but we want to know how these things affect people we revisit cases even when i know chad. al-jazeera really invested that's a privilege as a journalist. syrian government forces killed over 30 turkish soldiers in the last rebel held province of idlib natal calls a meeting to discuss the crisis. i'm hitting and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up coronavirus continues to rattle the global economy asian markets slide further as the epidemic disrupts international travel and trade. taking on drexel's in the democratic republic of congo we've got an exclusive look inside a special 4 month warper

a sion. and we travel the oceans tracking the so-called dark fishing fleets that are part of a $23000000000.00 illegal fishing industry. that you can track battles from space that is used to track both commercial fleets around the world. turkey says it's attacking all known syrian government targets following a dramatic escalation in the battle for edler province at least 33 turkish troops were killed in fighting on thursday the u.n. secretary general has expressed grave concern and makes those missing in the coming hours to discuss the crisis under schapelle has more. as syrian and russian forces attempted to retake land loss to rebels on thursday turkish

forces supporting the rebels came under fire their bloodiest day in the conflict so far. yeah a lot of a little of it as a result of the strikes 33 soldiers have been mahsud. helicopters and ambulances were seen streaming across the border earlier in the day to evacuate the wounded. returning to hatay as crowds gathered outside the hospital turkey says it's responding by attacking every known syrian government target. or says using it me sorry and also it's a lot of their forces while the border are strongly hitting the a defense systems many in the nation the pulse of the regime forces this situation was he she must be back the turkish forces will change everything because from now on do you will see not only the opposition on the ground but also the money of all round the fire power of the turkish armed forces including the aid force it did

that get the developments and it would have turned back in our favor. hours earlier president richard had hailed the battlefield successes. turkey has thousands of troops in its lip supporting rebel forces at war with syrian troops backed by russia turkish airstrikes have been pounding syrian government positions for days. a deescalation zone agreement between turkey and russia signed in 20 team was intended to prevent such fighting and protect 4000000 civilians living there far from deescalation there is an unfolding calamity for civilians in its loop as turkey and its rebels battle syria and russia the situation is worsening by the day. the escalation of fighting in the northwest since december has pushed over 900000 people including over half a 1000000 children away from their homes and into danger the whatever happens with

saket it won't end there or any time soon turkey says it will deepen its involvement in syria against the government it's now labeled the enemy. al jazeera well as go to cinema in istanbul cinema 33 turkish soldiers have been killed how is turkey like turkey likely to respond to this. well hell of course the initial messages were a condemnation and a while to retaliation and this is what turkey did their courting to their turkish military source says the incident happened around 4 pm local time in syria when the turkish military military members were hit by the syrian government air strikes and air around 6630 pm local time what we learned is that turkey if lied its. arms and on aren't drones inside syrian airspace and by violating the syrian

airspace actually and the russians didn't didn't say anything against this turkish most turks took so well to hit any foreign elements in its airspace and this is what they have been doing since yesterday the military is sharing they've drawn pictures how they hit the syrian government targets but of course one of the most important thing was the line was the news that turkey will not stop a refugees from crossing it to europe. through its borders but we were able to as old as there are we were able to confirm this line through several high level turkish officials but later in the night and the ruling party spokesperson imagine except that there is no change in turkey's refugee policy but it is a fact that turkey is no longer able to control some and refugees from crossing

from to turkey or to the european countries basically turkey and the e.u. has a migration deal that was signed a couple of years ago in turkey and turkey promised to stop all those irregular migration from its territories to the european countries basically from the aging coast. illegally crossing by boats to the greek islands or egg. an illegally crossing turkey is more do with bulgaria or greece on the west according to that deal turkish corso guards have worked very hard and that irregular migration was no minimized but it's insists a day we have been seeing pictures on the state news agency that those refugees most the syrian also afghan and pakistani and some african refugees trying to illegally cross the turkish border is via ethie or de land to seek

refuge in asylum in the european countries and this is very huge pressure over the e.u. by this means turkey is trying to pressure to ear to take a step intervene in this conflict where a nato member is being hit by the syrian government let's get more on the facts very much cinema concealer there bring us the latest from istanbul let's get more on what c.n.n. was saying they're enjoying there by sun neil romani a specialist on russia middle east relations is a regular contributor to the diplomats and washington post as well good to have you with us on the program if russia has indeed formed the turkish saw jurors where is this likely to go because saddam was saying that you know turkey is a nato member a nato member has no bit of time nato is no meeting or is set to meet in the coming hours is is this going to is this going to drag other nato members into this

conference. that's a very good question i think that media has clearly defined the school bus injury it will express solidarity with turkey ill encourage jerky to you defend its right to defense and it will really criticize turkey but launches major air strikes or escalates to major way against these that regime but they've also made it very clear that article 5 your article of collective defense that brings european countries neat and states into syria cannot be invoked b.s. turkey was not facing attacks on its own soil but intention in syria and therefore there is an exemption for that resolution and also important to note too that u.s. secretary of state of the defense mark gaspar said yesterday and the u.s. is permanently out of the syrian civil war and was not going to return and some european countries like germany maybe he's pressing more sympathy with the church has been chance but france is a lot more wary and just a few days ago with actually backing recent gains turkey in their mediterranean

dispute so i don't really see much of a western response in support of her but. turkey is very keen to have other people back him up on this and we heard from said they are holding this threats of perhaps letting more humanitarian refugees cross into europe from turkey has been preventing that those far but there are other ready now the suggestion is to start letting refugees move into europe in a way to pressure on the other countries other western nations to help them right here because the west has really been standing back from this crisis is turkey isolated here are they on their own. that's a good question that you're absolutely right that turkey is trying to pressure intervene by forcing the migration issue but at the same time i really just don't see is the u.s. which brazilian the u.s. in the last year then it would be willing to. confrontation with russia over turkey

that were not so very well i think that turkey may have a lot of solidarity in what is the one from its western allies they may be able to rebuild relationships with perhaps u.s. they'd be willing to sell them the treatments or else perhaps maybe it will do you avoid the prospect in the near term any future sanctions or perino they were asked late in northern syria but in practice militarily i think they're very much on the run and it will depend on how much they're able to investigate yet is that how russia retaliate you know russia doesn't want to see the syrian government fall but nasa has a great deal of trade relationships and close links with turkey in the military and security is yours then does the wind jeopardize so turkey is probably going to have to unilaterally as laymen wait and see what the rest of the world that's ok sam you're a man a great to get your thoughts and analysis thank you so much for joining us there live from oxford thank you very much. now the world's largest economies are being hit hard so as the coronavirus outbreak rocks the stock markets is the shares

promises on friday japan's nikkei stock index was average was started 3.6 percent there all 3 major u.s. indices are on track for their see 1st weekly to coin since the 2008 school financial crisis with our own dropped 4.4 percent on thursday its largest one day point straw up in history well in europe london's fits a $100.00 index for opening of the 3.5 percent it's lost more than $150000000000.00 in the past 4 days well earlier i spoke to serious business said sarah bitterly on how the virus is affecting global markets. what we're seeing right now is a lot of panic because we just don't understand where the end of this process is going to be where the virus is going to go in the future this is not something that central banks can't rescue the situation with rate cuts this really does require

policymakers to make a shift it requires the medical community say yes you know we got to hang on this particular problem so as long as that happens we can expect markets to go lower now we're down 10 percent what happened in 2018 was that markets came down about 20 percent especially in the u.s. which is a bear market and that was because they were concerned that the u.s. federal reserve was going to keep interest it keep raising interest rates and that concern was overcome by basically the fed stepping up and saying you know we're going to we're going to cut rates so what we're seeing here now is is basically a real fear that profits that companies will be really hit hard in china itself you know what we're expecting birthrates off of possibly 2 percent in the 1st quarter and it's really important these percentage points are really really important because china's been aiming for 6 percent and they need 6 percent to create jobs they've lost 4000000 jobs because of the trade war last year and they have between

8 to 10000000 people coming to the market every single year that's young people coming on to the market who need jobs and you need to have continued growth in the economy to create jobs for those people. the number of confirmed cases in china continues to slide and friday its reporters $327.00 new cases that's its lowest in more than a month cases in south korea rose though over $200.00 taking the total to more than 2000 south korea is the hardest hits outside china the military has been drafted in to find the outbreak all speaking cases has forced vietnam to suspend visa free travel to south korea it has so far reported 16 cases of covert 19 and nigeria has confirmed the case the 1st in sub-saharan africa over iran one of the country's vice presidents has been diagnosed with the virus let's get more now on the view from asia sara clark joins us from hong kong keep your across all the

details in the region just give us a sense of general developments where you are. well certainly south korea is the one that everyone seems to be watching the situation there is rapidly escalating as you mentioned $256.00 new cases of the infection on friday that takes the total to 2022 now i should say of that 256182 of those cases are in the southeast in the city called debut in this is where the religious group known as the the group that met in a couple of weeks ago and this group the religious sect this particular gathering triggered a large cluster of positive infections of the krajina virus now this particular church or there's been a lot of anger towards this church the government has been angry towards this church even the mayor is looking to take legal action against that church for not identifying the situation the symptoms and the cases earlier but at the moment at

the disco remains about 13 but south korea remains or has the highest number of cases of china but south korea has escalated testing capacity in the last 24 hours they've done 9300 people have been tested for the crime of virus infection but the government is still looking for the so concerned about the lack of beds in the area but the government still trying to track down members of the church and identify those particular people at that gathering to try and contain the spread now the government has announced the last day or so about up to $30000000000.00 it's going to be spent as a relief package to identify the areas that need help and that includes obviously the economic fallout and also boost medical supplies to try and deal with the rapidly escalating situation of the spread in south korea now in china as you mentioned the situation there appears to be stabilizing at the moment 327 new cases confirmed on friday 44 deaths but most of those were in the who by province down

the last hour the chinese government has held there for the health officials have had their press conference they've said blood blood has been collected from 544 cured patients and they put that into clinical trials. of 245 patients and 91 showing improved conditions and we can confirm that one particular person or citizen in new zealand has now also confirmed a positive to the corona virus infection and that particular person is a permanent resident who is returning from iran ok sarah clarke live in hong kong thank you. well it's more still ahead so on the program including uncertainty at the top of afghan politics look at how it could rail hopes of lost in space. hello there's still a very unsettled picture across much of europe in particular once again across much

of the u.k. and ireland this is an excellent system on the way this has been named jorge and this is bringing with it some widespread rain and also some snow winds will be strong with this storm system as well and there is still in place across much of england over $200.00 flood warnings and alerts coming of course from the environment agency for the state of the rivers but look at this some very strong winds as well when he funneling in this rain some rain showers beginning to push across into low countries and also areas of france meanwhile eastern europe what about a snow just working its way steadily east was pushing on into turkey as you head over into saturday but still this area of low pressure this very strong storm system sitting across much of the northwest this will turn to snow as well in the cold air across northern sections of the u.k. heavy snow building up as well into southern areas the scandinavia and all this rain working its way slowly across into the low countries germany france and also down into spain and some pretty heavy accumulation of snow expected to build up across the line of the alps as well fairly quiet generate close northern africa but

those winds are pretty strong through the central and eastern med certainly impacting these northern areas of libya particularly as we head into southeast and strong winds into colorado with a high of 20. there is a huge group of people at work behind our screens and the power they had is massive that urge to keep swiping through twitter feed that's just not the way we all click i agree to the terms and conditions that sign to most of us never even get a 2nd full and actually that's designed as well ali riggs floors how designers are manipulating our behavior in the final episode all hail the algorithm on a jersey of. a a. my

. this is al-jazeera our mind off our headlines this hour turkey's military says it's attacking syrian army positions after 33 of its soldiers were killed in fighting in it live on is threatening to open the way for syrian refugees to europe. later is calling an emergency meeting to discuss the crisis after its chief condemned what he calls indiscriminate airstrikes by syria and russia and the u.n. secretary general is urging an immediate cease fire. but the stock markets have fallen further that concern over the corona virus outbreak japan's nikkei index dropped by 3 and a half percent in the friday morning session and all 3 major u.s. and this is on track for their steepest weekly declines since 2008 financial crisis . the u.s.

has announced it's waiving sanctions on iran's central bank to hand struggles to respond to the corona virus outbreak it will allow companies to sell food medicines and humanitarian supplies to toronto transactions will be made through a swiss humanitarian trade arrangements helping exporters and businesses deal with iran. weeklong reduction in violence between the taliban u.s. and afghan forces support hope of a long lasting peace still months this concern it could be delayed by political division following a controversial election or after have made reports. the daily hustle of the streets of kabul takes a toll on people many struggling to make ends meet some just to get through one day but in another part of the city secured behind concrete walls afghan politicians continue to bicker 5 months after the election incumbent president a shovel heinie was declared winner by the controversial electoral commission which

pushed his rival and chief executive of the outgoing government. turned out that he will also form his own government that is true but as we are talking right now there is an opportunity to. tackle this issue and find a reasonable solution for the political crisis if not yes we have announced that we will go ahead with our integration dr de la firmly believes that according to the biometrically verify votes he has won the election the 2 men already had a power sharing agreement brokered by the united states in a national munity government that was all but united. it's nothing new for the afghans less than 20 percent of the registered voters took part in the past election many didn't because of the insecurity in their areas but many others

simply because they lost faith in their leaders and ask anyone now they would tell you there will feel with the upcoming peace deal between the u.s. and the taliban then who will become their next president's it's also the priority for the white house after months of negotiations in qatar the peace agreement between the u.s. and the taliban could be the rails by washington's longstanding allies in afghanistan the next step subsequently will be the interim afghan dialogue. and travel and dialogue. can represent the afghan side i've been traveling a very long winded one for the taliban. for the international community and states are specific. the problem is defragmentation. the taliban agree to a confidence building deal to reduce violence for 7 days they are seen to have respected the agreement with the americans even though they have been multiple

attacks around the country targeting afghan security forces. the taliban did much agree to compute because it could lose its power on the ground but this deal shows off its ability we were wise and we agreed to this reduction of violence period so no one could blame the us seems to have put a temporary stop to the in-fighting ash of any is now said to be inaugurated on march 9th but the political divisions in kabul and now the biggest challenge for ending america's longest war and bringing to peace afghans have been aspiring to for decades but at the. talent's government survived a vote of no confidence called by the opposition the vote followed for days and debates when prime minister probably china china his governments were accused of corruption abuse of power and mismanaging economy. israel's defense minister has approved nearly 1800 new illegal settler homes in the occupied west bank just 4

days ahead of an election it's the 2nd major settlements innocents' by prime minister benjamin netanyahu has governments in recent days is right when the could party and naftali bennett far right coalition are vying for the support of more than 600000 settlers in monday's poll. army commanders in the democratic republic of congo say they have a plan against an armed group has killed hundreds of people it's expected to take 4 months to implement but this concern but fighters of the only democratic forces or a.d.f. so have the capacity to continue their attacks catherine has this exclusive report . ashore forced by congolese soldiers as they take us to the defense position against the allied democratic forces rebel group or a.d.f. deep in the forests. the army has sent 5 generals to command 22000 soldiers

in the fight against an estimated 2800 fighters on the run in the jungle and the generals discuss strategy and visit troops on the frontline. when we are dealing with terrorists now unable to fight the military so the go back and kill civilians but do not stop until the relief united nations official say the rebels are holding hundreds of hostages kidnapped in the last year and a half maybe it was formed in western uganda in the 1990 s. with the aid of creating an islamic state the ugandan army forced the fighters to move to neighboring d r c where they were initially tolerated. the aims of a.d.f. aren't clear but they attack and drop villages like this one with guns and machetes to cut their victims to pieces this is the last village before you get to areas in the forest where the military is fighting people here have told us that they had

been terrorized by the group for so long and i'm in command as we talk to say that soldiers have been able to push the group father into the forest they have killed many of them including some commanders and other group is very much on the run some say the military is using a local armed group called my mind to help fight the a.d.f. i'm a common. and as we talked to denied that some my my fluxions had been accused of human rights abuses in the villages they control. this woman says in my my i arrested and 5 other women who are accused of attempting to poison someone in the community and i told them i do not try to poison anyone but they would not believe me beating us badly i decided to run they shot me doctors had to amputate one of my legs for u.n. peacekeepers say they have increased patrols in villages and are providing tactical and logistical support to the congolese army. these idea for able sometimes

a technologist at a close to military bases and surprising people think security forces aren't doing enough either they are disorganized all the strategy to defeat i.d.f. is not working. nearly $1000.00 congolese villagers have been killed by a.t.f. since the military offensive against the group started in october victims you talk to say they just want the tax to stop catherine song al-jazeera in the eastern democratic republic of congo. has estimated one in 5 fish brought to market is illegally caught so often by a so-called dark fishing fleet this refers to vessels that switch off their satellite tracking to hide their activities in far flung parts of the world's oceans a greenpeace investigation has uncovered the scale of the problem and the needs for greater ocean protection mechanic reports. in the middle of it

line to goshen thousands of kilometers from anywhere the greenpeace ship arctic sunrise it's on the trail of a vessel that's gone dark it's turned off its tracking systems the team home in on another vessel a giant refrigerated cargo ship or reef and here they find the original quarry the taiwanese long liner trench shipping its catch of juno all to what is effectively a colossal floating freezer these reefers can stay at sea for a year and more and there are more than 400 of them across the world the gating the need for the fishing boats to return frequently to port the long line of the battery with not transmitting i am. the way you can track back from space that is used to track. commercial fleets around the world i'm this means that we can see what activity is happening out here and it makes things high fever

a black hole official got 50 transshipments like this are considered a major loophole in monitoring fishing activities by offloading catches it seems like the shark vessels are able to smuggle illegal unreported and unregulated catches into the market by mixing them with lead. eagle horse. thousands of kilometers away the southern ocean remote and next to impossible to police the greenpeace ship esperanza has been following the movements of fishing boats and pristine borders the reef is often stocked the smaller vessels with fuel and supplies but a reticent to communicate. his research friends are. calling on a russian last question. are you also supplying these vessels with other products . it's believed up to $14000000.00 tons of unreported fish catches a traded every year costing around $23000000000.00 so we can see for example there

in the southwest atlantic which is a part of the globe but there's very little to what almost no fisheries management for a lot of fishing vessels so any way for that goes there is by default working within an unregulated environment all this say greenpeace adds to the urgent need for a strong global ocean treaty to be implemented as soon as possible to ensure that 30 percent of the world's oceans are off limits to exploitation of any kind nick clarke al-jazeera. this is al jazeera these are the headlines turkey's military says it's attacking syrian army positions after 33 of its soldiers were killed in fighting in it live on korea is also threatening to open the way for syrian refugees to europe nato is calling an emergency meeting to discuss the crisis after its chief condemned what

he calls indiscriminate airstrikes by syria and russia and the u.n. secretary general is urging an immediate cease fire seen in kosovo has more from istanbul. those soldiers were killed during an air strike by the syrian regime as governor last night and those people were were said to be in a building for an operation according to a recent statement by the russian defense ministry they say the incident happened where the turkish soldiers shouldn't have been and it was not coordinate that this was the statement by the russian defense ministry yesterday many accuse russians because there were also talks between the turkish and russian delegation in the turkish capital ankara global stock markets are falling further amid concern over the corona virus outbreak japan's nikkei index dropped by 3 and

a half percent and friday morning session and all 3 major u.s. indices are on track for their steepest weekly declines since the 2008 school bull financial crisis more than 2800 people have died from the corona virus and 83000 cases have been confirms around the world this week the number of new cases reported in china was overtaken by those in other countries the u.s. has announced as waving sanctions on iran's central bankers to her own struggles to respond to the coronavirus outbreak it was a low companies to sell food medicines and humanitarian supplies to to run the transactions will be made through a swiss humanitarian trade arrangements of an export is and businesses deal with iran that see up to date still stay with us here on al-jazeera the stream is up next. the u.s. president's proposed plan for the middle east has less territory to be on its time than any other peace plan since 1988 times of corporate boards of as we have

because of the video was by us just leaves the office right now how much time and the palestinian prime minister told challenges era. i'm josh rushing filling in for me ok and you're in the stream today as the united nations sound the alarm for civilians in syria we ask is the world indifferent to ed web join the conversation tweet us your thoughts at a.j. stream or leave a comment and our live youtube chat and you too can be in the story of. the united nations warns that the world is facing the worst humanitarian catastrophe of the 21st century as the forces of syrian president bashar al assad close in on the last opposition stronghold if the that announcement by the u.n.

comes as opposition forces backed by the turkish military regained the key town of sauron.