On the frontline of chinas coronavirus battle im in london with the top stories from europe including some of the most intense fighting in ukraine since the peak of the conflict means one soldier on the Peace Process race. And im far a smile after all the days sport including a reality check for the new Australian Open champion american 50 a candidate loses her 1st deputy to one match following her triumph in melbourne. But when talks resumes in geneva earlier to get a lasting cease fire in the bia the un envoy said he was feeling some mystic but 2200 kilometers away smoke has been rising above libyas capital further threatening the existing truce thats on most accounts is hanging by a thread diplomat scared sir james bays begins our coverage. The ports in the libyan capital tripoli under attack general have to us forces carried out the indiscriminate strikes about the same time that 5 of his representatives sat down at the u. N. In geneva for talks with 5 from the g. N. A. T. The internationally recognized government. Its now 10 months since general have to appended the International Communitys peace plans by ordering an offensive to try and seize tripoli the operation launched defiantly just hours after he met the u. N. Secretary general and tonio good terras who is visiting libya at the time in the months since the death toll has mounted as weapons of continue to pour into the country despite this the secretary generals envoy is keen to push the diplomatic momentum forward is your plan back on track my plan is not back on track my plan has never left the track it is being implemented was patience and determination this by the many of the key you need a ceasefire before next week i better have a ceasefire in order to implement all the rest but this is not the precondition the reason next week is important as mr salamis ambitious plan to bring representatives of all the libyan factions here to geneva those talks supposed to start on the 26th james outages era of the United Nations in geneva. The one head is in tripoli. Once again forces loyal to the world a lot of highly for have to violate the fire on tuesday they targeted the main port in the capital tripoli with the civil rockets and employees of the port say that you have been trying to move the tankers in the port loaded with gas and fuel to prevent an invader mental disaster from happening due to the multiple attacks by. Forces these attacks happened while the 5 plus 5 military commission from both foreign factions is meeting in geneva 2 in an effort to fix the ceasefire and the head of the United Nations support the mission in libya. Just spoke stating that they have documented 150. 00 violations of the cease fire since both warring factions stated that they are adhering to the ceasefire on the 12th of january the situation remains very tense around the port and the government of National Accord is accusing have to this forces of committing war crimes war crimes by targeting civilian facilities the government says that have the us forces have been targeting also other civilian facilities including the only operational airport in the capital city airport. Its been a long diplomatic rules up to the negotiations in geneva in january germany who said talks in berlin also with the goal of turning the fragile truce into a permanent cease fire an agreement was drafted but what if i have to refuse to sign it 2018 have to and the leader of the libyas u. N. Recognized government fires are met in italy but no agreements were reached and a year earlier french president Emmanuel Mccall who sincere arjen have to paris they agreed to find a political solution but nothing came of it well lets get more now from jason pak hes the founder of Libya Analysis l. L. C. A Political Affairs think tank and joins us on skype from in the u. S. State of new jersey good to get your thoughts on this the these talks because there have been lots of attempts at diplomacy lots of attempts at peace talks even the u. N. Are trying to cobble something together but it appears that the sides arent interested you think these peace talks are predator. I would just look at it as the libya conflict has 2 layers one is the International Diplomatic layer and the other is the fighting on the ground and you need to desegregate them theyre not really connected so whats called a ceasefire the russian turkish january 12th ceasefire is not really about stopping fighting on the ground neither is the fight commission its about establishing diplomatic diplomatic momentum so yes you could say that theyre too early because each other is a blanket arms embargo thats actually enforced and sanctions on violators. All of whats coming out of these talks is going to be just hot air ever in terms of the process or having these talks to you think the right people are talking to the right interlocutors because you mentioned theres this arms embargo which frankly isnt being implemented and previous attempts to get the actual warring factions to come around the table are simply not working so where do you think the emphasis needs to be do you think it needs to be the International Partners the ones who are not imposing these arms and bar course or do you think that the focus needs to be on the actual warring sides. Well thats a great question and you clarified the matter these days because there is no willingness of the coalition that supports the russian the coalition that supports after to actually have a truce you need to help create a mutually hurting stalemate and the way to do that is only at the International Level and the domestic libyan actors dont need to come in at this stage so you need to do is have concrete in forcible penalties to punish those who violate the cease fire and yes theres been concrete steps and we need to be slightly better about rewarding the actors whove made those steps so the e. U. Active Surveillance Mission that was announced thats a step in the right direction but its meaningless unless it has concrete penalties in other words yes if we catch the u. A. E. Flying jets into benita and benghazi and then if we catch the turks with a naval deployment of arms the sanctions are going to be imposed in a multilateral way by the u. S. U. K. Blah blah blah blah blah and until we see those sanctions being imposed on those who violate the arms embargo then its all just words and has no meaning and in terms of this attack itself it comes as various parties are meeting in geneva other than being rather embarrassing whats the make them what what sort of message do you think is being sent by attacking this port. Well thats a very sophisticated message because after is attacked a cook islands flag but turkish owned thats all and his narrative that turkish invasion forces are coming and that theres a needle out of an occupation of libya has been playing very well in the libyan social media space so yes he may be seen to violate the truce but he gets a lot of media points for how hes done it whats scary is that this is an escalation which we havent seen to date. In all of the civil war over the last 5 years theres never been a naval attack on tripoli port so i wonder if this is like the frog in the boiling water because the water only gets gradually hot the frog never jumps out so although this is a major escalation its one in a pattern of oh ever so slightly more escalations and is the frog ever going to jump out meaning is the International Community going to say no this was too much now and well really going to have concrete penalties and maybe have to has very sophisticated lee calculated this that the International Community wont act even though when attacked on tripoli poor is actually a causus belli for a Real International war and should necessitate a response well have to wait and see what kind of response comes from it but for now jason patric great to get your thoughts and your analysis thank you always a pleasure. Cruel beyond belief that the un human rights chief is describing a major russian backed Syrian Governments offensive michelle bestially says schools and hospitals are being targeted in the last remaining rebel held areas shes calling for the immediate creation or humanitarian corridors to allies civilians to escape the violence. Reports from the turkish syrian border. Football man had burnt is one of hundreds of thousands of internally displaced syrians she fled her village of a bomb a key in the east of where it was taken over by Government Forces the building is unfinished and the family has little for nature the cannot afford to buy a stove to heat the place. And we pray someone will defend us please help us to kill our children they targets cause schools we cannot send our children to schools anymore they are bombing the area nonstop its insane as Government Forces close in has already backed the tractor outside hes ready if the situation gets worse. I have seen hopeless faces crying out of fear and humiliation i am asking the arabs and the muslims where are you why are you silent come here and see the women and children living in the open people are on the run they leave it live hoping for a better place sam and his family have just arrived from the outer norman the rebel stronghold south of it live the city was a couple should by the syrian army 2 weeks ago a shelling an air strikes flared many civilians escaped. On one day we counted 400. 00 rockets fired at the city in addition to airstrikes many were killed we fled under the cover of darkness it was so chaotic many were looking for loved ones whom theyve lost track of during the escape this is how more than and the outskirts of aleppo look like. Long lines of syrians biled on tracks their destination is the border with turkey they join hundreds of thousands of people who have gathered in small areas and empty fields hoping to cross into turkey if Syrian Government troops continue their advance the. Live might turn into the worst confrontations is the start of the conflict 9 years ago the serial army is determined the bubbles must surrender but they are defiant civilians have nowhere to go and if forced into the hands of the government theyre likely to pay a price the millions who live in the province who are stranded near the border with turkey will have to abandon the dream theyve carried for many years a syria without bashar assad has about a 0. On turkeys border with syria well earlier i spoke to mark cutts the u. N. Deputy Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syrian Crisis i asked him how worried he is about the uns inability to stop the bloodshed of course we worried we are not just worried we are shocked we are horrified at what is going on this is you know ive been doing this work for more than 30 years ive worked in many war zones around the world and ive never seen a situation where the International Community seems to be so powerless to stop a massive military onslaught on those on the civilian population in this way so yes something needs to be done our humanitarian leaders have been briefing the Security Council repeatedly over the last year warning of this and weve been calling for a complete cessation of hostilities our separate general has called for the cessation of hostilities thats what we need theres no other option to protect these people at the moment. 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Where both sides in ukraines conflicts have blamed each other after a violent clash for more on that lets cross to sue turton in arlens a new Center Thanks hala as ukraines president says they have a fighting in the eastern donbass region will not hamper efforts to end the conflict with russian backed separatists the flare up has left one ukrainian soldier dead and several others wounded in some of the worst fighting seen in the region since peace talks were held in december president saleh may as a landscape is says the violence was an attempt to disrupt the Peace Process a 2nd round of talks is expected in berlin in the coming months. We have a powerful army provocations happen but the army responded firmly the situation is completely under control because of the show we are confident that this provocation will not change the course towards ending the conflict as one can only sit at the negotiation table with a strong army. Because forward is to go ahead and stop the war and reach peace. The new clashes happened at ukrainian positions near 2 villages northwest of the city of the hanse in the east of the country they lie on the 500 kilometer long front line between the russian backed separatists and ukrainians which was agreed as part of the protocol in 2015 they also aligned 10 kilometers inside one of 3 pilot zones which both sides agreed to withdraw from late last year more than 13000 people have been killed since fighting began 6 years ago but there had been recent hopes of deescalation after the russian and ukrainian president s met in paris in december and agreed on prisoner swaps and phased troop withdrawals dr andrew fox hole is the director of the russia and Eurasia Studies Center at the Henry Jackson society and joins me now here in the studio thanks very much for coming in just 1st of all pick up on the president s sort of remarks are saying no no this really doesnt pushes off the Peace Process this just shows we have a strong army but im sure we can just keep going in the hope that they can deescalate any conflicts do you think putin sees it that way i think the president. And president putin have very different understandings of whats happening in Eastern Ukraine president selenski during his campaign to become president of ukraine when he was elected last year made a big play on the fact that for him victory in his eyes would involve meaningful cease fire and exchange of Political Prisoners between russia and ukraine president putin by contrast simply. Seeks to maintain russian control over the donbass while it is within the territorial state of ukraine so the 2 president s a very different they seek to achieve very very Different Things from a resolution to the conflict and that clearly puts them in a degree of tension right now and i understand president bush has put a new envoy in which direction will that push it how it will even fluence that the balance there is at the moment youre quite right so what happened within the last couple of weeks is that president putin has appointed dmitri cause envoy to quote unquote envoy to the dom busts the replacement of socalled who would in a sense been president putins point man to the region since 2014 a cause like it is a pragmatist only seen as a pragmatist but hes also somebody who dealt with moldova in the early 2000 and really push the federalization its sort of a de facto adjustment to ukrainians authority moldova constitution on chissano and the might be reasonable to expect that to me because it might do something similar with with ukraine now i suppose the key thing people in that particular region want to know is is this a sign of escalating or is this just a friction thats been going on obviously since even the cease fire was agreed well the key thing that comes out of todays that it reminds us that there is a war being waged in europe the unity the war as you said earlier in which 13000 people have died it is a war that is now one of the most bloodiest or the most bloody in europe since the Water Company the fragmentation of yugoslavia in the early 1990 s. And it is also now one of the longest running wars in europe in the best part of a century its also a war that from its very beginning russia has demonstrated that it is it is able to control the people who are waging it but also the intensity of when fighting takes place and where the times are fossil thank you so much for that. The london based bank h. S. B. C. Says it will x. Or around 35000. 00 jobs worldwide reducing its workforce by 15 percent after a significant fall in profits while announcing the cuts the Company Issued a warning about the impact of the coronavirus outbreak in asia the Bank Reported a 33 percent fall in pretax profit for 2019 and aims to make 4 and a half 1000000000. 00 worth of cost cuts in 2020 by 2022 h. S. B. C. Currently operates in more than 60 countries in north America Europe the middle east and asia and employs more than 40000 people in the u. K. 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