this is. between a rock and a hard place. a townsend drive police add to its border with greece to stop the return of migrants. and back by greek border forces. from the border crisis is unfolding also in the program spiraling violence in syria's province

will top the agenda of talks between the presidents of texas and russia as the region's 2 main power brokers seek to educate from. and drastic measures kills the schools and universities across the country after the number of deaths from the current rises to 100. honoring the victims of the recent attack in champney political leaders join survivors and their families for a memorial in the western town of where the far far right gunman killed 9 people in a shooting spree. good to have you with us. turkey says it's deploying $1000.00 drive police to its border with greece to push refugees and migrants who are trying to cross the border

into the european union they headed there after turkey said it would no longer uphold its 2016 commitment to the e.u. to keep them on its territory and with a new crisis looming on the external border to the european union more than 12000 refugees are now camped out along the turkish side of the border with greece the e.u. for its part says it stands by athens amid fears that more people arriving on the border could prompt a repeat of the 2015 refugee crisis the need to have these a max zonda reports from cast in these on the greek side of the border where they have been clashes between refugees and border forces in recent days. exhausted and with nowhere to turn to these young pakistani men managed to slip into greece in bashir says the turkish military force them to the border he tells us they've been walking aimlessly for the last 10 hours. we're being moved from one side to the

other the military is doing that we're stuck in the middle in the beginning there were 20 to 25 people that only us 3 made it the others were arrested they know that if they are caught by the greek police they too will be arrested. others didn't even get that far like these migrants who gathered behind the border fence in turkey in an attempt to cross greek security forces used tear gas against them and allegedly even deadly force. these images from the other side of the border were given to us by the turkish government injured migrants being carried around from the fence. says greg security forces shot live rounds into the crowds killing one and injuring 5 others a claim the greek government has called fake news pressure continues along the greek frontier almost a week after turkey said its border to the european union was open to everyone it's

a cross. for the tough handling of the situation greek authorities have not only received praise by european leaders but also the highest cleric in greece archbishop pell the most traveled to the border town custom yes for a special service in honor of the greek security forces and those living in the border region yes this is the me for. this you know that. we're proud of you. just proud of your struggle. not only for the army not only for greece what and i mean more no. our european friends should be here as well our partners and allies. because we have to support these borders together like you miss the would be my c.f.o. and i pursued him and. the sooner the. people here in the border town of custom yes for along have felt abandoned by the european union local mayor stuff is

calling for a common and sustainable solution to deal with migration but for the people waiting at the border has offered up a little hope anybody can bet if they are seeing. an afghan back up on me it is no chance for these millions of refugees to end up in a 0 and increase game for men i guess not a lot of the. i wish for all the sleeping i'll find their destination orders more doze this thing happening right now it's impossible not only for us or him alone but it's all in europe to receive these large numbers of them to leave his hmong don't. last long in. defined as a more deeply than body night in. here and his friends have made it to europe but their final destination germany is still a long way to go. to a mission to. walk on we don't have a car no money no money and nothing to drink. just walk with

god. guard. as they continue their journey they have no idea if they are going to make it but they know they want to get away from this dangerous front here as fast as they can. to not to another fall correspondence with the greek to want to johan is on the tech your side. turkey says if you deploy some 1000 police forces to push the refugees at the border back they you have been monitoring the tensions in the last few days why is turkey taking this step now. i think we have enough problems with a line to johan who is at the greek turkish border we may have to leave it for now and we'll try and get back to the on a little later in the program if we are able to establish that connection movie the

one now in turkish president john and the russian president vladimir putin holding talks at the kremlin today on the spiraling violence in northwestern syria turkey and russia have troops on the ground there but they are supporting opposing sides the recent weeks of escalating military action in province have left dozens of tickets troops dead and created a dynamic where russian and turkish forces could wind up in direct confrontation no end of thursday's meeting president john said he was hoping to secure a cease fire. flying the russian flag in sarah cab a key town in province with russia's help syrian government forces have pushed out opposition rebel forces backed by turkey. as the syrian government intensifies its assault on the country's last remaining

rebel stronghold both russia and turkey are counting the casualties turkey is especially under pressure it's lost more than 50 troops in the past month including 33 soldiers killed in a single air strike last week. turkish president wretch of tire air 21 has vowed to continue turkey's offensive should syrian forces not withdraw to adlib front lines established in a 2017 a court. but turkey needs the fighting to stop so it can create a safe zone in ad libbed that's key to air once planned to repatriate nearly 4000000 syrian refugees currently living in turkey. the recent heavy fighting in a lip has also triggered a fresh refugee crisis on turkey's doorstep displacing around a 1000000 more syrians. at the moment it's russian backed syrian troops that have

the upper hand in its lead with moscow determined to see the syrian government regain full control of its territory. joining me now is dorian jones he is in istanbul during it seems talks between russian president vladimir putin and which if that had started and are going on in a moscow we still don't have an outcome but give us a sense of what edwin is hoping to get out of these talks. well the priority for president heard one is to secure a cease fire. remove the risk of another mass exodus of refugees into turkey there's already around a 1000000 syrians believed to be on turkey's border fleeing the damascus regime is offensive into that syrian province beyond that are incurred while will be then looking to develop this idea of creating a safe haven in eclipse he's looking to create a buffer zone of around 30 kilometers deep into this province which would provide

sanctuary for the $3000000.00 also syrians believed to be in that province but moscow is totally against at the dismiss a proposal out of hand last month it's propose a much smaller buffer zone of around only 2 to 5 kilometers deep and one lies behind these differences is that they must go longer have fundamental different approaches to ending this conflict for moscow they see this is a military solution to end the war they believe the rebels are defeated and picturing is in within the grasp of damascus it insists there has to be a political solution why that's so important is because on proceeds of political solution as offering ultimately the hope of returning the 3000000 also syrians in turkey back to syria but even though there is this is a big difference. do seem to be working hard to find a compromise if they do want they don't want this dispute over syria to wreck relations which have to remarkably improved in the last few years and the key to this is believed to be the personal chemistry that exists between putin and one and

i think they will be looking to that chemistry to find some sort of compromise to avert some feared confrontation during does that turkish position for creating a safe zone for refugees in northern syria have any international support. well initially there seemed to be very little support for this idea but since the of our option of this migration crisis on the european union border it seems to have caught the attention of european leaders and they do appear to be turning coming around to other ones proposal the beginning of the week i'm going to merkel the german chancellor said that she was sympathetic to design ideas only yesterday the dutch foreign minister also tweeted in support so i believe that there is some kind of momentum now developing behind this initiative but i'm also aware that there is little i support the idea of some military deployment to protect that safe haven particularly the idea of creating a no fly zone given the fact that anger is aware that both european leaders and more importantly washington doesn't want to get a scenario where there is

a possible risk of a confrontation with russian forces and we just have to wait and see what comes out of those talks going on in moscow dorian jones for now thank you very much for that update. this our return to the greek turkish border where correspondent who is standing by on the turkish side we were talking earlier turkey says it's going to deploy some 1000 police forces to push back refugees at the border now you've been monitoring the tension of this border for the last few days why has to be decided to deploy these forces there. well the turkish interior minister says these extra special forces are being sent here to the border to prevent so-called pushbacks of migrants to tucky these pushbacks are being carried out by the greek border guards now pushbacks are in generally are generally a set of state measures by which migrants or refugees are being pushed back over

a border without them having the chance to apply for asylum and this is considered to be a violation of many different laws european law now the greek border guards here have done this in recent days we've talked to many migrants here on the turkish side who told us they made it to greece but they were detained they were beaten up they say their money was been taken from them and then they were sent back to turkey now taki sending these additional forces here to prevent such pushbacks in the worst case basically means that the 2 countries greece and turkey would be playing ping pong with people again he has been accused of manipulating the situation and using the desperation of refugees by allowing them to stream towards the e.u. border so what does this latest move mean for the refugees and their situation there. well that's not clear at the moment i'm 2 kilometers away from one of the main crossing points between turkey and greece

journalists are not allowed anywhere near the area so reporting on the situation of the migrants and refugees there has become very difficult and so i can't tell you what it means right now but we know that many migrants are still trying to cross the green border the border with greece is about 200 kilometers along some are trying to cross the river that runs along this border now it remains to be seen what this means but for people here are still waiting at the border the situation is desperate it's difficult people have been sleeping outside in the open for days in the cold with just not enough food and not enough to drink and we see still small groups of people arriving here migrant refugees who say they still want to go to europe despite all the dramatic scenes playing out here despite all the difficulties. at the greek to border on the turkish side thank you very much for

your reporting from there turning off the latest on the coronavirus in the u.s. counter for now has become the latest state to declare an emergency as a number of new infections rise gala phony adjoins of washington state in florida and letting their governments free up more resources in the battle against the virus the palestinian health ministry has scored for churches and mosques in bethlehem to close after a suspected corona virus free switzerland has reported its 1st death from the corona virus and iran has closed schools and universities until. in addition to ron students the u.n. has one that almost 300000000 students around the was could face weeks at home the italian government is also ordered schools in the universities to remain closed until the 15th of march of this move comes as the national death toll rose to 107 the deadliest outbreak outside china. for children across italy wednesday

with the last day of class the government has shut of primary schools and colleges for 10 days in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus. why it's a pain luckily my daughter is 12 her brother is going to college so he can take care of her and they're good at it many students will continue their studies but online so. i know this decision will have an impact. i hope students can return to school as soon as possible and i will work hard to ensure that this essential public service is provided to all our students even if that means from a distance and. you know student student in. italy has been hit hard by the corona virus with over 3000 confirmed cases by far the most in europe in just over a week the death toll has risen from 7 to over 100. this

military hospital in milan is preparing to take in those afflicted by the outbreak faced with a shortage of care providers the government has asked retired doctors and nurses to return to hospitals officials are also questioning doubt on virus profiteers police interior insist great falls of mosques and suits that companies had hoarded and attempted to sell for inflated prices. the government's response to the crisis has gotten personal it issued a decree advising against hunch aches hugs and kisses but submit the outbreak many italians want to be consoled and say they won't keep that distance. by your good you or your i will continue kissing this coronavirus will not stop me i will continue to kiss and hug and you. i also continue kissing no

problem with embassy where is the salience we love each other and we need physical contact we'll keep it up as long as we can. entire communities remain in quarantine mostly in the countries northern regions the government is hoping its new emergency measures will keep the so-called red zone from expanding south. but now to get it if it's a minus 2 it is making news around the world. judges of the international criminal court in the hague have ruled that prosecutors can open an investigation into alleged war crimes committed in afghanistan the probe would examine the actions of the taliban afghan forces and u.s. troops the google coat has an appeal against the previous decision to block the probe. michael bloomberg has announced he's ending his campaign for the democratic party nomination in this year's u.s. presidential election and he's endorsing joe biden and this comes after results of

super tuesday is primary elections made former vice president biden and senator bernie sanders the clear frontrunner as. jim bottom interiors have been debating how to tackle dry cleaning extremism and hate in the country and this comes a day after political leaders join family members and friends and holding a memorial for the victims of a racially motivated killing spree in the west and down of ha now the incident has left the community of deeply shaken. to all. the victims were not foreigners the central theme of the memorial service in hono for the murdered members of the city's immigrant community. customs last minute i am stunned by the because of this terrible crime my brother

will never again come into our homes laughing and happy. victims relatives and leading politicians joined together to mourn the 9 man and woman shot dead in the far right racist terror attack the mother of the suspected gunman was the 10 ficta chemical shot who was friends with many of the victims said he wants to see actions not listened to words yet i live here and these are starting mall of us in this town are people who belong to this world to europe to germany. to has but also to have now please let us act together against inflammatory language. against the hate. because since the 19th of february people are worried about how to keep on living here. on february 19th a 43 year old german monotype to shisha bars on a kiosk shooting dead 9 people from the times immigrant community and wounding all there's the attacker held a legal gun permit he's believed to

a shot at his mother before taking his own life prosecutors say the suspect held deeply racist beliefs. $650.00 guests gathered at the event in hono many of them relatives of the victims german chancellor angela merkel and president frank father steinmeyer sought with the families steinmeyer appealed to german society to defend democracy. even mentioned in some demands i'm done leaped every person who lives in our country must be able to live in safety and peace our state has the duty to protect this right if it was a mere 2 windows you have to do more and must do everything necessary. or authorities plan to rector permanent memorial to the hano attack victims in the city's main cemetery some of them are already buried there.

and. to the jail and father went has been debating right wing extremism and joining me now is fundamentally and i don't she's a former minister of state for integration and a member of the social democrats now welcome to you know we saw a very strong message coming out of that memorial service that me just so do you see the shooting in hondo as

a turning point of how jimmy deals with right wing extremism. well actually i think that it was so important to have this session this morning in the parliament and it was very important that we came together yesterday to show not only the families but especially of course the families to stand together that we see the racism in our country and well we notice that it could could have been like every one of us each of us. who looks like a migrant who is just seen as a migraine and this is very is just horrible for all of us of course. and i think it's so important that all in their politicians who are responsible for in their affairs also admit that they have looked more for religious extremism so far and not so much 2 words right wing extremists and i think that was just changed right now. in what is likely to change because in this debate today you know pati accuse

the far right f.t. as being partly responsible for creating a climate where right wing extremism is growing but they've been similar attacks in the past in germany don't all parties including you always have to take responsibility for failing to deal with dr frank extremism adequately. well of course and i mean we have to end this you process also in germany as we did like everything that was possible that time but we didn't have it was clear our number is awful right wing extremism against migrants we only have numbers that are too much like against everything and now we see more clearly what is happening against muslims what is happening against migrants have now all these. numbers and also. policy is now looking more clearly to wards what is going on

here in the parliament what is being. pin and what has an effect outside and i think this is so important because when i was responsible for 4 years i have been attacked so many times virtually in the social media of course and now we have totally different laws against this attacks and the social media and you cannot just attack and be sure that nothing will happen nowadays people are brought to court and have some consequences and i think this is a long way but i'm glad quite glad that we started it at least now i know you said this message of the message scale coming out of this debate in parliament today was that something needs to change in your assessment what is the key thing that needs to change today. yeah it's not something of course what has to change is that we have to be very very clear i mean we have been clear we thought but we

have to be more clear when it comes to racism when it comes to you know bring people out of society and it seemed to many people outside not only in the parliament that when you attack a muslim or you attack a jew then it's only against that group and what was really quite clearly said here today from every party almost except for if tea was that it is an attack against democracy it is an attack against the whole society and we have to stand together and forget sometimes for a few seconds at least that we have like different ways in our policy and that was very very clear today and also of course they said already what they did it like how police will work differently and how we have to work also in social media differently i think this is one of the most important things because there it starts and you see that some most of those people have been in social media

they have probably had an idea there and then went on. out and did these horrible things you have to david that i done souza former minister of state for integration and a member of the social democrats thank you very much for talking to us. you're watching the news coming to you live from berlin up next focus on your upticks and a closer look at the price of the greek and this friend of the current evidence that's coming up shortly.

to describe people. families overcome by fear and distrust. dramatic pictures from a greek turkish border. once again refugees are caught between competing. seems to recall the migrant crisis in the twenty's is being. people lost all

hope. d.w. . enter the conflict zone year after year the war in yemen goes on with no apparent end in sight but who's really trying to stop it my guest this week here in munich is the country's foreign minister mohammad abdullah on a german company thousands of civilian casualties to be enormous human suffering all being for nothing. the conflict. in 60 minutes on t.w. . is the human race to destroy itself. we are ruining the basic elements of our existence. refusing to much more and

killing. water just like. we may think our water supplies will last forever but. when the rain. starts march 20th on t.w. . alone a very warm welcome to focus on europe with me peter craven and like many other parts of the world europe is increasingly in the grip of the corona virus to prevent further contagion the world famous louvre museum in paris has closed its

doors and in the u.k. some schools have been shut down meanwhile at the brick trees here in germany there's been a steady.