thank. you. the world health organization warns that protective gear to fight the corona virus is running out with iran most in need. this is al jazeera live from london also coming up turkey shoots down a 3rd syrian government fighter jet as an expression kills 8 people in a glib city. those who seek to test europe's unity will be disappointed this is a top e.u. officials pledge to support greece with its refugee crisis after turkey open the gates to europe. and bernie sanders seeks to cement his lead in the democratic

presidential race over resentment joe biden on super tuesday. hello the head of the world health organization has warned that shortages of protective gear masks are leaving health workers dangerously ill equipped in the fight against coronavirus south korea's president has declared war on the corona virus after nearly a 1000 people were infected in one day taking the total to more than 5000 there iran has reported 8 more than 800 new infections including the emergency services chief and 23 m.p.'s italy has seen its highest number of deaths in just one day a 79 people fell victim to the virus and japan's olympics minister says the tokyo games could be postponed to later this year globally more than 90000 people are

known to have caught the disease a 3110 have died shortages leaving doctors nurses and other frontline holds workers dangerously ill keep for to care for call with 19 patients. due to limited access to south lies such as gloves medical mosques but a spirit it's a good lose face shoots guns and prince. well half of my station so the lack of vital equipment is more acute in the wrong than elsewhere iran's supreme leader has told us citizens to pray for the end of the outbreak which is known to have killed $77.00 people there although it's thought this could be an underestimate an advisor to the supremely there is among the dead in the cluster which is one of the biggest outside china. iranian government is also drafting in the armed forces to help fight the outbreak saying that's ravi in tehran explains why this is very much

a message to the public that the government is doing something ever since this outbreak began and the government has been criticized for not responding seriously enough and not responding quickly enough so 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 a public relations public affairs campaign on part of the supreme leader of the defense ministry has been manufacturing masks and other medical supplies including task and hands and it's us or the army has been out on the street sanitizing the capitals of different provinces with 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 help 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. cases continue to mount around the world the outbreak is now easing in china katrina you 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 the country has entered war against the infectious disease as the crisis in daegu in north province has reached the highest point into penn shut the strip supermarket shelves of toilet paper and other essentials tokyo has confirmed almost 1000 cases the prime minister shinzo best says he's ready to do so 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 dave the necessary we would take action without hesitation. a strictly a 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 buyers 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 of many tough restrictions still in place nationwide it seems to be having trouble convincing the public to be well look at the not a lot of katrina a year al-jazeera bolton. in europe the french president has requisitioned all current and future stocks of facemasks britain as prime minister warned one in 5 of the country's workers could need time off sick but italy remains the worst hit country in the continent for a child's reports. from 51 to 79 italy has just recorded a large jump in coronavirus deaths and increase its official number of cases to more than 2500 it was already europe's worst hit country this makeshift triage center has been set up at a hospital in brush effort to keep suspected covert 900 patients separate from

others the national health institute wants a new cornton red zone set up near bug that would make 3 units of these north has the u.k. updated its number of confirmed corona virus cases to 51 signs of the outbreaks impacts are starting to show there this province sorry closed for a deep clean after someone with the virus visited but on the day the government on veiled its action plan it's clear the u.k. is trying not to overreact but let me be absolutely clear that for the overwhelming majority of people who contract the virus this will be a mild disease from which they will speedily and fully recover as we've already seen. but i fully understand public concern for the moment no blanket school closures no major reorganization of health services no army involvements no advisories against travel not unless things get significantly worse is time to

implement such measures if you do it. you end up with a lot of people having to. resort to disruption i was taught me not getting better europe's big carry is a meeting at an aviation conference in brussels this chief executive exam lines are going to be hit hard by flight cancellations are quite a few we carry are surround the world and in particular asia we are seeing that in europe we see the same france over the last few months we've seen 2 failures so most definitely i believe this will accelerate consolidation in france where wordstar close the louvre museum on sunday and monday the government has to requisition facemasks there's been a run on them in shops and prices have risen we will distribute them to health professionals and to french people infected with the coronavirus president mccrone said on twitter laurie chimes how does it. the u.s. state of washington is now reporting 9 deaths from the coronavirus research as say

the virus may have been circulating in the state for up to 6 weeks undetected in while the u.s. federal reserve has cut interest rates by half a percentage point in an emergency move designed to protect the economy from the impact of the outbreak the virus outbreak is something that will require a multifaceted response there's also a role for monetary policy i'm sure policy can be an effective tool to support our economic activity we do recognize that a recount will not reduce the rate of infection it will fix a broken supply chain we get that we don't think we have all the answers but we do believe that our action low crime a meaningful boost to the economy. david malpass is the president of the world bank group which is giving $12000000000.00 in aid to help with the corona virus outbreak earlier he joined me from washington d.c. i'm hopeful that money will finance the war become available quickly for the

countries that are poor and most in need it's critical at this point to limit the transmission of the disease and also to care for patients for for families for communities that are being hard hit and so that's the goal and we want to be fast in the response. turkish government forces have shot down a syrian fighter jet over it prominence it's the 3rd will play named downed in 3 days in a campaign which threatens to turn into a confrontation with syria's ally russia. violence in syria's nost rebel stronghold is taking an increasingly heavy toll on civilians 8 people have been killed by an explosion in a city dozens more were injured by reports somehow tie on to his border with syria . operation spring shilled is in full swing turkish forces

striking the syrian army's i mean it's in deposed towns and defense systems they've also shot down a warplane in southern. the escalation in fighting comes as turkey says it's determined to stop syrian army troops from advancing towards the city of idlib the rebels last stronghold of fischel is here say the military campaign has severely undermined the syrian army's capabilities. undeterred syrian troops to. the city sits on 2 highways the m 4 and m 5 and has changed hands many times over the last few days as fighting continues u.s. special envoy for syria james jeffrey and u.s. ambassador to the u.n. kelly craft visited the border area with syria and met members of the syrian white

helmets the u.s. is contributing more than $100000000.00 to address the deteriorating humanitarian situation in northwestern syria humanitarian aid is only a response the real answer is an immediate cease fire durable cease fire so i'm very happy to be here this is obviously a moment that we need to make certain that we stress that the americans care but at the same time that there has got to be an immediate cease fire. and his father from province their family members are among thousands of people who have fled their villages and settled all the border with turkey. when we were walking out of the village we were hit by ernest reich i lost my hand and i miss my home my school. for the time being mohamed and his family have nowhere to go their makeshift camp

could turn into something more permanent if the fighting doesn't and as international calls for an immediate cease fire gather momentum turkish and russia leaders will meet on thursday to try and agree on a buffer zone and the demarcation line that will constrain the movement of the syrian army but damascus remains adamant its offensive won't and until it regains control of all the territory held by the rebels how some are as is iraq had time. his announcement over the weekend that it would no longer stop people trying to reach europe a nation a wave of refugees towards greece and to have a name reports from the turkish border village of joy around. it's only a journey the length of a football field to cross the border from turkey to greece here but it's an almost impossible one in the smugglers boat there is also a land border which the syrian refugees managed to cross

a few days ago soon they were deported back to turkey they remain undeterred. soldiers took our phones our money and our bags i went back to stumble fact that my bags and return to. this riverbank in the village of di ron has become a campground of hope these families look at the merchant river and see all the possibilities europe represent. syrian refugees dia his wife and 3 young children have used branches donated blankets and tarps to build a shelter to shield against the unrelenting cold wind day and night for 4 days business that it is we need to take a threat i'm 34 years old and i've seen nothing good maybe my children can see something good we need some space to see our future the un refugee agency u.n.h.c.r. says countries must not use excessive or disproportionate force against migrants

they must process asylum applications in an orderly manner and the international community needs to increase its support of turkey the country is home to almost 4000000 refugees 3.7 of them are syria. a few kilometers away the european council president and the greek prime minister visited the border we have not used the time wise since the last migration crisis to address the situation effectively. it's about time that we do it now during 9 years of war syrians have heard similar pronouncements and promises from world leaders before dia and other refugees we've been talking to tell us this isn't simply about turkey opening its borders to europe it's about all countries changing their mindset and welcoming them until then they are determined to push their way in any way

they can natasha. died run on the border between turkey and greece the e.u. has promised $777000000.00 to support greece's tens of thousands of refugees and migrants mass on its border with turkey top officials will be meeting greece's prime minister who took them in a helicopter to show them the extent of the crisis over the weekend turkey announced it would no longer stop people trying to reach europe or naming or a deal brokered with brussels in 2016 european commission president. says the e.u. will not be divided. to head this off our. we've agreed there's no violence we don't want violence the u.s. president speaks by phone to the taliban's chief negotiator after 33 attacks on the afghan security forces in just 24 hours. and powerful tornadoes killed 22 in

tennessee and the office of the u.s. state resembling a war zone. how an event is just developing in australia the remains of esther of course are going with us in the gulf of carpentaria to kimberley and back again is in here somewhere now a tropical globe is mixed up with that line of clouds over the next 2 days virtually every state would have been affected by esther's coming down through queens and south australia but the line extends beyond and that orange represents between 10300 millimeters of potential rain in the street dimension to come down towards tasmania as well flooding is likely some useful rain i would expect as well and it's quite extensive that just slowly ease as you see this is thursday's forecast

so temps on the issues the amount of rain quite possibly as always and flooding from the person during the sunshine is that you on the thunderstorms in western australia have dari down the full cost at least whereas things are getting quite lively still around north career and japan you've still got wintry weather in front of us took on north korea some of it been hitting her car there but on wednesday that's the confined his rain coming up from the south to home shoot snow at height admittedly don't 10 degrees again they would miss will comes to mind for tokyo's weather that's on wednesday on thursday it improves the wind picks up and it's a cold but on the north coast. full of struggles full of pleasure. quarrels of the not very more than with little but only when time is young and with the species you do and with. a fresh one i get our bond film an intimate look at life in cuba before us on top because i'm

going to be asking me when i hear a lot of people i'm hanging my cuba at this time on al-jazeera. they're going to one of the top stories here south korea's president has declared war on the current virus after nearly a 1000 infections in just one day this is the world health organization warns that global stocks of protective equipment are running low. turkish government forces have shot down a syrian fighter jet over indian province the 3rd in 3 days on the ground 8 people

were killed by an explosion in a loop city. and the european union has promised $777000000.00 of support for greece as tens of thousands of migrants make their way to the country's border with turkey. yes president donald trump has held a phone call with one of the taliban's leaders. days after america signed an historic deal with the armed group a spokesman for the taliban to do this photo showing the u.s. is steve negotiator so make and taliban leaders gathered around a phone during the call a reduction of violence had been observed in the week before the deal was signed under which foreign forces will leave afghanistan in 14 months we had a good start there's a shift we've agreed there's no balance we don't want violence we see what happened there dealing with that data said that we'll see what happens we had actually a very good job with the leader of the taliban. but there's anger inside

afghanistan after the taliban ended a partial truce with afghan forces and to talk about protesters took to the streets of kabul as front has carried out 33 attacks in 16 provinces on tuesday and the 6 civilians and 5 policemen have been killed i want us correspondent can really help it joins us live complete hour news or is it for the president to have a chit chat on the phone with a ton of money to. it is pretty significant and it's very unusual and what's even more unusual is how we found out about all of this it was from the taliban not from the white house and we haven't received a readout of this call so the 1st instance that we knew about this was from that photo that the taliban tweeted out about the leader standing there around a telephone it was only later that reporters asked the president as he was leaving the white house for another engagement about this call that he confirmed it and you heard there he talked about it being a very positive conversation but in all of this there are some real questions about

the viability of this deal given the fact that there has been a resumption in violence as well there is some concern about whether or not the taliban can meet some of the sort of finer points of this deal given the fact that their fighting has resumed but still the president is projecting confidence in all of this so how does he explain the violence and is it is it because it's limited to attacks on afghans rather than on foreign troops what what's the kind of the rationale behind accepting this level of violence. the president hasn't explained any of this in fact he as he often does just sort of speaks in very broad pronouncements and there's a reason why he's doing this lauren and that is because the timeline is rather convenient you remember this is a president on the campaign trail promise promise to pull american troops out of endless foreign wars so the timeline out of this deal for withdrawing u.s.

troops if the taliban meets all of the conditions would be 14 months but of course we have a u.s. election before that so this sort of allows the president to play it both ways to say that this is working to centrally say he's keeping a campaign promise but then we don't ultimately know if that promise will be kept because the timeline does extend beyond what americans have to cast their ballots to me how can i thank you very much. discussions on who could form a coalition government to begin in israel after prime minister benjamin netanyahu failed to win a majority with almost all of the votes counted in his likud party along with pledge to right wing outlaw is on course to win $59.00 seats but that's too short of majority meaning support from all the parties is needed to beat his main rival benny gantz it was the country's 3rd general election within a year the most important voting day in the us democratic presidential primary

race is underway it's super tuesday in millions of voters across 14 states and one u.s. territory the custom about for the kind of it they want to take on donald trump in november from run a bunny saunders is hoping to extend his lead but his rival group biden has had a boost up to 2 candidates dropped out of threw their weight behind him there are just 5 candidates left in the race. rob reynolds is in last sunday's what's the atmosphere there like now. well lauren we're in a vintage old l.a. coffee shop that has been transformed into a place for organizers for senator bernie sanders their phone banking there their strategizing here and sanders is well ahead according to the latest polls here in california which is of course the biggest state with the largest number of delegates at stake here on super tuesday of the 14 states that are voting but all

those polls were happened before the events of yesterday when. amy clover char and mayor people to judge through their support to joe biden and dropped out of the race now let's talk to the shell mano sma shall come right over here michel is a community organizer for the the sanders campaign michele the senator says that this. judge and globe which are moves are part of an orchestration orchestrated effort by the democratic establishment to block bernie's road to the nomination what what what what are your thoughts on that i agree i agree with the senator and i'm so glad that he's talking about it because these kinds of things really do feel like a manipulation by the establishment in order to keep progressive voices out it happens in our local democratic party it happens in the state democratic party and so it's no surprise that it's happening again with the national democratic party i

think that unfortunately people who are entrenched have an interest in keeping things the way that they are and what senator sanders is trying to do and is asking us to help him with is a real overhaul of the system in order to try to fix the broken parts so it's a given that sentiment the one of the big questions is looking in the future if joe biden becomes the nominee will senator sanders supporters vote for him against donald trump in november. i mean i can't speak for the entirety of the senator's baby you know just based on your observation for me i've seen a lot so there's a lot of people that are still hurting from feeling like there was also manipulation in 2016 to keep you know senator sanders from being able to gain the traction that he potentially could have even more than he did at that time and so i think some people will not vote for joe biden as the nominee but i also think that he has been growing his coalition and growing his base over the last 4 years it's

a big beautiful brilliant coalition very diverse and i think a lot of those people while they they want and prefer a sanders presidency that they will do what it takes to stop trump and i think that there's a lot of those people about 30 seconds left the show how do you expect senator sanders is going to do here in california today yeah we've been working very hard to make sure we said 6 months ago we need to contact every voter in california in the next 6 months i believe in my heart that we did that and the army is large and excited and on so many people here volunteering to make sure that every last voters contacted before the polls closed today i think we're going to do really well here in california thank you very much for speaking with us appreciate that that's michele mann those models she is an organizer here for the centers for president campaign we'll leave it there and go back to you lauren thank you very much and he's 22 people have been killed after a series of tornadoes ripped through nashville and other parts of tennessee there's

a one of those states participating in super tuesday officials said polling stations would remain open shot but. in airy cool to take shelter for tennessee residents the siren whoops of illumine tornadoes. this is one moving through downtown nashville but there were multiple tornadoes early tuesday morning throughout the state of tennessee oh my. mother building right next to us was blown off in our rough for our our wall monday . part of the hotel below us was ripped off and. that is very scary. they live tens of thousands without power as the winds damaged in the church for the quitman that lit up the sky well the 150 people were rushed to hospital we heard sirens going off we heard the wind we were in the basement 2620 seconds later it was done it was gone 20 seconds one tornado hit the ground

near downtown nashville and ripped to 16 kill me to pass to the city's eastern suburbs there are multiple homes damaged there are multiple injuries and we are still in that response our priority right now is assessing the injuries we're responding trying to find those who are trapped trying to find those who are injured as day broke the death toll grew and extensive damage was revealed in nashville alone hundreds who lived harmless schools courts public transportation an airport and the state capitol were closed officials scramble to find alternative sites for super tuesday voting. tennessee the 1st to feel the brunt of america's 2020 season. russia's main opposition leader annexation of ani has accused the kremlin of freezing his bank accounts of only is an anti corruption campaign it has emerged as president vladimir putin's

strongest critic he says not only has his account been frozen but it's also overdrawn by more than a $1000000.00 account. but i'm going to his wife 2 children and elderly parents have also been blocked. the top stories on ours here the world health organization is warning that global stocks of protective equipment for fighting the corona virus a running low south korea has seen nearly a 1000 new infections in just one day the country's president declaring war on the virus the number of cases globally has now topped $90000.00 with most still inside china but the total is growing faster outside the w.h.o. says it's growing concerned about the global ability to deal with the virus. shortages leaving doctors nurses and other front line holdsworth because

dangerously ill keep for. 19 patients due to limited access to satellite such as gloves medical mosques but a spirit of google whose face shoots guns and prisons turkish government forces have shot down a syrian fighter jet over italy a province the 3rd in 3 days on the ground the violence in syria's last rebel stronghold is continuing with 8 people killed by an explosion. the president of turkey and russia are due to meet later in the week in an effort to ease tensions. the european union has promised $777000000.00 of support for greece as tens of thousands of migrants make their way to the country's border with turkey comes after turkey made good on a threat to open its borders for those aiming to cross the country to reach europe greek authorities say they stopped more than 26000 people from crossing into the

country between saturday morning and tuesday afternoon. u.s. president donald trump has held a phone call with one of the taliban's leaders one a. day is off to america signed an historic deal with the armed group as i go inside afghanistan after the taliban ended a partial truce with afghan forces and to talk about protesters took to the streets of kabul as fighters carried out 33 attacks in 16 provinces on tuesday a reduction of violence had been observed in the week before the agreement with the u.s. under which foreign forces will leave the country in 14 months. there's the top stories do stay with us my cuba is next to him at one of the country's most popular t.v. shows by far. the prime minister takes a lump of coal into his own parliament that culminates a lot of the country's fortunes we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in. brooks it was

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