you told the old oh. this is al jazeera. still rahman you're watching the al-jazeera news our life from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes a major escalation in the conflict in syria turkey hits back after it says 33 of its soldiers were killed in battle held. also turkey steps up the pressure saying it will allow refugees fleeing the fighting in syria to seek shelter in europe. in other news the coronavirus continues to rattle the global economy asian and european markets slide further as the epidemic disrupts international travel and

trade also. cover something the only way the. migrant stories of survival jump to the big screen of this year's balin film festival. i'm going to go just over the sport as china's most famous athlete olympic swimming champion same young is banned for 18 years for breaking anti doping rules details and reaction coming out. welcome to the news our turkey says it's attacking all known syrian government targets after it reported 33 of its soldiers have been killed in fighting in the province 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 condemned what he calls indiscriminate strikes by syria and russia the u.n.

secretary general is urging an immediate cease fire. condemn the continued indiscriminate airstrikes by the syrian regime under the shah in providence i call on them to stop there are fences to respect international law and to back you and i ferd's for a peaceful solution. this dangerous situation must be deescalated and urge an immediate return to the 2018 cease fire. well russia says it's sending warships old with cruise missiles towards the syrian coast and blames turkey for the killing of its soldiers an eclipse the previous day. now appears to be trying to put pressure on the european union by allowing some refugees to into europe hundreds of migrants are heading for turkey's border with greece interpol has more. as syrian and russian forces attempted to retake land

lost to rebels on thursday turkish forces supporting the rebels came under fire there bloodiest day in the conflict so far you know a lot of a lot of as a result of the strikes 33 soldiers have been mahsud. helicopters and ambulances received 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. and also at the same time to alter 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 the aid of force it did that get the developments and have turned back in our favor. hours earlier president richard 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 libya 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 end there or any time soon turkey says it will deepen its involvement in syria against the government it's now labeled the enemy enter chapelle al jazeera. diplomatic editor james bays is standing by for us now in geneva but 1st let's cross over to her here's all the turkey syria border. we can really emphasize that you know that obviously this huge number of turkish deaths rocked the turkish establishment and the reaction has been swift and direct. indeed where you have here is. shock and calls for revenge and this explains the series of announcements and statements that were made by different government officials about the need to take more of an aggressive 7 stance when it comes to

syria one of the key allies of president follows up. on the dole at best city who is the leader of the ultra nationalist m.s.p. party said that it's time now for the ground in beijing to a ground military operation in in syria the defense minister who paid a visit to the area earlier today and who visited the injured in that i highly hospital said that many targets in many many government positions were targeted and destroyed in different parts of syria and it seems that we're going to see more of those retaliatory attacks in the upcoming days in northwestern city it's a very delicate situation here now in turkey with the government feeling betrayed abandoned by the international community and saying that if no one comes to our support therefore we will take things into our own hands and we will step up our military offensive in syria and of course the russians say that the turks were in

the wrong place it's not exactly a reason or an excuse that the turks are accepting on any level. those were brushed aside by the turkish government cynically absurd remarks by the by the russian government he says that the deployment of its troops there was positions along the main 12 minute to post something that the russian military knows about and the coordinates of those areas were shared with the russian army and that the moment the area the military outpost which is in southern live came under attack the turkish government notified the russian government and that no measures were taken to the point where they blame the russians or the syrian government for also targeting the rescue team that was sent to evacuate the dead and the injured now so hey this is exactly the sentiment among the people and the

government in turkey that russia not only if failed to reign in the syrian government troops but they also are responsible in a way or another because they have dismissed all the attempts made by the turkish government in the past to defuse tension implement the cease fire it live and force the government to pull out from the areas behind the demilitarized zone and in turkey they say that said would not have survived this war in syria had it not been for the military support it has got from the syrian go from the russian government and this is exactly what the president said yesterday just hours before the death of the 33 soldiers in flip well for them we'll leave it there of course and continue to monitor events with you on the border that question has brought correspondent on the turkey syria border let's cross over to geneva now our diplomatic editor james bays is standing by and james really with the potential for

more conflict in syria such the humanitarian needs will be at the forefront of the decision makers where you are. certainly here at the u.n. that is the case real concern not just at the u.n. but in corridors of power around the world because this goes well beyond syria remember that russia and turkey are involved on other sides in the war in libya as well and this is a nato ally that's involved in military confrontation with russia so the most serious of situations right now the u.n. secretary general is expressed his concern i can tell you here in geneva the u.n. special envoy there pedersen is working the phones as we speak and as you say so the humanitarian community in the u.n. very very concerned concerned that the border might be open that refugees might start to flow u.n.h.c.r. the un's refugee agency is monitoring the situation and waiting for the latest

reports from the field earlier on we had a briefing for journalists here in which a spokesman for the humanitarian community explained how serious the situation was we now have 950000 displacement going on in absolutely horrifying conditions people have nothing and they have no place to go. so you know this is just. you know an increase upon an increase upon an increase and it really is tragic to see what is going on we of course joined the secretary general again in his call for an immediate cease fire that is really what is needed to make a difference for these hundreds of thousands of very vulnerable people. well we have had obviously that meeting of nato a rare meeting a called under article 4 it begs the question whether the u.n.

security council might now meet i've been on the phone to new york in the last few minutes no word of a meeting yet but certainly this is an issue that repeatedly the council has come back to over the years and repeatedly in recent days so i think the likelihood of a security council meeting on the current tension is quite high thanks very much james bass our diplomatic editor in geneva my friend where is the russia correspondent for the christian science monitor and joins me now from moscow good to have you with us fred a russia and turkey have had their ups and downs but this really is a new low for both of them this is this is absolutely the worst on the other hand. and putin have shown the ability to manage their differences in the past and they have been on the floor. and talked about perhaps having a summit meeting so there is a chance diplomatic at not not

a resolution chancellor resolution of this because they're just so going metrically opposed on what the state province should be but certainly some way of massaging it with containing it. perhaps kicking it down the road. that seems possible and they have managed that sort of thing in the past of course you know with real concerns about a humanitarian disaster potentially could get even worse than already is in the region i mean a clash like this perhaps could have been seen as inevitable but if it is inevitable and there is some sort of retaliation by turkey what's your impression of how russia would respond. i think russia is committed to the regime in damascus they are sending warships to the eastern mediterranean i mean it's

a regular rotation they've always had a slight chill in there but the ships and russian media is at pains to make sure we know are equipped with the new caliber cruise missiles which would be a major you know lethal participant in any clash that might break out there i think russia is signaling to turkey that they are going to support bashar al assad in his. intention to reach ache italy province for syria if for the moment it seems that turkey has made a rod for its own back because its recently bought russian defense missile systems and yet it's been looking to nato for advice and support in the last few hours it sort of once it's cake and it wants to eat it and that's to be very difficult for a lot of other international capitals to swallow. and i talk often with russian foreign policy experts and they're quite exasperated by mr erdogan on he's

capricious he's inconsistent. this is true this is true turkey is is trapped between east and west they have not got what they wanted with the european union or any of that just or things that turkey waterhead. and they are turning to russia using it as a counterbalance it's not just the s. $400.00 missiles it's the south stream pipeline which was just recently inaugurated by putin in order one which is a huge investment and now both countries are committed to it it will be there to sell them stream pipeline that feeds russian natural gas to to europe so they have a lot of mutual dependencies and they're growing but yes at the same time they they have these fundamental differences that could erupt in war that any time so what hurdle on decides on any given morning is is really critical for my but who leave

it there fred ware thanks very much for joining us from moscow thank you. thank you . plenty more ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour including caught in a conflict zone the reality of life for residents in libya's capital. also scientists detect the 2nd largest space blast since the big bang when we speak to an astrophysicist on walked that knee. and find out why this full time tour de france champion is under lockdown in abu dhabi that's a sports story coming up with joe later. the world's largest economies are being hit hard as the corona virus outbreak rocks the stock markets asian shares plummeted on friday equities in japan and china tanked more than 3.5 percent all 3 major u.s.

indices are on track for their steepest weekly declines since 2008 financial crisis now the dow jones alone dropped 4.4 percent on thursday it's the largest one day point drop in history in europe london's footsie 100 index continue to fall on friday evening 3.2 percent down the index has lost more than $150000000000.00 in the past 4 days well just there is economics editor abbott ali says stabbing the financial fallout from the outbreak requires a broad coordinated response. 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 a hand 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 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 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 kind of people. the number of confirmed new cases

in china continues to slide on friday it's reported $327.00 its lowest in more than a month cases in south korea rose by $570.00 want taking the total there to 2300 south korea is the hardest hit outside of china and the military has been drafted in to fight the outbreak the spike in cases as force vietnam to suspend visa free travel to south korea it's also pardon me so far reported 16 cases of covert 19 now the new zealand has also confirmed its 1st virus case on friday a person traveled from iran to all current through barley sarah clarke explains what south korea's government is doing to curb the spread. south korea has escalated it's testing capacity in the last 24 hours they've done $9300.00 people have been tested for the crime of virus infection but the government is still kind of looking for the so concerned about the lack of beds in the daegu 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 deaths but most of those were in the who by province the chinese government has held there for the health officials have had their press conference they've said a lot of 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 but all persons tested positive for quote a virus and nigeria the 1st case to be diagnosed in sub-saharan africa is health minister says the patient is on the telly and citizen who writes from below going through istanbul the minister serves prevention measures will focus on the country's major airports we have started working to identify all the contacts of the. i think the entered nigeria and even those who were with him on the aircraft. we have been taught to read the aircraft authority. to find out who you see me through or where. i study also is the genetic geneticists and molecular biologists northumbria university of england he's worked extensively in africa and is a specialist on epidemic outbreaks joins me now from newcastle good to have you with us live on the program sir nigeria is the 1st sub-saharan nation to report the

virus how well equipped are not just they but sub-saharan africa to deal with corona virus so i think we need to point out that ever since the able operate in west africa there has been massive scale up on the capability in the countries in the sub-saharan region because international bodies have poured in investment to make sure the health care capability for screening and monitoring the situations is up to par that is not to say that the situation is perfect it's far from perfect actually. jeremy farrar from the welcome trust and many other internationally renowned people have requested that investment is made by the world bank as well as many of the charitable bodies like bill and melinda gates to ensure preparedness in these regions for this kind of eventuality thankfully this started in january so we've had a bit of a lead time to make things ready of course we saw a meeting what less than

a week ago in addis ababa of african health ministers talking about how they would deal with coronavirus in terms of the weight of the african response or trying to solve their own problems how well does that response move forward what less than 10 days later. i'm afraid i can't comment in detail because i'm not party to the actual detail of what the preparations and on the ground are but the fact that we have an ongoing african union event about this literally these days and we have preparedness in place and ses in place tests so that people can detect the virus suggests that we are in a much better place than we were 5 years ago how is your research progressing you seem to suggest that there are ways to detect the virus through to within the breath no i'm not suggesting this i'm asking the question if

it's possible and it's a very big distinction. basically to keep it very simple this is a disease works in the lower longer inside your chest of the w.h.o. and all the other larger public health organizations require a swab from the back of your throat and also from your nose as well as a sample from us close to your lungs as possible if you are having a chesty cough with a lot of new because you can produce a sample that's appropriate but that only appears in about a 3rd of the people who have symptoms so we can't really get inside the lungs unless we put a tube in through the throat and as you can imagine that's not practical or feasible for screening purposes we're relying on the swabs. what we are proposing and i have to stated very clearly we are proposing is that your breath because we know it comes from the lower lung may contain the genetic material of the virus we are reaching out to clinicians internationally right now with a device that we have developed for exactly this purpose to see if this is feasible

if it is then it's down to the international community to support the development of this technology so that we can actually make a difference in the screening principles and how quickly could such a device or a method be taken us in from the drawing broad and manufactured in a wholesale fashion very quickly as you can see for what is being described by some as a pandemic yes so the device that we have at the moment i'm afraid i don't have it with me to show it to you is made on a 3 d. printer so it's very easy to make we've turned it into something that can be mass produced by plastics manufacturers who are knowledgeable on how to do these things for clinical tools so if a company is prepared to take this off our hands and start much producing it this could be conceivably be made available 'd within a matter of weeks and this is because we need to get the correct control to make

sure this is an appropriate device and none of this needs to take place until we have the confirmation that we can use a device to detect the virus and breath we do not want to divert resources from the response we want to make sure that we can offer something useful so we need to test that 1st and if that's good then we can think about production except for the moment. the much for joining us from newcastle. the scientists in the us all racing towards finding a vaccine government agencies universities and about a dozen private companies are working on that castro has to do in maryland where researchers say they're making progress. the potential answer to stopping the corona virus maybe swishing around inside these traits researchers at the u.s. vaccine company novak's say they have made a protein that stops the virus from binding to human cells we are of working countless hours later here and i think the hell made

a significant progress in last couple weeks scientists here receive the coronavirus gene sequence on january 10th they say within weeks they've cloned a noninfectious element of the virus using ovary cells from a north american caterpillar as a protein factory so now we have insect ovary cells making a spike protein which we then purify and that becomes a vaccine the novak's procedure has worked to make vaccines for the flu ebola and murmurs for the corona virus that appears to be effective as well clinical tests are expected to begin this spring the full licensing takes years vulnerable communities could receive the experimental vaccine on a compassionate use basis much sooner the incentive is still save and healthy as quickly and as soon as possible in the race to contain the corona virus a win for the 1st across the finish line with a vaccine or a treatment is

a win for all and so government researchers here at the national institutes of health are partnering with private labs to quicken the pace of drug development moderna is another u.s. bio for making progress it's coronavirus vaccine is already in the end i was hands in preparing for clinical trials in april and i think that's commendable if we have to come up with a 1000000000 doses you might actually be you know several vaccines that are better . the corona virus has killed thousands and is heading toward a pandemic u.s. health officials say this is the fastest science has ever moved to develop a vaccine but it could still be more than a year before any is massively deployed. castro al-jazeera washington several prominent activists have been arrested in home call for their role in antigovernment protests publisher jimmy lai the head of a daily newspaper the whole call was among those detained for taking part in the

legal rally in august 2 opposition legislators were also arrested the city has seen months of often violent demonstrations against beijing's influence. heavy shelling in libya's capital has forced flights to be suspended at the only functioning airport in tripoli and it's the latest round of fighting after talks at the u.n. failed to reach an agreement charles traffic reports now from tripoli there's some a little safe his back was peppered with shrapnel when a rocket fired by forces loyal to warlord holly for half the exploded by his home. for i was standing on the street thank god my neighbor called me over to us i moved forward 5 steps and the rocket landed just a few meters away. pregnant wife suffered minor injuries and his son serious head wounds in the attack we go to his neighborhood and find evidence of what people who live here say happens day and night hours earlier another barrel of rockets that

hit. residents say that at least 7 rockets hit this neighborhood the smalling they saying that nobody was injured in those attacks but behind this house is mighty good port which has been consistently targeted by half this forces over recent months now people here in tripoli are increasingly angry they're blaming the u.n. for not doing enough to halt huffed as offensive on the capital. almost a week of u.n. sponsored talks in geneva during which neither of libya's warring sides met face to face failed to reach agreement on a ceasefire. the u.n. backed government which is receiving military support from turkey says general hafta must withdraw his forces from areas they control on the outskirts of tripoli hafta who is being supported by countries including the u.a.e. egypt and russia says turkish military personnel and pro turkey syrian fighters supporting the un backed government must leave libya fast. meanwhile anger and

distrust towards the u.n. is growing protesters at this demonstration hold pictures of u.n. special representative to libya the sun salami how much did they pay you to be silent and supporter of terrorism they read both sides accused of being biased against them play out of the play and. they hit us with egyptian and m.r. r.t.s. strikes on salami sees what's happening and the violations i live near the airport there are rockets landing on civilian areas all the time the situation is terrible . with so many countries involved in this conflict the un seems powerless to stop the fighting that has escalated since the geneva ceasefire talks failed both sides have boycotted u.n. sponsored talks aimed at finding a political solution back in the hospital as has pictures of his injured 4 year old son on his mobile phone. he says doctors are afraid to remove the shrapnel lodged

inside up during months go because if they do he may never walk again that al-jazeera tripoli. but some of the other on his journey and those phone talking about the rain this time across into australia now let me show you the satellite because we're still talking very much about this it is the remnants of what was tropical cyclone ester it is really still holding together very well producing some very heavy amounts of rain so as have a look but i want to show you 1st of all of this a drought and this is actually time with in the northeast of new south wales look at this gorgeous the green grazing land the last couple of years it's seen a severe drought for this particular farmer they were having to feed the animals by hand decimated the barley and the weak crops but now after several weeks of good rain this is how it is looking but despite all that the australia is still saying that 99 percent of new south wales are actually still under a drought there's no real rain in the 4 calls today over the next couple of days we

want ching the system to the northwest as a say this is still really holding together bringing some heavy amounts of rain in fact we could be picking up another 2 to 300 millimeters of rain across this portion of western australia and then through sunday more rain pushing in there's a front sweeping through the great behind this will bring some rain and look at how much in melbourne 31 celsius ahead of that system push on a day and look at this it drops back down to 19 degrees but the interesting thing with here is that in fact they're saying in melbourne now it's likely to be the coolest summer in 15 years and likely be the wettest in 11 so so hopefully is some good news. indeed so much that he still had him on the news on uncertainty the top of afghan politics we look at how it could derail hopes of lasting peace. also why republicans are urging a vote for bernie sanders and the democrats next us presidential primary. and in sports some courtside fans of the basketball game get a bit too close to the action is the l.a. lakers going to need to impress in the n.b.a.

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going to let the planet go to ruin because what i do with these obvious things open your eyes to an alternative view of the world today on al-jazeera. roof. of a marquee watching the al-jazeera news hour with these how wrong the reminder of our top stories turkey's military says is attacking syrian army positions after a reported $33.00 of its soldiers have been killed in fighting in italy province and drew also appears to be trying to put pressure on the european union by saying it allows some syrian refugees to into europe. also nato is calling for an emergency meeting to discuss the crisis after its chief condemned what he called

indiscriminate airstrikes by syria and russia the u.n. secretary general meanwhile is also urging for an immediate cease fire. global stock markets are falling further but concern over the coronavirus of right trans nikkei index dropped by more than 3 and a half percent but all 3 major u.s. indices on trying the steepest weekly decline since the 2008 global financial crisis. 40 palestinians have been wounded in the occupied west bank during a confrontation with the israeli military according 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 of an infamous mosque. massacre carried out by an israeli settler. well israel's defense minister has approved nearly 1800 new illegal settle homes in the occupied west bank just 4 days ahead of the general election is the 2nd major settlement announcement by prime minister benjamin netanyahu government in recent

days his right wing look at party and the taliban it's a far right coalition of vying for the support of more than 600000 settlers and bandaids poll that we are whose main rival body counts as fighting to reclaim lost ground in the opinion polls are a force that has more from west jerusalem. benny gantz who is 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 0 is corrupted i agree everybody he has other qualities over them i think is the right man for us pentagon to say ok is now our 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 peace plan at least as a starting point for talks seeking to prise voters away from benjamin netanyahu. at

a new 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 but they can back whoever they want they're not very happy with him but they're not going to support us any l. and if being somewhat at odds with them gives him more credibility to draw some votes from across the middle from the netanyahu territory that's the logic of what he's been. 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 seem stubbornly stuck just days away from polling he may even have to come back for a 4th attempt later this year. al-jazeera west jerusalem. a week long reduction in

violence between the taliban and u.s. and afghan forces is fraught hope of a long standing peace deal but there's concern it could be delayed by political divisions following a controversial election reports. the daily hassle 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 in find a reasonable solution for the political crisis if not yes we have announced that we

will go ahead with our integration dr the law firmly believes that acquiring to the biometric verify votes he has won the election to 2 men already had a power sharing agreement brokered by the united states in a national. 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 anyone now they would feel with the upcoming peace deal between the u.s. and the taliban then who will become the next president's it's also the priority for the white house after months of negotiations in qatar to peace agreement between the u.s. and the taliban could be the rails by washington's long standing allies in afghanistan the next steps.

for. putting to washington d.c. where much compare the secretary of state is testifying for the in front of the house foreign affairs committee let's just listen to what he's saying is i think starting to. port city of. iran too is responsible for the downing of a civilian airliner in january $176.00 people killed the regime lied about the tragedy the regime has still not turned over the black box iranian regime slaughtered at least several 100 of its own people with reports of as many as 1500 during the protests last november many millions more have suffered since the revolution began more than 40 years ago iranians and those impacted by the regime are thankful that the united states is finally

holding their oppressors accountable the trump of ministration well neither appears nor tolerate the enormous national security threat that iran poses to the united states our friends and our allies. pressure campaign is aimed at reducing these threats and convincing iran to change its behavior. i want to spend one minute specifically addressing the strike and that could force commander qassam somani he was the regimes top terrorist and the mastermind of the killing of innocent american syrians iraqis and others removing him from the battlefield was a deescalate tory measure his death reduced the risk to our personnel overseas both my diplomats and our military and made clear that we're willing and able to impose cost on our adversaries if they threaten or attack us i know that sadly some american troops were injured during iran's retaliatory ballistic missile attack on al assad airport space the limited nature of iran's counterattack over indicates that iran's leadership is not eager to escalate

a military conflict confrontation you know if we fight the loose that's deterrence it's our policy it's not just military deterrence the j. c.p.o. had bankrolled the regime's murders campaigns of terror and destabilization we reverse that appeasement and impose the most aggressive economic sanctions campaign in history to the to pry the regime of at least $50000000000.00 in revenue and diplomatically we've rallied allies and partners to ban hot air a courier version weaponry and personnel around the middle east and in part due to our efforts colombia hunder of sco civil paraguay and the united kingdom have declared hezbollah a terrorist organization in all aspects that's real american leadership to confront iran we will sustain our pressure we will continue to protect the american people in american interest by any means necessary and we will continue to impose costs on the regime for its campaigns of carnage and we will work with our allies and partners for a more stable and secure middle east thank you i look forward to your questions mr

chairman. thank you. i recognize myself for 5 minutes and i yield to mr sicily thank you mr chairman pale i'm concerned that the so-called maximum pressure campaign against iran has not achieved what you promised it would after all since january 2nd there have been 4 iranian attacks on american personnel we've had to deploy 6000 additional troops to the region and iran is once again on the path toward a nuclear weapon the american people have heard conflicting information from you and other members of the administration about the reasons for the sony a strike and about the detail of its impacts because of the dishonesty from this administration on this and many other issues americans have lost trust in their government now we're facing a serious global health crisis in the form of the coronavirus and trust is more important than ever unfortunately of also heard conflicting information it comes to the administration's response on this is well we know that this is a threat that doesn't respect borders that impacts its victims indiscriminately and

they're starting to show up in our own communities and we've now are different explanation of who in the administration's responsible for managing the american response to the pent spread of this virus successfully managing the global aspect of this crisis will require american leadership so can you tell us exactly what your role is in this response. that the question what precisely falls on to your set of responsibilities as secretary of state. so mr chairman just so you know we agreed that i would come here today to talk about iran and the 1st question today is not about iraq well let me get about iraq let me make it as i know i have learned that there's been an outbreak in iran of 245 cases is the latest number have you or any other senior level american official ben in touch with anyone inside the iranian government to coordinate on this response to the virus and to mitigate the further spread of the

virus we have made offers to the islamic republic of iran to help and we've made clear to others around the world in the region that assistance humanitarian assistance to push back against the coronavirus in iran is something that the united states of america fully supports we will continue to support that's true for every nation we will bring to bear our diplomatic power and our capacity to deliver technical medalists medical assistance wherever we can well so i'm worried that because of this administration is come to hold my parents in the 1st question in here. into the house committee on foreign relations and of course so let's bring in island. of course we were expecting an opening statement. also the white house's position certainly the sexual state's position as to why they went forward to try and kill one of the most senior officials in the iranian regime and of course now he's also answering questions on court of us coming under

a lot of pressure all day about which direction they're going in and he's actually in charge. this is going to get very feisty i mean you can tell that from the opening statement from eliot engel who is the chairman of the democrat who said look we issued a lawful subpoena and you didn't come to our committee we're glad to have you here and there you're hearing a question about coronavirus and might prompt you immediately saying look i came here to talk about iran iraq and the threat and the authorization of the use of force and you're talking about coronavirus they're going to talk about ukraine that is definitely going to be a question that might prompt who is going to get we know he doesn't like that he did an interview with a national radio reporter here in the united states it was meant to be about iran she asked the question about ukraine and he off the record crazy according to what she said started shouting and swearing at her so he doesn't like questions that are a bit off topic so you can almost guarantee that that is going to happen what we're going to get from might bump is very much in line with what donald trump has been

seeing because that is very little gap between the 2 on questions about iran iraq and the use of force is important when it was taking general cilla money and the maximum pressure campaign what against iran what is interesting is that might prompt has said that when they've tried to get action against iran that they have managed through american leadership to rally their allies the reality is that the only people who simply don't recognize the iran nuclear deal at the moment is the united states and although europe has issued a warning to iran saying look you've got to stay in compliance or we can't stay in this deal at the moment the main allies in europe and also china and russia are still very much behind the iran nuclear deal so this is going to get feisty over the next very short period given a short window for the house committee to talk but you can guarantee that the democrats are going to go after not just a vote around iraq in the use of force but other things including ukraine of course

will continue to with the island from the capital for the moment thank you. well it's time for sports or history thank you very much though china's most famous athlete the 3 time olympic swim champion son yang has been handed the maximum 8 year ban for breaking anti doping rules it was welcomed by fellow athletes who had protested his most recent victories but who also questioned why springs governing body didn't act earlier for restraint ports. in 2012 son young was on the path of sporting greatness at the olympics in london he would become the 1st chinese man ever to win gold in the pool 2 of them and followed by another at rio 2016. but 2 years on from the olympics in brazil a run in with drugs test has led him here the court of arbitration for sport. after vials of sons blood had been smashed with a hammer when testers visited him at his home on friday the court gave its decision

a ban from swimming for 8 years is effectively ending the career of one of the jewels in the crown of chinese sports ready it was not for the athletes to decide alone that and i don't think tests shall be invalidated and the sample containers destroyed as a consequence when young committed and tied up in rule violation by tampering with the doping control son's response was immediate telling china's official news agency this is unfair i firmly believe in my innocence i will definitely appeal to let more people know the truth the chinese swimming association says it deeply regrets the ruling i'm fully supports son although it had itself banned him for 3 months for doping in 2014 that led to a fracture between son and many of his rivals australian swimmer mark horton had branded sun a drug cheat in rio and in 2019 refused to share the podium with him at the worlds

in south korea. while the man who was out shown by some in rio believes the medals should be redistributed this is a pity no because a lot of people sacrificed their whole lives for some moments and it's not just about me you got sold it's him or the guy came forth to me god it's about the got the came months i should get my gold medal back from from rio and if not now not for the moment i lost that i don't really care about that just for my record you know it's more questions remain over this case son was originally cleared by swimming's governing body phina over the destroyed samples and it took an appeal from the world doping agency water to result in friday's. as things stand for you know have not commented on why they saw things differently paul reece al-jazeera for time 2 to france champion chris froome and mark cavendish among top cyclists who we tested for coronavirus both were competing at the u.a.e. tour which was cancelled on thursday to italian participants have fallen ill all

right isn't stuff when confined to their rooms at a hotel in abu dhabi from where freeman's tweeted this it's a shame that the u.a.e. tour has been cancelled but public health must come 1st we are all waiting testing and will remain at the hotel until further notice those affected make a speedy recovery and there aren't any further cases australia is still planning on holding the 1st formula one grand prix of the season in melbourne in just over 2 weeks time they help mrs said the sports fans shouldn't stay way over the fear being infected. business go down to. a chinese restaurant go out to the football or the grand prix or the netball. at this point. coronavirus is contained in stride. out on the track it's been business as usual in pre-season testing a 6 time world champion lewis hamilton was back out after them sadie's team fixed his engine failure for the day before. it was done you ricardo who posted the fastest time in the morning session as runner topped the standings for the 1st time

he beat ferrari's charlotte clerk by under a 10th of a 2nd with hamilton in thirds. now a great bit of play in the n.b.a. is the l.a. lakers have of the golden state warriors they did it without le bron james who has a groin injury anthony davis manage just fine though with 23 points a list spectacular sister set up kyle christmas to see davis somehow manage to pass the ball before crashing into the courtside seats the lakers went on to win by 30 and the braun clearly enjoyed himself they stay top in the west as the warriors remain bottom. right on the dell is closing in on a 3rd mexican open title the world number 2 had one of his best performances of the week at his quarterfinal match against south korea and rising stars one came the spaniard cruz to a straight sets win to set up a semifinal with cradled in the trough. argentina is given the world some of its best football stars like messi and diego maradona but it's both manufacturing

sector is in crisis with imports leaving hundreds of people out of work that are reports from bellville in the province of course. food to bulls 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. 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 you're going to have 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 ball hand me 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 seam that is currently used today this city is

considered argentina as a ball capital and what makes this balls unique is that. they're 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. league out of a fully nice family has owned this factory for years he says in the past for 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 so he says in these past 2 years he has been forced to reduce his staff more than half of those on us 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 who create the bull's body . that he learned how to sew balls from his mother he has 5 children and says he can make a little extra cash every month. or so 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. argentina. thailand have been eliminated from the women's

t 20 cricket world cup that's off to being hammered by south africa in canberra melissa lead did most of the damage smashing 101 runs off 60 balls and helped south africa post a tournament record 195 and thailand got nowhere near it in reply falling 113 runs short. south africa top group b. ahead of england who beat pakistan in the later game the england captain had the night leading from the front with 62 from its. south korea's teenage go for june kim continues to lead the way at the new zealand open the 17 year old was the overnight front runner heading into day 2 and a 4 under par round ensured he stayed top of the leaderboard by one stroke last year came became the 2nd youngest player to ever win on the asian tour all right that is only for now back later thanks very much joe that's the news hour for me and john with more news on the other side of the break.

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