this is news coming to you live from berlin a dramatic escalation in syria turkey reprisals against president assad's forces up there more than 30 of its troops are killed in an air raid in the northwest development puts on the potential collision course with syria's backers in moscow also coming up south korea's rush to protect themselves against the coronavirus as officials reported another huge jump in case infections are increasing their faster than anywhere else. plus trillions of dollars of stock markets fueling fears

of a global recession as the corona virus spreads through more than 50 countries. hello i'm terry martin welcome to the program nato has scheduled emergency sessions today as tensions grow between turkey and the russian backed syrian government ankara is battling retaliation after forces killed at least 33 turkish soldiers in an airstrike in northwestern syria and it's calling for an international no fly zone to protect the it live regions civilian population further military action threatens to put ankara on a collision course with moscow. a major escalation and dozens of techies cheap stad they were taken back to tacky for treatment.

result of the airstrikes 33 soldiers are martyred. none of our wounded soldiers who are being treated in hospital are in critical condition. a lot of those martyrs rest in peace i wish speedy recovery for a wounded soldiers then i express my condolences to our nation. takis response was swift takesh officials released footage showing the retaliatory strikes saying they have fired on old syrian government targets. near the turkish border with greece refugees awaiting at the border to cross into europe turkish officials say they will open the borders to millions of syrian refugees who want to go to europe reversing a pledge turkey made to the european union in 2016. the international community has condemned the wars ongoing humanitarian impact on. what is happening

in northwest syria he said is beyond imagination it is not humanity tolerable they don't know children so traumatized they no longer speak. taki has given syria an end of the month ultimatum to retreat with ferrie and it's and i rush arraf using to back down a humanitarian ceasefire may prove at least if. it is covering the story for us and joins us now from istanbul this is a serious escalation between ankara and damascus what's the latest you're hearing from the turkish side. yes indeed it is a very serious escalation in this a direct conflict between the tower kish and the russian backed syrian regime forces from what we understand this airstrike yesterday has caused for turkey the

largest death toll in a single day since it 1st intervened in syria 4 years ago president edwin has held a national security meeting last night in ankara it reportedly lasted more than 6 hours and they decided to respond to this attack to retaliate so there's no sign of the backing down as you mention prison and one has also given to moscow's a deadline he won the syrian forces to retreat to previously agreed that ceasefire lines by the end of the month which is basically today or tomorrow this is very unlikely to happen so we might see this confrontation even asking late. ok so turkey is now an open military confrontation with russian but syrian forces turkey of course is a member of the nato defense alliance could that become an issue here. well

turkey of the turkish government so far a voice openly blaming russia blames this airstrike on the syrian regime but it is widely known that the syrian regime is carrying out these attacks with crucial support from russia russia controls the airspace over syria over now as you mentioned turkey is a nato country this of course makes the whole situation even more complicated nato has condemned the attack and has said that it will hold an emergency meeting today at turkey's request to discuss the situation in syria where ankara will probably bring up its demand for a no fly zone over syria to protect hundreds of thousands of people who have been displaced by the clashes so it's going to be interesting what will come out of this meeting but what we're seeing now my texturally be a turning point it might actually force a western powers who have been accused of being too silent on this whole syria

issue to do something to act well you mentioned hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the conflict these refugees are heading towards the turkish border what's going to become of the. well from everything we hear about all assessments this is a humanitarian nightmare we keep hearing about horrifying details of family who have to sleep out in the open in freezing temperatures children freezing to death and now turkey has not opened its borders for these refugees currently stuck inside it lip abuts a turkish official last night told reporters that turkey will no longer stop the nearly 4000000 syrian refugees already living in the country from crossing a 2 year old penned some turkish media a turkish news agency has been broadcasting pictures of syrian refugees in the

turkish city of dilma walking to boards the border with greece and bulgaria there are also reports of buses leaving here from istanbul towards the border the european border and now this is of course putting into question the whole deal between the european union and ancora struck in 2016 that said that onco would stop the flow of migrants to europe's in exchange for financial aid and political concessions these are of course images that i believe nobody in europe a wants to see right now and it increases of course the pressure here on europe to act yulia thank you very much for filling us in the correspondent you home there. the world health organization is warning governments to prepare for a coronavirus pandemic 56 countries or territories have now confirmed cases south korea has seen a sharp rise in reported cases with more than 300 new infections bringing the total

there to over 2000 nigeria has reported the 1st case of the virus in sub-saharan africa and iran which has seen the highest number of deaths outside china called off friday prayers in some major cities in a bid to stem the spread of the disease. this week south korea surpassed china with a number of new and corona virus infections the south korean public health response has focused largely on the city of daegu where the disease spread rapidly among members of a secretive church but all over the country people are worried as a report shows. snaking right in the block queuing up for face masks says korea has the highest number of coronavirus cases a state mainland china and people here in the capital seoul are worried. for a moment from both of course i'm concerned because there aren't enough masks. but

i'm still thankful because we can at least get our hands on these. that it only can do is trust the government when they say they'll ramp up this attack i even toyed with the government. and the k. pop scene is taking a coronavirus hit megastars b.t.s. have cancelled 4 of their soul concerts for april their management say the large numbers of crew and concert goers would have been a concern. in japan authorities have taken the decision to close schools for almost a month affecting $13000000.00 children. there will be many challenges . if their children and lower grades of elementary school. have to stay at home due to school closures and their parents will have to take time off work to what. the government is thinking about measures we can take for these situations.

protecting the global economy is becoming as important as protecting people from the virus itself. really anything that even if it may seem excessive for once you're infected it will be too late certainly think schools and canceling events and might be difficult for those people involved but it's better than catching the virus to be able to kill to stay. here there's broad public support for japan's efforts to contain the spread as the outbreak continues to affect more and more countries around the world. global share markets are heading for their worst week since the financial crisis in 2008 and busters are ditching risk fears that the coronavirus could trigger a global recession asian markets spiraled further downwards on friday in japan alone the nikkei index lost almost 10 percent this week those losses followed the

previous day's tumble on u.s. markets the dow suffering its worst one day drop in history. what it shows really to be a business is with a small like a break this down for swine or financial markets reacting so strongly to this friend of ours well you know financial markets are markets in general they don't like uncertainty and with a coronavirus this plenty of certainty and for a while investors were obviously wrong they thought that the virus would be contained to china that the peak would be reached before the end of the 4th quarter that's why for several weeks they were quite complacent didn't react that strongly but now as the corona virus is spreading and also outside of china we know that all of that is not the case plus the chinese economy is already suffering. beijing would like business to go back to usual but that is easier said than done with all the quarantine still in place in some parts and that at a time when china actually accounts for 20 percent of global g.d.p.

that is massive if you compare it to the time when cyrus. when that when we had the south outbreak in 2003 china only accounted for 4 percent so we're talking about a whole different dimension i'm sure that that is part of the reason why markets react that strongly having the worst week in a decade and as you mentioned the dow jones in new york actually having the worst one day point drop in history share prices of course dropped especially in the aviation sector tons of british airways easyjet you name it they all have to stop flights to the affected region business trips are being canceled but also the luxury sector companies like you would be tall feeling the pinch because china is a huge market and people not going out to buy things that mean sales are down. tourism leisure in general of course suffering disney land in tokyo and in shanghai and in hong kong closing down and i feel all of that is just the tip of the iceberg there's a lot of fear a lot of anxiety associated with this and it's really not just china anymore the

virus has spread to over 50 countries could there be a global recession all the way on top of all this uncertainty coronavirus comes at a time when the global economy is already very fragile after a very prolonged u.s. china trade war u.s. trade friction with with europe as well you have geo political crises you have climate change you have brics it so all of that is playing into it and now with the virus spreading as you say this fear that it's not just disrupting supply chains between asia and the rest of the world but it also has business on our doorstep we see that italy where the north italian region is very very badly hit. but we don't know how long this is going on for. the big problem we don't know is still developing story monica thank you so much. now the court of arbitration for sport has found chinese swimmer soon young guilty of

a serious doping offense by destroying his own blood samples in 2018 the reigning olympic champion will now be banned for 8 years for breaking anti doping rules possibly bringing an end to the 28 year old's international career yank a long distance swimmer won $23.00 gold medals including 3 in the olympics. well lewis hamilton endured a day to forget formula one pre-season testing in barcelona on thursday as the world champion broke down in his worse eighty's the reigning drivers will champion had previously spoken in glowing terms about the improvements to the mercedes steering but it was the engine that cut his day short sebastian title meanwhile set ferrari's fastest lap time of this year's pre-season but it wasn't really trouble for either the german struggling at times with his new car. now the 1st award has been handed out at the berlin international film festival to win at the big screen

british actor helen mirren is this year's recipient of the old lifetime achievement award the golden bear it's the latest in a long list of accolades for the actor who has no spirit tony and 4 emmys 2 renee. that's your news rep i'm terry marsh thanks for being with us. it's all happening coach of a coming. to a link to news from africa and the world your links to exceptional stories and discussions can you and will come to the day after coming program tonight from funny to me from a cd our website deputed com snacks africa joined us on facebook and t.w. africa.