A quarantine cruise ship in japan as hundreds of passengers are finally allowed off. American to be bullied or influenced by anybody and the u. S. Attorney general is reported to be considering quitting his job as anger grows over the president s attacks on judges and prosecutors. On his 4 titleholders a little full face an uncertain future in this seasons Champions League liverpool beats in spain both lets go madrid in the 1st leg of the last 16 tie. Now the United Nations says its hoping to resume talks aimed at reaching a ceasefire in libya the internationally recognized government suspended involvement in the discussions in geneva after the port of tripoli was attacked at least 3 people were killed on tuesday when rockets were fired by forces of. Khalifa haftar now the port is the main entry point for supplies into libya have to Us Forces Say their target was an arms depor tripolis government is now insisting that the talks can continue until the well to firmly responds to what it calls have to violations have to has since met with russias defense minister sergei show who well russia says the pedigreed that a political solution is the only option for libya well enough whatever wahid is standing by for us in the libyan capital tripoli but 1st lets go to a different james bays who is in geneva where do we go from here how these peace talks going to get restarted if at all. Well the u. N. Has been trying to pick up the pieces of this Peace Process in the last few hours off that late night announcement by the internationally recognized government the g. N. A. T. That they were going to pull out of the process remember they gathered here they say in good faith. Choose day and sat down with the other side with represents is the general have to and as they were meeting the rocket attacks starseeds all newport of tripoli i have to say that the delegation from the g m a although they said they were pulling out have stayed in geneva we believe there may well have been the meeting between them and the u. N. Special representative gets on salami and about an hour ago his office put out a statement saying they were hoping to restart the the talks that have been stalled and have been started this morning because of this situation that followed a late night statement in which the u. N. Said the attacks on the port of tripoli were deplorable but it is a confused picture weve also heard fresh news from tripoli saying that they still arent sure that they will rejoin the talks so not clear but both delegations are remain in geneva the u. N. Working very hard on my suspect mr salami is not just speaking to the delegations hes also trying to engage International Actors in this because remember there is a resolution last week from the u. N. Security council pushing this process and only a couple of days ago in munich Foreign Ministers from all the Key International players were saying that this was the way for with these talks and that included countries that is supportive of both sides in the libyan conflict ok outs of quiet meetings going on then there was this meeting in moscow between have to and the Russian Defense minister and what if anything came out of that. Well i think thats interesting because clearly gen half was in moscow and i dont think he travel to moscow of. The overnight problems and breakdown of the talks that was of c. Preplanned suggesting perhaps that hes not fully in control of the situation of use out of the country maybe kimonos on the ground and not following his orders that is an area that will have to explore but what is clear from the words coming out of the russians both in moscow and at the u. N. Security council in new york is the russians at least in their words are saying they fully support even now this process and ceasefire talks must continue if what theyre saying publicly is what theyre telling general have to privately that he may well have got a little bit of a scolding to be told to stop and the attacks and get back to the table here in geneva james bay is there for us live from geneva thank you very much james well lets now go to tripoli where our correspondent up i had joins us live with all the latest developments what this hole to negotiations al is all of this being viewed in 70. Well the still a kind of frustration especially among civilians and the government of National Accord is partly blaming the International Community as it sours that. The bad prime minister. Sad told reporters today as he was touring in the targeted seaport there must be a strong signal from International Players who are trying to talk to us as you can see here that the conflict is intensifying and the regional backers backing both warring factions are also. A strong support to their local allies turkey the president of egypt of the van stated that they will continue supporting the. Government to government of face of he also stated that the European Union has no right to make decisions concerning libya so now the government of National Accord here in tripoli is not very hopeful louis gardening get resuming the peace talks despite the fact that the United Nations support the mission in libya is still hopeful that this Peace Process will work out but the situation on the ground is not at legg that especially with the have to his forces continue targeting get his attention as you know that the government of National Court has set forward a prerequisite to continue talks that have to the forces must hold hostilities or stop targeting the state facilities that is the areas this is as a prerequisite for the government to resume the peaceful talks or the peace talks in geneva are not going to go by had there for us on the ground in tripoli thank you matt. Now turkeys president is warning that an operation into Northern Syria could be launched imminently resupply to one once Government Troops to withdraw behind military positions in the province and he says turkeys demands havent been met during recent talks with russia the kremlin says its strongly opposed to any Turkish Military operation the Syrian Government is currently conducting an offensive to retake the last rebel held areas while taki says its planning to establish a safe zone in Northern Syria well lets go live now to house and had say in turkey for us how some youve already seen so much suffering there from civilians who are heading for the border how likely and how imminent is this offensive. What it could be just about sort of to a time before before before theres an agreement if theres no agreement that i think the chance of that an outright war between syria and turkey was significantly increased the article 15 now is about syria no from a turkish perspective the latest advance of the syrian army is a violation of the terms of the agreement that was signed between russia turkey and iran in 2018 and that established save zones in its live thats violation explains from the turkish perspective the need for them to send more troops on the ground to monitor the situation but ultimately to prevent president bashar assad from moving forward towards it now they havent seen any indication that syrian army is going to hold the offensive and this explains why president as if they. Had delivered some of the strongest rebuke so far to the syrians and to the russians about the situation it live lets listen to what he had to say. To you. But on the subject of it turkey has made all preparations to carry out its own operational plans but as with every military operation on this subject ill say we could enter it suddenly one not yet were more clearly the operation in libya is imminent to the regime and those who encourage not having understood our determination on the subject we will not leave it lip we spoke to mr trump on saturday and i shared with him our findings we have no intention of blatantly shouldering the burden that regional developments will put on our country we are determined to turn it into a secure place both for turkey and for the regions people at any cost. Thats the turkish perspective now we comes to russia and Syrian Government they Say Something different they say basically that groups like the show which is the most organized and powerful alliance of rebel groups operating in libya is a terrorist organization and therefore is excluded from the ceasefire agreement syrian army has also been saying that its offensive will continue until it live which is the last stronghold of the rebels in syria falls back into the control of the Syrian Government the next coming days theres an ultimatum that has been put forth by the turkish government which is the end of february by the end of february if there is no agreement about a new ceasefire and about the Demilitarized Zone so the chances of a military confrontation will was significantly increase and this is something that could just further compound exacerbate this humanitarian situation that has been unfolding in the northern part of the country. Across all those developments for us from turkey thank you. Well theres plenty more ahead here on this news hour including they say theyre on a mission from god but theyre peddling drugs we investigate the evangelical traffickers of rio de janeiro. Choosing between a dynasty more than 50 years old or a new Leader People in tokyo get ready to fight. And unfortunately losing the 10 to tour action for the newly crowned astray and i think champion. Now u. S. Attorney general william ball is reportedly considering stepping down i have a conflict with President Donald Trump the Justice Department has locked in a dispute with an association of judges over the handling of the sentencing of transform advisor White House Correspondent candy how it has the story. Less than 2 weeks after being acquitted by the u. S. Senate of abusing his president ial powers dont. Trump is once again facing similar accusations as he fights his own department of justice somebody has to stick up for the people trump is being criticized for intervening in a case involving close friend and political ally roger stone convicted last year of lying to a Congressional Committee investigating whether trost Political Campaign colluded with Russia Federal prosecutors recommended stone go to jail for at least 7 years trump tweeted the recommendation was a miscarriage of justice that same day his attorney general william barr downgraded the recommendation prompting for federal lawyers to quit the case complicating things further bar took the unusual step of admitting publicly the trumps tweets dont help if i do make his job harder i do agree with that i think thats true now as Trump Defends bar and lashes out at federal judges and prosecutors a Group Representing the judges is accusing trump of overstepping the legal boundaries of the presidency with unprecedented involvement in politically sensitive judicial cases their actions Trump Defense im allowed to be totally and im actually i guess the chief Law Enforcement officer of the country but ive chosen not to be involved in reality it is the attorney general that is the chief Law Enforcement officer in the u. S. Not the president but that hasnt stopped trump from undoing other sentences through a series of pardons for high profile individuals including convicted Financier Michael Milken former new York City Police commissioner Bernard Kerik and even former democratic illinois governor Rod Blagojevich convicted for trying to sell former president Barack ObamasVacant Senate seat once Obama Took Office and president says he may continue to try and influence the legal case involving his friend roger staubach. Around stone sentencing is set for thursday and trump hasnt ruled out pardoning kim kimberly help at aljazeera the white house. Joins us now live from washington d. C. Patty there was initially some speculation about whether bobs comments about trump a genuine or if it was about trying to emphasize the independence of the Justice Department but now it seems there is a real rift developing now if this is pretty classic washington so we saw barr getting a lot of heat we saw 2000 members former members of the Justice Department writing the letter saying he needs to resign there were people in congress saying he needs to be impeached because this is really an unprecedented move that he is so directly helping the president of the United States to democrats theyre saying hes forgetting that hes actually the chief Law Enforcement officer of the United States and acting more like a personal attorney lets not forget this is not the 1st incident where william bars integrity has been called into question when it comes to serving the president remember special counsel Robert Muller he submitted his report to bill barr and then barr put out a statement basically what he said was a summary saying the president didnt commit any crimes and then he let the moeller reports basically sit in a shelf for about 3 weeks and then he came out in the motor report was really different from what bart initially said it was so democrats have been pretty harsh about bars integrity threw out his tenure and so what is happening now is youre seeing him send a message to the president through the press he already did it once on television now hes doing it through the Washington Post saying that he might resign heres what he had to say though when he was interviewed about the roger stone case lets listen. As i said during my confirmation i came in to serve as attorney general and im not going to be bullied or influenced by anybody and i said it and whether its Congress Newspaper editorial boards or the president im going to do what i think is right i cannot do my job here at the department with a constant background commentary that undercuts me well given all of this how do you what are you hearing from the white house is this likely to change any behavior at all it was very strange this is a president who when anyone criticizes him no matter who they are he lashes back and you saw in kimberly story there the president was saying very nice things about bar that he has confidence in him that he does make his job harder that is a very unusual admission from the president so we saw this so far took these actions the president tweeted are did an interview the president continued to tweet now hes sending the message through the Washington Post that he might go in keep in mind this is a president who hasnt seen a lot of his cabinet members quit hes fired up plenty of them but they dont tend to quit and we know this is a position that is very important to President Trump he has said that we need somebody who can be his protector in that position so this is bar using that through the media to send the message the president that he has his limits now will the president hear him this way when he hasnt heard him all the other way as well well have to keep our eyes on twitter and see what he has to say about that and just that. There for us in washington d. C. Thanks betty. Now after weeks trapped in quarantine on a cruise ship in japan hundreds of passengers have now been able to leave but the corona virus is still spreading around the diamond princess increasing concerns for the hundreds hundreds who remain on board now another 79 cases have been confirmed on tuesday and its all raising questions about how effective the quarantine was in the 1st place robert bride reports from yokohama. This was the day all of the passengers and crew on the diamond princess have been waiting for the start of disembarkation after 14 days of quarantine people who have tested negative for the corona virus were allowed to leave yokohama support in a stream of vehicles through wednesday some sharing their experiences on social media continuing journeys that they had expected to complete weeks ago the spread of infection through the ship during the quarantine sickening hundreds more people has raise serious concerns here and internationally thats been made worse by an Infectious Disease expert taking to social media to describe his visit to belowdecks i never had a fear of getting infection myself for. A south. Because i know how to protect myself but inside prisons diamond ever thought scared i was scared of getting caught between 19 because there was no way to tell where the virus the no green zone not red zone everywhere could have virus and everybody was not careful about it there was no single professional Infection Control person in the ship. The japanese government insists its happy with the way the quarantin