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so far it is holding russia and turkey began another ceasefire and syria is it live province. i'm richelle carey this is al-jazeera by from to also coming up a diplomatic route over the coronavirus seoul wants answers after japan announces it will suspend south korean visas and send visitors into quarantine. i will not be running for president in 2020 but i'm going to i will say to you. senator elizabeth warren answer presidential campaign leaving bernie sanders and joe biden is the only 2 major democratic candidates left. and violence over
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a controversial citizenship law leaves thousands homeless in india. we began in syria where a cease fire procured by russia and turkey a northwest it live province has come into effect the breakthrough was reached after 6 hours of negotiations between russia's president vladimir putin and turkey's leader retch a typo on this happened in moscow a bid to back opposing sides in the syrian conflict so they have agreed to establish a 12 kilometer wide security corridor or along it lives in 4 highway which connects the government stronghold of let's talk you know with serious financial aleppo they've also agreed on a joint patrol along that motorway that will happen later this month the syrian government offensive and it limits push nearly a 1000000 civilians toward turkey's border it's not clear how or when they'll be able to return to their homes so it wasn't brings us up to date on the talks in
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moscow. it was clear from the start that this was going to be a tough meeting the partnership between put an end to one which was carefully nurtured in the past appear tense now the detectors and russian military facing each other in it and turkish and syrian forces taking a high number of casualties but a direct confrontation has been averted for now but a ceasefire it clear. this notion that we don't always agree with our turkish partners on what happens in syria but every time including all moments we manage to find common ground on controversial issues and find an acceptable solution based on the high level of our bilateral relations that's what's happened this time. because well negotiations in moscow were underway fighting and continued an airstrike blamed by opposition activists on russian warplanes killed 15 civilians including women and children
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a few hours before the landmark meeting took place. undoubtedly a meeting on it live is of great importance in fact the situation in the region is very tense i know that the world's eyes are on us. early a ceasefire as brokered by russia and turkey haven't held for long he has blamed syrian government forces backed by russia for a start of hostilities several times before but some analysts believe that put in might be less willing to back assad as strongly as he has done so far person in. russia help to solve it lives problem as long as it didn't lead to a direct confrontation between russia and turkey or russia to a large extent has fulfilled its obligations towards assad's regime so after that russia will likely try to make steps towards ankara. the test will come on march 15th when joint patrols of russian and turkish troops are planned around the m 4
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highway and the buffer zone the announcers in the meeting on thursday will have to materialize tense but constructive that's how president putin has described the 6 hour talks with his turkish counterpart the complex relationship between the 2 leaders is seriously being tested and although tensions have been reduced today nobody can predict how this dangerous diplomatic game will and. al-jazeera moscow on the cease fire deal is being seen as a diplomatic triumph for turkey's president and offer some hope for the internally displaced families as reports of a tale of the turkey syria border. until a few days ago there were you 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
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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 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 it live because with the cease fire with the buffer zone with the demilitarized zone there will be no risk whatsoever for any attack targeting of 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 japan's prime minister shinzo are they says all visitors from china and south korea will have to undergo 2 weeks of corn chained to 2 coronavirus and will come into effect in 3 days south korea
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immediately responded calling the measure extremely or great of all foreign ministry wants the measure to be revoked and his call for a meeting with japanese diplomats yokohama new corn team for visitors from both countries will be strengthened and the be required to be quarantined for 2 weeks of the location designated by the quarantine director to be asked to refrain from using public transportation in the country. and pride joins me now from sol sol rob at a time then that you were there we would hope that asian countries to be on the same page when it comes to you know something as serious as coronavirus and they're not really tell miss tell us more about this dispute. there is a real sense of indignation here in south korea really taken by surprise it seems as though this measure was put in place according to the south koreans with any consultation the relationship between south korea and japan is complicated at the best of times and in our city lurks below the surface and it doesn't take much for
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it to be exposed and there's a real sense here that this is japan in particular shinzo abi the japanese prime minister playing politics here they governments in japan has come under a lot of criticism about the way it's handled the outbreak of the coronavirus in japan itself there's been questions about the summer olympics going ahead or maybe being delayed and the feeling here is this is a pure deflection by the japanese imposing this ban there's $100.00 countries now that have some sort of travel restriction against south korea increasingly this country starts to feel a bit like an international pariah but there is a grudging acceptance here in south korea that countries have put in place these bans especially the developing countries because they simply can't afford to be importing an outbreak of the corona virus from south korea they don't have if they're developing country the kind of medical resources to deal with an outbreak but that's not japan japan is sophisticated it has the medical resources in place
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still to allow people to go back and forth between japan and south korea with the effect of screening in place rather than what's being seen here is a draconian measure and this is really going to hurt economically south korea was already suffering because of various trade disputes along comes the coronavirus which is potentially crippling for the economy and then this on top of that given the importance of japan in terms of business in trade is really going to cause a lot more economic pain this is been the response from south korea's prime minister. yesterday the japanese government imposed a measure practically blocking the entry of all our citizens to japan. we find this but he did write a bill and the japanese government to withdraw such an excessive and reasonable measure immediately our government can devise a proper counter measure against japan's measures so rob what do we know about what south korea is planning to do and response to these measures from japan
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so south korea's national security council has friday held a meeting and come out with a very strongly worded statement saying that yes it's looking at counter measures and that it will follow the principle of reciprocity which sounds suspiciously like it could well impose exactly the same band in retaliation will have to wait and see in the same statement it also pointed up the difference in the way that south korea is dealing with this to japan south korea says it is completely transparent it knows it's dealing with the crisis but it has the screening in place to produce very transparent numbers it's employing world class standards embeds in screening in preventative measures and so on by comparison south korea has accused japan of falling short so this is getting very betty between the 2 and you've got to remember that from south korea's point of view just 2 weeks ago japan seemed to
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have a far worse crisis with the cruise ship and yoko hama and the quarantine that went wrong hundreds of people falling sick whereas in south korea we hadn't had the big outbreaks that we are now dealing with down in the south of the country and then all through that period south korea didn't take the same kind of blanket ban that japan is imposing now surreal feeling here of injustice of being unfairly treated by its neighbor ok on their private the latest from seoul rob thank you. and new cases of corona virus have risen significantly in parts of europe more deaths are reported in italy the netherlands france and u.k. on thursday several public events have been cancelled and all schools in italy are closed for at least 10 days the economic impact continues to worsen with the airline and tourism industry bearing the brunt of palestinian president mahmoud abbas has declared a state of emergency after 7 cases of the virus were confirmed in bethlehem and the occupied west bank the israeli military has sealed off the city tourists and
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pilgrims will be banned from the area for the next 2 weeks the church of the nativity revered among christians as the birthplace of jesus as among the sites that is now closed off and the u.s. senate has approved an $8300000000.00 funding bill to combat the spread of the coronavirus 12 people have died across the country a state of emergency is in place in california and washington state where the deaths happen because coast guards are delivering test kits for 3 and a half 1000 people stranded on a cruise ship off san francisco after a passenger who'd been on board died from the virus at least 70 people have been infected in the u.s. state of washington and 11 have died from the virus and relatives are demanding answers from the government why we believe that the life care center has been ineffective we do not believe that they are to blame they should never have been left out here to separate supporters of the confirmed a break after the confirmed everything sadly the 1st c.d.c. representatives were not on site for somebody even then they only sent 3 physicians
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who are only scripts ready to be on site. no point with these people made available to us to answer our questions today no one from the c.d.c. or the health department has reached out to us and made themselves available for comment we have to take a bigger picture this is bigger now than the virus this is how do we contain this how do we how do we deal with people that are ill how do we protect ourselves but also utilizing the resources that we have worldwide we've got to come together as a community in look at best practices and the number of confirmed infectious and infections in new york has doubled to 22 governor andrew cuomo says that number is expected to rise as more people are tested a large scale cleaning operation is underway to stop the virus from spreading in a city where millions of people use public transport every day or balance on the reports. sanitizing the busiest public transport system in the united states city officials say all of new york's $472.00 subway stations and $4000.00 subway cars
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and buses been cleaned and will be every 72 hours all to try to prevent an outbreak of corona virus or covert 19 it will decrease the presence of viruses both both the cold it 19 and others on our facilities were also give passengers our customers a sense that we're doing everything we can. new york is yet to see a major outbreak of coronavirus at least so far but officials are planning for the worst because there are so many people here. on any given week day more than one and a half a 1000000 people pour into new york city from the outer areas every day more than 5 and a half 1000000 commuters news a public transportation everything from the subway to the bus to the trains and every year new york city receives more than $60000000.00 tourists. that's a lot of hands touching things the problem though with wiping down the subways is
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it's unclear how long it keeps surfaces contamination free there's cells. some debate about 4 mites which is essentially when you touch a surface that's contaminated you touch yourself how long can a virus survive on the surface is still a matter of debate we have anything between 9 hours to 14 days for now most people here are not changing their routines i kind of understand some of the panic about it but at the same time i'm just going to continue to live my daily life and you know do the things i normally do the sales they are more like oh my gosh i'm like traveling the world like be careful but there's been a lot of diseases actually and like the kind of viruses like stats are actually pretty low. but when it comes to the subway stations they'll continue to wipe everything down to try to wipe out any corona virus worries gabriels andro new york. still ahead on al-jazeera sleeping rough in
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a cold asylum seekers are forced to camp out as greece refuses to take in more refugees. hello and welcome back the weather here in the arabian peninsula as noisome perfect at the moment blue skies sunshine breeze temperatures of 26 you couldn't ask for much better not on the stay that way over the next couple of days meanwhile we've got a little circulation of low pressure see the windows are indicating the possibility of some lifted dusk and also share it 70 beginning to develop but so the case as we head on through into saturday that low moving through iraq and eventually through into iran just pop up some showers there so watch out for that if you're in that area otherwise down through the red sea it's all looking fine along the coast plenty of sunshine with your highs of 35 in mecca down into central and eastern
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parts of africa here we've got some showers certainly across southern parts of kenya extending into tanzania but most of the shower right city is looking fairly light and patchy for the most part let's head down into more southern areas and here we've got a circulation just off the coast of madagascar and that's going to continue during the course of friday giving some showers to the eastern coast but for tanay should be fine with temperatures 27 across into south africa we're looking fine conditions here blue skies in capetown also fine across namibia of loss of showers here 25 infant of. al-jazeera goods beneath the waves with a team of women determined to save the told friends we all share the same responsibility they need in this ongoing loony project in amazing on a man using a variety of scientific techniques to train to study their behavior we can monitor
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them and therefore their vocal kowtows and behavior we're able to how they're adapting to their new environment women make science dolphin sanctuary on al-jazeera. the arab. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories a ceasefire in syria is a blip province has come into effect the deal came after negotiations between russian president vladimir putin and turkey's leader richard type are going on both governments have been backing opposing sides and serious conflict japan's prime minister shinzo ave says all visitors from china and south korea will have to
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undergo 2 weeks of foreign gene due to coronavirus fears south korea is protesting the move which it says is excessive and extremely credible and new cases of the virus have risen significantly in parts of europe were deaths are reported in italy the netherlands france and the u.k. on thursday several public events have been canceled and schools in italy are closed for at least 10 days. turkey has destroyed 1000 police officers to deploy them to the border pardon me with greece to stop refugees and migrants from returning tens of thousands have been trying to cross into europe since ankara opened its borders last week that greece is trying to stop them the red cross says migrants are being used as political pawns in a reports from the border of turkey in greece. the wind sliced through copes the cold left fingers numb it the syrian refugees from it lived along with other migrants have been camped out on this riverbank in a dern
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a turkey for days they're stuck here trying to figure out how best to cross into greece and continue on to western europe to find the good life i'm still young but i have to of course on the level of my life here or in city of course in this situation this is sort of another i mean i think to go out because it was a bit of good country before late in the day as the wind picked up police officers walked through the tents and clusters of people telling them they could take buses to a warm place suspicion spread as fast as the wind gusts only then we just think it was inaudible to we weren't be taking buses because they take us to the rev and they will give us to the creeks they take all our belongings and money and be tests and they will send us back we human beings not animals the turkish minister of interior has announced 1000 members of turkey's special police forces are deploying
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to the merge river border with greece this is an effort to prevent greek troops from pushing back migrants who reached the country by boat the interior minister says greece tried to send 4900 people back to turkey and injured 164. in your limit on the agenda we will not provide an opportunity for the maltreatment of the people there i would like to express that we've taken the necessary measures to protect our borders from a push back and to prevent several attempts by greece which were in violation of the international. the greek government has not responded to the accusations but it's deployed additional troops along its side of the border refugees say greece is just a transit point for them many like ibrahim. have crossed into the country and been deported back to turkey with awful memories ibrahim says a few days ago greek police shot him in the needy with a rubber bullet and beat him. women attired mina tired we're all
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tired of the please open the gate as news or bull as these refugees are there more anguished about their loved ones back to live at least in turkey they have found a refuge from the 9 year war in syria natasha game al-jazeera a dern a turkey. and on the other side in greece more asylum seekers are arriving from different parts of the world but the country is suspended all applications for a month in response to turkey opening its borders that means families seeking shelter in europe are having to spend their nights out in the cold supports unless . now this boatload of asylum seekers arrived just before sunday there are 42 of them 36 afghans 4 from african countries and 2 syrians they are going to spend the night here in this courtyard of a small chapel by the sea. but they've been given
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a tarpaulin to bed down on they've been given some blankets and an evening meal and passes it there is nowhere else for them to go and that is a problem because when they arrived it was raining and their clothes a soaks among them 12 very small children and infants who could easily get very sick here tonight where the air is damp there's no fire going there's no source of heat other than body heat they could have spent the night in a tent or in a local death by the unit unfortunately that was burned 3 days ago by a group of angry locals who don't want to have any sort of reception center here on the north shore of the island for more asylum seekers because the fact that turkey has opened its borders to europe and is actively sending asylum seekers to greece has angered many people and one particular faction has decided to also try and
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sabotage the normal procedures that are undertaken by charities by the police and by the coast guard the worst of all of course is that these people whom we've been speaking to earlier on not aware that greece is no longer accepting asylum applications as a result of turkey's border opening and that they will be picked up in the morning by buses they will be held in detention taken to athens on board a military transport ship and then the greek plan is that they will be deported back to their home countries. elizabeth warren has ended her 2020 before the white house the massachusetts senator was considered a front runner for the democratic nomination but failed to win a single state during the primaries and she lost her home state to rival joe biden or straw leaves 3 candidates in the race biden and bernie sanders are the front runners. i will not be running for president in 2020 but i
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guarantee you i will stay in the fight for hard working folks across this country have gotten shorting to the staff over and over that's been the fight of my life and it will continue to be so. arnie sanders is hoping warren supporters will embrace his campaign today is a difficult day because sort of a war zone for the war and for some 20 years. and she is very focused very disciplined very hard working. and tonight you know i would simply say to her supporters out there of all of whom there are millions of we are opening the door to you we'd love you to come on board. together i think we can win this primary process together we can defeat. the most dangerous president in the modern history of america have a client has more on warren's announcement. when she didn't win any of the early
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contests there was no longer a viable path for her to get the domination so she came out and spoke to reporters in what seemed to be the alley behind her house with her husband her dog and she said at the beginning of this whole race that she was told that there were just 2 lanes one for progressives that bernie sanders had and one for moderates which joe biden was leading and she said i didn't believe that but i guess it was wrong because that's where the race is now she was very elegant as she spoke to reporters about the disappointment of trying to run this race she was asked about sexism if it played a part she said that's a trap question if i say yes i'm whining if i say no then all the women in the world say what are you talking about and that was the part that she really seemed to get choked up about is when she talked about these things that she would do with little girls at her rallies because she could be famous for herself in line she wouldn't leave until everyone who got a selfie with her wanted to. everyone wanted to selfie got one and with that little girl she would mill down and she would give a pinky promise and say i'm running for president because that's what girls do and
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then she said she did the pinky promise of that they would always remember it and that seemed to be a really hard thing for her to do admit she was walking away from a court and india's capital new delhi has ordered 4 men convicted of the 2012 gang rape and murder of a woman to be executed later this month the men had filed several appeal since their conviction but they were rejected by the president as a crime involving a physiotherapy student on a bus in new delhi triggered widespread protests it tack lead to tougher laws against sexual violence including the death penalty. and india's capital balance have been made homeless after the recent violence over a controversial citizenship law more than 50 people have been killed in fighting between muslim groups who oppose the law and hindus many homes were set on fire was a problem has spoken to some of those who've been displaced for her for the last 10 days after fleeing their home with their 6 children robina and early her son have returned to see what's left of it robina says they fled when they saw groups of men
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setting houses on fire and the most awful bad neighborhood could to make them out of nothing of ours as we just took our children and ran for our lives. to. the family is one of at least 1700 that have been displaced in northeast delhi. about their moderates or i don't know how my children will continue these studies everything we have worked for is destroyed i just want all of this to be are over and to start a new life. robina and her family have been staying with relatives others are taking shelter at this nearby relief camp that's been set up by student and civil society groups around 500 people are staying here everyone has a story including these cousins alfie and upset oh my when we were running away they were throwing stones and that's when i got hurt. on the brink many shops we
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were watching from the roof of the house. even burnt to a mosque. the only a muster the neighborhood of shivah heart is one of at least 4 mosques that were destroyed. the violence began on february 23rd when fighting started between hindus and muslims protesting against the citizenship law that critics say discriminates against muslims saw. that led to violence from both communities a fact finding team says muslim suffered disproportionately all of them how. the building. houses. delhi police have arrested 1600 people but the families of those killed or injured said they want politicians to be held to account. for
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a few hours before the violence started on february 23rd cup in mishra a member of the ruling party said his supporters would take matters into their own hands unless those protesting against the citizenship cleared the streets mishra didn't respond to a request for an interview. the delhi government has given compensation to those affected by the violence but many have lost their loved ones or their livelihoods because of their religion say it won't take more than money for them to feel safe again elizabeth pran al jazeera. and they are one of the best pollination culture and instantly recognizable the easter island statues are 4 metres tall and weigh 14 times each which makes it all the more surprising that somebody drove a truck into why it is of course has angered many locals who believe the statues carry the spirits of the island's ancestors the driver is an easter island resident
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and is in custody about a 1000 of the statues dot the pacific island which is 4000 kilometers off the coast of chile. and we shall carry these are the headlines on al-jazeera a cease fire and serious adlib problems has come into effect the breakthrough was reached after 6 hours of negotiations between russia's president vladimir putin and turkey's leader or to type or to want in moscow for the 2 back opposing sides and conflict japan's prime minister shinzo of a says all visitors from china and south korea will have to undergo 2 weeks of coron chain to to their coronavirus south korea's protesting the move which it says is excessive and extremely credible rob mcbride has the latest from seoul a real sense of anger here at this move by japan seemed to come out of the blue people here are saying look there was absolutely no consultation about this before
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this decision was taken we know that south korea has a very complicated relationship with japan most of last year the 2 countries were locked in a diplomatic spat of that spilled over into a trade dispute and both countries have been making moves in recent times to try to build bridges and this seems to threaten to undo all of that once more a number of new infections have risen significantly in parts of europe more deaths are reported in italy the netherlands france and the u.k. on thursday several public events have been canceled and schools in italy are closed for at least 10 days elizabeth warren has ended her 2020 bid for the white house the massachusetts senator was considered a front runner for the democratic nomination but failed to win a single state during the primaries according to india's capital new delhi has ordered 4 men convicted of the 2012 game rape and murder of a woman to be executed later this month the man had filed a several appeal since their conviction but they were rejected by the president the
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crime against a student on a bus in new delhi triggered widespread protests. and the best pollination culture an instantly recognizable easter island statues are 4 meters tall the way 14 tons each which makes it all the more surprising that somebody drove a truck into one this is angered many locals who believe the statues carry the spirits of the island's ancestors the driver who is an easter island resident is and police custody about a 1000 at the statue's dot the pacific island which is 4000 kilometers off the coast of chile there are the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera more news throughout the day in the meantime we're going to hand it over to women make science. al-jazeera well it's remarkable refugee journey from the treacherous. emmanuel. child soldiers.
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