under see pipeline, or take another 5 days to clear authorities, worried beaches in ryan province in the gulf of thailand could become coasted in oil leak loose or threaten a national park in nearby co summit island. that 50000 liters is estimated to spilled. and the navy says, 5000 liters still remain on the ocean surface specialists from singapore adjoining the repair mission. ah, i'm on the top stories here now to 0 years president joe biden. and his ukranian counterpart of laudermill zalinski holding a coal as tensions rise with russia. more russian military jets have landed in belarus drills as the current says, the u. s. and nato a failed to address its security concerns. every ukraine. washington has formerly rejected moscow's demand to have ukraine banned from joining the military alliance . the criminal spokesman says that leaves quote little ground for optimism. alan

fischer has more from washington d. c. all of us with a phone call with the ukranian president. is this the 1st step in a number of meetings that are going to be held over the next few days that will come significant and important such as the carry, amir who is going to be here. on monday, a beer joe biden says that they will talk about afghanistan, which is important, obviously. but they're also going to talk about the, the producing more natural gas for places like germany, or it will be mctavish speaking to customers in asia. but clearly you're buying wants to make sure that the carries on board, so they can provide the biggest economy in europe. should there be any problem with supply coming from russia? book in of us as new military rulers have warned former government ministers not to leave the capital or obstruct offices. 3 days after taking control of the west african nation in a cou, a situation, and book an affair, so will be discussed by west african leaders. at an emergency meeting of the

regional alliance echo us on friday. the 15 members will ready condemned monday's crew, and the united nations is demanding the immediate release of deposed president haka boy. the 1st female president of honduras has been sworn in at a ceremony in the capital to gucci alpa. jamara castro takes over from to turn president on orlando hernandez, a 62 year old faces high expectations to turn around. a dispute over who will lead the newly elected congress? yes, president joe biden has confirmed. he'll nominate the 1st black woman to the supreme court. after justice stephen bryer announced he's stepping down this year friars. one of 3 liberal justices are me consent to majority court was were top stories to stay with us here. now there are a stream is coming up next. i'll be back with more news. after that, i 40 ah

ah i us any ok to day on the stream i'm joined by sorry out israel a journalist from across the globe to discuss the stories that we're covering. and we want to hear from you. if you are in a lively chat, you can talk to correspondence and bring us the knees. leave a comment or question, but you'll have to be really quick because this is going to be a fast moving chat. so our 1st stop is europe, where the standoff continues between ukraine and russia. i'll just say was a honda abdul had need reports from easton, ukraine in the winter, see the landscape of the frontline of this conflict seems frozen in time. the

ukrainian army is entrenched just a few kilometers north of done yet the stronghold of russian back separatist. the enemy is not far away. a phone call to one phone with me. so they can they hear us too? ok. the army has moved in to what is left of the industrial area on the outskirts of, at the fca. the conflict also seems to be frozen in time. neither side making gains since the war broke out in 2014 or a so good to have here on the stream is almost like we 15 straight off a news bulletin and then bang into the stream. what i would love to do in our chat is to take us really behind the fight lies in ukraine and tell us how ukrainians are viewing this. is it a crisis? is it a crisis for them?

well actually for me today with the team, we were chatting and we were saying we've got yet to meet a ukrainian who says, i'm really worried that there's going to be a russian invasion. they just shrug it off. the one sentence, you always hear people say that we've been living with the threat of a russian invasion for the past 8 years. we've been hearing all about it. and then they seem also much more in touch with reality menu it tell you just, you know, the conditions are not there. it's winter, the sub 0 temperatures, the ground is frozen. the russians don't have enough troops on the other side of the border to invade. so really it's a completely different tone than what you hear then from, you know, political leaders, residents, all that sort of hype that you're here. nothing unders cheats neither in care or

here in easton ukraine where people actually live near the front line and do here. you know, a gunshot do here explosions once in a while, they completely shut it off. i remember watching one of your posts recently, which was on the front lines is an area where a lot of people would left all the plans that left very close to where the russian troops were, were actually standing by on the border and a couple of gunshots went off from across the border, a breaking the ceasefire. and the gentleman you so you were talking to he sort of one did off. you want it off in the other direction. nobody looked panicked. absolutely not. we just stood there few minutes to wait. if there was going to be a more, a few more gunshots and to understand in which direction, and then we just continued our shooting. and i did is that the enemy, and they said yes. and i said is, does that happen all the time? and i said, yes, it does happen all the time, but it's,

it's ok. they didn't seem worried at all. and i did ask the soldiers, do you personally think there's going to be a war? and the ones i spoke to at least that is to everyone. but they also said no, we don't think it will be at this particular moment in time as fast. i think getting that sort of 1st hand knowledge from, from soldiers who are waiting to see what might happen. i want to bring in julia is from human rights watch. have a listen to the video that she sent us a little bit earlier order and then response of the back of it. at human rights watch, we have been following the situation unfolding around ukraine in recent weeks and months growing concern. but as concerns continue to grow above the threat of a possible large scale military offensive in russia party, it is important to remember that ukraine has been at war with russia for nearly 8 years ever since russia occupied by me in peninsula in 2014 the plight of civilians

in eastern ukraine who have suffered enormously from the beginning of this conflict, who have had their homes, their hospitals, their schools damaged or destroyed, should be on everyone's mind as we continue to monitor the current escalation and ukraine. but i think she hit it on the nail there when that's what a lot of people told me here. we've been 8 years of war. this is not something you is been ongoing and we know that at some point there will be an escalation, not yet. now and then yes, there is as a humanitarian situation, i mean it's not a terrible humanitarian situation because a lot of people have moved. cities have gone to other areas, but can i sign and the connection still

there? i'm sorry. yeah, i think it broke down in connection, it did write down with paper pick up where you left off because we were looking at some of your reporting footage that didn't leave us hanging. go ahead how to please keep talking. okay, so it as we've lost, lost the connection, it may well be the temperature where hotter is right now if you been watching her during her life hates her reporting. during the news you would have seen how much bundled up. she wasn't how fidget and code it was. i see. yeah, i get your back again. can you tell us the story that you're going to report on next? just before i wrap up, because i don't think the internet calls will be enough for much longer. go ahead. well actually today we went and you know, does this contact line is 420 kilometers long, and it's plenty of little villages along that contact line. and i have to say they're empty, but they're, they're part of a military zone. but the government did allow residents to go back. there's just

a few people left and you know, so you do get a feeling that obviously people don't feel safe to return to their homes are living in other areas. but you know, i spoke to an old lady, she was walking around with her husband and i said, what are you doing here? why don't you leave? and she said, well, this is my ho, this is where i grew up. and i said, what? well what, what happens if there's a war? she's our just, we have a small shelter job, i'll just go down in the shelter and it's quite incredible to see people who i really don't panic at this particular moment. busy in. busy time, what i did notice, however, is that behind the scenes there's a lot of stories of torn families. because at the end of the day, the link between ukraine and russia, especially in this part of the country, is very the people speak russians. and in this part of the country, and i met several people who told me that they considered the enemy by there,

the rest of their family. one woman at v, if got told me that her cousins and uncles and aunts live in den, yes. which is the stronghold of so the brushing back separatist and they decided to stay there and now they call her a traitor. so you do have a lot of torn families and i think that's something that the country will take a long time to recover from. thank you so much for taking us behind the scenes of your reporting that you're doing right now in easton ukraine. we really appreciate that we will continue to follow you on outta zera. we had further east to beijing where the 2022 winter olympics opening ceremony is next friday. out as a was katrina you reports an excitement and final preparations. de slopes are full of added skiers and snow borders. many a looking forward to the games and go home for hi of course i am very excited and

proud because their winter olympics will be held in my motherland very long. it makes me very happy. this balls have become very popular in china in recent years. the chinese government has poured billions of dollars into preparing to host the games in february, including investing in italian snow making equipment to help build up its fledgling winter sports industry. it's in a so nice the scene. thank you for your reporting that you've been doing. there has been so much politics involved in a beige in winter olympics that we forget. sometimes that is about snow sports, winter, sports, skiing, snowboarding, all of the amazing things that happen in the, in the winter time. if you live in a cold climate. how much excitement is there on the ground? i fair may. well, there's a great deal. i guess if you ask chinese authorities, they would say they're 100 percent ready to hurst the winter olympics, they've taken this back water rumored, mountainous village. and in

a matter of years turned it into a winter sports center web brand, you infrastructure, built up from nothing. basically. and china itself had a very fledgling winter sports industry. there went that many people relative to other countries who are into, into sports. and now you've got millions really engaging and we're at a, an advanced level in these, in these games in these sports. now you got, you know, when it comes to the other things that have prepared, you've caught the mascot's ready, the metals designed the uniforms. hundreds of stuff ready and waiting to prepare the game. so there is a lot of momentum at china's been waiting for this big grand more minutes going to be they doing is the only the 1st city that's gonna hurst birth, the summer and the winter game. so yes, there is a lot of excitement there. i think that's definitely the story that the chinese government want to tell. of course there's the other thing is the stuff that is not

going to plan according to the aging. and that is when you look at things like the crone of ours outbreak, and you also look at a lot of international criticism which is attracting the wrong kind of attention in china's eyes. let me ask you about the snow. no technical details about the snow, but is there snow and i'm going to do that via some of our string family who spoke to us little bit earlier about their concerns about snow, which is sort of a one 0 one for hosting the winter olympics. this what i told us, this is a very high temperatures. there is all small o vision, ready in place, and always $21.00 centimeters also fall for a year in the last years. so all the snow has to be produced artificially. this

requires a huge amount of water in an environment that's not appropriate for snowmaking because it's very arid and very windy and the water has to be brought from very far away. so all in all these games are not sustainable. so say i'm just wondering, is i know a when to sports culture in china because of the lack of snowing ice is where it's needed in order for that industry to 5. that's certainly a big part of it, like you had in those comments. this is a very dry part of the country and it doesn't get a lot of natural snow. it's winter here, it's minus 5 minus 10 degrees in the city, but we've rarely see snow because it's just simply too dry. i did gorse into those areas and i actually spoke to the manufacturer of all the snow machines who will provide it will be providing those facilities for the winter olympics. his argument was that, look, it's not a problem. a lot of world class snow facilities do use artificial snow and actually

it can be beneficial when it comes to the sports because you can control that texture of the snow or the amount of snow you can really get it per thick in terms of how you want it to be for the slopes, but of course many aren't really buying that. i happened because when it comes to climate change, when it comes to the environment, a lot is going into producing the artificial environment, the artificial conditions for the winter olympics to go ahead. you touched on a little bit earlier, some of the other concerns that have become headlines during the lead up to the winter games. again, some of our community pointed out those, those concerns, i'm going to bring them up and we can address them one by one cove, it and then politics as take a look when it comes to college, china has primal itself on having 0 corporate approach. but with the lender village there, and even though it's being marriage and reclose management system,

if there's any virus outbreak from the village in to the broader population of china, that will be politically embarrassing. certainly a lot of where groups in the worst political and non state home raise questions about human rights violations happening china and just look at the one picks should either be recorded or a. so for protest. so it will be very interesting to see how tall or chinese authorities will be if there are in fact after using the olympic platform to engage in protest. externally, there is considerable, i'm china, sentiment and scrutiny. and if we think about, for example, we community john province also the palm try case that will keep coming back for china, i think to challenge how people see the country. good. so let's start with the cova because when basing originally bid for the winter games, this was long before we had any idea that it would bring us

a pandemic. and now it's a major winter sporting event in a situation where people gathering together to enjoy sports is going to be very difficult. maybe impossible is 0 cove it sprag? is that possible? how is that being? how is that being addressed? that's right. so in china, one case of the current of ours is one case to many. and so we've seen in the broader community. if this is, you know, just a few cases, i didn't like got masked testing, quarantining locked downs in many cases. and all the effort to get that number back to 0 and it really inhibits this freedom of movement. now, china, even coming up to the 3rd year of the pandemic here has come a law under a lot of criticism for this approach. a lot of people saying lucas is not sustainable. china cannot just isolate itself from the world. so it wanted to use the olympics as kind of this,

prove that this 0 tolerance policy is working and it can be sustained. and that is what the woodrow olympics was really supposed to shore. um, but of course now you've got this an outbreak that's happening around the country. it's even reached the capital itself. on the con and delta chinese authorities have really gone through a lot of painstaking f it to make sure that everyone going into the winter olympics bubble will be basically sealed off from the rest of the country you've got. and you're invading the special winter olympics lane, sir, people coming from the air, but will go straight into the bubble. they've warned the public that for example, if people in these bosses, if the boss breaks down, nobody go, nobody approach the boss like normal police and normal um hospital. so we can't really rule thing down is just in case they get infected, we will, we will find out if this works. we will have to wait 7 days. we're gonna find out if this actually was, i have

a question for you very quickly. this question comes from placid messages watching right now. and the comment is china's should be getting sanctioned not being celebrated or being rewarded with the olympics that oversee as a question and a comment that comes from outside of china. what would be the response from within china? the chinese government is working really hard to control the narrative inside china . it's censoring information. and what it's putting out to the chinese public is that there are only a handful of countries determined to contain china, jealous of china's achievements. and they're ruining this moment for china by boycotting the olympics. but that's not going to affect the success of the actual games. but then, ah, what this does is it really stifles and creates nor space for any discussion around the validity of these criticisms. these accusations of human rights abuses in even genocide around the treatment of the wiggers for example. so that's what's

happening inside china, but very much, sir, outside of china, you're seeing this international criticism that is really tarnishing china's image . it's really, this is forced to be china's mormon, to show the world that it's not only a, a strong country, but it's an influential one. and this is really undermining its credibility because it a lot of countries now very careful about how they do with china. a lot of sponsors multinational companies are very wary about showing their sponsorship or their relationship will support of the games or, or they ging. oh, so it's almost 2 world. so there will be really interesting to see when the game starts. when you've got all these thousands of participants coming from all over the world, not used to the amount of censorship, not used to this control of information, not used to being silenced when it comes to their opinions about criticizing the chinese government going into china. and you bought these worlds colliding. so be

interesting to see if these athletes do kick of kick up the stink invasions eyes and express their opinions. and i'm not in line with what the communist party wants the winter olympics to be. that would be interesting to see how the aging does respond because so far it's response has been very of a blanket responsive. we do want to politicize sports, isn't vienna's thought, and they have holiday and much more intonation. yeah, yeah i he but sports politics go together like i don't know, peanut butter and jelly, jelly fish and chips. okay. that is going to be an impossible mission, but i cannot wait to see what will happen on february. the 4th is when the winter olympics begin, and we know we're going to be seeing pacina you on al jazeera, adopt in the next couple of weeks. but for now, thank you. katrina, very much say a final stop is the u. s. state of hawaii where the lack of affordable housing is deeply felt by the indigenous hawaiian community, his ha plus producer julia more. david with that story. i've never been home this

before. this is my 1st time because i feel no matter how hard you try it, there's always a very, very annoying native hawaiians are being priced out of white. no way could i afford to even live here just me alone. and that's the sad part of it. we can't afford to be why is the most expensive state to live in the u. s. and out of state buyers continue to turn housing units in the vacation rentals or 2nd homes as taurus blocked to the states resorts, golf courses and be just local residents are facing a housing affordability crisis. their $1000000.00 and they're like, you can drive to an island. rent is also increasing in salaries, are not keeping up with the rising cost of living today. i so good to have you here on the stream. can you tell us how you found this story? because we will have an image of hawaii this tropical paradise and name to have indigenous people of hawaii not being out to find homes, nothing out to afford homes in that land. that is shocking. how did you get that

story? yeah, yeah. i mean, i agree with you, it's chuck, this story is carried out in different places. and i actually was going to do another water right today, but i'm hearing this thing over again where people were just talked about housing affordability. so i was talking to dozens and dozens of people around that story that i was working on and more and more people told me, oh no i if i didn't have a paycheck, i didn't have the next paycheck. i wouldn't be able to stay on this island and something about that just kind of stuck a quarter mean because why so far from the b u. i. so that state dina, when these people, they are island for miles, i'm just going to pause us for a moment because you know, it's not fantastic. certainly going to fix the audio. but in the meantime, i want,

i'm going to bring in somebody who you met, who talked about the challenge of being a hawaiian and indigenous hawaiian, and not being asked to afford a home without all of the family piling in. this is carol lee kamma calling these homes can run about 850 to a mill. not because of the houses in the way they look because of the location of the house is. is that affordable for a can not go moly, no, not even if you're working 3 jobs with 2 incomes in the household. so that way can come only have a lot of multi generational homes where you have 23, possibly even 4 generations. living in one household, just so that we can survive and live here at home. so jesus documentary is very short. it's like a mini document. he's only 8 minutes long. i'm gonna show you here on youtube where you can see it because then you get the full story. it's cord. why can't hawaiians

afford to live in hawaii? why can't hawaiians afford to live in hawaii? there are solutions there, all solutions from local authorities who are working out. how do we give land to indigenous hawaiians? that is a nist, but that list takes a really long time to get on that list. i want to bring in somebody that we talked to earlier to get a better idea of how the so if this problem, her name is catherine monet. if we are truly serious about addressing this issue, the state of hawaii and the federal government would get creative about we used to bring more affordable housing to bear and hearing that housing with the services and supports that may be needed by anyone in a culturally relevant and competent way, such that we can truly have a state of people where everyone drives judy as they should be a solution to this problem when you were reporting it. what did you come up with?

yeah, i mean that's, that's a good question. it's also very big question. i think that there on, there are a lot of experts that are, that are working on this. and there are a lot of these that people are working on. i'm including, you know, trying to put caps on an air b and b, even confusion rentals and condos and limiting the number of homes that obviously buyers can own. i'm putting on, you know, a certain amount of percentage of affordable housing units. and i renew development . i think the issue is that there is a kind of patchwork of policy. so people that are falling, falling through the cracks with curly come aqona and jessica, a lot of the times, it's a lack of people. there's a lot of access to knowledge about the voices which was partially partially what was happening and just not not having, having those available. thank you so much julia for sharing your story with us.

have a look here on my laptop. we have 3 out of the report is on today's show. here we go. we had hot as her maid, julie m. o. david, we just have from julia. and of course, katrina, you. thanks for watching the next time. ah ah ah ah

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