range of stories from across the globe from the perspective of our networks journalists on al-jazeera. containment of course the 19 is visible must remain the top priority for all countries. says containment is key as infections outside of china balloon and forecasters warn the coronavirus could have global economic growth. i'm going take this is al jazeera live from london also coming up turkey's coast guard releases video showing what appears to be the greek coast guard firing on a refugee boat in the aegean sea. turkey's president is accused of using the

refugee crisis as leverage to force europe to support his cereal. and a 3rd israeli election in less than a year this be the one that finally breaks the political deadlock. and it would begin with the corona virus outbreak and data from the world health organization which shows the virus is now advancing faster in countries other than china new cases in china dropped to their lowest levels in 6 weeks on monday but continue to rise in south korea italy and iran senegal saudi arabia june is year jordan and indonesia are the most recent countries to detect cases of the disease the great show says the best defense is still containment. in the last 24 hours that with almost 9 times more cases reported outside china. inside china we are in unchartered territory we have never seen

before just respiratory partridge and that's capable of community transmission but at the same time which can also be contained with the right measures meanwhile the death toll from growing a virus in italy has risen by 18 over the past 24 hours bring the number of fatalities to 52 comes as the number of cases in the country exceeded 2000 jenna has more. but the only 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 covert 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 hotspots in the north of the country so call it isn't nation wide 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 ted ross 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 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 and adviser to iran's supreme leader has died from the corona virus as the disease continues to ravage the country $66.00 people have died while the number of cases stands at $11500.00 or germany and france have offered a package worth more than 5 and a half $1000000.00 to help iran. has arrived in tehran to support their authority response. 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 biased 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 vice president a female member of president of iran 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 hearing 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. the o.e.c.d. is warning the coronavirus could have

a severe impact on the global economy the group which represents the world's 36 most advanced economies is warning that the outbreak could have global growth pushing a number of countries into recession this lowered its forecasts from 2.9 percent to 2.4 percent this year but said a longer lasting and more intensive outbreak could slash growth to one and a half percent china the world's 2nd largest economy is forecast to have growth below 5 percent as the effect of widespread factory and business closures hit output theory c.d.'s is this drop alone would cut 0.5 percentage points of global growth and markets a spooked central banks around the world of promised to take all necessary action after global equities lost 110th of their value last week. a child has died after a boatload with migrants capsized off the greek island of lesbos the greek coast

guard says the boat had been escorted by a turkish vessel and 46 people were rescued the coast guards are hardening their approach to migrants trying to reach greece's shores but here is emerged showing them firing into the water purposefully creating waves and using poles to shove the boat away thousands of refugees have been attempting to cross into europe after ankara said it would no longer enforce its border the e.u. is calling on turkey to stick to the 2016 my great deal. i acknowledge that turkey is in a difficult situation concerning with regards to the refugees and the migrants but what we see now cannot be an answer or a solution therefore we establish more and more intensive dialogue with churchy through all different political levels to 1st of all find again common ground what of the situation for the refugees in turkey is concerned and to discuss where

support might be needed knowing that we do have an agreement in place. because your policy is following the story from the island of lesbos he says. and you're not just rescuing people officially the greek government has dismissed these videos and others like them in the past like as propaganda. videos released by the turkish government the coast guard 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 heloc navy have prevented both

crossings in the aegean as well so i think that without knowing where and when these particular videos with whom you can take it as implicit but the greek coast guard is no longer doing just search and rescue 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 the scene you're seeing behind me here by the way is tents 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 tents over night. the turkish president is being accused of using the refugee crisis as leverage in an effort to force europe to support his operation in syria

as it lim anchor says it will continue to target syrian army positions in the province after 34 of its soldiers were killed there last thursday the turkish army has been reinforcing its positions in a deliberate with more military hardware yes creating tension is meant the turkey and russia have come closer than ever to direct confrontation in syria but both sides have sought to ease tensions. here's our system. i like to call on russia and iran one more time we do not have any problem with you and 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. backed by russia assad's forces have been trying to retake it live the last rebel held area since december on monday they entered parts of the strategic town of sara cable but turkish drones have been hitting their positions russia's defense forces say its military police and also entered the area

due to its importance for security personnel who borrows in her tie on turkey's border with syria and has more on added ones 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 land was saying today that if the cease fire was to be implemented and the syrian troops pull behind the demilitarized zone that could be conducive to a new a 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 in our nations special envoy for libya has an asylum a has resigned he says he's stepping down because of ill health so i mean i was at the helm and recent talks between countries warring factions he tweeted to say he's tried his best to reunite libyans and prevent foreign intervention in their country during his 2 and a half years in the role libya remains in a state of chaos with rival governments in tripoli and too broke fighting for control it's cost $2.00 and a gallic at the united nations and it is this resignation comes as a surprise. i mean yes is the short answer it certainly seems to have got out

ahead of officials here at the united nations that tweet going out they were then playing catch up essentially but this is a highly respected peace negotiator working for 2 and a half years to try and broker some kind of deal in libya ben this is a direct quote he said i simply can't take this much stress so now the u.n. are scrambling to try and find a replacement in these vital peace negotiations let's just listen to what the u.n. 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 smooth transition so as not to lose any momentum on the gains that have been made now they talk about momentum and they talk about progress but the real truth here

is that mr salami was really floundering in what is an extremely complex situation you've got all sorts of foreign nations involved from france russia the united states u.a.e. and turkey and mr salami himself said an arms embargo that has been put in place for the last few years is in danger of becoming a cynical job the u.n. secretary general himself said this is a proxy war so it's one of those situations where it seems to be a half step forward and 10 steps backwards of course libya has been in complete chaos since the fall of gadhafi in 2011 with various factions fighting for control of the country and lots of foreign interference so a transition i think to a new negotiator is an important thing but the challenge here to bring peace to libya is almost at this point in time insurmountable and again i thank you very. no charges here live from london still ahead. we're going to win the democratic

primary was. well you have was democratic presidential hopefuls make their final page devoted to the super tuesday showdown. that is the focus on european weather has now come south so we were talking about jorge here it spread its influence rather trustor eastern and southern europe in the development area is in the south so last it was italy from monday for tuesday is going to be the south of france with some snow i think for the pyrenees and quite windy weather on slack coast the rain from it has gone down towards out by india and is heading towards greece's snow of course inland with a bit more heights to it and then further north we got obvious rain has gone through denmark developing somewhere south of sweden but i think the concentration

will be down in the south of france because that's a repeat performance it will happen again on wednesday and the rate will run through the central western med these together at st this drift to the east was through greece and is heading towards romania still with snow for the balkan mountains temperature wise you come down a bit berlin's at 7 london is it not there's more rain to come for the southern ground in south wales so in europe it's all about rain now in north africa of course is not his time the year the wind is to bringing a lot of sand and dust search happening beyond look at the temp is there the some of the heat wave going on here i suspect the next day or so it's been rising in the last because sir and it's still with us as only early march. as a weapon of war leaves the very deep scar. scar so wrong that the victims men and women can barely talk about it. they are the only witnesses who can help bring

about justice al-jazeera colace human rights campaign is in libya investigation right since the 2011. libya unspeakable crime on al-jazeera. from other top stories here on. the world health organization says containment is key to defeating the corona virus outbreak as data reveals infections are now advancing faster in countries other than china meanwhile the o.e.c.d. is warning the coronavirus could of global economic growth. video has emerged

showing the greek coast guard using tevye handed tactics to keep the boat full of migrants away from landing the e.u. says turkey must stick to the 26000 migrant deal after i cross said it would no longer in force its border. and turkey says it will continue to target syrian army positions in libya after 34 of its soldiers were killed there last thursday turkish army has been reinforcing its positions in the province with more military hardware . on the eve of super tuesday the day when most us states hold nominating contests joe biden has received a substantial boost to his campaign center any closer shar has dropped out of the race for the u.s. presidency and is a nutshell support the former vice president's campaign for the democratic nomination former south bend mayor go to judge has also dropped out of throwing his weight behind by. and fishes in austin texas and joins us from there now so the eve of super tuesday 2 big names buying out how significant is this no one. was quite

unusual but what we're seeing no essentially 2 campaigns with a campaign to find out who is going to be the democratic nominee to be president and we have the campaign to stop bernie sanders getting the nomination to be the democratic nominee to become president so by any club a shark dropping out and indorsing joe biden that will happen here in texas in the next few hours that is very important because bush are seen as a centrist throwing your weight behind joe biden has been within the establishment of the democratic party that their view the bernie sanders would not be able to generate the tonneau that they want not just for the presidential election but also for important to elections in the senate and the house and that could impact the democratic party is a horse so they've been hoping that someone would emerge as the alternative to bernie sanders the reason they're doing it now is because of the polls that they're

seeing bernie sanders looks as if he's going to win in california that's a huge number of delegates that he is going to soak up but the polls also suggest that he could win here in texas and if that is absolutely the case that it's a huge number of delegates that he sucks up on super tuesday the 2 most delegate rich states suddenly going to bernie sanders so they're looking for an alternative and that is why we're seeing people dropping out on the eve of super tuesday they are hoping that their votes will go to joe biden that will be enough to push them beyond bernie sanders certainly some of the polls within the margin of error that could possibly happen so that is why she is not waiting until after super tuesday as would normally be the case but is pulling out on the monday and seeing she's going to endorse joe biden so what about that so they don't toss particular people but we don't know what what the voters will face where do we expect those votes to go. the likelihood is that in the call bashar supports will probably go to joe biden he's a centrist that's what

a lot of them feel most comfortable at people to judge's decision is slightly more interesting in that it seems from all the noise we're getting out of his campaign that he is also going to endorse joe biden but if you look at the pause particularly from iowa on it seems that a lot of bitter judges supporters would support elizabeth warren and she would certainly be more towards the bairnie camp than the centrist camp of joe biden certainly in the more liberal wing of the democratic party so it's known but by no means guaranteed that his support would automatically transfer to joe biden but you remember the after iowa new hampshire people were saying joe biden's campaign is essentially dying he's got a real problem if he doesn't do well in south carolina it's over he won in south carolina he won significant lead in south carolina and now he really needs to do well on super tuesday to try and stop bernie sanders because they see the democratic establishment and convinced that someone who identifies as a democratic socialist is someone who will be able to 1st of all generate the

turnout secondly get those wavering over their support for donald trump to vote for him and thirdly to to win the election don't ballot so. incredibly interesting not quite so super monday. thanks very much allan fisher good to talk to. oppose close in less than an hour in israel's general election on precedented 3rd in the us than a year is that the country in political chaos prime minister benjamin netanyahu has twice failed to form a coalition government after 2 highly inconclusive elections in april and september of last year his reign challenger benny gantz was also asked to form a government on to september vote and also failed. to high 4 cities that benjamin netanyahu is at cortez in tel aviv how confident is the netanyahu camp. will certainly netanyahu himself has been projecting confidence throughout most of

the day unlike the previous 2 elections where he would use this day running around the country warning is voters that they were risking defeats through their inaction this time me saying they're so close to victory that's why you should come to the polls and even now he is being filmed live video on social media of him calling individual voters saying that we need 27000 other likud voters to come to the polls projecting this knowledge this very precise syphilis called knowledge of exactly what's going on in the polls meanwhile benny gantz in his blue and white alliance it has been saying that turnout is suspiciously low or worryingly low in blue and white friendly areas of israel and there's been using that as a way to try and get the gist of the polls he too is on video on social media at the moment trying to do all he can to call his voters to the polls the turnout overall is surprisingly very high the highest since 1900 8 pm is

a deliver 65 percent so significantly higher than the previous 2 elections so the fears of election fatigue of the effect of what has been a really dirty nasty unpleasant tone to this campaign and indeed the corona virus outbreak suppressing the polls that doesn't seem to have taken place indeed there have been 16 special coronavirus senses polling. and is set up around the country in order to get people who are quarantined to allow them to the polls but most interesting of all really is what one of the pollsters one of the channels said a couple of hours ago that the exit polls suggested that something really unexpected was going to happen the anglo had the english speaking head of the net and you know you could campaign has also said that he is projecting that netanyahu is on his way to victory meaning that he will have the 61 seats required to get a coalition between him and his is friendly parties to be prime minister proper again we wait to see exactly what happens when the exit polls come out ari forces

thank you very much. the taliban said they will not talk to the afghan government about ending the war there unless 5000 taliban prisoners are released an agreement between the armed group and the u.s. was signed on saturday without the involvement of the afghan government it comes as afghan police say at least 3 people have died and 11 have been injured in a bombing in the southeastern province of cost there is no immediate claim of responsibility but even if the taliban are behind it it still doesn't breach that deal with washington as one of the hamid reports from kabul. well 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 signed and bill had 2 days ago but even if it were the taliban does that that does not breach da greenman 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 ongoing 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 choose 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 the number of people who died in riots in india's capital last week has risen to 46 violence

broke out between hindus and muslims and the country's controversial new citizenship law now the police stand accused for their role as attorney backing reports who knew danny. it was the seat of learning that became a target in last week's riots the school in the predominantly 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 protest 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 never get is that 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 3 did more than 600 people in this clinic and the injuries were gruesome. some people had bullet injuries while some had stab and that is where white like parts like were hurt or injured. more than a week on and accusations are mounting that how police not only assisted hindu nationalists but also prevented ambulances from answering emergency calls to help wounded muslims we know that more than 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 23 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 was shock or magyar 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 people they don't ink. 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 sponsored program 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. historians are getting their 1st look at the archives of one of the

most controversial pope's of recent history pius the 12th was accused of staying silent during the holocaust but his critics accusing him of doing little to help jews facing persecution by nazi germany at the vatican says he worked quietly behind the scenes to save jews. put in mind of the top stories the world health organization says data now shows the corona virus outbreak is advancing faster in countries other than china new cases in china dropped to their lowest levels in 6 weeks on monday but continue to rise in south korea italy and iran senegal saudi arabia 2 news yet jordan and indonesia are the most recent countries to detect cases of the disease w.h.o. says the best defense is still containment. in the last 24 hours there with almost 9 times more cases reported outside china. inside china

we are unchartered territory we have never seen before just respiratory partridge and that's capable of community transmission but at the same time which can also be contained with the right measures video has emerged showing the greek coast guard using heavy handed tactics to keep a boat full of migrants away from landing the e.u. says turkey must stick to the 2016 migrant deal after i cross said it would no longer force its border. turkey says it will continue to target syrian army positions and after 34 of its soldiers were killed there last thursday the turkish army has been reinforcing its positions in the province with more military hardware escalating tension has meant that turkey and russia of come closer than ever to direct confrontation in syria but both sides have sought to ease tensions.

those are sr. i like to call on russia and iran one more time we do not have any problem with you and syria. but if the syrian government forces do not withdraw turkey has determined as soon as possible they will not have a hate left on their shoulders on the eve of super tuesday center has dropped out of the race for the u.s. presidency and has announced that she will support former vice president joe biden's campaign for the democratic nomination in the south bend people to jesús also dropped out and thrown his weight behind by. to stay with us for stream is up next.

ok and join the stream today is coverage of respecting indigenous land rights or look at the protests over a proposed pipeline in the what so what's a nation you can join our conversation life on you tube and twitter ringback. i'm dr charmaine nelson professor of art history at mcgill university in montreal and you are in history. on sunday here at a tree chase of the white sweat a nation and the cajun government came to a tentative agreement that could end nearly a month of protests over a proposed natural gas pipeline just look at the harsh tides of the protests and those protests have generated the talks.