i'm officially i think the greek coast guard. would not deny that the boat seen in these videos of greek coast guard vessels but i think also the greek government hasn't made any secret of the fact that it is looking at new tactics because it's dealing with a new situation yesterday the migration minister very clearly said on national television the following. the holy navy and the coast could have prevented many many cases of migrants crossing the. maritime borders prevention at sea is not a straight forward saying if it can be a very dangerous thing one can easily imagine the sorts of tactics being involved in preventing the numbers of those from climbing to 2015 levels which is the goal of the greek coast guard here and turkey is vowing to keep up its attacks on syrian government forces trying to battle their way into it labe unless they hold their advance but president says he's hopeful they can soon be a cease fire turkey has stepped up its military operations just over the syrian border after more than 30 of its troops were

on officially i think the greek coast guard. would not deny that the boat seen in these videos that you've just shown are greek coast guard vessels but i think also of the greek government hasn't made any secret of the fact that it is looking at new tactics because it's dealing with a new situation yesterday the migration minister very clearly said on national television the following the hellenic navy and the coast could have prevented many many cases of migrants crossing. maritime borders prevention at sea is not a straight forward saying if it can be a very dangerous thing one can easily imagine the sorts of tactics being involved in preventing the numbers of pows from climbing to 2015 levels which is the goal of the greek coast guard here vali thank you for that update john strapless live for us on the sign and. in afghanistan police say at least 3 people have died and 11 have been injured in a blast in the southeastern province of cost there is no immediate came of responsibility the attack follows a u.s. taliban agreement a

going take this is al jazeera live from london also coming up turkey's coast guard releases video showing what appears to be the greek coast guard firing on a refugee boat in the aegean sea. turkey's president is accused of using the refugee crisis as leverage to force europe to support his cereal. and a 3rd israeli election in less than a year this be the one that finally breaks the political deadlock. and it would begin with the corona virus outbreak and data from the world health organization which shows the virus is now advancing faster in countries other than china new cases in china dropped to their lowest levels in 6 weeks on monday but continue to rise in south korea italy and iran senegal saudi arabia june is year jordan and indonesia are the most recent countries to detect cases of the disease the great show says the best defense is still containment. in the last 24 hours that with almost 9 times more cases reported outside china. inside china we are in unchartered territory we have never seen before just respiratory partridge and that's capable of community transmission but at the same time which can also

because the border was closed this video released by the turkish government suggests that the greek coast guard is no longer conducting just search and rescue missions but actively repelling boatloads of migrants greek coast guard vessels can be seen driving perilously close to small dinghies at another point it appears shots are fired into the water greece has released video that appears to show turkish coast guard vessels accompanying migrant boats to greek waters rather than holding them back until now greece and turkey were both working to keep undocumented migrants out of europe turkey's suspension of that arrangement has led to the suspension of other international norms greece has declared emergency measures it says it will stop receiving asylum applications for one month and in many cases it will turn around undocumented migrants and send them home without the usual reception and identification procedures so it will be as though these people were never here gree says these new arrivals aren't individual applicants but part of an organized policy so international asylum law doesn't apply

gene sea pose a major humanitarian crisis a disaster could be looming given the fact that the greek coast guard are robustly pushing back these boats we've seen video images of. greek coast guard ships cutting across these very flimsy boats and i think the fear on chris part is that at some point there's going to be a disaster dozens of people possibly could drown children and that could result in even more pushback against also i think possibly could be a small gesture on president urged once part he's going to go to brussels on monday and this could be a gesture to brussels ahead of that visit yeah exactly he's going to brussels what do you figure he's going to ask for any indications of what he might be requesting from european officials. why ankara has deployed this open door policy of its fronted to greece in the european union is to force european union to address our grievances over the migrant crisis it is complained that brussels has largely ignored the growing complaints among crow and not enough money now that this will money that is coming from brussels has been frozen now as one wi

repelled at sea turkey released this footage of the coastal city of bodrum say it shows a greek coast guard pushing back a boat filled with migrants it's one of the tactics we call thirty's are using off to turkey opened its border allowing migrants to try and enter the e.u. 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 hear to greet 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 obeyed. we'll keep waiting here because we left our homes those of us who have 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 well i'm a lot. 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 t

then the greek coast guard tries another tactic to push a dinghy full of people back to turkey. since sunday morning more than a thousand migrants have landed on greek islands. adult the tacky lifted border restrictions on thursday more than ten thousand reach the land borders with greece and bulgaria. president edwin once the e. you to take on more of a share of refugees. the number of those who headed to europe has reached hundreds of thousands in the loop the other losers. there will be more. i most. soon this number will be in the millions. but using turkey of deliberately driving migrants across the border greece has suspended all asylum applications for a month. toby you officials will head to greece on tuesday the nation turkey is in a difficult situation- concerning the- with regards to- the refugees and the migrants but- what we s see now cannot be an answer or solution. i under twenty sixteen deal turkey's meant to stop the flow of migrants to the e. u. in exchange for billions of euros. turkey now hosts some four million refugees most of whom assyrian and another milli

turkey's coast guard releases a video showing what appears to be the greek coast guard firing on a refugee boat in eugene see. turkey's president is accused of using the refugee crisis as leverage to force europe to support his syria operation. exit polls suggest benjamin netanyahu has likud party has won the most seats in israel's parliament and is within grasp of a governing majority. coming up in support form a little poor i mean when footballer daniel sturridge says he'll campaign against basing company practices of the being banned for breaching rules on gambling. so we begin with the current virus outbreak and data from the world health organization which shows the virus is now advancing faster in countries other than china new cases in china dropped to their lowest levels in 6 weeks on monday but continue to rise in south korea italy and iran senegal saudi arabia to nazir jordan and indonesia are the most recent countries to detect cases of the disease but every it shows has the best defense is still containment. in the last 24 hours there with almost 9 times more cases reported out

it shows a greek coast guard pushing back a boat filled with migrants.t is one of the tactics the greek authorities are using. greece says it has stopped almost 10,000 attempted crossings over a 24 hour period. they fired tear gas to disperse the crowds gathering at the border fences. the migrants can hear the greek border authorities across the river telling them to go back. the borders are closed. it is not a command that is likely to be obeyed. >> we will keep waiting here because we left our homes. those of us who had homes. if we have to go back, we will have to sleep in the streets. what can we do? we are stuck herere. we cannot t go back home. >> on sunday, some groups tried a hazardous route across the river with some success. greece accuses ankara of organizing a campaign to push people through their border. this migrant from cameroon waded across the river to reach greece. she was t taken by bus from istanbul to the turkish border. >> many peoplple. president erdogan told us -- [indiscernible] >> greek police were waiting on the other said. ger

and they clearly have a political interest right now sharing such videos but then again greek border guards the coast guard they clearly have orders of absolutely not tolerating any illegal crossings they have fired tear gas at people at one border crossing where i've just been in the past days if used water cannon and i also got some information today that i think is worrying it's coming from local producers in the area from fellow journalists and they said some refugees on a boat have reached out to them and these refugees said that they were intercepted stopped by the grae coast guard the guards then jumped into their boat took off the engine of the boat and dumped the engine into the water then they pushed this boat back to the turkish coast these refugees they were terrified because they couldn't make it to the coast without. a motor in an engine in their boat so they were trying and get some help in the end somebody called the turkish coast guard and coast guard and they came they help the refugees this is the stuff being and you know if confirmed these illegal pushbacks at an e.u. border they

was allegedly shot by grieco border border guards and greek authorities claim this is false propaganda by turkey but then there's also other videos of greek coast guard for example happening yesterday . trying to. intimidate a rubber boats trying to cross to 2 to the greek islands shooting into the water beating passengers with with with with canes so there is it's quite aggressive behavior max thanks so much for that from across the knees on the greek side of the turkish greek border. well finance ministers and heads of central banks from the g 7 nations are to hold talks today on measures to reduce the impact of the coronavirus the number factions is on the rise around the world and the world health organization has said we are in quote charted territory although it also maintains that the outbreak can still be contained to told number infections worldwide it is now at over 90000 nearly 5000 of those cases are in south korea it is the 2nd hardest hit country after china worldwide more than 3000 people have now died officials in italy it is the worst hit country in europe say the number of deaths has jumped from 34 to 52 however the number of

repelled at sea turkey released this footage of the coastal city of bodrum say it shows a greek coast guard pushing back a boat filled with migrants it's one of the tactics greek authorities are using after turkey opened its border allowing migrants to try and enter the e.u. 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 obeyed. we'll keep waiting here because we left our homes those of us who had homes whenever 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 s

our intake this is al jazeera live from london also coming up turkey's coast guard releases video showing what appears to be the greek coast guard firing on a refugee boat in the aegean sea. turkey's president is a key.

their work tensions are also rising between athens and ankara footage allegedly showing the greek coast guard firing warning shots towards a refugee boat was released by turkey. greece then accuse the turkish coast guard of escorting migrant dinghies into greek waters a tit for tat response as the 2 countries struggle to cope with a growing wave of refugees. let's get you briefed on some of the other stories making the news today israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has claimed victory in his country's general election but exit polls indicate his likud party and its allies will likely fall short of a parliamentary majority final results are due to be announced later today this was israel's 3rd largest in less than a year. in brazil flooding caused by heavy rainfall has killed at least 4 people in affected hundreds of others in rio de janeiro in the west of that city the delos dragged away cars water and mud levels above one meter flooded a number of homes and businesses. finance ministers and the heads of the central banks from the g 7 nations are to hold talks later today on measures to

crisis occurring hey given the fact that these people are crossing in very flimsy boats the greek coast guard are taking a very robust response we've seen images of them using their ships the culture across the ships to prevent these boats from entering territorial waters and could be fairing that that could lead to a major crash disaster thousands of people possibly drowning women children and fact the 3rd isolate in the international community given there is growing growing pushback against also it could be a factor that is expected to go to brussels on monday and it could be a just a gesture to brussels ahead of that visit. you mentioned earlier going to brussels that he's announced that he does visit on monday what's his aim exactly. well i think that it's this the policy of opening up its borders to migrants into europe and provoking this crisis is on calculation that they want to put the migration crisis the top of brussels agenda they've been very critical saying that brussels was ignoring turkey's grievances will be looking for money current funds to from brussels to turkey have been

because the border was closed this video released by the turkish government suggests that the greek coast guard is no longer conducting just search and rescue missions but actively repelling boatloads of migrants greek coast guard vessels can be seen driving perilously close to a small dinghy. at another point it appears shots are fired into the water greece has released video that appears to show turkish coast guard vessels accompanying migrant boats to greek waters rather than holding them back until now greece and turkey were both working to keep undocumented migrants out of europe turkey's suspension of that arrangement has led to the suspension of other international norms greece has declared emergency measures it says it will stop receiving asylum applications for one month and in many cases it will turn around on documented migrants and send them home without the usual reception and identification procedures so it will be as though these people were never here gree says these new arrivals on to individual applicants but part of an organized policy so international asylum law doesn't appl

laura: shocking new pictures have emerged of greek coast guard's shooting into the water and p usiroloats to push away dinghies full of migrants. here is jonah fischer. n jonah: ie eastern aegean, grant lives are bargaini chips, and she. -- cheap. this was filmed by the turkish coast guard, and shows greek boats trying to stop a pact dinghy of migrants brging europe. imagine the fear on board. unwanted by turkey or by greece. those are warning shots being fired at a flimsinflatable dinghy. not everyone makes it. just this morning, young migrant boy drowned when his dinghy, a different ohe, that size. is one of the rising number who have, wit' turkes encouragement, tried to reach e greek islands over the last few days. quthe direct human conce of istanbul's demand that europe in syria.s aid greece has changed the rules so that if mrants get caught now, they don't get processed here, ey get sent straight back. it means some of them are hiding. we have just seen what looks like a couple of migrants over here. they have run off, and we eventually find them hiding in some bushes. >another

agency workers got a hold of footage released by the turkish authorities which they say shows the greek coast guard pushing back a boat filled with migrants so i don't know if you can see this but it's a pretty heavy handed way of the going about this yulia how has it come to this. oh yes these pictures are deeply disturbing turkish authorities have shared the pictures with journalists they claim they with filmed of a boardroom at the turkish coast which is very close to the greek island of kos this morning now. a word of caution here because this footage is coming from the turkish authorities and they clearly have a political interest right now sharing such videos but then again greek border guards the coast guard they clearly have orders of absolutely not tolerating any illegal crossings they have fired tear gas at people at one border crossing where i've just been in the past days if used water cannon and i also got some information today that i think is worrying it's coming from local producers in the area from fellow journalists and they said some refugees on a boat have reached out to them an

it is indeed the greek coast guard has confirmed the death of that one child the coast guard's accounts of this and counter is that the migrant vessel rubber dinghy approached the water line of greek turkish territorial waters accompanied by a turkish coast guard vessel which then turned away after it had insured that they had crossed over into greek waters following that the greek coast guard says the people who were on the boat capsized it deliberately in order to be saved at sea in accordance with the international law of the sea because under those circumstances once you have people in the water without a boat. the international law of the sea obliges you to conduct a rescue operation this was done 46 of the 48 people the coast guard says were rescued in good condition 2 children were brought ashore in critical condition one of them was confirmed dead at the hospital we've also had another both arrival on the north shores of the island which we will visit shortly and we've heard about 2 both arrivals in the south a.j. and near the island of kos the lows of it isn't the quote the num

their work tensions are also rising between athens and ankara footage allegedly showing the greek coast guard firing warning shots towards a refugee boat was released by turkey. greece then accused the turkish coast guard of escorting migrant dinghies into greek waters a tit for tat response as the 2 countries struggle to cope with a growing wave of refugees. to the us now democratic presidential candidate joe biden has gotten a big boost ahead of super tuesday former candidates better or work any club char and pete booted judge have all endorsed spite and ahead of today's key slate of primaries democrats and republicans nominate their presidential candidates through primaries and caucuses there is little doubt the donald trump will win the republican nomination but joe biden is one of 5 candidates still in the running for the democratic nomination so what is unique about super tuesday well it's the most important of all the primaries because people in 14 states will be voting and under the current system the more votes a candidate gets the more delegates there are awarded the states with the

the 1st my current crisis this time there is less of a welcome video has emerged showing the greek coast guard firing on my current boats. hit on with the land border there are accusations of brute force old annoyed by the greek authorities even germany is warning migrants not to come there is no point in coming to germany we cannot tell you when in germany everyone agrees something like the 20152016 crosses must not be repeated but that decision has been criticized by some quips in germany with protests demanding that the borders are kept take but 5 years ago. being welcomed by some e.u. leaders chancellor angela merkel famously said that they could come to germany and more than a 1000000 date now there was a steady stream of my currency teaching children and the elderly but the vast majority without a doubt way you. man many from countries like afghanistan and pakistan who appear to have heard merkel's invite and took their chance for a better life in europe the migrant crisis has since been a source of tension between e.u. members the open borders within the bloc were brought into question