and ups is now going to be this video conference call. this going to take place roughly 15 gmc on tuesday. and what we know is that the united states will be conveying a number of messages, namely that it does not see conflict, but it will impose what it calls, meaningful consequences for harmful actions if russia chooses to invade. what does that look like? likely very punishing financial sanctions designed to isolate russia from the global financial system. now, we should point out that the united states is also sending the message that it hopes that in fact there can be a diplomatic resolution to this. so already there is consultation underway between the united states and its european allies. we know as well, but secretary blanket the secretary of state will be speaking with the ukranian president zalinski. then joe biden will be as well in preparation for this discussion that will be taking place on tuesday. between the u. s. president vladimir putin. again,

the united states being very vague about how it might support nato. militarily, should russia invade ukraine, but at the same time being very clear that there will be harsh consequences including financial sanctions. kimberly, thank you. kimberly, how could the reporting life of the news out from outside as of the white house? lots more students come here for you and then use out recruiting, describing india as a great power. we'll hear what else russia's leader have to say on that day. trip to you daily. ah. mostly settled conditions across the middle east. hello everyone. there is one exception. as we look toward the la vance, we've got a storm system swooping in. let me take you toward wednesday swath of rain and we're really going to see those winds pick up for bay roof to about 70 kilometers

per hour will go in for a closer look in effect. but there is some nice weather to be found. we look toward pakistan, sunny in the south, correct? we find 9 degrees bit more cloud cover, the hor right through to his lama. but now to the eastern med because this is also plaguing turkey. seen it gathers steam through the use or measure of fire hose of rain into on talia. so we'll look to pick up 50 millimeters of rain and look for those winds to go to 65 kilometers prior. that's on tuesday. by wednesday, here we go into the la van. this becomes a story for you. and again, the root could see the wind gusts up to 70 kilometers per hour. exception heat, central africa put the colors on here. the darker the red, the higher the temperature jubal 40 bungie. 36. you could matcher. december record temperature, which is $36.00 degrees further toward the south. disturbed weather is southern angola, southern botswana, northeast of south africa. so we've got storms from bill, a whale rate through to johannesburg, but it's nice in cape town, the height of $23.00, that's

a season. ah, the as a cannon ball, i watched these scenes with horror as a canyon. some money, i feared the backlash ethnic somalis have long been the target of intimidation and persecution in kenya. oh, most every woman was it. mohammed a dow travels through his homeland to reveal how his people and family had been subjected to years of brutal discrimination to typically the way we are treated in a country. recall our own al jazeera correspondence for the 1st time since the lead up to the 2nd world war, the nobel peace prize has been awarded to journalists, maria resting, and dmitri morocco for to receive a 2021 prize for their courageous contributions to freedom of expression in the philippines and russia in an exclusive interview life from all slow, we'll talk to this year's laurie. it's about the challenges and dangers of doing

their job and the significance and protecting democracy. the nobel interview, only on a j 0. lou. ah welcome back here watching the al jazeera and use our. my name's peter, they'll be our top story so far today. let's just take you live to the media briefing room inside the white house because the u. s. government saying it will partially boycotts the february wouldn't to olympics in china. the athletes from the us will go, officials will not go jen saki, they're feeling questions on that. and also the video conference phone calls from to take place tuesday morning, local time between the u. s president joe biden,

the russian premier, let me put in, but that breaking story about that partial boy comes up for the winter olympics in china, and that's broken just in the past was 1015 minutes or so. the u. s. h apartment, expressing loud and clearly loving and clearly rather they have a big problem with some issues to do with what's going on in china specifically to do with the muslim weakness and how china is handling that ongoing situation. more on that for you in the coming hours here on our to 0. in other news, the up in government says force is a recap of the strategic tons of dessie and convolt show from to grind rebels. the fighters had seen the times in the region of horror in the past 2 months. mean monster pose. liter uncensored, she was initially given a 4 year prison sentence, but that has not been reduced 2 years. according to me in law, state media, mr. she will remain in the undisclosed location where she's been health in february, the verdict has been described as a pulling and

a blatant violation of human rights sitting security, forcing society against that protest. as in cartoon who are denouncing last month decision by the prime minister to sign a deal with the military, they're accusing of della hum, doc, or betrayal for agreeing to the government dominated by generals. the russian president vladimir putin was in india today as tensions rise with western countries about the crisis in ukraine. he was in new delhi for a day of talks top of the agenda. the delivery of the russian made as $400.00 missile defense system. the russian and indian foreign ministers held a meeting ahead of the summit. so like a lever off and criticize the us for undermining defense cooperation between russia and india. will you with us on the w my, that states to undermine this corporation? and through making g a, b, that miracle notice before, will there miracle vision of how this region should be,

should be developed in france. really firmly explained that the southern country and they will decide on who's weapons to buy and who is going to be partner offering you can do some of the areas i sell fighters in northern iraq, have been done homes and killed for kurdish pash mug of fights as a number of villages surrounding the city of kit cook were attacks, ice will claim to capture one of the villages before pash mug of fights. as we claimed it, i so fights is continued to launch sporadic attacks. 4 years after the iraqi government declared victory over the army group, a committee in israel has rejected the building of 9000 housing units and occupied east jerusalem. they were planned for an area heavily populated by palestinians harry force it reports. well, of all the israeli proposed settlements in occupied east jerusalem. this is long been one of the most controversial,

the idea of 9000 housing units being built on the side of the former airport to rock very close to the columbia. refugee can really cleaving jerusalem east, jerusalem from the rest of the west bank and from ramallah, another threat to the territorial continuity of any potential future palestinian state. that's why it's had such international pressure against it since it was raised again recently. it's why there seemed to be an indication from these where they said they were going to drop it under u. s. pressure, especially nonetheless, it was still on the agenda of this planning meeting, not just last week. the secretary of state found to be blink and spoke to the israeli prime minister natalie bennett. with this issue very much front and center that conversation. and it seems that that pressure may well have had some effect behind the scenes. bennett himself as a right wing pro settlement prime minister at the head of a very broad, ideologically mixed coalition government. so it's a political difficulty for him to just see us pressure and reject it. what has

happened instead is that the committee has decided that there are environmental concerns that require a major environmental survey. so that's one way out of this current problem for natalie bennett, and it puts this very controversial plan back on ice for now. turkey and cas, i'll say they'll continue providing a lifeline to people in afghanistan. the to foreign ministers met for talks earlier and they said they hoped to sign a number of deals and those on here and to get hold of you have one. so we discussed how we can coordinate our efforts to lend a helping hand to afghans and also how to cooperate about the situation in afghanistan with the international community. we examined the issue of cabal, airport guitar is closely following the developments with the interim government of afghanistan about the operation of the airport turkey guitar have pledged a particular sum of money for relief purposes. in afghanistan, we will also provide educational services to afghans,

as well as pay the salaries of afghans working in education and health sectors. the prime minister of these solomon islands has survived a vote of no confidence after facing accusations he's abandoned the needs of his provinces. the vote came more than a week after the capital was rocked by violent demonstrations and looting as andrew chappelle reports. we know the people who planned this mrs. big amana se so. gavera holds the majority of seats and the solomon islands parliament. but they didn't stop the nation's opposition leader lodging. a motion of no confidence in the prime minister's leadership. a stronger united fair just and prosperous. solomon islands cannot be built on deception, insincerity, paranoia, state, capture and foreign interests. you are in a 90 minute. often emotional speech, the prime minister denied all allegations of corruption and lack of accountability

. he says the motion was made against the backdrop of an illegal attempted cou. i did not allow myself to succumb to the dictates of hooligans and lawless. i want to things, but as a paid in congress intervention forces were on the ground. mrs. big it to help return normal. think in our country. yeah. but his government has been at the center of recent civil unrest. lead mainly by the people from the militia province . less than 2 weeks ago, the capital, honey ra, was devastated by rights and looting government. buildings were burned to the ground, and 3 people died. the china town district was the focus of much of the protests with demonstrators angry about the government's decision to dump diplomatic ties with taiwan in favor of china. that unrest triggered a campaign by the opposition to force the prime minister to stand down, which failed. analysts say these are long running tensions between them,

a later province in the central government, and they're unlikely to be resolved anytime soon. you've got public resentment about proceed corruption and government questions around public financial management. none of these issues will be resolved either by the governments successfully defeating the motion of confidence or simply by changing leaders. either complex structural problems. as the prime minister may have survived this boat, but a curfew remains in place and more than 200 peacekeepers have been deployed across honey are to avoid a repeat of the recent riots. inter chappelle al jazeera, japan's prime minister signal, a major change in defense policy, which includes developing the capability to strike enemy bases for me because she doesn't answer and is being seen as a response to an increasingly assertive china and an unpredictable north korea. japan's pacifist constitution, since world war 2 has historically constrained its military policy. so let me know, you know, what i feel in order to protect the people's lives in livelihood,

will examine all our options, including our capability to attack, so called enemy basis, and strengthen our defense posture fundamentally, with a sense of urgency. the death toll from indonesia volcanic eruption has risen to 15, was dozens more badly injured and many still on accounted for maureen's expected in the coming days on that could hamper rescue efforts. is jillian wolf ah, scouring through the rubble ploughing through volcanic, the bree that has now begun to harden the hope that these rescue workers might find survivors is diminishing by the hour. even for the lifeless bodies recover beneath the rubble, a sense of relief among emergency crews and deliver to me. thank god, we found the bodies of these victims and retrieved them, answers for a loved ones in this moment, or better than news. those who survived are still coming to terms with their ordeal

. ha, it at 1st i thought it was a bomb explosion, and all of the sudden it was scenario erupting and spooling volcanic ashes. suddenly it was all dark like it was going to destroy the earth. of my children were scattered around. my husband was not found, and i was waiting for him. and then we fled to the evacuation camp. job as large as volcano unleashed a thunderous plume of ash high into the sky on saturday, raining down on thousands of panic, people below and swallowing up entire communities in its path. mounts the mirrors, spewed more ash on monday, forcing rescue teams to retreat in their search for survivors. waterways around the volcano, polluted with ash, now appearing as streams of dark sludge and with more rain on the forecast, there is a chance a new river of hot lava could spew, further affecting rescue operations. images from above show the scale of the

devastation down below. desperate people salvaging all they can from their wrecked homes. indonesian authorities, habit wise locals not to travel within range of some mirrors, crater, many of the survivors in hospital have severe, burns, some with up to 80 percent of their body burned. most people are complaining about having difficulty breathing and feeling dizzy. some of them have medical histories, like hyper tension, with not enough space. the truth, the injured families, packet mixture shelters as they wait to hear from relatives. while the volcanoes observatory officials are searching for any sign of new activity and sending out warnings as fast as good afternoon, my status of my children are still at level 2, which means that at this level, the people need to be more vigilant because the potential threat is still there

when they go by that, but many people still wonder why they weren't warned early enough before saturdays devastation, gillian wolf out a 0. now to guest on where he growing energy crisis is pushing the country to increasingly rely on coal. as in bas robbie reports from bish heck, that's hindering the government's response to pollution from a vantage point overlooking bish heck, it's easy to see why curtis don's capital is routinely ranked as the most polluted city in the world. air quality can be so poor. buildings don't disappear into the horizon, they disappear into a cloud of smoke chimney stacks and an aging power plant. the main culprits dystopian giants dominating the skyline over a modernizing city. all year round pumping smoke into the air and industrial waste into a nearby landfill. the carbon footprint of the cities combined heat and power plant is enormous. but it's still not enough. near the power plant,

people are forced to burn coal to heat their homes in winter. you, if you dictated to go all the way with we don't use much electricity, we fire the pit and because we light fires and others do the same, the air goes bad. if you wake up in the morning, everything is black around there. sing on tv every day to save electricity. use latch and get other light bulbs. we don't use electricity. so if we're not going to burn coal, what are we meant to do? it burns dirty and all over the world, there are calls to reduce its use. but in kurdistan, coal is king cheap, available, and essential to the power grid built by the soviets. this coal burning power plant has been the main source of generating heat and electricity for curtis tons, capital bish tech. since the 1960 the countries power infrastructure is almost entirely soviet era with little to no investment in clean energy. this facility was abandoned after the fall of the u. s. s r,

and never came on line. the current government class to open it after retrofitting for natural gas. but the plan, too expensive, is now on hold. and as long as coal remains a quicker fix, the possibility of more pollution hangs in the air. is it common justin by if they would stop burning of coal? and if the power plant was also working, it would be good. pollution is harmful for kids. on the other hand, it would be good if the power plant was working while it's not working yet i am not afraid, but maybe in the future i will give the demand for more power will mean burning record amounts of coal and coming years. more air pollution, almost inevitable, leaving residents with little choice, but to ride it out. said boss ravi, oh, does europe discount still a hat here on al jazeera, ferrara will have all the sport as we're alive from our special era cup studio. here in doha, in his ear reached the knockout rounds with

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oh, okay. oh, oh, for law from al jazeera, a special studio for the fee, for arrow, a doubling off as a major warm up event for the count our world cup next year. hello, i'm far as mild. plenty of action for you is the error cut group phase reaches its conclusion. we count down to the ashes. cricket series is been stokes, eyes returned to the england side. and one of the most exciting forms one title

races ever. lewis hamilton sets up a final re showdown with max for staff and we start with arab words, the final round, a group games, tennessee qualified for the quarter finals, and finished a top of group b by beating the you a one mill. 17 jazz erie, with the only goal of the game on monday is syria beat to new zia in the previous round, but missed the chance to join them. in the knockouts they lost to one to mauritania . so it's the you a ye who go through in 2nd place and group b. and that means they face arab cap. host kat are in the quarters. cats are play iraq shortly. the house have already talked group a, but iraq can still get through as can bahrain and oman. let's go live now to andy richardson, who was at the al bate stadium for the cats are game. and andy,

we now know cats are, will play the u. e in the quarter finals talk as for what to expect well the state today me as a counsel football association is for the national seem to get through out of the group stage. next jays world cup. and one of the reasons for hosting this, our cup, amongst many, is to give this team experience of playing in front of an expectant home crowd in a, in a competitive environment. and they'll be more competitive environments imaginable than a match against face regional rivals. the united arab emirates, let's remember when the teams met in the 2019 asian cup that was hosted by the you a the time were in the middle of a land sea and blockade on capital from some of its neighboring countries, including the u. a. was the ultimate away game. forecasts are no. cats are fans allowed in that stadium capsule will not game for nail and the infamous scenes

during that game. when the you and the crowd pelted the capital players with water bottles and with shoes at one point, actions that subsequently led to the urea football association. being fined and having to play a match behind closed doors after the tournament capital came through that also beat them at the subsequent gulf cup as well. so a lot in it for the you a want some footballing revenge. they're also still trying to qualify for the finals next year and also for cattle as we look to see really how ready they are to take on the world this time next year. and looking ahead to choose day, there's a solid crowd, is housebound in jordan, play each other for a spot in the next round. he was the favorite and that one me both team. so it's surprising that that's still in contention for a quarter final spot coming in. so this stage of the tournament that beneficiaries

of the fact that a lot of the big nations haven't been able to send that full strength teams have a variety of reasons. even though this is a fully sanctioned feature events, european bass players around and over again to be released by that clubs. saudi arabia for example, who are also in that group. got a very young team overhead. jordan surprised everyone by beating them in that 1st gang, palestine also picks up points, they go into this game with a chance of reaching the quarter finals. now the country has a chance of being back here in castle for the world cup. so this is their one chance to really make an impression at a, at a big tournaments these world cup stadium. so a lot about jordan and palestine going into the games tomorrow. ok, andy richardson reporting life for i've talked to you soon as you heard earlier, the u. s. has announced a diplomatic boy caught up next year in beijing winter olympics. the white house says the decision is in objection to china's human rights record. athletes will be

able to attend the games, but the white house press secretary says not sending official sends beijing a message, but it can't be business. as usual, had the announcement, china's foreign ministry said to us, boy, it would be an outright political provocation. on the family line, world championship will be decided in the final race of the season. that's after louis hamilton edged out mattress shopping and germanic, a saudi arabian grand preach. david stokes has reaction ah, the 1st ever formula one, racing saudi arabia is not one will forget in a hurry. from the moment mc schumacher crashed on lap 10. it was almost impossible to keep up with several more incidents followed and the rate had to be reached, darted 3 times with the momentum, constantly shifting between the title contenders. there was hamilton started on pole, but after the stoppages it was championship lead up match for stepan,

who found himself out in front. hamilton was quick about and he made his move, only furbished happened to block him illegally. ah vistacomm has been ordered to let hamilton pass, but as he slowed, hamilton went straight into the back of him damaging his front wing. ah mercedes carriage wasn't impressed, but both cars were able to continue and wished up and did eventually let him by. hamilton took the victory and picked up a bonus point for setting the fastest lap it means after $21.00 races. the 2 drivers are both locked on exactly the same points going into the season finale. next week. i saw don all. i wanted to let him by, so i'm on the right, but he didn't want to overtake and, and, and then we we, we touched. so i don't really understand what, what happened there. i didn't quite understand why, but sunny hit the breaks pretty quite heavily and then and then i run into the back of him. and then he,

then he moved on. so i didn't understand he's that he was going and i got a message afterwards that is going to let his boss. so it was a bit confusing. so it all comes down to a when it takes all right in abu dhabi next week for stop and chasing his 1st will title goes into it with more victories, which means hamilton needs to beat him. if he's to claim the championship for a record a time, they'd stokes algebra and england, captain jo, rude is still not revealed. who's in his team for the 1st ashes test against australia? he did say it's good to have been stokes, back in the fold, heading into wednesday's match at the gap. but in brisbin, they all rounders play just one warm up game since july. so that's all for now, reminder of our top story, the last quarter, final spots are up for grabs, of the fif, an era cafeteria and miss out after late defeat to mauritania. that's all for now. we'll be back in a few hours time for another sports update tag $21.00. 45 gm teeth. stay with us

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