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lifting england's coven restrictions. trees torn down and buildings ripped apart. you pictures reveal the scale of the damage on tong after saturday's volcanic eruption, and china warns olympic athletes that they could be punished if they protest that next month's winter. ah, hello, thank you for joining us. russia could invade ukraine at very short notice. that's the warning from the u. s. secretary of state who's been in key of reaffirming washington's commitment to ukraine. russia has a mass than estimated 100000 troops or on the north and east of ukraine, including areas the put them in easy, striking distance of the capitol, key of, for the last 8 years, ukraine has been battling around 35 was in russia backed rebels who controlled 2 of

its eastern provinces. russia reportedly has military personnel station there. although the kremlin denies this, russian troops are also deployed in crimea, which was an next from ukraine in 2014. and there are fears that another battle front could open up on the border with belive roof where russia is moving troops for war games next month. or the hamid reports now from kias. hello, and i see the message is the same, but this time it's from the ukrainian capital give that us secretary of state anthony blink, and renewed called for russia to choose diplomacy or pay a price in case of military escalation. today, there are some 100000 russian soldiers near ukraine borders, and in that sense, the threat to ukraine is unprecedented. so the president asked me to underscore once again, our commitment to ukraine start or integrity to sovereignty,

to its independence. they can arrange visit comes as washington confirms another $200000000.00 in military, a clear show of support for what do us called ukraine's fundamental right to sovereignty. that's a good moscow. it says that's a threat to its own security. ukraine in the u. s. hoping this military support may change president vladimir putin calculations, even though more russian troops are to move this time towards ukraine's northern border. russia says it's. i had a plan military exercises with bella, luce and the us shouldn't be concerned. declaring political support from the side of united states and to providing such miller to remove the re supplies, can deter russian aggression of course rational. we'll emphasize that providing good, the military weapons, a red line for them. but it is the only way to refrain to defend itself

now. senses between nato and moscow over ukraine have been going for months. pollutant is demanding that the americans pledge never to let ukraine join nato or expand the military alliance eastwards at the man. the u. s. refuses to accept western countries have accused the kremlin of preparing a pretext for an assault on ukraine. and to yes, went further saying it has intelligence that russia could carry out a covert operation inside ukraine to create instability. but if hopes for more negotiations seemed to have rejected and last week. now there seems to be again, room for a diplomatic solution to this crisis. despite the rhetoric and accusations myself, i find it unlikely that russia would attack ukraine in this manner. but people expect with huge landed force that would inevitably result in many casualties. i do

not think much russian society and russian political system could take that psychological blow easily sill ukraine would like to see decisive action against russia sooner rather than later. starting with imposing new harsh sanctions that would weaken rush as economy from here, anthony blink and head to berlin, where he will discuss with some of his european counterparts. the way forward in preparation of another meeting on friday was a russian foreign minister, sergey love. rob. now ask anyone here, and they would tell you that that meeting is the most important of the week hood of the hamid algae 0 here. well, that's the latest from key of door. so jabari is in moscow with the reaction from the kremlin. the accusations coming this way are being met with counter accusations . the russian foreign minister has said that what the united states is accusing

russia is absolutely not true. they have no intention of invading ukraine, and they're not interested in escalating their attention with that country. the quite the opposite as they believe what they're doing alongside their own border as well within their own right. we've been hearing from the russian deputy foreign minister circ a recall who said that a scheduled event here in the capital on wednesday. that any kind of a military aid to kiev will be considered an act of aggression against russia that it threatens russia. and that to any kind of pressure from the us about what russia should do with its own troops will not be tolerated. it will not help the situation . the deputy foreign minister also went on to say that russia is not going to make any changes to their troop movements in their own country, and that russia will never allow ukraine to join nature. and that is something he was very clear about. he said that russia will do everything that can't prevent ukraine, as well as georgia from joining the nato alliance. and that is something that will continue and that any kind of

a temporary freeze on their membership is also unacceptable. this is the line we'll be hearing from the kremlin as well. earlier on wednesday, the spokesperson phone, the quote for the kremlin dmitri pest golf at said that this upcoming meeting in geneva on friday is extremely important for russia. and that the agenda is already cleared. the russian foreign minister will meet his american counterpart. and it is believed that the russians are expecting some kind of an official response from the americans about the security guarantees that they're looking for when ukraine's a former president petra pro shanker, has won a court ruling to stay out of prison while he is investigated for treason charges, thousands of his supporters rallied outside the court and key of ahead of the he of the hearing for shank, who has been accused of dozens of crimes, including helping it. pro russians separatists sell millions of dollars worth of coal. he says the charges were concocted by allies of the current president

followed the musicians was, ah, prisons. prime minister boris johnson is lifting all the restrictions in england that were introduced to combat the rapidly spreading on the con variant. it seen as an attempt to play kate the public and m. p. 's from his own party, who were furious at reports of parties in downing street during coven locked downs, or the so called that plan b measures will end. next, wednesday, face masks will no longer be mandatory on public transport and in shops. and students in secondary schools can stop wearing them now. advised to work from home will also be dropped along with mandatory cove and passports for night clubs and large events. johnston says it's because infection levels are dropping well across the u. k. total cases have are over the last 7 days. having the been down 37

percent compared to the week before, but they're still high estimates suggest that one and 20 people in england and scotland tested positive last week and fatalities in the last 7 days have risen 8.2 percent from the week before. because of the line between people catching covered, and falling seriously ill, $359.00 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours old style clear if the lifting of restrictions will be enough to stop conservative m. p. 's removing johnson who was facing the biggest political crisis of his career. neeve barker reports in harley charge, atmosphere formulas has questions begun with another major body blown for boris johnson news. one of his employees, christian wakefield had defected to the opposition party. this following morning, newspaper reports of a white being plot to oust johnson by members of his own party jokes to the prime

minister's expense followed. i see the very noise on, i'm sure the chief whip was told to bring their i'm bruce ha salvo off to silva. like way, nobody told the prime minister, he was breaking his own rooms. absolutely pathetic. if he had any shred of compassion for all those had them separately. they said he'd go and he's clamouring for explanations with johnson about the increasing catalogue of rule breaking policies that took place under his watch when the country was deepened lockdown. but the prime minister seemed energize fighting tooth and nail for his party. and his job. when the history of this brandon, it comes to be written and the history of the labor party come to be written. i believe me, they are history main history, mississippi. he won't show a motion able show that we delivered while they did it and we, we vaccinated. well, they vacillated mister speaker. i am intensely proud of what this government has

done. and call off to call for johnson to resign was met with the same message to reserve judgement and wait for the result of the inquiry into a growing list of rules breaking. mister speaker, when a prime minister is spending his time trying to convince the great british public that he's actually stupid, rather than disowning it time that he go now dead. but his voice is from his own policy. the could do the most damage to his political future, m p. david davis wants the teresa may governments chief breaks it negotiator, delivering this surgical strike, like many on these benches, osman weeks. i'm months defending the prime minister against often angry constituents. but i expect my leaders to shoulder the responsibility for their actions. i tech yesterday he did the alyssa, so i'll remind him of

a quotation altogether too familiar to him of leeway. murray to neville chamberlain . you sat there too long for all good. you've done in the name of god, god destroy the full force of brand boris. back on show and display the promise stood plan b code restrictions will be slash from next week. this was a bruising day in parliament for the prime minister, seemingly impossible for him to escape all the growing anger within his conservative party and with the results of a potentially damaging inquiry just around the corner forest. johnson's days in office could soon be numbered. he broke al jazeera, westminster. so putting politics aside is england ready for all covered restrictions to be lifted. simon clark is an associate professor of selling your microbiology at the university of reading here in the u. k. he joins us via skype, so thank you so much for joining us here and al jazeera, i'm few hours ago we heard the health secretary saying the cupboard would

effectively become like a sort of flu or should be treated as as a kind of flu. do you agree with that? do you agree with these measures taken by the government to lift restrictions? well, i think what he means is that we know how to deal with it. we know what we've got to do, does not mean that it will become only as impactful and is lethal as influenza. but we have a vaccine that he's pretty effective against, against the cave it, and we have antivirals would allow us to treat it. so i think that's what he mean when he says that it will, it will be manageable like flu. i think we are moving in that direction in the u. k. but that's thanks to that seems like i say and playing the chrome. but i think if we do get other variants in the future, and he did highlight this,

then that could shift the dial and could mean that we have to reassess how we do things. but we know that until it turns up. but what do you make of the numbers that we're seeing in the u. k. are in england specifically right now. i mean, the radio, the trajectory is downwards, but would you say that it's reassuring enough to lift the restrictions? i'm not sure it is. i mean is clearly heading in the right direction, but um, if the restrictions that we've had did anything and i'm sure the government would claim they did, then removing the means that the decline is not going to be as fast as it would otherwise of beads. logically, so they obviously looked at the situation and decided that it is manageable than the health services not coming on the on the strain. and they're prepared to take their foot off the break. and it's actually interesting looking or comparing some of the restrictions in the u. k to restrictions in other european countries. i mean

here in the u. k, it's not even now there isn't that much that actually people can't do. they need to wear masks in our own public transport, and perhaps you can go to big gatherings if you don't have a vaccine. but even as it was, it was then quite like you think that psychologically people would get the message . that actually cove it is now over and they can do whatever they want. again, i think given time and relatively short space of time, that's probably what will happen. i think you believe what happens during the late summer and autumn in this country? i think we can expect people to abandon them all, so pretty quickly there might be some people who've taken on to them for a while and of course people will start to migrate back to the office. i'm not sure that's going to happen as quickly as some politicians think. at the start of the plan. they make of all sorts of sort of reports that are johnson and the government were trying to go for kind of her immunity. is that where we are now?

well, we now heading towards a kind of heard immunity when it comes to cove. it well, there's a population immunity but ahead of me and it would stop the thing transmitting all together. but it's not happening. and it's not going to happen either, because we know that immunity dwindles. i mean, it's created 19 drop save a time. that shouldn't be a surprise to us because we know that also happens with other corona viruses. so i'm afraid, i think the concept that immunity, which is a thing, an infectious disease, it does exist. but the concept of it for a kind of a 19 is, is it's not going to happen. and would you advise people, for example, getting on the tube to still where they're masks, even if they don't have to. i think a lot of people will, i didn't close quarters with people. your not in regular contact with. it's a good idea, probably, but better masks, you know, these co cloth face coverings and cheap surgical miles. i know she'll do an awful

lot. simon clark, associate professor of selling the microbiology at the university of reading. so thank you for sharing your expertise, who are and still come in this house, our palestinian family is left homeless and occupied east jerusalem. after losing a battle to stop israel, demolishing their home and heartbreak for hamster owners in hong kong, where people aren't hewing to get their pets put down because of a covey. ah, that that quite unsettled whether in western europe been bitten in 2 now. the class when falling to answer the east for a while and i bring you some pretty cold winds through the baltic in the north sea . that percy's will continue. this looks like standard winter weather windy, cold,

often with snow for virtually everybody, but it's also biting into the weather in france, generally speaking, spain and portugal are settled. the british al, still settled during service in that cold in march, east, and south greetings. no back to northern turkey, property parts of greece, as well as pretty normal looking winter now, and the equally seasonally normal looking winter means the ha matter that ne breeze is blowing across africa, particularly in the sales is his dust is picking up for chad and for an easier norton nigeria that can continue, i would think for weeks, but tense get bursts of worst. whether this is one of those bursts equally season. lazy matter, right? it's falling madagascar, but there's more of it and the flooding and we can't dismiss it because his light b, i think even wetter over thursday, friday and saturday is part of the seasonal range back in africa, mainland means wet in zambia, pop nan gola. same time cape times since the opposite has been not very warm recently to 33 on saturday, maybe 38 on

a scorching sunday. ah ah, being a refugee means starting again. ah, but building a new life in a new country is no easy task. let him drive witness follows one of the loft refugee families from syria to be granted an american visa from their personal sacrifices to the families priam. i meet the syrian on al jazeera. ah ah.

reminded her of the top stories on al jazeera, the u. s. secretary of state has warned that russia could invade ukraine and very short notice anthony blinkin was in key of meeting president folemi zelinski to reaffirm america's commitment to italy. the you case, prime minister has faced more calls, the step down after allegations of corona virus rule breaking in parliament, one of course, johnson's former cabinet ministers told him in the name of god go. meanwhile, the prime minister says england on the con, wave has peak, then he can now lift restrictions. legal requirements to wear masks, and show vaccine passes will be dropped next week. now its slowly becoming possible to make phone calls to the island nation of tongue at once again . but official say an under c cable severed by saturdays, volcanic eruption and salami could take weeks to be repaired and it's vital for

communications with the rest of the world. new pictures from the ground or revealing the damage showing the pacific islands blanketed in a layer of ash, which has also contaminated drinking water and aid. official says most buildings on 3 outer islands have been destroyed after synonymy waves ripped through them. at least 3 people are known to have died ash and day bree has hampered the arrival of relief. planes and communications will not be fully restored for weeks while astray . only a new zealander ascending supplies by boat wayne have reports now from oakland. help is on its way to tongue up to new zealand navy ships carrying supplies have begun a 3 day journey which should see them arrive on friday. perhaps the most essential cargo will be fresh water and a dissemination plot to make more while the ships of their we're hitting the away now, with a whole lot of water. the ship can hold. currently holds over 250000 liters of

water. and we'll be able to provide that once we arrive, and then every day thereafter, we're going to be producing another 70000 liters of water. satellite images show a thick layer of ash on the runway of tongue. his main airport on the left is how it looked before the erosion. the ash is delaying deliveries of international aid flights volunteers, which is cleaning up the runway and the stains of it before the end of the week that my will be completed and there will be an opportunity for a craft to lane safely. but we won't know the full extent of it outcome until the run my it's clear and proper i can be undertaken. communicating with tanya is difficult. there's no internet and limited phone calls, because the soon army severed the fiber optic cable connecting the country to the rest of the world. the telecoms operator says it will be at least 4 weeks before the connection is restored. prime minister,

see all see saline released his 1st official statements confirming what many feared the eruption caused an unprecedented disaster with the volcanic mushroom plume covering all of tongue is 170 islands. the red cross estimates fit up to 80000 tons may be effected. the devastation is why we're and i mean, it was one of the most catastrophic bulk to next your actions. in decades, the tone in government has given approval for the new zealand navy ships to arrive in its waters, but the a carrying must be delivered contactless. tanya has had just one case of coven 19 since the pandemic began. while it desperately needs help, it doesn't want to risk an outbreak. now, wayne, hey, al jazeera auckland's snow has blanketed camps across serious northwest where millions of people displaced by the war are living intense. the region was hit by

a winter storm on tuesday and conditions are expected to worsen over the coming days. many tried to clear snow off their makeshift toes and near by streets. people who've been living at the east sun at camp near a leper for years, say that this is the coldest they've ever been. a court in germany has begun hearing a case against the syrian dr. accused of crimes against humanity. the man known only as a law at m, is facing 18 counts of torturing, dating the detainees in homes and damascus at the start of the war and killing one person. he denies all the charges last week, german court sentence, the former sin syrian colonel to life in prison for overseen torture and the murder of 27 people. a palestinian family living in occupied east. jerusalem have lost their fight. this thought was really police destroying their home. the family of 15 were evicted and the building in the shape chevron neighbourhood was

destroyed before dawn. the city says it's making way for a special needs. a school for palestinian children. hundreds of other palestinians in shades are also face eviction. despite protests by activists and international criticism of israeli policy, i re, force it has worn out from the demolition site. was around 3 o'clock in the morning on a very cold and rainy morning here knocked parties through them. but about a 100 is ready. security forces moved in to the property, they cut off electricity, or they cordoned off the area. they arrested some 18 to 25 people, some of them members of the family, some of them activists who've been supporting them. and they then proceeded finally to demolish the home on this land. now as far as the is really municipality, and police are concerned who issued a joint statement about this. they say that this is land that was appropriated long ago, has been destined to be made into a school,

a special needs school for children in the area. and they say that the family did not have a legal right to be there. however, as far as western diplomats have been protesting this activists and palestinians more generally, a concern. this is not a question of his railey lords, a question of international law. this being occupied land, and therefore such action is illegal and comes in the context of a wide, a systemic attempt to make it more more difficult for palestinians in ocoee bodies choose them to jude eyes. this part of the city so slightly less clear cut than some of the issues that have made checked her are such a flash point in recent months, but nonetheless, attracting protests. and we have to wait and see what the reaction will be. turn japanese airlines or resume flights to the us. but dozens of other carriers are still canceling arrivals of a fears about the rollout of 5 g mobile technology. major telecom companies have delayed switching on the networks near airports after warnings

a could interfere whitney navigation systems, and routes and british airways still have several cancelled routes. hong kong government has sparked outrage, which it with its decision to co hundreds of small animals over fears. they could spread covered the drastic will was announced after hamsters sold that a pet shop tested positive for the virus. barbara ango has more bringing a pet home for a child should be a joyous occasion, but it's turned to heartache for animal lovers caught up in the hong kong government's latest anti cove crackdown. a hamster coal. any one who bought hamsters recently has been ordered to hand them over to the health workers are valuable. i didn't think of not donning them in. the 1st thing i did was to get my fil tested and to get my whole family tested. but after some concentration, it was so many unknown. so this was the only thing we could really do. an increase

in coven 19 infections was traced back to this pet shop where 11 hamsters tested positive for the virus. since then, health workers have been visiting other pet shops in the territory to enforce the call. and the government isn't only targeting animals. anyone who recently entered the shops will have to go into quarantine for 3 weeks. whether they had direct contact with the hamsters or not. but miss santas say it's extremely rare for the virus to be transmitted from pets to people. we need to remember it. ah, you know, millions of people around the world have been infected by sales calls to are millions of people around the world have pets, and there has been no cases are proven of pets transmitting infection to other humans. dozens of shops have been forced, declares an animal importers have been ordered to suspend trade. the government

says it doesn't have the capacity to test every hamster in hong kong, but the call will cut transmission chains. barbara anger per al jazeera athletes traveling to next month's pages that winter olympics have been warned not to violate chinese rules or the olympic spirit by protesting officials say, adverse behavior could be subject to punishment. there is concern about the safety of competitors if they protest about human rights while in the country. rights groups have long criticize the international olympic committee for awarding the games to china. citing the treatment of minority groups in sheen. jung region. china denies allegations of human rights abuses. all athletes have a right many athletes build. i have responsibility. and they have every right to be speaking out. whenever it is that they're competing, why is because the world by so many god challenges right now. but now industry is

immune, the chinese laws are very vague. all the crimes they can use to prosecutor p, post free speech. you can, you can be charged with getting corals and provoking trouble for speaking are you can be charged by for inciting sort of version. so there all kinds of crimes can be level for your peaceable critical comments. ah, and now the top stories on al jazeera, the u. s. secretary of state has warned that russia could invade ukraine at very short notice. anthony blinkin was meeting ukraine's president following zalinski. busy and kia to reaffirm the u. s. his commitment to his ally, russia is thought to have around a $100000.00 troops to the north and east of ukraine. the u. s. says.