Russia has what it cannot guarantee the safety of turkish planes flying over syria moscow backs the damascus government tent issued the warning after the Turkish Military shot down 2 syrian fighter jets of its lip the latest escalation follows the killing of 34 turkish soldiers and it led on thursday. Reports from hard time on turkeys border with syria. But yet overthrow turkish and syria fighter jets faced off in an encounter in the skies above. But with 2 syrian warplanes. 5 the confrontation marked in u. S. Collation in the conflict between turkey and syria. Turkeys defense minister warned that 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 ekers radical groups the displacement of civilians. Turkey has stepped up its military campaign in italy province in response to the deaths of 34 soldiers the strikes on thursday 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 Bitter Campaign in northwestern syria in recent fighting in southern it providence turkey backed rebel groups recaptured villages they lost a few weeks ago including. Further south Syrian Government forces have launched an offensive to capture asuna main the city was a major opposition stronghold but into 1017. 00 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 100 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. How tight. Thousands of refugees and migrants who fled the fighting in syria techies land border with grace said to numbers follows takis decision to open its borders to europe theyre not just gathering at the land border reports from the greek island of as boss where theres been an uptake in people arriving by boat. This boat load 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 boat load 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. This was the 1st significant arrivals since turkey opened its borders towards europe they werent enough to create a logistical problem for the greek or thora things 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 affair 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 morea camp the largest in greece it to. Was blockaded by angry islanders who have seen its population growth 4 fold to over 20000 since the new democracy government was elected last year to be given the c. People believe the government the nec quickly over 7 months there wasnt any increase in air quality of life trust has been lost in the island is turning into a giant hotspot. But other viewpoints were also on display this group protested at coast guard headquarters calling for refugees to be showed more humanity and greater support a stark reminder that migration is a defining political issue not just here but throughout europe jumpstart ople us aljazeera lesbos people in israel are voting in an unprecedented 3rd general election in less than a year polls open a couple of hours ago with both his hoping they can end the political turmoil both previous elections were inconclusive noncon is live for us in west jerusalem emraan how do people feel about going out to the polls for the 3rd time in a year or so and what are the predictions. Well let me tell you weve been speaking to not just people here but over the last few days about going to a 3rd election there is a lot of anger towards the politicians they say that the politicians needed to source of this out the 1st election not this one however that anger hasnt led to apathy in fact actually what were saying is people coming out to vote and hoping that this one will be decisive thats the polling station that theres been a steady stream of people coming in over the last 2 hours now predictions are always very difficult to do in the last elections in april and in september voter turnout was around the 60 percent mark that was seen as being quite good if it gets any higher than that then that will be seen as also being a key decisive moment for the israeli political system whether or lead to a new government being formed is a whole other question theres a lot of electoral math that still needs to be done. The smaller parties are going to be crucial and forming a government if the predictions in terms of the results are to believe to be believed how do they know the possible kingmaker. Weve got 2 real kingmakers in play at the moment the key figure is lieberman he leads some of the more right wing parties hes hes a person who hasnt put his support behind the 2 key players which is Benjamin Netanyahu and. Benny gantz of the blue and white party but he is the man that many are seeing as the key kingmaker and then you have the joint arab list which represents palestinian israelis a minnow days the leader of that list he has a significant number of. Members of the knesset the parliament and if he decides to go with one party other that actually could help however if he goes with a could then you could get to form a government however if you goes with that bet against his party in this goes for lieberman as well that its not guaranteed that benny gantz will still have those 61. 00 seats needed to be able to form a parliament so even after the results come out in the next 24 hours this still going to be a lot of politicking a lot of deal making and a lot of people being reached out to by those 2 Key Players Like i mentioned benny gantz and Benjamin Netanyahu to try and get this government in place iran can live for us there in western thank you the leader of a religious sect in south korea at the center of the corona Virus Outbreak has apologized for not stopping the infection from spreading the founder of the controversial shin geology church is being investigated for allegedly trying to cover up fictions the church in the city of has been described as the epicenter of south koreas outbreak of the bride is live for us in seoul rome so its an apology of sorts from the leader of this religious group what else did he have to say. Thats right this has been a long awaited event the 1st public statements by the controversial leader of an even more Controversial Church the man he appearing at a News Conference at one of the churchs facilities outside of seoul and throughout the whole statement apologizing profusely for his churchs role at the center of this outbreak even at the start on a couple of occasions and to the getting down on his knees on the ground and bowing to the assembled journalists saying that he it was something that hes very sorry about saying that they are taking now all possible measures to try to sort this out he never thought that this would happen that they are cooperating completely with your thora teas and some of his some of the Church Leaders have said in the past they are the ones that are bearing the brunt of this they are the victims if you like because of course more than half of all of the cases of the coronavirus here in south korea are indeed members of this church now it is regarded by other more mainstream churches here as more like acting like a sect and the secretive sect at that with a number of different groups here calling on the author of hes calling on prosecutors to investigate the church for possible charges of homicide even and also hiding the names of its members the church itself says that it is cooperating fully its provided Contact Details of all of its members so that the authorities can follow up and Health Officials can check with them to see if they are carrying the virus as these numbers continue to spike but it is very controversial and in fact throughout this whole sometimes rather rather angry press conference you could hear the shouts of protesters who have been besieging this facility and other branches of this same church. Rob as you mention the numbers in south korea are rising very fast what is the latest well theyve had a further spike to over 4000 cases now were still the epicenter is down in daegu this city down of the south east of the country and Health Officials are still waiting to see whether the numbers we are seeing these daily increases that are still spiking whether this is due to maybe still some of the 1st infections from the congregations of the church that were held a couple of weeks ago and now were seeing the end of that incubates in period or whether were starting to see which is the worrying trend more secondary and tertiary infections or whether were seeing some of those initial people who were infected going on to infect other people thankfully so far as far as the authorities are concerned most of the cases are still in the southeast of the country but as the authorities keep on reminding us these next few days are still very crucial rob mcbride incell there thank you. One person has been injured in a hostage standoff in the philippines since but hes trying to bring it to an end he says and to the Shopping Mall in the capital manila they say about 30 people are being held inside by a gunman believed to be a former security god lets get more now from bottom of who i believe is outside that Shopping Mall in midland manila by me whats the latest. Him thats right were outside the mall where there is an ongoing post hostage taking situation and if it looks like its pretty uneventful right behind me because everything thats going on right now is going on inside the mall and specifically inside the Management Office right now an estimated 30 people are being held hostage by what you mentioned a disgruntled former employee of the mall a former Security Guard cant leave this Security Guard was removed from his job not long ago and he encouraged his colleagues his former colleagues to join him in sort of a mutiny against his former employers but none of them joined him so he decided today he would come to the mall and he would open fire and so this has been going on for about 5 hours now and as you mentioned when he entered the mall he opened fire and he saw a man this man is alive he is right now in a hospital he is in stable condition now the mayor of San Juan City which is where this mall is located he has appealed for calm he has appealed to media not to release live pictures so as not to compromise the negotiations he said that the hostage taker is now pretty calm and in fact he has asked for food and water and so they have seen this when the window of opportunity to up here. To the rational thinking of this hostage taker but he said that they will not release any more information until they get progress on the negotiation with the hostage taker and this is between the police and the hot sausage taker the mayor is only the one thats giving information to the media and so we will wait for more information were going to be here to give you more updates. Thank you that time she will be checking back in by the below there and manila. Still ahead here on aljazeera more turmoil for iraqi politics why the Prime Minister designate is pulled out. Also bowing out an early frontrunner and says bid to go up against donald trump for the u. S. Presidency. Hello there 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 and certainly 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 but that is actually a very dangerous thing to do of course the power of those the waves with those strong winds now through monday the wind will begin to ease across much of the u. K. Still very strongly 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 mean 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 and 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. Frank assessments the one good thing about these bushfires usage really wont come out the politics of 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 a boat this argument is astonishingly patronize an indepth analysis of the days headlines this is the beginning of a new iraq of a new conscious and aware youth about struggle against an ethnic sectarian cult or inside story on aljazeera. The. Youre watching aljazeera her mind our top stories this hour russias warning it cannot guarantee the safety of turkish planes flying over syria hours up to damascus said it was shutting down airspace of it the developments follow turkey shooting down 2 syrian fighter jets on sunday. People in israel are voting and unprecedented general election and yes less than a year also opened with voters hoping they could end the political turmoil both previous elections were inconclusive. The leader of a religious sect in south korea has apologized for not stopping the spread of coronavirus members of the controversial issues john g. Church were linked to a massive outbreak of infections. Iraqs Prime Minister designate has withdrawn his candidacy a month after his appointment he says politicians were obstructing his efforts to form a government early apollo and failed to approve his cabinet for the 2nd time in a week how well to be. I tried by all possible means to save iraq from drifting to the unknown and to solve the Current Crisis but during negotiations i faced many obstacles that are irrelevant to the issue of the homeland and its interests i swear to god i didnt surrender and i didnt put my own interests above the country regrettably some parties were negotiating for their interests without paying heed to National Issues smaller faults and joins us now live from baghdad some of those not familiar with the iraqi political system tell us how we got to this point and whats been the issue with with forming a new cabinet. Well what allow we had set out to do was to form an independent and technocratic cabinet that would be able to address some of the protesters demands and to try to pass some of the reforms that are seen as necessary to put an end to this crisis but such a cabinet would really go against the way iraqs political system has functioned for the past 17 years and that system is one that is largely beholden to the Political Parties its a system that is referred to here as in arabic or apportionment and the way it works is that the ministerial positions are divided up between the major Political Parties between the shia the sunni is and the kurds and there are some unwritten rules about how that should happen so for example the kurds tends to get the finance ministry the sunnis get together tend to get the Defense Ministry and the shia for example get to have control over the ministry of interior and that control over these ministries is seen as a way for these Political Parties to wield their power and also to get access to resources and what allow you tried to do is appoint candidates who arent from these Political Parties who arent beholden to their interests and thats something that was not accepted across the entire political spectrum we had the kurds and the sunnis who are very early on rejected that idea because these are already minorities and for them having those cabinet positions is seen as a way to try to hang on to whatever political power to have here in baghdad but also fail to get the support from the shia Political Parties we saw in the past to parliamentary sessions that there was no quorum that was reached and that was what eventually forced him to withdraw his candidacy so allow he has stood down or withdrawn his candidacy what does that mean going force. Well this casts iraq into an unprecedented succession crisis caretaker Prime Minister i will of the he had said that he would not carry on being in charge of the government past march 2nd which is today and that is of course the date that was 30 days after the appointment of a as Prime Minister designate so what we expect now is that either lock them up they will give a speech later today over whether or not he will continue but most likely where we expect to see president barham salih take over the caretaker role and he has already announced that he accepted withdrawal and he has begun negotiations with the political blocs to put forth a new candidate for the Prime Ministers position which is something that should happen within the next 2 weeks now the problem is that we have a catch 22 here any political candidate for this position who is not coming from the political establishment will be rejected by the protesters in the streets because what theyve been asking is a complete overhaul of the political system but as weve seen with allowing. Anybody who is not coming from these Political Parties will not pass through the parliament so it really remains to be seen who will be the next choice for Prime Minister who will barham salih appoint to try to end this political crisis and of course lets remember that iraq is an extremely volatile situation here we have still the aftermath of us iran tensions here we have a volatile security situation as we saw just last night there were a couple of rockets once again fired into the green zone and we also have the outbreak of the coronavirus years for the longer this political crisis continues the less able the government is to really address this multitude of problems that the country is facing at the moment some of the files and their cost of elements from baghdad thank you. Paper jones has ended his campaign for the u. S. Democratic president ial nomination ahead of super tuesday but a judge told supporters in indiana he had he no longer a sore a chance of winning the form a small town mayor became the countrys 1st openly gay candidate he defeated Bernie Sanders in the Iowa Caucuses and finished a strong 2nd in New Hampshire and struggled to attract minority vote is yet in this race for a reason we got into this race in order to defeat the current president and in order to usher in a new kind of politics and so we must recognize that at this point in the race the best way to keep faith with those goals and ideals is to step aside and help bring our party and our country together so tonight i am making the difficult decision to suspend my campaign for the president alan fisher has more now from austin and texas one of the 14 states that will vote on super tuesday. The reality is that he wasnt going to get the nomination he finished 1st in iowa but really didnt get the bones because it took so long to declare the results you remember that 2nd in New Hampshire 13 nevada 4th and so carolina things were not Getting Better for him hed difficulty convincing voters of color to back his campaign really he didnt articulate any great new strategy any great new t. V. That made people want to vote for him nothing immediately studio so it was always going to be difficult for him and he also realizes too that its going to be difficult for the Democratic Party to be elected if Bernie Sanders is the candidate in his view he may not be correct in that and so to facilitate their be someone as well as be on the in the final reckoning hes stepping away from the campaign the moment we expect hell perhaps give his endorsement to joe biden the interesting thing is though that maybe not all his voters will go into the biden camp its also a political calculation which is just before tuesday 2000000 people in california have already voted many of them for me or pete. He has a future in the Democratic Party and from the speech we saw he can almost guarantee hes going to get he speaking sport at the Democratic Convention when it comes to crowning the nominee. Has sworn in its new president polls center right coalition and the 15 year reign of the leftist broad front. Government will boost the economy cut crime and realign Foreign Policy toward the u. S. Ill just say as cameras have been allowed on a tightly controlled government organized visit to northern me and the army denies a Genocidal Campaign against the hague tens of thousands of the mainly Muslim Minority were forced to escape into neighboring bangladesh 2 and a half years ago Florence Sawyer reports from township in the Northern State of rakhine. We are heading into restricted territory foreign journalists require commission to visit the northern part of Rakhine State this is where Myanmar Security forces launched a brutal crackdown against the mainly Muslim Minority in august 2017 soldiers and but a small were accused of raping killing and setting fire to ruining their homes the buddhist majority myanmar government said it was responding to attacks and killings by an armed group called the salvation army. At the Uns Highest Court myanmar has denied charges of genocide and has been ordered by the International Court of justice to prevent further violence while the case is being heard on this tightly controlled highly choreographed trip the myanmar government tries to show that all is well here in village after village brought to meet journalists in classrooms under the watchful eye of government minders. On camera that seemed scripted or we have 3 community scares living like a family thats why i dont think we will be affected by completely off camera they were only slightly less reticent telling us they feared violence could flare again it was impossible to speak to anyone without being overheard by police in another village we were made to see government cash being handed out to. Local administrators say its to help the villages rebuilt the damaged homes this mosque still hasnt been repaired more than 2 years after the latest campaign of violence against the daughter and you can see all around the clear evidence of destruction by fire this place of worship would have served the people of this community who at one point numbers around 5000 people now there are only 200 living here around to 3 quarters of a 1000000 to bangladesh and remained there. When we do not think repatch aeration is a fallujah because as you know we have 2 Reception Centers and we have a transition camp we are always ready to receive them we even plan to open kindergartens 8 many Rights Groups say conditions in myanmar dont guarantee a safe return for the remainder of the last attempt to repair treat 3000 refugees from bangladesh in august failed because through him they refused to return saying they feared further attacks if they did the myanmar government wants them to accept alternative identification documents which rights activists say deprives them of their rights. That. Ill tear the more of myanmar government. Citizenship status. So. The rohingya have little to return to they face government restrictions on travel employment even Family Planning many doubt the situation will change anytime soon. The jungle leadership is trying to control it instead with the civil and the medias offending its you know this kind of populist wave to get electoral support is a very disgraceful thing until then the remainder will remain one of the worlds most persecuted minorities florence li aljazeera moaned or township Rakhine State myanmar. This is aljazeera had these are the top stories russia is warning it cannot guarantee the safety of turkish planes flying over syria hours after damascus said it was shutting down aspects of it that the developments follow turkey shooting down to syrian fighter jets on sunday the leader of israels blue i party is just cast his ballot in the general election benny gantz is the main challenger to Benjamin Netanyahu hopes of continuing as Prime Minister he was unable to form a government in september its the 3rd vote in less than a year. The leader of a religious 6 in south korea has apologized for not stopping the spread of coronavirus members of the controversial shin john g. Church with links to a mass outbreak of infections. One person has been injured as for the pings from a strike to end a hostage standoff in the capital on a below is outside the shopping center. An estimated 30 people are being held hostage by what you mentioned a disgruntled former employee of the mall a former Security Guard currently this Security Guard was removed from his job not long ago and he encouraged his colleagues his former colleagues to join him in sort of a mutiny against his former employers but none of them joined him so he decided today he would come to the wall and he would open fire iraqs Prime Minister designate has withdrawn his candidacy a month off to his appointment he says politicians were obstructing his efforts to form a government earlier parliament failed to approve his cabinet for the 2nd time in a week. Before john has ended his campaign for the u. S. Democratic president ial nomination ahead of super tuesday the judge told supporters in indiana he no longer a sore chance of winning he defeated Bernie Sanders in the Iowa Caucuses and finished a strong 2nd in New Hampshire but struggled to attract minority voters. If you were to check it out go to al jazeera dot com for more the news continues here on aljazeera up to inside story do stay with us and ill be back at the top of the hour. On counting the cost coronavirus could the Economic Impact be on a par with the 2008 financial crisis as the fight for the world is crippled by the buyers cambodia faces up to the prospect of job losses tina begins its talks to avoid a debt default. Counting the cost on aljazeera. Its the European Union face again you refugee crisis turkey carries out its threat to open its borders with e. U. Members greece and calgarians do even a does have the political will to tackle the potential influx of tens of this is inside story. I. Know theyre welcome to the program im not clock so tuckey and the European Union are on a new collision course because of the millions of war refugees and migrants its looking after tens of thousands mostly syrians exiled in turkey heading towards the borders with belgariad and with greece and thats off to turkey and