it use no racism to seem united kingdom fail. it. citizens, britons, true colors, part one on al jazeera ah, revealing eco friendly solutions to come back. threats to our planet on al jazeera, ah, responding to russia, security demands over ukraine, us, the nato, deliver their proposals to moscow. ah, hello, i, mary. i'm timothy and london. you're watching al jazeera, also coming up on the program. a dye, a you an assessment of the situation in afghanistan, country where key services of collapse and millions live in fear. you case prince

andrew wants a jury trial in the sexual assault complaint. he is fighting in new york. and fall from home and froze into the cool, heavy snow makes life even more miserable for millions of displaced syrians ah, the united states and nato delivered written responses to moscow security demands over ukraine. fears over a potential russian evasion of ukraine has prompted one of the biggest mobilizations of western forces in europe. the u. s. ambassador delivered the american document earlier on russia's a mass to 100000 troops near the border with ukraine and says it's ready to retaliate. if the west does not provide constructive on says view i secretary of state, as ne blinkin says, the response was coordinated with kiev and european allies,

though no concessions were made. the main demand that you cried, the bond from joining nato or response to russia reflects what i said in keith, berlin, and geneva. last week. we're open to dialogue. we prefer diplomacy and we're prepared to move forward. where there is the possibility of communication, cooperation. if russia deescalate, is regression tort, ukraine stops the inflammatory rhetoric and approaches. discussions about the future security in europe. in a spirit of reciprocity, our responses were fully coordinated with ukraine and our european allies and partners with whom we've been consulting continuously for weeks. we sought their input and incorporated into the file version delivered to moscow. azure is joseph jabari has the reaction from moscow. more military drills for the russian army near the border with ukraine and wargames to and crimea, which was annexed by the kremlin 8 years ago. in paris,

diplomatic efforts continued with negotiators from france, russia, ukraine, and germany discussing ways to reduce tensions. but back in moscow, foreign minister survey lover off rejected any effort to broaden the current negotiations to include either the you or a broader regional body. the conference on security and cooperation in europe, russia, he says, will do whatever is best for its own security, winging the goal. we did not attack anyone. we have always been attacked ourselves . and those who did it all was got what they deserved till i can only confound once . more that they are ready to defend in the most secure way the interests of our country. it's safety and the safety of our citizens took the members of russia's parliaments and senators are calling for the kremlin to san weapons to the self claims that dumbass republic human a move that was certainly further increase tensions dramatically. the head of that breakaway region towards al jazeera, any scenario could unfold, including war,

to renew while the morning was warmer. it is possible, but unfortunately, this possibility on the part of ukraine is in relation tomato. you see the west, the western countries and kids are shouting about russian aggression, but more than a 120000 ukranian troops are concentrated and don bus. the u. s. government is working to prevent the disruption to gas supplies to europe, which gets nearly half of its gas from russia. if the russians really make good to all their threat of sending even less gas, dad will send prices soaring. you know, europe gets gas a through l m g gets it from them. it from the mediterranean. it also gets it from norway. bar dum. russia is very important. and if ferris indies there is more tension and that means prices are going to go. are russian foreign minister, sir gay lover of announced that his british counterpart, this trust, will visit moscow in the next 2 weeks?

and president vladimir putin will phone his french counterpart, emanuel micra on friday. as diplomatic efforts intensified, there's a small window of opportunity for all sites to make decisions which could ultimately change the course of history. door such avari al jazeera moscow, a tens of thousands of crimea tatters have fled since russia annexed the peninsula 8 years ago. and now many were afraid, the conflict between russia and ukraine would potentially force him to move again. i'll be there as charles stratford reports. now from nova alex give car in southern ukraine. we're little rawlins, his load cold turkey pensioners struggling to stay warm ukraine's brutal winter cold. the men of tartarus turkey ethnic group who have lived in crimea the centuries. tens of thousands left when russian troops illegally annexed the peninsula in 2014, worried about increasing tension between ukraine and russia. was

re especially worried about have women, children, and elderly. there is a war, because we have no way to take them. we try to provide for them and reassure them as much as we can and the men had delivered coal to 81 year old as ema, she, her family and an estimated $190000.00 soldiers were deported for crimea during stallings purges of his opponents in $944.00. when customs i know. yeah, but i want to ask president, put in, why do you need to occupy this for land? how can you take over our land and tremendous like these shots that goes around 8 percent of this town have for rush of use to show. there is no open animosity between austin, but you can sense it. korea is just a few kilometers across the water behind me. now, since russia illegally annexed the peninsular in 2014, it's estimated that as many as 140000 ukrainians have left. many of them ethnic

crimean tosses. who say they fled persecution in their ancestral land. in the market, no one will talk to us on camera about their support for russia. but this lady said she felt great affiliation in the country. language and culture. if people chose climbing to be part of russia, says you live in, let them be. the mosque was built in 2002 for the talk to community all inside men gather for prez. hussain talk. lou says he will never except a russian rule in crimea or the city booklets diffuse each when russia annex crimea between 10 to 40000 tortoise fled. because the political and religious pressure on the lack of freedom of speech, they left behind their homes and property. and i've had to start life again from the summer, not only taught us, but all ukrainians live in perpetual uncertainty. those every one is talking about

potential war as eva says, she isn't strong enough to visit family who still lived in crimea, that she fears for both ukrainians and russians. if a solution to the crisis between the 2 countries isn't failed. chas robert al jazeera novel, alex edgar southern ukraine. ah, life in afghanistan has become a frozen hell. the un secretary general has warned. antonio terry says the humanitarian crisis, there is left the country hanging by a thread with education and other social services in collapse. while the un special envoy to afghanistan says it appears the taliban is again using fear to control the population. a diplomatic editor james base reports now from the land. with more than half of the afghan population suffering from all the un calls extreme levels

of hunger, the secretary general antonio terrace again sounded the alarm. 6 months after that they covered by the taliban. afghanistan is hanging by a threads for afghans. daily life has become a frozen hell. one of afghanistan's best known women's rights campaigners who still lives in cobbled came to new york to address the security council after 20 years of tasting creed. and what kink studying, playing sports, performing music, it has taken less than 6 months to completely dismantle the rights of the women and girls across the country. her account was backed by the un special representative inside afghanistan. deborah lawns said a number of women activists had recently been abducted and then disappeared. she said this was part of a wider, deeply worrying pattern. and here on the ground there is compelling evidence of an emerging environments of intimidation and deterioration in respect for human

rights. yes suggests that the consolidation of government authority may be leading toward control of the population by fear rather than by understanding and responding to its needs. the meeting was presided over by norway's prime minister, jonas goss stora, his government fluid taliban delegation for talks in oslo, with international diplomats in afghan civil society in recent days. in an interview for talked to al jazeera, he told me this was not meant to give the group legitimacy or recognition. to me, it looks like this. if we don't sit down with them, present the expectation, the demands and what they have to deliver. afghanistan and going, it's going to sink found in that tremendous humanitarian. this all search, most of us got stones reserves remain frozen, but the un wants to change that without renewed liquidity in the african economy.

as a risk, the da humanitarian situation becomes a country wide famine. on the other hand, some nations still worry about rewarding the taliban when the human rights situation in particular, the treatment of women seems to be getting worse. not better. james bayes al jazeera of the united nations kurdish forces say they've taken full control of the prison facility that have been besieged by isola northeast and syria. fighting broke out to the jail in the city of half the care on thursday. when i fell mounted, a bid to free thousands of its fighters in almost a week of fighting over control of the facility. about $200.00 inmates and $27.00 kurdish fighters were killed, spokesman for the syrian democratic forces says, all i so fight is of surrendered, ending the situation, you know, sample. so voice concern about $850.00 children and minus detained at the jail thing. had reports of fatalities you want to carry in groups called for immediate access to be granted to the area. meanwhile,

nearly 3000000 displays people in southwest and syria are risk of exposure as a camps. a batted by freezing whether heavy snow is destroy tension. it's preventing crucial humanitarian, 8 deliveries, united nations as appeal for help. i said bay has more a city of tense. this is life for around 250000 syrians force from their homes by the civil war. and now after 10 years of continued conflict, snow and rain is their latest enemy is about. so a lot of the very cold weather, the massive volume snow and the bad condition of the camp have led to the tents, damages every way. we ask allah and we urge those who are willing to help do the best for us. we don't have firewood and there is no heating. we burn some shoes and clothes just to offer some heat to the children and thought. traveling to the area was already difficult. the snow has made it near impossible. agencies are

struggling to get access. 10 have collapsed under the weight of the snow. the few that do have shovels do what they can. the rest are left to move snow with their hands in freezing temperature, the one l hope is not the whole camp does not have bread. we call upon the humanitarian organization and all the authorities concerned to urgently help the camp and its residence. the un says more needs to be done, but for the people here, they need help. now, we won't put up with that with them, the whole camp is in real danger and we don't know what to do. we have spent the last 70 years intense and displace caps. they can't find us a flat. the camp, inadequate at the best of times, the snow, it's only adding to the misery. he's people face. i said big. i was just there to natalie on the program. confirmation that liberal yes, supreme court justice stevens braille retire setting up a political showdown,

who replace him and hong kong, high rise, locked down thousands faced more days and restrictions as new covey cases a found ah, i think we'll see more reports of flooding in australia and in many parts, it was a huge amount of cloud throughout the northrop tropical part of australia, which might even end up circulating itself and producing little concentrations of rain. south of that and the rain comes through on bands. but again, orange tops means potential for flash flooding in melbourne. certainly in the state of victoria. that's one band that had sat down through tasmania. following that, it looks mostly dry, but showers in land will develop and in the west, in perth is getting hot again. with the wind out of the interior, we're heading up towards i think the 40 mark,

well time get to monday. not reco breaking because we had several days at 40, but it's back up there is trying to, once more in the philippines expect more flooding in these on flash flooding. it's these, thunderstorms. they are pretty intense, almost continuous in the same place. they move a little bit with their direction is east to west. there's not much going on around indians for lincoln. now this bit of breeze in the northeast brings a few shasta town lobby for the north. the problem is briefly the cold wave in the hall, which affects norman india. otherwise it's sunshine is down as warmer than usual actually, but i won't last. there's more cold on its way across. ah lu, europe's grand capitals are littered with monuments moulding, their imperial policy, and their museums filled with artifact,

spoils of war and occupation uprooted from their places of origin. people in power explores the heathens debate, right from ownership admits activists taking matters to their own. out of africa on a just a, you know, ah ah, ah, welcome back. main stories now. united states and nato have delivered written responses to russia's security demands of ukraine sexual say, anthony blinking says the response made no concessions to the main demand that you cried. the bond from joining nato. moscow says it's ready to retaliate. if the west does not provide constructive on, says, life in afghanistan has become

a frozen hell. the un secretary general is one. china. good, terry says the humanitarian crisis is left the country hanging by a thread education on the social services on the brink of collapse. and kurdish lead forced to say they've taken full control of a prison facility that had been besieged by i still in northeast and syria. fighting broke out at the jail and city of high sika on thursday. about 200 inmates and 27 kurdish fighters were killed u. s. supreme court justice stevens private retire at the end of his current term. prior is one of 3 remaining liberal justices, and the conservative majority court is retirement. will give president joe biden, his 1st chance to nominate a new judge to the country's highest judicial body. how did your castro reports supreme court justice stephen briar had long rejected viewing the high court through a political lens. at 1st, dismissing calls from democrats to step down so that

a president of their own party may name a replacement if republics is judges as politicians and robes. its confidence in the courts and in the rule of law itself can only diminish. diminishing the court's power, including its power to act as a check or other bring born in 1938 in san francisco. writer grew up in a middle class, jewish family. he said his upbringing helped develop the pragmatism that later shaped his legal views. i stephen drive, you solemnly swear. he was a federal appeals court judge for 14 years before president bill clinton nominated him to the supreme court in 1994. every judge's particular obligation is to deal fairly and thoroughly with the legal problems of the individual parties before the court, whether they are poor or rich or helpless or powerful minority or majority. ryan joined the court's liberal wing consistently ruling in favor of abortion rights,

environmental protection, and voting rights. he opposed the strict textural interpretation of the u. s. constitution as endorsed by conservatives. but he believed in compromise and was a famous optimist. justice brier, i think, is a true technocrat in the best sense of the word he believes in good ideas, thoughtful compromises and intelligence and expertise running the world. ah, and he has really tried to do that quite consistently in his time on the court. in his later years on the court ry are questioned, the legality of the death penalty and drafted one of the rulings of holding obamacare. his retirement now sets up a political battle to name a replacement. heidi joe castro al jazeera washington, and i saw the other news from the united states. the federal reserve is saying it's

going to raise interest rate for the 1st time in 3 years. it flashed rates to near 0, the beginning of the corona virus pandemic rights wiley's expected to start moving in march in an attempt to fight rising inflation in the country. federal reserve chat. jerome pals, as getting inflation on the control is vital to strengthening the job market. now britain's print xander is seeking a jury trial to clear his name in the sexual assault complaint she's fighting in new york is facing a civil case brought by virginia. jeffrey who says she was sexually assaulted by prince andrew when she was 17. he denies all the allegations. gabriel elizondo is following this story and joins us live now from new york. does this make the possibility of a trial more likely than it certainly does, without a doubt. i mean, prince andrew and his lawyers also wanted this trial to go away. they wanted this whole accusations to go away, and in fact, they argued as much to the judge just

a couple weeks ago saying that this should be entirely dropped. the judge heard that a couple weeks ago and ruled against prince andrew and his lawyer saying no, this case, this civil case could go forward. and now it is 2 weeks later we're hearing in this 11 page document submitted to the judge by prince andrew and his lawyers basically saying, well, if this can go away, then we want to go to trial. and we want to confront the accuser. in this case, virginia go free, that is what the lawyers are saying. now for prince andrew, this could potentially set up a very dramatic trial later this year. here in new york, in federal court, there is still a chance, of course, that this could be settled out of court. there's a chance that this will not go to trial. that is certainly still a possibility. but right now, given these developments, it appears that it very much could go to trial and that the prince,

andrew and his lawyers very much would welcome that they deny any wrong doing prince andrew denies. in his latest court filing that he was a cont, co conspirator, with with the jeffrey epstein. he denies all the charges against him and says that he wants to fight this in court. of course, virginia godfrey is a civil case and this matter relates to her claim that she was sexually abused by prince andrew on 3 separate occasions once in london. once in the caribbean, at a private island of jeffrey epstein. and once here in new york city, she is taking this to court to get damages in this matter. so this very much could be going to court as far as virginia godfrey and her lawyers are concerned. they issued a statement saying they are very much looking forward to their words, confronting prince andrew in court. thank you very much for me or gabriel. on his own dime the military comm became

a fastow is going to be discussed at an emergency meeting of west african leaders on friday. the un and u. s. a demanding the immediate release of the deposed president for bery cruelly to say they seized power because of the government's failure to stop on attack attacks. she's me by om group, including our kite and i still think it's august 14th element, forest market. do good incentive reports. there is kind of unusual, a recall in the city i've been here before. usually at this time of the hour, the streets would be bustling with activity. i want to show you right behind me. i'm just going to step away from there, shot further in the distance is actually the presidential palace no longer in the hands of the president security guards, but now it's burkina faso special force that they've set up a checkpoint that we can't go any further. now that's no longer at the center of power for this country. the decision making now is happening in downtown. why do go

in one of those camps where the new strong men of the country and the colonel finally got me back earlier today met with members of a hawk cowboy. the idea here is to try to put in place as quickly as possible before friday's meeting of the west african, a heads of state, some sort of national unity government to show that they have some sort of legitimacy here. since the coo, earlier this week, more than 300 people have been rescued of spain's canary islands. marine authority said they were migrants who were pulled from 6 rickety boats. about a 120, had crammed into just one dingey that were taken to a port in grand canaria. growing number of people is risking the dangerous cross in the islands of west africa. an effort to get to europe. peruvian authorities are assessing a new oil leak off the coast of lima countries. navy release. these images of the latest spill peruse, environment ministry. a saying bleak was reported during work at the lamp. i'm p. a

refinery owned by spanish energy giant reps. so the company says it's not aware of a 2nd leak cruise is still cleaning up off to a major spill at the same refinery 10 days ago. now to pakistan there's been a rise in corona virus cases there. that's prompted officials in the northwestern city of the shower, to and pro, impose a so called smart lockdown as they're calling it. people in neighborhoods is selectively restricted, depending on test results. last week, a country reported the country reported its highest number of daily infections. since the pandemic began. elsewhere, hong kong 0 coven policy has been challenged by the army cron very into corona virus locked down, and 3 apartment blocks has been tightened. at least 200 people in one housing estates of tested, positive brit clinic reports, anger and disappointment, the thousands of residents confined to their homes on the quite an estate. one of

hong kong, largest public housing complexes. a 5 day lockdown was supposed to end wednesday until more infections were detected to play safe, protecting the our residents as well as preventing the spread of their side virus. we have no choice but to extend the a restricted testing declaration for another 2 days. those in lockdown say the government orders have been confusing. she at home came out a lot of government announced arrangement very late. we have no idea where to go for to mandatory tests. i think the government's plan is without the vision. so it is inconvenient for out of like b, we are not familiar with smartphone. people living here say that the daily cues for testing make them anxious, because the area is overcrowded and waiting times can be too long. for hygiene conditions and piles of rubbish are all so a concern, fries on detail, very bare little table. there is garbage in the staircases every day. the government's arrangement is very bad too. as you can see from this queue,

it is much easier to get covert and many worry that the strict locked down will be extended beyond friday and into the chinese lunar new year holiday, which begins next week. the restrictions are part of hong kong goal of stamping out all clothing transmission. yeah, i think the, the reason why we are adopting a dynamic sure will policies to minimize the stress on the health care system. or even though in the crime, we know that it's very mall disease. and then of course, currently del, relatively few cases in hospital. and i think non in our to you right now. the strict locked down here at quite till the state is an unprecedented move by the hong kong government. it's similar to the strategy seen across the border and mainland china, which also takes a no tolerance approach to the virus concern to in china's capital. the winter olympics are due to start next week in beijing mass testing for 2000000 reh students. he's underway in the southern front high district of beijing as infections, their increase china hopes,

mass testing and aggressive quarantine rules will contain the virus. but as it prepares to ring in the year of the tiger, ongoing restrictions of proving that army kron is tough to tame brit clinic al jazeera. hong kong and british prime minister boris johnson, has again resisted calls to resign. as he faced an peas in parliament on wednesday, he refused to comment on an internal investigation into whether his government health gatherings in breach of coven 19 lockdown rules. the findings are expected to be published soon. police are carrying out a separate investigation into this is the leader of the opposition labor party darma called on bar johnson to stand down adjusting. he broke the ministerial code to the under simmons. as at downing street was more on what could be in store for the prime minister. loud and walk as this was the 3rd successive prime minister's

questions since the party gave scandal broke. johnson refused to resign and he refused to go into any further details because of the imminent some great inquiry report arrive here in downing street be considered. and then that would be a statement in the house of commons opposition parties will be given time to study it. before that happens, the timings are unclear will join premises question the thompson was referring to divert the attention towards his policy successes. trying to impress the party because m p is in considerable numbers all now feeling that he needs to go. they're holding the pelvis dry until the results of the report on know. and if there is a smoking gun, then expect a move to get rid of him. ah,

quite look at the main stories the sour now. the united states and nato have delivered written responses to russia, security demands on ukraine. the us ambassador delivered the american document earlier. moscow says it's ready to retaliate if the west does not provide constructive on says on this fears of a potential russian invasion of ukraine has prompted one of the biggest mobilizations of western forces in europe. us actually say, as the blinkin is saying, response made no concessions to the main demand that you crime be bought from. joining nato and was coordinated with key of and european allies are response to russia. reflects what i said in keith, berlin, and geneva last week. we're open to dialogue, we prefer diplomacy and we're prepared to move forward where there is the possibility of communication cooperation. if russia deescalate its aggression toward ukraine, stops the inflammatory rhetoric and approaches, discussions about the future security in europe in a spirit.