storytelling around the biggest issues we have to do you should do it to get. the on the air. al-jazeera. fully back to go this is the news hour live from marc noble headquarters in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes turkey warns of more attacks against syrian government forces if they don't reverse their advances in it but syria says it will confront turkish aggression. achiles droughns off the greek island of last fall's after a refugee boats crossing from turkey capsizes oversold this hour hoping to end a political stalemate israelis fold in a pot of entry election for the 3rd time in less than

a year. european union raises its coronavirus risk as the number of new desk and infections around the world grows. coronavirus continues to disrupt the global sport asian football bosses hold an emergency meeting and it's a known step the opening to races of the motor g.p. season has been called off in qatar and thailand. thank you very much for joining us turkey is vowing to keep up its attacks on syrian government forces trying to battle their way into it live unless they hold their vans but president says he's hopeful they can be soon a ceasefire turkey has stepped up its military operations just over the syrian border. after more than 30 of its troops were killed in an attack there last week

earlier one is you to meet his washing counterpart vladimir putin in moscow on thursday where he hopes a deal can be arranged to halt the fighting grew so. here's our system to allow it to call on russia and iran one more time we do not have any problem with you in syria but of the syrian government forces do not withdraw turkey has determined as soon as possible they will not have a heat lift on their shoulders. as speak to. force us on the turkish syrian border or one is defiant but east elt seems willing to negotiate with syria's ally russia. indeed folly he laid out the. fundamentals of what could be a agreement with russia and his stand that the prerequisites for turkey are for the

syrian army to put out behind the demilitarized zone to leave the villagers took over over the last few months and to allow civilians to return back to their homes so that all those who are stranded on the border with turkey can go back to their villages if that does not happen this turkish mitchell will step up its military campaign which is already happening with the turkish military pounding government positions in different parts of italy province and particularly today in south africa which has become the focal point of the confrontation between the of bubbles backed by turkey on one hand and the syrian government backed by the by the russians now there's going to be a chance for diplomacy on the almost the 5th when the president has a daughter and meets with russian counterparts poti with the be able to set aside their differences it was made to be seen because russia insists the attack by the

government is legitimate against gov rebel positions because they say we're not fighting against civilians were fighting against a attack to the sham which russia and syria describe as a terrorist organization and i think if the can overcome those differences we might see a deal in the coming days a deal for hedley possibly as you say there's intense fighting there right now what's happening elsewhere on the ground in syria. it seems that both parties before the meeting on of the 5th of march are trying to make gains on the ground and this explains why the syrian government backed by russia has launched an offensive earlier in the morning to take over iraq is crucial because it sits all the 2 highways $5.00 and $4.00 which links damascus to aleppo to aleppo and the northwestern part of the country but the rebels backed by turkey are still holding ground in the center of the city but we've been told by our sources now

that there's an intensive 5 strikes by the rushes to the rear by the syrian army pounding rebel defense lines of the very heart of it says that they want to claim a back and show the syrian people that they have managed to make some gains and for the rebels it's crucial also the wall to hold ground to show the world that they are still capable as a force backed by turkey to reverse all the gays bait by the syrian government thank you for that update hashem have our live for us in had need a techie syria border now to take its military has been using weaponized drones with devastating effects against syrian government forces the by iraq totty be tactical unmanned aircraft system is built by a turkish joint venture and has become a symbol of national pride as been exported abroad and has flown missions in libya the drones have a 12 need to wingspan and can fly to

a maximum altitude of iran 7000 meters it carries enough fuel to fly for on 24 hours and as well as flying reconnaissance and intelligence missions it can also be armed with missiles including untie tank weapons asat ashraf is a former engineer officer with the royal air force he says many states rely on these storms. certainly drones are being used now in every conflict by almost every sunday. for example has been using many years. states use them and they are in many ways as you say a game changer in that they define a conventional or doctrines of air power than talk in terms of their supremacy superiority and so when these things work in a domain which is in near or below the threshold of conventional and how many

states have the ability to reduce themselves but it's quicker and easier in some cases to work in collaboration with those us states that already have that technology it saves a lot of time and effort to buy from fellow states and then. combine it with your. local skills to assemble a drone that fulfills the needs or will be particular that the state's military. a child has died after a boat loaded with migrants capsized off the greek island of les pauls 47 other migrants trying to reach it from turkey were rescued thousands of refugees have been attempting to cross into europe after turkey said it will no longer enforce its border president said on monday that your must share the burden of caring for my friends and speak to john psaropoulos who is on less of a silence forest i joined us bring us up to speed for us with the numbers just how many people have been arriving on greek shores in recent days and what what's been

the reaction there. in the 24 hour period from sunday morning until this morning there was quite a high number of arrivals just under a 1000 people simply across the city just across the used to g. and separate from the people that crossed over the land border although that number was much smaller it was in the dozens today we've seen much smaller numbers so far here unless it was only 2 boats of arrived most of the people who came still here on the beach behind me you can see them they've collected brambles and dead wood from behind the beach preparing to bed down for the night here using united nations blankets that they are slowly beginning to light their fires earlier on they were fed by also receives here but they're not being taken down to the morea camp the refugee camp on the island because that has been blockaded by island is

who don't want also refused to process more people search and to put more people in it but also because the government has suspended asylum applications as you said before fully right and and so you've been speaking to some of these refugees and migrants over been arriving in the past few days what are they telling you about you know they conditions what they left and what sort of other help are they getting when they arrive in greece. well the normal humanitarian assistance is still in place which is the blankets the food some medical assistance where necessary obviously in cases of emergency people are taken to the local hospital. there are n.g.o.s that are still operating on the islands they're still looking after the people who are staying in moria but these new arrivals of a strange new case they are somewhat in hiatus their status isn't yet determined

it's my understanding that the government doesn't intend to document and process them the way it has been doing up until now that these people are going to be caught up in this new emergency measures regime in which they will not be allowed to apply for asylum and in some cases won't be documented either thank you for that john psaropoulos live for us on the greek island of less posts plenty more ahead on this news hour including feeling the strain we'll look at how the corona virus outbreak has put the global economy in survival mode was dated back and your football team makes it and molest a beaut peter will be here to tell our stolid they got a. price israelis are voting in their 3rd general election in 11 months people hope this

will bring an end to months of political turmoil that had a caretaker government since the 1st inconclusive election last april prime minister benjamin netanyahu has failed twice to form a coalition government in september the blue and white party's leader benny gantz was asked to form a government and also face it. go vote it's a proud day this is a democracy you have a great right that you should exercise with confidence the corona thing is completely under control today we've taken all the precautions that are necessary people can go and vote with complete confidence this is a celebration of difficulties for the society i hope to take if you want to go and vote of course i support myself that respect and the decision of any voter it's about time that we'll be much more united much will be one and not they're going to listen to one state against the idea that a small piece did we go where the. i stick no one to. use any

kind of violence whether it's my walls would reply deeds get us all respect democracy gets back to the state. well we have 2 correspondents covering this election for us harry fossett is in the headquarters of 20 minutes now in iran khan is at the n.y.p.d. cam with benny gantz supporters and will go 1st to have very at the likud headquarters what's the mood like in the nets now can carry this time around and one of the expectations. well i think there are a few things that are different we're used to this process now this is the 3rd time of asking for israeli voters to try to select some kind of coalition which might be able to be forms to form a government we're used to seeing on this day in the day before benjamin netanyahu running around the country giving all sorts of messages via facebook twitter social

media of all kinds warning his voters that he's on the cusp of losing and trying to get them to the polls trying to scare them to the polls in effect this time around it's a very different kind of message a much more confident sounding as in you know saying he's just one seat and he's really parliament the knesset away from having that magic number 61 seats which would allow him his new could party along with their prospective coalition partners to form a government and so that is the message that he's giving is voters to try to influence turnout and turnout does seem to be up as of 2 pm which is 3 hours ago local time so now it was at 31.8 percent that is up on the most recent elections it's the highest since 2013 and as he said in that sound bite coronavirus shouldn't scare voters he was saying it doesn't seem to be indeed there have been 16 separate special voting stations with tents and special procedures for the voters to come

who have been quarantined and as of $430.00 this afternoon off an hour ago more than 3 and a half 1000 voters with those quarantine restrictions. had made votes those voting stations are going to be extended in their opening hours because the process is pretty slow so it's election the world under coronavirus conditions yeah we'll see what happens in a few hours thank you for that howie fawcett my forest's at the likud party headquarters that's not check in with iran khan who's at the blue and white party headquarters of benny gantz so how confident are they there in the blue and white camp that they can get the support they need to build a successful coalition. well i think you can say that they quietly confident what we're being told by people within the party itself is that they feel they're in a very good position not to get the 61 seats they need for an outright majority

government but a very quietly confident that they'll get one more seat than the select the 2nd largest party which puts them into the position of making a minority government that seems to be what they're going for they've done the math they say they can get enough votes enough these knesset members to come into that coalition and get them into power however there's still a very long road to go this campaign is actually been criticized by many analysts being quietly confident botley perhaps slightly too quiet and that they didn't try to push people to come and get out the vote come and vote for. leaders now behind me you can see them as greens there those screens are going to be key because that's where the exit polls will be shown around about 10 pm local time depending on how those exit polls go it's either going to be a very large bush was a crowd or a very large subdued crowd like i say the bloom what party seem to be quietly confident that they might be able to form

a minority government but they're not talking about the majority government as they were before all right in iran thank you very much for that imraan khan live from tel aviv then let's get the view now of our senior political analyst marlon bashar who joins us on the news hour so israel is going to the polls for the 3rd time in less than a year is there anything different tazz anything changed since the last election besides a corner virus outbreak of us. actually the core of our is quite important it seems and in depends what goes on today in the polling stations i think what's new is the fact that we already had those election before and i think people are getting tired and people do want a result the question is who do they blame for the impasse each party will of course will will blame the other but clearly at the center of all of this at the center stage is binyamin at the neo because the end of the day that the main problem is not only the set of 4 terms but he is indicted on major corruption charges and even if he does do well today in few days we're going to see him in the

courtroom and the israeli law is still out the jury is still out on the question whether he could actually form other government not right for all practical purpose the 2 major parties could form a national government if only if only nothing else steps aside but he wouldn't and that's why this election is more or less a refund on been a minute and a referendum on it's now since the last election of course as you said there's been the indictment corruption indictment but there's also been a tramp maybe space plan could that give him a leg up even though they both of course say they support this plan it was a big moment for netanyahu when that plan was unveiled that's a good point but i think you sort of answered the question by saying that they both accepted it and i think that's very interesting because netanyahu is basically the godfather of the plan basically i would say it was the plan and put his signature on it and from announced it. but the fact that the americans invited both israeli

leaders and the fact the big guns embraced it and i think it's it's a joke of a pen but be that as it may for israelis the nuance that been again scooter brought to the table saying look let's be pragmatic about the occupation because we cannot be occupiers and have security on the long term he did not even graced the thrum plan i think he was intimidated into embracing the implant and hence the difference between him and at the near hope practically speaking is gone right but netanyahu sorry. went as far as saying after this plan was announced that he would onyx jewish settlements in the occupied west bank part of the jordan valley which gantz didn't do will that be the difference there were actually guns even before the plan has already said that he will be annexing parts or all of the areas around the jordan river so for all practical purposes the security man is guns he is the

former chief of staff and he knows understands security and said we have to have a secure border in history and he said we have to annex of jordan river areas the populous netanyahu of course has been upping the ante ever since saying no no we're going to get more and more we're going to build more settlements we're going to unexplored lands and so on so forth the thing is that i think israelis have stopped buying because he's been giving so many things for free as it were including direct . i mean it's going to go to funny he promised direct flights from tel aviv to maka to the arab in israel in order just to get a few more votes so his promises are i think forming on the ears what i want to thank you very much variance i thank you now let's turn to other world news send police in afghanistan say at least 3 people have died in a blast in the southeastern region of call spontaneous there's been no claim of responsibility so far the attack comes just days after the u.s.

and the taliban signed an agreement in doha aimed at ending the nearly 2 decades war in afghanistan let's get the latest from hoda abdel-hamid who is in kabul for us so what more you hearing about this attack and who do we think is behind it. well what we know about the attack is that there was a blast near a stadium in host province and according to the interior ministry 3 people were killed and 7 others injured now we don't know who is behind that that attack it could be some spoilers there are several armed groups operating in this country who were against the deal between the taliban and the u.s. that you mentioned sundin doha 2 days ago but even if it were the taliban does that does not breach the agreement because in that agreement the taliban have to hold off from attacking any foreign troops any military bases where you have foreign

and afghan troops any. government institutions here in kabul and in the provincial capitals but undergoing war and i guess security forces that is not part of the deal and the taliban had said earlier in the day even though it's not confirmed but there were reports that they said that the issues they had over the past week which was leading to that agreement is now over and they would resume their normal operations i guess afghan targets right but the afghan they are reports that the taliban the afghan taliban who are die threatening not to go to these intra afghan talks to the talks with the government if their fighters 5000 of them are entering east. yes there are reports about that we haven't been able to confirm as we reached out to the taliban they said they will get back to us

there is no official statement on their own a website which usually that's how they communicate to the outside world but it could be very possible that that someone said that i mean the certainly the taliban who are here in afghanistan according to these reports and that would be probably in response to what the afghan president ashraf ghani said yesterday basically started the day by saying well does the release of detainees has nothing to do with us we did not commit the agreement in doha it was signed between the u.s. and the taliban but those detainees are in afghan jails and this is a matter of afghan sovereignty he went on to say that any kind of concession of that sort should be negotiated during the intra afghan talks if those happen indeed on march 10th as scheduled now it's it could be that the taliban were

answering replying to dadt i think at this point we will probably have u.s. envoy zalmay khalilzad working the phones if he's not already in kabul to basically put pressure on both sides to try to take a step back and try to reach some sort of agreement but at the moment there is a lot of posturing from both sides i would say it started from the afghan government side and that would be a response from the taliban what i thank you for that i'm detente abdel-hamid tonight for a same company. al jazeera cameras have been allowed on a tightly controlled government organized visit to northern myanmar where the army denies a genocidal campaign against several into around 3 quarters of a 1000000 mostly from the mainly muslim minority were forced to escape into neighboring bangladesh 2 and a half years ago almost all are living in neighboring bangladesh in some of the biggest and most crowded refugee camps in the world florence we reports from mound

township in the northern state of high. 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 buddhist small boats were accused of raping killing and setting fire to ruining the 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 in village after village brought to meet

journalists in classrooms under the watchful eye of government mind ins on camera that seemed script or we have 3 communities here living like a family that's why 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 road. and you can see all around us clear evidence of destruction by fire this place of worship would have 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 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 of the last attempt to repair treat 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. that. alterian more of myanmar government. forces 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 headed down like this 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 a very disgraceful thing until then the remainder will remain one of the world's most persecuted minorities florence louis al-jazeera mom daughter chip rakhine state myanmar still ahead on the news hour is here and insight for the ball of fire as doctors in the democratic republic of congo give us a major snag nexus in sport 2 of the biggest names in basketball go head to head in the in the extreme. i

am. but. welcome back here in the arabian peninsula still a little bit of a wind blowing down through the gulf region keeping temperatures cool solid 24 degrees but a fine day to buy my summer 30 wins a very light all way down through the red sea at the moment and protect it to stay that way hot day in mecca temperatures there in the mid thirty's meanwhile across all of france that area of snow which affected much of iran is cleared away we still got the risk of some snow into took many stand and across into afghanistan but it should be fine in kabul with a high there of 12 but eventually that cold air will creep in temperatures dropping quite considerably elsewhere that stays the winds just a bit lighter down through the gulf 24 the high here in doha across into northern

and central parts of africa are largely fine picture a few showers around the gulf of guinea big thing here is a drop in temperatures tonight seen temperatures dropping by more than 10 degrees between monday and tuesday down to 15 as a maximum and then as we head into southern portions of africa we've got some heavy rain affecting northern parts of botswana also into zimbabwe for the south we got some showers affect in johannesburg but further towards the south it should be fine day across cape town and here we're expecting plenty of sunshine and a maximum temperature of 30 degrees. as a weapon of war leaves the very deepest scars. scars some rule that the victim men and women can barely talk about. the only witnesses who can help bring about justice. thomas human rights campaign is in libya investigating

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welcome back our top stories on this al-jazeera news hour turkey's president says attacks against syrian government forces will continue if they don't reverse their advance in italy province that his military operations ratcheted up after dozens of turkish troops were killed in an attack in the region last week a child has drowned after a boat no did with refugees capsized off the greek island of les pauls 47 people were rescued greek security forces are prevented fountains of refugees from landing after turkey said it would open its border with the european union countries and israelis are voting in their general election in less than a year israelis have had a caretaker government since the 1st inconclusive election last april a minister benjamin netanyahu and his main political rival benny gantz are both failed to form a coalition government. now a key adviser to iran's supreme leader has died from coronavirus eyes infection

numbers surged again on monday the government confirmed another 12 deaths and 523 new cases as it struggles to contain the outbreak dozens of top government officials have now tested positive sam is in tehran he explains why iran's political elites have been so affected. the latest this gentleman who passed away mohammad mir muhammad he was in his seventy's so at risk of certainly succumbing to the virus at risk of of passing away and unfortunately that is what's happened he was a member of the expediency council and a group of advisors to the supreme leader made up of technocrats military officers government officials and since the beginning we've seen that the government has been largely affected at least 20 members of government at least 20 senior leaders by estimates here in iran have come in contact with this disease have come under it have contracted the coronavirus 'd since this began and this includes the vice president a female member of president of the on his cabinet as i've said m.p.'s deputies

spokespeople and one of the reasons we might be seeing this is because the corona virus outbreak happened in tandem with the timing of the parliamentary election here in the country a few weeks ago so we've seen many senior leaders many political players serious political players would have been going to clone ground 0 for the disease here in this country for this virus in iran and the reason they were going to hold regularly during the time of the election is because poland is a city of religious seminaries and because of the religious form of government here in iran it is a major political heartland so you would have seen people going there to take part in an election year it's a part in trying to get support and funding for their candidates and for their parts and that is one of the reasons we've seen that this corona virus outbreak here in iran has had exponentially more impact on leaders here in the country. and the european union has raised the official rescue level for corona virus to high more than 2100 infections have been confirmed across the block and that it's any of

which has become a global hot spot by many countries are now taking action to protect themselves and their reports that 2 more people have died in france from coronavirus at ash about my selling this story for us from paris and she has more on what's being done to try to contain the outbreak. what the french presence in. and wal-mart for all announced today that all of his own enormous central travels been cancelled this week he won't be going outside of paris and that is so that he can stay in the french capital and release of face what is happening with the coronavirus because of course the concern really is getting greater each day if you like in a french health authorities gave a daily press briefing in which they talk about the number of cases there are they've been pretty much going up each day nearly doubling the number as i said now over $120.00 cases have been detected in france for tells authorities have also put in place a series of measures for example any public gatherings all meetings inside in

a contained area in a building for example of more than 5000 people have been banned this is for precaution we saw on sunday the hoff marathon here in paris as band of the last minute because again. felt it's have so many people crowded into one area at the start of the race was perhaps unsafe and in all these so-called cluster zones around the country the areas where you have a high number of contaminated people schools are being closed in those areas of the government really very vigilant being very flexible each day is a different day they say and they have to adjust the measures according to the risk . and a warning has been issued about the effect of the coronavirus on the global economy the world economic body the o.e.c.d. says growth could shrink this quarter for the 1st time since the financial crisis in 2008 china's factory activity slumped to a record low last month and indonesia is feeling the strain too jessica washington reports from jakarta. on the outskirts of jakarta this $6000000000.00

project is one of china's so-called belton road investments construction is on hold for now pending a safety assessment but the project is facing more serious concerns the team is depleted workers who went back to china for the lunar new year can't return because . of a ban on chinese travelers the minister for investment also says the supply of materials from china is disrupted the fostering service is supposed to start from early next year but the corona virus outbreak could put the brakes on the project and slow down construction this is just one example of how the outbreak is directly investment and disrupting supply chains and countries all over the world dealing with the fallout. happened $1003.00 the chinese economy is only one percent of the global economy and 19 percent. of china's capital is very much.

needed and used globally countries are feeling the strain in different ways in australia international education is the country's 3rd biggest export but a travel ban has left thousands of chinese students unable to return to university it could cost of the sector millions if they cancel in romans thailand has lowered its growth outlook for the year as its economy suffers from the absence of chinese tour groups italy's already sluggish economy will take a further hit with a number of towns and manufacturing hubs in lockdown and trillions of dollars has been wiped from u.s. equities pushing stock markets around the world into the red what we're also seeing is a disruption supplied science as companies have slowed down manufacturing in china that has impacted other asian and pacific countries have a lot on those imports into their manufacturing processes no longer are we stand alone countries we operating global supply chains and that's what the current of

viruses really exposed governments are looking for ways to ease the economic burden hong kong announcing a stimulus package a cash handout of around $1200.00 to every adult indonesia's government meanwhile will provide massive discounts on hotels and flights for foreign and domestic travelers economists say measures like these are expensive but necessary this is the challenge that governments have consumers i. suppose governments only have a few labels to pull in this crisis one is providing confidence in the health system and then the 2nd is giving some stimulation to spending by other discounting elements or lowering the cost of did these a short term band-aid solutions ultimately there's only one way to improve the health of the world's economies finding a cure to the virus jessica washington d.c. or jakarta. britain and the european union are beginning negotiations on their

future relationship after a break set after leaving at the end of january the u.k. is conforming with regulations during the transition period britain wants a free trade deal without sticking to european rules the e.u. says access to its markets comes at a cost. chalons is in london for sell very well one of the big battles then likely to be as these negotiations get underway. david frost the british chief negotiator he's now in brussels with his team of advisors and civil servants he's sitting down with michel barnier his counterparts in the european union and this will begin 4 days of negotiations this week but that process going to be repeated over the coming months many many times and the big battles that we are likely to see well primarily it's going to be about trade both of these sides the u.k. and the e.u.

wants what is cools as iraq 0 relationship that 0 tariffs and 0 quotas to keep trade as frictionless as possible but to do that the e.u. says that the u.k. needs to stay as closely as it can to e.u. rules and regulations it certainly does not wants the u.k. to be lowering its standards undercutting the you on prices and becoming a direct competitor but the u.k. doesn't want to stick so all those rules and regulations because it says well why did we leave the e.u. in the 1st place always a point of brecht's if we have to stay with all these rules that we don't like so that's going to be one big sticking points another one is going to be over fisheries or access to the waters around the u.k. another one is going to be the dispute resolution whether the european court of justice is the main arbitrator of disputes between the u.k. and the but also the u.k. as well as doing a listening go shooting with the e.u.

it's also talking to the united states trying to do a free trade agreement with that and that is going to be a parallel track a year one side us on the other and the u.k. trying to negotiate a relationship with both of these heading into the future thank you very rarely challenge live in london. iraq's prime minister designate has withdrawn his candidacy a month after his appointment monod a law he says politicians were obstructing his efforts to form a government early upon him and failed to approve his cabinet for the 2nd time in a week i will to be thorough. i tried by all possible means to save iraq from drifting to the unknown and to solve the current crisis but during negotiations i face many obstacles 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 while iraq's president now has 15 days to propose a new candidate allow he was picked to replace. he was forced to resign 2 months ago following weeks of anti-government demonstrations thousands of iraqis have been protesting since october they're angry about corruption which they say is rampant in the government and they're also frustrated about the lack of jobs and poor public services why schools secu security forces of carrying out a brutal repression against mostly peaceful demonstrators more than 500 people have been killed since the protests began in october let's speak to mohsin about this series in cambridge massachusetts she's a research fellow in the middle east initiative at the harvard kennedy school thank you so much for being with us so why was we not able to get his cabinet approved do you think what was the main sticking point. mohamed ali the main problem he faces that he was an up against

a system that has been entrenched for years and a system that favored an ethno sectarian quota so the cabinet you propose and the government that he wanted to push through was one that consisted of independent members for the most part and the political elite in iraq has no interest in having an independent cabinet they've grown accustomed to splitting the pie that is iraq which funnels into their corruption and fuels their the kind of government that they've been leading for the past few years and so they had no interest in a candidate who would be opposed to the system and they had the power and the authority to push against it but it is a nonsectarian based political class a new system what protesters have been demanding isn't it i mean why didn't he also not have the public support. so that's exactly what the protesters are demanding the protesters are completely against the ethno sectarian system they just want to see some of qualified candidates who are put in positions that are professionally but of course of what the protesters want that they're not

getting because of the current political elite and they the political elite thought indorsing. would be a way to appease the protesters and still get what they want and so they were hoping for that to happen but of course when i was nominated by the same system the protesters protesters fired to be problematic wended up happening was that the protesters immediately turned against weak because he was nominated by a system that they did not approve of so from their point of view anyone who rises from the system is going to be someone who is questionable interesting so where does this leave iraq nonpolitically and what happens you know if they still not a prime minister in the coming weeks and coming months. so there's 2 things that are going on at the same time politically we're at a point where the president has to decide on a new prime minister does it get out and he and i say he's going to be talking to the parties are going to sing within 15 days and the same process happening again

the count being continuously kicked down the road perpetually and that's one of the things that's going to be happening politically and of course they're not going to find a candidate who's going to be. someone who's highly supported by the protesters and someone that the political cartels actually want so this will be a problem will continuously have at the same time what has been happening with the protests is that what the protesters have rightfully recognize happening in iraq for the past few years is that internal reform is very hard to push through and from the protesters point of view anything short of revolution will not do at this point so they've been continuously shouting recently against the entire system and wanting an entire entirely new political system of the new electoral law thank you so much for your insights marcin. from the harvard kennedy school joining us via skype thank you for your time now doctors are hoping to declare the democratic republic of congo ebola free within a few months but rebel attacks are continuing to hamper efforts to combat the 2nd

largest break in history close to 3000 congolese have died from the disease in the past 2 years catherine sawyer reports from the eastern region of beni where the last few cases are being treated. for. just born at an ebola treatment event. when you fast met her in november she was in an incubator how mother had just died of the disease her father had run away doctors told us nema is a medical mystery whom they're continuing to study because hamada the instructs me to 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 from and he was 2 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 arni this month suffering from. when i was told i had a ball and i panicked but the doctor me such a treatment now i feel calm i'm happy in the all spittle i was scared because i thought oh 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 being me this is. not my kid that's me and with other bricks in the community it's. just going to take us a 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. told by my ob to 11 a baller responders have been killed. and hundreds of treatment centers attack with us. despite the security challenges health administrators hope to declare the country a ball of free in a few months doctors fighting the disease say they're determined to achieve that catherine saw al-jazeera benny in the democratic republic of congo. a c.j.d. philippines shopping mall has ended after hours of negotiations. but he's tackled the gunman shortly after he when he said he hostages and walked out of the mall ending 10 hours of negotiations the suspect entered the shopping center in west mandela on monday and opened fire injuring one man he is in stable

condition police say the gunman was a former security guard at the complex would recently been dismissed. i said ahead in sport coronavirus continues to disrupt global sport as moto g.p. is opening races a console to tease out the details coming up next to stay. fact

that it has happened more tasty to fully thank you so much corona virus continues

to disrupt global sports it's been announced that the 1st 2 races of the moto g.p. season have been called off riders had been testing in cutter in recent weeks but sunday's opening race has been cancelled because of travel restrictions on people arriving in doha from italy several riders and teens are italian and new rules mean they would have to go into coroutine for 2 weeks the 2nd race in thailand has also been postponed indefinitely we spoke to murder g.p. journalist simon patterson who is in doha. so within the paddock about a 3rd of the 2 and a half dozen people that travel the world are entirely and 2 of our manufacturers i think it of our teams 7 of our moto g.p. writers at leigh is really one of the homes of the sport along with japan and spain so we simply can't have a wrist with them and to get to this point to have everything ready to go on the verge of having the 1st race and then for it not to happen is yet a pretty big blow for the product and for the sport as a whole really because everything is already here freight ways it's not even like

the 7000000 fly and stuff oh you know it takes 4747 cargo planes to carry us around the world and someone still going to have to come from europe pack up all the stuff that's sitting in gary just left over from the past ready to go wrist and put it in flight cases and then we don't even know where we're sending it to we don't know if it's going on the asia to america for the 3rd round or back to europe or most of the teams at this when you think the season is going to start a good question we had assumed or hoped i guess the 1st brian would be what should have been the 3rd round in texas but we've heard some stories this morning that america have started district and flights mentally as well so it's going to be a wait and see it could be that the 1st round of the championship is the 1st european round in harassed and spin really may. liverpool manager you're going to clarke has rubbished claims he's team might not be awarded the premier league title if the season is cattail due to coronavirus level of $22.00 points ahead as they go for their 1st crown in 30 years english newspapers reported last week that there

were no rules in place for deciding the title european qualification and relegation if the season were to be abandoned. anybody want to ask me about that and how much sense it would make to. well he said to delete all the results of the season and tell me who will play next year generally good stuff like this but the 'd really interesting nice story always says some you suppose of all it's true right something but when i saw it 1st i really thought wow really something somebody thinks something like that so little poor parents are not silly 'd enough to believe these things asian football bosses are revising their champions league fixture list because of coronavirus after an emergency meeting in kuala lumpur they've extended the group phase from its usual finishing made to june but if domestic games across japan south korea and china continue to be postponed it could be july it's still unclear what's going to happen to the asian world cup qualifying match is due to be played later this month italy's top football league will hold

their own emergency meeting on wednesday as they struggle to deal with the effect of coronavirus on their fixtures 530 our games were postponed at the weekend and the italian government has extended a ban on all sporting events in regions hit by the outbreak for another week at least 2 games they go ahead on sunday roma beating kalyani who got the game off to a storming start through general pedro's solo effort but they can callin each got 2 for roma for 3 the final score. david beckham's new major league soccer team into miami have made their league debut a former manchester united and real madrid player was on the training pitch to give the players a final boost ahead of a match in los angeles and the team was swarmed by fans as they got onto the bus dancing and singing with them in spanish before the game. it was all smiles

inside the stadium as well but it wasn't to be a winning start the underdogs held their own against one of the league's best sides but it was l a f c who came out on top thanks to this great chip by carlos vela that finished one. or 2 of the n.b.a.'s biggest stars went head to head on sunday number one draft pick zion williamson for the new orleans pelicans against litter on james and the los angeles lakers williamson provided some eye catching moments for the highlight reel on his way to 35 points that he's best score so far but it was the man nearly twice his age who won the battle le bron coming up with a triple double 34 points 13 assists and 12 rebounds the lakers winning by 6 and continued to cruise at the top of the western conference still plenty of respect on show between the 2 styles after the game as well. to boxing now and anthony

joshua's next fight has been announced for june 20th the british heavyweight will face bill gary is a poor live at tottenham's football stadium in london joshua lost 14 december when he reclaimed these world titles off andy ruiz jr in saudi arabia he had been holding out for a fight with tyson fury but fury has just agreed to another rematch with dion tay while the. south africa have won the los angeles rugby sevens tournament with a dramatic extra time victory over a limb pick champions fiji despite falling 19 no down the south africans for back and level the schools when branco to priya and male verse comes with the last play of normal time in extra time. across the line for the team nicknamed the blitz walks to ensure victory there now just 4 points behind new zealand in the overall standings it's. india cricket captain variac only had a bad tempered exchange with

a reporter after another test the fee to new zealand kearney was asked about claims he swore at his opposite number kane williamson and at the crowd of the kiwis won the series to know this is due to disability of one challenge all over the field what do you think it will also be christian i'm asking the answer to the small forces to inject it into the suit was unfortunately to find out exactly what happened in then come to the better question you can come here with hard questions and how do you do. and at the women's t 20 world cup defending champions australia all through the semifinals opening bats at bath mini scoring 60 as they beat new zealand by 4 runs in their final pool match they join england india and south africa in the final 4. believe it or almost 14 is coming up again later. thank you very much for that that's it for this news hour but do stay with us plantinga world news coming up after the break on just.

full of struggles full of pleasure. laura was on the no 3 move in with bill clinton this is you done with me she blew in with. us fresh on my going to our bond film an intimate look at life in cuba 24 song cause i got my boss had on me when i came out of a sort of long ago i may hang my cuba this time on al jazeera. this is a domicile a man's 4th trip to boozy in 2 days the fisherman is using his boat to risk you as

many people as he can was stranded in the flood hit area of the psycho to die struck mozambique i was up when i 1st saw women with babies on their backs crying for help saying they were dying i knew i had to do something i was late and from the dark a faint whistle in the distance alerts us to people calling for help women children and the elderly are brought on board 1st hungry and thirsty it hasn't taken much time to pull the boat about 200 people. have been rescued and more want to get on but there's simply no space. 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 the crease in the distance from the ship should people when his beloved grandson died mubarak need to step down but then the flames ignited in tunisia exploded in egypt and

everything changed episode 2 of the family on all just. the all the way. turkey's president warns of more attacks against syrian government forces if they don't reverse their advances in a day but syria says it will confront turkish aggression. player watching al-jazeera live from doha with me for the battle also coming out a child's body is found off the greek island of les paul's after a boat packed with refugees capsizes mass healing the strain we'll look at how the growing of.