al-jazeera. hello i'm compelled this is the use on live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes turkish forces shoot down a 3rd syrian warplanes his government troops trying to advance deeper into rebel held its. own john hendren in charlotte north carolina we're voting on super tuesday it is already underway. around considers drafting the military to fight coronavirus as and never more people die of the epidemic that killed over 3000 people won't. and netanyahu claims victory after israel's latest election but it does not get to have the numbers for

a majority. and this board to pass and then pick minister says the tokyo game that could be delayed until later in the year but olympic bosses insist the event is still on course to begin in july despite the corona virus outbreak. turkey has shot down a syrian warplane over it live in the northwest as government forces try to advance deeper to capture the last major rebel held area oh it's the 3rd syrian fighter jet downed in 3 days turkey's escalating campaign is threatening to bring it to direct confrontation with the syrian government's ally russia the violence is taking an increasingly heavy toll on civilians 8 people were killed in an explosion in a blip city elsewhere fighting is intensifying in the south it's happening in the raw despite

a cease fire that's been in place there since 2018 there are reports of at least 5 people have been killed. well hashem about it joins us now from have time i on the turkey syria border hashem just bring us up to speed what's happening there on the ground while the operation spring shilled is in full swing in the northwest some province of idlib where the turkish military releasing new footage of what it says were attacks targeting different government positions they were basically targeting i mean this in depose vehicles tanks heavy weaponry and defense systems in the area in a clear attempt by the turkish military to stop these syrian military from further moving forward to worse the city of aired live but some south of the top of the province of idlib fighting intensifies as the syrian army is trying to recapture

more areas in that particular stronghold of the opposition and this is something which is likely to further exacerbate the situation in the area and it seems that as we are moving forward to words the 5th of march where president as it is going to meet for dinner put in the his russian counterpart about the need to implement a cease fire a demarkation line and a buffer zone it seems that every party is trying this particular crucial moment to gain more control 'd of the territory. and make it part of his own. defense line has and there's been a lot of focus on the people who have gotten through turkey onto turkey's border with greece people who are trying to get through to the e.u. what about those people who have fled the fighting in edler province who are near to turkey's border with syria what's the situation there. today in their visit to the border area of the u.s.

special envoy to syria james jeffrey and the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. kelly craft spoke about the need to implement an immediate cease fire to allow civilians return to their own homes and to alleviate their suffering is and they also announced that the trumpet ministration is contributing more than $100000000.00 to uncertain the the needs of the people of the situation further deteriorates but we're talking about a fast moving situation where the syrian army now seems to be adamant it will continue its push in those areas which is a resulting in thousands of more civilians fleeing their areas our stringers operating in northwestern syria have been in touch with families and people who have been travelling on foot from the rural areas of hammer that's southern part of it if they've been walking long distances they came under rocks they have been on the move and each time they arrive to a city they were told this is no longer

a safe area you have to move forward to the point where you have now hundreds of thousands of people moving to the buffer zone to the border area with turkey some of them building their makeshift tents on it just by the minute military found the fans that was built by the turkish government in the past along the border with turkey sr a very critical situation now the international aid international community aid agencies n.g.o.s are moving to start delivering aid but now against the backdrop of the intensified fighting i think it's going to be extremely difficult for them to reach out to all those people who are affected just to give you an idea about how the situation is very dire for the family. how can not afford to get turned from international aid agencies they have to buy it's cost something between $200.00 to $350.00 a most of those families the tell us they cannot afford to buy those stones so just gives you an idea about the about the situation over there know in the border with

turkey really does admit it makes a very real thank you for that that's has bought of their life from half time russia's foreign ministry has put out a series of statements defending the syrian government offensive in its live it's describing the battle as a fight against terrorism the turkish president is hashem mentions traveling to moscow for talks with russian president vladimir putin on thursday sept 1st and has more. 2 days before an important meeting here in moscow between flooding they put in a turkish breast and tire berta one foot in spokesman dmitri pascoe says that he hopes that constant coordination between the turkish and russian military will minimize a clash between the 2 countries the meeting comes amid heightened tensions between russia and turkey in italy in syria and erdogan has said that he hopes that during the talks which are already being described as going to be very difficult he hopes that the ceasefire will be a great foot in only agreed to meet or the one after tens of turkish soldiers were

killed in the last week and also turkey started an offensive against the syrian forces initially erdogan had invited quitting to come to istanbul but the meeting now will take place here in moscow which can be seen as a diplomatic win for the russian president and a lot of meeting which was also supposed to take place this week between erdogan put in and german chancellor angela merkel and french president a minor well mark on has not been confirmed by put in but his spokesman sassed that putin is willing to meet with iranian president rouhani and erdogan in the so-called style now formally soon basque of also responded to where you and report from the commission on syria which has accused russia of for war crimes against civilians in syria and the task of says that these allegations are on untrue and he calls the report one sided. well the e.u.

has promised $800000000.00 to greece to deal with a refugee in migrants from turkey as a techie said it will allow hundreds of thousands of people to pass through greece and bulgaria have stepped up security on their side of the land border with turkey the greek coast guard is now actively repelling boats trying to get to it so iman's across the eastern mediterranean route his decision to open the borders breaches an agreement it made with the e.u. in 2016 to resettle refugees and stop them from crossing into europe turkey now hosts around 4000000 refugees and says it cannot cope with any more people fleeing the violence in a blip it's on joins me now live from the greek island of lez boss john i believe just in the last hour the greek pm has spoken once he had to say. the greek prime minister stressed the need for a common asylum policy it's been one of his main causes in the european union since

he came to power 8 months ago he said that we have not used our time wisely since the last refugee crisis the time has come for us to do this we need to show we are sharing the burden affectively and to show innovation we cannot leave the burden pushed on to the so shoulders of external you member states this is a cry of help from europe's mediterranean coast that the external border countries cannot be gatekeepers to europe without solidarity and support from the rest of the continent let's listen to what he had to say this is a blatant attempt by turkey to use desperate people to promote his jew political agenda and to divert attention from the horrible situation in syria the 10s of thousands of people who tried to and to greece over the past few days did not come from it live they have been living safely in turkey for

a long period of time most of them speak turkish fluently and europe will not be blackmailed by turkey over the refugee issue. john you're on the island of as possible have seen a steady stream of people arriving there on of that past 2 days is that continuing or is it showing signs of slowing down. yes it is and the reason we're standing here at the passenger port is that just moments ago there was a police operation to clear away. some dozens of afghan young men who were trying to climb this fence behind me and get on to that ferry which is leaving for us and shortly the police just swept the area clean they've chased people up into the hills it shows you and we saw earlier similar scenes how badly these people want to get off the island to move further 'd inland move on to the greek mainland cross over into other parts of europe and begin their lives

a lot of these young men in their teens they haven't finished school many of them have dreams of going to university becoming engineers becoming doctors they want to follow careers their families have sacrificed and or savings to send them here on their own because they count all the full to come over and this is their chance this is their one chance to make something of themselves and to save their families the harsh reality however is that on the european side the risk the loss of the numbers is seen as overwhelming and you can see the desperation through the number of regimes that exist here in greece alone there are the people who have been crossing over for 5 years who have been allowed to apply for asylum in the normal manner there's a 2nd category of people who applied for asylum since january 1st when a new asylum law took effect here in greece and they are being fast tracked and

they're supposed to be processed in 2 months so they've been given priority because this is part of an effort to increase the number of returns of rejected asylum seekers so those deportees can be sent back to turkey quickly. and now there's a new regime since turkey opened its borders on february 27th of people who won't be considered for asylum or tool and those people are now being kept 20 yards away from me behind this fence in the port area they're going to be shipped back to athens tomorrow we're told although it isn't a final plan it is the intention of the greek or thirty's to keep them in detention and not to give them a chance to apply for asylum because they're considered part of a turkish policy that is against europe rather than as people who've crossed over as free individuals think that that's john psaropoulos there live from lisbon us movie is already there is a refugee or specialists at the university of reading he joins us now live from

rating good to have you on the program. the e.u. commission's president on the main stage that the e.u. will give greece all of the support it needs in terms of what's happening at greece's border with turkey but greece as we just heard there is continuing to 10 people back so what should we take from that message of support what is the e.u. actually likely to do in real terms to help these people. yes. so the prime minister of greece said something that is correct which is that since the refugee crisis and 2015 europe has has not come together to form a policy of responsibility sharing that alleviate some of the but otherwise disproportionately falls on from tier states such as greece and italy there was a emergency relocation scheme that was going to read okayed about 120000 people from both italy and greece and even those 'd places haven't fully been met and no

permanent scheme has been put in place so he's absolutely right that the european union hasn't stepped to the plate and doesn't yet seem to be doing so he's course wrong that the consequence is that if somebody is seeking protection in greece which is a member of the european union and bound by e.u. law then they can be on that basis turned away and so and so do european commission's president may be willing to provide greece with his financial support with all the gods but that's not actually what greece and what refugees need what is needed is a european agreement for genuine solidarity and responsibility sharing across the e.u. and that is that is really the mission of the european commission if it wants to genuinely help greece rotters and 8 writers and help greece fend off for fiji's it's got to come back to that point you you made are i remember covering in

brussels at the time when the plan was agreed on that i think with $130000.00 people would be resettled from italy and greece there was so much fanfare at the time why hasn't that been implemented why hasn't that worked out. well the reality is it was 1st of all a genuine resistance from several european union states to the resolution for the reset for the read ok sion itself so hungary the czech republic slovakia and poland have said initially they're not going to cooperate and that is even led the european commission to launch a infringement proceedings against them in the european court of justice afterwards other european countries which have normally said they'll cooperate have really been very sluggish in offering relocation spaces in their in their countries and so what was supposed to happen very quickly and and for automatically

a fairly small moderate number if we compare it to 3700000 refugees that are in turkey so we're talking about 120000 people across the continent or a european union region of over 500000000 people what was supposed to happen fairly quickly rapidly hasn't actually fully materialize and some people read ok to it but the numbers haven't reached 120000 over the course of a couple years and then the attempt to use that to basis of the emergency relocation scheme to create a permanent basis for. relocating refugees across the european union on an equitable basis that takes into account g.d.p. per capita unemployment the capacity of countries to absorb refugees etc that scheme that was proposed has effectively been stalled coming to the last european parliamentary elections and it hasn't been resurrected says thank you for your analysis sense through these i know there are

a refugee nor specialist at the university of reading thank you. but more ahead on the news all including planes grounded staff put on paid leave rotavirus oppressions the struggling global airline industry. and in sport the professional cyclists being forced to take a unique approach to staying fit santa will be here with that story. it is super tuesday in the united states the biggest day in the democratic presidential campaign vote is in 14 states are deciding who they want to take on donald trump in november each state allocates delegates who will decide on their candidate at the democratic national convention in july more than a 3rd of the total delegates are up for grabs john hendren joins me now live from charlotte north carolina one of the states holding primaries i was interested the

mayor of charlotte has backed bloomberg one of the predictions there. well the predictions were all made before the race changed really dramatically so what happened is over the past 48 hours you had pete new judge bail out of the race and amy closed which are both of them have backed joe biden there was a poll that came out just a day ago a day before the polls open that said lead the leading candidate was bernie sanders that michael bloomberg was 2nd showing that he has made some impact in that joe biden was 3rd there are other polls that have differed but the bottom line is that it doesn't matter what any of those polls say anymore because nobody knows where those voters for people to judge and amy close which are will go the race has been narrowed down to 5 candidates with the exception of gabbert who hasn't made a real impact here she's a bit younger the rest of them are all white and over 70 years old so there are some similarities in this race and it's a test of

a number of things the test of the bloomberg candidacy he has not been on the ballot in any of the previous 4 states so this will be the 1st chance for voters to get to see whether he will make an impact on this race right now what the biden campaign is hoping to do is make this a race between him the moderate and bernie sanders the liberal but bloomberg is also a moderate and he may have an impact on that race and there's another problem here for many people and that is that 800000 people just here in the state of north carolina have voted early so that means they could have voted for people like people to judge and amy close this is the ballot people dead it was made weeks ago and it has 15 names on them presumably some people have already voted in advance for these people and presumably some people may vote for them still probably not enough to cross the 15 percent threshold which would grant them some delegates but another thing here is that north carolina is the test for joe biden and that's because it's not terribly dissimilar from south carolina where he won

a massive victory this state is about the democratic voters are about one 3rd. african-american joe biden has done well with african-americans and it's also a well educated state so if he does well here it coud indicate that he's going to do well in the other super tuesday states that represent 30 percent of the delegates in this democratic race i think that that's john hendren there live from charlotte north carolina makes has to with more on how super tuesday works and why it's so important. 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. search of american some more are voting for their preferred choice of democratic candidate 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 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 the 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. elizabeth anchor is associate professor of american studies and political science at george washington university and she joins us now from d.c. really good to have you on the program now that kliptown booted jobs are out we're seeing i've heard we're seeing it coming together behind the moderates explain to me what that means and how that might play out across the sea for tuesday states well as you know the democratic primary was actually quite messy with a lot of candidates with a lot of different political positions and now that we see kind of the 2 front runners who seem to be bernie sanders who's representing a more progressive vision for both the democratic party and for the country and joe biden who is representing a more moderate vision we've seen the candidates who are dropping out are backing

him and part of what we're seeing here is a split not only in the vision for the country but a split between the democratic establishment a lot of the key figures in the party who are supporting biden but a lot of the voters especially some of the more energized voters in the democratic party especially a more younger kind of multiracial coalition of voters who are supporting sanders so the split is real and part of it is not only about you know who controls the party who decides the vision of the party and who you know where do people want the country to go so i think what we're going to see on super tuesday is see where some of those chips are falling though it will obviously take a longer time and probably through the convention to really know which way the democrats are going to go in the end for the general election if we've got this split demographic the old of those is apparently going for the moderates younger voters is looking towards but he said as how important then is voter turnout i mean it's something we always talk about with elections but is that important here given

that split demographic. voter turnout is really important and part of it is the difference between voter turnout in a democratic primary which often will bring out some of the most energized members of the the base of the democratic party versus voter turnout in the general election which is a wide swath of voters you know not only the people who are the base but people who might not always be voters in a primary but who might have a stake in the general election joe biden is hoping to bring out voters who might be more independents people who might have swayed more towards trump in 2016 and bernie sanders is hoping for those voters too but also hoping to energize many of the actual democratic voters especially voters of color and poor voters who might sometimes feel that they're not represented by the party establishment and he's trying to bring them into their his coalition so a little bit different strategies and the convention will help to decide which

strategy will be the final one i was interested to see that betty stand as has been pushing hot in massachusetts would it be a day now for warren if she loses her home state. i think it will be a death knell for her campaign in many ways you know the interesting thing about the warren campaign is that she has actually energized a lot of voters and especially voters who both like her progressive stances but also like her very pragmatic and policy oriented stances and it's surprising to many people that she hasn't done as well in many of these earlier primary campaigns where she has not yet won a primary that she has been accorded delegates she's come in in some of the you know lower numbers so if she cannot win in massachusetts it will be likely that she will not have an ability to go anywhere moving forward and the question will be where will she position her campaign you know where will she ally i think that the pictures you're looking at of course bernie sanders is voting in his home state of

the months there is casting his ballot so we will have a lot more obviously across the super tuesday coverage 14 states a lot of delegates up for grabs almost a 3rd i belief and now would leave it there at this point and there there associate professor of american studies and political science thank you. another 11 people have died from corona virus in iran and that raises the total bit to $77.00 the highest outside of china around $2300.00 iranians are infected including the deputy health minister in tehran is considering roping in the minute trade to step up its response. he joins us now from tehran via skype zain as i mentioned there is talk of the military being drafted in to help fight the virus what's the plan. well we heard from the supreme leader today he was giving a speech i had to leave home and i spoke about all of the countries all of the

government offices associated to the country cooperating better with the health ministry what he said is that all government agencies must assist the health ministry in its response including the military now this is very much a message to the public the government is doing something ever since this outbreak began the government has been criticized for not responding seriously enough and not responding quickly enough certainly here the supreme leader trying to show that all branches of the government are moving forward but really it has to be said that the military has already been involved so this is very much public relations public affairs campaign on part of the supreme leader the defense ministry has been manufacturing masks and other medical supplies including task it's enhanced and it's the marley has been out on the street sanitising the capitals of different provinces with their equipment meant to find chemical warfare contamination as well as opening its hospitals to civilians that's already been going on something the

supreme leader said should continue to happen the revolutionary guard has. built hospitals as well as mobile clinics in cities across the country to help facilitate the treatment of patients to have facilitate the testing of patients and is also responsible for monitoring the borders in 2 different cities where we've seen an uptick in the number of coronavirus cases to screen travelers to make sure they can try and control the spread of this disease now what's interesting is that the supreme leader also said that this is not an emergency he characterized it as a non-emergency that will be overseen trying to allay people's fears trying to bring down the panic it has to be said that this is taking a toll on what is already a very difficult economic situation coronavirus has exacerbated the economic situation in the country. just a few days ago it experienced one of the most drastic dips in the value of the

stock market here and that ron certainly an indicator of how bad things are getting and the supreme leader in history has also pointed out that the public must cooperate with the government's effort there's been a loss and trust in the government by people here in iran over the course of the last few months the handling of the shooting down of the ukrainian airliner in january the quelling of protests that followed that in a very violent manner the shutting down of the internet not coming clean for days that it was actually an iranian. rockets that actually shot down the airliner this is creating a loss in public trust and the supreme leader tried to address that yet again saying that any deed that was undertaken to try and stop the spread of the virus would have been a good deed anything that would. would encourage the spread of virus is a sin really really calling the public. in a religious manner making a religious point that it is the duty of iranians to try to cooperate with the

government in trying to address this health crisis. thank you china is sending aircraft to iran to bring home and fictive people the infection right in china has slowed increasing and various countries including japan and south korea katrina hear reports from beijing. inspecting a research lab in beijing president xi jinping urges scientists to develop vaccines and treatments what he called china's most powerful weapon in the battle against the current a virus outbreak some 80000 people have been infected nationwide recovered patients have been urged to donate blood but new cases are slowing on tuesday beijing reported its lowest number since january several people caught the virus in iran and italy prompting some chinese cities to quarantine all travelers from countries affected by the outbreak including south korea where more than 5000 are infected

china has sent half a 1000000 masks to de groot south korea's hardest hit city. was south korean leader and ordered all government agencies into emergency mode declaring war against the virus there will be and we're the country has entered war against the infectious disease as the crisis in daegu in north yorkshire but province has reached the highest point into penn shut the strip supermarket shelves of toilet paper and other essential tokyo has confirmed almost 1000 cases the prime minister shinzo abbott says he's ready to boost government spending to protect the economy we were scrutinised impact of the core of the virus on the global and japanese economies a further steps are necessary we would take action without hesitation. australia's central bank cut interest rates to a record low of about 40 cases have been confirmed to their chinese cities brought to a standstill by the virus

a coming back to life some provinces are preparing to reopen the schools as early as next week the government says the outbreak is under control but with many tough restrictions still in place nationwide it seems to be having trouble convincing the public to be alert not alarmed katrina al-jazeera inching. still ahead on al-jazeera tribal loyalties in libya put to the test concerts shows no sign of slowing. and support for swing and hits that produced a painful outcome of this crisis ball game. welcome back is a largely fine picture here in the arabian peninsula you can see from those windows that is quite a show miles still blowing and as

a result the times will have lifted dust and temperatures just very pleasant at 24 degrees and 25 in to buy on the other side the potential winds are very light stone through much of the red sea a bit stronger northern areas but it's a fine picture 35 degrees the high in mecca and as you move the forecast through into thursday i think here we're going to find the winds just easing a little bit so let's then move across into northern and central parts of africa where we're seeing a big change in temperatures around the gulf of sirte the winds coming in off the mediterranean sea so temperatures down benghazi 17 and tripoli 19 we've lost the storms here the risk of some storms moving along the coast into libya we got a few showers around the gulf of guinea region one or 2 these just turn it to be on the heavy side and for southern portions of africa where we've got some rain still just affecting the border between botswana and into zambia but much of botswana's looking fine the same goes for south africa we're looking at fine conditions here to quote a woman in cape town temperatures of $27.00 degrees celsius and also look at find

additions lots of sunshine and highs in harare of 22 degrees. frank assessments the one thing about these bushfires is it's really wiping out the politics of climate change informed opinion the economy i think is actually what's keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate long bursts through school lawyers all about this argument is astonishingly patronize a in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of the new iraq of the new conscious and aware of that struggle against an ethnic sectarian kotor inside story on al-jazeera. of struggles full of pleasure. quarrels of the not very more than one from witnesses. which. would. mean. an intimate look at life in cuba before. me when i hear the sort of

the middle life may hang. on al-jazeera. the. you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour turkish forces have shot down a syrian government warplane in the province it's the 3rd syrian fighter jet downed in 3 days it's turkey escalates a campaign against bashar al assad forces. it's super tuesday in the united states the biggest day of the democratic presidential campaign season 14 states are deciding who they want to take on donald trump in november. iran has reported

another 11 people have died from the corona virus bringing the death toll to 77 that's the highest number outside of china which is at the center of the virus. and the u.s. federal reserve has cut interest rates by half a percentage point the fed says it's an emergency move to protect the economy from the impact of the coronavirus the markets are reacting she has returned he joins us now live from washington d.c. with more she have this is a big cut is it not. it's the largest cut since all of these one time cuts since 2008 the 1st emergency cut since the financial crisis in a statement the fed was clear and said the fundamentals of the u.s. economy remain strong over the coronavirus poses evolving risks to economic activity in light of these risks in support of achieving its maximum employment and price stability goals the federal open market committee decided today to lower the

target range for the federal funds rate by half a percentage point to $1.00 to $1.00 in the quarter percent this also comes on the heels of a statement from g 7 finance ministers and central bankers who also said this morning in a statement to us time the g 7 finance ministers are ready to take actions including fiscal measures where appropriate to aid in the response to the virus and support the economy during this phase the stock market here in the u.s. has gone up as you might expect as it did also on monday to i think a lot of this was factored in on monday that this was going to happen however beyond the stock market rally there are questions as to how effective this is going to be if there is an enormous economic impact from the coronavirus the stock market is something that clearly donald trump feels is representative of the economy but doesn't necessarily have a huge impact on most americans lives and an interest rate cut like this doesn't necessarily have any real impact on the situation if the coronavirus means more

people are staying at home from quarantine of supply chains are being affected if there's a downturn in the chinese economy so they don't trouble be very happy because he's been calling on the federal reserve to learn just rates for months all year actually especially to election year but it's certainly a side of caution from the fed to us actually there are even some who wonder wait a 2nd given how little of an impact this really does have because of the coronavirus have they seen something that we haven't said like even actually. in the way that these things sometimes do add to more fears about about the direction of the economy but we have this emergency got. thank you for that update there that she had returned the line from d.c. the world economic body the o.e.c.d. has warned the virus is pitching the global economy into its worst downturn since the financial crisis a decade ago quarantine measures in china have hit supply chains worldwide foxconn which makes the i phones a says its chinese factories are only running at 50 percent of capacity on kong

based airline cathay pacific has put $25000.00 staff on unpaid leave and about half its planes are sitting on the tarmac emirates is asking its employees to take paid and unpaid leave for up to a month at a time. the international air transport association known as i had to says airline revenue will likely fall by almost 30000000000 dollars this year airline bosses meeting in brussels to discuss the situation. much heiress is an airline analyst he explains why there is now a wave of uncertainty surrounding the future of the industry. the message today in brussels from some of the top c.e.o. of european airlines is that the worst is yet to come this was the joint shared message which of course is not only sending jitters across the industry but is all ahead of what we are expecting now which is the 1st global deep in air travel demand in over a decade so it really is a bleak and when you think that we now have airlines for example global hub

connects airlines like emirates you know not very far from china in terms of connectivity but actually at the heart of the world and they're very exposed much like the super bear lines they are now asking dustoff to take unpaid leave in a country that isn't so affected by the current virus but with an airline that acts as a global ambassador and this is what we are seeing across the world now and that's the worry if you think that an aircraft is only able to make money when it is in the skies and of course so many airlines around the world are grounding barrick problem the 2nd you ground one as we know with the 707 next crisis that's catastrophic for airlines financially if you think that all airlines are now in this together with no clear end in sight just yet that's a very worrying picture for this industry israel's right wing bloc led by party of prime minister benjamin netanyahu is leading election results but is still one seat short of a majority with most votes counted the likud party and its allies have secured 60

seats in the parliament who has already claimed victory against his main rival and against 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 and we'll have more reaction to these results from need to bring him who's in ramallah but 1st let's go to harry forsett for the latest in west jerusalem harry as we said netanyahu is one short of a majority does this mean the political deadlock is broken what happens now. it isn't broken yet he needs 61 members of the knesset the israeli parliament either from his own party or from aligned right wing parties to get to an automatic majority coalition which could be tossed by the israeli president ruben rivlin next week to form a new government at the moment he is tantalizingly for him at least short of that number and so he for now is coalescing those those right wing bloc leaders in

the knesset earlier on choose day at a meeting in his office with representatives from each of those parties talking about how they move forward there are also reports or at least those interview given on israeli radio by one of those left tenants talking about trying to poach various members of other parties across to try to get a coalition the names that have been mentioned as potential targets they came out and said that there was nothing doing and that the other option of course is to try to get a unity government between the main opposition blue and white alliance led by benny gantz and likud and some of its partners gantz has so far said that he would not serve with an indicted prime minister just a member that you know faces trial in just 2 weeks will he result from that in any way and meanwhile the counting goes on 97 percent counted the soldiers and

prisoners and diplomats votes they will be counted those postal ballots overnight the several $14000.00 plus coronavirus special polling station votes they will be counted in special conditions in a tent outside the knesset on wednesday morning there could be further movement yet when those last votes counted i think that that harry thought that their lives and the. let's go live now to are needed for handlers in ramallah obviously needed to have a government israel has a lot of control over the lives of palestinians what's the reaction been so far from the palestinian side well while these elections have been the 3rd in israel for almost a year there they've been the 1st since the u.s. president told trump has announced his mideast peace plan the plan has been rejected by the palestinians they say it's been biased towards israel and it doesn't include east jerusalem as the capital as well as allowing israel to grab

more lands and for palestinians a better vote for netanyahu in these elections and bit more seats in the knesset means that he's going to fulfill his promise that he's been talking about throughout this year off annexing parts of the occupied west bank including the jordan valley and the illegal israeli settlements the palestinians say that that's and you know has been using the closeness of relations between the u.s. and israel namely his special relationship with the u.s. president on trump to push for more moves that are against international law we've spoken to the p.l.o. secretary general about a fog this morning and this is what he had to tell us results we're hearing it's obvious. settlements and accession apartheid have won the elections in israel. and now the next step. will be an accession visit a 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. articled also told us that palestinians are calling upon the international community to hold an international peace conference whereby the u.s. is no longer the sole mediator of the peace process and that they can apply international laws alledged to missy when it comes to that conflict namely when it comes to israeli plans towards israeli settlements and the annexation of some parts of the occupied west bank think that that's needed for him there live from ramallah thank you. livi is internationally recognized government in tripoli is causing nearly $30000000000.00 from this year's budget because of lost revenue from oil exports finance minister. says sensitive areas such as health and education won't be hit major ports and oil facilities have been blockaded by half does forces since mid

january that's cost the state oil company $2000000000.00 in the past month alone the united nations special envoy for libya has hit out of the international community a day after resigning salamis questioning the commitment of the international community to ending the war after peace talks in geneva broke down last week salamis says he stepped down because he can't cope with the stress anymore he spent 2 and a half years trying to stop the fighting and hope the 11 month battle by warlord holy for half the to capture the capital tripoli 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 cease fire on those who violate the arms embargo on those who

do not come to geneva the political talks on those who give all orders some of ties the military or the political talks because they could be doing all this did they do it the way they committed to do it my answer. tribal identity and loyalty play a fundamental role in libyan society yet some reconciliation between groups has been possible but as a concept goes on divisions are forming reports from. the bullet holes and 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. 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 force's shell the only operational international airport in tripoli virtually every day. to the western 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 but they are not quite a month in the last couple of days we have not to suspicious activities in 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 un backed government the billions of dollars in revenue tribal loyalties are now being tested to the west of tripoli softness forces opened 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 at. but of tribal leaders and civil society groups the reputed failure of u.n. sponsored chalk's means fears are growing among many libyans that tribal divisions are being exploited again. what al-jazeera trickily. the un's nuclear

watchdog is demanding answers from iran over undeclared activity at 3 sites the international atomic energy agency says in the last 3 months iran has tripled its uranium stockpile that's 5 times the level it committed to under the 25th a nuclear deal made with world powers the i says it wants access to the sites in question. china and the united states is stepping up their war of the media china's government is threatening retaliation after the u.s. cut the number of visas for chinese journalists working in america the u.s. says the visa cap on for state run organizations follows years of intimidation and harassment of foreign journalists in china 3 wall street journal reporters were expelled last month at least 7 people have been killed after a series of tornadoes swept across the state of tennessee this was the trail of destruction left in downtown nashville buildings have been torn apart and power

lines and trees brought down some polling stations were also damaged affecting super tuesday voters. still to come here on al-jazeera in sports we'll hear from the head of world football. not to panic in the face of the.

the all the it. time after school tests ana thank you very much kamla japan's limpid minister says the tokyo games could be postponed until the end of the year but sekula hashimoto

insists everything is being done to ensure the event goes ahead as planned despite the corona virus outbreak the international olympic committee is in switzerland for a scheduled meeting of its top decision makers games organizes are due to deliver a report on wednesday within lympics still course to start at the end of july. do you think credit markets will be only trying to say i am not a scientist nor do i do the job right at some point in time for fear for the facts sports and so something we talk about. the french cycling team being quarantined in abu dhabi's taking a creative approach to a situation. being faced by the challenge of. the one you don't like to be in the way the whole crew members of this. team and posted that this unusual sheep fit video from their hotel the final stages of the u.a.e. tour

a work ounce hold off to 2 suspected cases of corn on fire and these riders are still under lockdown team president kennedy 2 isn't happy he came to cyclists are being treated like a plate. the head of wolf what will gianni infinity know has urged the game's authorities not to panic in the face of the koran a virus outbreak and for tina has been talking in amsterdam at a meeting of european football's governing body u.s. but at that same congress said the president of the swiss football sociate and one that corona virus could shake professional football to its foundations these days you cannot have a speech or a speak to anyone without mentioning coronavirus some of you are having to take some important decisions in this respect every competition organizer has to study it of course and has to take decisions important is of course always the

cooperation with the authorities but also not to panic it was with his top league has been put on hold until at least march 23rd off the club's rejected the possibility of play matches behind closed doors a number of games have also been postponed in italy syria and residents of milan won't be allowed to attend the italian cup match between eventis and ac milan a wednesday discussions are ongoing about potential disruption to this year's european championships which are due to take to kick off in june the tournament is set to be held in 12 different countries you even then know how many concerns we have when we organize a big competition and we organize now a competition in 12 countries we have security concerns we have political instability concerns is especially impressed countries and one of the concerns is also that virus we are dealing with it and we are confident that we can we can deal

with. well liverpool have the chance to bounce back from the 1st league defeat of the season the premier league leaders that were beating 3 nil up by what for to on saturday they now shift their attention to the f.a. cup you open club side face chelsea in the 5th round. i don't think piece boy sit there and. of course they want to strike back this is an exceptional group of players. they did outstanding stuff not that night i can ignore the gave the play against what will go all the rest before. arsenal have already booked their spot in the quarterfinals they beat the side chair side that portsmouth the 2 nil away on monday like liverpool arsenal were also coming off a disappointing defeat having been knocked out of the are plenty last week. doesn't make you go disappointed on her they're still there but it's there we have to move on we have to move on to the. police that are so we won't do we're the best in the

evening to the energy that this game requires they respond the renewal. of the swing and hit produced a painful outcome at a major league baseball the preseason game times are a race and flair carrot that whitney was a hit by a foul ball it during their game against the baltimore orioles 22 year old that was struck under his eye all while he was sitting in the dugout amazingly whiteley's suffered no serious injuries and has now been released from hospital. ouch not so useful for me ken thank you so much that santa well that's it for me it can be an hour for this news oh you can always go check out 0 dot com if you'd like called i'll be back in just a few minutes with more of the day's news do stay with us here when i'm just.

i was raised in france. these are my grandparents. these are my parents and this is mean. by them both isis and the us of. the 1st of a 2 part epic tale of a remarkable family. the father the son and the jihad caught one on al-jazeera. al-jazeera good's beneath the waves with a team of women determined to save the dolphins we all share the same it was really needed because i think today by that time a thing on it by using

a variety of scientific techniques to study their behavior we can monitor them for their vocal kowtows and behavior we're able to how they're adapting to their new environment women make science dolphin sanctuary on al-jazeera. trouble began at the end of the country's civil war when most people started returning home from refugee camps. and ammo more who were struck and killed during a demonstration in 2017 is buried right here in the middle of the street as a sign of resistance to the mining companies and government just setting your. accusations of abuse and displacement between the communities the mining companies and the government has now escalated to west africa's regional court the community has taken its case before west africa. because they say the people have little for using the justice system.

attack us forces shoot down the syrian government was played all over it province the 3rd in 3 days. come to the bell this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up hoping to boost market confidence the u.s. federal reserve makes that emergency interest rate cost of a coronavirus is. people are voting in the u.s. to select the democratic nominee for the presidential race on the biggest other day off the posse. benjamin netanyahu claims victory after israel's latest election but does not yet have the numbers to.