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deteriorating economic situation. the deisel fight is attack a prisoner northern syria to free their members. the us led coalition says the threat has been contained ah welcome to the program garden fire has been heard into the night and burkina faso is capital there, the president's residence. an overnight curfew was declared after soldiers stage a mutiny on sunday. schools are closed on internet services have been shut down. the government has denied there's been an attempted cue and insist sits still in control. henry wilkins joins us now live from the capital. we're going to go ahead . we could have you with us. what sense do you get on the ground of who's in charge of the streets? there was a lot of tension overnight. yeah. so we've been driving around late last night and

it seems to be the security forces military. some people it was very much in control street, 3 headed down for the presidential been recall. so come fight going on around about midnight last night. we lease one checkpoints, man by special forces related to the new military base in the yes. so as to whether the government is still in control, that is still very much clear. ready on, on social media the president was arrested at his private residence last night. we're unable to confirm that as yet, but just turning to daylight yet. so we're about to head out and cover the

situation is on the street. indeed, often in situations like this, the public do what reassurance in one form or the other. and as you say, nobody really knows where the president is, but is the media speaking either on the airwaves or through the print press about exactly what has happened? no, i mean i think that reassurance is conspicuously absent at the moment. there was some token going out on the national television. that didn't happen again that morning. still just very much run of the mill t tv programming going out. so we really hearing no news. the the president yesterday sent to tweet of which were related to the football team playing in the college football coleman yesterday. no mention of the meet me whatsoever. i think it's fair to say that any reassurance is speak to you at the moment or leave it for

an hour and join you later in the day once we get more information. so the moment that henry wilkins, joining us from the capital, wanted to get your opinion. foreign ministers are meeting in brussels with ukraine, expected to dominate the agenda, us secretary of state, and to be blank, and has also been invited not to discuss progress on deescalate the crisis at ukraine's border. western nations, a concerned by the build up of russian forces, while moscow is worried about native expansion. now the us says order the families of its embassy staff in care to leave ukraine citing fears all the russian invasion . the state department added that non essential personnel can also depart now and other americans leave to. it also updated its travel advisory for russia and posted a tweet. my cannon has moved from washington, d. c. o. the state department has issued a level for travel. notice which means that those employees of the state department

who wish to lose leave can voluntarily do so. but it's also ordered family members of embassy employees to leave ukraine. now in a briefing by to senior state department officials, it was made clear that this did not come about because of any new information that's being received in recent days. rather, it was seen as an opportune time to lay raise the level of the travel warning. but no particular news has actually sparked off the action. however, the state department officials also say that the american citizens, us citizens who are living in ukraine, will not be able to get out with embassy assistance if they want to leave ukraine. they must do so by themselves. busy booking commercial flights if needed. and so once again, that position being made very clear as well, but it is raised in the level of the travel notice. still making clear that

employees can stay should they wish to add, but their families have got to leave protests, have been held in georgia capital in solidarity with ukraine. administrative gathered outside the ukrainian embassy in tbilisi chancing anti russian slogans. representatives of opposition parties took part in the rally. russia invaded georgia in 2008 in a 5 day war over a breakaway region. the united arab emirates says it's intercepted and destroyed to ballistic missiles, the ministry of defense, as they were launched by who the rebels in yemen. it added that no one was injured . on the day of re, from the destroyed missiles, fell the capital upper darby last week. 3 people were killed and a hootie drove to attack. all the u. e. 7 owns prime minister is meeting his cabinet for the 1st time. in 3 months. the government has been divided since october about the investigation and the 2020 beirut court explosion. the standoff has happened, does the countries economic crisis worse?

this course over to say the cotton correspondent to force live in the lebanese capital and xena. this meeting is partly about the state budget, but it also has to broach the immediate public woes. so will they find a way forward that's the big question. ah, well, i can, i'm, and hardships are, were sitting 80 percent of the population is. now. there is an urgent need for the authorities to take measures to alleviate the suffering of the lebanese people. but what they have been doing over recent years really is adopting ad hoc measures, which are proving really to be on sustainable. at 1st, they use the foreign currency reserves in the central bank to subsidize basic goods . then they ran out of money and now they're using whatever is left in the central bank hard currency, injecting millions of dollars in the market every single day to ensure that the local currency doesn't the value even further. it has lost 90 percent of its value

in the past 2 years. so yes, people are struggling now. the state budget is on the table of the cabinets, but that's the budget has to be part of a wider economic recovery plan, in order for lebanon to we should deal with the international monetary fund for a bailout package. this countries in dire need of dollars, but the state budget falls short of fulfilling the conditions of the i m f. first of all, there's no unified exchange rates and more importantly, there is no reforms. the i m f, for example, has been saying the electricity sector, it's inefficient, it's corrupt, it needs to be reformed. and independent regulatory authority needs to be created. instead, in the budget, what the authorities decided to do support more money into a state institution, which is costing the state billions of dollars a year. so the authorities are falling short on taking the measures needed to stop the economic collapse all the while. people's money trapped them banks. they're

taking to the streets. they're angry because the authorities are planning, at least it's on the table. it's an option to convert dollar deposit into the local currency, which has the value of denied their money and their savings. these people say they are faced with no choice, but to keep protesting. it's been 2 years since lebanon's banks insisted money could only be withdrawn in the local currency. the lira it is at a much lower rate than the market, which means they lose 70 percent of its value. it's a process now known as li reification, changing the deposits into a lira, it will take us to air hyper and hyper inflation. this is very bad 3rd to the liberties economy. the financial system collapsed in late 2019 successive governments had piled up that for years before money stopped coming in the banking system. the central bank and the albany state were literally about together as

a result of the success of consumers, economic models, financed due deposits through through the deposit from the wealthy dials community, which the banks then use to land to the central bank. now this state is nearly bankrupt and banks are in solvent. authorities have not agreed on the way out of the crisis, but they acknowledge verification is possible. but at the rate that dominates trading. verification is one of the things that it is mentioned from now and then makes it very difficult in order to see exactly when they will, that big bag with both. as far as i know, a prime minister to me at the is doing his best and order the small and the middle deposit that to receive back. there deposits. many are skeptical protests like this one have not brought a change. the state is still controlled by the same political class, blamed for the financial collapse and those who hold the power and the individuals

linked to them are the majority of shareholders and back depositors say it is they who have been bearing the losses and the financial sector officials estimates amount to $69000000000.00 within guy also like factors increase taxes on people. and meanwhile, like the majority of you will get paid and live anything out i've lost around 95 percent of it. value politicians should be presenting an economic recovery plan to the international monetary fund to receive assistance, but that would require reforms that weaken their hold on the states resources. instead, they prepared a state budget that appears to put additional burdens on the people while protecting their own financial interests. santa hood, their elder cedar beirut ball still had here on al jazeera afghans. tell about officials say they've taken a step towards international recognition. after the 1st high level visit to europe, close up now knocking on the heaven. why music teachers in south africa are,

are getting young people to pick up guitars instead of guns. those stories after the break. ah, while we're seeing snell where we don't usually get it. hello everyone. here's the details. this includes for the great capital offenses shield of snow over you on monday. ok. so it was by february, thoughts and snow, but before then was in until 2008. this weather maker is going to curl up into southern turkey. so that means snow very likely for on talia. and over the past 30 years, you've only seen a round of snow once twice. and now we're looking at about $2.00 to $5.00 centimeters. central europe looks like this. the snow is starting to wind down here, but breezy conditions for areas of croatia, scattering of showers,

rolling across the northern ireland into scotland. and then we do have a feed of rain and snow slamming into western norway. iberia by day is fine, but by night those temperatures are dropping off, especially northern spain weather alerts in play there. as your temperatures dipped down to about minus 6, then we have sand and dust storms along that border with chad and jerry. not too far away from n jemina, but all of the action going on toward southern africa. this tropical wave of rain has transferred from madagascar into central the northern mozambique. we are going to see some severe flooding dare, and temperatures have fallen in cape town to 26 on monday season. ah, the from the al jazeera london pro cap santa t special guest in conversation. when you say a lie, a 1000000 times, it becomes a fact. you then can create whatever narrative you want. unpaid,

uninterrupted. i realized i was working for something i was evil. you know, being a part of actually creating at maria wessa meet christopher wiley. the death of journalism is only the 1st signal for the death of democracy studio. b and square dates on al jazeera. ah ah, book about kill watching all just bear with me. so hell robbed a reminder of all told stories. gunfire has been heard into the night and the key, the fafsa is capital they. the presidential residents that occur few was imposed after a mutiny by soldiers. the government is denied as being an attempted to be foreign ministers that meeting brussels with you quite expected to dominate the agenda.

they'll address progress on deescalate, should the crisis ukraine's borders. the u. s. has all of the families of its embassy stuffing, kept to leave slanting phase of a russian invasion, lebanon's private. it's through his meeting, his cabinet full 1st time in 3 months. the government has been divided all the investigation into bay reach. port blast the ticket civility to resolve a deepening economic crisis. in northeastern syria does be more fighting between us, but kurdish forces and the i so fight us. the arm group attacked to prison to freights . members, not the violence is killed more than 70 people. the us led coalition says the threat has been contained as a bag has more gonna come from. this is the moment i saw detainees escaped from prison in northern syria. 4 days i will fight to attempt to free this fellow member . it's unclear how many have managed to escape, how many have been killed or recaptured by kurdish forces who are being supported

by us there strikes the prison has is more than 1200 prisoners from 50 different nationalities. it's seen as the most significant attack by i feel since the armed group was defeated in the region 3 years ago. this 14 shows, ice fight is breaking into prison. apply the body dress in uniform lane corner. kurdish forces say they have the upper hand. i will have it now. dice exist only in the prison. i mean, apart from the prison, they don't exist any way. so they are controlling the prison only and we are surrounding them. they do have weapons. i don't deny that, but they can't do anything with that. they might run out of ammunition and therefore they don't fight back. residents near the prison or fling, the fighting has been bombing pain and context since yesterday and young people were slaughtered. what is happening?

situation is catastrophic. we fed the shelling and conflict. we got scared for our children in flood. there's also reports, iso fighters have broken into homes and killed people. slaughtering diane members broken and killed for men. our neighbors. 2 of them were brothers. as the fighting continued, the fear now is whether this attack means a significant return by the armed group or a one off attempt to replenish its numbers for a future front against kurdish forces. i said bake jazeera, they ask, and taliban says it's taken a step towards international recognition. after the 1st day of talks in norway, the government delegation is meeting western officials and civil society groups in our slow, they're being asked to uphold human rights in return for humanitarian aid. a sama binge of it possible. it's day one of the 3 day trip for the afghan delegation led by the foreign minister of though is the 1st space in europe after trips to russia . iran got their china in pakistan. but nor is made it clear that this does not

mean legitimacy for the fall of on the child to talk to those who are in charge of, of learners than that normally i'm not good anymore bomb to play hard on him. in norway, we have a meeting with the u. s. and also with you a pin union on matters of mutual interest. one part of our meetings would be with our afghan d. s poor who are outside the country, especially in europe, book their ideas, consultations, and plans will be heard. this means that meetings from mutual understanding will continue between afghans hotels during the blows doors meetings at a local hotel, economic business and political issues are high on the agenda. the rest is looking to use. it's leverage of sanctions, frozen of gun money and humanitarian aid. while the interim government wants money, legitimacy, and removal from banned lists, the focus from outside remains and pressing taliban leaders on their promises to deliver women's rights. girl education and civil liberties. balaban the dis,

trying to move from a fighting force to a governing council. have yet to deliver on a country wide secondary education for girls, but have allowed women to work in hospitals, schools and airports. they deny arresting them and cracking down an activists while some of them and continue to protest and demand their rights. very often, in the absence of that communication, the international community or different stakeholders keep moving, the goal posts. so in order to make sure that the top one are the words that they're putting out there are lining with their actions and women and disenfranchised books. in general in a plan of son are protected. that's going to be a huge outcome if that can come out of or we can start headed in that direction from norway. the harsh winter is yet another screen for most are gone, who have not been paid for months and struggling with a collapsing economy. and the biggest fatalities needed is to keep the population fed and warm agencies. $1000000.00 are going to have a good face salivation,

that's despite the united nations providing money to pay for salaries and importing essentially like wheat and electricity fell upon officials and says this piece and won't let of understand become a security concern. but they say in order for it to function as a state, the international community must release $10000000000.00 of money for an abroad to get the economy going in address. humanitarian needs a sub job it out there. about 200 people most dance guns living in norway protested . it also has the talks began chanting no to taliban. the demonstrators said any move tools, official recognition should be resisted. they say the taliban hasn't changed since it was pushed out from power in 2001 taiwan says china has sent 39 fighter jets into its air space. it's the largest daily incursion since october . taiwan says it's increasingly concerned that china is going to launch minute

fraction against the island asian considered the island as a breakaway province. ah, no thousands of people are protested in washington dc against covert 19 vaccine rules. they say vaccination and masks are personal choices and should not be enforced by the government, the centers for disease control. so both measures are needed to protect against infection. article hate has more from the u. s. capital. there been protester out the pandemic across the country, but this is really the 1st large scale one to come to the streets of washington d. c. now they're building themselves as anti mandate against masks against vaccines. but when it comes to the whole idea of mandating vaccines, the bite administration has been dealt a lot of setbacks on that. the supreme court said that they can't force employers that have more than $100.00 employees to force vaccinations or, or require testing and

a judge just at least temporarily put on hold the by the ministrations demand that all federal workers and contractors get vaccinated. and it was clear talking to people in the crowd that they really were against the vaccine. even the speakers on stage. many of them seen things that were simply not true. we've no doubt for 2 years that there are cheap se highly effective and widely available medicines that can treat this disease. i'm, you know, stand up for my right to be able to say that i do not want the vaccine. i care about my body. i care about the effect that this is happening on equal, and i don't wish to separate them. i live in the united states of america, and this is a free country, local official. so they were concerned about this event in part because of its size organizer. so they expected about 20000 people from all over the country. and again, this was a rally against masks and vaccine mandates. well, here in the district of columbia, if you want to set foot in a business like

a restaurant or pretty much go inside anywhere, you have to have a mascot and you have to show proof of vaccination for that reason. the d. c. police have extra officers on the street in case anyone tries to break the rules. about thrown cove at 19 locked down in the northern chinese city of shon has also been lifted. now sham was shut down in december after an outbreak of the delta varied confining. some 13000000 people to their homes. the chinese government has imposed a 0 tolerance policy ahead of the winter olympics in bakery next month. the world health organizations, european director, hands crew is optimistic that cobit 19 is shifting from a pandemic to a more manageable endemic illness. like the flu, that's bravo. that dirty region is moving, the words account over. but then it and then what an emblem of the government doomed upon them it in wednesday, whom rufus upset them with

a catch of weeks and months. oh, good remedy. ever. thanks with obscene or because people have immunity good at infection and also merton saturday. so we anticipate debt then will be a period of growth before the pivot 19 merkel. beck to west end of the world, but not necessarily depend demik coming back. italy's parliament will meet on monday to choose a successor to present sergio. matter ela is term is expiring. now the former prime minister, silvio berlusconi, has withdrawn from the election, but he's still trying to influence the vote. as adam rainy reports now from rome. now that scandal tainted former prime minister, silvio berlusconi has pulled out of italy's presidential election, his main goal is to block the leading contender from winning the prize. that man

prime minister mattie draggy has led a pandemic unity government for the past 11 months. no, it must candidates not formally and how to run, but draggy has strongly hinted. he wants to move on to the presidency. our fat bill to the local grimaldo, the grey lucky era. saddle gamma we have accomplished what we were called on to do . i'm a man, a grandfather if you like, the service of institutions. you. if bruce, coney and the leaders have at least 2 main right wing parties keep dragging the prime minister's office, they might be able to stave off a general election for another year. why they build support for conservative government at least president mainly perform ceremonial duties, but can be called on to resolve political crises, the election and normally behind the scenes of fair in which legislators and regional representatives cast secret ballots has now captured the nation's attention. that i am in favor of electing a woman and leaving druggie where he is doing a good job. my god, we all wish our current president that i would just stay in office for another term

italian see 80 year old sir john. martha rella as a steady and unifying force. he says he has no interest in a 2nd 7 year term. there is a chance he could be convinced to stay on. also in the running justice minister mark to cut tabio, if she went, she would become italy's 1st female president. the focus right now though is under aggie and that ela mini italians worried that if monte draggy is elected to service the president. here's another palace that the stability, his government has secured of the past year will fall apart as political parties here fight over who becomes the next prime minister. political historian, not intercoastal any, says legislators would already have a plan in place if they choose to, like bragging or drug will be elected only if there's an agreement on the future of the government. but i had overseen the influx of billions of dollars in the you recovery funds. the worry is if he's no longer prime minister, elite recovery could go off track. many people can be president of the republic

while as a brand new or a drug, he is not easily replaceable. so ease, much more useful as a very me at the election held in parliament will likely go on for several rounds until a candidate gains enough votes. whoever wins will have to try and help italy avoid political crises. and it tries to solidify a sustainable recovery from the pandemic, adarine algebra room. french fashion designers here with a move la has died at the age of 73, although he officially retired from the fashion industry in 2002 moved. i went on to collaborate with several high profile celebrities is also continued to design fragrances. after stepping down law group of teachers in cape town is using music to offer young people an alternative to gang violence, the gangs, unless boys from a young age you often have few options, but music is offering them a different path out there is for me to miller reports are from cape town. of now

knocking on the heaven 5 days a week. this group of children gathers for guitar. lessons or classes on cry. fontaine, a suburb of cape town, ravaged by gangs drugs and crime. no, their teacher, tommy youngster from the organisation joint bands, not gangs, has been giving lessons for more than 2 years in the hope that music will keep his students on the right path for la la massey, for on that, a lot of feel that the music changes their mindset, the one to play music and start thinking in a different way. it's not always easy. it's difficult work because children need you to repeat things, but they want to do it and they are willing and it makes a difference in children who carry on with the program for more than 6 months. can join a band like this one in a neighboring community. 15 year old jordan, when he asphalt says his always love music, which he says has brought him strength in march 2021. you know, week we as a family actually got a fix that and we lost our cousin, little gang violence,

you know. but that ease since then i've been living in fear. we all been living in fear, you know, and i have here lies the way jordan, but you actually now really got to you this. got to open your eyes. you gotta do something with your life. those living has a bailey in our pauses, without some sort of shooting. and it's a challenge keeping children safe at the height of the violence. there were at least 12 gang related murders every month. various gangs competed with territory, often related to drugs. now the music program not only helps to prevent young children from joining these gangs, but also reduce tensions between rival groups. cedric williams belongs to one of the gangs here. it's an area plagued by high unemployment. he lost his job as a bartender and says limited work opportunities make staying away from these groups almost impossible, lately raised they. he always bought the vulgar. it is a rule of life. it is a little of the street. it is. oh, i know it. so yes,

may be able to get the answer. yes. be on foot on i have dead man for am. if you ever go away but i will and no, i was used to lately i don't do so. yeah, 3 d b. but those picking up a musical instrument instead of a gun, ho, programs like this will make a difference. creating an alternative for children who often have little choice for me to mila al jazeera cape town, south africa. ah, no, no, no. oh, your challenge there with me so robin, to haul reminder of all top stories. gunfire has been heard into the night and became a facet capitol near the presidential residence a curfew was imposed after a mutiny by soldiers on sunday. now the government is denying that's been an attempted coup, had re wilkins, has bought from the capital walker to good.