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Taliban prisoners despite a deal between the group and the u. S. That with the support and 145 days until take your host the olympics the japanese capital holds a scaled down barrier with just 200 runners in an effort to halt the spread of coronavirus. Welcome to the news are turkey says its launched a renewed military operation in northwestern syria it follows the killing of 34 turkish soldiers in Syrian Government strikes in the province on thursday turkeys defense minister says the operation is in selfdefense against the assad Regime Syrian state media says turkey has shot down 2 syrian warplanes and but the pilots are safe. Is our correspondent on the turkey syria border near hotter and lets just begin with this very confusing picture about planes either being shot at or shot down. While this this is because of the series of reports weve been getting over the last few hours about spectacular spike of events now in syria particularly in the province of idlib this is absolutely an indication of why didnt military confrontation take in place a different fronts but its been just explain exactly whats happening so now from according to the Turkish Military of defense earlier today without specifying exactly where. Syrian fighter jets were planning to attack turkish warplanes and then the turkish warplanes how to retaliate shooting down to syrian fighter jets they said that it also destroyed 3 defense batteries in it for evidence this comes only almost 2 hours after the Defense Ministry said that its military operation and you campaign piece schildt is underway and they say that this operation has started the day the night turkish soldiers were killed and they say that it will continue in province and that they are determined to take retaliate or to retaliate actions against the Syrian Government they said also and thats according to the. Defense ministry the door wish to get into any confrontation with the russians but however every action which is going to be taken from out on was is going to be considered as an act of selfdefense this is all the asli an indication of a skill ation in different parts of syria particularly in the northwestern part of course were seeing or hearing more about a syrian offensive in and around data. Exactly so this is exactly what is happening as this is further increasing in done our province the Syrian Government has launched today an offensive to take over the city of Southern Maine a sudden has been a major opposition stronghold that are widely seen by the syrians of the as the birthplace of the 2011 freising however in 2017 when the Syrian Government backed by russia started to gain control they signed we conciliation agreements with the opposition and one of those agreements was about defusing tension in our side i mean that didnt work the government failed to bridge build bridges and win the hearts and minds of the people today they said its about time to take over the city but were getting reports from activists that the fighting still intensified over there but now if you go a little bit further north towards the south of it live thats another spectacular story happening burbles backed by turkey are taken over major territory in in satellite and also in the. Those gays would not have been possible had it not been for the massive turkish support for the Syrian Opposition just a few days ago they lost most of that territory yesterday and today they managed to claim back most of that territory so what you seeing on the ground is clearly and dictation that the political military map in it province is changing a colossal across the hour thanks for the update on the turkey syria border. Well were also following another top story thats of course the thousands of refugees and migrants many of whom have fled the fighting are continuing to gather at greeces one border with turkey the greek Prime Minister called a meeting of the National Security council greeces greeces Security Forces have reportedly prevented 10000 people from entering in the past 24 hours the surge in numbers follows turkeys decision to open its borders to europe Greek Police Say more than 500 refugees and migrants also arrived on the greek islands closest to turkey on sunday natasha going has more on the migrants newsmans farm and then on turkeys border with greece. Migrants are on the move but were seeing an intermittent trickle thats how i would describe it were certainly not seeing thousands of people if you look behind me theres a road and that will lead to the checkpoint with turkey and greece weve seen groups of people maybe in id say 10121012 proceeding since we arrived several hours ago but not hundreds of people and certainly not thousands of people arriving the Turkish Interior Ministry is saying that more than 76000 people have left turkey via the northwest border with greece and volga area since it opted to open its borders on friday the people were speaking to say theyre not convinced of those numbers simply because its been quite difficult for them to proceed any further than beyond the Turkish Border of course there are various entry points the checkpoint is a bit difficult for certain but there are entry points smugglers are involved and people are paying weve heard reports of up to thousands of dollars for them to be taken in various routes that include land the river and the sea. The refugees are continuing to arrive by base on the island of les paul some from the police reports. A single boat load of refugees is escorted to the shores of lesbos high winds have likely prevented many others from crossing but they are forecast to die down and more boats are expected to come all who arrive and up here in moria camp there are 22000 people here 7 times what it was built for and many have to find space among the olive groves most from afghanistan theyve escaped war and death but many say they havent found life here there are no formal schools so 14 year old flood operates his familys stand selling fruit and vegetables is morea good. Not a good. Read. Maybe a small maybe that people here have little to do but wait for their asylum applications to be decided upon and their wait has just become much longer a new asylum law took effect at the beginning of the year that fast tracks new applications so the trajectory applicants can be sent back to turkey as quickly as they arrive but that discriminates against people like these who arrived as a family 5 months ago we had into the smart. 26. And they did it but they dont take it to you they see only take in tales from the people this year and you have until you 10 months next turkey agreed to take back your attorneys in a 2016 statement signed with the European Union and the greek government says it plans to return at least 10000 people this year but whether turkey will all of that agreement in the current Political Climate is an open question so the greek governments entire refugee strategy now hangs in the balance many local people say they have little faith in this new policy. Owns one of the olive groves next to moria. Parish that youre getting a year ago the refugees were chopping limbs of trees to cook with but we can still harvest a few olives this year was a bumper crop but we couldnt pick a single olive my land was burned twice then they pitched a few tens onto the burned patch and soon after the land just filled up with tents. The government is using lesbos as a holding area but many greeks fear that if turkish president or a chapter you threaten flood of refugees becomes a reality the European Union could try and use their country as a buffer zone for the rest of the continent John Psaropoulos aljazeera lesbos. Well you know kind of cool lucky is a researcher on violence and borders at the university of birmingham in england she joins me now via skype good to have you with us on the program we all sort of welcome todays migrants expect from the e. U. Compared to those arrived on europe store 5 years ago. I would say i would say a rather violent welcome because its clear that the year does not a one term and it is clear because we have been saying the past couple of there is what is happening at the greek Turkish Border and the euro has been completely silent about the situation so its will not be welcomed in the your by the e. U. Governments is it more a case of obviously youre saying the e. U. Would find them give them an unwelcome. Arrival but greece itself is not willing to allow them to enter without any sort of Financial Support and thats the problem that greece faces that now its going to be seen as the bad guy of europe stopping migrants with force in some cases if he doesnt help them well even if greece had the Financial Support by the e. U. Will it still unable to handle the situation on its own because its not repair what is happening is something that we have been waiting to happen since then to 16 when they decided to agree with thank you and they dont a statement it was a human disaster waiting to happen it has happened now if it isnt a crystal ball to do anything if thats the case if it seems that there is no european political will to deal with this problem in the turkish president blames the e. U. For failing to keep its financial promises in hosting the migrants that arrived in turkey is it then true assumption to make that the e. U. Renee dont their commitments or theyve just been slow in their commitments and this is why weve reached this point. Well look this is what happens when you are green and a statement that is not legally binding when you agree on a statement with someone who is who clearly has authoritarian tendencies they you have. To deal with the situation by giving giving money without any control. So with that sort of very open relationship is it any wonder that with the european Political Landscape having changed over the last 5 years and move more towards the right but there are some governments across the e. U. Who obviously are very off sticking their heels in and making sure that the migrants themselves know politically they would not be welcome in is this going to cause some sort of fractious in pass within the e. U. Which will over spill on the borders of these countries such as hungary such as the Czech Republic such as bulgaria and greece where the public will pup support a more right wing political leaning well actually all of this countries have quite right wing governments including grace and we have the answer is specifically for greece we have been seeing it quite clearly with the boxes that they have been following since summer. What i expect will happen is that the locals the people of those countries we no longer be able to trust their government in handling the situation and they will think this is jason in their own hands as it happens in the lead but at the moment not only less but ill start in here and say weve seen some of the writers on those issues so you know please do please do finish. In here that was a superrich another super there was a board under stress this morning and from the reports that come from the island there were locals holding. A. Gun to press a they were quite aggressively waiting for the people to gunman shot. Who how do you think this is going to play out to be what you think would be the ideal situation Going Forward for both government such as greece and for migrants who intend or do end up on greek soil. They usually reinstate relocation that did start in the under 17 otherwise there will be no solution they will have to open the borders im very clear about that they will have to provide safe passage and they will have to take responsibility for what is going on and start helping. A human theyre really. Assisting on a humanitarian terms and not on military terms as they are doing now because what the u. S. Clearly doing at the moment is giving money to graze and given land to turkey to deal with this change and that its clearly going to be dealt this way itll be interesting to see what sort of statements come out of brussels a kid i call ok thank you very much for joining us from birmingham in the u. K. Thank you. Ron has reported on the surge in corona virus cases and nearly a dozen more tests its now has the highest number of deaths from the infection outside of Mainland China the government says they are break in serious moments a solution of the brain would have to lose you do seem over the last 24 hours we have had 385. 00 new cases we have now had 978. 00 infections in the country since the outbreak began are at the new 385 cases unfortunately 11 people have lost their lives now the total number of deaths from covert 19 in the country stands at 54 so joins us now in tehran via skype zain lets just talk through these latest figures a real concern for to iran. Thats absolutely right so how yet again another spike in double digits of the number of people that have died from the corona virus here in iran and although it was expected it was expected to get worse the government has been preparing people for that saying it over and over again the fact that the total number of cases has nearly doubled in just a matter of 24 hours is something that still is a very serious concern now this may be as much the evidence of the spread of the disease in this country as it is the fact that there simply are more tests kits available to iranian authorities now than there were at the beginning of this Public Health crisis of this corona Virus Outbreak in this country now the Health Minister spokesman also said that the best Case Scenario is that this disease will begin to abate around march around some time next month towards the end of march but he said that it is far more likely that it will go on for the next 3 or 4 months well into the persian new year so for many iranians who are coping with this now this is really the new normal well into their persian new year well into the middle of this year now a vaccine and many universities and Public Health facilities are trying to were going to vaccine but thats a year away at least and now forward fifths of the country is somehow affected or has experienced some cases of the coronavirus and in some of those kids places where there has been an acute a number of cases there are new travel restrictions in place now perhaps a very morbid Silver Lining one positive of the fact that the number of cases has doubled since the death rate has kept a steady pace that means that the death rate in iran is now around 2 percent which is in the normal range for at this disease for this virus as seen in other countries and of course as coronavirus the issue that of course they the virus itself takes hold and sovereign state. Around the world it does play on the psyche of the public at large and what is life like for those that youre speaking to or have had contact with in terms of the way that theyre dealing with the issue of coronavirus in among society. Yes its it has to be said iranians were already experiencing a number of of public crises before this medical outbreak for the corona Virus Outbreak so you you had a population that was already really struggling to cope with daily life you know least of all from sanctions placed on it by the United States or the economy was already struggling now were seeing the Economic Impact play out on city streets stores shops cafes restaurants all around the city wherever you go you can see signs posted on windows of closed closed businesses saying that they are closed indefinitely due to the coronavirus and those few restaurants that do remain open some businesses have to remain open to be on the tables at all of these restaurants youll find a bottle of Hand Sanitizer sitting right next to ketchup bottles so thats really when i say new normal thats sort of how its playing out in everyones daily lives this is a city of around 10 to 15000000 people 20000000 by some estimates and really the traffic on the streets has almost completely died down you dont see the same level of People Movement that you would on any sort of work sort of normal business day a lot of people who arent out and about you know the streets are empty schools are closed businesses are closed many people are communicating how theyre experiencing this virus on social media you see people posting videos of medics burying those that have died instead of family members to avoid any further risk of contracting the disease hospital workers are trying to keep their spirits up by dancing but they do take it seriously theyre also talking about how short staffed and short handed they are in terms of supplies to deal with this and people are also sharing clips of people collapsing on the street unable to breathe the young and the elderly the most likely to succumb to these problems but it has to be said the coronavirus is also exacerbated by the fact that were seeing more and more pollution that ron is one of the most polluted kind of cities in the world d and that is certainly having an effect on people susceptible d to the disease zain thanks so much for that in terre. Now the u. S. Has tightened travel restrictions for countries most affected by quote a virus after recording its 1st death from the infection President Trump called for calm after confirming a man died in Washington State the u. S. Is banning all travel to iran and blocking entry to any foreign citizens who visited iran in the past 2 weeks is also issued do not travel warnings to parts of italy and south korea trump is considering closing the border with mexico despite the southern neighbor having only 4 confirmed cases additional cases in the United States are likely but healthy individuals should be able to fully recover and we think there will be a statement that we can make with great surety now that weve gotten from e. U. With this problem they should be able to recover should they contract a virus so Healthy People if youre healthy. You will probably. Go through a process and youll be fine well plenty more ahead here on the aljazeera news are including its back to the polls for voters in israel as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tries for a 3rd time to form a majority government and in india more children live on the streets than any other country in the world is education the 1st step to breaking the cycle of poverty. Are scenes in a german Football Game as top teams stop playing because of an offensive in the crowd that story coming out with joe in spalls. Deal signed between the u. S. And the Afghan Taliban may have already hit a major stumbling block of guard stands president bush afghanis says the government did not commit to releasing 5000 taliban prisoners that it cannot be a precondition for talks with the group a prisoner swap was part of the accord signed in qatar on saturday now the agreement is meant to pave the way for a withdrawal of all american and nato troops from the country and a long lasting peace there are an estimated 10000 taliban prisoners being held in afghanistan the group says some of them arent actually combatants. Need is our correspondent force and joins me now from kabul of course the ink has hardly dried harder on the agreement and already the afghan president has really thrown a spanner in the works. Yeah absolutely and he actually did that very early this morning. At about 10 oclock he had already put really send a shockwave certainly among the Political Leadership here in the country and probably all the way to do white house now as you said. And his point of view is that this was a deal between the americans and the taliban and we have nothing to do with it and i think he had been angered and he had been he has been feeling marginalized while all this process was only going so he says we didnt actually. We didnt agree on anything we didnt sign anything those prisoners are held in afghan prisons so if you want them released well it cannot be a precondition to the interim afghan talks will have to discuss that at the negotiation table many other issues and of course no one is really giving up quite yet but its hard to see how all of the stakeholders be of the taliban Afghan Government or even warlords perhaps are going to sit round and down in one room an iron out a way forward and that must bring some thanks to the afghan public. Well the afghan public sort of weve been saying that for the past 48 hours i sort of cautiously hoping but they know the situation very well as you said 1st of all you have you have many problems many clusters of problems really difference one being among the afghan politicians themselves 5 months after the elections they still cant agree who is the new president who is the winner you have 2 rivals president a 70 and his main contender dr Abdullah Abdullah who both say we are the winners who both have threatened to hold their own separate inauguration and then you have also the cluster of problems between the taliban and all that Political Leadership in the country as you said these problems these still it is between them predates the american arrival here in afghanistan the goes back to do ninetys and some of those same players are today in government or are today ruling the talibans is a very complicated situation to see how everybody will trust each other also you have to put in bear in mind that the Afghan Government who was the sort of i lie here of any Us Administration now finds itself on the margin and sort of being pushed into agreeing to something that it doesnt really agree with because he wanted a ceasefire before anything else that is not happening the taliban have refused it Afghan People and to stand the situation very well so theyre very cautious about the prospect of peace even though they really want to reach that peace and stability to lead me to in kabul thank you. Now israel is gearing up for its 3rd election in a year but there are fears mondays vote will end in another inconclusive result the country has been run by an interim administration without powers to pass significant legislation or even a budget the main rival to the incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the blue and white parties any gantz hurry for cities in west jerusalem and harry reid i suppose many israelis will be hoping for a clearer political direction after the vote and also hoping that its 3rd time lucky when it comes to getting a government that actually works. Yes that hope is very real because it would be there to counterbalance the real despair that many israeli voters have found to have in their electoral system in their democracy over the course of the last year but if they were hoping that this time around it might kind of elevate that process in some way the last few days will have shattered those hopes its become an incredibly brutal and personal end to their campaign believe this if you will the one of the senior Staff Members on benny gantz his campaign had a conversation with his rabbi which was recorded by that rabbi in which this Senior Member of dances campaign was pretty uncompromising is a valuation of dance saying that he could prove a danger to the people of israel that he might not be the kind of leader who could order an attack on iran for example so that has been leapt upon by Benjamin Netanyahu could party netanyahu is own party a senior aide to him has been very dismissive of jews from a middle eastern background is right he do saying that theyve been successful in whipping up hate among that community and that the camp is united by hatred circles the blue and white party has been making the most of that as well as that benny gantz has been saying that look good is preparing to issue force rumors about coronavirus in blue and white sympathising parts of the country so its become an extremely scrappy and unpleasant last few days as for netanyahu self of course he faces trial on 3 corruption chip cases starting just 2 weeks after polling day hed begun this campaign talking about an ex in parts of the occupied west bank that has been to some extent fading into the background of all these other issues that have come up and he instead of doing his traditional tactic of warning his supporters that is on the cusp of losing and trying to motivate them to the polls in that way with the recent relatively positive polls hes saying. Hes nearly there just a couple of more seats in the Israeli Parliament in the knesset than this whole movie as they say could be over so hes trying to inspire his people to come to the polls because he says hes on the cusp of nearly getting there are a force in west jerusalem thank you. Well it. Looks like a mixed bag of weather really across north america were saying maybe saying goodbye to winter in the u. S. Nice in canada in fact the residents to toronto have had their fill of snow these last few weeks when the end of winter has been really deep snow not just that around to be a corner of north america where the low temperatures were this is friday theyre not particularly low but if you focus on what this means with that circulation of wind where the wind comes down out of the cold air across the great lakes the great lakes are not covered in a completely covered in ice this year so theyre still relatively warm which means those winds pick up enough moisture to give you lake effect snow and lake effect snow can be pretty nasty because it conditions in upstate new york and it wasnt there for just toronto this whole area to the east the lakes got some pretty nasty weather the dems back into the hof meter of snow the winds of course themselves are quite strong which has an interesting effect going off lake erie and this is right next to lake erie using get water this full of mud and stuff frozen thats a house weve got something lives inside that that is also a house on the lake shore but subzero temperatures things are off a lot better now the wind is actually coming from the science which means we got a couple of good days to toronto itself temperatures 172 upper freezing torontos whether its awfully sorry thanks very much rob well still ahead here on aljazeera we guess runway one got. 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Welcome back youre watching i was there is news hour with me sell rob a reminder of our top stories syrian state media say turkey has shot down 2 government warplanes that it led but the pilots are safe it happened shortly after turkey announced it launched a military operation in northwestern syria. Greeces Prime Minister has called a meeting of the National Security council as thousands of refugees and migrants gather at his land border with turkey media say that 10000 people have been prevented from entering in the past 24 hours. Iran is reported to have more deaths from provirus side and another surge in new infections 978 cases and 54 fatalities have been confirmed which is the highest death toll outside of mabel and china. And in china 573 new infections have been recorded but Health Authorities insist theyre getting on top of the outbreak katrina you has more from beijing another patient is discharged from hospital and province in eastern china. For the 1st time chinas government says the number of patients cured of a new coronavirus subparts is the total being treated during war 3 huge were only 52 point one percent of work around the virus cases have been cured this signals a good trend nationally. Millions of workers are returning to work to get the worlds 2nd biggest economy moving again but a travel lockdown remains in her great province the epicenter of the crisis around 37000 there are sick 7000 of them seriously ill at least 25. 00 medics have died of the virus oh more than 70 countries and territories have imposed travel or sections on south korea where around 3700. 00 people are infected in the hardest hit city of daegu hospital beds are at schultz apply an increasing number of cases a link to the shin georgie religious sect Health Service administrators are investigating the branch of the church based in the chinese city of war on. The size of the group is not that big but there are some cases where we believe people visited one han in january. In japan baseball teams play to empty stadiums many sports gatherings have been disciplined or cancelled raising fears that the coronavirus could do you rail the Tokyo Olympics due to start in july around 900 cases have been confirmed to japan most from the diamond princess cruise ship with corona virus cases around the world steadily rising chinese leaders are turning their attention to threats from a broad Chinese Government hasnt yet imposed travel restrictions on any country but Officials Say theyre ready to rip pottery chinese citizens from any affected by the outbreak if necessary katrina aljazeera thinking. And the womens the 1st australian to dive coronavirus after he got sick on the diamond princess cruise ship the 78 year old was evacuated from the ship to a hospital in perth where he died the mans wife is also being treated for the virus one of 25. 00 people in quarantine at the 35 year old man has died from friend of ours in thailand the man that was already in hospital after being admitted with thank you fever in late january time Health Authorities are looking into the case after here the sri tested negative for the virus the global death toll there stands at almost 3000. Joe biden has won the South Carolina democratic primary securing almost half of the votes with Bernie Sanders coming in 2nd with about 20 percent by bidens victory may give him the momentum me needs going into super tuesday when people in 14 states head to the polls and galahad reports was. He spent weeks fighting to keep his Campaign Alive but on saturday former Vice President joe biden was back in the race a few months ago victory in South Carolina was a foregone conclusion but both Bernie Sanders and Billionaire Tom Steyer made inroads that threatened bardens bid for the democratic ticket now though joe bidens campaign is alive and kicking thank you thank you thank you South Carolina. Was not thanks to all of your heart of the democratic primary we just won and we won big because it was bidens victory ends Bernie Sanders winning streak after he emerged as the front runner in the 1st 3 contests the senator from vermont finished 2nd and hes now looking to super tuesday when 14 states in American Samoa hold their primaries theyll account for a 3rd of the delegates a potentially Game Changing day in u. S. Politics tonight we did not win in South Carolina. It will not preview only the 3 there are a lot of states in this country nobody wins them all joe biden downplayed his early losses instead focusing on more diverse state his campaign received a crucial endorsement when congressman James Clyburn the most powerful democratic politician in South Carolina endorsed him just 3 days before the vote that seal of approval may have pushed undecided africanamerican voters a crucial voting bloc here to back biden lets get back i was. Right here people wait campbell i meet again one of the family is mom were proud of this president so get our take back our country this is the United States of america theres nothing beyond our capacity if we do it together Elizabeth Warren and pete but a judge trailed the pack with disappointing results joe bidens referred to South Carolina and its Large Population of black democratic voters as his fire wall and its held steadfast for a campaign now when youd to say this was a boost for joe bidens campaign would be an understatement the 1st states in the democratic primaries is giving the former Vice President the kind of legitimacy and the mention he needs many establishment figures in the Democratic Party have been looking for a moderate to take on sundays now they may have found him on the gallacher of the sira columbia South Carolina. Well the 1300 delegates up for grabs on super tuesday 30 percent of those ring california where a big win could put a contender in point position for the Democratic Partys nomination robles reports from los angeles. University students on the march for Bernie Sanders in los angeles showing the enthusiasm many young people have for the vermont senator and the one known for his block with his neat who is my hero i believe hes the only candidate that truly looks out for relief here in the biggest most diverse state in the u. S. Let tito voters are a crucial voting bloc i feel like hes the only candidate who has other countries in mind nearly 30 percent of the states eligible voters are let me know and the vast majority vote democratic absolutely letting us have the power to shape outcomes but none of the candidates can afford to take let tino votes for granted direct contact is key to poc and door knock and outreach to the latino electorate thats important for a place like california its a huge robust state but you still have to blame here polls show sanders leading by a wide margin in california followed by Elizabeth Warren with joe biden a distant 3rd the senators campaign would like to repeat its winning formula from nevada last month it put together a coalition of liberal whites young people and latinos polls show 3 quarters of registered lets you know voters are ready and eager to vote in the primary with its multiple large urban areas california is an expensive place to campaign you have multiple high dollar media markets right and its a big state right so youve got to think about bay area got san diego and l. A. Are separate markets so youre talking about a lot of media spending billionaire Michael Bloomberg saturated california airwaves with ads but he has little to show for it hes only polling in the single digits. Early voting has been underway in parts of california for more than a week a big win in the west would not give sanders all of the 1991 delegates. To win the 1st ballot at the Democratic Convention in july but it could provide him with a lead that the other candidates might find almost impossible to surmount robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. But the promise of swift anticorruption measures has helped push the vacuous center right opposition to victory in parliamentary elections the ordinary people Group Security around a quarter of the votes enough to beat the ruling a center left party which is controls a vacuum politics for more than a decade the murder of a journalist who is looking into widespread corruption dominated much of the discussion leading up to the election heading to asia now where malaysias former leader Mahathir Mohamad is demanding Parliament Meet to challenge the leadership of his successor there then you are seen was sworn in as Prime Minister at a ceremony in kuala long poor on sunday he was appointed by the king less than a week after martin resigned and then try to fail to form a new unity government there says yasi is appointment is illegal running a muslims who fled violence in me about remains fearful of returning home despite the government saying its ready to receive them more than 700000 ringgold crossed into neighboring bangladesh in 2017 to have a child rehearse the latest. It has been more than 2 years since rocky had begun fled me and mark to bangladesh but she says her heart and soul still cries for a village home in rakhine she stays in touch with a nephew and his wife who live in tongues as our village in Northern Rock and state shes worried about their safety we had her face in the video on her request that i let it out of what i learned as an a lot of the city there burning houses and abusing the mouse there those who are stuck there facing constant harassment just like they did to us they also can find im strict in the movement theyre living in a dangerous situation theyre doing or are caught in the middle of fighting between the army and rebels from but this Majority Ethnic Group in iraq and state travel Restrictions Mean theyre less able to flee than there but this neighbors and in recent months some have been killed she makes a call to our nephew on our mobile phone d. There is frequent fighting between rakhine buddhist rebels and Security Forces at least 5 or a his were killed caught in the crossfire there is no peace here when the buddhist rebels attacks the army then the Security Forces interrogate and harass us accusing us of helping the rebels and providing them shelter recently at least 20 shops were burned in our area. Despite a recent ruling by a un stop code ordering me and mark to protect growing up muslims there still confined in tough conditions and are unable to travel freely or x. S Health Care education and other basic services. And. Im not able to communicate with my friends but what i hear from the other side is that theyre living in difficult situations and a very unhappy they constantly monitor the movement is restricted periodic we checked in her arrest by the Security Forces who have been extorted money from them. With more than half a 1000000 going up believed to be living in myanmar snored. And right kind province u. N. Investigators have warned theres a serious risk that genocide could again be carried out you can see me on my or over the horizon from could apply long camp where im standing for being a respite is only appears to be so near they can practically walk back if they want but they dont want to go back without some sort of International Protection and guarantees of citizenship then to child rape. To prolong cox is bizarre. Trumps trip to india a few days ago included sightseeing at the taj mahal of the u. S. President was cheered by a 100000. 00 indians in the Worlds Largest cricket stadium but he didnt meet some of the millions of indians trying to survive on the streets nationwide and many of them children tony burke a reporter from the capital new delhi. Its not as picturesque as the famous taj mahal but this has become one of the images synonymous with india and not one that donald trump has taken to see these people are among the growing numbers of indias homeless aid agencies estimate that 3000000 people are living on the streets throughout the country 200000 of them in the capital delhi there is a world of poverty exploitation and abuse and india has the highest number of Street Children in the world. And difficult for them like. Particularly for children living in a Church Situation we have found that many of them have. Exposure to. This that will have an impact on them quite. By the time donald trump was 8 years old he was worth a 1000000. 00 most of these children around the same age some dont even own a pair of shoes but they have hopes i want to be a policeman so people respect us but. I want to be a doctor and buy a house maybe a car thats unlikely to happen without support they and their family survive by begging or working menial jobs. You know what when i think of the future i just want my daughter to grow up for her to be educated and one day that she would have her own home that in some respects at least life for children in india is improving infant mortality rates for example have been drastically cut in the last 10 years but in terms of education its not so good and estimated 18000000 children dont go to school that education is important to ending the cycle of poverty this is a free school set up under the. Busy delhi fly over by volunteer teaches its aimed at helping kids of poor families. People who are not educated are treated like animals by society but with education they learn about their rights and they can use them to benefit their lives. Its a small chance but better than nothing the sisters home is a shack without water and electricity their parents work menial jobs they see the school as a way to a better world. I want to be a doctor when i grow up so i can help people i want to help my parents and sisters 300 children attend the school under the bridge most dont know about President Donald Trump the indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said it is his dream that everyone in india will have a home by 2022 that seems impossible on the streets of new delhi the dreams are more basic as a gun is 9 years old shes lived on the streets most of her life and all she wants if she had money she says is to buy food the gal that. India has just spent 3000000000. 00 on u. S. Military helicopters it is a Nuclear Power with an expensive program for Space Exploration but many here say it is not yet been able to find a way to take care of its poor and helpless Tony Berkeley aljazeera delhi. Well still ahead here on aljazeera in sport horse power schemes the new winter sport taking hold in canada. As a weapon of war leaves the very deepest scars. Scars so raw that the victims men and women can barely talk about it. The only witnesses who can help bring about justice aljazeera fall as human rights campaigners in libya investigating rate since the 2000. Unspeakable crime on aljazeera. The. Book about this time for sport has sailed thank you theres just 145 days to go until tokyo hosts the olympics but the city was forced to hold a scaled down marathon on sunday because of current a virus. 38000 runners were expected but the race was. Limited to around 200. 00 elite athletes fans were also discouraged from lining the route in japans capital as part of a government crackdown on large cultural and sporting gatherings but tokyo 2020 organizes the i. O. C. Insists that as things stand impacts will go ahead as planned in july and august ethiopias again say won the mens race for the 2nd straight but runners in paris flouted the rules by competing in the cancelled Half Marathon on sunday french authorities have banned gatherings of more than 5000 people and some of the 44000 who are registered to race still showed up full time Tour De France champion chris froome and his in the osce team mates have been allowed to leave the hotel and travel home after the council due a tour the 1st 450 tests for corona virus have come back negative after around 600 riders staff and media were quarantined at abu dhabi when 2 italians fell ill. Or current a virus is also seen thailands council all Football Games in march and 5 games in italy said have been postponed this weekend mainly in the north of the country the same precautions are being applied in the south where fans were in the stands for napolis game against a rino that play one to one to boost their chances of making the Champions League a coach Gennaro Gattuso doesnt agree with the way football officials of taking the virus. And you can really sped up their lead to make the liberals 1st of all i want to pay my respects to all of victims and all the people suffering this huge problem which came about a month ago but i disagree with postponing some celery are matches even you play all the matches or you hope the league about delaying matches for a month or 2 means that the match will be totally different. Now to some bizarre scenes in a German Bundesliga game where players stopped playing competitively for the last 13 minutes leaders by a munich quest 6 up at hoffenheim when the referee stopped the game because some buy in fans unveiled an offensive ban a aimed at hoffenheim billionaire owner. Hes been targeted by fans around germany who are unhappy hes bankrolling hoffenheim and most clubs arent allowed a private majority stakeholder lions players and coach angrily protested the fans to put the banner away when the much did receive him both teams decided to run down the clock passing the ball between themselves to show solidarity with hope. To buy and food is a come from buy ins point of view i am deeply ashamed of this chaos the moment has come when the bundesliga the Football Association and the league have to take joint action against these chaotic fans what happened there in the stands is not to be excused that is the ugly face of 5 binik when i experience this kind of thing i am shocked and i dont enjoy football anymore these people have no place in a football stadium absolutely no place at all well earlier we spoke to german football journalist Chris Williams he said questions are being asked as to why this game was stopped but not others earlier in the season. Its quite strange situation because earlier on in february of 2 instances of racism jordans touring go over to berlin was racially abused people cal cooke game nothing was done the game wasnt stopped for that and then only 2 weeks ago we had an instance in the 3rd tier in dry league or where a player was racially abused in the stand the game wasnt stopped so we have this really strange situation now where a game has been stopped for a process against a billionaire where hasnt really happened 1st more serious social issues of racism and i think thats where the main criticism of stop in the game comes from yesterday its not to do with with the way the protest was handled you know the slogans that were held aloft are quite personal quite a family tree nobody really wants to see that but its the fact that on the social issues of seem to be getting away with it and there is a feeling of inconsistency in overreaction in some courts in germany this morning the new Major League Soccer season has begun and terry im really enjoyed a winning start as montreal impacts coach this team for back to beat the new england revolution maximiliano duty with a great finish to secure. One victory ok theres going to be a 3rd fight between boxers dante wilder and tyson fury while they lost his w. B. C. Title last month when fury stopped him in the 7th round the american is triggered the calls for a rematch in the summer when i will then be clay to fight anthony just who holds the other heavyweight belts rafael nadal has kept up the pressure while the one Novak Djokovic with victory in mexico just hours after joke which secured the title when into bike this al was celebrating a 3rd trophy in acapulco of the world the 2 didnt drop a set all tournament and beat americas taylor fritz its and sales 1st tournament win of 2020 and came with the trophy of a go ahead it also means he has now won at least one title every season on tour for the last 17 years. Now i want one of the wildest Winter Sports youll possibly never heard of jury which means ski driving in a week was once a popeil a mode of travel in scandinavia its now gaining popularity in north america aficionados have given it a new adrenaline fueled twists aljazeera as dave muscle has. Its billed as one of the fastest sports on snow with horses pulling skiers and snowboarders around the course at speeds of up to 65 Kilometers Per Hour ski jorian started in scandinavia combining crosscountry skiing and dog sledding but here in western canada home to cowboys and trick skiers its all about the horse power and getting big hair its just about gotten glory in going faster than having a good horse but you can ride into battle skeeter canada started in 2017 since then competitions have drawn medal skiers trick riders and championship cowboys and cowgirls riders and sliders to test their skills in events such as circuits sprints relays and the long jump winners take home a few 1000. 00 but nobody takes the competition too seriously were hoping for the best of times were hoping to happen i would drop the rebuild and rip down the whole strip and from all those people and hopefully not die joran has come a long way from its roots in scandinavia and organizers here say that its now the Fastest Growing winter sport in north america what started as a private event for a dozen people 4 years ago now attracts more than 150 competitors from across canada and the u. S. One of the crowd favorites came from much further afield we have our 1st ever irish team competing at this years your dear abby dont have snow in arlington so theyve been practicing using garbage bags and mud many of the 4000 spectators came out to cheer on family and friends and then there were those who were curious to see how to very different sports could be brought. I gather i think its very localized and also why there are these elaborate also hurt and pain users today are in better days all we wanted to come and see was disappearing together skeeter canada is a need to create a National Championship in the years to come blending together Mountain Culture with the cowboy lifestyle in an exhilarating sport thats hard to forget david mercer aljazeera in millersville canada. All right thats the sports thanks very much be back with more news on the other side of the bright but until then from me on the news our team thinks your time at your company. Frank assessments the one thing about these bushfires usage really wiping out the whole Climate Change informed opinions economy i think is actually whats keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate sequel on those 2 school board lawyers on d the boat this argument is astonishingly powertrip time saying indepth analysis of the days headlines this is the beginning for a new iraq of the new conscious and aware youth about struggle against an ethnic sectarian kota inside story on aljazeera. When i enter the spittal for modified car 601st power i feel the happiest. Women tearing up the truck in the west bank. Challenging stereotypes. Living life in the fast lane its like putting the brakes of. The systems on im just. As surely as native fauna and flora are accustomed to bush riots this season has been unprecedented landscapes usually left on skates have been decimated. This bush tries season has burned through millions of head as a. Land destroying the how the tides of many native animals some of these forests will take decades to regenerate and others may never recover. These baby kangaroo or joeys. Theyre now in care for many animals who do make it out of the fires they soon face on the problem live to cats and dogs and into contact as surely as famed plants and animals are strong part of the countrys identity many of its species are found nowhere else in the world and the extent of the damage isnt clear yet. For those who do survive its a long and painful road to recovery. Turkey says its carrying out a renewed offensive targeting Syrian Government forces in rebel held it like province. But. So raman this is al jazeera live where headquarters in doha are also coming up greece says its blocked thousands of refugees and migrants from crossing the border with turkey. And a potential stumbling block to peace in afghanistan president ial guard he says he wont release prisoners as a precondition to talks with the taliban. But iran says at least 50 people are dead from the corona Virus Outbreak and the number of infections has jumped to nearly one