needs to be to study their behavior we can monitor them for their local codes and behavior were able to how they're adapting to their new environment women make science dolphin sanctuary on al-jazeera. turkey and greece accuse each other of being responsible for the increasingly violent situation among the 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 epicenter 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 base donald trump. i'm florence we invoke mindstate myanmar's newest battleground with civilians are increasingly being caught in the middle of fighting between the myanmar military and the our economy and make. such a 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 greece garia members of the european union the greek government denies turkish allegations of causing injuries by stopping them crossing that border and the greeks accuse some migrants as well of using military grade tear gas natascha going to aim isn't that border and says the exchange of accusations between the countries

is getting ugly. the world 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 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 a 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. and turkey's defense ministry says 2 of its soldiers have been killed in syria's problems in an attack by government forces turkish forces retaliated by striking syrian military targets dozens of turkish soldiers have been killed in italy in the past month but turkey's president he is vowing to continue the offensive. or show you know one 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 in hopefully with the help of god we're going to build a strong turkish republic here's how he is in the turkish city of time to talk more about this not only is president not backing down hashan but he seems to be or both sides in to be getting closer to this sort of direct confrontation between turkey and russia over syria indeed come out 24 hours before the question meeting between president abdullah and puts him in moscow about defusing tension what we've been seeing is basically an escalation of rhetoric but also but also an affiliation of the fighting there are 2 things happening as we speak in the province that is a push by the rebels backed by turkey to reach. the last yesterday intense fighting. attacks. the rebels say they are adamant they want to

retake it syria on the other hand backed by the by russia say that from now on what is going to be totally under their control and the reason why this stick to because it sits on the 2 crucial highways m 5 and 4 further south the words civil as unsettled up you have also the syrian government pushed by backed by russia is trying to take over further villages and i think all the parties are trying before the summit in moscow tomorrow trying to make as much significant territory again as possible to be in a better position to negotiate or to have some sense of levers to negotiate the demarkation line of the buffer zone and the cease fire that's. what the update from have in turkey thank you as hashem alluded to there russia are accusing turkey of breaking an agreement to create a demilitarized zone in northern syria and helping what it calls terrorist groups

in turkey hasn't yet commented on the accusations but as we say the turks and the russians closer than ever to direct confrontation in syria in the past few days as you country's president are due to meet in moscow on thursday step vasant is there for us she explains the importance of that meeting. it's a very important meeting and of course a russia is now were placing itself in a very strong and hearty position for the tough negotiations i had with president want to morrow in moscow of course russia has been accusing turkey many times before for breaching the 2018 agreement which was meant to demilitarize the region russia has always had a 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 and now also being manned by diesel militants according to the russian

defense ministry and attacks are being assaulted from that those observation posts nearly daily not only attacks. near the observation post but also to a russian airbase which is very important in the area also russia says that the turkey is violating international law because the troops the amount the scale of the operation is much larger and larger than the west. knows at the moment they said it's a mechanical division as they call 814000 turkish soldiers surround that number have fully armed are in that area and according to russian this is a violation of international law so basically russia is positioning itself ahead of these very important to go she in moscow on thursday. on to other news initially is preparing to close all schools and universities after a big spike in the number of cases of corona virus thousands of people have been

infected and at least 79 died several towns uneasily as north are on complete lockdown and iran has announced another 15 deaths bringing the total fatalities there to $92.00 which is the most anywhere outside of china the country's health ministry has confirmed more than 2900 cases since the outbreak began we're going to get updates on both of those stories. in teheran shortly but 1st in london a european news center with more on what the italian saying. well italy as you say very much the epicenter of the 1900 outbreak as far as the european union is concerned so far in the country very much on red alert measures on the taken so far include reinforcing those affected areas in the north with medical supplies and or health specialists and health care staff there are there's a request in with the european union for italy to be able to breach its budget

ceiling to throw more and more money at this problem this talk of new red zone quarantine areas perhaps tightening or expanding the areas currently under lockdown but the government not just looking at the north now all but $1.00 of italy's regions have shown infections and there are proposals well i think there are more than proposals now being discussed by the government in cabinet chaired by prime minister recep the county it's thought these proposals have been agreed they haven't yet been announced but baps in the next few hours we will hear for sure that all schools and universities are to be closed in italy from thursday for a period of around 2 weeks that's going to have an enormous social impact on the country we've seen similar things happening in places like japan parents would have to stay home from work disruptions to education curricular and so on and then deeper measures aimed also at cultural and and sporting events the storch of all

sporting events including football matches of course in a football mad country being held in empty stadiums with no spectators this talk of encouraging people to give up the italian tradition of kissing each other and hugging each other in greeting of staying a metre apart and avoiding crowded places of not sharing cups and glasses and that sort of thing and other means by which the virus can be transmitted and especially the elderly are going to be asked to remain indoors most of the deaths that have occurred in italy have been among the elderly this is a country grappling with an entirely unexpected crisis that began. just on february 19th only 2 weeks ago slightly less than 2 weeks ago with its 1st case it's now spiraled as you said up to 2 and a half 1000 or more cases and $79.00 deaths the 3rd worst affected country after iran and of course china thank you jonah hole in london and now teheran with the insane the situation in iran getting progressively worse but the government still

trying it seems to put a positive spin on it. that's exactly right we've seen the numbers go up quite consistently 92 total coronavirus victims people died of the illness 15 need since yesterday 586 new cases overall of people of contract of the virus in the last 24 hours a closer number putting the total number of cases very close to the 3000 figure so sit very very serious problem here in the country present as an iranian is cabinet meeting this week striking a very different tone last week he said that things would begin to normalize in a matter of days that isn't the case now he's warning people against hoarding things like masks and gloves and sanitizer and other medical products that people who are fighting the disease desperately need it and in fact this week iran made it illegal to hold these materials at the jail sentence could be anywhere from 5 to 20 years the death penalty is also on the table on saturday we're expecting to see the

1st 10 people arrested for this to go on trial for courtroom equipment and then sending it abroad we also heard presidents in iranian his cabinet meeting address the bottom line here iran is very concerned that this will have a lasting economic impact but he said that roads and borders for commercial trade for the trade routes between iran and other countries that their government is in touch with those countries with neighboring nations and trying to keep those passageways for trade and commerce secure however you just heard that kazakhstan has just closed its ports to ships and passengers coming from iran along the caspian sea so a constant struggle for the government but granny did promise that they will help businesses especially small and medium businesses which represent shortie percent of the country's g.d.p. they are likely to be the hardest hit the government still trying to take some action the revolutionary guard have set up field hospitals but have also set up a hotline that people can call to try to find out more information about their

symptoms so as to try to take some of the pressure off of the hospitals and clinics that are dealing with patients thank you. a couple more notes on coronavirus one of europe's biggest airline says it will ground $150.00 aircrafts to to the operator love tons and says the adjustment reflects extraordinary circumstances on tuesday executives from several airlines in europe met to discuss the economic impact i said the worst is yet to come for their industry and saudi arabia has suspended the religious pilgrimage of armor and because of the virus a temporary ban applies to both citizens and residents of the kingdom last week saudi arabia barred entry to foreign visitors who seek to visit the country's major religious sites it comes just months ahead of the hajj pilgrimage which millions of muslims attend each year from all over the world. we'll update the top stories in just a moment there well it's been less than a waco but we'll find out why

a deal between the u.s. and the taliban is already under threat. hello we've got quite a weather pushing into japan now we do still have some wet weather some wind she weather some disturbed weather there across northern parts of the country into hokkaido some snow there maybe but some pieces of sleet and snow into northern areas of honshu but for much of the country it is now largely dry that wetter weather now pulling out into the open waters dry skies to prosecute parts of northern china central areas still see a splash of showers as we go on through thursday and on into friday perhaps a little wetter as we go on towards the weekend here but you can see dry skies there of course a good part of japan at that stage is sunshine the showers meanwhile across southeast asia the show is starting to nudge

a little further northwards even the southern parts of the philippines well see some heavy spells of rain from time to time and that rain becoming more expansive into those central areas for friday but the wettest weather will be. a little of the south we want to show us into thailand not too much to speak of want to see showers to the southern parts of india again not too much to speak of the wettest weather we have a westerly disturbance making its way out so if afghanistan northern parts of pakistan northern areas of india quite a bit of rain coming in unless there is the possibility of some flooding as we go on towards the next couple of days. but. americans live side by side into parallel universes the truck parts of america are getting trampy or there is a poll out a few weeks ago that you had almost 30 percent americans believing they were on the cusp of civil war both sides accuse each other of doing things that are so blatantly wrong the bottom line on u.s. politics and policies and they're affecting the world. context these are the things

storytelling around the biggest issues we've done but had to do you should do it again. top stories this hour on al-jazeera turkey and greece are trading accusations about the growing crisis for thousands of refugees and migrants trying to get into the european union greece accused the son migrants of using military grade tear gas and also denies turkish allegations of causing injuries by stopping them from crossing the border. checks defense ministry meanwhile says 2 turkish soldiers have been killed in syria province during an attack by government forces

a total of $59.00 turkish soldiers have died in the past month. lease government is preparing to close all schools and universities as it struggles to contain the corona virus outbreak that has 2 and a half 1000 confirmed infections the world's 3rd largest concentration of cases behind china and iran. 3 separate attacks in northern afghanistan have killed at least 19 soldiers and police 15 soldiers were killed in couldn't province 4 policemen died in a 2nd attack and in the 3rd attack gunmen kidnapped 10 border patrol officers and then southern afghanistan the u.s. 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 commitment made in a deal aimed to end the 19 year war. joe

biden rode a wave of amend some to win texas and 8 other states on super tuesday the most important event yet and the democrats rights to the white house but the former u.s. vice president's main rival by any side has been there too badly either wraps up the results now from the sunshine us was 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 fulcher it at the start there were truly got to super tuesday

be over well it may be over the other guy who was no match for the folks in virginia was or carolina was at bama was sure i was obama was accurate sure was showed 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 of those that will make you proud was from your heart was very soon you think will make the best

president you know you've all 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 oval office and get on the on that welcome to bloomberg 2020 baguio 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's 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 nominee should the in the and where your going to the feet the most dangerous president in their history of this country in 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 california washington d.c. here's our white house correspondent kimberly how looking at donald trump's reaction can be a seems to be in a sort of backward way showing sympathy for benny santas here. yeah don't be deceived by that sympathy this is a tactic and

a strategy on the part of the president essentially what he's doing at all of this is trying to sow the seeds of infighting and controversy within the democratic party by bringing up some very old wounds from 2016 involving senator bernie sanders essentially what he's doing with his sympathetic tweets is he's feeding the narrative that bernie sanders is about to be rob of the democratic presidential nomination yet again by the democratic party take a look at the 1st line of this tweet is really important he says the democrat a stylish mitt came together and crushed bernie sanders again in all caps exclamation point he goes on but the point is the 1st part of that tweet is significant but because he's reminding many democrats who did support bernie sanders in 2016 remember he packed all those stadiums but then the establishment of the democratic party came and said that hillary clinton would be the presidential nominee yeah well this could be happening again and that really bothered

a lot of democrats because of course donald trump went on to win the election so the president seems to be trying to sew this infighting maybe even going to the democratic national convention if he can keep it going long enough because this benefits him if they're fighting each other they're spending energy they're spending money not on fighting donald trump but instead fighting each other so this is this is a strategy by the president one that he hopes that he can carry on and keep the momentum because again if they're fighting each other they will be exhausted by the time it comes to turning attentions on him for the general election thank you for that can be how could our white house correspondent in washington. fighting in northern maine bob is raising concerns over a new humanitarian crisis there the 1000000 mommies at war in rakhine state with the outcome which is fighting for an independent state for the majority of rakhine people many buddhist group has a report from the dome township in the northern part of the constructs.

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 to 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 land mines 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 he says it's fighting for greater autonomy on behalf of the time and mainly buddhist ethnic group who make up the majority here the state is one of the poorest in myanmar and there is growing resentment towards the government we were in last lights in the area but we cannot and. not satisfy with this condition but for the. he 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 gas. but as the conflict continues civilians whether we're kind. of being caught in the middle florence 3 al-jazeera township rakhine state. 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 sao paulo the governor there says the equivalent of 12 months rain fell in 12 hours the last patient being treated for ebola in the democratic republic of congo has been discharged so meta was let out of the clinic a stop sign and danced around her more than 2000 people died during the 19 month outbreak the 2nd worst in history after the epidemic that ended 4 years ago in west africa it will be there 28 days before the outbreak can be officially declared. next door and this is the neighboring republic of congo vast oil reserves have been discovered but they are underneath 10000 year old pete lands near the congo rainforest reports from the capital preservation environmental so drilling for oil there will unlock billions of tons of carbon oh fuck. beneath

the swampy forest lies carbon equivalent to about 20 years of emissions from fossil fuels in the us it's stored in peat lands that scientists discovered here in the republic of congo 3 years ago the government didn't allow us to go there and film this is the government's video but it did allow oil companies to drill there last year. it's license to oil exploration in blocks of land across more than half of the peak lands and environmentalist say if wells extracted risks releasing 30000000000 tons of carbon stored in the peat. it would be catastrophic even if we tried to exploit the oil in an eco friendly we we still have to destroy the ecosystem. or it will make the area i want to see before the exploitation of other resources and also indeed a great swath to. the river congo is the world's 2nd largest river by volume and the rain forest that sits in its basin is the world's 2nd largest after the amazon

and its leaves and branches falling from the trees partially decomposing in the ground in a form the paint over about 10000 years have been discovered on both sides of the river in swampy areas and the carbon stored in them beneath the ground is as much as is stored above the ground in the entire forest the congolese government signed an agreement to receive $65000000.00 of funding from european governments to preserve the pete lands and the forests above them but activists say the agreement doesn't rule out oil extraction the country's africa's 3rd largest oil producer 2 oil companies announced major on shore oil discoveries near the peat lands last year. but the environment minister talked with the people on the safe. and what we are saying to the international community is that the congolese government will not touch that if we have

a friend even if we have to do it if we find. areas we will do our best to do a good job the lands are also home to millions of people the government says oil revenues help communities environmental activists say they don't and that if oil extraction goes ahead here the world's largest tropical land and its vast carbon reservoir will be gone forever malcolm webb al-jazeera republic of congo. let's take you through the headlines turkey and greece are trading accusations about the growing crisis on their shared border for thousands of refugees and migrants turkey is allowing them to leave towards the european union the greek government is denying turkish allegations of causing injuries by stopping them crossing the border the greeks also accuse some of the migrants themselves of using

military grade tear gas and names on that border for us and says the exchange of accusations is getting ugly. 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 saying that migrants are throwing turkish military grade tear gas at greek police turkey's defense ministry also says 2 of its soldiers have been killed in syria's province in an attack by government forces turkish forces retaliated by striking syrian military targets dozens of turkish soldiers have been killed and it late in the last month italy is preparing to close all schools and universities after a large spike in the number of corona virus cases thousands of people have been

infected in the least 79 people have died. and in iran there are another 15 deaths announced bringing the total fatalities there to $92.00 which is the most outside of china the u.s. airstrike is talk of the taliban fighters in afghanistan for the 1st time since the signing of a peace deal last week american commanders say they responded to taliban attacks on afghan army positions in helmand province and former u.s. vice president joe biden has made a big comeback in the race for the democratic presidential nomination he looks like he will win at least 9 of the 14 states voting on super tuesday including the 2nd biggest of them texas biden performed poorly in the 1st 3 contests outside of super tuesday but he has since seen a surge of support that's my lot for today thanks for your company kevin has got the news are in half an hour after the bottom line with stevens. as the world battles a potential new pandemic we'll bring you the latest developments from around the

globe. with updates about trouble or searching for. grown a virus outbreak special coverage. hi i'm steve clements and i have a question is the democratic party in the mother of all wars with itself let's get to the bottom line. so after months of debates about health care about whether a woman can be president about billionaires and about america's legacy of racism and social division about russia and its election meddling or about china now and the coronavirus the democratic party is finally getting closer to picking a candidate who will face off against republican president donald trump in november the process has been a battle for the soul of the party wait not really just the soul but the deep soul which now seems split between the establishment represented by former vice president joe biden and the revolution championed by senator bernie sanders so

which way will this all go and which candidate has a better chance of inspiring americans and more crucially getting them to the voting polls and.