well actually. a major escalation in the conflict in syria turkey hits back after it says 33 of its soldiers were killed in rebel held if you. cannot make out the sounds are alive and also coming up in the program turkey steps up the pressure saying it will allow refugees fleeing the fighting in syria to seek shelter in europe. the coronavirus threat to the world is not a very high level a new warning from the world health organization that many countries are not ready . and another big plunges us stock

markets open in coronavirus takes a toll on economies course there was. a strike on turkish soldiers inside syria is increasing tensions on its borders and prompting concerns about where an u.s. collation might only an emergency meeting of nato ended with it calling for syria and russia to hold their offensive take he says $33.00 of its soldiers were killed there on thursday nato expressed solidarity with turkey but offered no additional support but on the ground turkey has begun retaliatory strikes and says it struck more than 200 syrian government positions russia denies involvement in the soldiers' deaths and fatima putin spoke with turkey's president to run a few hours ago they've decided to stick to the 2018 deescalation plan but that so-called safety zone is where most. violence is taking place shelley in

airstrikes of his base more than a 1000000 people since december while he begins our coverage from a clip it goes on the turkish syrian border. turkish soldiers being evacuated from syria after being attacked by syrian government forces images like these have created shock and anger in turkey and growing calls for revenge. turkish military hit syrian army positions in retaliation for the death of dozens of its soldiers in southern. turkey blames the syrian government for the airstrike that targeted a military outpost officials here also accuse rochelle failing to deter syrian government forces who have recently stepped up their attacks against the soldiers. this attack happened despite the location of troops being coordinated you know at once with russian officials on the ground unfortunately the attack continued after

we weren't following the 1st strike. feeling abandoned by its e.u. allies turkey warned it won't prevent refugees from crossing into europe european countries are long and this might turn into a mass exodus of refugees fleeing the conflict in syria. turkey has been calling on the e.u. to share the burden of the refugee crisis and or nato to deploy pair to it besides on the border with syria but nato doesn't seem to be willing to provide military support offering for the time being the sympathy by call on them to stop their offensive to respect international law and to back you and efforts for a peaceful solution to this dangerous situation must be deescalated i would urge

an immediate return to the 28 cease fire. tension mounts turkish and russian officials held talks in to defuse tension turkey wants the syrian army to pull our behind the demilitarized zone stop its offensive and allow civilians to return home. russia is a key president assad who rejects turkey's expanded presence in syria and insists they often sit by his troops is legitimate. and if russia and turkey fail to overcome their differences they might. prolong the original confrontation in syria. on turkish border with syria. over the timing turkey is no longer preventing syrian refugees from traveling into greece by sea and on land move is seen as an attempt by encroach of force the

european union to reengage with the situation in syria lawrence lee has this. many times the turkish government has threatened to open its borders and release the refugees into europe in large numbers once again this perhaps is a taste of what might still come this was the scene on the shores of the greek island of lesbos already a nightmarish place for the 10s of thousands of men women and children who had come over from turkey and who are now trapped there in itself a dingo arriving isn't any different from any other day but the implication was that the turkish authorities didn't try to stop it. in the same way the routes was being cleared for refugees much further north on the land border. there were reports of people being bussed from istanbul to the border town of ed into a haven for people traffickers and unlike in recent months the turkish military did absolutely nothing to stop people then making their own way on foot towards the

wide river the border with greece. we're coming from istanbul our aim is to get to germany there are syrians with us algerians palestinians there are people from every country this want to take a 100 times you know they've arrived here at the turkish greece border police are on near the side and they're not letting migrants in we've got lots of problems here we want to work in europe to open the borders because of these problems the immediate response from the greek side was to ramp up their naval presence in the aegean and to send more special forces to the land border to try to prevent people coming across but that isn't the point of the exercise in the turkish perspective they're using the refugee flows as a direct threat to the european union to reengage in the situation in syria and the humanitarian crisis that has engulfed people in. if nato and the e.u. continue to turn a blind eye to the situation there then this could get a whole lot more serious lawrence lee al-jazeera. well as cross now to john

psaropoulos he's live in. boston greece john tell us more about what you're seeing and hearing. at the moment we don't have a lot of arrivals which was the worst fear here appeared in greek will soroses here what we've heard here unless of course it's 3 both arrivals and 2 more further south in the aegean one on the island of silos and one east of roads altogether 151 asylum seekers in 5 separate arrivals not something extraordinary quite close and facts to the sort of sort of flows that one expects on a daily basis the one thing that was extraordinary on the greek borders today was that attempt by about 300 people to cross the land border coming from istanbul and attempting to enter greece they were rebuffed but when last i spoke with the police

they were still loitering near the border so a 2nd attempt is quite likely the greek or. he's being strengthened they already have $900.00 men and women in uniform across the city and that number of people is going to be doubled over the next 18 months and about 15 more coastal patrol boats will be added to the roughly 40 that are in circulation at the moment and as you can see behind me the british coastal patrol vessel valient is here as part of the frontex solidarity force helping the greek also receives earlier we saw a portuguese coastal patrol boats as well. but all of that may not be enough to do search and rescue at sea if there is a significant increase earlier on at this harbor side behind me i spoke to the deputy defense minister and could be other stuff and he's the man who's responsible for the refugee crisis from the defense ministry point of view he was

here to consult with local kosko storage fees he told me that our number one priority is to protect european borders but we're going to need more help and he said greece has already filed an official request for more patrol vessels more personnel more technical means things like thermal cameras trucks ambulances and so on and we expect europe to show solidarity with greece because what we're doing here is not protecting greek waters only but also european borders. john leave there for a moment john. vause while the head of the world health organization is warning that the coronavirus now poses a high level global threat the virus is to spread to 5 more countries and has spread to 5 more countries in the past 24 hours and the number of cases now stands at $83.00. the continued increase in the number of cases and the number of affected countries over the last few days clearly of concern.

our epidemiologists have been monitoring this development continuously and we have now increased our assessment of the risk of spread and the risk of impact of course with 19 to very high at global level what we see at the moment are linked epidemics of corbett 19 in several countries but most cases can still be traced to known contacts or plasters of cases we do not see evidence as yet that the virus is spreading freely in communities as long as that's the case we still have a chance of containing this virus. where one person assess a positive for corona virus in nigeria that's the 1st case to be diagnosed in

sub-saharan africa nigeria's health minister says the patient is an italian citizen who arrived in milan after going through a staff or minister says prevention measures will focus on the country's major it's . well kenya is a high court has ordered the suspension of all flights from china coronavirus fears as malcolm webb reports many kenyans feel the government response has been too slow . the court ruling was prompted by a public outcry that followed a plane landing here in nairobi 2 days ago from china and far as we understand that was the 1st plane from china to have landed here in several days maybe even a couple of weeks had nearly 240 people on board and those passengers these destinations were here in kenya were allowed out the airport and told to quarantine themselves for 2 weeks around the same time it was disclosed by the ministry of health that they didn't actually have adequate measures in place to monitor or in

force this self-imposed quarantine and that they had in fact only 11 feds the court ruling included an instruction that the people from that controversial flight 2 days ago have to be recalled they're going to be quarantined in a kenyan army facility although apparently as far as we know there's no such facility ready right now the president has ordered that a much bigger facility in a hospital needs to be completed in one week as well as testing and quarantine facilities in hospitals throughout the country mark webber well the world's largest economies are being hit hard as the coronavirus operate rock stock markets wall street opened just a short while ago that's the day after all 3 major u.s. indices took a tumble amid fears of the virus what is the situation right now across this room is live for us in new york tell us what's been happening. well stocks continue to fall here in new york just as they have been doing around the globe in the wake of

concerns about the continuing spread of the crown a virus primarily outside of china we've been hearing the headlines all morning long just like we have all week long stocks fall again and the biggest weekly losses since the financial crisis the big sick infects wall street these are the headlines that investors and new yorkers in general have been waking up to this morning and that has the markets extremely jittery as you mention they have all fallen into what's known as correction territory that's more than a 10 percent decline in the major indices. just in the last week we're seeing this for stock prices come out of the prices energy is down oil prices are down basically multinational companies are bracing for continued disruptions in the supply chain concern that travel will be reduced certainly facebook canceled a major international developers conference that takes place in may all of that

could have an impact on profits for businesses and by extension the global economy is so while a lot of this is perspective looking forward in terms of what could happen it's affecting the markets today because the president loves to dismiss the headline disney will spin his reaction. well certainly the administration of president trying to calm fears and downplay the significance of what's happening we know that the president's economic adviser larry kudlow was speaking just in the last hour doing just that attempting to reassure the public he was talking to media saying that you know no one should panic that the. markets have been through things like this before people shouldn't overreact he said just over and over again reassuring people saying that there is no need for panic the economy is sound and certainly consumer confidence in the united states remains

high the unemployment rate is low so the administration keeps pointing to those fundamentals underlying the markets and that's because president trump has put a lot of his and success in office on the fact that the markets have been doing so well but of course his opponents like to bring up the fact thing that would seem to contradict his handling of the market one of his opponents mike bloomberg the former mayor of new york has been critical of the administration's handling of the virus epidemic saying that you know firing people at the c.d.c. the centers for disease control means that the united states perhaps isn't as prepared as it should be for this virus as it continues to spread globally. but we see that uncertainty weighing out in the markets with certainly the president's detractors using this as ammunition against him in an election year the president attempting to walk back fears and calm the markets the markets right now though very very jittery debate all right christine thanks very much to do those bits of

your questions to me though. still ahead here on al-jazeera ethiopia's controversial project take shape on the talks with egypt. hello there some rain still on calls you into central areas of china if i take out a picture on the satellite there is some rain as well with this same system work its way gradually across into western areas of japan heavy at times although most of it is to the east but this rain again fairly heavy into central china it is warm to the south of there in fact we've got a couple of days for hanoi and hong kong 28 celsius on sunday and by some that they should have palls through shanghai with a high that of 13 and a similar 13 across into soul and indonesia we've had some flooding rains here as

well of course this week particular monday that really led to system widespread flooding into western as a java there is more rain in the forecast that is fairly typical for this time of year but over the next couple days some very heavy rains developing as well in some more western and southern areas of sumatra also borneo as we go through sunday some heavy rains there for towards the south and then india is to the north maybe some thunderstorms in new delhi as we go through with the 1st part of the weekend to the north of the whole city some rain snow to the mountains and also we could just see one to rain showers really across into care a fairly widely scattered not particularly heavy tending to the way by sunday but by then we could you see one or 2 shots further through the interior and still some showers in new delhi. but. there is a huge group of people who work behind our screens and the power they have is massive that urge to keep swiping through twitter feeds that's just on the way we

all click i agree to the terms. conditions that's just to most of us never even get a 2nd full and actually that's designed as well ali re-explore is how designers are manipulating our behavior and the final episode of all hail the algorithm on a jersey of. food. a week old. so you got your jihad azour a reminder our top stories this hour and turkey's military says its attacking syrian army positions after reported $33.00 of its soldiers have been killed in fighting in the province banker also appears to be trying to put pressure on the european union by saying it will allow some syrian refugees to and to europe. major

has held an emergency meeting to discuss the crisis the sector general voice in solidarity with turkey called on syria and its allies russia to stop their offensive. at the head of the world health organization is mourning that the coronavirus now poses a high level global threat viruses spread to 5 more trees in the past 24 hours the number of cases now stands at 83 pounds. your signature statement pompei or has been testifying to a house foreign affairs committee on iran and the use of war powers to try to justify the administration's decision to kill top iranian general some sort of money as a deterrent against aggression and it also told the panel that aggressive u.s. sanctions are meant to change the behavior of iran's leader. has more now from washington d.c. alan tell us more about what composes been questioned on and indeed what he's been

saying. well this was a very contentious 2 hours as you expect it's the 1st time that my computer has appeared in front of the foreign relations committee on the house since donald trump's impeachment you'll remember at that point the foreign relations committee wanted to speak to my pump about all that was going on with ukraine he refused that not a point that the committee chairman was willing to let go past he said that he'd issued a lawful subpoena and was surprised that the secretary of state hadn't turned up there then talk to boat around might prompt made an opening statement he talked about the killing of kassam silverman. and he insisted to the members of the committee that he'd made himself available over the last few months claiming that congress had been briefed more than 70 times about the operation that killed the iranian general and he insisted the world was no a safer place because of us actions on that night back in january iranians and those impacted by the regime are thankful that the united states is

finally holding their oppressors accountable. the trumpet ministration will neither appease 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 convince iran to change its behavior. there were 2 to kill or contentious exchanges one when a democratic congressman suggested that to might pompeo as there was nor coherent foreign policy strategy the donald trump tends to bumble through things insisting well we'll see what happens and again raise the question of what happened over the last 24 hours as a consequence of that action if you remember that the iranians fired a number of missiles towards u.s. bases in iraq after the death of cason so many immediately afterwards donald trump said that there had been no u.s. injuries we later discovered that a number of u.s. service personnel reported traumatic brain injuries in fact 110 according to the

last count one congresswoman asked donald. if he would like to apologize for insisting immediately afterwards the administration at least that there had been north american casualties that wasn't something that might prompt was going to bite and said that they continued to do the best for all americans there was only just 2 hours for my pump to give evidence in front of the committee that infuriated a number of people and made the point that hillary clinton when asked about benghazi spent 13 hours giving evidence might bump only giving them 2 hours and what's he going to know well he's going to commit conservative action committee meeting all the way across the city he's due to speak them there in just over a couple of hours or i didn't hear more from you later thanks very much and if issue there. weeklong reduction in violence between the taliban the united states

and afghan forces as a long lasting peace deal on saturday the u.s. and the taliban are set to sign a peace deal in doha pakistan's foreign minister shah mahmood curacy will be at the signing and he sat down with out there and says that a political settlement is the only way to end the conflict but pakistan has played the role of a facilitator pakistan as you ignore has suffered a lot because of the situation in the region paid a huge price in human terms and in economic terms and we have already been advocating that there is nobody to solution to the of han conflict what you need is the don't call heated political settlement yet the lad that the world has finally can words to that point of view and now the talks. then took off there were 10 rounds of difficult talks but finally seems that we're nearing an

agreement and hopefully it will be signed. very soon. if you has announced it will not attend this week's latest round of u.s. brokered talks on the disputed nile dam project with egypt in sudan mohammed vell has been to western ethiopia to see how the dam is taking shape. the scene of the situation is a few miles away from ethiopia. local people here still live. with no one in what or electricity or decent homes. they say patiently wait for the benefit of the doubt. what patience is there to muster these workers need to finish the task they work. daytime she also works progress. the

project is made up of 3 parts civil works which are now 87 percent complete the steel works which are going a bit slow with 17 percent completed and the electromechanical works at 35 percent and all those 3 components show that the dam is 71.2 percent complete we're planning to start filling the reservoir next june and will be able to start producing electricity a year later once finished these giant tubes will channel but if all waters down through turbines $9.10 which are still to be placed here the powerful jets rotate the turbines and the hydro power engines link to them pass for the 2 to electricity each turbine going to produce 370 megawatt when all of the 30 turbines are completed that dam will be able to produce a little less than 6000 megawatt enough to satisfy ethiopia's needs to export electricity to regions as far away as southern africa and west of joy as you can see behind me that to me the section hasn't yet been finished its one acquires

2000000 cubic metres of concrete slabs to raise it to the final height that's also why. where the 13 power turbines will be inserted 2 of them will become operational early next year and that's when the 1st hydro power production begins ethiopia says this is crucial for its economic development sudan deposits country believes it has nothing to fear despite warnings by some of its sr experts but egypt that if it is told it destination feels threatened since the dawn of time it had the lion's share of the blue nile waters but that there's a country described by your order to us as the gift of the night believes the dam may deprive its population of its most vital source is especially ethiopia insists on healing the 74000000000 cubic meter reservoir in 3 years egypt has suggested it should take no less than 70 years as the talks in washington d.c.

stumble at each ound time is of the essence to both nations meanwhile the historic dam continues to take its final shape for the legendary river this is a mighty handle that will control every drop of it for the 1st time in history a river that flew freely in the wild for millions of years is from now on forced to squeeze its way through these narrow ion frames of brick and mortar i use future and perhaps the 2 of the millions of people in its path is not set in stone for ages to come 105 or dizzy or at the grander nice ass down western ethiopia. now there are an estimated 20 percent of fish brought to market or illegally caught often by so-called dark fishing fleets crews on the vessels switch off satellite tracking to hide their activities in remote parts of the world's oceans well now greenpeace investigation is uncovered the scale of the problem and the need for

greater ocean protection so hard as this report. in the middle of the atlantic ocean thousands of kilometers from anywhere the greenpeace ship on 6 sunrise is on the trail of a vessel that's gone dark it's turned off its tracking systems. the team home in on another vessel a giant refrigerated cargo ship. and here they find their original quarry a taiwanese long line a trench shipping its catch of tuna onto what is effectively a colossal floating freezer. these reefers can stay at sea for a year or more and there are more than $400.00 of them across the world negating the need for the fishing boats to return frequently to port the long line of the better 3 with not transmitting if i am. if the way you can track vessels from space that is used to track both commercial fleets around the world i'm this means that we can see what activity is happening out here and it makes these high seas

a black hole of fishing got 50 transshipments like this a considered a major leap in monitoring fishing activities by offloading catches it seems like the shark vessels are able to smuggle illegal unreported and unregulated catches into the market by mixing them with illegal hauls. thousands of kilometers away the southern ocean remote and next to impossible to police the greenpeace ship esperanza has been following the movements of fishing boats in pristine waters the reef is often stuck to small vessels with fuel and supplies bar reticent to communicate. its research. on the russians in this last question. are you also supplying these vessels with other products. it's believed up to $40000000.00

tons of unreported fish catches are traded every year costing around $23000000000.00 so we can see for example there in the southwest atlantic which is a part of the globe but there's very little to the point of almost no fisheries management for a lot of fishing vessels so any reefer that goes there is by default working within an unregulated environment all this say greenpeace as urgent need for a strong global ocean treaty to be implemented as soon as possible to ensure 30 percent of the world's ocean are off limits to exploitation of any kind saddle height at al-jazeera. or let's have an update of the headlines here on al-jazeera and 1st up turkey's military says it's attacking syrian army positions after a reported 33 of its soldiers have been killed in fighting in italy province i think are also appears to be trying to put pressure on the european union by saying

it will allow some syrian refugees to enter europe and nato has held an emergency meeting to discuss the crisis the secretary general voiced solidarity with turkey and called on syria and its ally russia to stop their offensive. allies condemn the continued indiscriminate strikes by the syrian regime under the shah in providence . i 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 urge an immediate return to the 2018 cease fire. the head of the world health organization is warning that the corona virus now poses a high level global threat the virus has spread to 5 more countries in the past 24

hours the number of cases now stands at 83000. out epidemiologists have been monitoring these developments continuously and we have now increased our assessment of the rescore spread and the risk of impact of corbett 19 to very high global level your secretary of state might pump a.o. testified before a house foreign affairs committee on iran he tried to justify the administration's decision to kill top iranian general cut some sort of money as a deterrent against aggression also told the panel that aggressive u.s. sanctions are meant to change the behavior of iran's. you're saying the headlines here in our news continues right after all hail the algorithm.

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