trump in november is still wide open and pope francis dismisses a proposal to relax celibacy rules for priests in the amazon. turkey's president has warned the syrian government against further provocations in the only remaining rebel stronghold in syria typer one says he will strike syrian forces anywhere if another turkish soldiers her teenage leave province 15 turkish troops were killed by government forces in recent fighting there are 2 on say the syrian forces must be pushed back beyond turkish observation post by the end of february. still bizarre to know where the these attacks are directly targeting our soldiers and directly targeting turkey there's no more time for talk we have to look at the realities on the field and by the end of february the regime must be pushed behind observation point whatever is needed on the ground or in the air we are not going to have any hesitation and we are going to act on it al jazeera tashan i had baron has more now from istanbul. here is stepping up the pressure on the russians and the syrian government to pull out from the areas recently controlled by the syrian government and he's saying that turkey would take all necessary measures it would even contemplate harsh reaction to the syrian government if its offensive continues of or if turkish soldiers were targeted in the near future 13 turkish soldiers were killed over the last few weeks in it lip but at the same time has given one last chance for you to produce this explains why the turkish foreign affairs is saying that a turkish delegation is flying to russia to talk with russian officials about implementing the sochi agreement and the u.s. an agreement that talk about the need to maintain safe zones in italy now the problem that all the parties will face in the near future is that turkey has been establishing some 12 military outposts in says to 1080 but the reality on the ground has been changing to the point where some of those outposts were completely under siege by syrian government forces part of the agreement would be is for the syrian government to pull over from all those areas pull out from all the areas its cups has over the last few months well syria agreed to put out from those areas is russia going to put more pressure on the syrian government to halt its offensive and i think un says that those questions will determine the scope the size of the say of the turkish military intervention or reaction to what happens it did live in the coming weeks. they saw speak to c.n.n. cosell know who's inside syria for a scene by about how our c.n.n. tell us about the situation currently on the ground and what some likelihood of syrian government troops actually with joy. well foley still there are clashes underground especially this according to for the mask media the syrian army captured towns of out of non's that are located both just west side of the aleppo damascus highway the m 5 mainly and the syrian syrian government forces are now pushing for another went to war towards a key town called a turf located near the turkish border not far from where we are and also that there are have a calash is in the countryside of atari also for the last 3 days the syrian government have been have been striking in the countryside developer and from where we stand we can hear the sounds for the airstrikes and some rockets since the morning this is the situation on the ground when it comes to the clashes also the syrian government forces are trying to get the major towns and villages by the m 5 highway to take full control over the highway and to open it to service this is what the pro-government media says and we are hearing from the opposition fighters that the clashes are under way around this iraq of area as well as other tide of area and there is fighting and of course this causes a lot of the placement from south to north we're hearing more people are coming to the areas that is that are closer to turkish border which is increasing the stress on the turkish border and i have to tell that the weather is going worse every day especially in the last couple of days it is very cold and it is very difficult for people to find shelters neither inside nor the other f.s.a. syrian opposition controlled areas like ours ours are obvious and other places also this is not the only thing by the way today because of the diplomatic. as for chats . the syrian government and the americans have a clash. in commission has 2nd area a u.s. patrol was attacked by the civilians who told them to choose a different way and there were some. civilians are told are said to be said to have fired and the american so retaliated then there is a american strike to syrian government positions and there was a there was a statement by the coalition forces after that but i have to tell you that everywhere is tense and that all is that their school ations on inside syria but other places as well as the experts say this is a proxy war inside syria there are lots of actors and the locals are sided with either of them but the result is that more do more fighting more people killed and more displacement a tense situation thank you very much for that cynical so reporting live from inside syria for us in other news the corona virus outbreak is showing no signs of slowing down and it's having a growing impact on china's economy formula one has confirmed the chinese grand prix in shanghai originally scheduled for april will be postponed and beijing has announced a series of new monetary policies including investment tax cuts and warnings to businesses not to lay off workers katrina you has more from. the beatings noisiest and detainment districts is now silent and these restaurants karaoke rooms and night clubs have been closed until further notice to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus who were killed on this street has everything for us to eat drink and have fun we live here in the past we couldn't rest because it was too busy and noisy but now it's. quiet. has really affected daily life with these closures the virus i think the right decision some local governments say businesses must apply for permission before reopening punishing those who would know the routes across china more than 80 cities have been partially locked down and people's movement is heavily restricted but president xi jinping says some of these measures have gone too far warning that it could harm the economy susan thing walk a fine line between controlling the epidemic and minimizing its impact on the economy prior to the outbreak time is already struggling with slowing economic growth and the pressure to prevent a downturn now they have a clear message to the chinese public. 160000000 people nationwide are expected to return to major cities over the next week officials are trying to reassure the public that it's safe to travel and go back to work. we've tried to lower dearest by preventing passages from sitting next to each other in vehicles trying. and implementing ventilation these infection temperature monitoring chinese factories are beginning to resume production but the damage has been done analysts say the service and manufacturing sectors will be the hardest hit. by and large then we would on some signs of recovery from draw for recovery won't start to quarter of 2021 and the reason for that. some time for industry is to adjust the production patterns to recruit new yorkers and a lot of. the economic impact of the outbreak is being felt globally i phone maker apple and south korean car brand are among those expecting losses and outbound tourism could drop by an estimated 30 percent this year with many chinese choosing forced to stay home country you al-jazeera beijing. and singapore's largest bank d.b.s. has evacuated 300 staff from its head office off to one of its employees was infected with the corona virus and 50 confirmed cases have been reported in the city state officials say there is mounting evidence of local transmission meanwhile another $39.00 people onboard a cruise ship docked in japan have been infected with the coronavirus bringing the total to $175.00 japanese health ministry says a new cases including quarantine officer with more than 3700 people on board the cruise ship it's become holes to the highest concentration of cases outside of china where the virus originated than in princes had been under quarantine since february 3rd after a passenger who got off the ship was diagnosed with the virus and another cruise ship that was turned away by 5 countries over a few days of kohen a virus has now docked in cambodia and miss west today is carrying more than 2200 passengers it has been at sea for days japan taiwan guam the philippines and time and always few sentry to the ship despite there being no cases of kona virus on board. now u.s. senator bernie sanders has now really beaten pete would be judging the new hampshire democratic primary showing the divisions between the leftists and centrists wings of the party in the race to choose someone to go up against donald trump and of amber adding to the uncertain nature of the race amy club wishaw surged to 3rd place after a strong debate performance last week while once favored joe biden slumped to 5th has more from manchester new hampshire oh he was expected to win and he did the iowa campaign is just about beating trawled it is about transforming this country the it is about how the the courage to take on wall street the assurance coffee's the drug companies the fossil fuel industry the military industrial complex of the not far behind former marriage softened indiana people to judge a relative newcomer so many of you decided that a middle class mayor in a veteran from the industrial midwest was the right choice to take on this president not in spite of that experience but because these were not the expected frontrunners but with former vice president joe biden and senator elizabeth warren faltering new faces came to the front voters said that was a big reason so many were undecided up until the last minute some of the front runners i'm not sure i think their ideas are good but i'm not sure they have the right guy and they have the right ideas so i think that's why people are now leaning this way and kind of at this last minute like this is a strong possibility and he was he coming in 3rd another unexpected candidate moves to the front of the pack. minnesota senator a.v. club. i may be coming and i will be donald trump. new hampshire is important for momentum attention and money raised clear tonight from the numbers that we are not going to win this race 2 of the lesser known candidates quit after this vote but all the top contenders said they were staying in it ain't over him and we're just trying to still have 98 percent of our delegate for our nomination up for grabs and americans in every part of the country are going to make their voices heard in exit polls democratic voters made clear their number one priority is finding someone who can beat donald trump but they're split on the best way to do that from the far left or the center leaving new hampshire it's still not clear which camp will win in the end political hay out to 0 manchester new hampshire. still ahead on al jazeera holding social media firms to account the u.k. government has plans to regulate the internet class clearing the way in baghdad i think iraqi capital tries to get back to normal to say this. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast what heavy rain right now pushing across parts of southern japan into central to pay and by the time we do get to thursday but this is not the end of it we're going to be seeing rounds of rain coming in from the southwest in this next one is coming in from china bringing very heavy rain across much of that area over towards taiwan as well from thursday to friday that continues to make its way across through islands and into southern japan so the break across japan is not going to be very long asako your 3 day forecast does look like this rain continues across the board all the way into the. we can temperatures anywhere from 18 down to 70 really staying about the same maybe reaching $1000.00 by the time we do get towards saturday while here across parts of vietnam and cambodia we do expect to see a couple of showers things have been quite dry over the last week or so so clouds coming into play there attempt of 34 degrees for the southern part of the philippines it is going to be rain over the next few days maybe getting a little bit better and about $32.00 by the time we get towards friday and then here across much of india was going to be down here towards the south we could be seeing some clouds as well for sri lanka though more rain in the forecast over the next few days and for colombo it is going to be partly cloudy with rain at $34.00 degrees. americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes the truck parts of america are getting in trouble here there is a poll out a few weeks ago that you had almost 30 percent americans believing that we're on the cusp of civil war both sides accuse each other of doing things that are so blatantly wrong the bottom line on us politics and policies on the reflect on the world. the world in untold stories from asia and the pacific on al-jazeera. the. recap of our top stories on al-jazeera turkey's friends event has warned syria against further provocations in the last remaining rebel stronghold bedouin says he will strike syrian forces anywhere if they target turkish troops in the province china has announced a series of new monetary policies including investments and tax cuts to protect its economy again see corona virus outbreak and formula one has confronted schools mourning the chinese grand prix in shanghai more than $1000.00 people have died since december. and u.s. senator bernie sanders has now only won the new hampshire primary but the field is still wide open as more states are headed choose a democrat who will run against donald trump in november. while president trump has praised the u.s. attorney general for reducing the prison sentence of one of his close allies says the case against roger stone should not have been brought stone was convicted of lying to the u.s. congress. struction and witness tampering all 4 prosecutors involved have quit over the decision to radio says sentence given elizondo reports from washington. roger stone is flamboyant a provocative and the man who shaped donald trump's political image and encouraged him to run for president he's also been a close personal friend of the president for decades so when federal prosecutors from the justice department recommended stone serve 7 to 9 years in prison trump took the unusual step of intervening in the case i think it's a disgrace stone was caught up in special counsel robert muller's investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election a grand jury indicted stone on 7 counts including witness tampering and lying to investigators prosecutors also accused him of threatening witnesses stone was found guilty last year and is awaiting sentencing on tuesday trump tweeted the sentencing recommendation of 79 years was a miscarriage of justice later in the day the justice department revised its recommendation percent its ink prompting criticism that the president was abusing his power no i have not been involved with him at all by tuesday evening all 4 federal prosecutors here at the justice department that were working the case have reportedly stepped down in protest and the top democrat in the senate is accusing the president of acting inappropriately roger stone should get the full amount of time the prosecutors recommend it all comes less than a week after the president was acquitted by the senate charges of obstruction of congress and a piece of power some critics now feel the president feels emboldened by the acquittal so he's basically saying he will wield the instruments of power. the favor his political friends and punish his political enemies trump voters likely won't see this is the president doing anything wrong however democrats in congress might see otherwise and argue it's another example of the president getting involved in something he shouldn't gabriels onto al-jazeera washington and the u.k. is to host social media platforms accountable for harmful content in order to better protect online uses the move comes a year after it was brought forward by m.p.'s have expressed concern over the internet being a possible top for south on among young people u.k. media watchdog off form is expected to be given more power by the government to ensure internet safety. i thank my right my own noble friend for raising that point and as we deliver gigabit broadband every part of this country including 2 people have said mr speaker we will also ensure that the u.k. is the safest place to be online let's bring in rory chalons in london for a story so what are the problems that the u.k. government is trying to ease here. you know what it's long been complained about in the u.k. that the internet is a kind of digital wild west is essentially a regulated space where these big giants of social media it trusted to be there and sheriffs and that something they're not particularly good at so you still have situations in which young people can be victim to cyber bullying they can be groomed for sexual abuse you can have online spaces places where hardened criminals can can kind of hang out digitally and this is the thing that the government here says it wants to change it as you just heard from boris johnson that he wants to make the u.k. the safest place in the world to be online but there's a balance of a need to strike of course they're aware of this they need to up hold freedom of speech the freedom of the press so it's a difficult line that they're trying to walk here and that's that's the decisions of the taking at the moment so what would often come actually do. well there are a couple of areas that it would be particularly concerned with one is illegal content and it would ensure that content is taken down by these companies as quickly as possible and the other is harmful content and this it was the government says off home should should get these companies to state very clearly what they know except to bill behavior parameters offer online use and if those are the steps then these companies have an obligation to take down down you know harmful content it's unclear at the moment though what teeth off comb will be given to enforce this thank you for that very challenge forests in london. now the european union has announced it's withdrawing part of the preferential trade deal it has with come because of human rights violations tariffs will now be imposed on more than $200000000.00 worth of goods wayne hay has anita's from. the european union had threatened a complete withdrawal of the preferential trade agreement known as everything but instead they have opted for a partial withdrawal amounting to around 20 percent of all goods sent from cambodia to the european union so in 6 months those goods will now be subject to tariffs in making this announcement the e.u. issued a strong rebuke of the cambodian government's treatment of workers and the political opposition but at the same time they acknowledge that some progress in those areas has been made and they said they are committed to the ongoing economic and social development of this country so clearly they were concerned that a full withdrawal of this agreement could have a major impact on the economy of cambodia in particular the garment sector which is really the backbone of the economy here employing around 800000 people so under these new measures some footwear and garments are targeted but not at all from the cambodian government side they may well see this as a partial victory would certainly seen a lot of public defiance from the government in the lead up to this announcement in fact on tuesday the day before the announcement the prime minister since it is said that they would not bow to foreign demands among those demands from the that the banned opposition party is reinstated and its leader kim has his treason case against him dropped will so there was no sign of those things happening. back in sunny court has sentenced a manic he is running the 2008 mumbai attacks to 5 and a half years in prison hafiz saeed was found guilty of collecting funds for a terrorist group 174 people were killed when members of the tiber group carried out a shooting and bombing attack for 4 days in india's financial hop. a gunman in india's capital region of delhi has opened fire on an audi convoy killing one person and injuring another this happened hours after a landslide victory for the party in the state elections with $62.00 wins out of 70 the shooter targeted a convoy carrying one of the party's newly elected assembly members. who says the victim was a volunteer. to iraq now where security forces have reopened a bridge in central bank that had been blocked since anti-government protests started in october it's one of an effort to restore normal operations in the city less than 2 weeks off to mohamed tawfik alawi was named prime minister designate simona fulton has more from baghdad. sinnett bridge here in baghdad has reopened for the 1st time since anti-government demonstrations began and of october you can once again see traffic is moving across this bridge over the river tigris now of course this bridge has been extremely important throughout the protests and has been the location of some of the major standoffs between protesters and government forces we have seen some major attacks against the most heinous occur on this bridge so as of now we only have one bridge that still remains closed here in the budget battle of course what the demonstrators have been trying to do here is to obstruct bridges and roads as part of a civil disobedience campaign to try to bring daily life to hold they want to prevent people from going about going to work they want to prevent businesses from operating all as part of an effort to try to force the government to listen to their demands now since the appointment of mohamed tawfik allow me as the prime minister designate shia cleric monk that al sadr who has until now mostly supported the demonstrators has called on them to open up roads to open the bridges for penalties against those who don't comply in the course the demonstrators will not be happy about the opening of this bridge but some people are likely to welcome this move because as you can see here there are a lot of businesses who are located in proximity to this bridge in proximity to this road and they have suffered greatly as a result of this closure they have been called up inside clashes between the demonstrators and security forces we have seen even some of these shops being burned in the clashes between those 2 sides so these business owners are likely to welcome the return of normal life like it's really to see an increase in business once again now it remains to be seen how to demonstrators who will react to this move and whether they will try to retake this bridge of course we have. in the front lines if you want to call them all of these the most traces have shifted from one place to another but the cynic which has always been very important for the demonstrators and some of them have said that they will try to take it back to what we have to watch and see how the security forces will react we have seen security forces the ploy on top of this bridge and it remains to be seen that whether one protesters will try to retake this area where the security forces will use force to make sure that this bridge and these streets will remain open. the protests has taken place outside libya's national oil corporation headquarters in tripoli against the closure and blockade of many of the country's oil assets by forces loyal to war lost money for how to talk on the say more than $1000000000.00 worth of oil revenues has been lost since the blockade began a month ago. post francis has dismissed a proposal to ordain older married men to the priesthood bishop some latin america put for the controversial plan to address a shortage of priests in the amazon would have challenge the roman catholic tradition of free speech inside of it of the pontiff says the solution to the shortage is to send missionaries to the region john home and has more from rio de janeiro in brazil the program will be a bit of disappointment especially as it was latin american bishops who food this proposal last october i think important to clarify the proposal wasn't the priests who were already all day and should be allowed to get married it was for older sorts of married men have some standing in these communities be allowed to them to make up for a bit of a chronic shortage of priests in the midst of region this is a region that's composed of annoying countries really have parts and souls in the summers and region and it's estimated that at least 85 percent over villages in the armies of region all able to celebrate mass every week so there is a real truth to cheer and this was one of the ideas to try and get to grips with it now the pope says. that said that another solution could be sending missionaries to this area instead of going for the other option which was older married men be being able to become priests and that will suit sort of a thaw in the move conservative called the catholic church but this might be the thin end of the wedge that even the right now is very specifically armors a region the worry was that it could spread and start and the tradition of celibacy in the catholic church. and all problems for the usa crossfield a boeing the company failed to take a single order for new planes in january it's the 1st time since 1962 that an entire month when mains blank in the company's order book boeing is struggling to deal with the fallout from the 737 max crisis so. again i'm fully battle with the headlines on al-jazeera turkey's president has worn the syrian government against further provocations and the only remaining rebel stronghold in syria russia. says he will strike syrian forces anywhere if another turkish soldiers her it in italy province 15 turkish were killed by government forces in recent fighting there. only service dogs know where the these attacks are directly targeting our soldiers and directly targeting turkey there's no more time for talk we have to look at the realities on the field and by the end of february the regime must be pushed behind observation boys whatever is needed on the ground when we are not going to have any hesitation and we are going to act on it the corona virus outbreak is having a growing impact on china's economy formula one has confirmed the chinese grand prix in shanghai or originally scheduled for april will be postponed and beijing has announced a series of new monetary policies that include investments tax cuts and warnings to businesses not to lay off workers meanwhile singapore's largest bank d.b.s. has evacuated 300 staff from its head office after one of its employees was infected with the coronavirus 50 confirmed cases have been reported in the city states officials say there is mounting evidence of local transmission. in the us senator bernie sanders has now really won the new hampshire primary but the field is still wide open as more states prepare to choose a democrat who will run against donald trump in november the european union has announced it's withdrawing part of the preferential trade deal it has with cambodia because of human rights violations ties will not be imposed on more than $200000000.00 worth of goods and pull francis has dismissed it proposal to ordain older married men to the priesthood bishops and that america put forward the controversial plan to address a shortage of priests in the amazon this would have challenge and roman catholic tradition of free speech celibate but the pontiff says a solution to the shortage is to send missionaries to the region you're upset with the headlines on al-jazeera nic clock will be with you in under 30 minutes with the al-jazeera news hour the bottom line is next it's. talk to al-jazeera. we talk about 2 of the biggest problems facing and they are the endemic corruption and the can we listen so if you really put please turn as an editor for the with and that's really then yours we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that. does 0 hi i'm steve clements and i have a question has the coronavirus gotten out of hand in china and spread so far and so fast that it just can't be contained how vulnerable are we to global pandemics let's get to the bottom line. by the time we all heard of a mysterious new virus spreading in china the panic it spread worldwide with scientists rushing to figure it out millions of chinese citizens are under quarantine factories there are shut down in the virus has popped up in 26 countries as we speak it's killed more than a 1000 people and infected more than 40000 a whole crew ship is quarantined off of yokohama japan right now and people are pleading to get off that ship so what's next and how afraid should.