o, a showcase of the best documentary films from across the network on al jazeera. ah. ready the army seizes control a bikini faces president rook bought a is removed from office, his government dissolved, and the constitution suspended. ah, 11 o'clock. this is outdoor ally from de also coming up as don pete outside of football stadium kills at least 6 people in cameroon. katherine, during after a couple of mentions game, we will always do what is necessary to protect and defend them all our allies. nato

says it's sending reinforcements to eastern europe as fears grow of a russian invasion of ukraine. u. s. 2, it's troops on stand by thousands of canadian truck drivers converge on the capital ottawa against the federal vaccine mandate. ah say the you in touch general has condemned the military coud bikini faso and his voice consigned for the president rock border. the military says it sees par and deposed the president whose whereabouts are unknown. earlier, his party said he had survived an assassination attempt. nicholas huck, as if after days of gunfire, anti government protest her is cheer at the sight of what is left of the presidential motorcade. foster's special forces. turn their weapons against the president, security detail. several people were wounded. what's going on here right

now? nothing's going well. we expected a lot from president rock and he's only disappointed people. more you appointment always with the new government, but he was the real problem. for the president's party, this was an attempted assassination on a democratically elected leader. bookmark cowboy survived, but his time in office was a band of soldiers calling themselves the patriotic movement for safeguarding and restoration led by this men, lieutenant colonel following appeared on state television saying they had ousted, give away the government, and pretended the constitution was out there. first, the defense, the movement which brings together all the components of the defense and security forces has thus decided to put an end to the power mister collaborate. on the 24th of january 2022. the decision taken with the soul lame of enabling our country to get back on track and together all its forces in order to fight for its territorial

integrity. its recovery and sovereignty offended on gab, face growing discontent in his inability to deal with the rising attacks of our groups linked to al qaeda and i saw millions have been displaced in thousands killed appeared to be a view to the on sunday with soldiers asking for more to deal with the ongoing threat escalated into a military takeover on monday with special forces taking over both the national tv station and the presidential palace. earlier in a tweet president hockey. a boy asked soldiers to lay down their arms in the interest of the nation, calling for dialogue. the west african body echo else called on the soldiers to return to their barracks. while the you urged the immediate relief of the present and the un expressed condemnation that a 3rd qu in west africa, i will say that echo was the regional organisation has been extremely responsive,

ah, an an, and strong in an unified, in their responses to are these schools you can after molly guinea, if you're good. now burkina faso soldiers are yet again toppling zone and unpopular for democratically elected president in the name of the people. promising to restore peace in a region gripped by violence and uncertainty. nicholas hawk al jazeera, now that nato is expanding his military presence in eastern europe with more strips fighter jets and forces on stone by, as russia accuses the alliance of escalating tensions of ukraine. i mean, you says it is ready to impose never before seen sanctions. if russia attacks ukraine moscow's mast, an estimated 100000 soldiers near the ukrainian border, but denies is planning an invasion. natasha butler as this as western powers, step on diplomatic efforts to diffuse tensions with moscow over ukraine. european

union foreign ministers met in brussels, of the talks joined by the u. s. secretary of state by video cool. the eas, top diplomat said that sure to russia invade ukraine, the blog could impose sanctions, although he refused to give more detail. we agree, affirm our full and unquestionable shoe, poor to grain, and that any military aggression against ukraine will have she views consequences. i massive gosh, for the benefit reader. earlier the head of the you commission announced an emergency financial package to help kiev. i am announcing a new financial assistance package to the country made both of emergency loans and grants. first of all, the commission proposes and you'll emergency macro financial assistance package of 1200000000 euros. this package will help ukraine now to address

it's financing needs due to the conflict. meanwhile, the head of nato said the alliance would reinforces deployments in eastern europe, with troops, ships, and fighter jets. a response said yes, store to berg to the deteriorating security situation. we are considering to further enhance or presence in east, on part with arms. this could include the appointment of additional ne thought battle groups. the move by nato has angered the kremlin. it denies accusations by western how is that it is planning an attack kremlin spokesperson dmitri pess. gov said we do. usually we are seeing statements from the north atlantic alliance about more troops pushing forces and assets on to the eastern flank. here it is all causing tensions. to rise, i'd like to point out, it is not because of what we rochelle are doing. it's all happening because of what matters at the united states are green and the information they are spreading. in

care of the u. s. and u. k began the withdrawal of some diplomats families and non essential workers from the city, although the embassies will remain open. the reduction of empathy staff. another sign that without a diplomatic break through the threat of conflict looms large. natasha butler al jazeera. while the pentagon has 8 and a half 1000 troops on heightened alert and it says they're prepared to deploy, if needed, along with other nato forces. in some cases, some of these forces were already on a, a heightened posture, readiness to deploy posture, and the secretary decided to make it even more, a shortened a tether even more. so in some cases, units would go from, say, 10 days prepared to deploy. now they're at 5 days, but let's take this on johnny's live on skype from silverspring, maryland in the u. s. is melinda hovering. she is a ukraine specialist, and deputy director of the atlanta counsels eurasia center. melinda, welcome to the program. this of course, has been building pressure,

has slowly been mounting. how close all we do think to this, escalating into conflict. hi, nick, it's great to be with you. we are, if the situation is getting very, very serious, it's not game time yet. if you look at the specific situation surrounding ukraine, russia doesn't have enough troops yet for a full land invasion. and most analysts aren't convinced that he actually wants to do that. the things that we're watching right now are the number of troops couldn't, has between 820840008 surrounding ukraine on 3 different sides. but he hasn't put the logistical systems, the fuel or the fuel hospitals in place. so most analysts think the soonest that he would strike is february. so what was putin's? well, yes them everyone 2nd guessing out there, but what could booth his game plan be here that he is actually building up to that point where he will have enough troops or is, is just posturing. i don't think he's posturing. nick, he's got

a number of options, so one option is the full land invasion. there's a lot of reasons why he wouldn't do that and why it would come to bite him in the backside. i think more likely he's considering a small tax. it's smaller tactics that wouldn't trigger us sanctions. so what you might try is you might try to knock out the electricity in the power and then a massive cyber attack in ukraine, and then go after the ukranian navy in the air force and take out all the generals . and then try to install a pro russian pop it in keith, i think that's a lot more likely. or i suppose it has a number of options. what about the other side of the fence as it were nato and president biden? and what about like, what should he do? so, buying seems to be waking up by and has been very firm, but he hasn't done enough in today. like you said, he's talking about deploying another 8500 trips to europe. fabulous. but it's not enough by nas said that we're not putting boots on the ground, but he, we can still use our air force and our ships to rattled food. and there's

a number of options that we could do one option in particular that i like that sneaky is we have an aircraft carrier, the mediterranean. why don't we signal that, that aircraft carrier is there because of rushes escalation. we can also use our ships and our planes for long range strikes of it comes to it. there's a number of options that president biden could consider, but we should be stepping up our presence, particularly in romania and poland. now rosa nature courses in has been stepping up its present. so what about the you and the united nations road and all of this a, given that russia and china could, we could block any in a progressive movement. there anything meaningful it doesn't matter if they block it, we still need to be their president biden needs to get on an airplane and go to europe and reassure the european allies. get them not to be wildly get them. he needs to firm up their spine. he needs to come with a plan that says we're, we're coming to europe. we'll have 40000 u. s. troops in europe. now. that's not very much as my friend, lieutenant general ben hodges likes to say that's less than a college,

a stadium football stadium on the weekends. so go the plan. we also need to have a long term plan to end europe's dependence on russian gas. but in he all biden also has a job as a un. yes, a china and russia are going to new. they're going to veto everything that we try, but doesn't matter. we need to speak out in the last thing that president by needs to do is he needs to appoint a u. s. ambassador to ukraine. now there's no excuse for this. and no one has a good explanation. why he hasn't done it yet. nick melinda. appreciate your expertise. thanks very much. new for that analysis. eminent the hardware from atlanta cove. thanks a lot. thank you. wanted to know from adults jabari who's in moscow and has more reaction from but was heard from the kremlin who has reacted very strongly to the meeting this been ongoing in brussels. the russian government says that there believe that's a risk of chia actually starting a conflict in eastern ukraine is at an all time high. and they believe the tensions

are soaring as a result of nato and u. s. actions and that their information is just creating hysteria and they say that information is laced with lies. that's the official reaction. so far we've just been hearing from officials from the doom on that is they a house of parliament here who say that to add the nato dispatching further troops and forces to eastern europe east going to create a severe crisis. this is, of course, exactly what this country wanted to avoid, that the russians that were concerned with nato further expanding eastwards and that they were trying to prevent that from happening. but it appears all the diplomatic efforts have failed and now that will continue to move forward. and the russians are very much concerned and believe that this is a security concern. and they wanted to make sure that nato was not expanding any further. they didn't want the ukraine a to join the 30 member alliance. they said they wanted to go back to 1997 levels. and after that point, 14 new countries joined this alliance. and that is why we're in this position now,

according to the russians, they believed that their security is at risk because they are now very much surrounded by countries as that are part of this alliance. and they believe this alliance has its own agenda led by washington. at least the 6 people have been killed in a stampede outside of football game. and cameroon. it happened that the poor by a stadium and limby about 60 clump, just north of the capitol yonder, friends of pitcher, rusted in full kickoff, where cameron was about to play moros about a course in the after cup of nations. let's speak to african football, right of ma. hm. so he, he was at the game. my what more do we know about this? no. oh, i'm hoping you can hear me. ok. just wondering what you have managed to gleam about this times have happened as far as you know. so far as i know, speaking to i witnesses, the stampede happened around 1933 around 27 matches. before i kick off,

supporters were complaining of really constricted entrances. long lines, and i think as much as we can kick off manager in patients. many of them ended up storming the barrier that was outside the southern entrance of the stadium in olympic. and from there, we're now not reporting got at least 6 people have passed away. i myself have seen an unverified, i'm sure, and verify police documents that would put that. that's all i'd even higher than that, that around 8. so from what i'm seeing is just another disaster, and it's not exactly what the definition of course. right. and i understand children may be involved as well. yeah. so speaking to a colleague who is at the hospital and then not too far from the stadium, he told me that the set up a perimeter and from underground reporting of it there, he confronted me, that's a minor, was killed. i have heard this also from 2 other concord and sources, so just unbelievably tragic news, understand the stadium has the capacity of 60000. there was something like 50000

trying to get in. you would think that the that would have been manageable. yeah. so before the competition started due to corporate measures, the co kenda organizing committee of deference of nations, set an attendance cup for cameron and matches at around 80 percent. you would think, as you mentioned that that would help manage crouch. however, today at the stadium, i could report that probably there was probably more than 90 percent for the it was very, very close to capacity. i'm not sure if that's because of the rush or not. but like i said, the very frustrating thing is a serpentine entrances. many people having to watch in a perimeter or a corridor of maybe not more than 2 or 3 meters. and i think that's why the crush happened. my will leave the thanks for that update and mom as i hate talking about the stumpy, which is scheduled, we understand at least 6 people at the football game and come or thank you, let her now 0. the end of the line for lebanon's former prime minister side herrera

cools time on his political career. and a british p. m junction places obligations of yet another policy during long term this one, even closer to home. ah or can see or world whether report we're going to focus on the americas right now. nice to see you and still storm stuck around the river plate region plaguey montevideo, it's going to slide into that southeast of brazil over the next few days. so look at this porto lay gray, your temperature falls off big time, 27 degrees on thursday with heavy rain and strong winds to be expected. pulses of rain are moving west from the amazon basin into the andes, and making its way into the capitol of ecuador and kito some heavy days of rain to come. central america. really, the big story is this rain in the gulf of mexico,

so we'll pick up the story there. this is going to slam into central and southern portions of florida. the darker the color, the more intense the rain is we will likely see flooding. as a result of this, temperatures have fallen off as we head around the great lakes says chicago might his so levin toronto just the high of mine is 7 degrees. and we do have that extreme cold weather alert across the canadian prairies. winnipeg. mine is 21 for you on tuesday. those winds are now finally starting to back off south of san francisco where the wild fire is burning. and we've got some snow rolling across the u. s. state of colorado. this is plaguing denver with a hive minus one on tuesday. that sure weather report see later ah, the karone of virus has been indiscriminate in selecting its victims. it's devastating effects of plague, every corner of the globe, transcending class creed and color. but in britain,

a disproportionately high percentage of the fallen have been black or brown skins. the big picture traces the economic disparities and institutional racism that is seen united kingdom fail, it citizens, britain's true colors, part one on al jazeera. ah ah. again, you watch out 0, her mind about top stories issa and the spokesman for the un secretary general has condemned to cue and bikini fasa and his voice concerned for the president. the military says it has seized power and to pose president for cowboy. his whereabouts are unknown and these 6 people have been killed in a stampede outside

a football game and come around fence. a pitcher of rush to stated before kickoff become rude was about to play morris in africa. the european union says is ready to impose never before seen sanctions. if russia touchy crane russia has massed an estimated 100000 troops near the border and nato's expanding prisons in eastern europe leading to the kremlin to accuse it of escalating, which former liberties, prime minister side harry re says he suspending his role in political life and will not run in the parliamentary licenses made so so urging his political party not to participate either said honda has more from the capital beirut. he's been in politics since 2005 when his late father, former prime minister ethic had edy, was assassinated, sad. how did he has since been lebanon's leading muslim sunday politician. but the 3 time prime minister is withdrawing from political life. woman, baby, hamilton,

missouri, lee, i lung. there is no room for any positive opportunities for lebanon due to the iranian influence, our indecisiveness with the international community, internal divisions and sectarianism. i am suspending work in political life and so is the future movement, and i am not running in the election, nor will the future movement denied. della the future movement is the largest suddenly lead party in parliament, but the balance of power is against them. he is dead, i mean again, that he is strong, see it and see it in it. an alliance in the country. and therefore, given not it seems that the saudis and the gulf states general are not willing to pay much of an investment. how did he like his father was one, saudi arabia's man in lebanon. but in recent years that changed. so has had this

policy towards has bala, backed by the predominantly she or iran, once confrontational, his critic see him as to compromising? what is the exit is a turning point and lebanese politics? the how do you, these have dominated the sunday leadership since the end of the civil war in 1990? but for many, his decision isn't that surprised? how do these political position weakened in recent years, the former prime minister himself acknowledged making what he called mistakes by engaging with foes at the expense of allies, this in the sector, this of the percent of the population. and this is, this poses grave consequences. there is no obvious leader to replace him, but it appears there are efforts to form an anti hezbollah alliance. what comes next is that we should watch syndicate has been on the politics and everything. you know, even how do you,

these allies have criticized the former prime minister for sharing power with hezbollah, which along with its allies one the last election, their opponents are hoping to change that in the upcoming vote. in may, some may argue heidi may have been standing in the way that they should be route syrian kurdish fighters bank by the united states military say they are close to recapturing a prison, taken by eyesore fortress, forces the reportedly closing in on the last wing of the jail still under ice control after about 300 fighters surrendered earlier in the day. dozens of kurdish fighters in iceland members have been killed since the attack on the prison 5 days ago. unicef and save the children, have expressed concern reports, a deisel fight as a holding hundreds of children as human shields inside the prison. the humanitarian conditions. and i mean, of course, in the prisons better a, in our whole camps are all just horrendous and you have entire families and,

and young children that are remaining there. and it's important that member states or do what they can to deal with. those people who hold citizenship for from, from their country. at least 3 people have been killed in the latest protest against military rule in sudan central. the central committee of the sudanese doctor says they were shot dead by security forces who fight live round santiago's 9 doctors without borders, staff, treating the wounded in the capitol, where arrested about 74 civilians have died in thousands injured demonstrations since military takeover in on britain's prime minister brought johnson has deny reports. he attended yet another social gathering and breach of toby looked on rules. it claimed that johnson's wife threw him a surprise birthday party during the 1st look done in june 2020 prime minister's office. as it was a brief gathering that lasted less than 10 minutes. johnson on the pressure after a series of revelations. oh soon after the birthday party claims made

a letter barth johnson sent to a 7 year old girl in march. 2020 was re tweeted in it. the prime minister writes, he's glad she stay at home and that he's sorry to hear about her party. johnson told the girl named josephine that she was setting a great example. these bunker has more than these latest allegations of looked on parties at the prime minister's residence 10 danny street. apparently 2 parties are alleged to have taken place on june the 19th 2020, when the country was under strict lockdown. the 1st relating to an apparent surprise party, organized by carrie johnson, his wife at 2 pm on the afternoon of the 19th of june. number tanner's come back saying that that was. busy a very brief event on the tail end of a meeting that prime minister johnson only attended for 10 minutes or so. the 2nd is a relating to an alleged party that took place in the number 10 at flat. well,

on that point, a number 10 has said that that didn't happen. so as denied these allegations and said instead, there was a small gathering of family members in the garden of number 10 that may not have been in breach of those covert rules. the fact that the prime minister is once again a having to defend himself for the face of these allegations only put more more pressure on johnson. and what has been an extraordinary couple of weeks now in politics. we are, of course, waiting for the all important conclusion of su gray that senior civil servants report into wrongdoing across white hole. a number of parties now have come to light in fronds on vaccinated people over the age of 16 and are banned from entering restaurants. barzon from using long distance public transport new laws allow workers to check a person's vaccine. paulson identification president of mammal macro says restrictions are aimed at making the lives of unvaccinated people so complicated.

they end up getting the jap unvaccinated. people have been protesting saying they've been made to feel like 2nd class citizens. well, in canada, thousands of truck drivers across the country, a converging on the capital also to protest against federal vaccine mandate for travel across the u. s. border. they say the policy hurts businesses and drivers live news. that's good luck to jed. events who's in vancouver. can speak with rosco and jody say, the truck is on his ankle. it's a freedom convoy. what's the plan and was their argument? it's an interesting one. the freedom trucker convoy departed the west coast of canada on sunday morning and have been making their way west or scuse me east, through the west that is on their way to the nation's capital. in ottawa, many stops along the way gathering together truckers against this mandate, a mandate that the canadian liberal government just entered the prime minister

announced back in november. it came into effect on january 15th of course there are vaccine mandates now on both sides of the canada. u. s. border at truckers were exempt from that 14 day quarantine and there was no vaccination. passport of sorts or mandate of any kind until january the 15th. as essential workers. 90 percent of truckers in canada like the majority of canadians over all have been fully vaccinated. but it is this vocal group who feel that this is political overreach on behalf of the liberal government. and indeed, there is an expectation that thousands of truckers will descend on ottawa, the nation's capital, and gather in front of the parliament buildings on january 29th. so making their way through the west now towards the ottawa, the latest word on social media as we follow along with those postings from the convoy, are saying that they're a little bit behind in gathering steam across the country. we'll see how that

conway continues as they roll their way into ottawa. i come this weekend is worried about the prime minister, the p. m. just intruder his he suddenly all he said to this point really is to take jobs at the conservative governments who are pointing out that truckers are essential in that they keep the supply chain moving. prime minister trudeau being very specific that there is no issue as supply chain in canada when it comes to a connection between vaccine mandates and the trucking community. and in fact, the canadian shopping alliance has spoken out to say that they are on side with this mandate. and are asking for compliance, we will keep you posted, of course, and how this unfolds toward the weekends and the journey. appreciate that. thanks very much surgery once they're in vancouver. thank you. yes, nasa says the underwater volcanic eruption that triggered us through nami and toner, was hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima during world war 2. the space agency also confirmed the eruption obliterated. a

newly formed volcanic island, north of the tolan capital, told us government says it getting clean. drinking water to people is, is main priority. around 200 people stranded by snow in southeast and turkey of not be rescued. they were stuck on a highway india becca, for at least 12 hours. emergency crews had to dig through snow to reach passengers trapped and around 50 vehicles. more than a 1000 people have had to be rescued from its no covered roads in the past week. and greece is also seen blizzards and freezing temperatures. a storm l pita swept across the country, bringing rest, know full to athens and some errors of the gin islands. at vaccination centers and schools have been closed and parliament has been suspended. the world's biggest, most powerful and most expensive space telescope has arrived at his destination. 1000000 miles from murph nasa says it will begin firing out the $10000000.00. james

webb, observatories in for it to texas. gdc has the ability to look at objects from mars on out. so it can of course, again, it's orbiting a just outside the orbit of the, of the noun about it's about 4 times further away than the man. so it always has to be pointed out towards deep space. it can ever look back towards the earth. ah. so this is our desert, these are the top stories and the spokesman for the you and turkey general has condemned acumen bikini fasten his voice concern for the president. the military says it has seized power and opposed to president rocket boy, whose whereabouts present on night and see the secretary joe's following developments were keener fast. so a deep concern, he's particularly worried about the whereabouts and safety of president rock,

mark christian corroborate, as well as the worsening security situation following the crew carried out on january 23rd by sections of the armed forces.