In mass Rakhine State. Russia has what it cannot guarantee the safety of turkish planes flying over syria moscow backs the damascus government issued the warning after the Turkish Military shot down 2 syrian fighter jets of its lip about a report from her taiwan turkeys border with syria but yet overthrow turkish and syria fighter jets faced off in an encounter in the skies above aleppo and that with 2 syrian warplanes. The confrontation marked in u. S. Collation in the conflict between turkey and syria turkeys defense minister warns that turkish troops will retaliate against it if the. Also announced Operation Spring shilled and your campaign aimed at pushing Syrian Government troops out of the socalled buffer zone near the border. We do not aim to face with russia our only aim is to stop syrian regimes most ekers radical groups the displacement of civilians. Turkey has stepped up its military campaign in italy province in response to the deaths of 34 soldiers in strikes on thursday a. Funeral processions in turkey for the dead soldiers have turned into rallies calling for revenge in rebel held it live people took to the streets showing support for turkeys Bitter Campaign in northwestern syria in recent fighting in southern it province turkey backed rebel groups recaptured villages they lost a few weeks ago including. Further south Syrian Government forces have launched an offensive to capture asuna main the city was a major opposition stronghold but into a 1017. 00 russia brokered a deal that allowed the Syrian Government to administer the city and the rebels to withdraw the heavy weapons that deal didnt last and syrian troops are determined to control the city this time by the rebels 100 on Operation Spring shield is turkeys for cross Border Campaign in Northern Syria and there are fears this could turn into a wider confrontation but there are also hopes that russia and turkey will eventually set aside their differences and implement a cease fire in italy province. How thai. Samuel ramani is a research of Russian Affairs at the university of oxford and he joins us now by skype thank you for your time so russia saying it cant guarantee the safety of turkish planes flying over what should we read into that well i dont think this certainly russias going to be shooting down turkish planes anytime soon i think theyre probably going to honor the remit the church said that theyre not going to target russia were not going to target them i think its meant to send a message to us that the u. S. After the jews you go yes we shut down yesterday you go in damascus were frustrated with the fact that the russians and stepped in it was as a stronger way i think it also was a sign of reassurance to the Russian Defense ministry which limits are going to show you which is the in the ante Turkish ForeignMinistry Even south and wanting a stronger military response so this kind of a statement is different and also as you know. That was my ex question how is russias lack of follow up to the turkish strikes on syrian targets being received in moscow in damascus so its not months ago i think its a sign of russias huge lemme on the one hand as the russians have invested so much in the past 5 years to ensure the sat how are you not relinquish that on the other hand also knowledge is the importance of turkey turkey after all its a large trade partner for russia in the middle east you just told us 400. 00 is vital to our projection the mediterranean and the long run there needs to be conduction to the get really of war mcconville so russias down thing is alignment with mossad with as you can turn has 2 wars struck and i think in damascus theyre recognizing that and assad is increasingly uncertain whether hes going to fight this alone with the russians aboard or whether if turkey yes strikes more facilities bases do initially i complement barney seemed to strengthen him a lot where more and some other areas outside of it and hes going to want a more sort of russian response. We just had confirmation that the turkish president is going to visit russia on thursday to have talks with the president bush and i mean is that going to be a tense meeting or i think that absolutely going to be against meeting regularly well considering the very last week said that he might even meet with her what as and the context of a trilateral meeting with iran and i think it is a practical acknowledgement that the current state of conflict really does does the yemeni shin wide offensive from turkey into syria unlike the previous 3 events which were all short lived and all confined to the way we border region in the north this the yemenis why this isnt sustainable and sure you dont deserve or economically in stock markets all 10 percent money for ours is currencies as lowest rate. So turkey wants you can probably wants you in some ways regularly does the u. S. General russia want also want to make sure these that thoughts are on track and if thats progress isnt completely overread so dont be surprised if later this week there are some signals more than deescalation you know that doesnt reflect on the ground militarily in need fashion thanks for your analysis there that samuel romani a researcher of Russian Affairs at the university of oxford thank you the leader of a religious sect in south korea at the center of the corona Virus Outbreak has apologized for not stopping the infection from spreading the founder of the controversial sin church is being investigated for allegedly trying to cover up infections the church in the city if they grew has been described as the epicenter of south koreas up break up mcbride reports from seoul that the church is being investigated for potentially hiding infections from authorities. This has been a long awaited event the 1st public statements by the controversial leader of an even more Controversial Church the man he appearing go to a News Conference at one of the churchs facilities outside of seoul and throughout the whole statement apologizing profusely for his churchs role at the center of this outbreak saying that he it was something that hes very sorry about saying that they are taking now all possible measures to try to sort this out he never thought that this would happen that they are cooperating completely with the or thorough tes because of course more than half of all of the cases of the coronavirus here in south korea are indeed members of this church now it is regarded by other more mainstream churches here as more like acting like a sect under secretive sect at that with a number of different groups here calling on the orthorexic is calling on prosecutors to investigate the church for possible charges of homicide even though and also hiding the names of its members the church itself says that it is cooperating fully its provided Contact Details of all of its members so that the authorities can follow up and Health Officials can check with them to see if they are carrying the virus as. Iranian state media is reporting an advisor to the Supreme Leader has done it from corona virus iran has the highest death toll from the infection outside of china they must be is with us from tehran by skype same why is it that were seeing these members of the political elite infect it. Well let me tell you this gentlemans name he was muhammad near mohammad he was in his seventies so his age made him particularly susceptible once he contract did the coronavirus hes a member of the Expediency Council which is an Advisory Group of advisors for the Supreme Leader not to be confused with the much more powerful Guardian Council which is made up of clerics and legal experts and wield much more authority in the country the Expediency Council is a group of advisors generally speaking their government officials or technocrats their military officers but the fact that a member of that council has passed away is still a very Significant Development in the reason were seeing so many leaders some by some estimates 20 Senior Leaders including m. P. s deputies and government spokespeople for important bodies we saw very significantly the Deputy Health minister himself contract coronavirus showing symptoms while appearing before the public on eric Vice President a prominent Vice President a female member of president Hassan Rouhani as cabinet as well these are serious political players and one of the reasons we might be seeing a far higher number of cases among irans Senior Leadership is possibly because they have access to testing kits so the coronavirus is being discovered in larger numbers among the political elite but it may also be because of the recent parliamentary election just a few weeks ago now of ground 0 for where this virus has become a where it became 1st a Public Health crisis for iran it is a religious seminary city full of religious schools but that means because of the way iraqs government is run it is also a Major Political heartland for the country so before the elections you saw political elites people running for Office People trying to conduct election engineering and electioneering trying to get votes and support they would have spent a lot of time in a form of speaking to religious and political leaders trying to get support for their own groups for their own parties for their own campaigns so the. That is one of the reasons many people here are saying were seeing a large number of cases among these political leaders it was built around the election what were hearing now from the Health Ministry the latest today in terms of how iran is coping with this the mayor of mush of another important religious city where a shrine to one of the descendants of the prophet is located that city is now on high alert theres been some resistance by leaders of religious places to close down to shut down but were what were hearing from the Health Minister now is that some cities where there are acute cases he hasnt named those citizens yet but some cities are likely to be placed in quarantine if they arent already in actual quarantine the entrances to those cities are now being blocked the revolutionary guard irans elite force is running field hospitals now theres a number of Field Operations being put in place and in the next 2 days we are expecting to see as many as 300000 medical staff begin the process of going door to door in various cities to test people for the starts save us from tehran thank you israelis are voting at an unprecedented step general election within a year they include bet against something either of the who and what policy hes the main challenger to Benjamin Netanyahu is hopes of continuing as Prime Minister he was unable to form a government in the last election in september israelis have had a caretaker government since another inconclusive election last april. This is a celebration today for these really society i hope that everyone with good pulls of course i support myself that respect in the decision of any voter its about time that well be much more united much will be one another in a list of once against the odds that a small piece then we go with. I suspect no one has to use any kind of violence whether its my war would have it by deeds it is us all respect democracy yes but these things. Amount count as following election developments. The plans have opened in west jerusalem and this particular polling station has had a steady stream of people already now whats going to be crucial in this election is voter turnout if this polling station is anything to go by virtue of turnout might be quite high but will it be enough for a decisive election result thats really the key now there are 2 key players here theres the blue and white party led by benny gantz and theres the incumbent Prime Ministers party could led by Benjamin Netanyahu neither of them seem to have a majority and thats why were in this 3rd election within a year or so its all about Coalition Building both parties have to try and get other parties to try and support them in order to be able to get that majority of 61. 00 seats in the knesset the israeli parliaments now also what were hearing from a lot of analysts is that perhaps this particular campaign was flawed on both sides they say that the party was actually far too confident in its electioneering and almost played it like it had the election in the bag already and the Benny Gantz Campaign the blue White Campaign was perhaps a little lackadaisical that it wasnt really getting out the vote getting its supporters to come out and vote all of that now is remains to be seen how much of an impact it has now the polls close at 10 pm local time after that theyll be exhibit polls and were expecting final results to come in in the very early hours of tuesday morning. Still ahead on aljazeera more turmoil for iraqi politics why the Prime Minister designate his pull downs. Also bowing out an early frontrunner and says they had to go up against donald trump for the u. S. President. Hello and welcome back we begin this time in southeastern parts of asia were still seeing lots of showers across the island of java and so for jakarta still looking pretty wet at the moment though not as bad as it has been obviously as we look at the forecast lots of share activity across borneo i dont think anywhere is going to avoid some really big storms during the course of tuesday and certainly for western parts of java the still the risk of further storms further towards the west where the conditions down through them in a plain church area not looking too bad for singapore it should be a fine day there temperatures of 34 degrees moving that forecast on by another 24 hours it really doesnt show any great difference so certainly wet for much of borneo pitching looks as old sees lots of heavy downpours moving into australasia things looking quite interesting here weve got the circulation associated with the remnants of ester still going to run for quite some time we also see some very heavy rain across the western side to the south on new zealand during the course of choose day but as this system begins to move further towards the south and east were going to see further heavy rain in many areas working its way into northeastern parts of South Australia and eventually working its way down to New South Wales and certain across this area will be some heavy rain anyway sydney looking at showers and highs of 25. 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People in israel are voting in an unprecedented 3rd general election in less than a year polls have opened with voters hoping they can end political turmoil both previous elections were inconclusive. Police in the philippines are trying to persuade a gunman to end his siege at a Shopping Mall about 30 people are being held hostage in the capital manila one person has been shot and injured just there is bound to be lovers outside the Shopping Center and says Police Believe they are making progress with the hostage taker. Right now an estimated 30 people are being held hostage by what you mentioned a disgruntled former employee of the mall a former Security Guard cant leave this Security Guard was removed from his job not long ago and he encouraged his colleagues his former colleagues to join him in sort of a mutiny against his former employers but none of them joined him so he decided today he would come to the mall and he would open fire and so this has been going on for about 5 hours now and as you mentioned when he entered the mall