A majority. Turkey has shot down a syrian warplane of adlib in the northwest as Government Forces try to advance deeper to capture the last major rebel held area the 3rd syrian fighter downed in 3 days turkeys escalating campaign is threatening to bring it to direct confrontation with the Syrian Governments ally russia the violence is taking an increasingly heavy toll on civilians 8 people were killed by an explosion and it lip city elsewhere fighting is on intensifying in the south thats happening in iraq despite a cease fire thats been in place there since 2018 there are reports of at least 5 people have been killed those fighting continues u. S. Special envoy for syria James Jeffrey and u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Kelly croft visited the border area with syria and met with members of the syrian white helmets. Those hills over there. The Turkish Military and the Syrian Opposition are 1st of all fighting to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe millions or millions of refugees that the intent of. And his russian iranian allies. Are finding is driving the refugee crisis among the greece turkey border well go live to dont throw up less on the greek on the defense both in just a moment but 1st has him all about it is live for us in hard time has him whats the latest there on the ground what can the fighting still intensifies in different parts of North Western province of it live in the strategic city of the syrian army has made control of huge areas but the rebels backed by turkey are still trying to push the army back from those areas this seems to be the has become the focal point of a confrontation now between turkey and between the Syrian Government about who should have the upper hand when it comes to that city which sits on 2 major highways the m 4. 00 and 5. 00. Which is a major rebel stronghold in southern italy fighting has intensified over the last last 48 hours the syrian army says it is determined to take over those areas by the rebels are adamant they wont lose it because they do understand that this could pave the way for the syrian army to move forward towards the city overdeveloped as a situation further intensifies the statement from James Jeffrey the u. S. To syria about the turkish army and the rebels fighting the war the fight in live to prevent a deterioration of the situation. Is widely seen here in an hour in turkey as a positive stance from the United States of america and the push for the Turkish Military the u. S. Ambassador here also said a while ago that the u. S. Is considering providing military assistance to this is something i think turkey would like to use as a leverage when president at the knees with russian president Vladimir Putin of thursday about ways to implement a buffer zone a demarkation ally that would constrain the movement of the syrian army but the turkish minutes is the case as long as the Syrian Military continues its offensive Operation Spring shilled will continue as they have been saying that they have delivered a huge setback to the military capabilities of the syrian army over the last few days so were getting also indication while youre talking about hopes for this tension to be diffused were seeing also an escalation of the ground that continues to further increase and has while we are focusing you know some of the coverage is focusing on refugees who are arriving at techies border with greece there are also of course many syrians who have fled the fighting and they are on the border with turkey how are they all doing how many people are still trying to flee is there any help coming. Well International Aid agency of the of the u. N. Out for are grappling with ways to deliver immediate aid to those people were talking about almost 1000000. 00 people who are now displaced by the conflict since the start of the military campaign by the syrian army about 3 months ago and that is a problem here kim which is basically the fighting has intensified in areas in the south near the northwestern part of it lip and this is creating more problems and the number of refugee people displaced by the fighting continues to increase of these people were told that the moment the north the further north they move they are more likely to be safe each time to get to an area its bombed by the syrian army and by a russian warplanes and they continue their access to was the border with turkey and his heres where we have a problem now were talking about hundreds of thousands of people stranded in a no mans land basically with makeshift some some of them begging for tents and when they dont get a tent they have to buy one which costs something around 300. 00 u. S. Dollars these people have no equipment no food and they are in desperate need for help the biggest concern if the fighting continues those makeshift tents could end up being that minute shelter in syria. About it and i from have time i thank you. The who has promised 800000000. 00 to greece to deal with a refugee and migrant surge from turkey thats often said it will allow hundreds of thousands of people to pass through grace and vogue area have stepped up security on their side of the land border with turkey the great coastguard is now actively repelling boats trying to get to its islands across the Eastern Mediterranean route his decision to open the borders breaches an agreement it made with the e. U. In 2016 to resettle refugees and stop them from crossing into europe turkey now hosts around for many refugees and says it cant cope with any more people fleeing the violence and it nip John Psaropoulos joins me now live i believe from the greek island of les voss and john the greek Prime Minister has been speaking about the situation was he had to say. He has he asked for greater european supports not just in terms of men and materials which are all valuable and European Commission president. Promised plenty of that beginning with 7 votes in the aegean adding to the European Border and coast guard forces already here but what the greek Prime Minister really wants and has been asking for since he was elected 8 months ago is a common asylum policy that allows european Member States to share the burden of asylum processing at the moment that is being borne mainly by the countries of 1st arrival i. E. The external border countries like greece italy and spain are multiple and what he said was we havent really used our time wisely since the last refugee crisis the time has come for us to do this we need to show we are sharing the burden and facsimile. We cannot have the burden pushed onto the shoulders of external e. U. Member states lets hear what he had to say. This is a blatant attempt by turkey to use desperate people to promote this geo political agenda and to divert attention from the horrible situation in syria the 10s of thousands of people who tried to end to greece over the past few days did not come from it live they have been living safely in turkey for a long period of time most of them speak turkish fluently and europe will not be blackmailed by turkey over the refugee issue. In addition to the assets that the continent has to offer at sea and the European Response to the refugee crisis has to be one thats made in unity and solidarity he said similar messages from the creation Prime Minister who is now presiding over the European Council for the 6 month rotating presidency here in greece had been several attempts to deal with this we have the original policy of processing asylum applications as people came through on january the 1st greece instituted a new tougher asylum law that fast tracked new applications so that greece could process them out and cycle people out who didnt qualify for asylum within a period of initially it was hoped one month but now more realistically 2 months and sends the non qualifying people back to turkey as deportees and now since february 27th the Turkish Border has opened theres a 3rd regime theres a 3rd category of people who will simply not be processed for asylum greasers they cant be put through the usual procedures because they are coming here as a result of turkish policy not as free individuals and that range of policies and regime shows you just how much trouble the greek authorities are having in dealing with the risk the risk in creating a response that is affective that actually is in accordance with humanitarian law but also keeps europes borders defended that i think speaks for itself just the fact that there are these now 3 regimes being followed by all sorts hes here John Psaropoulos that live from the thank you. The Us Federal Reserve has cut Interest Rates by half a percentage point the fed says its an emergency move to protect the economy from the impact of the coronavirus the markets all reacting she had to townsend joins us now live from washington d. C. She had this is a big cuts is it not. Yeah the largest one time cut since the financial crisis of 2008 the 1st emergency cut since since 2008 as well drew empower the chair of the Federal Reserve is currently holding a press conference to explain the move but so far hes repeated what was in the initial the initial statement that he gave the fundamentals of the u. S. Economy remain strong however the coronavirus poses evolving risks to Economic Activity in light of these risks and in support of achieving its maximum employment and price stability goals the federal open Market Committee decided today to lower the target range of the federal funds rate by half a percentage point to one to one and a quarter percent and they said that they they will be looking to as to whether they need to take any other further action depending on circumstances the weird thing about drawing power though is when it gives a press conference he always makes people more words than the reassured actually the markets certainly right now and this would see appeared to be purely a some sort of way of to try to reassure the markets could only the so clear that this has any real impact beyond the stock markets in sort of trying to you know get people out of court and to you know help the supply chain problems from trying to and so on it doesnt have any real impact on any of that this is purely for the markets but as is often the way for a start the markets seem to factor or this into the rally we saw on monday but because it was such a large cut were already seeing people say well wait a 2nd this is much knowledge that we perhaps expected do they know something that we dont deserve some modeling that they have that that suggests that this could be actually far more serious for the u. S. Economy than we thought so right now at least the german certain is going up and down and hasnt really figured out what it what it thinks of this but this does follow a strong rally on monday donald trump however has already tweeted that hes been asking for an Interest Rate cut or yeah maybe for the last 2 years especially during Election Year he feels a stock market is this amazing signifier of the general strength of the economy you know you can have a debate about that but trump has already tweeted the Federal Reserve is cutting but must further yes and most importantly come into line with other countries competitors were not playing on a level Playing Field on a level field rather not fair to us a. Its finally time for the Federal Reserve to lead more easing and cutting us from cultural john paul is giving a press conference now so no doubt well have more lines out of that a little later thank you for that for now shavar tons of there live from washington d. C. Another 11 people have died from coronavirus in iraq that raises the total there to 77. 00 the highest outside china around 2300. 00 iranians are infected including the Deputy Health minister of iran is considering roping in the military to step up its response. The worlds top finance ministers and central bankers have promised to take action to try to protect the Global Economy from the coronavirus the g. 7 ministers did not announce any immediate steps the outbreak has already affected markets infection numbers are easing in china but they are spreading around the world especially in south korea and japan betray you reports inspecting a research lab in beijing president xi jinping urges scientists to develop vaccines and treatments what he called chinas most powerful weapon in the battle against the current a Virus Outbreak some 80000 people have been infected nationwide recovered patients have been urged to donate blood but new cases are slowing on tuesday beijing reported its lowest number since january several people caught the virus in iran and italy prompting some chinese cities to quarantine all travelers from countries affected by the outbreak including south korea where more than 5000 are infected china has sent half a 1000000 masks to de groot south koreas hardest hit city. South Korean Leader and ordered all Government Agencies into illusion see mode declaring war against the virus there will be the country has entered war against the Infectious Disease as the crisis in daegu in North Yorkshire but province has reached the highest point. Into 10 shot districts supermarket shelves of toilet paper and other essentials tokyo has confirmed almost 1000 cases Prime Minister shinzo says hes ready to do so Government Spending to protect the economy we were scrutinized impact of the core of the virus the global and japanese economies the further steps are necessary we would take action without hesitation a strictly a Central Bank CutInterest Rates to a record low of about 40 cases have been confirmed to their chinese cities brought to a standstill by the virus coming back to life some provinces are preparing to reopen the schools as early as next week the government says the outbreak is under control over many tough restrictions still in place nationwide it seems to be having trouble convincing the public to be alert but not alarmed katrina here aljazeera. Tennessees Emergency Management agency says 19 people have been killed after a series of tornadoes swept across the state this was the trail of destruction left in downtown nashville buildings being torn apart and power lines and trees brought down some polling stations were also damaged affecting super tuesday voters. Still ahead here on aljazeera tribal loyalties in libya put to the test as the conflict shows no sign of slowing. Welcome back its time to take a look at weather conditions across asia and in northeastern areas weve got this developing area of low pressure giving some heavy snowfall across northern parts of north korea and the far east of russia and thats going to make its way across the sea of japan into meanwhile weve got rain for the south in japan so were seeing rain in tokyo quite a contrast with tuesdays fine day further south weve got rain across taiwan extending across southern parts of china and hong kong is likely to see some rain at times but that rain will clear way during the course of thursday for that heavy snowfall pushing into northern parts of japan so blizzard conditions are likely here for the south more just a case of some snow showers coming on to the west coast lets head into southeastern parts of asia pretty wet picture here much as youd expect certainly for so long way crossed into the border is looking very wet in dayton same goes for much of java but should be fine conditions for kuala lumpur and singapore as we head into south asia is that largely fine picture that we have got a few showers just affecting the Western Ghats but a more general area of rain across northern parts of india and pakistan and thats likely to stand further south into pakistan during the course of thursday we may even see some showers affecting you delhi. In 2011 aljazeera reported from tanzania on the sinister trade in the body parts of. This is where the numbers feel. Right and show. All the spot rewind revisits a survivor. Mutilated to service the rituals of witchcraft. Rewind spell of the ill be no on aljazeera. The. Youre watching all just there are of our top stories a sol Turkish Forces have shot down a Syrian Government warplane in the province the 3rd syrian value jet downed and 3 days as turkey escalates a campaign against Bashar Al Assads forces. The u. S. Federal reserve has cut Interest Rates by half a percentage point the fed said its an emergency move to protect the economy from the impact of the coronavirus. 9000 people have been killed after a series of tornadoes swept across the state of tennessee some polling stations were also damaged affecting super tuesday voters. Well as i just mentioned its super tuesday in the United States the biggest day in the Democratic Campaign to become the president ial nominee among the hopefuls is front runner Bernie Sanders who cast his vote in his home state of vermont one of 14 states deciding today who will take on donald trump in november more than a 3rd of the total delegates are up for grabs. Jason nichols is a democratic strategist and lecture at the university of maryland and he joins us now from washington d. C. Really good to have you on the program mr nichols Bernie Sanders has been benefiting from division in this field is super tuesday likely to change things is this ever going to become a 2 horse race. I think it pretty much already is youre going to see Michael Bloomberg is going to underperform hes going to find out pretty much that he wasted about 500000000. 00 of his own money i think Elizabeth Warren is going to be in a do a distant 3rd youre going to see this is a 2 person race and its going to be very close youre going to see of course bernies going to come out on top in places like california and texas and colorado states that have large latino populations and also working class whites is another area where he leads but biden with the 2 endorsements from global char and from buda gedge and also in texas from beto roark actually helps him very much and i think this is going to be a razor thin super tuesday. I dont know if he had a big win going into this in South Carolina people have been calling it a springboard into super tuesday but does he have the infrastructure in the super tuesday states. Well it is going to be difficult because he just got a Fund Raising Ball you know in the last 48 hours so that really makes it difficult he wasnt able to get the advertisements out there hes depending completely on media and on endorsements but i think that there is you know a strong enough. Push out there from his surrogates and particularly from the endorsements from who to judge and close which are who were taking you know a decent chunk of the vote to actually push him ahead in a lot of states i think hes going to win those states that are more conservative throughout the south like alabama North Carolina and tennessee and thats really going to make a big difference for him because i think he has a chance to win big there not quite as big as the one in South Carolina but he will still win by a decent margin in states like texas and california are going to be a little closer now so that makes a huge difference and puts him in contention i want to ask about california its got the most delegates up for grabs there once the state of play there. Well i think california you know a couple of days ago it was a lock for Bernie Sanders he was going to just run away with that particularly driven by latino voters you know its a very latino state however i think now the whole complection of the race has changed hes still going to win but he will win by maybe less than 10 points which i think is actually at this late juncture is a is a win for biden so california is really important its got 400 delegates but i think theyre going to share some of those delegates and that makes a huge difference Going Forward theres been a lot of talk about about the divisions among the Democratic Party looking ahead to once this is all done and dusted and the nominee has been decided on do you think there is a figure out there who could unify people behind you know whoever becomes the nominee people have mentioned to obama maybe nancy pelosi is there anyone out there who could do that job well i think the person is not nancy pelosi i can tell you that i think that the people who can do it because its not just one person thats going to do it or the obama. You know of course president obama is popular throughout the party hes still the most important person hes still the face of the party but i would honestly say Michelle Obama is probably just as important she is popular with progressives shes popular with women across the board d of every race from every Socio Economic background and i think honestly theyre going to need her to step forward in addition to president obama and come out and support whoever the nominee is in order to beat donald trump because Donald Trumps people are going to turn out and this is always you know in the United States with the 2 party system it is always a matter of turnout really great to get your analysis thats. A democratic strategist thank you. Thank you. Israels right wing bloc led by the party of Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu is leading Election Results but is still one seat short of a majority with most votes counted the liquid party and its allies have secured 60 seats in the home and that now who has already claimed victory against his main rival benny gantz the opposition bloc has so far won 53. 00 seats it is the 3rd general election in less than a year after months of political deadlock as her 4th explains from west jerusalem netanyahu needs 61 seats for a majority. At the moment he is tantalizingly for him at least short of that number and so he for now is coalescing those those right wing bloc leaders in the knesset earlier on tuesday had a meeting in his office with representatives from each of those parties talking about how they move forward there are also reports or at least those interview given on israeli radio by one of those left tenants talking about trying to poach various members of other parties across to try to get a coalition. The the names that have been mentioned as potential targets they came out and said that there was nothing doing and that the other option of course is to try to get a unity government between the main opposition blue and White Alliance led by benny gantz and likud and some of its partners gantz has so far said that he would not serve with an indicted Prime Minister after member didnt you know faces trial in just 2 weeks and meanwhile the counting goes on 97 percent counted the soldiers and prisoners and diplomats votes they will be counted those postal ballots overnight the several 14000. 00 plus coronavirus special polling station votes they will be counted in special conditions in a tent outside the knesset on wednesday morning there could be further movement yet. The uns Nuclear Watchdog is demanding answers from iran over undeclared activity 3 sites the International AtomicEnergy Agency says in the last 3 months iran has tripled its uranium stockpile thats 5 times the level it committed to under the 25th a nuclear deal made with world powers the i. A. E. A. Says it wants access to the sites in question. The United Nations special envoy for libya has resigned because he says his peace if its damaged his Health Council army says he cant cope with the stress anymore he spent 2 and a half years trying to stop the fighting and hope the 11 month battle is by war for half the capture the capital tripoli. And libyas internationally recognized government in tripoli is can take nearly 30000000000. 00 from this years budget because of lost revenue from oil exports finance minister for hours permits hardys says sensitive areas such as health and education want to be hit major ports and Oil Facilities have been blockaded by half past forces since mid january that has cost the state oil company 2000000000. 00 in the past month alone. Tribal identity and loyalty play a fundamental role in Libyan Society some reconciliation between groups has been possible but as the conflict goes on divisions are forming traffic reports from tripoli. The bullet holes in destruction a testament to the ferocity of a tribal battle the city of zawiya in western libya saw heavy fighting following the revolution overthrew libyas long time former gadhafi years ago the fighting was between pro and to get a few tribes. Since then into tribal dialogue has broad agreement and relative calm when they sat down to make concessions on issues that may have fueled that conflict thats the main reason why we survived. With tribal loyalties are being tested again as the civil war shows no sign of ending some areas close to zawiya heavily populated by tribes loyal to khalifa haftar. The warlord launched a military campaign to seize power from the un backed government in tripoli in april his forces control around 70 percent of the country is often heavy fighting in the southern neighborhoods of the capital. Of his forces shell the only Operational International airport in tripoli virtually every day. To the west in a port town inhabited by mainly berber tribes on the choosier border leaders say have to is trying to galvanize support among arab tribes and his fighters have been seen trying to surround the area they are. In the last couple of days we have no to suspicious activity its a military the 1st moment on the outskirts after surveillance in the city there has been a general mobilization of Security Forces and resources have been allocated to counter the 7. In january pro have to tribes forced the closure of libyas main all infrastructure in Eastern Libya depriving the u. N. Back governments of billions of dollars in revenue tribal loyalties are now being tested to the west of tripoli soft as forces try to open a new front in the chaos that this country has suffered since the revolution that overthrew mama gadhafi in 2011 reconciliation between certain tribes was only possible because of the great effort of tribal leaders and Civil Society groups the repeated failure of u. N. Sponsored ceasefire talks means faith is a growing among many libyans that tribal divisions are being exploited. Again. But ill just tripoli. This is just there and these are the top stories Turkish Forces have shot dhamma Syrian Government warplane and its the province its the 3rd syrian fighter jet dalgard 3 days turkey escalates campaign against Bashar Al Assads forces hundreds of refugees who had been living in turkey and now trying to get into the e. U. Most of them are massing at the border or taking boats despite warnings from greece that its borders are not open i started trying off to turkey said it would not stop people from going to europe something the Prime Minister has called blackmail this is a blatant attempt by turkey to use desperate people to promote his jew political agenda and to divert attention from the horrible situation in syria the 10s of thousands of people who try to end to greece over the past few days did not come for me to live they have been living safely in turkey for a long period of time most of them speak turkish fluently and europe will not be blackmailed by turkey over the refugee issue. The u. S. Federal reserve has cut Interest Rates by half a percentage point the fed says its an emergency move to protect the economy from the impact of the coronavirus bodies had cited the fast spread of the disease as a risk to the economy 19 people have been killed after a series of tornadoes swept across the state of tennessee some polling stations were also damaged affecting super tuesday vote is the governor has declared a state of emergency. It is super tuesday in the United States the biggest day in the Democratic Campaign to become the president ial nominee as 14 states vote to decide who will take on donald trump among the hopefuls is front runner Bernie Sanders who cast his vote in his home state of vermont more than a 3rd of the total delegates are up for grabs. The uns Nuclear Watchdog is demanding answers from iran over underfed activity at 3 sites the International AtomicEnergy Agency says in the last 3 months iran has tripled its uranium stockpile thats 5 times the level it committed to under the 25th a nuclear deal made with world powers. Well those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera rewind. And welcome to rewind the film that youre about to see is just as relevant now as it was back 2011 thats what aljazeera africa investigates team went undercover in tanzania document a sinister trait in body parts from children with albinism in witchcraft and later well find out how the situation has changed since all cameras left