in prime minister told style jazeera. the on . the turkish military response but for softer it says more than 30 of its soldiers were killed in an attack by syrian government forces turkey says it will begin to allow refugees fleeing the fighting in syria to seek shelter in europe. and how to get in and this is al jazeera life and doha also coming up the coronavirus continues to rattle the global economy asian and european markets slide further as the epidemic disrupts international travel and trains. were in argentina where it might be a full time for the hands of

a football industry. but turkey says it's attacking all known government targets after it reported 33 of its soldiers have been killed in fighting in syria is it live province that's where syrian forces are trying to take control of the last rebel held territory nato has called an emergency meeting to discuss the crisis after its chief condemns what he called in the scrimmage airstrikes by syria and russia and the u.n. secretary general is urging an immediate cease fire while russia says it's sending warships on's with cruise missiles toward the syrian coast and has blamed turkey for the killing of its soldiers in the previous day. appears say putting pressure on the european union. by learning some refugees to ensor europe hundreds of

migrants and are heading for turkey's but words are with greece. has more. as syrian and russian forces attempted to retake land lost to rebels on thursday turkish forces supporting the rebels came under fire their bloodiest day in the conflict so far you know plan of a cell to let us 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 ought to their forces from the border are strongly hitting the a defense systems and many in the nation the pulse of the regime forces this

situation was he she must be back the turkish armed forces will change everything because from now on you will see not only the opposition on the ground but also the many more and the fire power of the turkish armed forces including to aid force it did that get the developments and have turned back in our favor. hours earlier president richard type had hailed the battlefield successes. turkey has thousands of troops in it lib 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 north west 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 and there or any time soon turkey says it will deepen its involvement in syria against the government it's now labeled the enemy and or chapell al-jazeera. well let's get more now from hushmail who's there on turkey's border with syria this is quite the escalation is it not a huge number of turkish military deaths what's the reaction been see this. is an extraordinary escalation here in of the border area with with that with with

with with syria took official officials have been talking since yesterday about revenge retaliation the shock because the the death toll is the deadliest day for took his sources inside syria since the start of the intervention. feel betrayed by the russians and they feel that they need to show an aggressive stance and to retaliate the death of it was soldiers a dolla bastardly who is the leader of the ultra nationalist party a member of the governing coalition or president possibly about all i've said that it's doubt time for the ground of friends inside syria the defense minister who was a while ago here on the border area who visited the so injured soldiers there were highly hospital said that many targets were taken out inside syria was talking about helicopters. and aircraft but batteries and anti. defense systems that were destroyed in different attacks by the turkish military. in

government positions inside syria. of government officials members of the ruling party all seem to be on board about what happened yesterday was a turning point for the turkish government and what happens next is something that will be decided by the turkish military and the turkish government in the upcoming days. could those next steps be hashim because we've already seen some might reach t.v. international community need to see meet very shortly in deeds but in terms of where turkey goes next i mean what are the options. indeed had a very that that meeting which is supposed to start in about 2 hours from now in between turkish and russian delegations about defusing tension has been ongoing for 3 days with no major breakthrough to the point where the turkish government is

completely frustrated over the lack of any results from those talks it remains to be seen what could they achieve today against a backdrop of what happened yesterday i have to tell you that the mood among the people of the general sentiment among the senior turkish government officials they don't believe that the turks of the russians are genuine about any political way out of the crisis in syria and this is exactly what they hope to see implemented as soon as possible they say that they want the syrian government to pull out behind the observations because they are concerned they have their own military stationed in those zones and these are the same areas that were targeted yesterday by the syrian government so they want the syrian military to pull out from the demilitarized zone they want to see an immediate cease fire implemented and they want the refugees we're talking about almost 1000000 refugees stranded all the. border including just behind where i stand here they want these people to go back

to the. russia of the syrian government have been saying. these are different angles we would like to tackle them separately but they were adamant the fights will continue because they say we're not dealing with the opposition we're dealing with terrorist groups and this has been one of the key disagreement points between the russians and the turks will lead be able to overcome those differences. i personally don't see that happening in the upcoming was particularly against the backdrop of what happened yesterday ok has barbara has all the latest from turkey's border with syria thank you. well john psaropoulos is in athens he says greece is tyson sea and land borders with turkey as refugees make their way to the border. nato does have a precedent in this process of supporting for refugee boats and do and helping in the humanitarian operation the european nightmare the floodgates being opened greek and european officials are still mulling over whether this is simply

a threat or whether it's in earnest although there are preliminary reports from greek reporters in turkey to greek media that the turkish coast guard has been stood down and the ports are tighter and the boats are tied up but for now the greek government reaction is that all borders with turkey have been placed on maximum alert that means a 160 kilometer land border which has constant patrols and it means a roughly 1000 kilometer naval maritime border where greece has assets of about 40 coast guard vessels operating around the clock and if the need should arise there are other forces that could be rallied there as well military assets special forces units and so on. ok we're going like that see nato with effective general against altenburg insects and make a statement last night political independence or security is threatened. i

spoke to the turkish foreign minister murdered social room last night about the situation in syria and he requested these consultations. today in turkey briefed on the serious security situation in syria. our allies all for their deepest condolences for the death of turkish soldiers in last night's bombing in italy. and expressed. with turkey. condemn the continued indiscriminate airstrikes by the syrian regime and russia in italy province by call on them to stop their offensive to respect international law and to back to you and i ferd's for a peaceful solution. this dangerous situation must be deescalated i would

urge an immediate return to the 2018 cease fire toward the further worsening of their industry military and situation in the region and to allow urgent humanitarian access for those trapped in italy. today's meeting is a clear sign also the dotted with turkey turkey is a valued nato ally and turkey is the nato ally most affected by the terrible conflict in syria which has suffered the most terrorist attacks and which hosts millions of refugees. nato continues to support turkey with a range of measures including by augmenting and its air defenses this helps turkey against the threat of missile attacks from syria. are trying to gain for briefing our large circular it all the situation 0 allies will continue to

follow developments on the solve eastern border or nato and to consult very closely and without them ready for your questions it was not then t.v. . and t.v. turkey you know the one hand tell us what was the forward given by member states and in light of the briefing given by the un and do think that it's also because you mention the deduction of measures for turkey you think that it's a new opportunity to at least who've read all the guy because you just delivering 40 percent of it and there is still a gap of 60 percent thank you so nato allies express their deepest condolences to doso lost loved ones family members and to the people all of turkey. we also stated very clearly that we call on our show on the also the. to stop the attacks to stop this commit air attacks are also to engage

and support to un led efforts to find the last thing a political peaceful solution to the crisis in syria and we also call almost russia on syria to fully risk. correct international law because we have seen warming over civilian targets we see in. increased human admitted tyrion suffering hundreds of thousands of people have been the force to leave their homes . nato allies provide support for turkey today we augment their air defenses we have a works plane helping to patrol the skies and we also have quarterly sits on the support in all the ways but our allies are constantly looking into what more they can do to provide further support for turkey another them gentleman with

a month rent mr secretary general use footage from other legion see it could be expect any more concrete steps from nato as this mission in syria is worsening the military and situation especially there are 3000000 civilians waiting on the border of turkey could we expect any concrete steps to. attacks on churches soon and if you can you inform us if it was discussed in during the meeting think. as nato provides a strong political support and also provide the practical support we provide the practical support with different assurance measures and we are constantly assessing analysis looking into what more they can do and that was also expressed clearly in the meeting and today we are of course also constantly monitoring and following the the following the situation very closely and turkey is a regular updating nato allies and i also spoke with the turkish foreign minister

late last night where he did questions for this meeting and just the meeting we had today is sick clear demonstration of a nato solidarity an expression of support from all the nato allies to our nato ally turkey. we are. strongly support doing nato allies are engaged in trying to move forward in the efforts of the u.n. there 1st and find a peaceful solution and we call on turkey we call on on the. armed russia to fully engage in such a u.n. led efforts to find a peaceful solution couple times last question thank you very much secretary general i know that you are talking about syria but in a situation in afghanistan is also very important and tomorrow with us on taliban one signed an agreement and also an afghan governmental with us when you're there

a beer is what will be next is there for nato and. you well use their troops if. a us decide to reduce their troops from afghanistan thank you as we are closer to a peace agreement ever before in afghanistan. nato will continue to support the efforts to find a peaceful and negotiated solution we have seen a significant reduction in violence in afghanistan over the last days therefore we are also very close. to a signing of an agreement between the united states and the taliban diesel be only the 1st but very important 1st step towards last thing peace agreement in afghanistan because the only way to find a lost thing a sustainable peaceful solution to the conflict in afghanistan is to have an input afghan. process an interface and they wish asians and afghan led and

afghan owned the peace process and that's the next step. and the road to peace will be long and hard and there will be setbacks and there is a risk always for spoilers but the thing is that we are committed the afghan people are committed to peace and we will continue to provide support we will suppose supporting afghan security forces with training with funding because we have to send a clear message to collarbone that they will never win on the battlefield they have to sit down at the negotiating table and make a real compromises so we will continue to support them. because that's the best way we can create the conditions for a peaceful negotiated solution in afghanistan and also like to commend the afghan security forces because they have made enormous progress we have helped them but

they are now on the frontline and they are providing security for the country. and we will continue to provide support because that's the way to support the peaceful solution thank you very much this is going to. cave that was the secretary general of nato against bird addressing the media after. they had been discussing the situation in syria of course turkey has lost 33 soldiers in syria. quested a nato meeting and stall. scene that needs to expresses its deepest condolences to turkey they also said need to allies have promised to solidarity with the cherokee let said check back in with our he's following the story for us on turkey's boards with syria actually held there from yet stoltenberg offering

a lot of support. sympathy condolences in practical terms what do you think do you think turkey will be happy with the outcome of that meeting. no i don't think so for different reasons now the turkish government has been saying in the past they watch not only words of sympathy or solidarity from the e.u. and nato in particular who want action because because this is how they see what happens and this is why since yesterday all the statements from the turkish government if you read in between the lies there is this feeling of being betrayed by the e.u. and nato in particular they say we have committed troops on the side syria particularly province and we wanted support from the americans and they too and that didn't happen and they find themselves in an extremely delicate situation they say that the reason we interfered because we saw the pattern where the russians of

the syrian government were targeting civilian areas pushing all those civilians into our country where we might end up having an excess of 4000000 people inside turkey for the time being there's almost 3000000 turkish civilian refuges in camps here on the border with syria and throughout the time they were asking the e.u. the nato and the u.s. for robust presence for more of a commitment to provide significant military assistance to the turkish government or at least to enforce a way. now to the crisis in syria the turkish government says that they haven't seen that coming from nato or from the e.u. and i think this is just going to further exacerbate that sense of betrayal that the turkish government feels about what happened yesterday i don't i don't see those words from the start of appeasing the moron here in turkey about what happened yesterday ok hashim i hope aerobraking is all the latest from the turkish

syrian border thank you very much indeed. let's turn to other news now in the world's largest economies are being hit hard and the corona virus outbreak rattles the stock markets asian shares permitted on fridays a japan's nikkei stock average was down around 3.6 percent there all 3 major u.s. indices are on track for their steepest weekly declines since the 2008 global financial crisis the dow alone dropped 4.4 percent on thursday its largest one day drop in history well in europe london's fritzy $100.00 index continued to fall on friday opening 3.2 percent the index has lost more than $150000000000.00 in the past 4 days but with more than 2300 cases south korea has the highest number of corona virus infections outside of china sarah clarke explains

sport south korea's government is doing to curb the spread. 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 in 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 $327.00 new cases confirmed on friday $44.00 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 well earlier i spoke to soldiers here is economic sense a bit on the on how the virus is affecting the 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 least 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. heavy shelling is being reported in libya's capital a number of flights have been suspended and the only functioning airport in tripoli stratford's in tripoli he says the latest argument is the heaviest in weeks. this is happened pretty much almost on a on a daily basis in recent weeks but certainly people here are telling us that such a days of real cases being the heaviest since that failed ceasefire that was brokered by turkey and russia was attempted to be put in place in early january and certainly the fighters that we've spoken to in areas along the front line saying they believe around 60 rockets were fired towards the airport there was a lot of black smoke from the air and no reports of any casualties there yet but there was also a lot of heavy shelling we were hearing in the southern suburb but let's put this in context it comes at a time all for yet again failed efforts by the u.n.

to broker some sort of lasting cease fire we saw both sides both the u.n. backed government in tripoli and will of khalifa haftar is representatives not agreeing to any cease fire in geneva last week there are so many players in this conflict today's biology of rockets and heavy shelling an indication of just how difficult it is to stop the fighting. 40 palestinians have been wounded in the occupied west bank during a confrontation with the israeli military and the cordon to medics israeli forces used tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets to disperse a crowd of demonstrators the incident comes as palestinians marked the 26th anniversary over an infamous mosque massacre carried out spy an israeli settler. several prominent activists have been arrested in hong kong for their role in anti-government protests the publisher jimmy lie the head of the daily newspaper in hong kong was among those detained for taking part in an illegal rally in august 2

opposition legislators were also arrested in the city has seen months of often violent demonstrations against beijing's influence. and some of the world's biggest football stars come from argentina like communal messy antique donna but as paul producing sector is in crisis imports and leaving hundreds of people out of work to raise a bowl reports from bellville in the province of cordoba. food bulls have helped arjun tines laugh and cry throughout the years but in this factory in bellville in the central province of course they have played a much bigger role. at a metal camera has been producing them since he was 11 years old it was his 1st job and it's been his passion since then juggling 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 balls were closed with a leather feel that hurt players head but 3 friends from bellville invented the super ball with an invisible seem that is currently used today this city is considered argentina as a ball cap. and what makes this walls 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. but he got 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 or each year mark creek evolved president's made in china we have all these factories here that need to sell he says in these past 2 years he has been forced to reduce his staff more than half of those him but i had 104 years 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 bulls body. that he learned how to sew bulls from his mother he has 5 children and says he can make a little extra 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. belviq i didn't tina. this is al jazeera these are the headlines turkey's military says it's attacking syrian army positions after it reported 33 of its soldiers had been killed in fighting in italy province on her also appears to be trying to put pressure on the european union by saying it will allow some syrian refugees to enter europe nato has held an emergency meeting to discuss the crisis after its chief condemned what he called indiscriminate airstrikes upon syria and russia he says the alliance stands in solidarity with turkey. as condemn the continued indiscriminate

strikes by the syrian regime under a shot in providence by call on them to stop their offensive to respect international law and to back to you and i 1st for a peaceful solution to this dangerous situation must be deescalated i would urge an immediate return to the 2018 cease fire while john psaropoulos is in athens he says greece's titan sea and land borders with turkey as refugees head for the border. the european nightmare the floodgates being opened greek and european officials are still mulling over whether this is simply a threat or whether it's in earnest although there are preliminary reports from greek reporters in turkey to greek media that the turkish coast guard has been stood down at the ports and the boats are tied up at port now the greek government

reaction is that all borders with turkey have been placed on maximum alert that means a 160 kilometer land border which has constant patrols and it means a roughly 1000 kilometer naval maritime border. and global stock markets of fallen further a major concern over the coronavirus side break japanese nikkei index dropped by more than 3 and a half percent and all 3 major u.s. indices are on track for their steepest weekly declines since the 2008 financial crisis south korea has the highest number of coronavirus infections outside of china well those are the headlines stay with us on al-jazeera inside story is up next.

is the spread of the corona virus out of control increasing numbers of cases are being reported around the world governments are taking measures but and 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 but 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 as.