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i want to apologize. a see now going to take a decent thing. i'm reside britton's prime minister boris johnson phase and calls to resign after he admits attending a party for millions in the u. k. when locked down a highly contagious on the con, variance of coven 19 fuels record numbers of infections worldwide. wishing hospitals to breaking points. and britons, prince andrew fails in his bids to dismiss the sexual abuse case against him in the united states. ah. we begin in brussels. we're high stakes meeting between russia and nato over ukraine ends without a breakthrough. o sites say significant differences remains during what they described as frank and open discussions in the last hour. russia's,

deputy foreign minister said nato positions are unacceptable for moscow of nato, and the us have rejected the kremlin security demands among them. a guarantee that the security block will not accept ukraine and other former celine soviet nations. as a member, this crosses is a, is, is the making of russia on therefore, this import debate, deescalate ukraine hoster ought to self defense of ducks and showing an u. m. a, a founding talker on the for so many dollars when they, they tell us unless tool helped them to uphold a doctor, brought to you to self defense. to gather the united states and our nato allies made clear, we will not slam the door shut on nato's open door policy. a policy that has always been central to the nato alliance. if russia walks away,

however, it will be quite apparent. they were never serious about pursuing diplomacy at all . that is why collectively we are preparing for ever for every eventuality. toasted you by reports and i for moscow. the deputy russian foreign minister, or when he went into this meeting a few hours ago called it a m. m. historic moment to moment of truth in relationship between russia and nato . and now we're hearing him say that it really things have not gone according to how the russians would have wanted it clearly. and there is a very strong tone against the nieto i'm allies and how the russians see the nieto countries behaving. and they are very concerned, and the deputy foreign minister alexander garasco said that it's clear that the us and its allies are attempting to achieve dominance in all areas, land, air, and sea, as well as cyberspace. he also went on to say that all co operation between nieto

and russia has been essentially suspended or in light of the events of the past few years. and this is interesting because we heard from the and nato secretary general just a short while ago, who said that they are going to resume a relationship with russia. and they're going to reopen officers in moscow and brussels. and that is not what the russians are saying. now, so it's clear that the things are not as good as clear as all sides are saying, and there's still very much differences in gaps remaining between at russia and nato. at this time, the british prime minister has apologized to the nation after its attending a guards in the party in dining streets during the 2020 long time. well this of course was at a time when his own government was enforcing strict measures confining millions of people to their homes. and g simmons says this reports ah,

morris johnson has never been under such pressure from his own party. the opposition and the people of britain who elected him. the question, did he attend a summer party in the garden of number 10 downing street in may 2020. the whole country was in lockdown. around 40 people appear to have been in breach of coven restrictions. first he tried to address the british people. i want to apologize. i know the rage. they feel with me. i with the government i lead. when they think that in donald street itself, the rules are not being properly followed by the people who make the rules. and when i went into that garden, just after 6 on the 28th of may, 2020, to frank groups of stoffel going back into my office 25 minutes later to continue working. i believed implicitly that this was a work event. but mister speaker, with hindsight,

i should have sent everyone back inside after months of deceit and deception. the pathetic spectacle of a man who is run out of road. his defense, his defense, that he didn't realize he was at a party. ah, that is so ridiculous that is actually offensive to the british, yet he's finally been forced to make what every one you that with the whole country was locked down. he was hosting boozy party in town express. is he now going to take a decent thing? and resign, johnson didn't say yes or no. i minister, i want to repeat that. i thought it was a, a work event and apologizing again and telling opposition leader care stammer. he should wait for the results of an inquiry into revelations of several parties in downing street in whitehall. i regret very much that we did not do things

differently or that evening. i wish to speak of the may believe persisted talking of the deep offence calls to relatives of people dying from cope with at the time and of the 1000000 who obtained the wolves stammer repeatedly rounded on johnson. the parties over prime minister. the only question is, when the british public kick him out, will is party, kick him out, or will eating the decent thing and resign. this crisis is being called part again by the media. johnson is trying to write it out. much rest though with the outcome of the inquiry into downing street and whitehall parties and what the police do about the latest revelation. more rest though, on whether the conservative party decides johnson is now a liability and has to go for secret. and through simmons al jazeera years judge shows denied evades by britain's friends angie to dismiss the sexual abuse

case against him. virginia jeffrey was says she was forced to have sex with the royal when she was just 17 years old, and had been traffic's by convicted sex offender. jeffrey epstein. le prince's lawyers had said she'd signed a deal with that scene that prevented her from seeing him. now though, the case will be able to precedes in new york, prince andrew strenuously denies the allegations against him. let's get more now from gabriel. elizondo. he joseph fly from new york. a game is pretty extraordinary . the scenario bed are we really going to see britain's prince andrew in court? well, these are uncharted territory if you will, because it's not that often you see a british royal, sued in us court. so there's a lot of uncertainty to how this moves forward. although we can tell you this, that it does look like, based on this latest ruling by this judge,

that this case will go to trial. that's how it's looking right now. a say when will that trial happen? probably not until very late this year at the earliest. and that's because the judge has already set a date of july 14th for lawyers to start exchanging documents. and the discovery process, if you will, that's for july. so you're looking at, you can get a sense of how many months away we are from a potential trial, but that pretend that trial does seem like it looks like it probably will be happening now because of this judge's ruling. then you say, well, will prince andrew then to expect him in court in new york when the trial happens? cancer, your question that seems very unlikely. so then the answer is why is because this is a civil and not a criminal, a trial in a civil trial. the court cannot force anybody to physically show up to

court in less that person is in the united states. prince andrew is not the united states and there's and he cannot be extradited to the united states for a civil trial. the other question is, does he, does he have diplomatic immunity? the answer to that is no. he does not. the only people are diplomatic immunity in this particular situation, broadly speaking would be the queen in her immediate household. so it would not fall to prince andrew. so there's a lot going on back and forth here. bottom line, know this is a big defeat for print sandra. and his lawyers and for that matter, buckingham palace who is not commented on this so far, but a big victory for virginia, good for. and her lawyers and victims rights advocates course. she is now 38 years old, but she says when she was 17, she was sexually assaulted by prince andrew on 3 separate occasions in london, new york, and in the british virgin islands, us virgin islands. that's something that prince andrew as vehemently denied. and

that's why, but he really wanted to fight against having this case go forward. even though it is only a civil case because a lot could come out in the process of this. and if something does come out, that could be criminal and nothing is criminal at this point. that's not a criminal case. that would certainly change the dynamics completely. bottom line, no is, will there be a trial? it certainly looks like there will be. will prince andrew be forced to come to the u. s. to attend the trial? probably not, although he will probably have to give testimony under oath in some sort of capacity, whether that be on paper or video conference. we don't know, but certainly there's going to be a lot more to this story in the coming months. okay, gabriel, alexander, they're bringing as a lie from new york. gabe, thank you. in the w 8. joe says the number of new corona virus cases worldwide last week,

hit 15000000. that's the highest since the pandemic began ahead of the world. health organization says the oma kron very, and so of course, 19 is dangerous, especially for the unvaccinated. let's be clear. while only con, cause less severe, this is done. delta. it remains a dangerous bias, particularly for those who are unvaccinated, almost $50000.00, so weak is $50000.00 does too many. well across europe, amr kron or is fueling corona virus surges, austria of france, germany, italy, and norway are among the countries which have posted their highest ever daily numbers of your infections in the past 24 hours. while the w h. o is a warning that half the european population is on tracks to can to contract the variance. in the next 2 months,

the u. s. hospitalizations have increased by up to 33 percent deaths by about 40 percent in the past week. health officials expect the cases driven by the oma con variance to peak in the coming weeks. on monday, the us reported more than 1300000 new infections, the highest ever daily tally for any country in the world. around 14000000 people in a chinese city will undergo covert 19 tests for the 2nd time this week. as testing began and he engine on sunday, after 2 cases of the home on variance were detected. the city at t, as in, is right next to the capital b ging and authorities are concerned that an outbreak could pose a risk to next month's winter olympics. so heads on al jazeera north korea, and as is a successful test or another hypersonic listen antenna,

superstar nova joke of it should meets that he didn't isolate after a positive test for crone of ours last month. ah, turkeys of ask is a blast of proper winter that cold wind after istanbul means a high temperature too is cold there for some snow. not much of that thing because most of it's going to be further east in turkey. now we're talking about thursday here. the circulating storm that brought it all has come from southern greece to be more or less of a cypress, that cold wind blowing through the g and the rain, reaching in the foam showers, pretty heavy ones north in egypt, alexandria probably hitting garza, and certainly in lebanon, and parts or western syria system systems moving eastwards and it will show itself through iraq. iran in particular was snow on the hills. it's colder and rain where

it's not quite as high that rain tails off through saudi arabia against proper system on its way, slowly, slowly. so it's also work its way through iran, towards afghanistan and maybe pakistan. but if that's the case, it's going to be after the weekend forecast. doha shows the possibility of showers, if they're not in the capital, will be a bit further north, i suspect in the country. and that is the tail on sunday, which does show significant potential for flooding once again in the southeast of a wrong and maybe eventually in. so the pakistan with snow, of course, for the north. ah frank assessments, this crisis is continued to weaken a location even though perhaps he believed in the beginning that informed opinions, i think connotations will now be under incredible pressure from the young people.

that is one of the most of the things that come out of this critical debate. do you think they should be facilitated? not okay, great. it's a really simple question. let's give samuel just once inside story on al jazeera lou. ah, this is al jazeera, a quick reminder, all the top stories for you. this r i states meeting between russia and nato over ukraine has ended without a breakthrough. with ne, so on the u. s. a project, it's the kremlin security demands and rushes, taxi. foreign minister said nato positions are unacceptable for moscow. the british

prime minister has apologized to the nation after admitting tens in the garden party and dining streets during the 2020 day. this of course, was when his own government's force in force and strict measures which confined millions of people to their homes, whose facent multiple calls to resign. and the on the con, variance is feeling corona, virus surgeons around the world. the w h o says last week, so the most cases of proven 19 the course it in a single week or the 15000000 new infections globally here, the 2 years on once again, hospitals are stretched every day. we see signs that life is far from returning to normal and yet there are some arguing that normal is achievable. if we change our thinking, come all santa maria has more on that and the data which takes in the whole picture . the spanish prime minister pedro sanchez wants to move away from detail tracking

of cove at 19 case numbers, and instead snap treating it as endemic rather than a pandemic. now, to be fair, he's got a point case numbers on their own can re skew the reality. you need to consider cases and testing and hospitalizations and debts to get a full a picture. a thanks to our weldon dated oxford university, we are able to start doing that on just the one graph by looking at proportions. here is spain. and for all these graphs, our baseline is this time last year, the 100 percent mock on the graph back then you can see all 4 metrics that is cases hospitalizations. i see you admissions and debts were all at their pace. now yes, from that point, cases have clearly gone up. in fact, they're now at about 250 percent of what they were back then bus from the similar point. hospital admissions. i see you admissions and confirm debts have all come

down by a far lower. it is also a similar situation in the u. k. in fact, they had that very successful vaccination roll at which is meant. there has always been some good separation if you like, between cases the green line and the other metrics. and then a israel as well at one of the 1st countries to offer a booster shot, of course. and i managed to bring everything down at this point of the graph, just before on a current hit. this spin at exclusion and somali as capsule, mogadishu, according to local ambulance services, at least 10 people had been killed, including 5 security officers authority, say a car bomb. targeted 8 security convoy yarns. good. i'll ship ab says it carried out the attack on the roads leading to the airports. north korea is claiming the successful launch of another hypersonic missile state media release, images of leader kim jong and observing the 2nd launch in less than a week. hypersonic missiles can more easily avoid detection and interception than

the listed ones. kim said his new year aim was to improve north korea's defenses of the u. s. as north koreans weapons program is a threats to the international community. and that dialogue is the only way forwards the launch clearly does highlight the dca life destabilizing impact of the dpr k solicit weapons programs. i. it violates multiple un security council resolutions. it poses a threat to the d. p. r k. as neighbors are into the broader international community, we continue to call in the d, p r k. a, to refrain from further further provocations and importantly, to engage in sustained and sustained and substantive dialogue at what we have been open to. and in fact, calling for, for some time now. so what exactly makes hypersonic weapons?

so difference will speed is a big factor. i, per sonic missiles fly towards targets at lower altitudes and can travel more than 5 times the speed of st. are over 6000 kilometers an hour. the main difference though, is that they can be rapidly maneuvered after they have launched. unlike ballistic missiles, hypersonic weapons, don't follow a pre determined path. their trajectory can be altered, which means they're difficult to stop. all these things speeds, agility and through altitude, make it difficult for ground based read our systems to detect them. china, russia, and the u. s. r. leaders in hypersonic weapons and several other countries including japan, germany, france, and india are reportedly investing in them were born young. shake is sir, a research fellow at the institute for north korean studies at yon say university. he says it's time to take north korea's improvement and hypersonic technology

seriously. the world has consistently underestimate the ingenuity of north korean scientist and weapon development. and that lady is the true test. fighting amidst all goes to prove that the north koreans are really determined to strengthen its national defense capability. as he was announced in the 8th party congress last january, january, 2021. so all of these are part of the grant plan to strengthen. it's a mistake if ability with a long term plan. so the bad news is that this is not going to be the last time that we're going to witness north koreans testing their weapons. the north koreans are moving ahead on its own schedule until it reaches the goal set by the mid term . you know, mean take capable of the development of this poses

a threat to the national security of staff. because the type of hyper sony mythos by north korea can reach from capital city of north re upped, hung out to a saw the capital city of south korea within 1000000. so it'll be increasingly difficult or they just think of them deployed in south korea to have a complete and reliable b cell defense. the un security council is holding an open meeting on the conflicts in yemen, as the international community grapples with her to end. its 7 year civil war. yemen is in the grip of one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. the un estimates at 80 percent of the population is in need of humanitarian assistance. and 13000000 people are in danger of starvation. 2022, restarting on a challenging the military escalation i described in this council last month has

accelerated as the parties are dumping down on military options. 7 years down the road of war. the prevailing belief of old war insides seems to be that things sufficient harm on the other will force them into submission. however, there is no sustainable long term solution to be found on the feed. therefore, i will continue to stress that warring parties can should, and indeed must talk even if they are not ready to put down their arms. hong kong is showing up more laws to combat for the cove crimes against national security chief executive kerry lamb at the announcements in the 1st session of the new legislature, which is in scrubs, political opposition aging, imposed a national security law on hong kong in 2020 in response to mass pro democracy protests, well, the controversial law makes it easier to punish activists joy and eyes when you

sign up whole. the national security law passed and june is an immensely well versed in law. it's been implemented for about a year and a half. it's original function is to stop violence and chaos and returning to normalcy. now it's to act as an anchor to guarantee stability, to let people know there are consequences. the national security law requires us to prevent curve and punish crimes. if prevention is done well, we can punish lace. the legislation of article $23.00 will be similarly well version. but rights groups in west and government see the national security law has empowered authorities to conduct to sleeping cracked zone on the sent hundreds of journalists, businessmen and activists have been arrested while others have floods last month. the 3rd pro democracy news outlets was also forced to shut down. novak joke, event chance admitted to not isolating after testing positive for coven 19 last

month. in the social media post the tennis world. number one accepted, he had made an error of judgement. joke of it said he met up with a journalist 2 days after the positive test. he went on to blame his agency from making a mistake on his these application ahead of his arrival in australia. for the 2nd straight, a joke of it's just been practicing at melbourne park, the unvaccinated players still hoping to compete at next week's australian open report to sarah clark is covering this case in australia and she says the story is far from over. no joke of its release. the stipend in a bit to explain a timeline of covered 19 tests in december and put to rest what he describes as misinformation. on his instagram account, he said he did attend at children's awards event in serbia on december 17th after testing positive. but he says he only received the p. c. r test results. after the

event. at the time job which says he was asymptomatic and felt good. but he did acknowledge an error of judgement when he did a place to place, interviewed the following day when he knew he was positive on reflection, he says this should have been rescheduled. junk of. it's also admitted that a member of his team took the wrong box on his astrology and travel declaration document. when he arrived in australia last week, the declaration stated he had not travelled 14 days prior to his arrival when he had in fact flown from serbia despite the world's number one tennis player conceded . this was a human error and not deliberate jock of it could still be deported from australia and have a 2nd visa cancelled. that decision lies in the hands of the immigration minister alex hawk. he says he still considering the australian government's position. the u . k. government has announced the biggest change to land practices in decades. farmers will be paid thousands of dollars for adults in an eco friendly approach.

the backer reports from southeast england. this he has to be arable for if this would have been winter wheat, 18 years ago, and nap cancel estate, they've been, we wilding the land before. and one really knew what it meant. the soil to unprofitable to grow produce is ideal for handing back to mother nature. and now a welcome cash subsidy, courtesy of british taxpayers for continuing what they're doing. this is the most important thing for 40 years. i guess. i mean, it is a combination of years and years and years of thinking and, and discussing and hopefully influencing some of the decision making. but yeah, wow, it's amazing. it's the biggest shake up of britain's landscape in a generation says the government, a $1000000000.00 funding scheme designed firstly to incentivize sustainable farming . and secondly, to reverse the decline of nature by paying landowners to re wilde their properties . all possible since the u. k. left, the e use common agricultural policy that subsidized farmers depending on the size of

their land. the new post breaks it funds designed to reward farmers for making environmentally positive choices. we have now legally binding targets or the environment most notably a target to reverse the decline in nature by 2030. and we have a responsibility as a governors to ensure that the payment rates we make are attractive enough to incentivize the uptake of our schemes with a rumblings of concern. while the plans will simply reward already wealthy farmers that have lambs to spare concerns to about the lives livelihoods of small a tenant farmers who could be kicked off land to make way for we wilding schemes. and what about food security? say farmers. britain needs more nor less farmland, to feed a growing population or run the risk of being increasingly dependent on foreign and potentially lower quality impulse. the live rent food for the country is also an

absolutely crucial part of what we do, so must be delivering food alongside environmental delivery, rob van, instead of it's raise questions about the future of farming, how to balance sustainability and food production. this might be the answer, not an agricultural revolution, but something that's been done for centuries. small local farms close to urban areas. agriculture is at a crossroads and the more land that's handed over to nature in return for government subsidies in the coming years means that we may come very soon to rely upon local produces like this to feed our communities. we live in a world shape, buying food and the land it's grown on. nature's future is our future need barker al jazeera southeast england. ah.