Russia head site over turkeys military operations in northwest syria say turkish outposts have merged with caught terrorist fortifications. And the w. H. O. Warns coronavirus has become more deadly than the seasonal flu and appears to be spreading much more quickly outside china then within. Where we start in the u. S. On the race to become the democratic president ial nominee the results are coming in from super g. s say the day when 14 states and one u. S. Territory have their say former Vice President joe biden has seen a surge of momentum taking the leans in a number of states but its senator Bernie Sanders whos taken the biggest prize the state of california. Well another big state texas has just gone to joe biden here are some of the other numbers numbers weve got for you boys in has secured massachusetts thats the home states of democratic hopeful Elizabeth Warren and she is one minnesota is the home state of another former contends and a make or bashar is making strong gains in these Southern States as well securing arkansas tennessee or klahoma alabama North Carolina and the state of virginia now Bernie Sanders has won the state with the most delegates thats california of course hes also won utah colorado and his home state of vermont there while biden has the most delegates so far as sanders is trailing in 2nd place there so followed by Elizabeth Warren 24 and Mike Bloomberg on 33 they were over in the republican primaries donald trump of course is in a clear lead says facing no serious contenders and is virtually certain to get his partys nomination. That both chill bites and im Bernie Santas have spoken to their support says heres some of what they had to say the last few days ago the press the funny declared you cant marry yet the only think a soft go on and off the. The trial were going to go to super tuesday and youre over well it may be over me never go on the what we need is a new politics that brings working class people in time our political move that was the work springs young people into our political goal that was the and which in the example will create the highest voter turnout in american political history the leslie mentioned its been a disappointing night for new york billionaire Mike Bloomberg and massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren so bloomberg insists he has the best strategy to be trump in the phone burst general election we proved we can win the voters who will decide the general election and isnt that what this is all about the now all my fellow candidates spent a whole year focusing on the 1st 4 states i was out campaigning against donald trump in the states where the election will actually be decided like wisconsin and michigan and pittsburgh and ohio not all the last 2 are the hall is with more an expressed hope the less than pleasing numbers fulton. Rejection has been a terrible business and. Wrong over and over so was my advice that i want to start with tonight show me my advice cherish those that will make you proud was well this was president Donald Trumps take on twitter the biggest loser tonight he tweets is many Mike Bloomberg his Political Consultants to kim for right 700000000. 00 was down the drain and he got nothing for it but the nickname mini mike and the complete destruction of his reputation way to go mike while the u. S. President has weighed in lets bring in our special guests on the panel Adolfo Franco was a republican strategist and a previously was an advisor to senator john mccain he joins us from washington d. C. Good to have you with us were also joined by lufthansa butler shes a former Senior Advisor to come one her wrists for the people and shes currently a partner for s. E. Rb strategies and joins us from los angeles also in d. C. Jennifer victor is a professor of Political Science its George Mason University is shar School Policy and. Governments thank you very much indeed all of you for joining us here understand its very late where you are but it has been a sleepless night for many lets start with you its all for franco this is nigh argue a 2 horse race this is between joe biden and Bernie Sanders why do you think this is whats prompted this change in what was once a very crowded field. Well a couple of things and i guess well speak to this as well is you know just a few days ago everyone was talking about the standards momentum and that he was unsurmountable and and he was going to be the nominee and. First of all everything can change in politics quickly and they can change again but certainly sense. Saturday there has been a political earthquake and see change in the Democratic Party to coalesce around the job by 1st it is the remarkable result of the South Carolina primary where he won decisively he was 6 he was supposed to win South Carolina that was his fire wall but not by 30 or 40 points the africanamerican vote in that state was so overwhelming that i think that was a signal to some of the other candidates that were more in what we call sometimes his lane centrist to say this is the person we need to coalesce around and have as our nominee not to have a far more left extreme you would saw in your clip here that you just ran that mr sanders refers to his candidacy as a movement a movement our movement not the Democratic Party of which hes not even a member technically or has not been but a movement and i think that decisive win in South Carolina were seeing the fruits of that now 2 of the dropped out candidates mayor people to judge and former senator i was senator from a former candidate that senator Amy Klobuchar endorsed. Joe biden for for the for the nomination so that has been decisive and thats what were seeing there the republican the sorry of a republican the democratic establishment coalescing around their candidate their centrist candidate and now he has the surge and the momentum ok well lets take that argument see the phones about why do you think this is. A sea horse race. Its just people showing their fear of Bernie Sanders or are they very much determined sobriety right and the right candidate all along which. Was him how do you see the changes in this race how did they come to this. Well i think you know it came about in the 1st 2 contests theres been lots of conversation in the Democratic Party about should iowa New Hampshire the most representative states of the Democratic Party in its base and it wasnt really until you got to states like nevada and South Carolina that you really got to see the fullness of the Democratic Base performance and so i think how we got here are is is just how adolfo just just described the energy demonstrated in South Carolina with the. Endorsement of representative cliburn. Sort of well known candidates see and name idea of Vice President biden and a lot of a lot of luck you know in a lot of ways and you know politics is just as as much about are as as much art as it is science in this pincham could swing again theres a lot more conscious to be had this there was a time when. Elizabeth warren was up and it was hers to lose and so we should all sort of caution ourselves and not declare by it in the democratic nominee quite yet but we can appreciate that he had a good night that black voters are showing up all across the south that representative former representative but theyre all war and other leaders in in texas who have endorsed him campaigned on behalf of Vice President biden actually matter we all talked weve talked about tonight how the Vice President didnt spin very much money and in campaign very hard in texas yet he has come away with a victory and i dont think that that is just because of South Carolina but theres a lot of work that other people do when the candidate is not in those states and i just think that should be. Recognize as well former mayor of los angeles. He was just there 2 days ago and i think theres a lot of there is a lot of momentum moving to Vice President biden but i would caution us not to declare him the nominee quite yet well absolutely and lets not forget there are still an additional 2 or perhaps even 3 candidates left if we cant. What happens to you. Elizabeth warren and Mike Bloomberg i mean are they going to. Leave this to the sea men in their seventys to carry on or is this likely will the pendulum swing see another candidate do you think. Look the story the story of this election is is not yet written i think that after tonight though i know the counting is still happening in california and in texas as a relates to congressional level delegate allotment i think senator warren and mayor bloomberg have some real questions to ask themselves you know are they continuing to add value to the to the discussion in some ways i think i think that they are. And but are we are we moving towards a pathway that best unites the Democratic Party to towards the general election is another question that they have to ask themselves and theres going to be some soul searching tonight not sure whos going to move or what direction if theyre going to bow out or not but vote for senator warren when you know when you come in 3rd in your home state theres some real questions that youve got to ask yourself ok well lets take some of those questions to panel member jennifer victor. We are this has effectively. A 2 horse race has it not between joe biden and senator son we cant write off senator sanders yet hes just picked up the biggest state arguably of california. So a lot of movement between those 2 candidates but i am interested to get your thoughts on how we got to this point one point it was senator saunders senator warren rather he was leads in the field you had the momentum behind her why do you think. Shes now dropped into 3rd place in a room states why is she not a wise american or willing to nominate a woman to become president of the united states. Well that question is going to remain on the table im afraid for a while not sure that we quite know what who that candidate is going to be and how the country my eventually come to that and i assume they will at some point but its not unusual in these primary races to have contests in which. Individual candidates will have a surge and then come back down and i remember in the 2016 republican nomination phase each one of those candidates at some point was sort of surging and so really what it comes down to is theres this sense of expectations that get built in for any particular candidate at any particular time and what weve seen here tonight is that Elizabeth Warren has significantly underperformed where she was expected to and joe biden has significantly over performed where he was expected to probably fair to say that bloomberg has significantly underperformed and sanders has underperformed in some places and done as well as expected in some others but its that recalibration of expectations that happens after each one of these contests and so as this narrative then solidifies in develops over the next few days and we wait again for the next set of contests thats where the adjustments will be made its worth noting as well that. Some of the story thats coming out of the camps now is as it does tend to boil down as it looks like its going to boil down to this sanders versus biden case youre getting really different rhetoric from both of these camps and as my colleagues were talking about earlier here. On the on the on the Bernie Sanders side you have this sense of a movement he doesnt even talk about it as a party and its a very revolutionary kind of. Kind of rhetoric but its not really clear what the boundaries of that revolution are is it just about policy is it just about health care and and college payments and so forth or is it about taking down the legislative process and creating a whole new policymaking structure and that gets kind of scary for people that starts to sound like something that isnt the america or the democracy that we know and so even if people agree with the goals of what sanders might be talking about not everybody is necessarily comfortable with his sort of scorched earth support approach to politics and thats where i think joe biden has been able to make gains joe biden is this people know who he is hes got the name recognition hes this trusted figure they sort of know what theyre getting with joe biden people seem to have a hard time getting excited about him he didnt take off right away and he still has some downsides as a candidate and its not clear that hes going to overcome all of them through this but it seems to be the safe choice that Many Democrats tonight have began to coalesce around ok great to get all of your thoughts thank you so much to the whole panel lets all full frank to the phones of jennifer thank you so much. Weve got more coverage of super tuesday for you later but for now lets bring you the rest of the top google news stories and russia has accused turkey of not fulfilling its side of a cease fire agreement in Northern Syria it also says turkey is quote terrorist reinforcements to merge with turkish posts in libya many fear on current moscow could directly confront each other after turkey escalated its campaigned push back Syrian Government forces step fascinate joins me live from moscow and step it feels somewhat ironic to be talking about upholding ceasefire obligations in a region thats come under such sustained fire from from all sides really what do you think we can read and say russias remarks. You know we have to remember of course that this is all coming one day before this very important meeting between president putin and president of iran here in moscow and now russia is not only accusing turkey of violating the agreement it made to with russia in 20172018 about demilitarizing it live but its also accusing turkey of violating International Law and these accusations are not new the 1st one about breaching the agreement inside she is not the new one but there are now more details coming from the ministry of defense here in moscow basically what they say is that Turkish Forces have now merged with the militant forces in the area of it live they are basically now at these turkish observation posts which are the result of these such agreements and they are attacking neighborhoods from the air but also attacking the russian airbase on a daily basis thats basically what the russians are now accusing turkey of of course this is important because erdogan has been saying that he wants to go back to do such agreements the Syrian Forces have during your thoughts have got more territory old such agreements would mean that Syrian Forces have to withdraw and of course by saying this the ministry of defense and the Russian Federation makes it clear that its going to be very difficult to go back to do such agreements because turkey has been breaching them from the beginning ok step in the very years that live update from moscow. To say Turkish Forces shot. Syrian government warplanes over been as many days reports from her time near the turkish syrian border. Operation spring shilled is in full swing Turkish Forces striking the syrian armys i mean its in depots towns and Defense Systems theyve also shot down a warplane in southern italy the escalation in fighting comes as turkey says its determined to stop Syrian Army Troops from advancing towards the city of idlib the rebels last stronghold of fischel is here say the military campaign has severely undermined the syrian armys capabilities. Undeterred syrian troops took. The city sits on 2 highways the m 4 an m 5 and has changed hands many times over the last few days as fighting continues u. S. Special envoy for syria James Jeffrey and u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Kelly craft visited the border area with syria and met members of the syrian White Helmets the u. S. Is contributing more than 100000000. 00 to address the deteriorating humanitarian situation in northwestern syria humanitarian aid is only a response the real answer is an immediate cease fire and durable cease fire so im very happy to be here this is obviously a moment that we need to make certain that we stress that the Americans Care but at the same time that there has got to be an immediate cease fire. And his father from province their family members are among thousands of people who have fled their villages and settled on the border with turkey. When we were walking out of the village we were hit by ernest reich i lost my hand and i miss my home my school. For the time being and his family have nowhere to go. Could turn into something more permanent if the fighting doesnt and as International Calls for an immediate cease fire governme