on al jazeera ah al jazeera ah, with the u. s. delivered reply to moscow security demand saying it all was a new diplomatic path to diffuse tensions between russia and ukraine. ah, gloves. the hell robin. you're watching of 0, like my headquarters here in the also coming up a plea from all humanitarian aid for i've got his son, you and walden's the country is hanging by a thread of millions of people are living in frozen the hell. a major australian energy for withdrawals from me in my over human rights concerns. the u. s. is

reporting the supreme court justice steve and brian plans to retire paving the way for president biden to nominate his 1st replacement to the top cold. ah, welcome to the program, the united states and nato say they're offering russia a diplomatic path out of the ukraine crisis in a written response to moscow security demands the past that they're prepared to discuss. obs control but rejected russia's coal to ban kiev from nato. wilson. jordan has more for washington, dc. on wednesday night, the u. s. ambassador to russia john solomon hand delivered the american response to russia's demands for increased security guarantees. amid it's scanned off with the west over ukraine, the letter several pages, long pizza,

the biden administration's position u. s. troops go where they're wanted. individual countries decide whether they want to join, nato and russia must abandon any plans to invade ukraine. moscow says it has no such plants. the document is with them and walls in their court. we'll see what we do, as i said repeatedly, whether they choose the path of diplomacy and dialogue, whether they decide to renew aggression against ukraine were prepared either way, good to see you again. but the u. s. also offered some proposals it thinks could reassure russian president vladimir potent and his government printed arms control, improved transparency on u. s. engagement in ukraine, and changes to u. s. nato exercises and eastern europe. the russians received a similar note from nato leadership in a bid to head off a possible conflict and ukraine. we colon rashaw once again to immediately the

escalate the situation. nato firmly believes that tensions on this agreements must be sold through dialogue on diplomacy. nato was offering to host negotiations between the us and russia to resolve the crisis but stolen bird told reporters 5000 nato rapid response. troops can be called up in just a few days if needed. but washington and its european allies have stepped up deliveries of military age to kill, including defensive weapons. unity among western nations though has not been complete. i in fact like germany, notably hasn't provided any military aid to keep sensibly because of its reliance on oil and gas deliveries from russia. the u. s. reportedly is trying to address those concerns. i'm absolutely confident in german solidarity in of being with co, together with us and other allies and partners in confronting renewed russian

aggression against ukraine. meantime, the u. s. and russia are still walked in a spat over diplomatic thesis. 26 russian diplomats and their families left washington on wednesday because of what the russian ambassador called on going harassment by american authorities. u. s. official say it's now up to moscow to respond to what the americans consider reasonable proposals to and the crisis. but they saying they're still ready to impose the harshest sanctions possible. if moscow orders its troops to invade ukraine. rosalyn jordan al jazeera, the state department, max bergman served as a top advisor in the state department, and the president bronco bama working on ukraine. he says moscow security demands a masking other intentions. i think no one is very optimistic that the diplomatic track will be picked up by russia. because i don't ultimately think that russia's issues are with nato military exercises or. ready with the posture of nato,

i think the u. s. has done a very smart thing to say, like what russia, your concerns are really are the security or security issues such as are military exercises or various arms sales that we have done in our, in arms transfers to ukraine. we can talk about that is we have a long history of talking about that with the russians and the soviet since the cold war period. ready of trying to create strategic stability. but i think at the heart of this, i think is about russia wanting to control ukraine in what the us is not going to do is to sort of see too ridiculous demand, such as ensuring that, that ukraine will never be part of nato. frankly, russia already have sort of a detail about that because russia has occupied part of the brain. and i don't think there's any possible way that ukraine becomes part of nato, as long as russian forces are still on cranium territory. so i think what we're really talking about is the russian looking for reasons to walk away from talks to

justify potential invasion. and so that's why i think everyone in washington is very much on edge right now. a national guard service been her shot and killed 5 people at a military factory in central ukraine. it happened. they use mash missile factory in didn't pro city. the soldier opened fire and security guards after receiving a kalashnikov assault rifle. he then fled with the weapon. 5 people were injured. life of god as far as becoming a frozen hell, but the warning from un secretary general antennae good harish who says the ongoing humanitarian crisis has left the country hanging by a thread of diplomat scattered james bay's reports now from the un 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 thread. for our guns daily life has become a frozen hell. one of us can astonish best known women's rights. campaigners who still lives in cobble came to new york to address the security council. after 20 years of tasting freedom working, 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 lyons said, a number of women activists had recently been adopted and then had disappeared. she said this was part of a wider, deeply worrying pattern. here on the ground. there is compelling evidence of an emerging environment of intimidation, and deterioration, and 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 ga 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 and 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, jordan's army says it's killed 27 drug smugglers who are trying to cross the border from syria armed forces spokesman said they were carrying large amounts of drugs when they tried to get into the country under the cover of heavy snow. jordan's armed forces have toughened their rules of engagement after a spike in drug smuggling across the border. a major australian energy firm has announced its withdrawing from the ball. woodside is the latest company to pull out because of human rights concerns. it follows energy giant chevron and to tell now the energy sector has been the biggest source of foreign income. human rights watch says the military is cracked down on the center, mounts to crimes against humanity. literally now is stacey gaudinas. she's direct off human rights at the australasian center for corporate responsibility and joins me now from sydney discuss the good of you with the slide on al jazeera,

what seems to push woodside to leave me in ball that culture and so pressure from shareholders on the public in general, yes, this is a really important decision by what size ah, following dec i did. in fact, i thought to review the operations. but it's only been to day that made the final announcement a withdrawal completely. and you know, i think that this has been because of a variety of factors, but my slate. it has been the shia persistence of civil society organizations like here in australia, but will say very brave activists and unionists in me and my running the blood money campaign. who have really spoken to woodside a recent woodside and make them aware of the serious human rights violations here. and to the extent that woodside hasn't been, i was going away, i think,

here in australia, seeing more and more energy companies being a bit more aware that social losses operate and more aware of the reputational operational impacts that can happen to the company. as well as financial impact, if they don't listen, just because society entities risks that apply as by these types of operations, it can be difficult for civil society to find a bottle at so many 1000 miles away. so how much pressure in general has that beetle astray leon? businesses, for example, to disengage from me in mildest past 12 months, either from the government or from public pressures. you mention? yes, well it is an activist in civil society organizations really, you know, rushing to the ministers here in australia to the governments. i'm trying those channels as well as you know, directly to the company and raising this with k investors as a serious human rights violation. and, you know,

i really think that would sides understand that we're coming into a future where it's not possible just to ignore shit. how does the ignore civil society organizations when they saying that it's untenable to be, you know, working and operating in a country that has today, made it up to 1501500 of its own civilians, men, women, and children is not only untenable from a human rights perspective, but i'll say good pious, you know, in the future it's just not possible for them to be making no money and to have good operations in the country that prevented conflict and violence. does you'll workstall payroll now? now that australian companies, you might sail all withdrawing all the big ones already way because you still have countries and businesses in thailand and south korea who are heavily involved in be involved. so where do you draw the line or you just continue your work and focus on

a bigger multi nationals? yes, absolutely. and the active bray back to the span of the blood money campaign and other civil society organizations. and now turning their attention to companies like oscar, who are a south korean company who is continuing to explore gas operations and also south drain organizations containing plus k to also withdrawal from mamma . and so what we'll see is this land side effects when more and more companies withdraw from the company and withdrawal, that's critical revenues that are going to the me and my military. without those revenues, it will make it harder for the military to purchase weapons and other hardware that they continue to sprain. it's tara over the ice 1000000000. so we are certainly high from to say that hoss go and all the companies that are still operating in the country will policies and do the right thing. we'll just see what happens in the

coming weeks and months for the moment. today's he called with a for the australasian said to full corporate responsibility. thanks. joining us from said me like you thank you. now still had here on al jazeera destroying data, europe's police agency is told to get rid of information that holds on thousands of people criminalizing the cages. seems like these are set to become a thing of the past in south korea. ah ah, look forward to brighter skies the winter sponsored my cattle ways. that heavy snow that was so newsworthy, enclosed, and greece and turkey was 2 days ago that it's now sun over the top of the snow storm. the ground, the cold air still around in the balkans and south was the warnings of severe light frosts. but the next storm developing very obviously further north,

it's not severe, it's a pretty standard winter storm, a strong wind johnson with nor see so there will be high waves in the coast, denmark low countries, and they'll be snow brought in with that with date on temperatures, still, single figures now's extremely low, they were london actually because the stirring up of this very cold layer of air is now warmed up about 11 degrees in the forecast. that's going to continue processing itself during friday with the snow going eastwards into western russia. going south was once again the balkans, not survey edge, a standard winter stuff, and then the return of the southwest of the breeze, the british isles, all this time spending, particles loving it. i have to say's beautiful sunshine that the cold air has spread down through egypt and again, temperatures wrong rise cars at 60 below average, but not as bad as it was. but you'll notice this brown poor here. this is the seasonal ha, matt. and when it's been enhanced recently, it's blowing quite strongly bringing dust dorms to chat monsieur nigeria for the

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welcome back to, to there with me the whole robin, with everybody to companies, stories right now. the us and nato say they're offering russia a diplomatic path out of the ukraine crisis in a written response. security demand the past say they're willing to discuss arms control, but rule not boring. kids from native deals that could be generals that have done his phone is hanging by a thread with education and other social services close to claps. be when it's working to provide aid and suspend sanction of trailing an energy woodside has now that withdrawing from mamma like this company to pull out because of human rights concerns. i phone is energy. john chevrolet, entitled the energy sector has been the biggest source of foreign income the us media is reporting that supreme court. justice steven bryan is that to retire at the end of the courts. current term. the 83 year old's departure will give present. joe biden says, chance to nominate a new judge to the court,

highest judicial body. during this campaign button, probably choose a black woman hunter, castro. supreme court justice steven 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 court 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. hi 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 a 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 on your success. female president is due to be sworn into power in a few hours time. but the milestone is being mobbed by rebellion within the schumacher customers own party will repel reports now from the capital. tickets you got the 100 is about to swear in the countries. the 1st woman president jo, monica was historic victory in the november elections into the highly polarized election season. more violent and fears of social unrest, bible, we are going to form a government of reconciliation in our country, a government of peace and the government of justice. whose presidency morrison in to the 12 year rule by the conservative national party led by controversial

president. one had landed in mandy but a power struggle in the 100 national congress threatened to derail the new president's political agenda. and analysts say the discord could plunge the country into a crisis. i can quote that i don't want to leave. we have to find a abundance in order to avoid the fire from spreading. but i right now it's manageable if we don't seek out a solution. and instead as to the fire level, we're going to get burn. yeah, tomonica is the wife of former hunter and president my new insulator who was ousted during a coup in 2009 as a presidential candidate, got through promise to restore democratic institutions and root out corrupt government officials. even before the start of the latest political crisis in honduras, addressing them any problems facing the country like violence, poverty, systemic corruption, and, and he can, on the crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic,

was a tall order for the new president. now with a really ripped, in the 100 legislature, the international community is calling for a dialogue, but average citizens see what they want is for the government to simply do its job . yup, i'm allowing a, as a young person, i'm low in, that's the job for young people, all adults, and the late there are laws in favor of women and for men to the children for animals. i know the president shall mazda is going to cheat it. the incoming administration of monica is seen by many as an opportunity to turn the page on more than a decade scandal and political turmoil. but if the current conflict is not result, it's an opportunity that could be squandered before catherine presidency. even begin when, when did up and al jazeera debussy guys, molly's transitional government is due to urge venus to allow danish routes to remain in the country after insisting they leave the monk special forces a part of

a french lead counter. terrorist and tough falls there by invitation, but molly's government says it hasn't proved copenhagen's request to deploy troops . my, she, nobody will come here by proxy anymore. that used to happen, but now it's finished. it won't happen any more under the search of us. see me going to talk, if someone has to come to molly and then we will come to an agreement, we will agree on what you will come here to do. the military cuban became the fan, so it's that to be discussed dancing, emergency meeting of west african leaders on friday. the regional organization eco us has condemned to take over the u. n. and us at managing the immediate release of deposed president, covering your fleet agency has been ordered to destroy information holes on thousands of people. regulators accused europe, all of exceeding your limit for data storage. step faster has the story from amsterdam long found the linda file, the court case in amsterdam against police to find out why europe all is buying on

him. the dutch activists as the worst he did, was break a window during a protest for homeless people, while police in the netherlands admitted founder linda is no danger to society. he has yet to find out what you are. paul knows about him. they don't have trip on the data. and if they don't have creep on the data and they spread it all around the world, this is super dangerous. what is the danger of the danger is getting arrested and ending up in an, in, in the police cars to the or worse in a certain country because they don't like political activist or left wing political activist. in my case, you report obtain personal data, thousands of citizens up. the french police hacked into an encrypted phone messaging service. as a result, dutch french, german, and british police arrested hundreds of suspected criminals in 2020, in the so called and called chap case. the most remarkable find was a container equipped to torture people. lawyers are questioning the legality of the operation, and you see fish new old. so if you see

a wave of court cases now in the netherlands, u. k, from being finland and germany, everyone is fighting this, but so far, clarity has not been given bass. this is quite unique because anchored chat is one of the biggest hex ever done by the police. and they should clarify if it was done legally, the u, a b, and data protection supervisor has company at your pulse practices with those at the american spy agency. as we field by whistleblower edward snowden in 2013. so you can not collect the data just in case it will be necessary. it will be useful in the future. you should know from the very beginning to what the data is stored for. this is the difference between the european approach and approach in some other parts of the world where it is acceptable that the data is stored in case it will be useful in the future. you know, a full declined to comment on camera, but in, in response the agencies fast at the 6 months time limit for data storage just not

enough. and that it is assessing how the supervisors decision to destroy the data will affect the security of you citizens. while most europeans won't complain about data storage for criminal networks, but it's concern about the millions of innocent people who are being monitor the european commission is discussing. if legislation to allow euro pulse, mass data, storage should be adopted. i'm actually quite surprised that what happened at that time was and as a, everybody was speaking out very clearly in the you. and now the use of doing in themselves. and there is not so much outcry yet from the linda is calling on other europeans to go to court to the mount, access to the files stored about them. but he wants, it could take many years before they'll receive answers. steadfast and al jazeera, amsterdam buttons, prince andrew, is seeking your jury trial to clear his name in the sexual assault case that he's fighting in new york. he's facing a civil complaint brought by virginia to fray,

who says that she was sexually assaulted by him 20 years ago when she was 17 years old. he denies the allegations while legal action is being lost in japan by 6 people who say they develop fibroid cancer following the fukushima nuclear disaster . they're seeking 5 and a half $1000000.00 in compensation from the operators of the nuclear power station devastated by an earthquake and said, i'll be 11 years ago. south korea has announced plans to and bear farming. hundreds of so called mood bears the captain cages around the country, because their bile and other body parts are used in traditional medicine for the government says that'll become a crime within the next 4 years. alexia bryan has more gift in tiny rusting cages. these bears have only ever known captivity. their asiatic black bears, known as moon, bears for their crescent shaped markings. their bile is used in traditional

medicine, merely believe it can cure a range of ailments from hangers to cancer. but under a new plan agreed between being farmers, animal welfare groups, and the south korean government keeping caged bears is to become a crime. and can de veterans, alameda home today is a very precious day declaring an end to bear farming. every one here has a part to play. we'll have to work together to make sure that from january the 1st 2026, the term breeding bear will vanish. commercial be about farming began and south korea in the meantime. aces, as a way for poor farmers to increase income. well, sarah, to get to thought to practice saying the bears live in misery. farmers to have pushed for change. al jazeera visited came clang, so in 2013, he said the home grown thereby market had collapsed with south koreans buying it

for less from china or vietnam. he says, well, the plan is a good start. he's not sure it goes far enough home. had a lab and we'll have we have 4 more years until they'll take over the bears for years. as a long time, the government should provide some support and feeding the bears and maintaining facilities to make sure they're taken care of. about 360 bears are in captivity in south korea that we bought using civic funds and put in to care the environment ministers apologized for not acting sooner. actually, honestly, poorly if we hadn't gentlemen, i would like to ask everybody for their cooperation. so that the bears will no longer leave their cages to have their bile extracted, but instead to move to sanctuaries and live out the remainder of their days in a free and safe environment. the 1st of 2 centuries is said to open them in 2024. so these bear still have many long days and nights and cages. before the 1st st

freedom. alixia brian al jazeera, sorta voice, removing music by rockstar neil young after it refused his request to take down the podcast. accused of spreading cove at 19 misinformation. young said he no longer wished a wanted his music all the streaming platform because of its relationship with podcast. host, joe rogan rogan, has been criticized for into being an infectious disease specialist who opposes coven? 19 vaccines for children now? good kids. and was spreading misinformation about the pandemic. ah, your job is over with me. so robert, reminder of our top news stories, the u. s. a. nato say they're offering russia a diplomatic path out of the ukraine crisis, in a written response to moscow security demands. the pair said they're willing to discuss arms control, but ruled out barring keir from native. moscow has not responded.