diverse range of stories from across the globe from the perspective of our networks journalists on al-jazeera. moscow issues a warning to ankara after the turkish army shot down 2 syrian fighter jets over it live. there live from doha i'm not in dennis also coming out. tear gas and tension on the turkey greece border as hundreds of migrants attempt to cross into europe. pulls out of the democratic presidential race after a pause showing in south carolina. coronavirus kills a 2nd person in the usa of washington researches warn it may have been circulating undetected for weeks.

now russia says it can't guarantee the safety of turkish planes flying over syria moscow which backs the damascus government issued the warning after the turkish military shot down 2 syrian fighter jets over there are reports now from hot tie on the turkey syria border. but yet over joe turkish and syria fighter jets faced off in an encounter in the skies above. that and that with 2 syrian warplanes. the confrontation marked in u.s. collation in the conflict between turkey and syria. turkey's defense minister warns that turkish troops will retaliate against it if that. 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 of civilians. turkey has stepped up its military campaign in italy province in response to the deaths of 34 soldiers in strikes on thursday a. funeral processions in turkey for that that soldiers have turned into rallies calling for revenge in rebel held it live people took to the streets showing support for turkey's bitter campaign in northwestern syria in recent fighting in southern it province 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 into a $1017.00 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 hung on operation spring shield is turkey's for cross border campaign in northern syria and there are fears this could turn into a wider confrontation but there are also hopes that russia and turkey will eventually 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 who try to enter his country will be turned back thousands of migrants and refugees are trying to cross from turkey after ankara said it would no longer inforce its border the trasher the name

reports now from a d.n.a. in turkey close to the border with greece. desperate to make it into europe people climb down a steep bank of concrete and weeded into a cold river. they huddled over fires and burrowed into sleeping bags while waiting to board a smuggler's boat in the woods. but refugee hopes of abandoning lives of stagnation collided with reality turkey may have opened the border for them to leave but european countries are allowing them in this is that is the point community of the human eye to hear like thousands of people abdullah had shivered through 2 nights as the temperature dipped below freezing he spent most of his money to get here only to be tear gassed by greek police pushing him and other refugees back from the border my feeling is not good here i hope i come here for a hope maybe they will open the door checker to lee and his father created that

door by cutting a fence and running into greece an hour later they were arrested jailed and then deported he says the police confiscated their money mobiles vital documents even their shoe laces. and the good people they are playing with the few jews who have lost the thing they don't have to give anything but developing i don't know what kind of democracy they are doing with. 8 year old found us at the a during a bus station she wanted to tell us that she's cold hungry and that greek should open their border. put 3 days have been telling my father to buy some food but we've run out of money because we've used all our money on transportation to get to the border the government says it has modified its policy all refugees and migrants

are free to leave turkey instead it's shifting its focus on allocating resources limited resources it says to a possible influx of syrian refugees from lib an influx the government says it is ill equipped to handle. for some refugees the hope of a better beginning was quickly crushed those who still had money negotiated with taxi drivers to take them back to the homes and lives they've created in turkey natasha going to name. it near the border with greece. the film a small town mayor who became a leading figure in the democratic presidential race has ended his campaign paid bush a judge told supporters that he no longer saw a chance of winning the 1st openly gay candidate marylee defeated by the sound is in the iowa caucuses and finished a strong 2nd in new hampshire but he struggled in states with large minority populations. yet in this race reason we got into this race in

order to defeat the current president and in order to usher in a new kind of politics and so we must recognize that at this point in the race the best way to keep faith with those goals and ideals is to step aside and help bring our party and our country together so tonight i am making the difficult decision to suspend my campaign for the president out of fissures that corresponded with will now from austin texas. 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 started nevada 4th in south 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 that made people want to vote for him nothing

immediately stood out so it was 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 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 could. be speaking sport at the democratic convention when it comes to crowning the nominee. of china

a profit center of the corona virus outbreak reported fewer than $200.00 new infections on sunday that's the smallest increase in cases since january that the total number of deaths across the country is going to almost 3042 of them in the well than 800000 people in china have been infected and a virus is now spread to 16 countries. and a 2nd person has died from the virus in washington state on the west coast of the us it comes as government researches say the virus may have been spreading across the state undetected for weeks research suggests some people may have been infected through community transmission and that means that hundreds more people could be infected more than 60 people have been diagnosed across the country including new cases in illinois rhode island and new york. and us vice president my parents he's been put in charge of the epidemic he 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 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'd been evacuated from a cruise ship in japan but the health and human services department says none of the staff we've had contact with the evacuees are infected about 300 u.s.

citizens onboard the diamond princess were flown home 2 weeks ago nearly 700 cases were confirmed on the ship making it one of the largest clusters of infections outside china our correspondent roslyn jordan has more now from washington d.c. on the government's reaction to the outbreak. in washington state a 2nd person has died after contracting the corona virus washington state officials say the man was in his seventy's and had preexisting health conditions they have not identified the man also in the last half hour we have heard from officials in new york state saying that a woman in her mid thirty's is now under quarantine in manhattan after she contracted the koran a virus she recently had visited iran and we're not sure when exactly when she came back to the united states but it was before the trumpet ministration issued an order on saturday essentially a bar in people who had visited iran except for u.s.

persons from coming into the united states the statement from the governor andrew cuomo indicates that she had been diagnosed because of a lab that have been established in the state capitol albany where she was able to very quickly diagnose and confirm that she has indeed contracted the virus the vice president mike pence as well as the secretary of the department of health and human services alex is are were on the sunday public affairs shows trying to underscore that the trumpet ministration is trying to get a proper whole of government response to the corona virus outbreak you heard there on the vice president saying that there will be more cases but there is a real concern in the country that the administration perhaps has not reacted quickly enough that it's blasts its recent efforts to cut funding from the centers

for disease control which is the agency responsible for dealing with infectious disease outbreaks in this country cutting staff cutting funding has made it harder for the federal government to respond to this crisis but they are insisting that they are trying to do the best that they can and that people. should not panic. france has shot one of its most popular tourist attractions amid fears of the outbreak the louvre in paris home to the mona lisa closes doors to thousands of visitors solve voted to close on sunday because of concern about infection the country has more than 100 confirmed cases and recently banned gatherings of more than 5000 people and iran has reported another surge in coronavirus cases and nearly a dozen more deaths it now has the highest number of deaths from the infection outside mainland china the government said knowledge 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 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. years our correspondent in the iranian capital and he gave us more on the impact the outbreak is having on life there. stores shops cafes restaurants all around the city wherever you go you can see signs posted on windows of closed closed businesses saying that they are closed indefinitely due to the coronavirus and those few restaurants that do remain open some businesses have to remain open the on the tables and all of these restaurants you'll find a bottle of hand sanitizer sitting right next to ketchup bottles so that's really when i say new normal that's sort of how it's playing out in everyone's daily lives

this is a city of around 10 to 15000000 people 20000000 by some estimates and really the traffic on the streets has almost completely died down you don't see the same level of people movement that you would on any sort of work sort of normal business day a lot of people who aren't out and about you know the streets are empty schools are closed businesses are closed many people are communicating how they're experiencing this virus on social media you see people posting videos of medics burying those that have died instead of family members to avoid any further risk of contracting the disease the hospital workers are trying to keep their spirits up by dancing but they do take it seriously they're also talking about how short staffed and short handed they are in terms of supplies to deal with this and people are also sharing clips of people collapsing on the street unable to breathe the young and the elderly the most likely to succumb to these problems but it has to be said the

coronavirus is also exacerbated by the fact that we're seeing more and more pollution that iran is one of the most polluted kind of cities in the world 'd and that is certainly having an effect on people susceptible to the disease we've got lots more to come here it out is there in creating a new president takes office in uruguay promising a change of direction up to 15 if ever left your throne. and want to be 3rd time lucky will israel 3rd election in a year break the political deadlock. hello there few more scottish like you cross turkey as well for the next 24 hours that way the bulk of that rain is on its way towards the east so that means pushing through northern iraq and on into the north and the west of iran of course because he's in snow flurries here as well. of that system as it works its way across the

caspian sea just 8 celsius in tire and 21 in baghdad and then heading further to the south across the korean peninsula tom it is not too bad but sunny by cheese day the winds picking up again so it'll bring just take the top off these temperatures so $24.00 in doha 40 feet in cooler than that and 30 celsius across in dubai and the warm day in riyadh 32 degrees how much is not quite that warm down into southern africa we've got to 28 here in capetown a bit of an onshore flow but could you see want to show that certainly again for the next couple days and fady widespread thunderstorms really throughout much of the south africa 23 in johannesburg with the chance of those showers and then we've got some fairly extensive rains particular across into balls want to as we go through choose in fact those rains really pushing right they were into southern areas of kenya and again we could have some heavy amounts of rain some strong thunderstorms at times madagascar for the next couple of days more rain some of that heavy particularly through the interior and warming up in capetown once that cloud moves away with the high for those who will.

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all right it's obvious take a look at the top stories here about 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. people has ended his campaign for a campaign for the democratic presidential nomination the 38 year old made the announcement in his hometown of south bend indiana thanking his supporters. a 2nd person has died from corona virus in washington state in the u.s. and comes as government researches say the virus may have been spreading undetected across the state for weeks. a year ago i was sworn in a new president luis a poet is set to lead a center right coalition ending the 15 year rule of the leftist broad front party voters hope the new conservative government will boost the economy crime and

realign foreign policy towards the us today as a bird has more now from the capital montevideo. it's the beginning of a new era a new. center ride with paul was sworn in as president on sunday mail thing with the law full 15 years the center left rule this small south american nation turning it into the most progressive in the region by legalizing marijuana abortion and same sex marriage for the new president says it's time for change or any and all humans are the citizens gave a strong message to me the people spoke build is necessary to change but a change with consensus that's now time to fulfill people's will look dress and at his inauguration where right wing leaders from the region like brazil's j. rolls on out on. and she listen. venus williams who came to you why because of the

crises we're policed president was not invited though to get anywhere i go there he is a dictator and i hope he can help put pressure on him but what is happening in the country. but it's domestic issues like as your poll is said to focus on 1st including crime and the economy. since you want him to address insecurity that has become a major problem and also education and to generate well paid jobs that's what. is a lawyer and spent many years in congress before making it to the presidency. comes from a political family his great grandfather was a major political figure in this country his father is a former president he made it to office by creating a coalition of 5 center right parties that give him a majority in both chambres of congress. that's why it won't be difficult for him to carry out the reforms he wants he's planning to send an omnibus bill to address

what he says are the country's biggest problems like the fiscal deficit unemployment and insecurity in the river live below my symbol of the he wants to reduce the deficit by relevant reduction of public spending he says he wants to reduce the deficit without touching important social policies he may want to reduce tax employees and open up this country to new buckets. of paul says he wants to continue the policies that worked and change those that did not he stastny will be 2 men tain the stability of the country has enjoyed for the past 15 years. that is how will see them on the radio. and the polls in israel open in a short while in the 3rd general election that in a year israeli politics remain as fractured as in the previous 2 elections when no policy was able to form a government and the polls from west jerusalem driving through tell of the election

campaign is in full swing for the 3rd time within a year in the 2 previous general elections in a. new 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's quite frustrating. to look. really see. it looks like the soldiers say because it's our duty as 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 man he's the 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 there were strewn across israel there is a fair that this election will be inconclusive and israel will head to the polls for a boy a many are now asking the question whether needs to be political electoral reform there's no doubt that we're in a political crisis a political deadlock something that is unprecedented and our electoral system needs 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 imraan khan al-jazeera was trusted iraq's prime minister designate has withdrawn his candidacy a month after his appointment deepening a political crisis by months of mass protests demanding

a political overhaul made the announcement online in which he said politicians were obstructing his efforts to form a government is move comes hours after parliament failed for the 2nd time in a week to appoint his cabinet protests is also rejected him describing him as part of the same corrupt system that they're running against. one person was killed 24 others were wounded in protests in baghdad denouncing mohammed ali security forces pellets and tear gas at the demonstrators more than 500 people have been killed in anti-government protests in iraq since. the director of the center of his study of the middle east at indiana university he's also a former iraqi ambassador to the u.n. he says the next person chosen to lead must change their approach or face the same fate. single most important thing for up for for whomever the president

designates next is the ability to obtain the confidence of parliament going to an outsider. is always a difficult task because the outsider has no base of votes in parliament to begin with so that will continue to be a problem in my view the next government should be tasked by the president to accomplish essentially one task and that is to oversee the production of a full set of laws having to do with early elections just such a date for early elections this calendar year and to get the country to early elections in the hope that the electorate will. break the gordian knot of the impasse we're in now if it does what allow we tried to do which is to form a comprehensive sort of set of agendas which look like

a matter of taking years to fulfill the next prime minister will have the same problem the next prime minister designate will have the same problem. afghanistan's president has carved out on a key component of the u.s. television peace deal after afghani says the government didn't commit to releasing $5000.00 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 cata on saturday the us secretary of state might prompt her expressed hope that negotiations between the afghan government and the taliban will begin in the coming days. doctors in the democratic republic of congo are hoping to declare a country ebola free in a few months from now but efforts to respond to the disease have been hampered by rebel attacks the last few cases are being treated in the eastern region of benny from where katherine sawyer now reports. baby is 4 months old just

born at an ebola treatment center. when you fast met her in november she was in an incubus how mother had just died of the disease her father had run away doctors told us now is a medical mystery whom they are continuing to study because harm other than strength meet the virus to. the mother got sick in the mining area of get cut to relatives brought her to the treatment center but when she died no one wanted her father has not been seen to date so my husband and i took her because she's family . 7 in another town called monkey now where the 1st cases were reported in 20 health responders celebrate with come by. he's just been discharged from hospital having been admitted this month suffering from. when i was told i had a ball and i panicked but the doctor me i started treatment now i feel calm i'm

happy. i was cured because i thought all day but he survived. doctors say monday night is now a ball of free at the height of the crisis hundreds are contracting the disease every week in the town nationwide for the last 2 years more than 2000 congolese have died of the disease which has affected 3 and a half 1000 it is not the end yet because. this is not in this is. that me and we still have a rift in the community is but that doesn't. discovery of the state visit. almost all of this month's cases have been reported here in the city. no region besieged by allied democratic forces or a.t.f. rebels health workers have also been targeted by another on my life up to 11 a baller responded i've been killed. and hundreds of treatment centers attack the

outbreak started. despite the security challenges health administrators hope to declare the country a bona free in a few months doctors fighting the disease see their means to achieve that catherine saw al-jazeera beni in the democratic republic of congo. tougher to take a look at the top stories here of 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 that's 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. says the country won't accept any asylum requests for the next month and he's appealing to the european union for help. 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. right reason we got into this race in order to defeat the current president and in order to usher in a new kind of politics we must recognize that this point in the race the best way to keep faith with those goals and ideals is to step aside and help bring our party and our country together so tonight i making the difficult decision to suspend my campaign for the president a 2nd person has died from corona virus in washington state in the us it comes as government researchers say the virus may have been spreading undetected across the

state for weeks research suggests some people have been infected through community transmission that means hundreds more could be infected more than 60 people have been diagnosed across the u.s. new cases include in annoyed rhode island and new york and in china's hu bay province the epicenter of the virus it reported fewer than 200 new infections on sunday the smallest increase in cases since january more than 80000 in china have been infected in the virus is now spread to 60 countries right up to date those are the latest headlines from us here at al-jazeera coming up next is the listening post. on counting the cost coronavirus could the economic impact be on a par with the 2008 financial crisis as the factory the world is crippled by the virus cambodia faces up to the prospect of job losses tina begins its talks to avoid a debt default. counting the cost on al-jazeera. which

is in our minds you know what this. was shot by. us on. call julie massages with lots of great great victory. and an enemy of the state to our hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post among the media stories that we're covering this week maximum security state the case against julian assange and by implication modern day journalists in new delhi rioters attack reporters 1st and ask questions later questions like are you hindu or muslim journalism from behind bars in prisons across the united states inmates are reporting on a hidden world and saudi arabia finds another form of expression it cannot tolerate it.