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Welcome to the program our top story nato has called on russia and syria to halt the offensive an adlib as violence continues to escalate in the region the military alliance held an emergency meeting and has condemned the continued indiscriminate as strikes is follows the death of 33. 00 turkish soldiers on thursday Member States expressed solidarity with their ally turkey but they offered no additional nato support meanwhile on the ground turkey has started retaliatory strikes saying that its hit more than 200. 00 Syrian Government positions well after denying any initial involvement in those attacks moscow made amends with turkey as president Vladimir Putin spoke with russia type 2 on the 2 countries have decided to stick to that 2800. 00 deescalation zone but that socalled safety zone is where most of the violence is now taking place. Reports to us now from goes you on the turkey syria border. Turkish soldiers being evacuated from syria after being attacked by Syrian Government forces. Images like these have created shock and anger in turkey and growing calls for revenge. Turkish military hit Syrian Army Positions in retaliation for the death of dozens of its soldiers in southern. Turkey blames the Syrian Government for the airstrike that targeted a military outpost officials here also accuse rochelle failing to deter Syrian Government forces who have recently stepped up their attacks against the soldiers in. These attacks happened despite the location of our troops being coordinated you know at once with russian officials on the ground unfortunately the attack continued after we want following the 1st strike. Feeling abandoned by its e. U. Allies turkey warned it wont prevent refugees from crossing into europe European Countries alarmed this might turn into a mass exodus of refugees fleeing the conflict in syria. Turkey has been calling on the e. U. To share the burden of the refugee crisis and on nato to deploy pair to it besides on the border with syria but nato doesnt seem to be willing to provide military support offering for the time being the sympathy by call on them to stop their offensive to respect International Law and to back you in efforts for a peaceful solution to this dangerous situation must be deescalated urge an immediate return to the 2018 cease fire. Then simones turkish and russian officials held talks in unkind to defuse tension turkey wants the syrian army to pull out behind the Demilitarized Zone stop its offensive and allow civilians to return home russia is a key ally of president bashar assad who rejects turkeys expanded presence in syria and insists they will fund civs by his troops is legitimate there will continue and if russia and turkey fail to overcome their differences they might and. You know wide and prolonged regional confrontation in syria possible but al jazeera jill very well Turkish Border with syria has now spread to blent ali reza director of the turkey project and Senior Researcher at the center for strategic and International Studies so despite these fears of a major confrontation between turkey and russia it looks as though president. Putin do one did speak to each other on the phone what does that suggest to you about their intentions well there tells me that theyre going to stick to the diplomatic track for the for the time being even though there is a virtual proxy war between turkey and turkey backed Opposition Forces and assads forces backed by the russian air power does that mean that. You know even if they want to stick to some sort of diplomatic track the momentum on the ground could lead them to have a more serious confrontation with each other because russia has long been involved in support of the Assad Government and turkey is has now is conducting this operation over the border. Well look they have been on opposite sides of the of the Syrian Civil War since to be virtually beginning. Russia and iran have enabled assad to resist the efforts of the of the opposition backed by the by the turks as well as some other countries including qatar and gradually assad has restarted control over most areas of syria except for the one province of idlib where the opposition has been actually hold out what we now are seeing is an assault by the by assad backed by putin to actually gradually bring the civil war or at least the opposition to efforts to resist assad in a lip thats leading to the refugees piling up on the on the Turkish Border and everyone saying that you know what im not going to accept this so what hes done is inserted turkish troops into into the province and thats what led to to the clashes with the Syrian Forces which may well escalate in spite of the efforts of the 2 sides and there are certainly fears in the International Community about what an escalation might mean particularly for civilians on the ground in Northern Syria have suffered so much and actually the u. N. Security council. Judy to me over these developments in northwest syria and if you could just bear with us i think we can depend because the u. S. Attorney general is making some remarks now not to be. Taken lightly and so ive been insisting on the need to stop the fighting the need for a cease fire i think it will count not only the humanitarian consequences of the fighting and of course any escalation never to be more than a magic humanitarian consequences but. The enormous risk that the potential escalation in itself could represent with a conflict of a different nature that could have much more. Dramatic impact. Thank you very much mr president and no i would like to us as many because to believe the polls. Show me the attention on. If youre not up on the horn of the most minute ago now right now there is a guy Security Council meetings taking place on whats been happening here in northwest syria and this is taking place at the request of several countries and certainly from a humanitarian perspective there is a great deal of concern about the refugees about refugees in turkey already already living in appalling conditions in camps but also about a massive exodus of refugees we have seen and lead heading towards the border with turkey nonstate armed groups launched a counterattack in Eastern England retaking the city of syracuse which they lost to Syrian Government forces in recent weeks this action at the Syrian Governments control of the strategic m. 5 highway Turkish Forces reportedly played a supporting role in this operation delegations from the Russian Federation and turkey resumed their talks from 26 february and ankara these discussions have continued until today along with president ial contacts by phone on 27 february there were strikes on turkish troops inside syria the turkish minister of defense noted that 33 turkish soldiers were killed and 32 wounded by strikes that turkey has attributed to the Syrian GovernmentRussian Ministry of defense officials confirmed that an unspecified number of turkish soldiers who they said were colocated with nonstate armed groups had been hit by Syrian Government shelling. Turkish Defense Ministry officials have noted that after the strikes on turkish soldiers turkey targeted Syrian Government positions with aircraft weaponized drones in artillery mr president we strongly urge russia and turkey to build upon their previous agreements to secure a fresh ceasefire for northwest syria these latest developments are unfolding in the context of a broader military escalation that was already devastating for civilians in the north west for months now bombing and shelling by the government of syria supported by its allies has continued in the socalled deescalation zone of. Strikes have been launched on Populated Areas from both air and ground seemingly without regard for civilians nearly a 1000000 people have been displaced and surly december many multiple times including more than 560000. 00 children they are fleeing north away from the intensifying aerial and ground bombardment into ever shrinking areas where they still hope to find relative safety. The office of the high commissioner for human rights has verified at least 1750 civilians have been killed since last april the actual number is probably higher 351 civilians have been killed in the last 2 months alone well the majority of these civilian deaths 94 percent has occurred in opposition held areas exposed to bombardment by progovernment forces 6 percent occurred in government held areas the serves as a reminder that high a terrier. Which is designated by this council as a terrorist organization and other nonstate armed groups have also struck Populated Areas indiscriminately. Civilians are killed in id camps schools and hospitals this is happening in plain sight night and day day in and day out hospitals destroyed schools destroyed peoples lives destroyed and it is happening under our watch mr president we continue to come before you with an ever growing record of destruction and atrocity the secretary general has consistently expressed alarm at the dangerous escalation in northwest syria the un has countless times remind all parties that any attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure are simply unacceptable we have repeatedly called for a cease fire we have reaffirm to the parties that all military operations must respect the rules of International Humanitarian law if such horrific acts and tactics persist despite global outrage is it largely because their authors do not fear accountability and justice civilians in it live are living under daily threat and terror seeking refuge from airstrikes and volleys of shells and mortar rounds theyre not asking for a pause in the fighting theyre asking for an end to the killing we must all assume our responsibility to all we can to stop this violence thank you. Right there weve been listening in to this meeting at the u. N. Security council it was called off to 33 turkish soldiers were killed by russian backed Syrian Government troops and this is really one of the deadliest attacks suffered by turkeys army but really what its caused is a great deal of concern about what an escalation a proxy war effectively between russia and turkey in syria could mean for civilians on the ground already you have millions of refugees Syrian Refugees living in turkey but also over the past few months since weve seen this offensive in. Over the past 3 months or so weve seen what 900000 close to a 1000000 refugees moving from towards the border with turkey and there are real concerns about what this could mean for the humanitarian situation on the ground particularly when you have harsh winter conditions there in the region right now lets speak to gabriel is on a hes been listening to this. I suppose a both russia and turkey have failed to live up to previous agreements that have been struck over it live and now comes this coal from the u. N. Security council for these 2 countries to try and build on previous negotiations to to strike a new agreement where past past deals have failed. Thats right but i think what were also seeing is the urgency of the Security Council and the secretary general himself calling for the 1st step and that is a cease fire thats what weve been hearing all day today primarily from the secretary general who just a couple hours before this meeting here started addressed some reporters and he said the 1st step the secretary general said is to get that cease fire but then when he was asked how close do you think we are to that by a journalist his response was we are not there yet so clear indications that there is at least now i know a media plans for a cease fire at least that the secretary general can reveal at this hour but this meeting that were seeing right now as you mentioned was in a mirror is an emergency meeting that was called by the 4 European Union members of the Security Council as well as the u. K. And the United States called on friday morning after this escalation late thursday of these dozens of turkish soldiers that were killed a clear indication that the Security Council sees that the situation in it live is quickly deteriorating to a point of potentially no return if they do not reach some sort of diplomatic solution to this and thats what the security secretary general said when he addressed reporters earlier said there is no military solution to this only a political situ solution to it the secretary general also saying that this is one of the most alarming moments across the duration of the syrian conflict over the last 9 years we did see the secretary general briefly address the Security Council their very brief comments but unusual for him to do Something Like this it gives you an idea of how seriously this is being taken here in new york at the u. N. And beyond but we do expect to hear as you see now that unite. Kingdom embassador speaking we also expect to hear many other ambassadors as well as potentially ambassadors from turkey and syria and maybe even russia as well during this emergency meeting okeefe an eye on developments there and certainly bring you any anything new bring you an update as we get information gabriel is on that thanks very much the latest on that u. N. Security Council Meeting in new york but of course following the attacks an adlib turkey has issued a fresh warning saying that its going to allow Syrian Refugees to end to europe there are reports that ankara has already stood down Police Coast Guard and Border Security officials on land and sea crossings its prompted greece and bulgaria to step up security on vess side of the border to try to stop anyone coming through if turkey goes through with its threat it would be backing out of an agreement it made with the e. U. In 2016 at the height of the refugee crisis under the deal turkey was to resettle Syrian Refugees and stop them crossing the Eastern Mediterranean route from turkey to greece. Around 3 and a half 1000000 refugees and says that it cannot cope with any more people fleeing the latest violence and lip jones her office has more now from the greek on it of less boss just 15 kilometers off the coast of turkey. Many times the turkish government has threatened to open its borders and release refugees into europe in large numbers once again this was the scene on the shores of the greek island of lesbos already a nightmarish place for the 10s of thousands of men women and children who crossed over from turkey and are now trapped here in itself a dinghy arriving isnt any different from what happens on any other day but the implication was that the turkish authorities didnt try to stop it the greek government is asking for increased european support you know a little bit to your daughter your but needs to help not just with but personnel and equipment you need to help protect mali time borders that are great and european i have asked frontex to reinforce the coast guard with personnel boats and technical names greece already operates about 40 Coastal Patrol vessels and boats along its 1000 kilometer long maritime border with turkey and its adding 19 u. Boats over the next couple of years but its going to need help now if turkey makes good on its threat to send refugees into europe on mass. The route was being cleared for refugees much further north on the land border with turkey there were reports of people being bussed from istanbul to the border town of a diva a haven for people traffickers and unlike in recent months the Turkish Military did absolutely nothing to stop people then making their way on foot towards the wide evidence river the border with greece. Love is there is a good deal coming from istanbul our aim is to get to germany there are syrians with us algerians palestinians there are people from every country this want to take a 100 times you know theyve arrived here at the turkish Greece Border police are on the other side and theyre not letting migrants in weve got lots of problems here we want to work in europe to open the borders because of these problems the Immediate Response from the greek side was to tear gas the several 100 people who had gathered right on the border with the Prime Minister warning loudly that greece was closed to this new wave athens also sent more special forces to the land border to try to prevent people coming across the general supposition is that turkey is threatening to manipulate the refugee flows as a direct threat to the European Union to reengage in the situation in syria and the humanitarian crisis that has engulfed people in it lib if the e. U. Turns a blind eye greece could end up as a buffer zone for asylum seekers. The World Health Organization has raised the Risk Assessment of the corona virus to its highest level across the world but officials stopped short of calling the outbreak a pandemic saying they believe containment efforts could still work or more than 4000 confirmed cases in or around 50 countries around 67 associated deaths around 3 quarters of new infections outside of china where the outbreak began in december well Health Organization also warn the outbreak is getting bigger after nigeria confirms Subsaharan Africas 1st case you zealand and mexico also reported their 1st cases a day off for its biggest of a daily point struck the Dow Jones Industrial average in new york fell another 3. 7 percent in fighting morning traders continue to have an effect on Global Markets in asia and europe they too have also reported losses of over 3 percent alexy obrien has our report. In the biggest city of africas most populous country the 1st case of coronaviruses warrior news an italian man flew into Lagos Nigeria from the mom earlier this week we have started working to identify all the contacts of the future. Since the end of nigeria and even those who were with him across. Nigerias Large Population and high rates of poverty make it vulnerable to outbreaks like this when the World Health Organization declared the virus a Global Health emergency last month it was because of concern it could hit countries with weak Health Systems on friday the upgraded the risk of the virus is global for it to very high and i think this is a reality check for every government on the planet wake up get ready this virus may be on its way and you need to be ready you know with judy to your citizens you have a duty to the world to be ready. He pointed to the increase in cases and affected countries some struggling to contain the virus. The 1st cases have been announced in dane markets tonia little way any of the netherlands and mexico all linked to the outbreak in italy its reported hundreds of cases and is the a. P. Center of the virus outside asia its famous squares are 5 empty of the new show and trains are being disinfected in a bid to slow the viruses spread. I got out of the city still seems to be a little asleep in a negative way i dont see many people around and im sorry to see that people have been so large. In switzerland Geneva International moshe shows being cancelled after the government banned all events involving more than a 1000 people and in iran and state of crowds of worship as they will workers in hazmat suits in this holy shrine in mashad friday prayers but canceled across much of iran where the virus has killed dozens of people and infected hundreds more china the way the virus began recorded the lowest number of new cases in more than a month more than 36000 people have already been discharged from hospital after recovering from the disease. Like the recent success in controlling the epidemic is hard earned the situation is still grim and complex and with an increase of people going back to work in school we are facing the risk of the epidemic rebounding we cannot afford to take chances that warning is now being echoed willed wide awake so brian al jazeera. So lets get more on the financial reaction to all of this concerns in the markets kristen salumi is in new york and as weve been saying while stocks have suffered that was since the Global Financial crisis tell us more about how markets there on wall street event at the day. Yeah the markets here just closed in the last half hour and todays losses werent as bad as yesterdays losses but they werent good it was not a good day for investors stocks showing their 7th day of declines the worst week as you said since the financial crisis of 2008 the worst month on record since 2009 the Dow Jones Industrial average closed down some 13 percent from its high point less just over a week ago. Standard and poors 500. 00 down 12 percent investors continue to worry about the spread of the coronavirus and the impact thats going to have on corporate profits on trade and the economy writ Large Companies like amazon have announced that theyre putting nonessential travel on hold so the concerns are really widespread and across all sectors of the economy the wall street journal reporting that 95 percent of sant s. And p. Stocks are down more than 10 percent so this is a really bad week for the markets. Thanks very much kristen salumi with all the latest on the financial reaction we have seen in Global Markets after the fears of the coronavirus well lets now take a look at the widest spread in some of the latest developments there im joined by dr mark parish the Regional Medical director for international s. O. S. In of course we were hearing about the 1st case being reported in Subsaharan Africa which countries are you watching particularly closely you most concerned about in terms of Health Care Systems not being robust enough to handle an outbreak the World Health Organization actually reviewed countries abilities to handle pandemic outbreaks and are reported on that only last year and there comment was that many countries still lack many of the areas that they need to have in place to deal with these outbreaks which we know there will be as one now will be one in the future the ones that we are particularly concerned about than the way youre advising our clients with are those lets say the less developed countries you look at iran of the coronavirus from iran has spread to countries like afghanistan theres a country with a Health Care System that really is struggling at the best of times if you add on the coronavirus and that will cause real problems for these countries such as it will just overwhelm their Health Care System we know that approximately 5 percent of all of us that get corona virus will require a reasonably large amount of hospital care potentially helping us with our breathing at our Blood Pressure with antibiotics and you may need to be in a high dependency or intensive care unit in a country like the u. K. Or in europe where we have many of those we are concerned about that as well and we have many preparations for that if you have a large number of people then 5 percent of them suddenly becomes quite large in other countries where their Health Care System is struggling at the best of times afghanistan elsewhere thats a real problem and that will lead i think to unnecessary mortality and morbidity and i suppose in many of these countries it might be different. To establish how widespread the outbreak actually is because the Testing Capacity might not necessarily be there yes a multiplicity of reasons for not really understanding how far it spread if we look at iran is a good example of this if we accept that 2 percent of all cases with current a virus will end in death and if you look at iran reporting maybe 50. 00 to 100. 00 deaths so far the number of cases is much less than you would expect so that would indicate that there are many cases currently unknown about in the in the Community Part of that is educating the Health Care System but its also educating the public the general public if we look certainly in Europe HealthCare Organizations have done a very good job of that you know other parts of the world its been harder the message is you have to out on you know on that point tell me what have you observed in iran in the middle east we have a in some countries we find the cultural overlays of these things makes it a little bit harder to be possibly as transparent as weve seen other countries and for individuals to have the disease to be open about it and to tell the Health Care System we can compare that with china where there has been the most phenomenal reaction by the Chinese Public Health authorities again w. H. O. Reviewed this recently and they said that the chinese response has probably prevented at least 100000 if not more cases in china itself and thats why weve seen cases in china flattening off whereas in other parts of the world the still continuing to go up so the trick what we need to do is to use those traditional methods of containment to keep this disease of the control as weve seen in italy and in south korea thats how you contain the spread of corona virus thank you very much dr mark parish regional director for international s. L. s appreciate your thoughts thank you are with the news out live from london much more still ahead on the program to tell you about ethiopias brand renee sounds damning projects still taking shape as talks with egypt stumble in yet again. Also a Major Railway station is evacuated in paris after a protest is again lighting fires night in sports and courtside fans at the basketball game a bit too close to the action as the l. A. 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We got yet another named storm making its way into western parts of here then this storm jorge the 3rd in the month of february and there we go thats going to bring some more very windy weather across the British Isles as we go on through the next 24 to 48 hours initially its the right and then its the when the waves are really picking up as you go on through saturday and on into sas date damaging winds worst of the rain will have made its way through but still quite a bit of a stray showers rattling him across oland Northern Ireland starting wintry there across scotland and over possibly into this we go on through the course of a saturday to the southeast is not so bad because some want to whether theyre 60 moving across the low countries into germany into that eastern side of france will snow over the alps by the end of the weekend but missing a maid to maybe 2 meters of snowfall across the highest parts of the house quite a bit of snow to into a turkey over the next couple days gradually moving away by the end of the way kind of by the end of the weekend still seeing some very strong winds wet windy and its highs wintry weather piling in across scotland up with some wet weather also pushing across a good part of france the northern parts of africa where its pretty much bone dry and also sunshine coming very temperatures on the rise a high in tripoli with 26. 00. On counting the cost coronavirus could the Economic Impact be on a par with the 2008 financial crisis as the. For the world is crippled by the virus cambodia faces up to the prospect of job losses argentina begins its talks to avoid a debt default. Counting the cost on aljazeera. March on aljazeera. After theyre also going on the nation witness brings a new film this time from africa for International Womens day a crucial day in the race to challenge donald trump when live across key u. S. States for a super tuesday studio b. Unscripted brings a fresh approach to discussing contentious issues and finding Common Solutions as Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to go on trial for corruption israel heads into its 3rd election in less than a year the listening posts 6 the worlds media how they operate on the way they cover stories march on aljazeera. The. Watching these are live from london look at the headlines United Nations has strongly urged russia and turkey to build on the previous agreements in syria to secure a fresh cease fire immediately nato has expressed solidarity with its ally turkey after 33. 00 turkish soldiers were killed on thursday but they have offered no additional nato support. The World Health Organization has warned the global risk of the corona virus is very high with around 50 countries affected efficient stop short of calling the outbreak a pandemic saying they believe containment efforts could still work and u. S. Shares have sunk even further on coronavirus fears with the Dow Jones Industrial average closing 1. 3 percent down suffering its worst week since the crisis of 2008 also markets in new york asia and europe of reported losses of over 3 percent. Now donald trump has said that he will send his secretary of state to cats are tomorrow to witness the signing of a taliban Peace Agreement aimed at bringing u. S. Troops home from afghanistan as cross to roslyn jordan who is in washington for us roseland what could this agreement mean for afghanistan. Well basically what this means is that as far as the United States and the taliban are concerned hostilities are supposedly ending between the 2 this is supposed to be that the u. S. Is expected to start drawing down its forces from afghanistan after a nearly 1000 years of war it also means that there is going to be probably some sort of Prisoner Exchange there are an estimated 5000. 00 members of the taliban being held by the Afghan Military but its not clear yet if the Afghan Government is going to go along with that but this is an important stop this is been a long period of negotiation between the u. S. And the taliban which does not recognize the civilian government and it does mean that at least in terms of Foreign Policy this is something significant which the trumpet ministration can say it has been making some progress on and in terms of the winding we used to describe this agreement does the have to be a certain level of caution to some extent when we speak about this bringing peace to the country. I think thats very very accurate mari and this is simply the 1st step as i noted the taliban does not recognize the sitting government of the afghan president and so the question is going to be even though members of the Afghan Government and the taliban are supposed to sit down within the next 10. 00 to 15. 00 days after the signing of this Peace Agreement who actually is going to be representing the Afghan Government or perhaps in the talibans view the Afghan People whos going to be putting the pressure on both sides to actually carry out these negotiations because of the ongoing a political love questions of a political succession within the Afghan Government whos going to be authorized to sign a final Peace Agreement and perhaps power sharing agreement with the talabani there are a lot of unknowns in the situation there are a lot of factors that could derail this part of the process but it is worth pointing out that after 7 days of mutual call between the taliban and u. S. And Afghan Forces this is a difficult 1st step and it could be the incentive needed to try to get into those broader peace talks among all parts of the Afghan Society in the next 2 to 3 weeks all right thanks very much rosen and jordan in washington and other developments might have been speaking to a House Foreign Affairs committee defending the killing of top iranian general us and said the money is that the operation was necessary to deter iranian and question i also tell the panel that u. S. Sanctions are essential to change the behavior of iran has remained in those impacted rather she more thankful that the United States is finally holding their oppressors accountable. The trouble ministration well neither appease nor tolerate the enormous National Security threat their own poses to the United States our friends and our allies. Pressure campaign is aimed at reducing these threats and convincing iran to change its behavior. To libya now residents of the capital tripoli are reporting the shelling of the city has intensified in the past 24 hours United Nations has said the attacks on jeopardy by forces loyal to one of 25. 00 might amount to war crimes and traffic reports from tripoli its the civilians who are suffering is some a little safe his back was peppered with shrapnel when a rocket fired by forces loyal to warlord holly for half the exploded by his home. For shot off unless i was standing on the street thank god my neighbor called me over to and i moved forward 5 steps and the rocket landed just a few meters away as sams pregnant wife suffered minor injuries and his son serious head wounds in the attack we go to his neighborhood and find evidence of what people who live his say happens day and night i was earlier another barrel of rockets that hit residents say they released 7 rockets hit this neighborhood the smalling they saying that nobody was injured in those attacks but behind this house is mighty good poll which has been consistently charged but i have to say forces over recent months now people here in tripoli are increasingly angry theyre blaming the u. N. For not doing enough to halt huffed as offensive on the capital almost a week of u. N. Sponsored talks in geneva during which neither of libyas warring sides met face to face failed to Reach Agreement on a ceasefire. The u. N. Backed government which is receiving military support from turkey says general haftar Must Withdraw his forces from areas they control on the outskirts of tripoli. After who is being supported by countries including the u. A. E. Egypt and russia says Turkish Military personnel and pro turkey syrian fighters supporting the un backed government must leave libya fast meanwhile anger and distrust towards the u. N. Is growing protesters at this demonstration hold pictures of u. N. Special representative to libya the sun salami how much did they pay you to be silent and supporter of terrorism they read both sides accused of being biased against them play out of the play and. They hit us with a gyptian and m. R. R. T. S. Strikes salamis sees whats happening and the violations i live near the airport there are rockets landing on civilian areas all the time the situation is terrible with so many countries involved in this conflict the un seems powerless to stop the fighting that has escalated since the geneva ceasefire talks failed both sides have boycotted u. N. Sponsored talks aimed at finding a political solution back in the hospital has pictures of his injured 4 year old son on his mobile phone he says doctors are afraid to remove the shrapnel lodged inside outdoor rahmans skull because if they do he may never walk again. Tripoli well the u. N. Envoy selebi has been speaking in geneva diplomatic editor james base has been following developments. Many stakeholders but according to the u. N. Representative Garson Salama although they all say the same thing publicly behind the scenes theyre pulling in Different Directions and that is one of the problems hes had 3 days of talks here at the un in geneva the 1st round of the socalled political track trying to get all the sides together the problem hes faced is that many of the key players have boycotted those talks and have not attended those talks he says they really do need to come back to the table because the situation for ordinary libyans is getting worse by the day hes talked about the violence weve seen in the last 24 hours as significant breach of the already very shaky truce and hes also concerned about the situation not just in libya but the situation in syria because in both wars you have turkey and russia on opposing sides i do believe that there are play a lot of now very active in both to me and libya and i do believe that there is a mutual. Sort of interaction between the 2 conflicts that is. Not favorable for peace in either one ive spoken to senior u. N. Officials who are working on both libya and syria and they say that now although there are very very different conflicts they have to look at this as they believe potentially russia and turkey are looking at it as a 2 front war. Now ethiopias Water Ministry has announced that it will not attend this weeks latest round of u. S. Brokered talks on the disputed nile down projects with egypt and saddam the u. S. Has been trying to mediate negotiations over a socalled nascent dam that ethiopias been building near its border with saddam is egypt fears the dam will reduce the flow of water along the nile which accounts for nearly 90 percent of its supply the 5000000000. 00 project is positive ethiopias plan to export power throughout africa and the sphere tensions could escalate if a deal is not reached before the project is completed in 2022. Well mama develop met with engineers at the size of the dam and they say that construction is moving faster than ever. This scene of destitution is a few miles away from ethiopia grant and. Local people here still live in 3 states with no warning what or electricity or decent hopes. They say patiently wait for the benefit of the doubt. What patience is there to muster these workers need to finish the month. They wait the night. Daytime she also works progress. The project is made up of 3 parts civil works which are now 87 Percent Complete the steel works which are going a bit slow with 17 Percent Completed and the Electromechanical Works at 35 percent and all those 3 components show that the dam is 71. 2 Percent Complete were planning to start filling the reservoir next june and will be able to start producing electricity a year later once finished these giant tubes will channel but people waters down through turbines 9. 10 which are still to be placed here the powerful jets rotate the turbines and the hydro power engines link to them transform the 2 to electricity each turbine will produce 370 megawatts when all of the 30 turbines are completed that dam will be able to produce a little less than 6000 megawatt enough to satisfy ethiopias needs to export electricity to regions as far away as Southern Africa and western europe as you can see behind me that to me the section hasnt yet been finished its one acquires 2000000 cubic meters of ronald concrete slabs to raise it to the final height thats also where the 13 will be inserted 2 of them will become operational early next year and thats when. The 1st hydropower production begins ethiopia says this is crucial for its Economic Development sudan deposits country believes it has nothing to fear despite warnings by some of its sr experts but egypt that even as historic destination feels threatened since the dawn of time it had the lions share of the blue nile waters but that theres a country described by your order to us as the gift of the nile believes the dam may deprive its population of its most vital source is especially if the opiate insists on healing the 74000000000 cubic meter reservoir in 3 years egypt has suggested it should take no less than 70 years as the talks in washington d. C. Stumble at each round time is of the essence to both nations meanwhile the historic dam continues to take its final shape for the legendary river this is a mighty handle that will control every drop of it for the 1st time in history a river that flew freely in the wild for millions of years is from now on forced to squeeze its way through these narrow ion frames of brick and mortar i use future and perhaps the 2 of the millions of people in its path is not set in stone for ages to come mama divide our dizzy hour at the gander nissans down western ethiopia. A major train station in paris had to be evacuated early on friday after protesters started lighting fires demonstrators set fire to scooters and cars near the godly all station in protest at a concert by congolese singer. Hes previously had to cancel concerts because of demonstrations opposed to the democratic republic of congos government. There was outside the godly all station earlier on and she said that plumes of smoke be seen right across central paris. Or the galbally or train station is one of the main stations in central paris and of the ground level you can really get a sense of the damage you can see these motorbikes have been overturned and if you come over here a whole row of motorbikes completely burnt out just called kisses on the floor weve seen a smashed past we see bus stops also in bits completely burnt out and what happened was it was about 6 oclock in the evening local time here in paris when protesters say all these vehicles around the train station and the plumes of smoke the rose into the air were very impressive you could see them all over paris we were some 2 kilometers away and even we could see them we could smell the smoke in the end it reminded me very much of the night the not saddam cathedral it was a moment where people were looking up to the sky and really wondering what had happened in central paris well before if i do is you can see over there theyre just some of the many that came to the scene they managed to put out those blazes pretty quickly but it must mean very frightening for the many people using the train station on a friday evening a very busy time of the evening the train station was evacuated but it has now been reopened. Still to come on the knees out have all the latest sports news for you an 8 year ban ends the korea of china as a limping poster boy because you have the details on that story and much more. Its. Time now for the sport with peta. Larry and thank you so much chinas most famous athlete the 3 time olympic swimming champion soon young has been handed the maximum 8 year ban for breaking anti doping rules it was welcomed by fellow athletes who had protested his most recent victories pool reports. In 2012 son young was on the path of sporting greatness and the olympics in london he would become the 1st chinese man ever to win gold in the pool 2 of them and followed by another at rio 2016. But 2 years on from the olympics in brazil a run in with drugs test has led him here the court of arbitration for sport. After vials of sons blood had been smashed with a hammer when testers visited him at his home on friday the court gave its decision a ban from swimming for 8 years effectively ending the career of one of the jewels in the crown of chinese sports ready it was not for the athlete to decide alone that and i dont think tests shall be invalidated and the Sample Containers destroyed as a consequence when young committed an antidoping rule violation by tampering with the doping control sons response was immediate telling chinas official news agency this is unfair i firmly believe in my innocence i will definitely appeal to let more people know the truth the Chinese Swimming Association says it deeply regrets the ruling and fully support sun although it had itself banned him for 3 months for doping in 2014 that led to a fracture between son and many of his rivals australian swimmer mark horton had branded sun a drug cheat in rio and in 2019 refused to share the podium with him at the worlds in south korea. Well the man who was out shown by some in rio believes the medals should be redistributed this is a pity you know because a lot of people sacrificed their whole lives for some moments you know and its not just about me you got sold it to him or the guy that came forth to me god its about the got the came month i should get a gold medal back from from rio and if not no not for the moment i lost that i dont really care about that just for my record you know its more questions remain over this case son was originally cleared by swimmings governing body phina over the destroyed samples and it took an appeal from the World Antidoping Agency to result in fridays bomb. As things stand for you know have not commented on why they saw things differently paul aris aljazeera world number one Novak Djokovic is through to the dubai tennis Championships Final of to seeing of feeds on friday it was the french woman who looked more likely to qualify for saturdays final at 1st morphys taking the 1st set 62. 00 before pushing the serb all the way in the 2nd but eventually surrendering it 76. 00 the serb an up the ante and blew the 3rd seed away 61 stefano city buses waiting for him in the final. Argentina has given the world some of its biggest football stars likely in a messy and the amount of downer but its bowl Manufacturing Sector is in crisis with imports leaving hundreds of people out of work so thats a bow reports from belval in the province of cordoba. Food to bulls have helped arjun tines laugh and cry throughout the years but in this factory in bellville in Central Province of quarter the law they have played a much bigger role in. And they took im not a has been producing them since he was 11 years old it was his 1st job and its been his passion since then. I was raised in a factory and my 1st payment was a pair of jeans that was my salary im talking years ago and now i see they are importing balls and they blow up on their own because its not the quality we have we want to make the best balls handmade that can make it to the leave i am till the 1930 s. The bulls were closed with a leather feel that hurt players head but 3 friends from bellville invented the super bowl with an invisible seem that is currently used today this city is considered argentina as a bold capital and what makes this walls unique is that there handmade something that generates hundreds of jobs every year but the dire Economic Situation in the country and imports from china and pakistan are having a strong impact in factories like this one that are struggling to remain in the business. But he got a fully nice family has owned this factory for years he says in the past 4 production has dropped dramatically the Previous Administration of. Allowed imported walls to take over the market. When the g 20 happened with all the president s from around the world gave balls to president s made in china we have all these factories here that need to south he says in these past 2 years he has been forced to reduce his staff more than. I had 100 employees and now i have 15 working and like all Small Companies if we had a decree that we could fire everyone we should have done so we were working to remain open to those around 15 Small Companies in the area and they have a big impact in the community as they hire local sewers who create the bulls body. Learned how to sew balls from his mother he has 5 children and says he can make a little less. Truck cash every month i wish. I started sewing balls when i was around 5 years old to help my mother this is the only job i have for now i dont have anything else aside from government help its difficult these days to care for my children everything is expensive with inflation argentina needs around 4000000. 00 a year factories like this one say they could survive by producing only 20 percent of what is needed there only waiting for the government to look their way. I didnt tina now a great bit of play in the n. B. A. Is the Los Angeles Lakers hammered the Golden State Warriors and they did it without Le Bron James he said with a grueling injury Anthony Davis managed just fine though he scored 23 points and also contributed this accuracy to set up crews many concede davis somehow manages to pass the ball before crashing into those cold side seats the lakers went on to win by 30 and the brawny clearly enjoy himself as they talk in the west to do the lakers as the warriors remain but. Will just leave you know with what. Goal short on the European Tour years callums shingle in at the man open shanking the ball straight into some rocks but it bounced straight over them again and again nestling nicely at the side of the fairway. That he mentored. Thats all the sport mariya thats great thanks very much peter well that wraps up the news hour for now but i will be back in a moment with much more of the days news another bulletin around like the days top stories coming up to stay with us. Migrants in uniform volunteering their labor to appease locals and combat anti migrant sentiment. People in power travels to the north of italy where a bold experiment is underway. With an unconventional approach to integration. Italys migrant boot camp on a. The 70 years after one tribes epic journey from palestine to the nile delta 0 world meets the largest concentration of 914 refugees in egypt and. 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