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Civilians are increasingly being caught in the middle of fighting between the myanma military and the arakan on an ethnic group. And the discovery of oil in congo has environmentalists concerned about what drilling could do to the rainforest. So Turkeys Defense Ministry says 2 of its soldiers have been killed in syrias province in an attack by Government Forces Turkish Forces retaliated by striking Syrian Military targets 59. 00 turkish soldiers have now been killed in a lab since ankara began its military Campaign Last month because president has vowed to continue the offensive. Or show you none of our martyrs none of our veterans and none of their blood none of their drops of blood will be in vain we are going to continue our struggle as we aimed and hopefully with the help of god were going to. Build a strong turkish republic and in addition to that russia is accusing turkey of breaking an agreement to create a Demilitarized Zone in Northern Syria and help in what it calls terrorist groups in italy province so he hasnt yet commented on that accusation but it does come 24 hours before turkeys president is in moscow for talks with that amir pugin the turks and the russians have come closer than ever to direct confrontation in syria in just the past few days. Cynical so early with us now from. The turkish Syrian Border why do you bring us up to date 1st of all with whats happened with these 2 latest turkish soldiers deaths. Welcome all still there are very have a clashes in the surat which is the highway town as its called in the junction of and 4. 00 and 5. 00 highways in southern and the clashes between the syrian Government Forces along with russians against the Syrian Rebels and the turkish turkish soldiers are still continuing where hearing that there are very heavy artillery fire is inside iraq and. This is the situation since last night and we heard from the Defense Ministry as you said 2 soldiers were killed and yesterday or that evening we heard about what other soldiers killed and 9 wounded as the clashes continue as the military tensions continue we continue to hear about those casualties from a both sides and turkish a present bridge of tell you brad on have a statement he said that Turkish Military presence inside syria is necessary is vital because it turkey is trying to protect secure its National Borders otherwise turkey would be attacked by what he calls us terrorist groups inside syria he means they why p. J. Which is syria a branch of the Kurdistan Workers Party p. K. K. Or turkey and there are also other threats for turkey which is the possible millions of new refugees that can attend a break the walls behind me and enter turkey so the situation is very tense both on the ground in terms of military clashes and also on the diplomatic level come up because to morrow there is a meeting between turkish president are gone and russian president Vladimir Putin and this meeting was not confirmed easily because the russian president refused to meet our dawn in. Then our dawn had to go to moscow turn hearsays add on Sales Activity turkeys trying to continue its battle both on the ground and on the demotic level but it seems based on the statements from both sides it seems the situation is going to be tense until 2 leaders meet face to face tomorrow because neither of the sides which is 30 and russia are withdrawing from their positions neither militarily nor diplomatically come on. How much of a concern is it that turkey and russia appear to be coming closer and closer on the battlefield to actually a direct conflict. Well yes they have neither of the countries one thats based on the statements of the officials the top officials are gone put in and they dont have any aim to face off each other and ahead of our dawn speech Turkish Defense minister has said that it turkeys only a with moscow is for a diplomatic solution a sort of political solution inside this is what they speak but of course syria war as the. Experts there is approx a war so turkey and russia are there but also there are other players on their own front line so even though they want to be on the same page i mean turkey and russia want to be on the same page sometimes the diplomatic realities the facts do not because now turkey seems to be on the same camp with the United States despite some by later. By later disputes between washington and cairo this also bothers russia as well and russia says the search every month should be restart their revised while turkey says it should be in that as it was signed thank you cynical still you whos there on the turkey syria border cinna mentioned the issue of refugees and migrants thousands of them now are gathering in greeces border with turkey the European Union has promised nearly 800000000. 00 to greece to cope with this surge of migration but in scuffles at the border too with greek Police Firing tear gas at people trying to cross weve got natasha going to name who is on that border between turkey and greece as i understand some of the numbers roughly 1500 or so migrants have got name but 26000 have been stopped what is the impact on those people who are still desperately trying to get through. Some people remain undeterred by the obstacles theyre facing europe they want to take advantage of these open borders at least turkeys open borders and as their frustration and desperation grows what were seeing is people are resorting to some dangerous measures to try to get through to the other side of greece this morning as we were driving to the official checkpoint between turkey and greece i looked out the window as we were driving across a bridge over a river and saw people walking across a dam it is cold here the current is quite rapid it looks like theres a significant undertow we drove took some dirt roads down to the river bank and found a group of men waiting for them and there was a horse and cart a van and a tractor there charging about 2. 00 to 3. 00 a head to transport these men a short distance but that will get them a little bit closer to the official checkpoint with greece the men tell me that many of them have already been to greece only to have their phones their money their vital documents seized and that even though theyre back they dont have any money one man says the only way i can eat is if someone feeds me he says i have no choice im going to keep trying to cross into europe. Maybe i dont know how to sew you know while i was working i was thinking cross those are the only 2 choices until she can you also just explain a little bit about where you are and whats behind you trying to get i mean you describe people walking across the damn them trying to get more of an idea of what theyre crossing and where theyre trying to get across. Well weve shifted positions but its and i was along a river bank yesterday of its called the merchant river it is actually a border at the area where i was between turkey and greece they were crossing the same river at a different point which means they still are quite a considerable distance from the greek border but again the reason they had chosen to walk across the dam is is because police had closed the bridge to refugees not allowing them to walk that way perhaps to reduce the number of people that make their way to the official checkpoint i cant say but in any event people are continuing to go and things are quite tense this morning i just heard some sound bombs coming from behind me we know that there have been sound bomb throughout the day i could see fire and black smoke there were multiple ambulances that have left the scene Turkish Police told us nothing ordinary is out of the ordinary rather is happening today but police say that they fired tear gas at hundreds of migrants that were pushing towards the border according to the greek police there are about 12 1500. 00 people amassed at their North Eastern border with Greece Greece is continuing im sorry with turkey recent continuing its policy of rapid deportations for the next month that will not be filing asylum applications and the Un Refugee Agency u. N. H. C. R. Is saying countries must not use excessive or disproportionate force against migrants that asylum applications must be processed in an orderly manner Human Rights Watch is concerned that these rapid deportations is violating the rights under International Law of refugees and migrants to file asylum cases are going to. Greece sportive for us this news i think you know. We move on to other news 3 separate attacks in northern afghanistan which have killed at least 19 soldiers and police 15 soldiers killed in condones province 4 policeman in a 2nd attack there and in the 3rd attack a gunman kidnapped 10 Border Patrol officers also southern afghanistan the United States has carried out its 1st strike against the taliban since the signing of a preliminary peace deal last week u. S. Commanders say they were responding to taliban attacks on afghan army positions in Helmand Province washington calling on the taliban to stick to the commitment it made in a deal which aims to end 19 years of war made in kabul with more on this one not a great start for this. Peace deal as it were. Certainly not been a great start either under military or political side now the taliban has upped up the pressure over the past 72 hours or so some say ever since afghan president he had announced that he is not committed to release those 5000. 00 taliban prisoners held in afghan jails or do they the president saying that that should be negotiated was is after intra afghan talks start if they start on march 10th as scheduled so yes increasing attacks all over the country i would say but at the same time none of these attacks are actually reaching the agreement between do you as and the taliban buy that according to that agreement the taliban should refrain from attacking Foreign Forces joint military. Nato afghan bases the highways the government institutions but all the rest is not part of the remit so that are the ones that. Side things are going at it itself is still not in discussion even though the u. S. d has carried out its 1st air strike a day earlier today and according to reports were getting is because a 7 taliban were trying to plant a i. E. D. Along the road now that would breach the agreement if indeed that would have happened thank you Hoda Abdelhamid for that information from carpal and now William Patey with us who is a former British Ambassador to afghanistan hes on skype from london mr paty thank you for your time whats your take on an event like this so soon after signing a peace deal is that almost i wont Say Something to expect but youre just not going to get peace overnight are you yes and which i was inevitable weve seen before or you will recall your viewers will recall that. Year the americans were close to a deal which was then met and a visit by the taliban to washington was a plan but outlaw coal not because of violence as part of the unity and weakness of the deal the taliban think theyre only dealing with the americans certainly dont attack the americans that are inspiring whereas in the long term of a deal is to hold it well they will have to conclude an agreement with the Afghan Government and that the flaw in the agreement of the whole im not convinced that the taliban are ready to conclude a deal with the are numbered. But that would have to be part of the Long Term Plan wasnt i mean do you think thats even been broached or was that 1st a case of well it should be im sure its been broached i know this now well we said that iraq together he will be taking this in stages the 1st stage was to get reduction of violence to see even agreement could be reached there were satisfied a week of a reduction bottles was flying the next stage was to negotiate some media withdrawal of troops you can see the ambiguity of the taliban wont release of prisoners and said it would meet this with the americans but its the Afghan Government holding the prisoners and they havent been consulted yet so i think theres a long way to go before we can say were on the way to a peace deal in afghanistan so what do we have right now then how would you describe what has actually been signed and whats playing out on the ground. The americans and led the ground work for i agree but the got the taliban to negotiate that was always difficult even when i know where we were in afghanistan and we were trying to get the taliban and come to the table so the americas of got to come to the table and got to negotiate is very important the americans dont abandon the Afghan Government though say ok if you reduce flyers and agree not to host terrorists in afghanistan we withdraw our troops and abandon the Afghan Government that would be a mistake i dont think thats the plan but it may be what the taliban are hoping for were talking about 3 main parties the us the taliban and the Afghan Government are there other countries other groups that have a role to play here. Well pakistan has a key role it can either be up spoiler or can be helpful as it is interesting that the menu is as mobile randa it when i was not going to stumble over rubber looks as if you wont talk to the. 2 until americans and he was arrested by the pakistanis so he can be he can be the pakistanis can help or head up i hope i helped may have a particular hakani know who who will have to also be but the peace deal when you paid hes the former British Ambassador to afghanistan we thank you very much for your time. Lets have a look at what else is coming up here on this news how the damage done by tornadoes in tennessee and how nashville felt the full force of the twisters as well. And support chelsea capitalize on liverpools informal football action coming up a little later. While joe bidens written a wave of momentum to win texas and 8 other states on super tuesday the most important event yet and the democrats rights to the white house but the former u. S. Vice president s main rival penny sabots did pretty well so youre setting up a one on one battle for the president ial nomination we start with this report from rob reynolds and the sun just was joe biden surged out of the blocks from the very 1st results winning North Carolina virginia and alabama in quick succession as the evening wore on he maintained the momentum from his massive victory in South Carolina a few days ago and this appeared to be boosted even further by the support of 2 candidates who had dropped out of the race the endorsements by people who to judge and amy close which are a huge injection of energy into a campaign that had fulcher it at the start you were charo you got to super tuesday if youre over well it may be over the other guy was no match for the folks of virginia was carolina was bama was sure i was obama was accurate sure was showed was biden also won in texas the 2nd largest state to vote on super tuesday and his a standing victory in massachusetts was a massive setback for Elizabeth Warren who represents the state in the senate she made clear though her battle is far from over so heres my advice cares for those that will make you proud was from your heart was very soon you think will make the best president and i will. Another major loser on the night was Michael Bloomberg who did not compete in earlier contests his sole victory was in American Samoa but he continued to insist he would be the best Democratic Party candidate to defeat President Donald Trump and if you are ready to clean out the oval office and get the all that welcome to bloomberg 2020 backyard the on the front runner going into super tuesday state in the fight Bernie Sanders easily won his home state of vermont along with significant victories in colorado and utah most importantly although it will be hours and possibly days before all votes are in hes the winner in the critical state of california with that huge block of delegates tonight tell you with absolute confidence were going to win that democratic nominee should the in the area where you are going to defeat the most dangerous president in their history of this caucus in the results on super tuesday appear to reflect a new focus among Democratic Party voters in choosing a president ial nominee despite the debate about competing platforms support is being increasingly determined by one single issue who would be the most suitable candidate to defeat donald trump robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. So super tuesday out the way but it is just the start of a long political road to the white house more democratic primaries and caucuses to come they go to june actually we still got 30 states to go based on those results they will be a winner and nominated at the National Convention in mid july that candidate goes up against donald trump so between july and november we have intense political campaigning of course until election day so for that gray with us here in studio system professor at texas a and m. University in calgary teaches american federal state and local government did you enjoy super tuesday well it kept kept one interested i mean certainly wondering where things were going to go. It was kind of a question of whether or not biden would be able to improve his condition as he did and so he did this is probably a pretty major turning point for his campaign no will he would have to do you expect joe biden to do quite as well as he did because i mean im not saying people were completely rushing him off but he only South Carolina was his 1st win wasnt it and indeed and especially in sort of the history of joe bidens runs for the presidency is done this 3 times in memory serves this is the 1st primary hes won in 35 years of running for president so after South Carolina the idea was yes hes got a little bit of momentum but how much now he very much can say he has momentum and probably a significant amount of support from the establishment Democratic Party when we made the point that super tuesday is the big day 14 states and territories. What are the important ones of the remaining 30 odd states that could get decide this race what do we need to be looking for probably in this sort of case. I would say that probably the ones to be particularly interested in would be what would usually be sort of swing states now in terms of the delegate counts thats different in terms of how many delegates candidate received but in terms of seeing what might happen further on in the election states like ohio wisconsin others have some of these of. May have had these previously but these will be curious to see what the Democratic Base believes would be the most electable candidates and those would be ones at least give us sort of a bellwether for what might you mentioned delegate counts and i think its probably a good idea just to do well on that for a moment because weve got an International Audience who will not necessarily be up to speed with exactly how this system works i mean the general election itself is its complicated and. How many delegates would a winning candidate need to get to get the nomination and how do they get them to be honest the exact number for that because it varies between the 2 parties is something i would need to actually look at the democrats for the democrats especially on the one hand theyre the number of delegates they would need so if memory serves over california has over like 400 so its a substantial number bernie was. Senator sanders was very close to that number. Before this this current before super tuesday now theres more of a balance thing that makes the democratic system a little of the Democratic Party somebody different is they also have superdelegates so its not just say so anyone whos voting in a primary theyre technically voting for a representative whos going to say who im going to vote for as a candidate but theyre also superdelegates who have more enhanced powers who are somewhat separated from those number of delegates as in the general election are based on the size of the state the population so some states more important than others so like a state like california has a large number of state like so for instance if you look at say sanders wins this time he won california and he won vermont california matters. Is a small state not so much and its his own state is just kind of expected in terms of delegate count california would be very important that sanders did get california is still a major point. Given the number of states and not minor states that biden also received that gives him a very big what about the other candidates there was Elizabeth Warren there was Mike Bloomberg weve had a drop outs and. What happens to the delegates that they won just out of play now can they be pledged to another candidate generally will end up happening is to win the actual convention happens in the summer usually will end up happening is for the 1st sort of round of votes who youre supposed to vote for as a delegate who you were elected for is the vote youre supposed to put in so if someone voted for say or rick for instance. Which theoretically they should be in the 1st vote they would do they would vote for that person now that vote is going to be meaningless because persons dont running yeah after that initial vote there will usually be revotes for trying to narrow down at that point the delegate is free to vote for whoever they choose and so when you hear discussions about brokered conventions and so forth thats sort of the idea then after that 1st round of votes and listeners an overwhelming winner the delegates are pretty much free to choose as they finally assuming that it is down to a 2 man race between senator sanders and Vice President biden who do you think donald trump would prefer to go up against my own suspicion would be he would probably prefer to go against biden because sanders in many ways is appealing to same sort of populist appeal that trump out the other in products but still the sort of populist sort of notion and he can gain a lot of energy biden has benefited to marriage that hes viewed as being electable being electable might mean that more people might vote for him but as say john kerry mitt romney and others have found that oftentimes if youre being elected just because youre electable or being nominated just because youre electable you rarely when elections oh so much happen before november is a great thank you so much for your time to appreciate it. Lets look at the latest on coronavirus now the head of the World Health Organization says it is more deadly than the flu but thinks the global spread can be an. Tain also the world bank has announced 12000000000. 00 in immediate funds to help countries deal with the health and Economic Impacts of w. H. O. Theyre warning of a global shortage of protective equipment as unfair prices for patients and the virus appears to be spreading much faster outside of china than within quoted 90 in close is more serious disease the seasonal influenza. While many people globally build immunity to seasonal flu strains 19 is a new virus to which no one has immunity that means more people are susceptible to infection and. C. B. S. News is also the 1st flights have landed in hong kong carrying residents who had been stranded in chinas hu the province which is the epicenter of the outbreak cities in that area have been in lockdown since late january almost for a. Number of people from Hong Kong Live in the province those returning will be placed in quarantine for 14 days katrina youre in beijing to bring all of this together so im interested katrina in the fact that the infection rate seems to be slowing in china and how thats being viewed. Thats right we had just over 100 new cases confirmed in the past 24 hours and week on week were seeing this downward trend but we have had some interesting news out of chinas top medical body just a few hours ago during a press conference now all together in china weve had about 80000 people infected by the current virus and according to the government about 50000 of those people have been cured but according to this metal medical body theyve said that some of those patients after being cured in discharged are testing positive for the virus that is to say they appear to be healthy they no longer have any symptoms but theyre still found some traces of the virus in their system now we have had some cases of this reported throughout the country in last few weeks engine junge sue all over the country in particular in chinas southern wandong province the center for Disease Control there said last tuesday that about 14 percent of all the cured patients were testing positive again for the virus now experts have come out and said that this is not uncommon with the current viruses that they are still in your system and more importantly that there is still no evidence that people who are asymptomatic that is have no symptoms or people who have been cured are still infectious so still were watching this very closely theyre urging people not to panic there still isnt any doctor for this but they are tracking cured patients and so far to ease concerns in the community theyre saying that anybody who has been cured of the current virus 50000 people now they still have to enter another period of coron teen before being allowed to reenter the community thank you for the update to turn to your raging. Now the weather with mr evans and fox australia whats happening this well weve got 6 Severe Weather warnings in force across 6 states no fewer than 6 days and its all thanks to what remains of tropical. Is the storm that keeps on giving weve seen some really heavy rain coming in the cross much of australia as a result of this storm remember it formed on the 21st of february a couple days later it made landfall 6 meandering around a move across Northern Territory into Western Australia through the way making its way back into central parts and is now plugged into a central areas of australia just around this area of low pressure drawn on the map in the which is in the outback 78. 00 millimeters of rain here in 24 hours snorri for the month of march would expect say around 38. 00 millimeters of rain so more than twice so maybe twice the average monthly rainfall coming down in just 24 hours here were going to see more rain pushing in the crusts queensland New South Wales as we go on through the next couple of days actually where you see these yellow shadings on the chart you could see maybe 50 to 100 millimeters of rain so some really heavy rainfall coming through that will continue to make its way further east which as we go on through friday prices guys do come back in behind but we have got shot was clinging on across southeastern side of the country as we make our way into saturday things do start to quieten down and well see much needed rainfall making its way towards new zealand come on it was heat wave in bushfire not long ago extraordinary thank you for that everetts still ahead for you on this news out goes beyond just workers well it goes across various realms of how we live. How lecturers and their students are joining forces in the 2 week strike in british universities and well hear what the head of the Olympic Committee has to say about the tokyo games coronavirus. Al jazeera well it charts remarkable refugee journeys from the treacherous path of sudanese singer emmanuel jal to play them escape us live child soldiers among the 16 people that music is the place where you become a child this is where i can get to the london designer from sierra leone place and play there is the one thing that i know that god has gifted there is a hard road from home music and fashion on aljazeera a good women in programming from International Film made plans to. Play aljazeera sets the stage for egypt to be sure here will be the life of the lives the life of the gnomes dead everybody is their global acts but its getting were going to let the planet go to ruin because were not doing these obvious things open your eyes to an alternative view of the world today on around to 0. 0. Here on the news on here at aljazeera and these are the top stories Turkeys Defense Ministry says 2 soldiers have been killed in syrias neighbor province during an attack by Government Forces a total of 59. 00 turkish soldiers have died in just the past month. Greek Security Forces a fire tear gas at refugees and migrants attempting to cross the border from Turkey Greece has reinforced its Border Security after the turkish government said it would be stopping refugees and migrants trying to get into the e. U. And the u. S. Has conducted its 1st airstrike against the taliban since. Peace deal was signed last week it says it was in response to attacks on afghan army positions in Helmand Province. Now government soldiers in me and maher are fighting the army a group of buddhist armed separatists representing the Ethnic Rakhine minority status already seen hundreds of thousands of people driven away by violence in recent years including what the un has called attempted genocide of the range of muslims the un says close to 59000. 00 people have been internally displaced since the beginning of last year most of them range or those people are now spread across more than 130 camps in Rakhine State and neighboring chin state violence is disrupting aid groups and stopping vital supplies including food from getting to those who need them before and slowly has our report our report now from the dong township in the northern part of Rakhine State in me and mine. For these students who is now in a monastery and home is a temporary shelter in a camp for the internally displaced they had to leave their village when fighting between the Myanmar Military and the are kind on an ethnic group that erupted in january last year got too close to an attorney there was an airstrike they fired on to our village our homes were burned artillery shells hit our houses. Many have been here for at least 7 months and escaped with little more than the clothes on that backs. Soldiers and village and we didnt want to run into them so we ran away we were scared. They havent been able to return to their farms the shops and depending on the u. N. Says the near daily reports of civilians being killed or injured and child casualties on the rise last month more than a dozen students were injured when an artillery shell hit that school landmines also pose a threat according to a recent landmine monitor report by the International Campaign to ban land mines the government says its doing all it can to protect civilians were not a mother with we dont know where the fighting is going to happen we want know ahead of the fighting were trying to do as much as we can we give support to the people they get compensation from the federal government and the injured are treated for free at our hospitals. Its fighting for greater autonomy on behalf of the kind of mainly buddhist ethnic group who make up the majority here the state is one of the poorest in myanmar and theres growing resentment towards the government we were in last lights and area but we cannot and drive power sharing. Most in the not satisfy with this condition but for the. The conflict has disrupted 8 services a u. N. Office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs says transportation routes used to distribute food have been affected and many aid organizations have reported greater difficulties in reaching more rural areas and internet shutdown has made it more difficult to get information on civilian casualties and Living Conditions in the camps Rakhine State is also where the Myanmar Military launched a violent crackdown against the mainly Muslim Minority more than 2 years ago. Which denies committing genocide has been ordered by the International Court of justice to prevent further killings of the remaining gas. But as the conflict continues civilians whether were kind. Of being caught in the middle laurence 3 aljazeera township Rakhine State myanmar with us now from bangkok when robinson who is a senior fellow at the institute of security and international studies. University nice to have you with us this. First of all our men in the buddhists. A good reminder as well that this is not just about. Muslims they have a range of muslims out there other minorities who are under pressure. Indeed i think this its been a slow burning thing for many years but after this terrible expulsion of muslims from the state it left i mean it it really exposed tonight i think that paved the way for the for the showdown with saying between what are essentially 2 buddhist i mean they both buddhists the myanmar Government Forces and the what they call if nic rakhine who indigenous to the state came from there and what wants what they called a part of the kingdom so this is really a voters to put this clash and in a month things to complicate it you still have muslim or hindu refugees and some some of the remaining camps in rakhine so its become an exceedingly complicated situation not to suggest and certainly not hope that things were to get as bad as they did previously but what to potentially happen to this buddhist minority there are they viewed in a similar way as to how the ranger were. Well this is this goes back a very long way and in fact what you had was a state that was roughly estimate about 3000000 people overwhelmingly Ethnic Rakhine buddhist thats comprising about 2000000 about a 1000000 perhaps one 3rd 2 to be Ethnic Rakhine always feel they are the majority in this with their land their state seated resentment in rakhine amongst the buddhist majority towards what you call the the burnie ruling people in the vast majority of the population for what they feel is usurping their lands and exploiting rakhine and also. I think this is overlooked quite often the Myanmar Military known as the tatmadaw or is vastly. Are there very few kinds in that military so its really become a clash like that and i think the arak an army is able to exploit these resentments very easily put to killie as conditions worsen and attract a lot of recruits and another thing which i think may have been overlooked as well as the un is now pointing the south nearly 60000 people displaced since early last year were talking internal displacements there was so much focus on those who were pushed over the border into bangladesh the range of muslims but there are internally displaced as well which only exacerbates the problem yet and i think thats what we. Just saw this is fastly again its very complicated theres about. I mean humanitarian agencies estimate theres been 60000 civilians alone displaced to from this very recent surge of fighting so youve got 60000 People Living in makeshift shelters and thats only been in the last months as fighting escalated but i think overall since last year after a lot of the muslims were driven out and the fighting escalated between the buddhist. And the tatmadaw or military youve also had a lot of what you might call semi displaced people who were living in cut off in remote areas and it is only because of just 2 agencies i think that the myanmar government allows to operate in these very. Security. In secure areas the i. C. R. C. And World Food Program that have been able to distribute food and they are highly restricted and i think this new. This new exodus of panicking People Living in makeshift shelters are only being fed by i. C. R. C. Which can work with the neon red cross all other International Agencies have been forbidden so i think that is a real humanitarian Crisis Brewing it is an important story and im glad we could talk to you about it when robinson in bangkok thank you thanks for the last patient being treated for ebola in democratic republic of congo has been discharged the media was led out of the clinic as the staff sang and danced around her more than 2000 people have died during the 19 months the 2nd worst in history after the west africa epidemic that ended 4 years ago it will be 28 days though before the outbreak can be officially declared over. And next door in the neighboring republic of congo a different country vast oil reserves have been discovered but they are underneath 10000 year old paint lands near the congo rainforest as mark what reports now from the capital brazzaville environmentalists say drilling for oil will actually unlock billions of tons of carbon. Beneath the swampy Forest Carbon equivalent to about 20 years of emissions from fossil fuels in the u. S. Its stored in peak plans that scientists discovered here in the republic of congo 3 years ago the government didnt allow us to go there and film this is the governments video but it did allow Oil Companies to drill there last year. Its licensed Oil Exploration in blocks of land across more than half of the people and environmentalist say if wells extracted it risks releasing 30000000000 tons of carbon stored in the peat. It would be catastrophic even if we tried to exploit the oil in an eco friendly week we still have to destroy the ecosystem. Today or it will make the area i want to see before the exploitation of other resources and also indeed a great swatch to. The river congo is the worlds 2nd largest river by volume and the rain forest that sits in its basin is the worlds 2nd largest after the amazon and its leaves and branches falling from the trees partially decomposing in the ground in the form the peat lands over about 10000. 00 yeahs have been discovered on both sides of the river in swampy areas and the carbon stored in them beneath the ground is as much as is stored above the ground in the entire forest. The congolese government signed an agreement to receive 65000000. 00 of funding from european governments to preserve the pete lands and the forests to perve them but activists say the agreement doesnt rule out Oil Extraction the countrys africas 3rd Largest Oil Producer 2 Oil Companies announced major on shore Oil Discoveries near the peak lands last year but the environment minister told us the peat lands a safe. Community and what we are saying to the International Community is that the congolese government will not touch the land if we have a friend or even if we have to do it if we find. Areas we will do our best to do. That also home to millions of people the government says oil revenues help communities environmental activists say they dont. That if Oil Extraction goes ahead here the Worlds Largest tropical land and its vast carbon reservoir will be gone forever malcolm webb aljazeera republic of congo landslides and flooding in brazil have killed at least 12 people and 4 stars from their homes dozens remain unaccounted for as well in the states of Rio De Janeiro and sao paulo the governor there says the equivalent of a months rain fell in 12 hours. A 1000000 students of british universities having an unexpected holiday. Been on strike for the past 2 weeks theyve barca in london explains why. Lectures on the picket line these students have abandoned their classrooms in solidarity with 50000 University Staff across the country 74 universities are involved in 2 weeks of strikes affecting around 1200000 students and last teaching time these students support. Credibly important for me to be here in solidarity with my lecturers because if im here to study and learn about how we create a better labor system for all i have to be here for whats happening on my campus itself is the mass media started to ask but i think what theyre fighting for i think that really resonates with this is the times of saying us not having academic future. And education too in this country the list of grievances is long traded in say star pay has declined 20 percent in 10 years in real terms workloads and pension contributions have increased later as an average of 55 1000. 00 a year i could it makes are increasingly being offered short Term Contracts meaning many have to reapply for their jobs every few months in the 1st cities are relying on this kind of casualised precarious labor to carry on and essentially what the strike is about is to say no we need decent jobs permanent jobs in order for the university as a whole to function it goes beyond just workers well it goes across various realms of how we live if youre in a casual contract or a contract its hard even to plan a family to play. Youre in such a precarious position the average undergraduate degree costs around 35000. 00 in tuition fees excluding books travel and Accommodation International students from the u. K. Can expect to pay double or even triple. University education used to be free seen as a benefit to the rest of society but universities are now at the mercy of Market Forces with huge sums of money going towards marketing and management the vicechancellor of Oxford University made headlines for earning 520000. 00 a year the average vice chancellors pay is 6. 00 and a half times greater than the average staff member one of the main tasks of any teacher is to help steer people into work and to illustrate that education at the end of the day pays but it has societal value but the reality is some of the brightest brains in britain and now struggling to make a living. To go she ations between universities and lecturers over pay and working conditions are ongoing meanwhile frustration among academics is growing with the universities accused of putting profit before people neve barker aljazeera london. In the United States survivors of a series of tornadoes that ripped through tennessee have been recalling some terrifying experiences many of them were asleep and didnt realize what was happening until it was too late dozens of buildings were torn apart killing at least 24 people merge and see crews coming through the rubble for the missing this report from charleville us. In airy cool to take shelter for tennessee residents the siren warns of illumine tornadoes. This is one moving through downtown nashville but there were multiple tornadoes early Tuesday Morning throughout the state of tennessee tonight. The rest from the other building right next to us was more often are rough for our our wall mendoza a. Bar room hotel below us was ripped off and it was an hour stuff and. That was pretty scary. They may have tens of thousands without power as the winds damaged in the trick or the put mint that lit up the sky well the 150 people were rushed to hospital we heard the sirens going off we heard the wind we were in the basement 2620 seconds later it was done it was gone 20 seconds one tornado hit the ground near downtown nashville and ripped to 16 kilometers pock to the citys Eastern Suburbs there are multiple homes damaged there are multiple injuries and we are still in that response our priority right now is assessing the injuries were responding trying to find those who are trapped trying to find those who are injured as day broke the death toll grew and extensive damage was revealed in nashville alone hundreds who left homeless schools courts Public Transportation an airport and the State Capitol were closed officials scramble to find alternative sites for super tuesday voting. Tennessee the 1st to feel the brunt of americas 2020 season ballasts. Coming up the news hour and the wait for victory goes on for this former tennis world number one will be here in a month. Hulu. The. Welcome back where looking at sport with far thanks so much come all its been a bad few days for English Premier League leaders liverpool after suffering their 1st league defeat of the season on saturday theyve now been dumped out of the f. A. Cup by chelsea so hell malik reports. Chelsea would have cursed their luck with a Jew Liverpool in the 5th round of the f. A. Cup but they came up against the red side not looking at their best having had the 44 game unbeaten streak in the league snapped on saturday and it seemed from early on that the reds had recovered. And of a poor. The choice not to stop some of the regulars didnt help matters stand and keep a dream on fondling william shot allowing chelsea to take the lead. The beast had chances to increase their advantage. And they finally got the 2nd just past the hour mark thanks to ross spock. His gold proving to be the killer blow giving chelsea a shock to no win and sending the runaway League Leaders out of the f. A. Cup we have always been a happy the riyadh of the cup. There was there was a tough game was hard. To get at the time she played some good for both. Of them it was a great game we played really well take the child sees i was out on the field ive changed or something as opposed to a bad night for liverpool but its hard to see them staying down so pale molly aljazeera the organizers of the australian formula one grand prix say it will go ahead as scheduled next week but offered no guarantees because of the nature of the corona Virus Outbreak drivers have still been testing their cars in anticipation for the start of the season in melbourne on march 15th despite the Health Crisis that forced the cancellation of other motors ford advance around the world meanwhile f one is managing director says a championship race will not go ahead in a country that denies access to any team due to virus for structure. You know the team is prevented from entering a country with congress. Not a formal World Championship race in iraq because i would be on the side. Of the civets he makes the 2nd choice not to go to a race starts in a decision where a team is prevented from the president ial race because of. A decision of a country its difficult to have a fact competition so i think its essential that. We have teams of races or have everyone able to attend and compete probably. Another day and another test event for tokyo 2020 has been affected by the outbreak next months asia sevens invitational which doubles as an olympic test event has been cancelled by the Japanese Rugby Union meanwhile elect president thomas bach has told athletes its full steam ahead for this years games in the comments as the international Olympic Committee is in switzerland for a scheduled meeting of its top Decision Makers box says a team of experts is studying the potential impact of the virus on the game and at the moment a postponement isnt being considered i would like to encourage all the athletes to continue with their preparation for the Olympic Games tokyo 2020 with their great confidence and with their form steam there is a task force in place there since mr february and theyre following the regular information there from these task force which consists of the i. O. C. The organizing committee the host city of tokyo the government dolphin japan and in 50 kilo the World Health Organization we remain very confident with regard to the success of these Olympic Games tokyo 2020. 5 time world all round gymnastics champion simone biles as preparations for tokyo 2020 are going ahead full steam hundreds of fans turned out to see the 22 year old american who was in times square on tuesday night with a total of 30 olympic and World Championship medals as is the 3rd most decorated gymnast of all time. Obviously ill be nervous i was even nervous in rio but we were so prepared that we were so ready i feel like nothing could have stopped at that point so hopefully leading up to 2020 we get to that same point. One more time as world number one Kim Clijsters says shes looking forward to playing more matches for her comments come as she lost to joanna contra in the opening round of the monterrey open in mexico the 36 year old was playing in just her 2nd match since returning from retirement a 4 time grand slam champion lost in straight sets 6375 handing the briton her force when of the year ricers announced her retirement in 2012 for the 2nd week. Of the l. A. Clippers beat the Oklahoma City thunder to extend their n. B. A. Winning streak to 5 games paul george scored 16 points but his teammates leonard was the star once again in Oklahoma City 25. 00 points leaving the clippers 2109294 when its their 2nd longest winning streak of the season. Ok and that is all your sport for now kemal back teeth and thank you so much more support from far in the next news hour of 1300 hours g. M. T. With just a couple of hours away also you for that as well in the meantime well have the latest news for you in just a few words. Informed opinions the economy is actually whats keeping donald trump afloat right now and indepth analysis of the days headlines the protest movement is only getting stronger the more people you killed the resilient the resistant they will become inside story. On aljazeera. Ruins that speaker phone with his story and go once reigned from this palace more than 600 years ago this is the old town of che to the door to the sacred value of the past and to the century of much beach ancient traditions are still being embraced here today that may change less than 2 kilometers away bulldozers are never the ground for a controversial new airport thats expected to shuttle millions of tourists to Historic Sites the airport should then be in the sacred valley to share his culture traditions for thailand but the big powers want it because its the door to march with each beat and so kind of who is poor is divided down and i would be in favor of an airport if more people come and make business with us but only if it will preserve our environment and our ruin. Some farmers like it look east they believe their lives may change it will Bring Development to our community and country. To aljazeera let me talk about 2 of the biggest problems facing them they all the endemic corruption the guard we listen so if you read proposed john as an enemy of a man with a not really beggars we meet with global news makers and tweak about the stories the back to 00. The. To turkish soldiers are killed in fighting in northwest syria president urged one virus or press ahead with his offensive there. And how hes in and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up where. Former u. S. Vice President Joe Biden seals his comeback in the race to pick a Democratic White House candidates its up to you a show warns coronavirus appears to be spreading much more quickly outside china than within the us. Im