it's been so damaging the question is how long will it take communities both muslim and hindu to heal and how can they ever fully restore trust lawyers have started the legal process for those who were sponsible for inciting the violence to face justice the protests against the new citizenship law which started in december were joined by people from all religions and minorities across india there is a concern now that hindu nationalists may try and turn this into

a religious issue i am seriously concerned about this is the players from very this entire movement is going to be given a religious shape which is in fact not. after 3 days of silence prime minister narendra modi sent out a tweet calling for calm and for peace and harmony to be restored the streets are quiet but the death toll is expected to rise and the repercussions of what happened here are likely to affect not just the capital but also the whole of india tony berkeley out 0 delhi. there's no anger over the indian government's decision to replace a judge she was hearing cases related to the violence in delhi high court justice dar had ordered investigations into leaders form prime minister narendra modi's governing b j p for inciting tax against mr he's also criticised the local police force the transfer of authority 2 weeks ago but only happens on wednesday after he made his

comments. well it's time for the weather now here's richard with news of when she weather spreading across western europe yes it's looking really lively at the moment hala this is a big mass of clothes showing the area of snow but before i get to the start just going to just tell you what the situation is like in the u.k. the river 7 longest river flooding in the county of gloucestershire so quite widespread still a threat to life and see the extent bus the cricket ground the county cricket ground well under water now will come back to but also in a moment but it's snow at the moment the main feature this system driving across france eastern side of france they are dense in belgium luxembourg and western and southern parts of germany all under consumer amounts of snow a good 10 to 15 centimeters in places like to cause some significant disruption juror in the course of the day now that stage you case fairly quiet but there's another system moving in and this one looks to be really really lively so through the course of the day moving through into fighting see snow in the east rain begin

to push in from the west that's going to give a lot of rain over the high ground which feeds then into the river 7 and then as we get into the weekend we have got this low. this is a really intense low going to blow in across much of the u.k. through into mainland europe so expect further heavy rain to come and certainly for places like are we could see will be really strong winds and certainly some flight disruptions thank you very much indeed still to come on al-jazeera. well. the problems facing our forces inside sudan as a transformer united front. plus feeling the squeeze of the coronavirus is impacting asia's entertainment industry. and in sports a big night in houston as the rockets won their 5th game in a ball all the details coming up with a new program. as

a weapon of war leaves the very deepest scars. scars so wrong that the victims men and women can barely talk about it. they are the only witnesses who can help bring about justice al-jazeera follows human rights campaigners in libya investigating since the 2000. unspeakable crime on al-jazeera. is your deal dead and did you get the peace prize too soon. is this going to hurt or help donald trump's reelection chances in theory for money they could shoot somebody on 5th avenue and not have any hard to find this is not a muslim issue this is a human colony issues join me many a half an as i put up from questions to my special guests and challenge them to some straight talking political debate here on al-jazeera. one

more tool. this is al-jazeera our minds of the headlines this hour the syrian government has launched a counter offensive to recapture the tired old saraki been in the province was captured by 2 turkish backed rebels overnights to turkish soldiers were killed by airstrikes during that fights countries are stepping up measures to stop the coronavirus from spreads and saudi arabia has suspended pieces for the owner of pilgrimage and has restricted tourist travel from countries affected by the coronavirus mean also koreas confirms another $505.00 cases meaning it's overtaking

china in new delhi infection numbers and the u.s. and south korea have spawned joint military exercises. let's go back to our top story the conflict in syria which is fueling a humanitarian crisis in the hearts and has more on the situation in. the united nations says nearly a 1000000 people have been forced from their homes since december they're trapped between heavy fighting and the closed border with turkey one of the church of god is the army comes close to us here and we are pressured the people here in the camps from moderate muslims to aatma we're all going to turkey even if they kill us we want to go to turkey and the turks should be prepared to welcome 5 to 6000000 people coming all at once. according to the u.n. more than half of the internally displaced are children and this winter has been unusually cold some infants are reported to have frozen to death or suffocated in

tents with their parents as they all tried to keep warm this is they were. wave of displacement we've seen during the syrian conflict now with the harsh winter conditions in a clip we see people trapped isolated and running out of ways to cope. in recent days russian backed syrian airstrikes have increased hospitals blood banks and schools have been destroyed turkish president recep tayyip or the one has not suggested that the border will be reopened. we are not going to take even a little step back in the ad lib we will push the syrian regime forces out of the areas that we designated and let people return back to their houses many have lost their homes in the un estimates some families have been displaced 10 times those trying to flee across the border with turkey face a concrete wall topped with barbed wire. i mean it would be bad but if the people are taking refuge in the turkish wall but why is the wall here is it to prevent families from entering their women and children their elderly people why don't they

allow children in the main can stay here and fight but the children the women let them in many people like these are desperate to escape the fighting and if a safe passage is not created they will remain trapped leah harding al-jazeera. well marks baldwin is the director of programs for northwestern syria for mercy corps and he joins us now i get to have the weather news are your organizations trying to provide relief to people who are trapped in the situation what are they telling you about the situation that many people are finding themselves in. hi good afternoon the situation in the living in western aleppo it's continuing to to pose a real challenge for the humanitarian agencies we're getting last week we had major displacements major displacement of families coming in. and that's now shifted with the offensive going into southern italy there's still a huge movement of people towards the turkish border so our teams are on the ground

the teams are responding. but the numbers that we're registering the number that are arriving are really more than than than we can we can reach on a on a daily basis but when we talk about numbers. at a certain point people become almost so almost immune to them 500900000 displaced cool so 1000000 displaced it's easy to forget is it not that these are real people who have real feelings and real lives and real children children they're seeing freezing to death in mud wrapped in plastic sheets it's it's very hard to to really to to grasp what the decisions the having to being take on the ground when we when we speak to when we speak to the families to living in the tents it's not just those who who have moved in who have gone towards the turkish border agencies like mexico we're still we're still supporting those who

haven't been able to move because they don't know where to go or they don't have the money or they don't have fuel to put in their cars so it's really everyone is affected on on all sides and as a result we we we have to go for supporting those who have moved those who haven't moved as well but i mean what really realistically what kind of support can you give to see a family who've just morse their child freeze to death in months what sort of practical support do you get for that kind of situation when you lose all of your children because they can't keep warm. you can provide you can provide kits special kinds of supplies a lot of these families they'll be moving for the 2nd or the 3rd or 4th time and that's really what makes this kind of response different that they've lost things they've lost their household items they've lost them again so by the time that we're receiving them they don't have anything left and they've had to move very

quickly. in the case of a town like derek as a last week it was literally the there was an asteroid on 2 hospitals on the monday and the town evacuated the same day people left with nothing and so as a result we're providing with blankets with mattresses with stoves and other agencies provide them with cooked meals there is again there is a response that's taking place and it's really operating at a high level the problem being the numbers that are displacing that's where the challenge is coming in for the sector this has been going on for for almost a decade now the horror stories that we hear from syria are unprecedented at some point i mean do you not get frustrated to see. widespread goold will indifference to the plight of these people and let's not forget they are people but nobody is able to help protect them or bring an end to this appalling situation

for us and certainly for food for the teams that we have our colleagues you know most of your colleagues humanitarian colleagues inside a lib inside western aleppo they're part of that that 950000 figure of people who've been displaced so for us it's it's about. the the way that they they displaced they're moving and yet they're coming back to work 3 days later and that's the kind of commitment and that's the kind of the humanitarian spirit and mission the motivates and the there is a global picture which is which can be frustrating on on a day to day basis when when we see the stories and we hear the stories coming from the field when it's distributing we went back to a camp that had been an accessible for 3 weeks and we went back to that camp that i.d.p. camp and we distributed water and those those families they got some biscuits together and some sugar sugar cubes and they made sweets and they made

a celebration and that's the kind of that's what you end up focusing on because that makes you realize that regardless of politics regardless of of all that's going on above our heads our mission is to be responding and that kind of support is still appreciated when we're able to get in absolutely mark's baldwin thank you so much for talking to us here on al-jazeera that's right baldwin from the mercy corps joining us from jordan so sudan's warring sides partially forms a transitional government today but a crucial part of the $28.00 in peace deal in $1000.00 the armed forces is yet to be completed now some troops are abandoning their camps because conditions are so poor i want to see this happen morgan has this report from marie de. a call to line up for military exercises is something these soldiers are used to but for the past 2 months the south sudanese troops have been training alongside

other armed groups some of whom they once fought on the battlefield during south sudan's civil war that we're here we've got the. unified there's no different in all of there's no i would there's no. one. some of these fights is gathered here are parts of the government forces others come from the main armed opposition called the sudan people's liberation movement and opposition and a few from the armed group known as south sudan's opposition alliance this is one of the 16 such camps around the country where the fighters are trying to form a unified national army it was set up after $2800.00 peace deal to end the 5 year long conflict that's killed nearly 400000 people and displaced a 3rd of the country's 12000000 population the deal states that 41500 out of the 83000 forces from the working sites are to be trained before the formation of a transitional government that's government was partially formed last weekend when

5 vice presidents were sworn in this training camp in the west of south sudan holds about 1500 soldiers from the 3 different sides but they're not in equal numbers even though they're supposed to be the opposition says transporting soldiers from their areas to the camps is difficult and that's just one of the many issues affecting the training and reunification of the forces. so just say the camp lacks many basic needs making life inside hard. there is no medicine and we sleep in the open where it's cold and the needs for a female soldier a know it minute there is no water sometimes and there is no place to sleep and we train in our slippers and sometimes barefoot which is hard and we don't have uniforms. the joint monitoring and evaluation commission the body tossed with monitoring the implementation of the deal. as you quoted that since the training sites were established hundreds of soldiers have abandoned them due to poor conditions shortage of funds is another big challenge the current government made

a pledge of $100000000.00 which we felt would be sufficient to do this initial training on fortunately not all of those resources are come from the government we've received about $60000000.00 of which are the $100000000.00 so we continue to encourage the government to make available those remaining funds so that we can really see an improvement in those conditions within those training centers. a well trained and disciplined army is crucial for south sudan's transitional period and to avoid a return to war soldiers here say they want to be part of a united army but how soon that happens depends on those leaving them and the country he will morgan al-jazeera. after months of unrest in guinea a referendum is to be held on whether to allow the president a 3rd term in office says it will modernize the constitution but the main opposition coalition says he is trying to hold on to power and the surgeon voters to boycott. reports. these are turbulent times in guinea they are just

days left before the west african nation votes in a constitutional referendum and now its 81 year old president afrikan day has suggested that he could run for thought and in office the main opposition coalition says it will no longer recognize him as a legitimate president it wants people to boycott sunday's vote. if indeed he carries the aspiration of the people of guinea and decided not to recognize mr conti as the president of the republic of guinea and demands his immediate and unconditional departure from power. more than 30 people have died in months of often violent protest against condé whose mandate ends in december protests to say the referendum is just an excuse to hold on to power. there is that cement from this week until monday leaves power we're going to fight him because he is no longer the legitimate president he violated a co us which prohibits

a coup d'etat and he made a constitutional could a thai army has been deployed across the country ahead of sunday's vote condé is giving his 1st democratically elected leader since his independence from france and decades of authoritarian rule he says sunday is what will lead to a modern constitution. the protesters fear it may push me into political uncertainty. to 0. 5 bodies have been recovered after flooding drenched the central colombian region of called us 4 where men and a woman were killed when a landslide hit their camps on a hillside has is built on steep slopes at particular risk during the rainy season but has been a warning to several cities around the world that they're at serious risk of disappearing due to rising sea levels over consulting firm various croft looked at 500 cities with populations of over $1000000.00 it found that quando and 2 of

china's trade and manufacturing hubs are the most vulnerable it also says the threat of rising sea level is brought on by climate change and efforts to cancel the issue would require an enormous amount of public investment tokyo jakarta whose human city and shanghai among some of the worst affected as well as dubai alexandria and new york will nichols's the heads of the environments and climate change at various maple crofts he says the still a lot that could be done to counter the issue. the fact that levels are increasing are picking up it really brings into play some of their investments in infrastructure and things like power plants airports that are going to be around in maybe 405060 years time so we're very keen for companies to start factoring sea level rise into those investments as soon as they can should certainly say that this steel rose in next kind of consider is. absolute exposure so we haven't taken

into account things like mitigating measures and we can see that china is starting to bring those things in mainly government led or municipality led you know we do see sea walls we see projects to protect other hyra cities like shanghai for example what we're not seeing is a lot of corporate action we're not seeing companies talk about it we're not seeing companies really kind of put a lot of. effort into mapping out their risks as well so whilst we're seeing places like china which do have the ability to finance these kind of measures we would also be slightly concerned for countries with higher cities which are perhaps poorer and less able to mobilize the finance needed to defend themselves against sea level rise it's not going anywhere in the sea level rise in the axes is predicated on a sort of worst case scenario or a sort of business as usual scenario where the world does absolutely nothing to call to missions to 2100 so this is by no means a guaranteed outcome if we do work together to start cutting emissions if we have

the private sector and governments working together to address it then we can stave off some of these risks but i would emphasize that we do need to start thinking about them because even though if we start to address emissions the effects of sea level rise might be not as significant they're still going to be there. more now on the coronavirus side break and as it expands the arts world just taking a hit on the hollywood movies fine our sex submissions and coincidence of being canceled or delayed scott heide lawyer has the reports. from a bond sale james to a korean k. pop band. the ballet performances. here's over the spread of the coronavirus are putting the brakes on the arts industry across asia the studio behind the latest james bond film no time to die announce that it canceled a glitzy premiere and tour in china ahead of its april release it's not just double 07 the screens at cinemas and film festivals across china have remained dark

because of the virus during the usual peak season for premieres lunar new year and new film production in china has halted so for now hollywood's 2nd largest market has dried up the impact is also being felt here in thailand's film industry projects haven't been outright cancelled just yet but many have been put on hold at the moment we're pretty safe here and going forward we don't know but for big productions like film we supposed to have one freedom coming and. now put that on hold and for 4 and productions coming from the west because of the internet policy they don't want to cover in case of that is happening to any people in the production side of it earlier this week south korean band b.t.s. announced health concerns had forced it to scrap studio audience is for a series of t.v. concerts that's part of a media blitz in seoul to launch the band's new album b.t.s. said it wanted to comply with the government's policy and avoid holding large

public gatherings of members of the shanghai ballet company recently returned from extended leave because of the corona virus but its next performances are months away. due to the epidemic about 10 of our prefer. norman says an australian hong kong has been rescheduled to 2021 and we have had about 20 performances around china cancelled some of the dancers found it difficult to train with a mask on but it's something they'll have to get used to as the mask for now have become part of their costume and what the ballerinas are facing is soon likely to make its way to performers athletes and artists around the world as the coronavirus reaches more countries and regions empty seats in cinemas stadiums arenas and concert halls will follow scott harder al-jazeera bangkok. still to come here on al-jazeera the sport for you and rough on the down remains on course to regain his number one ranking in mexico.

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designers are manipulating our behavior and the final episode all hail the algorithm on the jersey of. the rule. it's time for the sport here sun thank you very much ahead i was out with a champions league french side stand italian champions eventis and the 1st leg of their last 16 tie it was a frustrating night for christiane and all those uva as they couldn't manage a shot on target lucas to scored in the 31st minute to give the all the one nil home when even you ventus with a lot to do in the 2nd leg if they are to end

a 24 year wait to win the european title more approach of 40 or so we started the game without any pace on the off chance of side we moved the ball too slowly with no aggression we never succeeded to put our ambition on the pitch we've often had that problem the season i also had some difficulties giving my orders on the pitch . manchester city have boosted their chances of winning the champions league title for the 1st time they came from behind to beat 13 time winners real madrid 21 scored an equaliser in the 78 the minute kevin dobre and then netted the winner from the penalty spot to seal the when he could be macit is a last chance to win the title before serving a 2 year ban for the competition for reaching financial regulations which they officially appealed against yeah they were happy about the schools will be the 2nd like real star to be worried no worry about ok still it's not over says one team

in the world light can overcome everything is this club pretty experienced for the story for everything but for our people hopefully we can do good performance and go through. the international olympic committee says the only way the tokyo games will be the spawn deal or castle that world health would have to be in serious jeopardy i.o.c. is oldest member dick pound made the comments that as the corona virus outbreak is threatening international sports calendar yeah you see has a 3 month that window to decide the fate of the 2020 games and also said that it wouldn't be impossible to reschedule the olympics for a year later the games are set to begin on july the 24th with around 11000 athletes expected to compete. we are committed to going to tokyo so that you'll be on the track at the opening ceremonies on july 24th and only if there is the worst possible. outcome of this virus and it becomes

a real pandemic for. world health as stage then we reluctantly have to say well that's more important frankly than the olympics and even more important than you but we'll do our very best to make sure that you get your the picture of unity. book her place in the quarterfinals of the cuts are open to continue her breakthrough season it is in the players' stand at 2700 champion and world number 3 car line up this in 3 sets in doha is playing at a career high ranking go 44 this week as a result of her history making at the australian open where she became the 1st arab woman to reach the quarter finals at the grand slam. or will face 8 see that pitted arc of it over in the last 8 the 2 time wimbledon champion battled through windy conditions in doha to beat her opponents now stepping in 3 sets 625761

after her win the czech commented on the retirement of maria sharapova. i always will have a respect for her she achieved a lot on and on the court as well being a grand slam champions for a 5 times it's incredible and see she had been her own model for so many tennis players so i just wish her the best for the rest of her life. number one novak djokovic also paid tribute to sharper well quarter at the dubai tennis championships he did have a job to do 1st getting past philipp kohlschreiber. dictating the play to win 6361 and reach the quarterfinals before turning into the matter of the retiring russian. you know i would like everyone to give her a big round of applause for everything she's done. she's a great fighter as there is that it is someone can really be you know a sport you know she had a fantastic career she can be proud of herself. 2 time champion rafael nadal has

eased into the quarterfinals of the mexico open a couple cool as he looks to reclaim the number one spot the spaniard it was a straight sets win or against me or moira richmond all of it could regain his world number one ranking this week with a victory in acapulco if rival novak djokovic fails to reach the semifinals of the dubai championships. in the n.b.a. the rockets each to their 5th to win in a row they beat the memphis grizzlies on wednesday in houston russell westbrook spoiled a 33 points and 9 rebounds it was his 2nd straight. game in tartan added 30 more including 73 pointers as the rockets field 148112 win. and that's it for me thank you very much indeed sanna now 2 critically acclaimed movies at the berlin film festival tell stories through the eyes of children and the weeds airlines are damaged by corporate greed one assessment the other in the

karada euro zone that came as more. on the wide steps of his home 11 year old hopes his fatherhood cathal his is a traditional mongolian community a new told to thank you. but while he likes it out on the step and we're also likes to have fun he dreams of winning prizes for his singing. this song is called golden thing it's a reminder of the abundant natural resources under this land but others want that land to mining companies who offer small compensation to buy amorous trying out of their own land when his father dies suddenly faced by a world of deceit of doubt and of danger. his father's legacy means he must grow up

fast and for the film's young star there's one overriding message then i can only. also sample i hope people will realize the dangers that mining can bring to our world there are so many mining companies and because of that the rivers are drying up and this means that farmers and herders can't keep their sheep and goats and cows fully fed it watered people who live in the city really don't know about this . amorous struggle against the odds in veins of the world opens up a window on the struggle in the demonstration of childhood resilience it's a theme we also see in the documentary beryl about a child in the struggling again against adversity at the start we see farrow with his grandmother in their community close to the jungle then we follow as he explores the environment around him where his natural curiosity takes an up with alone we see him playing with friends on sandy beaches but it's clear this path

must soon because a vast new transoceanic canal is coming and school. close meaning he must go to live with his aunt in the big city once there it's clear this is a journey of sadness and of dislocation which the film's director believes the world audience must see i want to show microcosm we lost. so deep connected to the nature and their surroundings i think this was for me the most important projects for me and yet to tell this story about this boy in this special microcosm the directors of both films believe modern life in the developing world is defined by adversity and how those who face it must show resilience to survive dominic kang al-jazeera at the berlin film festival. and that brings this news articles back to stay with us on al-jazeera piece itself will be out with you next.

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does it is very good news for the world from here. i was off to syrian rebels celebrated a significant win in italy government forces launch a country offensive to push them out. alone welcome i'm peter w. watching al-jazeera life my headquarters here and also coming up 44 nations and territories around the world are now reporting cases of the coronavirus upping restrictions on travel and trade. the anger at the current situation economic and political structure is still out there. lebanon's pro.