and turkey's defense ministry says 2 of the soldiers have been killed in serious in the province during an attack by government forces dozens of turkish soldiers have died since uncorrupt began a military campaign in a the last month. or the e.u. has promised almost $800000000.00 to support greece and says tens of thousands of refugees and migrants gather on the country's border with turkey e.u. officials met the greek prime minister who showed them the extent of the crisis turkey has announced it will no longer stop people trying to reach europe going against a deal brokered with the e.u. in 2016 the situation at our border is not only greece issue to manage it is a responsible responsibility of europe as a whole and we will manage it in an orderly way with your nitty solidarity and determination. those who seek to test europe's unity will be disappointed we will hold the line and our unity will prevail now is the time of for concerted action and cool hads and acting based on our values turkey is not an enemy and people are not just means to reach a goal. well that's a good name as in

it's african country that's fired at the government and the security officials including the defense ministry have been emphasizing that this is necessary for turkey's security and for its features and they have been very vocal about the spencer presence as there are news of bought soldiers being killed during the clashes and sides and they are getting more vocal and add on's speech actually the beginning of his speech targeted at the opposition party and the other parties to oppose them madden said that so far at least 3200 syrian government forces have been killed 160 tanks 100 x. their units 3 war planes 8 helicopters 87 air defense systems and several ammunitions emanation depots have been destroyed he tried to give a message that he gave a huge harm to syrian government forces military capability and capacity and he says the syrian people civilians will be a will be acting against will be standing up against the syrian government's. frost's things inside that he says that turkey is there for both civilians and for its border security because turkey is already hosting about 4000000 syrian

and turkey's defense ministry says 2 of its soldiers have been killed in syria's problems in an attack by government forces turkish forces retaliated by striking syrian military targets dozens of turkish soldiers have been killed in italy in the past month but turkey's president he is vowing to continue the offensive. or show you know one of our martyrs none of our veterans and none of their blood none of their drops of blood will be in vain we are going to continue our struggle as we aimed in hopefully with the help of god we're going to build a strong turkish republic here's how he is in the turkish city of time to talk more about this not only is president not backing down hashan but he seems to be or both sides in to be getting closer to this sort of direct confrontation between turkey and russia over syria indeed come out 24 hours before the question meeting between president abdullah and puts him in moscow about defusing tension what we've been seeing is basically an escalation of rhetoric but also but also an affiliation of the fighting there are 2 things happening as we speak i

has dismissed reports its border security is shot dead a migrant on the battlefront turkey's defense ministry has confirmed 2 of its soldiers were killed and serious in the province turkish forces retaliated by striking syrian regime military targets the ongoing violence is also causing tension. between russia and turkey russian president vladimir putin will host his turkish counterpart in moscow on thursday to discuss the developments in syria let's bring in hashem alba who joins us live from hard time near the turkey syria border hashem just 1st off bring us up to speed with what's happening on the ground there what are the on the ground kim the situation that remains quite tense with escalation in different areas there's been ongoing fighting around. the strategic city which is now partially under the control of the syrian government by the rebels that's why tokio are launching a counter offensive and they say that they are determined to take it back because the city is located on the strategic 5 an m 4 highways that links the capital damascus to aleppo and north eastern. syria and this is

turkey's defense ministry says 2 of its soldiers have been killed in syria's edler province in an attack by government forces turkish forces retaliated by striking syrian military targets 59 turkish soldiers have been killed in it live since uncorrupt began its military campaign last month also he's president has voted to continue the offensive on low. or shaky none of our martyrs none of our veterans and none of their blood none of their drops of blood will be in vain we are going to continue our struggle as we aimed and hopefully with the help of god we're going to build a strong turkish republic. and russia is accusing turkey of breaking an agreement to create a demilitarized zone in northern syria and helping board it calls terrorist groups in the province where turkey hasn't yet coleman says on that accusation it comes 24 hours before turkey's president is jus in moscow for talks with lots of new putin with the turks and russians have conclusive than ever to direct confrontation in syria in the past few days let's get more now from c.n.n. cause she joins me live from the turkey syri

the turkish defense ministry announced that they shut up plane along with some drones and tanks and other military vehicles all to syria and they hit those military vehicles it's throughout to operation that was conducted in the framework of a spring shield operation over the last 24 hours and the defense ministry said that there are at these $350.00 casualties among the syrian government as soldiers and it will peroration which is after it which is named after favorites went to sell one that. they were to answer to treat turkish soldiers were killed maimed us bring spring shield operation which meant to protect civilians it is still on their way and the turkish military is aiming to destroy more military capacity of the syrian government forces right ahead of a meeting between turkish president rejects a baton and his russian counterpart vladimir putin next thursday which is in 2 days because turkey wants to have an upper hand on the diplomatic table and by pushing the syrian government forces it to the corner because in many believe that the syrian government and most school also suffer

more than 4800 tonnes significantly more than died in china and russia stepping in to help the defense ministry it will be sending a planeload of disinfection equipment along with a teams of viral just to italy starting on sunday r.g.c. goes on i'm joined me earlier in the studio with the details. there is no other place in the world where it is as bad as it is in italy right now so amid this crisis russia is indeed going to help out so what is it doing firstly moscow will be sending personal protection to italians such things as mosques for example also russia is promising to ship mobile disinfection units truck based essentially so that italians can air assault the streets with in fact and spray also russia will be sending some medical equipment to help diagnose and treat more italians all of that will be it will be shipped through the russian defense ministry in this small school is joining beijing's efforts china has already promised to to help out italians china being the 1st country the origin country of the covert 19 so obviously they have right now they have way more experience with dea

diagnose and treat more italians all of that will be it will be shipped through the russian defense ministry in this small school is joining beijing's efforts china has already promised to help out italians china being the 1st country origin country of the covert 19 so obviously they have right now they have way more experience with dealing and containing this disease than any other country in the world and the situation in italy is indeed for instance some italians have been massively outraged when it was revealed that their country allowed the united states to ship out of italy and into tennessee. almost half a 1000000 of covert 1000 testing kids italians saying that how can this be going on when they are dying by the hundreds in italy and there's not enough means to help the italians and their government is giving in just giving it away in the past 24 hours alone almost 800 italians have died let the let the figures sink in for a moment in just the past 24 hours now this number is particularly large because italy is stressing that they are counting not just those who were killed by covert

this is very much public relations public affairs campaign on part of the supreme leader the defense ministry has been manufacturing masks and other medical supplies including test kits and hands and it's us or the army has been out on the street sanitizing the capitals of different provinces with equipment meant to find at least 25 people have been killed and dozens of buildings destroyed as tornadoes ripped across the u.s. state of tennessee it was one of the states voting on so that she's say one of the twisters cause widespread damage in the city of nashville shot bennis has more. in airy cool to take shelter for tennessee residents the siren rules of illumine tornadoes. this is one moving through downtown nashville but there were multiple tornadoes early tuesday morning throughout the state of tennessee oh my god the other building right next to us was blown off in our rough for our wall mendoza. bar the hotel below us was ripped off and stuff and. there is 3 sheriff. they live tens of thousands without power as the winds damaged and the trick of the put mint that lit up the sky well the

well according to the turkish defense ministry the plane was shut down today it. it was shut down today actually during an operation that was conducted by the turkish armed forces overnight and along with that plane there are drones that have been shot that there are tanks of the syrian government forces that have been hit by the turkish armed forces right ahead of turkish president jeopardize meeting with the russian president in moscow on march 5 it seems turkey is trying to push more on the military level to gain leverage on the political side especially on the diplomatic table because turkey is aiming to hurt and actually give harm to syrian government's military intervention a military equipment and military personnel as good as the syrian government also has been suffering from a dire economic situation of course while these are going inside syria hala there is a delegation from the united states here right now they are meeting with the turkish officials. and local governors building the turkish officials are giving our briefing the u.s. delegation about the

example the kurds tends to get the finance ministry the sunnis get together tend to get the defense ministry and the shia for example get to have control over the ministry of interior and that control over these ministries is seen as a way for these political parties to wield their power and also to get access to resources and what allow you try to do is appoint candidates who aren't from these political parties who aren't beholden to their interests and that's something that was not accepted across the entire political spectrum we had the kurds and the sunnis who are very early on rejected that idea because these are already minorities and for them having those cabinet positions is seen as a way to try to hang on to whatever political power to have here in baghdad but also fail to get the support from the shia political parties we saw in the past to parliamentary sessions that there was no quorum that was reached and that was what eventually forced him to withdraw his candidacy. peeper judge has ended his bid to become u.s. president he told his democratic party supporters in indiana he no

with the civilians that's why a much longer route was completed about in 3 kilometers turkish defense ministry we are delivered a statement saying that the 1st joint battle has been handled by the russians with the participation of the land and the air forces but the russian defense ministry had a statement saying that they are expecting the turks to eliminate the what they call radical elements inside at that so this is again a very fragile process both for turkey and russia because the civilian seemed to be not happy about the cease fire deal that was signed on march 6th between turks and russians but the russians and turks are trying to keep the cease fire holding. for future there but of course when it comes to the syrian opposition groups inside it that it turkey has a critical position because it has observation observation post inside of the both down below them for haifa a highway and a border and for highway this is a for this is going to be a tough process for turkey and took it wants to keep its military presence but if the syrian opposition groups be a main. the group called h d s

so turkey's defense ministry says 2 of its soldiers have been killed in syria's province in an attack by government forces turkish forces retaliated by striking syrian military targets $59.00 turkish soldiers have now been killed in a lab since ankara began its military campaign last month because president has vowed to continue the offensive. or show you none of our martyrs none of our veterans and none of their blood none of their drops of blood will be in vain we are going to continue our struggle as we aimed and hopefully with the help of god we're going to. build a strong turkish republic and in addition to that russia is accusing turkey of breaking an agreement to create a demilitarized zone in northern syria and help in what it calls terrorist groups in italy province so he hasn't yet commented on that accusation but it does come 24 hours before turkey's president is in moscow for talks with that amir pugin the turks and the russians have come closer than ever to direct confrontation in syria in just the past few days. cynical so early with us now from. the turkish syrian borde

crossing on the take in syria border poured into the turkish defense ministry the plane was shut down today. it was shut down today actually during an operation that was conducted by the turkish armed forces overnight and along with that plane there are drones that have been shot that there are tanks of the syrian government forces that have been hit by the turkish armed forces right ahead of turkish president joe biden's meeting with the russian president in moscow on march 5 meanwhile greece has denied allegations from turkey that its border forces fired on refugees and migrants calling it deliberate misinformation however greece has increased its border security after turkey declared it would no longer try to stop people from reaching the european union thousands of people have been trying to make that crossing matushka name is there for us. once these migrants and refugees behind me left their country they're used to being mistreated to having to wait for long periods of time not knowing what's next and they're used to being patient but they're telling us stories that show and exp

getting ready to help in times of crisis above all they will support hospitals according to the defense ministry the bonus ferries are already securing masts protective clothing and medicine public transport is to be partially reduced in the coming week with schools closed and a lack of daycare options many parents won't be able to go to work. german interior minister hornsey ho for has also been announcing restrictions here in germany and we spoke to our correspondent william glu crossed shortly after the minister spoke germany's interior minister horse a offer just finished a press conference along with officials other officials of the german government outlining what is going to happen come into force starting monday morning at 8 am that is when border restrictions for france austria switzerland denmark and luxembourg are going to come into force he noted that goods and commuters will continue to pass through the border as they have been he noted germany's reliance on exporting goods for a large part of its economy is as a good reason for allowing goods to continue going back and forth but no

getting ready to help in times of crisis above all they will support hospitals according to the defense ministry but bonus fare is already securing masts protective clothing and medicine public transport is to be partially reduced in the coming week with schools closed and a lack of daycare options many parents won't be able to go to work. we move now to other kovan 1000 hotspots in europe like spain and france which are among the worst affected by the outbreak both countries have imposed severe restrictions on public life there following the italy's lead and have announced nationwide bans on public gatherings shuttering non-essential businesses spain is in near total lockdown police are patrolling the streets of madrid sending people home who refused to obey orders to self isolate $47000000.00 spaniards are now banned from leaving their homes for the next 2 weeks after the prime minister declared a state of emergency more than 280 people have died in spain making it the 2nd worst affected country in europe. our correspondent marcus burnished is in the spanish capital he sent us this summary of

in spain the defense ministry says soldiers helping to fight the pandemic have found elderly patients in retirement homes abandoned and in some cases dead in their beds prosecutors have launched an investigation we'll have more about that in a moment but 1st our correspondent philip schultz has been listening to help spanish people have been coping with more than a week in lockdown. otherwise empty city center. the capital of. the fight against the spread of the coronavirus the spanish government just relying on spaniards common sense as well as widespread policing of public spaces the national director of police says there will be 0 tolerance even of mind breaches of the curfew as this police video shows even drones are being used to enforce the knock down this level of policing used to be unimaginable in europe on the square behind me hundreds of people would meet at this time of the day to have together life on the streets is an essential part of the spanish way off life that makes the discipline that the spaniards have been showing for more than a week now all the more remarkable

planes landing in italy was sent directly to us and to many other media outlets by the russian defense ministry in an operation dubbed from russia with love moscow has provided italy with special disinfection vehicles medical equipment and around 100 military specialists they reportedly have 1st hand experience fighting outbreaks of other infectious diseases . russian authorities may be keen on showing off their aid operations but in moscow not everyone agrees with the government's policy even if so far only a few 100 cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed and russia itself should be should have everyone in but we need to help our own country 1st. we have to help everyone we can whether it's syria or it's really because the good the river out welcome back to us. makes me want to just russia have enough ospital does russia pay it start to snuff what you will which i don't understand why we are helping europe was it your. butt on state t.v. for aid from russia and china is presented as a moral victory over the e.u. . this is essentially a collatz of the european idea in transition to a diff

on al-jazeera i'm come all santa maria and these are the headlines turkey's defense ministry says 2 of its soldiers have been killed in syria's province and an attack by government forces turkish forces retaliated by striking syrian military targets okies president has now found to continue the offensive. or show you none of our martyrs none of our veterans and none of their blood none of their drops of blood will be in vain we are going to continue our struggle as we aimed and hopefully with the help of god we're going to build a strong turkish republic also russia is accusing turkey of breaking an agreement to create a demilitarized zone in northern syria and helping what it calls terrorist groups in the province take has not yet commented on that accusation the turks and the russians of come closer than ever to direct confrontation in syria in the past few days their presidents often meet in moscow on thursday and meanwhile turkey and greece have exchanged accusations over a crisis at fan border as thousands of people try to cross into the e.u. greece accuses migrants of using milit

that is according to the south korean defense ministry. it says they were launched from the eastern city of wonsan and they are believed to be part of the military drills which kim oversaw himself on friday. japan saws no damage from the launch has been reported. we are following breaking news out of the philippines where a hostage situation is underway at a shopping mall. the mayor of san juan city says about 30 people are being held in manila by a former security guard right now. one person has been shot and is in stable condition. we will, of course, continue to bring you the very latest on this story as those developments come in to us. >>> well, democrat pete buttigieg has dropped out of the u.s. presidential race. he broke the news sunday evening to his supporters in his hometown of south bend, indiana. buttigieg was the first gay candidate to earn presidential primary delegates for a major party's nomination. but he struggled to reach voters of color. a key democratic base. still, buttigieg surprised many with his strong showing in

that is according to the south korean defense ministry. our will ripley has reported from north korea times in recent years and he joins us live now from tokyo. good to see you, will. so when might we learn more about these two projectiles? and what signal is kim jong un trying to send right now, do you think? >> hi, rose mary. well, certainly, whenever north korea conducts a test like this, there is a message behind it. a message aimed at the internal domestic audience inside north korea and a message aimed at the rest of the world. now, these are the first launches of their kind this year. but this is something that we saw north korea do repeatedly last year. and it's also something that we know the united states is not particularly concerned about. even though south korea, certainly, is paying very close attention because a weapon with this kind of a range could target tens of millions of people in south korea. including u.s. troops who are stationed in that country. but right now, the world's focus really isn't on north korea or its mi

turkish defense ministry says a warplane of syrian forces has been shut down. turkey launched a military offensive last week in northwestern syria, to push back government forces looking to retake the rebel stronghold. our reporter told us more from the turkey-syria border. reporter: after a relative low infighting that lasted about 24 hours, starting sunday night, violence has picked up again in idlib province-- in province, with a syrian jet shot down as the syria national agency says that attack was the result of turkish forces. no confirmation yet from turkish authorities, we know that a model of that train was particularly vulnerable to detection from the aerial defense systems on the ground. idlib,le, in the city of an explosion killed and injured civilians. no word yet on the number of those casualties. and a tank belonging to pro-assad factions was destroyed by a rebel group supported by turkey in the eastern part of the idlib province. this is taking place as this tuesday the turkish parliament is holding a closed door with the session defense minister

japanese defense ministry sources say the incident occurred about 650 kilometers west of kagoshima's island on monday night. the sources say no one a aboard the e destroyeyer suffered inju. the 13 crew members of t the fishing boat appear to be unharmed. the destroyer sustained a one-meter-long gash in its port side but is still capable of sailing. the ministry is looking into the incident. >> people in the u.s. ststate o arkansas are dealing with the aftermath of a powerful tornado. our meteorologist sayaka mori has the details. >> hello there. on s saturday, over 20 reports tornadoes were reported across the eastern half of the united states and the strongest one hit jonesboro, arkansas. take a look at this video. this is the tornado that ripped through arkansas on saturday evening. officials said there were no deaths, but 22 people have been injured. local media says a mall was severely damaged but was almost empty due to concerns over the coronavirus. now, the system has pulled away, but this is the radar when the storm hit jonesboro. you can see a line of thunderstorms drifting

defense ministry the door wish to get into any confrontation with the russians but however every action which is going to be taken from out on was is going to be considered as an act of self-defense this is all the asli an indication of a skill ation in different parts of syria particularly in the northwestern part of course we're seeing or hearing more about a syrian offensive in and around data. exactly so this is exactly what is happening as this is further increasing in done our province the syrian government has launched today an offensive to take over the city of southern maine a sudden has been a major opposition stronghold that are widely seen by the syrians of the as the birthplace of the 2011 freising however in 2017 when the syrian government backed by russia started to gain control they signed we conciliation agreements with the opposition and one of those agreements was about defusing tension in our side i mean that didn't work the government failed to bridge build bridges and win the hearts and minds of the people today they said it's about time to take over the city but w

with the civilians that's why a much longer route was completed about in 3 kilometers turkish defense ministry earlier delivered a statement saying that the 1st joint battle has been handled by the russians with the participation of the land and air forces but the russian defense ministry has a statement saying that they are expecting the turks to eliminate their what they call radical elements inside at them so this is again a very fragile process both for turkey and russia because the civilian seem to be not happy about the cease fire deal that was signed but of course when it comes to the syrian opposition groups inside the it turkey has a critical position because it has observation posts inside of the both down below the m 4 highway and a border war highway this is going to be a tough process for to keep and so to wants to keep its ministry presence but if the syrian opposition groups in mainly in the group called. it continues to be against this cease fire signed between turkey and russia turkey might need to be. might need to make a choice between the opposition group and the russian si

your challenges there are a minder of our top stories this hour turkey's defense ministry says 2 turkish soldiers have been killed in syria's made their province during an attack by government forces a total of $59.00 turkish soldiers have died in the past month. turkey and greece a trading accusations about the growing crisis for thousands of refugees and migrants trying to get into the european union precinct uses some migrants of using military grade tear gas and denies turkish allegations of causing injuries by stopping them from crossing the border. at least government is planning to close all schools and universities until at least the middle of the month struggles to contain the corona virus outbreak as li has 2 and a half 1000 confirmed infections the world's 3rd largest concentration of cases. and democratic presidential hopeful mike bloomberg has dropped out of the race for the white house the billionaire has now endorsed joe biden. 3 separate attacks in northern afghanistan have killed at least 900 soldiers and police 15 soldiers were killed province 4 policemen died in a 2nd

bombers and also helicopters its missiles can reach targets of up to 6 kilometers away the german defense ministry in response has admitted that there might have been a mistake while destroying its computers. the old computer is used for the fasces have all been decommissioned and sent for recycling with orders to raise or render existence storage media usable it can be assumed that america during the recycling of the computer in question it's very embarrassing if the laptop was really quite old it was running windows 2000 the dot on it that about time cybersecurity wasn't as big an issue as that as it is today and putting it into context it was at the lowest classifications but none of that's an excuse this should not have happened hard drives are usually taken out of military computers before they're sold on and the hard drives are destroyed separately this clearly hasn't happened here there is a danger posed definitely because it's giving away some of the technical background to the air defense system and people don't realize how much that can survive for long periods of time and short cuts are

turkey's defense ministry says 2 of its soldiers have been killed in syria's province and an attack by government forces turkish forces retaliated by striking syrian military targets okies president has now vowed to continue the offensive. or show you none of our martyrs none of our veterans and none of their blood none of their drops of blood will be in vain we are going to continue our struggle as we aimed and hopefully with the help of god we're going to build a strong turkish republic also russia is accusing turkey of breaking an agreement to create a demilitarized zone in.

the russian defense ministry broke down what is on board the parade of giant by l. $76.00 military aircraft the military transport aircraft of the russian air forces will deliver to the republic 8 mobile teams of russian military specialists by religious and doctors automobile complexes for aerosol disinfection of transport and territory as well as medical equipment among the doctors and scientists are some of russia's top minds military specials who've had 1st hand experience fighting breaks of disease in africa such as swine fever and anthrax some even helped develop in a bowl of vaccine these experts will be working with cuban medical specialists who are already helping italian doctors although the spread of the virus seems to be slowing the challenges in italy remain containing covert 900 and dealing with the high number of cases the country has more than 63000 confirmed cases of corona virus in just a little over 6000 deaths so far more than 7000 people have recovered from the illness italy stepped up its lockdown measures this past weekend now ordering all industrial production and al

lanka is postponing parliamentary elections that were due to be held on april 25th the british defense ministry says $20000.00 military personnel will be on standby to support efforts to tackle the virus meanwhile france has reported a significant spike in coronavirus deaths its death toll jumped by 89 to 264 people on wednesday and russia has confirmed its 1st death the patient was a 79 year old woman who died in moscow from pneumonia right on top of the self isolation and social distancing measures of people around the world are practicing right now there are some simple hygiene guidelines to follow that can help stop the virus from spreading take a look wash your hands with soap and water and do it often keep going for at least 20 seconds especially after you've been in a public place alcohol based hand sanitizers are a good alternative if you cough or sneeze cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or use the inside of your elbow throw away used to shoes and don't use them twice after blowing your nose coughing or sneezing wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds clean and