turkey's president today warned that millions of migrants and refugees will soon be at europe's door and that he will not be standing in their way a decision that could trigger a repeat of the 2015 migrant crisis here in europe but in 2020 geopolitics look different in northern syria turkey faces an opponent backed by russia turkey needs help from the west will it used refugees to get it tonight turkey in what the critics are calling a desperate politics of extortion i'm bored got from berlin this is the day. of the couple they underestimated the woods. they thought we were bluffing.

since the moment we opened up. the number of those who have headed to europe has reached hundreds of thousands of. faith into an acceptable to deal with it at the expense of migrants think. there will be more soon this number will be expressed in millions. also coming up tuesday is the biggest day for democrats who want to challenge donald trump for the white house for a late comer candidate mike bloomberg the stakes on super tuesday could not be high and he's not going to make you fall in love with this policy ideas but his aunts are thing to behold he's good at making commercials can he persuade voters that commercials are enough. what you our viewers on p.b.s. watching in the u.s. and all around the world welcome but we begin the day with the refugees at europe's

door sent by the turkish president today turkey's president richard to one more and europe that he has opened the gates for millions of migrants who want to reach europe it's a done deal he said. but not for those migrants thousands not millions of migrants have been dropped off at the border with greece hoping to find an open door instead the gates to europe are closed barbwire and riot police armed with tear gas sending the message this kind of injury is no longer a well we have this report from the border where people are in search of a home instead they are finding out that they are becoming political pawns. repelled at sci tech he released this footage of the coastal city of bodrum authorities say it shows a greek coast guard pushing back a boat filled with migrants it's one of the tactics we call authorities are using off to turkey opened its border allowing migrants to try and enter the e.u.

in greece says it has stopped almost $10000.00 attempted crossings over a 24 hour period. they fired tear gas to disperse the crowds gathering at the border fences. the migrants can head to greek or to authorities across the river telling them to go back the borders are closed. it's not a command that's likely to be a bait. we keep waiting here because we left our homes those of us who had homes whatever things to sell got money for them so they could get out if we have to go back we will have to sleep in the streets. what can we do we're stuck here we can't go back home. on sunday some groups tried a hazardous route across the river ever us with some success greece accuses ankara

of organizing a campaign to push people through the greek turkish border. this migrant from cameroon waded across the river to reach greece she says she'd been told to leave turkey and along with refugees from syria she was taken by pass from istanbul to the turkish border. in one syrian. but greek police were waiting on the other side. german chancellor angela merkel criticized turkish president rejected at a one for using the migrants as political pawns. in this thing given all the understanding and willingness to provide more support. i think it's totally

unacceptable to deal with this at the expense of migrants so it's off to me they've been encouraged to go to the border only to end up at a dead end. and our policy and the policy of the e.u. turkey deal is not aimed at conducting politics at the migrants expense definitely a political moms. with migrants stuck in a no man's land the pressure is on for politicians to find a way out of the stalemate. well today turkey's president accused europe of failing to uphold its end of the migration deal that was struck back in 2016 under that deal turkey agreed to block migration routes and basically ended the migrant crisis here in europe in exchange europe said that it would pay up to $6000000000.00 euros to help turkey house migrants on its soil to europe also agreed that visas would no

longer be required for turkish citizens in or in the e.u. and europe also agreed to restart talks on turkey joining the european union so far europe has given $3200000000.00 euros in aid and it says the rest will be paid in the coming years according to the agreement turks still do not have visa free travel to the e.u. and turkish the membership talks they have stall today european leaders rejected turkey's accusations and said they still expect turkey to uphold its end of the deal i acknowledge that turkey is in a difficult situation concerning that we forgot to add the refugees and the migrants but what we see now cannot be an answer or solution we expect $32.00 on their its commitments i mean from the south turkey migration to lower the statement and the votes in the situation very very closely this is

a crisis but it can also become an opportunity for europe an opportunity that would allow us to defend collectively our external warda. are in for more i'm joined now in the big table by cinema dar she is with the think tank the german institute for international and security affairs her focus is on turkish refugee policy and migration is good to have you on the show thank you by opening the gates to europe turkey's president appears to be powerful he appears to have the leverage here. but you say this may be an act of just. walk. well i i mean on the bend on the lawn that you just threw that took as the leverage that was given to it in in 2016 mentor ken you're up agreed to cooperate over migration control and border security yet at the same time it is also this spirit

to get the support of e.u. in its lip and that's i think the main reason why. on saturday turkey and non started to open the borders. yet at the same time took a closer keeps the border in syria with syria still close for instance. understand. the situation in. syria what does that have to do with turkey's agreement with the european union about migrants how do those 2 dots connect so this statement is obviously about controlling the flow of migrants towards europe so that has 2 components one is protecting the borders it's europe the other it's kind of you can think of it as an in direct outcome of the statement protecting the borders it's syria and since the war in syria is still ongoing and because off the escalating conflict and leave since december last year there has

been an increase in montefiore turned displaced people almost like 1000000 people right now so the minute opens the border with syria people still be amazing becoming in turkey and if the border and its borders are also open they will be trying to reach europe and to think if the situation in italy is that turkey has been trying to call minsk russia to get assad's regime to go back to the such a cease fire law line and it has failed to do so well what is president the key here if if he opens the gates. for europe is he. that will then pressure the europeans to pressure nato to go in help syria or help turkey in syria is that what he's thinking i think that's the thinking yes and if you look at the wall and and statements from government officials and also pro-government pundits and also columnists in the last couple of weeks you see that

actually you see this is the magic campaigning to get the support bought from them to and europe parts to give support to turkey i mean he's asking a lot from the europeans also from nato because we're talking about in northern syria now the turkish military facing off with a force that is backed by the russian military that would bring nato in direct conflict with russia possibly. possibly it old or i am not sure and i am also not sure at this point whether there is another better option in this i said basically there is no doll turkey is not a democratic country it has no hesitation to violate human italian principles so again has no his situation to use humanitarian basis to further its foreign policy ambitions under a humanitarian cloak and that has been happening since it optional to war in syria yet at the same time there is right now in it live and unfolding human catastrophe

and i think which the world is basically you are right and this particularly moment i think humanitarian concept called son should and shall overdyed other concepts no words were no one is concerned about is the humanitarian crisis around the of course not all the course not this is why i said like we should be better clear that is not the cornerstone of add on add on bonds to base retain control over it but. i think it kind of internation the protective buffer zone or a safe zone in meit's to compel turkey to give up. that's ambition to retain control in interest as well because that's what i think people watching will remember or you know when the the u.s. pulled out you know left the kurds there then there was the thinking that turkey would have this buffer zone in northern syria it can't use that buffer zone to put these displaced syrians isn't that what he wanted to do all along some people have

already been going to talk to controlled areas but some are also moving to parts and because of moving from one place to and on to in syria is also costly but it's not everyone can afford to basically go to the areas that are on their touch consul so obviously the immediate s.-k. place is the border so people have been accumulating at the border a while and think i'm some people that are going to the top controlled areas and we will definitely be watching to see if the one continues to open the gates cinema door with the german institute for international and security affairs so it's good to have you on the show thank you thank you thanks. i'm making the difficult decision to suspend my campaign for the president we got into this race in order to defeat the current president and in order to usher in a new kind of politics and that meant guiding our campaign by the values we like to call the rules of the road. well how quickly the race for the

white house has changed and is changing just in the last 24 hours both you saw it right there people to jake and amy club which are have called it quits club a char has a divorced former vice president joe biden ahead of tomorrow's crucial super tuesday primaries and we understand that people that you plans to do the same later today super tuesday is considered the most important of all primaries because of the sheer size here 14 states are involved under the primary election system the more votes a candidate gets the more delegates they are awarded and the states with the most democratic delegates up for grabs. r california with 415 and in the south texas you see there was 228 by the end of super tuesday it could be down to a 23 or 4 candidate race among the democrats super tuesday will be the 1st test of late comer candidate billionaire mike bloomberg it could also be his last use all

over sal is in texas tonight and he has this report. mike bloomberg at one of his rare rallies in houston texas here the former new york mayor is presenting himself as the only candidate who can stop donald trump so if you will on someone who talks turkey and who has a record of accomplishments on all the big issues facing our country and country and if you won somebody has the resources to beat trump that's made. of mike bloomberg resources in other words his wealth is a controversial topic among voters while some say his money makes him independent others say the billionaire wants to buy the election. we're essentially in the middle of a political science experiment we don't know how this is going to turn out no one has ever thrown this much money at a primary before i don't see that he's trying to buy the election he's using his

resources to make a difference for america i say that. he can't be bought is really what that means a nation divided by an age of control president mike bloomberg is running on president diddley expensive campaign he has spent $300000000.00 on t.v. ads he doesn't accept donations relying instead on his own fortune brings people together that means he's spent president trump in 2016 which up about $66000000.00 of his personal money on his campaign and his democratic rivals mike bloomberg spent already twice as much as bernie sanders and joe biden combined. thanks to his money mike bloomberg seems to be everywhere he has bought 1500000 facebook ads and even paid ordinary people to post messages supporting him on their profiles. the mayor bloomers naca charm and he's not going to make you fall in love with this

policy ideas but as our thing to behold wonderfully produced the best visuals the best audio he's good at making commercials can he persuade voters that commercials are enough. i don't think so. super tuesday mike bloomberg is on the ballot for the 1st time this primary season some polls put him among the top 3 candidates for now it seems like his big spending has paid off. we will find out tonight perhaps my colleague our correspondent over salad he is with me now he joins me from austin texas good afternoon to you oliver so let's talk about what has just happened. now amy club which are both have quit the race club a char has endorsed former us vice president joe biden we expect to do the same today now that's going to be a huge win for job i tell me what does this mean then for mike bloomberg.

well 1st of all you're right it is a huge win for joe biden because just imagine a few weeks ago he was really losing momentum he didn't do well he had his weak moments on the debate stage falling behind in polls and then now he wins the south carolina primary in addition to that you have any close sharp people to judge dropping out such a potential competitors of the moderate field here and now cloe bush are supporting endorsing joe biden and we do expect as you just mentioned people to just do the same so that is great news for joe biden and in turn of course not so great news for for a mayor bloomberg because he will face a plea feeding off that that momentum that joe biden has had and certainly now with a stronger joe biden that is not good news for mayor bloomberg and all of a you've been on the campaign trail with bloomberg texas and here in texas right

now i mean it is a state that he almost has to win if he wants his campaign to continue what are his chances what do you say. well if you asked a couple weeks ago then it looked like mayor bloomberg was on position to win the poll so he had a realistic chance year that has slightly changed latest poll see him at position number 3 and that in spite of all the money that he spent in particular in the state of texas some $170000000.00 alone for t.v. ads and internet advertising here in texas $500000000.00 nationwide so this is unprecedented and all of that money of course coming from his private wealth he's been really trying to target let's you know voters so he's put a lot of effort into this. right now with the latest developments here with joe biden picking up momentum that doesn't really look good for him to win the state of texas but of course we'll have to see how super tuesday goes like for him this will

certainly be a make or break moment for mayor bloomberg you know what about the criticism that bloomberg is an oligarchy that he's trying to buy his way into the election i mean the latest figures show that he spent $170000000.00 on t.v. ads in texas alone out of his own pocket i mean what have you heard on the campaign trail. yeah the criticism basically comes from his competitors of course who believe that this is not fair play. essentially there used to be this rule for primary candidates that they had to collect a certain amount of money through donations that was one of the thresholds by the way for a candidate to be allowed into a t.v. debate now the d.n.c. the democratic national committee had to change those rules or decided to change those rules because bloomberg was already so high up in polling so they changed the rules for him to allow him into the t.v.

debate certainly he himself would argue differently saying he's going all in that you heard him in the sound bite he said that takes someone like him to win against donald trump he's trying to draw that picture as you see only candidate who is able to win sensually arguing that it takes a billionaire to win against another billionaire interesting way to look at it we know as you've rightly said that the polls are not very promising for mike bloomberg super tuesday approaches. and he has a nice boost coming from these 2 major endorsements that he's getting today where does that leave bernie sanders and super tuesday. interesting question i mean he's still the number one front runner and his polling looks great of course we're now looking at a shift in momentum and we'll have to see how far that goes for joe biden who is

not being really successful weeks ago and don't forget this is a question now about progress a progressive candidate like bernie sanders or a moderate candidate now what you can see is that the party establishment is rallying behind the moderate candidate because they believe that a candidate like joe biden is more successful potentially more successful in these so-called swing states that many people who voted trump might be willing to come back to the democratic party but not with with a candidate like bernie sanders and his progressive policies as they say they were some people want results and not a revolution we will see ourselves on the story for us in austin texas thank you. as well as the number of cases of corona virus continues to increase rapidly the world health organization says that the world is in quote unchartered territory although the w.h.o. maintains that the outbreak can still be contained the total number of infections

around the world now is nearly 90000 more than 3000 patients have died indonesia and several other countries are reporting their 1st cases today now officials in italy which is the worst hit country here in europe say that the number of deaths has jumped from 34 to 52 the number of patients who have recovered from the virus worldwide stands now with more than 45000. well across europe far right and nationalist movements have been fast to turn the corona virus outbreak into a chance to push their anti migration rather rick and to call for stricter border controls you know the reporter for the record baggio has been looking into that so this is not a pretty story. how are far right parties how are they trying to use this you know this virus to their advantage and one way is by trying to draw a link between the virus and migration women example in italy to solving the the leader of the popular far right of physicians party of the league. and repeat the

link the virus to migrants coming by of the mediterranean for instance here he posted a video of a migrant rescue ship docking in sicily along with the message it is simply in saying that the landings continue as if nothing had happened meaning as if current virus hadn't happened and he's a criticizing the government and saying it's ridiculous that they act surprised by the numbers of cases in italy implying of course if you let migrants so many migrants in then there's going to be so many cases but let me stress here that there is no proven link between migrants and refugees and the spreading of the medicine tells us that a virus in the viruses don't discriminate based on nationality is right we have also seen far right parties across europe calling for the suspension of the european union's shing agreement and let our viewers know that agreement allows for the free movement of people and goods across borders in the e.u. that's right to slovenia suggested dot also in france marie le pen the leader of

the far right national front party suggests of dots and the idea of having tighter borders has also been rated by here in germany by the far right turn to for germany party and we have a tweet here by lisa vita who is the head of the f.t. in the german parliament who says it would be more than a. if necessary measures to contain the virus were not taken or were taken too late due to wash calls a one sided fixation on the dogma of the open borders of course governments european governments are taking measures to contain this virus but we're also seeing that here there's a quite clearly an effort by far right parties to tap into the panic and the fear surrounding this virus to push what they've always wanted so. it's true that the corona virus we know it's also part of the story here that we're talking about tonight that is the state of those migrants who were at the turkish greek border

now well certainly the current of ours is not going to make things any easier for them sure we've seen that the current virus has been at least cited by greek authorities as one of the reasons reasons why they thought it was necessary to tighten controls on migrant groups. for instance. and just and now that applications for asylum asylum applications will be and i indefinitely suspended because of fears of the current virus and people who may be coming in from iran but let me reiterate the most of the migrants we've seen those reports they are they don't even come from risk countries and if some of them reportedly do come from iran but they probably have been in turkey for since before this outbreak yeah with the fear of the virus certainly adding to the calls for the borders to be closed that's for sure fredricka budget was always thank you thank you. all right and remember no matter what happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see that everybody.

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