A year. European union raises its coronavirus risk as the number of new desk and infections around the world grows. Coronavirus continues to disrupt the global sport asian football bosses hold an emergency meeting and its a known step the opening to races of the motor g. P. Season has been called off in qatar and thailand. Thank you very much for joining us turkey is vowing to keep up its attacks on Syrian Government forces trying to battle their way into it live unless they hold their vans but president says hes hopeful they can be soon a ceasefire turkey has stepped up its military operations just over the Syrian Border. After more than 30 of its troops were killed in an attack there last week earlier one is you to meet his washing counterpart Vladimir Putin in moscow on thursday where he hopes a deal can be arranged to halt the fighting grew so. Heres our system to allow it to call on russia and iran one more time we do not have any problem with you in syria but of the Syrian Government forces do not withdraw turkey has determined as soon as possible they will not have a heat lift on their shoulders. As speak to. Force us on the turkish Syrian Border or one is defiant but east elt seems willing to negotiate with syrias ally russia. Indeed folly he laid out the. Fundamentals of what could be a agreement with russia and his stand that the prerequisites for turkey are for the syrian army to put out behind the Demilitarized Zone to leave the villagers took over over the last few months and to allow civilians to return back to their homes so that all those who are stranded on the border with turkey can go back to their villages if that does not happen this turkish mitchell will step up its military campaign which is already happening with the Turkish Military pounding government positions in different parts of italy province and particularly today in south africa which has become the focal point of the confrontation between the of bubbles backed by turkey on one hand and the Syrian Government backed by the by the russians now theres going to be a chance for diplomacy on the almost the 5th when the president has a daughter and meets with russian counterparts poti with the be able to set aside their differences it was made to be seen because russia insists the attack by the government is legitimate against gov rebel positions because they say were not fighting against civilians were fighting against a attack to the sham which russia and syria describe as a terrorist organization and i think if the can overcome those differences we might see a deal in the coming days a deal for hedley possibly as you say theres intense fighting there right now whats happening elsewhere on the ground in syria. It seems that both parties before the meeting on of the 5th of march are trying to make gains on the ground and this explains why the Syrian Government backed by russia has launched an offensive earlier in the morning to take over iraq is crucial because it sits all the 2 highways 5. 00 and 4. 00 which links damascus to aleppo to aleppo and the northwestern part of the country but the rebels backed by turkey are Still Holding ground in the center of the city but weve been told by our sources now that theres an intensive 5 strikes by the rushes to the rear by the Syrian Army Pounding rebel defense lines of the very heart of it says that they want to claim a back and show the Syrian People that they have managed to make some gains and for the rebels its crucial also the wall to hold ground to show the world that they are still capable as a force backed by turkey to reverse all the gays bait by the Syrian Government thank you for that update hashem have our live for us in had need a techie syria border now to take its military has been using weaponized drones with devastating effects against Syrian Government forces the by iraq totty be tactical Unmanned Aircraft system is built by a turkish joint venture and has become a symbol of National Pride as been exported abroad and has flown missions in libya the drones have a 12 need to wingspan and can fly to a maximum altitude of iran 7000 meters it carries enough fuel to fly for on 24 hours and as well as flying reconnaissance and Intelligence Missions it can also be armed with missiles including untie tank weapons asat ashraf is a former engineer officer with the Royal Air Force he says many states rely on these storms. Certainly drones are being used now in every conflict by almost every sunday. For example has been using many years. States use them and they are in many ways as you say a game changer in that they define a conventional or doctrines of air power than talk in terms of their supremacy superiority and so when these things work in a domain which is in near or below the threshold of conventional and how many states have the ability to reduce themselves but its quicker and easier in some cases to work in collaboration with those us states that already have that technology it saves a lot of time and effort to buy from fellow states and then. Combine it with your. Local skills to assemble a drone that fulfills the needs or will be particular that the states military. A child has died after a boat loaded with migrants capsized off the greek island of les pauls 47 other migrants trying to reach it from turkey were rescued thousands of refugees have been attempting to cross into europe after turkey said it will no longer enforce its border president said on monday that your must share the burden of caring for my friends and speak to John Psaropoulos who is on less of a silence forest i joined us bring us up to speed for us with the numbers just how many people have been arriving on greek shores in recent days and what whats been the reaction there. In the 24 hour period from sunday morning until this morning there was quite a high number of arrivals just under a 1000 people simply across the city just across the used to g. And separate from the people that crossed over the land border although that number was much smaller it was in the dozens today weve seen much smaller numbers so far here unless it was only 2 boats of arrived most of the people who came still here on the beach behind me you can see them theyve collected brambles and dead wood from behind the beach preparing to bed down for the night here using United Nations blankets that they are slowly beginning to light their fires earlier on they were fed by also receives here but theyre not being taken down to the morea camp the refugee camp on the island because that has been blockaded by island is who dont want also refused to process more people search and to put more people in it but also because the government has suspended asylum applications as you said before fully right and and so youve been speaking to some of these refugees and migrants over been arriving in the past few days what are they telling you about you know they conditions what they left and what sort of other help are they getting when they arrive in greece. Well the normal humanitarian assistance is still in place which is the blankets the food some medical assistance where necessary obviously in cases of emergency people are taken to the local hospital. There are n. G. O. S that are still operating on the islands theyre still looking after the people who are staying in moria but these new arrivals of a strange new case they are somewhat in hiatus their status isnt yet determined its my understanding that the government doesnt intend to document and process them the way it has been doing up until now that these people are going to be caught up in this new emergency measures regime in which they will not be allowed to apply for asylum and in some cases wont be documented either thank you for that John Psaropoulos live for us on the greek island of less posts plenty more ahead on this news hour including feeling the strain well look at how the corona Virus Outbreak has put the Global Economy in survival mode was dated back and your Football Team makes it and molest a beaut peter will be here to tell our stolid they got a. Price israelis are voting in their 3rd general election in 11 months people hope this will bring an end to months of political turmoil that had a caretaker government since the 1st inconclusive election last april Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu has failed twice to form a Coalition Government in september the blue and white partys leader benny gantz was asked to form a government and also face it. Go vote its a proud day this is a democracy you have a great right that you should exercise with confidence the corona thing is completely under control today weve taken all the precautions that are necessary people can go and vote with complete confidence this is a celebration of difficulties for the society i hope to take if you want to go and vote of course i support myself that respect and the decision of any voter its about time that well be much more united much will be one and not theyre going to listen to one state against the idea that a small piece did we go where the. I stick no one to. Use any kind of violence whether its my walls would reply deeds get us all respect democracy gets back to the state. Well we have 2 correspondents covering this election for us Harry Fossett is in the headquarters of 20 minutes now in iran khan is at the n. Y. P. D. Cam with benny gantz supporters and will go 1st to have very at the likud headquarters whats the mood like in the nets now can carry this time around and one of the expectations. Well i think there are a few things that are different were used to this process now this is the 3rd time of asking for israeli voters to try to select some kind of coalition which might be able to be forms to form a government were used to seeing on this day in the day before Benjamin Netanyahu running around the country giving all sorts of messages via Facebook Twitter social media of all kinds warning his voters that hes on the cusp of losing and trying to get them to the polls trying to scare them to the polls in effect this time around its a very different kind of message a much more confident sounding as in you know saying hes just one seat and hes really parliament the knesset away from having that magic number 61 seats which would allow him his new could party along with their prospective Coalition Partners to form a government and so that is the message that hes giving is voters to try to influence turnout and turnout does seem to be up as of 2 pm which is 3 hours ago local time so now it was at 31. 8 percent that is up on the most recent elections its the highest since 2013 and as he said in that sound bite coronavirus shouldnt scare voters he was saying it doesnt seem to be indeed there have been 16 separate special voting stations with tents and special procedures for the voters to come who have been quarantined and as of 430. 00 this afternoon off an hour ago more than 3 and a half 1000 voters with those quarantine restrictions. Had made votes those voting stations are going to be extended in their Opening Hours because the process is pretty slow so its election the world under coronavirus conditions yeah well see what happens in a few hours thank you for that Howie Fawcett my forests at the Likud Party Headquarters thats not check in with iran khan whos at the blue and white Party Headquarters of benny gantz so how confident are they there in the blue and white camp that they can get the support they need to build a successful coalition. Well i think you can say that they quietly confident what were being told by people within the party itself is that they feel theyre in a very good position not to get the 61 seats they need for an outright majority government but a very quietly confident that theyll get one more seat than the select the 2nd Largest Party which puts them into the position of making a minority government that seems to be what theyre going for theyve done the math they say they can get enough votes enough these knesset members to come into that coalition and get them into power however theres still a very long road to go this campaign is actually been criticized by many analysts being quietly confident botley perhaps slightly too quiet and that they didnt try to push people to come and get out the vote come and vote for. Leaders now behind me you can see them as greens there those screens are going to be key because thats where the exit polls will be shown around about 10 pm local time depending on how those exit polls go its either going to be a very large bush was a crowd or a very large subdued crowd like i say the bloom what party seem to be quietly confident that they might be able to form a minority government but theyre not talking about the majority government as they were before all right in iran thank you very much for that imraan khan live from tel aviv then lets get the view now of our senior political analyst marlon bashar who joins us on the news hour so israel is going to the polls for the 3rd time in less than a year is there anything different tazz anything changed since the last election besides a corner Virus Outbreak of us. Actually the core of our is quite important it seems and in depends what goes on today in the polling stations i think whats new is the fact that we already had those election before and i think people are getting tired and people do want a result the question is who do they blame for the impasse each party will of course will will blame the other but clearly at the center of all of this at the center stage is binyamin at the neo because the end of the day that the main problem is not only the set of 4 terms but he is indicted on major corruption charges and even if he does do well today in few days were going to see him in the courtroom and the israeli law is still out the jury is still out on the question whether he could actually form other government not right for all practical purpose the 2 major parties could form a National Government if only if only nothing else steps aside but he wouldnt and thats why this election is more or less a refund on been a minute and a referendum on its now since the last election of course as you said theres been the indictment corruption indictment but theres also been a tramp maybe space plan could that give him a leg up even though they both of course say they support this plan it was a big moment for netanyahu when that plan was unveiled thats a good point but i think you sort of answered the question by saying that they both accepted it and i think thats very interesting because netanyahu is basically the godfather of the plan basically i would say it was the plan and put his signature on it and from announced it. But the fact that the americans invited both israeli leaders and the fact the big guns embraced it and i think its its a joke of a pen but be that as it may for israelis the nuance that been again scooter brought to the table saying look lets be pragmatic about the occupation because we cannot be occupiers and have security on the long term he did not even graced the thrum plan i think he was intimidated into embracing the implant and hence the difference between him and at the near hope practically speaking is gone right but netanyahu sorry. Went as far as saying after this plan was announced that he would onyx jewish settlements in the occupied west bank part of the Jordan Valley which gantz didnt do will that be the difference there were actually guns even before the plan has already said that he will be annexing parts or all of the areas around the jordan river so for all practical purposes the security man is guns he is the former chief of staff and he knows understands security and said we have to have a secure border in history and he said we have to annex of jordan river areas the populous netanyahu of course has been upping the ante ever since saying no no were going to get more and more were going to build more settlements were going to unexplored lands and so on so forth the thing is that i think israelis have stopped buying because hes been giving so many things for free as it were including direct. I mean its going to go to funny he promised direct flights from tel aviv to maka to the arab in israel in order just to get a few more votes so his promises are i think forming on the ears what i want to thank you very much variance i thank you now lets turn to other world news send police in afghanistan say at least 3 people have died in a blast in the southEastern Region of call spontaneous theres been no claim of responsibility so far the attack comes just days after the u. S. And the taliban signed an agreement in doha aimed at ending the nearly 2 decades war in afghanistan lets get the latest from Hoda Abdelhamid who is in kabul for us so what more you hearing about this attack and who do we think is behind it. Well what we know about the attack is that there was a blast near a stadium in host province and according to the interior ministry 3 people were killed and 7 others injured now we dont know who is behind that that attack it could be some spoilers there are several armed groups operating in this country who were against the deal between the taliban and the u. S. That you mentioned sundin doha 2 days ago but even if it were the taliban does that does not breach the agreement because in that agreement the taliban have to hold off from attacking any foreign troops any military bases where you have foreign and afghan troops any. Government institutions