barak need to step down but then the flames ignited in tunisia exploded in egypt and everything changed that was so 2 of the found just 0. 0 m. the over the air. turkey's president warns of more attacks against syrian government forces if they don't reverse their advances in aid 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 softer a boat packed with refugee capsizes. feeling the strain we look at how the corona virus outbreak has put the global economy in survival mode and helping the

stalemate can finally be ended israelis are voting for the 3rd time in less than ian. thank you very much for joining us turkey is falling to keep up its attacks on syrian government forces trying to battle their way into edge labor and less say hold their advance but president. says he's hopeful they can soon be a ceasefire teki has stepped up its military operations just over the syrian border after more than 30 of its troops were killed in an attack fair last week i do want as you to meet his russian counterpart vladimir putin in moscow on thursday where he hopes a deal can be arranged to halt the fighting. tells us there's. a lot to cool on russia and iran one more time we do not have any problem with you and syria. but the syrian government says do not withdraw turkey has determined as

soon as possible they will not have a he'd lift on their shoulders and just say as hashem had barry is in had. with more on the texas military operation this explains why he's been defiant today saying that operation spring shield will continue warning the syrian government against tough retaliation if they continue their offensive and asking them to pull out from behind the demilitarized zone so the turkish military is continuing its operation particularly in the province but however i think this is going to be a chance also for turkish president to see whether the russians are willing for some sort of a compromise and this explains why the president of the un was saying today that if the cease fire was to be implemented in the syrian troops pulled behind the demilitarized zone that could be conducive to a new deescalation and you political settlement that will put an end to the

escalation of that we've been seeing over the last few days in the area so on one hand he had to show how aggressive he is when it comes to operation spring shilled and that this is going to continue in the upcoming days but of same time he was reaching out to president vladimir putin saying that this could be our last chance when we meet on the 5th over march to try to diffuse the tension. a child has died after a boat loaded with migrants capsized off the greek island of nestle's 47 other migrants trying to reach a greek island from turkey have been rescued thousands of refugees have been attempting to cross into europe after turkey said it would open a sporters for refugees and migrants break security forces say they have prevented $10000.00 people from entering the us despite the greek promises warnings to refugees not to enter europe illegally while europe's migration commissioner has told turkey that it shouldn't be using refugees and migrants as tools to blackmail

the e.u. this comes as these images were released by the turkish coast guard they show a greek coast guard officer firing into the water near a migrant boat in the ajayan sea. let's speak to john psaropoulos in less balls for is so john the greeks under pressure no doubt just bring us up to date for us with the numbers of people who've been trying to make it into greece in recent days and the reactions i've been there's no official tally for the numbers of terms and across to dave foley but in the last 24 hours from sunday morning to monday morning we do know that the number of people who were picked up at sea was 977 that is a coast guard figure. were about. 2 dozen or so a terms in individual boats resulting in the number of individuals being picked up today it seems to be quieter for example here or less because we've only had

a couple of those arrivals and so what's been the response from from locals to these new arrivals. well officially. dismisses these videos as turkish propaganda and deliberate the terms to blacken the name of the helmet coast. and the helmet coast guard has also released its own videos of turkish coast guard ships escorting rubber dinghies filled with asylum seekers to the international was a line between greek and turkish territorial waters making sure that their pointed in the right direction and sending them off to greece there are videos shot from the decks of greek coast guard vessels showing clearly the turkish coast guard vessels in the background so the greek side is trying to say. we

are trying to do our jobs of search and rescue at sea but we're also dealing with an asymmetrical situation here. on officially i think the greek coast guard. would not deny that the boat seen in these videos that you've just shown are greek coast guard vessels but i think also of the greek government hasn't made any secret of the fact that it is looking at new tactics because it's dealing with a new situation yesterday the migration minister very clearly said on national television the following the hellenic navy and the coast could have prevented many many cases of migrants crossing. maritime borders prevention at sea is not a straight forward saying if it can be

a very dangerous thing one can easily imagine the sorts of tactics being involved in preventing the numbers of pows from climbing to 2015 levels which is the goal of the greek coast guard here vali thank you for that update john strapless live for us on the sign and. in afghanistan police say at least 3 people have died and 11 have been injured in a blast in the southeastern province of cost there is no immediate came of responsibility the attack follows a u.s. taliban agreement aimed at ending the nearly 2 decades war in afghanistan hoda abdel-hamid is in kabul and she says if taliban if the taliban is behind the cost province attack itself is not breaching u.s. taliban. 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 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 signed and bill had 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 against security forces that is not part of the deal and the taliban had said earlier today 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. i 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 by 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 he also failed vote it's a proud day this is a democracy you have a great right that you should exercise with confidence of the corona thing is completely under control today we've taken all the precautions that are necessary people can go to vote with complete confidence. this is this immigration difficulties really society i hope that everyone will go in full because i support myself but i respect in the decision of every voter it's about time that we'll be

much more united much will be one another the little ones against the other small cities did we go with the right stick nobody to use any kind of violence with a regional war do we redeploy he'd be with us always a good democracy that should be sitting. that's our senior political analyst on bashar who's here in the studio with us marwan say main contenders since the last election but quite a few things have happened since that 2nd election now it when the 3rd one this been trumps mideast peace plan of course but also at indictment on corruption charges do you see this election ending the political deadlock now because of what's happened in between the you know the problem is not so much how much netanyahu is party and how much blow and what party are able to garner votes or seats the problem is setting up a coalition because if any one party will probably get that say 35 seats they still

need extra $25.00 seats. so far the math does not add up neither for netanyahu nor for guns the only way the math could dump for netanyahu is on the 2 conditions one that he does very very well too is that the leader of the russian center part the israel but they know will actually agree to go into coalition with netanyahu and the religious parties the problem over the last 2 elections or last 2 elections is that the russian party that is radical is secular refuses to sit in the same government as the religious parties and hence we have the deadlock ok so you expect this deadlock to continue then despite you know yes ok so let's talk about the mideast peace plan because a lot of people had said that this could hopefully could help netanyahu get the coalition he needs because you know endorsed by trump and so on will that make

a difference it's it seems it won't make a difference simply because the head of the of our party has was also in washington during the announcement of the plan and also 'd embrace the trump plan and hence it may he made the daylight as it were between him and that the near whole basically nonexistent on this question we spoke earlier about the annexation after the next election but clearly both of them are probably vying to see how much they can enix what that's going to have to come with an american green light that's not all guaranteed for the time being because the americans want to see certain steps made 1st interesting that you talk about the american green light apac the biggest jewish american conference that's happening right now in washington and we have the u.s. vice president mike pence speaking at apac right now how important is that u.s. leadership endorsement today still in the israeli system in the israeli political system in elections since certainly when the president speaks the israelis listen

because america is israel's most important partner is. an indispensable strategic partner for israel but i think the the general public opinion in the united states has been changing on israel and certainly on netanya oh more than 50 percent of americans are not happy with the netanyahu government and certainly a growing number of jewish influence of jewish community in the united states is not happy with nothing else but we have a back the israeli lobby in the united states now becoming totally and utterly republican in the sense that it is leaning more and more toward strong and that the neo and hence when bernie sanders the only jewish candidate in this race at this point in time what with along with mike bloomberg when he decided to boycott the apac conference it was interesting that both the other candidates not both all of the other countries also with the exception of mike bloomberg decided to boycott or

other did not to be there in person hence this is shane judge in the public opinion in the united states in general on the question or visit and i think bernie sanders is actually doing the way on this thank you very much for that matter on bashar. still ahead on more turmoil for iraqi politics why the prime minister designate. plus. bush has campaigned for it is democratic presidential hopeful watch this stay with us. welcome back let's start by looking at the weather across asia this time there's an area of low pressure just a northern parts of japan some heavy snow there that we've got the risk of snow

showers in the western side of honshu meanwhile tokyo enjoy a cracking day and choose day maximum of 16 degrees celsius we've got some heavy rain across more southern parts of china that stays clear of hong kong so it should be fine in hong kong and largely fine in taipei where that rain will be working its way into northern parts of vietnam so annoy there's a growing risk of showers in choose day and more particularly into wednesday that is 21 degrees stage we've got to rain affecting more south western parts of japan some snow across the far east of russia and into parts of north korea and tokyo seeing a big change as the winds swings around towards the south very scraping 10 degrees celsius then there's the southeastern parts of asia a mass of showers all across the island of borneo no distinction is just blanket showers but fina conditions there you can see formulae planche there kuala lumpur looking at 34 degrees into south asia it's a largely fine picture here plenty of sunshine for delhi maxim of 27 not poor looking pretty hot to temps and mid thirty's but we are seeing the chance of one of

2 showers just about paying down through the western counts. on counting the cost coronavirus could the economic impact be on a par with the 2008 financial crisis. the sky's the front for the world is crippled by the bars cambodia faces up to the prospect of job losses plus argentina begins its talks to avoid a debt default. counting the cost on al-jazeera. this is the time to have been covering all of latin america for most of my career but no country has alike and it's my job to shed light on how and why.

while come back our top stories on a turkey has warned of more attacks against syrian government forces unless they reverse or advance into a province anchoress dept up its military operations up to dozens of turkish troops were killed in an attack in the region last week please enough gonna stand say at least 3 people have died any leavened injured after gas in the southeastern province of almost there's been no immediate claim of responsibility the a time i was a us taliban agreement aimed at ending nearly 2 decades of war in afghanistan. and israelis are voting in their 3rd general election in less than a year they've had a caretaker government since the 1st inconclusive election last april mr benjamin netanyahu and his political rival benny gantz own failed to form a coalition government. now the european union has raised the official risk level

for corona virus to high more than $2100.00 infections have been confirmed across the block and that includes italy which has become a global hotspot but many countries are not taking action to protect themselves there reports that 2 more people have died in france from coronavirus and following the story from paris and she has more on what's being done to try to contain the outbreak. well the french president emanuel might draw announced today that all of his own enormous central travels been canceled 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 now french health authorities gave a daily press briefing in which they talk about the number of cases there are and 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 charles ortiz 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 a precaution we saw on sunday the whole marathon here in paris is banned of the last minute because again. felt it's have so many people crowded in 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 so 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 . a key adviser to iran's supreme leader has died from corona virus infection numbers so 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. reports that they are

a few reasons why iraq iran splits core elites have been so affected. the latest this gentleman who passed away mohamed mir mohamed he was in his seventies 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 biassed and it's here in iran have come in contact with this disease have come under it have contracted the coronavirus since this began and this includes the vice president a female member of president of the on his cabinet as you 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 electioneering to take 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. a gray morning has been issued about the effect of the coronavirus on the global economy the world economic body 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 built in 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 raw materials from china is disrupted the fast train 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 direct investment and disrupting supply chains and countries all over the world dealing with the fallout. happened thousands of 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 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 call in this case 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 that these are 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 al-jazeera jakarta. as c.j.d.

philippines shopping mall has ended after hours of negotiations. the own. police tackle the gunman shortly after he released 30 hostages and walked out of the mall ending 10 hours of negotiations police say the gunman was a former security guard at the complex who had recently been dismissed. britain and the european union are beginning negotiations on their future relationship after rex it after leaving the e.u. at the end of january the u.k.'s conforming with regulations during a 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 rory chinaman's is in london he says negotiations are going to be rocky. 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 cool's 00 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 the rules and regulations it certainly does not wants the u.k. to be lowering its standards on the cutting the e.u. on prices and becoming a direct competitor but the u.k. doesn't want to sticks 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 a 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 all this negotiating 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 the year one side us and the other and the u.k. trying to negotiate a relationship with both of these heading into the future. iraq's prime minister designate has withdrawn his candidacy after a month after his appointment wanted a law he says politicians were obstructing his efforts to form a government ele upon him and failed to pull his cabinet for the 2nd time in a. how well to be quite a 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 faced 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. the eve of the biggest day in the democratic presidential campaign in the

us voters in 14 states will decide on super tuesday who they want to get to run against donald trump in november alan fischer reports from austin texas. we are going to win the democratic primary attacked by. well you have died before school nominated contests are over the attract big fields heavy t.v. advertising and media attention but they provide just 5 percent of the delegates super tuesday is super important a 3rd of the delegates and offer a real test of public opinion from north to south coast to coast and beyond california has moved its primary up to join the super tuesday when you take that and the other states and i think to the already rich delegate count available here in texas there are $1357.00 delegates up for grabs that's almost a 3rd of the entire total so a good super tuesday gives the candidate the 3 m's media money and momentum.

ringback in short this will bring clarity to the democratic race for president we have very rich delegate states like california and texas that are going to be hugely important and we kind of need to know what's going to happen in those states as well as the alabamas and other smaller states to kind of get a sense ability about whether what we're seeing in those early states is reflective of a general sense ability this super tuesday also through is up something different it's the 1st time michael bloomberg will appear on the ballot little class kid who built a global company from scratch the former new york mayor has bombarded the airwaves with ads spent millions of dollars on this campaign this will be the 1st test of his electability the strategy that mayor bloomberg is putting into place is a very unorthodox one and super tuesday is really going to tell us whether he is going to have the support nationwide even given spending half a $1000000000.00 so far to win the nomination

a candidate has to win 1991 delegates no one can seal the deal on super tuesday but a good performance certainly move someone farther along the road on the number of. candidates will drop a pretty common sense of how the focus of the nominating process goes on. to raise wages but democrats will be hoping they can name the person who take on donald trump in november long before that. our democracy to the people i would for sure i'll just you know austin texas. hello again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al jazeera turkey has warned of more attacks against syrian government forces and less a reverse or advance intuitively province and car has stepped up its military operations after dozens of texas troops were killed in an attack in the region last

week police in afghanistan say at least 3 people have died any levon injured in a blast in the southern eastern province of costs there's been no immediate claim of responsibility the attack follows a us taliban agreement aimed at ending nearly 2 decades of war hold up to have meat has more from kabul. 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 i'll go in war and i get security forces that is not part of the deal. a child has died after a boat loaded with refugees capsized off the greek island of mess most $47.00 people are rescued break security forces have prevented thousands of refugees from

landing after turkey said it would open its border with the european union countries israelis are voting in their 3rd general election in less than a year they have had a caretaker government since the 1st inconclusive vote last april and from minister benjamin netanyahu and his political rival benny gantz have both failed to form a coalition government. and to see each other philippines shopping mall has ended after hours of negotiations police talk all the gunmen shortly after he believes 30 hostages and walked out of the complex in manila authorities say he was a former security guard at the mall who'd been recently dismissed for those are the headlines on al-jazeera i'll have more for you in under 30 minutes i'm coming up next it's counting the costs just in this.

hello i'm come all sons of maria this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week coronavirus trade war 2 fears the pandemic we examine the impact on china its neighbors and the world including the possibility of it being as bad as the financial crisis a decade ago and our regional focus is on count podia an economy like many that is connected through trade with the world's 2nd biggest economy now faces the very real prospect of jobs lost. can't pay won't pay argentina's new.