leecher everything changed the research of the from. 0. the top diplomat dashes to turkey to deal with the crisis triggered by and get his decision to release syrian migrants towards its territories. i'm convinced this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up billionaire media mogul mike bloomberg abandons his bid for the white house and endorses the democrats' frontrunner joe biden. drastic steps for difficult times initially the government's planning to close all schools universities and cinemas as the corona virus spreads plus. i'm florence we in rakhine state myanmar's newest battleground

with civilians are increasingly being caught in the middle of fighting between the myanmar military and the are can on an ethnic group. we begin with the latest on the diplomatic tensions involving turkey's intervention in syria's war of european union foreign policy chief has met turkey's president and foreign minister and uncle joseph burrell says he told them the situation on the border with greece is unacceptable. increased pressure due to it being union turkey border and unilateral actions. of not bringing any budget eventually and not being in benefit to anyone. like a country can only create problems and made the situation worse and they want who

is who will pay the price. people shooting and refugees from migrants. turkey and greece a trading accusations about the growing crisis there thousands of refugees and migrants are trying to cross into greece the greek government is dismissing reports that a border security guard shot and killed a migrant on the battlefront in syria turkey's defense ministry has confirmed the deaths of 2 soldiers and it led province turkish forces retaliated by striking syrian military targets the fighting is causing tensions between turkey and russia turkey's president is due in moscow on thursday let's go now to hash out a who joins me live from hard time i near the turkey syria border office of hashem just bring us up to speed what's the latest there on the ground. was committed very tense with the escalation on the ground in different parts of the north western province of it live to the south the syrian government backed by

russia is trying to recapture some major opposition stronghold particularly in. and further. to the worst the battle for sirte archive has become of people to the moment for all the parties the syrian government says that it is now controlling the city and further expanding its influence on the outskirts by the rebels backed by turkey say that they are determined to hold ground and reclaim it back and why set up it is becoming somehow an extremely important issue now it is because it is located on the crucial highways in 5 and 4 and for the government syrian government claiming back paved the way in the near future for any bush to take over the city of idlib pushes the rebels' last stronghold in syria and for the rebels they cannot allow to be back in the control of the syrian army now the turkish government at the same time says that its military campaign spring shield is under way targeting

syrian government defense lines and defense systems artillery have the weapons and also a musician deposed and from a turkish perspective this is something which is going to continue until there is a political settlement that settlement could be decided tomorrow when and putting meets but it remains to be seen how they will be able to set aside their differences and negotiate the terms of a new ceasefire a demarkation line and a buffer zone. my i'm interested wants the sentiment among text about this operation in syria because the casualties among turkish soldiers has been fairly high * i mean is there support for this military intervention. well we've seen a while ago some brawl of the parliament divisions between the ruling party

of the ark party and the opposition opposition c.h.b. which is the republican people's party started when a member of the c.s.p. . made a remark critical of president because of saying. that they are saying that his policy in syria is disrespectful to those who were to the soldiers killed in province a few days ago the leader of the of the same c.s.p. party. said something similar has been very critical of president bush. saying that by going to russia to negotiate a settlement you're on the way on another capitulating to the russians and our party members were very upset with those remarks and then he degenerated into a brawl of people climbing the desk throwing punches members of the other party and this shows you a divide now whether that is going to further trickle down to the masses here in

turkey the government from the is still saying that what he's doing in the province is digital met and in self-defense but however the journalists sentiment in turkey is that if this continues if this continues of the crisis continues into this is definitely going to further deepen the political divide and could move forward to into. a divide between different segments of the of the society thank you for that sat across developments there has been life from what i . that's as you can name is that turkey's northern border with greece and says the exchange of accusations between the neighboring 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 in 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. billionaire media mogul mike bloomberg has dropped out of the ranks to become the democratic challenger to donald trump and november it follows a disappointing result on super tuesday the most important event yet for democrats was on the joins us now live from new york why did bloomberg drop out. well it wasn't for a lack of money because he showed over the last 3 months he's got plenty of that spending more than a half $1000000000.00 trying to get the democratic nomination so it certainly wasn't the money it was simply the delegate math bloomberg is a man that really likes spreadsheets he likes numbers he likes data and he met with

his top advisors who showed him the data on that key delegate math delegate state are needed to become the democratic. to get the democratic nomination for president and there simply is not a path for him that's why he said he pulled out of the race in his words in a letter he sent to his advisors and supporters and to the media he said that the delegate math was quote unquote impossible he simply doesn't have a pal who doesn't have a real path after that absolute disaster on super tuesday and it's as it's called it could not have gone any worse for mike bloomberg so i think he sat back and figured it simply there's not a way forward so i might as well pull out now that's exactly what he did gabriel will get you to stay there for just a moment let's take a minute now to recap the super tuesday results for the other democratic presidential nominees who are still in the race former u.s. presidents have vice president should say joe biden has made a major comeback he said to win at least 9 of the 14 states that voted on super

tuesday including the 2nd biggest texas biden performed poorly in the 1st 3 contests but hasn't seen a surge 'd of support but he said his went into the night as a frontrunner and he won the biggest prize the state of california he also won in his home state of vermont and 3 others the senator warns what he calls the same old politics won't be trump. this with warren expressed hope as the less than pleasing numbers rolled in for her she came 3rd in the state she represents in the senate massachusetts and failed to win any of its. prediction has been a terrible business and the pundits have gotten it wrong over and over so here was this i've got some advice that i want to start which tonight show here's my advice cast

a vote that will make you proud was so gabriel pluto there's now putting his weight behind joe biden so given that and the super tuesday results does that make joe biden the front runner now. well i would say coe front runner front runner with bernie sanders i don't think anyone's counting out bernie sanders yet by any stretch of imagination there are still a lot of states that need to vote and so i would say that it's now ascenders sanders biden are the to co front runners if you will let's look at michael bloomberg though most of his voters the conventional wisdom at least says will probably go to joe biden because they're both moderates but the bigger question is where will bloom birds campaign infrastructure and thus his money go bloomberg has hundreds of employees throughout the entire country that work for his campaign or now his suspended campaign he's got offices around the country has got an e-mail

list he's going to transfer all of that over to joe biden or not and if he does that's going to be a huge boost for biden probably just as important as the actual votes that could come to biden because as of just a week ago or really 72 hours ago joe biden had very little money very little campaign infrastructure his was a campaign that was very much struggling now everything is changed so he needs as much of the infrastructure support as he can get from the bloomberg campaign and want to see if bloomberg does that or not but clearly joe biden very much had an incredible super tuesday night and now with michael bloomberg leaving the race on wednesday that only helps biden that much more thank you for that gabriel i was on to there live from new york. still ahead on al-jazeera a new bachelor ever born in the united states now new faces of the supreme court could sway. the group of branching out of the world bank should leave an

important message. for. how we got some quotes weather now pushing across the middle east following on from a very wet weather this is now in the process of heading towards afghanistan this little area of cloud here brought some violent storms through some wintry weather too over the high ground you can see clear skies now coming in behind still quite a keen. across the gulf running down towards us here in concert temperatures around $25.00 celsius out of the strength of the way it's going to get dusty $25.00 in similar conditions as we go on through friday by and by friday night is that west of weather sliding across northern parts of pakistan towards india then possibility some flooding in one of 2 spots here meanwhile across northern africa not see much

of the way of cloud and brian this little area cloud here just clipping the far north of libya will bring some outbreaks of rain having said that a cold we went behind but gazi the top temperature of 115 degrees but ahead of that with a southerly wind 28 in car i things even out a little as we go on through friday chance of wanted to shells into northern areas of algebra but much of the region plenty of sunshine the shows continue across the heart of africa towards the gulf of guinea still some lively showers there just stir around the barone there on northern parts of tanzania but for much of southern africa is dry. frank assessments the one good thing about these bushfires usage really well you're not the politics of climate change informed opinions the economy i think is actually what's keeping damo trouble float right now critical debate sequel on

posters going to been told what the law is all 'd about us argument is astonishingly patronize a in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of a new iraq of a new conscious and aware youth about struggle against an ethnic sectarian kota inside story on al-jazeera. gorging on just a reminder of our top stories this hour the european union foreign policy chief joseph brown has met with turkey's foreign minister every child a shoulder and president at a time one an anchor girl says he told turkish officials the situation at the border with greece was unacceptable. turkey and greece are trading accusations

about the growing crisis for thousands of refugees and migrants who are trying to get into the european union greece accuses some migrants of using military grade tear gas denies turkish allegations of course injuries by stopping them crossing the border. believe there might bloomberg has dropped out of the u.s. democratic primary race and endorsed former vice president joe biden had a pope for months on super tuesday he secured just a dozen delegates. by the italian government is preparing drastic measures to fight the coronavirus including closing all schools universities and cinemas but also look at playing major football matches behind closed doors 28 people have died in the last 24 hours taking the death toll to 107 with over 3000 people infected that's the highest number of to china at the epicenter of the outbreak john hall has more. there's no doubt that italy is dealing with a very severe medical emergency in terms of this outbreak that makes makes it the

epicenter of the spread of covert 19 in europe and it's apparently getting worse with big jumps in the number of fatalities from sunday into monday monday into tuesday we haven't had updated numbers for wednesday but that appears to be the direction of travel and efforts up to now don't seem to have been successful in containing the virus in its northern hotspots in italy they've been sending the italian government with force mints of medical supplies and personnel to affected towns there are already fairly restrictive measures in place there's talk of widening or deepening so-called quarantine red zones in those areas and there's a call out to the european union to allow italy to exceed its budget ceiling and effectively be able to throw more money at the problem but as i say the virus spreading elsewhere in the country all but one of its other regions have reported infections in italy therefore taking a much broader approach and indeed a more dramatic approach with measures thought to have been approved by

a government cabinet meeting headed by the promise to conti we haven't had an official announcement yet but thought to have been agreed to include the closure of all schools and universities countrywide from thursday until the middle of march at least that will have an enormous impact we've seen similar measures in japan empty classrooms their parents having to take time off work interruptions to the education curriculum and so on iran has announced another 15 deaths raising the total to 902 toronto is taking drastic measures like calling off friday prayers in all major cities for a 2nd consecutive week around health ministry has confirmed more than 2100 cases since the outbreak the game began saying describing as enteron explains how iran has stepped up its efforts to tackle a virus. present hasan rouhani during his cabinet mean to meeting earlier today struck a very different tone from last week when he said that things would begin to normalize

in a few days now he was taking it more seriously trying to calm the public and trying to show that the government is taking this very seriously he warned people against hoarding medical supplies like masks and gloves and we've heard that later this week the courts will hear the 1st 10 cases of people arrested for public order earlier this week the government announced a prison sentence of 5 to 20 years even the death penalty if you are found guilty of hoarding supplies that would help medical facilities to cope with this virus the president also said that they were working with neighbors to try to keep commercial avenues riddle's and transport networks for business open so as to make sure that people don't suffer more economically than they need to but of course small and medium businesses are suffering the most they make approximately 40 percent of the country's g.d.p. but unfortunately we heard earlier today that because exxon had just closed its ports on the caspian sea to any vessels and passengers coming from iran the r.g.c.

is trying to do what it can the revolutionary guard it has set up field hospitals and clinics and has also set up a hotline that people can call explain their symptoms discuss ways to prevent the disease to try and keep the hospitals and clinics around the country that are apt to pasadena from being overcrowded overburdened unnecessarily with patients trying to seek treatment 3 separate attacks the northern afghanistan have killed at least 19 soldiers and police 15 soldiers were killed in condensed province fullface men died in a 2nd attack there and in the 3rd attack gunmen kidnaps 10 border patrol offices and in southern afghanistan a u.s. astronaut has targeted taliban 5 says for the 1st time since the signing of their peace deal last week u.s. commanders say they were responding to taliban attacks on afghan army positions and helmand province. they'll have made reports now from kabul where she says the attacks could be a sign of division within 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. and you actually wrote an open ended new york times saying that he wanted peace but the reality is that they have not been united over the past few years actually when those negotiations started indoor some 18 months ago where 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. fighting in northern man maher is raising concerns of a new humanitarian crisis i mean mommy is that war in rakhine state where the an economy that's fighting for an independent state for the majority of a kind people the mainly put us to ethnic group plans for reports from booty dong township in the northern state northern part rather of rakhine state. 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 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 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 i'm 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. will not satisfy with this condition but for the. they became ready elyse the conflict has disrupted 8 services the un 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 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 rakhine. are being caught in the middle florence al-jazeera township rakhine state myanmar. u.s. supreme court judges a herring a major case that could make the law on abortion meaningless the herring and louisiana is the 1st since president donald trump appointed to conservative judges and the gallacher reports from new orleans by the law by up force and does not sound problems outside one of louisiana's few remaining abortion clinics a protester urges women to make a different choice the 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 the supreme court took this case up at all caruso who studies women's health and says louisiana was trying to undermine a rule. 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 in acting similar so-called heartbeat laws and bold and 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 supreme court backs 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 borsch and 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. trees are of course vital for life on earth but in many parts of the world to deforestation continues unabated now are branching out to challenge the way people see the natural world jessica baldwin takes 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 its plaster made of the current rates of de force traces and 600 years it will be notorious left on the planet so i think it is a moment we have to start having a new relationship with trees and forests 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 a gather 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 into the life of people with us people themselves. at 30 meters 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.

this is al jazeera and these are the top stories for european union foreign policy chief is mitt turkey's president and foreign minister and on camera just a barrel says he told them the situation on the border with greece is unacceptable turkey and greece a trading accusations about the growing crisis for thousands of refugees and migrants trying to get into the european union greece accuses some migrants of using military grade tear gas and denies turkish allegations that one person was shot dead while trying to cross over. billionaire mike bloomberg has dropped out of the u.s. democratic primary race and endorsed a former vice president joe biden he secured just a dozen delegates on super tuesday. the biggest winner of the night was former u.s. vice president joe biden he said to win at least 9 of the 14 states that voted including the 2nd biggest texas. the italian government is preparing drastic measures to fight the coronavirus including closing all schools universities and

cinemas and playing major football matches behind closed doors $28.00 people have died in the last 24 hours taking the death toll to $107.00 that's the highest after china the epicenter of the outbreak iran has announced another 15 deaths raising the total to $92.00 nearly $3000.00 people have been infected there. landslides and flooding in brazil have killed at least 12 people and forced thousands from their homes dozens remain unaccounted for the governor this says the equivalent of a month's worth of rain fell in just 12. well those are the headlines the news continues here on al jazeera off the inside story stay with us.

a super tuesday ribbon for joe biden was the biggest day of voting in the democratic race to challenge donald trump for the white house but he's doing well in california so what does that mean for the party's nomination in the run up to the u.s. presidential election in november this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program super tuesday a big group of states get to have their say and it was super for joe biden the states have given him a lead in delegates he appears to be the party's front runner so far it is a remarkable comeback when all.