[000:00:00;00] my . an emergency is declared in the u.s. state of california for coronavirus america is stepping up its national response approving billions of dollars. x. . alabama hello magazine and this is al jazeera valley from doha also coming up the leaders of turkey and russia to meet in moscow fighting in northwest syria's threatening to drag them into direct conflicts. we're on the turkey greece border

where syrian refugees are taking ever more dangerous risks to reach europe. and billionaire mike bloomberg endorses joe biden's white house bid to bring out the race. my. hello there an emergency has been declared in the u.s. state of california for corona virus has been a rise in cases there and the 1st fatality a 71 year old man had recently returned from a cruise that ship the grand princess is now being held off california's coast where thousands of people still on board she has returned see reports on how californian authorities and i are trying to determine if other passengers are infected. this cruise ship appears to be

a potentially another major vector for the coronavirus to spread this man who was elderly had underlying health problems which is what we often see in people who die from the coronavirus but he was all in this ship and he does some bug having already felt symptoms off the coronavirus he went home and finally he called my mom one got help got tested was tested positive but that died at least one other person from that same cruise ship who also disembarked is potentially is presumptively thought to have the current virus but i want him to the other 2500 people who got off the cruise ship at the same time as these 2 people so clearly authorities are concerned as to where those folks are according to the california governor at least half come from california where we didn't explicitly connected to the state of emergency but clearly these are concerns of the californians and now that cruise ship is still is now been parked outside off the coast of california affectively in quarantine because 60 people or so from that original crew stayed on the boat and then they were joined by another $2500.00 passengers and then went off on

a cruise to hawaii so clearly there's lots of potential there for this to be a vector of for the credit virus tests are now being added lifted onto that ship so that people can be tested it's not being allowed to to to. to reach ports in san francisco for the moment but these seem to be connected to that statement by the governor and governor newsome that a state of emergency has been declared that means he gets to get lots of emergency funding it's also to make sure that the price gouging concert that they can get more readily available supplies they can get more health workers from out of state but this is what the governor had to say we have a number of passengers and crew members that develop symptoms on this cruise. ship grand princess cruise ship as a consequence we are going to be flying testing kits to the cruise ship so that plenty of questions on california as to where those others from that cruise

ship are currently now and clearly the california governor he says that tried the administration is trying to reach them. u.s. politicians are backing an $8300000000.00 package to comb the coronavirus is expected to pass the senate and be signed off by president donald trump most of the money will go to agencies dealing directly with the outbreak. i spoke to several governors this morning they were grateful for the fact that the changes you made this week and through the f.d.a. now make it possible for state health clinics as well as universities around the country to be able to conduct coronavirus tests but will also be meeting this afternoon with leaders of our commercial laboratories to make a coronavirus tell us more rapidly more wildly available doctors offices and medical clinics. where the virus is now spreading faster outside of china where it

originated stand within and some chinese cities and provinces are trying to stop travelers from bringing it back let's get a live update from asia and i would give you a good pal and she joins us now from hong kong via the rates of infection in china has slowed but other countries are writing deja since the struggling to contain the spread why is that. that's right hala i mean for instance india now has 29 these are new cases it's very worrying it's a sect world's 2nd most populous nation behind china and the doesn't have to go back to your question of why it doesn't have the same kind of governments that can impose directives and measures and enforce them immediately like china can and that's basically why china is men managed to contain it spread of the virus and if you look at japan that's had its biggest jump in a day it now has 36 meanwhile south korea it's the 2nd most infected or

stricken coronavirus stricken country behind china that also had a large number of cases on wednesday that was 438 and as of today as of right now just from today a burn 134 new cases now that is very worrying because while china has managed to maintain and lower the rate of its infections it seems other countries are now struggling to contain their rate of infections now the ones in south korea originated from china comes from most of the cases are in a city called daegu from a religious group that had traveled to one in the early days of the wars virus and then brought it back to korea so that is what south korea is struggling with but as you said enter a verse or china is now trying to keep people or carriers of that virus out of china instead with the measures ok devika bell and that life for us in hong kong

thank you. the leaders of russia and turkey are due to meet in the coming hours to see countries have recently come cools to direct confrontation and it live in northern syria turkey is trying to push back syrian government forces who are supporting russia moscow has accused anchor of violating the deal on a demilitarized zone and help in what it calls terrorist groups in the area well incited live witnesses have told all to syria that russian air strikes have killed at least 15 people and farms sheltering displaced civilians many more are injured let's go live now to sin and she joins me from the turkey syria border jill for goals and crossing more developments happening inside syria send them we are hearing of civilians being killed in in more russian airstrikes just how is of the latest updates that you're hearing from where you are. hello just

a few hours ahead of president don and president putin meeting i have to tell that the ground is tense the military situation inside at the base stands this fight a meeting is on the way in a few hours and leaders are expected to find a solution for the monetary crisis inside the russian ada strikes have targeted a chicken farm where the billions try to escape and as you have also said initial reports suggest people are dead and 800 civilians are wounded and the number of the battle is expected to increase because what we have learned from our local sources inside is that they are some of them are heavily wounded on the other hand the turkish defense ministry had a press statement that suggests that that within the last 24 hours. army have eliminated it realized in their turn 180 or so you. government soldiers destroyed 4

tanks 5 artillery and some other military vehicles etc so the battle on the ground is still continuing especially around that active the main highway town that connects and 4 and a half and 5 highway what will be the outcome of today's meeting is going to go a shape on the military situation inside the palace the case in of course we all are joining us live from the turkey syria border crossing thank you very much for that update well turkey's parliament turned chaotic during heated discussions over the country's military rule in syria and peace started shoving each other after one opposition member accuse the president of disrespecting turkish soldiers who've been killed at a time parents of arms also labeled irresponsible for sending troops into the conference allegedly with adequate air cover. the european union has pledged over

$65000000.00 in further humanitarian aid for people in the province as the book faces a worsening refugee crisis on its borders thousands of refugees and migrants have been trying to cross from turkey into greece after ankara said it would no longer stop them that's a good name has this exclusive reports from the turkey greece 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 bulk area 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 you cross or you die those are

the only 2 options earlier this week the turkish police began blocking refugees were walking across this bridge to get closer to the checkpoint with greece now people are resorting to risking their lives by crossing this 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 and if we did we wouldn't be doing this. the odds of people making it to greece and being allowed to stay looking creasing least limb the greek government says only 1500

mike. at most have entered since turkey opened its border gates last friday around $26000.00 have been stopped several men told us this was their 2nd attempt after they'd already been deported from greece but this was done just big music getting 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 money left me. despite hunger exhaustion and frustration they've summoned the determination to repeat the journey. europe has to take us because only turkey is taking care of immigrants to take us there would be good others will be following that also making the precarious track natasha getting . a dirt near the border between turkey and greece. this is al jazeera in the news still to come home libya is putting a strain on the climate son truckloads also stuck in mexico bother asylum cases and

hurts the u.s. courts we need the refugees affected by a controversial policy. headed them all stormy weather pushing into western areas of europe has been a very unsettled picture of course for several days as siege sway the clouds pushing in with some strong winds and of course yet 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 bringing down 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 tunning 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 the 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 cold and 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 ajax 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 produce meszaros across into libya that says it by friday the showers on the way to cairo with a high fee of $21.00. but . in 2013 cases of gang great shock to asia and the world it's almost court like young men egg each other on al-jazeera asked men in cambodia what drove them to commit violence against women i don't know whether it's rape i'm doing it

because i can't afford a girl a male in 2016 has anything changed normalization of violence against women unfortunately i think is still a very common pattern around the world rewind it's a man's world on al-jazeera. the. the. the world. this is al jazeera a reminder of the top stories this hour the leaders of russia and turkey are g. to meet in the coming hours in an effort to ease tensions in northern syria but you countries have come calls to direct confrontation and it live for turkey's launched an offensive against government forces who are allied to russia

a state of emergency has been declared in the u.s. state of california following its 1st death from the coronavirus there's the man had returned from a cruise to mexico passengers on the same ship i know being tested boards. italy is causing all schools and universities until mid march as it battles to contain the spread of the corona virus the number of those killed across the country has risen to 107 the largest death toll outside of china john how has the details. 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 a 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 want it 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 net. yahoo 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. british airline flight b. has collapsed after sales were hit by the corona virus outbreak the airline has grounded all flights and is telling passengers not to go to the airports unless they've made other arrangements carrier has already been struggling financially but the outbreak has tipped it over the edge. libya's conflict has forced flights to be redirected to misurata after the only functioning airports in tripoli was targeted on monday the airport was hit by heavy shelling and $300.00 civilians have been killed by rockets or airstrikes since followed her if i have to began his campaign to seize the capital in april child stratford reports from misrata. with forces loyal to warlord khalifa haftar targeting with seagate airport in tripoli

virtually every day all flights to and from western libya are now being conducted from here misrata airport which is around a 3 hour drive from the capital now all foreign airlines stopped operating all flying to and from libya around 5 years ago i spoke to a pilot with a libyan airline last night who refused to go on camera but he described the experience of flying into tripoli in recent months as having been terrifying and that's despite increased communication with government forces trying to protect the airport on the ground. this is a recent rocket attack on tripoli by help his forces a number of civilians were injured when some of the rockets landed in the neighborhood an aircraft belonging to the libyan airline el afriqiyah which was parked near the runway at maty port was hit by shrapnel from exploding rockets on monday no one was injured misrata airport is now having to serve up to 5000

passengers a day a 10 fold increase since mitzi gap pool was closed some of them of course misrata airport is not capable of handling this amount of flights but we're doing everything we can to make things run as smooth as possible. most of these passages would use a fly from which pool before it was shot and yes because i have friends who were in matija airport when rockets hit they describe absolute chaos and fear just imagine a place like this and bombs start falling around you you'd probably never want to travel again the interior minister for the un backed government 40 bashar guys said that the international community is not doing enough to punish after fatah getting civilian areas in tripoli including with sea port bashar has warned that the un backed government by soon have little choice but to change its military strategy from a defensive one into an offensive one in order to push this forces back. without

0 misrata. former u.n. chief javier perez the quaoar has died at the age of 100 in his home country of peru in champions many peace agreements north most notably one that ended in a new war between iran and the market in the 1980 s. the quero also steered namibia to independence from south africa which he considered his greatest achievement he came out of retirement later in life to help reestablish democracy in. ukraine's parliament has approved anish my guys the new prime minister after his predecessor resigned on the example i'm sure it quits on wednesday after he was caught on a mic trick or 2 in criticizing the president's it comes as president vladimir is an unskilled we shuffle says top team in a bid see improve the country's economic situation. well the $60000.00 asylum seekers have been denied entry into the united states under

a controversial plan nicknamed remain in mexico they have to wait across the boards or while their cases are processed in u.s. courts in the mexican border town of matzoh morris more than 2000 people are living in a tense camp waiting to hear their fate john homan has more. in the mix can bank of the rio bravo is a tent camp of more than 2000 people over the other side the promise land the us. most of from central america especially on due to us and have been here for months there waiting for their asylum requests to play out in a closed up u.s. system before they would have been kept stateside for that long process but a year old program could n.p.p. or remain in mexico changed things since then some 60000 people have been shipped across the border and told to wait here and had only u.s. officials told me that i was going to

a shelter in mexico with security and food that we shouldn't be scared in reality they just left us at the bridge i asked mexican migration officials where i could stay because i was with my girls wherever you want they told me if you don't find anywhere you can just stay at the bottom of the steps and eventually they found their way to a camp that's turned into a sort of village residence provide some services the mats morristown government takes care of the rubbish and international organizations and churches many from the u.s. provide food and other essentials. they come to my tomatoes a border town known for gang violence. like many others here the chevys family hardly ever set foot outside apart from to head across the river when they have a case hearing but they don't see a judge face to face even then just across the border from the camp something that's new under this u.s. administration they couldn't take. yes and this is where asylum seekers speak to

judges who are elsewhere in the united states by video link up now what migrants rights advocates say is that these are quite secret and even hostile environments for asylum seekers were it becomes even more difficult for them to effectively present their case is. a study by city accuse university shows that less than one percent of asylum relief requests on the m.p.p. have been approved it's not helped say migrant rights attorneys by the complications of getting legal aid in the camp so there are very few attorneys that are willing to actually come into mexico and especially in the area of met them or as a novice and i will add it all because of the level of dangerousness within within mexico itself last friday us ordered m.p.p. to hoped but then the same court stayed the order pending fresh arguments it means that for now the policy continues to get that all of them are already if we go back now what are we going back to we've been threatened what's going to be our story if

we go back. recently the numbers of arriving at the camp going way down but migrants rights advocates say that's only because the u.s. is now sending some asylum seekers further away still under another new program all the way to guatemala john heilemann how does it or might the mortals. well many central americans waiting for a decision on asylum cases in nasa staying in one of the most dangerous places in mexico doctors without borders says some of its patients in a town called tamale 1st states have suffered violence and kidnappings that reports coming up in part 2 of our series later on farah say. now rescuers in brazil are searching for survivors after torrential rain in the southeast triggered landslides killing at least 20 people the city of has been hardest hit the least $200.00 people be forced from their homes and dozens are

missing the state governor says the equivalent of a month's worth of rain fell in just 12 hours. now the field of democratic candidates competing to take on donald trump in the various presidential election has narrowed to just for a surge in support for former vice president joe biden made him the big winner in super tuesday as primary votes putting him heads over rival bernie sanders in the battle for the democratic nomination my baes insecurities the endorsements of billionaire mike bloomberg who's barrett out of the race reports from the sensuous . appearing confident and relaxed joe biden listed the states he won on super tuesday with victories in texas virginia north carolina arkansas alabama tennessee oklahoma. going to snow to massachusetts

and just sort of we heard we won maine as well right. michael bloomberg dropped out of the race and endorsed by offering financial and organizational support to the former vice president i've always believed that the feeding donald trump starts 1000000 knighting behind the candidate with the best shot to do it and after yesterday's vote is clear that candidate is my friend and a great american joe biden. the 3 quarter $1000000000.00 price tag for his presidential ambitions one bluebirds 0 states although he was victorious in the territory of american samoa well i think he underestimated the degree to which politically he was just not acceptable enough to a broad enough swath of democrats bernie sanders who won 4 states including california vowed to press on so the american people have got to on this lamp that this is a conflict about ideas about a record about

a vision for where we go forward. and i'd like to you know is a decent guy and i do not want this campaign to generate into a trump type if it were attacking each other analysts say sanders may have peaked as a candidate i think we're also seeing is that there is a natural limit to sanders appeal to the democratic party writ large without mentioning sanders by name a button also called for civility you know what we can't let happen in the next few weeks is that this primary turning into a campaign of negative attacks the only thing that can do is help donald trump doesn't do anything to help any one of the candidates are left in the campaign trail to keep our eye in the ball. as for elizabeth warren her failure to win even in massachusetts the state she represents in the senate left the future of her campaign in grave doubt a campaign official said warren is assessing the path forward biden's campaign

declared that he had joementum moving forward and he'll need that in the next phase of the contest when 6 states vote on march 10th including michigan a big industrialized midwestern state that is key to democrats hopes to unseat ing president trump in the fall rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. this is al-jazeera and these all the headlines on emergency has been to clare's in the u.s. state of california over the coronavirus an elderly man died after returning from a trip on a cruise ship the grand princess is now being held off california's coast with thousands of people on board it's also been a bryson cases across the states she returns a house that he tells. the person who died was an elderly right underlying health

conditions so far pretty much what we've consistent with what we've heard elsewhere in the world but he just he'd returned from a cruise last month from california to to mexico and while he was on board he started feeling symptoms bad when he got off those symptoms continued and finally he called 911 went to hospital he was tested he was positive and then he died one other person from that cruise was also tested positive so the question is what are all the other people from our cruise to half of the apparently are from california and u.s. politicians are banking an 8300000000 dollars package to combat coronavirus it's expected to pass the senate and be signed off by president trump most of the money will go to agencies dealing directly with the outbreak. the leaders of russia and turkey are due to meet in the coming hours if you countries have recently come cools to direct confrontation and it lives in the north in syria turkey is trying

to push back syrian government forces who are supported by russia moscow has accused ankara of violating a 2080 deal on the demilitarized zone former u.n. chief have a parasitic way our has died at the age of 101 his home country of champions many peace agreements most notably one that ended an 8 year war between iran and iraq in the 1980 s. he came out of retirement later in life to help we establish democracy in peru and rescuers in presume are searching for survivors after torrential rain in the southeast triggered landslides killing at least 20 people at least 200 people have been forced from their homes. well those are the headlines to stay with us here on al-jazeera inside story is up next. americans live side by side in 2 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 us politics and policies and their effect on the world. the super tuesday rebound for joe biden was the biggest day of voting in the democratic race to challenge donald trump for the white house but he's on this 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 i'm peter dubey 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