al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello everyone welcome to this news often doha i'm kemal santa maria coming up turkey sends a special police force to its northern border saying it wants to stop the greek authorities from pushing refugees and migrants back. also the turkish president's meeting that amid putin in moscow right now as the fighting in northwest syria threatens to drag them into direct conflict. we could see the face on

revenues exceed 100000000000 u.k. airline collapses there are predictions more will follow as aviation pays the price from coronavirus and the ruling that will see the u.s. the taliban and the afghan government all investigated for suspected war crimes and i'm far as well have all the day's sport news including misery for jos a marine it was time that this great crash out of the english. i don't see. color film is starting in turkey this hour where the government is deploying a special police force to its northwestern border with greece thousands of people have tried to get into greece and gary in fact since turkey opened its side of the border last week the e.u. says that the bid to pressure the bloc into supporting turkish me. operations in

syria's problems turkey though denies this and says the special forces are being deployed to stop people from being sent back he got sort of a goth from now on from the smalling there will be some special security forces on the border they will be fully equipped and they will be preventing the push back of migrants they will also provide inflatable boats and this is within international law. very place to work in front of the news our president of the international federation of the red cross and red crescent societies he's on skype from cast a nice in greece which is right on that border crossing i'm sure mr oakley that you will stay away from the politics of who says water in this but your concern will be for those thousands of people on the border what have you seen of them today. yes news is this is our biggest concern not. the opportunity to warm to gold and to. just he had the border and that to talk with some of them muscle

or of course you mean it's just. about that disparate stories and that they are waiting to enter unfortunately our organization has not been allowed to be minimal no matter land we are negotiating and we hope we are confident that the next hour we will be able to provide assistance to those that are now in this very moment as according to the new lows. in the media we know up on it we saw a solution that. is something that shouldn't top and not and i would like to add these 2 that we don't tend to in politics but when. the dignity of the human beings what you do you also to remind. that we shared one humanity and when i least an idiot with a head of you will be on commission talking about the shield meaning that don't yet this side that i went on so this is. it's something that they're. on this free could be avoided because yeah human beings i've seen children i've seen women not

and they're not they're not wait on so you said the red cross and red crescent isn't being a lot isn't being allowed and who's not allowing you and so who in the unit go shooting with. yes not of course we're not allowed for security reason because there was a lot of pressure at the moment and fuel fuel. but their wares very very close to the border so we are trying to enter from a different from a different site saying they are very same area idea of a base a moment we need. financial support for delenn ukridge cross just to step up and increase day operation is that out of their needs here and not only yet in custody is but. we were just watching some pictures while we're speaking to you of people trying to cross you know wading through a river i think it's next to a dam as well people just completely undeterred even with all the politics with turkey saying this with greece trying to close they just want to keep going. i

honestly wish i'm not here he's very. saw it but what we are experiencing is that these people are these disparate people who are in the middle of up where you are but again and he said i've said. i i don't know what he's going to hop and we hope and we continue to be very vocal to find a political solution because. even the addition of the greek authorities to suspend for one month the. quest for protection or for example that doesn't comply with the geneva convention but also doesn't comply with a european union. doesn't it start to feel like these refugees and migrants are just being almost used here you know there are concerns from turkey has had to host refugees for so long as concerns in the european union who don't want a quote unquote flood of refugees coming into their borders and it's just people get stuck in the middle between all the politics. exactly this is it isn't it set

the bar for your money that you are going to view these are human beings they have rights they we have a model biggish tool trade we dignity and he stepped in doesn't mean that you defeating we day we did protection of the border. is related we did we did we did share your money as i said and it's very little fact it is not. that they are. used for. us up but you know weapons and. morally unacceptable is really an acceptable francesco ok i know you're a busy man so we do appreciate your time the president of the international federation of the red cross joining us from greece thank you. at the same time we've got the presidents of turkey and russia meeting in moscow trying to defuse tensions in syria president vladimir putin expressed his condolences for the

deaths of turkish troops killed there last week and said the syrian government was not aware of their location remember these 2 countries back opposing sides in the syrian conflict and there are fears ankara and moscow have become close to a direct confrontation in northern syria also inside of witnesses have told al jazeera that russian air strikes have killed at least 15 people in farms sheltering displaced civilians many more have been injured so our correspondents covering this story at this moment. who is in the time of the turkey syria border we'll talk to you know moment how should i want to start though with step in moscow i think we're expecting maybe in this hour to hear from the 2 leaders but it would have been a pretty tense meeting you'd think. absolutely and i don't think we're going to hear anything very soon actually one summed it up. in his opening remarks before the 2 leaders went into this attack he

said the entire world is watching of course pointing out this humanitarian crisis that isn't holding while the 2 leaders are speaking here put to rest that nothing should be in the way of their relationship the relationship between russia and turkey and erdogan also even sad that the relationship now is at its peak and it will be developed further and that he was very confident that tensions would be east but if all these friendly words will actually result in a permanent solution is very questionable what we're expecting here is maybe a cease fire that's what everyone is hoping for and also pushing for putin actually got a phone call from the european council chief had of these talks stressing also that russia and putin should consider the humanitarian situation in which means that it's very likely that putin wants to come out * of this storks as

a peacemaker and not so much as someone who was accused of war crimes which happened only a few days ago by the u.n. commission on syria just to summarize where the 2 leaders are at russia really wants to stress that turkey has violated to soar to 2018 agreement by not this arming the militants but turkey also accuses russia for backing up syrian forces who also violated the same agreement by attacking turkish observation post so both positions are very far apart and again we don't expect a real solution to the situation there but maybe possibly a cease fire and we hope to hear that in the coming hours best as we know if turks are one and put in. they talked for a long time. ok we'll talk to you again later said hopefully when we hear from those 2 leaders in moscow and now here he is in tire which is near that border

between turkey and syria at this stage and i don't just mean in negotiations now i mean in this whole war what is president and turkey looking to get out of things we know russia backs the syrian government we know it's all about getting 100 percent of control back into syrian hands what is president trying to get out of this. turkey hopes to rip decay the same deal it struck with russia on october 20 the seconds in sochi after the start of the operation peace training in and they would like to do the same thing when it comes down to it live province they would like to ensure there is a buffer zone to protect the border with turkey they would like to ensure there is a safe zone so that civilians who have been stranded who have been displaced or have been pushed out of their areas to go back and be relocated or resettled in

those places and it wants some guarantees from the rushers that the syrian government won't launch any offensive to retake it live and it will stay basically behind the demilitarized zone but the but the turkish government doesn't this stand at the same time that it will be extremely difficult of this particular moment to get more concessions from the russians and i think they will try to come to a certain agreement or to some common ground about how to move forward and as we are speaking you come out of the hundreds of thousands of people stranded on the border and those who live it live fareed desperate for a political solution that would bring about an immediate cease fire and and to the offensive by the syrian government. ok hashemite holborow with us from the turkey syria border how tired they are thank you and now in kabul and with me here in the studio director of policy analysis of the arab center for research and policy studies hashem is talking there about the idea of and we hear these words all the

time it's compromise it's political solutions these are the types of things as you pointed out to me earlier they've got a whole lot of deals in the past haven't they and it's i want to that they haven't worked at all but we still here in the still people dying in the still refugees being forced. absolutely i think both leaders they have the stakes for them are very high the gap is huge but as i said earlier the amenities over the past few years actually the russian military intervention in syria in september 2015 to strike at least 5 different agreements between them and now i think the they both know that the americans are there they are hopeful that the gap between turkey and russia will even be greater so that he can go back to its original position as a close u.s. ally this is something that the russians are actually are taking into account plus

if you talk about the common enters that between the 2 countries don't forget that after all there are between russia and turkey something like $25000000000.00 anyone they are hoping that this will be actually increase into $100000000000.00 within the next decade. russia is the largest. exporter to turkey and very much on the russia just a couple of months ago the 2 leaders did integrated the fish seem a main gas pipeline yes and the black sea crossing. towards europe so and that forget also there is libya so there are so many things that the 2 leaders are having in fact they don't want their relationship to collapse because i know it's difficult we know that the 2 leaders they have so many disagreements in this particular issue but on the other hand they said that they have proven in the past

that they can actually come to a compromise they can actually soft in their position they can back off they can actually. find a common ground they don't want to have a direct military confrontation between them this is for them and we have seen that over the past few weeks just thinking about. the people we've seen in italy province who've come here from other parts of syria who've gone to turkey who are now trying to get to greece and this is been going on for years and everything you've just said it's hard to believe that any of this is about them anymore it's not about them i don't think anybody is thinking about the syrian people at this at this stage and as you said you have seen this for many many times over the past 9 years don't forget that half of syrians i mean half of the population of syrians have been either internally displaced or have been made if you g.'s outside the country to he has 3500000 at least syrian refugees there are so many others in

lebanon jordan and many other places they are scattered all over the world to the i don't think that anybody is thinking about this at this particular stage everybody is thinking i'm talking about here about this power play between these these regional and international powers and the people didn't have unfortunately the slightest place to be thinking of by these these countries and we will hear from those 2 players hopefully during this hour or the next leaders of turkey and russia thank you thank you. still ahead for you in this news hour who was really to blame for killing protesters in sudan's capital last summer the transitional government under pressure to find out it's also stuck in mexico while their asylum cases are heard in american courts we will meet some of the thousands of people in limbo. and in sports and then pick organizers insist the games will go ahead in the meantime we'll hear from one of the favorites for gold

in tokyo. on to other news in the aviation industry has been given a stark update on the soaring financial cost of coronavirus predicting revenue losses in excess of $100000000000.00 a body that represents global airlines they also has been counting the cost during a meeting in singapore and rob mcbride has more. margins in the airline industry have always been tight now they've been getting tighter. the global impact of the corona virus outbreak has slashed billions of dollars from account books it could be we see all of the countries with cases of more than 10 develop in a much more serious way along the lines that we've seen happening in china in which case we could see the effects on revenues exceed 100000000000 from the crisis has

been underscored by tighter travel restrictions being imposed by a growing number of countries including now australia we made a decision in relation to travel bans to of course continue to travel bans in relation to mine and china and in relation to iraq we have also to die decided that we will put in place a travel ban in relation to the republic of korea we will also put in place what enhanced screening measures to deal with those travelers that come from italy. any non australian visitor who has traveled to south korea iran or italy in the past 2 weeks will be turned away from australia it's added to south korea's increasing sense of isolation as the biggest epicenter for the disease outside china the country used to send masks and other medical supplies to help beijing in

its efforts but as the need here has grown so the roles have been reversed. hundreds of thousands of surplus facemasks of been sent from china to the south korean epicenter of the outbreak in the city of daegu and its surrounding area. recently the epidemic in south korea is worsening and we feel empathy for the south korea's difficulties are also ours china is willing to provide all necessary assistance. south korea's presidential office says it has received a letter from north korean leader kim jong un saying he's praying for the health of the people in the south including the president moon j. in the friendly exchanges in marked contrast to the cooling of relations between north and south in recent months as talks about denuclearization have faltered. state run media in north korea has been heavily publicizing its efforts to stop the

coronavirus claiming not a single case has been detected portraying that as a victory by its leadership. and in a further sign of the sacrifices south korea is enjoying makers of its famous local liquor soju are now sharing their stocks of alcohol with producers of hand sanitizers deciding it's of more value right now as a disinfectant than a drink robot bride al-jazeera sold. now also the british airline fly b. has collapsed after sales were hit by a coronavirus the airlines grounded all its flights it's telling passengers don't go to the airport on this you've made other arrangements the carrier had already been struggling financially before this crisis in italy coronaviruses prompted so authorities to close the schools and universities for the next 2 weeks almost 110 people died there one of the world's highest fatality rates the support now from

journal looking at the growth of the growing global alarm. 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's not going to get to you 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 nettle. who 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 i don't know how al-jazeera let's go back to the situation in. joining us rector of the. university on skype from rome thank you for your time sir. tell us about the effect this is having on you and the uncertainty i guess over the future of the academic year. no i will good afternoon will be with supervision is new to lee he has been member

he's been taken by the government says as we know the government has introduced a pretty strict measures are already for for a few days up north where the outbreak has been more severe but at the same time yesterday the government as recommended that school university in fact are to suspend the. classes on song campus concerts and at the same time to introduce strict measures for a. launch event center launch to be to be postponed or basically. shut down so there is quite a bit of fear especially wouldn't it comes to assess the economic implication of such. any bolton outbreak but i can tell you that the government is already is working on developing important measures to

make sure that the town and called economy will bounce back just on the education side of things sorry to interrupt you as far as for example your university goes do you have a feeling either way as to whether this was the right idea or are you happy to take the guidance from the from from the government that sort of got in here i'm just wondering do you have a feeling either way about whether this was the right decision to shut down schools and universities or were you happy to take the direction from the government. what we do when we act we do follow what their condition of the government and in fact. started delivering classes. using an online clutch will so students we've got the students not to come to diversity but you know they can still attend classes using our dedicated platform platform because in the meanwhile what we did is at the university did italy since the outbreak in the north in the northern part

of italy was not working on me and i'm sure that if the government it does not admit any decisions in terms of again shutting down university we were support we want to be able to deliver classes also in a different format and this is what we did we started early on this morning and the response has been pretty good up to saying of course it's companies we we experience them leaving problems because we basically we trust all what we did in presence don't count this fire only platforms but again we've been pretty good response both from the technology but also from the students. from the louis credo carli university in run thank you for your time we do appreciate it thank you. the palestinian authorities in the occupied west bank are banning tourists and pilgrims for the next 2 weeks this decision was made after the 1st suspected cases of corona virus were detected the church of the nativity which is revered among

christians as the birthplace of jesus is among the sites expected to be closed off until march 28th ebrahim with us now from ramallah tell us about the impact here needed because i think we tend to think about when we hear the occupied west bank in terms of conflict and occupation but there are so many important tourist sites there and this is part of the whole economy. indeed and there has been a sense of paranoia in bethlehem ever since the news broke out that there has been suspected cases the health ministry saying that they're still waiting on there is olds to see if there has been actually any cases that has been confirmed in to 50 churches one of the main sites in the palestinian territory where pilgrims from all around the world come to visit bethlehem has depended on tourism for so long and living under israeli occupation that conflict has had that stalled on the economy situation but now we're having the issue of corona and we're going to have to say

to wait and see how it's going to play out when it comes to the city's economy but indeed the polls to enter is a mystery has closed off the church as well as banning reservations of canceling all reservations for tourists of course as you know palestinians do not have control over the borders so these measures were seen as important as a precaution to control the spread of the virus that is needed abraham in ramallah thank you. evidence here for a look at the weather getting into the evening for our viewers in india what's coming their way well we've got some storms brewing actually commands are not looking particular stopping about over the last couple of days but it's all change we've got warnings in force across parts of northwest in there for red damaging winds and some very very heavy rainfall you can see this area claps across the north of pakistan pushing across into the northern side of india and that's been producing some rather heavy showers and these will gather more as we go on through

the next couple days this is known as a western disturbance we are likely to see flash flooding and you can see the heaviest rain is going to be across the northern parts of pakistan it will turn to snow over the himalayas there it down poles pushing across a good part of our pradesh easing down towards bear and eventually that will make its way towards the northwest corner of in the towards west bengal kolkata could see some very heavy showers one of the thing to note is the temperatures falling in my last couple days of me getting up into the the the high twenty's touching 30 celsius in new delhi lahore been getting up around 2627 degrees those temperatures will be down as we go on through the next couple of days as some cooler air also tracking its way and then also be a fair few showers there for the south addition seeing some of those showers under protest pushing down into the maybe one or 2 of those showers just making their way over towards that western side of the region carol could catch

a few showers with some showers too pushing into sri lanka turning a little try was make a way to the words the weekend up in the north kamau thank you mr fox for a ship that still ahead for you on this news our. i decided to take the risk. of viruses impacting migrant workers and let's not forget their families back home also the strain on pilots and travelers as a major libyan airport comes under more fire and your sports news is well it was raining 3 in florida and a record setting night in the n.b.a. far we'll have the details on that like. one of the really special things that work in progress here is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much input in contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be what it is you know. the body particularly because you have a lot of people that are deployed on political issues. we the people we live to

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here on the news hour here at al-jazeera these are your top stories it is deploying special police force along its border with greece to stop what it calls the push back of mind currents thousands of try to get through to the e.u. since turkey opened its side of the border last week. the presidents of turkey and russia meeting in moscow to try to defuse tensions in syria president putin expressed his condolences for the deaths of turkish troops killed there last week. and the international air transport association i also says the aviation industry could lose more than $100000000000.00 in revenue as a result of coronavirus countries are imposing tough restrictions on travelers. much of the discussion about the financial impact of coronaviruses focused on economies companies airlines were mentioning there but i forget millions of migrant workers who according to unable to return to the jobs that they and their families rely on bought to be low as that story now from manila. aleesha says she would not

have left hong kong during the height of the coronavirus scare. but her mother steps forced her to overcome fears and fly home to the philippines what was supposed to be a brief homecoming for domestic worker however has now turned into weeks after the philippine government announced a travel ban on china and its special administrate to reach its this time my employer just give me 7 days 14 days and then go back to hong kong but because of that. i cannot go. thousands of filipinos who work in hong kong and macau cannot go back even if the ban now exams migrant workers most of them say they would rather take the risk than lose their jobs so much so that they came together on social media to put pressure on the government and allow them to return

to work they'd rather be sick in hong kong and taking care by the hong kong government instead of being here taken care of by the philippine system which is good but it's expensive for us millions of filipinos work abroad many coronavirus hit regions but even as a virus keeps spreading and the number of cases and continue to rise they're still leaving in droves risking help for livelihood for me like i have been a 5000000 that. really need. money you know so i decided to take the recent there is a risk for elisa because domestic workers have been among those diagnosed with the karuna virus in hong kong. and as more than 400 filipino coup members of the diamond prince's cruise ship isolated in japan for 2 weeks return home they leave behind dozens of their colleagues who've been infected by the virus. barnaby lo

al-jazeera manila the international criminal court has decided it will investigate allegations of crimes committed during the war in afghanistan includes claims of atrocities by u.s. troops and afghan forces and the taliban and the court has to look into prison and torture and mass killings of civilians as well the petition to open the cases led to u.s. president donald trump imposing a travel ban on stuff who work for the courts of course the conflict in afghanistan goes back to the u.s. led invasion in 2001 which makes it america's longest running conflict the i.c.c. chief prosecutor for 2 been sued says there is evidence of torture rape and sexual violence against prisoners by u.s. troops and intelligence agencies mainly between 20032004 also that afghan security forces are suspected of torturing prisoners that government detention sentence and she also says the taliban and other on groups have killed more than 17000 civilians and that's just since 2009 i spoke to toby cadman earlier an international human

rights lawyer who specializes in the criminal courts he says is unlikely though the u.s. and afghanistan would cooperate with the probe. you have from from the u.s. side a blanket refusal to cooperate and we've already seen president trumps position that he's taken with those that have already been convicted. and military they're being convicted of war crimes way he has shown that he's willing to overturn those convictions and protect the military regardless of what they've been charged with you have the afghanistan position that they say that they are are ready and willing to prosecute these cases in the national courts which is. why i have to say regrettably an unrealistic. statement to make because they are not prepared you also have the the the recent peace talks that the us a very good with the taliban and so the argument will be made that this will

interfere with the peace process with i think as any reasonable person would say justice has to play. an important if not in total part of the peace process so so there's not going to be a huge amount of cooperation from the u.s. all from afghanistan but that in itself is not justification for allowing impunity to prevail the entire criminal court was set up precisely to do with this type of situation in libya now with the conflict has forced flights to be redirected to misrata rough to the only functioning airport in tripoli was targeted on monday and he was hit by heavy shelling and nearly 300 civilians have now been killed by rockets or airstrikes since the war and if i have to began its campaign to seize the capital and i from the support now from misrata which i was struck that. with forces loyal to warlord khalifa haftar targeting maty get ports 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 good airport 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 10 fold increase since mitzi gav pool was closed. 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 passengers would usually fly from the port before it was shot and yes because i have friends who are 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 would probably never want to travel again the interior minister for the un bank government 40 bashar said that the international community is not doing enough to punish after for targeting civilian areas in tripoli including with c. the airport bashar has warned that the un backed government based 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 but i'll just hero misrata sudan's transitional government's being urged to investigate last

year's killing of pro-democracy demonstrators the u.s. based ngo physicians for human rights blames sudan security forces for the deaths of 241 people in what's become known as the june 3rd massacre was 2 months after president obama over she was removed many of the season protesters demanding democracy were health care workers the report says security forces fired into the hospitals and tortured civilians as well as carrying out gender based attacks physicians group is calling on u.n. member states and the african union to sanction the sudanese officials responsible have a morgan is our correspondent in she reports now protesters won't see the revolution as over until there is accountability. while i'm just there are a was banned from reporting we were unheard of to 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 at the site 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 the revolution over we see monthly vigils being held by the protesters on the route of the army headquarters and they are saying that unless justice is achieved then their revolution is not complete israel's opposition party blue and white is planning to submit a bill that would prevent an indicted member of parliament from forming a government that would of course prevent the prime minister benjamin netanyahu from doing such in forming a coalition following this week's election he was indicted in january on corruption charges for 6 following this one for us from west jerusalem tell us more about this harry who's bringing it forward. well yes it's quite refreshing in a way to see that after a year of grinding political crisis there are still twists and surprises in this pretty endless story after a 3rd election and one in which netanyahu apparently seemed to hold the upper hand

he has 58 with his allied parties and his only good party seats in the knesset israeli parliament he need 61 to form a government there was all sorts of talk about who might be able to poach how he might be able to get over the line this time and now we have this it 1st emerged actually yesterday wednesday this idea that there could be a law designed to prevent an indicted prime minister or indicted member of the knesset from forming a new government as prime minister his trial of course is due to start on march the 17th in 3 separate corruption cases what wasn't clear is whether there was going to be a majority in favor of such a war and on thursday afternoon this is when we learned the avigdor lieberman and his israel bettin a party former ally former defense minister of netanyahu someone who's broken with him in the most strictest of terms over the last year or so he has decided to back

it so that would give as things stand a majority of 62 to 58 in favor of this law which on the face of it would prevent netanyahu from forming a government now there are some things to to be resolved it's not done and dusted yet with this law go into effect right now would it be ahead of the 4th election and only be in effect from a 4th election if that were the case then maybe it could be used as a lever to try to force netanyahu to accept going 2nd in a unity government rather than automatically ejecting him as as a law right now could there be a legal challenge to if it did go through what role would the speaker. play in the israeli parliament the knesset would he allow a vote to come or would that have to be a battle in the knesset even to get this to a vote so this isn't done and dusted yet but it certainly presents a much bigger threat to netanyahu continued premiership than he might have expected

on monday night tuesday morning when he was talking about the sweetest victory of his electoral career just one more spanner in the works doesn't it thank you very false that in west versus them. now more than $60000.00 asylum seekers have been denied entry into the united states under a controversial plan nicknamed remain in mexico basically they have to wait across the border while their cases are being processed in american courts in the mexican border town of matsumoto us more than 2000 people are living in a tent camp waiting to hear their fate john heilemann has their story. in the mix can bank of the rio bravo there's a tent camp of more than 2000 people over the other side the promise land the u.s. . most of from central america especially on daughter sort of been here for months there waiting for their asylum request 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 m.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 called in tank courts and this is where risk. silent 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 cases. the study by sitting queues university shows that less than one percent of asylum relief requests and 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 areas of not them or us a known by well i don't 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 in the minority but i think 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 right suffocates so 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 more those. u.s. politics now and after a strong performance in the super tuesday primary votes former vice president joe biden's had another boost to his white house campaign he's been endorsed by mike bloomberg has dropped out of the race and south rubber and support from los angeles . 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 go to massachusetts and who had 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 bloomberg 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 know is that these things going on 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 and 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 is it doesn't do anything to help any one of the candidates who 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 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 un seating president trump in the fall rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. sports news in a moment including this. measure the indian fans celebrating one of the country's more unusual cricketing try and use. business wagers to buy no bright spot.

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talk about were looking at sport now it's our thanks so much c'mon it was a mis wrong night for football manager joe is a marine e.o. and has taught him side they suffered a shock exit from the f.a. cup while 2 of their english premier league rivals advanced to the quarterfinals so how malik reports as ever is not be much to smile about lately in the blue and white house of north london early on against north in the f.a. cup 5th round yonder trying to lift the group a total. loss the last 3 games in all competitions going into this match but despite the one the lead josie marino side failed to dominate the premier league's bottom team who eventually equalized with just over 10 minutes to go to send the game into extra time.

neither side could get the win in the additional 30 minutes. so it went to penalties. by this point disaster struck for spurs. the missed 3 sport kicks. keep the team to perform in the road sonority who took the shootout 32 to advance and pile on further misery to josie radio's beleaguered team yeah you know you've got problems to solve put. yeah we stick together in a mentality that seems good just like you to concede goals. manchester city had a much better night than spurs the holders be 2nd to your side sheffield wednesday one minute thanks to suit you would wear. despite being set to lose their premier league crown to liverpool city could still end the season to be made to throw things i listed city also into the last 8 they left in late to beat birmingham city

one mill with ricardo pereira getting the win on 82 minutes. to win keep the foxes in the hunt for a 1st ever if they crop time so well molly is either. paris asia man or 3 to the french cup final staying on track for a domestic travel kill in mumbai a squad had trick including this incredible goal leading his side to a 51 thrashing of lille they take on holder's ran or sent n.t.n. in next month's final. just for his former u.s. president michel platini has failed to clear his name at the european court of human rights it ruled that his 4 year ban from the game issued in 2015 was justified when cheney is accused of accepting a $2000000.00 unexplained payment from then fee for president sepp blatter in 2011 the frenchman has already completed his suspension but wants to prove his innocence to the cycling calendars suffered more disruption juge of the corona virus outbreak

italy have cancelled saturday's straw to be a men's and women's races after teams began pulling out of the event meanwhile england's 6 nations rugby match against italy next week in rome has been postponed it's the 2nd game of the tournament to be affected after ireland's clash with italy and dublin was called off earlier. so he was limping organizers along with the international olympic committee say canceling or delaying the games due to corona virus is not even being considered it's good news for athletes including world champion high jumper and with as isa bar cian a cattery want to sell her a medal at the rio games 4 years ago and is a favorite to win gold in japan some other sporting events are taking place behind closed doors with spectators or she told al-jazeera he hopes that doesn't happen at the olympics. i think it takes so much of the joy and the beauty of sports go sport need to be celebrated on the filled with people with audience you know to interact with the reaction from people and the support we get from the people on the job we

give them it's a big very very special relationship is a big part of sport that cannot be taken away. i don't know actually feel rather it feels like more like training you know i don't want to go to the biggest event and coming to compete with an audience of people of the end of the day health is the most important and whatever decision i mean the i.o.c. or the people that's in charge take to make sure that we are safe and healthy with it it was historic night in the n.b.a. as miami heat set a franchise scoring record with $23.00 pointers as they beat the orlando magic duncan robinson scored $27.00 all from the 3 point range he became the 1st player in the league to have 2 1st halves with at least 73 a's this season miami beating orlando 116 to 113 it's the heat's 4th win in a row. running champions australia through to the final the women's world t 20 the aussies who were also hosting the tournaments beat south africa in the

semifinals to progress they posted a 1345 but rain meant south africa had to chase a revised target of $98.00 also 13 overs which they fell short of australia will be going for their 5th world title in sunday's final. all they face india who are through to the final for the 1st time ever they advance thanks to some unusual circumstances and magic johnson land was a complete washout so they progressed because of their superior record in the group stage. all right and that is all your support for now much more coming up later but for now it's back to you come up thank you for a nice bit of bangor music there which i think some help put in especially for me to stick around on al-jazeera we're coming up to the top of the 1400 g.m.t. still waiting to hear that news conference after the meeting that is the presidents

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