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of the government. a member of the british government accuses his own party's leadership of black mailing politicians who are demanding the poorest johnson resign. the german inquiry finds that former pope benedict knew about historic sex abuse, but did nothing to punish those responsible and to haitian treasures some undersea discovery reveals a rag coal reef providing a boon for biodiversity. ah swift and severe. that's how the u. s. and its european allies describing their response 20 possible russian aggression against ukraine. in the past few hours, you are a secretary of state and the blinking met with german officials as well as foreign minister officials from france and the u. k. in berlin. they all agree on the need for a united front against moscow's possible assault on ukraine,

even as were relentless in pursuing this diplomatic path. will continue to make very clear that if moscow chooses the path of further aggression, we will impose swift and massive cost. on this too, were united chance of shocks made that clear a few days ago when he said that russia would bear high costs for such an escalation. so that our british and french counterparts earlier today. and it's the same message that we've heard from the g 7 from nato, from the european union, among others. and here's why new satellite images show russia's military build up along its border with ukraine. and that's what's raising fears of an invasion. ukraine says that moscow is now deployed more than 127000 personnel near the border and has almost completed its build up of troops swan wednesday. u. s. president joe biden said that he believes washer will make a military incursion into ukraine. but he doesn't think the president vladimir putin once a full scale conflict. one thing it's, it's,

it's minor kirsten is in the we end up having to fight about what to do and not do it cetera. but if they actually do what they're capable of doing with the force of mash on the border, it is going to be a disaster for russia live to washington of our white house correspondent, kimberly how could kimberly, after those remarks yesterday, i could have mentioned that to anthony blink and pull. we have to do some clearing up today. jem sucky has also been speaking up. what have you been hearing? yeah, that's right. the white house press secretary has been cleaning up those comments as has the secretary of state. essentially, what they both been saying is that there is really no differentiating of an incursion. there is no minor incursion in the eyes of the united states. what the president was inferring is that there are a range of tactics that the u. s. believes that russia uses in terms of how it

could act upon ukraine, whether it be cyber attacks, whether it be a land attacks. but regardless, the united states has the end, does support the u. ukrainian people. and regardless, there would be a response if russia chooses to invade ukraine ad. but at the same time, the u. s. president has been heavily criticized by his republican critics who have accused him of essentially not only green lighting an attack, but really downplaying the severity as so as a result, what we've heard is from the secretary of state, antony blake. and as he's been in berlin speaking, and also from the white house press secretary, they've underscore, that they believe that there is only one option for russia. and that is that there is a diplomatic path forward. this is what needs to happen in order to resolve these the

security differences. and if russia does not choose that path, there will be severe economic consequences you creams president has been treating about president barton's remarks on women's story. what does he preferred yet? well, despite these efforts to clean up the comments by president biden and really reassure the ukrainian people, it seems that this is not sitting well with the ukranian president so much. so he took to twitter in just the last couple of hours. here's what he had to say. we want to remind the great powers that there are no minor incursions and small nations, just as there are no minor casualties and little grief from the loss of loved ones . i say this as the president of a great power, and we should point out that the white house press secretary, gen sock he learned of this tweet by president zalinski in real time. she responded

it to it in real time saying and that she wants to underscore that the united states has the back of ukraine. but there is no differentiating when it comes to that support. and that once again, the president did not mean the united states president did not mean to in any way infer that the united states would not be there to support. now looking ahead, what we should say is that antony blake and the secretary of state is going to send this message. when he meets with the survey lab, rob on friday in geneva, he is going to send the message that the united states sees only one path forward, and that there is no yielding when it comes to the demands of russia. russia wants to seize an assurance from the west that moldova, and as well you create are not allowed into nato. there will be no assurance is provided from the west on that. instead,

what they want to talk about is how to resolve these differences through diplomacy . that is the message that will be sent from antony blanket and nothing more. whitehouse correspond, kimberly, how could that live in washington complete many thanks. well the kremlin says the u . s. is ready to talk, but not about critical issues such as the possibility of ukraine joining nato. al jazeera, tulsa jabari, has more now for moscow, where she's been speaking to people about their views on the situation. crushes foreign ministry is very clear about what they're hoping to achieve from the meeting on friday in geneva. that is, they want to take the next steps on negotiations on security guarantees that they're asking the american government about the possibility of nato expanding further eastward as well. as not allowing ukraine to join the military alliance, that is something that is very much a red line for this country. now, the kremlin spokesperson, dmitri prescott, has said the wild american flame, they're ready to talk. they are not willing to talk about the critical issues that

are at stake for russia. that is mainly the possibility of ukraine joining nato. so that's the official position here, but what the ordinary russians think about the ongoing tensions we asked them, people here in the capital and here's what they had to say. give them which to women. you put, i think there will be no war. it seems to me that we have the situation from time to time because authorities need to keep people up with something apart from coded, not put. his rating is just going down near we are, i don't believe it's possible that property nations will ever start this war. i wouldn't one t because why, what for to prove war and to him are stand for peace. whenever. when you tell us that you will news now, why is the tool need it? i wish we don't make war, especially with ukraine. we are brothers. indeed, that's all i can tell you as the world waits to find out what happens in geneva on friday, many here are hoping that diplomacy and dialogue can continue to be the path forward

to try and the us late looming crisis. when in recent days, british military aid arrived in ukraine to help the country defend itself against a potential attack for bratia. i'll just serious hotter abdul, how he is report sound from care of what she says the atmosphere seems relatively calm. ukrainians have been closely monitoring the flurry of diplomatic efforts over the past few weeks. as this crisis has been deepening. after all, this is a conflict that has caused this country more than 14000 lives, and add to that more than 1400000 people who are internally displaced. but beyond that, you don't get the feeling that people are worried about an imminent russian invasion, despite all the rhetoric me here, but from their own leadership, or indeed european and american politicians. now, people would tell you that this is actually not the right time for russia to cross

the border. they say they point to the fact that russia is as soon going to host the winter olympics. they also say that the situation is different than back in 2014. they said that the army, the ukrainian army now is much more capable, is much better equipped. it has received a training. a senior conservative m. p is accused the british government of using intimidation of blackmail against those in the policy colon for prime minister boris johnson's resign. downing street says it's not seen evidence of the obligations it is. of course, the duty of the government whips office to secure the government's business in the house of commons. however, it is not their function to preach the ministerial code in threatening to withdraw investments for members of parliament's constituencies which are funded from the public purse. additionally, reports to me and others of members of staff at number 10, downing street,

special advisors, government ministers, and others, encouraging the publication of stories in the press, seeking to embarrass those who they suspect of lacking confidence in the prime minister is simply unacceptable. the intimidation of a member of parliament is a serious matter. moreover, the reports of which i am aware would seem to constitute blackmail. life to london, al 0 poor brennan is in westminster full justice. the prime minister unfolded the brown beneath him was beginning to steady. we have these allegations accusing his government of blackmail and intimidation. want earth are we to make of was a very public complaint from william rag who is a senior conservative m p, the chairman of the public administration committee, who put aside the business of that committee. it was meeting this morning to make this extraordinary statement, essentially accusing a government which they are the officials that make sure that the m. p 's vote in

the way that the government wants them to vote. but all the way up to government ministers accusing them of really strong arm tactics against those rebel m. p. 's, who have express disquiet about boris johnson's character and his judgments in his credibility up to and including the possibility of withdrawing government funding for projects within the constituencies of those and piece to a level where it amounted according to mister rag, said, possibly even blackmail that would be a criminal matter and what limit to rags that he himself had not been subject to this kind of pressure. he advised any m p 's that had to potentially consider reporting it to the police as a criminal matter. the prime minister though, when asked about it later, he's away on a visit down to the south west of england said he'd seen no evidence of this kind of pressure being put on on m p. so it is a bit at the moment here say, but it's an indication of just how, how much of a hot bed parliament is at this current time. and party gate continues to rumble on it's a merge that the prime minister says principal private secretary was told that the

party that boris johnson attended, thinking that it was a work event shouldn't go ahead. what is that to johnson story? well it edge is closer and closer to the prime minister, the prime minister adamant that when he attended that party on the 20th of may 2020, he thought it was a work events and to be fair down street is both his home and his work place but the question mark is whether the man who organized that event martin rentals the prime minister's private secretary, should have known better. and it's a marriage to day that a senior official warned him by email that hold on mister reynolds. this party will be in conservation contravention. of the currants cove, it restrictions that the rest of the country are having to abide by you're not allowed to gather in groups, sir. larger than 6 people outside your household, that sort of thing. and so, although we haven't been able to yet, so formally say the prime minister knew certainly his close is private. secretary

has been asia, was informed by email. and that, that really puts martin reynolds had very much on the chopping block out. 0 port brennan live in london palm and he thinks indeed a weather update. next here on houses here. then i'm allan fisher at the white house, some critic see that one year in jill biden's. foreign policy looks a lot like donald trump's, but others in says, there's a big difference in the way this oval office looks at the rest of the world. and the facets national aid reach his tongue of 5 days after the volcanic eruption stricken devastating synonymy. ah ah, look forward to brightest galleys, the winter sponsored boy cattle airways as yet more heavy rain to come in java and

run boys to the waist. this has been the focus the last few days and probably the next few days. there are shouts, the north of that in the seas. no rain. in fact, that season winds i should say, in fact a heavy rain could well return briefly so sudden taiwan and lou zone. but this will just be passing north of that and winter set in properly the winds on to strong as they work or see of japan and further west in the korean peninsula. no wind to tempt the rising in the sunshine. snow has fallen in beijing. this line extends, always sad to was vietnam light rains quite likely in the western side of china. now, complete contrast, most of india, bangladesh and pakistan is fine quote and quite well and dry in the south. but there are shout returning through afghanistan to northern pakistan. that'll stir the air quality and improve things. but at the same time course flashed, fuzzy is a risk. the war snow for the kashmir valley as an example. snow shows that the south in nepal as well. and that's all being driven by fairly active when to weather, which means you can be further west. that wind is very obvious as a cold,

strong northwesterly with temperature is really down, and whether it should be for keta. and for example, saudi arabia will cause a consequence and store for the staff or the weather sponsored by cats are always stepped beyond the comfort zone. were assumptions a challenge traveled to the ends of the earth, and further experience the unimaginable of the people who lived with probably the most extreme situation i've been involved in how quickly things can chime award winning documentary, but also a perception witness on a, just a year for

ah, hello again, this is out here. let's remind you of the main news. the south, the u. k. media is reporting the premise to boris johnson's private secretary was advised not to go ahead with the gathering during the corona virus lockdown. johnston admitted attending but said that he thought it was a work event. he was secretary of state and zip. lincoln is trying to build a united front of nato allies. and she is a russian invasion of ukraine. lincoln met with foreign affairs officials from france, the u. k, a germany at of talks with russia's foreign minister friday, and u. s. president joe biden says that he believes russia will make a military incursion into ukraine, but he doesn't think the president vladimir putin once a full scale conflict. well, it's been a year since biden took office is 46th president of the united states. his election when was marred by a riot on capitol hill by supporters of the former president,

donald trump, who disputed the result. while a sense of normalcy is returned by the dentist. his 2nd here with one of the lowest approval ratings of a modern day president of the zeros alan fish looks at what's changed in the past 12 months. and what lies ahead for americans and the world. thank you. thank you. thank you. he came to office promising a contrast with trump. america is back, but some critics claim that on foreign policy, the only thing that's changed with jo biden's torn wrong say some experts we. i think there are some very um, so scent of an important changes from truck to biden on foreign policy, donald trump ordered the end to the war and afghan, the stan joe biden carried it out. c the key arctic withdrawal came despite warnings and consent from long time allies, even though bitin had promised to walk closer with international partner, trump hill. the us out of the run nuclear deal is

a horrible one sided deal that should have never, ever been made. at the time, joe biden said it was a mistake, but one year on the policy is still in place and sanctions against iran that even tighter. and when trump open the u. s. embassy in jerusalem, joe biden said it should not have been moved, but he's no plans or desire to move it back on china. there's been no de escalation intention from the trump years. but here differences start to appear biden called the treatment of the weaker a genocide and ordered a diplomatic boycott of the beijing winter olympics. the bike administration has not quite as much emphasis on trade in the relationship, whereas for trump, what he wanted 1st and foremost, was a trade deal with china. and he was willing to put other issues like human rights on the back burner in order to get a better trade deal with china. so what else is different? he rejoined upon his climate agreement,

reversed the decision to withdraw from the world health organization rejoined the un human rights council and ended, trump so called muslim bun biden has been much more aggressive against russia than donald trump ever. woods. trump are also maligned and i strongly criticized longstanding us allies and partners, french like france, germany, canada. biden's taken very much the opposite approaches. emphasis on strengthening us relations with longstanding allies and partners, democratic allies and partners. people knew donald trump was about to disruption america. first, appealing to his biggs, joe biden won the oval office by being the anti donald trump, a man who had bring consistency and stability to american foreign policy. but allies are concerned that in 3 years time, a new president might up and everything again. and a medica will be back to the uncertainty of a trump style presidency. alan fisher al jazeera at the white house. frank lance is

a communications analyst and a republican pollster. he explains once gone badly for by it will. the issue is that he's much less devices in his predecessor, but that his numbers are actually worse, completely unexpected. i think if you had to use a single word to describe the biden presidency, it's disappointing. the public was expecting greater efforts of unity. they were expecting more centrist approach and they were expecting more consistency in the administration. the beginning of this was the fall of the afghanistan and the way the americans pulled out from the country. but it has continued economic issues such as shortages on the shelves and inflation. and frankly, the numbers have not deteriorated much among democrats, but among the critical and, and vote. they went on the majority supporting the president down to the upper se thirty's. that's a huge drop in one year, which is the fact that every aspect of american life is more expensive today than

it was a few months ago. and clearly then it was a year ago, and it's affecting every single american, regardless of your income, regardless of where you live. and regardless of how you live, the fact that it is a daily occurrence from food to fuel means that every time you make a purchase, you think, why is it more expensive? why have costs going up? what do i have to come back to me? and frankly, they don't blame the, by the ministration for causing inflation. they blame him for ignoring inflation. plans have delivered the 1st shipments of aid, told us, and saturday as volcanic eruptions. tonight, the pacific island nation has been cut off from the world since the disaster. when have reports, 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 be washed away. the props, but we're here in france, a well at the moment income, others anxiously wait for news while they prepare 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 and new zealand. a force plane was loaded with supplies before departing for the international airport, just outside the capitol,

nicole, of 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 provision of claim water. that's the key priority that the government has asked for the run around $80000.00 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, a german inquiry has found that former pope benedict knew about abusive priests, but failed to act when he was honest, bishop of munich from 1977 to 1982. but it was known as cardinal joseph french singer at the time has repeatedly denied claims he covered abuse, but investigative say he knew and allowed the priests involved to continue working

without the sanction in, in a total of 4 cases, we have come to the conclusion that the thin archbishop, cardinal rod sinker is to be accused of his contact in cases of sexual abuse, christopher lamb, as of african correspondence for the tablet, a catholic publication. he says the legal ramifications of this inquiry are still unclear. they are quite serious allegations. i mean, they are that a priest see were accused of abuse, were moved there between parishes i am and a fetch feed nor handle properly. they were not removed from ministry and they were not sanctions now. tragically, that is how abuse cases were handled in the period that the inquiry is looking at when it comes to caudle rats and that's the late seventies and early eighties. and so in some respects what

a former pope benedict did was really very similar to what many, many of the bishops and leaders or how they handled abuse. and also i should say, how, why does society in some respects was was handling abuse, but benedict is saying that he is denying these, these allegations against him. and what, what's interesting is that m pope francis who has not been accused of misconduct and abuse but has been accused of not handling cases in perhaps a correct way. he and the past has issued apologies for how he handled abuse. now one option for benedict. the 16th would be to hold his hands up and apologize, but so far he's not doing that. he saying, i did, i did nothing wrong. i dispute these allegations at that's where we could have some problems. and of course, we don't know what the leak ramifications might be from this report as well. england is scrapping all corona virus. moses meant to combat the omicron variant

vaccine certificates, mandatory mosque wearing and shops and guidance to work from home will all be removed as of next week. the you case health secretary says the country needs to learn to live with cove at 19. some hospitals in england continue to be overwhelmed with patience, but data suggests that on the con, infections are dropping in most parts of the u. k. austria is expected to become the 1st european country to make coven 19 vaccines mandatory for those 18 and older . it's part of it is likely to pass the law on thursday. by mid march. police will start random checks with a $680.00 fine for those who aren't vaccinated. the measures meant to be in place for 2 years. india has recorded its highest number of new corona, virus infections in 8 months. more than 317000 new cases were reported on thursday . cities across india have re introduced restrictions to try to control such in pakistan. meanwhile, health experts say they're concerned about

a coven 19 outbreak. in the largest city karachi around 60 percent of new cases in the country of being recorded that the restrictions are being introduced on monday . in an effort to control the 5th wave. scientists have discovered a rare coral reef off the coast of tahiti, its being referred to as the field of roses because of its distinct shapes. despite global warming, this stretch of c in the south pacific as kept its underwater. biodiversity thriving out 0. 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 hedy. it's one of the largest of its kind the all guys did well. so now we will do our 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 quarrel 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 as 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 help. leah harding al jazeera the sky is no longer the limit for teenage pilots. our releferd, the 19 year old, touched down in belgium, becoming the youngest woman ever to fly around the world so low. it took her $155.00 days to complete the 32000 mile journey. ah, it is good to be with us. hello, adrian, setting it here in. so how the headlines and al jazeera u. s. secretary of state entity blinkin is trying to build a united front of nato allies and had fears of a russian invasion of ukraine. lincoln met with foreign affairs officials from france, the u. k. a germany ahead of talks with russia's foreign minister on friday. even as were relentless in pursuing this diplomatic path, we'll continue to make.