this is news a lie from berlin and a growing humanitarian and political crisis at turkey's borders with the european union report released have used tear gas and water cannon to drive back migrants at one cross point thousands of people of pushing towards the borders after trippy said he could no longer prevent migrants from trying to reach the e.u. . u.s. president donald trump imposes new restrictions to stop the new coronavirus that's health officials announce america's 1st death from the infectious doctors in the

state of washington don't know how the man contracted the virus. and democratic presidential hopeful joe biden when south carolina's primary and gets a much needed boost ahead of super tuesday slate of primary. a michael thanks for joining us the e.u. ease on high alert after turkish president earlier one said he will no longer stop migrants from breaching turkey's borders to the west in a tweet turkey's interior minister said more than 76000 people had left the country for the european union greece rejects that number saying its police have turned back almost 10000 people the u.n. estimates at least 13000 people are stuck along the borders between turkey greece and boulder area early ones move a deal between turkey and the e.u.

meant to curb the influx of refugees from syria. our correspondent yulia han is covering the story on the ground and filed this report from the turkish border. the sign that the greek borda says well come on but that's just not the case it's the 2nd day of people heading here hundreds now wait to be allowed across but sometimes the look out for a chaotic makeshift camp has sprung up open to the elements people try to stay warm lighting fires and dense smoke drifts through the air sometimes it's tear gas fired by the greek police. this is one of the major crossing points between taki and e.u. member greece it's been heavily guarded in the past few years but as soon as turkish authorities announced they would no longer stop refugees from trying to cross into europe hundreds of people started arriving here and they easily passed

this border fence on the turkish side at the same time greek border police beefed up security and the border of there remains closed so this is the situation now hundreds of people many with children and just a few belongings stuck in a no man's land between the 2 countries. feed us and his family said to a little further away 5 years ago he fled from the syrian city of homs to turkey it's here where he met his wife and it's here where their daughter was born now they're on the road again with us just a little. bit of that we had on the news that the borders to europe are being open in the. sense of immediately by taxi from is mansour here. is we have done share of them that. actually open the border. their

biggest. they paid $400.00 for the trip that's around 60 year. those are a lot of money for this family at least they brought some supplies water bread she says. many have nothing at all the desperation is most visible when a few local volunteers arrive to distribute food that were not to be thought of there isn't enough for everyone. and the coffee cup on top is down the can manage here is vital the whole world must see this if you ask me this is a shame for the entire planet these people have been left to stay outside in the cold. most of those waiting here came with the firm belief that the border was indeed open and that the tax the europeans opposed had moved in their favor with the korea lies ation that this is not true makes it all the more bitter. and

used for lisa cool purposes they should not use refugees like this do you think you lame. perhaps a beautiful young lady now we know that this is all a game nobody knows what the result we just want someone to tell us what will happen. knowing what's in store this is what everybody here once feared us who even he'll watches the news from syria. and the many others who now say they want to stay until the border is opened. even though they sense that is unlikely to happen. joining me now is joe lowery spokesperson for the international organization for migration based in vienna joe so glad you could be with us what's the situation on the ground right now as far as you know. well the passage by a reporter was very yes and i think this is

a really good view of the that the lack of information which is the 1st thing on the terrible conditions people are enduring having been i think of a night in cold weather. you know women children pregnant women under the peoples of the report 1st of all that really helps to to set the scene just as the engine my colleagues who are right there as well on their porch in the same thing just confusion people don't know what's going on lack of a lack of information and clarity. of the people are already starting to arrive back in istanbul as they were as they conquered across the border and it seems rather people are making their way to the more traditional crossing points towards that we've got in the places around north of north is near between is near and istanbul and you could and places like this. just a very very untrue situation people don't know where to turn lots of people gathered there in no man's way and children women and old people no signs of

this stopping any time soon talk to me a little bit about the physical conditions that those people are facing right now. well these people are peter cullen storm a long journey anyway not just for sarah in places like afghanistan in the horn of africa of the process of central asia perhaps making long journeys by you know by by by foot by car by bus thousands of kilometers to get here in the 1st place they being the journey that they want to get to europe the journey has been interrupted and they've been staying in in turkey for for years and turkey one has to remember . you know absorbs new 4000000 refugees over the past few years. so the people who are there now are people who are determined rage telling people to do left situations of new very very difficult situations with and with war and with violence on the waste techie and now they see perhaps the chance to get further on their journeys. they've

a lot of people have been working the days of the best account smaller here and their kids have been going to school sometimes they've made allies in turkey mentioned in your report that an amount of that is wife there not just as it's this child there but these people are determined to get to move on and right now the stuck in no man's down there's all this is not the right cities to jerk off to them there's enough food as the soft snow reports and we had with our genes are right on the ground i just need to try to get a sense of what the needs are the most important thing as we find out how many people there are there if they're going to stay around and what their needs are what condition they were in they're in and then we can go to the reaction and right now the human tarion imperative comes 1st to larry in vienna thank you so much for that. the corona virus continues to spread quickly around the world with the total number of infections now at more than $87000.00 globally several countries are reporting their 1st cases including mexico australia in thailand as

well as the united states have reported the 1st deaths from covert 19 italy the worst hit country in europe is about to introduce measures costing 3600000000 euros to tackle the virus at the same time president donald trump attempted to reassure americans after the us reported its 1st fatality from the virus. in washington state fears of a new outbreak as a cat home in a seattle suburb it's not far from the hospital where the u.s. recorded its fast coronavirus fatality. president donald trump said more cases were likely but there was no reason for americans to panic but we're doing really well very very professionally handled our country is prepared for any circumstance we hope it's not going to be a major circumstance it will be a smaller circumstance but whatever the circumstances. we are prepared as officials

announced heightened warnings against travel to affected regions including iran it's a lay on south korea where cases are rising fast. as that country's military was brought in to help with the disinfection in the southern city of daegu or thirties advised south koreans to stay at home over the weekend. many churches have scaled back services moving sermons online in italy europe's west affected country frustration is growing in northern towns under lockdown travel in and out is limited and schools and businesses remain closed give us back our freedom residents here demanded that town has been looks down for more than a week. the 1st few days there was perhaps a little more tension in the town because people were understandably a little scared but now the news has faded and people are getting increasingly

frustrated now the fear of what will happen next year has overtaken the fear of the virus. even in the nearby city of milan down residents are worried about the economic impacts of the coronavirus usually packed with tourists this weekend the city was relatively deserted italians are hoping the outbreak quickly so they can get back to business as usual. we'll take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world afghanistan's government says it's not committed to releasing prisoners as agreed in a deal between the u.s. and the taliban the agreement signed in doha yesterday aims to allow u.s. troops to pull out of the country and facilitate talks between the taliban and the u.s. supported government in kabul. with most votes counted the anti corruption opposition party olando looks set to win slovakia's general election clinching nearly 25

percent of the vote the poll was dominated by public anger over the $2800.00 of a journalist who was leading a high level corruption probe in the country. french riot police have used water cannon and tear gas against yellow vests protesters in the western city of knocked it was the $68.00 sandra day of action by the anti-government movement and took aim at what the group called useless public projects. primary voters in the u.s. state of south carolina have given former vice president joe biden a convincing win in his quest for the democratic party's nomination to face president donald trump in november front runner bernie sanders finished a distant 2nd biden's victory in jack's new life into his campaign after disappointing results in previous tests. and. a night of

celebration for democratic presidential hopeful joe biden and his supporters. after several disappointing results and other us states the former vice president finally secured a solid win in south carolina and received a clear boost from african-american voters. for a bit was the was not he was. tied and gained a whopping 72 percent of the delegate vote for south carolina. the only other candidate to gain delegate votes in the state was bernie sanders widely viewed up till now as a front runner sanders admitted defeat in south carolina while also reminding supporters of the campaign successes so far. you can or were in a moral. or a water state

a lot of states out there and tonight we did not win in south carolina. all attention now shifts to the results of the upcoming super tuesday votes 14 states will throw their support behind their top democratic candidate. for democrats and other americans who want to take over the government from incumbent president donald trump momentum leading into super tuesday is critical to turning the tide of u.s. politics. sport now and in the bundesliga by in munich inflicted a 6 nil defeat on hoffenheim but the story of the day was the match being interrupted twice due to an offensive banner in byron's fan blah blah irons scored 4 goals in the 1st half to put the match out of reach. had. scored 2 but then biron fans started insulting hoffenheim zoner. and the players were ordered to walk off the pitch the teams eventually return for the final 13

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