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through a process and you'll be fine donald trump tries to reassure americans after the u.s. records its 1st coronavirus death. turkey's president urges russia to get out of syria reiterate this call that the borders of europe are open to migrants. hello after more than 18 years of for a deal between the u.s. on the taliban has put up gonna start on the path to what many hope will be a permanent peace one of the key components of the deal plans for a complete withdrawal of all u.s. and nato troops within 14 months if the taliban sticks to its parts some a bunch of aid begins our coverage. we destroy a new chapter move open for afghanistan the united states has agreed on

a deal that could see the complete withdrawal of its troops from its longest running war in the next 14 months. we recognize america should fight in perpetuity in the graveyard of empires if we can help afghans forge peace and we have respect we believe that the afghan people are ready to shirk their own course forward. for the past 18 months the taliban and the u.s. government have been negotiating in a cutter finally agreeing on a plan aimed at cementing a permanent peace as part of the deal the taliban will not allow god is found to be used by al qaida and it will continue to fight against isis. see the 7 day reduction of violence last week with a test for them now comes a test for the u.s. commitment it must facilitate the release of 5000 taliban prisoners in a matter of days. we are committed to this agreement to a force that the afghan nation has been suffering for the past 4 decades we have

suffered tremendously and i hope that with the withdrawal of all foreign forces from afghanistan that the afghan nation under the a slavic government will embark on a new prosperous life while the deal was signed in doha a ceremony was also taking place in the afghan capital of kabul u.s. secretary of defense and nato chief south lawn side beyond president his government wasn't part of the negotiations and the taliban still doesn't recognize that what under the us taliban deal the afghan government asked the un security council to lift sanctions on the taliban our agenda for discussion with the taliban be be whiter than their discussions with the united states they should be ready to discuss their relationship with their state and 9 states sponsors a verifiable system for cutting off their ties with all transnational terrorist groups their dependence and involvement of the narcotics and other transnational criminal organizations positivity the foreign minister from neighboring pakistan

with longstanding ties to the taliban was in doha for the signing we have nothing to hide. cross-product and be open so. far housing. being a positive contribution to the positive. there was a big contingent of. support for the deal they say it will do you. good. today is a huge historic day a similar day like today was celebrated by and says a century ago after defeating the brits and then 30 years ago for defeating the soviets today we witness our leadership signing a withdrawal deal of occupying american forces and victory deal of our holy warriors. the us government says victory will be achieved when the afghan people live with no fear in foreign forces are not afraid of attacks they said this was history in the making a real chance for lasting peace in afghanistan and the signing is

a stepping stone towards it but all parties to the conflict realize that the real work for lasting peace in of god stan has just begun. without. a laura burton rally takes a look back at the high costs of the war on civilians. it's been a usually quite we can couple where bombs and bullets ability mainstay for years but the afghan taliban says the agreement signed in doha marks the beginning of real change i think people of afghanistan in your work on unity want to see of going strong stable and it's today is one importer and this is the 1st tip opening the door to the whole of the people of afghanistan last year more than 3400 civilians were killed in the country the taliban were responsible for almost half of those deaths afghan forces and the u.s.

were responsible for 43 percent. in recent years the taliban has been responsible for numerous attacks against civilians. a teenage suicide bomb a sitting in the audience of a play detonated a bomb it was in a french school that was considered a safe haven for culture in kabul the 1st month of 2900 source string of attacks by the group on the 20th of january several armed men stormed the intercontinental hotel in kabul and killed 21 people that attack the same hotel in 2011. a week later an ambulance packed with explosives was detonated in a shopping center in kabul. dozens were hurt. in september last year president donald trump called off talks with the taliban after it admitted responsibility for an attack in couple the killed dozens of people we have heard

statements coming from coming in from kabul government and also the united states of america that we cannot trust the taliban because there are so many groups like 22 groups yet the taliban were like no we had one group this reduction in violence . that the taliban indeed is one group but it's not just the taliban who have admitted killing civilians i saw linked groups of 4 the taliban and afghan government forces and also killed scores of people. and also saw a record high level of civilian casualties from airstrikes most of those by international forces including the u.s. . but the deal signed in doha still has a long way to go with the real peace can be achieved. crucial next step would be if the taliban can reach the cream and the afghan government who it is. too complex with for almost 2 decades.

more than 3000000 afghans live across the border in pakistan come a haidar spoke to some of them and the cousin a refugee camp they told him about their hopes for returning home now that the deal is signed their rio volpe and we've been. beaten up run it done would mean that they would be able to go back to their country. that we're very hopeful about the peace deal between the taliban and the us peace will also help us finally return home to afghanistan. where we are happy with this agreement because it will bring peace in afghanistan and we will return to our homeland. any deed rates really lead through a 3rd term and another one it's gone. on and. really. proved to be more difficult given the fact that there are differences between dr

abdullah abdullah and lanny. i had already said there david form a crowd a little government which of course would complicate matters or did really important you see what happened in the. dialogue and rather doubt we'll be able to make. your bring back into that war torn country. turkish president trying to play a murder one says he's asked his russian counterpart vladimir putin to quote get out of the way in syria's last rebel bastion if it lead follows the death of 34 turkish troops in a strike by russian backed syrian government forces on thursday. a skill it is we killed more than 2000 syrian soldiers and destroyed more than $300.00 armored vehicles we will prove to the syrian regime and those backing them that we are capable of this only yesterday we destroyed 7 chemical depos we did not want to says collation it was the syrian regime the forced us into it and that's why the

syrian regime must pay the price as somehow better has more from her tie in turkey and he says some members of the government feel betrayed by russia and iran over it . what we've seen now on the ground is the ask elation these intense fighting happening as we speak in the southern part of the province province where the syrian rebels backed by turkey launching a major offensive taken over many villages in the mountains of. activists there are telling us that a syrian army convoy was hit a while ago but why many people think it was a drone attack by the turkish army so the escalation is there there is a chance also to give diplomacy more leeway so the there's been a phone conversation between the turkish president and the iranian president has settled and they spoke about the need to defuse tension and to restore the spirit

of the 2018 agreement between iran and russia and also turkey there's been also a phone conversation between the russian president vladimir putin and the iranian president hassan rouhani about a potential meeting with with the 3 leaders but here in turkey barbara. there is a general sentiment among the political establishment of the government that they have they have been betrayed by iran by russia in the provinces that the agreement that was established in 2018 has been with pizza leave. us president donald trump has called for calm after confirming the 1st u.s. death from the coronavirus president says there are now $22.00 cases in the country the white house will be imposing a travel ban on iran and this comes after iranian state television reported another 295 new infections in just one day trump is also considering closing the u.s. border with mexico despite the latin american country only having 4 confirmed cases

as of saturday additional cases in the united states are likely but healthy individuals should be able to fully recover and we think that will be safe and that we can make with great surety now that we've gotten from e.u. with this problem they should be able to recover. should they contract a virus so healthy people if you healthy. you will probably. go through a process and you'll be fine let's get some more on this and speak to roslyn jordan she's joining us from washington d.c. so how serious is this development that now there is one confirmed death in the u.s. rosalyn and what does it tell us about how this virus is spreading. well it's a little bit complicated but daryn let me see if i can unpack it the person who died is had to be

a man in his mid fifty's who had preexisting health conditions he died in washington state and that announcement was made about midday on saturday here in the united states now there have been 65 confirmed cases by the federal centers for disease control that's the agency that tracks infectious disease here in this country but what is perhaps worrisome is that there have been a number of cases that have been diagnosed on the u.s. west coast and there has not been and some of those cases any direct link to people who may have been in china who may have been in south korea or who may have been in italy or perhaps in iran and so that is raising concern among infectious disease specialist that the virus is in the united states and that it may now be spreading given that it has an incubation period of between 4 and 14 days that is of

particular concern because there is no treatment for the disease the federal the food and drug administration has given permission to private companies to develop a diagnostic test but there is no treatment and that is what has the health care community very concerned and here's the thing rosin i mean presidents from prior come under criticism from some about his handling of the crisis and when it erupted what's the reaction to these travel restrictions that he's now announced. well there hasn't been any reaction yet to the new restrictions which is there was already the travel ban on persons coming from iran well that now has been expanded to any person who is not a u.s. citizen who has been inside iran in the last 14 days those people now will not be allowed to come to the united states the top administration has also dale was

basically issued a no travel no go zone as it were for one part of italy and it is urging americans to avoid a couple of other areas in that country as well as a certain part of south korea where the virus has been infecting hundreds of people in both countries so this is a ramping up the president also suggested during a hassle we arranged a press conference on saturday afternoon that he was thinking about closing the border between the united states and mexico in order to prevent more transmission of the virus but it's worth pointing out that mexico has fewer cases of people with this new core on a virus then there are cases here in the united states and he did try to back away from that suggestion later on saturday afternoon all right jordan thank you.

plenty more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including we'll be live in south carolina in just a moment where the polls close shortly in the latest u.s. presidential primaries and we'll look ahead to super tuesday when 14 states votes and the entire race could be reshaped. the fighting in syria triggers a new refugee crisis and turkey opens its border with greece saying to a lot stop migrants trying to cross into europe. in spore at liverpool's charge towards an unbeaten premier league season comes to a halt you'll find out more a little later with peter. so in less than an hour from now the polls close in south carolina the latest state to hold a primary election is democrats alike their candidate to challenge donald trump for the presidency it's the 1st primary in the south and the 1st were african-american voters will play

a pivotal role nearly 2 thirds of democratic voters in south carolina are black a voting bloc that strong supported the former vice president joe biden for the front runner bernie sanders has been gaining on him in the polls analysts say it's a make or break moment for biden's campaign the other candidates elizabeth warren pete booted judge amy close tom styer and tulsi gabbard are also hoping for a strong finish to stay competitive for a super tuesday that's only 3 days away and it's also when my blue bird areas he'll 1st appear on ballots alongside them for the 1st time 14 states plus american samoa will all vote on that day let's bring in andy gallagher he's standing by for us in columbia south carolina to 1st talk about joe biden because there is a lot at stake for him in south carolina and if he wins and you the question is is it enough to revive his campaign. you know it's not really

a question of if the former vice president wins but if he wins how big is that victory because the bigger picture here is south carolina is just one small part of this this process is democratic process because on tuesday 14 states in an outlying territory get to vote that's about 38 percent of all delegates available in just warm days so biden needs to show democratic voters out there that he can't just beat sanders by one or 2 points but he can beat him by 10 because it's all about momentum going into super tuesday bernie sanders has been really eating into joe biden's lead all across the country in fact leading the national polls at the moment but joe biden has a great deal of history in this state he is known by the african-american community you make of about 60 percent of all democratic voters and on wednesday james cliburn the most powerful politician in this state endorsed joe biden that was a very important potential tipping point for the former vice president so the

lights are starting to go on here in the auditorium biden fans are starting to line up outside in what they hope will be a victory speech for joe biden but it's really about how big a win he can pull off here going into super tuesday if we can get that momentum going that will be a huge for the biden campaign they called the black vote here their fire wall then went on to call it their springboard so they can spring on from here into super tuesday but bernie sanders has a much better ground game in all these of the state said there is a great deal at stake tonight on the results in the polls close in about 40 minutes for the former vice president's very future in this campaign so so andy after 40 minutes what happens then when do we begin to get an idea of the results out of south carolina. well i think they should come in fairly quickly because they opened at 7 am this morning so people been voting for 12. as you can

hear the music coming on now everything's getting ready here so we think we'll get the results in fairly quickly some of the polls suggest that joe biden is well ahead in this state some of the other polls suggest that bernie sanders is within the margin of error so it's very difficult to predict what will happen but for joe biden this is a state he's known for years he came here after his son died he came here after there was a mass shooting at a church here by a white supremacist the people here know him very well and he's really touting that kind of connection between himself and president obama and the voters here in this state so it's a big win that he needs and i think it's a big win that he will need if he wants his campaign to keep going successfully into super tuesday all right and he will speak through later thank you for that update from south carolina. so as andy was saying south carolina is being watched closely but the real prize on the campaign is super tuesday and that's only 3 days away and it'll involve 14 u.s. states and one territory having various say on who should challenge president

donald trump in november and has more on that from washington. for months it looked like this was former vice president joe biden's race to lose and so far he has been losing now the unexpected front runner the self declared socialist senator bernie sanders getting the most votes in iowa new hampshire and nevada we have now won the battle clark. following him another unexpected leader former small town mayor people to judge with biden trailing 3rd this is a race that will decide the direction of the democratic party there are the moderates biden who to judge senator amy klobuchar and billionaires tom styer and former mayor mike bloomberg and the outlier congresswoman tulsi gabbert versus the progressives sanders and senator elizabeth warren the biggest divide healthcare it's the 2nd most important issue for democratic voters the moderates want more

people to be able to join the government health insurance program the progressives want everyone in rolled in a government program with private insurance eliminated that's something the majority of democrats say they want to court into polls but that isn't true for independents or republicans and that could complicate with the vast majority of democrats say is their top priority electability without a doubt that's my number one i want trump and that is the biggest argument against senator sanders that he can't beat trump. i think we can win the democratic nomination. we're going to defeat donald trump. but if he's the nominee johnson kylee at the pew reese. center says his health care plan could be an issue both the public option approach and the medicare for all approach are distinctly different than republican policies that about health care and democrats across the board are

likely to favor both of those while republicans across the board are much less likely to favor either medicare for all or a public option democrats are deciding with this vote have probably seen big changes is the best chance they have to change lives in the white house political hay al-jazeera washington let's make a german mayor he's an associate professor in the sorry school of policy in government and george mason university who's joining us via skype from arlington virginia hi thanks for speaking to us on the news hour so let's look at joe biden for a moment he's gotten a lot of support from the african community african-american community in south carolina so realistically can he lose this primary no he absolutely cannot i don't see a path to the nomination unless joe biden ends tonight a winner. a winner by how much though because the question is. how much does he have to win to revive his campaign it can't be by

a small orange or can it it would hurt him to win by just a little but i think he could survive that if sanders searches and wins i think joe biden is finished if he wins by a little bit i could imagine a scenario in which a couple people indorse him and he gets stronger for super tuesday but you're right what he really needs tonight is to win by 15 that doesn't guarantee him the nomination but it will give him wind at his back as he enters into super tuesday what about bernie sanders i mean has sanders as outreach to african-american voters in south carolina been different this time around them back in 2016 when hillary clinton beat him in the state. it has been much better bernie sanders has allies on the ground he has african-american politicians who are supporting him campaigning with him and he's starting to rise in the polls although in the last 3 days he's started to drop and biden is surging if we are to believe the most recent polls how

much are we able to gauge from the south carolina primary meaning what will it actually tell us about super tuesday in 3 days time well it isn't a perfect predictor but i think it will be most important for the people we haven't been talking much about clothes which are for example to to judge it may the pressure on them to get out if they do very badly tonight which is what the polls are telling is they will do is going to get a very strong because the party establishment is afraid of bernie sanders bernie sanders knows it he's right about that and the party establishment in the person of some very influential people of 2 including maybe some former presidents are going to start putting pressure on these people to get out yeah and you mentioned the other candidates what about my bloomberg and how do you assess his chances you know one thing donald trump did in 2016 is he taught us that all the conventional wisdom

about politics may be wrong and bloomberg is following that model because no one in either party has ever entered after the 1st couple contests he's waiting until the 5th contest super tuesday to enter he hasn't been on the ballot yet he's spending more money than we've ever seen in a primary in the history of the country. it's a gamble but his numbers have also plateaued he was rising and rising nationally he's really cat i think the elizabeth warren attack on him for the way he treated women allegedly at his business has really reminded a lot of democrats of donald trump and they hate donald trump more than they hate anyone all right we'll leave it there we thank you very much jeremy meyer for speaking to us my pleasure. still ahead on the i'll just to amuse our malaysia's king appointed prime minister putting an end to a week long political power struggle point talk to me and mars working those who are still afraid to return home following the 2017 government crackdown. and

a rising star from bella ruth who wins her her tennis title in 6 months peter will have the details in sport. and there's some better news across northern sections of the united states have been dealing with some very severe blizzard conditions lake effect snow is the system works its way through eastern canada and has a say into these northern sections of the united states but have a look at these images really quite unusual now this is hamburg in new york state not that far away from buffalo and just sitting these houses are on the eastern shores of lake erie and what you're looking at is actually a buildup of ice now it's very brown as you can see because it's a mixture of freshwater the samoa and some dust and sand there but just look at

these passes leaves and all are actually inhabited but it's a much better picture all of that clearing well away to the east time it is beginning to improve in d.c. 6 ounces in new york for sunday quite a bit of snow across the central plains out tools the west and certainly by monday that begins to die away but at that point there is more on the way into the pacific northwest and at the same time to work its way through the south and pushing up into the eastern seaboard as we start the workweek and then the caribbean is staying quiet here we've seen some very heavy rain particular across into honduras that will work its way further south as we go through sunday some showers all the way across into hispaniola and really no change by monday but a dry day and have on a 26. march on al-jazeera up to they're also going on the nation witness brings a new film this time from africa for international women's day

a crucial day in the race to challenge donald trump where live across key u.s. states for a super tuesday studio b. unscripted brings a fresh approach to discussing contentious issues and finding common solutions as benjamin netanyahu prepares to go on trial for corruption israel heads into its 3rd election in less than a year the listening posts dissects the world's media how they operate and the way they cover stories march on al-jazeera. as i put questions to my special guest. here on.

the top stories on the al jazeera news hour the deal between the united states and the taliban which could see all american nato troops withdraw from afghanistan it's hoped to agreement will pave the way for a long lost in the country. donald trump has confirmed the 1st u.s. death from the novel coronavirus a travel ban will be imposed on iran and the white house is considering closing its border with mexico voters in the u.s. state of south carolina have less than an hour to decide which democrat they want to challenge donald trump for the presidency it's the 1st primary in the south before super tuesday. more now on our top story the u.s. taliban deal signed on saturday here in doha so let's take

a look at the human cost of the u.s. led invasion of afghanistan more than $31000.00 civilians have been killed since 2001 according to the u.n. and rights groups nearly 58000 members of the security force members and 42000 opposition fighters have also died nearly 2400 american soldiers were killed in the u.s. is estimated to have spent more than a trillion dollars on the conflict the afghan ministry of public health says $23000000.00 afghans or 2 thirds of the population suffer from. mental health problems because off the war let's speak to andrew wilder he's the vice president of the asia center at the united states institute of peace is joining us via skype from washington d.c. thanks for your time with us on the newshour so what would you say is the legacy of the american policy in afghanistan well i mean i think we have to you know remember why we actually went into a crowded time the 1st place after 911 and so i think you're going to secretary

pompei as that day there was a revenge element which brought us to afghanistan but having worked in afghanistan in the 198-0890 s. you know i can assure you that afghanistan of today is very different than the afghanistan and certainly when the taliban are last in power so a lot has been achieved but also not nearly as much as many had hoped and i think you just cited a lot of the violence that war was definitely not a successful war no one won and i think that's the important thing about today which is the recognition and what both sides are all sides in the conflict that there couldn't be a military victory and that there had to be a negotiated end to the settlement right so i'm very pleased about it as a result so if the united states recognize that it cannot win this war militarily then if this deal an acknowledgement that the u.s. has lost in afghanistan because right now in 2020 the taliban controls more

territory in afghanistan than it did back in 2001. you know i mean i think it's not helpful at this point for anyone to be declaring victory because frankly everyone has lost a tremendous amount in the last 20 years now afghanistan and prof guns were a great deal in the last 40 years so you know i'd like to see it more as an opportunity to look forward in terms of what can be done now having achieved this agreement let's not lose yet another opportunity to try to end violent conflict in afghanistan and have achieved a more sustainable peace rate so looking forward then looking ahead to this agreement that was signed between the u.s. and the taliban so according to the u.s. secretary of state mike on peo he said this that this agreement is conditional on the taliban sticking to wed and part of that agreement outlines that the taliban must cut ties with quote unquote terror groups like isis and al-qaeda yet do you

think that there is an in for spent mechanism in that agreement to make sure that the taliban is actually sticking to its part of the deal i think one of the reason it took so long to get us to this point is there is not a lot of discussion in negotiations about those issues i don't think all of the details appear in today's agreement but i certainly do believe that this parity gotten fairly detailed discussion about those issues and i don't think we would have actually signed an agreement today if there wasn't some assurance certainly on the u.s. side that those commitments can be enforced whatever those on all of the right you know go ahead a good. yeah i also think that the taliban wouldn't be signing the agreement today if they also didn't have an intent to honor some of those agreements because they more than anyone know the cost of you know that they paid and you know by hosting al qaeda in the 1990 s. . do you expect the taliban to to honor their part of the agreement that says

it will hold interoffice down talks with the afghan government because after all the taliban does not recognize the legitimate legitimacy of the afghan government and the afghan government right now is coming out of disputed election so how do you see these talks playing out well i think there really is the critical issue and i really again think it's important to view today as not the end of a process it's really the start of the process and the next critical element is getting to the interim off going to go she ations and that's what you know everyone you know secretary pumpin and you know start to ask for been emphasizing that this allows you off guns now to come to the table so that the negotiation isn't the us at the top i don't know it's off the ground sitting across the table from our guns so i certainly hope the are going to stay on as leadership whether in the taliban

or on the government side or in the opposition side rise to the occasion and don't once again fail the afghan people by losing and missing this incredible opportunity to sit across from the table and negotiate and try to resolve some of their differences all right so we thank you very much andrew wilder for speaking to us thank you very much the greek government has it prevented more than 4000 refugees from entering the country on friday a day or day earlier a turkey announced that would open its borders to millions of migrants who are trying to reach europe transfer uplifts reports on the greek island of les posts the main entry point for migrants in the a.g.n. . a single boat load of refugees is escorted to the shores of less force high winds have likely prevented many others from crossing but they are forecast to die down and more boats are expected to come all who arrive and up here in moria camp

there are 22000 people here 7 times what it was built for and many have to find space among the olive groves most are from afghanistan they've escaped war and death but many say they haven't found life here there are no formal schools so 14 year old for operates his family stand selling fruit and vegetables is morea good not good. or bad. very a small many that people here have little to do but wait for their asylum applications to be decided upon and their wait has just become much longer a new asylum law took effect at the beginning of the year that fast tracks new applications so the trajectory applicants can be sent back to turkey as quickly as they arrive but that discriminates against people like these who arrived as a family 5 months ago we head into the smart. 26.

and they did it but they don't take it to you they see you only take in tales from the people. and you have until 10 months in exile turkey agreed to take back her attorneys in a 2016 statement signed with the european union and the greek government says it plans to return at least 10000 people this year but whether turkey will all of that agreement in the current political climate is an open question so the greek government's entire refugee strategy now hangs in the balance many local people say they have little faith in this new policy. owns. one of the olive groves next to moria that's banished that you're getting a year ago the refugees were chopping the limbs of trees to cook with but we can still harvest a few olives this year was a bumper crop but we couldn't pick a single olive my land was burned twice then they pitched a few tens onto the burned patch and soon after the land just filled up with tents

. the government is using lesbos as a holding area but many greeks fear that if the turkish president had a chapter you threaten flood of refugees becomes a reality the european union could try and use their country as a buffer zone for the rest of the continent john psaropoulos al jazeera lesbos more than a 1000000 of them are as working as are still afraid to return home after a 27 government crackdown al-jazeera is florence the u.s. part of a small group of foreign media taken on a tightly controlled visits in parts of rakhine state where the government says it's helping. northern rakhine is still considered a restricted area so foreign media only allowed here on trips with the government we came here with government minders we have a teen or a that we have to follow and we're not allowed to stray off the beaten path and one of the 1st places we were taken to village where the mold or district

administrators was here he was meeting with the villagers telling them what the government was going to do to help them rebuild their lives here the mungo district administrator seen handing out cash to villages to help them rebuild their homes then we were taken to another village now this village not far from where we were and again to meet her villagers we had to sit in a school hall it was a town hall sort of maintain it's extremely difficult to get to speak to as candidly about what life really is like here even when we wanted to break one rule followed by police and government minders and the government denies the charges that the young man that tree committed genocide and it says that the fact that $600.00 more than 650 returned since august 2017 is proof that everything is safe here but the fact remains more than 700000 in bangladesh to feel full to return there's not much for the remaining gold to return to you and we've

traveled south to the capital of rakhine state citrate this area was not affected by the violence that happened in 2017 but there were hanging remain in camps for internally displaced because of race riots that broke out between the mainly buddhist ethnic rakhine and the mainly muslim and the government says it's making efforts to reintegrate them but so far not many have been able to return home and not only that they were going to have very few rights they're not considered citizens of this country that i'll be able to go to university they're not able to access public health care they're not even able to travel out of the township without government permission. malaysia's king has revealed i'm afraid genius c.n.n. as the country's new prime minister nuri al statements sidelined former leader mattera mohammed whose ruling coalition collapsed last week in the house here insists he should remain in power alexia ryan for. a changing of the guard

in malaysia that critics are calling the death of democracy. appointment by the king capping a tumultuous week in the country's politics. i thank the king i would like to thank all of you for your moral support i only ask that all malaysians accept the decision announced by the palace today. the king's move sidelines former leader mohammed whose ruling coalition collapsed last week i had to resigned as premier after his besides who party which is led by signaled it could work with the united malays national organization or. their party governed malaysia for more than 60 years until it was forced from power by my had he has coalition and 2018 all know is the party of disgraced former leader browse uk who is on trial for corruption accused of looting millions of dollars from the state fund one e m d b o

u dean was kicked out of all no in 2015 but it rallied behind him this week he was sacked for raising the issues of corruption when m b b but now in a sort of wrangling that's happened in the last week or so in malaysia he's joined forces with the same person in the same party that he was sacked from and issues he set up a report now he seems to be making alliances with many believe the latest crisis was also part of a tussle for power between mohamad and his longtime rival and while abraham analysts say their coalition was torn apart by infighting over who should succeed mahathir who at 94 was the world's oldest premier earlier on saturday and last it hit back mati has returned to power but now neither man as leader and there are calls for protests a lot of people in malaysia are. very upset. not my pm is.

is one of the tweeting at the highest level in malaysia at the same time you know you did nasa and its coalition also garner a fair amount of support. dean is expected to be sworn in on sunday but now t. is fighting back saying he has more support to alexia brian al jazeera. thousands of people have rallied in central moscow against proposed changes to russia's constitution demonstrators say president vladimir putin is trying to stay in office indefinitely the changes would give the president greater all 40 over the judicial system the rally also marked the 5 year anniversary of the murder of the prominent kremlin critic boris nemtsov. has expressed disappointment with the latest u.s. efforts to resolve a long running dispute over a major a dam on the nile river boycotted talks in washington this week saying negotiations

with egypt don are far from over says the dam is essential to its development but egypt is worried about its effect on irrigation and drinking water. is a professor of knowledge management and sustainable development at the university of east london and he thinks transparency has been an issue. the main issue here is that if you go back when this whole project is stopped it many people have asked for transparency on this particular project the technical reporting about rescan all of this stuff and also have not been very clear many have said go where they started this it gives it really is their neighbors which is particularly egypt and sudan so i think that. for example they're going to start filling in july that's not the 2nd seeing a very have been continuously not giving much it's a public domain which is quite important but we have to be wise of the fact that egypt given quite heavily on the nih and on the water with that lever for food for

security for lots of stuff although if you claim 90 percent of that of the given the 90 percent from that water but even some statistics say 8 d. or 78 it doesn't matter but someone is going to say for all this water in a very short time as according to say you. advise us it's quite serious it could be even if you like national risk for the country in montenegro thousands of people have been marching through the capital protesting against the law they fear will be used to target the churches assets and status the demonstration was led by the serbian orthodox church the new law allows the state to take over property if the church cannot prove ownership before 1918 that's when the kingdom of montenegro joined the kingdom of serbs croats and slovenes montenegro's president has accused serbia and russia of fusing the orthodox church to undermine his country's independence. kids are voting in their 1st parliamentary election since the 28th

if an investigative journalist and his fiance the murders. forced the resignation of prime minister robert fico and caused large protests across the country whose shock was investigating high level corruption when he was killed the governing party is being challenge by. ordinary people anti corruption campaigner and lawyer couple tova was elected president last year despite being a political newcomer. luxembourg has become the 1st country to make public transport free abolishing fares for a train. in a bid to tackle road congestion and pollution an annual pass for a standard travel have cost almost $500.00 u.s. dollars travelers can still choose to pay for 1st class the government says it hopes the change will help support people. a film critiquing the death

penalty in iran called there is no evil has been awarded the renowned golden bear at the berlin film festival the film's director muhammad faces a one year prison sentence for quote participating in social and political activities through his filmmaking and he's also banned from leaving iran his daughter accepted the award on his behalf it's the 2nd time in 5 years the top prize has gone to an iranian filmmaker unable to leave their home country dominic kane is at the festival in berlin he says the jury was profoundly affected by the subject of the film. there were tears in a standing ovation when it was announced that there is no evil was the recipient is the recipient of this year's golden bear the most prestigious prize this festival has to offer a film which many of interpreted as a sharp critique of the way that the government of iran governs in its own country

the fact that the direct the director of this film could not be here in person meant that someone else very closely linked to him had to collect the award on his behalf obviously i'm very very awful round and happy but this is what and at the same time i'm very sad because this is for a filmmaker who couldn't be here tonight and i think i can say on behalf of everybody. and it seems that this is for him. international jury awarding this prize were clearly profoundly affected by the nature of the topic which was examined in this film the taking of life or not by the protagonists inside this film a sign according to the director of the film of the oppressive nature of the government in iran and it's clearly another sign of how this particular film festival likes to awards prizes to films that question

a very nature of society in countries very diverse countries around the world still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour more sporting events are canceled across europe due to coronavirus to football matches do kickoff in italy peter will have the story coming up in a moment. frank assessments the one good thing about these bushfires usage really wiping out the politics of climate change informed opinion economy i think is actually what's keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate goes to school boy is all about this argument is astonishingly patronising in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of the iraq of the new conscious and aware use of that struggle against an ethnic sectarian cult or inside story on al-jazeera. the

70 years after one tribes that journey from palestine to the nile delta al-jazeera world meets the largest concentration of 948 refugees in egypt. the socially isolated community with your rights fighting to survive and keep their palestinian heritage alive in a world where there was is increasingly marginalized egypt's father lyle and on al-jazeera. i was raised in france. these are my grandparents. these are my parents and this is mean. by them both isis and us a. difference of a 2 part epic tale of a remarkable family. the father the son and the jihad part one on al jazeera. we understand the differences and

similarities have cultures across the land. so no matter what the new speak out is iraq will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. al-jazeera. the all. around town for the sports there's peter thank you so much liverpool's dream of going through the english premier league season unbeaten as comes around they lost 3 nil to watford in a shock result but still leave the table by 22 points ishmail a saw scored 2 of the goals fought for to move out of the relegation zone liverpool had gone 44 games unbeaten and their winning run ends at

a record equalling 18 matches questions have been raised on with a livable would be awarded the league title if the season is shortened due to coronavirus but the coach says there is no reason for panic on the pitch. we don't think as well. it's the biggest catastrophe in the world of football we feel the defeat really it's absolutely exactly opposite of what we want to have we have to feel that you know we have to chance to to show a reaction against not easy to explain why exactly tonight it didn't happen for us but it should not be in order to get sensation in world football it happened 5 matches the needs of these top football league which had been due to go ahead behind closed doors have been postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak in the country one of the games was the key clash between city our leaders eventers and 3rd placed into madeleine it's now been pushed back to may the italian government banned public gatherings to slow the spread of the virus but it hasn't applied

across the board with 2 games going ahead on saturday one of those saw last year overtake you venters at the top of the city are standings they secured to no we never belonged here in rome. city rivals roma are due to play on sunday. corona virus has also put the tokyo olympics in doubt but with $146.00 days to go athletes around the world are doing all they can to make it to japan african qualifiers are underway in the senegalese capital dhaka to decide who will compete at the olympic boxing tournament in japan coaches say they're worried that cancelling the games would come as a huge blow to the dreams of sportsmen and women on the consonance. this book says it's been training for over 4 years now the next olympic games you begin to feel it's not good for these young guys on boats so we need to play. with base consigned to the athletes also to go do what you guys do but maybe you

can trade it in the front pretty by the front of the outbreak also potentially stands in the way of islands or rugby team winning the 6 nations championship ireland's home game against italy next weekend has already been postponed and now the french government has imposed a ban on public gatherings of more than 5000 people it's a temporary ban but it could mean the france ireland match on the final weekend of 6 nations matches would also be called off france currently lead the overall standings. world number 13 arenas bella rose has won her 6th career title with a victory at the cut open on saturday the belorussian faced tough competition in the form of patrick of it's over in the final event of a was actually the defending champion but was blown away in just one hour and 14 minutes by the 21 year old. have now won 3 titles in the last 6 months the last one being in new hampshire. this one feels really really special because i

was once i won on in china and finally i broke this i mean i love playing china there. but. this one is really. world number one novak djokovic extended his winning run to 18 matches this year and won its 1st title at the same time the greek youngster stefan asked city past 6364 jacket which is now further from the all time list of winners on the a.t.p. tour with 79 titles. the and so while they have suggested he will try to get back the heavyweight title he lost it's nice and fury last week the american was stopped in the 7th round but it appears he's ready to trigger the rematch clause while also said he would not part company with these codes trainer market breal and threw in the towel to stop the fight the fight was convinced he would not take the same punishment in any rematch when will be given the time it.

will be but we will hold out we'll hear how. your changes in group spirit you will run like a phoenix from the ashes and regain. earlier we told you about the italian football being postponed while the latest world cup skiing events in the italian alps has gone ahead the women's super g. was held in la twill but with a limited number of spectators the region has not had any cases of coronavirus austria's mino. clinched her 1st win by a 10th of a 2nd super g. leaders who lean suter of switzerland came in 5th. we'll leave it there for now more sports news coming up again later with either. her for the news hour on al-jazeera but we're back in just a moment so much more of the day's news coming your way through then.

as a weapon of war leaves the very deepest scars. scars so rule that the victims men and women can barely talk about it. they are the only witnesses who can help bring about justice al-jazeera follows human rights campaigners in libya investigating since the 2011 revolution. libya unspeakable crime on al-jazeera we understand the differences seem allowed to the cultures across the world so no

matter what you see we've been using kind of for that matter to you once hosni mubarak became president so began a story of conflict and isolation on one side a wife and son their sights set on succession on the other the president increasingly distant from the egyptian people when his beloved grandson died mubarak need to step back but then the flames ignited in tunisia exploded in egypt and everything changed episode 2 of the family and i'll just.

polls close in the south carolina democratic primary it's seen as chris show for a joe biden's bid to challenge front runner bernie sanders. just their own life from headquarters and you know also ahead. so healthy people if you're healthy. you will probably. go through a process and and you'll be fine donald trump tries to reassure americans after the u.s. records its 1st coronavirus staff. the signatures that.