Epidemic claims more lives. By Barbara Sarah in london with the top stories from europe including moscows eyes in the sky we take a close look at russias new facial recognition system thats provoking fear is of big brother and far as small have all the days sport including its 2 wins from 2 for holders al heloise saudi arabia and the group stages of the Asian Champions League. But we begin in syria where president bashar assad has made a rare address on state television to promise no let up in his offensive in the northwest he congratulated his forces and their allies for their rapid recent gains which are edging closer to winning back the last pieces of rebel held lands the un. Says the russian backed campaign supported by iranian militia has displaced 875000. 00 people mostly women and children since early december so assad votes a relentless push towards in his words complete fix 3 we learn in an item and we fully understand that this liberation does not mean the end of the war or the end of plots or terrorism either this liberation does not mean the enemys will surrender this liberation means that we put our enemies pride and nose in the dirt as a primary step to defeat them completely sooner or later well he is near the turkey syria border and says its clear president assad is confident that victory will come sooner or later. This is a delicate moment for the Syrian Opposition but also for the Syrian Government and this explains why president bashar assad has been celebrating in his speech the new major gains made by the syrian army particularly on the outskirts of aleppo and also the southern parts of it live saying basically that this is just about a matter of time before the opposition is defeated this explains why he has been saying that the fight will continue until the terrace and this is the term that he uses. Most of the time to describe the Syrian Opposition were no longer in 2014 or 13 when the Syrian Government was on the verge of collapse and when the Syrian Opposition was making spectacular gains across the country all those gains were reversed and now theyre just confined to it which is their last stronghold but president bashar assad also told his people that they have to wait or that this is not the end of the war and i think he was hinting to the fact that with the growing turkish involvement with turkey sending more poor boys into into taking over it it might take some time now its no longer up to us to decide what happens next and i think this is something which will boil down to 3 key players russia turkey if you have been holding talks in moscow to defuse tension iran is also another regional player the 3 iran russia and turkey will decide the future of syria in the near future. Well this is the state of play after 9 years of war the government held areas are in red now as you can see its taken a pretty much all of a leper and has pushed deep n. C. Adlib province the shrinking green areas are opposition territory when yellow is lands controlled by the currents or i mccurry is a professor of journalism thats the American University of beirut and a senior fellow at harvard. Hannity school joins us now from the lebanese capital gets everywhere this on aljazeera what do you make of all of this particular speech from president Bashar Assads does this suggest that the syrian president feels confident the end of this war is finally in sight. Hes always been confident and he speaks out every once in awhile to celebrate a certain achievement in the military progress that his troops with the russian and iranian and hezbollah assistance have been making consistently over the last 3 or 4 years so theres nothing surprising about the military gains that theyve achieved in the adlib area in aleppo theres nothing surprising about his making a statement the only real question here is what is this going to mean for the syrian turkish relationship the standoff the turks have been massing weapons in the area they control in Northern Syria that had 13 of their troops killed by syrian fire in Northern Syria this is the real big question the turkish syrian link which raises the bigger question of the russian turkish syrian relationship i think the other big question is once said. Gets what he wants in the north of his country whether the turks remain or not then whats he going to do about the areas on the eastern part of. Syria where there are still rebel forces well lets deal with it 1st off your question said where do you think this leaves turkey theyre certainly invested in that conflict there on the verge of directs conventional warfare with the syrians what is turkey tonight. Well i think theyre going to try to avoid direct conventional warfare they might have some shoot outs with some artillery but i think theyre going to avoid that because their relationship with russia is the turkish russian relationship is way more important than the turkish syrian relationship. The turks are concerned about the kurds in their immediate neighborhood theyre not concerned about the Syrian Government or army as such and they have been in touch with syria on and off for many years but the russian turkish relationship is. Is hugely strategically significant in terms of exports and imports and weapons purchases will import gas transit pipelines from russia to europe theres so many dimensions to the bilateral russian turkish relationship that thats what theyre going to pay more attention to my guess is they will youll see the russians moving pretty quickly now to negotiate to mediate and theyll come up with another agreement like they did 34 years ago about. Zones of quiet the de confliction zones and they give them all these fancy names which really end up meaning nothing because nobody follows the agreement to cease fire just as has been happening in libya same thing people say were going to stop fighting and theyll keep fighting but there will be an agreement in Northern Syria at some point soon my guess is the turks probably will maintain control of a border strip and they will do that with the approval of the russians and the syrians and that will calm things down for a while but long term the syrians will have to get back full solvent control of their territory and they have the muscle to do it with the russians backing them what they think they certainly do this war has already played out for for 9 years do you think were coming close to an end game here. No because you have so many different tensions going on in syria because even after the fighting stops which it will one day you still have the area in the north which has pretty much kurdish autonomy in some kind of rough agreement with the Syrian Government theyre going to have to work that out the syrians will not accept what the kurds have in iraq which israel full autonomy almost acquires our independence so theres going to be tensions in the north and there are still some pockets of troops from other countries american troops and then youve got some isis troops and others so there will continue to be tensions for some years down the road and the Syrian Government on its own is not very strong they they are strong because hezbollah iran and russia give them immense military supports diplomatic support and some some of them the iranians especially give them Financial Aid and oil so the the syrians are not quite as free to do whatever they want as you would think they are because these other factors come come into play my guess is that assad would be willing to go on for a few more years with these other people in control of parts of his territory as long as he can claim that this is an agreement with him and its done to protect syria and to get rid of the terrorists to fight isis etcetera and to to beat the period 100. 00 minus as he calls them so were going to probably see that coming up soon i would guess ok well well have to wait and see for night joining us live from beirut thank you. Now the European Union has announced the new land sea and air operations are in force the u. N. Arms embargo on libya is being floated so much that it has been described by the u. N. As a joke a previous Naval Mission to stop people trafficking and to enforce arms controls collapse last year after disagreements with a silly dominic cain has been monitoring that meeting from berlin. To the masses saying that this is a big step forward for the burnin process the goal being to prevent further arms supplies reaching the civil war parties in libya that reference of the berlin process is harking back to the conference that was held in the german capital bringing together many of the key players if not all of the key players in the libyan scenario plus international represent representatives from the International Community to try and thrash out a way forward in libya now the point here is there have been stumbling blocks and sticking points but one of the key things for mr mass for germany has been the need for Greater International Cooperation certainly the european level until today not everybody in the e. U. The 27 countries wanted to see whats been agreed today the austrian government is very cautious about the idea of doing something which might encourage another flow of migrants to leave libya and to cross the Mediterranean Sea into the e. U. One of the parts of this agreement in brussels is that the patrolling mechanism will concentrate on shipping routes where migrant boats tend not to go that was the price to get the austrian government to not vote against this measure in brussels at the e. U. Foreign Affairs Council thats how it stands right now but it has to be said we shouldnt expect to see any movement of any implementation of whats been agreed today any time soon all the developments on the arms embargo happened exactly 9 years since the revolution started John Stratford has more from western libya. The structure is very important in terms of the history of the revolution steam that the fighters here with the main fighting force against pro good daffy full series they lost a lot of mainly here around 3000 fighters were killed in that fight theyve also lost a lot of men in the subsequent fight against iceland 2000 from 2016 alone woods that fight now effectively won so the g. N. A. T. Says here disputed by. So few significance to this city the celebration of this revolution i spoke to some people here earlier one man said that this was highly symbolic he said when asked about the kind of turbulence that this country hes insuring at the moment will speak described as a civil war now since you know just the celebration have any real significance when were losing civilian lives people being killed and around according to the 150000 the u. N. Saying have been displaced what is there to celebrate he said this is a celebration to show to show sure poltergeists those that are enemies of democracy very much have a finger being pointed at half the many people here see him as basically being the equivalent of good daffy and of course gadhafi overthrown in that revolution eventually in 2012 so a very big day for people here in misrata and as weve been seeing early in today a very big day in tripoli despite being a repeat crisis the wall that this country is in during right now. 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Chinas military is sending hundreds more doctors and nurses to han the epicenter of the corona Virus Outbreak which is claims more lives of 10 percent of chinas Critical Care workers are now in war han Johns Hopkins university is tracking the epidemic in the size of the red circles indicate the infection numbers the torso in Mainland China is heading towards 72. 00 thousands or more than 770. 00 people have died well the china peoples daily says the fatalities include a high ranking dont swear it tweeted the new director all who han watch on hospital died on february 17th jussi infection with coverts 19 hes the 1st hospital director at diets form corona virus hash tag on i lets get more now from sarah clarke who reports from hong kong. Millions of chinese are returning to work some companies have reopened their factories as i try to get back to business as usual after being shot for weeks. 50 percent of our employees have returned to work bringing our Production Capacity to 50 percent we predict all of our workers will be back on their post by the end of february and a Production Capacity will return to normal. Employees arriving for work a getting additional checks to make sure theyre healthy and the governments offering Companies Tax incentives to limit the economic damage of the outbreak the governments also rolled out some measures to help enterprises and ensure their normal operation so were encouraged and feel confident government statistics on monday showed a continuing rise in the infection right in china but the fatality rate has fallen the National HealthCommission Says the situation is improving outside here by the province at the center of the crisis to. Try for places outside of who by a total of 115 new cases were reported on sunday including 5 new did the number of newly confirmed cases outside of who by his keep declining for 13 days in a row the number of new confirmed cases remained at a relatively low level. In here by the situation is grim inside this makeshift hospital and will hand patients queue for food and treatment as medical staff care for the rising number of infected chinas military is sending hundreds of doctors and nurses to wehrhahn the World Health Organization is sending experts to beijing as well as to guangdong and Sichuan Province its. With the virus yet to be contained chinas largest annual political meeting is expected to be postponed the National Peoples congress to start a much the 5th a meeting next monday is due to decide if the meeting will be shelved the 1st time in chinas recent history here in hong kong another infection was reported on monday that the spread of the virus is feeling more consumer panic with price toilet paper rolls and face masks still in short supply the government is calling for calm sarah clarke aljazeera hong kong. Japan has confirmed 99 further infections on board a quarantine cruise ship in yokohama ports 300 americans who were in port of a dr told one of the accusation flights theyll spend another 2 weeks in medical seclusion well than 450 passengers have been diagnosed on the diamonds princess and also have chosen to take the opportunity to leave but essentially we decided that the circumstances in which they were going to provide the flight and the requirement that we do another 2 week korean team as though we hadnt done one already just was not acceptable to us and in fact the news now that they put 14 infected people on the flight with everyone else its just confirmed to us that they werent really providing a safe method of transportation back to the United States everyone is directed to remain in their cabins the exception is for those who have indoor and inside cabins and just window cabins they are provided an opportunity to go on deck there are protocols to keep them apart i dont know how well they are succeeding i dont know. But in terms of that we have remained in our cabin now for 2 weeks and have not crossed the threshold no ones come inside and we do go out on our balcony but if there are other people in surrounding the conies we tend to come right back inside so its the main thing i still a cement aransas better of the virus lets get more now from Heidi Jill Castro she joins us live from washington d. C. How do you think whats going to happen see those upon kates americans those who chose to make the trip back to the u. S. Well sure these 2 chartered flights landed in the United States earlier this morning on a board them are these 328 americans and among them are 14 who tested positive right before those planes us actually took off now as for those 14 they are now being treated in nearby u. S. Hospitals to where those planes landed the remainder of those americans will being horenstein on military bases in california and in texas for the following 2 weeks but much of this attention has focused on those 14 and its attracted quite a bit of scrutiny as to how these individuals ended up being repatriated when the original plan of the u. S. State department as announced was only to bring back those individuals who were not infected and the state department has explained its reasoning saying that everyone had been tested 2 to 3 days ago when they left the cruise ship no one was symptomatic but then while in transit from the boat to the planes in the airport thats when the result received the positive results for those 14 people and that that was done in consultation with u. S. Health officials at the state Department Employees decided to go ahead and put those infected individuals in an isolated area of those airplanes and repatriate them anyway meanwhile there are still 44 other american passengers who have been aboard the diamond princess who have also tested positive for the corona virus they received those positive results. Earlier before this evacuation had been put in motion in those americans remain in treatment in japanese hospitals hala. In terms of how the reaction from other americans mean the hearts of a few of these people who have