the bold . claim. this is due to be a news live from berlin turkey gets drawn further into syria's civil war president everyone says the turkish military has quote neutralized dozens of syrian government troops in retaliation for a deadly attack on turkish forces meanwhile thousands of civilians are being forced to flee. also coming up to a new hospital built in just 10 days opens to cope with patients infected with the coronavirus in china but on the 1st day back after the extended lunar new year

china's stock market plummets. in an exclusive interview and gold us president tells t w he's going to take on president action against corruption. we now have got a chance for a change and this is the right time to do it. we asked why he failed to speak out earlier amid accusations that the former president's daughter stole hundreds of millions in public funds and. that celebrates the super bowl and the kansas city chiefs but what do the german sports fans say about the annual american spectacle. bowl. i'm sumi so much gonda it's good to have you with us. turkey's president russia pareto one says the

turkish military has quote neutralized dozens of syrian government troops in retaliation for an attack on turkish forces in syria it comes after a syrian attack killed 6 turkish soldiers in the province a syrian war monitor says at least 13 syrian troops were killed by turkey's retaliatory attacks turkey has had military observation posts and rebel held it live since 2017 they were set up under an agreement with russia and iran. president ever to want to scribe the syrian attack on turkish forces as vile and he said syria's ally russia had been told that it would not stand for any situation where it was prevented from responding to syrian assaults. the operation is underway at the moment. and around 40 points are now the constant targets about an operation will put us if.

according to initial indicators. to 35 syrians though on the other side you have been neutralized causes of the however the operation is not yet over and. for more on the story we can speak to our correspondent in istanbul dorian jones hi dorian what more can you tell us about this clash between turkish and syrian forces. well that's right this major retaliation by turkish forces followed the killing of 4 turkish soldiers and injuring of several of us it is an ongoing operation around 40 targets are being targeted by according to president heavy artillery and f. 16 fighter jets and it's an operation that is still continuing this confrontation has been growing fear in the region following this ongoing offensive by syrian regime forces in the last bastion stronghold of the rebel forces around

3000000 people are believed to be trapped there and there's this ongoing fence if it's been going in spite warnings by the fear of a confrontation between 2 neighboring countries over the syrian civil war is now a growing concern especially as this operation does appear to be still ongoing during we also heard president on warning russia to essentially stand aside here what is the rest risk of escalation. well it does appear at the moment i'm trying to be kind to contain this now moscow is a key backer of damascus it's jets have been supporting this ongoing offensive in italy but the same time it does have good relations with moscow has said is to neither the president's claims of using turkish jets in this offensive it says syrian air space is still under the control of russian forces on top of that it blamed on chris saying that these soldiers were killed because they didn't fail to

notify syrian forces of their movement that is tonight by ankara and i think that also crucially most who hasn't condemned this operation so far and i think behind the scenes they are trying to contain it we understand both sides do it the turkish and russian generals and military are having talks what those talks are it's unclear of moscow realizes that they need to be. a confrontation between turkey and syrian forces. have been cooperating in that corporation followed the downing of a russian jet by turkish jets in 2015 both sides realize they need to work together to contain this syrian civil war but as the end game does appear to be approaching in syria that balancing out for moscow is proving increasingly difficult. reporting from. good to talk to. well it lead province is home to some 3000000 people many of them displaced from other parts of syria in earlier waves of violence the united nations estimates that around 390000 syrians have been forced

to flee from the province over the last 2 months. hundreds reached the turkish border wall in just a day families fleeing the bombs falling on southern italy and aleppo many say their goal is. it's an act of desperation because the border is closed. russian warplanes bombed us we had nothing to ate we just want out of you away from this misery through turkey to europe. less than 50 kilometers away bitter fighting in northeastern aleppo islamist militias attack syrian government troops they strike back hard with russian support in the air and on the ground. the offensive by pro-government forces is moving forward against determined resistance in the south of syria's last rebel held bastion government forces made significant advances to strategically important town of murat newman is

under government control again. but it was a price according to the u.n. since mid december nearly 400000 people have fled to the turkish border including 200000 children. i left home with my children 3 girls and my boy here he was in the hospital after bombs hit us we hope the turkish president will help us and let us keep going to europe. turkey has reinforced its military presence and led and says it will continue to retaliate against attacks on its forces. let's get a round of now of some other stories making news around the world a man has been shot dead by police in the u.k. after a stabbing attack in the south london suburb of st police say the incident is terrorism related and the suspect had recently been released from prison on terrorism charges

emergency services say 3 people were wounded one critically. u.s. democratic presidential hopefuls are making their final push for votes ahead of monday's iowa caucuses democratic voters in the state will be the 1st to decide who should stand against republican donald trump in november's presidential election 11 candidates are competing for the nomination. in china concerns over the coronavirus have sent stocks into freefall share prices plunged by about 8 percent on the 1st day of trading after the lunar new year holiday china now says more than 360 people have died from the virus and that more than 700000 have been affected a huge hospital built in record time to treat patients is opening in the city of homs where the outbreak began experts are still trying to understand the virus but a patient in thailand has provided hope that a cocktail of drugs could be used to treat severe cases of the infection.

this patient's health took an unexpected turn for the better the 70 year old chinese woman came down with the corona virus which has already claimed hundreds of lives but the virus vanished from her body after doctors in thailand administered an unusual cure. this is the standard treatment that we've used with patients it's a mixture of anti hiv drugs and the flu drug which china used to cure mers patient the mixture of both treatment shows a vast improvement 48 hours after applying the treatment and the result turns negative. further tests will determine whether this cocktail will put an end to the corona virus epidemic china is struggling to contain the disease the army has flown almost 800 medical staff and 60 tons of supplies to woo han the city at the epicenter of the outbreak. after receiving the order

we immediately began to make arrangements for the mission carefully selecting cruise and coming out with 4 different flight plans considering the high risk of infection we also took measures to protect ourselves and provide a safe cabin space for. more than 300 people have died from the virus in china almost 15000 infections have been registered across the country. in one hand and the surrounding her bay province hospitals are being built in record time to absorb the strain on the health sector. outside who bane the government is desperate to slow the fire it is spread in a city a venue every household is limited to one shopping trip by person every 2 days. public transport is disinfected but next week millions of chinese will return to work on after an extended to noon a new year holiday to put such measures to the test. let's get the latest now with correspondent mike ts filling us in the beijing time

a ts the number of corona virus cases continues to rise in china do authorities there fear that this is going to continue to get worse before it gets better. well authorities come out every day to give us the newest numbers and each day the numbers look at little worse than the day before so i would expect them to expect that things are getting worse we do not know for how long things are going to get was what we are seeing now is mainly that the numbers in who will be a province in $100.00 itself are going up and they're growing at a faster pace than before outside of one. province we do not see the same acceleration off cases. what that means whether we are still in the period where people are not yet showing symptoms and it has already spread or whether these

drastic measures were able to contain the virus geographically we do not know yet. meanwhile a new hospital as we said has just been sinister in one hand how is that going to help and tackling the outbreak. the hospital is providing more than 1000 beds that badly needed in one what we have been hearing throughout the past few days is that one hospitals were not able to cope with the number of patients that showed up at their door was that people were . had no choice but to stay at home although they were severely ill and that hospitals had to turn people away that test kits were not sufficient so more capacity is definitely what the city needs other measures that one has announced today one is that it is going to confine infected people but who are not in hospitals to designate isolation zones we don't really have

a lot of information on what these zones look like and where they're going to be but the government has said that they're going to force people in there with the police if necessary that shows us that the situation in one is still very very severe and this outbreak has been having and massive economic impact on china as well tell us more about that until now we've been in the new year holidays the country is mostly shut down many shops are closed companies closed down for adoption halts so until now i would suggest that the impact might not be as big as in the coming weeks the holiday has already been extended you have said it before the stock markets have lost a lot of value everybody i think expects this through this epidemic to continue

and the. economy the economy to not to pick up anytime soon correspondent much has been a speaking to us from beijing thank you. well germany's health minister says the country's health care system is prepared for the coronavirus he and spawn says if the virus spreads the health care system would focus all its resources on containing the disease 124 germans were evacuated from to frankfurt on saturday 2 people on board were confirmed to be infected with the virus they are now in quarantine on a military base and the total number of cases in germany is 10. and one of the people who was evacuated was a german student who was living in china he is now in quarantine at that air base in southwestern germany yannick vice joins us hyaena good to see you 1st of all let us know how you're feeling well back and i think very well

that's good to hear we understand that you're in quarantine there at this military base tell us what life has been like there will of cause we are here isolated we have seen rooms so there is an outbreak if we leave our own 'd room we have to or must alter also to go outside to have some fresh air all the time we have where last there is a doctor but equal treatment of all time of year for us so there's no problem we were treated and have authorities kept you informed on what is going on as well. well of course we have some phone calls we have to prepare if there and we have no further information here right now. of course it was a very very short time for the people here to prepare everything and so i think it needs a few more days till that kind of routine is inside all the work you're done it

tells a little bit more about the evacuation itself because as we said you were one of around 100 people who were flown out of china and you weren't aware at the time the 2 people on that plane when you were being evacuated they were inspected is that right. i think it is right here it is only from the news because when we are in the air force and the airplane they wear some medical stuff around us everybody live there are plenty who are hostile all the time and the medical personnel but also all of the. person very very quickly. so the risk to get infected there was very very small close also after the flight we were right here in frankfurt we were transferred to the 1st responder area where the 1st check was made check and i think there was a sample sense that these 2 people and the virus that we've got here to the

military facility and yeah now we've years of course as their 1st day everybody was very tired of all the long flight it was very very stressful and now we're here and i think we all are going to everyone seems to be in good spirits are saying yeah nick that is good to hear i understand that before you were evacuated you were studying in rwanda what was life like there before the outbreak began well who is a very big city that has a population about 11000000 people and it was full of life you have streets there you have smalls everything was full of people and suddenly after the hope rake. her team messages applause this despair empty there were no people back at the streets. and it was very very strange but there was no panic

this is very important everybody was very science and could call but there was definitely no panic ok yannick lysis student to speaking to us there thank you so much for joining us here on. the left on. now the president of angola has told you his country is facing an unprecedented opportunity for change after corruption allegations against a former president's daughter billionaire isabel dos santos is accused of stealing hundreds of millions in public funds while heading the state run oil company in angola the allegations were published by a team of investigative journalists dos santos insists that she is the target of a smear campaign well davies adrienne creech sat down with and told us president and started by asking about rumors that dos santos is negotiating a deal to pay back part of the allegedly stolen money. as an informal source saying

from the. information is unfounded. but. we would like to make clear that there are no negotiations. who. and there will be no negotiations and there was an opportunity to do so that the very people who were involved in odds of corruption a benefit from a 6 month period of grace to return a sense that they took illegally out of the country versus. those who haven't used that chance would not be responsible for any consequences that may result and there's this this when. you know the documents that were leaked were quite clear do you want to see her behind bars moved from preferred not to. judicial matter and i'm not a judge of any of the documents indicates that some of the deals happened with the

knowledge sometimes on the orders of the former president for example presidential decrees to give undervalued lands to isabelle's companies why don't you go after the former president you must know what legislation what do you mean by that. could go to the former president for at least 5 years after they finish their term. but would you consider going after him after that time. it's the justice system not politicians in that indicts people. it's the justice system that investigates possible crime. the mission of politicians is to design policies ensuring that the justice system can be. within its competence is. the. president doesn't send people to cool open i wouldn't even have time for that there are many cases in the country. by the position that representatives are basically

saying the justice system is not as independent as you are saying that it is very well controlled by the government was a response to that. that may have been the case in the past that it's not today. today they have the absolute liberty to want it. that's the reason why there are so many trials with you but if you particularly related to corruption. of course now you served as the secretary general of the m.p.l. as a defense minister as well you knew the former president very well worked under him for a very long time why didn't you bring all these criticism up during that time. not . true and i've worked under president george. bush. we all did but if. he stayed in power for almost 40 years.

no one can say he will she was not part of the sisterhood but. if you don't but we were all part of the system. you are in a better position to correct what is wrong. and improve what is good. of those who know the system from within. then then you must have seen that is a very corrupt system because this is what the documents now show us and that's what even no investigations. it is precisely because i've seen these high levels of corruption. because i think that the situation should not continue. that we are fighting what we have seen for decades. that. it is. comfortable for us to leave things as they were before. would not be correct. we've now got

a chance for a change woman and this is the right time to do it when we know it demands a lot of courage and we face some resistance we would rather fight that resistance and leave things as they were. the president of angola speaking there with our correspondent adrienne creech. to sports now and the kansas city chiefs pulled off a late surge to win the super bowl for the 1st time in half a century the fans at home in kansas city went crazy when their team made a dramatic comeback in the 4th quarter overcoming a 10 point deficit to defeat sampras got 40 niners 31 to 20 and quarterback patrick the holmes was named the game's most valuable player becoming the youngest player ever to receive that honor at the age of just $24.00. all right ed became rich from the sports is here to bring us a little more background on all of this good to have you with us so how much of

a big deal is the super bowl here in germany well not to write in the pride of any of all u.s. viewers but it is of course far less a vacation. here in germany than it is across the pond the viewing figures are significantly lower than 100000000 people that were reported to have watched it in the u.s. on sunday but that's not to say that doesn't have a real following here in germany i think there's a sense that it is growing as a sport people are taking more of an interest in it these days not just in germany but around europe we've actually seen n.f.l. games being played at wembley stadium in london in recent years packed out crowds which would have been unthinkable i think 15 or even 10 years ago so it is growing around europe but i think one thing that would really help it grow in germany would be to have a german star in the league now there is a german mark who actually plays for the 40 niners who are in the super bowl yes that he didn't feature but if there was a player or kids adult novitsky right the basketball player who became a star for the dallas mavericks in the n.f.l. i think we'd really see a snowball in germany meanwhile we should say that there is actually an american

football league here in germany how does that compare to the n.f.l. there is it's the german football league to be confusing the d.f.l. which runs the soccer. but even though there is only i think you'd be hard hard pressed to find any americans for instance young american kids wandering around in a whole unicorns jersey but you easily find you know plenty of young germans in a new england patriots jersey for example so it's not as well known around the world of course but it is a big league with passionate fans they have the german bowl instead of the super bowl the new york alliance of braunschweiger the current champions of that for instance and they're also look at how much leagues actually have a friend who plays for the bird in rebels so i think there is a growing interest in not only watching american football so playing it here in germany as well so what do you think it is about american football or is there something about american football that germans don't understand or don't get why i think i think it's got a few issues the 1st it has to oust a lot of very traditional sports in germany they love football here formula one tennis handball which americans don't have as much interest in of course they're

the traditional sports of people grow up watching there's also a time difference issue a lot of the super bowl start at midnight. run until 4 in the morning a lot of people just you know don't want to stay out that like watching it and i also think there's a little bit of commercialization with the american league that doesn't sit well with germans you know $5600000.00 to show a 32nd ad during the super bowl the halftime shows an obscene political brawl cause we saw a trump and we saw a bloomberg putting up political brawl costs and i think a lot of german sports fans particularly football fans so pride themselves on the purity of the league you know they like the fact that there's no halftime shows and everybody you know takes very seriously not not too much advertising so i think there's a few obstacles to overcome but i certainly think it's on the rise in germany all right ed mcmahon rich from forth thank you very much thank you. you've been watching do you have your news are coming up next as our show global 3000 will take you to cuba to meet women who are fighting to lead a modern lifestyle their state it.

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