Cruise ship is the 1st to die in australia from the virus and thailands also reported its 1st. Tussle at the top in malaysia continues even as a new Prime Minister is sworn in. As one the South Carolina democratic primary securing almost half the votes with Bernie Sanders coming a distant 2nd he got about 20 percent of the votes bidens victory may give him the momentum he needs going into super tuesday when 14 states head to the polls and gallagher reports from columbia in South Carolina. He spent weeks fighting to keep his Campaign Alive but on saturday former Vice President joe biden was back in the race a few months ago victory in South Carolina was a foregone conclusion but both Bernie Sanders and Billionaire Tom Steyer made inroads that threatened bardens bid for the democratic ticket now though joe bidens campaign is alive and kicking thank you thank you. Thank you South Carolina i. Was out thanks to all of your own heart of the democratic primary we just won and we won big becau
Democratic president ial candidate the vital boost it needed. A deal signed between the u. S. And the Afghan Taliban may have already hit a major stumbling block afghanistans president afghani says the government did not commit to releasing 5000 taliban prisoners and it cannot be a precondition for talks with the group a prisoner swap was part of the accord signed in qatar on thursday the agreement is meant to pave the way for the withdrawal of all american and nato troops from afghanistan and a long lasting peace i will go live to hot abdelhamid in kabul in a moment but 1st this report by osama bit of a its. The United States has agreed on a deal that could see the complete. Running war in the next 14 months. Thanks. We recognize america shouldnt fight in perpetuity in the graveyard of empires if we can help afghans forge peace. And we have respect we believe that the Afghan People are ready to shirk their own course forward. Negotiating in. Peace. And if we continue to fight against.
From the outbreak. Greeces Prime Minister has called for missing of the National Security council as thousands of refugees and migrants continue to gather at its land border with turkey a local media is reporting that Greek Security forces have prevented 10000 people from entering over the past 24 hours the surge in numbers follows turkeys decision to open its borders to europe great police say more than 500 refugees and migrants also arrived on the greek islands closest to turkey on sunday most of them landing on the island of lesbos John Psaropoulos is in less valse and thats the main entry point for refugees and migrants coming from the aegean sea he has this report. A single boat load of refugees is asked. Altered to the shores of less force high winds have likely prevented many others from crossing but they are forecast to die down and more boats are expected to come all who arrive and up here in moria camp there are 22000 people here 7 times what it was built for and many have to
The coast guard early on sunday morning roughly 360 people crossing over from the Turkish Coast to 3 greek islands most of those boats arriving here on lesbos 360 people doesnt amount to the threatened flood. The president. Announced on thursday night 72 hours ago but more boats are expected today so we shall see how it goes this is early hours and early days in this new phase of the refugee crisis some of the people weve spoken to at 2 sites where boats arrived have told us that they were not asked for any money they were simply put on boats for free by the turkish smugglers and they were told that they were being sent to greece at no charge which suggests that smugglers have been coopted by the turkish government although they are a private sector interest and an illicit interest theyve been coopted in this visual now turkish government policy to leverage refugees against europe in order to presumably make political and Foreign Policy gains a deal signed between the u. S. And the Afg
But into the Program Turkey says its launched a renewed military operation northwest syria it follows the killing of 34 turkish soldiers in Syrian Government strikes an adlib province on thursday syrian state media say Turkish Forces shot down 2 syrian warplanes the red label but the pilots are safe Operation Spring shield is the 4th Turkish Military operation in northern syria. Is of on the turkey syria border reporting from hearty and hashem it has been a day of conflicting reports about planes being shot are shot down and pilots parachuting out of their aircraft. Well this is definitely a day there marks a new escalation in the confrontation between Syrian Government and turkey in its live province the Turkish Military says that its fighter jets shot down to. 2 russian syrian sorry 2 syrian fighter jets when they faced off in an encounter without specifying exactly where did that happen but they say that they have shot down 2 syrian fighter jets and destroyed 3 defense batteries and