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Russia when they do between one meets putin on thursday. You know what youre describing of course is the dangerous balancing act that the put in has been playing in syria when it sat on the one hand of course he doesnt want to throw away this very carefully build relationship with syria where he invested so many years in for the last 5 years but also of course the relationship with iran is very crucial so this is this very dangerous balancing act and there has been no official statements about of course their strategy because the official line from russia maintains to be there needs to do this offensive because turkey has reached agreements they were they had promised that they would this on this what they call terrorists here and they didnt do it so assad has this right to to have this attack on the on the rebel groups and russia is basically backing him off but in the last couple of weeks there have been many meetings between turkey and russia and it hasnt been any result because russia now is offering turkey to a new deescalation zone which is posed sort she and gives turkey a less space and less territory and turkey has completely refused this and this is where the negotiations will be about on thursday among other things and as i said these negotiations will still be held under the sound of gunfire so what is happening in the field will be as crucial as what is happening here different diplomatically in moscow on thursday ok well come back to of course as we get more word out of us and thanks for joining us your joining us here on aljazeera english its just called 10 g. M. T. 1 oclock local here in doha our other top story that were covering is that the greek Prime Minister has warned refugees and migrants on his border with turkey that theyll be turned away if they try to enter Greek Security forces say theyve stopped thousands from crossing over since friday trying to get into europe after turkey said it would no longer in force its border. Now a child has died after a boat loaded with a few g. s and migrants capsized off the greek island of les voss 47 other people who were trying to reach the greek island from turkey have been rescued thousands have been trying to cross into europe have to take he said it would no longer in force the border lets cross over to John Psaropoulos who joins us from the island of a less boss and john youve talked and witnessed the impasse between your thora ts and those migrants who have arrived and survived that sea journey it is a very tense situation. It is indeed the greek coast guard has confirmed the death of that one child the coast guards accounts of this and counter is that the migrant vessel rubber dinghy approached the water line of greek turkish territorial waters accompanied by a Turkish Coast guard vessel which then turned away after it had insured that they had crossed over into greek waters following that the greek coast guard says the people who were on the boat capsized it deliberately in order to be saved at sea in accordance with the International Law of the sea because under those circumstances once you have people in the water without a boat. The International Law of the sea obliges you to conduct a rescue operation this was done 46 of the 48 people the coast guard says were rescued in Good Condition 2 children were brought ashore in Critical Condition one of them was confirmed dead at the hospital weve also had another both arrival on the north shores of the island which we will visit shortly and weve heard about 2 both arrivals in the south a. J. And near the island of kos the lows of it isnt the quote the numbers that weve seen in the last 24 hours between sunday morning and this morning a total of 977 people arrived in greece across the aegean at various points that is a very large increase compared to the usual inflows it is a significant markup people here on the island have been getting very nervous about whether that will continue and some people have been showing supposed persistent determination and resolve to prevent the us or at least from doing what they normally do which is search and rescue at sea and resupply of the camp morea they they have been blocking and they are this moment blocking the routes to the camp to camera crew. Such as ours all journalists to the oath or aziz and also to any who have any work at the camp this is the attitude weve seen on the island in the last 24 hours which we recorded in our package. 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 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. They say. 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 since the new democracy government was elected last year given that given the people believe the government the next quickly over 7 months there wasnt any increase in air quality of life. Has been lost in the island is turning into a giant hotspot. But other viewpoints will 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. Now this crisis this new refugee crisis across the aegean is creating 2 enormous questions of International Law one concerns the e. U. Turkey statement it is clear that turkey is in no mood to honor that statement which obliges the e. U. And turkey to accept return knees from each others territories who do not qualify for International Protection there and the other question concerns the International Law of asylum the 1951 Geneva Convention regarding the status of refugees greece has said its going to be some really turning around people who are sent in this phase of the refugee crisis by turkey because this isnt a question of individuals who come to greece as supplicants in need of protection this is a case of a concerted government policy pushing people across borders so there are 2 massive questions of international and europe turkey relations indeed of course well look follow events with you through the day thanks john Strong Police there on. A key adviser to irans Supreme Leader has died from corona virus dozens of top Government Officials are tested positive for the infection including the Deputy Health minister and a member of the cabinet samus ravi is our correspondent ron joins me now via skype and of course iran taking a social battering really from the corona Virus Outbreak and now news of a prominent political death thats really going to battle the establishment. It certainly has been since the beginning of this Public Health crisis in this country that Senior Leadership have been affected have been contracting the disease far more than weve seen in other places the latest this gentleman who passed away mohamed mir mohamed he was in his seventies so at risk of certainly succumbing to the virus at risk of of passing away and unfortunately that is whats happened he was a member of the Expediency Council and a group of advisors to the Supreme Leader made up of technocrats military officers Government Officials and since the beginning weve seen that the government has been largely affected at least 20 members of government at least 20 Senior Leaders biased and its here in iran have come in contact with this disease have come under it have contracted the coronavirus since this began and this includes the Vice President of female member of president of the on his cabinet as you said m. P. s deputies spokespeople and one of the reasons we might be seeing this is because the corona Virus Outbreak happened in tandem with the timing of the parliamentary election here in the country a few weeks ago so weve seen many Senior Leaders Many Political players serious political players would have been going to clone ground 0 for the disease here in this country for this virus in iran and the reason they were going to hold regularly during the time of the election is because polling is a city of religious seminaries and because of the religious form of government here in iran it is a Major Political heartland so you would have seen people going there to take part in a electioneering to take part in trying to get support and funding for their candidates and for their parties and that is one of the reasons weve seen that this corona Virus Outbreak here in iran has had exponentially more impact on leaders here in the country for the moment thanks a lot correspondent to iraq now the leader of a religious sect in south korea at the center of a crime a Virus Outbreak has apologized for not stopping the infection spreading the founder of the culture of john g. Show is being investigated for allegedly trying to cover up infections the church in the city of day care has been described as the epicenter of south koreas outbreak problem prions reports and soul of the church is being investigated for potentially hiding infections from authorities. 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 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 the or thorough tes 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 under secretive sect at that with a number of different groups here calling on the orthorexic is 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. Police in the philippines are trying to persuade a gunman to end his siege at a Shopping Mall about 30 people are being held hostage in the capital manila one persons been shot and injured the gunman thought to be a disgruntled former Security Guard at the moment there is body below is outside the Shopping Center and says Police Believe that they are making progress with the hostage taker. 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 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 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 shot at 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 in the window of opportunity to appeal 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. But youve all heard here all the aljazeera news hour including israel holds its 3rd election in a year but will it break the political deadlock plus barring hours on the frontrunner and his bid to go up against donald trump for the u. S. Presidency. Coronavirus continues to disrupt global sport as moto g. P. Is hoping race is a council to show well have those details later in spanish. Government has allowed aljazeera cameras into heavy restricted access to parts of its northern Rakhine State where it denies carrying out a Genocidal Campaign against the rohingya nearly a quarter of a 1000000 reaching a flood a military crackdown against them in 2017 most of them now living coxs bazar in neighboring bangladesh the Worlds Largest refugee camp and are too scared they say to go home those still living in rakhine now face escalating violence between the military and drabble zz which killed 5 richenda over the weekend 4 of the reports now from nearby. We are heading into restricted territory foreign journalists require permission 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 its mobs work used of raping killing and setting fire to regain their homes the buddhist majority myanmar government said it was responding to attacks and killings by an armed group called the are occurring that 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 mind is on camera that seemed scripted or we have 3 communities here living like a family thats why i dont think we will be affected by conflict 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 damage holds 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 as 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 who 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 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. Ulterior motive of myanmar government. What they are doing they are forcibly degrading their citizenship status. So. Willing to be degraded. The rohingya have little to return to they face government restrictions on travel employment even Family Planning many doubt the situation will change any time soon headed down like this the job of leadership is trying to control it instead while the civil in the military leaders are fanning 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 for reporting a force for hundreds of thousands those who fled to bangladesh and 2017 now live in coxs bizarre and whats the Worlds Largest refugee settlement in bangladesh tanveer child is our correspondent but the situation for the Rohingya Tanveer has really not improved seems no likelihood of their return home certainly for the moment. Indeed were just saying from florences report as well we know weve been talking to a lot of the rolling up families here last several days investigating what is actually going on on other sites through what they hear from their family members know we were witness to some of this phone conversation and the message was quite clear that things are not stable its volatile highly restricted in their move men they dont have access to health care or education theyve been periodically hair us in many instances houses were burned shops were burned and now there is a new dimension to the city there which is a conflict between them but this right kind rebel groups on me and my army and their own communities in western wear kind particularly are caught in the middle theres been several incidents of that in january beginning and in the end even yesterday i just as were killed in this encounter between the 2 groups and this is one of the volatile situation right now there and also all the restriction you have hired and most of the rowing out there in a very precarious situation right now even in the camp they feel like the situation here is more restrictive government imposed a Communications Blackout here that been fence been built around the camp so they feel theyre no longer welcome here the same but these diminishing gradually also there are periodic and counters wary running of theyve been killed theyve been accused of robbery and drug smuggling cross border drug smuggling rather just today we heard about 7 joining us one of the single most biggest incident were killed in a shootout with the police this is been described by the local police as and counter or shootout but the Rights Groups i did that nothing less than judicial killing so all this put together theyre in every. Situation where they feel very helpless you know they dont do want to go back but not under the current circumstance and the some of the critical demand. They have put quite right before all to be proud to have failed to repair tuition is that they want to be recognised as growing the main important demand is that they get citizenship and also theyre on International Protection from the un or International Community because they dont have told feel safe going back that under the current circumstance turn their child returns to joining us from cox is bizarre lets cross back over to god Florence Louis is standing by florence we saw your report and of course we know that youve reported on this story for a number of years now so what really surprised you about the visit in terms of what you saw and what you heard. So 2 things struck me the most about my visit. Now we were also in the capital city great this place wasnt affected by the violent crackdown that by the military that happened in 2017 but there were race riots that took place in 2012 and since then more than 100000 have been just internally displaced the living in camps across because state and best conditions Living Conditions for them have to tear rates at the campus much here than it used to be the buildings are more and more broken down that been fortified by whatever material they can find and these people still havent been able to return to their old lives businessmen havent been able to reopen the shops students on able to go back to school they have no access to Public Health and thats a very its a very hopeful the situation for the river and then in Northern Iraq time where. Its theres a pervasive sense a few among the hill we had a few hours to spend in mongolia town without our government mind it and even then the regime that they were reluctant to speak to us and even off camera one man who told us that he felt the situation was very hopeless but they were hanging up people and for a future generations he said he felt he had told us too much and was worried about informants within the community so thats the situation and thats really what struck me most about the situation for the regime in rakhine so how would you then describe the attitude of the authorities to allow sort of forward news teams in i mean with a nervous up or heads about sort of what you might say dependent on what you saw. Well they were clearly nervous i mean you saw in that report it was a very tightly controlled and it was stage managed to very high extent and you know every time we tried to speak to a villager there would be a Government Official hold bring your body trying to videotape the encounter and what we knew also was that as soon as journalists left they would be that taking on the names and the phone numbers of the working of the edges but spoken to the media now but what this exposes really is the insecurity that the young man that the and the government feels they allow these visits to take place because they want to be able to show the world that they are allowing the reporting in the country but at the same time they keep a very very close watch on whats happening and of course the myanmar government position is that the military launched a legitimate operation in response to attacks by working to fight and if and that the killings the massacres against the rigging that these were the doings of broke soldiers and Buddhist Monks and the myanmar government has and will punish them and of course many of the International Community dont buy that argument which is why youve got gambia taking myanmar to the International Court of justice accusing it of carrying out genocide against them were hearing from god thank you. Israelis are voting in the general election in 11 months its hoped it will bring an end to months of political turmoil israelis have had a caretaker government since the 1st inconclusive election last april Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has twice failed to form a Coalition Government and that time but the blue and White Party Leader benny gantz was asked to form a government and also failed imran khan is following events for a son is in Central Israel in my house polling progressing because turnout is really important for all of the parties and candidates and i believe that Benjamin Netanyahu has cast his ballot. Thats absolutely right were hearing that benny gantz was the. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival. Benny gantz but let me just show you. Just tell behind me weve been here for about 3 hours its been a straight the steady stream of people coming in and weve had some official results come in and as well now what were hearing the as of 10 oclock local time in the last election the turnout was about 15 percent this time around its about 14. 5 percent so 5 percent difference so thats why were seeing a lot of the political leaders now encouraging that all of us to come out and vote now as i say there are 2 in the selection that he. Wants and the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The ballots both have been speaking. Its a problem this is a democracy you have a great right that you should exercise with confidence. Things completely under control today weve taken all the precautions that are necessary people can go and vote with complete confidence. And support. Its time to. Stick to. Any kind. Of a. Coalition seems to be order of the day when it comes to forming a government in israel so what should we be looking out for and who will be the key players. Well look were going to be seeing in the next coming days after the results of this election out of the main parties thats been white and the likud party trying to scramble to get 61 seats in the Israeli Knesset the parliament 60 is the magic number thats what they need to be able to form a majority government now no one party has that kind of leverage at the moment with those kinds of seats at the moment so they need to do deals well of the people theyll do deals with potentially is Avigdor Lieberman he hasnt said who hes going to support hes going to say hes going to wait until the results come in but theyll be a lot of deal making going on so israelis are really hoping that this is going to be a decisive alecks remember in the last 2 elections even with the deal making that was going on they werent able to get to any kind of deal to form a Coalition Government so lets see whats different this time around voter turnout may have an effect if its higher than last time that may give one party an advantage of the other but really this is now about to make a horse trading whatever you want to call it its good Old Fashioned politicking is going to make a difference and thats not going to happen any time soon it will come in the coming weeks and months indeed it will for the moment thanks for joining us from ramadan. Well its time for the his richard with some startling news on australias varying weather scenario yes thats right so i have just come to the end of the southern summer no getting into the autumn period the bureau of meteorology in a straight area have revealed what surprised me it was an extremely hot summer in fact the 2nd warmest on record a momentum at records going back about 110 years which some of peter obviously was the previous 120182019 so weve got extreme heat here which doesnt come as any great surprise the interesting thing is that the straight institute been crunching the numbers on a straight this summer weather and they compare the period between the tree 9982018 here between 1951969 to see whether or not summers had actually really changed peoples perceptions of very often different from the reality but what they found was sound but if you compare the 2 that summers are becoming longer and winters were coming shorter and again these days of Climate Change that may not come as any great surprise but what really shocked me was to find out the extent to which that is happening and in fact if you take sydney as an example the winters and theyre becoming 15 days shorter on average on the summers Something Like 28 days longer means 28 more days of the risk of bushfires so while. Thanks very much richard well still ahead here all the aljazeera news are more turmoil for iraqi politics why the Prime Minister designate has pulled out and we hear what the new president of europe why is promising and why criminals need to be where. David beckhams new Football Team makes it and the l s debut well have the details in a few minutes time. I was raised in france. These are my grandparents. These are my parents and this is mean. Fighting both isis and us of. The 1st of a 2 part epic tale of a remarkable family. The father the son and the jihad part one on aljazeera a women in programming from International Film a tense. Play aljazeera sets the stage egypt in ethiopia will be the life of the lives the life of the nines dead everybody is there global acts but its getting were going to let the planet go to ruin because were not doing obvious things open your eyes to an alternative view of the world today on aljazeera. About you watching aljazeera news hour with me as a whole robert a reminder of our top story is turkeys press. The rest of the one says he hopes a ceasefire will be achieved in syrias province when he meets with his russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in moscow on thursday now the leaders are expected to discuss the latest escalation in fighting between turkish and Syrian Government forces. Also a child has died after a boat load of refugees capsized off the greek island of last boss 47 people rescued Greek Security forces have prevented thousands of refugees from landing after turkey said it wouldnt in forces border with the European Union. Greece or bulgaria. Israelis are voting in the 3rd general election in less than a year its hoped itll bring an end to months of political turmoil israelis have had a caretaker government since the 1st inconclusive election back in april. Lets get more now on our top story the escalation in fighting in syria now the Turkish Military has been using weaponized drones with devastating effect against Syrian Government forces the bitty b 2 tactical Unmanned Aircraft system is built by a turkish joint venture and has become a symbol of National Pride its been exported abroad and has flown missions in libya the Unmanned Aircraft has a 12 meter wingspan and can fly to a maximum altitude of around 7000 meters it does carry enough fuel however to fly for around 24 hours as well as flying reconnaissance and Intelligence Missions it could also be armed with missiles including antitank weapons. Is a former engineer an officer with the Royal Air Force in the u. K. Is also a professor of security at Nottingham University and joins me now via skype good to have you with us on the program how significant has turkeys use of drones really be that mean they admit to having them and using them in syria damascus admit of course shooting them down in the past few days its a real game changer certainly drones of the. Conflict by recently. Using the new. States use. And they are in many ways using it again changer in that they do fly conventional or doctrines of our own talk in terms of the. Origins of all these things work in a domain which is only on below the threshold of convention now. In terms of developing your own technology it seems to have been turkeys best choice after it sort of allies and israel also sort of let ankara down on a number of issues that sort of they fell out over i mean why didnt turkey have the confidence to invest its own technology and development sooner well i think its a lot of it is as you say confidence is psychological people believe that its true. Technology is far more complex and it actually has Many Organizations as ive said one state organizations terrorist organizations or founders you can buy all the components you need on the move markets through hobbyists and those areas and it isnt too difficult can start constructing roads certainly basic ones those. That. Need to be able to loiter for more than 8 to 2 hours those things are and how long will reach and then beyond that insight they do need some sophisticated their quality which. Many states have the ability to reduce themselves but its quicker and easier in some cases to work in collaboration with those are states that already have that technology it saves a lot of time and effort to buy from states and then combine it with your. Local skills to assemble a drone that fulfills the needs of all it to kill tasks that need the states military. Because of the way that turkey has used its own drones in syria do you think this is going to be part of the discussion with glad to be a putin obvious state to stop using these drones so that. They can just get on with the fact of liberating about say and winning the war thats what russia really wants. Well i think that drones are very much a tactical resource and i think the or they will only figure. In the discussions in as much that the political will if its there to come to some form of an accommodation then certainly. There may be sound distractions but on what we have seen in these talking to in syria in the last 8 years and 6 or 8 years has been that space is one where the major coalitions have. To agree on priorities as opposed to superiority so for example on until recently when the u. S. Led coalition. You do sing in space on the syria well there was a known risk in accommodation between the russians and the u. S. That neither side wouldnt coming to jerry conflict with the other they share their space they did conflict to their operations and they wouldnt end up choosing each other well and i think that this sort of understanding might come about if turkey and russia come to an accommodation over this issue in syria and if they do they might extend it from conventional aircraft which is what ive been talking about who wants their 16 separate teams and so on to the roads and then they may decide that they would offer 8. Drones in the area now why im a little bit doubtful about this is that drones on like conventional aircraft have not been used to shoot each other as so drones dont carry air to air missiles to shoot down with runs out or indeed other conventional aircraft down for use as you just 5 giulia on for a common sense and a useful. Deploying weapons from the air to the ground like antitank weapons and and to personnel weapons so in that respect drones to pose. As much and as conventional. To each other so it may or may not figure as an important issue in the political discussions which will see what they do say there on thursday for the moment thanks very much for joining us from Nottingham University appreciator. Now irans Prime Minister iraqs Prime Minister pardon me designate has withdrawn his candidacy a month after his appointment mohamed the law we says politicians obstructing as efforts to form a government while earlier parliament failed to approve his cabinet for the 2nd time in a week or so beautiful to explain the details of the iraqi political system from baghdad. What a law 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. P. P. Did it says out of the democratic race to become the us president he told his Democratic Party supporters in indiana he did longest or chance of winning the form a small town mayor was the 1st openly gay president ial candidate he defeated Bernie Sanders in the Iowa Caucuses and finished 2nd in New Hampshire by but struggled to attract minority votes. 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 l a vicious boston in 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 bonus because it took so long to declare the results you remember that 2nd in New Hampshire 3rd in 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 at 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 to be which is just a step before tuesday 2000000. 00 people in california have already voted many of them for me or pete but at the age of 38 he has a future and the Democratic Party and from the speech we saw he can almost guarantee hes going to get hes speaking sport at the Democratic Convention when it comes to crowning the nominee. The newly inaugurated president of year ago is promising to crack down on rising crime and government finances following 15 years of left wing leaning governments center right leader luis jaipur van to promote what was done well and correct what was done badly truths about how small from the capital today. Its the beginning of a new era a new era why. The center ride with people was sworn in as president on sunday. For 15 years the center left rule this small south american nation turning it into the most progressive in the region by legalizing marijuana abortion and same sex marriage but the new president says its time for change or any and all humans are the citizens gave a strong message to me the people spoke that it is necessary to change but a change with consensus its now time to fulfill peoples will. Press and at his inauguration where right wing leaders from the region. And she. Venezuelans who came to you why because of the crises were policed president in my little was not invited though to get anywhere i go there he is a dictator and i hope he can help put pressure on him but what is happening in the country. But its domestic issues like as your poll is said to focus on 1st including crime and the economy as it were yesterday i know since you want him to address insecurity that has become a major problem here also education and to generate well paid jobs thats what. A lawyer and spent many years in congress before making it to the presidency. Comes from a political family his great grandfather was a Major Political figure in this country his father is a former president he made it to office by creating a coalition. By center right parties that give him a majority in both cambers of congress. Thats why it wont be difficult for him to carry out the reforms he wants hes planning to send an omnibus bill to address what he says are the countrys biggest problems like the fiscal deficit unemployment and insecurity in the river live below my symbol of then there but he wants to reduce the deficit by relevant reduction of public spending he says he wants to reduce the deficit without touching important social policies he may want to reduce state employees and open up this country to new barkat. As you paul says he wants to continue the policies that worked and change those that did not he staff will be to mentor in the stability of the country has enjoyed for the past 15 years. That is how will see them on the radio. Doctors are hoping to declare the democratic republic of congo free within a few months but rebel attacks are continuing to hamper efforts to combat the 2nd largest outbreak in history close to 3000. 00 called police have died of the disease in the past 2 years catherine so reports are from the Eastern Region of benny where the last few cases are being treated. Is 4 months old she was born at a nearby and then said. When you fast met her in november she was in an incubator how mother had just died of the disease her father had run away doctors told us now is a medical mystery whom they are continuing to study because hamada the instructs me to the virus to. The mother got sick in the mining area of get cut to relatives brought her to the Treatment Center but when she died no one wanted her father has not been seen to date so my husband and i took her because shes from and he 2 was 7. In another town called monkey now where the 1st cases were reported in 20 Health Responders celebrate with come by. Hes just been discharged from hospital having been admitted arnie this month suffered from. When i was told i had a ball and i panicked but the doctor me such a treatment now i feel calm im happy in the all spittle i was scared because i thought oh day but he survived. Doctors say monday night is now a ball of free at the height of the crisis hundreds are contracting the disease every week in the town nationwide for the last 2 years more than 2000 congolese have died of the disease which has affected 3 and a half 1000 it is not the end yet because. This is not him being me this is the. 3rd. Time i did not thats me and we still have it written in the morning it is but that is going to take us a visit. Almost all of this months cases have been reported here in the city. No region besieged by allied Democratic Forces or a. T. F. Rebels Health Workers have also been. Told by my ob to 11 a boiler responders have been killed. And hundreds of Treatment Centers attack with us. Despite the security challenges Health Administrators hope to declare the country a ball of free in a few months doctors fighting the disease say theyre determined to achieve that catherine saw aljazeera benny in the democratic republic of congo. Well still ahead here on the news hour in sport to the biggest names in basketball go head to head in the n. B. A. To stay with us. For a little. Welcome back its time to support his job on a thank you current virus continues to disrupt global sport its been announced that the 1st 2 races the most g. P. Season have been called off wide as had been testing in cats in recent weeks sundays opening race has been cancelled because of travel restrictions on people arriving in doha from italy several right isnt. Aims are italian a new rules mean that they would have to go into quarantine for 2 weeks the 2nd race in thailand has also been postponed indefinitely earlier we spoke to moshi moshi g. P. Journalist Simon Patterson whos in doha. So within the paddock about a 3rd of the 10 a half dozen people to travel the world are entirely and 2 of our manufacturers i think it of our teams 7 of our moto g. P. Writers at leigh is really one of the homes of the sport along with japan and spain so we simply cant have a risk of them to get to this point to have everything ready to go on the verge of having the 1st race and then for it not to happen is yeah its a pretty big blow for the product and for the sport as a whole really because everything is already here freight wise its not even like the 7000000 fly in stuff you know it takes 4747 cargo planes to carry us around the world and someone still going to have to come from europe pack up all the stuff thats sitting in carriages left over from the task ready to go wrist and put it in flight kisses and then we dont even know where were sending it to we dont know if its going on the asia to america for the 3rd round or back to europe or most of the teams are best some people are going to be quite happy about the news for 6 time champion marquez is recovering from shoulder surgery over the winter and hes been struggling a little bit with his physical fitness so it gives him a little bit more time to rest up with thailand being counseled but as well it sounds like its probably going to give him an extra moment which is a double blow for the rivals that want to see what level theyre up and knowing that hes going to be fitter and faster when we do get reason that we had assumed or hoped i guess the 1st brian would be what should have been the 3rd round in texas weve heard some stories this morning that america have started district and flights mentally as well so its going to be a waiting game now and see it could be that the 1st round of the championship is the 1st european round in harassed in spin alley may. Its least top Football League will hold an emergency meeting on wednesday as they struggle to deal with the effect of coronavirus on their fixtures 5 said our games were postponed at the weekend and the Italian Government has extended a ban. All sporting events in regions hit by the outbreak for another week at least that will impact the league for a 3rd straight round some games did go ahead at the weekend including atalantas match with around 30 atlanta fans made the trip from but a combo which is in lombardy one of the worst affected regions but they were being checked for symptoms before being allowed into the stadium and over in spain many fans attending sundays el classico between madrid and barcelona will face masks to the burn a bare as for the match itself rail one that to nail as they move top of the spanish league. To more positive story about a cyclists who want to gold medal after spending 34 hours in corona virus quarantine denmarks michael had competed on the u. A. E. Top which was cancelled midway through with 2 italians fell ill he had to be monitored before being cleared to race in the track World Championship in germany and after all that he won gold in the madison event with teammate last the one. Saying in germany another bundesliga football match was interrupted because of protests against the team owner of hoffenheim ultras unveiled an offensive banner in their match against wolfsburg targeting the billionaire de mar hope fans across germany are upset that hopper is able to bankroll hoffenheim exempt from rules which prevent clubs having private majority stake holders david beckons new m. L. S. Team into miami have made their league debut the former Manchester United around the dread legend was on the Training Pitch to give the players a final boost ahead of their match in los angeles against l a f c and the team was swarmed by fans as they got on the bus dancing and singing with them in spanish before the game. It was all smiles inside the stadium as well but it wasnt to be a winning start to the underdogs held their own against one of the leagues best sides but it was l. A. U. K. Mountain top thanks to that great chip by carlos melo the finnish one knew where he would play a way to d. C. United next week well theyll be hoping to get that 1st victory. To the n. B. A. s biggest stars went head to head on sunday number one draft pick in williamson for the new Orleans Pelicans against Le Bron James and the l. A. Lakers williamson provided several i catch him moments for the highlight reel on his way to 35 points the most he scored in the n. B. A. So far but it was the man nearly twice his age who won the battle in the brawn coming up with a triple double 34 points 13 assists and 12 rebounds the lakers won the game by 6 points and continue to cruise at the top of the western conference and so plenty of respect on show between the 2 starts after the game. To boxing and Anthony Joshuas next fight has been announced for june the 20th hell face folk areas could propose live at tottenhams football stadium in london joshua last fort in december when he reclaimed his world titles of andy ruiz jr in saudi arabia he had been holding out for a fight with tyson fury a fury has just agreed to another rematch with a on tie wild. Ride that is like this for for now well have more for you. Thanks very much and you have been watching the aljazeera news hour with me say hello robin comes up next with another 4 half hour of jamie and all of the news our team thanks very much for your time. Frank assessments the one thing about these bush fires usage really the. 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