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inside story on al-jazeera. the you. will zine kurds that it can't guarantee the safety of turkish planes in airspace over italy forming the downing of 2 syrian fighter jets. the workin to al-jazeera live from doha i'm martin dennis also coming up. tear gas and tension on the turkey greece border as hundreds of migrants attempt to cross into europe. the bush drops out of the democratic presidential race after a poor showing in south carolina. corona virus claims
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a 2nd life in washington state in the u.s. where it's feared the disease has been spreading undetected for weeks. now russia says it can't guarantee the safety of turkish planes flying over syria moscow which backs the damascus government is heed the warning after the turkish military shot down 2 syrian fighter jets over ad lib this latest escalation follows the killing of 34 turkish soldiers in it live on thursday and then ultimatum from turkey's president the syrian troops to pull back from the opposition held parts of the province or face a military backlash. bar reports now from have time on the turkey syria border. but you aren't turkish and syrian fighter jets faced off in an encounter in the skies above aleppo and that with 2 syrian warplanes down the
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confrontation marked in u.s. collation in the conflict between turkey and syria turkey's defense minister warned that turkish troops will retaliate against and if air that attack. also announced operation spring shilled and your campaign aimed at pushing syrian government troops out of the so-called buffer zone near the border. we do not aim to face off with russia our only aim is to stop syrian regime's most ekers radical groups the displacement all civilians. turkey has stepped up its military campaign in italy province in response to the deaths of 34 soldiers in strikes on thursday. funeral processions in turkey for the dead soldiers have turned into rallies calling for revenge in rebel held. people took to the streets showing
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support for turkey's bitter campaign in northwestern syria in recent fighting in southern. turkey backed rebel groups recaptured villages they lost a few weeks ago including. further south syrian government forces have launched an offensive to capture asuna main the city was a major opposition stronghold but in 2017 russia brokered a deal that allowed the syrian government to administer the city and the rebels to withdraw the heavy weapons that deal didn't last and syrian troops are determined to control the city this time by the rebels 100 on operation spring shield is to use for cross border campaign in northern syria there are fears this could turn into a wider confrontation but there are also hopes that russia and turkey will eventually
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set aside their differences and implement a cease fire in italy province. how tight so as the fighting continues in syria the greek prime minister has warned refugees not to try to enter europe illegally. greek police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse hundreds of refugees on its border with turkey the prime minister kitty ackles myths of turkey says the country won't accept any asylum requests for the next month and is appealing to the european union for assistance on friday the turkish president edda one announced he'll stop stemming the flow of migrants to europe. this reports now from the greek island of rhodes false where there's been an increase in numbers a riving. this boatload of asylum seekers came ashore on the island of lesbos on sunday police stopped us from interviewing them on camera but
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this congolese man told me turkish people smugglers promised him and his wife a free ride while they were in church for sunday service this man from sierra leone says he was walking on the beach as the boat was being prepared he was told to jump in for free as well it's unclear if someone is paying the smugglers to do that on the island's north shore a boat load of afghans paid $500.00 each to get out of turkey their deals with smugglers had been struck weeks before turkey's president the chapter you put on ordered the opening of borders with neighboring belgariad and greece both members of the european union what did the agents say to you. the same. source yes you know this was the 1st day of significant arrivals since turkey opened its borders towards europe they want enough to create a logistical problem for the greek with origins but they were enough to make many of the people of lesbos anxious that they may once again face the sort of
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uncontrolled refugee flows experienced in 2015 and this time refugees would have nowhere else to go the arrival of a dinghy filled with refugees at the small fishing harbor of fair to me led to a blockade as local residents prevented them from disembarking the coast guard brought the dinghy here after its engine failed t.v. cameras were unwelcome and some of the scene had to be filmed at a distance police were unable to register other arrivals at moria camp the largest in greece it too was blockaded by angry islanders who've seen its population growth 4 fold to over $20000.00 since the new democracy government was elected last year to be given the seat. people believe the government the next quickly over 7 months there wasn't any increase in air quality of life trust has been lost in the island is turning into a giant hotspot. but other viewpoints were also on display this group protested at
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coast guard headquarters calling for refugees to be showed more humanity and greater support a stark reminder that migration is a defining political issue not just here but throughout europe jumpstart ople us al-jazeera lesbos another candid is about out of the race to become the democratic party's presidential candidate people to judge told supporters in his hometown of south bend that he no longer sort of chiles of winning will to ditch narron lead to 50 benny sound as in the iowa caucuses and finished a strong 2nd in new hampshire but he struggled in states with large minority populations and outspent comes just 2 days before super tuesday that's when 14 states go to the polls to choose the democratic challenger to donald trump so i urge everyone who supported me to continue in the cost of ensuring that we bring change to the white house and working to win the absolutely critical down ballot
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races playing out across the country this is simply too much at stake to retreat to the sidelines at a time like this this is a contest gives way to the season of weekly elections and delegate math it is more important than ever that we hold to what this is actually all about politics is not about the horse race not about the debate stage or a precinct counting the spreadsheet is about real people's lives allen fish and now has more from austin texas or one of the states taking part in super tuesday. the reality is that he wasn't going to get the nomination he finished 1st in iowa but really didn't get the balance because it took so long to declare the results you remember that 2nd in new hampshire 13 nevada 4th and so carolina things were not getting better for him he'd difficulty convincing voters of color to back his campaign really he didn't articulate any great new strategy any great new theory
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that made people want to vote for him nothing immediately studio so it's always going to be difficult for him and he also realizes too that it's going to be difficult for the democratic party to be elected if bernie sanders is the candidate in his view he may not be correct in that and so to facilitate their be someone as well as be on the in the final reckoning he's stepping away from the campaign at the moment we expect he'll perhaps give his endorsement to joe biden the interesting thing is though that maybe not all his voters will go into the biden camp it's also a political calculation which is just before tuesday 2000000 people in california have already voted many of them for me or pete. he has a future and the democratic party and from the speech we saw he can he's going to get he's speaking sport at the democratic convention when it comes to crowning the
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nominee. and saying in the us a 2nd person has died from corona virus in washington state on the west coast it comes as a recession say the virus may have been spreading across the state for weeks research suggests some people have been infected through community transmission and that means hundreds more could be infected more than 60 people have been across the u.s. including new cases in illinois rhode island and new york. and u.s. vice president mike pence has been put in charge of the epidemic says the majority of those infected will recover well there will be more cases there's no question it's not my confidence it is the confidence of all of our health experts who are widely regarded as the best in the world. but it's important that people in this country understand that while there are 46 americans that we brought home from china. and $22.00 americans now sadly with one loss of life
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that that the vast majority of those people in the vast majority of any american that would contract a coronavirus that will will be treated and the u.s. government says it's investigating complaints that health workers were not given proper training before receiving american passengers who were evacuated from a cruise ship in japan but the health and human services department says none of the staff who had contact with the evacuees are infected about 300 u.s. citizens on board the diamond princess were flown home 2 weeks ago nearly 700 cases become 4 confirmed on the ship that made it one of the largest clusters of infections outside china. but china is a bay province the epicenter of the virus outbreak reported fewer than $200.00 new infections on sunday and that's a smallish increase in cases since january but the total number of deaths across
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the country has grown to almost 3042 of them in who bay more than 80000 people in china have been infected in the virus is now spread to 60 countries. well francis shot one of its most popular tourist attractions amid fears of the outbreak the louvre in paris home to the mona lisa close its doors to thousands of visitors staff voted to close on sunday because of concern about possible infection france has more than 100 confirmed cases and recently banned gatherings of more than 5000 people and iran has reported another surge in corona virus cases and nearly a dozen more deaths it now has the highest number of deaths from the infection outside of mainland china the government's acknowledged the seriousness of the outbreak. over the last 24 hours we have had $385.00 new cases we have now had $978.00 infections in the country since the
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outbreak began are the new $385.00 cases unfortunately 11 people have lost their lives now the total number of deaths from covert 19 in the country stands at 54. still to come here at al-jazeera with being given rare access on a tight become troll visit to russia kind stated nehemiah where the army denies accusations of genocide against a range of. time lucky voters in israel gear up for yet another election after the 2 largest policies fail to form a governing coalition. and though the threat of flooding is back in the forecast across southern sections of the united states it's been fairly clear the last couple of days and you can see plenty of cloud into the pacific northwest and sweeping really through the central
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areas of canada but it's down tools a south this is what we're going to see developing as we go through monday heavy amounts of rainfall in a very saturated ground this actual line of rain is moving fairly swiftly pushing up into the eastern seaboard and so taking a lot of the rain with it it's a very warm day as well monday and washington d.c. 17 degrees celsius more of that snow with some rain pushing into the civic northwest and also and a bit cooler out across into southern areas of california but just as you think that system as kid away off the eastern side all the united states we have got more rain developing on the south and this time it really doesn't move and we could again how some flooding particular across into western central texas even some snow flows likely into will southern areas of new mexico plenty of scottish across his gun owners while the next couple of days rather heavy along these coastal areas to the north of haiti the dominican republic meanwhile we've got one or 2 more showers crunchy carrying away from honduras but really just lingering for the next few days as indeed will those rains across such into santo domingo and then we've got
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a better picture generally into southern mexico mexico city of 26. in 2011 al-jazeera reported from tanzania on the sinister trade in the body parts of l b knows this is where the food and arms feed of the food is right and shot all the spot rewind revisits a survivor of the mutilated to service the rituals of witchcraft. rewind spell of the albion on al-jazeera. the all the the world.
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the toughest take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera russia has said it can't guarantee the safety of turkish planes flying over syria hours after damascus said it was shutting down airspace over italy these developments came after turkey shot down 2 syrian fighter jets on sunday beat bush has ended his campaign for the democratic presidential nomination the 38 year old maybe announcement in his hometown of south bend indiana thanking his supporters there. a 2nd person has died from corona virus in washington state in the u.s. it comes as government research to say the virus may have been spreading across the state for weeks. at least 5 ethnic or him have been killed including a child in fighting on saturday between government troops and a separatist armed group emir miles record in say the clashes took place in the
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north of the state after members of the outer can army launched an attack on a military convoy the group spokesman blamed government troops for the deaths. well separately al-jazeera cameras of being allowed on a tightly controlled government trip to record northern meum olivea denies carrying out a genocidal campaign against the ranger florence there is a correspondent and she reports now from township in manama. we are heading into restricted territory foreign journalists require commission to visit the northern part of rakhine state this is where myanmar security forces launched a brutal crackdown against the mainly muslim minority in august 2017 soldiers and but a small but were accused of raping killing and setting fire to homes the buddhist
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majority myanmar government said it was responding to attacks and killings by an armed group called the salvation army. at the un's highest court myanmar has denied charges of genocide and has been ordered by the international court of justice to prevent further violence while the case is being heard on this tightly controlled highly choreographed trip to the myanmar government tries to show that all is well here. in village after village. brought to meet journalists in classrooms under the watchful eye of government mind ins on camera that seemed scripted or we have 3 communities here living like a family that's why i don't think we will be affected by conflict off camera they were only slightly less reticent telling us they feared violence could flare again it was impossible to speak to anyone without being overheard by police in another village we were made to see government cash being handed out to. local
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administrators say it's to help the villages rebuilt the damaged homes this mosque still hasn't been repaired more than 2 years after the latest campaign of violence against the daughter and you can say all around that's clear evidence of destruction by fire this place of worship would have served the people of this community who at one point numbers around 5000 people now there are only 200 living here. around to 3 quarters of a 1000000 to bangladesh and remain back. when we do not think repatch aeration is a fallujah because as you know we have 2 reception centers and we have a transition camp we are always ready to receive them we even plan to open kindergartens many rights groups say conditions in myanmar don't guarantee a safe return for the remainder the last attempt to repack 3000 refugees from bangladesh in august failed because through him they refused to return saying they
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feared further attacks if they did the myanmar government wants them to accept alternative identification documents which rights activists say deprives them of their rights. that. alterian motif of myanmar government. their. degrading their citizenship status. so. willing to be degraded. the rohingya have little to return to they face government restrictions on travel employment even family planning many doubt the situation will change any time soon i did on my b.s. the job of leadership is trying to control it instead with a civil in the military leaders are fanning it's you know this kind of populist wave to get electoral support is
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a very disgraceful thing until then the remainder will remain one of the world's most persecuted minorities. all right and go live now to florence who's in young girl now in miramar in florence very few people seem to be convinced by the efforts being made by the government that everything is ok in rakhine state and we get news of more fighting how widespread is that kind of incident that we've just reported in which some people died some ranger died including a child. that's right now this is fighting between the myanmar military and the arakan army this is an ethnic armed group that was that started into that was formed in 2009 and they say they're fighting for the ethnic rakhine the of rakhine are not the minority in myanmar but they're the majority population in rakhine state and they are mainly bridges and they were also accused of being part of bridges mobs that carried out attacks
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against the. in 2017 down the fighting is taking place in mainly township and also in more than the kind where we were and several townships in internet shut down now the latest incidents from what we've heard from the accounts we've heard from the military spokesman as well as from the politicians in rakhine state and working the activists they were going to appear to have been caught in crossfire in the fighting between the our economy and the myanmar military but it still shows that the situation that is very fluid now in the myanmar government has been ordered by the international courts of justice while its case against genocide is being hurt to take measures to prevent further killing off the road but it appears that if such fighting is going on that they are unable to do so and the many of whom we've spoken to say they remain here now and they say that as long as they don't have citizenship and as long as they don't have rights really there's nothing to return to martine ok florence thank you for that
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from. live in yangon in myanmar. now the polls in israel open shortly in the election in the space of a yeah israeli politics remain as fractured as in the previous 2 elections when no policy was able to form a government. report from west jerusalem driving through tel aviv the election campaign is in full swing for the 3rd time within a year in the 2 previous general elections in a temper no party was able to form a government israelis are hoping that will change at this time it's important that they have their young son and i want him to know that we're still fighting for the future of this country. and everybody should have told it is quite frustrating to look. really see. it looks like it's all to be the same because it's our duty as
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a citizen and i hope now it will be different these 2 political leaders again center stage prime minister benjamin netanyahu of the the could party and his biggest rival benny gantz leader of the blue and white party neither managed a majority in last year's elections. so making deals with smaller parties is essential for me government. netanyahu has other problems indicted in 3 separate corruption cases court cases his rivals say make him unfit to be prime minister. and across israel there is a fair that this election will be inconclusive and israel will head to the polls. showing a many are now asking the question whether needs to be political electoral reform there's no doubt that political crisis a political deadlock something that is unprecedented and our electoral system needs
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a significant reform in order to ensure that our election campaigns have a decisive outcome the israelis have had a caretaker government since april and voters hope that this election proves to be decisive imran khan al-jazeera westernised. iraq's prime minister designate has withdrawn his candidacy just a month after his appointment deafening a political crisis that was spotted by months of mass protests demanding a political a the whole mohammed alawi made the announcement online in which he said politicians were obstructing his efforts to form a government his move comes after parliament failed for the 2nd time in a week to approve his cabinet protests also rejected him describing him as part of the same corrupt closs they were rallying against a saying in iraq 2 rockets have hit the green zone in the capital baghdad where the u.s. embassy government offices are located no one was injured in the attack. afghanistan's
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president has cast doubt on a key component of the u.s. taliban peace deal ashraf ghani says the government did not commit to releasing 5000 taliban prisoners and says it can't be a precondition for talks with the group a prisoner swap was part of the agreement signed in qatar on saturday u.s. secretary of state might pompei or has expressed hope that the negotiations between the 2 sides will begin in the coming days you're a guy has sworn in its new president lewis like a pro is set to lead a center right coalition and in the 15 year rule of the leftist broad front party voters are hoping the new conservative government will boost the economy cut crime and realign foreign policy towards the u.s. . donald trump's trip to india last weekend clearly it's a sight seeing at the taj mahal the u.s. president was cheered 510-0000 indians in the world's biggest cricket stadium but
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he didn't meet some of the millions nationwide trying to survive on the streets many of them children tony berkeley reports now from the capital new delhi. it's not as picturesque as the famous taj mahal but this has become one of the images synonymous with india and not one that donald trump was taken to see these people are among the growing numbers of india's homeless aid agencies estimate that 3000000 people are living on the streets throughout the country 200000 of them in the capital delhi there is a world of poverty exploitation and abuse and india has the highest number of street children in the world life is very complex and difficult for them like. particularly for children living in a church situation we have found that many of them have. exposure to. this that will have an impact on them for life. by the time donald trump was 8
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years old he was worth a $1000000.00 most of these children around the same age some don't even own a pair of shoes but they have hopes i want to be a policeman support is better but. i want to be a doctor and buy a house maybe a car that's unlikely to happen without support they and their family survive by begging or working menial jobs. you know what when i think of the future i just want my daughter to grow up for her to be educated and one day that she would have her own home that's all in some respects at least life for children in india is improving infant mortality rates for example have been drastically cut in the last 10 years but in terms of education it's not so good and estimated 18000000 children don't go to school. education is important to ending the cycle of poverty this is a free school set up under a busy delhi fly over by volunteer teachers it's aimed at helping kids of poor
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families. you know people who are not educated are treated like animals by society but with education the learn about their rights and they can use them to benefit their lives. it's a small chance but better than nothing. the sister's home is a shack without water and electricity their parents work menial jobs they see the school as a way to a better world and. i want to be a doctor when i grow up so i can help people i want to help my parents and sisters 300 children attend the school under the bridge most don't know about president donald trump the indian prime minister narendra modi said it is his dream that everyone in india will have a home by 2022 that seems impossible on the streets of new delhi the dreams are more basic the gun is 9 years old she's lived on the streets most of her life and all she wants if she had money she says is to buy food the can that. india has just spent $3000000000.00 on u.s.
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military helicopters it is a nuclear power with an expensive program for space exploration but many here say it is not yet been able to find a way to take care of its poor and helpless tony berkeley al-jazeera delhi. the headlines here. russia has said it can't guarantee the safety of turkish planes flying over syria hours after damascus said it was shutting down airspace over it these developments came after turkey shot down 2 syrian fighter jets on sunday as the fighting continues in syria greece's prime minister has warned refugees not to try to enter europe illegally great police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse hundreds of refugees on its border with turkey the prime minister. says the country won't accept any asylum requests for the next month and is
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appealing to the european union for assistance. big blow to his ended his campaign for the democratic presidential nomination the 38 year old made the announcement in his hometown of south bend indiana thanking his supporters there. so i urge everyone who supported me to continue in the cost of ensuring that we bring change to the white house is working to bring in the absolutely critical down ballot races playing out across the country this is simply too much at stake to retreat to the sidelines at a time like this this is a contest gives way to the season of elections and delegate math it is more important than ever that we need to what this is actually all about politics is not about the horse race not about the debate stage or a precinct counting the spreadsheet this is not real people's lives a 2nd person has died from coronavirus in washington state in the us it comes as
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government researches say the virus may have been spreading across the state undetected for weeks research suggests some people have been infected through community transmission that means hundreds more people could be infected but china's have a province the epicenter of the outbreak reported feeling than $200.00 new infections on sunday that's the smallest increase in cases since january but the total number of deaths across the country has grown to almost 3042 of them in a while the 80000 people in china have been infected in the virus is now spread to 60 countries. right today there's all the latest headlines from us here it out is there rewind is next. we started as a modest man. carry a soldier who never imagined he might one day become president of egypt. he had an ambitious wife and son he became an autograph and was imprisoned for the unlawful
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killing of protesters. the story of the rise and fall of hosni mubarak the family episode $10.00. and welcome to rewind now the film that you're about to see today is just as relevant now as it was when it 1st back in 2011 but al jazeera africa investigates team went undercover in tanzania documents.

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