Markets open in coronavirus takes a toll on economies course there was. A strike on turkish soldiers inside syria is increasing tensions on its borders and prompting concerns about where an u. S. Collation might only an emergency meeting of nato ended with it calling for syria and russia to hold their offensive take he says 33. 00 of its soldiers were killed there on thursday nato expressed solidarity with turkey but offered no Additional Support but on the ground turkey has begun retaliatory strikes and says it struck more than 200 Syrian Government positions russia denies involvement in the soldiers deaths and fatima putin spoke with turkeys president to run a few hours ago theyve decided to stick to the 2018 deescalation plan but that socalled safety zone is where most. Violence is taking place shelley in airstrikes of his base more than a 1000000 people since december while he begins our coverage from a clip it goes on the turkish syrian border. Turkish soldiers being evacuated from syria after being attacked by Syrian Government forces images like these have created shock and anger in turkey and growing calls for revenge. Turkish military hit Syrian Army Positions in retaliation for the death of dozens of its soldiers in southern. Turkey blames the Syrian Government for the airstrike that targeted a military outpost officials here also accuse rochelle failing to deter Syrian Government forces who have recently stepped up their attacks against the soldiers. This attack happened despite the location of troops being coordinated you know at once with russian officials on the ground unfortunately the attack continued after we werent following the 1st strike. Feeling abandoned by its e. U. Allies turkey warned it wont prevent refugees from crossing into europe European Countries are long and this might turn into a mass exodus of refugees fleeing the conflict in syria. Turkey has been calling on the e. U. To share the burden of the refugee crisis and or nato to deploy pair to it besides on the border with syria but nato doesnt seem to be willing to provide military support offering for the time being the sympathy by call on them to stop their offensive to respect International Law and to back you and efforts for a peaceful solution to this dangerous situation must be deescalated i would urge an immediate return to the 28 cease fire. Tension mounts turkish and russian officials held talks in to defuse tension turkey wants the syrian army to pull our behind the Demilitarized Zone stop its offensive and allow civilians to return home. Russia is a key president assad who rejects turkeys expanded presence in syria and insists they often sit by his troops is legitimate. And if russia and turkey fail to overcome their differences they might. Prolong the original confrontation in syria. On Turkish Border with syria. Over the timing turkey is no longer preventing Syrian Refugees from traveling into greece by sea and on land move is seen as an attempt by encroach of force the European Union to reengage with the situation in syria lawrence lee has this. Many times the turkish government has threatened to open its borders and release the refugees into europe in large numbers once again this perhaps is a taste of what might still come this was the scene on the shores of the greek island of lesbos already a nightmarish place for the 10s of thousands of men women and children who had come over from turkey and who are now trapped there in itself a dingo arriving isnt any different from any other day but the implication was that the turkish authorities didnt try to stop it. In the same way the routes was being cleared for refugees much further north on the land border. There were reports of people being bussed from istanbul to the border town of ed into a haven for people traffickers and unlike in recent months the Turkish Military did absolutely nothing to stop people then making their own way on foot towards the wide river the border with greece. Were coming from istanbul our aim is to get to germany there are syrians with us algerians palestinians there are people from every country this want to take a 100 times you know theyve arrived here at the turkish Greece Border police are on near the side and theyre not letting migrants in weve got lots of problems here we want to work in europe to open the borders because of these problems the Immediate Response from the greek side was to ramp up their naval presence in the aegean and to send more special forces to the land border to try to prevent people coming across but that isnt the point of the exercise in the turkish perspective theyre using the refugee flows as a direct threat to the European Union to reengage in the situation in syria and the humanitarian crisis that has engulfed people in. If nato and the e. U. Continue to turn a blind eye to the situation there then this could get a whole lot more serious lawrence lee aljazeera. Well as cross now to John Psaropoulos hes live in. Boston greece john tell us more about what youre seeing and hearing. At the moment we dont have a lot of arrivals which was the worst fear here appeared in greek will soroses here what weve heard here unless of course its 3 both arrivals and 2 more further south in the aegean one on the island of silos and one east of roads altogether 151 Asylum Seekers in 5 separate arrivals not something extraordinary quite close and facts to the sort of sort of flows that one expects on a daily basis the one thing that was extraordinary on the greek borders today was that attempt by about 300 people to cross the land border coming from istanbul and attempting to enter greece they were rebuffed but when last i spoke with the police they were still loitering near the border so a 2nd attempt is quite likely the greek or. Hes being strengthened they already have 900. 00 men and women in uniform across the city and that number of people is going to be doubled over the next 18 months and about 15 more Coastal Patrol boats will be added to the roughly 40 that are in circulation at the moment and as you can see behind me the british Coastal Patrol vessel valient is here as part of the frontex Solidarity Force helping the greek also receives earlier we saw a portuguese Coastal Patrol boats as well. But all of that may not be enough to do search and rescue at sea if there is a significant increase earlier on at this harbor side behind me i spoke to the Deputy Defense minister and could be other stuff and hes the man whos responsible for the refugee crisis from the Defense Ministry point of view he was here to consult with local kosko storage fees he told me that our number one priority is to protect european borders but were going to need more help and he said greece has already filed an official request for more Patrol Vessels more personnel more technical means things like thermal cameras trucks ambulances and so on and we expect europe to show solidarity with greece because what were doing here is not protecting greek waters only but also european borders. John leave there for a moment john. Vause while the head of the World Health Organization is warning that the coronavirus now poses a high level global threat the virus is to spread to 5 more countries and has spread to 5 more countries in the past 24 hours and the number of cases now stands at 83. 00. The continued increase in the number of cases and the number of affected countries over the last few days clearly of concern. Our epidemiologists have been monitoring this development continuously and we have now increased our assessment of the risk of spread and the risk of impact of course with 19 to very high at global level what we see at the moment are linked epidemics of corbett 19 in several countries but most cases can still be traced to known contacts or plasters of cases we do not see evidence as yet that the virus is spreading freely in communities as long as thats the case we still have a chance of containing this virus. Where one person assess a positive for corona virus in nigeria thats the 1st case to be diagnosed in Subsaharan Africa nigerias Health Minister says the patient is an italian citizen who arrived in milan after going through a staff or minister says prevention measures will focus on the countrys major its. Well kenya is a high court has ordered the suspension of all flights from china coronavirus fears as malcolm webb reports many kenyans feel the government response has been too slow. The court ruling was prompted by a public outcry that followed a plane landing here in nairobi 2 days ago from china and far as we understand that was the 1st plane from china to have landed here in several days maybe even a couple of weeks had nearly 240 people on board and those passengers these destinations were here in kenya were allowed out the airport and told to quarantine themselves for 2 weeks around the same time it was disclosed by the ministry of health that they didnt actually have adequate measures in place to monitor or in force this selfimposed quarantine and that they had in fact only 11 feds the court ruling included an instruction that the people from that controversial flight 2 days ago have to be recalled theyre going to be quarantined in a kenyan army facility although apparently as far as we know theres no such facility ready right now the president has ordered that a much bigger facility in a hospital needs to be completed in one week as well as testing and quarantine facilities in hospitals throughout the country mark webber well the Worlds Largest economies are being hit hard as the coronavirus operate rock stock markets wall street opened just a short while ago thats the day after all 3 major u. S. Indices took a tumble amid fears of the virus what is the situation right now across this room is live for us in new york tell us whats been happening. Well stocks continue to fall here in new york just as they have been doing around the globe in the wake of concerns about the continuing spread of the crown a virus primarily outside of china weve been hearing the headlines all morning long just like we have all week long stocks fall again and the biggest weekly losses since the financial crisis the big sick infects wall street these are the headlines that investors and new yorkers in general have been waking up to this morning and that has the markets extremely jittery as you mention they have all fallen into whats known as correction territory thats more than a 10 percent decline in the major indices. Just in the last week were seeing this for stock prices come out of the Prices Energy is down oil prices are down basically Multinational Companies are bracing for continued disruptions in the supply chain concern that travel will be reduced certainly facebook canceled a Major InternationalDevelopers Conference that takes place in may all of that could have an impact on profits for businesses and by extension the Global Economy is so while a lot of this is perspective looking forward in terms of what could happen its affecting the markets today because the president loves to dismiss the headline disney will spin his reaction. Well certainly the administration of president trying to calm fears and downplay the significance of whats happening we know that the president s economic adviser larry kudlow was speaking just in the last hour doing just that attempting to reassure the public he was talking to media saying that you know no one should panic that the. Markets have been through things like this before people shouldnt overreact he said just over and over again reassuring people saying that there is no need for panic the economy is sound and certainly Consumer Confidence in the United States remains high the Unemployment Rate is low so the administration keeps pointing to those fundamentals underlying the markets and thats because President Trump has put a lot of his and success in office on the fact that the markets have been doing so well but of course his opponents like to bring up the fact thing that would seem to contradict his handling of the market one of his opponents Mike Bloomberg the former mayor of new york has been critical of the administrations handling of the virus epidemic saying that you know firing people at the c. D. C. The centers for Disease Control means that the United States perhaps isnt as prepared as it should be for this virus as it continues to spread globally. But we see that uncertainty weighing out in the markets with certainly the president s detractors using this as ammunition against him in an Election Year the president attempting to walk back fears and calm the markets the markets right now though very very jittery debate all right christine thanks very much to do those bits of your questions to me though. Still ahead here on aljazeera ethiopias controversial project take shape on the talks with egypt. Hello there some rain still on calls you into central areas of china if i take out a picture on the satellite there is some rain as well with this same system work its way gradually across into Western Areas of japan heavy at times although most of it is to the east but this rain again fairly heavy into Central China it is warm to the south of there in fact weve got a couple of days for hanoi and hong kong 28 celsius on sunday and by some that they should have palls through shanghai with a high that of 13 and a similar 13 across into soul and indonesia weve had some flooding rains here as well of course this week particular monday that really led to system widespread flooding into western as a java there is more rain in the forecast that is fairly typical for this time of year but over the next couple days some very heavy rains developing as well in some more western and southern areas of sumatra also borneo as we go through sunday some heavy rains there for towards the south and then india is to the north maybe some thunderstorms in new delhi as we go through with the 1st part of the weekend to the north of the whole city some rain snow to the mountains and also we could just see one to rain showers really across into care a fairly widely scattered not particularly heavy tending to the way by sunday but by then we could you see one or 2 shots further through the interior and still some showers in new delhi. But. There is a huge group of people who work behind our screens and the power they have is massive that urge to keep swiping through twitter feeds thats just on the way we all click i agree to the terms. Conditions thats just to most of us never even get a 2nd full and actually thats designed as well ali reexplore is how designers are manipulating our behavior and the final episode of all hail the algorithm on a jersey of. Food. A week old. So you got your jihad azour a reminder our top stories this hour and turkeys military says its attacking Syrian Army Positions after reported 33. 00 of its soldiers have been killed in fighting in the province banker also appears to be trying to put pressure on the European Union by saying it will allow some Syrian Refugees to and to europe. Major has held an emergency meeting to discuss the crisis the sector general voice in solidarity with turkey called on syria and its allies russia to stop their offensive. At the head of the World Health Organization is mourning that the coronavirus now poses a high level global threat viruses spread to 5 more trees in the past 24 hours the number of cases now stands at 83 pounds. Your signature statement pompei or has been testifying to a House Foreign Affairs committee on iran and the use of war powers to try to justify the administrations decision to kill top iranian general some sort of money as a deterrent against aggression and it also told the panel that aggressive u. S. Sanctions are meant to change the behavior of irans leader. Has more now from washington d. C. Alan tell us more about what composes been questioned on and indeed what hes been saying. Well this was a very contentious 2 hours as you expect its the 1st time that my computer has appeared in front of the Foreign Relations committee on the house since Donald Trumps impeachment youll remember at that point the Foreign Relations committee wanted to speak to my pump about all that was going on with ukraine he refused that not a point that the Committee Chairman was willing to let go past he said that hed issued a lawful subpoena and was surprised that the secretary of state hadnt turned up there then talk to boat around might prompt made an Opening Statement he talked about the killing of kassam silverman. And he insisted to the members of the committee that hed made himself available over the last few months claiming that congress had been briefed more than 70 times about the