part of the world people pay attention to you know he was very good. to the world from here. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm tim that this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes 100000 corona virus infections and counting the outbreak reaches a warring new milestone driven by new cases outside china. in the u.s. the national god brings coronavirus testing kits to passengers were stranded on a cruise ship off the coast of california. gunman killed 30 people at a ceremony in kabul attended by some of afghanistan's leaders. and a series of attacks across zambia sponsored violent reprisals now the president

blames community leaders for the breakfast. and then scores steph curry has made his long awaited return to the n.b.a. he scored 23 points for the golden state warriors in his 1st game in 4 months. and we begin this news hour with the latest on the corona virus outbreak which is forcing people around the world to drastically change the way they live travel restrictions are being tightened millions of students are off school and the global economy is feeling the pinch now all of those developments in a moment but 1st let's take a look at this global picture covered 19 as the virus is officially known is being tracked by johns hopkins university in the u.s. take a look at this this is how it's being done so you can see there in the red this one huh. $100330.00 cases that have now been confirmed if we come over here we can see

the total death toll as it stands $3408.00 and if we look over the we can see in the green 55694 cases of people who have recovered now this information is aggregate it's information that's coming from places like the world health organization from twitter from media reports and of course from official sources health authorities around the world it is not including the mild cases that we haven't heard about that we haven't had confirmed yet so it does stand to reason that that number the number of people who have totally recovered could be much higher so we are of course following developments around the world for you this mike hanna is live for us in washington d.c. as the u.s. tries to contain the spread of the virus on both coasts but we begin with john holl who is live for us in london where more than 160 cases have been confirmed in the u.k. joining just bring us up to speed those numbers are rising and the prime minister

is warning of more disruption. yes britain's outbreak certainly growing to a 2nd fatality reported on friday thought to be connected not yet confirmed but thought to be connected to corona virus the government has indicated that it will very soon be stepping up a gear shift from the sort of 1st phase response of pure containment efforts to delaying trying to delay the full onset of the peak period of this virus outbreak until after the flu season when hospital beds there soon will be more available the national health service better able to cope some of the measures that might be on the table school closures which would have happened elsewhere of course as we know banning public events sport sporting fixtures and so on we have got an accurate picture of exactly what they plan to do we may know that in the early part of next week elsewhere across the e.u. the numbers growing rapidly in germany catching up quickly with italy still the

worst affected of course 148 fatalities in italy the latest number we have in france a big jump in the last 24 hours of 200 cases up to 577 cases there are 2 more fatalities taking the toll in france to 9 emmanuel macron the president popped up at a retirement home in paris on friday telling people on television to resist as much as they can visiting their elderly relatives who are of course the most vulnerable subset of the population to the effects of corona virus so anxiety spreading fast across europe as the virus itself is the e.u. trying to come up with some sort of coordinated response among its 27 members that's been lacking so far health ministers were meeting in brussels earlier trying to do that they came away with one another smaller nations accusing the larger ones france germany and italy of acting in their own self interest the health minister of belgium accusing them of actions not in the spirit of the e.u.

for hoarding their supplies of personal protection equipment masks goggles and gloves which are in short supply france's requisitioned all of them for use by the health authorities and germany has altogether banned the export of all of its supplies. thanks for that john how they're live from london with the u.s. president has signed a bill providing 8000000000 dollars in emergency funding to tackle the coronavirus it has more than 200 cases and 13 states and at least 12 americans have died the coast guard has delivered testing kits to a cruise ship more off the coast of san francisco dozens of people on the say on the ship have been sick. we do have a situation where we have this massive ship with 5000 people who we have to make a decision you know it's a big decision because we have very low numbers compared to. major countries throughout the world the numbers are lower than just about anybody because we've

been very strong in the borders but when you have a ship with a lot of americans on it it's got 5000 people on a massive ship and you know who want to come in so we have to make a decision working with the governor of california. mike hanna is live for us in washington d.c. and joins us now mike just tell us what's the latest in terms of this cruise ship in these people who are stranded well they have already been testing kits to livered to the cruise ship in the course of the day not enough though it would appear the testing is continuing on that ship more test kits will be delivered in the course of the state just to ascertain exactly how widely spread the virus is on this particular ship a number of cases have been confirmed a number of passengers are reported to have self quarantined their remaining in their cabins but a full picture of how extensive the virus is on this cruise ship will only probably emerge within the next 24 hours when the testing has been completed and processed

my cat as we've been reported reporting billions of dollars is being released to try and tackle the corona virus what will that do to quell people's anxieties about whether the u.s. is prepared to deal with this outbreak. well congress acted surprisingly quickly and unusually on a bipartisan basis to pass this bill which president trump within the last hour has now signed into law it's $8200000000.00 in total now the bulk of that some $3000000000.00 will go to research to continue attempts to try and develop a vaccine another son $2000000000.00 will go to directly to the federal agencies that are directly in the forefront of combating this disease it is a sign that congress certainly is taking this exceedingly seriously very very quick movement in congress to get this bill passed the funds very much needed but it must

be noticed that the health secretary alex azhar who was with president trump at the signing of the bull the course of the morning denies that there is any shortage of test kits despite there being repeated reports that the administration has been caught very short because of its slow response in terms of providing test kits to all u.s. citizens but the health secretary insists that there are enough kits to requires it so the situation as far as the administration is concerned is that it's dealing admirably with combating the virus not necessarily wide public opinion who have noted a delay and certainly a degree of mixed messages in how the administration is reacting to the crisis mike hammer across developments in the u.s. thank you. the crowd a virus is causing concern well beyond the health sector to terrorism the economy and global diplomacy are all feeling the impact egypt has detected 12 new cases all workers on

a nile cruise but with already say they tested positive without showing any symptoms they think a taiwanese tourist who'd been in the u.s. was the cause on the markets global stocks and the price of oil tumbled again on friday several asian indices fell by more than 2 percent airline and travel stocks are among the worst hit and as cases spread further the diplomatic fallout is also growing south korea is ending visa free travel to japanese citizens after tokyo introduced strict quarantine measures targeting south koreans a bribe reports now from salt. in the sometimes strained relations between japan and south korea the corona virus outbreak has exposed the animosity that exists below the surface south korea says it wasn't consulted before japanese prime minister shinzo abbe announced the new measures local common new visitors from both china and south korea will be required to be quarantined for 2 weeks at a location designated by the quarantine director and asked that they refrain from

using public transportation in the country. that brought a swift response from seoul the japanese ambassador was summoned for an official reprimand. them for getting that from we find this very regrettable and urged the japanese government to withdraw such an excessive and reasonable measure immediately our government will devise a proper counter measure against japan's measures opponents in south korea accuse the japanese government of trying to deflect criticism of its handling of the corona virus outbreak in particular the attempted quarantining of a cruise ship that left hundreds of passengers sick and. while criticizing japan's efforts south korea has been quick to show the scale and transparency of its own response which is one international praise testing on an industrial scale means thousands of people are being checked with the virus every day. on south

korea has been touted as an outstanding example of releasing information in a transparent and rapid manner in that sense i believe that japan's move to not fully take into account our central and local governments efforts. the growing dispute between 2 leading countries in the fight against this global health emergency is worrying for the international community the 2 sides have long disagreed over trade and the legacy of the 2nd world war more than 100 countries now have travel restrictions on people arriving from south korea but unlike many of them japan is a vital trading partner this quarantine measure will cause further economic pain and there's a lingering suspicion here that politics not public health is the motivation behind it robert bright al-jazeera so the palestinian authority has declared a state of emergency in the occupied west bank of the coronavirus 7 people there

have tested positive the israeli army has sealed off the city of bethlehem and palestinian officials have ordered the church of the nativity to close it has more from the occupied west bank. bethlehem had its best tourist season on record last year now all reservations are being canceled many people believe the city to be where jesus was born and it draws tourists from around the world but just weeks before easter several posting in workers at the hotel have tested positive for the corona virus and the israeli military has shot bethlehem off stopping people coming in or out. al-jazeera reach some of those stuck inside can you tell us a bit more about the situation in bethlehem where you want to be i'm asked. because you know you're given a. study. on.

palestine's may interest attraction is the church of the nativity believed by many to be the birthplace of jesus it's also been closed off by the palestinian tourism ministry come on to my talking to mr bennett on the consent that then and yesterday the church was sterilized and clean so that when people come back after 14 days everything will be safe we're taking precautions for the health of the people so of course this shouldn't be any panic the main reason we're doing this is because the bar spreads fast so we need to protect the people and keep them safe the palestinian authority has also shut down the occupied west bank for a month in an attempt to contain the spread of the virus schools and public spaces and also been closed conferences and other public events counselled and people's movements between city limited to only those that are strictly necessary in the city of jericho people protested against the government decision to treat all infected patients in a center there they blocked roads and called on the government to keep people who

are ill where they already are this void officials telling them to stay calling some people are stocking up on food water and cleaning supplies out of fear that this shutdown will go on for some time some say they're starting to panic is a very male disease the occupied west bank. plenty more ahead on the news on clearing syrians who fled if there are among refugees who say they feel like political stock and on the wanted on the news but it's. in sports and. pick test event with a difference in head of the tokyo game submit. a tense calm is logically holding in series if the province after a cease fire came into effect presidents read to watch and that about pollution agreed to the deal during 6 hours of talks in moscow on thursday their favorite

ports of sporadic fighting in southern parts of the province between syrian government forces and opposition groups now in amman that will cross turn it on screen name who is standing by on turkey for the greece she'll have more an impact on refugees 1st so let's go out. who's live for us and on talk of hashem so what's the latest there on the ground the cease fire is for the most part holding. yes scheme it is holding across the northern western province of it live from areas neighboring concert horn more dick all the way towards set up these have been flashpoints over the last year over the hours just before the cease fire was declared because the rebels were hoping that. with the backing of turkey they would be able to regain those areas on matters and moment more work and the

strategic city of set up that didn't happen in this explains their frustration over the terms of the agreement signed between turkey and russia but took it says in general this is this was a good agreement because it will protect the borders it will protect the turkish army operating in there the it will pave the way for the resettlement of the hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced so is the start of the syrian government's offensive in december and it will also be the way for more cooperation with the joint patrols between the russians and the turks in the in 2 weeks from now on both sides of the highway in 4 but then we have to wait and see to what to what level can the turks and the russians bring their corporation as far as it live is concerned that would be indicative of whether this is fire will continue to hold or will collapse the 2 parties have signed is it the bass of those

deals collapse when the syrian army decided it was about time to move forward to retake the strategic city of idlib because it is the rebels' last major stronghold in syria i think that that passion about oh there live from unpacking thank you. well syrians from an ad lib are among tens of thousands of people who are trying to cross from turkey into the e.u. they're trying to enter through greece and bulk area but say they've been met by violence rubber bullets and tear gas he says has deployed 1000 police officers to the border area to stop refugees and migrants from being pushed back that's a good name is live for us and there and i so what's the latest there are people still stuck has there been any movement. when desperation commingled with security forces from 2 countries along a border trouble is bound to follow earlier today the greek police fired

a water cannon to disperse a crowd that was pushing up against a fence trying to get into greece this is a pattern we've seen over the last 4 or 5 days in response turkey police fired tear gas now a greek government official is accusing the turkish government of orchestrating attacks by drone to provide cover so people can sneak into greece and turkey is saying that it simply responding with tear gas when greek fires tear gas at vulnerable people it's been a week since turkey opened its borders and we have spoken to so many people in the last week there was initially a lot of optimism there is now hope that is diminishing as they confront many obstacles and people are telling us despite the obstacles look behind me at all these people who are still here they are going to continue their quest to get to western europe. 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 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 i must live on my life here or in the city of course in this situation there's no law and i sort of another i mean i think to go out from city because it was a pretty 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 just think it was not over we want 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 special police forces are deploying 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 get it militant anger limit. we will not provide an opportunity for the maltreatment of people there i would like to express that we have 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 law and. 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 knees with a rubber bullet and beat him. women are tired men are tired we're all tired of the please open the gate as news or bill as these refugees are there more anguished about their loved ones back in live at least in turkey they have found a refuge from a 9 year war in syria refugees say at 3 o'clock this morning the turkish police moved into that encampment to clear it they fired tear gas and beat people who didn't comply refugees say they were told you have one of 2 options go to the border or is stumble thank for that the task and i am a live from. the taliban has denied responsibility for killing 30 people in the afghan capital kabul the head of the country's peace council was giving

a speech when shots were fired as chief executive of the law was there but he escaped on the 1st major attack since the taliban find a deal with the u.s. to reduce violence of the on that have made isn't combo she explains who could be behind the attack. within half an hour the taliban spokesperson here in afghanistan treated that the taliban had nothing to do with this attack now i think that was so quick in doing so because such an attack would be a clear violation of the agreement carried out between the us and the taliban and was signed in doha on saturday it would be a week but remains a question of who is then behind that attack so far no claims of responsibility it could be any of the groups operating in the country could be i so it could be even splinter groups from the taliban they were commanders and fighters who were not happy with the deal signed with the united states and some of them have actually

sworn allegiance to isolate or are groups it could be anyone at this stage but i think what this attack really underlines is that you know within that agreement this is the withdrawal of all foreign forces from the country over the last 14 months that would leave afghan security forces. own to quell such attacks and how we have seen today how complicated that is how long it took and how many reinforcement needs to be needed to be sent there so i think that's one aspect of the agreement that really underlines that the afghan security forces will be left in a very fragile situation there's been an explosion outside the u.s. embassy into new zealand's capital tunis reports say that it was 2 suicide bombings they said one person was killed in the attack several others were injured including at least 4 security employees. zambian president has

confirmed that more than 50 people have been killed in violence since december during an address to parliament he blamed some community linked is for inciting the killings the unrest follows a series of attacks in which gangs used poisonous gas to target their victims making them unconscious last month the army was deployed after protests across the country demanding justice. his misgivings of his interview. with mosul and the 2 women and. we have equally with this list reactions from citizens for these killings. for me to miller isn't sure how this book she reports many believe the attacks are connected to ritual killings . it really is a stranger vent that has really caused the police to be concerned in that it seems as if they are gangs going around parts of zambia and these attacks have spread

using a poisonous gas or some sort of chemical gas which police haven't identified but using that gas in public places gould's and the homes to cause people to lose consciousness become dizzy and while police haven't established a clear motive speculation in zambia is that these attacks appear to be connected to what people are saying a ritual killings where the reason these gangs are attacking these public spaces and attacking people is because they want to mobilize them perhaps to attack them for their body parts for ritual killings now the police have said they are investigating the army is also being deployed to certain areas in zambia to ensure that they're kept safe and there aren't any further attacks but what's happened is that people they have taken matters into their own hands and have been a number of a violent mob just as attacks against people suspected to be responsible for these chemical gas attacks. still to come here on al jazeera during

a lesson from the past centuries of foreign influence leads libyans worried they'll be no solution to the current conflict. we need the specialist iraq in place i was hunting down the remaining i saw him and tell me why their job has become even more difficult. and for the u.s. a world cup winning team and getting all ahead of them and the. hello and welcome back. wind blowing down through the gulf region for the best part of 2 weeks without we see a change taking place now the wind direction is changing around so we're getting a warmer suddenly when developing the temperatures and should be a lovely 26 degrees on saturday with just a light breeze elsewhere we've got some fine conditions down through the red sea

but the wind i think will increase during the course of stuff they and through into sunday we further north towards iraq we've got a circulation of low pressure to give a fair bit of lifted dust at times and the threat of some showers which will extend across into iran also moving through into sunday those showers largely die away and that circulation of low pressure should relax so things are improving generally pretty hot and you notice at 37 degrees as the northern and central parts of africa quite disturbed temperatures looking pretty disappointed just 17 degrees for tripoli and fairly strong winds still expected as we head down into southern portions of africa we've got this circulation of low pressure just off the coast of madagascar so some heavy showers are likely here and those will gradually increase so for antananarivo to well see some heavy downpours developing during the course of the day but across into south africa it's looking dr fine a bright day and here expecting a high of 29. once

hosni mubarak became president so began a story of conflict and isolation on one side a wife and son their sights set on succession. present the crease in the distance from the egyptian people when his beloved grandson died. but then the flames ignited in tunisia exploded in egypt everything changed. 2 of the family. on charging the cost why the noisy fed rate cut just isn't good enough to save the global economy from the impact of the fast spreading coronavirus scientists trace to find a vaccine to stop the epidemic plus the environmental damage of drilling for oil in the republic of congo counting the cost on al-jazeera. understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the. country take it we'll bring you the news

and current affairs that matter to you. the. viewer. you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. president has signed a bill providing $8000000000.00 in emergency funding to fight the coronavirus worldwide cases have now surpassed 100000. a tense calm has largely holding in syria's if the province after a cease fire came into effect the presidents of turkey and russia signed the deal on thursday. at least 30 people have been killed in afghanistan during a political ceremony in kabul chief executive of the abdullah escaped unharmed the

taliban is denying responsibility. let's go back now to our top story the corona virus outbreak thousands of people suspected of having the corona virus have been asked to stay in quarantine the hope is that isolation can help stop the disease from going viral while they wait much of the content they're sharing online has gone viral instead they're having reports. it's a waiting game carl goldman has been in court and teen at a hospital in the u.s. since leaving the diamond princess cruise ship in japan he has documented his journey on his blog his most popular post was when he announced that he had tested positive for the corona virus it's been viewed more than $42000.00 times were sent to him was 3 here and then hit for only about 8 hours later if you're free fever after that i was strange feeling well for church i think it's definitely do you fight ready to go into politics for this they were pumping me up with the trend of

catering i've been through every color of the rainbow catering to like myself hydrated today his doctor handed him yet another post it note the plus sign tells him he tested positive for corona again it's been more than 30 days carl's wife was recently released from corn teen even though she tested negative he says she was threatened when she returned home the spread of corona virus has also led to racist attacks earlier this week jonathan mock a student from singapore was being in london on facebook he said he remembered them yelling something about the coronavirus before punching him in the face. another headline tells the story of a chinese woman attacked in the netherlands. in vietnam the government is taking a social approach to tackling the virus. this video went viral and has been turned into a popular dance on the social platform take time. the

world health organization lists hand-washing as the number one way to stop the respiratory illness from spreading quarantine is another. look at the government is telling people basically not to go anywhere actually you know my yeah i mean we're basically sort of locked in our house i mean my you know my job has been i'm a college professor i'm not teaching right now they just they just cancel class the next 2 weeks my kids are in kindergarten that's also been canceled so we're basically just stuck in the house for those in corn teen the psychological impact can take a toll. mentally and emotionally draining. to learn to walk in to getting saying and trying not to get lusting over you know it's and so it's ok to. fire us and it's been a lot of. 5 days and it's not possible to stay and

play as far. as for karl he'll have to stay in quarantine until he recovers and gets a note from his doctor that clears him to go home leah harding al-jazeera. well joining us now is that is dr patrick tang is the division chief of pathology sciences at sitra medicine thank you so much for coming into the studio really good to talk to you so i know you were involved in the saas outbreak in dealing with that when that 1st happened and also in 2009 when the swine flu 1st happened and i do want to talk about the pathology of this virus and all of that food i want to ask you the questions that i think people at home you know there's so much panic and fear out there people at home don't know what to think trying to separate fact from fiction supposing we can just go through a few of those questions this 1st off a lot of people are saying this is no worse than the normal flu you know we shouldn't have this panic it's unwarranted what do you think is that a fair comparison to make between the seasonal flu and corona virus many people

have compared seasonal flu to this new coronavirus and and you know for this new coronavirus it is at least as deadly as seasonal influenza it's probably a very bad seasonal flu so we'll kill about at least point one percent of the people that infect so so we definitely need to be concerned about the virus but whether we need to be panicked about it would be a different story we have the numbers seem to be very unwise wildly and it depends on who you talk to the world health organization said the other day the death toll could be as high as 73.4 percent but obviously they have so much information that they don't have you around mild cases so when do you think we'll start to get a clearer picture about just how daily this actually is i think is the number of cases rises in different countries we'll get a better sense of what the true case fatality rate is i think a lot of the numbers come from china right now and because they started there they

were weren't quite prepared they didn't their health care system was overwhelmed so their case retaliatory in a province is very high it was 45 percent so that that's not what we're seeing in the rest of china. and that's not what we're seeing in other developed countries such as south korea which has had many cases but their health care system was ready for it what is the best case scenario about how you see this playing out this is what you see is the possible worst case scenario so at this point we've so many countries infected and many places of communities spread it's highly unlikely that we'll be able to contain this fires with the tools that we have right now the tools that we have are quite crude things they travel bans and quarantines and things like that we don't have good specific medications against the virus and we don't have a back seen against it so it's quite likely that this virus will last at least until next year until we have new tools to help us combat it is the whole world going to

get this virus is you know i see things online people talking you know that it's possible this may spread across the whole world you know there was the chief medical officer in the u.k. was saying 80 percent of brits could could could potentially get this virus should we be preparing for that kind of eventuality so all of these are estimates and estimates are just estimates so it's quite possible that many of us will become infected with the virus but the things where no one will learn about the virus and what we're hoping for is that we don't all get sick at the same time because the problem is too many people get sick in the same region at the same time that would overwhelm the health care system and then we would have a situation like they had in who a province so in so it's important that all the countries prepare their systems and infrastructure of for a large number of people becoming infected and have a plan for it so is that why we're seeing still these if it's about containment

even though as you say most people are agreeing this you know we're pasta. those if it so that we can stagger the amount of people who are turning up the hospital at the same time so we don't overwhelm health systems exactly. exactly that's true i think it's a combination of containment and trying to slow down the spread of the virus so many of the measures that we're taking. things like restricting travel quarantining people those are things that slow down the spread of the virus and in some other countries gone even further to you know shut down mass gatherings and even close schools. also people are stockpiling things we've had some. we've had a lot of that are reports out of place like australia people buying all of the toilet paper they can find should we be stockpiling things like food or water all medical supplies i think it's a normal human reaction to. do these irrational behaviors when we're fearful that

they are and i have a view that i didn't yes there's no reason to stop toilet paper there might have been some fears in hong kong because the people there initially when they stockpiled toilet paper was because the supply chain came from china and they're worried that if all the factories shut down in china those people wouldn't have toilet paper and maybe this fear spread to other places around the world and that stockpiling toilet paper would definitely not be warranted just finally how effective are these small measures that we're seeing advertised from various authorities about how to stop yourself from getting out of same things like don't use cash you know avoid using cash where you can don't touch buttons in elevators use your elbow don't touch door handles i mean how effective are those things or what things should people be doing to to stop themselves from getting sick those are all little common sense things that we should always be practicing we should always be. aware of what we're touching and where we put our hands and because this

is usually the way that we transfer a lot of germs to our bodies and often we touch our faces so it's of that sort of natural way for us to acquire infections so so i think all of these little measures added together everybody practiced them and we could trust that everybody else was doing the right thing then we can slow down the spread of the virus really good to get your analysis thank you so much for that that is patrick tang there the division chief of pathology sciences at citron medicine thank you. now ancient powers once completed control of vast areas of the mediterranean shores where huge strategic importance to empire is. throughout history and a style stratford reports from one of its most historic sites not much has changed . many say there are ghosts among the ruins of leptis magna from around $19080.00 under the roman emperor septimius severus it became the wealthiest city in north africa only alexandria rivaled it in splendid power. repeatedly attacked

by other invading armies and indigenous tribes by the time of the arab conquest around 650 the city had been virtually abandoned foreign powers continue to compete for control in libya it was done in a car that the couple this place represents so much of our heritage that the war continues there will be more destruction and fighting could go to all cities will further affect tourism areas residential areas and more people will be displaced it's a very complicated situation. many empires and their armies have fought for control of leptis magna and what became libya over the millennia foreign powers have long been aware of the strategic importance of the mediterranean sea southern scholz there are many people in libya that say ending this need a decade long conflict is being complicated because of the sheer number of

countries involved support for. comes from countries including the u.a.e. egypt and russia. hundreds of civilians have been killed since have to launch the military offensive against the un backed government in tripoli in april. after his allies say their fight is against terrorism the few foreign governments analysts all military commanders believe them and many blame the u.a.e. and say russia wants greater influence in the southern mediterranean and africa and also wants to use it to weaken the nato alliance by the u.a.e. is behind all the wars in the region if libya stands on its feet the u.a.e. will lose its status in the region they are worried about the dominance of their ports like. that's why they are trying to sabotage all the planes to make libya prosper the u.n. says that more than 150000 people have been forced to flee the fighting turkey signed a maritime agreement with the un backed government in november critics say could

give ankara an unfair advantage over rights to mediterranean oil and gas drilling turkey says it has the right to send military advisers and pro turkey syrian fighters to help defend tripoli because of a security agreement it signed with the government earlier this week pro have to media announced the opening of what it describes as an embassy in damascus fueling speculation that fighters loyal to bashar al assad's regime are coming to libya to fight on behalf of off the conflict has kept foreign tourists away from the spectacular ancient ruins of leptis magna for years these ancient marble pillars a perhaps a symbol of the foreign armies that throughout history have fought for control of this resource rich country on the mediterranean coast a battle that continues today john strafford al-jazeera leptis magna libya.

dozens of muslim including some children have been charged with not having identity documents they're among many who have tried to flee conflicts torn rakhine state. in the 1st 2 months of this year alone more than $200.00 have been arrested for not having identification documents and for traveling illegally around 70 of those cases will be heard in they grew on the outskirts of yang gone 12 were brought to court on friday and yet my government does not consider the rohingya as citizens even though many of them have lived in this country for generations and they face increasing government restrictions keep claiming like ok be controllable freely there's no restriction are all but in reality in the government produces the real meat and it is extremely restricted rights advocate on likely any of the remaining go will be acquitted and they could face the sentence

a lot to 2 years in prison and could be. sold just why we escaped they were hanged mainly muslim minority who live in rakhine and it was in the northern part of the state where the myanmar military launched a brutal crackdown in 2017 driving nearly 3 quarters of a 1000000 into bangladesh the un has accused it of carrying out the campaign with genocidal intent the myanmar government denies and says it was a do the job summit response to attacks carried out by working right. now the situation that is even worse off the fighting between the myanmar military and the our economy intensified sonic january last year they are not on the top you say they're fighting for more autonomy on behalf of the rakhine and not the ethnic minority mainly buddhists who make up the majority in rakhine state the rohingya who already live under apartheid like conditions without access to public

health care education are being caught in the crossfire and many are desperate to escape rights workers fear that many will turn to human traffickers now over the years there have been many attempts by group. to bring it to my boat on dangerous journey didn't come to brussels boats that capsized people have drowned some are taken over land routes to thailand and into malaysia they have been instances where they were kept in jungle camps along the border until their friends or relatives could pay a ransom many died of disease and starvation now even when they managed to escape myanmar rights to say many are at risk of. some sold into the sex trade or as indentured labor. for the working got there is no easy choice they can choose to stay and face persecution or the threat of more violence or they can try to escape but risking their lives. the recent crisis between washington and tehran could have a long term impact on neighboring iraq and the effort to root out remaining arsal

fighters iraqi security forces are continuing to fight on their own without a valuable air support simona fault went to nineveh province that's where she met swat team members have been searching for us all fisons in the south of mosul. early morning in mosul these swat team members get a final briefing before they set out to look for ice and fighters. we a company of the specialist police unit as it heads into the countryside in iraq of a province. forced out of 2017 by iraqi troops of support from the u.s. led coalition and the iraqi government announced its territorial defeat shortly after but thousands of fighters have retreated into rural areas where security forces are spread thin and where these offer plenty of opportunities to hide.

information that there is a cave that is being members as a shelter to carry out attacks on nearby villages. we are only hundreds of meters away from the target but the vehicle struggle in this difficult terrain and so colonel rounds men are forced to advance on foot but as they approach the cave they are surprised to find the entrance blocked off probably the result of a recent airstrike. well the unit needs a surveillance and supports from the air until recently that was provided by the american led coalition in iraq but since tensions between the us and iran escalated earlier this year those activities have largely come to a halt. for 2 months the operations with the coalition have stopped as far as are team is concerned in the past we had training logistics and air support but since

the beginning of 2020 that support has stopped and we are waiting for orders in the interior ministry to resume cooperation. that corporation is now part of a broader dispute over the future of american military presence in iraq in response to an american strike near baghdad airport that killed iranian general qassim silly money and a senior iraqi officer iraq's prime minister and parliament have asked foreign troops to leave the negotiations are ongoing but for now u.s. officials say they only received a few requests for airstrikes and have reduced their movements outside of their basis before you know our our mission here was you know just in a company what we've seen during this operation pause actually kompany go away. but the iraqis didn't stop they kept moving they kept rolling they deployed their forces in the field and continued to fight the momentum against isis that's that's

the best thing that could have come out of all this but some iraqis fighting isis resurgence see things differently coalition officials say there's been a lack of demand for their assistance because iraqi security forces have picked up the slack conducting missions like these on their own but there's little doubt that the absence of steady called mission involvement is being felt on the ground several iraqi officers told us that they need american support if they're to fight eisel effectively and both civilians and security officials say the fighters have taken advantage of us iran tensions to regroup as we will see in the 2nd part of this report. in iraq's name of a province. u.s. senator elizabeth warren has ended her bid for the white house she was once considered a frontrunner for the democratic nomination but failed to win a single state during the primaries she lost her home state of massachusetts to rival joe biden the withdrawal leaves 3 hopefuls in the race. i will not be running

for president in 20 but i guarantee i will stay in the fight for hard working folks across this country have gotten short end of the stick over and over that's been the fight of my life and it will continue to be so germany's and terry a minister says the threat of right wing extremism is not being taken seriously was to see how far is pushing for gun owners to undergo psychological tests germany's had a spate of attacks links to the far right and the most recent a gunman killed 9 people there frank us. still to come here on al-jazeera and spore defending n.b.a. champions the toronto raptors spoil step return to the game the sound us here with that story.

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oh. no not the thought has thought of thank you very much came while one of the biggest stars in basketball has made his long awaited return to the game 4 months injury layoff steph curry was back in action for the golden state warriors so mike has we'll. call it the moment golden state sounds have been dreaming of steph curry if fit together and back to producing magic on the court i the 2 time m.v.p. left town which was broken and kept him out of action for all months look to be fully he knows they're biased as the warriors faced n.b.a. champions toronto in his comeback match. the warriors have been lost without

curry and clayton who's missed the campaign because of injury which is without quality shooting like this last season's finalists have slipped to having the worst record in the n.b.a. defeasible. curry did with 9 of his 123 point attempts but when he delivered. he delivered big the 31 year old marking his or turn with 23 points it's kind of a cool moment. where you again just the excitement in the building and alice i reckon they will know it's expert curry's efforts weren't enough to get his team a rare win but his attorneys goldens they at least have good reason to be optimistic so while malik al-jazeera. well that went for toronto secured their spot in the playoffs the denver nuggets are on track to join them they secured and

narrowed suit point victory over the charlotte hornets on thursday sealing it with seconds left to getting the vital points the nuggets sits in the west. the u.s. is women's world cup winning team are looking good ahead of their shot at limpid gold maybe england in this she believes a cup in florida this was the 1st time the 2 sides had met this is last year's world cup final press and that probably annoyed that sport in the 2nd half but to give the u.s. a victory the win extends a team usa is on beaten one to 29 games. i mean to be honest everything this years of preparation for the olympics so. i mean for me personally obviously it's another opportunity to keep building this year i'm on a little bit slower bill than everybody else being much older than everybody else and having come a long way off last year but i felt like. i had a good performance all the way through qualifiers a man on the approaches scored

a stunning goal for japan in the early game against payne it wasn't enough to inspire when for the 2011 world champions spain went on to win the match 31. and you see united manager only going to isn't happy despite his team's progress into the quarterfinals of the f.a. cup united beat wayne rooney's darby county in the 5th round united's well cooled goalscorer is now a coach at the 2nd tier club rooney couldn't pull off a shock with so losing 3 nil united netspace at man city on sunday king city have had an extra day to prepare for. coming really why this is so there's a darby on somebody and we. got to play thursday nights what's what's the point in in the arts. that doesn't level the playing field it was the same when

we went to beat them last time as well to be fair but we played wednesday they played to stay so that's them 24 hours there and they're important so we've we've got to be good at recovering now or rugby says 6 nations championship has already felt the impact of a call in a virus to matches that have been postponed including such as this fixture between our linden italy in the end versus wells is going ahead though the economic counter will be england's last much of this campaign for now with their final fixture against italy set to be played later in the year england sit 2nd in the table behind france while wales all 4th having lost to all 3 matches it's going to be hugely contestable it's going to be holly chaotic and it's going to be physical and it's something that we look forward to and and we and we cherish and put on top of that we're playing at home and it's important for us to play well in front of a 00 fans all in pickle denies this insists the idea of cancelling this year's

games juicer coronavirus hasn't been discussed but all was not entirely normal at the latest test event in tokyo. and further hurt by one record for everything. from god rather than elite athletes to take in part the sports climbing a venue was tested out of by games officials no fans were in attendance either lympics are still on track to start a scheduled on july 24th. of course we'll have more later on then the fall of the koran a virus and how it's affecting the sport as well the finale had you back to camp thank you for that santa you can find much more on our web site get best bets on the top al jazeera dot com i'll be back in just a moment with more of the day's news stay with us.

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