Bid after withdrawing from the president ial race. That the leaders of russia and turkey are expected to meet in the coming hour as the 2 countries have recently come close to direct confrontation in Northern Syria as italy province turkey is trying to push back Syrian Government forces who supported spy russia when moscow has accused ankara violating a 20 deal to create a Demilitarized Zone and help in port it calls terrorist groups well inside it live witnesses have told aljazeera that russian air strikes have killed at least 15 people and farms sheltering displaced civilians many more are injured will shortly will speeches that fasten whos outside the kremlin in more schooled. 1st lets go to the turkey syria border where we have seen them course you allude there soon the Turkish Military have sustained casualties civilians though are also being course up in this escalating violence. Yes all of the spike the upcoming meeting between turkish and russian leaders and despite the commitments that they both sides will comply with us and sochi the casualties continue for both sides both the Syrian Government side and turkey and the Syrian Rebels and civilians of course today turkish president is expected to bring a suit things on the table when discussing with his russian counterpart one of them is secured so on around 30 kilometers deep inside there where the civilians. Can be in a safe a safe and sound and it can be it should be a no fly zone so that there will be no air strikes by the Syrian Government forces order or the russians plus of course to provide this there should be a permanent cease fire whether its going to come out from this meeting it is still unknown it seems the russians are more willing for a temporary ceasefire but if for the turks a temporary ceasefire means just president bashar assad forces to gain back their energy and come back to the field but one thing is important to present i dont know. That turkey will not whats wrong with the world from its military force that were established by a so check we went inside and saw turkey say sochi it must be a practice as it was signed back in 2008. Cinammon cosi all the life for us on the turkey syria border thank you very much indeed lets bring in step fastener she joins us for more school and step us look ahead to these talks between russia and turkey what exactly is france amir putin hoping to get from them. Yeah russias position has not changed russia says it will still stick to the such e 2018 agreement which means that turkey needs to demilitarized region in italy but of course the military situation on the ground has completely changed since then with Syrian Forces occupying part of the turkish observation post so the situation has become much more complicated so it will be a very very difficult meeting the question is how much. Compromise how much earlier one wants to compromise of course putin is doing this very complicated chess game with syria assad on one side and Erdogan Turkey on the other and he doesnt want any any conflict with any of them so its a very difficult play that hes doing right now and of course has made it very clear that he doesnt want to let go of it so says jim was saying a ceasefire is possibly on the table but what weve seen of course in the past is that any cease fire between turkey and russia so far has been broken the last cease fire that was made in january in istanbul about it live didnt materialize at all so it could be a very temporary solution is also talk about the same stone at the border with turkey where refugees could be temporary settled but that also is going to be a very difficult topic because one wants a good stretch of land 35 kilometers and has been sad and assad is not very likely to approve that so its going to be very very difficult here in moscow ok steadfast in reporting live from the russian capital thank you very much indeed. Now the European Union has pledged over 65000000. 00 in further humanitarian aid for people in a province thats as the block faces a worsening refugee crisis own its borders thousands of refugees and migrants have been trying to cross from turkey into greece after ankara said it would no longer stop them the tasha game has this exclusive report from the Turkey Greece border. Struggling to find their slippery footing they made their way across the dam bare foot stone by stone. One man slips and his bag bobs away with a Swift Current of the river. Desperation and despair are growing as refugees and migrants take advantage of turkeys open border with greece and both carry out some are taking dangerous risks for the chance to reach the European Union. I dont know how to swim while walking i was thinking. Those are the only 2 options earlier this week the Turkish Police began blocking refugees were walking across this bridge closer to the checkpoint with greece now people are resorting to risking their lives by crossing this below. On the other side of the river bank cold and wet refugees were met by villagers looking to make a profit those who still had money in their pockets were asked to pay 2. 00 to 3. 00 for a ride with a horse and cart a tractor or a van instead of walking the short distance to get closer to the checkpoint at the greek border. All who. Were also poor we dont have money and if we did we wouldnt be doing this. The odds of people making it to greece and being allowed to stay looking creasing least lamb the greek government says only 1500. 00 migrants at most have entered since turkey opened its border gates last friday around 26000 have been stopped several men told us this was their 2nd attempt after theyd already been deported from greece. I made it to the other side and for 5 days i moved from place to place i have no food people give me food i eat i have. No money left. Despite hunger exhaustion and frustration theyve summoned the determination to repeat the journey. Europe has to take us because only turkey is taking care of immigrants if they take us there will be good others will be following that also making the precarious track natasha getting old does iran a dirty near the border between turkey and greece. That the u. S. Says of california has declared an emergency to deal with the night break off the coronavirus theres been a rise in cases there and the 1st fatality and i was with a man dies after recently returning from a trip on a cruise ship the grand princess is no adults near californias coast with thousands of people on boards and politicians in washington are backing an 8300000000. 00 package to combat coronavirus its expected to pass the senate and be signed off by President Donald Trump most of the money will go to agencies dealing directly with the outbreak. I spoke to several governors this morning they were grateful for the fact that the changes you made this week and through the f. D. A. You know make it possible for state Health Clinics as well as universities around the country to be able to conduct coronavirus tests but will also be meeting this afternoon with leaders of our commercial laboratories to make a coronavirus test more rapidly more wildly available for doctors offices and medical clinics. Well the virus is no spreading faster outside of china where its originated stand within the Chinese Government is now trying to stop travelers from bringing it back well lets get the view from asian i would give you a good pal and she joins us now from hong kong and give you the rates of infection in china has slowed but other countries of brains asia seem to be struggling to contain the spread why is that. Thats right in fact in the latest press fave briefing from the Chinese Health ministry they did confirm that there were a different direction hasta load as you said and they very proudly said that it was all their measures that have been taking place taking putting in place a to combat the spread of the bars including the lockdown of some very very large areas of china cities even provinces restricting the movement of many people some of the china can do because of its government desire for a tarion government where they can enforce such large measures now the rain in contrast the areas around china and other countries like south korea were seeing the rate increase quite drastically and once again today you know the rate today itself theres an additional 322. 00 cases on thursday and south korea and most of those cases are in daegu and thats linked to a religious group that had traveled to war han in the early days of the virus and brought it back to south korea the south korean government is now battling and trying very hard to contain that but the people from that religious group have traveled across the country so were seeing other cases pop up in across south korea which is very worrying for the government there and meanwhile in japan also there was a spike in cases and seen cases in australia india has had now in new cases there in the dozens but its worrying because india is the 2nd most popular populous nations people live in very dense conditions and they dont have the same ability or the government doesnt have the same ability to impose measures without any opposition they cant tell people to stop moving around they cant put in those really those concrete directives to try and lock down that virus and china may have seen an improvement but the Northern Edge of the woods yet so are they in fact their worries about people bringing the virus bank to the country. Thats right hala and that is the new worry now they feel like they managed to contain the situation within the country theyre trying to bring it back to normalcy getting people to start moving around lifting restrictions the problem now they say is that. The issue of what theyre calling importing of the virus so many of the people returning from other countries. Including south korea japan and regions around china are said to be a threat to china trying to control it within the country so what theyre now doing is placing people under strict quarantine particularly those from china iran italy and south korea of course japan and japan. Just just to make a point that people from those areas will come under very strict quarantine the have spent 14 days in quarantine theyre not completely blocking them from arriving but people from other parts of the world who are trying to deems that maybe a threat also will have to go through some measures the other interesting point in this and you know if you remember earlier in this virus the rest of the world was blocking people from china from traveling outwards and into their countries but theres been another reversal and thats in the money thats going now flowing out of china chinas offering aid to south korea japan already given aid to ron and also offering aid to other countries along its belton Road Initiative that that would seem to be under threat or at risk of having this virus spread ok dear cupola bringers all the very latest there from asia thank you so much for joining us live from hong kong. Still to come on aljazeera another push for answers about the tragic events sometimes friends. And time fighting in libya is getting a strain. But. Weve got more showers just pushing across the philippines over the next couple days the wettest weather for Southeast Asia is going to be across malaysia big downpours save indonesia still see some lobby showers but the the general trend as it should be for the sand just pushing up into were more than parts here just easing up towards southern and central areas of the philippines some heavy showers as we go on through saturday was to just around southern parts of the malaysian peninsula further north it is generally fine and dry but the showers will continue to the south a possible strike where we have some heavy showers here as well you see this line of cloud just stretched across. Pushing outs of of carpentaria pushing right down the eastern side of australia where we have seen some incredibly wet rather recently the outback has taken quite a soaking is now pushing over towards the eastern side of the country queensland seeing more heavy showers longer spells of friday down towards the southeast things will start to dry out we had some very wet weather around a city just a rather decent side of victoria in melbourne seeing some very wet weather as we went through the past 24 hours that wet weather that windy weather i will have its way towards new zealand we are going to see that cloud in the right crash pushing in here and tell me what for the weekend. She was black gay im from rio de janeiros her velez. She was also an elected outspoken council woman. Until she was assassinated the arab. People in power investigates the killing of a vocal critic of brazils Security Forces and the legacy of empowerment she left behind the matter of Mariel Franco on aljazeera i am. To. This is al jazeera a reminder of the headlines this hour the leaders old russia and turkey are g. To meet in the coming hours in an effort to ease tensions in Northern Syria as you countries have come calls a direct confrontation in for turkeys launch an offensive against Government Forces who are allied to russia incited the witnesses and told aljazeera that russian air strikes have killed at least 15 people in farms sheltering displaced civilians many more are injured. California has declared a state of emergency after its 1st that fall because one of our us the elderly victim had recently returned from 1st trip to mexico passengers on the same ship on a being tested on board. Olivias conflicts has forced flights to be redirected to misrata after the only functioning airport in tripoli was targeted on monday the airport was hit by heavy shelling nearly 300. 00 civilians have been killed by walk it saw airstrikes since warlord Khalifa Haftar began his campaign to seize the capital last April Charles stratford reports now from misrata. With forces loyal to warlord Khalifa Haftar targeting with seagate airport in tripoli virtually every day all flights to and from western libya are now being conducted from here misrata airport which is around a 3 hour drive from the capital now all Foreign Airlines stopped operating all flying to and from libya around 5 years ago i spoke to a pilot with a Libyan Airline last night who refused to go on camera but he described the experience of flying into tripoli in recent months as having been terrifying and thats despite increased communication with Government Forces trying to protect the airport on the ground. This is a recent rocket attack on tripoli by help his forces a number of civilians were injured when some of the rockets landed in the neighborhood an aircraft belonging to the Libyan Airline el afriqiyah which was parked near the runway at maty port was hit by shrapnel from exploding rockets on monday no one was injured misrata airport is now having to serve up to 5000 passengers a day a 10 fold increase since mitzi gamble was closed on them so that of course misrata airport is not capable of handling this amount of flights but were doing everything we can to make things run as smooth as possible. Most of these passages would use a fly from which pool before it was shot and yes because i have friends who were in matija airport when rockets hit they describe absolute chaos and fear just imagine a place like this and bombs start falling around you youd probably never want to travel again the interior minister for the un Bank Government 40 bashar guys said that the International Community is not doing enough to punish off the fatah getting civilian areas in tripoli including with sea port bashar has warned that the un backed government by soon have little choice but to change its military strategy from a defensive one into an offensive one in order to push off the us forces back stop at aljazeera misrata. Israels military has demolished palestinian homes in the key Point West Bank the army says 2 residents targeted. A rule in an attack on an israeli settlement last august when one person was killed human Rights Groups of one criticized israels practice of destroying homes saying its collective punishment stance illegal under international law. Sudans Transitional Government is being urged to investigate last years killing all prodemocracy demonstrators physicians for human rights blamed sudan Security Forces for the deaths of 241 people and whats known as the june the 3rd massacre that happened 2 months after president Omar Al Bashir was i said many of the sets in protesters demanding democracy were Health Care Workers the physicians for human rights report sent Security Forces fired into hospitals and tortured civilians as well as carrying out gender based attacks well the Physicians Group is calling on u. N. Member states and the African Union to sanction sudanese officials responsible for what they call gross human rights abuses or aljazeera is have a morgan is in the citys capital khartoum and i bet you were there in the capital when the violence erupts it does this report tally with your experience on the ground. Yes indeed had and now while im just there or was banned from reporting we were in hudson when the attack on the city and happened and we do remember hearing the gunshots opened on protesters at. The sets in which was not far from where we were and we also heard from friends from people who are advocates and who ran for their lives and went into hospi