in the hallway and 12 other socialist had been killed in a helicopter crash came down, you know, get descriptive of italian luggage. that one of the a u. k. prime minister has apologized after a linked video showed senior officials joking about a christmas party to re a covert nights in lockdown. or as johnson has repeatedly denied any rules, were broken and says, he was told the event never happened. i love shots has been sworn in as the new german chancellor. he's replacing anglo merkel living office after 16 years. and that story is something wanna continue with now. we can speak to at yon up. we're in who's a senior policy fellow at the european council on foreign relations, joins us live now from berlin. yon are welcome to the program at said merkel has been such a fixture in europe for so long. how hard will it be for shops to fill those shoes? it might be very hard because my ha and basically history all the years has

a special relationship only acting on heads of state and government. so she knows brussels very well she, i think she has some personal relationships and charts is not an honor in preference and in your opinion. and but he likes the expertise and the depth of the relationships. he's always been, we got to very much, it was miracles, man, do you see any potential for big shifts in policy, especially in terms of european diplomacy via when you look at it inside the collision treaty. and there is a change, at least, and when it comes to china and russia, the language is tougher than what we've seen in previous coalition treaties. and i think it's a not house herself or the cream and the liberal condition hardness that will push shells. and not only into basically cure and the status quo got to also to, to set some new absence. china, russian did as

a case in point since his case of balancing a germans relationship with them as well as their relationship with united states. yeah, i think then when you look at the clinician treaty, it is clear that the transatlantic relationship remains at the heart of german file policy. the united states is the closest non european partner for germany, and there isn't a huge commitment to nato india and when it comes to china, i think there is a growing awareness in germany that this is not only about partnerships that china as a systemic rival. and this is very much acknowledged barrow at the other hand, shala's has very much to sympathize with novels approach towards china and russia. and so i, i see the time here and not at the forefront of these changes. one of the major issues very much immediately in his inbox, if you like, is on the european doorstep anyways, is russia's threatening it's posturing over ukraine. how do the kids can handle

that? i think that it would be a very difficult 1st test case, but the german government, especially when it comes to the not to stream to entity pipeline because yes it, he transfers party and has been basically the architecture of this pipeline has russia. and now the united states, but also european allies, are reopening on file and say, so maybe germany needs to use the pipeline as a leverage and as a need to threaten russia to, to put this on the table again. and when i agree with the liberals of hers, a skeptical and the 1st place when it comes to her not to do and the whole project . yes, he has been very much positive and i think it will be tough for them. a basically to put this or to disposition a green big part of this coalition. of course, i do see germany now being at the, the vanguard of the green revolution. and in beth, what's what problems as it creates a home in the new a find, mr. donnelly, not now,

but it can. this is driven by the idea to make herself a climate chancellor austin find policy. and i think she will want to bring to european union and behind which and end at work with the european union. yet to make you an advocate and attack him in the fight against climate change. and so i think that will be very high on the planet agenda domestically. i think the public is i las very supportive of this idea. but of course here during the actually command, we had a huge discussion about basically the tradeoff. and also how commerce can measures against climate change cost. and they've got a great get your perspective preacher, but very much younger paulina and senior policy fellow the european council on foreign relations. thank you. thank you. the us president has repeated his warning

to russia's leader, invade ukraine and face severe sanctions. virtual call between joe biden and to be uprooting on tuesday, ended with no breakthrough. preaching complained about nato's attempts to develop what he called ukrainian territory. white house correspondent can be how it has this with a massive build up of russian troops, new ukraine, shared border, and u. s. intelligence indicating an invasion of ukraine could happen early next year. u. s. president biden met virtually with russian president vladimir poo. good to see you again. the pair spoke for 2 hours. potent denies russia intends to invade ukraine, calling it fear mongering. but the u. s. president made clear today that if russia did tough economic sanctions would follow. i will look in the eye and tell you as president biden looked, president putin in the eye and told him today that things we did not do in 2014. we are prepared to do now. that reference is to the russian annexation of crimea from

ukraine. that prompted us sanctions biden also told putin the u. s. was prepared to assist militarily. we would provide additional defensive material to the ukrainians above and beyond that, which we are already providing. and we would fortify our nato allies on the eastern flank for its part. russia is seeking assurances from the west that ukraine will not become a member of the north atlantic treaty organization, something the ukrainians have pursued for years. the u. s. national security advisor reiterated ukraine can associate with whoever it wants. when analyst believes joining nato is unrealistic, it ought to be clear to them that we're not coming to the rescue. so you'd have to live in nest russia without a u. s. security guarantee. there were also questions about the controversial nord stream to pipeline which runs from germany to russia and whether it could be used

as leverage and discussions over ukraine. the white house says it will pressure the german government to stop it. if russia invades the biden administration, will continue to work with it's european partners, promising a coordinated response. should russia ignore their warnings? president biden will also speak with ukraine's president lensky on thursday. kimberly, how can al jazeera the white house? well, brett bruin is a president to the global situation room consultancy and former us diplomats. and he says that by needs to be tougher with putin to get russian troops off ukraine's border. a lot of what we heard from jake sullivan as well as from the read out. this is all stuff we have tried before and without much success. so i don't see a new recipe. and quite frankly, i'm concerned that we're really playing on putin's terms here. i mean,

this question of whether or not he will choose to invade, let's not forget, he's got troops already in eastern ukraine. new hans did that. and crimea, we're not talking about getting those troops out. quite frankly. why didn't need to show that he is not going to give ground to putin on this one, and that he can hold the western alliance together. and obviously, after the unilateral withdrawal from afghanistan, there's a lot of concern crossed the nato alliance in america's reliability in its strength . and so by didn't really have to perform on this one. we'll see this 1st discussion with prudent on the question of invasions did not resulted in any concrete result. and now it gets kicked down to the foreign minister and we'll see what they can come back with. one of the ways in which we historically have been effective is when we can promote transparency, when we can promote good governance initiatives, when we can shine a bright light and some of those dark corridors in moscow and the kremlin. and

we've already seen with the efforts of electing, of only the opposition leader how effective that can be with the russian people. the funeral of a sri lankan man beaten to death and pakistan on friday has been held in his home country. a crowd attacked, presented yo wantna before dragging him into the streets and set him on fire staff at the factory where he worked at accused him of destroying a religious poster. pakistan's prime minister says more than 100 people have been arrested. michelle fernandez is more from the victims home in camp ha, interlock. there's been her sort of almost disbelief, particularly standing here in his home, having spoken to a members of his closest family. it's very, very clear that the reality is yet to set in his wife is um, you know, trying to come to terms with what exactly transpired on friday. she did sort of urge the justice be done that the full arm of the law be used to ensure that

perpetrators of this, essentially, this dastardly act are brought to book to ensure that in future this doesn't happen again. but she's, she's very much a sort of, you know, taken aback by the proceedings as are these young sons. now it's a very close knit family. there was 6 siblings in the family. and incidentally, the 3 boys of which brianna was the youngest. all walked in park, his son. oh, did all been working for more than a decade there and they have never come across any violence of this scale or nature . his, his mom is heart breaking for her to see her youngest son come home in a seal coffin his injuries. we're too brutal for even an open casket. so that's the mod here. sort of almost disbelief and deep, deep grief. the remains of a chemical ship had caught fire off the shoreline come coast in may, will be removed. a salvage company has been contracted to remove the m v. express

pearl and cause environmental damage office for hundreds of tons of hazardous chemicals and plastic into the ocean. dead marine life incl, titles and wales washed off on beaches for his president, who survived a motion to impeach him. congress rejected a request to remove him for what's been described as moral incapacity. left his president to assumed office in july. this accused of corruption by his political rivals, pro and anti government protest has gathered outside congress during the impeachment . vote approves at 5 presidents. in the last 5 years. a report by bows newton university has made a direct link between a coal fired power plant and a high level of cancer locals in the northwest. hannah, can you say that town has emptied in the past decade? the now concerned about plans going ahead to expand the plot or button mentally. as this report. the town of became near sits in the shadow of both near hurts cadina's

largest power plant, considered europe's most producing. it seemed blamed for many debts and mass migration, and this is a culprit to large stretches of ash and co deposits. the deer, though i portrayed us here just as soon as a child is born, he gets bronchitis. asthma instead of the lungs naturally developing. every day we bury someone, never before have more people died than now. this is hell. the kenya has been empty of its residence a decade ago. 5500 people lived here. now that down to a 1000, a recent health studies link tells us smoke and ash to high levels of lung cancer, asthma and chronic disease walking. it'll tell us there is no clear border between virginia and the power plants, the impact of the plants, lag, and hash deposits account for 70 percent of that. and chronic diseases. compared

with 3 percent of the selena district, which we compared to, to the tesla count. it's one of 5, the provide the nation with 70 percent of its electricity. it's directed denies links to high levels of cancer. and then tell me most the other category nana. there is not a single coal fired plant that has no impact on the environment. we, as owners, are obliged to take a number of measures prescribed by law to reduce that impact, according to these environmental and energy characteristics. these are production units that are equal to those built in the year. and now the ground is being prepared for the plans to be expanded in a chinese back deal. this is despite china's pledge to start building new co plants abroad. and the e use energy watchdog saying it's preaching e u law and the aggravate air pollution moment system, coin laundry. we have a system that serves to protect operators who do meet their obligations regarding environmental protection. but here, when i talk about environmental protection,

i'm talking about human lives. the few remaining residents fear the new plant will add to them misery and the driver power will drain the town of the last few people still left. laura berman the al jazeera, filipino journalists, murray. odessa is flying to norway to accept her nobel peace prize off the record to prove to trip the outspoken critic of president re you to turkey is on bel while appealing, 6 year prison sentence, reliable resar and a russian journalist to meet him. what of rewarded the prize jointly for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expressions? there's a part of me that is happy. yes, but also angry. and hoping for a better, a better place for the plane of a journalist to land. right, what's, what's happened in hong kong?

i think this is just an indication of how hard it is to be a journalist today. but how important it is, the a journalist go ahead here now 0. we've got the sport with peter. we alive from our special arab cups today hearing doha, let the lady on the phone with the end of the perfect storm for australia in the ashes series against england action from day one on the 1st test. and brisbin coming up ah.

in full, lou with welcome to al jazeera, special coverage of the fee for arab up the tournament, doubling up as

a major warm up event for the casa world cup next year. hello, i'm p to stay with plenty of school fees for you, including action from the group game between algeria and egypt, australia make the best possible saud against england in the 1st taste of the ashes in brisbin. and it will show you how likely to go madrid sealed their place in the knockout phase of the european champions league. this quickly bring you up to date with what's happening at the arab cup, where the group stage has now finished 2 of the favorites, algeria and egypt faced each other on tuesday night and group the although they were both way to guarantee the place in the knockouts match ended 11, so they had the same number of points, but egypt finished as group winners because of the fair play rule. meaning they received few yellow cods during the group stage. it was one last quarter, final sport up for grabs, and group c. and that went to jordan,

who were comprehensive, 51 when is a good palestine, the palestinians as a result head home as do saudi arabia, the finished food in the group. so here's the line up for the quarter finals to new z and the amana 1st up on friday. and later that night, hosts faced the u. e. then on saturday egypt tackle jordan. and it's morocco, this is algeria ever since. cut one the right for her. the 2022 woke up the golf nation as faced scrutiny among treatment of workers, insulting building stadiums for the tournament. organize and save a commitment to work as well as it's big improvements in living and safety standards and the richardson reports. next year, cassandra lee sale stadium will host the world cup final but now it's home to some of the thousands of construction workers. you've helped realize this countries, footballing ambitions. they include v j in nor do i met their accommodation block

near the stadium. the job working capital, the, the last 15 years order about the i've seen big changes during my time here in my previous job, i had to spend a lot of time cooking my food and washing my clothes. now i don't have those worries. food is cooked for us, my clothes go to the laundry, and the salary is paid on time. but now, during the hot months, we get a 10 minute break every hour and don't work during the middle of the day. there's a rest area and we can have water and glucose drink organizes say there have been 3 work related deaths and 35 known work related fatalities on wilco projects in the last 10 years. in that time, there also have been significant reforms introduced, including a minimum wage and the ending of a system whereby in the past work is had to get their employers permission to either change jobs or leave the country human rights group. amnesty international

says progress on work is right to stagnated in capital over the past year, but it did make an exception for those directly involved with the world cup. we do recall that those workers working on work or project have better standards of protection. the supreme committee introduced the workers with offering better standards, and i think that even a fruit to sometimes 1st class workers because of the bridge by virtue of working on his very important project. but again, i think we need to see beyond these 2 percent. and then make sure that the remaining 98 percent also enjoy the same protection surrounding some of the world cup stadiums. a so called walls of gratitude, pictures of all the workers we've helped build them. it's their efforts, the skills that assistance their patients while they were away from home to really help us bring the, you know, dream to reality. when is your v j is work is funded. his own construction project,

a new house back home in india, where he plans to rejoin his family after the world cup and the richardson al jazeera lucille athletic madrid have made it in for the last 16 of the european champions league. that 131 way of port and then a game that saw 3 red cards that ago started the game bottom of groupie win lifted them to 2nd behind little pool who beat ac milan to make it 6 winds out of 6 in the group stage. ran madrid, finished top of group the offer to know when of in from 1120 cross opening the school with what was rails, 1000 going in the european got. they are the 1st side to reach that mark into. so went through in 2nd place period. benjamin finished group a in style hammering, club breeze for one in paris, getting them bump a school twice in the opening, 7 minutes. and then the purpose became the youngest player to reach that he goals and the competition. i think the now missed the attitude. you 1st was

a trademark drive from outside the area, the go through thick and behind cooper and his manchester city. macy former club boss. another 1st big test on wednesday is taken by munich, chevy and ended the sides that 2nd in groupie. but only 2 points that have been fico, so the need to win all the risk of failing to make the knockout stage of the champions league for the 1st time into decades. a financial situation puts even more pressure on the team who, according to reports in spain budget and to reach at least the quarter finals failing to progress out of the group stage, could mean they'd lose more than 20 $2000000.00. manchester united new manager, ralph rodnick, takes charge. we supposed european game against swift steam, young boys, a german coach, bringing in a sports psychologist to work with these plays and stuff. if you have special coaches for coal keeping for physical education, you also should have an expert for the brain and not so much to put them on the red sofa and holding hands for the players because most of them won't do that anyway.

for me, it's about helping the players that the brain should, that should assist the body and not work against it. you know that the players and even the coaching staff, everybody in our team should think in the right way. now it's one of the biggest series in test cricket. the ashes are underway in prison and it's failed to stay strange. could not have made a much better start against england. here we go. we actually counted it didn't really get much better for england after that. only 4 of their bats been laid into double figures and they were all out for just 147. had cummins in his 1st

sisters, australia captain, was to stand on photo with 5 wicked for 38. bad weather prevented any more place, the straightens will begin their winnings on thursday. when you think of the 1st ball the of an after series, iran goes back to homicide. so hopefully that's the new memory. now. describe so happy to start. he latoya because of all he just got a real knack of picking up a week in the 1st couple iverson ah, just pump for him, more harry else and then just jack saw the guy by the star of you're not going to get to down about an hour and by both teams, movies go to bar, miss wicker, i'm disappointing star, especially, i'm sorry, there was frustration that we haven't we haven't been able to put on that big score that we wanted. but there the pitch did offer for a fair day, especially for the same. so i think me out of this for straight to his as a unit, but we're not going to get to down assess low toys, long series, so good. ok, disperse. i come fighting tomorrow. will tennis number one i back shock, which has been named on the official entry list for next year's australian open

jock of it has not reveal if he's vaccinated despite everyone at melbourne park needing to have been inoculated against coven 19 to be able to be at the tournament, one person missing from the entry list is 23 time grand slam champion. serena williams, who hasn't played since withdrawing her from wimbledon in june with a leg injury. the international olympic committee has rejected criticism over they handling of the pung, shy situation. the chinese tennis player has not been seen publicly for weeks of religion. she was sexually assaulted by a senior official in the chinese government. the ifc claim they've spoken to hung via 2 video calls, but the footage has not been released. the women's tennis to a has suspended all of its competitions in china. a move that has the support of the 2 is found a billie jean king. yes, i'm very happy. the debbie tasted for her. they'll be a lot of challenges ahead of us, but out were standing up for human rights in abuse and all that that were against into is really important. and i hope that the fence re, uh,

the main thing is that she said, i hope she's all right. that's the main mercedes for me, one team has ended. it's controversial sponsorship deal with kings span the company who's insulation was used on greenfield tower. the deal was only announced last week, allowing king spencer put its logo on the nose cone of louis. hamilton's call at the saudi arabian grown pre survivors and family of the 72 people who died in the 2017 grenville fire, protested and met with mercedes c. e o. toto wolfe kings fan insists it had nothing to do with the refurbishment project. blamed for the fire and that its insulation was used without its knowledge to the n. b, a in lebron james led, the los angeles lakers to victory against their old rivals, the boston celtics, hollywood. a list of j lo and ben affleck were called. so i to watch basketballs very own alias there. do he's thing and le bron didn't disappoint. he's got 30 points in the game which the lakers went on to win 17102. the brooklyn ned came back to beat the dallas mavericks. kevin ran school 11 or 24 points in the 4th

quarter as the ne, a raise the 17 point deficit. so when 199. and now finally, to an amazing goal in the n h l that came in the anaheim ducks victory of the buffalo sabres ought to see it in real time. but the replace showed us place a graph using great skill to flip the puck back over the net. and the goal is to set up the theme a sunny milano, back to the straight out of the air and into the go figure. i said he can't believe in action worked. so that's open our reminder about the sports stories. jordan had claimed the law school to finally bought a beef arab gap at the expense of palestine and saudi arabia, who both hated home in europe, athletic madrid, secure a place in the last 16 of the champions league. thanks to a 31 away when a photo and a disaster saw for england in the series against austria, using a wicked with the very 1st born and pulled out for 147, right. we'll be back in a few hours sun for another full updates at $1545.00 gmc say,

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