the continent's biggest economy pale insisted that the u.s. is open for business. or at. syrian government forces kill more than 30 turkish soldiers in the last rebel held province of idlib later calls a meeting to discuss the crisis. and how he's in and this is al jazeera my from doha also coming up coronavirus shakes the global economy asian markets slide further as the epidemic disrupts international travel and trade israel gives the go ahead for nearly 2000 new settlements in occupied territories days before its 3rd election in less than 12 months. and we are in argentina where it might be full time for the handmade

football industry. 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 nato as we've seen 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 at the same time to alter their forces while the border are strongly hitting the abe defense systems and 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 you will see not only the opposition on the ground but also the many more around the fire power of the turkish armed forces including the aid force it did debt getting at 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. 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 we have 2 correspondents across the story john psaropoulos is standing by

for us in the greek capital but 1st let's go to cinema in istanbul. turkey's response to this. well turkey respond. very harshly according to the turkish officials 1st there were devolves for retaliation and this incident occurred around 4 pm local time in syria zawiya area and beginning from 6630 pm local time yesterday a turkish armed turkish drones violated the syrian airspace entered and hit is syrian government forces targets and the russians didn't stuff the turkish drums yesterday however there was a statement by the russian defense ministry earlier this morning that sad that the turkish soldiers shouldn't be in the place where they were hit and the soldiers'

coordinates haven't been shared by the russian counterparts but just a couple of months ago on the turkish state news agency is there were there were some lines by the turkish defense minister that said that it turkey shared the coordinates of its of its soldiers with the russian counterparts and this attack that targeted the turkish soldiers by the by the syrian government forces happened despite a coronation with the russians so this is an interesting statement by the turkish defense minister talked to the denying the russian defense ministry says that it is a statement in the morning also in the russian statement it's sad that there were some what they called this some radical groups nearby the turkish soldiers and turkish defense minister all saw tonight these comments so this is in it will be interesting to see how this. how this thing between 2 defense ministers are going

to unfold during the day but i have to say that these 2 statements are totally conflicting each other also after that in the students turkey made a call for its. nato allies and the western allies to establish a no fly zone over syria this all for it was actually is cited by turkey's president don for the last couple of years to stop the humanitarian tragedy inside syria and nato is going to have a special session today upon turkey's request from last night where the nato is going to support its ally turkey because its hits by the syrian government forces the still an unknown but there will be a meeting and we will follow all the developments from that side. bring us up state from istanbul thank you. well greece is the gateway for syrian refugees to head to europe ted let's go live thanks john simm openness in athens and john given recent

events and this turkish threats to let refugees walk through to europe was greece's next move. well greek government sources have said that they have put land border forces and the coast guard on maximum alert and after the latest battles and that they are in constant coordination with the european union and nato regarding the next steps and what the alliance or the european union might do regarding. both the humanitarian military aspects of that crisis the greek government of course is most concerned about the fact that as the southeastern most external border the european union it stands to receive any refugee flows that do come across the turkish border 1st and don't forget that since march of 2016 greece's northern border without. north macedonia has been closed and the refugee flows

coming to greece the most likely to stay here the migration minister is on his way to the island of lesbos today the prime minister is going to visit the island of some us tomorrow those are 2 of the 5 islands that have. reception centers for refugees where refugees are identified and recorded those are official entry points to the european union for asylum seekers the reason politicians are going to the islands is not only to show government solidarity but also because in the last week there's been a very pronounced crisis in relations between the east a-g. and islands and the government in athens with riot police clashing with local inhabitants over the construction of new reception centers the government says are a vital part of its plan for dealing. with the refugee flows coming across the a.g.m. at the moment there seems to be a compromise between the 2 sides the going to get back together and discuss the

siting of those new camps but of course they are also in agreement that the coast guard has to strengthen the maritime border as much as possible and that asylum application processes have to be speeded up so that people can be returned to turkey more quickly who don't qualify for asylum and that is where greece is at the moment ok john psaropoulos live in athens thank you well to other news now the world's largest economies are being hit hard as the coronavirus outbreak rocks the markets asian shares promises on friday japan's nikkei stock average was down 3.6 percent in all 3 major u.s. and this is on track for their steepest weekly declines since the 2008 financial crisis not a diary a moon dropped 4.4 percent on thursday its largest one day point drop in history

over in europe london's for it say 100 index fell by nearly 3.5 percent it's lost more than 100 $50000000000.00 in the last 4 days well earlier i spoke to our jazzier is economics editor abbott only when i have a 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 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 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 at 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 least percentage points are really really important because china's been aiming for 6 percent and they need 6 percent to create jobs they 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. or the number of confirmed cases in china continues to slide on friday it's reported $327.00 its lowest in more than a month cases in south korea though brought spike $315.00 taking the top all to

more than 2300 so career is the hardest hit country outside of china the military has been drafted in to fight the outbreak the spike in cases has forced vietnam to suspend visa free travel to. south korea it has so far reported 16 cases of 19 and nigeria has confirmed a case the 1st in sub-saharan africa while in iran one of the vice presidents has been diagnosed with the virus sarah clarke explains what south korea's government is doing to curb the spread of south korea has escalated testing capacity in the last 24 hours they've done $9300.00 people have been tested for the krajina virus infection but the government is still looking for the still 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 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 the chinese government has held there or the health officials have had their press conference they've said blood blood is being 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 was returning from iran. so to come on al-jazeera why

republicans are urging a vote for bernie sanders in the democrats' next us presidential primary. hello there's still more rain coming into western sections of java calls this on top of the flooding that has really been fairly widespread this way you can see fairly active weather conditions on the satellite that recalls bring in the rain is a go on into saturday and you can still see that rain across much of java becoming havea late in the day and also into these western areas of sumatra so again here we could have some localized flooding is a similar story as we go on into sunday and of course these rains they awfully typical for this time of year but certainly down to the south is will continue to see some of those heavier rains across into australia we're still looking at the

remnants of what was ester this is continuing to pick up quite a bit of moisture and so dumping down some heavy amounts of rain into these northern sections of western australia and then to the south knows a bad day on saturday mickelson showers like you cross into western australia perth with a high of 28 but all begins to change on sunday there's a very strong on szell flow there's a front just sliding by and this will really push quite of the moisture into these areas of south australia and also across into victoria but ahead of the system it is warm 28 celsius in melbourne the same across into adelaide and really not much the way of rain through queensland new south wales so a sunny warm day in brisbane 32. chinese authorities the putting those they say can be a crime. but are they show trials or genuine confession. or when a steel best to go. on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera where every. this is al-jazeera a reminder of the top stories this hour turkey's military says it's attacking syrian army positions after $33.00 of its soldiers were killed in fighting in italy a conqueror 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. while some real romani is a specialist on russia middle east relations he says there's not much nato candy though it is support in turkey. i think that media has clearly defined the scope of its intervention it will express solidarity with turkey elin courage jyrki defend its rights and it will really criticize turkey but launches major air strikes or escalates in a major way against these that regime and they've also made it very clear in the article by your article of collectors out defense that brings european countries neat and states into syria cannot be involved yesterday he was not facing attacks on his own soil but it's and should intervene in syria and therefore is an exemption in that resolution and also important you know jill that u.s.

secretary of state yaf and defense are mark gaspar said yesterday at the u.s. is permanently out of the syrian civil war and was not going to return and some european countries like germany maybe more sympathy with the turkish bush and by france is a lot more wary and just a few days ago with actually backing greece against turkey in their marriage reining is yet so i don't really see much of a coherent western response in support of her heavy shelling is being reported in libya's capital the number of flights have been suspended the only functioning airports in tripoli well charles stratford is there charles what more do we know at this stage. that's right you know a lot of heavy shelling the smalling certainly the heaviest that we've heard in the last couple of weeks that we've been here you're right matilda the only international airport here in tripoli has closed for the time being but we see black smoke rising behind made out that is we believe the airport the color of that

smoke would suggest that possibly some sort of oil installation. we appear to have lost our correspondents in tripoli apologies for that we'll try and get back some as soon as we can from us bring you some other news israel's defense ministry has approved the ac 100 new settler homes in the occupied west bank just 4 days heads of an election as the 2nd major settlements announcement by prime minister benjamin netanyahu is governments in recent days his right when the could party and snuffed on the bennetts far right coalition are vying for the support of more than 600000 settlers in monday's poll. that's in yahoo's main rival benny gantz is fighting to reverse it in the opinion polls harry fawcett's has more now from west jerusalem. benny gantz was in southern israel this

week the former army chief not for the 1st time demanding stronger action against hamas and islamic jihad in gaza but his harshest criticism hasn't been trained on prime minister netanyahu security policy rather on his character that. netanyahu look at me in the eye look at the israelis in the eye because of your obsession of escaping trial you are lying splitting dividing mocking distributing malicious rumors and inciting netanyahu you are poisoning israel. dances blue and white alliance continues to remind israelis should they need reminding that netanyahu is indicted in 3 separate corruption cases warning he wants to change israeli law to avoid jail but heard a strongly worded the message is familiar after 3 campaigns in which many minds have been made up recent polls suggest netanyahu taking a narrow lead look into the el is corrupted i agree everybody he has other qualities older than that i think is the right man for us pentagon to say ok. now i

will hope for some change in 3 campaigns now benny gantz has been trying to make the argument that israel needs to rid itself of the prime minister mired in corruption charges and he's been given a gift this time round with a trial date set for just 2 weeks after polling day and yet that argument doesn't seem to be getting the traction that he needs this campaign has seen a rightward shift in tone and policy with dance backing the controversial trump peace plan at least as a starting point for talks seeking to prise voters away from benjamin netanyahu likud. that and you know who meanwhile is using a well worn playbook warning jewish voters that guns only has one way to form a minority government and it should frighten the guns you hold gets will not be able to create a government without the support of ahmed t.v. and the joint lest in the knesset he cannot this is what they are trying to conceal . dancer's distance himself from the palestinian israeli group of parties saying he doesn't need their support the bacon back whoever they want they're not very happy

with him but they're not going to support us there now and if being somewhat at odds with them gives him more credibility to draw some votes from across the middle from the netanya territory you know that's the logic of what he's been doing. a year and 3 election campaigns in the his political career but he gets no has plenty of on the job training but israeli politics still seems stubbornly stuck just days away from polling he may even have to come back for a 4th attempt later this year ari force of al-jazeera westerners. more now on the rapid spread of the coronavirus across the world pakistan has detected its 1st see cases of coronavirus some schools are closed including in the largest city karate gupta reports. pakistan caught between iran and china its 2 neighbors with the highest number of coroner virus deaths in the world and on red

state pakistan detected its 1st 2 cases in the capital islamabad and the largest city karachi as panic creeps in many people like me are rushing to buy mosques but there is not enough to go around and prices are rising ones are not going away this is since we came to know about coronavirus cases in pakistan everyone is worried and are panicking we came here to buy and 95 masks but they're not available in the market we're wearing normal masks instead classically you can listen to the supply of masks is very low and its demand has suddenly risen supplies are asking for more money because of increased demand and a flurry of buying has led to acute shortages the government has closed schools and colleges in some areas it's also shut the land border with iran and suspended all flights to the country people are stuck on. both sides. i came to pakistan 6 days ago for 3 days and i'm stuck here at the border because the border is closed

i don't know what the problem is i don't have water and food we're in a difficult situation. the government says there is no need to panic and has launched a media campaign to spread awareness about the new virus. outbreak the government is prepared to deal with any emergency situation at least 15 people are under watch and close observation and this includes people who have recently arrived from china and iran. but there are concerns whether pakistan's health facilities can cope if the virus spreads its densely populated communities priyanka gupta dizzier. thailand's government survived a vote of no confidence called by the opposition the balls followed 4 days of debates when prime minister pro john or john his governments were accused of corruption and abuse of power. republicans are using a arjen rather

a tactical vote in these south carolina democratic primary in the united states they're encouraging people to back bernie sanders believe in the socialist cancer bates president donald trump and the gallagher reports from charleston. we. have the right crazy. senator bernie sanders has built a strong coalition across the u.s. making him the current front runner in a still crowded democratic field unlike all the primaries so far though south carolina's is open it's supposed to encourage those without party affiliation to take part it also means republicans can cast their vote for a democrat some conservative activists a calling it operation chaos and they set their sights on the candidate they think president trump could easily defeat we are specifically asking for republicans and trump supporters all across south carolina to turn out and vote for senator bernie sanders in the democratic primary on saturday is that instead of the fighting the

american people up which is what trump is going to do certain is not just under attack from the right some on the left are also worried as self of our democratic socialist can't win the presidential election the center left think tank 3rd way describe sanders as an existential threat to the party's future it's not because we're worried he will win the general election and implement all his policies they talk about our concern is that we think bernie sanders will lose and give trump 4 more years santa supporters boy by their candidates recent wins don't believe the strategy will have an impact that sounds like a weird tactic i don't know i don't know if that's going to work out for them the way that they want the problem is the rules are the rules they're going to take advantage of the rules where i don't know that it hasn't gone the other way in the past i really thought i think that it's time for the world to change being that that's just kind of us we're being at straws and it's all the numbers have shown

that he was not the weakest candidate against our shop even if republicans can stomach voting for a democratic candidate there's not much evidence that these kinds of tactics make a difference organizers say that main goal is to expose the vulnerability of open primaries and in. they can sow some chaos along the way all the better bernie sanders is currently running a close 2nd here to the former vice president joe biden factions on both the left and right are railing against it but the vermont senator has momentum going into super tuesday when 14 states vote the question is can anyone stop the bernie train and gallacher al-jazeera charleston south carolina has some of the world's biggest football stars come from argentina like the in all messi and diego maradona but his ball produces are in crisis imports are forcing hundreds of people out of work to raise a ball reports from bellevue in the province of cordoba. fulton balls have

helped arjun tines laugh and cry throughout the years but in this factory in bellville in the central province of quarter the law they have played a much bigger role. to has been producing them since he was 11 years old it was his 1st job and it's been his passion since then. i was raised in a factory and my 1st payment was a pair of jeans that was my salary i'm talking years ago and now i see they're importing balls and they blow up on their own because it's not the quality we have we want to make the best balls handmade that can make it to the leave. until the 1930 s. the bulls were closed with a leather feel that hurt player's head but 3 friends from bellville invented the super bowl with an invisible seem that is currently used today this city is considered argentina as a capital and what makes this unique is that there handmade something that

generates hundreds of jobs every year but the dire economic situation in the country and imports from china and pakistan are having a strong impact in factories like this one that are struggling to remain in the business. of a fully nice family has owned this factory for years he says in the past 4 production has dropped dramatically the previous administration of. allowed imported walls to take over the market. when the g 20 happened with all the presidents from around the world. president's made in china we have all these factories here that need to south he says in these past 2 years he has been forced to reduce his staff more than. i had 100 employees and now i have 15 working and like all small companies if we had a decree that we could fire everyone we should have done so we were working to remain open to those around 15 small companies in the area and they have

a big impact in the community as they hire local sewers to create the bull's body. that he learned how to sew bulls from his mother he has 5 children and says he can make a little less. truck cash every month. i started sewing balls when i was around 5 years old to help my mother this is the only job i have for now i don't have anything else aside from government help it's difficult these days to care for my children everything is expensive with inflation argentina needs around $4000000.00 a year factories like this one say they could survive by producing only 20 percent of what is needed there only waiting for the government to look their way. there is a war. argentina. this is al jazeera these are the headlines turkey's military sense it's attacking

syrian army positions after it says 33 of its soldiers were killed in fighting in it live is also threatening to open the way for syrian refugees to reach europe. nato is calling an emergency meeting to discuss the crisis after its chief condemned what he calls into scrimmages airstrikes by syria and russia seen in cosi although her small 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 at 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. heavy shelling is being reported in libya's capital flights have been suspended. the only functioning airports in tripoli or logically for have to his forces launched an offensive on the city in april. global stock markets are falling further amid concern over the coronavirus outbreak japan's nikkei index dropped 53 and a half percent in friday morning session and more than 2800 people have died from the corona virus and 83000 cases have been confirmed around the world this week the number of new cases reported in china was overtaken by those in other countries was the. 11 east is up next. trade tensions could cut global economic growth by north point 8 percent we'll bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in for example china be

a drag on the global economy in 2020 counting the cost on al-jazeera. when chinese old parsons clamp down on what they see as unwanted or illegal activity. they knowingly make the must they pressure the accused to can fit into the woods. lawyer book publishing act and. they've all been the right of one state media often before any formal conviction on this episode of 1018 we investigate china's public confession of a real or just for show. their feelings for some.