epic tale of a remarkable film of. the father the sound and the jihad part one on al-jazeera. russia says it cannot guarantee the safety of turkish planes flying over syria's if the province. i'm kinda now this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the leader of a religious sect in south korea apologizes for its role in spreading the coronavirus. israel holds its 3rd election in a year but will it break the country's political deadlock. a gunman holds dozens of hostages in a shopping mall in the philippines. and a closely guarded time for trial al jazeera has been getting rare access inside me

in mass rakhine state. russia has what it cannot guarantee the safety of turkish planes flying over syria moscow backs the damascus government issued the warning after the turkish military shot down 2 syrian fighter jets of its lip about a report from her taiwan turkey's border with syria but yet overthrow turkish and syria fighter jets faced off in an encounter in the skies above aleppo 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 the. 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 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 the dead 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 100 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 thai. samuel ramani is a research of russian affairs at the university of oxford and he joins us now by skype thank you for your time so russia saying it can't guarantee the safety of turkish planes flying over what should we read into that well i don't think this certainly

russia's going to be shooting down turkish planes anytime soon i think they're probably going to honor the remit the church said that they're not going to target russia we're not going to target them i think it's meant to send a message to us that the u.s. after the jews you go yes we shut down yesterday you go in damascus we're frustrated with the fact that the russians and stepped in it was as a stronger way i think it also was a sign of reassurance to the russian defense ministry which limits are going to show you which is the in the ante turkish foreign ministry even south and wanting a stronger military response so this kind of a statement is different and also as you know. that was my ex question how is russia's lack of follow up to the turkish strikes on syrian targets being received in moscow in damascus so it's not months ago i think it's a sign of russia's huge lemme on the one hand as the russians have invested so much in the past 5 years to ensure the sat how are you not relinquish that on the other

hand also knowledge is the importance of turkey turkey after all its a large trade partner for russia in the middle east you just told us $400.00 is vital to our projection the mediterranean and the long run there needs to be conduction to the get really of war mcconville so russia's down thing is alignment with mossad with as you can turn has 2 wars struck and i think in damascus they're recognizing that and assad is increasingly uncertain whether he's going to fight this alone with the russians aboard or whether if turkey yes strikes more facilities bases do initially i complement barney seemed to strengthen him a lot where more and some other areas outside of it and he's going to want a more sort of russian response. we just had confirmation that the turkish president is going to visit russia on thursday to have talks with the president bush and i mean is that going to be a tense meeting or i think that absolutely going to be against meeting regularly

well considering the very last week said that he might even meet with her what as and the context of a trilateral meeting with iran and i think it is a practical acknowledgement that the current state of conflict really does does the yemeni shin wide offensive from turkey into syria unlike the previous 3 events which were all short lived and all confined to the way we border region in the north this the yemenis why this isn't sustainable and sure you don't deserve or economically in stock markets all 10 percent money for ours is currencies as lowest rate. so turkey wants you can probably wants you in some ways regularly does the u.s. general russia want also want to make sure these that thoughts are on track and if that's progress isn't completely overread so don't be surprised if later this week there are some signals more than deescalation you know that doesn't reflect on the ground militarily in need fashion thanks for your analysis there that samuel romani a researcher of russian affairs at the university of oxford thank you the leader of

a religious sect in south korea at the center of the corona virus outbreak has apologized for not stopping the infection from spreading the founder of the controversial sin church is being investigated for allegedly trying to cover up infections the church in the city if they grew has been described as the epicenter of south korea's up break up mcbride reports from seoul that the church is being investigated for potentially hiding infections from authorities. this has been a long awaited event the 1st public statements by the controversial leader of an even more controversial church the man he appearing go to a news conference at one of the church's facilities outside of seoul and throughout the whole statement apologizing profusely for his church's role at the center of this outbreak saying that he it was something that he's very sorry about saying that they are taking now all possible measures to try to sort this out he never

thought that this would happen that they are cooperating completely with the or thorough te's because of course more than half of all of the cases of the coronavirus here in south korea are indeed members of this church now it is regarded by other more mainstream churches here as more like acting like a sect under secretive sect at that with a number of different groups here calling on the orthorexic is calling on prosecutors to investigate the church for possible charges of homicide even though and also hiding the names of its members the church itself says that it is cooperating fully it's provided contact details of all of its members so that the authorities can follow up and health officials can check with them to see if they are carrying the virus as. iranian state media is reporting an advisor to the supreme leader has done it from corona virus iran has the highest death toll from the infection outside of china they must be is with us from tehran by skype same

why is it that we're seeing these members of the political elite infect it. well let me tell you this gentleman's name he was muhammad near mohammad he was in his seventies so his age made him particularly susceptible once he contract did the coronavirus he's a member of the expediency council which is an advisory group of advisors for the supreme leader not to be confused with the much more powerful guardian council which is made up of clerics and legal experts and wield much more authority in the country the expediency council is a group of advisors generally speaking their government officials or technocrats their military officers but the fact that a member of that council has passed away is still a very significant development in the reason we're seeing so many leaders some by some estimates 20 senior leaders including m.p.'s deputies and government spokespeople for important bodies we saw very significantly the deputy health minister himself contract coronavirus showing symptoms while appearing before the

public on eric vice president a prominent vice president a female member of president hassan rouhani as cabinet as well these are serious political players and one of the reasons we might be seeing a far higher number of cases among iran's senior leadership is possibly because they have access to testing kits so the coronavirus is being discovered in larger numbers among the political elite but it may also be because of the recent parliamentary election just a few weeks ago now of ground 0 for where this virus has become a where it became 1st a public health crisis for iran it is a religious seminary city full of religious schools but that means because of the way iraq's government is run it is also a major political heartland for the country so before the elections you saw political elites people running for office people trying to conduct election engineering and electioneering trying to get votes and support they would have

spent a lot of time in a form of speaking to religious and political leaders trying to get support for their own groups for their own parties for their own campaigns so the. that is one of the reasons many people here are saying we're seeing a large number of cases among these political leaders it was built around the election what we're hearing now from the health ministry the latest today in terms of how iran is coping with this the mayor of mush of another important religious city where a shrine to one of the descendants of the prophet is located that city is now on high alert there's been some resistance by leaders of religious places to close down to shut down but we're what we're hearing from the health minister now is that some cities where there are acute cases he hasn't named those citizens yet but some cities are likely to be placed in quarantine if they aren't already in actual quarantine the entrances to those cities are now being blocked the revolutionary guard iran's elite force is running field hospitals now there's a number of field operations being put in place and in the next 2 days we are

expecting to see as many as 300000 medical staff begin the process of going door to door in various cities to test people for the starts save us from tehran thank you israelis are voting at an unprecedented step general election within a year they include bet against something either of the who and what policy he's the main challenger to benjamin netanyahu is hopes of continuing as prime minister he was unable to form a government in the last election in september israelis have had a caretaker government since another inconclusive election last april. this is a celebration today for these really society i hope that everyone with good pulls of course i support myself that respect in the decision of any voter it's about time that we'll be much more united much will be one another in a list of once against the odds that a small piece then we go with. i suspect no one has to use any

kind of violence whether it's my war would have it by deeds it is us all respect democracy yes but these things. amount count as following election developments. the plans have opened in west jerusalem and this particular polling station has had a steady stream of people already now what's going to be crucial in this election is voter turnout if this polling station is anything to go by virtue of turnout might be quite high but will it be enough for a decisive election result that's really the key now there are 2 key players here there's the blue and white party led by benny gantz and there's the incumbent prime minister's party could led by benjamin netanyahu neither of them seem to have a majority and that's why we're in this 3rd election within a year or so it's all about coalition building both parties have to try and get other parties to try and support them in order to be able to get that majority of

$61.00 seats in the knesset the israeli parliament's now also what we're hearing from a lot of analysts is that perhaps this particular campaign was flawed on both sides they say that the party was actually far too confident in its electioneering and almost played it like it had the election in the bag already and the benny gantz campaign the blue white campaign was perhaps a little lackadaisical that it wasn't really getting out the vote getting its supporters to come out and vote all of that now is remains to be seen how much of an impact it has now the polls close at 10 pm local time after that they'll be exhibit polls and we're expecting final results to come in in the very early hours of tuesday morning. still ahead on al-jazeera more turmoil for iraqi politics why the prime minister designate his pull downs. also bowing out an early frontrunner and says they had to go up against donald trump for the u.s.

president. hello and welcome back we begin this time in southeastern parts of asia we're still seeing lots of showers across the island of java and so for jakarta still looking pretty wet at the moment though not as bad as it has been obviously as we look at the forecast lots of share activity across borneo i don't think anywhere is going to avoid some really big storms during the course of tuesday and certainly for western parts of java the still the risk of further storms further towards the west where the conditions down through them in a plain church area not looking too bad for singapore it should be a fine day there temperatures of 34 degrees moving that forecast on by another 24 hours it really doesn't show any great difference so certainly wet for much of borneo pitching looks as old sees lots of heavy downpours moving into australasia

things looking quite interesting here we've got the circulation associated with the remnants of ester still going to run for quite some time we also see some very heavy rain across the western side to the south on new zealand during the course of choose day but as this system begins to move further towards the south and east we're going to see further heavy rain in many areas working its way into northeastern parts of south australia and eventually working its way down to new south wales and certain across this area will be some heavy rain anyway sydney looking at showers and highs of 25. from fossil fuels to modern day renewables as societies develop the energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such demands as a global power development of investment company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against these demands we provide business growth promote

social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and environmentally sound energy solutions for future generations the breastpin pioneering future energy. form. you're watching al-jazeera our mind our of our top stories this hour russia's warning it cannot guarantee the safety of turkish planes flying over syria hours after damascus said it was shutting down aspects of it let the developments follow turkey shooting down 2 syrian fighter jets on sunday. the leader of a religious sect in south korea has apologized for not stopping the spread of coronavirus members of the controversial us and should church world thanks to

a mass outbreak of action. people in israel are voting in an unprecedented 3rd general election in less than a year polls have opened with voters hoping they can end political turmoil both previous elections were inconclusive. police in the philippines are trying to persuade a gunman to end his siege at a shopping mall about 30 people are being held hostage in the capital manila one person has been shot and injured just there is bound to be lovers outside the shopping center and says police believe they are making progress with the hostage taker. right now an estimated 30 people are being held hostage by what you mentioned a disgruntled former employee of the mall a former security guard can't leave this security guard was removed from his job not long ago and he encouraged his colleagues his former colleagues to join him in sort of

a mutiny against his former employers but none of them joined him so he decided today he would come to the mall and he would open fire and so this has been going on for about 5 hours now and as you mentioned when he entered the mall he opened fire and he shot at a man this man is alive he is right now in a hospital he is in stable condition now the mayor of san juan city which is where this mall is located he has appealed for calm he has appealed to media not to release live pictures so as not to compromise the negotiations he said that the hostage taker is now pretty calm and in fact he has asked for food and water and so they have seen this in the window of opportunity to appeal to the rational thinking of this hostage taker but he said that they will not release any more information

until they get progress on the negotiation with the hostage taker al jazeera cameras have been allowed on a tightly controlled government organized visit to northern me and ma but the army denies a genocidal campaign against the hanging 3 quarters of a 1000000 of the mainly muslim minority were forced to escape into neighboring bangladesh 2 and a half years ago phone so i reports from dog pound ship in the northern states for kind. 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 boats were accused of raping killing and setting fire to rohingya homes the buddhist 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 the myanmar government tries to show that all is well here 8 in village after village brought to meet journalists in classrooms under the watchful eye of government mind is on camera that seemed scripted or we have 3 communities here living like a family i don't think we will be affected by completely 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 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 see all around the 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 remained there. when we do not think every patch 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 repair 3000 refugees from bangladesh in august failed because through him they refused to return saying they 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 ron young that. ulterior motive of myanmar government. what they are doing they are forcibly degrading their citizenship status. so. willing to be. the rohingya have little to return to they face government restrictions on travel employment even family planning many doubt the situation will change anytime soon i've done my b.s. the job of leadership is trying to control it instead while the civil in the military leaders are fanning it's you know this kind of populist wave to get electoral support is a very disgraceful thing until then the remainder will remain one of the world's most persecuted minorities florence louis al-jazeera mom taught how chip rakhine

state myanmar. iraq's prime minister designate has withdrawn his candidacy a month off to his appointment deepening a political crisis set off by months of mass protests mohamed a law he says politicians were obstructing his efforts to form a government only a parliament failed to approve his cabinet for the 2nd time in a week how well to be couldn't the thought of. i tried by all possible means to save iraq from drifting to the unknown and to solve the current crisis but during negotiations i faced many officer goals that are irrelevant to the issue of the homeland and its interests i swear to god i didn't surrender and i didn't put my own interests above the country regrettably some parties were negotiating for their interests without paying heed to national issues some out of whole team explains the details of their rocky political system from back to. what allow we had set out to do was to form an independent and technocratic cabinet that would be able to

address some of the protesters demands and to try to pass some of the reforms that are seen as necessary to put an end to this crisis but such a cabinet would really go against the way iraq's political system has functioned for the past 17 years and that system is one that is largely beholden to the political parties it's a system that is referred to here as more hostile so in arabic or apportionment and the way it works is that the ministerial positions are divided up between the major political parties between the shia the sunni is and the kurds and there are some unwritten rules about how that should happen so for example the kurds tends to get the finance ministry the sunnis get together tend to get the defense ministry and the shia for example get to have control over the ministry of interior and that control over these ministries is seen as a way for these political parties to wield their power and also to get access to resources and what allow you try to do is appoint candidates who aren't from these

political parties who aren't beholden to their interests and that's something that was not accepted across the entire political spectrum we had the kurds and the sunnis who are very early on rejected that idea because these are already minorities and for them having those cabinet positions is seen as a way to try to hang on to whatever political power to have here in baghdad but also fail to get the support from the shia political parties we saw in the past to parliamentary sessions that there was no quorum that was reached and that was what eventually forced him to withdraw his candidacy. peeper judge has ended his bid to become u.s. president he told his democratic party supporters in indiana he no longer store a chance of winning the former small town mayor was the 1st openly gay presidential candidate he defeated bernie sanders in the iowa caucuses and finished 2nd in new hampshire but struggled to attract minority forces. in this race for

a reason we got into this race in order to defeat the current president early 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 your guy has sworn in its new president and the way the cards are posed center right coalition ends the 15 year reign of the leftist broad front party voters hope the incoming government will boost the economy cut crime and realign foreign policy toward the u.s. that is a ball has more from the capital montevideo. it's the beginning of a new era a new era why. ascend to ride with people was sworn in as president on sunday herald. 15 years the center left school this small south american nation turning it

into the most progressive in the region by legalizing marijuana abortion and same sex marriage but the new president says it's time for change you don't realize you are me and all humans are the citizens gave a strong message to me the people spoke that it is necessary to change but a change with consensus that's now time to fulfill people's will look dress and that his inauguration where right wing leaders from the region like brazil. and she listen. venezuelans who came to your why because of the crises we're policed president was not invited. noko don't get anywhere i don't care he is a dictator and i hope he can help put pressure on him about what is happening in the country. but it still must take issues like as the poll is said to focus on 1st including crime and the economy. yellow since you want him to address insecurity that has become a major problem will also education and to generate well paid jobs that's what.

he's 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 to really look. 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 open up this country to new buckets. full says he wants to continue the policies that

worked and change those that did not he stastny will be to mentone in the stability of the country has enjoyed for the past 15 years. that is how will i just see them on the radio. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories russia has want to it cannot guarantee the safety of turkish planes flying over syria to damascus said it was shutting down airspace over the developments follow turkey shooting down 2 syrian fighter jets on sunday. one child has died after a boat loaded with migrants capsized off the greek island of vessels $47.00 migrants were rescued thousands of refugees have been attempting to cross into europe but i'm going to say it would no longer enforce its border greek security forces say that prevented 10000 people from entering. the leader of israel's blue

and white party has cast his ballot in the general election and again says the main challenger to benjamin netanyahu is hopes of continuing as prime minister he was unable to form a government in september it's the 3rd vote in less than a year the leader of a religious sect in south korea has apologized for not stopping the spread of coronavirus members of the controversial sin shuji church with links to a mass outbreak of infections the church's founder is being investigated for not cooperating with health authorities. a key advisor to iran's supreme leader has died from corona virus the same describe the reports from tehran the dozens of top government officials have confirmed the infection is possibly because they have access to testing kits so the corona virus is being discovered in large numbers among the political elite but it may also be because of the recent parliamentary election just a few weeks ago now ground 0 through where this virus has become uk where it

became 1st a public health crisis for iran it is a religious seminary city full of religious schools but that means because of the way it runs government is run it is also a major political heartland police in the philippines are trying to persuade a gunman to end his siege at a shopping mall about 30 people are being held hostage in the capital manila one person has been shot an inch it. people to judge has ended his campaign for the u.s. democratic presidential nomination ahead of super tuesday he defeated bernie sanders in the iowa caucuses and finished a strong 2nd in new hampshire but struggled to attract minority votes. those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after witness india's forbidden love stay with us the u.s. president's proposed plan for the middle east from us is less territory to palestine than any other peace plan since 1988 wars of the afterbirth wars i was there have a lot because of this when the video was by us of united states to walk this road

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