become self-sufficient such apparent businesses and looking for work independently but for some it's not enough. i. say produce a is under way in the democratic race to take old president transplant former us vice president joe biden's white house beds has picked up steam. my. caliber i'm hallam had seen and this is al jazeera life and 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 on 10 but

that hasn't stopped being human ness and yahoo from claiming victory after israel's latest election. my. well it's a big day in the race to become the democratic nominee for the u.s. presidency super tuesday will see voters in 14 states make their pick on who will challenge don't trump in the election later this year the polls have opens in the 1st states one 3rd of pledged delegates are up for grabs in what could be a decisive moments in the contest former vice president joe biden has had a major boost in the past 24 hours 2 of his rivals former south bend mayor pete but a judge and senator amy club which are have dropped outs and given him their endorsement. folks you know just a few days ago the press and the pundits declared this campaign dead. by

some chance understand. this isn't me saying it was she when she said he was to say. well for other candidates are still in the race including the current front runner senator bernie sanders. i know that there are political differences but i also know that virtually all of the support and peach support on the stand that we have got to move toward a government which believes in just this great. so all of amy and pete's millions of supporters the door is open. let's get more on this now from john neff injure he's a democratic strategist some former communications director for the democratic

national committee and joins us now live from washington d.c. good to have you with us super to say this is one of the biggest things in the calendar when it comes to choosing the presidential nominee a very big field to start with which is say this is now a 2 horse race. it's pretty much a 2 horse race yes i think that's right there are 2 other candidates who have a shot one elizabeth warren hopes that if the 2 main contenders senator sanders and senator biden or former vice president biden can somehow come together that that she could be a consensus choice maybe a divided convention and then there's mike bloomberg who's spending many many millions of dollars also to stay relevant but i think it's basically these 2 these 2 camps there's senator biden's camp or senator sanders camp who's always seen himself as an insurgent within the party and within american politics in general and has a very strong and fervent base supporting him in addition to other people who like

what he's saying and then you have vice president biden who has a advertising himself as having a broader appeal to folks who maybe aren't dyed in the wool democrats but are just tired of all of the chaos that comes with president trump and so there are these 2 contrasting philosophies or approaches that are now on the ballot today in a lot of states well it's not just some biden on the ballot you alluded to it earlier we have lizabeth warren mike bloomberg gobblers i think is also on the ballot is found how much pressure are those 3 candidates going to be to pull aside and just bring this race to. certainly bloomberg and elizabeth warren are under pressure to do exactly what we've seen their british judge do and senator clover charge do which is to stop spoiling the race obviously

anybody who's going to the polls today understands that their prospects for winning at the end of the day aren't nearly as good as sanders and biden and so voters are free to make their own choices but they're going to come under some considerable pressure they're considered spoilers and especially michael bloomberg because he's spending so much of his own money he does have the ability to take people's attention away but it's not clear now that he has a path now he hasn't been on the ballot at all and he states that he skipped the 1st 4 contests that have happened so far this is his 1st time on the ballot so i think if he doesn't do better than he's expected to do today he's going to be under a lot of pressure to drop out and get out of the way for one of the other. candidates sorry to jump in there is there any brutes a told see the presidency for a kansas at like elizabeth warren he hasn't been spending her weights that she has had a fairly steady support base i mean is it over for her now or is there still some

way that another candidate could come out on top. yeah there are her pals are dwindling but not gone yet there are a couple of scenarios one where the convention itself is deadlocked so what the rules say is that there has to be. a majority of the delegates for somebody to win and right now if you have bernie sanders and joe biden getting a lot each getting a lot of the delegates but none quite getting 50 percent because there are some other people who got delegates on the way then if they're deadlocked it is there is a case to be made that senator warren is somebody who can appeal to both sides who are otherwise. not getting along very well let's just put it that way at this point ok well all to play for i know remains to be seen thank you so much on the future

for bringing us your analysis of us be coming back to this story throughout the day thank you. there in syria turkish forces have shot down a syrian government warplane in provence the military says it's part of a new operation against a mosque this in the northwest of the country well it civilians have been killed in an explosion and city which is rebel controlled dozens of others were injured in the blast the syrian government forces our backs of course by russia they've been conducting the strikes on the area for months they've taken control of saraki been the city in the countryside and in southern syria there's also been an increase in fights in their government forces have killed 5 civilians in daraa burned homes and taken dozens of young men to to tensions and says. 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. well that's cool life and i see the turkey syria border seen in cosi all who is that the job goes across and for sin i'm quite a lot of dramatic events taking place not least the dining of syrian government warplane what movie tellers. well according to the turkish defense ministry the plane was shut down today it. it was shut down today actually during an operation that was conducted by the turkish armed forces overnight and along with that plane there are drones that have been shot that there are tanks of the syrian government forces that have been hit by the turkish armed forces right ahead of turkish president jeopardize meeting with the russian president in moscow on march 5 it seems turkey is trying to push more on

the military level to gain leverage on the political side especially on the diplomatic table because turkey is aiming to hurt and actually give harm to syrian government's military intervention a military equipment and military personnel as good as the syrian government also has been suffering from a dire economic situation of course while these are going inside syria hala there is a delegation from the united states here right now they are meeting with the turkish officials. and local governors building the turkish officials are giving our briefing the u.s. delegation about the latest military conditions inside the about the problems health conditions and the dire situation that the i.d.p.'s have been facing since the syrian government forces have intensified their attacks towards the civilians beginning from last december and they will be crossing by us very soon and they

will be meeting with some n.g.o.s mainly the white house are presented to us which is the main rescue organization inside along with some representatives of the local government of. ok simcoe c.e.o. who live for us on the turkey syria border thank you very much for that update. well greece has denied turkey's allegations that its border forces fired on refugees and migrants calling it deliberate misinformation that greece has increased its border security after turkey declared with no longer try to stop people from drinking. johnson oculus reports now from the island of lesbos on the front line of what could become another refugee crisis. 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 to relieve them doc said it didn't sound very good doctor and i am saying that this is very difficult for everyone here said it really not that i'm going for that but what are really 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 boat 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 jumps on. less bus. well that's a good name is on the turkish border with greece she says refugees and migrants at the border are hopeful they'll cross into europe. 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 iran 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 it sits along a river it's called the merchant river on the other side is greece 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 in their vital documents and deported them they're now back here and despite the obstacles that 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. so it's come on i'll just 0 tribal loyalties in libya to the tasks as the conflict shows no signs of slowing. welcome back we're going to start with asia's weather this time in northeastern areas you see because an area of snow developing across the far north of korea into eastern parts of russia another area of low pressure giving some rain across southern parts of japan and the the risk of some snow showers too are for tokyo with a temperature of 10 degrees just some rain so rather contrasting with choose day with sunshine so 30 mishal day heavy rain across more southern parts of china eventually working its way into wards hong kong as i move this forecast on to thursday you see the rain clearing through hong kong taiwan will see some heavy

showers meanwhile across northern parts of china that low pressure system giving blizzard conditions i think across much of a qaida so a fairly miserable day in sapporo further south we're going to see showers in the western part of honshu but again tokyo should be largely sheltered and highs here of 13 degrees across into south asia where the conditions are looking pretty good for the most part wanted to showers down through the western ghats and some rain across northern parts of pakistan and that's likely become more developed as we head on through into thursday standing further towards the south and certainly for new delhi we could see some showers developing here wanted to have a look at the high here of 26 degrees celsius. but. as a weapon of war leaves a very deep scar. scar some rule that the victims men and women

can barely talk about. the only witnesses who can help bring about justice. thomas human rights campaign is in libya investigating since the 2000. and speakable crime on al-jazeera. on the. basis out to sarah to remind all of the headlines this hour super tuesday is under way as 14 u.s. states go to the polls in a crucial day for the democratic presidential primary race former vice presidential choice in a last minute best to his campaign as 2 former wife will stop sights and gave him

their supports 8 civilians have been killed in an explosion in the city is believed to have been an improvised explosive device sun turkish forces shot and syrian government warplanes in the province. israel's right wing blog led by the party of prime minister binyamin netanyahu is leading election results but is still one seat shorts of a majority with most votes counted the likud party and its sound lies have secured 60 seats in the parliament netanyahu has already claimed victory against his main wife or benny gantz but the opposition bloc has so far won $53.00 seats it's the 3rd general election in less than a year after months of political deadlock well the secretary general of the palestine liberation organization says the election results mean further onix ation of palestinian land results we're hearing it's obvious the. settlements and

accession apartheid have won the elections in israel and now the next step will be an accession there is their joint american very team that's working on it and that through not only mean one thing it would mean that mr netanyahu thinks that conflict is what provide israel security and prosperity. well . just one scene showing all the majority that are in this india. well this is quite extraordinary situation what he needs to do now is to get that one person to come and join his party there's 2 ways of doing that you can build another coalition with another political party but that's a lot of wrangling a lot of. deal making all he can just simply get somebody who was a former member of now a member of another party and asked them to join his party giving him 61 seats and

the ability to form a government now he needs. the president rivlin to be able to do that it's likely that. he's going to take that's what he's going to do he's going to find somebody that is frustrated with the party or another party bring them over there's already a couple of names being floated around people their spokesman actually deny that but this is the nature of israeli politics so he's got in his pocket 61 seat season a good position to try to be able to form a government however there is precedent for all of this he got $61.00 seats in april able to form a government he's also under a tremendous amount of pressure right now because of 3 separate corruption cases one of which starts against. the 17th opposition. people have said to him we don't think you're fit for office if you will indictment we need you to fight your case is if you win your court cases come back and be the

prime minister of the country if not you have to leave so there's a lot of politicking still to go on and the opposition parties that likely strategy is to use these court cases to try to hammer out a deal out that makes him sit down but as we've seen this is a man who has survived he has led israel consecutively for 11 years and been in power for 14. many of his life left to play i. thank you very much indeed for giving us the latest from israel. that said korea's president says he's declaring war against the coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases there passes 5000 went in has ordered all government agencies to get into emergency mode soldiers have been deployed to disinfect areas of daegu the city at the epicenter of south korea's i preach that outbreak is now the biggest side of china almost 30 people have died. there will come before the country has

entered war against the infectious disease as the crisis in daegu in north york book province has reached the highest point just hong as a police operate all organizations of the government 24 hours by switching to the emergency operations system in till we are out of the crisis the united nations special envoy for libya has resigned because he says his peace efforts have damaged his health cousin salami says he can't cope with the stress anymore he spent 2 and a half years trying to stop fighting and hopes the 11 month battle by warlord who have there to capture the capital tripoli. salami questions the commitment of the international community to ending the war after peace talks in geneva broke down last week 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

libyan and i will 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 the political people on those who give orders to sabotage the military or the political people because they could be doing all this did they do it the way they committed to do it my answer. and libya's internationally recognized government in tripoli is cutting nearly $30000000000.00 from this year's budget because of lost revenue from oil exports finance minister for terry says sensitive areas such as health and education won't speed heads major ports and all facilities have been book aided by have to us forces since mid january now that's cost the state oil company $2000000000.00 in

the past month alone but tribal identity and loyalty play a fundamental role in libyan society yet some reconciliation between groups has been possible but as the conflict goes on there are fears the visions may be forming stratford reports now from tripoli. the bullet holes in destruction a testament to the ferocity of a tribal battle. the city of zawiya in western libya saw heavy fighting following the revolution that overthrew libya's long time ruler form of gadhafi 9 years ago the fighting was between pro and anti gadhafi tribes since then into tribal dialogue was broad agreement and relative calm when 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. who 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 the us 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 moment 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 forced the closure of libya's main oil 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 soft as 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. but of tribal leaders and civil society groups the repeated failure of u.n. sponsored ceasefire talks means fears are growing among many libyans that tribal divisions are being exploited again. for al-jazeera tripoli. now to the mines in kingdom of the city to in southern africa where putting food on the table is a struggle for many added to the widespread poverty and high unemployment is political instability and scandal as the prime minister is accused of murdering his

a strange wife for me to miller has more on how the leaders courtroom battles contrast with the life for so many of his compatriots. most of the city's 2200000 people live in rural areas like this one in taba bosio in the village of mit along hamas like ali there's electricity but despite there being alongside the metal long day they don't have running water. almost she was still made she 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. if. 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 and. the prime minister. turns to retire. soon forgot. to. do administration the su 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 been sickened 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 body to go to a 2 year old's leadership was again criticised 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 still white sprayed and affix nearly half the population many are concerned that the political instability will only worsen the challenges the government's facing. many people in a 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 al-jazeera must they will assume. and china and the united

states are stepping up their war over the media china's government is threatening retaliation for the u.s. because in the number of visas for chinese journalists working in america the u.s. says the visa kaplan 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. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines super tuesday is under way as 14 u.s. states go to the polls in a crucial day for the democratic presidential primary race former vice president joe biden also based as to why those strong tides and gave them their support 8 civilians have been killed in an explosion and it led city it's believed to have been an improvised explosive device and turkish forces have shocked and syrian

government warplane in the province symon course we all know has more from the border crossing at turkey and syria border. poured into the turkish defense ministry the plane was shut down today it well it was shut down today actually during an operation that was conducted by the turkish armed forces overnight and along with that plane there are drones that have been shot that there are at tanks of the syrian government forces that have been hit by the turkish armed forces right ahead of turkish present regard oz meeting with the russian president in moscow on march 5. israel's right wing blog led by the party of prime minister binyamin netanyahu is leading election results but is still one seat short of a majority with most of the votes counted the could party and its allies have secured 60 seats in the parliament the opposition bloc has so far won 53 seats

south korea's president has ordered all government agencies into emergency mode after declaring war on the coronavirus at least 28 people have died there are more than 5000 people have been infected and iran has reporters another 11 people have died from the corona virus the death toll there and i stands at 77 the highest number outside of china the united nations special envoy for libya has resigned because he says his peace efforts damaged his health doesn't salami says he can't cope with the stress anymore spent 2 and a half years trying to stop fighting and hope the 11 month battle by war let her have to to capture the capital tripoli that ship today stay with us and i'll just say you are inside story is up next.

should public transport be free luxembourg becomes the 1st country to abolish fares for everyone is that the solution to traffic jams and pollution but will the cost of a ticket be paid in other ways this is inside story. and i welcome to the program i'm nick clegg in many cities public transport is often the easiest and cheapest way to get around it's more environmentally friendly because petrol and diesel cars are on the right it's also free if you visit luxembourg it's the 1st country in the world to make public transport 0 cost for everybody but not everyone is on board that selects you have brought in.