A skier with the sport so with 145. 00 days until take your host the olympics the japanese kept talking about scale down marathon with just 200. 00 runners in an effort to halt the spread of coronavirus. Welcome to the news greece is stepping up security at its border with turkey where thousands of refugees and migrants are continuing to gather local media is reporting that 10000 people have been prevented from entering over the past 24 hours now the surge in numbers follows turkeys decision to open its borders to europe Greek Police Say more than 500 refugees and migrants also arrived on the greek islands closest to turkey on sunday most of them landing on less boss or we have correspondents across those developments saying both greece and. Turkey in a few moments well hear from John Psaropoulos whos on lens possible 1st and speak to National Attention again then whos in on turkeys side of the border with greece i mean obviously a fast moving story in terms of the way that these migra
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
Taliban prisoners despite a deal between the group and the u. S. That with the support and 145 days until take your host the olympics the japanese capital holds a scaled down barrier with just 200 runners in an effort to halt the spread of coronavirus. Welcome to the news are turkey says its launched a renewed military operation in northwestern syria it follows the killing of 34 turkish soldiers in Syrian Government strikes in the province on thursday turkeys defense minister says the operation is in selfdefense against the assad Regime Syrian state media says turkey has shot down 2 syrian warplanes and but the pilots are safe. Is our correspondent on the turkey syria border near hotter and lets just begin with this very confusing picture about planes either being shot at or shot down. While this this is because of the series of reports weve been getting over the last few hours about spectacular spike of events now in syria particularly in the province of idlib this is absolutely an in
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
Ahead of power sharing talks and iran reports more deaths from the coronavirus and sees a number of infections jump to nearly 1000. 145. The japanese hold the scale that bill with just 200. 00. Or 2 hold of coronavirus. Thank you for joining as we begin this news hour with the developments in syria turkey has shot down 2 syrian fighter jets from the skies over. Want of a military operation in the northwest of the country targeting areas within it which has been a rebel stronghold the escalation in fighting follows the killing of 34. 00 turkish soldiers in government as strikes on thursday the defense minister says the operation is in selfdefense against president Bashar Assads regime Operation Spring shield is the 4th Turkish Military operation in Northern Syria lets get the latest. For us on turkeys border with syria hashem there were contradictory reports earlier on the downing of a drone for us and warplanes being shot down just bring us up to speed with the latest for us what are y