monies are making serious f rates in order to increase and disrupt the tenant, because we meet with global use maintenance at about the stormy stack. imagine analyses ah the us warns of an imminent threats of a russian invasion of ukraine with more fighting words. if russia day to chrome, one way or another nord stream to will not fall ah, below again i and pete, adobe. you're watching al jazeera life from doe are also coming up days after overthrowing the precedent. burkina faso new military leader promises a return to constitutional order. when conditions are right. north korea confirms

it's testified more long range missiles this week is kim joan own tools, a weapons factory, and building a bitcoin city. el salvador president plans to use volcanic energy to power the exchange of crypto currency. ah, you as president joe biden has warned the ukrainian leader that a russian invasion is a distinct possibility and it may happen as soon as next month. the kremlin has denied it planning an attack. the french president emanuel macro will speak to vladimir putin shortly to pursue a path of dialogue. he is our diplomatic, added to james bay's, looking at whether there is still a chance to avoid a military confrontation. hello, in recent weeks, have seen an unprecedented flurry of diplomacy. efforts have intensified as the

threat of war grows, a war many believe could now be imminent and very dangerous. meanwhile, troops, tanks and weapons continue to mess in eastern europe. russian forces surround ukraine, nato is reinforcing its members the board of russia while some members of the alliance, but notably not germany ascending anti tank and anti aircraft massage to ukraine. so is there now a way to stop this march to war? span juergen, son is a stone years and basset to the united nations. his country is a neighbor to russia and until the end of last year served on the security council, there's always room control compromise. but the question is, does russia want to compromise? because if you look at the demands that russia has put forward to united states and nato, then just reading through them, it's absolutely obvious that the soul is just nonsense. it's deliberately grafted

in a way that there couldn't be any compromise deleda of another nato nation. again, with a border with russia, norwegian prime minister, yona sca stora has told me despite the difficulties, no efforts should be spared to find a diplomatic solution. i simply state and i observe up now there are talks going on . there's a channel of communication, and i would appeal to those who sit those tables, use those channels up, maximum. and on the natal side, on the euro, atlantic side, i believe there is a very strong unity on the principles and very care messages in the communication. much the problem is that russia's foreign minister, so gay lab, ralph has made his country's demands in public and in writing, russia says ukraine must never join nato and the poland in the 3 baltic states, which are all nato members, must be allowed to have troops or weapons from other nato countries on their soil, alone and producing and upon the main question is our clear message that we

consider further nato expansion to the east and weapons deployment, which can threaten the russian federation. unacceptable. one expert on the region warns that can only be a compromise if russia tables a new proposal, something that's more palatable to nato. the best compromise would come in russia put something else on the table that the west was willing and able to provide. if russia looks at the general state of unity between europe and the united states, if it looks the kind of economic pleasures that have been promised in case of an incursion and decided that cost worth it, that the need to maintain business and economic ties to europe is important enough for where russia wants to be in the future that jeopardizing that isn't worth which some experts believe that president putin may not have decided yet whether he's going to invade ukraine. the 1st meeting of the un security council on the current

crisis is expected on monday, and russia were looking for the support of china. and that's why some diplomats believe the russians may wait to launch military action until the event that china has so much about the beijing winter olympics is over. in mid february, james bays al jazeera of the united nations dosage of our joints live from moscow. what's the mood like now doors inside the kremlin? do we think? well, everybody's waiting for the president to make up his mind. vladimir putin was handed the documents that was delivered by the u. s. ambassador here on wednesday evening at the foreign ministry. according to the criminal on thursday, and many here believed that everyone's just waiting for him to the side. how to move forward and what to do next. really, it's anybody's guess what this president will do. but one thing is very clear that this rhetoric coming from washington is not helping the situation. we're expecting

the who foreign minister survey lover of to speak to local media here in the next hour where he's gone highlights the countries position further. and the russians have also said that they will officially respond to the americans in the coming days, what we've been seeing over the past 24 hours is just their reaction and their initial thoughts on what they perceived. oh, it's also important to point out that, that talk that's coming from washington about sanctions and also possibly not starting north stream to is something very serious according to many analysts of in speaking to here. at 1st, let's look at as a possibility that this new 2nd pipeline that will deliver gas a to germany directly from russia could not actually start being operational. it's an $11000000000.00 project and it doesn't just involve russian companies. if the u . s. were to sanction north seemed to and not allow it to become operational. it would also be sanctioning a number of international companies, shell, chevron and,

and run just to name a few that are involved in this giant project that took 5 years to complete. so there is that component to it as well as a russia has a lot of international investments. so any kind of sanction on this country would again involve, is hurting international companies. there's also talk of kicking russia out of the swift program. that's a international banking system that over $200.00 companies use, the russians are currently develop have developed their own version of the swift banking system. so they're not as reliant on that as one would believe. there is a lot of things that this country has done since 2014, when they annexed crimea, and they were under sanctions to prevent themselves from being in that position again. so many people i've spoken to here say russia is actually in a position to withstand a lot of sanctions coming the way that it would also be hurting international companies in the process though. so thank you very much dos jibari. there are talking to us out of moscow as is the way with these things. we are getting a drip,

drip, drip of information. so the lab are off, the russian foreign minister is dressed in the country at the moment. we understand he's saying, if it depends on russia, there will be no war he's talking about, of course, the build up of russian forces across the border on the border with ukraine. and also the key thing about the discussions between mr. lever off and the u. s. secretary of state antony blinking for 5 days ago now in geneva was the russian attitude towards nato plans to expand to the east. that is something that cannot be countenanced by the kremlin. that's the latest from mr. leverett. same will be no war with ukraine blooming, but we will not allow ourselves. he says, to ignore our interests. interesting use of words. they are ignoring our interests more on that developing aspect of this ongoing story. just as soon as we can begin

of as low as military leaders as the nation will only return to what he called constitutional order. when conditions are rights, he's paul on read the amoeba. he addressed the nation for the 1st time since the military coup on monday. he called on people to take up the fight against arm groups linked to al qaeda. and i saw nick hark reports now from why google haunted by those that didn't survive husband's fathers, but also brothers as young as 12 and 70 year old grandfather's all killed by fighters affiliated to isolate in the northern region of law, whom i had mouse gunmen encircled their village and showed them all says you got my moo. now the women and children were spared, but carry with them an unshakable fear of their returning ones. thumbs up, i cannot go back. their bodies is still lying there. rotting in the ground. following monday school lieutenant colonel pollo, he demi bow made his 1st address to the nation. he put the country on war footing, calling on all to unite and take up arms against arm groups. laska laquanta sincere

orders. me sir rollins issue. when the conditions arise, i commit to a returned to a normal constitutional order fellow citizens, people of bikini fossa. while there are many priorities, as is clear that the main priority remains security, we must significantly reduce the area under terrorist influence and the impact of violence extremism. by giving security forces the will to fight, and we must, dull me offensive. valdemar lasted. the burkina faso army, suffering many losses despite the support of french forces. this is in al qaeda propaganda. video recorded by fighters attacking security forces in into last november. dozens were killed in the rate that provoked a public outcry for what was seen as a humiliating defeat, demi by deposed president caberry on monday, accusing him of being unable to defend the country. it's in the military camp in downtown walker do that, lieutenant colonel. but he, demi buys,

meeting with civil society actors leaders from the trade unions and members of capillaries government, the ministers that he was once accountable to are now under his orders. his objective is to rebuild the militaries that they can go from defeat to victory and regain control of law. territory de amoeba had suggested recruiting russian mercenaries help, but president huck garbo ate, dismissed the idea. but since the queue russian mercenaries from the wagner group operating in central african republic, and molly say they are ready to help bertina foster tooth. 2000000 people have been forced from their homes in a country scarred by what feels like an endless spiral of violence. with no peace in sight. nicholas hawk al jazeera. why do go? north korea has confirmed it, testified a series of ballistic missiles on thursday. pyongyang has carried out 6 launches this month in defiance of the un security council. but he took him, john own,

was seen at a factory that state media says helps to manufacture missiles. young uke is an associate research fellow at the ascent institute for policy studies. he believes north korea, we'll continue testing weapons until the u. s. returns to the negotiating table. this is the per pike priming for north korea to look for a pressure on dog country, like as south korea or united states and even china out. well, i mean, there's a good reason. i think that those pretty hard to do those kind of test us is title with the possible conflicts in ukraine and the taiwan and chinese in those are the, the problem and the for the stocks as parental and picks and south korea in the middle of the a presidential election, so this is barely bought a lot of pos for those countries. and north korea is using it. there's a lot of talks under going, but i mean, there's no view to be made. so, i mean,

there's no reason for us to, you know, our like our, like last, you know, trunks by as it kim jones out of the summit. i mean, there's no biden kim, don't. jim jones, somebody is coming up still ahead on al jazeera honduras. whereas in his 1st female president, problems within her party mean a rocky start for seal mara casper and saving a national treasure. australia announces a 703000000 dollar cash injection to help preserve the great barriers. ah, ah, look forward to brighter skies the winter sponsored my cattle airways. now mostly in europe, it's winter. the mon,

they're going to be want to change is taking place whilst this looks like it should do really for late january storm system here. just going to western russia, dragging in snow with it, and that's all for eastern europe. temps aren't exceedingly low here, but they are about to become exceedingly high for the west. this drove a southwesterly at developing yet another late winter storm in the norwegian. c. give proper winter to norway, huge amounts of snow, but liquid is done to london. up to 13 glass, go up to 10 and 2, up at 12. these are pretty high temperatures for late january, mind you the calories at strong wind coming into denmark, running out through the baltic as well. for the south miller lows developing, we've seen water 2 in the last week, which would be the 3rd the spinning up now over grease is not quite as cold last one. so a bit of snow for the height otherwise it's going to be rain. be talking about here is going to keep the focus, i think on libya and egypt for dropping in temperatures and some showers south of that. and this is normal for north africa. the ha,

mattson winds northeast really is become strong. recent, these are for chaplain geron nigeria that brown suggested stronger to accept sandra be sandstorm. same is also true. developing here is western side valgy area for the weather sponsored by katara join the debate. they a ratio of like people from the american and global story was very powerful on an online, at your voice. the comment section was whitehead join our conversation. we had all protected when everyone is protected. it is not to play being nationalistic about those. you just look at it in a very different way, said that perspective men and mid meeting you try that and they don't have any solution. let me put it clear for you this dream on al jazeera with

ah, your, what jail to 0. i'm pete, adobe. let sir, remind you of the top stories you as president joe biden has warned his ukrainian counterpart that a russian invasion is a distinct possibility. russian foreign minister saying if it depends on russia, there'll be no war, but they will not allow the interests to be ignored. so your lover of in the last few minutes, burkina faso is military leader says the nation will only return to what he called constitutional order. when conditions par, right, pull on, read the mega was making his 1st public address as a clue on monday. and north korea has confirmed at testified short range, ballistic missiles on thursday. pyongyang has carried out 6 launches this month in defiance of the un security council. let's get more on our top story so far today. the crisis going on between russia, ukraine,

and western power in the form of nature. the u. s. is asking china to support efforts to resolve the situation diplomatically, china's foreign minister has told the u. s. secretary of state that all sides should avoid stoking tensions. but the u. s. state department is appealing to pay ging to be more actively involved in intervening in what's going on diplomatically. we are calling on a chair to use its influence with moscow to urge diplomacy. because if there is a conflict in ukraine, it is not going to be good for china either. johnny is now on a tangle. he's an independent political and economics affairs, common tasty. he's also a senior international fellow at the ty, her institute, she joints on skype from beijing ein a tangle, as far as beijing is concerned, is nate, so expansion in of itself an act of aggression? well, they see it as very similar to what's happening with taiwan. so yes,

they have said, you know, the us request came about 8 hours after the chinese foreign ministry conveyed that they thought that the us needed to take rushes, security concerns. and that means nato seriously. the median line of relationships in this triangular relationship, i guess one might be able to say the situation of the relationship between paging and moscow has never been potentially as positive as it is at the moment. equally on the other side of that line, the relationship between paging and washington has never been as bad as it is at the moment. so where's the, the overlap here for this desire on the part of the us secretary of state to get some sort of diplomatic push going through the prism of paging. while it's a little bit strange, if you take the trade war, you take the almost monthly hostile acts, legislation,

the black list, the accusations that china is committing genocide gunboat, diplomacy in the taiwan straits in south trying to seize the u. s. is pretty much painted. china is an in human power that doesn't care about much. so it's kind of strange that they're now saying that it's up to china to try to hold the piece. so i don't know, i think they're probably scratching their heads in beijing as to exactly what the u . s. is trying to do. they believe that the u. s. has caused the situation and now we're trying to have others be responsible for. is there a sense on the other side of this long, big conversation? is there a sense for you in which the powers that be engaging? don't want anything to knock what's coming out of beijing. the olympics off the front pages because some people are clearly signaling. oh, if something happens and we start calling it an invasion,

it would happen during or immediately after beaching once good news on the global front pages. well, i, i, i really don't think that that is an issue. i mean, this is something where vladimir putin feels very strongly. i mean, this is not a new note for him. he at the munich security conference many years ago, he said that he thought that there were a series of broken promises and hostile acts. nato, as you recall, is a organization that was created to defend europe against the warsaw pact i when wall fell, question is, why is nato there? so i, i don't think that this has anything to do with the olympics. i know that's a good line to talk about, but i, i really don't think that that has anything to do with that person's calculation. he will be at the olympics, but i don't think that that's really the issue here. is the chinese government's

perhaps a little bit so unaware of that. the subtlety of us diplomacy here. i mean, arguably there is a delicate approach going on here. as far as the state department is concerned, reaching out to paging, talking to certain countries in the middle east, about guaranteeing gas liquefied gas supplies to europe. if it turns into being an energy or a cyber energy type crisis propagated by the kremlin. and also on top of that, the u. s. talking to its native colleagues and it's e u colleagues, all the time now. well peter, i really don't think that there's very much subtlety going on here. i mean, the fact, even the 100000 troops when you're talking about a nation, the size of ukraine with for over 44000000 people. the idea that you could march an army through that and, and take it over in a hostile act is far fetched. right now what you see is perhaps the desire by washington to magnify an issue that it's created itself,

that's at least moscow and beijing see it in order to kind of deal with domestic issues. so remember, there are people on fox news in the us who are openly, not fox news. i should say. the commentators on fox news are openly advocating and the u. s. should side with russia in order to attack china or these put more pressure on it. i know thank you very much on a tang and they're talking to us from beijing on juris has sworn in its 1st female president, c o mater castro, swept the national vote in november, promising to restore democratic institutions optimal than 12 years of single party rule. however, a growing rift in congress threatens to derail the new president's political agenda, manuel, or apollo reports now from the capital o celebrations across the goosey golden. as human a council, a former 1st lady upon doris was sworn in to become the country's 1st female

president. yet either in a manner he had a man, oh dear sisters and brothers honduran people, the presidency of the republic had never been assumed by a woman in honduras, 200 years have had to pass since the declaration of our independence. oh, city streets, throughout the capital, tegucigalpa closed from a parade to celebrate the historic inauguration. many expressed their hopes. the country may finally turn a page after more than a decade of single party rule. more by scandal and political turmoil that a field, a historic wave of migration is that i'm okay. yeah. we hope that she will deliver that which we have been hoping for for years that people will no longer migrate to other countries. that people will stay and have decent employment because we all have a right to that. and it's what a majority of the people expected to stay in their country. nobody wants to be away from their home. and that is what she will accomplish. get dozens of high profile

guests were also in attendance, including us, vice president, carmella harris, who seeks to strengthen a bilateral partnership with honduras to address the root causes of migration from central america up over there. i think get him into poverty, has increased by 74 percent to turn our country into the poorest in latin america. this statistic in itself explains the caravans of thousands of people who flee north towards mexico and the united states. ah, here in the capital city is that a celebrated inaugurating day taking place under a backlog of political crisis. the hon during national congress legislators, however, appear to have at least temporarily put aside the political stand off to allow citizens to celebrate the peaceful transfer of power. president humana, against it all ran on an anti corruption platform, promising an overhaul of the country's legal system. her ability to govern

effectively, however, ultimately depend on finding common ground with her political opponents. in the 100 legislature, men will read the low al jazeera things. he gunther, the death toll from a storm that struck 3 southern african countries has risen to at least $77.00 tropical storm. anna made landfall and madagascar on monday before moving to mozambique and malawi at destroyed homes, schools, and hospitals, while downing power lines. on thursday, madagascar declared a state of national disaster. dozens of people have been reported missing. the australian prime minister scott morrison has promised a further $703000000.00 to help protect the great barrier reef from environmental threats. he says the investment will also help secure thousands of jobs that depend on the reef. sarah clark has more from brisbin. the $700000000.00 announcement will fund a range of conservation projects to protect the great barrier reef and comes

a year off. the world heritage site was almost listed as endangered by the united nations. the funding will go toward improving monitoring systems, water quality programs, and great a protection for coal communities. with more than half of the co population killed over the last decade due to mass bleaching triggered by climate change. this is an election year and this funding announcement is the government's attempt to convince its critics that it's doing it bit to address climate change. the united nations world heritage committee will reassess the state of the reef again this year and vote on whether it should be added to the endangered list. saw us say the great barrier reef has already suffered mass cohen mortality due to hate stress and severe bleaching. the next 12 months is expected to deliver record high temperatures and critic, so fridays funding announcement doesn't address the key issue of global warming and is more about protecting tourism. job l salvador has led the way and adopting

bitcoin, being the 1st country to take it on as legal tender last year. but generating the digital coinage requires huge amounts of energy. now the countries president hasn't ambitious plan to create a bit coined city using the power of a bowl cane. oh, it's a big gamble, and people are skeptical, as john holeman reports from the capital. it was the 1st country in the world t's bitcoin is a national currency. now, salvador is poised to take its gamble further. the president in a fi what few party announced that he's planning a whole city based on the crypto currency. what is baker? city gun include, and his gun includes everything, residential areas, commercial area services, but will have 0 income tax 0, capital gains tax. so you know, in both you make all the money you want to. we're fine because this is a fully, fully ecological city that's work that works. and it's energized by able keno,

bitcoin city, shaped like a symbol of the crypto currency itself. it will rum with geothermal electricity from the nearby volcano, which will also be used to generate more bit coins. it's an invest his pond to seal it, but there are worries. it's little mold in that. what, why is that? why they doubt about another thing, because there is now 30 at this point, but i can tell k know which example mel. okay. and the government has claim will be the one they'll be using for mining. actually it allows for that kind of deal tara exploitation. her associations being critical of president bu kelly, but many big coin as a rule. so skeptical. nobody seen any detail plans, but the government still ploughing ahead planning. so $1000000000.00 worth is so cool. big coin bonds, half of which would be used for the cities infrastructure. the other half will be used by move bit coins. the hope is that their value goes up and helps pay off some

of el salvador, large national debt. some of those finances aren't looking to rosie. it's been running up. the big budget deficit has payments looming, been trying to negotiate along with international monetary fun. but so far that hasn't come for yet. hoping the big coin volatile currency, which the i m. f doesn't approve of the country using will help solve the debt problems, right, presents and obvious gamble. meanwhile, l, so those 1st bitcoin experiment using the crypto currencies, legal tender along with the dollar continues. government allies say it's doing great. but in 4 months, a big point over 4000000 people have become digitalized. and the grab, the vast majority of them didn't have bank accounts, and that's over 2 thirds of the population. the question is, how many of those $4000000.00 people just use the government's bitcoin up once to get out the $30.00 worth of the crypto currency given away for free? who knows?

no public stotts are available. what is known as the people who struggle to use the app and the big coin cash points from the star single. i've been trying to get into my account for 2 weeks and i can't do it. it's active and registered and i've been calling support. but they haven't been able to search it for me. the government came to remind that its early days yet. but with the newly plan big coin, city, and bonds. it's certainly up the states from its bets on crypto. currently, john holman, out is header el salvador. ah, this is al jazeera, these are the top stories, the u. s. president joe biden has warned his ukranian counterpart that a russian invasion is a distinct possibility. the russian foreign minister says there will be no war yesterday at the very ship, but the risk if you go if it.