both about 200 people have been rescued and more want to get on but this simply no space. i am. with a new commitment to ending the fighting in northwest syria turkey and russia agreed to a cease fire is set to begin in the coming hours and turkey deploys a special police force to its border with greece as the red cross warns migrants that are being used as political pawns. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up more schools are closed and the allied industry is under increasing pressure yet the world health organization says some countries are not taking the coronavirus threat seriously enough. and in the u.s.

senator elizabeth warren once considered a front runner for the democratic nomination drops out of the 2020 presidential race. comes the program we begin this hour in syria where the turkish and russian president say a ceasefire will come into effect at midnight local time for the rebel held province of idlib the announcement came off to 6 hours of negotiations between russia time alone and vladimir putin in moscow but to support opposing sides in the syrian conflict and fighting has escalated in recent weeks almost a 1000000 people have fled towards the turkish border since syria's government launched an offensive to recapture at the end of last year. it was. during the course of our negotiations we've agreed on an international memorandum and we believe this will pave the way for further cooperation to put an end to the

suffering of syrian civilians and create the conditions for a peaceful settlement of the syrian conflict. tonight at midnight we're going to declare a cease fire to make it sustainable all the work will be done effectively and rapidly and imus to into the humanitarian crisis in the region all the syrian people who need help without discrimination will be given a day and all the displaced people in the country will be able to be repatriated to their homes. joins us live now from her tail on the turkey syria border 1st of all what has president accomplished from this tail end and from his military offensive in northwest area well money and he has managed to get some. important concessions from the russian president vladimir putin because until a few days ago there were huge concerns that turkey may not be able this time to get what it wants from the russians particularly about about it live so the gov the

ceasefire to be implemented plus the safe corey doors and also resettlement of the civilians back into their years and i think this is going to be widely seen as a major diplomatic victory for president but as of a year at least for the time being because of one hand it will it means that he will have to be concerned about his soldiers deployed in the north west some province of live because with the ceasefire with the buffer zone with the demilitarized zone there will be no risk whatsoever for any attack targeting those positions but i think also turkey has been very concerned about the potential for a protracted conflict in it live that would pave the way for 4000000 civilians those who were displaced to cross into turkey i think now with this agreement there will be able to go back to some of the villages. right but i suppose

hashem in terms of what we've seen in the past there is some skepticism because we have seen several cease fire deals and both turkey and russia a failed to live up to their past obligations. indeed money emma those cease fires will always flood just seems to 1017 big collapse and they didn't prevent the syrian government from moving forward reclaiming water out of 3 in the southern part of it live and also in rural. but i think they all the parties do wondrous do understand that this could be the only possible way to solve the crisis ultimately turkey is hoping to be able to take this to another level which is to negotiate a permanent political settlement but you know we still have 2 different narratives here the russians back president bush said they would consider him to be the legitimate authority turkey on the other hand is saying that the opposition should

be given a bigger say in the future of the country but this is something which not won't be decided only by the russians and the turks in the near future now if you when you see there the tweets the post by the opposition members of the opposition civilians activists in. they say that the deal falls short of their expectations they wanted to see the syrian military pulled back from all the areas it controlled over the last 3 months and this is something which won't be possible in a way but at least for the 1000000 people stranded on the border living in makeshift tents those who are tenants those who had to beg for the tent those who had to buy a tent i think this is going to be quite significant for them the question is will turkey and russia reorganize the whole rest settle it was settlement program across all those areas bearing in mind that some of the villages are already under the control of the syrian government. all right thank you very much pressure and great

deal still to be worked out following this story for us on the turkey syria border of course hashem was referring there to the humanitarian situation a looming humanitarian catastrophe will turkey has deployed a 1000 police officers to its border with greece to try to help push back of refugees and migrants into its territory tens of thousands of migrants have been massing on the turkish side of the border since last week when anchor announced it would no longer stop them from crossing into the e.u. but greece says those trying to enter doing so illegally and riot police have been using tear gas and water cannon to press them back turkey has also accused greece of using life i killing for migrants but that's been rejected by athens. got a bit of a gossip 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 international law meanwhile the right cross has described the situation at the

border is unacceptable every country every. lady will be and you know their right to set up only this. but these bodies must never affect. the dignity of human beings it's very very sad that we have seen again that. human beings treated that as a political weapon as a tool for politics and it is unacceptable again. so the world health organization has warned that some countries are not doing enough to fight the corona virus despite it being a threat to all nations rich and poor 3000 people have died from the outbreak and there are over $95000.00 reported cases across the globe efforts to contain the virus have led to shortages closures and restrictions around the world the e.u.

says year is experiencing delays in the supplies of medicines and facemasks compounding existing shortages of drugs on the continent many countries around the world rely on china as the source of the outbreak for drug ingredients in the 300000000 students globally have been affected by school closures 22 countries across asia europe in the middle east of carney suspended classes and then opec countries of agree to cut oil output by an extra one and a half 1000000 barrels a day in an effort to maintain a stabilized price of oil but if made action conditional on russia and other countries also taking part moscow has yet to signal any support for that cuts there is john holl has our point now. the economic costs of coronavirus are mounting everywhere with the squeeze on international travel affecting airlines in particular the german carrier has grounded hundreds of planes and for u.k. regional carrier fly b. it was all too much the already struggling airline succumbed to bankruptcy and it

may not be the last cruise operators would also be suffering thousands of passengers are stranded aboard the grand princess off the coast of california tests are carried out on board the vessel belongs to the same company that owned the virus stricken diamond princess held off the japanese coast last month with $700.00 cases on board and 6 death as coronavirus increases its reach with south africa registering its 1st case and the u.k. and switzerland their 1st fatalities each day brings heightened levels of response but the world health organization says it's concerned some countries aren't taking the threat seriously enough this is not the time for excuses this is a time for pulling out all the stops countries have been planning. this for decades now is the time to act on those plans

the presence of community transmission means efforts to contain the disease are failing this is they've made it. money is being thrown at the problem in the united states with congress approving an $8000000000.00 war chest the international monetary fund says it's making $50000000000.00 available in aid to low income and emerging market countries to fight the epidemic. but economic gloom with the rising threat of recession has brought some glimmers of opportunity. one e-commerce firm in south korea said it was struggling to keep pace with demand as shoppers desert the streets and move on line. in the past we used to go out with a truck half full but these days there's so much to deliver there are packages left over after filling the truck completely elsewhere the retreat of whole communities into isolation continues in bethlehem palestinian officials have closed the church

of the nativity weeks before the easter season that draws tens of thousands of visitors and worshippers to the traditional birthplace of christ italian schools didn't open on thursday and won't for some time to come similar scenes in india iran france and japan in all around 300000000 students in more than 20 countries face weeks of disruption desperate measures in what field to many like desperate times when the. when this emergency is over we will look back and i am convinced that we will be proud of how an entire country has faced this with courage and determination for now though this emergency is just getting started jonah how al-jazeera. well the international air transport association has quadrupled its forecast outlining how much the coronavirus could cost the aviation industry after its last report released $13.00 days ago eline share prices of fallen on average by

nearly 25 percent this year a drop 6 times greater than at the same point in the sars outbreak i os is best case scenario if markets with more than $100.00 currently confirmed cases contain the virus global losses could be limited to 63000000000 dollars this year predominantly in the asia pacific region but if the number of infections spike in countries with around 10 cases currently passenger airlines will lose up to $113000000000.00 in revenue this year with those losses would reach the level of the financial crisis in 2008 the virus heard been limited to chinese markets as you can see the impact on airlines in other regions we thought would be relatively minor but clearly what we've seen in the last week is a dramatic increase in the outbreak in regions outside of asia pacific and particularly in europe which means that this is now

a global. situation meanwhile nearly 300000000 students globally have been affected by school closures as countries impose strict measures to contain the spread of the virus as a thursday 22 countries announced the suspension of classes to varying degrees she wants an hour out of school across asia europe in the middle east some for only a few days others for several weeks united nations says the global scale and speed of the current educational destruction is on paralleled well officials in iran are setting up checkpoints between cities as the government there tries to get on top of the widespread outbreak unfolding the same bus driver he has more from the capital tehran. the health ministry released a map on twitter the spokesman released a map that showed how the virus emanated from a comb sort of in the center of the country out to the rest of the nation and it really looks like the tentacles of an octopus sort of engulfing the country and

that's really what we're seeing in iran experiencing the death toll is at $107.00 the total number of cases more than 3550 new deaths since yesterday 500 new cases confirmed since yesterday and the health ministry has taken a number of steps one of the things they've suggested to people today is to stop using cash now it remains to be seen or it really is unclear how much of a vector cash is but certainly it changes hands so with germs that would be on a hard currency but iran is already a country that is very tilted towards the use of cards and digital transactions to create conduct any sort of financial business having said that banks are raising the ceiling and the sort of digital transaction or a.t.m. withdrawals that customers can make they're also sending messages to customers to offer them rewards points and other reward systems to try to encourage them to use digital transactions instead of hard cash schools and public events various public

venues universities cinemas theaters that were shut 2 weeks ago those closures by government order yet again it been extended another 2 weeks taking us into the persian new year taking us well into april after the holidays and they are likely to continue to be remain closed that's what many people are expecting here. so i have for you on al-jazeera the international criminal court and al says that it will investigate war crimes committed during the war in afghanistan. and israeli forces demolish the homes of 2 palestinians they have attacking an israeli settlement. hello and welcome to international weather forecast the weather situation across europe isn't looking as bad as it was in recent days with all the storms still some

unsettled weather moving in long the bay of biscay on the north coast of spain and into southern parts of france bringing more snow for the pyrenees which is much welcome of course slightly drawing conditions across the u.k. that frontal system will be pushing in for stuff the ice will come back to that one across central parts here from expiring some showers around some heavier rain down across parts of the balkans as for italy a scattering of showers rome looking at highs of 14 degrees moving the forecast on and into the start of the weekend we've got this frontal system moving in towards the western parts of the u.k. bringing some strong winds the potential for some pretty heavy rain in places quite a conditions across much of france snow just settling on the alps generally dry conditions expected here or unsettled a spell of weather around the more eastern side of the mediterranean with some rain or in these rates of snow heading down into northern and central parts of africa we've still got some results for a trip into n'est 20 degrees in trueness on friday but heading through into

saturday we could see the winds turning towards the northwest and strengthening and temperatures dropping to just 13. the consequence of more. russia will be served for. actually a church that just doesn't go away. for a living out of the truck for last couple years. his home was 0 follows a group of u.s. army veterans traumatized by war. as they struggle to get their lives back. the is the the a. welcome

back you're watching al-jazeera live from london a look at the headlines turkey and russia have agreed to a cease fire in the rebel held province of it live. on and let him a putin met for 6 hours in moscow to support opposing sides in the conflict and fighting has escalated in the northwestern part the country in recent weeks all turkey has deployed a 1000 police officers to its border with greece to try to push back of refugees and migrants into its territory recess those trying to enter a doing so illegally. and the world health organization says some countries are not doing enough to fight the coronavirus despite it being a threat to all nations rich and poor 3000 people have now died from the outbreak and over 95000 cases have been reported by many. cool skill given our political developments in the u.s. the race to challenge donald trump in november's presidential election is claimed

another casualty with elizabeth warren dropping out 2 days after a poor performance in the so-called super tuesday primaries warren finished a distant 3rd place and failed to win her home state it comes a day after mike bloomberg announced he was pulling out or his decision leaves joe biden and bernie sanders as the only 2 realistic candidates with about an uncatchable distance behind but he joins us live now from washington so it really was a dismal performance for elizabeth warren in particular to have lost in a home state of massachusetts where does this leave the race now. it leaves the race for all but certain that of november or the country is going to have to choose between 2 white men in their seventy's this is really remarkable this was a huge field that quickly collapsed and call us between vermont senator senator bernie sanders the progressive in the moderate former vice president joe biden and elizabeth warren said that when she spoke to the media she said i thought was told that there were only going to be 2 lanes here and i didn't believe that but now it seems that that is true it also raises the question of sexism in america and she

said that that's a true sort of a trap of a question she said if i say yes there was sexism than you call me whiny if i say no the no women believe me but she really gave a graceful speech to the to the media saying that this was a hard decision and she specifically talked about something that she became sort of known for she would stay at rallies for hours upon hours until everyone who wanted to a taken a selfie with her had a chance to do that also whenever she saw a little girl she would mill down to their level she would do would call the pinky promise and say i am running for president because that's what girls do she said she did the pinky promise so that those little girls would always remember and she spoke about that and it seemed genuinely hard for her to talk about one of the hardest parts of this is all those people. and all those little girl. who are going to have to wait 4 more years. that's going to be hard.

so the big question now is who is she going to indorse now bernie sanders just came out and specifically said to the cameras warren supporters i want your vote at it would seem that he might benefit because after also a warning is a progressive and so is sanders but at the same time she's openly complained that she doesn't think bernie sanders can do much research and yell at people and that he can actually build coalitions to get things done and also worth noting 2016 when she was a senator she didn't endorse bernie sanders her fellow progressive she endorsed hillary clinton joe biden and her do have a relationship and he said last time when he was thing about running 4 years ago that she would have been vice presidential pick that seems more likely now because it's likely he's going to if he's the nominee have to pick someone much younger in part possibly a person of color but they've both spoken to her she said she's going to take a couple of days to think about it she's out of the race but she still could have a pretty sizable influence thank you very much for the night is from washington on

this. now the international criminal court is to investigate allegations of crimes committed during the war in afghanistan these include claims of atrocities by u.s. troops afghan forces and the taliban in the more than 18 years of conflict the court has to look into prison and torture and mass killings of civilians a petition to open the cases already led the u.s. president donald trump to impose a travel ban on staff who work for the course secretary state might have said that the course has an unaccountable and situation this is a truly breathtaking action by an unaccountable political institution masquerading as a legal body it's all the more reckless for this ruling to come just days after the united states signed historic peace deal on afghanistan which is the best chance for peace in a generation the united states is not a party to the i.c.c. we will take all necessary measures to protect our citizens from this renegade

unlawful so-called court. israel's military has demolished 2 palestinian homes in the occupied west bank the army says 2 of the residents played a role in an attack on an israeli settlement last august when one person was killed 14 homes were destroyed last year in similar punitive measures human rights groups have long criticized israel's practice of destroying homes saying it's collective punishment that is illegal under international law they did abraham has more from one of the demolished houses. this is what is left of the family house of us and he's a 25 year old palestinian who has been arrested by the israeli army the army says he has been involved in an attack that killed an israeli woman near the illegal settlement of the all of last august isn't the house was one of 2 houses demolished early on thursday another palestinian what it had is also accused of taking part in the same attack the walls of his apartment were knocked down it was very hard when

i 1st entered after the demolished because i can hear voices in the walls calling for me from my father from my sister and so it was very hard every single corner in this house every single block every single. wall has the story has a memory the israeli forces have demolished 14 houses in 2019 they say it's a form of deterrence many of the cases the person who is accused of committing crimes against the israelis is dead. most of the locations he is arrested in many of the occasions he is not even convicted to get there who are the families this is not the appearance this is collective punishment this is a crowd some people came here to show support there seems to be a sense of defiance here although families know they're not allowed to rebuild their houses. now trade talks between the u.k.

in european union have just wrapped up with the chief negotiator warning of grave differences between the 2 sides the meetings in brussels for the 1st since u.k. formally left the bloc in january after nearly 50 years of membership person wants a deal outlining its future relationship with europe signed before the end of the year when the transition period expires but she says friction remains over rules for fisheries and provisions affect competition. as part of the international women's day debate in the u.k. house of parliament opposition m.p. jess phillips has once again read out the names of women murdered by men in the u.k. over the past year or so they were to start. judy with tracey the full. squad. to come more than 4 minutes to say the names of more than $100.00 women a figure that she pointed out rises every year she's also called for more action from the government on a type of crime she says is overlooked. i cannot help but reflect

how peace will be in all been in terrorist incidents how do you say we've been all colleges coronavirus. how these were 1000000 dollar to sports events around the year. there would be huge inquiries. the government would stop saying a court in india has cleared the way for the execution of 4 men convicted of raping and murdering a woman in new delhi in 2012 judgment was made after indian president run not rejected the mercy petitions 4 men were convicted in 2013 of the rape torture and murder of a 23 year old physiotherapy student in a case that triggered protests in india a tack led to toughen laws against sexual violence including the death penalty now the main civilian airport serving libya's capital tripoli is again out of

action after being targeted by forces loyal to warlord $25.00 to $4.00 missiles hit maty get airport late on wednesday night in a 2nd attack in the space of 3 days after us forces have been attempting to take tripoli from the un backed government for almost a year now charles trafford reports to us from misrata airport just a 180 kilometers to the east of a country where flights into tripoli have been redirected. with forces loyal to warlord khalifa haftar targeting which he get put 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. 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 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 pool before it was shot and used to cause harm i have friends who are in mid to get airport when rockets hit they described absolute chaos and fear just imagine

a place like this and bombs start falling around you who would probably never want to travel again the interior minister for the un by government 40 bashar 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 a soon have little choice but to change its military strategy from a defensive one into an offensive one in order to push off this forces by trial started out as era misrata. egypt's old is paramount has reopened after an ambitious 14 year restoration projects just a step param it was built 4600 years ago west of cairo while the heritage listed building is about 60 meters high and consists of 6 terraces built in stages egyptian government announced restoration efforts in 2006 following decades of neglect and the risk of collapse get all the way to sneeze right here al jazeera

dot com we can get details on our top story that recent cease fire that was done between a president and putin more on that in just a sec. so the turkish and russian presidents have set a cease fire is going to come into effect at midnight local time for the rebel held province of idlib that announcement coming after 6 hours of negotiations between russia type on and locked in a prison in moscow that is of course opposing sides in the syrian conflict and fighting has escalated in recent weeks syria's government backed by russia or just an offensive to recapture adlib at the end of last year. it was. during the course of our negotiations we've agreed on an international memorandum and we believe this will pave the way for further cooperation to put an end to the

suffering of syrian civilians and create the conditions for a peaceful settlement of the syrian conflict. meanwhile turkey is deployed a 1000 police officers to its border with greece to try to help the push back of refugees and migrants into its territory tens of thousands of migrants have been massing on the turkish side of the border since last week when anchor announced it would no longer stop them from crossing into the e.u. but greece says those trying to enter are doing so illegally the red cross has described the situation at the border as unacceptable every country every. right to set up only this but these policies must never affect. the dignity of human beings it's very nice. that we are seen again. human beings treated as a political weapon as a tool for politics and these are not suitable. and of

course our other top story the world health organization is saying that some countries are still not doing enough to fight the coronavirus to spice it being a threat to all nations rich and poor the latest death toll from the outbreak is stands at about 3000 so 3000 people have now died and there are of the 95000 reported cases across the globe nearly 300000000 students globally have been affected by school closures as countries impose strict measures to contain the spread of the virus and it later we will explore that in the 2100 g. news hour get some analysis on how this could affect the education system coming up now on al-jazeera it's the string.

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