the turkish president meets fundament person in moscow as the fighting in northwest syria threatens to drag them into direct conflict. and turkey is sending a special police force to its northern border saying it wants to stop greek authorities pushing refugees and migrants back. hello again everyone i'm kamal santa maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera. we could see the face on revenues exceed 100000000000. a u.k. airline collapses their opera dictions more will follow as aviation pays a heavy price from the corona virus outbreak. international criminal court agrees

to take up a case that will see the us the taliban and afghan government investigation for suspected war crimes. and who is really to blame for killing protesters incidents capital last summer one group is urging the transitional government to investigate . so the presidents of turkey and russia meeting in moscow right now as they try to defuse tensions in syria president vladimir putin expressed his condolences for the deaths of turkish troops were killed there last week he said the syrian government is ally wasn't aware of their location the 2 countries back opposing sides of the conflict and recently came close to a direct confrontation in it live in northern syria turkey is trying to push back the syrian government forces who are of course supported by russia. meanwhile inside loop itself witnesses have told al-jazeera that russian air strikes have

killed at least 15 people in farms that are sheltering displaced civilians and many more have been injured. our team on this story right now is how the turkey syria border in a bit with you in a moment hashem starting with step outside the kremlin step as we wait to hear from these 2 leaders hugely important meeting between them. absolutely and the talks have been going on for much longer than was scheduled officially but that's not unusual when one and put in talk they very often talk for a long hours i don't want summed it up in his opening remarks before the leaders went in to decide that he said the whole world will be watching these talks of course pointing at the disastrous humanitarian situation while these 2 leaders are

talking what did stress that nothing should come in the way of the relationship between russia and turkey at the moment to an even cold the relationship at its peak right now looking at trade and different relations and he said that will only improve and he was very confident that could be nice but these of course are all very friendly words what's going on right now in that room might be something very different to leaders who are forced to compromise if a solution will come out of it nobody is expecting a real solution but what is expected is at least a cease fire or some kind of cease fire it could be temporarily but it's very important that that's also that put in the kremlin announced before his meeting with the one european commission president called him on the phone stressing that putin should remember this humanitarian disaster and it's very likely that putin wants to come out of these talks as

a peacemaker and not as someone who isn't of war crimes which actually happened only a few days ago by the u.n. commission on syria but again we have to wait and see the talks are going on for a long time and everything is very unpredictable right now and it just ok. let's get the perspective from correspondent in the turkish city of. step saying that president putin would like to come out of this looking good some sort of peacemaker as president. well same thing for president other than who wants something tangible strong decision so that when he comes back home he would. alleviate some of the concerns voiced by many people in turkey including members of the opposition who are basically saying that the decision to send troops into syria was a mistake of the government was basically insisting this was

a legitimate in self-defense defense and also for humanitarian purposes to prevent the syrian government backed by russia from continuing this offensive there would just be the way for an unprecedented displacement of people to into turkey and turkey was concerned that 4000000 syrians what about to move into the border with turkey and this is exactly what turkey would like to achieve in this summit they would like to ensure that there is a buffer zone that would secure the borders of turkey and then a safe zone where the civilians who have been displaced over the last few months will be able to return back to their homes and then a guarantee from the syrian from the russians that the syrian government women tain positions behind the demilitarized zone yesterday took his officials or talking about the need as soon as this is done they would like to start with the russians genuine talks about a final comprehensive political settlement to the crisis in syria because did do understand that whenever you even if you fix the it live thing as long as the

fighting continues as long as the differences continue you are going to definitely see the same thing the same pattern been repeated in different parts of the country thanks for now hashem we'll come back to you and step later hopefully after we've heard from the 2 leaders. while all this is happening the turkish government is deploying a special police force to its northwestern border with greece thousands of people of course trying to get to greece after turkey opened its side of the border last week the e.u. says that it is to pressure the bloc into supporting turkish military options operations in italy province turkey says no that's not the case and says these special forces are being deployed to stop people being sent back. guard of augusta column 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 pushback of migrants they will also provide inflatable boats and this is within the

international law. we spoke to francesco a little bit earlier president of the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies who told us people shouldn't be treated as political weapons. i had the opportunity to warm to goal and tool to see to see it way sure not just here on the border and talk with some of them up for of course you mean it's just about that desperate stories and that they are waiting to enter unfortunately our organization has not been allowed to 20 minimum nomen land we are negotiating and we hope we are confident that the next hour we will we'll be able to provide assistance to those that are now in this very moment according to the news stuck in the media we know up on it we saw a solution that. is something that shouldn't top and and i would like to add these 2 that we don't tend to in politics but when politics threats the dignity of the

human beings is our duty also to remind to get on so that we shared one humanity and when i listen to that today a head of you will be on commission talking about the shield meaning that on the other side that i went on so this is. something that there. on the city could be avoided because you know human beings i've seen children i've seen women not and they're not. down not weapons. 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 the body that represents global airlines i also has been counting the cost during a meeting in singapore the support from mcbride. 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 moment 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 are enhanced screening measures to deal with those travelers that come from italy any known 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 face masks have been sent from china to the south korean epicenter of the outbreak in the city of daegu and its surrounding area. and . 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 jay 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 liquors soju and now sharing their stocks of alcohol with producers of hand sanitizers deciding it's of more value right now is it disinfectant than a drink robot bride al-jazeera sold efforts to contain coronavirus in italy ramped up on thursday all schools and universities had to close their doors for at least 10 days not fewer tourists and many italians also staying indoors as well

there are now been more than 3000 confirmed cases of coronavirus knisley at least 107 people have died and palestinian authorities in the occupied west bank are banning tourists and pilgrims for the next 2 weeks the decision was made after the 1st suspected cases of corona virus were detected the church of the nativity revered among christians as the birthplace of jesus is among the sites expected to be closed off until march 20th needed abraham now in ramallah explaining the economic impact the ban on tourists will have. 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 are still waiting on there is to see if there has been actually any cases that has been confirmed 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 the israeli occupation the conflict has had that stalled on their economic 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 fasting into is a mystery has closed off the church as well as banning reservations of canceling all reservations for tourists palestinians do not have control over the borders so these measures were seen as important as a precaution to help control the spread of the virus in the news ahead on al-jazeera. i decided to take no reason more on coronavirus and how it's impacting migrant workers and their families back home and former new york mayor mike bloomberg says joe biden's white house bids after he falls out of the presidential race.

i was still got some rather wet weather into southern parts of china at the moment see this long line of clabbered stretches out of it was japan actually need to follow it round this little hook that deep area of low pressure still some blustery conditions for northern parts of japan as we go through friday but it's an improving picture that will pull out of the way temperatures don't change too much but the winds fold a lot lighter so it's going to feel decidedly more comfortable what's the weather into southern china will push up towards south korea towards q.c.'s of apostle but to the north of that it is generally going to stay settled a lot he said well to last more than possible china beijing around 50 degrees celsius and pleasant sunshine coming through have present sunshine just around a good part of india china northern parts of the philippines not faring too badly but you can see the thick of cloud them to central southern parts of the

philippines and this shows will become a little more widespread here as we go through friday and on into saturday usual spate of showers there 3 malaysia into indonesia what is too shallow is to just into the fosse out of thailand want to show is just a part of sri lanka at the moment but long spells of rain so winter weather to spelling out to pakistan northern parts of india with the risk of some flooding. but. frank assessments the one thing about these bushfires is that you really want to get out. a mature and informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping damo truck afloat right now critical debate sequel on those do schoolchildren don't want the noise on a bogus argument is astonishingly patronize a in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of a new iraq of a new conscious and aware youth about struggle against an ethnic sectarian kota

inside story on al-jazeera. we move to. you tube. you know what al jazeera these are the top stories the presidents of turkey and russia a meeting in moscow as they try to defuse tensions in syria president putin expressed his condolences for the deaths of turkish troops killed there last week. he says it's also deploying a special police force along its border with greece to stop what it calls the push back of migrants thousands of trying to get through to the e.u. since anchor opened its side of the border last week and the international air transport association i asked says the aviation industry could lose more than $100000000000.00 in revenue as

a result of coronavirus countries are imposing tough new restrictions on travel is . so much of the discussion about coronaviruses financial impact has focused on the world's biggest economies and companies talk about the airline industry to have a millions of migrant workers a quarter of an it to account get back to their jobs the jobs that they and their families rely on below has the support from the philippines. a leash adolphus says she would not have left hong kong during the height of the coronavirus scare. but her mother steps forced her to overcome fears like 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 after go back to hong kong my side 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 per. the government and allow them to return to work they'd rather be sick in hong kong and taken care of 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. really need. money you know so i decided to take the race

there is a risk for alisa because domestic workers have been among those diagnosed with the karuna virus in hong kong. and it's 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. international criminal court has decided to investigate allegations of crimes committed during the war in afghanistan it includes kinds of atrocities by u.s. troops and afghan forces and the taliban the court has also to look into prisoner torture and mass killings of civilians the petition to open the cases led to u.s. president of trump imposing a travel ban on staff who work for the court afghanistan's conflict goes back to the u.s. led invasion of 2001 which makes it america's longest running conflicts the i.c.c.

chief prosecutor fun toobin sue the says there is evidence of torture rape and sexual violence against prisoners by u.s. troops and intelligence agencies that's mainly from 20032004 also afghan security forces are suspected of torturing prisoners at government detention centers and she also says the taliban and other on groups have killed more than 17000 civilians just since 2009 the thoughts of toby cabin's an international human rights lawyer and says those being accused cannot act with impunity. 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 the 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. 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 israel's military has destroyed 2 palestinian homes in the occupied west bank the army says the 2 residents who were targeted played a role in an attack on an israeli settlement last august when one person was killed

human rights groups of long criticized israel's practice of destroying homes saying it's collective punishment that is illegal under international. so that the transitional government is being urged to investigate last year's killing of pro tem ocracy demonstrators the u.s. based ngo physicians for human rights blames sudan's security forces for the deaths of 241 people in what is now known as the june 3rd massacre this was 2 months after president omar bashir was removed many of the syrian protesters demanding democracy were health care workers and the report says security forces even fired into hospitals and tortured civilians as well as carrying out gender based attacks the physicians group is calling on u.n. member states and the african union to sanction the sudanese officials responsible ever morgan now in the sudanese capital khartoum and she says protesters won't see the revolution as over until there is accountability. while all just hero was

banned from reporting we were in hutton when the attack on the 10 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 sit ins 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 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 some other prominent activists she campaigned against the ban on women driving in the kingdom as sister raised the case during a human rights conference in geneva. at least 10 people have died after a 5 storey residential building collapsed in pakistan's largest city 28 people have also been rescued from the rubble in toronto recovery operations are ongoing and authorities say they are worried the surrounding bill could collapse as well and

a high speed train is the rail in eastern france at least $21.00 people were injured after the train slipped off the tracks and strasburg was going at 270 kilometers an hour when it hit some debris that landed on the tracks after a landslide he has a new prime minister whose promising to deal with the grinding economic and political crises the president swore in joseph who is the 4th prime minister in just 3 years it's been months of unrest in the island nation of a corruption lack of jobs parliamentary elections due in october weren't held and then president joe no more easy has been ruling by decree since january. u.s. politics after his strong performance saw on super tuesday former u.s. vice president joe biden it's been given another boost to his white house campaign it's been endorsed by former new york mayor mike bloomberg who has dropped out of the race themself brunell's reports 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 you know is a decent guy and i do not want this campaign to generate into a trump type if it were attacking his fellow 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 biden 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 get it done do any help any one of the candidates are left in the campaign 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 unseating president trump in the fall rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. dozens of people have been killed including 5 children after a series of tornadoes tore through the u.s. state of tennessee at least 3 people missing they are hiding as the latest. amy and darryl jenene say their home was the only one spared in their neighborhood as

a tornado brought widespread destruction their home east of the city of nashville became a shelter and that's all you could hear is just people screaming throughout the neighborhood and we ended up with a house full of muddy people in their pajamas we had we did in the collection point because we were the only outstanding dozens of people were killed in their homes across tennessee the youngest was just 2 years old in the capital of country music in the u.s. celebrities took to social media to voice their support to those that really lost family members i'm sorry about bad in our prayers are with you and so just wanted to shout out and say we're with you. schools prisons and airports were also damaged neighbors here say they're relying on each other to get back on their feet. one of the little girls is the one who's next door she said i don't want to leave the house that stayed up and that just i was like that's why our house stayed up

because they needed a place to go the tornadoes were the worst to hit tennessee in 7 years and it remains in a state of emergency leo harding al-jazeera. office they are on al-jazeera let's take you to the headlines the presidents of turkey and russia are amazing in moscow to try 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's russia's ally wasn't aware of their location the 2 countries backed the opposing sides of this conflict and recently came close to a direct confrontation in italy province in the. syria turkey is trying to push back syrian government forces supported by russia and while the turkish government is deploying a special police force to its northwestern border with greece thousands of people have tried to get to greece and bulgaria it was since turkey opened its side of the border last read the e.u.

says that's just to pressure the bloc into supporting turkish military operations in the lead up but turkey says the forces are being deployed to stop people being sent back. there the headlines international air transport association i also says the aviation industry could lose more than $100000000000.00 in revenue as a result of the corona virus outbreak countries are imposing tough restrictions on travelers coming from places worst affected by the virus. 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 round about 19 percent of global passenger revenues or this would be a revenue shock equivalent to what was seen in the global financial crisis

international criminal courts decided to investigate allegations of crimes committed during the war in afghanistan and includes claims of atrocities by u.s. troops afghan forces and the taliban the court also look into prisoner torture and mass killings of civilians u.s. president donald trump's accuse the i.c.c. of having unaccountable prosecutorial powers. and these 10 people have died after a 5 storey residential building collapsed in pakistan's largest city and 28 people are also rescued in karachi but authorities say they are worried the surrounding buildings may collapse as well. you're up to date with the headlines still waiting for that news conference from president putin and the one we will bring you that live when it happens. to al-jazeera let me talk about 2 of the biggest problems facing and they are the endemic corruption. we listen so if you really put place china as an enemy of ours and

that's really that we meet with global newsmakers and tweek about the stories that matter just 0. hi everyone i'm femi oke a am your in the strain today we take a look at 3 stories related to global warming locusts in east africa ice melt in antarctica and the future of the world's largest doomsday food vault you can join the conversation really easily in our live chat or on twitter. though it is in east africa are racing to counter swarms of aeration slow cuz we've been eating their way through the region including kenya ethiopia and somalia locusts are not uncommon to the horn of africa but the recent surge is the worst the region has seen in decades the rise of these insects have been attributed to war.