Down the country almost all retail is shut down apart from food shops and phone. Or the biggest Basketball League in the world its been shut down because of coronavirus. And definitely after player tests positive for the virus. Welcome then to the new live from doha were bringing you extended coverage of the Coronavirus Crisis deepens the billions of people around the world only one word masses this hour and this is it after holding back for weeks the World Health Organization has now declared the outbreak a pandemic the World Health Organization defines a pandemic as the world wide spread of a new disease for which people have no immunity our coverage this spans confidence will have reporters in the u. S. And europe in asia the middle east africa and latin america will be live for them in just a moment but. 1st lets give an update on how the pandemic looks right now the number of cases has topped 126000 worldwide it all began here in china which has seen more than 80000 cases but new
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
Russia when they do between one meets putin on thursday. You know what youre describing of course is the dangerous balancing act that the put in has been playing in syria when it sat on the one hand of course he doesnt want to throw away this very carefully build relationship with syria where he invested so many years in for the last 5 years but also of course the relationship with iran is very crucial so this is this very dangerous balancing act and there has been no official statements about of course their strategy because the official line from russia maintains to be there needs to do this offensive because turkey has reached agreements they were they had promised that they would this on this what they call terrorists here and they didnt do it so assad has this right to to have this attack on the on the rebel groups and russia is basically backing him off but in the last couple of weeks there have been many meetings between turkey and russia and it hasnt been any result because rus
President says hes hoping to secure a ceasefire in syrias if the province when he meets with his russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in moscow on thursday the leaders are expected to discuss the latest escalation in fighting between turkish and Syrian Government forces dozens of turkish troops were killed in an attack in the region last week lets go straight to sit in the who joins us live i believe from djibouti goes through on turkeys border with syria assam just tell us what else did president juan have to say. Well the persons are gone is trying to keep the diplomatic door open for negotiations for their best turkey believes that russia is an important player in order to provide peace and security for those millions inside that but of course depending on the latest developments the relations have been a little bit have been tense in a while and the 2 leaders have gone into 2 were expected to meet but. There were rumors that they were not going to meet but finally its announced by th
General election in israel can voters break months of political deadlock this time. Coronavirus continues to disrupt global sport as its now for the opening few races of the major g. P. Season has been called off in canada and thailand. Welcome to the news our turkeys president says attacks against Syrian Government forces will continue if they dont reverse their advance and province turkeys military operations ratcheted up after dozens of turkish troops were killed in an attack in the region last week but reza thurber door also says hes hoping to secure a cease fire when he meets with russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in moscow on thursday. Or to go back as you know by going to moscow on thursday we will evaluate the latest developments with mr putin there i hope to whether the cease fire is achieved or not the other necessary steps will be taken and we will come to a rapid conclusion on this matter. Our correspondent is in hatay on the turkish syria border how how should the turkish