mobile apps, social media, and podcast, al jazeera digital, as a world award winning online content. and each week on portal will bring you the very best of it. they're trying to frighten the people to leave it to go somewhere else. but the truth is that it got nowhere else to go. so if you missed it online, catch up here with me. sandra gartman on al jazeera. ah, the european union agrees to step up sanctions against bela ruth for driving the crisis. this left thousands of migrants freezing on its eastern border. while nato warns moscow it stands by ukraine amid a large and unusual build up of russian forces on the ukrainian border. ah,

me, barker, this is al jazeera life from london, also coming up. donald trump's ally steve bannon hands himself into the f. b i to face contempt charges for refusing to cooperate with a capital riot investigation. myanmar release is an american journalist days after he was sentenced to 11 years for incitement and visa violations. and the u. k raises it's tara threat level, offer taxi explodes outside, and the people hospital ah, the european union is stepping up at sanctions targeting bela roofs, which it accuses of instigating the worsening migrant crisis on the blocks eastern border. the new sanctions will target airlines and travel agencies involved in the illegal push of migrants is alleged travel agencies from the middle east. a working with been asked to offer migrants passage to the e border where they're now stranded in freezing forests. poland says they have been

more than 5000 attempt to crossing some valerie so far in november compared to just a 120 and all of 2020. today we're going to approve a new packet of sanctions again to lucille people responsible for what's happening in the country. and we're going to large framework. you know that to think we've lament all the sanctions to other people, airlines travel agencies, and everybody involved on these illegal bush of migrants in our borders. mirabelle, rosie and president alexander lucas shanker says they are trying to persuade the migrants to return home, but with no success, the nation will go with me for these people are very stub enough. no one wants to return, and understandably so. they have no way to come back to you, they have no place to live, but i know there's nothing to see. the children were over some,

a simply afraid for their lives that are post op of well, for the one that's, let's bring in aside bag. his lie for us on the poland, bella, rooster border assa. firstly, tell us more about the situation yet, but i one of those hoping to enter the you encountering when they arrive. well, what they encounter is a razor wire fence sub 0 temperatures, very little food, water or shelton. if that's not enough, they're faced with her thousands of polish forces. now there's roughly $15000.00 polish military border force and police been deployed to that area. and once, if they do manage should get past those, they have a very dense forest to get through her and last night we were allowed to determine that had managed to make it across. now when we got there, activists had got to them. they had wrapped them in thermal blankets. they were very dehydrated and very exhausted now managed to speak to both men didn't speak

english to spoke arabic. or both were from syria from the city of homes. one's age, 39 and 41 they were, they were brothers and they told me that they had spent 4 days in the forest in those sub 0 temperatures. now medics did attend or they gave them some medical attention and took them in ambulances. we believed that we've taken to hospitals, they will receive medical attention and then the polish authorities with assess the asylum cases. so it's not very easy for those people. and these are the few that make it across. the polish government has set up a state of emergency in a seclusion zone along that border. so 8 or workers and journalists can't get in there. so even if someone manages to cross the border, don't immediately find assistance that they need in terms of food and water. and i said the bank dropped all of this is a flurry of phone calls between various leaders seeking to resolve this crisis on the border. yes, so we understand that the validation president, alexander lucas shanker,

has spoken to the german chancellor angler merkel. now that's the 1st phone call that's happened with the western leader since those elections last year. that triggered those massive st. protests in better route. we also understand that frankly damian macaroni spoken to russian president vladimir putin. obviously putin is a backer of better route. so this could be quite significant. also this comes as the e u has announced this new round of sanctions, this new criteria that allows them to target individuals and entities, they believe are facilitating or individuals to or enter europe the illegally. and this new criteria would mean that the you can target travel agents alva as well as airlines. but also there's been some very tough talk coming from the belly ruffian or defense minister. they have said that they will a retaliate if there are any sanctions imposed. but he also said that this a crisis is fabricated by poland, and poland wants them to drag them into a dangerous conflict, and that belly roost is a want

a comfort conflict. the also said that to some of the actions of the neighbors of values are reminiscent of what was happening before world war world war 2. you also said that there is no need for russian bases and by the roost. that their cooperation in the russian military is at his highest of some very tough talk coming from better route or in the face of these you sanctions. i said thank you very much as i beg there on the poem berries border. now let sir show you where all this is happening. all this year, migrants have been crossing from baller east to europe through latvia, lithuania and poland. the u accuses, look a shanker of luring them there in retaliation for sanctions against his country. but in recent days, the situation has escalated dramatically on the poland bella roost border with huge numbers of migrants massing despite the freezing temperatures. the u. s. s. location coast activities aim to distract from russia's activities on its border with ukraine. as many as a 100000 russian troops estimated to have mast,

their sparking fears of a possible invasion. nato sexy general young sultan burke has called on russia to be transparent about its military activities. to prevent an escalation, he warned russia the alliance stands by ukraine. and he said, the build up along the border is dangerous, as it reduces the amount of warning time if russia does decide to attack. in recent weeks, sir, we have seen large and unusual concentrations of a russian forces settles to cranes, sir borders, and the further provocation her or aggressive actions by russia would be of caesar's concern. we call on russia to be transparent about its military activities . it is important to prevent escalation and reduce tensions. what we see now is a deteriorating situation where russia is demonstrating that it quick can quickly

activate the already a mast troops and equipment. and that every option, including the military one is on the table for russian leadership. natasha butler has more now from paris. yes, sir. stoughton burger said that he was calling on the kremlin to be fully transparent about moscow's intentions. on the rush, ukrainian warden again stole to, bert said there was a very high concentration of russian troops long that border western, some western intelligence officials say that we could be looking at as many as 90000 a russian forces all that more than the insulting book says look, we know russia is capable of using force. they've done that. in the past, he gave the example of georgia. he gave the example of russia illegally annexing the crime. in 2014, something in stoughton berg said that of course,

nato members would never recognize the ukrainian foreign minister was also with the nato secretary general a bit earlier. the 2 had met. and after that meeting or ukraine's foreign minister said that, as far as ukraine was concerned, the story of the migrants on the bell, a russian, a polish board of the energy crisis, what he called russia's disinformation campaign. and now these troops on the a cranium russian border that seemed to be growing in numbers. he said, as far as he was concerned, this was all part of a hybrid attack by russia on europe and its allies. ah, donald trump's former political advisor, steve bannon, as appeared in court hours after he surrendered to the fbi i in washington d. c. he's facing contempt charges for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the attack on the u. s. capital on january the

6th, the mob of trump support a storm. the building and a failed attempt to prevent the certification of jo biden's election. when will i get more now from patsy. call haine. whose life in washington d. c. now, patty, just as we were going on, our line dropped to say that to see bannon was already now in court. what more do we know about these proceedings and what happens to him next? well, basically he's before a magistrate right now. no. the issue probably is the conditions of his release. again, these are misdemeanor charges, so unlikely that he is not going to be given. val are allowed to go home. it appears that they're not going to do the arraignment now. but do that on thursday when it's before an actual judge that basically when they read out the charges and he's plead guilty or not guilty to this. so that's what's happening in court right now. this is a very unusual move. the justice department doesn't usually indict people for contempt of congress, but this all goes back to the january 6 insurrection. steven ban and on his radio

show the day before warned that all hell was going to break loose in washington the next day. and that would be very quickly. so the committee investigating that insurrection wants to know exactly what he knew what he possibly did. so they issued some subpoenas for his testimony and for his records now he could have just gone and refused to testify for the 5th. say, can incriminate himself under the constitution, but he chose just to ignore it. so congress sent the measure to the justice department and they went ahead put it before a grand jury and now he's been indicted and his former boss. of course, donald trump has been going vocal in supporting steve, but it was even saying well, you know, he wants all of his a claim executive privilege. but here's a problem with that executive privilege really only applies to the current president. joe biden doesn't really want to put executive privilege here in this case, and some judges have already ruled that he doesn't have executive privilege because

he's no longer the president stevens, even a bigger stretch because he didn't actually work for the president novel of 3 plus years before the insurrection. so steve, that is saying, i can't comply because of executive privilege. that's going to go through the courts. but the bigger case is, did he refused to answer a subpoena from congress. that case could move fairly quickly or he could try to delay it. hope that the republicans take over in the mid term elections and killed the investigation. if he is convicted, the maximum penalty is up to a year in jail and a $1000.00 passing co haine and washington d. c. thank you. now of course in the us state of connecticut has found a far right broadcaster and conspiracy theorist guilty of defamation. the parents of several children killed in the sandy hook, school shooting, sued alex jones for defamation over his claims that the massacre was staged. the judge found him guilty by default for failing to turn over documents to the parents . lawyers. $28.00 adults and children were killed in the 2012 shooting

still to come this half hour. austria impose is a lot down on those who haven't been job to lower cove infections and boost vaccination res. and for the pe lead at rodrigo to test a and speculation, he plans to run for the vice presidency next year against his own daughter. ah. then most of you, whether it won't, is quite caught, is still stormy in the western mediterranean. you can see the circulation of clouds, but wind has been held at bay further north that is trying to get in november as a month that is typified often by fall, which has been pretty wide spread through some parts of northern europe. callaway, windy and wet, scoffed in some parts of england and norway, that's not the case. now when it became on tuesday for these countries,

and i think this them will make some progress. so will increase in the breathing. fog won't be such a problem. i'll try to get in to wednesday attempts is are on the low side, but not abnormally so. not cold enough for snow yet except in the norwegian mansions. as you can see. i did say it was stormy in the western meadow and it is more flash flooding around the still pretty nasty weather the barracks windy and wet, wendy without ranch and golden, croatian coast. that's a standard wind, this town vehicle, the boards and dorothy screens comes down down the coast and to get the hurricane and force exceed the potential damage they used to it. luckily, there's a picture on wednesday still fair matter, right? just a bit further. east italy, being one of the major focuses and falling off we might get some rare events of rated middle sahara and in western sahara. ah, with tens of thousands of children born in who lives

under the iso regime in iraq and syria. now, many are in camps either orphans, all with that, we don't mothers, rejected by their own communities. could you think that people are going to welcome them after that? of course, mom and you documentary his, that chilling and traumatic stories for the children throw stones at me. iraq's last generation on al jazeera. ah ah, a reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera, the european union is stepping up its sanctions targeting bellow roost as the

migrant crisis on its east and bought a worsens thousands of migrants of a mast on the border with poland and freezing conditions. the u. s. says the crisis is aimed at distracting from a significant russian military build up on the border with ukraine. nature. it's actually general yet still to back as cool for more transparency from russia to prevent an escalation. and donald trump's former political advisor, steve bannon, has had this himself into the f b i. he's facing contempt charges for refusing to cooperate with an investigation into the attack on the u. s. capital lawyers are making that closing arguments in the trial. if the american teenager coll rittenhouse, he's charged with murdering to band and wounding a 3rd off to re open fire with a semi automatic rifle during black lives matter protests. he's pleaded not guilty and says he acted in self defense but faced his life in prison. if convicted by a jury earlier his defense, he managed to have one of the challenges dismissed. well,

that's brigade john henry who's live in kenosha, wisconsin. jonah the judge, a, as we mentioned, that has already dropped the gun charge against rittenhouse. this doesn't bode well for those hoping for a conviction on the all the charge is what more do we know? that's right. the other charges range from life imprisonment. that's the possible sentence for 1st degree murder, all the way down to reckless endangerment. and that's for endangering people in the crowd as he fired those shots. so cow rittenhouse on that charge would face a. busy maximum of 12 and a half years the judge could of course give him a lesser sentence. and of course you could walk off scot free and right now the prosecutor is in the middle of closing argument. and he's doing his best to turn the tables on kyle written houses, self defense contest. rittenhouse is claimed that when he shot and killed tube in an injured a 3rd that this was an act of self defense. this is

a guy who was 17 years old at a time and who was a counter protest or he said he came to protect businesses and to act as a medic. after the 1st night of riots following the death of a man named jacob blake, a black man paralyzed by the gunfire of a white police officer. so you have these 2 signs out in the street and at one point there's a malay in which some of the protesters are chasing this young man. rittenhouse turns around, fires for shots that kill the 1st man, and then he continues to run away before firing. and shooting to others. well, the prosecutor is now saying at that point, it is the crowd that is acting in self defense. that's turning the tables on these young men. so the defense argument has been that he was under attack by people in this crowd. and the prosecutor is saying, yes, they were trying to stop what they viewed as an active gunman from continuing to kill other people. and in fact, after that 1st shooting, he did kill one other person and wound yet another. so the prosecution is trying to

bring the case that this man was not acting in self defense, that he was acting careless disregard for others. and as he did so, he was firing shots that endangered people in the crowd so that it accounts for the range of potential charges. but as you said, the judge has taken away not one of the 2 of the, of the lowest charges. first of all, there was a curfew charge that was minimal and then there was a charge of carrying a weapon. he wasn't allowed to carry a bit of a dispute about whether that length of that rifle was appropriate. and in the end, the judge decided to drop that charge as well, which would have given prosecutors the option of giving them a sentence of up to 9 months on that chart. so now it's pretty much years in prison or scott free for co written house. and talking about the judge shed, joan there been some serious objections, particularly on social media of the judge, bruce i schroeder, he was seen at one point during the trial reading a cookie magazine during that proceedings. and on several occasions, it's his mobile phone went off in the court room, playing a tune,

often associates with trump rallies. how much freight is there that justice will be done in this trial? as with everything else in his trial, the judge's position is also a national russia test in which what you see depends on depends on where you stand . in the case of that song, i, a reporter who has been covering him for years, doesn't always been his ringtone, and that he's a vigorous defender of defendants rights. but that doesn't. that doesn't mean that a lot of people aren't seeing him as a partisan who has bent over backwards in order to help the defendant. and in fact, most of his rulings have helped the defense. whether that's merely trying to vigorously look for, look out for his rights or not as a matter of interpretation or what john hadn't written. thank you very much. ly frozen kenosha wisconsin. now the u. k. has raised it's tara threat level to severe. after a taxi exploded outside a hospital in liverpool, on sunday,

british prime minister boys johnson says it was a reminder of the need to remain vigilant. police have declared it's an act of terror and a questioning fool men. in the past few minutes, they've named the man who died as 32 year old. m at out swam mean. now the mother support reports. the drop off point at liverpool women's hospital in northwest england. it's just before 11 a. m and a taxi arrives. there's an explosion then the driver can be seen getting out and several people rushed to help him. he was injured but has now been released from hospital. by the time fire, cruise arrived, the taxi was in flames and the passenger was dead inside the vehicle. this has now been declared a terrorist incident. it is a stark reminder of the need for us all to remain utterly vigilant and the independent joint terrorism analysis center j tack are to day raising the you case threat level from substantial to severe meaning an attack is highly likely counter

terrorism. police have been involved in the investigation since sunday. i was after the incident, police arrested 3 men all in their twenties. at the same property in liverpool, a 4th person's now been detained. police say they found significant items at one address. it is not clear what the motivation for this incident is. our enquiries indicate that an improvised explosive device has been manufactured. and our assumption so far is that it was built by the passenger in the taxi. the reason why he then took it to the women's hospital is unknown. as is the reason for its sudden explosion. the police say the passenger had asked to go to the hospital, but they're checking whether there's any link with remembrance day events nearby on sunday. nadine baba al jazeera as a new lockdown in place in austria, but only for people who haven't been fully vaccinated. around 2000000 people could

now only leave home to buy essential goods, seek medical care or get their vaccine case rates are up. and the big issue going into winter is that only 2 thirds of people are fully protected. dominic came reports just to be allowed outdoors. these people must be able to prove they've either been vaccinated or recently had cove it what's called in german, that's fi. gail eagle or 2 g rule. if not, they're breaking the law and face of fine of up to 1450 euro's ministers say the low uptake of the vaccine and the high number of new cases meant they have to act vandy. the incidence among vaccinated people is declining, but it continues to rise exponentially for the people who are not vaccinated. currently, the incidents for unvaccinated people in the 18 to 59 age group is over 1700. so from monday, there will be a locked down for the unvaccinated here. across the border and the german state of

the very many communities are facing the same threat there to ministers, urging all the unvaccinated to get the job. in 3 german states, the incidence of cove, it is already more than $500.00 per 100000 residents. in all 3, the 2 g rule is either in place or a batch to be implemented. but at a federal level, there seems no clear policy. unlike the situation in austria, the caretaker government here is an office, but not really in power. the politicians who matter still trying to build a majority in parliament. and while they argue over, who gets which ministerial job in the next few weeks, it's what cove it might do in the next few days. but many people in wider society are worrying about this intensive care unit in munich is one of many across the country which are full of coven patience with the prospect of more to come. the

well, the incidental wonky in i. in fact, on that, if we look at the new infections registered in the past 2 weeks, we see an increase from 30250000. this also shows up in the occupancy rates of you intensive care. patients have doubled, and these 50000 people who have tested positive now will come to us this week or next week on so the future looks quite dark, i would say. and we're quite worried about how we're going to take care of all these people. official e u figures suggest around 2 thirds of the population have been fully vaccinated for them. it means attendance at festive events like these in vienna are no problem . but for the 3rd, who remain unvaccinated, at least in austria, for now, lock downs or looming, something similar may soon be coming to germany, dawn, it came, al jazeera berlin, an american journalist recently sentenced to 11 years in jail. myanmar has landed

in cattle after being released from prison. daddy fenster is the managing editor of frontier me and mom, an online magazine he was arrested in may while trying to leave the country. one of many journalists who's been detained last week, he was sentenced for incitement and visa violations and charged with terrorism and sedition offences. fences release was negotiated by former u. s. diplomat, bill richardson and all right, this is just the same issues and things that come with any form of incarceration. you just go a little crazy longer it drags on more where you are. that is just never gonna. and so that was, that was the biggest concern. staying sane through that philippine president rodrigo, to test a has registered to run for a seat in the senate and next year's elections. it ends speculation he would run for vice president against his own daughter. he's ineligible to run again for

president to turn his choice of successor as long term aid, christopher bung go, who registered to stand for president. last week he was thought that sorrow deterred a carpio who tops opinion polls would join him on the ticket. but she now appears to be running with presidential candidate ferdinand marco's junior, junior son of the late philippine dictator. marco's family is popular in the countries north and cent, while the deterred days of widespread support in the south. or the key candidates for president include box money, patio manila mer and former film star esco murano dome augusta, and for a current vice president. lenny roberto jemila alondo again has more for manila. after weeks of speculation, philippines president with regal detail to has through a representative file this candidacy for sen. the move comes after he publicly rebuked his own daughter, davos city mayor,

sat at the 30 for running as vice president and running meat of the son of the late dictator for did marcus for it in a mark. as junior, the older deterred to says, his daughter is far more popular than marcus, and that the marcus's can never be trusted, especially when it comes to politics. that's a surprise to many because the marcus as have been allies of the de thirties since 2016 for months now, the deter does have repeatedly said they were not interested in seeking hire office . that's changed in the past couple of days. so you can see how they treat it, even while he thinks it's like a game. and you know what shows also they're very strong sense of entitlement. you've seen how the substitution works. we've seen how personalities or people we do not know, filed county, the seas for president lice. president sen only do we draw and then only to be

placeholders and give way to personalities. while this may seem a typical jaw saw for political power, it is critical for deterred his administration to remain in control beyond 2020, to president the 3rd to his spacing investigations before the criminal court for crimes against humanity in his so called war and drugs, which has left thousands of filipinos dead. he and his allies are also expected to face multiple cases. for alleged involvement in several corruption scandals. critic see the administration may be preoccupied with its own political survival, but much more is at stake for the rest of the country. next year, the next administration will inherit unprecedented challenges. the punches the reeling from the impact of the corona virus pandemic. there is an ever increasing national debt and growing military attentions in the south china sea. even for

a can she with a long history of a people during elections? this is unprecedented. the 2022 elections will not just be a battle between opposing political parties, but a fight between powerful political dynasties jamal ali doug and al jazeera manila. of course, remember, you can find much, much more on our website. the address is w w. w dot al jazeera dot com ah, the top stories here on al jazeera, the european union is stepping up its sanctions targeting belarus as the migrant crisis on its eastern border worsens. in recent days, thousands of migrants of a mast on the poland galleries bordering freezing conditions. the accuses by the recent precedent.