o l g 0 wit every o. d u s. says that washer is preparing sabotage operations in ukraine to create conditions for an invasion. moscow denies the accusation. ah, hello, i made for it again. this is al jazeera, alive from doha, also coming up. russia's federal security services of broken up with arrested members of a ransom where crime group at the request of the united states will number one tennis dall, novak joke, which faces a deportation court hearing and australia after his visa is council. again, of

a cobit 19 concerns anne's off to apologizing to queen elizabeth frost off party the night before her husband's funeral. or his johnson faces more revelations. drinks evenings during the you case cove at 19 locked out. ah, the u. s. is accused washer of planning, a so called false flag operation and east of ukraine in an attempt to create a pretext for an invasion. a u. s. official says that as evidence that washing operatives may already be in the country to carry out acts of sabotage and blame the ukrainian authorities. it echoes similar information released by kit. a kremlin spokesman has dismissed the reports as unfounded as part of its plans. russia's laying the groundwork to had the option of fabricating a pretext for invasion. and we've seen this before. we saw this before leading up

to 2014, just to know, including their sabotage activities and information operations by using ukraine of preparing an imminent attack against russian forces and eastern ukraine. and the russian military plans to begin these activities several weeks before military invasion, which could begin between mid january and mid february. again, we saw this place before including the widespread effort to push out misinformation, not just in eastern europe, but around the global community. speaking before the united states, accusations rushes foreign minister, so gay love ralph said his country is prepared to respond. if western nations reject moscow's security proposals for the region look, abuse, things of piled up, look up. you assume they piled up over the period off to the 19th when the promises made about nato's non expansion about its military infrastructure not being moved eastwards and about the non deployment of substantial military forces to territories of new members was simply thrown into the been by

a western friends in the most flagrant way alone shall. let's get more on this now from mike hannah, who's lived for us from washington dc. mike, these are pretty strong allegations made by the white house. very much so we heard from the white house spokesperson jen pataki, who made that particular allegation that some kind of full flag operation was underway. she's drawing parallels to what happened in crimea in 2014. her contention is that russia has put separate turns into place within the process of doing so. who would then carry out an attack again, some poor russian target within ukraine, such as the russian embassy, which would then give it a pretext to make an incursion into ukraine. now this was echoed by the department of defense as well. and what was clearly an orchestrated response. they're the d o d spokesperson john kirby saying exactly what the sock he had said. but also adding that already with the

o. d. 's noticing that there are social actors at work within the ukrainian media, attempting to create a climate of fear attempting to create some kind of climate which would benefit or lead to russian attempt to move into ukraine. so very strong allegations coming from the us and where does congress stand on this, mike? well, in a deeply divided congress as one point on which all agree is that something should be done. should russia actually invade ukraine, that this is a completely bipartisan position. this legislation being debated by both republicans and democrats as to what should be done should that happen. however, although this totally agreement on the need for sanctions, there is debate about what form should they take. last night, a republican senator ted cruz, attempted to introduce legislation sanctioning the nor to pipeline between russia

and germany. now this is a delicate issue for the bite and administration. it was defeated in the senate because the biden administration position is very clear on this. is that sanctions against russia cannot also involve any form of punishment against an ally like germany. so it's a very difficult tied crow for the bite in administration to walk it within the sen . some republican saying this just shows that the biden administration continues to be soft on russia that would not accept a sanction. like, for example, on that nor to pipeline, i was serious my counter reporting live from washington. mike, many thanks. cindy's. russia has added to allies of the criminal critic alexia valley, to its list of what it terms terrorists and extremists landed vocals, and avenged. don off worked from the own, is election campaign, and anti corruption foundation at a currently outside russia. 45 year old devali, a serving 2 and a half years in prison for parole. violations charges that he says were trumped up

to force his political ambitions. in a rare example of cooperation between the 2 countries, russia, security services have arrested 14 ring leaders of a ransomware hacking group following a request from the united states among those held. and a person believes to be responsible for hacking the largest pipeline in the us. the shut down of the colonial pipeline, but to fuel shortage is across americas east coast. last year. let's bring it out. here is john henry, who's in chicago. john, tell us more about this case. well, it's an extraordinary cooperation at an extraordinary time in us, russian relations, the russian government has directly informed the us that it has gone after the group are evil, which the u. s. believes attacked, the colonial pipeline in may, disabling it in one of their many ransomware attacks. there's also

a meat packing plant called j as b or j b s rather which that group is also said to have hacks or their u. s. government was very concerned about this, put out a $10000000.00 reward for any information at lid led them to the leaders of this organization. but there were generally a belief in the us that people operated in russia as hackers, with the tacit approval of the russian government, as long as they were not hacking that government itself or interfering in russia. coincidentally, that happens at a time when russian systems government systems were being hacked or it is not clear that those are at all related. a multi nation operation, reportedly had disabled. this group's ability to operate, but the u. s. government was not confident that it was actually going to be able to get a hold of these people. but russian tv today showed russian agents the f. s. b intelligent service and police. going to 25 addresses,

arresting 14 people and charging them with charges that could lead to up to 7 years in prison, never got russian. government says it will not deport russian citizens. but that raises the prospect that some of those in the operation who might not be russian might actually be extradited. we were still waiting to get more information on that . but those t v images were really profound. they showed cars being seized large piles of money over 400000000 roubles in fact. and it suggests that if hackers thought that could operate with impunity in russia, there are some circumstances in which they are not safe. as we said, this was a rare example of cooperation between the 2 countries at a time of high tension between them. do we know? is there any information on, on how this this, this came about? there is not, that's the big mystery. why is russia suddenly cooperating with the u. s?

it might be coincidental, but there are a 100000 russian troops around the border with ukraine. the u. s. has protested this nato has protested this, and russia is demanding that, that ukraine, not join nato, among other things is demanding. there's no more western influence there militarily or otherwise. and so you have this kind of major diplomatic standoff. it threatens to become a military situation. it's possible, it's a coincidence, but one has to wonder whether the russia is not trying to improve relations with the u. s. at this critical juncture, when you have that report that you were showing earlier in which the u. s. government believes that russia is on the verge of some kind of false flag operation or another operation that might set off a military conflict. there are a jumbo effects of that. i was there was john henry that live in chicago of our

joke of hitches fighting attempts to support him from australia. the tennis started back in detention after a studious immigration minister cancelled his visa over his claim for a vaccine exemption. that's the 2nd time his visa has been revoked with our lives out of brisbin out 0. sarah clark is there, sarah, the saga continues. what happens next? beside the saga certainly does continue. the last our joke of which has been interviewed once again body is tried in border officials and a federal court hearing resumes and the next few minutes in melbourne. and this of course, is a joke of his team once again trying to block his deportation on the eve of the opening of the australian open, which begins on monday. now the federal government canceled his visa off for 2nd time. this was light on friday afternoon and i the am immigration minister used his ministerial discretionary powers at to block that razor as a to, to cancel it once again as stating that he believed it was on the grounds of

australia's public interest in a consider joke to which to be a health risk, the immigration, mr. he will be pursuing this in the, in the federal court. we got another federal court hearing on sunday, and this is of course chuck, which is last attempt to get him to play junk. of ich, i wants to get to defend his title, he wants to, to win this grand slammed tournament. but on the basis of the cancellation of his visa, he could be deported before the australian open begins. and he could also face a 3 year band from entering re entering australia. so document she's trying to make history in this 21st may to talk about it once again, his attempt could be blocked and we on have a couple of days before the australian opened a stotts in melbourne. sarah clark lighted brisbin ceremony. thanks. and dave, we're back home in serbia, firms of the world, number one, a standing by him saying that australia is treating him unfairly. almost all with no work is going through the frustration of our entire nation here. it's not, no means someone comes from here or it's not desirable anywhere. even if he's on

the top of the world, does not acceptable them. if they had said from the beginning that only vaccinated people can participate, it wouldn't be correct. but as it is one point they telling one thing another time, they tell him something else. and a stroke of which is legal troubles unfold. australia is battling a surgeon corona virus infections. its most popular state, new south wales, reported a 3rd. they have record number of deaths on friday. the hospitals are struggling with staff shortages still to come here on al jazeera will tell you why. there are fears that infection rates in india could spike in the coming days, weeks. ah

hello, we got some nasty weather making its way. got a good part of the u. s. over the next couple of days is the holiday weekend. of course. not exactly holiday, whether we got this co front, just thinking it's way down out of canada, a lot of coal there on this one. and that will just gradually plunge down into the northern plains through the mid west and sink further south, which as we go through saturday, will way down towards the yes central and southern states by this state. now just type which is in, they say it or am minus to a minus 5. therefore, new york temped is pick up as we go one into sunday, but that is not good news. we got that cold air in place is a fair but a snow on that rolling across the plains towards our console just eating down towards said the deep south, some very heavy rain there for mississippi, alabama. then as we go on into sunday, we'll see that making its way further east with big downfalls could see some flooding coming in here. significant snowfall around the appalachians around the mid atlantic states, just pushing up that eastern seaboard could see some flooding consent to new york

is we going through the weekend with high tides? cassie of a rice strong wind pushing in from the north. we want across a caribbean, this is the place to bay is fine and dry lots of sunshine, just one or 2 showers. i which was feast and islands. ah ah ah ah ah ah

ah ah ah. again, this is 0 reminder of the main use. the saw, the us is accused russia planning a so called false flag operation at eastern ukraine in an attempt to create a pretext for an invasion. russia says the claims are unfounded. russia security service says it's shut down to run some wet crime group known as our evil. it arrested several members of the group or even was behind the hacking of the largest oil pipeline in the u. s. last year. of our joke of it just had his study and these are cancelled for a 2nd time of his curve at 1900 vaccine status is back in detention, could be deported if his appeal fails in court. stop at the official residence of britain's prime minister held regular friday drinks during corona virus lock downs

. according to a report by the daily mirror newspaper for his johnson's already apologized to queen elizabeth for party. held up downing street on the eve of her husband, prince philip's funeral. on wednesday, boris johnson asked the british public for forgiveness for attending drinks. events, on the 20th of may, 2020. the opposition of san and johnson's own party, a calling on the prime minister to resign, that johnson insists a thought, but he was attending a work event. ah, public opinion appears to be turning against johnston, but some people at least appear to be having fun with it. a flash mob of partying johnston, lookalikes turned up at the gates of downing street on friday by the st. george a slide from london. he's a political commentator at a former chief press officer at 10 downing street. could every, with a set bo, if being forced to apologize to the queen, hasn't brought johnson down. what on earth will,

how many more scandals will come to light? where are all these allegations coming from? well, these are all very key questions. the people here and now really trying to think through, you've had a drip drip of different revelations, different parties, so many parties. so many of the allegations and the prime minister's efforts to apologize. part of the apologize i would say trying to align them this just haven't worked because every day feels about you getting more and more you have this really embarrassing situation with number 10, that triple chose to buckingham palace as well. so in terms of where this is coming from, it feels to me that this happened a long time ago. people have known about this for a while and because we have this report as feasible, 7th grade coming out,

expecting next week or so. a few people above the been worried about what does going to say will the junior members of the stuff get blamed for something, and therefore things now be exposed that actually highlight what really happened. so there's a lot going on and a few people who have their reasons getting things out there. i'm in the buck stops with a man at the top. why should judy a staff get the blame? to what extent is it saying? oh, a waiting to su grey's report, just an attempt to buy time. what can we expect you think from grace report, given that it's the prime minister who set the terms of reference for that investigation? why don't the police involved here? yes, so this is really you next side in buying time and the prime minister, when he did his initial apology to the commons a few days ago, there was a lot of, i'm sorry for the perception or i'm sorry if people and a focus that way. but this was

a work event in this was within the rules identity that really washes, i don't think people really take the face value. and it seems, even though this report is not out yet, and it's meant to be independent. the lots of briefing around what the reports like he say, we heard yesterday that it went find any allegations of criminality. weren't necessarily apportion blame. it will look into a bit of detail as to why things happened and maybe make some recommendations on the ball. if you raise that, she's not really that judgment on the prime minister. she's still a civil servant at the end of the day. so what happens off the report is find the unknown it's, it's likely to be a whitewash. do you think that the government and the conservative party understand the public anger about all of this the while they were observing lockdown restrictions and making great sacrifices for the sake of the public?

good. people at number 10 were behaving as if the rules didn't apply to them to yes, exactly, there is a real sense of one rule for 1. 1 will for the other do as i say, but don't do as i do. i think m. p. 's do understand this, there are lots of m p 's in the conservative party. you are increasingly worried about this. they will be going back to the constituencies over the weekend. they will be taking soundings from their supporters, from their members and the letters. there are some letters that have gone in, in terms of no confidence in the prime minister that may well increase next week. on the other hand, there are other m p c. we're waiting to see what happens in the low collections we've got coming up in may, and they still see the prime minister, even though they may not agree with everything he does. so stands for they see him as having one a significant majority just 2 years ago. in parts of the country that no conservative leader ever reached before. and there's an element currency still

there. will they give the benefit without if, if that is a real know show those elections if we news, see, then i think then the username will change. how long to give him mo, will he be gone before the elections, the local elections in may after the elections, or is he going to wriggle out of this? well, i think there'll be an attempt to wriggle out. certainly did already talk of an operation to try and save him where other people are junior and senior advisors and civil servants will likely carry the time. we will see the end of restrictions co restrictions in the u. k. in the next few weeks, which will be a bit of a boost for him in terms of popularity and an attempt to go back to the domestic agenda. but if the elections don't go very well, i do think then m. p. 's will turn and think will actually is not winning for us

that we need to go to somebody else. but for that to happen, that needs to be somebody else ready to go and party is divided on who that is. and that division serves the prime minister and keeps him his position a bit longer. good term hmo as always, manufacture date mo hassan, there in london. that a fee. as in india, the religious gathering of hundreds of thousands of hindu pilgrims could become a so called super spreader event. india recorded more than 260000 new cases in the past 24 hours poverty. the tal reports from new delhi o housings of him, the devotees, had thrown to the banks of the ganges for the and with dipping the river. the week long pilgrimage has continued despite covered 90 cases surging throughout the country for who now got plenty. the holy water was brought and sprayed on the road now. yeah, the practice still shoot to still sing and batches of only 50 people out loud at his calendar. hell, yeah. we also use drones to sanitize the police people across india,

celebrating various festivals and mich tight restrictions. the largest of these is in west been going, they only vaccinated, pilgrims are allowed. testing camps are open, even as public places and schools have closed. despite these measures new cove in 19 cases in the state of breaking all your records. hospital admissions in india, however, have remained relatively low in the country's largest coven, 19 facility in new delhi. most beds are empty, and not many patients are on a ventilator. we have enough oxygen, we have enough. i schubert, we have enough medicine and we have all the infrastructure in the same time, you know, also drained our doctor as nurses and better medics technician to how to deal with the increasing number. so this time we are better prepared than the 2nd of you. authorities expect the omicron fuel search to stream resources, but are taking steps to address the impact they are now advising,

asymptomatic contacts of coven 19 patients to avoid testing and quarantine at home . the advisory signifies, it is a degree of pragmatism, and i understand this is a relatively short on thing. it's not that that it's giving up on testing. it's a short on thing for the simple reason that the number of off of is incremented context us or non was that it's simply, it's simply restricted to highest groups. authorities will soon decide on extending the ban on the election valleys in the capital, new delhi. when you cases speak to an all time high, there will be another we can call you public health experts, one that on even restrictions could backfire if this is continued despite as a currently, even a small percentage of new hospital admissions could overwhelm the health, jefferson barbie michelle al jazeera new delhi, germany has reported its highest number of daily infections since the pandemic

began, while the 90000 new cases were reported on friday. the highly contagious on the con variant. now accounts for most of those infections. health officials a warning that if cases continue to climb the could swamp the health services health care system. w kane has the latest from berlin. the situation here is in one sense, worse than it has ever been the incidence of cove. it certainly here in the german capital is higher than it has ever been. the numbers of new infections across the entire country is higher than it has ever been that number. and that number itself more than $92000.00 announced on friday that itself a rec hold, but 10 percent higher than the previous day thursday which itself was also a record at $81000.00. so it's very clear for medics and ministers right now. this is the worst headache they could possibly have in a political sense, the trying to keep a lid on army chrome and in some people's eyes. failing at

a news conference on friday, the question was put to the new health minister called lots about that may be because some people say ami chrome is milder for most people who are infected with it, that it should be allowed to to run, ravage as it were through the country and thereby helped build a heard immunity. this is the reaction, the minister came up with on the learner ford in the duncan da swindle. i warn against the idea that we in germany should accept a full barn epidemic. the number of victims that we then would have to mourn is uncertain, is certainly too high, and it would also not lead to protection against further variance afterwards. because we cannot deduce from the current infection and rather is unlikely. it's worth also. bearing in mind that right at this moment, around 2 thirds of all the coven patients in intensive care in german hospitals are on vaccinated. remember that there are many millions of people in this country who

still have had not even one vaccination. and it is they who the government are trying to prioritize whilst repeating their mantra of where a mosque ventilate your buildings where possible and get that booster. why? because they believe omicron is a pit tick hilly, dangerous menace as it was for them here in germany, right? now, agencies, a warning of a growing humanitarian crisis in northwestern nigeria, 10 years of fighting over resources as left hundreds of thousands without food, shelter, and medicine. and as the result address reports now from some flora state. ah said, yeah, donna has been in this queue for 2 hours waiting to receive few kilograms of grains and some 2nd hand baby clothes. the mother of 3 has been displeased twice in 3 years. and during that time, this is the only 3rd occasion she has managed to get any food aid. when this runs

out, have family who are rely on what they usually eat. when i think of something now come to the home and if we can't find food, we will live on wild plants and corn husks. although it should be harder now because the rains have stopped. but private individuals, a local groups are trying to ease the suffering, volunteers at csm for a cycle work the phones and computers sourcing full funds online. we have that in this program. the, the flow of money actually reduce. in fact it, it stopped. ah, so this is the only money we have to make a difference and am going forward. the challenge is still there, the people are still there and there needs after violet. so we fill a if needful, cont, unity. i like i only see the government can do it alone, it has been doing its better. but the void, the group wants to fil, is too big. about 700000 people have been forced from their home since the conflict

between farmers and herders escalated. now semi urban areas are bursting at the seams attack on me, so i rare, but there is a steady rise in the number of people arriving in the city, looking for help, threatening to overstretched, available resources and facilities, believing, extremely harsh conditions. and for 10 years their plight was largely overlooked. they was the victims of nigeria must forgotten humanitarian crisis. men here feel abundant and can't understand why they've been neglected for so long. there are few camps for the displeased with many living on the streets. the state government says the camps can only provide temporary relief anyway, and the people will be better going home. well, most do, everett impossible to make sure that we protect most people to deploy much obscurities to go along with them. don't go,

i remember with those communities in case of any attack is better for us to spend whatever amount for that process. dental chroma, have some id, piece, and day said capital or look and can be headquarters. but with images of the latest massacre by an armed gang, still fresh, few choose to go back to their villages, despite bliss attempts to reassure them. the incident of book whom an uncle will not happen again, is equated in this will, aren't auto listed, and will continue to do our best. would massive deployment in areas where we feel there are some truth with all that that's closes. men here say that would rather leave on the streets and relative safety.