oh, happy al jazeera english proud recipient of the new york festivals broadcaster of the year award for the 5th year running. ah, a legal blow for britain was prince andrew, who now face a civil case in the u. s. over claims of sexual abuse. ah, lauren taylor, this is al jazeera live from london, also coming up the welds forgotten war as fighting continues, the un warns most of the amans population across humanitarian assistance. frank and open discussions, but still no break through russia and nato failed to find common ground. during

high level talks of ukraine, i want to apologize and emission and apology from the british prime minister over garden party. he attended while the country was in current of ours lockdown. you see now going to do, but decent thing on resign. ah, and it will begin in the u. s. where a lawsuit against britain's prince. andrew is moving forward after judge rejected efforts to dismiss a sex abuse claim. virginia euphrates, as she was 17 years old, when she was traffic to have sex with the u. k. royal sanders lawyers tried to have the case thrown out, citing a 2009 deal she signed with convicted sex offender, jeffrey epstein. the 61 year old prince has consistently denied the claims. the case will now be able to proceed in new york. arizona joins us live from new york.

what do we know about how this this case will proceed? what appears that this is going to a trial and the trial will be towards the end of this year, assuming, and this is a big assumption here. the prince, andrew and his lawyers decide not to settle out of court. that could very be a very real possibility at this point. but assuming that does not happen, it's very much now going down a legal process to a trial at the end of this year here in federal court in new york. so a couple questions you ask yourself, does prince andrew have diplomatic community? the answer to that by most legal analysts is no, only the queen, queen and her immediate household have diplomatic immunity. he does not fall under that category, but will he be present at the trial in new york? the answer to that is also know that highly unlikely, and that's because this is

a civil case right now and not a criminal case. and in civil cases the, the courts cannot ask for the u. k. to extradite someone to the us for a civil case such as this, if it was criminal, that's different, but this is civil. so it's highly unlikely, almost unfathomable, that he will actually be there at the court, assuming his trial goes forward. so then you ask yourself, what are his big risk? well, does he have to give testimony under oath for this trial? the answer to that is yes. he most likely will. that would probably take place either electronically, over digital communication, video call, or the prosecutors would go to london. bottom line here is, is, this was a huge setback for prince andrew and his defense team. but this was a big victory for virginia, goofy and her team. they put out a statement saying this was an important step, this judges decision. this was an important step in virginia godfrey's,

heroic and determined pursuit of justice as a survivor of sec, trafficking. of course, this all stems from her claims that she was sexually abused by prince andrew on 3 separate occasions in london, in the united states and in the caribbean, back in 2001. that is what this civil case is all about. of course, prince andrew has denied vehemently all of these charges. nevertheless, it is now going forward, potentially, to this trial. this all stems from a, a different lawsuit between a civil law suit. a settlement in 2009 between virginia godfrey and jeffrey epstein . that was settled out of court now they were trying to see if, if the prince was shielded because of that settlement judge saying no prince andrew clearly wants this whole thing to go away. that clearly is not going to happen.

we'll be hearing a lot more about this in the coming months. get really under. thank you very much. indeed. richard senior really is a former assistant us attorney for the southern district of new york. explains the significance of the judge's ruling and what was next for prince. andrew, this is a devastating decision. he's now going to be forced to participate in what we call discovery, which will require him to produce documents, all of his communications with relevant persons, including epstein maxwell, the plaintiff, others. and then he'll be forced to participate in a deposition where he'll have to give sworn testimony over many hours with the plaintiffs a very competent legal team. so this is a, a terrible day for him. he has terrible options ahead of him. and if he doesn't participate, he'll be defaulted,

a judgement will be lodged against him. if he does participate, then we'll have the choice to give substitive testimony or take the 5th amendment. because there are still a active federal criminal investigation into all of the or crimes surrounding. ah epstein and maxwell ah, nation says nearly $4000000000.00 is needed this year to help millions of people in war torn yemen. the un security council is held an open meeting on the country's 7 year conflict. it estimates 80 percent of amans population requires monetary assistance. with 13000000 people at risk of starvation, you in special english, yemen says any solution to the crisis needs to start with a di escalation of violence from between the 2, restarting on a challenging note. the military escalation i described in this counter last month

has accelerated as the parties are dumping down on military options. 7 years down the road of war. the prevailing belief of all war insides seems to be that the thing sufficient harm on the other will force them into submission. however, there is no sustainable long term solution to be found on the death and 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. entrepreneurs together to james base was monitoring the meeting from the united nations in new york. well, it's very grim picture from yemen. remember, the country has been in turmoil for more than a decade, and war has been raging in the country for almost 8 years. well without backdrop. what has happened in the last month? things have got much worse. they say there has been a deterioration of the humanitarian situation,

an escalation by all sides of that military action. and we also heard from a senior humanitarian official from the united nations. again, briefing the security council saying that over 15000 people have been deprived, displaced in the last month. and the number of civilians that have been reported killed is 358 that's tied for the highest figure at any point in the last 3 years. very grim news from yemen often described by people as the forgotten war. but it's a war that continues to rage. nato secretary general has warned of a real risk of armed conflict in europe. after high stakes meeting with russia ended without breakthrough. both sides say significant differences remain, are to what they described as frank and open discussions in brussels. moscow forced the west to the negotiating table by massing tens of thousands of troops near the ukraine border. cassandra, by reports from the russian capital,

a meeting nearly 3 years in the making. as high ranking members of the russian foreign and defense ministry joined me to officials in brussels. the meeting lasted longer than expected. that nato secretary general remain steadfast, that he would not accept russia's demand, that ukraine will never become a member of the alliance. this crisis is a, is, is the making of russia on. therefore, this important day deescalate ukraine has the right to self defense on docs and showing a new on a family shocker angle for so many dollars when they, than they dollars, unless it'll help them to uphold of actor right to, to self defense. despite the united states assurances that it wouldn't talk about ukraine security without ukraine being present. it says this meeting was a chance for the 2 sides to begin repairing their relationship. a relationship

that's been going backwards since russia annex crimea in 2014 and nato's expulsion of 8 russians after accusing them of spying. nobody to quit zulu bush with a wooded nate to opt for the policy of the term russia. we will respond with measures of counter deterrence. if it uses the policy of intimidation, we will respond with counter intimidation. if it looks for vulnerabilities in the russian defense system, we will look for nato's vulnerabilities. it's not our choice, but we don't have other options. if we don't overturn this current very dangerous course of events who senior wouldn't use alumni thus. so, despite the lack of an official agreement, the talks are being seen as a success, if only because they didn't end in acrimony, despite russia's continued to insist that it has no intention of invade crane. there seems little sign of an immediate end to the crisis. these move a security problems for the neighbors. its neighbors are also free in the

choice of the actions. and this is not a win win situation, but lose lose situation. ukraine is moving close, it is likely to mobilize resources as it's west and border and in the end of the day, both sides elected to lose. after 4 hours of talks between 8 members and russia. stilton berg said his organization would not let moscow dictate security arrangements to other countries. the secretary general warned that there is a real risk of armed conflict in europe. and by continuing to press what is clearly red line by western countries, russia may be showing its hands the president put, and may not intend this week of talk to succeed, but rather to be used as a pretext for war door. such a bari, al jazeera moscow. the u. k. prime minister has apologized to the nation after

admitting he attended a party at his london residence during the height of a 2020 current of ours, knocked down at the time bars. johnson's own government was enforcing strict measures confining millions of people to their homes. johnson insist he thought it was a work event, but he's facing multiple cause to resign understandings as well. ah, horace johnson has never been under such pressure from his own party. the opposition of the people who elected him, he set out to try to defend himself. the key question, did he attend a party for around 40 guess in his back garden, that appears to have breached cove at restrictions? first, he tried to address the british people. i want to apologize. i know the rage, they feel with me and with the government i lead. when they think that in dundas 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 stock before going back into my office 25 minutes later to continue working. i believed implicitly that this was a work event. with hindsight, i should have sent every one back inside after months of deceit and deception. the pathetic spectacle of a man whose run out of road his defence, his defense, that he didn't realize he was at a party. ah, it is so ridiculous that is actually offensive to the pretty ha with the whole country was locked down. he was posting boozy party in town, express. se now going to do the decent thing and resign. johnson didn't

say yes or no. i want to, i want to repeat that. i thought it was 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 and whitehall. i regret very much that we did not do things differently or that evening. stammer repeatedly rounded on johnson, the party's over prime minister. the only question is, will the british public kick him out, police party kick him out, or will he do the decent thing and resign yet in johnson's constituency, in north west london, many who watched wouldn't accept his apology. i'm angry. i just think he's a man and doesn't take responsibility for what he's done. civic, who power thing for it to be expect. vega me is found to come back with with, with something what, whether or not it's true or noise,

but it's probably not true. 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. for which more rest though, on whether the conservative party decides johnson is now a liability and has to go. and through simmons al jazeera, still to come on al jazeera, more than 5 years after the fog p steel in columbia. why rental groups refuse to stop fighting and future food security concerns in the u. k. is the government tries to strike a balance between the environment and funding ah with hello. good to see your

world's weather report begins in australia. we're still keeping tabs on tropical cyclone tiffany. it's sauntering around, that top end here, so it's slow moving and looking to dump about half a meter of rain here. so certainly the risk of flooding. and i think the worst of it though, will be south of darwin, also keeping tabs on tropical cyclone cody. it's moving away from fiji after bringing some flooding rains there. so it's creeping closer to the north island of new zealand. but for now, things pretty settled. a few showers for these cape bag is been 21 degrees. also likely a few showers for aqua coming in at 28. now for se, asia are seasonal rains are just hammer in java. same goes for borneo. so the very real risk of seen some flooding here, not rain, but snow that we're talking about for japan. once again, getting wall up, this is for western areas of honju into ho kato, and we do have a snow storm morning in place. so not only are we likely to see 40 centimeters of snow, but those winds a big factor is while it's going to swirl around that snow and impact the

visibility blizzard conditions, certainly possible when really know that's all going on in tokyo, we're in the sunshine with a high of 10 degrees on thursday. sounds good. enjoy. we'll see against him. ah. the coveted beyond wells has been taken without hesitation. fulton died for the power lines are world. and honestly babies were dying. i did it not for your benefit. it's neglected babies to deck people empower, investigates, exposes, and questions for the youth and abuse of power around the globe on al jazeera. ah

ah, are one of the top stories here and i was 0, a u. s. lawsuit against britain's prince. andrew is moving forward after a judge rejected efforts to dismiss a sexual abuse claim against him. virginia jeffrey says she was 17 years old when she was traffic to have sex with the u. k. royal. he denies the charges. united nations says knitting $4000000000.00 is needed this year to help millions of people in yemen. 7 years of war has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with 80 percent of the population in need of assistance. nature is warned of a real risk of armed conflict in europe. after high stakes meeting with russia, ended without breakthrough. oscar forced to west to the negotiating table by massing tens of thousands of troops near its border with ukraine. the number of new

kevin 19 cases hit a record high last week, according to the world health organization. 15000000 new cases worldwide is the highest number seen since the pandemic began 2 years ago. it's being driven by the omicron variant, which the w h o insist is still 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 a week is $50000.00 does too many. unemployment is all arise in india as night curfews and we can lock downs or imposed because of an increase in current of ours cases. the government says the economy will grow by more than 9 percent this year, but financial expert, st, most people won't see any benefits and is a risk to run and reports from new delhi. the village of oak,

who in indian administered kush me to supplies 90 percent of the wood, houston indian pencils, the moisture levels and regions poplar trees make them perfect to right wed. but with schools being closed, for most of the past 2 years, demand for stationary is down, and many workers in across factories have lost their jobs on i've got here, i am a university graduate, but there are no jobs available. thank god that we were hired to work here. so many have been fired and other factors and it's impossible to get a job in these tough times. unemployment and india, those to a form on pi of nearly 8 percent in december. the softer, more states imposed restrictions to slow down the spread of the corona virus. fueled by the army, kron variant gustavo, he did for english me. the situation is always 10 took over the last 2 years is the 1st time schools have been shocked in india and other countries to why riches impacted us back. one of the businesses started to recover in december,

but with this new golden radiant, we are back to square one. it's a sentiment being shared by business owners across india. jim owner should arg settee says jims have been forced to shot for 9 of the past 22 months. all the demos were already in a board, an update. okay. but now with this logged down, it is actually breaking no, not back, because not even had more money lip. nobody is giving us any loan. be of sword that julie will, our vice, our mothers, people have swords, really. people have for the cars. people have beg, the board or whatever they could do to just sort of i have the last vote. he, despite the downturn, the government says the economy to grow by nearly 10 percent this year. but economists say it's too early for optimism. i don't think that these estimates are factored in one micron echo and so what you're likely to see is that there will be o division in the secondary wants us to work, which will come out at the end of february, which will be done. and quite maybe,

quite seriously downwards, depending upon what happens the next couple of months. as the government prepares to release its budget next month, the queues and the capital of daily wage laborers waiting with their tools, hoping to be selected for work, keep growing longer. elizabeth moran and al jazeera you dally, morocco's government is trying to attract foreign medical workers and investment to plug gaps in its health service caused by the pandemic. despite being africa's most vaccinated country, daily cases of spite to more than 7000 hospitals need another 32000 doctors and 65000 nurses and only around 1200 local doctors graduate. every year, the health minister says he's considering wage increases and tax incentives out already removing many of the legal barriers to encourage for an investment legend having a mobile e g keel console. that's a foreigners used to find difficulties when they wanted to come to morocco. as did

investors, and practicing doctors, even if there were moroccans living abroad today, we've removed all those difficulties, not as to cause by 33 votes to 21. now, by law, all foreigners were impressed as all doctors will be treated the same way as the american colleagues will look at these 8 people have been killed in a car bombing in the somalian capital. mogadishu, according to the cities ambulance service, the bomb destination on a road close to the international airport with witnesses saying and appeared to target a convoy carrying foreign nationals. several more people are being treated in hospital for injuries. some of them serious the armed group are shabba, which is affiliated to al qaeda, is claiming responsibility for the attack. searches underway in the nigerian state of some fara, where at least 200 people were killed by gunmen last week. about 10000 people have been driven from their homes by the violence and authorities expect to find more bodies. the raids on villages are thought to be reprisal attacks after government

asked strikes targeted heights. i doubts of criminal gangs. residence in the northwestern state are organizing mass burials for the victims and he's 30 people have been killed since the start of this year in violence along the columbia. venezuela border. the colombian government says fight us from the rebel national liberation army known as the e l. n a battling a dissident group or former members of fog? i was wondering. i am getting reports from that claim in capital burger. tar. ah, for the 2nd time in less than a year columbian store owner hired. okay. miss and his family had to flee, escalating violence between our groups. last march, they left venezuela for columbus at alco region. there. now here in the capitol buttah, searching for help and shelter. got them? yeah, g m been as well. we had a small store in venezuela, and at times we sold things to fog dissidence. that was enough to be targeted as supporters. when a killing started last week, the brother of

a commander arrived and told was, you have 2 options you can come to does meaning become part of the guerrilla forces, or you gonna have to leave because the e l and will kill you. the year land is columbus largest remaining rebel group, after to fark made peace with the government in 2016 but dissident factions of the fark of since appeared. and in recent weeks violence in the lawless region along the border with venezuela's been growing. some 30 people have been killed since the beginning of the year, while others have been kitten, after forcibly recruited or displaced. the fighting has created lorenzo beer in the population. many people that the region, it's going back to the, the cold like that they live. they didn't, and then between the and the far back then i'm, the human impact has been really, really to be the violence has reached new level since the long standing truth

between the arm groups broke down the last word between the den 5 gravels. and the last less than a 1000 people that and displaced almost $60000.00, the colombian government, and now blames have in a swell for the current violence, accusing the venezuelan government of sheltering the on groups in their territory. something the government and cut out has denied people from towns along the border of peak into the streets, demanding peace. colombian president, divan duke is deploying 2 battalions to regain control of the region, but some experts believe more troops won't solve the problem. and then i'll call you and automate coffee. a rica still has a huge unresolved conflict, and people have no confidence in the state. it already has the highest amount of soldiers per square meter in columbia. sending $600.00 more troops will not make a difference. what's needed is to restart patient negotiations with the l in that ok. and until the troubling that can be contained,

the humanitarian crisis will only continue to grow spreading here to the capital and beyond allison impurity. i just gotta the u. k. government has announced the biggest change to agricultural land management in decades. farmers will be paid thousands of dollars for adopting an eco friendly approach. but unions worn it could increase the u. k dependency on food import. in years to come near, barker has more from southeast england. this is to be honorable. so this, this would have been winter wheat, 18 years ago, and nap castle 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 for the environment. most notably a target to reverse the decline in nature by 2030. and we have a responsibility as a governments to ensure that the payment rates we make are attractive enough to incentivize the uptake of our schemes. whether rumblings of concern while he's the

plans will simply reward already wealthy farmers that have land to spare concerns to about the lives of livelihoods, of small a tenant farmers who could be kicked off land to make way for re 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 low quality import. delivering 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 that a cross roads and the more land verdes handed over to nature in return for

government subsidies in the coming years, means that we may come very soon to rely upon local producers 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. ne barker al jazeera southeast england. ah. i'm under the top stories houses era. a u. s. lawsuit against britain is prince andrew, is moving forward. after a judge rejected efforts to dismiss a sex abuse claim, a junior defray says she was 17 years old when she was traffic to have sex with the u. k. royal prince andrew louis tried to have the case thrown out, citing a 2009 deal. she signed with convicted sex offender, jeffrey epstein, the 61 year old prince has consistently denied the claims. gabriel is.