always be in the house of nazareth. now a growing group of residence wants to get it beating again a grim come back, because it suits still love very much for ah, you have your sleepless nights and i not knowing what to expect. desperate for news from loved ones and tongue are after a volcanic eruption in the pacific islands triggered a tsunami. at least 3 people have been killed. ah, was mailed to 0, like from headquarters in delphi. i'm getting obligated also coming up. antony lincoln in circles. rob to hold talks and geneva, on fridays tension escalades over russia. true build up on ukraine's border.

nobody told me that what we were doing was because you say, against the rules. britain's prime minister denies being warned not to host parties because they would breach locked on roles and sounding the alarm call for 5 g y u. s. airlines are warning for catastrophe when the new wireless networks it switches on ah hello, it's been 3 days since the volcanic eruption on soon ami in tonga, but the full scale of the destruction is only now beginning to emerge. the government says several smaller islands had to be evacuated because nearly every home there was destroyed. victoria gate and b reports. satellite images show a thick layer of ash on the wrong way of tongue is main. airport on the left is how it looked before the eruption, the ashes, delaying deliveries,

of international aid flights. the ashes proving quite problematic on not just for our water and sanitation because tom collected water from the roofs of household. i'm but in terms of access for the aid from australia, new zealand, um and other flights of they need to clear the runway communicating with tanya is extremely difficult. there's no internet and limited phone calls, because the scene army severed the fiber optic cable connecting the rest of the world. the telecoms operate as says it will be weeks before the connection is restored. prime minister, so you see, so will any, has released his 1st official statement confirming what many feared the rupture has caused an unprecedented disaster. with the volcanic mushroom plume covering all of tongue is a $170.00 islands. the red cross estimates that up to 80000 tomlins may be affected and dust from the volcano could contaminate water supplies with island is advised

to drink bottled water and wear masks. but also what that one it volcanic ash carries is united a gas pass that kind of stuck through it now. and so when i'm back volcanic ash kind of goes into water resources or example, you know, if he starts to rain and then that mixes with the water in atmosphere, you this the, so for this kind of out here to start to the volcanic ash, this can then make acid rain. this is how tongue this port looked at the end of december in the latest satellite pictures, the area is smothered in grey ash. dozens of homes on the main island of tang, a tap who have been severely damaged or destroyed. what tongue a desperately needs now is help from other countries. a team of $200.00 volunteers has been sweeping the runway and it's now 60 percent cleared. it's hope the 1st 8 flights will be able to land as soon as thursday. victoria gates and b al jazeera sarah clark has been following developments from brisbin and australia. these are some of the 1st satellite images showing the extent of the damage. after

a volcanic eruption triggered a synonymy and waves surged 3 times, $170.00 islands zealand and australia have to military aircraft to assess the damage. for the surveillance work that was done was really quite crucial. but we know that there is more work to be done to make sure that solar can bounce back met . i know momma has been unable to reach her family and tony since saturday to 2 sisters live on the main island on the top, who her brother and her family live on the small island for vasu. i'm worried. i like everyone else they, you know, you have your sleepless nights and not knowing what to expect a fiber optic cable. one of the countries main lines of communication was damaged by the russian and may take weeks to a store. within a week or 2, we should be able to know whether we can be able to get our full connectivity up

and running. for now, this is the only communication. many people in tongue have a tv and radio station in australia covering the pacific region. it's fielding calls from relatives around the world who desperate for uptime. we've had tones calling from sweden, austria, pots of japan, and so for just desperate for any news from home, deaths have now been confirmed, including angela glover, a british woman who was rescuing her dogs. when she was hit by the powerful wife we are just shattered is the only word i can think to describe it. any family that loses such a treasured member of their family would know exactly what you know, what i'm saying here. girl, a struggle navy ship is on its way from sidney to prison, to load humanitarian humanitarian groups. now coordinating a joint relief effort. the volcanic ash means it's difficult,

the same supplies by air. so water and sanitation kit, tents and blankets being lighted on ships to be sent from australia. new zealand. high tides, triggered by the volcanic explosion, the toner had been filled as far away as peru where a ship supplying the country's main oil. processing plant was rocked by waves generated by the reduction the result a 2 kilometer long oil spill, fer o'clock out a 0 brisbin australia. the secretary of state, anton unblinking will be holding talks with his russian counterparts. are good lives of in geneva on friday. that's his tension escalades over ukraine. a massive build up of russian troops at the border has raised the fears of a confrontation. let's go. lights were white house corresponding kimberly hopped out for more on this meeting. and what lincoln is really hoping to achieve, given that last week's diplomatic talks, ended without the escalation commitment from russia. yeah, that's exactly why there is this hastily arrange trip by the u. s. secretary of

state to meet with his russian counterpart. but prior to that, he will be meeting with the ukrainian president zalinski as well as traveling to berlin. as you mentioned, the united states has been working with european partners in order to try and bring about conversations with russia. and to really find the diplomatic path to resolve the security concerns around the fact that russia has amassed tens of thousands of troops along the border with ukraine. add to that the concern by the west that there is intelligence that exists on the us side that russia has been planning and evasion of ukraine for some time that could take place in the coming weeks. and is also potentially a putting in place the preconditions for a so called false flag to justify some sort of invasion. no russia, we should point out denies all of this, but the west extremely concerned. so as

a result, we know that survey lab, rob the russian foreign minister as well as the secretary of state entity blinking, held a telephone call a on tuesday. they discussed the diplomatic path forward in terms of trying to resolve some of these concerns and differences. and we now know as a result of that call, there is a plan conversation to take place between these 2 men in geneva on friday. now were watching very carefully to see what more the united states side might have to say about this. the press secretary gen saki will be holding a press briefing in the next hour and as well we will be hearing from you as president joe bided. he is holding a press conference where there is no doubt that he will be asked about this issue. that will be held on wednesday. all right, thank you so much. kimberly. how could reporting from washington d. c. now germany's foreign minister has met her russian counterpart of moscow. emphasize the need to diffuse tension on atlanta. bareback was welcomed by survey

line of 24 hours after her talks with ukrainian leaders in kiev. the kremlin says it has no intention of invading ukraine, but russian troops, mass, near the border have raised the fears of a conflict. next, more than a 100000 russian soldiers with tanks and guns have gathered new ukraine in recent weeks for no understandable reason. and it's hard not to see this other threat. rushes for a minister says a 2015 agreement meant to end. the conflict in ukraine needs to be implemented when shipping you might need to visit a few of the stimulus on ukraine. we have a common understanding of absence of alternatives to them. in agreements, we indicated to our partners that it's an acceptable to present russia as a part of the conflict. we've seen such attempts lately, and it's unacceptable to shift the responsibility for absence of progress in implementing mince agreements to russia. we hope the general colleagues will weigh in on various cranium partners to make them finally fulfill variable negations.

well, natal secretary generally and stop berg says he's invaded russia to a new round of talks. he was speaking in berlin. after holding talks with the new german chancellor, the main toss now is to make progress on the political way forward or nato allies are ready to meet with russia again. and to day are, have invited russian all the nato allies, a to attend the cedars or meetings in the nato, russia council in the near future to address our concerns. but also listen to rush us concerns concerns and, and to try to find a way forward to prevent any military attack against the ukraine. while the u. k prime minister boris johnson has denied that he had lied to parliament about a lockdown party. he told reporters, nobody had warned him the gathering might contravene cove had rules. his former advisor dominate. cummings accused the prime minister of misleading and peas about

the events. more than a dozen gatherings held by politicians and their staff, while the public was under restrictions, are now under investigation. nobody told me that what we were doing was, as you say, against the rules are that the event in question was something that we were gonna do something that i was into a work event. and a, you know, as i said in the house of commons, when i went out into that garden, i thought that i was attending a work event. i think it's very important that we see what su gray see what the inquiry has to say. the parker is in london with more dominate cummings boys. johnson's former chief advisor, turned arch nemesis, who released the statement on his blog on monday, saying that he had on she advised that the prime minister and he has witnesses to prove it. he says, to say that attending this event would be very,

very body wouldn't look good. and the prime minister needs to get a grip off the downing street madhouse. and according to coming sports, johnson's response was simply just wave this through and attend the event. johnson saying that that is not the case. he is defended, his stance that he believed he was indeed going to a work event. but it was a pretty bruising interview or round boss johnson holding his head down throughout the entire question. when he was asked about a double leaving, do that took place at number 10 downing street on the eve of the duke of edinburgh funeral. a day in which the nation was in mourning. the queen was sitting in isolation away from her family. we now have at least 6 conservative m p 's who have gone on record calling for his resignation. but many still remained, saw them waiting for this all important investigation into wrong doings. and so,

number 10, danny straightened elsewhere on whitehall to come back with its conclusion that conducted by a senior civil servant su, gray, known as the sleaze buster of whitehall. she has presided over the departure of very senior m. p. 's in the past will her conclusions implicate boris johnson in sustained wrong during stella hads on al jazeera, we'll have more from pakistan, which has struggling to contain on the con, variance of kevin 19 or hundreds of health workers are now infected. and he colorful hindu festival. in malaysia, that's been scaled down for a sec here because of corona virus with

we may have some record called across the golf this weekend. hello. everyone will get to those details in one sec. but 1st here's what's going on on wednesday, energy sliding across. so the vance, we may have some more snow in our bill with a high of 7 degrees. now let's go into the gulf on wednesday, still breezy, especially for doha. we could see gus up to 40 kilometers per hour. now we'll paint on the colors. this is friday night, as you wake up on saturday, this is what you're going to feel. q weights plus one. we add minus 3. that could be a new record or right now, your record low temperature is minus $2.00 in single digits in dolah with a high 9 degrees. some rain for northern areas of pakistan. that means so not too far away for islam about on wednesday. and we may see a light dusting of snow for is stumble. those temperatures have come down and snow over the higher ground for eastern areas of the country. are storms coming and going through the tropics of africa, but slumping more so toward the south. so we'll pick up the story there. we're

talking, zambia, mozambique rate into madagascar, some heavy falls. meantime, temperature wise kept down at 23 degrees. but watch those tear temperatures are going to shoot up big time. you could hit 40 degrees over the course of the weekend . stay cool. we'll see again soon. take care. ah frank assessments this gracious continue to weaken luca shenker, even though perhaps he believed in the beginning that it looks that informed opinions. i think politicians will now be under incredible pressure from their 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. it's a great, it's a really simple question. let's give samuel a chop swans inside story on al jazeera. oh,

a pillow top stories on al jazeera this hour, 3 days after a volcanic eruption triggered a through nami, that had tongue on the scale of destruction is just beginning to emerge. the government, several smaller islands have been evacuated because nearly every home there was destroyed in the us. secretary of state, anthony lincoln will meet his russian counterpart of friday in geneva to discuss pensions over ukraine. a massive build up of russian troops up the border has raised fears. if a confrontation the kremlin says it will not continue talk fun ukraine until the us response to its security demand. the russian foreign minister met his german counterpart in moscow on tuesday.

now airlines chief executives in the us are warning of catastrophic disruption to flights when telecom companies switch on 5 g on wednesday. there are safety concerns about the new wireless signals interfering with the flight deck equipment . the airlines want the government to delay the 5 g roll out to prevent passenger and cargo flights grinding to a halt. john hendrick is joining us from chicago airport. so why our airline executive so concerned? what are they asking the president to do? well, you could con, you can only limited widespread err cancellation. forget john, i'll just have to stop you there. we're having some trouble hearing what you have to say. we will come back to a little later on. but for now, let's move on to cars exxon and try to bring john back up on. so the former

president, north fulton, another by i've, is denied rumors of a power struggle among the political elite speculations when fuel by a purge of his associates from government positions by president catherine joe mart . okay. of, as has been seen in a video for the 1st time since day, the anti government riots earlier this month. he's refuting reports that he fled the country. customers are one of the firewall. he's 2019 i handed over my full powers to president catherine, jim archive. i've been a pensioner since then. right now, i'm having weller and time off in catholic stance. capital and i have not left full power is in the hands of the president. he's the chairman of the security council. he will soon be elected the leader of the routing party. there is no contract or standoff among buildings. such rumors are absolutely baseless. when the trial has adjourned, nigeria, a separatist leader accused of treason, now meet the counter, was the leader for a group called indigenous people of a are from, if campaigns for the secession of the southeastern region of

a offer. all that separated from nigeria in 1967, which then led to the nigerian civil war. fidelis and bar has a latest from the niger and capital abuser. now because he's from the, from the south eastern parts of my dear, he decided to take on the leadership of the indigenous people of death for after a similar movement called the movement for the actual position of this. obviously the bath for more like the leader was in detention. he took over why living in london with broadcast of messages to nigeria as people from the south east who are based in the country and out of the country. and in recent years, he's had to run battle with the government results, and he says he's erected 2015. and then later he left. the country is to 2017. and again, last year in june, he was arrested in kenya and brought back to my year to face trial. and he's been

a case of back and forth with the judicial system, with government, and the big cause for his release or conditional release. but the government insist that he had to go to do no more trials because he didn't seem to have priests sitting pushing at provisions of the law. and now he's been before it said now he's been facing 7 count charges of tree c terrorism. and to be waiting for school against president michael harris. but now the government has amended the chinese bringing up today. 15 count charges bordering on terrorism. back to john 100 over in chicago airport, john, just a moment ago you were telling us why airline executives are so concerned with the 5 g rollouts meant to take place on wednesday. what's going on at the right very, and in my apologies, we are a little technological glitch,

but that is nothing compared to the technological which airlines are predicting are going to happen within 24 hours without federal action. they say that this new generation cellular technology that's being deployed by variety in a t and t is going to cause thousands of planes to be grounded and millions of people to be stranded. that's because they say it interferes with the l timid or on planes. and radio ultimate or is the thing that helps the pilot land when there is bad weather, but it does a number of other things. so they say it planes won't just be grounded for bad weather. they will be grounded for a number of other reasons as well. the federal aviation administration has asked the airlines not to fly a broad range of larger planes from the 737 to the 787. if that 5 g technology is deployed in bad weather, so what the airlines are asking for is

a buffer zone around major airports like this. this is chicago here, international airport. they want about 2 miles around those airports. show that those show your top 10. ology cannot interfere with the landing plains. the airlines have written to the by then ministration, saying this will cause other economic calamity. and they say that this was all predictable and it could happen within 24 hours. the rain. and here's the thing, john, i mean, this comes at a time when airlines were really already having trouble and canceling flights because of the korean a virus pandemic. so how will this affect yeah, it really couldn't come at a much worse time. they were hoping to make up a lot of the money that they had been losing during the pandemic over this christmas holiday with people traveling. well, that didn't happen for a number of reasons. one of them was that airline workers usually work over time over the holidays, and because of that, airlines are able to staff many more planes. well, this time around, many of those employees said with the on the current virus out there. i don't want

to be on those planes and they turn down the over time so they couldn't staff all those planes and major snowstorm sweeping across the middle of the u. s. also grounded a number of planes. so at the end of the year, airlines had about 20 percent less revenue than they had 2 years earlier. and the pre pandemic era. and this is just going to hit them on top of that, they're begging their biden administration to postpone the deployment of the 5 g technology. and a white house official tells al jazeera that in fact, the administration is working with those telecommunications companies. and the airlines trying to ensure that there's a resolution so that air travel isn't disrupted, and that 5 g technology can be deployed safely as soon as possible. all right, thank you so much. john hanson reporting from chicago o'hare airport. getting deposed, president of con days, report is have flown to the united arab emirates for medical treatment. the 83 year

old has been under house arrest and some military, 24 months ago. the regional organization echo was demanded. his release guineas, military leader, gave him permission to travel for up to a month. who are in sri lanka, pay rises for government workers and tax cuts have been announced to boost the economy damaged by the coven crisis. president go to buy a raj, a boxer outlined his latest rescue plans in parliament. he's asking one of the islands biggest lenders, china to restructure a debt repayments. the pandemic has cost the popular tourist destination $9000000000.00 in the past 2 years. when l fernandez has more from the capital, colombo, the president, basically talking about food security being a top priority that it needs to be addressed in 2022. he talked about a, some of the plans for green economy. this is a president who basically brought in a ban, a complete ban on chemical fertilizers, drawing

a lot of criticism down at the grass root level for the sort of quick wait happened . but the president said their policies and goals weren't properly communicated to the people. so he was talking about that he also talked about investment essentially either gamut of areas that the government is looking at. a one addressing essentially the energy sector, which is a very real problem at the moment. ah, where we're having sort of power outages, power cuts, also because of the foreign exchange crisis that the government is facing. there's a very limited amount of fuel to run generators at the power plant and the president outlining a wide series of sort of projects to bring in solar power to increase the generation of power in the next coming years. he also talked about the need to increase exports, essentially because obviously in terms of natural resources are oil, that kind of fossil virtual anchor does not have. so he talked about maximizing

what areas that the country can offer in terms of bringing in that important foreign exchange hospitals. in pakistan's largest city karachi, are facing a shortage of staff and that's after hundreds of health care workers tested positive for corona virus in the past. week 30 percent of people tested in the city were infected and not more than 4 times the national rates. from a high, there has more from a vaccination center in islamic the national command and operation center i had boarded over 5000 positive cases of go read 19. now the new where the and all maker on edge driving the city of karachi and the worst case where there was a dvd rate of all what 30 percent other cities such a lot have recorded or what per diem for same as lama by stand that all in march, 11 percent,

the national command and operation came k going to be carrying out mass testing and education institutions afforded decades on the closure of food. they filled up quadrant emergency situation. however, the omicron radiance is considered to be legislated under general, radian, that are always $800.00 critical cases in the hospital, the mortality rate a low as far as the new radio. they're concerned. but the country does not want to take any chances. over 102000000 people have already received their 4th jap, 77000000, 445000 people have received a 2nd job. the advisory, a debt, all was unable people. over the age of 50 should get their booster shots and also the shorts that being rolled out to the younger population over 12 budget on the national command. and operation center has been monitoring the situation across the

country. it is an alarming train, given the fact that 500 health workers have also been effected in the city of karachi. and that if the strike d has occurred, it could put up for the strain on non already precarious situation of the panorama . just putting a damper on a popular hindu festival, celebrated by tom l. communities around the world. type of some festivities in malaysia have been scaled back. florence louis reports hindus usually start celebrating type with them in the early hours of the morning with president montrose to invoke blessings, and to celebrate the victory of good over evil. as they've done for years, premier sag harassing him and her family will bring pots of milk to a temple. but this time, there's one difference. i want to give my offerings to lord morgan, but because of the coven 19 restrictions this year,

i'm choosing to celebrate it. a few days earlier, type with them is celebrated by the hindu tamela community. in honor of lord morgan, the hindu god of war, whose believed to grant people their desires. this year, celebrations are more low as no procession, and to vote is only allowed 30 minutes slots. here at the main temple type was em, celebrations at the bottom. caves in kuala lumpur temple usually attract up to a 1000000 people devoted and tourists. some devoted carry a cavity, a portable shrine dedicated to lord morgan. they enter into a trance and peers, their bodies with hooks and spears. but this year, like last, authorities have banned the cavity, citing corona virus restrictions. pulfer ambien, but don't go with the bull. i, my problems is after i started carrying the color the 4 years ago. so when i heard

it dechaudis did not allow this. you know, i was disappointed. other rituals, like people shaving their heads as an act of sacrifice, or symbolically purifying themselves by taking a bath in a river, have been allowed to go ahead. while typing them this year may be less festive. people celebrating it say, it doesn't make the day any less meaningful to them. florence li, al jazeera kuala lumpur. ah, hello again. the headlines on al jazeera, 3 days after volcanic eruption trigger tsunami that hit tango, the scale of destruction is beginning to emerge. the government says several smaller islands have been evacuated because nearly every home there was destroyed.