al-jazeera. where ever you. do know the you are. al-jazeera. till i'm fully back in a table in doha this is the news hour on al-jazeera coming up in the next 60 minutes and you confrontation on the borders of europe turkey releases video of the greek coast guard trying to scare off a boat load of migrants ending his attempt to solve the libyan conflicts the u.n. special envoy stepped down days after the failure of the latest talks also this hour the coronavirus death toll triples in italy as the european union raises its risk level. unearned trn on them the top stories from

europe including time to talk britain and the european union finally begin discussing how they will trade together october exige. coronavirus continues to disrupt global sport says asian football bosses hold an emergency meeting at some of the opening theresa promoter g.p.c. isn't been called for in concert and tyler. thank you very much for joining us turkey's decision to stop holding back thousands of refugees is causing new tension at the borders of europe the european union's migration commissioner has warned no one can blackmail or intimidate the block and the german chancellor says using refugees in this way is unacceptable but. it comes as easy images. when released by turkey showing greek coast guard officers

firing into the water near a migrant boat in the i j and see thousands of refugees have been attempting to cross into europe after turkey said it would open its borders for refugees and migrants and speak to their is john who's in the last post on the greek island of les paul so john 1st of all what's the reaction from the greek isles gone to this video being released by turkey. well officially the greek government has dismissed these videos and others like them in the 1st gleick as propaganda. videos released by the turkish government because god has no particular comment to make on these videos i spoke earlier with the coast guard spokesman but also there is a general government position that was stated yesterday by the migration minister on television he said greece is protecting its borders we are protecting our country he spoke with satisfaction about the fact that up until now thousands of people

have been prevented from crossing at the land border with turkey but he also said that the coast guard and the helical a.v. have prevented both crossings in the aegean as well so i think that without knowing where and when these particular videos were filmed you can take it as implicit but the greek coast guard is no longer doing just search and rescue but as it has been doing in the last 5 years of this refugee crisis it is doing prevention as well which is a very tricky business at sea because it can result in casualties clearly and the 6 scene you're seeing behind me here by the way is turning being set up for the latest arrivals we are standing on the north shore of lesbos there are some people here silent seekers who are waiting on the beach with their children to move into

these terms of overnight yeah and you've been speaking to some of the people who've arrived recently john what are they telling you and what sort of help ah they getting one see a 5 on land in greece. not a great deal that they've been fed here on the beach today we saw a food handout taking place but there's nothing else here for them these tents of the 1st. structures to be set up for them since they've arrived and some of them have already spent one night here as you've as you've seen there have been riots all day at the island's only refugee camp and moria there have also been blockades . preventing police vehicles and coast guard vehicles from reaching that boy section of the island those here who want the camp to close down and who want these people these refugees to be shipped off the island the reason they're reacting in

this way is they're seeing the numbers they're seeing what's going on in the rest of greece 24000 illegal entries were prevented since saturday morning the greek government has said. they're afraid of that happening so they want this entire crisis to be nipped in the bud as it were ok john thank you for that update status al jazeera is john psaropoulos reporting there live from the greek island of less posts like haiti fallen is a migration on a century says the renewed influx of migrants and refugees has left less poles a breaking point. i think one of the main points to keep talking about that response now 132015 has a lot exactly and that's not such a dire city now people in that force at high and that angry and angry standing out not just to its people rioting but what's known as arians what's janet strand situation feeling on the ground it's incredibly tense it feels like everyone at

breaking point that i number of journalists were out attacked yesterday that went out because it's my number and you know why things have been attacked and other cars and destroying so. it's a real breakdown kind of community and it really feels like the tension that can't continue to rise to teach us the way it's not just to be honest and down with a new more right of under our america that's going to happen so that's the current situation right now on that front mostly i was. ins and outs that they were going to go ahead but the building tension sunset in the north that my thoughts and it's created a huge response from like us who are very very against the building in front of the camera they fail and the government sent in action on growth right i mean and you know with great intentions it's only escalated the situation i don't feel

betrayed by the government and the border tensions between europe and turkey come as turkey has stepped up this fight on another front with the syrian government is vowing to keep up its attacks on syrian forces trying to battle their way into it lebanon let's say hold their advance but present typo on says he's hopeful they can soon be a cease fire 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 or one is due to meet his russian counterpart vladimir putin in moscow on thursday where he hopes a deal can be arranged to halt the fighting groups so there you go this is 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 if the syrian government forces do not withdraw turkey has determined as soon as possible they will not have a heat lift on their shoulders al-jazeera is hashim i had bar is in had in turkey

with more on our wants 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 of march to try to diffuse the tension. plenty more ahead on this news hour including feeling the strain we'll look at how the corona virus outbreak has but the global economy into vital to. the dramatic end to a shopping mall siege in the philippines where 30 people were taken hostage and sport 2 of the biggest names in basketball go head to head in the n.b.a. . the united nations special envoy for libya haasan sodomy has resigned from his post

salim a says he's stepping down because of ill health he tweeted to say he has tried to be not libyans and prevent foreign intervention during his time as the u.n. envoy for the past 2 and a half years and speak to andy gallagher who is live for us at u.n. headquarters in new york and it is this resignation come as a surprise it seems to be a complete surprise certain into the officials here at the united nations that tweet came down a few hours ago obviously then we started asking questions of people here at the united nations they then confirmed it an hour also later and they seem to have found out by the same way everyone else to mr salami was resigning for health reasons via twitter he has so now sent an official letter to the united nations and then are talking about the transition in the peace negotiations going forward but this is salami of course is a very highly regarded negotiator someone who's been working for the past 2 and a half years to try and broker some kind of be still in libya which is an extremely

complex situation and the united nations will be now looking for a transition but let's just hear what the spokesperson had to say. the secretary general has received a message from mr salami expressing his attention to leave his post as special representative for libya the secretary general has always had full confidence in mr salamis work and the great efforts he has made to bring peace to libya the secretary general will be discussing with mr salami the way to ensure a smooth transition so as not to lose any momentum on the gains that have been made so andy what does this mean then for u.n. efforts to end the war in libya what happens now well the talking about the progress that mrs salami made but you just have to remember he was in geneva with the 2 main rival factions here from libya and made no progress at all he actually talked about the arms embargo that's been in place for years is

becoming a cynical joke so when the united nations say he's made great progress it's hard to see what progress he has made when so many regional powers are involved in this bitter struggle to control libya so they now have to look for a new person they have to approve a new person meanwhile their indiscriminate bombing is going on in tripoli civilians being killed all sorts of regional powers slipping arms through breaking that embargo so whoever does take on the task of trying to bring peace to libya and this is an extremely complex situation has a huge uphill battle mr salami is not a young man he's been working on this for 2 and a half years he said the stress of the job the stress of trying to negotiate peace in libya was simply too much and he thank you for that and the galligan life or is that the united nations. and out of wealth is italy has announced a huge leap in the number of deaths from corona virus in the past hour the toll has

risen to 52 that's speak to john hall in london for us so organized significant increase in the death zone in italy what more are we hearing about. well yes with the steady worsening of the situation in italy and the spread of the virus to other member states in the e.u. i can tell you that the european union has raised its risk assessment for covered 19 warning now of a moderate to high risk of sustained transmission among e.u. member states all in all 20042400 cases reported across 18 member states of course the worst of those as you were saying there is italy in those numbers represent a jump by 18 in the death toll in italy to 52 over the past 24 hours and indeed the number of transmissions jumping from 1694 yesterday on sunday to 2336 so things are certainly not slowing down in italy but important to

note that the outbreak in italy remains confined to a number of hot spots in the north of the country so cold it isn't nationwide there are individual isolated cases across the rest of the country and it is that sort of pattern of contagion of transmission of this virus and to some extent the evidence that it can be contained that led dr to address the director general of the world health organization earlier in his daily press briefing to give a somewhat more upbeat assessment than we've been hearing lately he pointed to the fact that this virus is unique both in the fact that it can be transmitted human to human but also in the fact that it can be contained the flu virus for instance he said could not be contained containment has to be the way forward and he pointed to evidence of a slowing transmission rate. in china into evidence of some 8 countries that have reported cases in the past that have reported no new cases in the past 2 weeks and

that is the result of containment measures being put into place depending on the severity of the outbreak country by country everything from hand washing to social and public distances distancing policies sports events and concerts cancelled not sort of going all the way up to what was instituted in who by province in china around the city of a total citywide lockdown right in the european union journal also updating its risk level to high what sort of measures are being taken. well i mean everything's being done at this point in the country by country level and a case by case level and more and more we're hearing that countries and governments are becoming much more proactive the british government holding a high level emergency cabinet session during the course of the morning here on monday and will release a so-called battle plan on tuesday for instance everybody of course looking to the world health organization to take a lead on scientific advice and they're as i say again today the assessment from

the world health organization showing a growing outbreak of the virus across the globe but with this slight caveat this slight note of optimism dr todd was talking about chinese transmissions dropping to $206.00 cases on sunday down from much much higher figures he said that it is now the case that transmissions outside china are 9 times higher than any transmissions taking place inside china he pointed to perspective he said it's not time to talk about a pandemic yet that moment when the virus becomes uncontained impossible to contain at this moment he said those 8 countries have reported no new cases in 2 weeks 34 countries have 10 cases or less containment has to be the number one priority he said this is not a one way street we can push this virus back it depends on your actions there is no choice he said but to act now john i thank you 5 day john holl not for us in london . and a key adviser to iran's supreme leader has died from corona virus as infection numbers

so it's 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 then bizarre i.v. is in tehran and explains why iran's been its own 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 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 now the leader of the church at the center of the current virus outbreak in south korea has publicly apologize for the 1st time south korea has the largest number of

infections outside china at 4335 rob mcbride has a report from seoul. it was the 1st long awaited public statement by the founder and leader of the shin changi church lee man he frustrated himself before journalists to say sorry whatever the. word outlaw i don't know how to apologize to the korean people i extend my deepest regret it wasn't intentional we had many new infections that we couldn't stop. the outbreak in south korea has cost new scrutiny on the church at the center of it seen by many christians as a secretive sect and turn the spotlight on its messiah like a leader who calls himself the promised prophet. it may appear christian but it's actually different with a different doctrine and system they revere leaman he like jesus the leader who is

a counselor who helps former followers of changi such as and sue young who described the crowded conditions inside a typical church gathering and hair hanging could be diploma you would be 5 centimeters away from the next person and you would have to say amen after every sentence the pastor speaks it's the best environment for the virus to spread all of the shin changi churches have been closed and some have been attacked an online petition demanding the group's disbandment has well over a 1000000 signatures some local leaders have called for shinji on g.'s elders to be investigated for possible homicide and for hiding the identities of some of its estimated quarter of a 1000000 members in changi says it's being unfairly persecuted and health officials have warned against driving the organization further underground that would make the tackling of this outbreak harder. him none the government has done

a lot to contain this and we'll do everything we can to support that effort. but the church still insists it has suffered the most with its members making up more than half of all the confirmed cases in south korea with broad al-jazeera so. grim warning has been issued about the wider effects of the corona virus outbreak the world economic body the o.e.c.d. says roath could shrink this quarter for the 1st time since the financial crisis in 2008 koren 1000 measures in china have hit supply chains worldwide companies like foxconn which makes apple's i phone say the virus will hurt their bottom line hong kong and line cathay pacific has put 25000 staff on unpaid leave and about half its planes are sitting on the tarmac and it's among dozens of airlines forced to suspend flights because of the outbreak several are warning of job cuts and travel

restrictions have seen hundreds of thousands of students taking their lessons online or missing class and that's hurting countries like australia new zealand and the u.s. which billions of dollars from foreign students well let's speak to felipe alou grain about this he's an economist and a former advisor to the director general of the world trade organization he joins us live from london thank you very much for your time mr gray and so do you think the economic impact of this corona virus outbreak will be on par with the 2008 financial crisis. why i think it's unlikely to be as bad as the 2008 financial crisis but i do think that there is a serious possibility of a recession i think that the city thinks it might just be this quarter if as medical experts seem to fear this epidemic becomes a pandemic that ends up affecting a big proportion of the population that i think a recession globally this year is

a very real possibility and markets have just woken up to it. but i think that the reaction up until very recently has been complacent now what's been the main economic impact so far and what sectors are the hardest hit or so far the main impact is due to the destruction of global supply chains which you mentioned a minute ago and obviously china is right at the center of those at the same time you see the disruption to spending and china and i think it's likely to see. very little growth if any at all in the 1st quarter and since china has 20 percent of the global economy that it that has an impact looking forward you've obviously the the. the virus is now affecting the rest of asia and increasingly the us europe the middle east and elsewhere i think you can see 3 big in tax the 1st is on business investment business investment which already had sort of stalled because

of worries about the trade conflict between the u.s. and china and now faced with this it's uncertainty of disruption businesses not wanting to invest the 2nd is consumer confidence and you can see that people are canceling travel plans you know they're not going out to restaurants that all sorts of events are being canceled and that people stop spending and the further with these markets we saw markets collapsing and last week and that in turn makes financing conditions tighter for companies and it makes consumers feel poorer right and so how can countries then prepare for this or make up for the economic hit. well i mean i thought they were lying a lot on policy makers obviously the main role for policy is to try to limit the spread of the virus and to. make sure that those people who who get ill get the best care possible but people economically people people seem to hope that

central banks are going to ride to the rescue and that's why markets are got up today and i think that clearly it can help at the margin but the idea that you know that q.e. is somehow a vaccine against the virus it clearly isn't true or that somehow if you cut interest rates that suddenly people who are afraid for their lives are going to go out and spend again i think is for the birds that there's not that much that monetary policy can actually do on the fiscal side i suppose governments obviously need to spend more on health care also they can do things like deferred tax payments for companies to get into trouble but in a very real sense you know if people are frayed for their lives they're not going to work they're not going out to spend there isn't that much the governments can do to change that right philip green thank you very much for speaking to us about this thank you. still ahead on this news hour.

race for the white house on the eve of super tuesday and in sport the man waiting for unfinished business to be resolved before he gets a shot at becoming the undisputed world heavyweight champion distin this. welcome back here in the arabian peninsula still a little bit of a wind blowing down through the gulf region keeping temperatures will cool solid 24 degrees but a fine day to buy my summer 30 winter a very light down through the red sea at the moment and projected to stay that way hot them record temperatures there in the mid thirty's meanwhile across the advance 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 cina 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 expecting plenty of sunshine and a maximum temperature of 30 degrees. as a weapon of war leaves the very deepest sky. those. scars so rule that the victims

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back our top stories on this hour just here in use our. footage released by the turkish coast gone shows greek officers firing into the water near a migrant boat thousands of refugees have been attempting to cross into europe after turkey opened its borders the e.u. says turkey is trying to blackmail the block meanwhile turkey is warning of more attacks against syrian government forces unless they reverse their advance individually prominence and caress stepped up its military operations after dozens of turkish troops were killed in an attack in the region last week. and the united nations special envoy for libya haasan sodomy has resigned from his post salah may says he is stepping down because of ill health nearly 3 years after taking out the

position. the 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 failed it's all we have correspondents at the headquarters in tel aviv of both candidates imran khan is with benny gantz supporters will speak to him in just a moment but 1st sorry for said who is that by name in those likud party headquarters in tel aviv so harry how are things looking for prime minister netanyahu this time around. well he's been projecting a pretty confident throughout the day telling us voters role in the previous 2 elections when he was telling them look they were on the cusp of defeat and trying

to motivate them to the polls that way he's been telling them that likud is very close with its usually parliament the knesset to get a. a coalition government requiring 61 seats saying that just one seat short that has been his message through most of the day then the last hour or so he's been telling people that there are various areas where turnout fairly good for supporters has been targeting those there have been images of him driving around in his official car calling individual voters on his phone huling not column selfies as usual everywhere on this election day the other interesting thing is that we've heard from a pollster on one of the channels saying that the indications are while he wouldn't go into detail but the indications are that this would be a surprising result against what most of the polling has suggested up until now and study the turnout is higher than expected it was it at 6 pm local time but now now if you go it was at 56.3 percent that's nearly 3 percent higher than it was last

september so all the talk of potential election fatigue of the effect of the coronavirus suppressing turnout that doesn't seem to have happened ok larry thank you for that harry fossett at the likud party headquarters in tel aviv let's cross over now to benny gantz spot headquarters. for us so how confident are they way you are in iran that they can get the support they need to be in a successful coalition. one of the cautious optimism but there was concern what happened in the last 3 hours is that we learn what supporters have gone back out onto the streets now boom what have actually said is that they're very worried about low voter turnout in their districts so they've asked their big guns the big members of the knesset to stay in their local areas to become visible to go out encourage people to come out and vote they are very concerned that there may well be

a low voter turnout in their heartland which is really concerning them so they're really trying to push that message like i say there is a coup. optimism that they've been telling us throughout the day they think that they may will be able to get a coalition together that will give them a minority government that's just one more seat than the 2nd largest party which allow them to form a government but this idea of low voter turnout in their own areas is very concerning however there's still about 90 minutes to go polls close until about 10 o'clock local time they'll be projected on to those t.v. screens behind me and then we're going to get a much better idea of where blue and white actually stand with their great any gains or if they've made any losses in depending on net better we shape what their next strategy strategic move is and who they need to build coalitions with thank you for that imran khan night for us in tel aviv that speak now to our senior political analyst martin bashar about this marwan i don't know if you heard harry

there he said he spoke to a pollster who is predicting a big surprise tonight are you expecting one there yes i mean i saw some of the same statistics certainly the height there not is the highest in 21 years since 1909 there was no such. high turnout and we still have an hour and a half to go and this could be $2.00 to $2.00 reasons for it one is that the palestinians in israel have really gone out in huge numbers to avenge if you will netanyahu is racism against them in order to make their voice heard the other he is and as we heard earlier in the day that not the now has actually succeeded in getting more and more of his supporters to go out and vote there's a possible 3rd scenario that israelis are sick and tired of this and they say want to get i don't want out yeah despite the corner in order just to get there you know voice heard and to get this thing done with unfortunately for them i'm not sure

much of that the will help except if there is a huge surprise because not just about what likud when's. and what blue and white 4 lines it's about the coalition and of course and the joint unless the alliance of arab parties did well in the last election a 2nd one how do you expect him to defend this time around where it seems that there now is quite high which means look they the arabs in israel make about 21 percent of the population 17 percent of the electorate that's 1000000 votes if they can get 65 percent up to 70 percent they might get up to 1617 seats that's a you know that's a considerable number of seats especially if according to my own math anyway if the only way for this for a new coalition government to happen is for the likud and blue and white party to come together in a so-called national unity government with or without notes and you know that means that the policy is or will be the official opposition party in this or they have

a special status meeting there will be updated by the prime minister are all important issues national security issues that's happening in the country for the palestinians in israel to be that up high in the scale in the israeli stablish month that's quite near time i want to thank you very much a insight as always and of course we'll be closely watching the results for you in israel and bringing all the latest information here on al-jazeera throughout the evening. iraq's prime minister designate has withdrawn his candidacy a month after his appointment mohammed allow he says politicians were obstructing his efforts to form a government. and failed to approve his cabinet for the 2nd time in a week how well 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 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. iraq's president. propose a new candidates are seen as a research fellow in the middle east initiative at the harvard kennedy school she says protesters won't accept anyone from existing political class. the political leaders thought. it 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 find to be problematic what ended up happening was that the protesters immediately turned against we 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 2 things that are going on at the same time politically we're at a point where the president by one thought has to decide on a new prime minister does that that's and he and i would 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. as siege any philippines shopping mall has ended after hours of negotiations. police tackled the gunman shortly after he released 13 hostages and walked the mall

wanna be no is in manila he says negotiations were actually made negotiators were meeting his demands. for most of his the man's was to talk to members of the press and so all this time all the 10 hours of this ordeal he was on video chatting with both the police and members of the press he was asking questions from journalists who were showing that the hostages were safe and were alive he was also showing that he was carrying a hand grenade so there was a real possibility or real danger of things turning bad but i think the turning point was when his bosses held a news conference also one of his demands and they apologized to him and then they said that they were willing to resign from their posts and i think that was a turning point because a couple of hours after that and after the mayor of this city said one city which

is a suburb of manila talked to the gunman he walked out of the mall together with the hostages and he surrendered. and the u.k. officially left the european union more than a month ago but talks on what comes next have only now begun on that let's cross to european you sent to iran. thanks honey it's nearly 4 years since britain medicine choice to leave the block and these discussions will consider what their trading relationship will be the chief negotiator david frost is in brussels for 4 days of negotiations with his e.u. counterpart michel barnier the british prime minister forrest johnson has already threatened to walk away from talks if enough progress hasn't been made by the end of june deadline for extending the brig's it transitional period. we're going to correspondent toure a chance he's been following this story closely so henri or water main area contentious areas in these discussions there isn't big ones really big ones the

main one i think is is trading goods and whether the u.k. and the you can find this thing they both want to do which is to reaches 00 agreement 0 tariffs 0 quotes is that means that trade between these 2 sides will carry on being as frictionless as possible but the big things standing in the way of that are that the the u.k. wants to move away from the rules and regulations that govern the e.u. and if it does that then the u.k. the e.u. thinks that it's going to be lowering its standards and therefore making itself more competitive than the e.u. undercutting it in terms of either the prices that the u.k. could sell it and it's good for and so it doesn't want. for the u.k. perspective why would it stay aligned with e.u.

rules and regulations when bracks it was entirely about being able to get rid of those and do its own thing so that's going to be a big problem fisheries that's going to be another one how you deal with disputes and resolutions is a 3rd there are many more perhaps the biggest one though is is the clock you know that this there is only until the end of the year to get this sorted by that's a very very short timescale in which to negotiate such a big trade deal and the meantime that the government is saying it is going to conduct talk to us at the same time yeah i mean to take you on task there is the e.u. trade deal that is trying to sort out there's also a trade deal with the united states and they're going to be running in parallel with each other be the government today outlined its aspirations for both for what the us trade deal might look like. and there is an interesting figures to come out of that because the best case scenario that the government is

putting forward for what the u.s. trade deal would provide for the u.k. is that over the long term it would give it a boost in economic terms of maybe point 16 percent now that sounds quite good you know as those billions of dollars bartz when you compare what the knowledge is going to lose by walking away from the e.u. which is over the long term as a best case scenario again something like 5 to 6 percent of its g.d.p. then that no way that they're doing a deal with the it with the u.s. in oh well way offsets the what is going to lose out from walking away from well thank you very much indeed. but historians are getting their 1st look at the archives of one of the most controversial popes of recent history pius the 12th was accused of staying silent during the holocaust with his critics accusing him of doing little to help jews facing persecution by nazi germany but about him says he worked quietly behind the scenes to save jews but princess made the decision to open the archives last year saying the church was not afraid of history well from

atlanta little bit later now go back to philly and. you know and thank you very much for that in the u.s. democratic presidential hopeful amy closure has ended her campaign on the eve of super tuesday that's when voters in 14 states will decide who they want to run against donald trump in november. also will not be on the ballot people down to of the race telling supporters he no longer so our chance of winning alan fischer reports from austin texas we're going to win the democratic primary. where you have. the 1st 2 or nominating contests are over the 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 are know for 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 added to the already rich delegate count available here in texas there are 1357 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. 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 sensibility this super tuesday also threw up something different it's the 1st time michael bloomberg will appear on the ballot middle 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 his 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 moves someone farther along the road on the number of candidates will drop out pretty common sense of how the ability to produce the nominating process goes on till june to raise wages but democrats will be hoping they can name the person who will take on donald trump in november long before that . our democracy. alan fischer. austin texas. days after india experience its worst violence in decades the death toll is still

rising 47 people lost their lives and more than 350 were injured during riots over a new citizenship they are seen as discriminatory towards muslims police have been accused of enabling mobs and preventing wounded muslims from getting help tony berkeley reports from new delhi. it was the seat of learning that became a target in last week's riots the school in the predominately muslim area of most of the bad northeast delhi was set on fire by a mob repairs a hurriedly being done to allow students to sit their final exams in 5 days time the attacks happened after hindu nationalists incited violence following peaceful protests against india's citizenship law. some damage will be harder to fix in the nearby al hin clinic victims of the violence wait to have their wounds treated both these men say they were shot while attending a muslim gathering his subordinate would have against he said we didn't get any support from anyone the law failed us they didn't help us in any way possible no we

don't need justice from them we only need just as from our guard. during the 3 days of violence this doctor says he treated more than 600 people in this clinic and the injuries were gruesome. some people had bullet injuries while some had stab and it is white like parts like the hurt and lungs were injured. more than a week on and accusations are mounting of how police not only assisted hindu nationalists but also prevented ambulances from answering emergency calls to help wounded muslims we know that modern 40 people were killed in the violence and officially 350 people were injured what we don't know is how many were muslim and how many were hindu and so far the authorities have not released results of post-mortem examinations to show how they died. the family of. 3 year old fison want answers he was one of a number of young muslim men who were seemingly beaten by police in this video

posted on social media he died in hospital of his injuries 2 days later the shuttle arm leg we suspect that it could be the police army or paramilitary but we cannot be sure about who it was. the police arrested more than $800.00 people they don't include senior members of the ruling b j p party the human rights activists accuse of inciting the violence one of the arrested a muslim has been charged with murder he says he was framed and was only defending his family to certainly a state sponsor full grown it is certainly a state sponsored targeted violence against muslims. there are concerns that right wing hindu nationalists who use the recent violence as an excuse to spread anti muslim feeling around the country. more than 150000 muslims live in the overcrowded alleyways of northeast delhi there is fear and apprehension that what happened 10 days ago is only a precursor to what lies ahead tony berkeley al-jazeera must have

a bad delhi. i still ahead in sport form a never pull an england strike and danielle starts turning the storage is given a 4 month ban from football for breaking rules on betting he to have more coming up .

time for sports now has peter fully thank you very much former liverpool and indian striker daniel sturridge has been given a 4 month ban for breaching betting rules sturridge has also had his contract with turkish club tribes on sport cancelled by mutual consent last year he was given

a 6 week ban by an independent regulatory commission but the suspension has now been doubled after the english football association appealed the ruling the appeal board decided he had passed inside information to his brother over a possible move to severe in 2018 sturridge has also been fined 192000 dollars in a video on his you tube channel storage said he was devastated by the decision and that he was a victim of gambling companies allowing people to bet on football transfers adding that the conversation with his brother had been innocent. i just want to say that i am going to continue to campaign for professional football owners to be able to speak to their families and close friends freely and without the real risk of being charged in the process of people being able to place bets on players we clubs has to be stopped. and although the people panel have to recognize that

yeah i have i can bet nobody else's bet i was still in charge so it was very disappointing in saying for me to hear the news story just former manager at liverpool you're going plop as rubbish claims these team might not be awarded the premier league title if the season is cattail due to coronavirus who are $22.00 points ahead as they go for their 1st crowning 30 years english newspapers reported last week that they were no rules in place for deciding the title european qualification and relegation if the season is abandoned anybody want to ask me about that and how much sense it would make to. what is said to delete all the results of the season and tell me who will play next year champs league and stuff like this would be 'd really interesting nice story of always some you suppose i've always to write something but when i saw it 1st time i really thought wow really

something somebody thinks something like that so little fans are not silly 'd enough to believe in these things. coronavirus continues to disrupt global sport the 1st 2 races of the moto g.p. season have been called off riders have been testing in 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 teams are italian and new rules mean they would have to go into quarantine for 2 weeks the 2nd race in thailand has also been postponed indefinitely we spoke to motor g.p. journalist simon patterson who is in doha. so within the paddock about a 3rd of the 2 and a half 1000 people to 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 risk 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 public 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 are best 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 her in spin really me. 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 pelican against le bron james and the los angeles lakers williamson

provided some i catch him moments for the highlights real on his word 35 points that's the most he has screwed so far but it was the man twice his age who won the battle le bron coming up with a triple double that's 34 points 13 assists and 12 rebounds in this instance the lakers win by 6 and continue to cruise at the top of the western conference to boxing joshua's next fight has been announced for june 20th the british heavyweights will face bulgaria's about. tottenham's football stadium in london joshua lost 40 in december when he. told of andy ruiz jr in saudi arabia he had been holding out for a fight with tyson fury but fieri has just agreed to another rematch with dion tay while the. so africa have won the los angeles rugby sevens tournament with a dramatic extra time victory over

a limp dick champions fiji despite falling 19 mill down the south africans for back can level the schools when branco de priya nailed the converse conversion with the last play of normal time they did extra time to. cross the line for the team nicknamed the blitz books to ensure victory and are just 4 points behind new zealand in the overall sam it's. defending champions of strayer through to the semifinals of the women's t 20 world cup opening bat beth mooney scored 68 as they beat new zealand by 4 runs in their final pool match in melbourne to join england india and south africa in the financing. that all the sports news for now i'll be back again a bit later with a mother up this early thank you very much for that that's it for this news hour on al-jazeera from me fully back to one whole team here and i thank you very much for watching now until it's live from london next to stay with us.

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