at the top of the agenda as america can handle multiple challenges on multiple frauds, we need to go back to school. the bottom line on al jazeera, ah. ready the usaa knox is a diplomatic boycott of next year's winter olympics, accusing china of human rights abuses the host calls it grandstanding ah, lauren taylor, this is angie, they're alive from london. also coming up to leaders divided by mutual distrust, biden, and put in, prepare for virtual summit as both blame each other for potential conflict in ukraine. if european military claims to key towns from to grind rebels,

pushing them further from the capital protest as a back on the streets in sudan and fearful that the deal to end, the coo will really keep the military in power. ah, hurt. whitehouse 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 u. s. 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 the white house, under pressure from some a human rights activists and 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. the by new administration 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 and john and other human rights abuses, the athletes on team usa have our full support will be behind them 100 percent as we cheer 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 full boy cod of the united states athletes, not participating in the moscow olympics. international and in big committee has responded 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, in its political neutrality fully respects. and the same tongues announcement also makes it clear that the olympic games and the participation of the athletes are beyond politics. and we welcome this speaking, before the war coat was confirmed, china's foreign ministry condemned the move do away sooner. you sure. you know, in the winter olympics are held once every 4 years as a very oppertunity for athletes. the protectiveness of the beijing when civilian picks, will be athletes from various countries, not individual politicians. those politicians who clump a point caught for political self interest just showing off and i can things up, nobody cares whether they come or not. and it will have no influence on placing

success in hosting the winter olympics. main concerns of a new conflict and ukraine could come to a head on tuesday with a virtual summit between the u. s. and russian leaders. joe biden is promising what his spokesman called enduring and meaningful costs. if the build up a russian troops, east of ukraine 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 us concerns with brush and military activities on the border with ukraine and re a form reaffirm the united states support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the crane. it's also an opportunity to discuss a range of topics in the us and russia relationship including strategic stability, cyber and regional issues. but you can certainly expect that the are concerns about the military activities on the border will be a prominent part of the discussion. that pushes denied that an invasion is planned,

blaming nature for the need to position his military as a bulwark against its expansion. eastwards he's wanted to demand security guarantees from biden or to mon last met face to face in geneva in june, where the disgust improving diplomatic relations. but pritchens spokesman and miss relations are still poor. you're perfect, that's what 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 a lamentable state. and ukraine's not all european migrant crisis blamed on russia's allied ben roost. 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. country leak is a senior policy fellow at the european council on foreign relations, and an expert on russia. she explains the motivations from the russian side. i

think put in a serious about seeking control away ukraine's future political choices. and ideally, russia really would like to discuss european political order to carrie tilda and ukraine place, which should be outside nato. so i, we all, but mobilize ation, military mobilization as a whole west to discuss raising, actually putting pressure on the west to discuss the 2000 and wants to discuss. because that was clearly has been shunning conversation whenever russia has tried to make stars on me. i don't see for the preparation for actual invasion like a coming weeks said it doesn't make it any less dangerous because i think rush a quite serious about this. and so we could still see

a military attack except it would come suddenly we would not see. ready months of preparation, leading update. ah, ethiopia has claimed war, key victories in this battle against rebels from to cry. the fighting is concentrated in horror and a far 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 strategic important towns of jesse and compulsion, william davidson as a senior issue, pianos for the international crisis group. he produced this could be a pivotal period for the hopes of the to ground forces. the key thing to look for now, i think is what is the ability of the forces to maintain positions in the region? i think they would be in a very difficult position if they were forced to withdraw back to take right

entirely. if the take right force is able to maintain position, then i'm har region where they beat on this offensive since july. and we will have to see if in the future they're 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 drone 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 line, meant that they had to give up on those offensive ambition. especially for the to grind force is confirmed. they've withdrawn saying we left north show a culture and death is part of our plan. there was no organized unit to liberate these towns and the residents know it, and abby's generals know it. things are going according to our plan. the rest is just circus. security forces in the sydney's capital cartoon. her fine tig ass at

protest is who angry at a move by the prime minister to sign a deal with a military demonstration, say abdallah hm. doc betrayed them by agreeing to a government domination by generals uber. morgan reports from cutting it started with a few 100 people in different parts of the dance capital cartoon. but soon the numbers throughout 2000 protesters returning back to the 3 to voice their condemnation of a deal find between the army leader general at them put their hyper hahn and prime minister of the latin duke. last month, the agreement came afterwards. hamlet, a military takeover in october, placing handled under house arrest for nearly a month. the deal has a lot of things that have begun could be interpreted in favor of arguments or against sticks. 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 was gonna come. doctors 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 civilian coalition, known as the forces of freedom and change. they represented the protest movement that led to the overthrow of to dance long time. president obama had machine 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 estate which neighbors heart. wow, that's good 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. i listen like a movie that they should not use. they bullets and tear gas on us and our children, let them use it in the army should be in the barracks. if they were wearing civilian clothing, they could have stood with us more like a family from various, far out with

no like you can with across the mile. 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 years they, they won't stop until that demands for a full civil and government is meant to guarantee to dance, transition to democracy. he bo morgan, alta 0 hutton, still to come around here. we know the people who glen this is bigger. so mind pm, faces of age of no confidence less than 2 weeks, some to debbie. right now, the capital ambition jack is the well to miss newton city. but unlike those

countries, kingston is becoming more reliant. ah . away we go with your weather update for asia. right here, right now we're going to begin in the philippines where there's the risk of flooding toward the eastern portion of the country, some driving rain moving in, and it's also make its way into city on tuesday. next, i want to take you to japan. gideon, strike was some showers toward that eastern portion of honju. the west is wall in tokyo will get in on some of his action with the high of 14 degrees, high pressure still in charge for a large portion of china that stellar's stretch of weather continues gray lin, hong kong on kong, coming in at 23 degrees but were clouds are drifting in across the yangtze river valley and the pearl river valleys young jo has a high of 11 degrees southeast asia. we get

a weather maker spinning around to the south of java. that's throwing rain for west java. southern sumatra and rain is steering into so the lazy so that real risk of seen some flooding here down under right now. rain falling in all the wrong places, flood stricken areas of queensland, new south wales and victoria that we gotta talk about the heat. i put the colors on the darker the red, the higher the temperature looks like the heat won't, can pers, until we get toward the end of the weaker temperatures below average. and after getting a months worth of rain in the capital region of new zealand, we got more to come on tuesday, susan. ah, the step beyond the comfort zone, where assumptions are challenged, travel to the ends of the earth, and further experience the unimaginable of the people who live in

this is probably the most extreme situation i've been involved in. how quickly things contract award winning documentary is that also a perception witness on a, just the euro, lou ah, or one of the top stories here, not a 0. united states has announced a diplomatic boycott of next year's winter olympics in china. the measure will not affect us athletes competing at the games. in beijing, china's accused the u. s. of grandstanding the u. s. as it will warn russia of severe economic consequences if it invades ukraine. it's had to be the main subject and a virtual summit between president joe biden and vladimir putin. a security forces,

as you dont have find to tear gas at protest is denouncing a move by the prime minister to sign a deal with the military demonstrators. more allies of former leader omar bashir removed from power accorded me and mark has given the countries deposed civilian nita unsung sushi a 4 year prison sentence later reduced to 2 with a partial pardon. she had already spent a great deal of a 21 year period in detention or under restrictions for her efforts to bring democracy to the country. her election 6 years ago was seen as the dawn of a peaceful future. but she rejected allegations of the militaries ethnic cleansing overhang and muslims leading to criticism a new term one a little over a year ago ended in february's coo, she's been detained ever since, while more than a 1000 people have been killed. she now faces sentences up to a century for a dozen other cases. the military has brought against her. as burns,

larry reports. when's leader of myanmar now prisoner of its military government and leaders of the junior on san sushi together with ousted precedent windows, found guilty of incitement and breaking corona virus rules. they denied all charges which many believe are trumped up on. the ginger says sooty has been given. do legal process is the 1st verdict of 11 charges sushi faces including corruption and electoral fraud con delita min online definitely wants to lock her up because the military junta is extremely afraid of the popularity she commands. but i think the, the jailing on songs who cheat for 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 group, coordinating opposition to the printer says the military rulers have betrayed the people of me and not. so it is the least crumbson's all our holes in our dreams and our region fall vendor at the mccarthy new november. so this is marketing to new s as in wolf law. the un human rights chief michelle 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, rescuers searching for survivors from a volcanic eruption in indonesia, a being hampered by bad weather and further clouds of hot ash. so far,

22 people are confirmed dead and 27 are missing. jane wolf has more. ah, scouring through the rubble ploughing through volcanic, the breed 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 loved ones in this moment are better than new years. those who survived are still coming to take with their ordeal. ha, it at 1st i thought it was a bomb explosion, and all of the sudden it was tomorrow erupting and spoonful cannick ashes. suddenly it was all dark like it was going to destroy the earth. suddenly 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 swallowed 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 savaging all they can from their wrecked homes. indonesian authorities have advised locals not to travel within range of the mirrors. crater. many of the survivors and hospital have severe,

burns, some with up to 80 percent of their bodies. most people are complaining about having difficulty breathing and feeling dizzy. some of them have medical histories like have potential with not enough space to truth, the injured families, packet mixture filters as a wait to hear from relatives. while the volcanoes, observatory officials are searching for any sign of new activity and sending out warnings about us asking what the status of my children 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. the for saturday is devastation, gillian wolf out a 0. the prime minister of the solomon islands and accusing opposition of attempting a qu, after surviving a confidence version. parliament comes 12 days after violent demonstrations and

looting in the capital honi, our troops from australia of fiji, new zealand, and papua new guinea, helping to keep the peace. sarah clark report, we know the people who planned this mrs. biggest men as i saga bar. i hope the majority of seats in the solemn non and parliament, but that didn't stop the nation's opposition later. lodging. emotion of no confidence in the prime minister's ladyship. a stronger. united fair. just and prosperous, solomon islands cannot be building on deception insincerity. hi, roy said, capture and foreign interests you was 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 the legal attempted cou. i did not allow myself to succumb

to the dictates of hooligans and lawless order thing to participate in congress intervention forces were on the ground. mrs. bigger to help returned normalcy in our country. ah, it is. government has been the center of recent civil unrest. it mainly by the people from the manet to province. less than 2 weeks ago the capital honey yara was devastated by riots and looting. government buildings were burnt to the ground, and 3 people died. the china town district was the focus of much of the protests. would demonstrate his angry about the government's decision to dump diplomatic ties . the taiwan in favor of china. that unrest triggered a campaign by the opposition to force the prime minister to stand down, which filed and must say these

a long running tensions between them. a lightened province and the central government and the are likely to be resolved any time soon. got public resentment about proceed. corruption in government, questions around public financial management. none of these issues will be resolved either by the government successfully defeating this motion of no confidence or simply by changing leaders. these are complex structural problems. so moments. the prime minister may have survived this mode, but a curfew remains in place. and more than 200 piece keepers had been deployed across honey era. to avoid a repeat of the recent riots, sarah clark out his ear. the new on the tron, very into coven 19, has spread to 3 more nations. the cases detected in thailand, nepal and croatia. thailand is heavily dependent on tourism and it's only just reopened it's borders for travel. scientists are working to establish if a micron spreads faster than previous variance,

and whether it will be more resistant to vaccines. south africa's president who has accused rich countries of creating a system of health. the parties in the fight against coven, 19 a similar, unopposed toler, peace and security. for a min, senegal, that developed countries are failing to deliver vaccines promised to africa, where the only tron variant continues to spread from decker. nicholas hacker puts the fight against the new armor. crone variance in senegal starts here at a health center in downtown to car, were doses of the covered 19 vaccines are available. i can, with the can, the, it's not because we have a vaccine that we are immune. we need to keep protective measures and protect those around us. it's not over at a 2 day piece, insecurity form held into court on monday, south africa, president sirower, poster accused rich countries of creating health apartheid. i have personally really been disappointed in the approach,

but the rich countries have taken on the issue of vaccines. firstly, the hoarder to vaccines. they ordered more boxes than beer populations required. and when we wanted vaccines, they just kept, you know, giving us the crumbs from the table. and the greed that they demonstrated is something that is quite, quite disappointing. indeed, particularly when they say they are our partners. the pandemic overshadowed the 7th piece insecurity form held here which welcomed heads of state intelligence officers and military chiefs. usually discussions and the forum revolves around greater military cooperation between western nations and african countries. but with western countries breaking their promise to supply vaccines in their unwillingness to wave patterns, to allow people here to make their own trust is eroding with some nation,

looking at new partnerships to help the fight against cove it in africa, china and out it's sending 1000000000 doses of vaccines on the fight against arm groups in this a hell region. new year's president admitted that al qaeda affiliates are in some places better equipped than the security forces of some countries in west africa following increased attacks. molly, seeking help from the russian mercenaries working for wagner, the private military company. but us way conflict, my lee have decided to go more and more for diversification of our partnerships. we can work with china. we can work with her. russia also at the form delegates from western nations reiterated their good will and intentions. but countries such as south african senegal, say that's not good enough. vaccines made in africa for africans is what they want

. almost a quarter of a 1000000 africans are reported to have died of the virus so far. the message here is those death where preventable. if only victims had access to vaccines. nicholas hawk al jazeera de car. i mean jubilant scenes in the gambia after emma barrow comfortably won a 2nd time as president. he took 153 percent of the vote or his main challenger, who senior dubbo, one just under 28 percent. that is disputing the result. and m a barrow 1st won the presidency 5 years ago, ending well 20 years of dictatorship and a yard jamie who fled into exile. a growing energy crisis in chemist on is pushing the former soviet republic to become more reliant on coal. it's a decision that's made the capitol, the world's most polluted city. at a time when most of the planet is attempting to cut down on fossil fuels, same as highway has more from dish tech on the top choice is being faced by its residence. from a vantage point overlooking biscuit,

it's easy to see why kirk of stones 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 at 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 city's combined heat and power plant is enormous. but it's still not enough. near the power plant, people are forced to burn cold 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 essentially 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 plans 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 one more just than by if they would stop burning of coal? and if the power plant was also working, it would be good. pollution as 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 me be in the future, i will move 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 was ravi alta 0, describe ah, or one of the top stories here now 0. united states is announced a diplomatic boycott of next year's winter olympics in china. the measure will not affect u. s. athletes competing at the games in beijing. it's in protest against china's human rights record. the biden administration will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the beijing 2022 winter olympics and paralympic games given the pierre scenes ongoing genocide and cr.