at the store. march on al-jazeera. the or at the in. the leaders of turkey and russian arts inmates in moscow was fighting in northwest syria threatens to drag them into direct conflict. and we're on the turkey greece border where syrian refugees are taking ever more dangerous race still reach europe . hello there i'm hala magazine and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up california declares a state of emergency over the coronavirus congress steps up efforts to tackle the outbreak. and former new york mayor mike bloomberg endorses joe biden's white house

bid after withdrawing from the presidential race. that the leaders of russia and turkey are expected to meet in the coming hour as the 2 countries have recently come close to direct confrontation in northern syria as italy province turkey is trying to push back syrian government forces who supported spy russia when moscow has accused ankara violating a 20 deal to create a demilitarized zone and help in port it calls terrorist groups well inside it live witnesses have told al-jazeera that russian air strikes have killed at least 15 people and farms sheltering displaced civilians many more are injured will shortly will speeches that fasten who's outside the kremlin in more schooled. 1st let's go

to the turkey syria border where we have seen them course you allude there soon the turkish military have sustained casualties civilians though are also being course up in this escalating violence. yes all of the spike the upcoming meeting between turkish and russian leaders and despite the commitments that they both sides will comply with us and sochi the casualties continue for both sides both the syrian government side and turkey and the syrian rebels and civilians of course today turkish president is expected to bring a suit things on the table when discussing with his russian counterpart one of them is secured so on around 30 kilometers deep inside there where the civilians. can be in a safe a safe and sound and it can be it should be

a no fly zone so that there will be no air strikes by the syrian government forces order or the russians plus of course to provide this there should be a permanent cease fire whether it's going to come out from this meeting it is still unknown it seems the russians are more willing for a temporary ceasefire but if for the turks a temporary ceasefire means just president bashar assad forces to gain back their energy and come back to the field but one thing is important to present i don't know. that turkey will not what's wrong with the world from its military force that were established by a so check we went inside and saw turkey say sochi it must be a practice as it was signed back in 2008. cinammon cosi all the life for us on the turkey syria border thank you very much indeed let's bring in step fastener she joins us for more school and step us look ahead to these talks between russia and

turkey what exactly is france amir putin hoping to get from them. yeah russia's position has not changed russia says it will still stick to the such e 2018 agreement which means that turkey needs to demilitarized region in italy but of course the military situation on the ground has completely changed since then with syrian forces occupying part of the turkish observation post so the situation has become much more complicated so it will be a very very difficult meeting the question is how much. compromise how much earlier one wants to compromise of course putin is doing this very complicated chess game with syria assad on one side and erdogan turkey on the other and he doesn't want any any conflict with any of them so it's a very difficult play that he's doing right now and of course has made it very

clear that he doesn't want to let go of it so says jim was saying a ceasefire is possibly on the table but what we've seen of course in the past is that any cease fire between turkey and russia so far has been broken the last cease fire that was made in january in istanbul about it live didn't materialize at all so it could be a very temporary solution is also talk about the same stone at the border with turkey where refugees could be temporary settled but that also is going to be a very difficult topic because one wants a good stretch of land 35 kilometers and has been sad and assad is not very likely to approve that so it's going to be very very difficult here in moscow ok steadfast in reporting live from the russian capital thank you very much indeed. now the european union has pledged over $65000000.00 in further humanitarian aid for people

in a province that's as the block faces a worsening refugee crisis own 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 the tasha game has this exclusive report from the turkey greece border. struggling to find their slippery footing they made their way across the dam bare foot 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 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 who. 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 lamb 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 money left. 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 if they take us there will be good others will be following that also making the precarious track natasha getting old does iran a dirty near the border between turkey and greece. that the u.s. says of california has declared an emergency to deal with the night break off the coronavirus there's been a rise in cases there and the 1st fatality and i was with

a man dies after recently returning from a trip on a cruise ship the grand princess is no adults near california's coast with thousands of people on boards and politicians in washington are backing an $8300000000.00 package to combat coronavirus it's 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. you know 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 test more rapidly more wildly available for doctors' offices and medical clinics. well the virus is no spreading faster outside of china where it's

originated stand within the chinese government is now trying to stop travelers from bringing it back well let's get the view from asian i would give you a good pal and she joins us now from hong kong and give you the rates of infection in china has slowed but other countries of brains asia seem to be struggling to contain the spread why is that. that's right in fact in the latest press fave briefing from the chinese health ministry they did confirm that there were a different direction hasta load as you said and they very proudly said that it was all their measures that have been taking place taking putting in place a to combat the spread of the bars including the lockdown of some very very large areas of china cities even provinces restricting the movement of many people some of the china can do because of its government desire for a tarion government where they can enforce such large measures now the rain in

contrast the areas around china and other countries like south korea we're seeing the rate increase quite drastically and once again today you know the rate today itself there's an additional $322.00 cases on thursday and south korea and most of those cases are in daegu and that's linked to a religious group that had traveled to war han in the early days of the virus and brought it back to south korea the south korean government is now battling and trying very hard to contain that but the people from that religious group have traveled across the country so we're seeing other cases pop up in across south korea which is very worrying for the government there and meanwhile in japan also there was a spike in cases and seen cases in australia india has had now in new cases there in the dozens but it's worrying because india is the 2nd most popular populous nations people live in very dense conditions and they don't have the same ability

or the government doesn't have the same ability to impose measures without any opposition they can't tell people to stop moving around they can't put in those really those concrete directives to try and lock down that virus and china may have seen an improvement but the northern edge of the woods yet so are they in fact their worries about people bringing the virus bank to the country. that's right hala and that is the new worry now they feel like they managed to contain the situation within the country they're trying to bring it back to normalcy getting people to start moving around lifting restrictions the problem now they say is that. the issue of what they're calling importing of the virus so many of the people returning from other countries. including south korea japan and regions around china are said to be a threat to china trying to control it within the country so what they're now doing

is placing people under strict quarantine particularly those from china iran italy and south korea of course japan and japan. just just to make a point that people from those areas will come under very strict quarantine the have spent 14 days in quarantine they're not completely blocking them from arriving but people from other parts of the world who are trying to deems that maybe a threat also will have to go through some measures the other interesting point in this and you know if you remember earlier in this virus the rest of the world was blocking people from china from traveling outwards and into their countries but there's been another reversal and that's in the money that's going now flowing out of china china's offering aid to south korea japan already given aid to ron and also offering aid to other countries along its belton road initiative that that would seem to be under threat or at risk of having this virus spread ok dear cupola

bringers all the very latest there from asia thank you so much for joining us live from hong kong. still to come on al-jazeera another push for answers about the tragic events sometimes friends. and time fighting in libya is getting a strain. but . we've got more showers just pushing across the philippines over the next couple days the wettest weather for southeast asia is going to be across malaysia big downpours save indonesia still see some lobby showers but the the general trend as it should be for the sand just pushing up into were more than parts here just easing up towards southern and central areas of the philippines some heavy showers as we go on through saturday was to just around southern parts of the malaysian

peninsula further north it is generally fine and dry but the showers will continue to the south a possible strike where we have some heavy showers here as well you see this line of cloud just stretched across. pushing outs of of carpentaria pushing right down the eastern side of australia where we have seen some incredibly wet rather recently the outback has taken quite a soaking is now pushing over towards the eastern side of the country queensland seeing more heavy showers longer spells of friday down towards the southeast things will start to dry out we had some very wet weather around a city just a rather decent side of victoria in melbourne seeing some very wet weather as we went through the past 24 hours that wet weather that windy weather i will have its way towards new zealand we are going to see that cloud in the right crash pushing in here and tell me what for the weekend. she was black gay i'm from rio de janeiro's her velez. she was also an elected

outspoken council woman. until she was assassinated the arab. people in power investigates the killing of a vocal critic of brazil's security forces and the legacy of empowerment she left behind the matter of mariel franco on al-jazeera i am. to. this is al jazeera a reminder of the headlines this hour the leaders old russia and turkey are g. to meet in the coming hours in an effort to ease tensions in northern syria as you

countries have come calls a direct confrontation in for turkey's launch an offensive against government forces who are allied to russia incited the witnesses and told al-jazeera that russian air strikes have killed at least 15 people in farms sheltering displaced civilians many more are injured. california has declared a state of emergency after its 1st that fall because one of our us the elderly victim had recently returned from 1st trip to mexico passengers on the same ship on a being tested on board. olivia's conflicts has forced flights to be redirected to misrata after the only functioning airport in tripoli was targeted on monday the airport was hit by heavy shelling nearly $300.00 civilians have been killed by walk it saw airstrikes since warlord khalifa haftar began his campaign to seize the capital last april charles stratford reports now 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 gamble was closed on them so that 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 bank government 40 bashar guys said that the international community is not doing enough to punish off the 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 off the us forces back stop at al-jazeera misrata. israel's military has demolished palestinian homes in the key point west bank the army says 2 residents targeted. a rule in an attack on an israeli settlement last august when one person was killed human rights groups of one criticized israel's practice of destroying homes saying its collective punishment stance illegal under international law. sudan's transitional government is being urged to investigate last year's killing all pro-democracy demonstrators physicians for human rights blamed sudan security forces for the deaths of 241 people and what's known as the june the 3rd massacre that happened 2 months after president omar al bashir was i said many of the sets in protesters

demanding democracy were health care workers the physicians for human rights report sent security forces fired into hospitals and tortured civilians as well as carrying out gender based attacks well the physicians group is calling on u.n. member states and the african union to sanction sudanese officials responsible for what they call gross human rights abuses or al-jazeera is have a morgan is in the city's capital khartoum and i bet you were there in the capital when the violence erupts it does this report tally with your experience on the ground. yes indeed had and now while i'm just there or was banned from reporting we were in hudson when the attack on the city and happened and we do remember hearing the gunshots opened on protesters at. the sets in which was not far from where we were and we also heard from friends

from people who are advocates and who ran for their lives and went into hospitals about how they were targeted we heard from physicians how they were not able to access hospitals to provide health care so the report does match up to what we experienced on june 3rd and let's not forget that it was not only in her tomb there were other systems around the various capitals in different states in the country and they also experienced attacks by security forces now it's worth noting that the prime minister 3 months after he was appointed in august last year set up a committee to investigate that committee was supposed to produce results within the 1st 3 months but it asked for an extension which according to the laws that it was set up with it was allowed to do we had a chat with the head of the committee just a few days back and he said that he may require another extensions this comes at a time when we see monthly protests people on the streets demanding justice demanding accountability and saying that they will not consider their evolution over we see monthly vigils being held by the protesters on the route of the army

headquarters and they're saying that unless justice is achieved then their revolution is not complete morgan live for us in the sudanese capital thank you. let's return to the corona virus a break which has prompted italy to cools it schools and universities for the next 2 weeks and sounded 10 people have died there one of the highest fatality rates on side of china join a home looks at growing global a mormon. 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 new used 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. a 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 call. one 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 jonah how al-jazeera. authorities in saudi arabia are being accused of denying a detained activist access to a lawyer. who has been in prison since 2018 along with other prominent activists she had campaigned against the ban on women driving in the kingdom her sister raise the case during the human rights conference in geneva she was in solitary confinement for 8 months without having any reason of why the trial was suspended and now they began with the trail again but there is nothing new and it's a sick trial because all the procedures are bail ated when she tries to ask them for proof that they want to do it when she tries to have that to really give her divan the sense just stop her from talking so basically everything is underwriter bêlit but after months of unrest haiti has

a new prime minister who's promising to deal with the grinding economic and political crisis haiti's president swore in. his the 4th prime minister in 3 years no parliamentary elections were held in october and president juvenal maurice has been ruling by to crete since january. and after a strong performance in the super tuesday primary votes former us vice president joe biden aside another boost his white house campaign has been indorsed funny former new york mayor mike bloomberg who's don't tights of the race the democratic party's come to see well pronounce for puts not from assumptions. 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. has shown 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 feeling 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 like that joe is a decent guy and i do not want this campaign to generate into a trump type epic where we're 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 to try 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 joe mentum 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 unseating president trump in the fall rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines the leaders of russia and turkey or g. to meet in the coming hours in an effort to ease tensions in northern syria this new countries have come close to direct confrontation and intimate but turkey has launched an offensive against government forces who are allied to russia are inside it live witnesses have told all to see about that russian air strikes have killed

at least 15 people in farms sheltering displaced civilians many more are injured to see them conceal who has more from the turkey syria border. casualties continue for both sides both the syrian government side and turkey and the syrian rebels and civilians of course and today turkish president is expected to bring a suit things on the table when discussing with his russian counterpart one of them is secured so on air out of 30 kilometers deep inside there where the civilians can . you can be it's safe a safe and sound and it can be it should be a no fly zone so that there will be no air strikes by the syrian government forces order or the russians plus of course to provide this there should be a permanent ceasefire. california has declared a state of emergency after its 1st death from the coronavirus the elderly victim

her recently returned from a cruise ship to mexico passengers on the same ship are now being tested on boards . israel's military has demolished 2 palestinian homes in the occupied west bank the army says the 2 residents who were targets is played a role in an attack on an israeli settlement last august when one person was killed . and authorities a saudi arabia are accused of denying the detained activists access to a lawyer. has been in prison since 28 seen along with other prominent activists shiite campaigns against the ban on women driving in the kingdom that see up state stay with us on al-jazeera people in power is up next. americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes the trunk 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're 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 their effect on the world. in march 28th mariella franco a prominent brazilian human rights activist and politician was murdered in mysterious circumstances a champion of the vote is slum neighborhoods area and it was also a vocal critic brazil's security forces and the civilian casualties of their war against the city's drug gangs so who killed it and why giuliana rufus went.