ago always things we were told will completely awesome. suddenly become possible. connected the wake up call good can't be ignored on a job 0. ah . ready ukraine tension america's top diplomat is said to meet his european allies as president joe biden warns of russian invasion is imminent. ah, i'm given out. this is al jazeera alive from door, also coming up the aftermath of tongue. his volcanic eruption laid bare the clean up and ate operation gets underway with museum, entered australian relief flights. arriving on the scene, the president of the gambia calls on his country to you nice. he's sworn in for

a 2nd term and marine explorers discover a rare coral reef off the coast of tahiti, 30 meters beneath the water's surface. ah. view a secretary of state is in germany on his next op, has russia deploy more troops on the border with ukraine. and me blinking began his door in kiev, where he held talks with president von residents keep lincoln's european tor comes as new satellite images show. russia's military build up along its border with ukraine. his boss, u. s. president joe biden says he believes there will be a military incursion to ukraine, but thinks his counterpart vladimir putin doesn't want a full scale conflict. kimberly alcott has more from the white house. us president joe biden spoke for almost 2 hours from the east room of the white house,

given this was only his 2nd formal press conference. reporters had a lot of questions here. whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hang on guys. his remarks included another warning to president vladimir putin. russia will face severe penalties if it chooses to invade ukraine, i guess, as she will be. it's biden's most definitive statement yet on putin's intentions. but his comments spark criticism when he suggested a lesser response. if russia launches a small scale invasion, if it invades, it depends on what it does. it's one thing, if riches, minor, corrosion, and then we end up having a fight about what to do and not do, etc, that force the white house to issue a clarification, saying, any invasion will be met with a swift and severe response. kimberly hel, can al jazeera, the white house. what are tell him? he joins us now live from kiev. ha,

though. so there's more diplomacy happening in berlin today. what, what is the us hoping will come out of this? well i think the yes would to hoping to find some sort of common ground with our dear opinions on how to go ahead also because that's really this meeting is to prepare to a bigger one on friday between the u. s. secretary of state anthony blinking and a russian foreign minister, sergey lover of now does many things to talk about. his 1st meeting is going to be with the trans atlantic quote that is made of france, germany, the u. s. and a u. k. and then after that he does secretary of state has a very busy day. he is going to meet with the german foreign minister and the linda bear book and a bilateral meeting. and after that we actually going to hear about what he is thinking at this stage. after all those consultations, he is due to gave

a speech and a press conference. we are standing by for someone to speak. ah, before that meeting, now actually, ha, ha, ha, ha, thank you. and then the e, you completely aligned and terms of their attitude towards what's happening and ukraine, florida. i think the one thing they agree about is that, um, that were russia needs to be contained and sort of deterred from carrying out any kind of invasion. if that is really russians plans. you have to remember that russia has been saying all along, that it has no plans to do that. now, when it comes to how to do that, the term as they do differs, for example, on the issue of sanctions. do you, as at some point was contemplating excluding russia from this swift banking system, which basically would mean that russia wouldn't be able to make any kind of

international payments or receiving any kind of payments? well, the, the e u says that that would have also consequences on the global financial markets and everybody would pay for that. so they need to figure out also what kind of sanctions. oh, they could actually impose on russia. if that's gonna happen. ukraine, obviously wanting to harsh is sanctions a possible? now there's other things also that they don't see eye to eye, especially when it comes to military aid. if you recall, just a few days ago, do you gay has announced that it will be as sending some military hardway to ukraine? that's been arriving actually over the past few days. well, germany said you're not allowed to fly over our aerospace to deliver that minute dairy, a hardware germany saying so far that it will not support at this stage a ukraine militarily and also not wanting need to do get involved. so there are

a few sticking points, and i think most of the conversations today will focus on that a, do you as trying to get some sort of common ground and compromise with the beds. so it can be in a stronger position when that meeting between antony blinking and sergey lover of happens on friday. ha, ha, ha, ha ha, bearing kiev. and we will be monitoring what comes out of that transatlantic quad meeting, as it's known a little earlier there, i believe we for the german counsellor and the foreign minister. ah, just arrivals there for the moment, but we will be monitoring it if any of those foreign ministers addressed the media before they go it now try and government says it was the way us warship that entered a diffusion part of the self trying to see without permission, it says the incident happened near the parcel islands. the united states frequently carries out what it calls, freedom of navigation missions, and the distinct waterway to challenge chinese territorial claim. planes have

delivered their 1st shipments of a to toner and saturdays volcanic corruption and soon army. the pacific on a nation has been cut off from the world since the disaster, but military plains from australia and new zealand were finally able to land on thursday. off the runway was clear to ash wayne, a report from oakland tongue was cut off from the rest of the world when the disaster struck a submarine fiber optic cable was severed and we'll take at least 4 weeks to repair . in the meantime, some satellite phone and internet connections have been set up, allowing more footage to emerge of the devastation caused by the volcano and su nami, for some family in new zealand. the slight improvement and communication has come as a relief, even though everything. part of houses being washed away. the props, but we're here in france,

a well at the moment income, others anxiously wait for news while they prepared their own aid packages to send home amid so much uncertainty. the pacific island community and new zealand is coming together to help the people of tongue and with ash on the ground and contaminating the water supply. this has become a precious commodity and will soon be on its way to tongue out. the 1st government aid has finally arrived in oakland unusual and air force plane was loaded with supplies before departing for the international airport, just outside the capitol nuclear load up where it stayed on the ground for just 90 minutes. you'll straightly and military also deployed following confirmation that the runway had been cleared of ash and was safe to land on the parties from the fallen government. what we're really working to primarily in the 1st is the provisions of clean water. that's the key priority that the government has asked

for the ra, around, 80000 tons and new zealand, most of whom would have strong family ties to their homelands, but have probably never felt so far away. wayne, hey, al jazeera auckland's india has recorded its highest number of new corona, virus infections in 8 months or than 317000 new cases were reported on thursday. cities across india have reintroduced restrictions to control the search. while infection rates had recently fallen the countries urban areas, health experts believe they'll pick up again by the middle of next month. or tardies and con kong have ordered thousands of hamsters to be destroyed following an outbreak of corona virus at a pet shop. on the small mammals, also effects being cold, but the move has left many pet owners feeling outrage. and critics questioning whether it's necessary florence lloyd reports this man and his wife are here to hand over their families. hamster marshmallow is much loved by their son. oh

boys, one more is very upsetting is supposed to be a joy for occasion, bringing the animal home for your child. but now this has happened. it feels like losing alive. authorities in hong kong, a calling to 1000 hamsters and other small mammals. after a pet shop worker a customer and at least 11 hamsters tested positive for the corona virus. people who bought hamsters from that pet store within the last month have been told to hand them over so they can be put down like the rest of china. hong kong maintains a 0 covey policy. any trace of the virus is met by strict measures, including quarantine periods, school closures, and the mandatory wearing of masts. but the mass coll order has outraged and confused. many animal lovers done homo is very shocking. i couldn't sleep in paranoid to be frank. i love and was very much. and i really feel for them. chung

who keeps hamsters, but it's not affected by the order has joined a group of volunteers who have agreed to foster any that may be abandoned by families due to the policy. by thursday afternoon, nearly 33000 people had signed a petition urging authorities to stop. the coal and animal health expert says, the calling may be justified on public health grounds. but fears of family pets spreading the virus to humans is overblown. millions of people around the world have pets and they have been no koses are proven of pets transmitting infection to other humans are the same theoretical risk is there, but it just, it just doesn't happen. but health officials in hong kong are standing firm. they say the call is a necessary precaution to limit the spread of corona virus. florence louis al

jazeera, the year long democratic push for federal voting rights legislation has failed in the senate. once again. the rules of the chamber requires 60 votes to overcome a filibuster. democrats failed to unite, and all republicans stood in opposition for the 5th time in 6 months. it is said back to present biden and party leaders, and what they have labeled one of their top legislative priorities. so can they, on al jazeera, a person's prime minister under printed design of a downing street party. you're in lockdown. ah, it's looking particularly wet again in borneo soon away. c and java. this is

seasonally correct. that's where the heaviest thunderstorms are likely to be. that's not to say it's not potentially dodgy in new song. well as an increase in the shower, lighter than southern taiwan as well, but close to vietnam. that's largely fine. however, it is head sas, a lot of wet weather in australia this summer so far and the last days no exception has been once again, waterfalls and oru. unsurprisingly, with these orange top shows up through southwestern and the red center. and more likely, that will be in some flooding, and i expect some welcome right to the east that surprised me above the onshore breeze and a few showers. it's dry, at least for friday to the west in perth, and increasing heat way for westminster. in fact, perth has probably now set its new record of the number of 40 degree days this summer season. more than any other. it cools off a little bit on sunday. well, there's a picture for saturday, is the rain edges in towards adelaide slow moving. the picture hasn't changed vastly. asked the new sealant with you mister remains that tropical cycling may be

some remnant chows in gibbon cross church. only 20 degrees come friday. come saturday. well you add to it. stock. great. there was it. ah. charged with crimes against humanity. 4000 pounds of torture and 58 cases of murder, rape, and sexual violence. people in power truck, the 1st ever war crimes trial of a syrian high ranking officer. i am taking part of this trial because he did something bad to me and to others as very strong. i don't, i focus about job as part of that. he's in the trial of on world learn or to on i just 0. ah

ah, you're watching all 0 reminder of our top stories. we sell you a secretary of state has left ukraine for germany. avenue lincoln will be meeting most is from france, germany and the u. k. to address russia's true build up on the border with your crank. chinese government says it warmed away us worship that entered a disputed part of the south china sea. it says the incident happened near the parcel on. united states frequently can result what it calls. freedom of navigation missions in the dispute waterway $85.00 to was radio, uneasy, and had to have delivered their 1st shipment to thomas and saturdays volcanic eruption and ceramic island nation has been cut off since the disaster destroyed homes and lucia quarter supplies our going live are now to moscow, where the reigning president, abraham bracy is addressing to low

a house of the russian parliament, char tracy's most important official visit abroad since he took office. let's listen age from when. once again i'd like to read to read this had been main goal of such agenda is to waken independent states, namely from with them. and it is being done by putting a canonical sanctions. disbelieving the situation within the country as a spread of mr. bill is ation and also by creating artificial obstacles within the states and are all right, that was the or any president every right. see, let's go now to a correspondent jabari who was standing by for us in moscow. tell us a bit more about this, this meeting this visit, this address by the radio president.

yes, this is a 1st official state visit by abraham racy who came into office in august, his aaron's 8th presidents and these chosen to visit russia. as the 1st officials stopped on a state visit. he was invited by president vladimir putin. he arrived on wednesday where he met a russian president and they had a meeting that took place at the kremlin, and it lasted over 3 hours. they as spoke following that meeting and they talked about how they are wanting to increase cooperation between the 2 countries. the reigning president said that russia is very important to iran and that they intend to increase their economic, political, and security ties with this country in this new government. and the russian president vladimir putin was also welcoming very much of abraham. right. you see, he said that iran is also important for russia. they've also, the iranians have come with a large delegation,

which includes the reigning economy minister as well as the oil minister and the foreign minister. and we know, according to the iranian economy, administer, the 2 countries have signed a understanding that they will open up a line of credit between the 2 countries worth $5000000000.00. this, of course of will, we met with much relief in teheran, a given the sanctions that has imposed on the radians as since the u. s. a left the nuclear deal of 2018 and impose crippling sanctions on her on. this is part of a larger cooperation that the 2 countries are having with each other in terms of economy. they are signing over there in starting to talk about a 20 year agreement between the 2 sides, which will include a large spectrum of deals that have yet to be hammer down. but this was part of the aim of this visit was the president will discuss the details of this 20 year cooperation deal with russia in is the meetings that he's had. we're also expecting

the president to move on to, to moscow university. and then he will of course, visit the cathedral mosque here in the russian capital. and then he will head back to terran. okay. ah, meanwhile we have rushes foreign minister, so relieved of on his way to ah geneva, right. where he's going to meet with the u. s secretary of state on, on friday, given the tensions around what's happening ah, on russia's border with ukraine. i mean, how was that meeting likely to go well, we've been hearing from the foreign ministry spokesperson earlier on thursday, and she said that the meeting will, of course, me very critical for a russia and that they will be talking about the next steps. they will be negotiating what comes next, and of course able be very significant to find out how that meeting unfolds. we expect the russians, they're going to demand some kind of concrete guarantees from the americans,

about nato as expansions that it, which is very much a red line for this country. and they want to hear the americans official response to security guarantees that they requested from the american government. i doth jabbar there for us in moscow. thank you. the u. s. president joe biden has been rebuilding relationships with european allies in nato, after ties were badly strained on the donald trump. his top foreign policy issue remains the threat posed by rochelle and the ukrainian border. this dominic came reports from berlin. this is the front line in the as yet undeclared war between ukraine and russia. few foreign policy issues a more pressing for the bible ministration than this. the us supports the government in kiff and says russia has a choice. there is the path of diplomacy in dialogue. to try to resolve whatever differences there are peacefully through diplomacy. clearly the preferable path clearly the most responsible path and the one that we would prefer. but there is

also the path if russia chooses to renew aggression of conflict, confrontation and consequences for russia. and we have been working to build out both of those tabs in very close coordination and collaboration with, with our partners. one of those main allies and partners in germany whose new chancellor, all of shots, has stressed the importance of the transatlantic relationship. it's a view, some analysts say is mirrored in washington. so the united states is making every effort to keep europe and the loop. there was going to be no discussion of the ukraine without ukrainians involved, no discussion of the european security architecture without europeans involved. so that is surely going to be the guiding principle of the united states. it's no secret that many european leaders welcome the result of the 2020 us election, nor that they had high hopes for abide and administration, something the man himself made very clear to everyone. first of all,

i'm letting you know that america's back. we're going to be back in the game. it's not american alone. in the last year of the trump administration, many in germany felt that the former president had eroded his country. supposing moral authority some here in germany even began referring to angle america as the leader of the free world. now both of them out of office and opinion pulse to say the german public feels very differently, almost 8 out of 10 germans who said that the relations are good or very. and also the united states is not perceived by 44 percent of the germans as the most important partner for germany. but how long that perception loss may depend in part on how the west deals with the ukraine crisis remembering. but right now, jo biden's government says russia has many tens of thousands of troops massed on ukraine's borders. dominant cane al jazeera berlin. britain's prime minister has

defied calls to quit during a raucous session in parliament. marsan says that he won't be stepping down of the so called party gates scandal. he's been under pressure to resign because of parties in his downing street residence during corona virus lock downs. me back reports from london in highly charged atmosphere. prime ministers questions began with another major body blow for boris johnson news. one of his m. p. 's christian wakefield had defected to the opposition party. this following morning, newspaper reports of a widening plot to oust johnson by members of his own party. jokes of the prime minister's expense followed i see the very noise on until the chief whip was told to bring their i'm bruce ah 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 hate clamoring 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 on the history of the labor party come to be written. i believe me, they are history main history because he won't show emotion able show that we delivered while they did and we, we vaccinated while they vacillated. mister speaker, i am intensely proud of what this government has done and cool off to cool for johnson to resign. was met with the same message to reserve judgment 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 every time that he go now, eh, 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 make governments chief, president, negotiator, delivering this surgical strike like many on these benches, osman weeks and months defending the prime minister against often angry constituents. but i expect my leaders to shoulder the responsibility for the actions they take yesterday he did the opposite of that. 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 the good. you've done, and the name of god, god was for the full force of brand boris, back on show. and despite the promise that 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. ne broker al jazeera westminster, the head of a vietnamese people trafficking gang has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. belgium, for the deaths of $39.00 migrants for van kong was also find more than $1000000.00 in his role. the men, women, and children from vietnam were found suffocated in a truck and fired london 3 years ago. can be. and president obama barrow has been sworn in for a 2nd term. devotion. december was the 1st in decades without long time lead a yard army. it was hockey once a security guard in

a department store in the u. k. and now reelected as the president of the gambia. this is a historic moment for adam barrow and the country sworn in after winning the 1st free and fair elections and more than 25 years. the gum, yeah, independent, electro cumbersome declared that there was a water drawn out of about 90 percent. it is of water book and we also looked at either one of these or them over this one. he fought an aggressive campaign, winning 53 percent of the vote. the supreme court rejected the opposition's claim of irregularities in the po. got man's outspoken, ma'am alex, i'm adam about all right, and i'd like to quit in his on november, the court would in some fin the best not gonna happen right now. it's already a night. i went to united our air force. i'm down, you know, i'm in develop this country in 2017 barrett one against jamie. he refused to concede, defeat barrow was sworn in as president in senegal at the gabby,

an embassy, and a car, shirley, after jammy was ousted out of power and forced into exile to equitorial guinea after west african forces intervene during his time in office barrow set up the truth and reconciliation commission perpetrators faced victims of rape, torture, and families of victims of extra judicial killings. the commission recommended that prosecution of jammy and those who have committed crimes. jimmy's most prominent henchmen, former general soul bungee seen here by his side, is now in court victim. see this as a step towards justice, giving the many crimes that these people have been accused of committing. it is only proper that we see justice will happen. there is no toys about it in a region marked by it military coups, almost all elected west african heads of state, attended the ceremony in a show of support of democracy. his inauguration is viewed as a much needed step forward for the rule of law. freedom of speech,

a victory for the people says barrow. nicholas hawk al jazeera scientists have discovered a rare coral roof off the coast of tahiti. despite global warming, the stretch of c in the south pacific has kept its underwater bio diversity thriving. leah harding reports an underwater garden bursting with color. scientists call this coral bed. the field of roses stretching nearly 3 kilometers off the coast of to haiti. it's one of the largest of its kind was guys did well. so now we will do well, 1st i have along the reef of roses to see how deep they go. we're going to an unexplored world to explore the unexplored. it's quite motivating and exhilarating coral reefs. like this are hard to find anything below. 30 meters is called the twilight zone, an area low an oxygen and difficult to reach. but rare living walls like this keep

dry and scientists down. other famous coral, like the great barrier reef off australia, have been bleached by harmful human waste and rising c temperatures. the marine life around them is suffering and disappearing too. but scientists are surprised by the condition of this particular garden seeming the unaffected by pollution. it's christine, looking awfully good. i think it has managed to dodge the bullet, but you know, the question is, how long is it going to be before we get an event? that's that deep in that location and it suffers the same page until then. this underwater labyrinth is blooming with hope. leah harding al jazeera ah.