On the path to ending 18 years of war the us on the taliban reach a deal that includes plans for a complete troop withdrawal. President urges russia to get out of syria as migrants are free to across its border into greece. Follow us media are projecting a comfortable victory for former Vice President joe biden in saturdays South Carolina democratic primary its the 1st Southern State to vote in the months long process to select Donald Trumps opponent to novembers general election so the result is being closely watched to South Carolina as the 1st states with a large black population to vote africanamericans are a key part of the Democratic Partys base. Oh rose you were knocked down counted out that beyond rices yorks j. F. K. The. First is that you know the press the pundits declared this candidacy dead. Now thanks to all of your heart of the democratic primary we just run and weve won big because. While there are 54. 00 delegates to julys Democratic Convention at stake in South Carolina we wont know how those break down for a while but the result seems certain to put biden into a virtual tie with vermont senator Bernie Sanders the campaign heads into super tuesday just 3 days from now thats when 14 states plus American Samoa will vote and nearly one quarter of all the Convention Delegates will be selected so super tuesday will also mark Mike Bloomberg 1st appearance on ballots the former new york mayor opted to skip the 4 smaller states which would have voted so far now a short time ago the vermont senator Bernie Sanders spoke to his supporters in virginia he conceded defeat in South Carolina but says the upcoming super tuesday primaries will give his campaign a big boost tonight we did not ruin in South Carolina. The only defeat there are a lot of states in this country nobody wins will i want to congratulate joe barden on his victory tonight. Nano. To super tuesday adventure and. Lets speak to Andy Gallagher whos joining us from columbia in South Carolina so joe bidens win was expected and he but what are we making off the numbers and as he calls it a big win. I mean it looks like it is thats what the projections are saying to say this is a boost for the Biden Campaign would be an understatement this is the 1st truly diverse state in these primaries so far member we had New Hampshire we had iowa we had nevada here we have a large africanamerican population as spam it population this has given joe biden the legitimacy and the momentum he needs going into super tuesday a lot of moderate people in the Democratic Party have been looking for a moderate candidate to take on Bernie Sanders they may have just found him in joe biden because his lead was getting eaten into steadily as we were running up to this primary Bernie Sanders was making traction with young black nylon eels tom steyer was spending a fortune and some of the polls how good he sound is within the margin of error but the polls closed at 7 oclock tonight within minutes they were declaring joe biden as the winner of the South Carolina primary so this is more than just a boost this is given joe biden the energy needs is getting his supporters the energy they need and all those people who will vote on super tuesday 14 states on American Samoa will dish out almost a 3rd of all the delegates is a potentially Game Changing day in politics in the fight now is looking way way stronger than he has in the past and what about her new fenders how did he do what are the numbers telling us. What the numbers are telling us that he came in quite far behind were going to be 50 percent of the precincts reporting in right now and hes way more than 10 points behind joe biden i think what really helped biden was that James Cliburn long considered the godfather of politics in South Carolina endorsed biden just 3 days before the primary on saturday there were lots of africanamerican voters out there who were. It leading one way or the other but kleiber endorsement made all the difference i think to bidens campaign and this was if the polls all right it looks like they are and decisive victory for joe biden he now goes into super tuesday and looking like a bible candidate hes got a lot more energy on stage tonight than i saw him the other night when he held a town hall rally he is really back now this could be the moderate kinder the a savage one of the party one to see take on Bernie Sanders that worried that sanders is a self about democratic socialist calm the president dont stop believing that joe biden might just be that mom all right and we thank you for that update from South Carolina. Lets now speak to Steve Clemons he is the editor at large at the hill hes also the host of aljazeera his new weekly show the bottom line hes joining us via skype from maryland hi steve so lets look at super tuesday you 2 thanks for being with us going into super tuesday hows it looking for biden does he have the structure in place as a candidate as well as the momentum to taken forward after South Carolina well a few hours ago it was a big question mark it didnt look like. Necessary wobbly tonight he looks like her go charged and raring to go and we have a race again i mean were beginning to wonder if anyone could catch up with Bernie Sanders if they match his momentum and and as we just heard joe biden you know really knocked out all of the points i think its going to be a lead much more than 10 points but a significant double digit lead which shows that black voters who are so see to the president ial race in Democratic Politics our thoughts are not jumping on with any of the other candidates yet and that gives biden real strength into super tuesday doesnt solve all of his problems but this was a huge huge win for joe biden i mean did you expect such a blowout performance by 5 biden in South Carolina know everybody expected joe i dont win right but the question was going to be by how much and as we were getting closer and closer you know we had the other candidates working hard you know the singer john legend was performing for Elizabeth Warren you had other black leaders that were going into the state to show that they were who to judge or amy hogan chart trying to eat away at bidens lead and so his ability to we thought the lead maybe 4 percent but hes well were way ahead of that those efforts the car weight chunks of the black community by other candidates and so we all thought he would win but the question even if you. Won just by a few points that would be a lot to day joe biden to show he is a major player hes probably going to pull way you know right up with bernie in terms of overall delegates now and as we go into super tuesday were going to have a multipronged race and you know the one candidate who is not was not is this great was Mike Bloomberg bloomberg would come in big in 3 days from now as well and what you have now is a fascinating thing with the soul of the Democratic Party is up for grabs and no one knows whos going to win. Lets look at Bernie Sanders for just a moment and particularly on the issue of turnout look we still dont know the final numbers from South Carolina but how important is the number going to be when it comes to turnout and what it tells us about bernies narrative that he drives turnout as well as new voters well i think that what were seeing i mean the turnout figures that were seeing that were hearing are very very strong but i dont think that necessarily because the early bernies trying to say that the intensity and passion of his voters and supporters ready to turn out donald trump from the white house are what can win this election but if you had a high turnout state and joe biden. Did as well as he did then i think that narrative doesnt hold as well for sandra so its not its not a deadly one either i mean we should be careful here that i have i have seen enormous passion for Bernie Sanders but and when bill and support until now or so i think right now youve got what is a real race and i think its going to be an exciting one all right steve thanks very much good to have you with us my pleasure. Now a state of emergency has been declared in the u. S. State of washington after a man died there from coronavirus president truong call for calm after confirming americas 1st death from the disease the white house announced additional travel restrictions affecting iran italy and south korea which have emerged as major hotspots trump is also considering closing the border with mexico despite the latin American Country only having 4 confirmed cases as of saturday additional cases in the United States are likely but healthy individuals should be able to fully recover and we think that will be safe and that we can make with great surety now that weve gotten from view with this problem they should be able to recover should they contract a virus so Healthy People if you healthy. You will probably. Go through a process and youll be fine lets bring in jordan shes joining us from washington d. C. What more are we learning about the circumstances that led to the death off the man from corona virus. Weltering we dont know how this person was infected but Washington State officials did say that the man who was in his fiftys did have preexisting Health Conditions and Infectious Disease experts say those are the people who are most at risk of contracting the virus and having an adverse effect from it from becoming very very sick or possibly dying from coronavirus for everyone else people who are generally considered healthy they might develop worst a bad cold or a moderate cold but their immune systems are supposedly Strong Enough to withstand the virus now we dont know anything more about where this man had been before he was exposed to the virus and that is something which Infectious Disease experts are now trying to determine there particularly concerned because there have been at least 3 or 4 counties its now on the u. S. West coast where there wasnt any prior travel to a country where the disease has infected hundreds of people notably china or south korea or italy those are the 3 countries that have the largest numbers of cases right now yeah and speaking of travel the president is announcing a number of new travel restrictions talk us through those. Ok well basically there has been a travel ban imposed on people from iran thats been in place for some time on saturday evening the president issued an executive order expanding that travel ban to any person who from another country who has been in iran for the past 14 days those people will not be allowed to come to the United States again because there is a considerable and serious outbreak of coronavirus inside iran as for italy and for south korea the u. S. Is strongly urging u. S. Persons to not visit certain parts of those 2 countries again to reduce their chance of being exposed to the corona virus as for this question of whether to what close the border between the United States and mexico to prevent the transmission of the virus well as you pointed out daryn mexico only has a handful of cases the United States has considerably more at least 65. 00 confirmed cases of corona virus since of the public 1st became aware of it in the last 6 weeks or so and of course the president has now try to well walk back that suggestion but this is something that is quite concerning because the president in a Campaign Rally on friday night try to suggest that the coronavirus was a hoax but when he was questioned about it during his impromptu press conference on saturday he basically said no thats not what he meant that he was accusing his political opponents of trying to use this Virus Outbreak as a political weapon and he was then calling it a hoax but its fair to say during that a lot of people in the United States simply arent buying the president s explanation ok rosen thank you. More ahead on the aljazeera news hour including a laser scanner points a new Prime Minister of putting an end to a week long political power struggle liverpools charge towards an Unbeaten Premier League season comes to a halt find out more a little later in sports. But 1st off to more than 18 years of war a deal between the u. S. And the taliban has put afghanistan on the path to what many hope will be a Permanent Peace one of the key components of the deal plans for a complete withdrawal of all u. S. And nato troops within 14 months if the taliban sticks to its parts osama bin job reports. Will destroy a new chapter may have opened for afghanistan the United States has agreed on a deal that could see the complete withdrawal of its troops from its longest running war in the next 14 months. We recognize america should 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. For the past 18 months the taliban and the u. S. Government have been negotiating in a cutter finally agreeing on a plan aimed at cementing a Permanent Peace as part of the deal the taliban will not allow god is found to be used by al qaida and it will continue to fight against isis. See the 7 day reduction of violence last week with a test for them now comes a test for the us commitment it must facilitate the release of 5000 taliban prisoners in a matter of days. We are committed to this agreement to a force that the Afghan Nation has been suffering for the past 4 decades we have suffered tremendously and i hope that with the withdrawal of all Foreign Forces from afghanistan that the Afghan Nation under the islamist government will embark on a new prosperous life while the deal was signed in doha a sentiment he was also taking place in the Afghan Capital of kabul u. S. Secretary of defense and nato chief settle on side you have gone president his government wasnt part of the negotiations and the taliban still doesnt recognize that what under the u. S. Taliban deal the Afghan Government asked the u. N. Security council to lift sanctions on the taliban our agenda for discussion with the taliban be be wider than their discussions with the United States they should be to teach to discuss their relationship with their the state and 9 states sponsors a verifiable system for cutting off their ties with all transnational terrorist groups their dependence and involvement with narcotics and other Transnational Criminal Organizations positivity the foreign minister from neighboring pakistan with longstanding ties to the taliban was in doha for the signing we have nothing to hide. Your transcribing and be open so far housing. Being a positive contribution to the positive. There would. Big contingent of taliban in doha to show their support for the deal they say it is all due. Today is a huge historic day a similar day like today was celebrated by and says a century ago after defeating the brits and then 30 years ago for defeating the soviets today we witness al leadership signing a withdrawal deal of occupying American Forces and victory deal of the holy warriors. The Us Government says victory will be achieved when the Afghan People live with no fear in Foreign Forces are not afraid of attacks they said this was history in the making real chance for lasting peace in afghanistan and the signing is a stepping stone towards it but all parties to the conflict realize that there is real work for lasting peace in afghanistan has just begun. Well more than 3000000 afghans live across the border in pakistan come all haidar spoke to some of them in the house on a refugee camp they told him about their hopes for returning home now that the deal is signed there that rio volpe and weve been talking to the of wonder if your. Piece another one its done would mean that they wou