turkish president to one met with russian president vladimir putin today in moscow now this may not look like 2 leaders about to slide into war with each other over syria but that is exactly what they are trying to prevent tonight the bloody battle to conquer syria's last rebel enclave turkey once nato's help knowing that involvement could divide the alliance and weaken the west for president putin that would make syria his mission accomplished i'm brooke gulf in berlin this is the day that. ability nor should the situation in italy has become so aggravated that it requires us to have a direct tests no conversation. to move initiative. the whole world has its eyes

on us. on the planet is this is what we need to talk about everything so that nothing like this happens again and it does not destroy russian tickets relations. just to get us with. the measures we take and decisions we make here will calm the region and our 2 countries. into. also coming up she was known as the democratic presidential candidate with a plan to solve almost everything everything except her own defeat today elizabeth warren ended her run for the white house and she offered no indorsement. i was told at the beginning of this whole underclass thought there are 2 worlds a progressive one thought bertha anderson 3 on common core only moderately. pork and there's no room for anyone else the month. i thought was if i'm. not what

i'm for. but to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with a ceasefire in the last patch of syria where rebel forces still dared to defy the rule of president bashar al assad it is the province the ruins of buildings are outnumbered only by ruined lives hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee the latest wave of refugees now the dividing lines are clear rebels have support from the turkish military syrian forces enjoy a massive cover from russian fighter jets last week turkey's said that syrian forces attacked and killed 34 of its soldiers today in an emergency meeting the presidents of russia and turkey agreed to a cease fire now it is unclear how long this truce will last what is clear is that

just like in 2015 hundreds of thousands of syrians are fleeing their homes hoping to cross into turkey. with this vehicle serving as both a getaway car and a home tarps are the only shield against the cold families live cook and sleep crowded together. at this camp north of aleppo 200 families are stranded in no man's land. and his 5 brothers are among those who fled bombing and destruction. we live here in this 3 wheeler we don't have anything else left we hope someone can help us. not a day goes by without fresh attacks suffering and death in italy province as syrian and russian fighter jets prepare the ground for advancing government troops. islamist militias bitterly fight back with the help of turkey which has been bombing syrian army positions for days. these satellite images show escalation

at the expense of the most vulnerable who are now forced to live in cramped conditions a year earlier this region in northern england was almost completely deserted. the situation here is tragic there's no medical aid no medicine no clinic near here. we have nothing here. families have even set up their tents on train tracks to protect themselves from flooding and insects it's an improvised refuge in what the u.n. sense is the most dire crisis and the world and i'm with. them for more tonight i'm joined here at the b. table by middle east analyst dan you're locked in with it's good to see you again so let's talk about what's what's happened today russia in turkey they've agreed to this ceasefire in libya and they've promised humanitarian aid for civilians is there any reason to believe that aid will reach the people who need it well yes i think it is totally possible that aid is going to reach certain people certainly

not all of those in need but i think the russians and the turks were really serious today we have seen cease fire negotiations and deescalation zones for the last couple of years. didn't hold for long this one different well look i think and a half i cannot figure out why the turks have agreed to this but something really interesting has come up today and i was very surprised to read this we've been talking for the last months about a highway the m 5 which is leading from damascus to a level which is considered by the syrian regime as the the useful syria that the axis of central syria and there's been a lot of fighting going on going on on this highway because the syrian regime wanted to secure this highway with russian support and push that rebels now there is an agreement according to which the russians and the turks want to join paper troll and create a safe zone alongside another highway which is leading from the coastal city of latakia to aleppo and this would mean that by this safe zone and these joint

patrols russia and turkey would split the rebel controlled areas into 2 this would be a major success for russian the syrian regime because they could divide the red. territory and progressively conquer the south which will be cut off from the other parts of it live and it's actually it's quite interesting because this is what the syrian regime has been trying to achieve for a long time by military means but couldn't push back the rebels so why then do you think that both sides or open to it now well i can only come up with one conclusion one is that turkey really needed an arrangement because it couldn't go on like this the turks have been losing a lot of people i mean they have been invested massively they have struck the syrian regime with all they had artillery drones air force but the turks have been has come under severe pressure and they want to somehow find a face saving temporary solution here and so do the russians i mean the russians haven't suffered much but they have recently in the last couple of days they didn't know what to make of this escalation then they started to put in all their that

package all the air force and support the syrian regime it seems like they really wanted to come to a conclusion and demonstrate to the entire world we are in control of the 2 of us put in and out on we're the ones we're striking the deals with this is not a meeting of 2 equals is it i mean you know i was describing them earlier today is these are 2 leaders you would want to be monarchs but let me putin he certainly has king like powers in authority everyone does not. i'm not so sure about that i'm not an expert in russian domestic politics but i think advani and putin both are uncontested but at the same time are under strong domestic pressure and russia wants to somehow get rid of this problem sooner or later they want to stay in syria they want to have leverage and control over syria but they don't want the situation just like to go on like this and they know they can't kill every single jihad every single revel in it live and for adults on this is a matter of life and death politically so of course you're right they are not equal but i think they want to demonstrate one thing they understand each other very well

and the understand the domestic needs for charades and for spectacular foreign policy and therefore i think the russians can sometimes torture out alone with like the political and was never jealous of well they know each other they read each other psychologically that is certainly true for putin leading out of on but i think to a certain extent it's also the same way the other way around when you look at what everyone has done particularly with saying this past week that you know a 1000000 refugees were headed for the border with europe trying to put pressure on europe hoping that the e.u. and nato will come to his aid in. that hasn't happened i mean he's gotten a lot of pushback from the european union do you think he miscalculated with this. well yes and no of course he knows that europeans responses are slow they're not as emotional as his responses but sometimes also emotions play a major role and specially if we see that what happened at the greek took this

broader we look at the turkish t.v. they're also like trying to to to to exploit the situation to show the gruesome immoral hypocritical europeans trying to fend off a few few migrants from the borders at the same time we know that the bilateral relationship between turkey and greece is really at an all time low but the turks know that emotions also are important to the european politicians european audience no but let's. let's not be too emotional but let's look at what's happening behind the behind the scene i think the european governments especially on a professional level those that have to work with the turks there is very much high hopes that the turks are going to somehow sold the situation out and i think there is no one without you having we need it will do it yes while the nato nato can can support turkey but the turks so far as far as i understand have not asked nato to intervene on their side in syria which would be unrealistic but i think when i talk to foreign policy that's a professionals in western european countries i think there is a certain to

a certain degree still an unbroken solidarity with turkey to the extent that they say like it makes absolutely no sense to alienate the turks and to believe that we can do anything without at least having the side or at least how things to turkish support for a certain extent right then to go look as always it's great to get your insights we appreciate it thank you thank you for. the end result today had its beginnings last summer that was when democratic presidential candidate elizabeth warren emerged as the front runner among what was an unprecedented field of contenders in size gender and diversity looking back it becomes clear that war peaked much too early in the fall in the winter they were not kind to her campaign and this week joe biden he stunned everyone with his super tuesday wins today elizabeth warren called it quits leaving joe biden and bernie sanders to fight it out for the democratic presidential nomination

a bitter moment for the most successful female candidate in the race. my name is elizabeth warren and i'm the woman who is going to be johnny johnny i was that you know that i root for every single day to make sure that this country is living its values i will do my best as president to make you proud of the united states of america you know how. one of the hardest parts of this is all those promises. all those little girls who are going to have to wait 4 more years. that's going to be hard on her and was liz visit there let's take the story now and our correspondents to fonzie once he's following a force from washington d.c.

good evening to you stefan i mean you know regardless of your politics you have to admire elizabeth warren's tenacity and you know and her the fire that she that she has and had but at the end of the day she really had no choice but to quit right. right you nailed it yes she had no choice she got screeched squeezed out by bernie sanders standing for the progressive left. wing or crowd in the democratic party and by joe biden standing for the moderate voters democratic voters within the party and she had no chance and you have those right she was the campaign she led a campaign which was and a jet ache and progress if 1st last 'd year in the summer in the fall and that fell all apart with the dismissal this abysmal performances in the primaries from 3rd place to 4th place to 5th place and then lately and lastly losing her own states to a contender and with that it was over had to be very bitter for her you know she

did not offer and indorsement today she didn't say enders and she didn't offer one to biden is this a case of sour grapes or do you think that warren is is truly torn between what these 2 candidates stand for. yeah i don't think it's star grapes i think. miss warren is known for taking her time and doing some solid soul searching and she has to kind of do this now especially now because you know she puts her organization and all the data voters and followers who she gathered during her campaign into the sanders camp that's good for bernie sanders of course and it would reinforce his stance of he is there progress if antidote. and counter point to donald trump of course but also to joe biden is he going to throw it over

to joe biden then there is a different scenario opening up and then there is the big picture who and that's what she has to decide and that's a tough call for you as a bit warren who is going to be the better choice and option to be the tenant in the new 10 a democratic senate in the house behind me come in november. and there were so many qualified candidates who have dropped out of the race to make room for what basically we have now are 2 politicians of the establishment is donald trump is he responsible for that. i think to a last degree you have basically what it came to look at that there were 20 such thing. contenders in the democratic presidential race down to 2 and they are old and they're all whites and they're all male so that's that's quite a turnaround you know

a 180 degrees from what it was before and he's donald trump partly responsible for this yes because he polarizes and polarization is not only something we experience every day here in the political discourse in america but also in every party except in the republican party but in the democratic party you have this polarization you have the progressive we want to change everything this revolution. bernie sanders and the moderates moderates who say like we don't need this we need somebody who can fight donald trump and still the polarization is there the infighting is there and that's not going to change it's rights revolution or results that's what they've been saying or at a correspondence defines a month on the story for us in washington stefan thank you. for the rapid spread of the coronavirus is posing enormous challenges for governments around the world while makers have to come up with policies to slow down transmissions even though much about the virus remains unknown millions of

people have been put into quarantine mass gatherings have been called all travel restrictions have been put into place in many countries in the u.s. congress has passed an emergency spending bill totaling more than 8000000000 dollars to help deal with the crisis the funds will be used to help authorities prepare for and respond to the coronavirus threads and that includes ramping up testing and working on back scenes and other potential treatments vice president mike pence he is leaving the white house response to the coronavirus let's take a listen to his assessment of the situation to listen. the american people can take some comfort that the reality is today that the risk of the corona virus to the average american remains low and as we continue to take these steps as americans continue to take commonsense practices to protect their own health the health of their family. or work to keep it there right now there is u.s.

vice president mike pence speaking there let's cross now to dr william schaffner he is a professor of preventative medicine at vanderbilt university medical center in the state of tennessee in nashville dr it's good to see you again so we've got u.s. vice president mike pence he's leading the white house coronavirus task force a lot of people around the world i have been perplexed by that how do you feel you as a medical professional how do you feel about a politician with no medical training heading this task force. well brant i think the good news is that he has surrounded himself with absolutely solid professional persons from the c.d.c. and from the national institutes of health so i think he's getting very very solid advice tends to have told the american public that the risks to the average american from the virus remains low do you agree with that.

yes i do i do agree with that but you have to be careful to not just walk on the sunny side of the street we still don't know the exact extent of the corona virus across the united states because we haven't been doing sufficient testing that's just beginning to resolve itself but the others the estimates of how many people will be tested have been that we've heard in the last several days have been overly generous most of us as professionals know this is going to roll out much more slowly yeah i mean it's rolling out slowly. says the the u.s. does not have enough coronavirus tests to meet the anticipation to demand when you put all that together shouldn't the public be worried. well i think the republic the public ought to be observant and watch what's happening i know the professionals are working very hard to roll out these tests so that every state

laboratory will have testing capacity and then furthermore private laboratories are getting their tests submitted to the food and drug administration for approval they will be coming online also gradually in the next couple 3 weeks and once that happens we'll have a much larger testing to pass and we'll need to see whether coronavirus is rice bread in the united states or whether it's focal here and there you know here in europe we've had somewhat of of them in a more lead way than you've had in the united states and in watching this crisis we've seen what happened in china in asia and then we saw what happened here in europe with italy and now we see what's happening in the united states do you think that americans have been adequately informed about basic measures that they can under take to prevent the spread of the corona virus. i think the

communication about those basic measures has been pretty clear and i think it has been well received because we increasingly learn about people who are considering or reconsidering large meetings and such and whether they need to be held is travel really essential and senate ties or can't be bought anymore because they're off the shelves of all the supermarkets so people are getting the word about what it is that they can do to protect themselves and their families and yet we have the same situation here it's impossible to buy hand sanitizer right now here in berlin let me ask you about the health care system the insurance system in the united states song here in europe and we look at the united states you know we're always concerned about the risks that are posed by a system where you have millions of people in the u.s. without medical insurance could that be a problem when trying to stop this virus from spreading oh sure that could be

a problem obviously all hospitals are obliged to provide charity care but that's still kind of a shaky foundation what we hope is that the new monies that are going to be appropriated by the congress and this it ministration some of that will go to clinical care of patients who don't have medical insurance that will we're sure everyone and before we run out of time a doctor a vaccine we've heard that the earliest we can expect one to come out of trials and actually go onto the market would be the beginning of next summer late spring next next year is that the time horizon you're working with as well. well i have my fingers crossed if this scientific evaluation of the vaccine continues in a straight line and everything is successful that will be in a list make records for developing a vaccine but it will take that much time ok well let's hope that we are

a lymphatic champions than next year this time dr william schaffner joining us tonight from vanderbilt university medical center in the state of tennessee dr thank you we appreciate your time tonight a few feet of the weight of it is a few well coronavirus cases in south korea have now ballooned to more than $6000.00 that's the most outside of china enough to fight the virus the country has deployed to keep weapons a rigorous testing system and disinfectant in the capital so clean teams are spring commuter trains and stations and forcing commuters to wear masks or correspondent frank smith since this report. so 3 is transit networks are using strong medicine to combat the deadly coated 90 epidemic special teams are working overtime to sanitize the entirety of so metro with stations prepared to

shut down if anyone with the corona virus is confirmed to have been there and there's a good bit of public outreach going on as well. but among the measures taken by small metro to prevent the spread of the virus are public service announcements in 4 languages promoting containment several times for our commuters are encouraged to wear their mess sanitize their hands and practice healthy safe hygiene. subway authorities have brought in extra staff to cope with decontamination efforts there keeping a watchful eye on overall working conditions. the health of our workers is a top priority also in making sure they weigh mosques and fairly wash their hands and in the course of their work minimize unnecessary contact with passengers through the michaelson was one political solution to the subway rider ship in saul

has significantly dropped since the onset of the virus but commuters have also changed their behavior can be that long as all i find myself avoiding anyone who's coughing and doesn't have a mask on so using the subway has become a bit disturbing and i used to hold on to a handrail but not so much now everything has become more challenging and i think it's. the money knowledgeable kind of thing that few people on the subway now which makes it more comfortable to use but i think about the people who try to come out and how inconvenient that must be to be stuck indoors fisherman had on. the national railway has also seen its ridership and schedule drastically reduced with the government discouraging non-essential travel hygiene is a top priority there too with co rail cleaning its trains several times a day and disinfecting stations on average twice a day. but tonight it will actually prevent the spread of the coronavirus handrails

tables response rooms and other areas that come into frequent contact with passengers authority disinfected in addition. as of monday we are selling window seats 1st to keep passengers as far apart as possible. some government officials had earlier suggested locking down the city of daegu the source of the vast majority of cases now cleanliness containment and mitigation have come to define south korea's strategy against the coronavirus. well the day is almost done but the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either at w news or you can follow me at brant goff t.v. and don't forget to use hash tag the day and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see that if.

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