the listening post examined the vested interest behind the content you can see on al jazeera and talk to l. just a. ready while to warm it, we listen. the zionists are making serious efforts in over 18 t and to stop the 10 of those we meet with global use maintenance. i'm talking about the stormy stance on how juicy. ah it's our communities covered with ash satellite. they were just show the impact of the tumor volcanoes, unami that destroyed all the headings on one. ah, i'm to clog this is out there a life and also can we were now at a stage where russia could at any point,

launch an attack and ukraine. the us opposite threat assessment ahead of talks between the secretary of state and the russian foreign minister in geneva. this week 2 major telecom companies are delaying their 5 g rollout airports off the warnings that would cause catastrophic disruption to flight. and cambodia is treason, charlotte bound opposition, party lead to come. so car was used for the year says the case is pretty motivated . ah, so new images have reveal the scale of destruction in toga following saturdays, volcanic eruptions, unami large parts of the pacific nation covered in ash. the governments had several smaller islands where nearly every home was destroyed, are being evacuated. forgetting b as this 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. but in terms of access for the aid from australia, new zealand, arm, 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 val, any has released his 1st official statement confirming what many feared the eruption has caused an unprecedented disaster. with the volcanic mushroom plume covering all of tongue as a 170 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 when it volcanic ash carries is united a guest pass that kind of stuck through it now. and so when i'm back vulcan, a cash 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 at heat or stuck 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 picture is the area is smothered in gray 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. the volcano has stopped spewing ash for now giving a team of $200.00 volunteers. a chance to sweep the runway with most now played. it's hope the 1st 8 flights will be able to land as soon as thursday. victoria gay to be al jazeera were lead, so speak to when a, who's at the naval base in oakland,

in new zealand from where aid supplies are being sent through tara and wayne. so the navy on its way, what will be their priority yes, were to naval ships from oakland, have been deployed to talk about a 3 day journey to get there. so it's expected that arrives some time on friday carrying the usual sort of equipment that they're desperately needed in these situations. medical supplies, shelter, and crucially, perhaps the most crucial item on board will be some fresh water and the ability to make more, while those ships to the one of them has a determination plant on board so they can continue to make more fresh water while they are there because as you heard in that package, the ash is such a big problem contaminating the water supply in tang up the usual protocol in these

situations is that effective government will request assistance from the outside when a natural disaster occurs. that didn't happen on this occasion, perhaps an indication of how difficult communication has been and continues to be. the new zealand government decided to deploy these to naval ships anyway. and within the last hour or so, the new zealand minister of foreign affairs has confirmed that the tongue authorities have said that those 2 naval ships can enter tomlin waters now. but there is one catch, and that is that any aid did they are carrying has to be delivered contactless. and that's because of coven, 19 toner, has only had one case of cove. and since the pandemic began, and that was in october last year. so this is a desperate situation right now because of the volcano, of course. and the last thing they need is an outbreak of coven 19 to complicate things even further way. what is the latest situation in tucker as far as we know. while the main problem continues to be communication, it took until tuesday,

really late tuesday, for the government to issue a formal statement. we really haven't heard anything from them up until that stage . and that's when we saw that statement saying that this was an unprecedented disaster. the statement also talked a lot about communication, the fact that they are struggling to reach or even communicate with some of the outlying islands, some of which they haven't heard from at all. you mentioned earlier, the island called mango island to the north of the main island that has been completely destroyed, only has a population of around 50. all of the homes have been wiped out on that island. net could be a situation that's repeated. another areas that have not been reached yet in terms of communication. the main problem with communication is that that fiber optic cable that has been severed and at least one location the telecoms company is now saying it will be at least 4 weeks until that cable is repaired. so this is going to be an ongoing problem that communication is going to really hamper this recovery

operation and getting reports out of there to just gauge how serious the situation might be a serial problem. wayne, thanks very much for that. i wayne have reporting that from oakland and using it at least 10 people have been killed in hundreds at displaced by flash floods in the capital of madagascar 20 districts from jaila with forecast warning of more severe weather in the coming days. heavy rain cause lunch like disjoint, several the white house is warned that russia could attack ukraine at any moment, is also the voice concern over the deployment to russian forces to bela roost for joint war games. further beefing up rushes military assets, the crane, your secretary states anthony blinking is due to hold talks with russia's foreign minister, a lover of geneva on friday. whitehouse cross one. kimberly how kit is more on what the secretary of state is expected to say at those talks. while he's trying to send a message and that message that he will be sending to the russian foreign minister

is one that has been repeatedly underscored by the west. whether it be through telephone calls between the various levels of government between the united states and russia, whether it be in consultations that have taken place between european partners. but the message has been consistent. that is that the u. s. believe that the only way to resolve security differences with respect to concerns about russia invading ukraine is through diplomacy. and should russia choose an alternate path? there will be severe financial consequences. now the reason that the united states is so gravely concerned is because there is u. s. intelligence that has been in place for months that russia is preparing for some sort of imminent attack. not only because there are tens of thousands of troops, russia has amassed along the border near ukraine, but also because there has been an uptick,

an activity on social media that seems to indicate that an attack may be imminent. our views. this is an extremely dangerous situation. we're now at a stage where russia could, at any point, want an attack and ukraine. and what secretary blinking is going to go do is highlight very clearly. there is a diplomatic pass forward. it is the choice of president and the russians to make whether they are going to suffer severe economic consequences or not. prior to the meeting in geneva between survey live rob and antony blank and there will also be other meetings and consultations that will take place. we know that the secretary of state will also be traveling to berlin. the efforts to de escalate pensions will be discussed. we also know he will be meeting in advance with the president of ukraine zalinski. and as well, we expect that we will hear more on all of this from us president joe biden, when he holds his press conference at the white house on wednesday. a u. s. telecom

john say to ent, in horizon, have agreed to partially delay activating their 5 g networks near some efforts. it comes off to major airlines warned, it could cause catastrophic disruption to flights. the stand off is only temporarily resolved. john 100 reports from chicago's a head international airport for the 2nd time in 2 weeks, a potential air travel and economic crisis is postponed. as telecommunications giants, 80, and t and verizon prepared to turn on their 5th generation wireless system on wednesday. major u. s. airlines warned it faster phones using 5 g would set off catastrophic flight cancellations and slow the economy to a halt. the largest american based airlines say the 5 g system would ground thousands of planes. the f a is uncomfortable with the safety roofs. and as a consequence, the impact on our operations to mitigate that would be

a significant setback in a letter to the federal aviation administration and other biden administration agencies. the heads of the major airlines and cargo companies say the u. s. face is a, quote, completely avoidable economic calamity, and they warn of a major disruption of the traveling and shipping public end to the supply chain vaccine distribution in the broader economy. airlines want a 2 mile buffer around affected airports. they say those 5 g frequencies, the telecommunications company, spent tens of billions of dollars to buy up might interfere with a key piece of cockpit equipment. the altimeter hold radio altimeter help planes and helicopters to land in poor weather. the activation of 5 g potentially leading the federal aviation administration to order planes grounded in low visibility on tuesday. big telecomm relented temporarily. and with obvious peak in a statement 80 and t said at our sole discretion, we have voluntarily agreed to temporarily defer turning on

a limited number of towers at certain airport runways as we continue to work with the asian industry. but the company added, we are frustrated by f a's inability to do what nearly 40 countries have done, which is to safely deploy 5 g technology without disrupting aviation services. and we urge it to do so in a timely manner with verizon following suit that postponed the confrontation between telecom and airline giant once again, but doesn't resolve it. whitehouse policy makers say they're working on a permanent solution. we have the safest air space in the world. our committed to reaching a solution around 5 d deployment that maintains the highest level of safety. united airlines alone says that deployment of 5 g could force the cancellation of 15000 flights, stranding more than a 1000000 united customers. other airline say you can multiply that several times. john henderson, l g 0, chicago,

still ahead. they are not 0 to the biggest names in software and gaming strike the biggest deal in the industry's history. why scientists, why that a penguin paradise at the end of the world with look forward to brighter skies, the winter sponsored my cattle ways. when 2 others tumbling out of east in your western russia, down through turkey. so the levant and down towards the raven peninsula. actually, at the moment we have a system here which is bring your few showers through you a dying out system. as it is seen through eastern iran, so the risk of flooding here. but what's happening in easter medstar, a different story here that's been colder with a lot of snow in it and the cold wind that follows will generate big thunderstorms that run through garza into jordan lebanon's,

snow easily on the heights even at low level. i think the cold air will penetrate, so the shamal which is already picked up. this isn't particularly cold, but he's going to last for wednesday, thursday and friday i think not bringing very much with it. not too much sand, not many showers, but certainly a drop in temperature and weather when picks up or tend to bring some sand where it's dry after the empty quarter. but more especially, i think is the temperatures. and we're looking at night time last thursday night, down to low single things in kuwait and yet, but that code, it doesn't stop there. it floods down through saturday, right towards yemen. this whole area is a real cold. now we're talking about friday night here, minus 3, possibly rehab existing record is minus 2, so it could be a new record and he's going to feel cold anyway. oh, the with sponsored by castle right ways. healing the debate, 90 percent of the world's refugees have come from of common impacted country. the climate emergency is putting more pressure on services across the world and amplify

your voice. it's not really the future. 8 now it's not a lock can get into this completely. we cannot lose hope, we know what to do, and we have the tools to do to get back with all the paper. this to you on al jazeera, with a guy know what y'all's 0 reminder about top stories. this and the white house is one that russia could attack ukraine at any moment. it's also a voice concern about russian forces deployed in bel ruth, for george war games will, than a $100000.00 russian soldiers of master ukraine's board. us telecom john j

t and t and variety didn't have agree to partially delay activating their 5 g network to near some airports. it comes off to major airlines warned the rollout could cause catastrophic disruption to flight. the governments of toner says people on several islands are being evacuated after most homes were destroyed on saturday in 9, a russian and soon army you satellite images have shown the extent of the damage. well, as the leech is added cooperation, that the international committee of the red cross, and she says, colleagues on the ground trying to use limited communications to connect people and talk with loved ones abroad. the devastation is widespread shore. and i mean, it was one of the most have started next year options in decades if not century. so it. yeah, it wide spreads devastation. i mean, luckily, the loss of life has been limited so far that we know last week,

still the details are not in on that on the smaller islands. the major challenge that we've all been, casey is the complete cut off for, you know, communication lines. so that has really limited a lot of of proactive a distributions. and also the ash on communication is partially from being restored at the moment. so we were fortunate to contact our team, but the red cross contacted us finally to say, and we're in talks with hunger red cross immediately to set up this restoring family program. what this entails is they have satellite phones on the ground, you know, and they have 3 satellite phones, the trunk, red cross, and they're able to just utilize those in the community and provide to minute calls for families to contact their loved ones abroad. because as you know, there's

a lot of tang and living in australia, new zealand, and elsewhere that haven't heard from their family member the treason trial of the cambodian opposition that comes taca is resuming after 2 year delay proceedings began in 2020 but were postponed due to the crate of ours pandemic, again, is accused of conspiring with the us to overthrow the government of whom he was arrested in 2017 and find ahead of the election. the following year. the u. s. says the case is politically motivated. it's cross treadaway to florence, larry who's following the case from caller lumper. and john's life from there as a foreign said, tell us the background to this and what's expected? well, come sucka, it has been charged with conspiring with the u. s. to overthrow the cambodian government, and this is based on a speech that he gave in 2013 when he talked about receiving advice from you as pro democracy groups. so rights activists that point out that the evidence against him

is simsi comes ok himself. has denied the charge and speaking to reporters earlier this morning, just before he headed off to court and put on pen. he asked for the government to drop charges against him so that the process of national unity can start. and this is unlikely to happen. prosecutors have had 2 years to consider dropping charges against him. the case has been postponed for 2 years because of the current a virus pandemic. not seeing any indication that charges against comes account will be dropped. now, even if they ought to be dropped, he's likely to be able to return to politics because he's been banned from political activities. there's effectively little to no political opposition in cambodia shortly after come. so cup was arrested in 2017. the can vote in supreme court ordered his party, the commodious national rescue party to be dissolved. now, this was just ahead of election in 2018, and the c and r p, the custodian national rescue party, was expected to prove, provide

a strong challenge to the ruling party. had made huge gains in the 2013 elections. and it was expected to show a while to put kind of a strong show in the 2018 elections. and after it was dissolved, many of the c and r p senior leaders fled cambodia and living in exile because they feared arrest. and even then they were still being targeted. the cambodian government brought charges against many c, n, r, p. leaders as well as activist some of them were charged and sentenced in a sense, given long jail terms. some of those charles are still ongoing, and many activists have said that who incent, who's let the country for nearly 40 years now, just wants to destroy any political opposition. he wants to cement his grip on power. and especially in the run up to local elections that are due to happened later this year and a general election slated for 2023. referring to that thanks. so that's a functionary reporting that thank you. in hong kong and i to was known for

inspiring calls for independence has be released from prison. edward young is the 1st pro democracy, figured to be released from jail since pages credit on in 2020 young is said to popularize, to running and call liberate hong kong revolution of all times. and the statements . he said he will not be staying away from the spotlight and spend the time with his family for clematis. more from echo. we like other media outlets in the city had planned to go to the prison at around 9 am when most prisoners are normally released. but they would have been a huge crowd of journalists, they would have been a police presence. so they got him out at around 3 a. m. and by doing so, they avoided a kind of media spectacle that would have ensued if he had been released at the normal time. he did release his statement saying that he wants to treasure time with his family. he released that statement before scrubbing his social media accounts. he also said that according to the law, he has been ordered to follow supervision of his release. and he will stay away

from the spotlight and stop using social media. he also wrote except any interview invitation. now, much has changed since edward lug went into prison 4 years ago. we have to consider that aging and use that national security law in 2020 and the crackdown in hong kong has intensified since then. your position has mostly been silenced. here, activism has been clamped down hong kong. many parliament now goes ahead without an effective opposition. many politicians, many of loans colleagues are in jail or indeed in exile. so it's a very different political picture here. while it may galvanized some of in the democracy movement abroad, some that have been moved into exile, it's very unlikely to galvanize any reception here. we do expect the reception here to be rather muted. the u. k. prime minister has deny claims by form advisor, that he lied to parliament about a party during a the 2020 look done for us. johnson says he hadn't been warned. the gathering

could breach groan of ours rules is now facing the greatest crisis of his political career. with more than a dozen lockdown gatherings held by politicians and their staff under investigation nobody told me that what we were doing was, as you say, against the rules that the event in question was something that we were going to do something that wasn't her work event and 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 gracie what the inquiry has to say, that in our from nave barker, who has more from london dominate cummings boys, johnson's former chief advisor, turned arch nemesis, who released the statement on his blog on monday,

saying that he had actually 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 of the downing street madhouse. and according to cummings for storm, some response was simply just wave this through and attends 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 forest 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 adam bras . funeral a day in which the nation was in mourning. the queen was sitting in isolation away from her family. we have at least 6 conservative apiece who have gone on record cooling for his resignation,

but money still remained sought and waiting for this all important investigation into wrongdoings. to number 10, dana straightened elsewhere on white whole 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 and sustained wrong during microsoft has announced a biggest acquisition deal in its history. and it's one that could shake up the video game industry and spend a $170000000000.00 to buy activision blizzard a, which makes some of the world's biggest and most popular games. but the buyout has come at a sensitive time for the gaming from, as laura bode miley now reports, ah, games like this candy crush catapulted mobile phones into an industry now worth

a $175000000000.00. 3000000000 people around the world, a set to play video games on their phones, consoles, 3 the headsets and the web. but now tech giant microsoft wants a large slice of the action. it's planning to buy activision blizzard for almost $70000000000.00. it's largest ever acquisition. the company posted this image showing whatever get for its money. popular games like call of duty diablo and star craft. the move would put microsoft in a leading position in a statement. microsoft says it will have 30 game development studios along 5 publishing and east sports. for the buyout has raised some questions, particularly in light of an abuse scandal at activision blizzards. it was hit with staff wall counts and protests that it's california based last summer. it was sued by a state agency which accused it of being

a breeding ground for harassment and discrimination against women to steal would have even been on the table if this hadn't happened, or the company was valued at actually more than what they, what this purchase price would be about a year ago, but i, i suspect a lot of what's been going on has been sort of eating away at their valuation. so it on some level, it sort of set up the, the are the ability for this purchase to go through many of the queues activision visit seo, bobby co tech of covering up the scandal. but microsoft confirms he's going to keep the top job and all the issues may arise from microsoft owning such a large stake. it's already worth more than $2.00 trillion dollars and that 2nd only to apple, it, the move may also put it in the crosshairs of us politicians, which are already working to limit the power of technology joints, including facebook, apple, and google, the takeover sequence, microsoft desire to become a series content on all platforms. but to now it's game is attention at

once in an industry that's growing fast. laura, but manly al jazeera these here they'll figure archipelago is often called the end of the world. but for some scientists sits at the center of climate change research . the allan group is at the southernmost tip of south america and the shared by chile and argentina. it's home to glasses, wales, and a major penguin colony or sciences. say penguin numbers there have increase because of a lack of tourist you. to the pandemic warming temperatures threaten the survival or latin america, editor lucio newman. as more what you see behind me is a rare king penguin colony here in the way on the tip of south america. the king penguins come here to breed every summer, and they are the 2nd largest species of penguins after the emperor penguins, which are breeding at this very same time about

a 1000 kilometers south. from here in antarctica, these birds that had use this exact area to lay their eggs for hundreds of years, had practically disappeared from here after scientists and zoo keepers, even people who wanted them as pets captured them and took them as far away as japan. but a decade ago, they began returning the science has shown that penguins have a genetic memory, and that they always tried to return to breathe where they were born. just to see that the director of the penguin reserve, those 2 days scientists and university mug janish are here investigating global climate change using the germs found on these penguins feathers a sensors. the reserve was created 10 years ago, which means the penguins could not be touched or moved or harmed. but scientists are warning that both the king and the emperor penguins could become extinct by the end of the century. and the reason is climate change,

the increasingly warming water is even here. words freezing cold are driving fish further and further away, which means that both the emperor and chain penguins when they go out to try to bring food back to their newborn chicks, have to go so far away that by the time to get back, the chips have already starved to death. ah. so this is out there. these are the top stories, and the government of toner says people on several islands are being evacuated after most homes were destroyed and saturday, interruption and tsunami. new satellite images have shown the extent of the damage where it has monitoring developments from oakland in new zealand. communication still is the big problem. we're being drip fed some of these images as you've just seen coming out that show complete devastation on some of the islands. and again, communication is the main problem. in fact, it took until tuesday for the tongue and government to be able to get out some sort

of formal statement and.