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the capital. protests his back on the streets in sudan, fearful the deal to end. the qu really keep the military and power and new russians hamper the search with survivors of to indonesia is largest volcano kills women, 20 people. and i'm far as mile with the sports news lie from our feed, the arab cap studio as a group stage of the tournament, reaches its conclusion a 1st ever arab victory for mauritania brings heartbreak to syria. they missed their chance to qualify for the knockout stage. ah, we saw the news, i was diplomatic moves from the us on 2 fronts. in a moment, more in a summit between president joe biden and a russian president vladimir putin. but 1st, the white house is announced

a diplomatic boycott of next year's winter olympics in china. us athletes will still compete at the games in beijing, but there will be no official representation. the us government says it's in protest against human rights abuses, including what it calls, genocide of wigan, muslims, kimberly hawk. it has the latest from white house, under pressure from some a human rights activists sand, even members of congress. the biden administration has announced on monday that it is participating in a diplomatic boy caught of the winter olympics set to begin in february. in beijing . the united states saying that it is concerned about china's human rights abuses, particularly when it comes to the treatment of chinese muslims, known as wiggers. the u. s. has called the actions of china against this ethnic group, genocide. so the united states sending a very clear message, the white house press secretary confirming that no diplomats or official delegation

will be attending the winter olympics. so by new ministration will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the beijing 2022 winter olympics. and paralympic games, given the peer scenes, ongoing genocide and crimes against a humanity engine, john and other human rights abuses. the athletes on team usa have our full support will be behind them 100 percent. as we cheered them on from home, we will not be contributing to the fanfare of the games. now, this is the 1st time the united states has sent a message or protested government policies of another nation. in fact, back in 1980, we saw the full boy cod of the united states athletes not participating in the moscow olympics. speaking before the boycott was confirmed, china's foreign ministry condemned the move doorway scenario. so sure you knew on

the winter olympics a held once every 4 years as a rare opportunity for athletes. the protectiveness of the beijing winter olympics will be athletes from various countries. not individual politicians. those politicians who clamour a boycott for political self interest or just showing off and i can things up, nobody cares with of a come on not, and it will have no influence on beijing success in hosting the winter olympics. merrill lynch ash olympic committee has responded to, in a statement. it said the presence of government officials and diplomats is a purely political decision for each government which the i o. c and its political neutrality. fully respect at the same time, this announcement also makes it clear that the olympic games and the participation of the athletes are beyond politics. and we welcome this which are now from united states by professor michael mccann founding director of the sports and entertainment law institute. thanks so much for being with us. how significant is this decision by the u. s. it was for diplomatic because of the wet beijing games

or thank you for having me. it is significant because of the united states is tradition of using the olympics to make political expression. certainly in 1980, the expression was opposition to the den soviet union's invasion into afghanistan. but more recently, in 2014, the united states use this delegation to include diversity in terms of sexual orientation among its members to, to oppose that rushes policies on l. g b, t, members. so there's attrition of that. but i think that it's worth asking, will this make a big difference when the athletes are still going to be there? it's not going to have the same sort of thrust as $980.00 it had. yeah, yes, on, on, on that to mean china's already sort of be making those noises, isn't it? and people don't tend to watch the olympics to see politicians do they say, do they have a point that, that it will make any difference? i think it will make some difference. it won't have the same impact back in 2008,

president george w bush appeared with american athletes at the olympics in beijing. and that had a message back home of solidarity that affect won't be there this time around with president biden staying in washington. so to be sure it's not the same as the athlete staying home. but on the other hand, the white house wanted to ensure that the athletes have spent a lot of time training are still getting a chance to play. so it's sort of a compromise decision and can expect other countries to, to join in with us. well, we know in the past when there have been boy, cause they're usually joined by other countries. so based on that, it wouldn't surprise me if we see other countries align with united states. do the same thing. how much is it an impact? is it like you to have actually on issue itself of human rights to me? is there a danger that people will say will be able to say that this is kind of a potentially an empty gesture, which is so st kind of making the right noises. but actually not doing anything about the human rights abuses themselves. to be sure there's much more to be done or needs to be done to address human rights abuses. i think the u. s. government

would say this is the vehicle they have at this time to make a message that's peaceful in terms of protest without taking any sort of aggressive action. so it's true that this may not have any real impact, but it does call to light the issues that are at play and only touching the chinese foreign ministry spokesman. i mean actually was in ahead of the confirmation of the decision. but saying that the, the move would amount to outright political provocation, and that would be fan counter measures how my case is to make the relationship between china, us even more tens. well, it's not going to help in that regard. but at the same time, the states wants to be on secure ground to say that these positions matter to the united states. so it's not going to help in terms of tensions. and the countermeasures could be when the next to olympic or in the united states, china could do the same thing just like the soviet union did when the olympics were in los angeles, in 1084. so there's sort of one boy caught leads to another. there's that possibility, but i'm not sure if it's going to have more of an impact than that. and just

briefly, one of the things is that the, the games are going to be different because of kobe will actually sort of dampen the effect of this boycott. well, it's definitely going to dampen the effect of the, the games themselves in terms of the audience, not having foreign spectators so that the absence of us officials there might be obscured even further than it would already be. but at the same time i, i think that this is sort of the reality of the times we're in with you lympics that covered continues and that not having fans or at least not having fans from other countries is a public health measure. setting aside its relationship to these types of actions. michael mccann, thank you very much for taking time to talk to. thank you. thank you very much. let's move on now to other news coming from the white house and concerns of a new conflict. and ukraine could come to head on tuesday with a virtual summit between the us and russian leaders. joe biden is promising what his spokesman, called, enduring and meaningful costs. if

a build up of russian troops, east of ukraine's border results in an invasion, something his intelligence experts say could happen in just weeks is an opportunity for the president to underscore, of course u. s. concerns with russian military activities on the border with ukraine and reform reform. the united states support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the ukraine. it's also an opportunity to discuss a range of topics in the u. s. and russia relationship including strategic stability, cyber and regional issues are, but you can certainly expect that ah, the are, are concerns about the military activities on the border will be a prominent part of the discussion. vladimir putin is denied that an invasion is planned, blaming nato, for the need to position his military as a ball work against its expansion eastwards he's likely to demand security guarantees from biden or to and last met face to face in geneva in june, where they discussed improving diplomatic relations,

but put in spokesman admits ration to still pull her merger. look good to them. we would need to discuss the agreements made in geneva and have a brief look at those implemented and ones which require further attention. of course, the bilateral relations will be discussed, which is still in the mental state. and ukraine is not all the european migrant crisis blamed on russia's ally belarus. cyber attacks on companies and government agencies in the u. s. and the ever present issue of the 2 nations nuclear arsenals may also be on the agenda. or cadre leak is a senior policy fellow at the european council on foreign relations, and an expert on russia. she joins us from berlin, sir, kenny, there's been a lot of positioning ahead of the, the summit, a particular issue of ukraine and britain has had an in recent days that he would demand legal guarantees that ukraine would not join the nature lines will response to not be from the u. s. well, i don't think the president fight and he's in

a position to promise anything like that. because you know, putting an official stop to an enlargement is, is not in the poll as of even be an id state. i don't think by then when want to expand nato touring his term in office, but clearly not in his plans, but stopping it officially for goods, but would require unanimous decision by all nato allies and actually the free drafting some of nato's internal documents. so he cannot clearly deliver on, on demand, but i'm sure that he will try me to deescalate the situation because he doesn't need a crisis in your crating. his foreign policy priority is handling china. he is trying to stay below united states relationship. could russia exactly in order to focus on china, and he clearly doesn't need another crisis. ukraine and what about uprooted and

what does he stand to get out of a list positioning on on, on ukraine? is it? how much of it is, is, is maneuvering for global strategic purposes and how much of it is about getting regional improves. i think, denise, serious about seeking control away ukraine's future political choices. and ideally, russia really would like to discuss european political order security order and ukraine's place, which should be outside nato. so i read all but mobilize ation, military mobilization as a whole west to discuss raises sue's actually putting pressure on the west to discuss the issues. but the 1000 wants to discuss because the was clearly has been shunning both conversation whenever russia has tried to make stars on it. i don't think much preparation for actual invasion like a coming weeks said it doesn't make it any less dangerous because i think russia is

quite serious about its ends. so we could still see a military attack, except it would come suddenly, we would not see months of preparation, leading update, and not based on how much support at home would you have for an incursion into ukraine? one invasion? not much. no, i don't think so. mean, russian population would not like to have an all what with war with ukraine, popular demand at home is much more for social welfare. so that would not go down well. and i think kremlin knows it because they continue to conduct their own opinion. polls focus groups, they know what the population thinks know about. i think $1002.00 does everyone in the politic and the lead share but put into obsession would be a crane. but of course they are hardly in the position to create major obstacles to

him. and that's basically the responses is mainly economical from, from a. so my call to different extensions from the u. s. if there is some kind of incursion, would that not strengthen president putin's hand to kind of take chunks of various church without with impunity? well, i think if you look at the military preparations re her sort of pointing on large scale land wall, the, the crating and bus will be actually a very major thing, appending that for political order in europe. and res will be met with very tough sanctions by everyone in the west, but maybe maybe even beyond. and i don't really think russia could afford it. i mean, even economically, they would probably survive. i don't know. but political events would actually leave russia at the mercy of, of, of china in both economic and political terms. and i didn't think that moscow would

like that, that mean they like to have multiple partners like room for maneuver. but he's also why i think that's why in a tech on ukraine is not excluded, it would be done in a different manner more unexpectedly and somehow more cunningly than reset of world war to start and large scale invasion can relate. thank you very much. indeed, you notice i thank you my head of that meeting with joe biden, letting me putin has been in india for meeting with prime minister in dra moody that countries on the set of trade deals and fitting one that will see india produce more than 600000 kalashnikov assault rifles. elizabeth per item has more from new delhi. this is in the annual summit between the leaders of the 2 countries, but as the 1st time in the 21 years that the summit has been taking place. that the defense and foreign ministers of both countries also met and what came out of those

meetings is a number of defense deals with the most significant one being india, buying $700000000.00 with advanced assault rifles from kalashnikov with very importantly for india, a technology transfer being part of that agreement with the assault rifles actually being made in the indian state of the put age. now the 2 sides also discussed the delivery of the russian s $400.00 missile defense system. they agreed 3 years ago. it was a $5400000000.00 contract to purchase the system. and india is very much going ahead. would that it's received the 1st part of the system, despite warnings from the us, that it could face sanctions for going ahead with the deal. well, this is what the russian foreign minister sig, a leverage had to say about it. we witness them. some of the above will do like the states to undermine the school duration or to making g a,

b, that miracle norbish. before will there miracle vision will follow this region should be, should be a job there though injured from so leo film, explain the southern culture, then they will decide and whose weapons to buy and who is going to be a buckner of india in this, on the other areas, while the defense daniels, we're the easy part of the summit, the india, russia relationship has come on the some strained recently. and that is because of india's growing relationship with the us and rushes close relationship with china. these dynamics have loomed large over the india, russia relationship. still to come on the news, our gutter and turkey team up to provide what they hope will be a lifeline to afghanistan where millions of people are relying on age. when all the people who glen this was bigger, the solomon islands, prime minister, faces

a boat of no confidence less than 2 weeks of the deadly riots rocked the capital. and in sporting limbs team for the 1st ashes, test against australia remains a closely guarded secret. but the tourists are delighted to have their star man back in contention. ah, if europe has claimed war key victories in its battle against rebels from tig rye, the fighting is concentrated in m horror and afar regions. the to grind forces had until recently been advancing on the capital on the a to highway. now the government says it's taken back the strategically important tons of dessie and con boettcher. william davison is a senior ethiopia analyst for the international crisis group. he believes this could be a pivotal period of the hopes of the to grind forces. the key thing to look for now, i think is what is the ability of the forces to maintain

positions in har region? i think they would be a very difficult position if they were forced to withdraw back to take right entirely. if they take the 4th is able to maintain position, then har region where they beat on this offensive since july. and we will have to see if in the future they able to regain some offensive capacity. they say this is tactical. they say they need some time to reorganize, re strategize and recover the other very significant thing here is the intensified drones capacity of the federal government and drones provided by china, by 30, by iran, facilitated by the united arab emirates. this is really hits the grand supply lines and meant that they had to give up on those offensive ambition. especially for the to grind forces confirmed, they have withdrawn saying, we left north show composure and jesse as part of our plan. there was no organized unit to liberate these towns and the residents know it, and i be generals,

know it. things are going according to our plan. the rest is just circus, according me, and more has given the countries deposed civilian need an unsung sushi a 4 year prison sentence later reduced to to with a partial pardon. she'd already spent a great deal of a 21 year period in detention on the restrictions for her efforts to bring democracy to the country. her actions 6 years ago was seen as the dawn of a peaceful future. but she rejected allegations of the militaries ethnic cleansing overhang muslims, leading to criticism a new time, one a little over a year ago ended in february, coo, she's been detained ever since one of a 1000 people had been killed. now faces sentences of up to a century for a dozen other cases the military has brought against her. as far as louis reports, whence leader of myanmar, now prisoner of its military government, and ladies of the june on sun sushi together without it president belinda also

found guilty of incitement and breaking corona virus rules. they denied all charges, which many believe are trumped up on the gent her says, sooty has been given. do legal process is the 1st verdict of 11 charges. sushi faces including corruption and electoral fraud on delita min online definitely wants to lock her up because the military who does extremely afraid of the popularity she commands. but i think the, the jailing on songs who chief of the rest of her life is not going to stop the resistance. we seeing a huge resistance from young people who refuse to, to stop fighting against this illegal military winter condemnation of the verdict has been swift. a spokesman for good coordinating opposition to the printer says

the military rulers have betrayed the people of me or not. so it is the least crumbson's all our holes in our dreams in our region fall, then the read, the more crappy, you know? so this is marking to do it. as i said was law. the un human rights chief michel bachelor, has criticized the conviction as politically motivated describing it as an attempt to remove all opposition. sushi faces verdicts on another case against her as early as next week. she could be sentenced to more than a 100 years in prison. if found guilty of all charges, florence louis al jazeera security forces in the sudanese capital cartoon. the font tear gas at protest is angry at a move by the prime minister to sign a deal with a military demonstrator say abdullah ham doc betrayed them by agreeing to a government domination by generals m. m olden reports from cotton. it

started with a few 100 people in different parts of the dance capital cartoon, but soon the numbers swelled to 1000 protesters. returning back to the 3 to voice their condemnation of a deal find between the army leader general at the foot. the hyper hahn and prime minister of the land o'clock the agreement came after put upon let a military takeover in october. placing ham built under house arrest for nearly a month. with the deal has a lot of things as a vague and could be interpreted in favor of all demands or against things. but the problem is it was signed by someone who doesn't have a right to sign it as someone who doesn't deserve it. go, come, took just not represent those on the street. and the military cannot be trusted. the takeovers saw the dissolution of the 2 year transitional government, which was shared by the military and the civilian coalition, known as the forces of freedom and change. they were presented the protest movement that led to the overthrow of sedans long time president obama to bushy other regents around the country also came out in protest of a deal,

including the state of casela in the east. therefore, in the west and just the estates which neighbors heart wow, scared monkey. the corner from the army can't be possible government because they are the ones who come and kill us. they can't be the same ones to come and rule us . so we're coming out against the army chief behind and his deputy allison recommend it. they should not use their bullets and tear gas on us and our children . let em use it in a room for the army should be in the barracks. if they were wearing civilian clothing, they could have stood with us more like a family from very afar, with no lucky with across the mild thousands gathered in front of

the presidential palace on monday to voice their anger at the military and the deal . security forces use tear gas to disperse them. since the takeover medical workers there at least 44 people have been killed and nearly 300 injured yet more protests are scheduled for the coming days. many here see the one stop until their demands for a full civil in government is met to guarantees to dance transition to democracy. he by morgan, alta 0 hutton, the prime minister, the solomon islands is accusing the opposition of attempting a to after surviving a confidence vote. in parliament comes 12 days after violent demonstrations and looting in the capital honey, our troops from australia, fiji new zealand, unpopular new guinea are helping to keep the peace. sarah clark, of course we know the people who plan this mrs. big manners i, saga barry holds the majority of seats in the solomon islands parliament. but that didn't stop the nation's opposition later. lodging, emotion 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 loss. he says the motion was made against the backdrop of an illegal attended cou. i did not allow myself to succumb to the dictates of hooligans and lawless order thing to participate in congress intervention. horses were on the ground, missus figured whom held return normalcy in the country. but his job has been the center of recent civil unrest mainly by the people from them,

a native problem. less than 2 weeks ago. the capital honey yara was devastated by rights and losing government. buildings were bent to the ground and 3 people died. the chinatown district was the focus of much of the protests with demonstrate his 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 filed. and let's say these long running tensions between them, a light and province, and 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 government successfully defeating this motion of confidence or simply by changing lead is the the complex structural problems. as the prime minister may have survived this life

. but because he remains in place and more than 200 peacekeepers have been deployed across honey era to avoid a repeat of the recent dr. sarah clark out here. this is al jazeera from london still to come. bish kick is the world's most native city, and unlike most countries, keystone is becoming more reliant on coal and sport iraq take on our cup, host cutter and a bid to clarify it for the quarter finals. ah ah hello, thank you for joining in most of our storm energy around that central mediterranean is pivoting further toward the east and same goes for that shield of snow through

the bulk. and so, sophia bulgaria could pick up about 5 plus centimeters. the worst of the weather, i think will be over western areas of turkey gathering steam through the eastern med, we've got a fire hose of rain for antalya. so think we could pick up about 50 millimeters and those winds will crank up to 65 kilometers per hour. our next advantage storms swoops in. look what it does to ward. hi barea. we've got a lot of rain and wind, so let's break it down. 6 meter high waves for that north coast of spain, about 40 millimeters over 12 hours. so the threat of flooding and those winds and he kilometers per hour center of the low. this storm, by the way, storm bear barely into the republic of ireland, the united kingdom. and i think the worst of the winds will be for the republic of ireland. pretty close to about a 100 kilometers per hour. and we've got snow for northern areas of england, scotland, lower ground, 2 centimeters, but higher ground 10 centimeters or any day in london with a high of 8 degrees. all of that energy over the mediterranean is whipping up the

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