[000:00:00;00] ah, prepare for an invasion the united states sworn, she crane and attack by russia may come as early as next month. ah. hello and welcome and peter w. watching on to see or alive from do are also coming up a call to arms. burkina faso new military leader puts the country on a war footing, asking the nation to unite and take on all violent extremist groups. saving a national treasure, australia, or announce is a $700000000.00 cash injection. to help preserve the great barrier reef and building

a bit coin city meet the precedent with plans to mine crypto currency. using volcanic energy ah, shadows of war are looming over ukraine today. the u. s. says a russian invasion may happen as soon as next month. the kremlin says it has no such plans, but in the ice cold trenches of ukraine, this fear anxiety and also resilience among the soldiers there, though seen in the law hands screeching here. say they are prepared to fight, but there are plenty of ways that russia could invade film on natural thought that one is the modern yoga or navy is not strong enough to withstand the heavy attack. so i think the coastline could be easily captured. that's my opinion. everyone thinks about a possible invasion through harker or don bass. that's wrong. if it's necessary to

attack, there is do it from the see. don't mind that james's like we had hopes for a better future, but if necessary, we will fight back what we really hope there will be no attack. to martin the it's the ultimate them delivered by russia to nato, and the u. s. confirms that they are not ready for compromise or dialogue. well, russia is foreign minister says his country does not want war circuit lab. ralph is expecting to meet his us counterpart anthony blinking in the coming weeks. yes, we should proceed if it depends on the russian federation. we don't want war, but we also want allow interest to be violated. i can say that the negotiations are over, the americans and nato are studying proposals. bell, a russian and russian forces will conduct a joint military rules. next month, russia has been deploying extra troops and fighter jets to bellows international address. the bella russian president, alexander lucas shanker,

said. hundreds of thousands of russian troops were ready to defend the country, which is not a linear dock. and so will there be war or not? yes, there will be. but only in 2 cases, if direct aggression is committed against feller is if a hot war is on least against out, valerie. and the 2nd possibility for to happen and for beller, is to take part in. if our ally, the russian federation is directly attacked, if the same aggression is committed against the territory of the russian federation, national. okay, that's the diplomatic story. out of the east of a story from the west. let's go to paris and correspondent, natasha butler. natasha. we've got posturing and diplomacy going on cheek by jowl here. what else do we know about that conversation between mr. macro and let me put him yes sir. president mack on president putin on a phone call. we've not heard from the lisa yet as to what conversations have taken

place between these 2 leaders. but what we know going into this phone call is that president micro had to main aims. the 1st one is to try and use i, his powers of personal persuasion, or to convince, or president putin to follow the path of diplomacy and not of conflict. to try to deescalate this crisis over ukraine are all so say the say a micron looking to try and ascertain from putin exactly what russia's intentions are on the bill, on the border with ukraine, with the build up of troops for more transparency from moscow. the initiative we understand has come from a president micro or the french leader, very much somebody who believes in personal contact, who feels that he can talk very frankly, openly and directly, even with his face as critics and opponents. and he's always had an ongoing contact

and dialogue with president putin. during his presidency. it is a someone that he is invited and the host it in france on several occasions. he regularly has phone calls with president putin. so he's hoping to use some of that personal connection here in this phone conversation. he will though, of course, say really say, make sure that putin knows that if russia was to attack ukraine, there would be very severe consequences. and that all western powers are on board with that, i guess on the one side of this diplomacy, natasha the words from saga lab roff sound on the facebook. very, very positive. we are not going to invade ukraine, but the reality is that we need to know what mister putin is thinking. not what mister lover of his saying. well, and that sir, what president my call will be hoping to understand a little bit better what the russian leader is thinking and what the russian

leaders intentions are. and what's interesting also what's going on here is fatter . france, you have to know is the president's is the rotating president, i should say, of the european union at the moment. and mark was very much trying to push the european union forward. or in terms of diplomatic efforts in this crisis, there's been a sense among some, a you leaders that are europeans have been somewhat sideline mark was talked about how, of course, it's very good that the u. s. and russia biden imputed a have spoken on the phone, but there is more room for other parts of negotiation, or he has said. and that is why we saw, for example, this week a meeting between ukrainian russian or french and german political advisors. in paris, we're going to have another one of those meetings in a couple of weeks that all side said, well it was fairly, fairly positive that this is all about really trying to push the e forward in the dom diplomatic efforts in this crisis. because if there was to be

a conflict, if there was to be any war, it would be in europe. natasha. thank you so much. natasha butler, i correspondent, sir, talking to his life out paris. caroline, who is chief executive of the center for europe and policy studies in brussels. he says that you is running out of patience with russia. the consensus is growing amongst european countries as well at the natal level to hicks back heart at russia. whatever russia just against the crate, i think we have a bit of feeling that no, it has been enough. this game of russia or against the crane has been going on for 7 years, 8 years with a lot of victims on the claimant side, with the annexation of the trim with the downing of the sampling. this malaysian ad lights also 56 years ago, and no one has a feeling amongst europe in congress. they are st. that's enough. in the naval we see this growing concerned. i want to switch

a ritual to davis and not members of like finland and sweden want to join the natal, which would be a threat for us. and at the 11th was a growing vision that we have to go for sanctions. the sanction list would be ready, according to the commission president on the line. for it all depends how far the sanctions will go and how. i mean, how did you take and reach into russian enterprise, russian society. but you can be very target with, for example booting and all the people around oligarchs. which of a should be good friends of pudding, but dr. to sanctioned their friends there. that gets their family members here wherever they are. and i mean, many of the russian orthodox families are based on which i have family invest. and if you do these things and both are great, i think you can be china's foreign ministry says the you and human rights chief is

welcome to visits and young. but not to officially investigates rights groups of accused china of widespread abuses against weak muslims, including torture and forced labor. the foreign ministry spokesperson says the commissioner can visit after the paging olympics. and imitation had been extended a long time ago. to long play level, we're in china. welcome to visit of the united nations high commissioner for human rights to china and sion chance. we'd already sent an invitation and the 2 sides have a great to maintain communication on this. china's position has always been clear on the purpose of the visit is to promote exchanges in co operation between the 2 sides and one. we oppose any one taking advantage of this for political manipulation in the north korea has confirmed at testify at a serious of ballistic missiles on thursday. pyongyang has carried out 6 launches this month in defiance of the un security council. the leader there kim jong own, was seen at

a factory that state media says helps to make missiles still to come here on this program, a police matter officers in london say they don't want an internal report to interfere with their investigations into the u. k. prime minister class, i do not want anyone to go through what i have been close to one man journey to ensure that migrants held in libyan detention center as of treated with dignity. ah ah, look forward to brightest galleys. the winter sponsored my cattle airways. but it's still snowing in japan, it seems to have done that every day for last 2 weeks. they're not particularly big as snowstorms now. so sharon, you've been driven by much of a wind, says on the way out if you like, tips is generally rising. so she hasn't risen much, the sun is strong, but it's still cold as a 2 degrees here for invasion,

carbon minus 12. this line here in watching, who has had some snow from it? it stretched get towards shanghai. we stay as rave the whole lot sinking slowly south. so hong car will catch it was dropping temperature. not much of a breeze, but then the cloud comes in and occasional outbreaks of rain on saturday and then probably again on monday, disappointing looking weather cold dish asked for india. the northern plain sits in last cold weather as it was. the cold wave has gone, but its morning fog and persistent smoke a call. it is very poor for this part of india and all the pakistan the shelter enhancing the chapter, peninsula and tom all matters were otherwise. this is pretty settled throughout india and pakistan and afghanistan and iran. for the most part. there are a few showers of north in the hindu kush and the shem marlis f. a began during friday answers this week. things not as cold as last weekends. it's not a sand the either. and once again, developed in the met another storm system still to come. the weather been said by

katara ways. frank assessments for china will benefit from the 0 call the strategy if the rest the world to get informed opinions at all costs. lucky enough, right in front of that critical debate, wide rip would be the claims that need to come. and then she'll threat to russia, but it's precisely if he's actions that created this insecurity in the region. in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera. ah, the ah, welcome back. you're watching out a 0 coming to life from the over. i'm peter darby. recapping your top stories.

russia's foreign minister says the country does not want war with ukraine, but the kremlin won't allow its interests to be ignored. the foreign minister sag elaborate was speaking after the u. s. warned russian invasion was quote, a distinct possibility. china's foreign ministry says the un seaman rights chief is welcome to visit james young, but not to officially investigate claims of abuse human rights groups of accused china, of the mass detention and torture, a weaker muslims. now main story out of europe. the u. k. london's met police force as weighed in on a report being prepared by a civil servant into alleged social gatherings at the prime minister's official residence, 10 downing street during one of the several current of irish luck. dan's officers say they want quit minimal references to be made about events they're investigating, which took place at the height of the pandemic restrictions live now to 10 downing street and our correspondent,

covering at this ongoing story. andrew simmons andrews looking a little bit frozen life tally. these things happen will establish a satellite link, i hope to andrew, and we'll go back to him from a cat. burkina faso is military leader says the country will only return to what he called constitutional order. when conditions are right, paul, on re de amoeba, 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 the capital city. 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 alt says, you've got my mu 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 armed groups. laska laquanda sincere orders. any sir oliver should. when the conditions arise, i commit to a return to a normal constitutional order fellow citizens, people of the king of faso. 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 while your men, the buchanan, as a army, suffering many losses despite the support of french forces. this is in okay, 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. is in the military camp in downtown walker do that lieutenant colonel. but oh, he demi, by his meeting with civil society, actors leaders from the trade unions and members of territories 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 them eva had suggested recruiting russian mercenaries help, but president huck cowboy dismissed the idea. but since the 2 russian mercenaries from the wagner group operating in central african republic, and molly say they are ready to help bertina faso 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 walker to goof. st. medinah kaz more from the capital. reactions are coming in after the new military who to leader paul henry to me by spoke to the nation on thursday for the 1st time since taking control of the country on monday. people seem to be really supportive of his message, which really resonated, of securing the country, beating back the g and uniting the nation reactions on social media are really positive thing that this seems to be like a person who will take action and that his words will add up to what he's saying. we're at a press conference right now where civil society groups are really in support of the member. and they see that they feel like it's their efforts to protest over several months that help out. the former president rockmart christian can board, but people are still skeptical. looking at fossils been through many. and they say that many leaders have come saying the same thing. and so they're waiting to see if it's what to me by saying will really be put into practice. i spoke with the head

of the labor union yesterday who met with me on thursday and said that while he was in support of the union, he felt like an issue to veiled threat saying don't protest against us today. there's a meeting by the west african regional walk. notice echo. was there going to decide what will happen with burkina faso 2 more is you have to be seen in the coming days as to how the international community is going to respond. the police in iraq say at least 6 rockets of hit the bank that international airport, the cor significant damage to one aircraft, but no casualties were reported. no group has claimed responsibility. the us defense secretary wants the pentagon to limit civilian casualties, caused by american air strikes. lloyd austin says it's a moral imperative to protect civilians. he wants an action plan within the next 90 days and hopes the pentagon can implement the recommendations. there has been condemnation in recent months following an air strike in the afghan capital last year. the killed 10 civilians. at least 86 people have been killed by a storm ammo,

which has hit the south and the east areas of the african continent over the past week, worst hit malawi, madagascar, and mozambique stephanie decker as the story. days of heavy rains have drowned out these villages. the power of mother nature more clear from the air on the ground. tens of thousands of people here in malawi, have been affected. many now homeless that i cannot neither am i wait a moment. we've had floss previously, but they've never reached here. yes, monta river could overflow, but the people living near it were the only once effected, but not asked, living in hilly places. it is only this year that waters have displaced us. oh, some aid is getting through, but the flood waters mean it's still hard to reach remote areas. this floods ah, unprecedented. that's what we're hearing from those that i've been in to wire for all. ah, no money,

flat areas where they no money to chris. but this time with anna, oh, most professor, this, the district has has. how been, he's heavy rains of head, southern africa for around a week now. it's not just malawi. mozambique has been hit hard to caught on camera by one of the rescue workers. this man had climbed up a tree to escape the fast rising waters and did madagascar flooding his course, electricity cuts across wide areas. thousands displaced here too. and on 5th thoughts on lay, a house is flooded with water. it was flooded twice. we were already flat at the other time, but we stayed there. but this time we had to leave because all the mattresses awake and our baby got sick. authorities in our rushing to repair broken infrastructure and help the 10s of thousands of displaced across these 3 countries. with, while weather reports predict,

there could be more heavy rains to come. stephanie decker, al jazeera syrian refugees stuck in lebanon, are facing severe winter conditions. heavy snow has broken many of these tents in the tub. a camp of people struggle to secure fuel for heating. refugees say they're not receiving adequate aid out of us at our much. we haven't seen snow like this and around for years about 70, to 80 centimeters of snow. and the whole camp was destroyed. the top holden's ruin and age is not coming, not as no fuel. no wood is nothing. we can buy cold and no children sick were all sick refugees and migrant protest is detained, and libya had been pleading for their release. it follows a recent crack down in the capital tripoli, we met one migrant who's demanding better treatment at the hands of your forces. i'm young david oliver. yes. oh no. i'm 55 years old and i'm from south to them. i

left them my country due to civil war off leave year. the 1st cd that i entered was the east of go for when i met with trust because they had to kid not me. that had to detain me. they tortured me somehow or the torture ice cubed. i advanced towards the capital on the way i was met with a couple of detention. i was no fault to take to see how the only option i'm taking to see knowing that i might draw my mind. but there are noise kit brought when i took the see. unfortunately, i was intercepted. the took us to the detention center. the come morning. you wake up on if you lucky, the give you a piece of bread with a piece or a portion of cheese. we did not have cleaned lincoln water. we were forced to drink

from the toilet, the croak down on refugees, salems eagles, and immigrants who lived in a good god. it was something that we never thought it would happen. those were unlucky. got taken to the detention center, those who is kept the same day and went to the unit there where they're asking for every question out of the country. we had no food. well, surviving and flipping by the sidewalk, despite were hungry. this protesting and doing peaceful demonstration, calling to leave the country where supplies by the authorities. busy arrival the cam on default, the bully, arrested short, the people beat them and took them to detention center. i deserve the right to leave and express myself and have indication like any other human beings from my

own experiences. what i have gone through, i want to become a civil rights defender. i want become a lawyer because i do not want anyone to go through what i have been put through in my 12 years of displacement and excite sterling and prime minister scott morrison has promised to further 700, $3000000.00 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 report 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. scientists say the great barrier reef has already suffered mass co mortality due to have 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 it's more about protecting tourism. job australia has recorded 98 corona virus related deaths in one single day as worst at the pandemic. so far. the previous one day high was a week ago when the number was 88 people reported to have died. new cases are leveling off with several large states hoping hospital admissions will fall as a result. the 1st batch of 8 to come directly from china has now arrived in tongue up these 33 ton shipments includes food, drinking water, tents,

and radio equipment. but people on the island will have to wait for the aid to be distributed covered 19, prevention measures mean everything has to be disinfected and quarantined for 3 days. el salvador has led the way in adopting bitcoin. being the 1st country to take his own as legal tender last year, however, generating this digital coin requires huge amounts of energy. now the countries president has an ambitious plan to create a bit coined city using the power off a volcano. it is a big gamble, and people are skeptical, as john holman, explains now from the capital. it was the 1st country in the world, t bitcoin as a national currency. now, salvador is poised to take its gamble further. the president in a fi what fuel party announced that he's planning a whole city based on the crypto currency. what is makers had he got to include, and his gun include of everything, residential areas, commercial areas, services,

but will have 0 income tax, 0 capital gains that 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 shapes like a symbol of the crypto currency itself. it will rum with your firm will electricity from the nearby volcano, which will also be used to generate more bit coins. it's an invest his fantasy, but there are worries. it's little more than that. what, why is that? why their doubts about another thing? because there is now 30 at this point, but i can tell k know which example mellow canada and the government has claim will be the one they'll be using for mining. actually it allows for that kind of deal taylor exploitation. her associations been critical of president bush kelly,

but many big coin is also skeptical. nobody seen any detail plans, but the government still plowing ahead planning to so $1000000000.00 worth a so called big coin bonds, half of which would be used for the cities infrastructure. the other half will be used to buy up more bit coins. the hope is that thereby you goes up and helps pay off some of those. so with those large national debt. oh, some of those finances aren't looking to rosie. it's been running up a big budget deficit has payments looming. it's been trying to negotiate alone with the international monetary fund. but so far that hasn't come through yet. hoping the big coin volatile currency, which the i m f doesn't approve of the country using who help solve the debt problems represents an 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 grab the vast majority of them in their 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 is that people have struggled to use the app and the big coin cash points from the star thing. i've been trying to get him to 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. but governance came to remind that it's early days yet with the newly plan bitcoin city and bonds. it's certainly up the states and it's back to crypto currency john home and does it. el salvador astronomers in australia have discovered a spooky celestial object, which they say is unlike anything they've ever seen before. the mysterious body releases

a huge burst of energy like clockwork. every 18 minutes and 18 seconds. the lead research says there are other objects in the galaxy that switch on and off, but nothing with such frequency as ever be detected before. ah, it's exactly half past the hour. let's update your top stories. russia's foreign minister says the country does not want war with ukraine, but the kremlin won't allow its interests to be ignored. sag elaborate was speaking after the u. s. warned russian invasion was a distinct possibility. well, in the ice cold trenches of ukraine, there's fear anxiety, but resilience among the soldiers. film or natural thought that one of the modern y jaeger or navy is not strong enough to withstand the heavy attack. so i think the