Transcripts For ALJAZ NEWSHOUR 20240713

A prisoner swap. A new president signals a new direction for europe why after 15 years of leftist leadership the country turns to the right. Coming up in support of the corona virus continues to affect global sporting events well hear the price of a Football Team from wu han stuck in europe after being barred from returning to their families of the same to obey corona virus outbreak. Turkey has announced a full scale military operation against the Syrian Government dubbed Operation Spring shield it follows the killing of 34 turkish soldiers in hadley province on thursday and the expiry of a deadline by turkeys president for syrian troops to pull back from the rebel held province on sunday turkish jets shot down 2 syrian army warplanes that were carrying out a combat mission in the rebel held area of reports now from the turkey syria border. Turkish and syrian fighter jets faced off in an encounter in the skies above. And that with 2 syrian warplanes. The confrontation marked u. S. Collation in the conflict between turkey and syria. Turkeys defense minister warns the turkish troops will retaliate against it if the. Also announced Operation Spring shilled and your campaign aimed at pushing Syrian Government troops out of the socalled buffer zone near the border. We do not aim to face off with russia our only aim is to stop syrian regimes most occurs radical groups the displacement of civilians. Turkey has stepped up its military campaign in it lip province in response to the deaths of 34 soldiers in strikes on thursday a. Funeral processions in turkey for the dead soldiers have turned into rallies calling for revenge in rebel held it live people took to the streets showing support for turkeys District Campaign the northwestern syria in recent fighting in southern he did province to keep that rebel groups we captured villages they lost a few weeks ago including. Further south Syrian Government forces have launched an offensive to some the main the city was a major opposition stronghold but in 2017 russia brokered a deal that allowed the Syrian Government to administer the city and the rebels to withdraw all the heavy weapons that deal didnt last and syrian troops are determined to control the city this time by the rebels hung on Operation Spring shield is turkeys for cross Border Campaign in Northern Syria and there are fears this could turn into a wider confrontation but there are also hopes that russia and turkey will eventually set aside their differences and implement a cease fire in italy province. Just how tight. Well as the fighting rages on in syria greeces Prime Minister has warned refugees not to try to enter europe illegally. Greek Police Used Tear Gas and stun grenades to disperse hundreds of refugees on its border with turkey the Prime Minister a kiddie atlas meets with a thesis says the country will not accept any asylum requests for the next months and is appealing to the European Union for assistance on friday the turkish president richard diapered the one announced that he will stop stemming the flow of migrants to europe. All migrants are trying to cross into greece by land and the Greek Police Say that at least 500 people had arrived by boat on the islands of lesbos samuelsen q. O. S. This is part of the Eastern Mediterranean route to greece which was the main gateway for hundreds of thousands of Asylum Seekers into europe back in 201521016 now on the mainland further north the groups have waded across the river to the greek side at the nearest and bulgaria has announced that its prepared to send 1000 troops to secure its border with turkey over concerns that migrants will want to cross over John Psaropoulos reports now from the greek island of less valse where he says the increase in arrivals is creating political tension. This boatload of Asylum Seekers came ashore on the island of lesbos on sunday Police Stopped us from interviewing them on camera but this congolese man told me turkish people smugglers promised him and his wife a free ride while they were in church for sunday service this man from sierra leone says he was walking on the beach as the boat was being prepared he was told to jump in for free as well its unclear if someone is paying the smugglers to do that on the islands north shore a boatload of afghans paid 500. 00 each to get out of turkey their deals with smugglers had been struck weeks before turkeys president the chapter you put on ordered the opening of borders with neighboring belgariad and greece both members of the European Union what did the agents say to you. The same. Source yes you know this was the 1st day of significant arrivals since turkey opened its borders towards europe they want enough to create a logistical problem for the greek with origins but they were enough to make many of the people of lesbos anxious that they may once again face the sort of uncontrolled refugee flows experienced in 2015 and this time refugees would have nowhere else to go the arrival of a dinghy filled with refugees at the small fishing harbor of fair to me led to a blockade as local residents prevented them from disembarking the coast guard brought the dinghy here after its engine failed t. V. Cameras were unwelcome and some of the scene had to be filmed at a Distance Police were unable to register other arrivals at moria camp the largest in greece it too was blockaded by angry islanders whove seen its population growth 4 fold to over 20000. 00 since the new democracy government was elected last year to be given the people believe the government the next quickly a little bit of a save in the manse they wasnt any increase. Life trust has been lost and the island is turning into a giant hotspot. But other viewpoints on display this group protested at coast guard headquarters calling for refugees to be showed humanity and greater support a stark reminder that migration is a defining political issue not just here but throughout europe. Lesbos carolina and ng works for world vision as a syria advocacy director she joins me now via skype from amman in jordan madame thank you so much for joining us here on aljazeera now looking at the overview so the violence that were seeing in in the placement of people that were seeing there going to the Turkish Border with syria the fact that turkey has effectively lifted any control it had to the European Union do you think that were seeing something that could be like the beginning of what we saw in 20152016. If any are very very worrying and we know that the situation is live in the uk with area of the west that its ever been with more than a 1000000 people or nearly a 1000000 people very close to flee to so thats creating a huge amount of pressure on that southern border with turkey as people flee towards the border and of safety and now again there are reports that tens of thousands of people went out for exactly how many have gathered the western border of techie with glee we know theyre on the greek island the camp of morier as your correspondent mentioned is overwhelmed 100000 people it was built with 3000 theres no electricity People Living in death. And informal tents that theyve made themselves to the situation there is untenable i think this is the moment to step back and not allow the kind of unmanaged crisis that happened in 2015 we had to take some time this humanitarian to call it a crisis because hundreds of thousands of people went to europe to all the countries of europe one of the wealthiest constant of the wealthiest continent on earth the neighbor countries neighboring syria have taken in more than 5000000 Syrian Refugees so its something that should have a manageable of a situation and great great right now to be a thing on all of europe but we the european state detectors government everybody to focus on trying to solve the situation in syria and deescalate the tensions that withing. You know many people may well agree with what youre saying about european responsibility i think the reality is though that there simply isnt the political appetite in europe and maybe the whole Coronavirus Crisis even making it even more Security Walls but there is no appetite for more refugees and migrants that have already been sort of decided on by the European Union in light of that do you think that the deal that the e. U. Had struck with turkey that that could be a 1000000 race a day or sort of you know healed in some way or do you think there is no other answer than europe opening its doors. You know its hard for me to say as a humanitarian whacko whether its the euro to open its doors and as we say on managed migration often doesnt need to the most vulnerable getting support is often a kind of survival of the faith this is desperate people trying to waste across we saw a huge number of deaths in 2015 people taking on type sea routes and on safe and border routes i think a gap in children sleeping out in the open right now at the border is not a tenable situation there are all legal routes to resettlement and european states and other western countries have pledged to take Syrian Refugees from tekkie and also from lebanon jordan where i am right now and its massively fallen behind on their obligations on that thats a very managed system that allows the percentage to go to the Different Countries and that doesnt pay so huge but on those countries and weve seen that for right back so they should be stepping up to their obligations on that front and they should also be coming together to try and find a mannish dilutions for all their efforts into a solution to the crisis that were thing right now in tackiness area and to supporting taqiyya what is already doing in. Hosting more than 3000000 Syrian Refugees that where they can have the best impact will be in supporting vulnerable syrians and other refugees and we are seeing desperate pictures and you know we always do both internally displaced in syria the pictures that weve just seen of people arriving in grief i mean again what do you think are the biggest needs all the refugees right now its winter we heard heartbreaking stories of children dying of cold even in some camp in syria again what are the biggest needs of the people on the move right now. Yes thats right that shouldnt be the case in fact you know its a prosperous country and weve seen them provide a huge amount of support to refugees and the situation with seeing right now on the border with greece should be avoidable and we hope that that can be solved soon so that there are not children sleeping out in the open but certainly in syria as we say weve had these huge displacement huge numbers of people being killed and injured in the fighting destruction of schools and hospitals and now people sleeping out in the open as you say so what we need is medical care you know one of my self members called me this morning one of my colleagues and said that hes you know woman giving birth on the side of the road and her family then didnt know where they were going to sleep that night they didnt even have a tent to sleep and so the conditions there are desperate so the key focus for us as well that is trying to get shelter food medical care and protection support the children so many children have witnessed biking been injured seen their loved ones killed them forced to flee 3 or 4 times so we are trying to help support them with the basic needs like shelter but also to recover from their experiences Charlie Manning from world vision. Works through to syria if you director thank you so much for sharing your views and the stories as well from from the area thank you. Well still to come here on aljazeera the news that i want to talk to the husband of a british man you know woman jailed in iran who believes his wife has contracted coronavirus after a setback in South Carolina could lead to you know voters give bernie a super tuesday a boost in the democratic primary race and in sports the cyclist who came out for over 34 hours of coronavirus on team to win the world champ can ship the gold. The way. But 1st thailand and australia have reported their 1st deaths from the corona virus the number of new cases in china jumped on sunday after a slight dip more than 570 new infections have now been recorded but chinese authorities insist theyre getting on top of the outbreak katrina you reports from beijing another patient is discharged from a hospital in province in eastern china. For the 1st time chinas government says the number of patients cured of a new coronavirus its a part of the total being treated during war. 52 point one percent of 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 and a 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. More than 70 countries and territories have imposed travel restrictions on south korea where around 3700 people arent affected in the hardest hit city of daegu hospital beds are in short supply 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 in january in japan baseball teams play to empty stadiums many sports gatherings have been disciplined or canceled 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 reporters travel restrictions on any country but Officials Say theyre ready to rip patry chinese citizens from any affected by the outbreak if necessary katrina aljazeera thinking. Well the outbreak has claimed another 11 lives in iran making the countries that told the highest outside of Mainland China 54 people have died since the virus was 1st reported a week and a half ago infections in the Islamic Republic of the reached almost a 1000 saying but dr isnt around for us he says the outbreak is having a major impact on daily life and the economy. 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 and the on the tables at all of these restaurants youll find a bottle of Hand Sanitizer sitting right next to ketchup bottles so thats really that 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 iran is one of the most polluted kind of cities in the world and that is certainly having an effect on people susceptible to the disease. Well the British Government says it will withdraw dependence and some staff from its embassy in tehran in response to the outbreak essential staff for winning meanwhile the husband of a british rainey and woman jailed in iran on espionage charges believes that his wife has contracted coronavirus Richard Ratcliffe set of storage fees at evin prison in tehran refused to test and as an ins agree ratcliffe the spied her developing developing what she described as a strange cold that hasnt improved in more than 5 days well im joined in the studio now by now as an ins husband Richard Ratcliffe thank you so much for joining us here on aljazeera so there is that cold shivers the hasnt been able to shake in 5 days what else makes un and nuzzling think that she might have control us so we had a phone conversation yesterday where we went through a list of symptoms that she was displaying and she was to have a body aches all over a cough temperature. Series of sort of you know gross fatigue that we have to do anything now at the beginning 1st couple days that that felt like a cold but as more and more reports of come of people contracting corona virus from iran but also inside the prison people being taken off the hospital reports of one prisoner dying. And the fact that the prison isnt testing refusing to test if you go to the clue that run out of medicines apart from they had some aspirin theyd also run out of cleaning materials so last week there was no disinfectant there was no. Sanitizer for the hands there was no nothing apart from washing up liquid to clean so we were getting really quite panicky when the person was refusing to test and also not letting new prisoners come into no new admissions and and an announcement said listen if you can prevent a clean bill of health well send you home on temporary release so this clearly something going on and given that shes got all the symptoms of coronavirus that i was really clear listen doing it is a test it will be tried on friday which i dont sass to and then ive been pushing the British Government say listen you have to be pushing to get the test it because you know its one thing. To be sitting there shes just but you know if if in the middle of all thats going on you cant just leave these people in harms way well its interesting because the British Government is obviously we were just hearing taking it seriously when it comes to their diplomatic staff but do you think that theyre pushing enough to make sure that now as it gets the treatment that she actually that she has the u. K. Government invoked diplomatic protection for not that long ago so technically each state is like their staff in in the years divine protection is is in some ways a bigger say what that means is that anything that happens to her is a formally an injury to the British State its a really big statist of revote. And that theyve let someone in that status be sitting in a bit of an epidemic with with no ability to clean itself probably or disinfect it its just no bleach and so the point i wanted to make really bluntly to the government is you have to be really clear with your own of orators that it is not acceptable that as an in and the other british or any of the other foreigners that are being held held on spirits charges they have to be kept safe so that was the message i was putting on the airwaves and i have spoken for an officer listen you know you have to get a commitment that shes tested is not its not enough to get you know promises that shell get treatment if if its confirmed because theyre deliberately not confirming any case there are no confirmed cases in perth and thats been the line that theyre in authorities have been putting out but of course theyve been denying more broadly the extent of the virus and weve seen the Health Numbers being. Question of been revised up and up and up and disputes from different Officials Say no its more than that and so there is that sort of breakdown of trust in the good so we do need to have her checked and tested what can the British Government do of course now theyre pulling out half the staff it feels harder theres 2 things they can do one is that embassy can keep calling every day to say listen as you contested send us the results and thats a really important thing is a longer term they were how are we going to solve this situation as the others theres also point in which the british Prime Minister or as john sununu tomorrow will be chairing a cobra meeting which is the security business dealing with how the u. K. Responds to coronavirus more generally it needs to be including the fate of british iranians of british prisoners overseas where human will place a listen only checking that theyre ok because of course people in prison everyone just you know both the leader and the guards theyre being tested theyre getting one hand washes and its the prison of the ring around them because thats unself has actually been deteriorating pretty much since she got incarcerated so how is she now obviously shes unwell but youve spoken to her but there is intense fear how bad things in the situation could get so it i mean she was really worried and terrified on the on the phone you know this is strange dynamic where you you know you feel bad other prisoners are keeping away from you other prisoners also then trying to feel its ok. Everyones feeling stuck and abandon them know where to go and try out of what youre trying to thats is just control panic because you know your fate is if youre a part of me sitting heres my 20 ounce bottles of hope that shes lucky that she just gets through it in terms of how our health is will the next time we get here we hope that shes been tested shes ok with that it felt like the condition was getting worse on. You know the the virus that shes got lets hope its not coronavirus. More broadly yes youre right shes been a series of Health Complaints does a direct consequence of being in prison theres been a refusal by the prison authorities to treat her in as in where shes had heart problems to say listen well know what youre sick youre 1st charges no you cant see an expert but if you like Something Else like margaret has a heart a right so theres a way in which the prison authorities are obviously under orders to to not acknowledge anything too bad that would require them to release but at the same time to not refuse anything wanted to keep trying to distract. As a broader point i mean mezzanine is as you said shes been held on charges of security as shes being held as a bargaining chip between the government over a dispute that had and she and others are being held in iran has a number of foreign and your nationals are being held as just pieces of hostages in colombia for different disputes in that situation its a very despairing kind of vulnerable kind of doing to get here and not try to get out of it youre looking to both governments to try and find an agreement and you know to try and do something. The risk of despair of the risk of feeling like nothings moving im going to need to do something and when famous the other dont Hunger Strike i did it because she would wonder strike she did it because nothing was moving behind closed doors i mean at the british Prime Minister about a month ago i was warning him really listen you cant just wait and see what happens the iranians are waiting to see what if both sides wait shell do something with all the i guess distractions i hate to use that word things like bracks and like the coronavirus in europe with all those things taking up time with the government do you get the sense that hes listening that the Prime Minister is pushing and the Foreign Office is pushing as it should be so i think its a minute in from him being brutal but the fact that you could invoke something as big as that rather protection and then still have a prisoner just half abandoned clearly theyre not pushing hard enough and when i met and i was really clear that needs you brave brave both in being calling out hostage taking and that this isnt now except one thing in the modern world and there needs to be a consequence for the perpetrators of it a mini things like magnitsky sanctions and there was a clear red line not just by the u. K. But by the International Community more generally and also you need to know if you want to build a functional positive relation with iran is a clearly whats the baggage here historically what are the what are the issues the got grievances on and transport them as i say there are issues that will into those need to be cleared out where its not ok to have innocent people held in the middle of the opposition have the situation gets resolved for the moment richard radcliffes husband of nazanin as a guy radcliffe thank you so much for your time thank you. Now saying in the u. K. The government says it will boost its response to the coronavirus in britain as the number of cases rise to 35 Percent Health minister says is the parliament is working on a battle plan which may include bringing doctors and nurses out of retirement banning large scale events and possibly even locking down entire cities if the outbreak escalates. U. S. Secretary of state mike pompei oh says hes hopeful that talks between the Afghan Government and the taliban will begin in the coming days the u. S. And the taliban signed an agreement in doha on saturday aimed at ending the United States longest war peo says the u. S. Will be watching the talibans next steps to ensure its carrying out its part of that the the great set out the conditions that set out the space but no this deal doesnt depend upon trusting anyone it has a deep complex well thought out multi month negotiated verification complex and mechanism by which we can observe and hold every member of the agreement accountable will do that its not about trust its about what happens on the ground not only yesterday which was an important day but in the days that follow. But the agreement between the u. S. And the taliban may already be facing a major obstacle afghanistans president ashraf ghani has announced the government has not committed to releasing 5000 taliban prisoners he says this means a prisoner swap cannot be a precondition for talks with the armed group as in the accords that was signed in doha on saturday ghani says any prisoner release must still be part of future negotiations or the bill hamid is in kabul with more of what the president had to say. In less than 24 hours president. Praising the agreement signed by the u. S. And the taliban. Stepping stone towards peace and stability in afghanistan you know saying that he refused. Agreement president. Referring to. This part of that agreement about 5000 taliban held in jails versus a 1000 Afghan Taliban jails well president. Talk about this he was not part of that agreement and this is what he had to say. That there was a request regarding the release of taliban prisoners but it can only be part of negotiations and it cannot be preconditions for starting be in traffic and negotiations also there must be no issue of good will because the Afghan Nation must be assured that whoever is going to be released will not stand against it. And he says that the end may be a good idea would be to put to the Afghan People in a referendum and have. A word that would not bode well with the white house. He is due to come back here to kabul in the coming days to try to bridge the gap between the politicians here in the country and as he had said to ease or to help in this process of releasing the detainees. Well iraqs Prime Minister designate mohammed that we has withdrawn his candidacy for the position he was appointed after the resignation of the a who was forced out after ongoing antigovernment protests the protests in baghdad continued on sunday with at least one person killed and another 24 injured Security Forces used live ammunition and tear gas. Still to come on aljazeera at this news hour and no shoes no food no home a generation of indian children growing up exploited and abused and to football matches in history go ahead despite many being canceled because of growing coronavirus force. And still that storm continuing to batter the northwest of europe it is of course moving fairly swiftly off towards the east but look at the last year as still plenty of activity on sunday more rain pushing in to the west of europe but have a look at these pictures because this is on into south wales look at the size of these ways breaking across into the coast of japan to people here witnessing this that is actually very dangerous thing to do of course the power of those the waves with those strong winds now through monday the winds will begin to ease across much of the u. K. Still very strong through the more rain pushing in but really all this system is continuing to watch these rain across into Northern Spain much of the low countries and germany at the same time another system in the central med is going to reduce some very heavy amounts of rain through much of italy and of course some very heavy amounts of snow along the line of the alps that tends to be for the east was as well by choose day and as you had of all of this we have got some very mild air in place 20 celsius in book arrest 17 in these temperatures between about 7 and 9 degrees above the average more rain pushing in as well across through the bay of biscay through choose day and still very widely scattered showers and areas the rain across much of the u. K. So again the flooding situation there not about to improve any time soon but not a cold in london 9 and 10 in paris. But. As a weapon of war leaves the very deepest scars. Scars so rule that the victims men and women can barely talk about it. They are the only witnesses who can help bring about justice aljazeera fall as human rights campaigners in libya investigating rape since the 2011 revolution. Libya unspeakable crime on aljazeera the consequence of war and that ventures into russia will be served in the marine corps for 1895 that just doesnt go away. For a living out of the truck for last couple years. His home was aljazeera follows a group of u. S. Army veterans traumatized by war. As they struggle to get their lives back shelter on aljazeera. Welcome back heres a reminder of the top stories on aljazeera turkey has shut down 2 syrian warplanes in the province this follows the killing of 34 turkish soldiers and the expire you have a deadline by turkeys president for syrian troops to pull back from the rebel held province the greek Prime Minister says the country will not accept any asylum applications for a month after refugees amassed on the border with turkey. He says he will appeal to the e. U. For help after turkeys president. The tide of refugees. And afghanistans president says the government has not committed to a prisoner swap as promised in the deal that was struck between the u. S. And the taliban but u. S. Secretary of state says hes hopeful that talks between the Afghan Government and the taliban will begin in the coming days. Democratic president ial hopeful joe biden is preparing for a showdown against frontrunner Bernie Sanders in the super tuesday primaries the former Vice President s campaign had been struggling but was boosted by a landslide victory in the South Carolina primary on saturday South Carolina was the 1st democratic primary with a major africanamerican voter base it was the 1st victory in a primary in his 3rd run for u. S. President. Well 14 u. S. States and one u. S. Territory will vote during super tuesday more than 1300. 00 delegates are up for grabs 30 percent of which are in california a big win there could put a candidate in prime position to win the democratic partys nomination reports now 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 who is hispanic who is my hero i believe hes the only candidate that truly looks out for me 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 latino 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 hock 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 be here polls show sanders leading by a wide margin in california followed by Elizabeth Warren with joe biden a distant 3rd the senders 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 multiple high dollar media markets right and its a big state right so youve got to think about barry got san diego in 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 is been underway in parts of california for more than a week a big win in the west would not give sanders all the 1891 delegates needed to win on 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. For more on joe bidens chances were joined by Bill Schneider a Public Policy professor at George Mason University sir thank you so much for joining us here at odds as they are its always good to see you so super tuesday i around the corner do you think it is going to be a showdown between Bernie Sanders and joe biden do you think that they are the 2 of realistic final contenders here it certainly looks that way although Michael Bloomberg has not been heard from yet hes on the ballot for the 1st time on super tuesday so we have to see whether he has much broader appeal the polls show that he does and it does look like its going to be a showdown between the Center Supporters who are in the lead right now and biden who looks like the one candidate who has a change to stop Bernie Sanders you mention stopping Bernie Sanders and ive read some of the articles youve written and it certainly seems that the democratic establishment if you want to call it that wants to stop Bernie Sanders because they describe him as being a self described socialist do you think theyre right in thinking that Bernie Sanders would not only not be able to be trump but also be detrimental to the democrats going forward. It does look that way from the polling he calls himself a socialist in the United States thats really a poisonous term the cold war is long over but to most voters Socialism Means Big Government and thats never been very popular in the United States and a lot of his proposals or quite controversial sandor support his strongest among young people he has recently strong support among latino voters apparently coming out of nevada but the Party Establishment the Office Holders the people who run the convention they are terrified that if the party nominates a socialist at the top of the ticket that theyll lose not only to donald trump and give trump a 2nd term but the democrats across the board for congress and for state and local governments theyre all going to get wiped out. And the sink i mean if weve learned anything perhaps from the trumpet presidency is that sometimes the establishment whether its republican or democrat doesnt always have a sense of how the voters are going to go i mean do you think that maybe the lesson from Hillary Clinton be seeing sanders last time was that maybe Bernie Sanders should be given a chance. Thats what his voters say they think that the system is rigged against them and its certainly true that the establishment does not like Bernie Sanders they are fearful of him they think his views are too radical and too extreme americans love to poke their the eyes of yours that Mission America is the most populist country in the western world next to the United States the rest of the world is saudi arabia so populism is very popular in the United States and seems to be catching on. Even in europe and and in britain populism is the new wave of the future apparently. And they still may change the rules when it came to the democratic nomination since last time what would happen if no one can that it gets an overall majority towards the end well in the 1st ballot a candidate has to have a majority an absolute majority of the delegates to be nominated if no one gets that majority and thats entirely possible particularly if a number of the candidates stay in the race then he goes to a 2nd ballot and on the 2nd ballot its a free for all there are no no pledged delegates has to vote for anyone in particular they can vote for anyone they choose they dont even have to revote for anyone for someone whos running for the nomination people are talking about maybe they should nominate Michelle Obama someone who is that hasnt even been a candidate they can go for everyone the problem is that Bernie Sanders claims that if he goes into the convention with a plurality not a majority but a poor out of the of delegates he deserves the nomination the other candidates and the Party Establishment says no you dont it requires a majority follow the rules that could become a big fight at the convention will certainly i guess have a clearer situation at the end of super tuesday and lets hope so anyway maybe not for the moment to Bill Schneider Public Policy professor at George Mason University sir thank you as always. Well now members of a church in selma alabama have turned their backs on them across to candidate Michael Bloomberg during a service to commemorate the 55th anniversary of bloody sunday the president ial hopeful was outlining his plans to address the spammers hes in the Africanamerican Community when congregants staged their protest bloomberg stop and frisk policy implemented while he was mayor of new york has been widely criticized as racist selma is where state troopers attacked roughly 600 civil rights activists marching to montgomery to demand the minority voter rights back in 1965. Conservative politician luis like iowa poll has been sworn in as wise new president he narrowly won novembers election in his 2nd attempt to win office back i uphold promise to decrease the financial deficit strike new trade deals and tackle crime his government will also mark the countrys shift to the right after 15 years of left wing rule lets cross to todays a bow now who is in capital montevideo so there is a little wise being led by a progressive government for many years we were saying so what did the president do to convince voters to take the leap. Well thats only a very big change for why thats been turned in the past 15 years into the most progressive country in the region legalizing marijuana abortions and sex marriage and funny thing for example under the government of iraq is outgoing president i did ask a Big Tobacco Company so this is a huge change for this country but when you talk to people here what they are telling you is that that government they did not address many of the problems you were why interfacing today like unemployment. Among other things in security is something that ruiz many people here this is a very tiny nation that is not used to the type of violent acts that have been feeling in the fat ass for years and thats why many are telling us that they voted for the week that i say he is that politician that hard he was born into a political family his great grandfather was an important member of a conservative party here you are white he spotter is a former president and he created a coalition with by a center right parties in order to be able to win this election and what were seeing right now is that that center right were already seeing some signs of what in fact that is going to happen here in the region prestons in the ceremony today and hes you know you ration was a brazils president well when i dont shouldnt president s of attempt and yet at a long young president will get among others absent was for example i look at the hard numbers from argentina has been and seen as a center left and he was not present because he had the other events to attend to in argentina but still he that sense wasnt noticed so its going to be very very business integration has that they get back here in order why and while many are celebrating its others i wore it because theyre not sure about what can happen in the next few months. And what do you think are his main challenges in the next few months. Well what we do know is that he is the biggest priority right now with baffling and understanding of really an all new both real to congress with over 400 lost that are meant to address many of the issues that are warring you wind among them issues to deal with insecurity with education and no sleep economy addressing the 5th go definitely feel what me wants and be carried out in order to address that the unemployment issue that is something that worries many who whines and also there are some controversial laws and what we know is that often of new bills get which is basically reforming your wife reference to something that will allow foreigners the wealthy for years to come to you while you get a record of b. And b. Method taxes and this is something that has generated some regional controversy as especially with argentina but still he has a majority in both chambers and if expected that he would be able to pack many of the loss he wants so this vote with the latest there from montevideo sank you u. S. President donald trump visited india a week ago during which he clinched the sale of 3000000000. 00 worth of military equipment he was also cheered by more than a 1000 indians at the opening of the Worlds Largest cricket stadium but his trip did not include a tour of the backstreets where indias homeless live in misery tony burke leave reports now from 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 was 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 life is very complex and difficult for them like. Particularly for children living in a Church Situation you have found that many of them have. Exposure to. This that will have an impact on them for life. 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 bigger is better 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 thats. 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 thats all 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 a busy delhi fly over by volunteer teachers its aimed at helping kids of poor families with the new york 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 its 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 camp 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 still to come on aljazeera this news hour horse power against the real Winter Sports taking hold in canada. The us the fact finders accuse the Burmese Military of genocide this is a political or if you think that. Do you believe the nobody is a fascist or poor kids dont have all. The recognize that both sides have legitimate grievances against the other climate is the founder of climate pac and that is why the president has must take a hard hitting debate with up. On aljazeera. Noon. Hey lets go now for the sport barbara thank you so much the moto g. P. Has been cancelled due to Coronavirus Travel restrictions on people arriving in the country from italy the moto g. P. Was due to kick off the new season on march 8th but arrivals from countries badly affected by corona virus must now be quarantined for 2 weeks making it impossible for the races large number of italian technicians and riders to take part Valentino Rossi for example the moto 2 and motor 3 classes will still go ahead as they are already in casa for testing. Then mark Michael Moore cove has one or will the track cycling gold just 2 days after being released from 34 hours isolation morkel for had been on the u. A. E. For which was cancelled midway through when 2 team members tested positive for corona virus so to be monitored before he could be cleared to race with teammate loss 107 in sundays madison in berlin released from isolation just in time to reclaim the middle he lost 111 years ago. While the corona virus has not yet affected League Football in spain many fans attending sundays old classico between real madrid and barcelona were taking no chances here they are wearing preventers of face masks ahead of the match at the bernabeu in madrid the game itself just coming to a close to nil to rail. Also at the game as guests of real madrid were who hands all see the Chinese Super league team who play in the city with the outbreak began they were on a preseason tour of spain when the virus was detected back home and havent been allowed to return players have not seen their relatives in more than 2 months and one has already lost a Family Member because of the virus the director of italian title chases inter milan says he believes the city our season will have to be cancelled if many more games are postponed due to coronavirus into at events as one of those called off on sunday atalantas game did go ahead with fans screened for symptoms as they entered the ground that alonso winning 72 to remain in 4th and the highest scorers in the league. Protests against a team owner in the German Bundesliga have continued on sunday despite the match between by munich and often im being suspended the day before another banner against hoffenheim owner did more harm was unveiled by union berlin fans on sunday specials a hole to players asking their teams ultras to put the banner away has been targeted by fans around germany who im happy hes bankrolling half an eye when most clubs are not allowed a private security stakeholder the incidents though have raised questions on why matches have not previously been stopped for racial abuse of players. Sri lanka wrapped up a 3 mil one Day International whitewash over the wasting days on sunday in canby betting versus the home side posted 307 all out in there for fear of his thats true. He was the top scorer with 55 former captain Angela Matthews then took 4 wickets as the windies came agonizingly close to lanka win by 6 rounds. Now to one of the wildest Winter Sports youve possibly never heard of. Which means ski driving in norwegian was once a popular mode of travel in scandinavia its now gaining popularity in north america where theyve given it a new adrenaline fueled twist. David has more. 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 air its just about. Going faster than having a good horse but you can ride into battle skis are canada started in 2017 since then competitions have drawn metal 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. I would drop that we built up down the strip and from all those people and hopefully not die 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 competitor. Years from across canada and the u. S. One of the crowd favorites came from much further afield d we have our 1st ever irish team competing at this years skid your dear abby dont have snow in ireland 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 together i think its very unique and im also i hear these a classical i know and they say when users can hear in fact its all we want them to come and see those disappearing together skeeter canada is aiming 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. Well here is one winter sport they might struggle to get a hole so involved with germanys call guy go on the ski jumping woke up events in law in finland on sunday the 2nd jump of 130 meters getting in 1st place ahead of austria stefan croft it was still top of the overall standings. Well leave it there for now back to barbara in london that just always looks so terrifying ski jumping feet thank you and that is it for this news hour stay with us going to be back in just a few minutes with more of the days news watching by. Israelis go to the polls for the 3rd time in less than a year after both mean parties failed to form a governing coalition and with Prime Minister netanyahu facing the start of his corruption trial so can israel resolve its political crisis at the 3rd attempt at the latest on aljazeera. In 2011 aljazeera reported from tanzania on the sinister trade in the body parts of al beanos this is where the food and arms feed. And show all the spot rewind revisits a survivor. 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