the fighting intensifies on the death toll rises in the standoff between turkey and syria in the battle for in the province at least 1029 turkish soldiers were killed . along down jordan this is out 0 live from doha also coming up there are finally going home after days of clashes with police in india for some all that's left is widespread destruction and ruin. the nic on wall street the dow jones is the biggest one day drop in history up to concerns over the coronavirus in fact the markets. might look real force. on the fear of the virus also impacts the

outside world across china movie premieres ballets exhibitions all counsel for now . turkey's military is retaliating against syrian army positions after $29.00 of its soldiers were killed in an attack the airstrike happened in syria's didley province where in the last few weeks turkish forces have killed or captured more than $1700.00 soldiers with ties to the syrian government has president had threatened more attacks against the russian backed regime if any more soldiers were harmed meanwhile and chris says it will no longer be able to stop syrian migrants trying to enter europe according to the reuters news agency turkish police coastguard and border security have all been ordered to allow any syrian migrants to cross into europe either by land or sea the latest round of fighting is only worse in the humanitarian crisis with more than a 1000000 syrians displaced at the border in the last few weeks. has more now from

hunting in turkey near the border with syria. the death toll among the turkish soldiers in the province of the lip explains the level of anger among the senior members of the turkish government there's been a national security meeting presided by president. for how to deal to who's the communications director said that the turkish military has started an operation targeting syrian government positions in northwestern. those operations will continue talking now about a revenge the spokesperson of the ruling party said that from now onwards syrian government should it will be considered the enemy of the state of turkey now while you have this escalation this looks like a decides if moment a pivotal moment because the the the large number of turkish soldiers killed in

a single day is definitely going to shape the future relation between turkey and russia other turkish government has been blaming russia for providing military assistance to syrian government and for undermining the chances to defuse tension to implement a cease fire and to push the syrian government behind the demilitarized zone it is definitely going also to shape the relationship between the turkish government and the syrian government the spokesperson of presidents a spokesperson. couldn't. talks with the u.s. national security advisor the minister of foreign affairs were just all of spoke with the nato secretary general and there is this feeling. here in turkey that they have somehow been betrayed abandoned by the nato by the international community and by the in particular they say that the reason why we intervened in libya is slowly for the sake of the. eventing the humanitarian situation to deteriorate from

a turkish perspective they believe that the russians and the syrian government after arriving to push all the civilly is about $4000000.00 civilians in province to cross into into turkey which already has about 4 almost 3700000 refugees in refugee camps on the border with syria so they believe that this is done on purpose 'd to further destabilize turkey and this explains why it took he has been saying while we've been doing this taking the initiative moving into to prevent the syrian government from pushing the rebel civilians into our country the international community is silence and silent and i think we in the coming days we have to wait and see what will be the reaction of the international community but at the same time what would be the reaction of turkey inside syria meanwhile the syrian government has launched a counter offensive to recapture the town of psyche been in the province it was

taken by turkish backed rebels overnight to turkish soldiers were killed by a strike during that fight psyche was important and if we look at the map we can see why whoever controls the m. 4 m. 5 highways gains critical military and economic advantages the m 5 been particularly a leper with damascus in the south the growing readier is a controlled by the government the shrinking green rebel territory yellow in the north and west is controlled by the kurds al-jazeera as i'm allowed saddam is in the outskirts of the city of santa came with me. and i love him for one of your about money that they yes we are exactly on the m 4 highway connecting aleppo we look back here this highway leads to the meeting point with the international empty 5 highway connecting aleppo and damascus sarika to cities the point where both the highways connect but. i mean soraya to our right was captured this morning by the armed opposition having seized control of the city the armed opposition is now in

total control of both the strategic highways. however airstrikes are still carried out by both the russian and syrian regime's fighter jets targeting the city on its outskirts. of the good. as you have just seen it was an air strike on the city the armed opposition who is now in control of sarek of city and both the highways say they killed a large number of the regime forces inside the city we can also see that plume of smoke as a result of the airstrike ideal bombardment has not stopped on the contrary to has intensified as i said earlier both the highways are now cut off by the armed opposition it is a big win and a massive advance for the opposition to seize control of soraya along with a number of its neighboring villages you know the u.n. security council has met to discuss the worsening humanitarian situation in syria it was told of catastrophic consequences on the ground. as more from the united

nations. the situation in italy abused deteriorating by the hour and the humanitarian crisis is now more urgent than ever that was the message delivered by top united nations officials here to the security council or soon will move her the assistant secretary general of humanitarian affairs told the council members she has been speaking with aid workers in the country and with contacts inside libya who have given her heartbreaking examples of what people especially children are facing what is happening in north of us. is beyond imagination it is not human to be tolerable. we don't know if children so traumatized they no longer speak. as humanitarian needs increase there are also growing calls for u.n. secretary general antonio gutierrez to do more to help end the fighting something i put to his spokesman yesterday 9 members of the security council met with the

secretary general and part of their message apparently was urging the secretary general to do all he can to get an immediate cease fire the secretary general did meet with the 9 members his goals as stated publicly and privately or really to very simple goals put a stop to the killing and make sure there is humanitarian access for those who need it the most meanwhile be a stone an ambassador to the u.n. might have summed it up most dramatically when he told the security council on thursday this syria that cradle of civilization is being turned into a graveyard china has just confirmed $44.00 new coronavirus deaths on thursday that's higher than the previous days total there are now more than 82000 cases of the virus across 44 countries south korea reported to hundreds of new cases on thursday while it's me it remains a virus hotspot in europe and in iran one of the vice presidents has now been

diagnosed with the virus the deputy health minister also has the illness well the outbreak in iran has prompted authorities to counsel friday prayers in several cities and commune the capital of tehran as a big has more on the restrictions imposed by president hassan rouhani. well the president hasn't signed off on a number of decisions today made by the counter coronavirus committee now schools will remain closed for a further 3 days from saturday universities will be closed for another week now many of these of were to be closed for a week public events such as concerts and film showings a still canceled but most significant the friday prayers a cast of the 23 cities now let me explain how significant that is even in the early 1980 s. when they were assessing nation's political assassinations taking place in mosques friday prayers were never canceled even at the height of the iraq war the saddam hussein was attacking the rain as it is this friday prayers were never canceled so this shows as serious the iran is taking that break of this virus and how hard

they're trying to bring it under control but despite that today we heard that the vice president for women's and families family affairs. was diagnosed with a virus that makes full politicians members of parliament and that's including the deputy health minister also we heard that the former ambassador to go back to can i the question is sure he was 81 years old he was diagnosed with. contract in the virus yesterday now it's been we've heard that he has actually died he is 81 years old but iran is still finding itself continually isolated many countries have suspended their flights between iran and themselves but iran is trying to bring the matter under control but iran is also suffering economically under u.s. sanctions and they want to get this under control so the economy doesn't suffer any further. well the world's biggest economies are being hit hard as the impact of the corona virus outbreak pummels the stock markets all 3 major u.s. indices are now on track for their steepest weekly declines since the 2008 global

financial crisis but down alone dropped nearly 1200 points on thursday and its worst one day drop in history in europe london's footsie 100 fell by nearly 3.5 percent it's now lost more than $150000000000.00 over the last 4 days shares fell in asia as well japan's nikkei lost 2 point one percent well the i.m.f. has responded to the effects the virus is beginning to have on the global economy a lot just depends on. the speed of recovery in china and in other countries the spillover effects. the effects on supply chains and. the extent to which other countries maybe significantly affected. time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back we take a closer look at the desperate plight of syrian civilians trapped in the heavy

fighting and turkey's close border and the un human rights she puts more pressure on saudi arabia of the matter of the john mission out more on that stay with us. because some very heavy rain into parts of central china at my last a cloud here just spilling out to the west of the country just not being over towards shanghai by the system here the my by front that's going to continue pulsing its way to the east which as we go through the next couple of days japan on the other hand high pressure is just not fair to say badly at least for the time being we will see some wet weather just coming out of the yellow sea the east china sea pushing towards the korean peninsula eventually getting into q southern parts of honshu turning increasingly wet as we go on through sats day and that wetter

weather as you can see just coming all the way back into the southwestern corner the far south still bad hong kong looking fine and dry times just getting up to 26 degrees celsius father dry for a good part of the philippines but we have got this little clutches shall was just running towards southern parts of the country heavy showers remain across malaysia indonesia still seeing those heavy downpours job recall still struggling with the flooding following on from the very heavy rain that we had at the start of the week for the showers i'm afraid as we go on through the next couple days they usually heat of the day showers meanwhile we have seen some showers along the spells of right pushing across northern parts of pakistan added to india that continue to push east. step into the unknown with central america's 1st ever. production by actors with down syndrome. and.

a life journey illuminated on stage each performer transformed with the raise of a kurds and. witness time to love a backstage tale. on a 0. 0 s. . welcome back at the from out of our top stories here this out turkey's military is retaliating against syrian army positions after $29.00 of its soldiers were killed in a syrian government town strike it happened in syria's in the province where turkish forces have killed or captured more than 1700 soldiers with ties to the syrian government meanwhile ankara says it will no longer be able to stop syrian migrants

trying to get to europe according to the reuters news agency turkish police coast guards and border security have been ordered to allow syrian migrants to cross into europe either by land or sea. the economic impact on the coronavirus has seen the u.s. is down john's index experiences worst one day drop in history all the major u.s. indices are now on track for the steepest we declines since the 2008 global financial crisis. but now to our top story the escalating conflict in syria it's fueling an already diet humanitarian crisis with many syrians stuck at the closed turkish border harding 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 well. i swear to god if the army comes close to us here and we have pressured the people here in the camps

from moderate must mean we all go into 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 the worst wave of displacement we've seen during the syrian conflict now with the harsh winter conditions in a clip we see people trapped i. and running out of ways to cope. in recent days russian back to 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've designated and let people return back to their houses many have

lost their homes in the u.n. 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. to move it out of 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 leo harding al-jazeera well let's talk to gemma bird she's a migration analyst and senior lecturer at the university of liverpool and joins us via skype from liverpool gemma so turkey says it can no longer stop syrian refugees from reaching europe how significant is this development and what is talking hoping to achieve. so i think the current situation in which tech you suggested that it

will open the borders thought 72 hours suggests that we're taking is trying to keep it he is to pressure. take take he has been in discussions with nato as well but it's just that they are looking for some sort of military potentially and information to be thinking about deflation and they're also looking for support from you as well as i think that the initial suggestion is that this is about something russia and the e.u. to have these conversations and with that pressure general what sort of impact is this going to have on those european countries who are trying to control the flow of refugees who are fleeing the war in syria. so i think their discussion here is going to be about how the ticket you know can be continued at this point in time is unlikely to want to support the evening board it might be to want to try and have these conversations would take to click to ensure they're maintaining their site in the down because with

a 1000000 people displaced since december. this could lead to you and a lot of pressure of displaced people even movements of displaced people. in particular who even in the direction of numbers that we were seeing in 212015 and it's unlikely that there is that much positivity in european capitals at the minute to respond in the way that in particular germany did in time 15 with the welcoming of a 1000000 refugees it seems unlikely that that would happen and i did talk about pressure jemma i mean is this action then likely to put more pressure on those e.u. countries let's remind our viewers that i mean many of these countries have taken political decisions to actually crack down on refugees and migrants. city and if we talk about the situation great which would be one of the country that we see an increase in the number of people refugees looking to see to sign a. degree government has been very specific that then the key to rigi fact that

they are the king to increase the border controls and then looking for greece apart from the commission that the new king to live in the direction of close detention centers and obviously we've seen protests from the greek population in the last one kiosk pushing back so the particular countries like greece this will be something that they want to have a conversation in tech you want to challenge this decision i would imagine gemma just a final quick thought from you and what does this mean for turkey's relationship with the e.u. going forward over the issue of migration because this deal it had with the e.u. to stop the refugees was at the core of the relationship between both sides was that. yeah and there's been pressure on banks i felt that it hasn't been successful to do failed at the you want if it is the deal to continue that take you will want to see more support to keep conflict continues between tech is there and i think there will be looking great is

a lot from me and the conditions that refugees will face if they do enter into it and greet him to keep that i'm a new visit people still coming i haven't currently the conditions the terrible the conditions are poor and they put people's lives at risk. thank you very much indeed for talking to others here thank you. now people in india's capital australia returning to areas hardest hit by the communal violence early this week some are found their homes and businesses destroyed others have lost loved ones but as tony berkeley discovered among hindus muslims in one of the affected areas people still believe in harmony. after the 2nd day of calm people who escaped the violence are starting to return to their battered neighborhoods in northeast delhi in shining bag they've come back to widespread destruction and loss. i think about this it was very stressful living here during the last few days we were all extremely scared so scared that we moved all our women to a safer place only the main stayed. people were killed and injured here homes and

businesses were burned. mohammed's fruit and vegetable shop provided a livelihood for his family for 30 years he was burnt during the riots and he's not ensured he's part of the muslim community that suffered the worst of the violence but he's not vengeful. we have to live peacefully together whatever has happened we have to treat it as a one off we have to get we can't just blame the hunters or muslims both groups where there are. 3 shops down is his neighbor ganesh who's a hindu his fruit and veg shop was also burned but even after losing his livelihood he still believes in coexistence. then there is peace speaking once again start our business we have to do wit to survive to earn our living there is no other way to earn a living. it's a seed of hope that hindus and muslims can return to the peaceful coexistence they

enjoyed for years a senior police commissioner visit schanberg thursday to reassure locals the peace has been restored but it's the presence of large numbers of security forces that people find more reassuring not words alone this is a very public confidence building measure designed to show people the security. forces have control of the streets and is now safe but many people are asking the question where were they when they needed the most. delhi police have been heavily criticised over its handling of the violence which has been described as it best negligent and worse complicit families are slowly returning to this battleground feeling more apprehensive than safe. it seems to be peace and calm but we lost everything after our home was set on fire we only managed to salvage this cooking gas cylinder. but others like this hindu family have decided to leave the district altogether where the right situation are scared us a lot that's why we're going back to our village where it's safer. the streets will

be cleared the debris removed and homes rebuilt but these communities cannot fully heal until those responsible face justice tony berkeley al-jazeera bag north east delhi. thousands of people have rallied in gaza against the united states proposed plan for the region protesters gathered outside the united nations building rejecting donald trump's proposed aleutian for peace between palestine and israel the plan was announced last month and would see israel annexed the majority of west bank settlements and the palestinian capital east of jerusalem. israel's defense minister has approved nearly 1800 new illegal settlements in the occupied west bank just 4 days ahead of an election is the 2nd major settlement announcement by prime minister benjamin netanyahu government in recent days. his right wing likud party and the taliban its far right coalition are vying for the support of more than 600000 settlers in monday's poll. now an annual gathering of conservative

activists and politicians in the u.s. has kicked off with a clear message for utah senator mitt romney the republican party of mitt romney. correct answer by the way correct every time his name is mentioned you should respond that way romney was not invited to the conservative political action conference because of his votes in the impeachment proceedings it was the only republican party member to vote to remove trump from office. saudi arabia's face more criticism of its human rights record from the un that's demanding the release of political prisoners at a briefing in geneva the un's human rights commission also pushed for more transparency around legal proceedings were late into the murder of the journalist. our diplomatic editor james bays has more from geneva. this is the high level session of the human rights council and michelle bashir the commissioner for human

rights was laying out what she saw as the problems around the world she had very pointed comments about saudi arabia remember saudi arabia is the only arab member of the g 20 and it's been chosen to host this year's g. 20 summit but she said with regard to human rights there were obligations that had to i encourage religious that the frameworks to app called freedom of expression peaceful assembly and association for all and reviews of the jets rights of those who have been convicted for expressing their opinions including human read the fenders religious leaders and journalist i call for the release of several women who have legitimately and peacefully demand reforms of this community policies in the country i also call for full transparency in the ongoing procedures and comprehensive accountability regarding the murder of journalist yaml kushal she talks about transparency clearly saudi arabia says it's pursuing judicial

proceedings in that case but very limited access form any international diplomats no access from the media it's worth remembering the un itself hasn't decided to open an investigation the u.n. secretary general said that needed to be done by one of the main bodies of the united nations and none of actually done that the only investigation has been from an independent expert who works from for the human rights council agnes the special rapporteur and she said saudi arabia as a state was criminally liable for. well more now on the coronavirus we know it's having an impact on many industries around the world and is one of the exhibitions concerts and film premieres have been cancelled or delayed scott has more now from bangkok. from a bond film james to a korean k. pop band. the ballet performances. fears over the spread of the coronavirus are

putting the brakes on the arts industry across asia as the studio behind the latest james bond film no time to die announced 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 really don't know but for big productions like film we supposed to have one freedom coming and. now put that on hold and for foreign productions coming from the west because of the policy don't want to cover in case of that is happening to any people in production.

earlier this week south korean band b.t.s. announced health concerns have 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 in a void 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 performances in australia in hong kong. long 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 i'll have to get used to as the mask for now have become part of their costume and what the ballerinas are facing is 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 it's got harder al-jazeera bangkok. all the news of course not web site there it is on your screen the address al-jazeera dot com. all right time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera turkey's military is retaliating against syrian army positions after 29 of its soldiers were killed in a syrian government airstrike it happened in syria's province where turkish forces have killed or captured more than $700.00 soldiers with ties to the syrian government meanwhile ankara says it will no longer be able to stop syrian migrants trying to enter a europe according to the reuters news agency turkish police coast guards and border security have all been ordered to allow syrians to cross into europe either by land or sea the latest round of fighting has only worsened the humanitarian

crisis in the country with more than a 1000000 syrians displaced at the border in the last few weeks. has more from the . near the border with syria. the ruling party saying that from now on what syria's government is then is the enemy of turkey there's been a meeting of national security presided by the president. and it was during that meeting that the they have apparently decided to take many decisions one of the visions is to continue pounding government positions in different parts of syria and we do understand that operation is still underway the economic impact of the coronavirus are seen the u.s. is down jones index experiences worst of a points drop all the major u.s. indices are now on track for their steepest weekly declines since the 2008 global financial crisis tokyo's nikkei has plans many 3 percent at the open hundreds of

residents in the region of less boss again rallied against plans for new migrant camps they are in the midst neighbors have become a gateway for refugees migrants crossing into europe from north africa and turkey existing camps are severely crowded and the greek government says it has no option but to build more. and thousands of people who rallied in gaza against the united states proposed plan for the region protesters gathered outside the u.n. building rejecting donald trump's proposed solution of the peace between palestine and israel the plan was announced last month and would see israel annex the majority of the west bank settlements. well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story statement on the watching by from.

is this part of the coronavirus out of control increasing numbers of cases are being reported around the world governments are taking measures but often how do we prepare for a pandemic this is inside story. our welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan from a wildlife market in china as well han says he with a corona virus is believed to have emerged to the city of calm in iran the disease is sweeping around the globe at health experts are warning that we could be on the brink of a pandemic more than 80000 people and of a 40 countries have been infected the number of new cases inside the country at the center of the epidemic china.