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all of that plus. i'm florence 3 in rakhine state myanmar's newest battleground where civilians are increasingly being caught in the middle of fighting between the myanmar military and the our economy and ethnic groups. and far as well have all the day's sport news including a shock defeat for liverpool chelsea down the english premier league leaders out of the f.a. cup. hello everyone turkey and greece are trading accusations about the growing crisis on their border for thousands of refugees and migrants turkey is allowing them to leave towards both grace and bulgaria which of course both members of the european union the greek government though denies turkish allegations of causing injuries spice stopping them from crossing the border and the greeks accuse some migrants of

even using military grade tear gas let's get an indication of things with natasha going to name who is near that border area tell us more natasha about what you've been seeing. well let's start with the war of words we have going on between turkey and greece turkey is saying that today the greek police shot and killed one man and injured 6 others turkey says that members of the parliament's human rights commission witnessed these events the greek government is flatly denying that anyone was killed at the border it is saying that turkey is disseminating fake news and as you mentioned it's saying that migrants are throwing turkish military grade tear gas at greek police i can tell you what we've seen here at the border throughout the day we heard what sounds like sound bombs we saw

a black smoke fire we spoke to farmers in the area who say they heard gunshots i can tell you we saw multiple ambulances leaving the scene and then this news emerged that there had been a possible casualty and injuries according to the greek government there are about 12500 migrants amassed at their north eastern border with turkey but here at the checkpoint in journey there are several 100 and there have been reports for the last several days of a lot of tension and frustration as hundreds of migrants push to try to make their way into greece greece of course has stepped up its deterrence it has massive amounts of personnel which we've seen even here on the other side. to try to deter people from getting in they say that at most since turkey opened its borders last friday 1500 people have made their way in and they've stopped more than 26000

greece is continuing to rapidly deport people they say that for the next month they will be suspending asylum applications meanwhile the un refugee agency u.n.h.c.r. says that. entries must not use excessive or disproportionate force against migrants that asylum applications must be processed in quote an orderly manner and human rights watch has expressed concern that under international law there could be a violation if migrants are not allowed to proceed with asylum cases once they cross over into greece. and the times are going to i'm in again in turkey near the border there thank you so much natasha turkey's defense minister meanwhile says 2 of its soldiers have been killed in syria's it led province in an attack by government forces turkish forces then retaliated striking syrian military targets dozens of tokers soldiers have now been killed in in just the last month but turkey's

president is vowing to continue the offensive. or show you none of our martyrs none of our veterans and none of their blood none of their drops of blood will be in vain we are going to continue our struggle as we aimed and hopefully with the help of god we're going to build a strong turkish republic. in time for us near that turkish syrian border is. hashem a lot of us i said dozens of turkish soldiers have been killed i think it's upwards of 50 at least in the past month but not deterring the turkish president at all. at all from them it has become an existential issue there from a turkish perspective the military presence in live is very important for different reasons they say they would like to stop the syrian government from driving refugees into cross into turkey they say that the syrian the russians the have not

implemented the terms of the 2800 deal that was signed between russia iran and turkey and therefore they see that isabella time to implement an immediate cease fire but what is happening on the ground is quite extraordinary come out for different reasons now because of this crucial meeting which is going to happen tomorrow between president dillon and his russian counterpart vladimir putting the battle for has become pivotal for all the parties since yesterday the syrian government backed by russia has managed to make gains into the city but then later at night the rebels backed by the by turkey launched a counter of fences and joining vats come to this offensive the turkish military pounded government positions defense lines destroyed a mission depots and the fighting still escalating inside iraq and it seems that all the parties are trying to take over starcade before they move forward to words moscow and negotiate a settlement because the moment the meeting in moscow the going to took about

demarkation line the buffer zone and and the cease fire to be implemented and each party is now vying for a bigger to tori again before the ceasefire comes into effect and how would you describe the nature of the whole operation in the moment we're obviously focused on what's been happening to the turkish soldiers there but the fact is the syrian government has been trying to pull back from the rebels for them for months now. india's come out it has sort of turned into a confrontation between russia between sit between syria and turkey now the president of the end of it and the minister was a 1st for the sea a car so that they have dealt the syrian government severe blow in the liver and they say that they have killed more than 3000 syrian soldiers over the last few weeks and destroyed heavy weapons. fighter jets and also i mean ition

deposed but at the same time the syrian army has managed to make some quite significant gains in. and also in rural and it will the rebels be able to reverse those gains these looks like impossible as we speak but however from a turkish perspective they remain determined the operation spring shilled will continue in its lip province until the syrian government pulls back behind the demilitarized zone cease quite an extraordinary moment for all the parties with an ever changing political and military map in the province of it lip. thank you. there now hashem alluded to this russia accusing turkey of breaking its agreement to create that demilitarized zone in northern syria and also helping what it calls terrorist groups in the province turkey hasn't commented on that one yet but as

hashem said it comes just 24 hours before turkey's president is due in moscow for talks with flooding near putin the turks and the russians closer than ever to direct confrontation in syria in just the past few days a quick word with step bason in moscow that one this meeting step would have been important anyway but just what's happened in the last few days seems to make it even more crucial. absolutely it's a very important meeting and of course so russia is now we're placing itself in a very strong and hard to position the 40 year tough negotiations i had with president hu on tomorrow in moscow of course russia has been accusing turkey many times before for breaching this archie 2018 agreement which was meant to demilitarized region russia has always had that turkey has been backing the militants they call them a terrorist and now this morning they gave more details about what turkey is

exactly doing observation post manned by turkey which are the result of this such agreement are now also being manned by decent militants according to the russian defense ministry and attacks are being assaulted from that those observation posts nearly daily not only attacks to the neighborhoods near days of observation post but also to a russian air base which is very important in the area also russia says that the turkey is violating international law because to troops the amount and the scale of the operation is much larger and larger than the west is is knows at the moment they said it's a mechanical division as they call 814002 turkish soldiers around that number heavily armed are in that area and according to russia this is a violation of international law so basically russia is positioning itself ahead of these very important goshi ations in moscow on thursday and also making

a very strong point that the patience is running out of course russia was stepping back slightly in the last couple of days after turkish soldiers were killed by syrian forces they the russians were sort of holding back but now with these says statements in the last couple of days making sure that russia is very much present and that patience is running out and full coverage of that meeting of course tomorrow thursday with steph and the rest of the team there you've seen step barson in moscow. we're on to other news now in 3 separate attacks in northern afghanistan that killed at least 19 soldiers and police 15 soldiers were killed including province 4 policemen in a 2nd attack there and in the 3rd attack government kidnapped 10 border patrol offices and also southern afghanistan the united states has carried out its 1st air strike against the taliban since the signing of a preliminary peace deal last week u.s. commanders say they were responding to taliban attacks on afghan army positions in

helmand province washington is calling on the taliban to stick to its commitments that it made in the deal aimed at ending 19 years of war more with hoda abdel-hamid in kabul for us on the news. first of all why are attacks by the taliban increasing after we've had the signing of this deal. well actually they have increased considerably just a few moments ago the afghan national council has said that ever since the reduction in violence period ended that was basically. it ended on sunday and it was the 7 days prior to that the week leading to the signature of the agreement in deal however since then there have been 76 setbacks in 24 different provinces across the country so certainly the the taliban really putting on to pressure at this particular moment it could be did they're trying to put pressure on president

and on the americans if you recall just 2 days ago president and he said that he will not release the $5000.00 taliban that are held in afghan jails he said that he did not sign that agreement and that was a sovereign matter that should be discussed do it during those intra afghan talks could be that the taliban are using this tactic to try to put more pressure do more to people died it was basically all their fire is against servicemen the more that happens aboard the afghan people get angry and the more a lot of questions arise around this agreement that was signed then what will the americans and the government do next what is there almost a situation here where you've got the official taliban members who came to their hands signed the deal but then you've got splinter groups or parts of the taliban which don't agree with it which can still launch attacks just questioning the unity

if i can call it that of the taliban. well as of late the taliban have been wanting to show that they have a united front that they all stand together you had the political branches that was negotiating in doha you had the head of the military side of the taliban. can you actually wrote an op ed in the new york times saying that he wanted peace but the reality is that they have not been united over the past few years and actually when those negotiations started in some 18 months ago well a lot of them foot soldiers of the haqqani network so that's the military branch of the taliban were very angered about that they said well you are now dealing with the enemy with the non muslims like they do a day put it and a lot of them at the time defected to other groups including so they will be spoilers to dial it back as much as they want to show that they are united and not

as united as they want us to think so now it's a matter of figuring out who exactly is behind those attacks at the moment does that tax mostly happen at this trick and village level that means that they're not in contradiction with the agreement that was signed in the u.s. but do more of these attacks happen to more of servicemen died the more. everything will be put in question and actually you heard of from the u.s. top commander here in afghanistan saying that the taliban if they continue this past will be squandering the chance for peace now is a matter of knowing where there is the taliban to the ones that were that deal directly with the u.s. that are in control of all of these attacks or you have splinter groups that are actually carrying out this to spoil it thank you bill hamid in kabul. here is what

is coming up view on this news on the u.s. facing a new battle over abortion rights as a key case heads to the supreme court's. it was beyond just workers what it goes across there is realms of how we live look at how lecturers and students are joining forces in the 2 week strike at british universities and in sport italy's top players face the prospect of playing in empty stadiums for the forseeable future it's here with the sports at about 10 to the. latest developments on coronavirus now and italy has just announced it will close all of its schools and university remember it's only the highest number affections in europe and has been scrambling to bring the spread under control john hall in your opinion center in london with more on this one jonah. yes you said italy currently dealing with the most severe outbreak in europe over 2500 cases 79

deaths remember just 13 days ago they had only 3 cases so a very rapid spread happening in italy confined mainly to hotspots in the north of the country but spreading elsewhere as well in italy really stepping up its efforts now to deal with this outbreak drafting in health officials to the worst affected areas calling on the e.u. to allow it to breech its budget deficit and spend as much money as possible on this thing there are talk there's talk of a new red zone all red zones of quarantine in the worst affected parts of the country so we may yet see things like citywide or town wide lock downs on the same sort of basis as we saw in china the most recent line in the last hour is that italy is closing all of its schools and all of its universities until mid march so a pretty strident effort there to halt the spread of viruses in those of the virus

in those institutions that along with news that sporting fixtures were there for some days now they've been calling off a postponing big sporting fixture fixtures a copper italia match between napoli and inter milan is the last the latest to be called of it was showed you what happened on thursday at the 12th match at the top flight of the game to be called off those warnings coming out from the president of italy's higher health institute this will strike a particular cultural nerve in that country asking people no longer to kiss each other on the cheek in greeting or to hug each other in greeting and it is thought perhaps colloquially that that is a widespread cause of the spread of this disease in italy but italy clearly struggling to cope struggling to contain this virus but doing all it can join health thank you for all those updates on the situation. with coronavirus in italy we're going to look at iran as well with the number of coronavirus deaths is now risen above 90 and almost 3000 people have fallen ill it has now spread to almost

all of iran's provinces still president hassan rouhani has told a cabinet meeting the country will pull through with minimum fatalities zain buster avi is on skype from teheran for us is this still the iranian government trying to play down what is looking like an increasingly serious situation. well come all the cabinet meeting here present has been honey spoke today he characterized this as an epidemic he conceded that it spread to most of the country the majority of the country as you said but at the same time every government official that speaks publicly is trying to contain any panic contain any fears trying to keep the public calm and he said that the build this is as significant as the psychological impact on people of the corona virus spreading across the country and to that end he said that it is important for the government to take steps to try to deal with this

especially opportunists who are using public fear hoarding masks hoarding medical supplies hoarding sanitizer and gloves and things of that nature to sell on the black market to raise the prices on he said that that absolutely must stop you warned against it and earlier this week the government has declared that any activity of that nature anyone discovered and arrested for that to its face 5 to 20 years in prison and even the death penalty but certainly presidents and ronnie was speaking just a day after the supreme leader characterized the coronavirus spread in iran as a non emergency so really people are trying in government to stem some of the panic that many iranians are experiencing despite the fact that the supreme leader characterize it as a non-emergency friday prayers across the country will be halted will be canceled for the 2nd week in a row something really that is unprecedented here in iran at the height of armed conflict in the eighty's at the height of attacks being faced by iranians through

armed groups in the ninety's and so on friday prayers remained a mainstay of the week but they are being halted really highlighting the seriousness of how much and how quickly this disease is spread across the country we've also heard that it's fun a major tourist destination a city that is historic that is a common place that people go to during nauru's the persian. just a matter of weeks away 100 will not be hosting any domestic visitors hotels and hospitals will be closed and if that is really something that is being done to keep people from going there to stop the spread of the cruel of ours and they will be close by government ordered thank you for all those updates that. in teheran one more note saudi arabia has completely suspended the religious pilgrimage of them rather due to concerns about the spread of coronavirus the months ahead of the pilgrimage which millions of muslims attend each year.

so joe biden has won texas and 8 other states on super tuesday the most important event yet in the democrats' race to the white house but the former u.s. vice president's main rival bernie sanders did well so it is now shaping up as a one on one battle for the democratic presidential nomination here is the tame bright and early on a wednesday morning john hendren in north carolina one of the sought after states that voted in these primaries christensen is in miami where mike bloomberg team is considering their future and of course our white house correspondent is in washington sit tight everyone will be with you in a moment 1st this report from rob reynolds in the sensuous. ah joe biden surged out of the blocks from the very 1st results winning north carolina virginia and alabama in quick succession as the evening wore on he maintained the momentum

from his massive victory in south carolina a few days ago and this appeared to be boosted even further by the support of 2 candidates who had dropped out of the race the endorsements by people who to judge and amy close which are a huge injection of energy into a campaign that had faltered at the start you were true only got to super tuesday if you're over well it may be over the other guy was go back to the folks in virginia was your car there who was barbara was sure i was her was arkansas was shorter was biden also won in texas the 2nd largest state to vote on super tuesday and his a standing victory in massachusetts was a massive setback for elizabeth warren who represents the state in the senate she

made clear though her battle is far from over so here's my advice cast a vote that will make you proud was thought from your heart was a very serious think will make the best president and i was another major loser on the night was michael bloomberg who did not compete in earlier contests his sole victory was in american samoa but he continued to insist he would be the best democratic party candidate to defeat president donald trump and if you are ready to clean out the all. oval office and yet it will amend welcome to bloomberg 2020 the on the front runner going into super

tuesday state in the fight bernie sanders easily won his home state of vermont along with significant victories in colorado and utah most importantly although it will be hours and possibly days before all votes are in he is the winner in the critical state of california with its huge block of delegates votes and i tell you with absolute confidence we're going to win the democratic nomination the and where ya go you took the feet the most dangerous president in their history but this caucus the results on super tuesday appear to reflect a new focus among democratic party voters in choosing a presidential nominee despite the debate about competing platforms support is being increasingly determined by one single issue who would be the most suitable

candidate to defeat donald trump robert oulds al jazeera los angeles ok we're going around the grounds now starting with john hendren in charlotte north carolina hi john a big win for joe biden there you go 35 delegates 43 percent of the vote his campaign very much back on track. that's right this is still a 5 person race in the technical sense but really it's a 2 person race in the sense that there are 2 contenders who look like they have a path to victory here and one of them was not expected to come out as well as he did last night joe biden was a back burner candidate before saturday when he won a surprise victory in south carolina and he started his sweep on the east coast winning southern states virginia north carolina moving over to tennessee and then he won upset victories in massachusetts elizabeth warren's home town then minnesota where a new club which i had recently pulled out of the race biden had been polling 3rd

in that state texas where bernie sanders had come out very strong and spent a lot of time and money and then sanders came out stronger at the end of the night with wins in utah colorado and leading in california where they're still counting the votes but a lot of people consider joe biden a dead man walking up to that saturday win in south carolina now he's not only very much alive he's very much the front runner in this race and that's exactly what donald trump had feared that's exactly the reason that he had tried to find dirt on biden in ukraine that led to the whole trump impeachment case you can expect to hear a lot more about his son hunter and in the in the election coming up ahead if he is able to defeat bernie sanders but don't rule sanders out he's got a very committed group of followers and as we saw in 2016 they are more on until the bitter end but last night on super tuesday it was clearly biden all the way.

thank you john hendren charlotte north carolina we're heading for the south now to . christen so they meet outside a campaign office for mike bloomberg and in miami kristen bloomberg basically state differing on a spends a lot of money said on coming into the rice on super tuesday trying to make a big splash and it didn't work. now as we've already heard the only. state not even a state that he won is american samoa it's a territory he did pick up 44 delegates however here's what we know about the campaign so far obviously not a lot of activity here this morning they had a big day yesterday with lots of events we know that mike bloomberg has gone back home to new york a campaign staffer told me no major meetings are planned for today but the campaign

is reportedly reassessing its place in this race events are scheduled to campaign in pennsylvania and michigan on thursday it's due to be back here in florida this weekend but mike bloomberg is a man who's known for assessing the data collecting large amounts of data looking at all the possibilities and really. giving things are cold hard and alice's and he said from the beginning that his main objective is to ensure that president trump does not get reelected money is not a concern for him the fact that he's already spent more than a half a $1000000000.00 i don't think that's going to factor into his decision he's got more than $60000000000.00 and he has said that he will support whichever candidate whichever democrat is the eventual nominee with the infrastructure that he built the question from mike bloomberg is does he want to win this race or does he want to stop bernie sanders from getting the nomination he has said that bernie sanders

is too far to the left to beat donald trump that's a concern. and he's also expressed concern about joe biden's eventual electability he was going after biden's voters however so the question is now with this surge does he think that biden can win not only the nomination but eventually the race against donald trump he has already stated that his only pay. it's a victory mike bloomberg is only path to victory would be through a contested convention so that he gets a nuff delegates that he can negotiate with the other candidates at the convention because there's no clear majority no clear winner come the convention later this year he has been very focused on swing states like florida he said in his speech last night which was very positive and gave every indication that he plans to continue that the path to victory is through the swing states like florida

michigan pennsylvania and that's what he is going to be looking at how well will joe biden do there will he just take votes away from joe biden. can biden win eventually one thing mike bloomberg does not want to be seen as i believe is a spoiler for joe biden and a moderate democratic candidate so a lot for him to consider today thank you kristen salumi in miami and finally it is kimberly how could in washington d.c. i'm sure don't trump said something to say. he has been tweeting and as always the president's taking aim at pretty much all the still standing democrats in this competition for the democratic nomination to be the presidential nominee for that party but in particular he's doing something else that is he's continuing to stoke kind of the infighting and the controversy that sort of exists within the democratic party goes all the way back to 2016 essentially he is feeding the

narrative that bernie sanders potentially is going to be rob potentially once again as the democratic nominee being robbed of that nomination take a look at this one tweet in particular from the president he goes the democrat establishment came together and crashed bernie sanders again the exclamation point even the fact that elizabeth warren stayed in the race was devastating to bernie and allowed sleepy joe to unthinkably win massachusetts it was a perfect storm with many good states remaining for joe so what is the president doing in all of this well essentially he's reminding democrats of a painful moment for many back in 2016 when bernie sanders was packing stadiums it looked like he could get the nomination but the establishment really came forward and said look at this is hillary clinton's turn she went on to lose the election of course putting donald trump in the white house so as long as the president can continue to kind of promote this infighting within the democratic party why is it

want to do this because as long as they're fighting each other they're not fighting him they're losing energy they're running out of steam and they're also spending a lot of money not targeting him in the general election so that seems to be a particularly focused attack by the president he is essentially it seems hoping that he can keep this infighting going until july 2020 that's the democratic national convention if there is no clear front runner at that point then the democrats are going to have what's known as a contested convention going to hear about a lot essential that means they'll have to go through a number of ballots before they get. the clear winner in the democratic nomination and that would be good for donald trump thank you kimberly how that wrapping up a super tuesday coverage from washington. time for the weather everything is here more wet and windy stuff in europe yammered right looks like it's going to be another wet weekend day in the british isles 5th in a row that will be ahead of that we've got cloud and rain pushing into that western side if you're just pushing across the bay of biscay rolling into western parts of

france for the time being england well scotland all the other generally looking in the clear bits and pieces of cloud and rain here but of course a messy little a ray of fronts just part of the way in across the press peninsula pushing further east which as we go through thursday 30 wet weather we're looking at some flooding sunny a possibility of flooding across parts of central and eastern france through the low countries pushing across into germany some heavy snow there over the alps and heavy rain there just pushing across northern parts of italy and it will continue to make its way further eastward as we go on through friday brightest guys do come back in behind this in place of cloud and rain sleet and snow with a little further east which was the far eastern side of here because some southerly winds here is picking up some very amal there were news really mild air actually could well see temperatures in moscow hitting double figures on friday if it does so that's could be the earliest time of the year temperatures have reached double

figures in moscow new record going on here then more wet and windy weather party of course essential areas as we go on through saturday and this come out there we go more clout and rain to the northwest levy thank you for that everton and folks with your weather there we return now to the corona virus outbreak in its countries grapple with infections that actually seems to be slowing in china where the illness originated the world health organization says the number of new coronavirus cases outside of china is now 15 times higher than those reported within katrina you tells us more now from beijing. patients critically ill with the corona virus are being helped by the artificial lung machines in china's southern province. 6000 nationwide are in serious condition but the government says numbers of new cases are falling the world health organization says other countries must learn from china the experience that china has had it's to be shared and this is the this is an excellent example of that that direct interaction is what is what we want is

what we want to see more and more happen more than 100 people from hong kong have arrived home on the 1st government chartered flight from the city of will haunt the epicenter of the outbreak will flights are planned for this week in south korea more than 5600 cases have been confirmed people in the hardest hit city of daegu say there's a shortage of masks and they're having to queue for hours to arrive with something i. also quell the people especially here in daegu are at great risk i've been waiting in line since 5 30 in the morning and i haven't ever received a queue ticket the south korean government has announced a one point $8000000000.00 stimulus package to protect the economy in india a sudden jump in cases of wednesday fueled fears that an outbreak could grip the world's 2nd largest nation almost 30 cases were confirmed after a group of italian tourists tested positive for the virus in the state of russia start but. the children find it difficult to leave their houses if someone

has to go somewhere like travel on the bus or go to a public place if you scared. cases have topped 1000 in japan but can i just say preparation for the summer games. tokyo in july is so fun going ahead the chinese government says the study drop in new cases is proof that severe lockdown restrictions right but reports that some patients are testing positive for the crown the virus after being discharged from hospital raising concerns chinese authorities say these patients rocklin to be infectious. for coverage to undergo further period of printing before. katrina al-jazeera. is now fighting in northern maine maher is raising concerns of a new humanitarian crisis there the main mommy is at war in rakhine state with the

army which wants an independent state for the majority reclined people which is actually a mainly buddhist ethnic group the current state of course is where there's been years of intercom you know conflict between rakhine buddhists and muslims in 20173 quarters of a 1000000 range of are driven out of rakhine into neighboring bangladesh the main my government denies genocide against them the u.n. says since the beginning of last year an additional $59000.00 mostly ranger have been forced from their homes they are in 135 camps both in rakhine and chin states just nearby the u.n. says fighting is stopping the delivery of food and other vital supplies to many people in need florence though he has a report now from both the dung township in northern rakhine. for these students school is now in a monastery and home is a temporary shelter in a camp for the internally displaced they had to leave their village when fighting between the myanmar military and the r.

khan army an ethnic group that erupted in january last year got too close and an eternity there was an airstrike they fired on to our village our homes were burned tillery shells hit our houses. many have been here for at least 7 months and escaped with little more than the clothes on their backs. soldiers and village and we didn't want to run into them so we ran away we were scared. they haven't been able to return to their farms the shops and are dependent on the un says the near daily reports of civilians being killed or injured and child casualties on the rise last month more than a dozen students were injured when an artillery shell hit that school landmines also pose a threat according to a recent landmine monitor report by the international campaign to ban landmines the government says it's doing all it can to protect civilians. we don't know where the

fighting is going to happen we won't know ahead of the fighting we're trying to do as much as we can we give support to the people they get compensation from the federal government and the injured are treated for free at our hospitals. it's fighting for greater autonomy on behalf of the time a mainly buddhist ethnic group who make up the majority here the state is one of the poorest in myanmar and there's growing resentment towards the government we were in last lights in the upright area but we cannot and drive power sharing. not satisfy with this condition but for the. they became radicalized the conflict has disrupted aid services the u.n. office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs says transportation routes used to distribute food have been affected and many aid organizations have reported

greater difficulties in reaching more rural areas and internet shutdown has made it more difficult to get information on civilian casualties and living conditions in the camps rakhine state is also where the myanmar military launched a violent crackdown against the mainly muslim minority more than 2 years ago. which denies committing genocide has been ordered by the international court of justice to prevent further killings of the remaining gap. but as the conflict continues civilians whether rakhine or are being caught in the middle florence 3 al-jazeera booted on township rakhine state myanmar. in the us supreme court judges are to hear a major case that could make the law on abortion meaningless the hearing in the easy honors the 1st since president obama trump appointed to conservative judges and gallagher as i report now from new orleans oh by the law i foresee and does not

sound problems outside one of louisiana's few remaining abortion clinics a protester urges women to make a different choice this state's laws are among the most restrictive public fundings only available in cases of rape or incest women must receive counseling discouraging them from the procedure and mine is need parental consent the case now before the supremes court could make abortions in louisiana harder forcing clinics to get admitting privileges to a hospital within 50 kilometers of their practice a move critics say would force most to close it's very concerning in that that supreme court took this case up at all caruso had studies women's health and says louisiana was trying to and. minor ruling known as roe v wade made abortion legal in 1973 rather than overturn roe v wade which at one time seemed so insurmountable kill it by death through a 1000 cuts and so these are medically unnecessary regulations that have the effect

of closing abortion clinics other states are now acting similar so-called heartbeat laws and bolden by the appointments of 2 conservative judges to the supreme court and to abortion rights groups are hopeful the tide is turning in their direction toward to be confident sometimes when we see the toll that abortion is having on our nation but we believe that our country is going to write its wrongs as it's done in the past and give rights to the weakest and the least among us with the unborn child or working on criminal justice or whether it's reproductive rights organizations like the american civil liberties union say legal abortion is now hanging by a thread and it's the least advantage that may suffer it is young people poor people immigrant people people who are in this country lawfully but just don't have means that are going to be limited in their opportunity to exercise their constitutional rights many of the current laws are aimed at protecting the health and safety of women with a conservative majority in the supremes court

a decision in the states favor will have far reaching consequences if the supremes callbacks louisiana's even more restrictive abortion laws this is likely to become the 7th state with just one clinic pro-abortion rights groups fear it may even lead to a direct challenge of roe v wade onto your abortion rights activists are more hopeful than ever but abortion may now be banned across the entire country the stakes that couldn't be higher under gallacher all the 0 new orleans louisiana landslides and flooding in brazil have killed at least 12 people and forced thousands from their homes dozens remain unaccounted for in the states of rio de janeiro and. now more than a 1000000 students at british universities are having an unexpected holiday the lecturers of been on strike for the past 2 weeks made barker explains why now from london. lectures on the picket line the students have

abandoned their classrooms in solidarity with 50000 university staff across the country 74 universities are involved in 2 weeks of strikes affecting around 1200000 students and last teaching time the students support. credibly important for me to be here in solidarity with my lecturer because if i'm here to study and learn about how we create a better labor system for all i have to be here for what's happening at my campus itself is the mass media started to ask but i think what they're fighting for i think that really resonates with a serious attack is if they stop having academic future. and education too in this country the list of grievances is long traded in say staff pay has declined 20 percent in 10 years in real terms workloads and pension contributions have increased like trizone an average of 55 $1000.00 a year i could i mix are increasingly being offered short term contracts meaning

many have to reapply for their jobs every few months in the 1st cities are relying on this kind of casualised precarious labor to carry on and essentially what the strike is about is to say no we need decent jobs permanent jobs in order for the university as a whole to function it goes beyond just workers well it goes across various realms of how we live if you're in a casual contracts or a calculus contract it's hard even to plan a family to play. you are in such a precarious position the average undergraduate degree costs around $35000.00 in tuition fees excluding books travel and accommodation international students from the u.k. can expect to pay double or even triple ha university education used to be free seen as a benefit to the rest of society but universities are now at the mercy of market forces with huge sums of money go. untoward marketing and management the vice chancellor of oxford university made headlines for earning $520000.00

a year the average vice chancellors pay is $6.00 and a half times greater than the average staff member one of the main tasks of any teacher is to help steer people into work and to illustrate that education at the end of the day pays but it has societal value but the reality is some of the brightest brains in britain and now struggling to make a living. to go she ations between universities and lecturers over pay and working conditions are ongoing meanwhile frustration among academics is growing with the universities accused of putting profit before people neve barca al-jazeera london sport coming up on the news hour with far and a not to forget for liverpool's defense especially. the goalkeeper. and ups as well the artists branching out into the world of nature and they have an important message.

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coronavirus still affecting sport around the world far as got more on the outs thank you so much come all thursday's italian cup semi final between napoli and interim a lan is the latest major football match to be postponed due to coronavirus and follows wednesday's other semi match between eventis in ac milan also being put on hold italy's sports minister says the government is likely to order all top league games to be played behind closed doors only for syria marches took place last weekend sports events have already been banned in 3 regions of the country. organizers of the australian formula one grand prix says say it will go ahead as scheduled next week but offered no guarantees because of the nature of the outbreak of when drivers have still been testing their cars in anticipation for the start of the season in melbourne on march 15th despite the health crisis that the cancellation of other motor sport events around the world meanwhile f one's

managing director says a championship race will not go ahead in a country that denies access to any team due to the strict sions. you know if the team is prevented from entering your country would tolerate. another formal world term share price and you're right because i would be on for. over 70 makes the 2nd choice not to go to a race that's a decision group where a team is prevented from going to race because. of decision of a country that is difficult to have a fair competition so i think it's essential that. we have teams of racism or if they were unable to attend and compete probably. tokyo's olympic organizing committee says canceling or delaying the games due to coronaviruses not being considered for the games comes the torch relay rehearsals have already taken place with the olympic flame due to begin its 4 month journey through japan on march 26th

organizers say the number of spectators may be limited and the health of runners and staff will be constantly monitor they did add that the situation would have to be continually assessed between the relay this month and the olympics in july. and setting a isn't it true that what you have to think can say about march the 26 and then what happens after july the 10th is different you also have to think about how the coronavirus situation will change. his preparations for tokyo 2020 are going ahead at full steam hundreds of sounds from that to see the 22 year old american in times square on choose day with a total of 30 olympic and world championship medals the 3rd most decorated gymnast of all time. obviously i would be nervous i was even nervous in rio but we were so prepared that we were so ready i feel like nothing could have stopped us at that point so hopefully leading up to 2020 we get to that same point. former tennis

world number one came closer says she's looking forward to playing more matches her comments come as she lost to joanna content the opening round of the monterey open in mexico the 36 year old is playing in just her 2nd match since returning from retirement a 4 time grand slam champion lost in straight sets handing the briton her 1st win of the year meisters announced her retirement in 2012 for the 2nd time career. of the l.a. clippers beat oklahoma city thunder to extend their n.b.a. winning streak to 5 games paul george scored 16 points but his teammate quire leonard was the star once again in oklahoma city $25.00 points leading the clippers 210994 when. it's been a bad few days for english premier league leaders liverpool after suffering their 1st league defeat of the season on saturday they've now been dumped out of the f.a. cup so how moloch reports. chelsea would have cursed their luck with

a do liverpool in the 5th round of the f.a. cup but they came up against the red side not looking at their best having had their 44 game unbeaten streak in the league snapped on saturday and it seemed from early on that the reds had recovered. not to start from the regulars didn't help matters stand and keep agree on farm billing williams shot allowing chelsea to take the lead. the blues had chances to increase their advantage. and they finally got this 2nd just past the hour mark thanks to ross bok. his goal proving to be the killer blow giving chelsea a shock to know when and sending the runaway league leaders out of the f.a. cup. we have always you know happy that we're out of the cup. there was a was a tough game was hard. to get but at times you brits with. a great game we played really well take the child sees.

something as opposed to a bad night for liverpool but it's hard to see them staying down soup alemanni al-jazeera and the german cup of 4th tier team is through to the semifinals for the 1st time in history so burke can have their keeper daniel bats to thank for their shock when overabundance league asides return a dozen doors he saved 5 penalties during the game one in normal time and then 4 in the shootout after the game finished one. ok and that is all yours for now come all that far thank you for that family tree you know they are vital to life on earth but in many parts of the world deforestation is still a huge problem now it's our branching out to challenge the way people see the natural world just baldwin went to have a look in london. look at the trees they're all around us familiar but so often overlooked a show at the hayward gallery seeks to change that with

a new exhibition among the trees it's been estimated current rates of before stray show in 600 years will be notorious left on the planet so i think it is a moment where we have to start having a new relationship with trees and forest 50 years of art about trees to mark 50 years since the 1st earth day a forest of corrugated cardboard the packaging material repurposed to its earlier form of wood itself ideally i would like to have people to stop for a few minutes and for get a little bit they have to go all the way to the show and to this day there and see what happens at 1st glance a felled bark less tree but it's actually more than 800 layers of way for thin cedar in different cultures different ways of seeing trees in rural colombia there

is no hierarchy between trees and people it's just a matter of considering how the big important thing to the life of people as people themselves. are 30 metres spruce in a finished forest sways in the wind allowing visitors to admire the scale for trees the sense of time is changed and all of tree growing for more than 2000 years in southern italy was used to cast this monumental sculpture it was around when julius caesar ruled the roman empire forests are disappearing at an alarming rate just at a time when our planet needs them the most trees and forests one of the most cost effective ways of fighting climate change trees take in carbon dioxide and clean the air around them. rubbish caught in the branches of trees on the malaysian coast documents the environmental degradation trees are indispensable from paper for

books timber for houses but there's more like all good art there will be new emotional connections made highlighting the importance of trees jessica baldwin al-jazeera london. and that is your news hour we're back in a couple minutes time the latest news on coronaviruses italy prepares to shut down schools and universities back on. one of the really special things that work in progress here is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be for that is you know it's very challenging liberally particularly because you have a lot of people that are deployed their own political issues we are with the people we live to tell the real story so i'll just mend it used to do the work in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe.

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turkey and greece accuse each other of being responsible for the increasingly violent situation among refugees on their shared border. i'm come on santa maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera with thousands of coronavirus cases italy prepares to close all schools and universities hong kong brings home its 1st evacuees from the at the center and iran confirms 92 jets from the virus and the democratic presidential field transforms into a 2 man contest after food chain states vote on who should buy stomach trouble in the.