in village throttle point, this is when you really get to let her hair down and the cane africa direct on al jazeera. ah the u. s. follows through with its threat to diplomatically boycott the beijing winter olympics. move the china warned would bring some counter measures. ah, i made room for again. this is al jazeera, alive from doha, also coming up. ethiopian government forces take 2 contested towns from to grow on rebels. who say they withdrawal is part of a bigger strategic plan. and it's national outcry after mammals ousted civilian

leader is sentenced to what the u. s. and others are calling a sham trial. plus 0, $1.00 thing to be prime minister with the solomon islands, prime minister angrily accuses rivals of attempting a qu, after surviving a confidence vote of arrives. ah, sizing what it called human rights atrocities and genocide, the united states has announced a diplomatic boycott of china's winter olympics. it means that no american government officials will attend president joe biden said last month that he was considering the boycott, which won't affect you as athletes going to beijing. china's been warning of unspecified countermeasures, adding that the games are not a stage for political posturing. sunni, so sure, you know, yeah,

i met the winter olympics held once every 4 years as a rare opportunity for athletes. the protagonists of the beijing winter olympics will be athletes from various countries. not individual politicians, those politicians who klamath a boycott for political self interest, or just showing off and i ping things up. nobody cares whether they come or not. and it will have no influence on by success in hosting the winter olympics, many rooms and its response. the international olympic committee said that it respects any government's decision about whether or not to send officials. let's hear from a white house correspondent, kimberly how could, who explains what's behind the bike with ministrations decision 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 boycott 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 engine, john and other human rights abuses. the athletes on team usa have our full support, will be behind them 100 percent as we tear them on from home. we will not be contributing to the fanfare of the games. 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. michael swain is director of the east asia program with quincy institute . he says, the boy cock won't force any change in china. i think it will have virtually no or 0 impact on, on their policies and change on and or their policies and hong kong. although i think that the justification for this kind of an action by the united states or, or something somewhat lesser than that i would have said might have been better for the united states to have sent its china ambassador chinese m a u. s. ambassador to beijing. to the, to the event and him not make any statements at the event to just be there. but that's, you know, that's a judgment call. but i think that you know, that they're not, they, they can't do that now. so they're, they're locked into a situation where they just have to go through the diplomatic way the chinese could take, they could refuse to send their own athletes to different games. it could take some

kind of measures against the world tennis association or against other countries that were involved in this kind of a diplomatic boycott by threatening to not have their athletes participate. but these would be really some of the very extreme measures, which i think would make the situation even worse for the chinese right now, they have to think about, are there going to be other countries that are also going to join this diplomatic way? under the think that's inevitable or perhaps not, and there were no other countries that joined this boycott at the time united states announced that maybe we'll see more we'll see them coming on now. but so far know. and so there may be a, you know, the chinese may want to make sure that there are, there's not a cascading event of more diplomatic way, what's in this case. and so i would think that that would argue in favor of greater restraint on their part as opposed to threats or efforts to try to punish people. if the opiate government forces of one more battlefield victories against rebels

from the north, the tig, ryan people's liberation front or t p l f appears to be retreating in. i'm harder and are far regions which neighbor to guy where the rebels based soldiers, loyal to prime minister abbey, are met of doubt taken back control of the towns of dessie and come boucher their strategically important because they sit on a national highway or a spokesman for the to graham forces confirm that they have withdrawn saying we left north shore come bolger and dca. as 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. it says on thousands of returns the streets, maintaining protests against october's military takeover. a subsequent deal of reinstated the prime minister. they say that abdullah hum dog betrayed them by agreeing to a government dominated by generals al jazeera hebrew, morgan reports from khartoum. it started with

a few 100 people in different parts of the dance capital cartoon. but soon the numbers to wealth to 1000 protesters returning back to the 3 to voice their condemnation of a deal find between the army leader general at them for the hyper hahn and prime minister of the latin dough class. the agreement came afterwards, hamlet, a military takeover in october, placing ham built under house arrest for nearly a month with the deal has a lot of things such a vague and could be interpreted in favor of arguments or against it. 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, work go, come, took just not represent those on the street. and the military cannot be trusted. that the takeover 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 and 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 estate which neighbors hartwell, i scared monkey to go into. the army can't be possible guzman, because they are the ones who come and kill us. they can't be the same ones to come and rule us to. we're coming out against the army chief behind and his deputy, and with a look a minute. they should not use their bullets and tear gas on us and our children, let them 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 various parts of the city in the day. oh, 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 guarantee to dance transition to democracy. he by morgan, alta 0 hutton, the us, france, germany brit and brittany in italy. say that the united front is needed to face the threat of brushing hostility, the group of nato countries called on moscow to deescalate tension on ukraine's border, and reaffirmed their support for its territorial integrity. russia's military build up on the border with ukraine will be the top focus of video league talks between vladimir putin and joe biden. on tuesday. the credit describes us russia relations as dial ahead of that. russian president was in india where several deals were

signed, including one for kalashnikov assault rifles. al jazeera elizabeth brought him reports 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 worth of 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 privilege. 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 sick, a leverage, had to say about it. we witness them. so the bubble do live that stakes to undermine the school duration or through making g a, b, that miracle norbish. before will there miracle vision of how this region should be should be developed there though injured from so leo feminine explained the southern culture, then they will decide on whose weapons to buy and who is going to be a buckner of india in this on the other areas, while the defense deals were the easy part of the summit, the india, russia relationship has come under some strain 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 indian russia relationship that as told from indonesia as volcanic eruption has risen to 22 with many more injured. others still missing more seismic activity in grand fall, a frustrating search efforts, julian wolf recalls ah, scouring through the rubble ploughing through volcanic debris 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 recovered beneath the rubble a sense of relief among emergency crews and delivered me thank god, we found the bodies of these victims and retrieved them. answers for loved ones in this moment, or better than news. those who survived are still coming to terms with their ordeal . law it at 1st i thought it was a bomb explosion,

and all of the sudden it was said miro erupting and spooling volcanic ashes. suddenly it was all dark like it was going to destroy the earth. my children were scattered around, my husband was not found, and i was waiting for him. and then we fled to the evacuation camp. jarvis largest 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's 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 have advised locals to travel within range of the mirrors. crater. many of the survivors in 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 hyper tension, with not enough space to 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 mad about us as 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 before saturdays

devastation, gillian wolf out a 0. look at whether update, max pay on our 0. then south africa, the president takes aim at the travel bands and posed on his country because of the on the chrome variables. ah, ah, look forward to burritos, guys. with the sponsored my cattle airways, most of the rain has petered out across by the dash. hello everyone, let me show you still keeping it toward the northeast of india, but quite a soaking a 4 dock up. but now you have the opportunity to dry off. we're back into the sunshine your temperature locks in to about 27 degrees. so it's pretty well where he should be for this some the year after se, asia right now we've got a weather maker just to the south of java. this is swirling around somewhat weather for west java into southern sections of sumatra. and we can also trace rain being

steered rate into 2 ways. so for all of these spots, we've got to be on the lookout for flooding ticket. the philippines right now, and the risk of flooding here is small for eastern portions into a central philippines. as this solid band of rain now arrives into see bu city. in time, it's all about sunshine for a huge swath of china, high pressure and charged. the stellar stretch of weather continues for gray, lynn and hong kong. bit more cloud cover. moving. what's the east though? drifting in through the yangtze river valley and also the yellow river valleys. young jo as a higher level degrees, getting striped with some rain for the eastern side of han shoe, also for the west in tokyo is going to get in on some of this action with a high of 14 degrees on tuesday. that's it. that's all. see you soon? ah, the weather sponsored by casara weighs a sacred himalayan summit more treacherous than ever. cumber qana has

never been tamed with and feared by local. yet an irresistible challenge to western climate. a sharper family with choose between going against their religious beliefs and guiding a group of mountaineers, or rejecting max needed income. the wall of shadows on al jazeera. ah ah. again, this is al jazeera. let's remind you of the main news this out. the united states is announced a diplomatic boycott of bay genius winter olympics, accusing china of genocide. no american government officials will attend the games, but it will have no impact on athletes. china describes it as political

manipulation. ethiopian government forces of one more battlefield victories against rebels from the north. the to grind people's liberation frontal tpl. f appears to be retreating in armada and a fall regions. but a spokesman says that it's, according to that plan and security forces ensued on of use tear gas to disperse. thousands of protest isn't cartoon demonstrates to say the prime minister betrayed them by agreeing to a government dominated by military generals, police in the gambia of fire tear gas to disperse supporters of a losing presidential candidate is refusing to concede defeat the country's electoral commission declared incumbent adama barrow the winner with 53 percent of the vote al jazeera. i'll address reports from banjo. from know at some point you can just go on the quarter to 4. remember the way down there are some hundreds of meters down. this is the residence of the main opposition made out with sandy

double the candidate presidential candidate of the not to democratic party who last election. but we just started in a press conference yesterday. so although he come do supporters yesterday asking them not to take the more into their speech, got out of control this evening when i was told was daughters who responded by far as checkouts only for justice. you know, we also understand, i understand that from a rest, counting down by the security forces, before the situation come down, they are deployed to getting deployed behind the camera some way from the form of the web the, the road traffic coming this way. it stopped and then traffic has been diverted away from the all of the opposition meta now what is going to happen now? and he did it. nobody really felt like we got this situation may

escalate it to action against the support of the u. d. p. well, i got that here in the 1st, not disappointment by the outcome of ousted civilian liter on cancer. she has been sentenced after a trial. it was largely held behind closed doors. she was initially handed for years, but that was hard by the joint chiefs didn't temper global outrage about what's been condemned as a sham. i'll just as florence louis reports, once leader of myanmar, now prisoner of its military government. and ladies of the jupiter on santucci together without did president wind found guilty of incitement and breaking corona virus rules. they denied all charges which many believe are trumped up on. the ginger says sushi has been given you legal process. is the 1st verdict of 11

charges sushi faces including corruption and electoral fraud. conte leader min online definitely wants to lock her up because the military who does stream the afraid of the popularity she commands. but i think that the, the jailing on songs to 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 pointer 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 functions, all our holes and our dreams and our vision for them to read the more crappy, you know, so this is marketing to do it as, as it was

a lot the you and 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, a committee in israel has rejected the construction of 9000 housing units and occupied east jerusalem. they were planned for an area where many palestinians live now to serious harry force of the details. 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 in potter rock, very close to the columbia refugee can really cleaving jerusalem east truce than 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 what he said they were going to drop it under us pressure, especially nonetheless, it was still on the agenda of this planning meeting. now just last week, the secretary of state and city of lincoln spoke to the israeli prime minister, natalie bennett. with this issue very much from the center of 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, 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. in south africa, the president stepped up his fierce criticism of the way that countries have reacted to the new alma chrome very to the virus, the corona virus. so around the pose, i made the remarks during a peace and security forum and cynical saying that government schools have failed to deliver covert 19 vaccines that they promised to africa from dot com. nicholas hoc reports the fight against the new omicron variant in senegal starts here at a health center in downtown the car were doses of the covey. 19 vaccines are available. monday 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 in the car on monday, south africa as president, sirower posts are accused rich countries of creating health apartheid. i have

personally really been disappointed in the approach that the rich countries have taken on the issue of vaccines. firstly, they hoarded vaccines. they ordered more vaccines than their 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 covey 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 affiliate or 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. thus way conflict, my lee have decided to go more and more for diversification of our partnerships. we can work with china, we can, will be for russia. also at the form delegates from western nations reiterated there, 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 were preventable if only victims had access to vaccines. nicholas hawk al jazeera de carr, a south african crew members suspected of being infected with the omicron variant is among the 17 cases of curve at 19 detected on a u. s. cruise ship. it left new orleans in the last week of november of made stops in belize, honduras, and mexico. before returning the prime minister, the solomon islands as furiously attacked political rivals, surviving of no confidence, motion, and parliament. the push against monastery sagal saga was in response to days of rioting and looting the pacific patients. capital hon. i r. a sarah clark reports. we know the people who plan this mrs. vega manners. i saw her. barry holds the majority of seats in the solomon islands parliament. but that didn't stop the

nation's opposition later. 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 want 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 attempted cou. i did not allowing myself to succumb to the dictates of hooligans and lawless order thing to participate in congress intervention forces were on the ground. mister speaker to help returned

normalcy in our country. but his government 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 rice and looting government. buildings were bent to the ground, and 3 people died. the chinatown district was the focus of much of the protests with demonstrated angry about the government's decision to dump diplomatic ties to taiwan in favor of china. that unrest trigger campaign by the opposition to force the prime minister to stand down, which filed. and let's say these a long running tensions between them, a lighting 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 the motion of no 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 yara, to avoid a repeat of the recent dr. sarah clark out here. ah, it's good to have this low adrian funding here in the headlines on i was 0. the united states has announced a diplomatic boycott of bay james winter olympics accusing china of widespread human rights abuses. no american government officials will attend the games, but it will have no impact on athletes. speaking before the boycott was confirmed, china's foreign ministry condemned any form of boycott soon. are you sure you knew the winterly.