based investigates on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. everyone i'm come all santa maria and this is the news hour from al-jazeera new developments in the war in syria an explosion in provinces left 8 people dead. in the new south korea's president declares war on coronavirus the infection rate there is the highest outside of china. the final results in but that hasn't stopped benjamin netanyahu from claiming victory in israel's latest election. did i get the kind of support needed since then. and the international community under pressure

to act in libya following the resignation of the un special envoy and support the asian champions league continues to be disrupted by the corona virus outbreak only one in 8 groupings will be going ahead as planned as asian as malaysian champions j d t prepare to house see one of the wings. starting in syria where turkish forces have shot down a syrian government warplanes in a province the military says it's all part of a new operation against damascus in northwestern syria also 8 civilians killed in this explosion in city which is rebel controlled dozens of others injured there syrian government forces backed by rusher of been conducting strikes on the area for months they've taken control of a sort of keep city as well that is in the country side of it live but also

southern syria an increase in finding their government forces have killed 5 civilians in daraa have burned homes they've taken dozens of young men to detention centers as well. yeah we are telling you to get the army out of our way if you want to sort out all the issues today you must stop the crackdown on sodomy otherwise you are responsible for how matters will eventually end up so we've got a team of correspondents following developments in syria and that includes the migrant crisis as well we will be with john psaropoulos shortly he is on the great content of lesbos also natasha going to name who is on the turkey greece border but let's start here cynical still and you is on the turkey syria border maybe you can just bring us up to him with all these developments across the country with financing. welcome all the latest line about say here is that as you said turkish turkish army has shot down

a syrian fighter jet that belongs to the syrian government and every some statement by the turkish defense minister says within the last 24 hours during the operations conducted in the framework of. peace shield sorry spring shield operation inside one syrian plane one drone 6 tanks 5 whole with syria's 2 air defense systems and many other military vehicles have been destroyed so apparently a church here is trying to focus on the military capacity of the syrian government trying to trying to harness kept abilities right before coming around the table with russian president vladimir putin all march 5 of course the both sides are trying to advance around so racket but i have to tell that it's very easy for either side to take over or lose control of say rackets and that's why current of the turkish military has mostly focused on the military capacity military of

vehicles and i kept mentioning ventry of the syrian government recently as the syrian government is also suffering from some economic problem. probably dave believe and that is the best way to bring it to bring them. to an agreement which is it's a withdrawal for and with well back to such a agreement 4 days down below and $4.00 and $5.00 highway this is these are the developments on the ground right now come out ok thank you for all those updates in the course the only there on the turkey syria border now of course while the fighting goes on we've got an increase in the level of migrants and refugees on the move so let's start with john psaropoulos great candidate as where he is an update from you john. at the moment we don't have refugee both arriving here today because a very strong winds in the area but it is clear from what we've seen in the last 24 hours that the greek policy towards those that do come in will continue to come in

the coming days has changed the policy of open borders and even promotion of refugees towards its western borders with europe has led to a change in the greek policy from one of search and rescue so one of deterrence and deflection not only on land but also at sea and we've seen that in videos released by the turkish government yesterday the greek migration minister will be traveling to brussels tomorrow to ask for help specific things the greek government wants in equipment and personnel to help defend this 1000 kilometers along maritime border which is europe's main maritime border with turkey but he is also going to ask them he said this morning for pressure on turkey diplomatic pressure economic pressure i presume that means in order to bring turkey back into line as he said to respect its international commitments right now he said neighbor is giving out fake news

and weaponize saying human beings in order to blackmail europe this is the report we have filed on the changes in the greek position in the last 24 hours. asylum seekers stranded on the north shores of lesbos some have spent the night out in the open police can't process them at the only refugee camp on the island in moria it's been blockaded by angry islanders who want to shut down but moreas occupants aren't happy to be here either. this was the latest of many riots this year asylum processing is slow and many have been living in tents under the olive trees for a year really very dark said it didn't sound very good back then and certainly and this is pretty good because what everyone here said it would be not that i'm going for that matter but what are the dark and this is very important hundreds of moria's asylum seekers recently much down to the port after receiving misleading or

mistaken messages that the government was evacuating them to athens police had to turn them back this tense situation is likely to become worse as turkey has opened its border and is advice in refugees on its soil to go to europe that's the reason why this 15 year old from afghanistan is here he says. i have been in turkey for 2 months the smuggler called me in the night and said the party is ready get ready to cross over he said the border is open i could not cross for 2 months because the border was closed this video released by the turkish government suggests that the greek coast guard is no longer conducting just search and rescue missions but actively repelling boatloads of migrants greek coast guard vessels can be seen driving perilously close to small dinghies at another point it appears shots are fired into the water greece has released video that appears to show turkish coast guard vessels accompanying migrant boats to greek waters rather than holding them back until now greece and turkey were both working to keep undocumented migrants

out of europe turkey's suspension of that arrangement has led to the suspension of other international norms greece has declared emergency. measures it says it will stop receiving asylum applications for one month and in many cases it will turn around undocumented migrants and send them home without the usual reception and identification procedures so it will be as though these people were never here gree says these new arrivals aren't individual applicants but part of an organized policy so international asylum law doesn't apply to them as intended with so many islands so close to the turkish mainland greece has a difficult task defending its maritime border but the biggest losers in all this seem to be the asylum seekers. that report from john psaropoulos there he is on the greek island of lesbos more from him later and from maritime borders we look at land borders natasha going to name on the borders between turkey and greece and

also bulgaria tasher an update from you. once these migrants and refugees behind me left their country they're used to being mistreated to having to wait for long periods of time not knowing what's next and they're used to being patient but they're telling us stories that show and explain why they are angry frustrated and have a lot of concern we're in a village called to iraq and you see this river bank behind me full of families and single people who've been camped out for the last several days they're camped out here because as you can see if it's along a river it's called the merchant river on the other side is green it's a short distance by boat it's about a football field away but as we're hearing it's become a rather arduous journey we spoke to a few syrian refugee men who made that journey they said that they paid a smuggler about $25.00 to head across to the greek border they said in fact that

greek soldiers were taunting them telling them to come across motioning to them they said once they reach the other side of the river they were arrested they say that the greek authorities took their money their mobile phones and their vital documents and deported them they're now back here and despite the obstacles they've already faced in the obstacles and daunting task of trying to cross into europe they said they're going to wait it out and try once again to cross into greece on the frontlines there of the syrian migration story that is natasha going to thank you natasha we're moving on now south korea's president says he is declaring war against the coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases there posses 5 sols and monday and has ordered all government agencies to get into court emergency mode soldiers have been deployed to disinfect areas of the city at the epicenter of south korea's upright which is the biggest outside of china almost 30 people have

died. there will be the country has entered war against the infectious disease as the crisis in daegu in north korea on book province has reached the highest point. please operate all organizations of the government 24 hours by switching to the emergency operation system in till we are out of the crisis. brian with us now from seoul to bring a small rubber what does it actually mean to declare war on a virus in practical terms. it actually really means that south korea is now almost on a wartime footing in dealing with this move president moon j m a clearly believing that the crisis facing the country requires a national efforts to overcome it now if this war time analogy holds up then the battle front if you like is still around the city of daegu in the southeast of the country and also in surrounding towns and villages that's where we're seeing

continuing to see these clusters of new infections literally hundreds every day with no sign of any let up the medical resources there are being stretched to the limits the government is opening up medical community treatment centers these are basically temporary centers converted government buildings or community centers where people can go and get to basically a certain level of treatment especially if their symptoms are not not too severe where maybe they can be then allowed to go home or as is often the case then if their conditions deteriorate to be put into hospital but hospital resources beds in wards and that are designed to treat infectious diseases are becoming more and more scarce so what this allows the government to do is to put its agencies on 24 hour alert basically to be worked around the clock if need be because the government

still says that we are at a critical point here in south korea if this is going to be beaten then it will have to be beaten within the next few days in the meantime the government has also announced various measures to try to stimulate this suffering economy the measures that have been announced last week are also new measures announced this week which will have to be ratified by basically a supplemental budget which will have to be put through the country's national assembly will put the billions. of u.s. dollars in fact around $25000000000.00 u.s. dollars into the economy not only to tackle the virus but to try to overcome the long term impact of this outbreak thank you for those updates rob mcbride in seoul of course this virus continues to spread globally saudi arabia to senegal now will reporting cases but interestingly new infections in china are falling the tory case and has a report. in the chinese city where the corona virus outbreak started health officials

say there's been a drop in new cases for the 1st time in 6 weeks it's closing one of we had 60 new hospitals that were built in january to cope with the increase in patients because of it 19 continues to spread elsewhere the world health organization says 9 times as many cases were reported outside china within 24 hours it says the best defense is still containment we are in unchartered territory we have never seen before this point to you and that's comparable of community transmission but at the same time which can also be contained with the right measures the 3 countries worst affected outside china are south korea iran and italy rome is preparing a stimulus program to help the country's economy in venice the canals which are

usually packed with tourists are deserted it's a day's tourism board reports more than 90 percent of travel bookings have been cancelled in the capital. scientists in the united states are racing towards finding a vaccine president don't trump told pharmaceutical bosses he wants results within months today we're meeting with the pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies the biggest in the world most prestigious the ones that get down to the bottom line very quickly to discuss how the federal government can accelerate the development of vaccines and therapeutic treatments for the coronavirus u.s. scientists say the rollout of a coronavirus vaccine is at best a year and a half away victoria gates and b. al-jazeera. let's have a look at what's coming up for you on this news hour former u.s. vice president joe biden's white house bid picks up steam former rivals are now endorsing him on the eve of the crucial super tuesday primary votes and in sports

didn't end well for the houston rockets in basketball actually coming up with our own a little to. his resurrection now with most of the votes counted prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his allies are in the lead but the right wing bloc is still one vote short of securing a parliamentary majority remember this is the 3rd general election in less than a year after months of political deadlock and support from our forces in tel aviv. benjamin netanyahu is spent much of the last year experiencing failure and defeat failure to hold together his right wing block after the 1st election defeat in the 2nd and indictment for corruption in 3 separate cases now at last a sense of victory time you've done it then you know it's a victory against all odds a rival said that the netanyahu error is over but we join forces and turn the

tables and we turn lemons into lemonade more nada. after a campaign that plumb the depths of negativity and dirty tricks netanyahu is closing message was that he was just short of victory and needed his supporters to finish the job personally ringing voters from a roll of supporters who hadn't yet gone to the polls for now though he appears to be just short of majority coalition within his party he's not going to have any people that are detracting from him or challenging him and now yes to try and see to work together and it could be and i've said the 1st election also that a national unity government between likud and blue and white would be a very real possibility except this time i'm not so sure who's going to be heading blue and white at blue and white headquarters they're being dark whispers throughout the day the things we looked. bleak after a campaign which had seen benny gantz shift slightly to the right but failed to match the energy of his opponent. i will tell you honestly i understand and share the feeling of disappointment in hind because it is not the result we wanted and if

this will be the result it is not the result that will put israel back on the right track gansa distanced himself from the mainly palestinian israeli joint list alliance who might have enabled against minority government but even their record showing with up to 15 seats wasn't enough to win them real influence what you. believe is the result could well be more consequential the palestinians in the occupied west bank that no promise that victory would allow him to stop the annexation setout under the terms of the trump peace plan. israelis might not have wanted this 3rd election but they did turn out in their highest numbers for more than 20 years more than 4000 people voted its special stations set up for those quarantined for the coronavirus keen to cure israel of its repeat election syndrome now for the consequences including a possible supreme court battle over whether an indicted politician can legally try to form

a government in 2 weeks the man on this stage goes on trial for bribery fraud and breach of trust benny gantz is spend a year trying to convince and ultimately failing to convince israelis that they cannot be led by a prime minister under indictment throughout benjamin netanyahu is be delaying maneuvering and dodging and now he has again prevailed kerry force at al-jazeera television. say is the team covering this story for us need to abraham in will be with you shortly starting with imran khan though in west jerusalem emraan what has benjamin netanyahu got to do now is getting extraordinarily close. what is that 60 seats where the about 73 percent of the vote being counted and he just needs one more to get that magic number of 61 and get him over the line and be able to form a government now normally israel is all about coalition building but benjamin netanyahu already has a bloc he's already built a coalition which has got him so that 60 so he just needs one more m.k.

one more member of parliament now instead of building a coalition and trying to get in another political party what we're hearing is he's going to just try and get somebody to defect from another political party and join him there are a number of names being bandied around but it looks like in the next coming hours he will try and do this very quickly and get that name to come out of announce it which then puts president pressure on president rivlin to actually say today ok you can now go and form a government that's the process so all of this might happen quite quickly he is very very close however it's not over like my colleague kerry force that was just reporting he's under indictment in 3 different court cases one of them which begins on march 17th and there are a number of his political opposition who say well actually as an indicted prime minister he's unfit for public office thank you imran khan in west jerusalem before

we talk to knead abraham let's hear from the palestinians chief negotiator he says the election results mean further an extension of palestinian land results we're hearing it's obvious. settlements and accession apartheid have won the elections in israel and now in an extended. me an accession there is their joint american very team that's working on it and that would only mean one thing it would mean that i think that conflict is what provide israel security prosperity. so near to what can the palestinians do about this obviously everything that happens in israeli politics affects them but the way it was talking there is seems quite sort of resigned to the idea of an explosion he we spoke to him this morning and he says the palestinians have really little to do and they're calling upon the international community to hold an international peace

conference whereby the u.s. is no longer the sole mediator off the peace process in the hopes that the international law will be implemented here now of course these are the 3rd this radio elections in a year but they are the 1st after the u.s. president donald trump released his plan for the middle east peace and it has been rejected by the palestinians they say it allows for parts of jerusalem to be the capital and not east jerusalem itself as the capital as well as allowing israel to grab more land and we've seen the. israeli prime minister promising to annex parts of the jordan valley as well as parts of the occupied west bank including the jordan valley as well as the israeli settlements and they fear that now is the time for him to make good on his promise given that he's been according to the polls given more votes from the israeli public so we've heard now from

the palestinian prime minister how much they have saying that it's clear now that the israeli public is moving increasingly to the right truth is that whoever had won this election. would anything really of change for the palestinians and israel is on a very set path at the moment. in that we heard this a lot from palestinian officials who were arguing that really none of the main 2 can then there is had ending the occupation on their agenda however the fear here among palestinians is that there has been a very close relationship between the u.s. and israel lately namely between the u.s. president dilma trump himself and the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is moved the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem is done a couple of steps that palestinians feel that we're done just to support an ateneo including the release of the plan which came right before the israeli election it was seen here is a move from the u.s. president to help benjamin netanyahu is so as far as palestinians are concerns

there are no illusions when it comes to the peace process than the progress however they fear how much things could get worse given the closeness of relationship ships now between the u.s. and israel thank you need a bring him in ramallah so voting is finished in israel but due to start in about an hour's time for some states in the united states as super tuesday begins on the democratic party's race for the white house biden got another boost after winning the south carolina primary at the weekend the former vice president's now one the endorsement of 2 candidates who dropped out that is. and former mayor. 14 states are voting on tuesday to choose the democratic challenger to republican donald trump. folks you know just a few days ago the press and the pundits declared this campaign dead the bright side throughout the summer december was sexism and some of it

wasn't easy said he was it was i'm looking for a president who will draw out what is best in each of us and i'm encouraging everybody who is part of my campaign to join me because we have found that leaders in vice president soon to be president joe biden was more now on super tuesday and what's at stake with priyanka gupta. it's a long race to the white house and in a packed calendar of an election year the one day that stands out is super tuesday this year 14 states across the country plus the u.s. surge of american some more are voting for their preferred choice of democratic candidates and 13 states are voting for their republican nominee democrats abroad are also voting on the democratic side it's a crowded field of 5 hopefuls including former vice president joe biden senators

bernie sanders and elizabeth warren and former new york mayor mike bloomberg on the republican side it's donald trump who wants a 2nd term in office was is his main challenger former governor william weld and it's all about the delegates whoever gets the most ends up becoming the party nominee for the democrats that magic number is 1991 and for the republicans it's 1276 and more there is a lot at stake the super tuesday at least for the democrats 2 of america's most populous states california and texas with lot chunks of pledged delegates are voting their $1357.00 total democratic delegates up for grabs so what happens on super tuesday can make or break the race for some democratic hopefuls in the foregoing weeks and months or be more primaries and caucuses all leading to the democratic national convention in milwaukee in july and republican convention in

charlotte north carolina late august that's when delegates will gather to formally nominate their official candidates for november's presidential election. and full coverage tonight on al-jazeera of course right now though a look at the weather with richard and flooding in rio yes i mean it's not entirely unexpected events come out the time the effect is quite a wet month across rio but we've had this an area of low pressure enough frontal system affecting the city commit some really heavy rain now the system is actually still there and i we can see it get into the clear up process because the heaviest the rain was cheering the course of sunday seen see the sort of effects the brain produced and quite a bit of devastation really just showing the extent of the running water through the city where things are to say are gradually expected to improve and of course let's not forget that rain is need in that part of the world the demand for water is great so the reservoir swards some polar will take any rain which is going into

the shower it is moving a little bit more and not direction over the next 12 to 24 hours a real source in the potential for showers both in the showers which do feel will be considerably lighter and indeed that low pressure system begins to move away into the south atlantic as we head into the caribbean region we've seen some significant flooding taking place in parts of the dominican republic in the south frontal system sea stretching there out across the audience has been given a continuous feed of heavy rain look at the forecast still something like 20 to 25 millimeters of rain to come but as we head on through into wednesday we should find the rain clearing up and the weather improving kamau richard and with the weather there thank you very much richard still ahead here on the scenes of the war in libya how tribal loyalties 'd are now being put to the test. also the prime minister accused of murdering his wife and little scandal in the suit do is making an even harder for many to put food on the table and sport foul ball that a major league baseball preseason game takes

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the 1st of a 2 part epic tale of a remarkable family. the father the son and the jihad caught one on al-jazeera. on the news on here at al-jazeera and these are the top stories 8 civilians killed in an explosion in italy city in syria it's believed to be an improvised explosive device also turkish forces have shot down a syrian government warplanes in the province. south korea's president has ordered all government agencies into emergency mode after he declared war on coronavirus

these 28 people have died in south korea and more than 5000 people have been infected and with most of the votes counted from israel's general election prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his allies are in the lead the. wing blog looks like it's still short of securing a parliamentary majority meaning political deadlock could yet continue. libya now the united nations special envoy for libya son solavei has resigned he says his efforts to bring peace were damaging his health and he can no longer cope with the stress saddam i spent 2 and a half years trying to reunite libyans in april will want honey for half to launch his operation to take the capital from the internationally recognized government's place talks broke down last week which prompted some of my to question how committed the international community actually was to ending the conflict in libya did i get the kind of support needed since then. i need much more support. they don't need to be in the room the dialogue is libya

libya and i would not change my mind on that but they have many ways on putting pressure on those who violate the ceasefire on those who violate the arms embargo on those who do not come to geneva a political battle on those who give orders to sabotage the military or the political will equip they could be doing all this did they do it the way they committed to do it my and. one of the other issues is tribal identity and loyalties play a fundamental role in libyan society and some reconciliation between groups has been possible but as the conflict goes on there are fears cracks may be forming again child structure but this report now from tripoli. the bullet holes in destruction a testament to the ferocity of

a tribal battle the city of zawiyah in western libya sure heavy fighting following the revolution that overthrew libya's long time ruler former gadhafi 9 years ago the fighting was between pro and anti good after tribes. since then into tribal dialogue has broad agreement and relative calm look about this they sat down to make concessions on issues that may have fueled that conflict that's the main reason why we survived. with tribal loyalties are being tested again as the civil war shows no sign of ending some areas close to zawiya heavily populated by tribes loyal to khalifa haftar. the warlord launched a military campaign to seize power from the un backed government in tripoli in april his forces control around 70 percent of the country is often heavy fighting in the southern neighborhoods of the capital. of this forces shell the only operational international airport in tripoli virtually every day. to the

west in a port town inhabited by mainly baba tribes on the choosier border leaders say have to is trying to galvanize support among arab tribes and his fighters have been seen trying to surround the area. in the last couple of days we have no to suspicious activity it's a military the 1st minute on the outskirts after surveillance in the city there has been a general mobilization of security forces and resources have been allocated to counter the. in january pro have to tribes force the closure of libya's main all infrastructure in eastern libya depriving the u.n. backed government of billions of dollars in revenue tribal loyalties are now being tested to the west of tripoli softness forces try to open a new front in the chaos that this country has suffered since the revolution that overthrew mama gadhafi in 2011 reconciliation between certain tribes was only

possible because of the great effort of tribal leaders and civil society groups the repeated failure of u.n. sponsored ceasefire talks means fail is a growing among many libyans that tribal divisions are being exploited again. al-jazeera tripoli. another note on libya the internationally recognized government in tripoli is causing nearly $30000000000.00 from its 2020 budget due to an oil blockade finance minister. said the cuts wouldn't impact what he called sensitive areas like health and education forces loyal to the will of $24.00 have to have blockaded several major ports and oil facilities since mid january just a quick word on this with mama doublewide our correspondent in tripoli tell us about impact mahmoud how bad things already are economically for people in libya and then what's this cost and budget could do. apparently it's getting worse and the finance minister here today in this press

conference in tripoli is another is raising another alarm warning of what the large the u.n. bag the prime minister wanted of before about an imminent catastrophic financial crisis in case the oil blockade continues as you know that the minister mentioned that they are cutting. a 2020 budget to 40000000000 dinars which to about. $2828000000000.00 this is a major drop in the budget as we have been noticing during the past 2 years it was over than that but because of the oil blockade can the continuous oil blockade by forces loyal to the warlords leave for half that it seems that many people are going to pay the price as you know come out of that oil revenues are the back bone

of libya's national income entered presents about 40. 94 percent of the country's gross domestic production and about one 3rd of the population in libya it is mainly on salaries from the government and the minister today is warning that there are people who might not be able to receive this salaries because the central bank of libya is not responding to the minister's multiple requests of dispersing the sellers now the central bank is not stating any response but we know that the chairman of the central bank of libya said before that they do not have liquidity to pay they said it is as a said that the oil production has dropped dramatically over the past 2 months because of the oil. imposed by forces loyal to the warlords for have to on the oil

terminals and installations in the east of the country and oil production dropped dramatically from 1200000 barrels a day to only 120000 barrels a day and the losses according to the state oil the national oil corporation is to made at our end more than $2000000000.00 the losses because of the oil blockade come out ahead in tripoli thank you for that let's return now to the wider issue of well peace and unity in libya with us now nonresident scholar at the middle east institute he's on skype from florence today thank you for your patience with us while we came to you look. at the u.n. envoy resigning due to stress probably not a huge surprise it's an incredibly stressful job and all of these u.n. envoys have had to try to find peace in yemen and syria these are arduous jobs what do you think he actually did manage to achieve in these past 2 years. the question

if you look at things objectively from the libyan local libyans in libya right now he hasn't been able to achieve much in terms of improving improvement of their situation but i don't think it would be a useful approach to scapegoat mirror or blame it blaming him exclusively for libya's problems woodshop and unfortunately tends to happen because i think it through look there were other things. well he says that he didn't get enough support from the international community and i mean he said quite openly is that a fair assessment that. the world didn't come to the party enough to help him out. absolutely i think this is this is a man perhaps if you compare him with the other previous as far as g. understood libya more made more efforts unfortunately he came at a maybe a critical juncture where. a lot of international as they say even european states

were deploying policies that were counterproductive in terms of what he was aiming to do because they were deploying very short term is policies that guaranteed their own interests whether it be in security migration counterterrorism etc but didn't really feed into a process of stabilization or political process that he was trying to spearhead so unfortunately these 2 things i think came clashing and i think the thing that is most illustrated of that perhaps is the launch of half those attacks last year which was launch while the special while until a new terrorist was in libya preparing for the national conference no condemnation nothing was said on the back of an fortunately and that reflects a broken system to a certain extent and it happens when i say i'm a struggle but it happened again no new recently didn't it that the talks are happening in geneva meanwhile have to us forces launched an attack in tripoli so

again you've got to have i mean whoever is in this job presumably someone else will take up this job now they need cooperation from from both sides. yeah absolutely i think the other what i was going to mention the other fuss is 1st of all the geneva talks or any really talks that have been happening abroad but most recently i think this is where we've seen the stocks completely divorced from reality in libya unfortunately and this is where we've seen the international stage nor no longer will there be regional players or others they don't really bother anymore to have plausible deniability they don't even care to hide their interventionism they openly flown in our fortunately the p 5 is not taking action against them the 5 seats of the security council this bypassing resolution after resolution whether it be the arms embargo the writ the resolution after berlin we haven't seen any even intention to sanction or apply some courtrooms so at the end of the day with an s

r g that only has carrots but no sticks only do so much and i think that's what may be stressed them out so in your view and this is sort of one of those ideal world ideas how well what would be the major step to trying to solve the libya problem i'm thinking about other conflicts another part of the world we see the taliban peace deal or a moment trying to bring them in trying to cooperate with them is there room for cooperation in libya when you've got as i pointed out someone like khalifa haftar who is openly trying to take over a capital city by force. i don't think that the 2 things are done i mean the models of enter the dialogue are really comparable because what's been happening in libya is they fucked go trying to accommodate or in the process of our share it and i don't think that he's made it very clear that he doesn't want that unfortunately we don't seem to have the multilateral level the institutional memory over the past

let's say 6 years to remember year after year especially with and if there is gd being in another coming in and trying to reboot this process they're all have been trying to do the same thing and getting at the end of the day faced with a similar ish i would say problem. so it would be different very difficult from my perspective at least to accommodate a healthier in a power sharing mechanism that doesn't mean that nothing can be done however i think more forceful forceful diplomacy i would be ideal. i think there is an increase in the need for the limit if you have another the full circle but i am part of acknowledgment that we might need some form of at least multilateral intervention to all the cure in all kinds of and stabilize the situation because unless there is some coercion or less there is some form of deterrence this won't stop so. bad he had joining us from florence such talking to what's happening in libya thank you matt thank you. china and the united states stepping up their

war over the media china's government is threatening retaliation for the united states which is causing the number of visas for chinese journalists working in america the u.s. says the visa cap on for state run media organizations follows years of intimidation and harassment of foreign journalists in china 3 wall street journal reporters were expelled last month. in columbia both pro and anti abortion supporters are vowing to continue their fight for change this is after judges decided to leave restrictive laws as they are. yet he has the story now from bogota . throughout the day supporters and opponents of abortion faced off in front of colombia's highest court. pro-choice activists hope magistrates would give women the right to terminate pregnancies i thought to 16 weeks in the end the court chose to leave abortion laws as they are. with the court lost an opportunity to let

women's rights but at the same time we are happy that the last. attempt to take away our rights question actually says that there are 3 grounds for abortion in colombia opponents say they already go too far. on article 11 of the constitution says life should never be this honored but there are people who support the shameful reasons no more no more was the latest debate rose from a case seeking a return to a total ban after the court allowed abortion in 3 instances in 2016 if the manderson life is at risk if the fetus is malformed or in case of rape but even in these cases many obstacles remain for women to access the procedure especially if they're poor or live in rural areas the spike the restrictions held totally to say

that at least $400000.00 women terminate their pregnancies every year here in colombia most of them do so we legally and in many cases suffer serious health consequences human rights professor loose and this is one of them she sought an abortion when she was 17 at any legal clinic getting a dangerous infection as a result 15 benefit exists. abortions happen and will keep happening and legally even in 3 legal cases women face undue teles and obstacles and often resort to unsafe options facing more problems and even death was the latest case has intensified an already for years the bait in the country over to legal and moral implication of abortion which both sides promise to keep fighting for i listen. now to the mountain kingdom of southern africa where putting food on the table is

a struggle for so many added to the widespread poverty and high unemployment is the political instability and scandal as the prime minister is accused of murder and is a strange wife family miller has more now on how the leaders courtroom battles contrast with life for so many in the sector. most of lawsuits is 2200000 people live in rural areas like this one in taba bosio in the village of mit along homicide there's electricity but despite there being alongside the mid to long day they don't have running water almost see what sort of mates he lives here with her 5 children and 10 grandchildren their existence is hand to mouth surviving only on her monthly government pension of $50.00 no one in a family has a job. it. feeding these kids is a constant battle there are days where i have nothing and we go without eating anything sometimes i have to ask my neighbors for help sometimes they can help with

one meal other times we go to bed with no food. or government statistics show that almost a quarter of working age people most of them young don't have jobs while the government has implemented reforms to tackle unemployment progress is slow experts say political instability is making matters worse i have been here for 2 years and i have seen very interesting developments. in terms of instability. the prime minister. turns to retire or. have soon forgot. to. do administration the suit too has had a series of military coups and political battles over the last decade prime minister time to barney's under pressure to resign while he says he'll retire within 5 months his leadership has created political tensions especially as police

want to charge him with the $27000.00 murder of his strange didn't 2nd wife to palermo he's 3rd wife my cea has already been charged with the crime members of the governing all pursued to convention party want him gone and 9 discussions to name a successor but the party's divided opposition parties are also calling for to bonnie to go to a 2 year old's leadership was again criticized as parliament prepared to present the latest national budget the world bank says that while poverty in the city has fallen over the last 15 years it's still white sprayed and affix nearly half the population many are concerned that the political instability. loney was the challenges the government's facing many people in the suit to just want their lives to improve but with political infighting looking far from over they may have a long wait for me to. story before we grab

a break vladimir putin is proposing more amendments to russia's constitution it includes an explicit mention of russians faith in god and also defining marriage as only between a man and woman parliaments expected to approve the changes before a nationwide vote next month critics say the changes are all part of the president's campaign to stay in power after his term ends in 2024 sports coming up in a moment with the far an arsenal of bounce back off to their most disappointing defeat of the season football action and the rest of the sport in a moment. you're

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boarder rotavirus nobody from the sporting perspective with tara that's right thank you so much come all asians premier club football competition the asian champions league has been massively disrupted by the corona virus outbreak only one of chooses 8 games will be going ahead as planned will asia's johor da who will tax them will be hosting swan blue wings of south korea in the group stage asia's football authorities have taken measures to deal with the outbreak they announced on monday that the current round will be extended past its scheduled finish in may till the end of june to allow postpone matches to be rescheduled or preparations for tokyo 2020 have suffered yet another setback a test event featuring paralympic wheelchair rugby has been called off in japan because of the virus outbreak it's the 2nd such event to be affected comes as

concerns mount over tokyo's ability to host the summer games of tokyo 2020 organizers and the international olympic committee have stressed that the olympics due to run from july 24th to august 9th are scheduled to go ahead as planned despite the outbreak it looks like rugby union 6 nations championship will be completed in the cummings weeks despite the coronavirus restrictions that have cancelled other events in europe there had been fears that decisive matches in rome in paris would be called off with this week's arlin versus italy fixture already having been postponed but organizers said on monday that they expected all the games to go ahead and less governments decide otherwise. well the n.b.a. has advised players to avoid high 5 ing fans and signing autographs in order to combat the spread of the virus on monday however the houston rockets in a much to high 5 about the new york knicks snap their 6 game winning streak at mass and square garden the knicks are in berra tied his career high 27 points in the

game they held off a late rally by houston russell westbrook scored 24 points but missed a game tying jumper at the buzzer the next winning this 125 to 123. all over in orlando the portland trailblazers to rush the magic 132107 c.j. mccollum managed his season high with 41 points to lead the blazers to the win. where will have the chance to bounce back from their 1st league defeat of the season on tuesday the reds were crushed 3 know by what for it on saturday attended a round of 44 e.p.l. matches unbeaten in our shift their attention to the f.a. cup you're going to club side face 20000 winners chelsea away in the 5th round. i don't think these boys sit there and. of course they want to strike back this is an exceptional group of players so you know they did outstanding stuff look that night

. nor did gave you play against what will go all the rest before arsenal have already booked their respond in the quarter finals of the f.a. cup maybe a 3rd tier side portsmouth 2 no way on monday like liverpool the gunners were also coming off a disappointing defeat to me been knocked out of the europa league last week. he doesn't mean there's a point in and to her they're still there but it's there we have to move on we had to move on today to believe that our city will do with the best in the evening to build the energy that this game requires there is one the rule. a former liverpool striker daniel sturridge has been given a 4 month ban for breaching inventing rules sturges also had his contract with turkish club tribes and or cancelled by neutral consents last year he was given a 6 week ban but the suspension has now been doubled after the english football association appealed the ruling the deal board decided he had passed inside information to his brother over a possible move to civvy

n 28 team sturtz has also been fined a $192000.00 and a video on his you tube channel story 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 in a sense. i just want to say i'm going to continue to campaign for professionals who want to be able to speak to their families close friends really without the. risk of being charged the process of people being able to place bets on players groups to be stopped. although the people. recognise that yeah i have i am better nobody else is better i was still in charge so it was very disappointing save for me to hear the news fallon's hopes of recording their historic win of the women's world

t 20 were wiped out by the weather despite already being out before facing pakistan in their final group game is still out a chance to claim their 1st ever win a tie scoring an impressive 150 for 3 rain however shattering their dreams of the match having to be a bad. and a major league baseball preseason game was marred by a dangerous foul ball tampa bay rays prospect gareth whitney was hit by a foul ball game against the baltimore orioles the 22 year old was struck under his eye while he was sitting in the dugout and mazing levo whitley suffered no serious injuries and has been released from the hospital. ok and that is all your sport for now kyra thanks so much for that another sport up that far in the next hour of 1300 hours g.m.t. i will see you for that and a couple of hours so after the break the latest news right here in the office.

she was black gay i'm from rio de janeiro's her velez. she was also an elected outspoken councilwoman until she was assassinated. people in power investigates the killing of a vocal critic of brazil's security forces and the legacy of empowerment she left behind the murder of mario franco on al-jazeera. once hosni mubarak became president so began

a story of conflict and isolation on one side a wife and son their sights set on succession on the other the president the crease in the distance from the egyptian people when his beloved grandson died mubarak nearly stopped but then the flames ignited in tunisia exploded in egypt and everything changed ever so 2 of the family on al-jazeera. cultura downs drives here every day generations of tibetans continue to brace and be taking their cultural heritage it's a reminder of who they are or whether. this is a suburb of the india capital new delhi tibet so we refugees here since 1964 buttons here have been defined as migrants are not refugees because india hasn't signed up to the 1951 un convention on refugees so tibetans here have been able to access the indian welfare system so they become self-sufficient setting up their

a businesses and looking for work independently but for some it's not enough. my . super tuesday is underway in the democratic race to take old president trump on former u.s. vice president joe biden's white house beds has picked up steam. my. color that i'm hallam had seen and this is al jazeera life in doha also coming up. new developments in the war in syria as an explosion in it live province leaves 8 dead . south korea's president to close war on coronavirus infection rate there is the highest outside of china. and final results.