and you all ceremony has been launched the hall pressures in individuals pay $5000.00. yes. dollars to name an elephant. the aim bas yet is to raise one megabyte on much of it. for conservation initiatives. ah, bushes, foreign minister. so gay love rob says the moscow will not sell a war, but it wants the west to respect its security interests. ah, again, i'm adrian said again, this is al jazeera, alive from doha, also coming up, leaders of west african nations, way the options on how to respond to a military coup and became a fossil inflation out of control in sierra leone, leaving many families struggling to put food on the table and building

a bit coin city, meet the president with plans to mine, crooked to currency, using volcanic energy. ah, russia's foreign minister says what moscow doesn't want a war, but will not allow the west to ignore its security concerns. so gay love rock also hinted that the kremlin is willing to engage with the u. s. caught in the middle of a diplomatic stand of few cranium soldiers waiting on the frontlines. bahama jam, june reports in eastern ukraine. these soldiers are prepared to defend against any russian encroachment and find themselves as tense as the political stand off to malta mccue the ultimatum delivered by russia to nato. and the u. s. confirms that they are not ready for compromise or dialogue about them. despite

repeated assurances from russia, they don't want war. this squadron of soldiers keeps careful watch. and each has a different theory about what form a russian attack would take. fillable natural thought that linda's muddle yoga or navy is not strong enough to withstand a heavy attack. so i think the coastline could be easily captured. that's my opinion. everyone thinks about a possible invasion through carcass or don boss, that's wrong. if it's necessary to attack those, do it from the see. the setting may seem tranquil, but some worry if this is just the calm before the storm. i don't mind the game fish. we had hopes for a better future, but if necessary, we will fight back. but we really hope there will be no attack. soldiers, tired by the uncertainty, but preparing themselves for any eventually ma'am, a jim, jim, a dizzy. despite the fears of those ukrainian troops, the washing foreign minister has repeatedly said that his country will not invade.

so gay lover off as expected to meet his u. s. counterpart anthony, blinking in the coming weeks. yes, we of the leadership, but the risky figured there won't be a war as far as it depends on the russian federation. we don't want to war, but we won't let our interests be rudely trampled on and ignored. she thought your girl is that she was slid, knew the u. s. has rejected all the russian security proposals for the last 2 or 3 years. now they're putting the same things on the table. in other words, they're borrowing from recent russian initiatives. this is something, at least a few for possibly the baylor russian and russian military will conduct joint drills. next month, rush has been deploying extra soldiers and fighter jets to its neighbour and allied in a national address. baylor, russian president, alexander lucas shanker, said that hundreds of thousands of russian troops were ready to defend the country . would you please dar another? so will there be war or not? yes, there will be, but only in 2 cases,

if direct aggression is committed against belarus, if a hot war is on least against our bellow resource. and the 2nd possibility for to happen and for beller, is to take part in one is if our ally, the russian federation is directly attacked. if the same aggression is committed against the territory of the russian federation, nationalist rushes, president vladimir putin has spoken to the french leader emanuel mac cron. out is there a sausage barriers live in moscow to tell us more? what do we know of what the 2 leaders had to say to each other doors? well, the 2 men had a one hour phone conversation nymphs was at the request of the french president wanting to discuss the latest situation. and the ongoing tensions and very russian president, for his part, said that they, according to the kremlin, they discussed the security concerns that this country has. and the possibility of getting a legally binding guarantee from nato countries as well as the u. s. about those

security concerns. the russian president also said that for the 1st time we're hearing what his thoughts are about the u. s. response. that was hand delivered to the foreign minister here in moscow on wednesday evening about the u. s. response and that the russian president said that the answer they got from the u. s. government did not answer the main concern that the russians have. and that is, of course, the expansion of nato and the possible addition of ukraine to the 30 member alliance, which is very much red line for this country. their russian president also told his front counterpart that he will study the document closely and then decide on the next steps that will come. and the 2 leaders also reaffirmed that they will continue speaking to each other and the path of dialogue remains open. this is the line we've been hearing from the kremlin over the past few days as well since they received this response. and were they said that they will officially respond to the american government. but in terms of the threats and rhetoric coming from

washington, it's again dismiss as very much rhetoric as misinformation and hysteria that is created by the u. s. government to try and force key of into taking some kind of action against russia. that is very much the belief here, and we've been speaking to ordinary russians here in the capital, and they also shared that belief. they say that they don't believe rush as an interested in any way of going into another conflict at this stage. and all this talk coming from the west is very much their way of putting pressure on rush. i'm trying to destabilize this country, al jazeera store, strawberry reporting live from moscow door. somebody, thanks. dude. the west african block echo was, has suspended the king of faso. the leaders have been holding an emergency meeting following a military coup. echo was also calling for the release for the new rather than you wanted to release. president ross cavalry. but as nicholas hack reports from why go

to go, the military leader says they'll only be a returned to what he calls constitutional order. when conditions arrive. haunted by those that didn't survive husbands 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 mast gunman, encircled their village and showed them all says you've got my mu, now the women and children were spared, but carry with them an unshakable fear of their return in once that i cannot go back, their bodies is still lying there rotting in the ground. falling. monday's cou, lieutenant colonel palo. he dominga 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 laquanda, so sir ordered any sir allan this when the conditions arise, i commit to return to a normal constitutional order, our fellow citizens, people of burkina,

faso. while there are many priorities as is clear that the main priority remain security, we must significantly reduce the area under terrorist influence mozilla, and the impact of violence extremism by giving security forces the will to fight. and we must dull me offensive. valdemar le, the buchanan as an army suffering many losses despite the support of french forces . this is in okay, that 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 longer do that, lieutenant colonel. but he demi buys, meeting with civil society actors leaders from the trade unions and members of deborah, his 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 qu, 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 in the u. k. london's metropolitan police has weighed in on a report being repaired by a civil servant into alleged social gatherings at the prime minister's official residence during a corona virus lockdown. officers say they want minimal references to be made about events they're investigating, which took place of the height of pandemic restrictions. let's go live down to downing street out to cirrus anderson is, is there for us,

andrew or the metropolitan police said that they had no problem with this so called party gate report being published in the middle of their investigation. and now they've put the brakes on what's happening. well, it's an extraordinary situation because the whole british public are waiting for the results of this inquiry. indeed, parliament was also expecting it before the end of this week. but instead we've had the statement from the metropolitan police with that reference to a minimal reference to any of the incidence that the police are investigating. but then su grey's report is welcome to go into other incidents involving parties in downing street and white hall. and it says, it doesn't want to prejudice the investigation. now this puts su gray in a very difficult position. her remit was to investigate these alleged breaches of

the coven regulation in the lock down. there was a numerous parties that went on at least 8 were under her a targeted approach to the whole thing. and now she's in a position where she may well just say, well look, we can't go ahead with this until after the police investigations or that could be weeks. it could be months. so the political dynamic to this is that boys, johnson might well end up, hoping that this whole thing a will go into the political grass long grass, so to speak. but that's probably unlikely with such a chorus of protest amongst his own party and his behavior. and the likelihood that he may well be implicated in this. and what are frickin is opposition? political parties saying about all of this? well, the labor leader, the main opposition party care stammer a. he is being respectful of the police. he is

a former director of public prosecutions and he's being careful in what he says about the police, but he's demanding to see the original. so grey report, she's written it, but now will she have to put red lines through the main points he is? are demanding that and he saying that sir forest johnson has effectively used the metropolitan police ansuka gray as an excuse as a shield to facing up to the reality in his saying that, you know, he doesn't take inquiries to work out whether he actually attended parties because he did, and he's also accusing him of, of a verse of the things. the scottish national party is saying that this is effectively or are very, very murky. indeed. and the a liberal democrat party is saying that it's an establishment stitch up what the public make of it. well, they're probably pretty bemused at the very least. anderson supporting live fair from downing street in london. many thanks sir. andrew. still to come here on al

jazeera honduras swears in its 1st female president, the problems within our party. mean it's been a pretty rocky start for her. at a strange object in the milky way releasing huge bursts of energy baffled scientists. ah. now the wet weather in southeast asia is reorienting itself. get an idea of this current toppia cause this particular cold coming out of china that's taken most of the images out of the shower for the south. actually the route that many of them lot more sunshine than shower throughout india amylase even as a concentration maybe on the inside of bonia and still away seen from bali east towards the cold isn't extreme. it's as you might expect. now it's still giving

stows out to hon. shoot hawkeye dough as be giving a spell of snow to central china along the yankee valley. but saturdays folk assays us pushing south against this wall. fear so you've got lot of heavy rain probably over the water. not really over even over taiwan, but the cold eventually winds out hong kong dropped to about 16 degrees. having had a couple of days of ra, had great weather in india settled once again. but of a concentration, the shower is running through the final, the still anchor, and i will now do this during saturday. the northern plane is still covered in full and small guy. quality is poor. what the temperatures are slowly rising. no significant changes in the next couple of days in the gulf. strong wind is blowing dye once again. there are still a few showers around, but temporarily at least on saturday, is looking quite nice. ah. if the world has taught us anything,

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up to the us warned a russian invasion was a distinct possibility. the west african block echo was suspended, bikini francis membership, lead us up and holding an emergency meeting following a military coup that calling for the toronto to be to release president walkable re police of london, vosta civil servant. preparing a report into alleged breaches of pandemic restrictions in the u. k. within the u. k. government to minimize references to events currently on the investigation by offices. one on our top story, the russia ukraine crisis, a little geographical context for you. russia has troops of military equipment on its border with ukraine to the north in baler roofs where that huge take part in war games and to the south. in crimea, which russia annexed in 2014, andreas craig, as an associate professor in the defense studies department at kings college london . he says it's unlikely that moscow is looking for

a major combat operation. i also would say that the kremlin really has not it made up. it's mine of what it is that it can achieve really am. i think ballard is a very important point that you already stated in the initial video. because here we seen the russians actually getting into the bellows after everything that happened over the last 23 years. and doing so without any condemnation from the west, it has happened quietly because everyone is focused on ukraine. i think there is, or even objective that, that russia has achieved in terms of the negotiation over whether you crime would actually never join nato, which is the, the kind of the request that the russians are making. it seems like the west is, is really there metrically opposed in their objectives. it doesn't seem to be an, a real compromise at this point in time that they can walk towards the problem with the rush. it is, they don't have, they haven't really created an off ramp for themselves for them to step away from, from this escalation into a diplomatic realm. and so it really depends if a proper invasion and i mean a multi a like a,

a combined arms operation deeply into ukranian territory will be very, very difficult. if it's about toppling the regime and key f or toppling the political status for creating chaos, that can be achieved through a variety of different means, which doesn't necessarily need an invasion of a 100000 troops. it can be done through sockets, it can be done in the information space for cyber operations. and it can be done by a very small, very focused operation and in, in, in east, in ukraine. but all of that will come with huge economic costs for russia. and it will come with reputational cost for russia as well. and the question is, is that something that russia is willing to bear? is that a burden that russia is willing to burn bear? and i think negotiations already going in the right direction. i think much russia wanted to have, ultimately, is having a common ground with a finding common ground with the west to negotiate. and i think they've gotten this . they are now sitting at the table. they are talking. and i think that is probably what the russians are trying to achieve. i cannot imagine that they are interested

in a major combat operation. china's foreign ministry says that the you and human rights cheese is welcome to visit jin chang, but not to officially investigate 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 beijing olympics and that the invitation of been extended a long time ago. too long. why la, we're in. china welcomes the visit of the united nations high commission of human rights to china and sion. john. we'd already sent an invitation and the 2 sides have agreed 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 sites. on one we oppose any one taking advantage of this for political manipulation in one hour from other zeros katrina, here in beijing, according to bay jane the un human rights chief is welcome to come to china. she's

welcome to visit the north western shin young reason, but only with one very important pre condition. and that is that this trip is a friendly visit and it's not framed as an investigation. or as china's foreign ministry spokesperson put it as political manipulation. now according to reports are bating has said that she can come to sion. jung following the end of the winter olympics, which closes on february the 20th. but we have not heard any confirmation as to whether this will go ahead from michelle bachelor's office. we do know 2 things though the 1st is that she has been seeking what she has described as meaningful access to sins young to observe in person the treatment of the week m was them minority there since 2018. and secondly, her office is currently working on a report, a much awaited report into the conditions, inch and young that they have not yet released. now despite like confirmation human rights groups are already criticizing the invitation and saying that that she

should not accept because this is bound to be of heavily controlled. heavily supervised trip and that there's no way that or michelle bash lay would be able to really authentically or accurately observe what's going on in the region if she takes up this invitation. first batch of aids come directly from china, has arrived and toner. the $33.00 on shipment includes food, drinking water, tents of radio equipment, brought people on the island. we'll have to wait for the aid to be distributed covered by team prevention measures. mean that everything has to be disinfected and quarantined for 3 days. australia's recorded 98 corona virus related deaths in a single day. it's worst of the pandemic so far. the previous one day high was a week ago when 88 people were reported to have died, you cases on our leveling off. and it's hope the hospital admissions will fall as a result. south careers cove at 19 cases of hit, a new record for

a 4th straight day. the country recorded almost 17000 new infections on thursday. health experts say than alma cron driven serge could last for up to 8 weeks. honduras, a sworn in its 1st female president, show. mary castro swept the national vote in november, promising to restore democratic institutions after more than 12 years of single party rule. but a growing rift in congress threatens to derail the new president's political agenda . are desirous manuel rap a low reports from the capital o celebrations across the goosey golden. as human council, 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 for 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, but 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. oh, here and the capital city is that a fellow record inaugurating day, taking way under a backlog of political crisis in the 100 national congress. legislators, however, appear to have at least temporarily put aside the political stand off to allow cities is to celebrate the peaceful transfer of power o presidents. you might, i cancelled 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 hunter and legislature. manuel, rather low al jazeera things. he gumbo argentina's president has announced

a new debt deal with the international monetary fund restructuring around $40000000000.00. it's a contentious issue, thousands of protests as of cold on the government to spend repayments saying the country can't afford it. the president didn't provide any details with said the deal, but allow access to new furnace in sierra leone inflation is forcing many families to come down on what they eat. situations made worse by the devastation, cost of food production by both the civil war and the a bowler epidemic houses here is ahmed address reports now from the capital free town of a struggle for one family to put food on the table. ah mighty cupboard is on a daily commute to the local market to buy food for her families, dinner she handles, but the vendors refused to budge. so the mother of 6 has to settle for what she can afford. a few onions, pepper, some rise and oil. let me fall, miliano almost hopeless wise. i can't afford to feed my family like i used to.

previously. i cooked 8 to 10 cups of rice for the family to eat. well, not any more. no one eats properly these days we eat just a little. she says, prizes have tripled and there is no sign of any reduction. several years economy suffers from financial instability, mismanagement, exchange rate fluctuations and corruption. all that in addition to disruptions caused by 3 major disasters. when coming 19 began, suddenly economy was already struggling with the facts of a civil war and a ball of binders. those disasters devastated production as personally agriculture . and with rising public levels many policy, i say they can hardly afford 2 meals a day. despite huge natural resources, one of the country's biggest challenges is how to grow its own food. their lives at 40 ports is expected to continue for the foreseeable future. fairly reports

everything you know so days at high demand. for, for the next year, i'll end the demand for somebody's for buy these higher than yours. then the price goes up. you know, there is a simple sin whenever they buy eyes mon shows on the seller the prize will never come down. the manufacturing sector, heat hot by the civil war, it bowler and covered 19 is slowly coming back to life. but growth is stunted, just as the local corrosive. de leon continues to wiccan, i guess, major choruses. it is very difficult situation at the moment, especially when the normative prices have increased so much. costs for manufacturers have also risen so sharply that production has decreased as prizes rise. customers like mary cuba are suffering. the effects may decrease algebra,

freetown, sierra leone. astronomers in australia have discovered a spooky celestial objects, which they say is unlike anything they've seen before. the mysterious body releases a huge burst of energy like clockwork, every 18 minutes and 18 seconds. the lead research a says there are other objects for the galaxy, the switch on and off, but nothing with such frequency has ever been detected. lolia i spoke trop. natasha hurley walker is her name and she explained what the object is likely to be. well, my thing was guy with a radio telescope here in western australia called a much better rate. and we've been searching the skies looking at objects in the distant universe. i'm a student, a project to look at things that would be changing data. and he sounds an object that for a brief moment in time for about a minute, every 20 minutes. actually i'm the brightest radius of the sky. so it's d releasing an enormous amount of energy. and we think that it could be

a long predicted object called the ultra long period. okay, now is this thing switching on and off, rather like a light switch or one of the graphics we saw briefly. where is it spinning and we're being caught in this burst of energy like like a lighthouse beam swings round, but try it very much on her. might have you might be familiar with pulse, neutral styles, very intense magnetic fields. and then she would have to be mac radiation, as i spent the radiation possible receipt of radiation. the thing that this object is that it's spinning at once every 20 minutes and the pulses and time, minute long. so, so master physical once it's rotating too slowly to produce the radius. why i say that's what we think some kind of extreme physics involved. all right. what do you think it is? well i do have most is my thought said that it's the ultra long period scenario. so

that's where we have to stay there being induced by some kind of stop by any chance star. and then i switched my credit fields. i'm twist the okay. produces radio mission, but eventually i say on to west it ceases to produce radio waves unless consistently policy it produced a lot of radio in 2018. and now it's, it's ah, it is good savvy with us. hello adrian, for the get. here we go. how the headlines on i was 0 rushes, foreign minister says that moscow doesn't want war, but the credit won't allow its interest to be ignored. so gay love roof was speaking out to the u. s. warned that a russian invasion was a distinct possibility. used to be up to the issue with the risk. if you get out there won't be a war as far as it depends on the russian federation. we don't.