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a new security alliance with the u. s. u. k. the un security council expands its mission and the part of the resolution, referring to women and girls, was watered down before the boat and after briggs, it's the u. k. now, the faces, so that's most severe food supply, shortages and decades made worse by the pandemic. ah, the united states is threatening more sanctions against the warring sides in ethiopia with the goal of ending the fighting. a new executive order opens the door to sanction members of the ethiopian an era tray and governments to grow people's liberation front. and the hot regional government, the by the administration is trying to pressure them into negotiations. the war which started in northern degree region last month, last november, i'm sorry, has killed thousands of people left almost a 1000000 in famine like conditions al jazeera chaper tunzia. washington says the

bible ministration is keen to show. it doesn't just blame the ethiopian government . it's. it's a theme that we've seen from the white us out from congress in the last few months as the crisis intensifies in that range. and that the bike administration, particularly trying to be seen as being, having an even hound and blaming all sides, even whereas the sort of liberal interventionists in the government, samantha power usa id for example, have been pushing and have been warning off of ethiopian atrocities. but the bite administration has been, has been talking about all sides in the counseling i was at a congressional hearing just a few months ago actually way where you could see that being played out. i mean, even this executive order, it's a lot less than meets the eye and the reasons are fascinating. i'll get get over there in a 2nd. but this, yeah, as you said, it threaten sanctions. it empowers the treasury and the state department to impose

sanctions, but it doesn't do sorry, doesn't name any one, and it, and it, and it has a long list of actions that the u. s. wants to see it. once it cools and all parties do rental facilities to allowances, facilitate unimpeded humanitarian access. accountability for human rights abuses, inclusive dialogue, the, to preserve the unity of the state, but no action yet. and that's been a big disappointment of a liberal intervention, especially in a democratic party. well, if you're a p as prime minister abbey ahmed has written an open letters a precedent by them in response to the threatened sanctions. part of it reads, unfortunately, while the entire world has turned its eyes onto e. c o p and the government for all the wrong reasons. it's failed to openly and sternly reprimand a terrorist group in the same manner that it's been chastising my government. so i me will get you as a journalist from out of a he says the u. s. has a powerful influence in ethiopia. it has invested since the beginning of the conflict begun to november. it has invested well over half a $1000000000.00 in terms of the conflicts providing aid and basic support to

all the the 1000000. so we've been seeing from a distance and the gray region. there is also the issue of trade. ethiopia has benefits it from a trade agreement that was signed by george w bush in 2000, 2000 in 2004. saying that countries like if you should benefits due to pre privileges. and there was a period that would be withdrawn and how much of your success has been in terms of trade. its industrial parks, occupied by many cannot multinational benefit from this tax benefit. those that introduced 2 decades ago. and there was a fear that would be withdrawn, but that did not happen. and there is a relief and stuff of your government continues to accuse the american government of supporting the soldiers gravely. they are cold

when a month power, the head of us said was in town. she did not get the audience that she expected from the prime minister. so there was all kinds of complaints from the american side. but i mean, this conflict is still going on. china has accused the u. s. industry alia of colluding to smith. it's reputation. and the latest fall out of the 2 countries joined britain in a new alliance. many see the new security agreement as part of efforts by the west to contain china's growing influence in the region, particularly of a contested maritime claims. 9 highland sugar on the south china sea, taiwan and hong kong china. the position is clear to us and most really are colluding with each other and for selfish geopolitical gains are smearing china, their interfering and chinese stick affairs. as facts of proven china is not only a major engine for economic development in the region is also for stability and peace. china development represents

a force for peace in the world and the regions development out of here of katrina you in beijing says china feel fair alliance will cause irreversible damage. all relations between by doing camera are in very bad shape. an analyst that i've spoken to here says that this really is the nail in the coffin, that if there was any opportunity for the relationship to improve this really close that often, we do expect the relationship to remain frosty, for at least some years to come and china's relationship with these other countries through the u. s. and the you can also worsening. china has repeated its rebuke. of this security packed accused these 3 countries of harboring a cold war mentality of creating an exclusionary block and of interfering in china's internal affairs. we had a new statement released by the chinese embassy in australia earlier today. and in that statement, it said that a strategy should handle its relationship with china in a genuinely independent manner. meaning to say that aging sees australia is acting

as little more than a porn of united states in the region. and it seems that reflected in this trade back in this exchange of this nuclear submarines. china as president, she's in ping is calling for smooth transition in afghanistan and as the new government to follow what he called moderate policies. asian leaders, amazing and touching his times capital do shondae to discuss the taliban takeover up the shanghai cooperation organization. as the 1st major summit of regional countries since the armed group seized power last month, member states and expressed concern of an influx of refugees and the risk of attacks. the un security council meanwhile, has extended the mandate of its mission enough gonna stand for further 6 months. the vote was unanimous. they settled on a temporary extension, given the uncertainty enough, kennesaw since the taliban takeover. by extending the mandate of the un assistance mission in afghanistan, today,

we demonstrate this body's commitment to the un vital role in supporting the afghan people. by extending unanimous work as assigned in resolution 2543, we are emphasizing the importance of the un continued commitment to human rights. civilian and child protection, humanitarian assistance, coordination, and countless other functions which will be fundamental to the future of a scanner. stan, diplomatic as a james space is at the united nations. he explains the scope of the un mission enough chemist on it's the un assistance mission for afghanistan and it's been in place since 2001. but actually the un in some shape or form has been enough going to start since $947.00 range of roles that they've done over the years. some of them i think, are not going to be ones that can be performing anytime soon. for example,

promoting democracy and arranging elections has been part of their role helping the african government with that, clearly, i don't think they're going to be elections anytime soon enough kind of stuff. but there are parts of the mission, which i think you're going to be greatly increased. for example, the humanitarian assistance in afghanistan, real worries about the state of the economy, the not properly functioning. banking system, the idea that literally thousands, maybe millions of people will start a slow and steady exodus from afghanistan across the borders. although it's very difficult to get across those borders because they're close. that's why the un security council has not done what it normally does, which it extend this mission just as it is every year for another year. they've decided really they need to look at the shape of this and how it's going to work. and that's why they've now agreed to a 6 month accept extension. for now. i think it shows behind the scenes even though it hasn't, i think affected the passage of this resolution that there are tensions among these

countries and different views on how to deal with the taliban. and remember that is going to be, i think one of the other problems going forward for the un is whether to recognize the taliban. there is an african and basset is still in his seat, who represents a government no longer exists. with austria's government has being taken to court. it's accused of not responding quickly enough. so a covert 19 outbreak, a scheme resorts, the event led to more than 6000 people from 45 countries getting infected. the civil lawsuit is the 1st of 15 such cases. don't cain reports. the shops takes his place in a v n e courtroom for a trial brought about in part by the death of his father. hannah's from cove it he has been staying in the ski resort of michigan when the virus emerged there in march. 2020 ish good is noted both for skiing and it's a play ski party venue,

which in pre covey times would normally attract hundreds, if not thousands of people at any one time. it was at one particular venue, the kid, where the 1st case in the town was diagnosed in the 1st week of march last year. many hundreds of people spent time in that bar, as well as other venues in the town. at that time. the austrian authorities were away coded, might be spreading in good back then. after a few days they did initiate a lockdown in the town. but all the shops lawyer says it was too little too late. he authorized the out the puts now untie, stopping people from leaving and arriving in the pulse now. valley or at least issuing and travel warning. the authorities fail to do that. that resulted in a tourist shift change on the weekend of march. the 7th and 8th. com, thousands of people left the power zine valley unhindered. thousands of people arrived without a clue that they were in danger. the austrian government rejects this suggestion

and is contesting the case. and it's back flow of people to and from issue which some believe help cause the virus to spread like wildfire across the continent. many of the people act that to events with germans who brought cove it back here with this country has reported more than 4000000 cases of the virus. since then. and despite mass vaccination programs, even hundreds of new cases are still being reported here in berlin. every day when video up to an important to us to start, if we don't dramatic increase vaccination rate, the current for wave may see massive momentum in autumn already. but number ok, the 19 patients requiring hospitalization is increasing intensive care and occupancy by caveat, patients has nearly doubled in the last 2 weeks. the county more than 1300 patients being treated. it's not just in austria, that officials are facing questions over their decisions. at the start of the

pandemic. the form of french health minister and yes, is now and a formal investigation for her handling of coven cases in france early last year. but so far, at least it is only in austria where those officials are having to account for the actions or inactions in court. dominic cane al jazeera berlin, the us food and drug administration is basing to decide whether to approve booster shots produced by at pfizer bio entech panel of independent bank. seen advisors is expected to vote on whether there's a need for additional doses for people age 16 and older. top health officials have warned that some fully vaccinated people may not have enough immunity to cover 19 the what the next here analysis era, them russian, head to the polls. but many candidates names are missing from the ballot. will tell the wife and in the democratic republic of congo, the threat of armed groups is making it difficult for people to make ends meet.

ah, ah, hello, there are bright skies in plenty of heat. that's the name of the game across the middle east. some of us are above average, so that's kuwait's at $44.00 degrees. we'll come back to that in a sec. we could have some clouds setting up over cats are on saturdays. so if you're indo, look to the sky. you may see some clouds drifting through. ok back to q 8. now we'll see some hazy conditions. monday and tuesday. that's because we've got a shamal when setting up so that kicks around the sand and does so. we see that hazy sunshine, but your temperature is still above average. it's staying dry in southern portions of pakistan, karachi, 39, we may see a scattering of showers in the hor, with a height of 33 degrees. what, whether that was over a turkeys, black sea region, ne box, the region still impacting parts of georgia, but otherwise, things are looking good. plenty of sunshine here. lot of what weather for the congo

we scooped up 61 millimeters of rain over in camera room to all up more than a 100 millimeters. and we see our big storms set up through ethiopia, kenya, and they move toward the west, further toward the south. plenty of sunshine temperatures heating up, keep town at 24, but windy though for the eastern cape. we could see gus here about 70 kilometers per hour. port elizabeth has a height of 70. ok. i'm not a fan. see soon. the frank assessments, by way, it is a lesson again, freedom suppression informed opinions. what you saw happening is come market. there was 42. there was petune is the critical debate here. it's not between any other conference here between 34 years re running to keep

them people in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on our jazeera oh the me again, this is, i'll just let somebody of the main news this. the us is starting more sanctions, it's violence continues in ethiopia as know them to grow region the by the ministration is looking to put pressure on all boring parties to end the fighting. china has accused the u. s. and the straight of colluding to smear its reputation of the 2 countries joint britain and a new military alliance, australia as prime minister, shrugging off the staging zango of the un security council is unanimously voted to extend the mandate of its mission enough chemist on prefer the 6 months,

they've settled a temporary extension, given the uncertainty enough kinda strong. since the ton of our takeover russians have begun voting and parliamentary elections, they have 3 days to cost the ballots for representatives to the duma. but many candidates who are opposed to president vladimir putin had been excluded from the elections. as part of smith's reports from moscow, the kremlin will be hoping this long line of voters can be relied upon to by united russia. the pro vladimir putin party wants to hold onto the super majority in the state duma. lo house, a problem. they face an hours long wait on a cold moscow morning. they put voted anytime in the next 3 days. the election commission says the military personnel coming off the night shift, a russian independent electric monitoring group got pointed out. the lack of people in uniform through the thing is that more and more russian citizens don't believe

in the legitimacy of these elections. it's just to show, nobody actually believed in free elections in the soviet union, just became accepted for the communists to get 99 percent of the vote boot and wants to create the same status quo that united russia will always have a super majority and people will make peace with that. the only entreat now is whether it's only the kremlin that can influence voters or small voting can to the idea of smart or tactical voting came from allies of jailed opposition activists, alexi navarro. ne, they've drawn up a list of candidates most likely to defeat united, russia. and so at least to deprive the party of its super majority. but the smart voting app where you enter your voting district and it tells you who should vote for. now the kremlin has told apple and google this app is illegal, and both companies and now taken off their stores, united russia had just 27 percent support in pre election polls. surely there's widespread public dissatisfaction with corruption and paul living standards. but

the russian president still enjoys around 60 percent approval. vladimir putin, his isolating after coming into contact with someone who tested positive for cove at 19. he voted online. as you can see, under sanitary constraints and quarantine, i did my civic duty online in electronic format. such voting system is used in many countries of the world and has been used in moscow several times. many falling stations in russia like this for much of friday, quiet opposition groups say they want their supporters to wait until as late as possible on sunday to vote. to reduce the risk of the ballot being interfered with . boats made al jazeera moscow. a perfect storm of problems including breakfasts in the pandemic, have combined to leave the u. k, with its worst shortages of food and basic supplies since the 1970s. while the worst of it should pass, it's raised questions about the long term health of the economy. i'll just was joe hall reports from london. heavy goods vehicles lumbering up and down britain's

highways. the pulse of a supply network currently in distress. not only are there fewer lori drivers, but with supply problems becoming a global phenomenon, there's often less to put in the re, deliver everything around the k, we provide for the u. k. everything. well, everyone's got in the tables when their homes we, it's been on the back of a trader. we got treated really bad throughout the cove. it, you know, we'll pack top at night, can't get no food, can't get showered. and some of us about enough. so they went and got 9 to 5 jobs all day jobs, so they can be home most as one is those opting for an easy life. laurie drivers from the you have left britain in their thousands, many never to return the fall in dr. a numbers plus choke points in the global economy mean that supermarkets, a warning of empty shelves at christmas time,

manufacturing and comp reduction or down climate change. his affected crop yields and the timber market. and one prominent fast food chain recently ran out of chicken make spellman does high end carpentry in the home improvement trade that has burgeon since lockdown, increased demand far exceeds supply. with the price of raw materials going through the roof of into a hotel or the other day. the timber that i bought there was probably around about 40 percent more than it was about 3 months ago. and they said, if you got everything you need, because this time, next week is probably going to go up. another 10 percent tempting is it may be to point to a simple single cause. the reality is more complex. a post breaks it co host lockdown and climate crisis. perfect storm hitting an intricate web of global supply chains in which the smallest glitch can affect the whole system. how long

mighty last is the view of a senior figure in the food and drink sector? the u. k. shopper and consumer could have previously expected just about every product they want to be on shelf or in the restaurant all the time. that's and i don't think it's come back to government doesn't accept the shortages may be permanent. what is harder to deny those the effect on the economy with inflation hitting record levels this month and a 1000000 job vacant sees that the british workforce is struggling to fill post covey recovery plans could be slipping into the slow lane jona whole al jazeera london, the europe in panama deserts, it's meant the states to boycott next, once you buy expo to signal that disapproval of rights violations. it's demanding. the united arab emirates immediately released 3 prominent human rights activists. off at bon saw mohammed al glockland and nasa been guy for all in solitary confinement setting long term prison sentences expo 2020 due by which expect to

11000000 foreign visitors was postponed for a year. due to the corona virus pandemic. joe stork is deputy director of the human rights watch, middle east division that explains the impact that a large boy called could have. first of all, this is not the 1st critical statement. the parliament or resolution of the parliament is issued on the you even as i think by far the strongest it's, i think it's that significant in what a cause for. of course the issue is, you know, the europe in parliament is not true. resolutions do not translate and automatically into the policies of the member states or even for that matter of the you commission. ready so the next step, i think, would be for the commission to follow the guidelines of the resolution and actually take up these issues directly with the us government and so call human rights

dialogue. but the most important step would be for national governments wrench problem. and for instance, the british parliament and so forth to actually take up these measures as equally strong resolutions. then i think would she get the attention of a orange? several leaders from the west african regional block eco was or in guinea, the meeting leaders of the military cou, a day after imposing sanctions on demanding that elections be held within 6 months . guinea was suspended from echo was last week, after the ministry removed, the president of a condo from power up address has more from concrete for many of the top military hierarchy. here it was a surprise that was not expecting such a short period of transition. one officer was even heard saying that it's impossible to organize that within a short time because of the current economic situation in the country because of copied 19 and those were some of the things that surprised them. that why expected

probably another 18 months 24 months, as was the case with molly, which was a little down to 18 months by the way. and of course his house also deliberated on that matter yesterday. now, the military leadership here why? expecting something much longer than 6 months. so it came as a surprise to them for guinea and practitioner were the fear is actually way such that it cannot make functions and embargoes would be imposed on this country. which could father complicate the level of poverty level. it cannot be caught if people are facing here. and now that of course has met and issued a list of functions not targeting the civilian population, but of course target in the military ownership in connect tree with one another was even say, how much do these military officers extend to me anyway? so we are waiting to see what will become of that meeting that's currently taking

place between last and what tara. mista knock off i do. and mr. con david post president we, i lot of people assume that what's happened in molly last year may repeat itself. yeah. traders in northeastern democratic republic of congo, say that it's becoming increasingly difficult to run that businesses because of groups. a state of emergency has been declared in it to re a north kiva provinces. but many fear the situation is not improving. i was just here as catherine sawyer reports now from the temple in north cable. this is one of the busiest trade routes in the eastern democratic republic of congo, merchandise from uganda, canyon and beyond. comes across the border of the town of cas cindy in uganda, and into libya in the congo. most of the goods end up in temple, a business hob, innocuous province, minerals for mining areas are also transported using this route. but rebel groups

in north q and the neighboring it to re provinces have made doing business dangerous. poly company veto is a trade union leader and sees the traders enough q andy. tory have collectively lost more than half a $1000000000.00 in recent years because of attacks by armed groups, including the r like democrats forces. you seriously this one. the bus route will become tricia middle, a good come in for mining areas. our government needs to delete the rebels. nearly 2 weeks ago, fighters from the armed group, almost a convoy and killed several people keep not thumb and burned dozens of vehicles. this was despite the national army and un peacekeepers being president. catholic of police was in his vehicle when they were a talk he had to flee and hiding the forest. his car was torched. global reports on

the convoy is usually very long and the security escort has limited. the road is also very bad. so we can't even speed in dangerous areas. sometimes one car can develop a mechanical problem, but the rest of the convoy, including the escort moves on the use gaps in the convoy to separate us. most of the drivers here in town was saying they're not traveling to bornea to the province anymore because of the security situation. they say that being a talked by on to groups the vehicle destroyed and now with a suspension of military convoys along that truth. the situation is just getting worse for them. after we left those security escorts resumed in the region. it's been under military rule since may, when the government declared a state of emergency. why that would be fine to me, we have done the 1st phase of the rebel cleanup. we have secured government territories. we have to get somebody that you are not accessible because of the security situation. now we are going into the 2nd phase to get them completely out

of civilian areas and then neutralize. what are some of these drivers back in september and not optimistic? they say they've lost many of their loved ones in their property and have listened to many government promises for way too long without seeing security improve. catherine all does era enough people, province, democratic republic of congo. is helen's cricketers pulled out of the historic tour of pakistan of security concerns. he sealants cricket chief said in the statement that they've been given government advised vice on the increased threat levels of black caps were supposed to begin the 1st day of 3. 1 day internationals on friday, it would have been the 1st time they took practiced on since 2003 arrangements are now being made for the teams departure. pakistan's interior melissa said there was no security threat for the visiting team. and former plan shop in october is also angry about the late withdraw. living like this is living a huge embarrassment. football guest on average. i can't take it. i can't take it.

it is just like really matter thing. so it is not going to help. bob is not good either. under the same time, you know, but his son is going to suffer. you had to trust the obstacle. this has been abra. mrs. spoken to me that mr. one, our chief executive has promised to use a security the should have listened. but anyways, we helped in a bad time many times. but this time when needed help, but you didn't never been there for us. and at the same time, you know, left us with a lot of medicine. ah, it is good to have with us. hello adrian. i get to hear it though. have a headlines on al jazeera, the u. s. is threatening more sanctions if the violence continues in ethiopia is northern to region. the by the ministration is looking to put pressure on all warring parties too. and the fighting thousands have been killed since violence

broke out into last november. the un security council has extended the mandate of its mission and i've got this down for further 6 months. the votes.