special envoy to syria james jeffrey who's the former ambassador to turkey is with the delegation and u.n. ambassador u.s. ambassador to the u.n. a kelly craft is indeed allegation among with some others plus the american media members in their pool they are holding talks with the ngo representatives along with some officials and today they will be here in where i am standing in they call it buffer zone is actually the transfer point between 2 border gates soon very good and barbara how well and the u.s. delegation is going to come here they will be meeting with the white helmets the one of the prominent rescue groups inside there and the purpose of the wizards is actually the humanitarian tragedy inside syria because the latest assault by the syrian government forces backed by the russian russian air forces have caused more and more displacement and even last night 10 civilians were killed inside at the in the is the country side of the because of the a or strikes back by the by the russians so james jeffrey and the delegation including kalak frothed are going to discuss of humanitar

envoy to syria james jeffrey and u.s. ambassador to the u.n. kelly craft and a few other u.s. officials say they also there is a delegation by the u.n. that every. yesterday the american delegation are holding talks with the u.n. delegation and other n.g.o.s and today in a couple of hours almost 3 hours the delegation will be exactly right here at 1st they will be meeting james separate will be meeting with officials in how to the border city by syria and here he will be meeting with white helmets are presented as the main rescue organization inside. the visit of the american delegation is expected to continue for 2 days and all march on march 5 the day that the turkish president. and the russian president vladimir putin will have a face to face meeting in moscow an international conference is going to be held in a cell and james jeffries also will be attending in that conference so it didn't actually. he has been working hard and they have been coming back and forth to turkey for a while for a couple of months and this meeting is also it's expected to bring a solution. on the

special envoy for syria james jeffrey and u.s. ambassador to the u.n. kelly croft visited the border area with syria and met with members of the syrian white helmets. those hills over there. the turkish military and the syrian opposition are 1st of all fighting to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe millions or millions of refugees that the intent of. and his russian iranian allies. are finding is driving the refugee crisis among the greece turkey border we'll go live to don't throw up less on the greek on the defense both in just a moment but 1st has him all about it is live for us in hard time has him what's the latest there on the ground what can the fighting still intensifies in different parts of north western province of it live in the strategic city of the syrian army has made control of huge areas but the rebels backed by turkey are still trying to push the army back from those areas this seems to be the has become the focal point of a confrontation now between turkey and between the syrian government about who should have the upper hand when it

special envoy for syria james jeffrey and u.s. ambassador to the u.n. kelly craft visited the border area with syria and met members of the syrian white helmets the u.s. is contributing more than $100000000.00 to address the deteriorating humanitarian situation in northwestern syria humanitarian aid is only a response the real answer is an immediate cease fire and durable cease fire so i'm very happy to be here this is obviously a moment that we need to make certain that we stress that the americans care but at the same time that there has got to be an immediate cease fire. and his father from hammer province their family members are among thousands of people who have fled their villages and settled on the border with turkey. when we were walking out of the village we were hit by any strike i lost my hand and i miss my home my school. for the time being and his family have nowhere to go though makeshift camp could turn into something more permanent if the fighting doesn't and as international calls for an immediate cease fire government and turkish and

and more to syria james jeffrey did and she had to and she had somebody from the turkish and local officials here but as i said no one knows how long it's going to last then it is difficult for turkey to control because some of the rebel groups who are more eager compared to moderates once and for the syrian government size it is difficult for them to continue to have control over the iran backed shia if i true groups that's why there is not much hope whether the on the cease fire lasting for a long. still to come on al-jazeera we're bring you the latest on an attack in. your home any unrest could affect the taliban deal. welcome back let's look at weather conditions across asia and in northeastern areas we've got this area of low pressure moving away from japan in fact the reason i show is simply because it's such a beautiful feature moving out into the pacific joy another 2 major storms there already. better conditions across japan and for sapporo we're going to find temperatures on the rise so a bit of a thaw across the kind of further south of japan weather conditions not too bad the far

special envoy for syria james jeffrey and u.s. ambassador to the u.n. kelly craft visited the border area with syria and met members of the syrian white helmets the u.s. is contributing more than $100000000.00 to address the deteriorating humanitarian situation in northwestern syria humanitarian aid is only a response the real answer is an immediate cease fire durable cease fire so i'm very happy to be here this is obviously a moment that we need to make certain that we stress that the americans care but at the same time that there has got to be an immediate cease fire. and his father from province their family members are among thousands of people who have fled their villages and settled all the border with turkey. when we were walking out of the village we were hit by ernest reich i lost my hand and i miss my home my school. for the time being mohamed and his family have nowhere to go their makeshift camp could turn into something more permanent if the fighting doesn't and as international calls for an immediate cease fire gather momentum turkish and

states is back in the game of syria and a delegation led by james to free it is important because james jeffrey is also the head of the international coalition in the fight against arsenal bets why turkey believes that this is a strong support by washington right ahead of the meeting in moscow case and in the reporting live from the crossing thank you. lots more still to come in the news ahead including feeling the strain we look at how coronavirus is placing economy in an unhealthy states also tribal loyalties in libya to the test as the conflict drags on. hello and welcome back we'll start this time in southeastern parts of asia where we've got lots of showers showing up as you would expect the island of borneo looking very wet at the moment no matter where you are either on the malaysian side or the indonesian side it is going to be really wet the same goes for much of java a lot of heavy showers expected here but then through the been a plane kuala lumpur and singapore not looking too bad temperatures into the low to mid thirty's but showers i think fewer and further between into australasi

and white james jeffrey who's a former ambassador to the turkish capital in ankara is coming with a delegation with a senator from the united states and he will be coming to heart and he will be coming to to have some meetings with some in joules plus the turkish officials to morrow and also press is going to going to be here so with the western support again turkey is trying to gain leverage. for its most call in that coming meeting and of course thank you child has died after a boat loaded with refugees and migrants capsized off the greek island of those balls 47 other people who were trying to reach the greek island from turkey have been rescued thousands have been trying to cross into europe after turkey said it would no longer force its border but it's right now to john psaropoulos who is on the island of lesbos john what we've been seeing there. well the numbers and also overwhelming today we have 2 both arrivals on the island here are less worse and 2 more further south in the south e.g. and not an overwhelming rate of flow across the waters today but in the previous 24 hours between su

. >> not really hearing the same from james jeffrey. >> you are not. there's a division. the fact that the spokesman who really ought to have been coached before in how to deal with an interview on idlib said something that you literally could have copied and pasted and put in syrian state media is a really damaging thing. no surprise, it's being covered all across syrian and riussian media. there has to be the context and the broader understanding. that has to -- i'm a ct guy at heart. my gut tells me to always look at the really bad guys. but having followed syria for nine years, i know full well that the situation in places like idlib are far more complicated and the priorities are totally different. conducting a campaign like this actually ironically will probably strengthen extremist ideology. this gives a new blood, a new breathing force for the extremist ideology that has always said the world will give up on you, we are your own protectors, the west doesn't care about your lives and eventually this kind of an eventuality will happen. so to speak in that way and th

special envoy for syria james jeffrey and u.s. ambassador to the u.n. kelly craft visited the border area with syria and met members of the syrian white helmets the u.s. is contributing more than $100000000.00 to address the deteriorating humanitarian situation in northwestern syria humanitarian aid is only a response the real answer is an immediate cease fire and durable cease fire so i'm very happy to be here this is obviously a moment that we need to make certain that we stress that the americans care but at the same time that there has got to be an immediate cease fire. and his father from province their family members are among thousands of people who have fled their villages and settled all the border with turkey. when we were walking out of the village we were hit by ernest reich i lost my hand and i miss my home my school. for the time being and his family have nowhere to go though make shift camp could turn into something more permanent if the fighting doesn't and as international calls for an immediate cease fire government and turkish and rus

special envoy james jeffrey visited the turkish-syrian border today, and offered turkish military.t for the >> turkey has asked for help from nato, they have asked for help from us. as the president said recently, we will provide supplies and other things to turkey. we are also look other requests that turkey has made either to us or to nato as this conflict goes on. >> woodruff: turkey intervened in idlib to stop a syrian offensive th has driven almost a million people to the turkish border. crfugees already in turkey are now trying ts into greece, with turkey's support. haso far, greek authoritie blocked most of the attempts. back in this country, the s. supreme court agreed tod to let states prosecute immigrants who use fake social security numbers to get a job. in a 5-to-4 decision, the court's conservatives said nothing in the law prevents such action. the kansas supreme court had barred state action. president trump's re-election campaign has filed another libel suit, this time against "washington post." it accuses the paper of falsely reporting, as fact, that the 2016 trump campa

night of the four policy was not something that was raised at all let alone syria specifically james jeffrey if you don't know, is the former investor who is a special rep. first dessert syria, what extent do you think he has allowed voice this administration and, what extent do you think "the issue is" sort of review group to the highest levels. >> so i have great respect for investor jeffrey he had put more energy into this roll and i think any of his predecessors that. these are the past five years. and clear determination to continue to uphold the principles that the u.s. embraced very early on in this crisis . but he has, along big challenge. which is that the president of the united states does not really have the foreign part. he does not really know syria exists thus he might potentially see it on "fox news" in the morning. it's a what we have seen, primarily sense ambassador jeffries took on his roll, is that he has done many good things, he did the right things pretty is the put the energy into u.s. policy in syria in two or three times the president has pulled out from under his f

special envoy for syria james jeffrey and u.s. ambassador to the u.n. kelly craft visited the border area with syria and met members of the syrian white helmets the u.s. is contributing more than $100000000.00 to address the deteriorating humanitarian situation in northwestern syria humanitarian aid is only a response the real answer is an immediate cease fire and durable cease fire so i'm very happy to be here this is obviously a moment that we need to make certain that we stress that the americans care but at the same time that there has got to be an immediate cease fire. and his father from province their family members are among thousands of people who have fled their villages and settled all the border with turkey. when we were walking out of the village we were hit by ernest reich i lost my hand and i miss my home my school. for the time being mohamed and his family have nowhere to go their makeshift camp could turn into something more permanent if the fighting doesn't and as international calls for an immediate cease fire gather momentum turkish

special envoy for syria james jeffrey and u.s. ambassador to the u.n. kelly craft visited the border area with syria and met members of the syrian white helmets the u.s. is contributing more than $100000000.00 to address the deteriorating humanitarian situation in northwestern syria humanitarian aid is only a response the real answer is an immediate cease fire and durable cease fire so i'm very happy to be here this is obviously a moment that we need to make certain that we stress that the americans care but at the same time that there has got to be an immediate cease fire. and his father from province their family members are among thousands of people who have fled their villages and settled all the border with turkey. when we were walking out of the village we were hit by ernest reich i lost my hand and i miss my home my school. for the time being and his family have nowhere to go their makeshift camp could turn into something more permanent if the fighting doesn't and as international calls for an immediate cease fire government and turkish and russi

and boy to syria james jeffrey did and she had the and she had somebody from the turkish and local officials here but as i said no one knows how long it's going to last then it is difficult for turkey to control as some of the rebel groups who are more eager compared to moderates once and for the syrian government size it is difficult for them to continue to have control over the iran backed shia a fighter groups that's why there is not much hope whether that this cease fire lasting for a long. so don't call so early on that turkey syria border thank you c.n.n. the other story involving turkey is how it has deployed a 1000 police officers to its border with greece to try to halt the pushback of refugees and migrants tens of thousands of people have been trying to cross into europe ever since turkey opened its borders last week the thing is greece doesn't want them live to name in the rain on the border between turkey and greece natasha desperation commingling with security forces on 2 sides of a border have created havoc yet again today on one of the official checkpoint checkpoints at the tu

visiting refugee camp inside huts in all to know the district but i asked us more to syria mr james jeffrey who is also the head of international coalition against i still i asked him whether they will be supporting the safe so no fear of the turkish government which is also backed by german chancellor angela merkel but he answer to my question as we are supporting turkey in many ways actually probably the turkish officials will not be that much satisfied with the answer because it's a vague answer the u.s. diplomat didn't say whether they will be supporting or not but they are giving support to terrorists but the pentagon announced that they are not going to give military support to turkey during this military conflict inside. but right ahead of most call me things this is also sign of a political support but the dimension of the support is still awake for turkey. ok simcoe see only with those updates from the border thank you for the balance. further afield and greece has denied turkey's allegations that its border forces fired on refugees and migrants calling it deliberate misinformation

special envoy to syria james jeffrey and the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. kelly craft spoke about the need to implement an immediate cease fire to allow civilians return to their own homes and to alleviate their suffering is and they also announced that the trumpet ministration is contributing more than $100000000.00 to uncertain the the needs of the people of the situation further deteriorates but we're talking about a fast moving situation where the syrian army now seems to be adamant it will continue its push in those areas which is a resulting in thousands of more civilians fleeing their areas our stringers operating in northwestern syria have been in touch with families and people who have been travelling on foot from the rural areas of hammer that's southern part of it if they've been walking long distances they came under rocks they have been on the move and each time they arrive to a city they were told this is no longer a safe area you have to move forward to the point where you have now hundreds of thousands of people moving to the buffer zone to

jeffrey james works for inc.com, the digital arm of the business magazine. the contributing editor has been doing it from the comfort of his home since 1996. >> the main danger of working from home in a situation like this is that you will never want to go back. >> reporter: this woman doesn't quite agree with jeffrey, at least not yet. she is preparing a remote lesson plan for her second-graders. >> there's a steep learning curve because this is just not the way i normally teach. >> reporter: on this day she stopped what she was doing to help her daughter kalin work through a printer issue. downstairs her son is flat on his stomach doing his homework on his bed. the dad is hoping for some peace and quiet. >> i have conference calls all the time and i'm always asking them to be quiet. >> reporter: both paul and mayer also say it's difficult when to know the day. when you're already at home, it's difficult to stop working. >> so that's been hard. i have to determine what are going to be my working hours because this really could be a 24/7 job. >> reporter: th