it's too good to be use and abuse across the globe on al-jazeera. the in. tensions over turkey's offensive in syria boil over in the parliament after another 2 turkish soldiers are killed in. low i maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program italy ramps up its battle against the corona virus closing schools and universities for 2 weeks as its death toll jumps to 107. billionaire businessman mike bloomberg drops out of the democratic presidential race i have to after joe biden surges ahead on super tuesday. and hours after president trump's phone call

with a taliban leader more attacks on the afghan army prompted a u.s. air strike against the. low will mark them to the program our top story this hour turkey's parliament has descended into chaos amid rising tensions over the country's military policy in syria a fight broke out involving dozens of politicians off to one opposition member accuse the president of disrespecting turkish soldiers who've died in syria. on was also labeled irresponsible for sending troops into the conflict without air cover turkey has sent thousands of soldiers into syria to try to halt a government offensive in province or the brawl in the parliament followed the deaths of 2 turkish soldiers during an attack in turkish forces also suffered heavy losses last week when 34 soldiers were killed in as strikes 59 have now died in

northern syria one is due to meet his russian counterpart in moscow on thursday to discuss a cease fire. or. 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. well in all the developments greece has denied accusations that it shot and killed a migrant who was trying to cross into its territory earlier riot police have used tear gas and water cannon against refugees and migrants at the border thousands have been trying to breach the barrier since last week when turkey said it will no longer stop people crossing into the e.u. the blocks foreign policy chief has been meeting in ankara seeking to defuse the situation. joins us live now from hardtail need turkey syria border 1st of all hashem tell us about this increasing tension and perhaps domestic opposition to.

involvement deeper involvement in syria. well that broadly you saw the parliament is or was a clear indication of the political divide in the country with the main opposition party c.h.p. which is the republican people's party expressing concerns about the turkish military involvement in it live saying that the government has failed to provide safety procedures for the soldiers operating in the area president has been dismissive of those comments made by the leadership of the opposition party saying that the presence of the turkish military was legitimate it was in self-defense and that the meeting tomorrow with president vladimir putin is for the sake of establishment establishing a buffer zone a demarkation ally and. a no fly zone

a no fly zone now the situation in libya is very critical because of the fighting that has been fed in up in different parts of the province in the south of the rebels are trying to hold ground despite a massive offensive by the syrian government backed by russia to take over settlers and also as we are which is an opposition opposition stronghold further west to words towards. it has become a battlefield where the syrian government is now in the center of the city determined to take over the whole area because sits over to a crucial highways in 5 for the rebels on the other had backed by turkey do understand that if they lose tonight tomorrow with the 2 leaders meet in moscow that could change many things on the ground or there could pave the way for the syrian army to have more territory or gays in the area. it's on the ground in the

coming hours could be critical to that meeting tomorrow also hashim what about refugee flows people into and from turkey as that been any attempt by ankara and the e.u. to reach some sort of understanding. they don't seem to have managed to sort of sort of narrow their differences about that issue in particular because of the e.u. foreign policy chief expressing concerns but the turkish government is saying the same done at the same time that the europeans have betrayed the turkey and that they have failed to implement the terms of the 1016 deal with turkey that pave the way for the decrease in the number of people crossing into europe in exchange for financially and incentive and resettlement scheme turkey says that the e.u. has pledged 6000000000 euros in that deal but however the turkish government has received only 3000000000 that were spent on the refugees the 4000000 refugees

here in turkey and that is up now to europe to play a critical role now from a turkish perspective also one of the reasons why they are very critical of the e.u. they say that the e.u. should have interfered in at least with some sort of military backing for turkey or for more political pressure on the russians to rein in president abbas and the history of the offensive creating this mass exodus of the biggest displacement of refugees in northwestern syria says the start of the conflict but all the other hand the e.u. is saying that president. should not use this humanitarian crisis which is playing out in libya to put more pressure on the e.u. let's listen to what just if bret had to say. i had to put you need huge breasts. our understanding would be difficult to do

a shoot in turkey he scored in the phasing but also stressed decoding developments in the european borders are not leading to any solution we have also. asked not to encourage further movement of refugees and made me and my migrants who were in union murderous. i think this tension of this rhetoric that you can see the different views about how to the fore when it comes to the issue of the refugees and his position when it comes to the refugees now are crossing into greece it all boils down to one thing will president plus of the. president vladimir putin set aside their differences and negotiate a settlement as far as it is concerned the turkish government is saying there are 3 things that should take place syrian government should pull out behind the demilitarized zone you should stop the offensive and this should pave the way for

the 1000000 people who are stranded on the border to return for that to happen they are hoping to see the americans and the europeans put more rule of the rich on the russians if there's no agreement there is a huge concern the protracted conflict which is playing out in live could just pave the way to further instability more displacement of refugees and you never know the potential for all the refugees delta across to europe could further increase. thank you very much and how bare on the tacky syrian border are all only a fraction of the refugees who've tried to leave taki have successfully managed to cross into greece thousands of amassed at the border since it was opened last week but greece is saying only 1500 have actually managed to enter but that hasn't stopped many people from attempting the sometimes dangerous crossing as sasha can i now reports to us from the border. struggling to find their slippery footing

they made their way across the dam barefoot stone by stone. one man slips and his bag bobs away with a swift current of the river. desperation and despair are growing as refugees and migrants take advantage of turkey's open border with greece and both carry out some are taking dangerous risks for the chance to reach the european union. i don't know how to swim while walking i was thinking. those are the only 2 options earlier this week the turkish police began blocking refugees were walking across this bridge closer to the checkpoint with greece now people are resorting to risking their lives by crossing. below. on the other side of the river bank cold and wet refugees were met by villagers looking to make a profit those who still had money in their pockets were asked to pay $2.00 to

$3.00 for a ride with a horse and cart a tractor or a van instead of walking the short distance to get closer to the checkpoint at the greek border. all. were also poor we don't have money if we did we wouldn't be doing this. the odds of people making it to greece and being allowed to stay looking creasing li slim the greek government says only $1500.00 migrants at most have entered since turkey opened its border gates last friday around 26000 have been stopped several men told us this was their 2nd attempt after they'd already been deported from greece. i made it to the other side and for 5 days i moved from place to place i have no food people give me food i eat i have no more. he left. despite hunger exhaustion and frustration they've summoned

the determination to repeat the journey. europe has to take us because only doohickey is taking care of immigrants because there will be good others will be following that also making the precarious track getting old 0 a dirty near the border between turkey and greece a greek navy ship has arrived on the island of last boss to provide some relief for the hundreds of migrants who have arrived there of the past few days around 500 people have been camping out at the town's ports after being prevented from reaching its of a crowded camps by angry local residents they will be given accommodation on the ship after being sent to athens for processing but greece says the latest wave of migrants have arrived illegally and eventually they will be deported. italy is closing all schools universities in cinemas until march 15th as it battles

to contain its corona virus outbreak the death toll there is jumped to 107 the largest number of deaths outside china public events have also been canceled across parts of europe asia and the middle east and the international monetary fund is warning that the outbreak will slow global economic growth this year john holl begins our coverage. contagion is spreading quickly across europe and the world and that means anxiety as much as the covered $900.00 virus itself staff at the world's most famous museum the louvre in paris shut it down for 3 days this week demanding better protection against the virus tourists went to news there isn't a place in the world that it's not going to get to and you can't just shut down the world you can though shut down parts of it battling europe's most prolific outbreak so far italy will close all schools and universities until mid march in an effort to stem the tide of infections and the rising death toll japan did the same last

week and france has also ordered the closure of some schools affecting an estimated $35000.00 pupils. as dramatic for some italy's decision to hold all sporting fixtures in empty stadiums spain has done so to life across the globe is changing fast the world health organization continues to stress the importance of containment in places with few infections in the hope of delaying the spread of the disease and to give health systems time to prepare there is no doubt that things will get worse. and if the w.h.o. isn't yet prepared to declare a pandemic germany it appears is. the corona virus outbreak said the health minister has become a global pandemic amid a worldwide shortage of goggles masks and gloves germany has banned the export of medical protective gear they wanted all to be available for use at home and other

shortages have provoked concern this time in australia over toilet paper. some countries are taking matters steadily further india has extended the screening of passengers to all those arriving on international flights the authorities in saudi arabia have banned citizens and foreigners from making the pilgrimage to mecca in israel prime minister netanyahu suggested the common handshake be replaced by the indian greeting no mistake while italians have been asked to stop kissing and hugging with the coded 19 virus reaching more and more countries each day it is possible that no corner of the world will be spared even as european health ministers prepare to meet on friday one infection was registered inside the european council building itself not just towns and cities now but the seats of government and parliament are in its path journal al-jazeera. elsewhere pressure has been mounting on iranian officials to take more action against the virus as the

confirmed death toll that jumped to 92 he has more from the iranian capital tehran and the latest nash is being taken. 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 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 people 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 readings 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 it's also set up a hotline that people can call explain their symptoms discuss ways to prevent the disease to try and ship the hospitals and clinics around the country that are at capacity from being overcrowded overburdened unnecessarily with patients trying to seek treatment. well in terms of the continued commercial impact of all this the german airline is now saying it's like pastina move equivalent to grounding almost a 5th of its total fleet or $150.00 aircraft because of the virus company says it's adjusting plans to reflect extraordinary circumstances our sweet lufthansa said it had grounded $23.00 long haul aircraft european airline bosses have also one of the

worst is still to come for the airline industry in terms of the economic damage from the outbreak and then coronavirus fears have also calls producers to push back the release of the new james bond film no time to die that's the title of the film had been scheduled for release in april but it will now be moved to november producers say the decision was made after careful consideration some film analysts have suggested the outbreak could wipe billions off the global box office with many of china's cinemas already closed. watching al-jazeera live from london much more still to tell you about the man known as the french spiderman climbs a tower in barcelona to spied a message about coronavirus that story and much more coming out.

ahead of them all stormy weather pushing into western areas of europe has been a very unsettled picture of course for several days as see huge sway the clouds pushing in with some strong winds and of course yes another round of rain but tom a look at this is on the coast of south of france into berates very very strong winds and just a bit further inland these same strong winds we just swept across the region so many trees in the process and the is more on the way really is pushing in through the bay of biscay very heavy rain at times and very widespread pushing up into low countries germany and of course once it hits that cold air turning into yet again some very heavy wet snow some very heavy rains to those lower elevations not as bad across into spain and also a bit of a break for areas across much the you can next system has yet to actually work its way across through friday all that rain across west spreading further through will central areas the air is colder so it will be quite a wintry mix over the next couple of days and again the winds all the while remaining very strong really funneling through the bay of biscay and right there across the mediterranean funneling up into the adriatic so again we could see some

heavy amounts of rain into coastal areas of the balkans and then at the same time the system in the med that will put across into libya that says it by friday the showers on the way to cairo with a high fee of 21. when i enter the spiritual modified current 6 out of horsepower i feel the happiest girl in the world. the women tearing up the trunk in the west bank. challenge stereotypes. living life in the fast lane it's like putting the brakes of the big. big sisters on how to.

live. alone welcome back a quick look at headlines this hour turkey's parliament descended into chaos today when an opposition m.p. accused the president of disrespecting turkish soldiers who died in syria the brawl followed the deaths of another 2 turkish soldiers during an attack in syria's in the province meanwhile greece has denied accusations it shot and killed a migrant who is trying to cross into its territory week riot police have used tear gas and water cannon against refugees and migrants at the border and then our other headline this hour its lee is closing all of its schools universities and cinemas until march the 15th as it battles to contain its corona virus outbreak the death toll there is now jumped to 107 the largest number of deaths outside of china.

well the race to challenge don't trump an event as u.s. presidential election is down to just 4 candidates former new york mayor michael bloomberg has pulled out after a disappointing shining in the super tuesday primaries a surge in support for joe biden made him the big winner moving him ahead of bernie sanders in the battle for the democratic nomination it now looks like a 2 horse race with elizabeth warren a distant 3rd until seek out even further behind bloomberg did spend heavily on his campaign though it didn't translate into support he's now throwing his considerable financial weight behind biden. would draw were only got to super tuesday be over well it may be over governor i. know right through the filter of a drug you're. worth trying harder. all of her

childish earning. her. sure. showed her. who nodded towards oh you were the absolute confidence we're going to win the democratic nominee should the and we're all going to defeat the most dangerous president if they're here through the uk so we have correspondents in new york and the white house covering latest developments in the race the white house for us the let's check in with us on day who is in new york and of course might bloomberg one of the richest people in the world he spent half a $1000000000.00 on his campaign seemed inevitable that he was going to pull out what went wrong for him. well a whole host of things went wrong for him it started with a very terrible 1st debate that he had a few weeks ago back in las vegas you might remember that it was widely panned his

performance in that debate and then he ran into this wall here i mean he spent nearly half a $1000000000.00 as we've been saying but he went into this and his advisers went into this expecting that he might not win all the super tuesday states but that he might win one or 2 maybe 3 maybe even 4 but he'd be competitive in most of them he didn't win any and he was competitive in pretty much none of them with the exception of american samoa which really doesn't matter much when it comes to collecting delegates so the key number here was 15 percent and even if he didn't win states he needed to hit 15 percent in a lot of these in a lot of these states in order to gain delegates and he only got 15 percent in 3 of the 14 states that voted and barely got 15 percent is that in that so he left florida late on tuesday night came back here to new york met with his top advisors he's a numbers guy they crunched the numbers and the bottom line is bloomberg said himself

in a statement that he set out he said the delegate math is just impossible going forward so the big question was he threw his support to joe biden because they're both moderates the question now is will he also throw his infrastructure support behind by as well bloomberg has dozens of campaign offices throughout the country also has hundreds of staff members as well those will all be closing down all of that but will he transfer that to biden as well if he does that's going to be a huge boost for joe biden but the bottom line to all of this is this was a very expensive political disaster for michael bloomberg and one that is now very much over all right thanks very much. let's head to the white house committee halkett is there and of course it was really joe biden that was the man of the. in the super tuesday primaries he has made a remarkable comeback in this race to cement his place as democratic front runner how much of a threat could he be surprised and trump. well you can always cut to get

a gauge of that by whether or not the president talks about it and he has been he has been reacting to the withdrawal of my bloomberg from the sort of list of contenders for the democratic presidential nomination and characteristic don't turn for him he was certainly rubbing it in gloating if you will saying that he didn't believe that mike bloomberg had what it took to be president to make it to the oval office that he could have told him that he could have saved him hundreds of millions of dollars as gabriel was talking about the hundreds of millions in that infrastructure that was put in place by mike bloomberg donald trump speculate himself that it likely will go to joe biden i think it's tough i think joe has an easier path right now believe it or not. or seemingly much as gaga he's going to you know try and save face by putting somebody into buttons. and bloomberg put in probably a $1000000000.00. and you know sometimes you just sort of wouldn't take. now

we should point out in all of this that donald trump was his as you heard there characteristic mocking tone almost a schoolyard bully once again once again referring to mike bloomberg as many mike sort of sort of making note of his height and in the midst of all of this we've you know mike bloomberg is sort of responded but he's taken the high road in the past he's called him basically a carnival barking clown this time it was a very says sink withdrawal announcement he said simply that he had heard into this rate to raise to defeat donald trump and today he's leaving for the same reason thanks very much i want house correspondent kimberly ok thank you complete. well now the united states has carried out its 1st airstrike against the taliban since the signing of a policeman repeat last week military commanders say they were spawning 2 attacks

on afghan army positions in the southern province of helmand in northern afghanistan at least $900.00 soldiers and police officers were killed during 2 separate attacks in kunduz province 10 afghan border patrol officers have also been kidnapped well the air attacks happened hours after donald trump spoke with taliban's political leader mullah baradar the 35 minute phone call was aimed at reducing violence in afghanistan it's thought to be the 1st direct exchange between u.s. president and a senior member of the senior taliban leadership while gerry's hada abdul hamid is in the afghan capital 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. 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 indoors 18 months ago where a lot of the foot soldiers of the haqqani network so that 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 way they put it and a lot of them at the time defected to other groups including so they will be spoilers to 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. well now rescuers in brazil are searching for survivors after a heavy rain in the southeast of the country caused a series of landslides that killed at least 16 people dozens of missing and it's feared that more bodies could now be found buried under the mud more than $5000.00

people have been forced from their homes with parts of the city of rio de janeiro also hit by flooding the state governor says the equivalent of a month's rain fell in the space of just 12 hours. some political developments in ukraine the country's parliament has voted to accept prime minister elect see how to end checks resignation as part of a sweeping government shuffle and became ukraine's youngest prime minister last year at 35 years old is expected to be replaced by deputy prime minister denis should he go ukrainian president lied to me is a lengthy says his government's priorities remain unchanged despite the departure of a number of senior ministers. and then a man known as the french spiderman has climbed barcelona's i bar tower as a symbolic act against what he calls the panic over coronavirus told journalists he wants to spread the message that fear is more contagious than the virus itself or better often climbs well known buildings without permission including to buy as

bush and the trying as towers in malaysia wants back on the ground rebel was checked by medical staff and then arrested and not for the 1st time. is there everything you need to know of course to get video on demand there as well al-jazeera telecom is the address. just a quick recap of the headlines this hour for you turkey's parliament has descended into chaos after rising tensions at the country's military policy in syria a fight broke out involving dozens of politicians after one opposition member accuses president of disrespecting turkish soldiers who have died in syria. one was also labeled irresponsible for sending troops into the conflict without air cover or the brawl in the parliament followed the deaths of 2 turkish soldiers during an attack an adlib turkish forces also suffered heavy losses last week when 34 soldiers were killed and asked reich's 59 have now died in northern syria overall

dawn is due to meet his russian counterpart in moscow on thursday to discuss a possible cease fire. or sure you know no 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. well in other developments greece has denied turkish accusations that it shot and killed a migrant who was trying to cross into its territory earlier on riot police have used tear gas and water cannon against refugees and migrants at the border thousands have been trying to breach the barrier since last week when turkey said it would no longer stop people crossing into the european union. italy is closing all of its schools universities and cinemas until march the 15th as it battles to contain its corona virus outbreak the death toll there is jumped to 107 the largest number of deaths outside of china public events of also been cancelled across parts

of europe asia and the middle east the international monetary fund is warning that the outbreak is likely to slow global economic growth this year. and the former us vice president joe biden was the big winner in super tuesday primary votes he won in 10 of the 14 states who voted and has now moved ahead of bernie sanders in the battle for the democratic party nomination the former mayor of new york michael bloomberg has pulled out after a disappointing showing he is now offering his considerable financial weight behind joe biden as the headlines this hour coming up next the stream looks at the effects of global warming around the world.

i everyone i'm femi oke am your in the strain today we take a look at 3 stories related to global warming locusts in east africa ice melt in antarctica and the future of the world's largest doomsday food vault you can join the conversation really easily if i live you chat all on twitter. authorities in east africa are racing to town to swarms of gracious locusts have been eating their way through the region including.