A prisoner swap. A new president signals a new direction for europe why after 15 years of leftist leadership the country turns to the right. Coming up in support of the corona virus continues to affect global sporting events well hear the price of a Football Team from wu han stuck in europe after being barred from returning to their families of the same to obey corona virus outbreak. Turkey has announced a full scale military operation against the Syrian Government dubbed Operation Spring shield it follows the killing of 34 turkish soldiers in hadley province on thursday and the expiry of a deadline by turkeys president for syrian troops to pull back from the rebel held province on sunday turkish jets shot down 2 syrian army warplanes that were carrying out a combat mission in the rebel held area of reports now from the turkey syria border. Turkish and syrian fighter jets faced off in an encounter in the skies above. And that with 2 syrian warplanes. The confrontation marked u. S. Collation in the conflict between turkey and syria. Turkeys defense minister warns the 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 off with russia our only aim is to stop syrian regimes most occurs radical groups the displacement of civilians. Turkey has stepped up its military campaign in it lip province in response to the deaths of 34 soldiers in strikes on thursday a. Funeral processions in turkey for the dead soldiers have turned into rallies calling for revenge in rebel held it live people took to the streets showing support for turkeys District Campaign the northwestern syria in recent fighting in southern he did province to keep that rebel groups we captured villages they lost a few weeks ago including. Further south Syrian Government forces have launched an offensive to some the main the city was a major opposition stronghold but in 2017 russia brokered a deal that allowed the Syrian Government to administer the city and the rebels to withdraw all the heavy weapons that deal didnt last and syrian troops are determined to control the city this time by the rebels hung on Operation Spring shield is turkeys for cross Border Campaign in Northern Syria and there are fears this could turn into a wider confrontation but there are also hopes that russia and turkey will eventually set aside their differences and implement a cease fire in italy province. Just how tight. Well as the fighting rages on in syria greeces Prime Minister has warned refugees not to try to enter europe illegally. Greek Police Used Tear Gas and stun grenades to disperse hundreds of refugees on its border with turkey the Prime Minister a kiddie atlas meets with a thesis says the country will not accept any asylum requests for the next months and is appealing to the European Union for assistance on friday the turkish president richard diapered the one announced that he will stop stemming the flow of migrants to europe. All migrants are trying to cross into greece by land and the Greek Police Say that at least 500 people had arrived by boat on the islands of lesbos samuelsen q. O. S. This is part of the Eastern Mediterranean route to greece which was the main gateway for hundreds of thousands of Asylum Seekers into europe back in 201521016 now on the mainland further north the groups have waded across the river to the greek side at the nearest and bulgaria has announced that its prepared to send 1000 troops to secure its border with turkey over concerns that migrants will want to cross over John Psaropoulos reports now from the greek island of less valse where he says the increase in arrivals is creating political tension. This boatload of Asylum Seekers came ashore on the island of lesbos on sunday Police Stopped us from interviewing them on camera but this congolese man told me turkish people smugglers promised him and his wife a free ride while they were in church for sunday service this man from sierra leone says he was walking on the beach as the boat was being prepared he was told to jump in for free as well its unclear if someone is paying the smugglers to do that on the islands north shore a boatload of afghans paid 500. 00 each to get out of turkey their deals with smugglers had been struck weeks before turkeys president the chapter you put on ordered the opening of borders with neighboring belgariad and greece both members of the European Union what did the agents say to you. The same. Source yes you know this was the 1st day of significant arrivals since turkey opened its borders towards europe they want enough to create a logistical problem for the greek with origins but they were enough to make many of the people of lesbos anxious that they may once again face the sort of uncontrolled refugee flows experienced in 2015 and this time refugees would have nowhere else to go the arrival of a dinghy filled with refugees at the small fishing harbor of fair to me led to a blockade as local residents prevented them from disembarking the coast guard brought the dinghy here after its engine failed t. V. Cameras were unwelcome and some of the scene had to be filmed at a Distance Police were unable to register other arrivals at moria camp the largest in greece it too was blockaded by angry islanders whove seen its population growth 4 fold to over 20000. 00 since the new democracy government was elected last year to be given the people believe the government the next quickly a little bit of a save in the manse they wasnt any increase. Life trust has been lost and the island is turning into a giant hotspot. But other viewpoints on display this group protested at coast guard headquarters calling for refugees to be showed humanity and greater support a stark reminder that migration is a defining political issue not just here but throughout europe. Lesbos carolina and ng works for world vision as a syria advocacy director she joins me now via skype from amman in jordan madame thank you so much for joining us here on aljazeera now looking at the overview so the violence that were seeing in in the placement of people that were seeing there going to the Turkish Border with syria the fact that turkey has effectively lifted any control it had to the European Union do you think that were seeing something that could be like the beginning of what we saw in 20152016. If any are very very worrying and we know that the situation is live in the uk with area of the west that its ever been with more than a 1000000 people or nearly a 1000000 people very close to flee to so thats creating a huge amount of pressure on that southern border with turkey as people flee towards the border and of safety and now again there are reports that tens of thousands of people went out for exactly how many have gathered the western border of techie with glee we know theyre on the greek island the camp of morier as your correspondent mentioned is overwhelmed 100000 people it was built with 3000 theres no electricity People Living in death. And informal tents that theyve made themselves to the situation there is untenable i think this is the moment to step back and not allow the kind of unmanaged crisis that happened in 2015 we had to take some time this humanitarian to call it a crisis because hundreds of thousands of people went to europe to all the countries of europe one of the wealthiest constant of the wealthiest continent on earth the neighbor countries neighboring syria have taken in more than 5000000 Syrian Refugees so its something that should have a manageable of a situation and great great right now to be a thing on all of europe but we the european state detectors government everybody to focus on trying to solve the situation in syria and deescalate the tensions that withing. You know many people may well agree with what youre saying about european responsibility i think the reality is though that there simply isnt the political appetite in europe and maybe the whole Coronavirus Crisis even making it even more Security Walls but there is no appetite for more refugees and migrants that have already been sort of decided on by the European Union in light of that do you think that the deal that the e. U. Had struck with turkey that that could be a 1000000 race a day or sort of you know healed in some way or do you think there is no other answer than europe opening its doors. You know its hard for me to say as a humanitarian whacko whether its the euro to open its doors and as we say on managed migration often doesnt need to the most vulnerable getting support is often a kind of survival of the faith this is desperate people trying to waste across we saw a huge number of deaths in 2015 people taking on type sea routes and on safe and border routes i think a gap in children sleeping out in the open right now at the border is not a tenable situation there are all legal routes to resettlement and european states and other western countries have pledged to take Syrian Refugees from tekkie and also from lebanon jordan where i am right now and its massively fallen behind on their obligations on that thats a very managed system that allows the percentage to go to the Different Countries and that doesnt pay so huge but on those countries and weve seen that for right back so they should be stepping up to their obligations on that front and they should also be coming together to try and find a mannish dilutions for all their efforts into a solution to the crisis that were thing right now in tackiness area and to supporting taqiyya what is already doing in. Hosting more than 3000000 Syrian Refugees that where they can have the best impact will be in supporting vulnerable syrians and other refugees and we are seeing desperate pictures and you know we always do both internally displaced in syria the pictures that weve just seen of people arriving in grief i mean again what do you think are the biggest needs all the refugees right now its winter we heard heartbreaking stories of children dying of cold even in some camp in syria again what are the biggest needs of the people on the move right now. Yes thats right that shouldnt be the case in fact you know its a prosperous country and weve seen them provide a huge amount of support to refugees and the situation with seeing right now on the border with greece should be avoidable and we hope that that can be solved soon so that there are not children sleeping out in the open but certainly in syria as we say weve had these huge displacement huge numbers of people being killed and injured in the fighting destruction of schools and hospitals and now people sleeping out in the open as you say so what we need is medical care you know one of my self members called me this morning one of my colleagues and said that hes you know woman giving birth on the side of the road and her family then didnt know where they were going to sleep that night they didnt even have a tent to sleep and so the conditions there are desperate so the key focus for us as well that is trying to get shelter food medical care and protection support the children so many children have witnessed biking been injured seen their loved ones killed them forced to flee 3 or 4 times so we are trying to help support them with the basic needs like shelter but also to recover from their experiences Charlie Manning from world vision. Works through to syria if you director thank you so much for sharing your views and the stories as well from from the area thank you. Well still to come here on aljazeera the news that i want to talk to the husband of a british man you know woman jailed in iran who believes his wife has contracted coronavirus after a setback in South Carolina could lead to you know voters give bernie a super tuesday a boost in the democratic primary race and in sports the cyclist who came out for over 34 hours of coronavirus on team to win the world champ can ship the gold. The way. But 1st thailand and australia have reported their 1st deaths from the corona virus the number of new cases in china jumped on sunday after a slight dip more than 570 new infections have now been recorded but chinese authorities insist theyre getting on top of the outbreak katrina you reports from beijing another patient is discharged from a hospital in province in eastern china. For the 1st time chinas government says the number of patients cured of a new coronavirus its a part of the total being treated during war. 52 point one percent of the virus cases have been cured this signals a good trend nationally. Millions of workers are returning to work to get the worlds 2nd biggest economy moving again but a travel lockdown remains and a province the epicenter of the crisis around 37000 there are sick 7000 of them seriously ill at least 25. 00 medics have died of the virus. More than 70 countries and territories have imposed travel restrictions on south korea where around 3700 people arent affected in the hardest hit city of daegu hospital beds are in short supply an increasing number of cases a link to the shin georgie religious sect Health Service administrators are investigating the branch of the church based in the chinese city of war on. The size of the group is not that big but there are some cases where we believe people visited in january in japan baseball teams play to empty stadiums many sports gatherings have been disciplined or canceled raising fears that the coronavirus could do you rail the Tokyo Olympics due to start in july around 900 cases have been confirmed to japan most from the diamond princess cruise ship with corona virus cases around the world steadily rising chinese leaders are turning their attention to threats from a broad Chinese Government hasnt yet reporters travel restrictions on any country but Officials Say theyre ready to rip patry chinese citizens from any affected by the outbreak if necessary katrina aljazeera thinking. Well the outbreak has claimed another 11 lives in iran making the countries that told the highest outside of Mainland China 54 people have died since the virus was 1st reported a week and a half ago infections in the Islamic Republic of the reached almost a 1000 saying but dr isnt around for us 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 and the on the tables at all of these restaurants youll find a bottle of Hand Sanitizer sitting right next to ketchup bottles so thats really that 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. Well the British Government says it will withdraw dependence and some staff from its embassy in tehran in response to the outbreak essential staff for winning meanwhile the husband of a british rainey and woman jailed in iran on espionage charges believes that his wife has contracted coronavirus Richard Ratcliffe set of storage fees at evin prison in tehran refused to test and as an ins agree ratcliffe the spied her developing developing what she described as a strange cold that hasnt improved in more than 5 days well im joined in the studio now by now as an ins husband Richard Ratcliffe thank you so much for joining us here on aljazeera so there is that cold shivers the hasnt been able to shake in 5 days what else makes un and nuzzling think that she might have control us so we had a phone conversation yesterday where we went through a list of symptoms that she was displaying and she was to have a body aches all over a cough temperature. Series of sort of you know gross fatigue that we have to do anything now at the beginning 1st couple days that that felt like a cold but as more and more reports of come of peo