the infection. senator bernie sanders now really wins the 1st primary vote in new hampshire but the race to decide who runs against donald trump in november is still wide open. with your sport formula one bosses postpone a chinese go on preview of the corona virus outbreak just a month from the start of the new season. and it's 1500 g.m.t. and we begin this news in turkey where the president has warned damascus against further provocations in syria's last rebel held territory. and says he will strike against government forces anywhere if they target turkish troops in provence he's also demanding syrian forces be pushed back beyond turkish observation post by the end of february. only civvies guard to know where the these attacks are directly targeting our soldiers and directly targeting turkey there's no more time for talk we have to look at the realities on the field and by the end of february the regime must be pushed behind observation point whatever is needed on the ground or in the air we are not going to have any hesitation and we are going to act on it well syrian government forces have killed 15 turkish soldiers in it live in recent days and much of the fighting in the past week has focused on the m 5 highway that's a main trade route that links to mascots with government forces are now fully in control of that crucial highway where the fighting has triggered a humanitarian crisis that's displaced nearly 700000 people well in a moment we'll get the latest on the fighting in syria is it live province. is in our 1st let's go to how barra who is in istanbul and how she met threatening talk from president but will it have the effect that he desires that will be determined by what happens on the coming in the coming days now the turkish government is going to further continue talks with the russian government about the need to implement a cease fire and convince the sea an army to pull out from the areas it controlled and respect the terms of the 2018 agreement that was signed. in libya. president cause of. war hard to make that message clear because there's growing ungar in turkey following the deaths of the turkish soldiers and this explains why he was very tough today delivering those sharp rebuke to the russian government and to the syrian army saying that by the end of february the syrian army has to pull out and that from now on was if any turkish soldier is hurt in any attack by the syrian government. turkey will deliver a strong reaction but i think the turkish government does understand this particular moment that diplomacy should be given a least another chance now they have been getting strong support from the united states of america with the u.s. syria on boy james jeffrey here in turkey talking to senior officials about how to move forward he said that he supports the stance of turkey and he's been very critical of russia iran the syrian government and shia militias operating in syria for destabilizing the region and undermining the chances for any cease fire to be implemented it's a very fast moving situation a changing political landscape and turkey is trying to look for all the options all the possible scenarios in the near future and be prepared for that or thanks very much indeed let's move on to see an increase or glue who's live for us from power in syria and sit in what's the situation as far as the syrian troops are concerned what would soon position on the ground. well the situation is basically a very tense for for the last 2 weeks especially the beginning of february given the tensions between turkey and is syrian military is ensuring the on the ground there are clashes between the syrian government forces and the opposition rebels and. in the last couple of hours we learned from our local sources that the syrian opposition just recently launched a ground offensive against the syrian government forces in the western countryside of aleppo and the places not very far from here they are they have launched an offensive with the hour to larry's only other side the syrian government forces also are advancing it's a wrap of the events by the syrian government by the way since since last december especially after them after they're taking over a model gnomon iraq and now they are close to a 10 which is just 17 kilometers away and since the morning we've been hearing. we've been hearing the sounds of the rockets being launched a tad of area surrounding area of a target so basically the syrian government is 1st bombarding the areas and pushing to civilians out of the areas and then entering those villages and it's seems they are eager to continue from south to the north and take over a full control inside. of the escalation zone the spy it a multilateral agreement that it should be a de conflict zone to be at the arms area and the civilians shall be able to freely move here so given the situation given the rapid advance by the syrian government and the very harsh weather conditions there is a humanitarian crisis on the ground which has been there actually for many years there are at least 4000000 people right behind turkish borders. and. at least 1000000 are by the border in our area and there is there's not enough space left for any more civilians and as the syrian government offensives continue there are more and more people displaced ever the everyday. nic and despite all these this is a proxy war the military experts say and both the syrian government and the turkish government are devoted to continue their reinforcements for their military bases of course so it is our know whether this is going to be a direct war or by the last war between iran and the muskets or will they end up with the magic solution or that's a picture from about how in syria cinnamon thank you and let's take this all we can speak now to our senior political analyst mom bashar bashar who joins us from london amman what do you think moscow is calling for restraint at home mode one faces growing domestic pressure to act as any. absolutely which makes you wonder if the syrian regime is actually driving or trying to drive a wedge between onkar and moscow by this sort of escalation against and against the turkish forces in particular because with the death of a dozen or so. turkish soldiers clearly this upset president go on and the government in turkey so much so that they are now finally making some ultimatums and that 1st and foremost of course goes towards russia because they only got an at this point in time regarding the stability or whatever the stability means if you will in syria is some sort of a russian turkish agreement and with the turk and the russian president having met some 17 times over the last 40 years clearly the personal chemistry and the relationship between the 2 is very important but more and more the turkish president seemed hesitant and the russian president seemed cynical because as the palaces continued the believing continues and the displacement continues in syria and now i think nic we're coming to a moment of truth and it's going to be in the month of february right and what it what sense the members truth where could that actually lead. well to be honest with the i mean that they're going to have to respond at this point in time after all the threats and the ultimatums been made and after the syrian regime has been warned turkey has no other options but to act if the syrian regime does not with dro to the original understanding of saatchi now the regime has been and the last several weeks making advances against those areas that were agreed upon to be under certain formula agreed to in sochi but as i said the syrian regime also you know of course stripped for cash thought to be bankrupt. you know lost all credibility and in fact all the rights for sovereignty after the killing and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of syrians are trying to regain some legitimacy by being so aggressive against the turks in a place where russia had already made a deal so an escalation might look like or might have looked like it's in favor of the syrian regime but now the presidency is going to have to move because more escalation against them would be humiliating and more syrian advances and gains and lives would be humiliating and for the syrian regime not to listen to the turkish ultimatum will go down quite badly in unca and if turkey does act in that way in this month in the month of february what will that mean for the region is sort of being battered into a 1000 pieces that is. absolutely but i mean look at what just happened the last 10 weeks at least 700000 new displaced syrians living in tents in freezing conditions i mean you know the secretary general of the united nations say something about how yemen is the worst possible humanitarian situation of a decade well maybe it's also syria it is unbelievable what's happening in syria and it's all met by more of the same you know european hesitancy not to say and worse and you know with the same american detachment and russian cynicism and iranian complicity and turkish hesitation so you know you have all these actors and none of them are coming together in any serious way in order to resolve anything and with the turks and the russians did try to reach something in in the middle of 2018 and they tried to respect it when the russian sort of the syrian regime continues to drive a wedge continuous try to make advancement and regardless of the human cost and the human cost has just been incredible the tragedy in nor syria certainly continues as the moment for some serious decision approaches in february right no doubt about it does an ongoing tragedy amal and thanks very much indeed for that analysis moment bashara. now palestinians have welcomed a u.n. report on companies with business ties to illegal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank in a statement to the un said it had identified 112 business entities with reasonable grounds to conclude they have ties with israeli settlements among these was the us space and renting company b. and b. more this let's bring in stephanie decker in western some stuff tell us more about this and the type of companies involved. well there $94.00 israeli companies 18 international companies this is a long delay a report was supposed to be released last year was delayed. a lot of criticism from activists it's now been released less than 24 hours after we saw the scene president mahmoud abbas address the u.n. security council rejecting donald trump's so-called deal of the century i think you know actually 1st me update you we've had as reaction from the israeli foreign ministry immediately after a very strong reaction calling this a state full surrender to pressure from states and organizations in harming israel's interests and also a stain on the human rights commission the palestinians of welcome to saying it is a victory for international law there are no legal sort of implications to this when it comes to any form of implementation however the question is you are now highlighting these companies whether these radio companies involved in these are companies banks mobile services gas stations that we know are operating in the illegal settlements but whether those that have foreign dealings will be impacted and where these international companies you mentioned air b.n. b. there's also expedia there's booking dot com there's trip advisor there's a poto whether they are now going to be subject to some form of b.d.s. that's the boycott divestment and sanctions movement. against you know activities in the engine in the illegal settlements which are of course recognized by the u.n. and international law as illegally occupying palestinian land so certainly these readies not happy about this and they're going to have to really they have already reacted strongly or as their phones were supposed to have to occur reporting. another $39.00 people on board a cruise ship docked in japan have been infected with corona virus bringing the total to $175.00 the japanese health ministry says the new cases include a quarantine officer with more than 3700 people on the cruise it's become host to the highest concentration of cases outside of china where the virus originated the diamond princess had been under quarantine since february 3rd after a passenger who got off the ship was diagnosed with the virus matthew smith is one of the passengers who doesn't have the virus but is under quarantine and he says most passengers on the ship have not been tested. you know it's it's really hard to measure an overall. mindset for the passengers as a whole and in fact the only information i really get about what other passengers are thinking is what i see on social media that they're sharing or in the news that they've reported to a journalist because we're. trying to our cabin we're not among the groups that are allowed out onto the deck because we have our own balcony and can get. fresh air and and light there and we don't associate it we don't go out and talk to the other people on the balconies because we just want to maintain the isolation i know that they have and men when we return to yokohama initially last week the japanese health officials did come on board and take everyone's temperatures and based on that and and self reporting of symptoms they identified the admission a batch of people who then got the actual test for the virus and since then they've been testing people who come down to the medical center complaining of of the symptoms but the only ongoing monitoring of everyone else is that we've been provided with her mom and hers and asked to take our temperatures and then if you identify. a high temperature your your supposed to go down to the medical center so i don't i haven't wrists heard a figure from the captain about exactly how many people have been tested but it's a very small portion of the. well another cruise ship that was turned away by 5 countries over fears of corona virus is now docked in cambodia the m s westerdam is carrying more than $2200.00 passengers it's been at sea for days japan taiwan guam the philippines and thailand they all refused entry to the ship despite there being no confirmed cases on board and all the while singapore's largest bank that d.b.s. has evacuated 300 staff from its head office after one of its employees was infected with the coronavirus and 50 confirmed cases have been reported in the city states officials say there is mounting evidence of local transmission. but more ahead on the news hour including. france's dismisses a controversial proposal. could be ordained as a priest. or why boeing has struggled to take a single order for us last night. and the portuguese big wave surfer is lucky to be alive after an accident at one of the world's most dangerous events peter the details a bit later and. now iraqi security forces have reopened a bridge in central baghdad that had been blocked since anti-government protest danton october it's part of an effort to restore normal operations in the city less than 2 weeks after mohammed a tough week allawi was named prime minister designate simona fulton has more now from baghdad. sinek bridge here in baghdad history opened for the 1st time since anti-government demonstrations began and of october you can once again see traffic is moving across this bridge over the river tigris now of course this bridge has been extremely important throughout the protests and has been the location of some of the major standoffs between protesters and government forces we have seen some major attacks against the most heinous occur on this bridge so as of now we only have one bridge that still remains closed here in the budget battle of course what the demonstrators have been trying to do here is to obstruct bridges and roads as part of a civil disobedience campaign to try to bring daily life to hold they want to prevent people from going about going to work they want to prevent businesses from operating all as part of an effort to try to force the government to listen to their demands now since the appointment of mohamed tawfik allow me as the prime minister designate shia cleric mulcted al sadr who has until now mostly supported the demonstrators has called on them to open up roads to open up bridges for penalties against those who don't comply in the course of the most traders will not be happy about the opening of this bridge but some people are likely to welcome this move because as you can see here there are a lot of businesses who are located in proximity to this bridge in proximity to this road and they have suffered greatly as a result of this closure they have been called up inside clashes between the demonstrators and security forces we have seen even some of these shops being burned in the clashes between those 2 sides so these business owners are likely to welcome the return of normal life like it's really to see an increase in business once again now it remains to be seen how to demonstrators who will react to this move and whether they will try to retake this bridge of course we have. at the frontlines if you want to call them that all of these demonstrations have shifted from one place to another but the cynic which has always been very important for the demonstrators and some of them have said that they will try to take it back to what we have to watch and see is how the security forces will react we have seen security forces deployed on top of this bridge and it remains to be seen that whether one protesters will try to retake this area where the security forces will use force to make sure that this bridge and the streets will remain open. a protest has taken place outside libya's national oil corporation headquarters in tripoli against the closure and blockade of many of the country's oil assets by forces loyal to the war he for half the analysts say more than one $1000000000.00 worth of oil revenue has been lost since the blockade began one month ago. senator bunning saunders has nearly beaten people tickets in the new hampshire democratic primaries showing the divisions between the leftist and centrist wings of the party in the race to choose someone to go up against only trump in november i ding to the nature of the race i mean. surged to 3rd place offer a strong debate performance last week a once favorite joe biden slumped to 5th at eco he has more now from much to in new hampshire the he was expected to win and he did the all campaign is just feeding trough it is about transforming this country the way it is about having the courage to take on wall street sure it's companies drug companies the fossil fuel industry the military industrial complex it was. not far behind former mayor of south bend indiana people who judge a relative newcomer. so many of you decided that a middle class mayor and a veteran from the industrial midwest was the right choice to take on this president not in spite of that experience but because these were not the expected frontrunners but with former vice president joe biden and senator elizabeth warren faltering new faces came to the front voters said that was a big reason so many were undecided up until the last minute some of the front runners i'm not sure i think their ideas are good but i'm not sure they have the right path and they have the right ideas so i think that's why people are now leaning this way and kind of at this last minute like this is a strong possibility he may be coming in 3rd another unexpected candidate moves to the front of the pack minnesota senator a.v. club which. i may be coming and i will be donald trump. new hampshire is important for momentum attention and money raised clear tonight from the numbers that we are not going to win this race 2 of the lesser known candidates quit after this vote but all the top contender said they were staying in it and you know remain we're jus