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But into the Program Turkey says its launched a renewed military operation northwest syria it follows the killing of 34 turkish soldiers in Syrian Government strikes an adlib province on thursday syrian state media say Turkish Forces shot down 2 syrian warplanes the red label but the pilots are safe Operation Spring shield is the 4th Turkish Military operation in northern syria. Is of on the turkey syria border reporting from hearty and hashem it has been a day of conflicting reports about planes being shot are shot down and pilots parachuting out of their aircraft. Well this is definitely a day there marks a new escalation in the confrontation between Syrian Government and turkey in its live province the Turkish Military says that its fighter jets shot down to. 2 russian syrian sorry 2 syrian fighter jets when they faced off in an encounter without specifying exactly where did that happen but they say that they have shot down 2 syrian fighter jets and destroyed 3 defense batteries and this comes after we been told earlier that another a surveillance drone was was was was hit the opposition was saying in this area this was a Syrian Government surveillance drone and then the Syrian Government said said later it believes this was a turkish drone but this Turkish Defense Ministry Said that it is starting a new military operation the spring shilled in live province aimed at pushing the syrian army behind the Demilitarized Zone stopping radical groups from operating there but also allowing civilians to return but for them to allow the syrians to return they know that the biggest challenge they will face is the displaced mist or displacement of almost 1000000. 00 refugees on the border with turkey we also know that there is intense fighting in and around the area of deraa what are you hearing about that. Theres been an offensive by the Syrian Government earlier today to take over the city over southern mean this is a major opposition stronghold since 2011 but in 2017 of the brushes a brokered reconsideration agreement between the rebels and the Syrian Government that begs the way for the syrian. Syrian government to administer the territory and for the rebel support out there heavy weapons from the area but that reconciliation deal has always been fraudulent and the Syrian Government failed to win the hearts and minds of people so there were skirmishes from front from time to turn today the Syrian Government said enough is enough we would like to take it over completely militarily but we do understand from i will sources that the rebels still hold the ground and they are continuing the fight further north towards. The other major opposition stronghold the rebels backed by turkey have managed to take control of many villages in the area something that would never have been able to achieve had it not been for the massive support to getting gaining from from turkey so now when youre all in all when you look at the political and the military landscape in it live provinces its its changing across the the hour the Syrian Government has made significant gains over the past few weeks but since the last 48 hours the rebels backed by turkey are diverse in most of those gains. Thanks for joining us from how to be on the turkey syria border. One of the top stories that thousands of refugees migrants many of them who fled the fighting are continuing to gather greeces land border with turkey now the greek Prime Minister called a meeting of the National Security Council Security forces have prevented 10000 people from entering in the past 24 hours and surge in numbers follows turkeys decision to open its borders to europe Greek Police Say more than 500 refugees and migrants also arrived on the greek islands closest to turkey on sunday when the ship can enjoy your live from there danny on the turkeys border with syria and of course its been a busy day for migrants but also for border Security Forces on either side most probably natasha. But i would say were seeing an intermittent trickle definitely not thousands and we have been all over the area of a journey weve seen since the morning a group of about 1012 not more making their way slowly along this road to the official checkpoint with greece in other spots we have seen people waiting in the river where it shallow with their belongings that about 45 minutes from here we went to a wooded area along the riverbank families were gathered trying to stay warm with fires and waiting to pay smugglers to take them by boat somewhere up the river authentically to get closer so they can cross the greek border the Turkish Interior Ministry says since turkey decided to open its borders on friday more than 76000 people have left the country via its northwest border with greece and vogue area but talking to the people here they take issue with those numbers people are saying given the great resistance they face from the greek government and the difficulty theyre having from crossing there wondering just how those numbers track but we do know is they are facing very challenging conditions the temperature here in a during a drop below the Freezing Point over night i spoke to an afghan man who spent the night in the woods freezing he says turkey told us the mortars were open they told us we could leave work here theres no one to help us and now we feel trapped for the moment the tashi going to thank you for joining us from. From turkey. Continues our coverage from the greek island less false the main entry point for refugees and migrants coming from the aegean sea. A single boat load of refugees is escorted to the shores of less force high winds have likely prevented many others from crossing but they are forecast to die down and more boats are expected to come all who arrive and up here in moria camp there are 22000 people here 7 times what it was built for and many have to find space among the olive groves most are from afghanistan theyve escaped war and death but many say they havent found life here there are no formal schools so 14 year old for operates his family stand selling fruit and vegetables is morea good not good. Or bad. Home maybe a small maybe that people here have little to do but wait for their asylum applications to be decided upon and their wait has just become much longer a new asylum law took effect at the beginning of the year that fast tracks new applications so the trajectory applicants can be sent back to turkey as quickly as they arrive but that discriminates against people like these who arrived as a family 5 months ago we had into the smart. 26. And they did it but they dont take it to you they see only take in tales from the people. And you have until you 10 months in exile turkey agreed to take back her attorneys in a 2016 statement signed with the European Union and the greek government says it plans to return at least 10000 people this year but whether turkey will all of that agreement in the current Political Climate is an open question so the greek governments entire refugee strategy now hangs in the balance many local people say they have little faith in this new policy. Owns. One of the olive groves next to moria. The year ago the refugees were chopping limbs of trees to cook with but we can still harvest a few olives this year was a bumper crop but we couldnt pick a single olive my land was burned twice then they pitched a few tents on to the burned patch and soon after the land just filled up with tents. The government is using lesbos as a holding area but many greeks fear that if the turkish president had a chapter you threaten flood of refugees becomes a reality the European Union could try and use their country as a buffer zone for the rest of the continent John Psaropoulos al jazeera lesbos a deal signed between the us and the Afghan Taliban may have already hit a major stumbling block of college those present a shotgun he says the government did not commit to releasing 5000 taliban prisoners and it cannot be a precondition for talks with the group a prisoner swap was part of the accord signed in qatar on saturday the agreement is meant to pave the way for the withdrawal of all american and nato troops from afghanistan and a longstanding peace. That there was a request regarding the release of taliban prisoners but it can only be part of negotiations and it cannot be preconditions for starting the interim afghan negotiations also there must be no issue of goodwill because the Afghan Nation must be assured that whoever is going to be released will not stand against it one day. Now the Afghan Government turns previously strange taliban prisoners in the town to kick start negotiations in 2013 both afghanistan and pakistan released dozens of taliban prisoners former President Hamid karzai proposed talks with the taliban after the u. S. And nato promised to withdraw troops but taliban commanders refused negotiations and many of the former prisoners returned to the battlefield in 2014 the u. S. Military prison in Guantanamo Bay in cuba released 5 taliban leaders in exchange for a u. S. Soldier the leaders have been involved in months of peace talks with u. S. Diplomats in qatar and last november the taliban freed to western hostages in exchange for 3 taliban prisoners but brune is the former director of Global Engagement in the white house of the president obama he joins me now live from washington d. C. Good to have you with us on the program mean quite simply were the u. S. And Afghan Government on the same page or were they singing from different him sheets clearly not and i think this is an example of how the Trump Administration has played fast and loose when it comes to these kind of negotiations whether its with afghanistan whether its with iran or north korea they are putting the show before the substance there was an interest i think in the white house to get that picture and to get the boost from the appearance of progress on the ground in afghanistan do you not find it strange that you have similar taney as events happening in doha and kabul you have the defense secretary the secretary general of nato sitting next to the afghan president and he wouldnt be aware of what was going to be said in doha. Well i think theres clearly a Communications Problem here where its taking place is certainly an important question but i have to say you look at the text of the greenman and releasing half of the taliban prisoners before you even get to the stage of negotiations is i think diplomatic malpractise you simply dont do that when in the Obama Administration we released 5 taliban prisoners in exchange for an american soldier there was uproar from the likes of the Republican Party here in the u. S. So the notion that youre releasing 100 times that i think should concern the Afghan Government and i i really have to ask a lot of questions about how involved they were in this negotiation so where do you see the next stage the next 135 days the potential for afghan talks that supposed to start on the 10th. I have to say and im always optimistic when it comes to the pursuit of peace but this is a very concerning development the fact that a fundamental Building Block for peace is now crumbling and the confidence i think in the overall accord crumbling with it does not bode well the taliban has to be telling themselves look we believe we negotiated in good faith the Afghan Government the americans others could not get their act together but let me just add one other piece to this i mean if you look at the statement out of london they too were somewhat cautious somewhat concerned with this agreement i am not sure that the trumpet ministration did their Due Diligence went around and consulted the appropriate parties before doing a big show in doha yesterday but you do have a function on the ground that you had the pakistani government you had representatives from the e. U. And even representatives of the u. N. Security council present. Those ceremonies and to a certain extent you would have assumed maybe its that assumption we should make or may not make that they would have been briefed on roughly what was being agreed to was that just wouldnt be in there. Well and unfortunately in these kinds of situations youll have high level officials that will show up sure they will get a general notion that there will be a Peace Agreement but often from a negotiator standpoint you dont want to let the details out before it is actually been signed so many of them likely were not fully briefed on what was involved in this agreement i have to also say you know i think this is the kind of diplomacy the delicate diplomacy that we just havent seen the trumpet administration execute well and i think it bodes poorly for the probability that this agreement can last beyond that 135 days for the moment but broun thanks so much for joining us from washington d. C. Good to be with you. Well still out here on aljazeera its back to the polls of voters in israel as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tries for a 3rd time to form a majority government. Have youre about to feel the culture of whats to pretty late winter which isnt even with you in holland should look at tokyo for example although we still got a northerly breeze in the snow visible in north korea navy vessel can come across the sea towards Northern Home sure the temp has now dropped in tokyo to 10 whereas its not been that low voter spot the snows been on the slopes to your west the rain is gone through theres not much rain left and again northern honshu is the focus snow tight snow level low levels for current there. For china is more rain gathering is gathering in the southwest in the Higher Ground across in vietnam as well it will spread eastwards it might just affect hong kong its not really in the yangtze we would expect to be at the moment i mean beijing the breeze is enough to keep the arrows have any credence to 10 degrees been there for a couple of weeks now for the month or so wet season rain is pretty widespread her in the days you know and malaysia but its focus is about to change whilst there will be widespread showers through java this is an interesting Area Development here mostly of the sea but not entirely so for borneo so the way sea and southern parts of the philippines thats a wet area in the next day or 2 whereas further west in sumatra lets in malaysia is trying. To. Join the listening paste as we turn the families on the media india has more than 424 Hour Television news channels. And focus on how they. A report on the stories that matter the most the states misleads the public this the media reflects the same thing as Climate Change there at all shows a dark believe they have anything to apologize for listening post on aljazeera. The all. Back you want your deservedly so horribly remind of our top story syrian state media say turkey shot down 2 government warplanes but the pilots are safe it happened shortly after turkey announced it launched a renewed military operation in northwestern syria. Greeces Prime Minister has called a meeting of the National Security council has thousands of refugees and migrants gather at its land border with turkey 10000 people have been prevented from entering in the past 24 hours. Iran has confirmed 11 more fatalities from the coronavirus with the National Death toll now highest outside of Mainland China 54 deaths have been reported since the outbreak was confirmed a week and a half ago infections of surge to 978 the Health Ministry has dismissed claims the figures are much higher but it says the outbreak is serious and is warning against all travel into iraq he says the outbreak is having a major impact on daily life and the economy. Stores shops cafes restaurants all around the city wherever you go you can see signs posted on windows of closed closed businesses saying that they are closed indefinitely due to the coronavirus and those few restaurants that do remain open some businesses have to remain open. On the tables at all of these restaurants youll find a bottle of Hand Sanitizer sitting right next to ketchup bottles so thats really when i say new normal thats sort of how its playing out in everyones daily lives this is a city of around 10 to 15000000 people 20000000 by some estimates and really the traffic on the streets has almost completely died down you dont see the same level of People Movement that you would on any sort of work sort of normal business day a lot of people who arent out and about you know the streets are empty schools are closed businesses are closed many people are communicating how theyre experiencing this virus on social media you see people posting videos of medics burying those that have died instead of family members to avoid any further risk of contracting the disease hospital workers are trying to keep their spirits up by dancing but they do take it seriously theyre also talking about how short staffed and short handed they are in terms of supplies to deal with this and people are also sharing clips of people collapsing on the street unable to breathe the young and the elderly the most likely to succumb to these problems but it has to be said the coronavirus is also exacerbated by the fact that were seeing more and more pollution that iran is one of the most polluted kind of cities in the world and that is certainly having an effect on people susceptible to the disease. Trump is calling for calm after announcing the 1st coronavirus death in the United States the u. S. Is banning all travel to iran and blocking entry to anyone whos visited there in the past 2 weeks do not travel warnings to for south korea and parts of italy the trump and trump is considering closing the border with mexico which has 4 confirmed cases additional cases in the United States are likely but healthy individuals should be able to fully recover and we think there will be statement that we can make with great surety now that weve gotten from e. U. With this problem they should be able to recover. Should they contract a virus so Healthy People if youre healthy. You will probably. Go through a process and then youll be fine former us Vice President joe biden has won the South Carolina democratic primary securing almost half of the votes with Bernie Sanders coming in 2nd with 20 percent lets get back to our. Biden had the support of a majority of the states africanamerican voters in his 1st win in the democratic race to run against donald trump in the november president ial election but it could create momentum for by the head of super tuesday when the 14 states vote along choose day the stakes are the highest in the state of california a big win there could put a candidate in prime position to win the Democratic Partys nomination rob runnels reports from los angeles. University students on the march for Bernie Sanders in los angeles showing the enthusiasm many young people have for the vermont senator and the one known for his block with his neat who is my hero i believe hes the only candidate that truly looks out for elite here in the biggest most diverse state in the u. S. Let tito voters are a crucial voting bloc i feel like hes the only candidate who has other countries in mind nearly 30 percent of the states eligible voters are lets you know and the vast majority vote democratic absolutely latinos have the power to shape outcomes but none of the candidates can afford to take let tino votes for granted direct contact is key to poc and door knock and outreach to the latino electorate thats important for a place like california its a huge robust state but you still have to blame here polls show sanders leading by a wide margin in california followed by Elizabeth Warren with joe biden a distant 3rd the senators campaign would like to repeat its winning formula from nevada last month it put together a coalition of liberal whites young people and latinos polls show 3 quarters of registered lets you know voters are ready and eager to vote in the primary with its multiple large urban areas california is an expensive place to campaign you have multiple high dollar media markets right and its a big state right so youve got to think about barry got san diego and l. A. Are separate markets so youre talking about a lot of media spending billionaire Michael Bloomberg saturated california airwaves with ads but he has little to show for it hes only polling in the single digits. Early voting has been underway in parts of california for more than a week a big rig in the west would not give sanders all of the 1891 delegates he needs to win on the 1st ballot at the Democratic Convention in july but it could provide him with a lead that the other candidates might find almost impossible to surmount robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. One day is general election day in israel for the 3rd time in 11 months israelis can take a government since april and some fear failure to reach a conclusive result Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is again facing his main rival benny gantz of the blue and white policy her most recent one whos leading the latest opinion polls. I think most israelis just want this ongoing grinding electoral might to finally come to some kind of conclusion that has been interesting in the last week or so weve seen Benjamin Netanyahu for the 1st time in a while his likud party taking even a narrow lead in the opinion polls but still those polls not showing enough of a decisive margin either way to get to the magic number in the Israeli Parliament the knesset 61 required seats required to form a Coalition Government im joined by a bit of plan a list. Mitchell barak mitchell where are we in the political horse race at the moment any prospect that netanyahu might get over the line this time well theres a saying in a row weve been in this movie before and weve actually been in this movie twice before in a year so you know its not clear what is interesting about this election as opposed to last 2 is right before the election netanyahu looks like hes leading which may not be the best place for him he likes to scare people d that hes going to lose hes losing the election if they dont get out and vote now they have a different tactic because they seem to be leading in the polls that they have some momentum going and now theyre fighting for people. Then either will stay home because they think his victory is assured or theyll vote for one of the smaller parties in the block because they believe hes hes going to be the Prime Minister oh yes the best chance anyway. Now the promise of swift Anti Corruption measures has helped push slovakias center right opposition to victory in parliamentary elections the ordinary Peoples Group security around a quarter of the vote enough to beat the Ruling Center left party which it controls like in politics for more than a decade not all trance trip to india a few days ago also included sightseeing at the taj mahal and the us president was cheered 5100000 indians in the largest cricket stadium but he didnt meet some of the millions of indians trying to survive on the streets nationwide and many of them are children tony betty reports now from the capital new delhi. Its not as picturesque as the famous taj mahal but this has become one of the images synonymous with india and not one that donald trump was taken to see these people are among the growing numbers of indias homeless aid agencies estimate that 3000000 people are living on the streets throughout the country 200000 of them in the capital delhi there is a world of poverty exploitation and abuse and india has the highest number of Street Children in the world life is very complex and difficult for them like. Particularly for children living in a Church Situation we have found that many of them have. Exposure to. This that will have an impact on them for life. By the time donald trump was 8 years old he was worth a 1000000. 00 most of these children around the same age some dont even own a pair of shoes but they have hopes i want to be a policeman support is better but. I want to be a doctor and buy a house maybe a car thats unlikely to happen without support they and their family survive by begging or working menial jobs. Here what can i think of the future i just want my daughter to grow up for her to be educated and one day that she would have her own home thats all in some respects at least life for children in india is improving infant mortality rates for example have been drastically cut in the last 10 years in terms of education its not so good and estimated 18000000 children dont go to school that education is important to ending the cycle of poverty this is a free school set up under a busy delhi fly over by volunteer teachers its aimed at helping kids of poor families. And the you know people who are not educated are treated like animals by society but with education they learn about their rights and they can use them to benefit their lives. Its a small chance but better than nothing the. Sisters home is a shack without water and electricity their parents work menial jobs they see the school as a way to a better world. I want to be a doctor when i grow up so i can help people i want to help my parents and sisters 300 children attend the school under the bridge most dont know about President Donald Trump the indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said it is his dream that everyone in india will have a home by 2022 that seems impossible on the streets of new delhi the dreams are more basic so again is 9 years old shes lived on the streets most of her life and all she wants if she had money she says is to buy food the gas that. India has just spent 3000000000. 00 on u. S. Military helicopters it is a Nuclear Power with an expensive program for Space Exploration but many here say it is not yet been able to find a way to take care of its poor and helpless Tony Berkeley aljazeera delhi. Your children their arms the whole romanys or top news stories syrian state media say turkey has shot down 2 government warplanes that it led but the pilots are safe it happened shortly after turkey announced at last day renewed military operation in northwestern syria where the operation follows the killing of 34 turkish soldiers in Syrian Government airstrikes and province on thursday greece Prime Minister has called a meeting of the National Security council as thousands of refugees and migrants gather at its land border with turkey 10000 people have been prevented from entering in the past 24 hours the surge in numbers follows turkeys decision to open its borders to europe. The deal signed between the u. S. And the Afghan Taliban may have already had a major stumbling block afghanistans president of guard says the government did not commit to releasing 5000 taliban prisoners and that it cannot be a precondition for talks with the group a prisoner swap was part of the cold side in qatar and saturday the agreement has been to pave the way for the withdrawal of all american and nato troops from afghanistan and a long lasting peace. Should that there was a request regarding the release of taliban prisoners but it can only be part of negotiations and it cannot be preconditions for starting the intra afghan negotiations also there must be no issue of goodwill because the Afghan Nation must be assured that whoever is going to be released will not stand against it one day iran has confirmed 11 more fatalities from the coronavirus with the National Death toll now the highest outside of Mainland China 54 deaths have been reported since the outbreak was confirmed a week and a half ago infections of surged to 978 now the ministry of health has dismissed claims the figures are much higher but it says the outbreak is serious and is warning against all travel u. S. President all trump is calling for calm after announcing the 1st coronavirus death in the us america is banning all travel to iran and blocking entry to anyone whos visited there in the past 2 weeks do not travel warnings to south korea and parts of italy. Former u. S. Vice President Joe Biden has won the South Carolina Democratic Party securing almost half of the votes with Barry Sanders coming 2nd with 20 percent its the 1st win for the democrat race to run against donald trump live in this president ial election that could create momentum for biden ahead of super tuesday with 14 states that those the News Headlines do stay with us here on aljazeera. Americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes the trump parts of america are getting trumpy or there is a pull out a few weeks ago that you had almost 30 percent americans believing they were on the cusp of civil war both sides accuse each other of doing things that are so blatantly wrong the bottom line on us politics and policies a matter of fact on the world. In our minds you know what. You want. Us on. Call stocks with lots of great great victory im an enemy of the state to out hello im Richard Geres burden youre at the listening post among the media stories that were covering this week maximum Security State the case against Julian Assange and by implication modern day journalists in new delhi rioters attack reporters 1st and ask questions later questions like are you hindu or muslim journalism from behind bars in prisons across the United States inmates are reporting on a hidden world and saudi arabia finds another form of expression it cannot tolerate