ancient ritual to future generations ah, in an award winning documentary, al jazeera world follows a group of young men on their right of passage challenge in the remote forests of ivory coast. the sacred woods on al jazeera lou. the big trees in the big apple as a blizzard hates the east coast of the united states, forcing the cancellation of thousands of flights. ah, i'm pete, adobe. you're watching al jazeera alive from to are also coming up entrenched positions in the ukraine crisis with more than

a 100000 russian troops near the border. or the us places military personnel on standby italy sticks with its current president who didn't want to stay in the job . was politicians failed to agree on replacement after a week of voting and wrangling and getting sour over do the book gets battle that's got people involved in france. ah, millions of people up and down the u. s. east coast of woken to a severe snowstorm which threatens to get worse through the day. new york and boston are expected to bear the brunt of the blizzard conditions. the governors of maryland, massachusetts, new jersey and new york state of declared an emergency wanting a power cuts. new york city's mer is telling people to stay indoors. road slippery out here to day. and so be careful to pump the sanitation did pass through.

open glowed early with the best to be off the road to let the s and y do their job as a clean the streets of a. so be careful bundle up, good day to say all if you don't have to go out capable. elizondo joins his life from new york, gave house, shaping up in the morning here. and this storm was being built is certainly the biggest of this winter season and potentially in many decades. and it's lived up to, it's a billing we're right in the heart of times square. and i'll just give you an idea of what the scene is here. you can see that it, it looks like it's called. and i can tell you, i can confirm that it is called it's about minus 10 degrees celsius right now. last time i checked, they've done a good job clearing out the main square here. but as you can see, there are a lot of people here, many of them tourists trying to soak in this pretty rare moment. i mean,

it always snows in winter here in new york and in the northeast, but this isn't particularly cold and dumping quite a bit of snow just here in parts of new york. we're expecting as much as 30 centimeters and well, it's beautiful snow and it's fun. in some ways it also can be quite dangerous. there's certainly a risk of storm surge from local officials are telling us about storm surge throughout the northeast of the u. s. this storm is being called a bomb site clone as they're calling it. and it's affecting about 70000000 people in the northeast in about 6 or 7 different states. and particularly in massachusetts, in boston, they're expecting in boston that they could receive up to 60, that's $60.00 centimeters of snow making it one of the biggest snow events in the boston area in about 45 years or so. and i can tell you, like i said,

we get lots of snow here at this time of year. but this is certainly unusual in how fast it's coming and how much know that it's dumping. and it says you got the worst yet. it's expected to get progressively worse over the coming hours until it tapers off. we think later on saturday, in terms of transportation, thousands of flights have been cancelled in the north used to the united states about just in new york, airports about 75 to 90 percent of all flights just here in the new york area airport. so it's a certainly a storm that is certainly living up to its billing. how long are the weather experts they gave expecting it to hang around this very, very big area from where you are up towards boston. yeah, it's coming over us now. here in new york city, it's also is going over new jersey and parts of pennsylvania,

but whether officials are telling us and it's slowly moving north east. and so it's hitting boston right now. but because of the contours of the northeast coastline, they're getting hit really hard up there. and it's not until depending on where you are in the northeast, just a big area. not until later this evening, later, saturday evening, local time that some areas will see the worst storm surge and the worst amount of snow coming down. so if you're up in those folks that are up in the northeast of the us, particularly new england, massachusetts area and further north, they're going to be getting this through the evening of saturday, going into sunday. and that's when it might start to slowly melt all this snow when it melts, turns into water and that's when officials are worried about localized flooding. so again, it's, it's, it's pretty snow and it's people, a tourist, as you see here,

having fun out taking pictures and what have you. but there are certainly some dangers to it as well. and that's why so many officials are saying stay off the roads. take this very, very seriously, because it potentially could, could be a life threatening event as that day and evening go on throughout the northeast gable that you and the crew go and get it done someplace warm and dry indoors for a bit. and we'll, we'll maybe send you a little hats as well, cuz it does look really properly cold. gabriel, at his under there was a thumbs up in time square in new york. the sand off over ukraine continues between moscow, washington and his nato allies is more than a $100000.00 russian troops remained stationed close to the border with ukraine. people near that frontier with russia say they've been living with the threats of invasion for years. who del hamid reports it's in the villages of eastern ukraine that the impact of the conflict is felt the most. victoria is worried about the long term effect it could have on her chill. grim,

real house is just on the line of contact. hearing gunshots and loud banks has become part of daily life, a difficult situation for a parent, especially when she says this little sign of any help coming love. so no household are furniture all this time. the government hasn't provided anything and won't do anything right now. either any of nobody has told us anything going on, what will happen, and what should we do for most people here shrugged off the idea of an imminent invasion, saying they have been living with a threat for more than 8 years now. a few 100 kilometer south in multiple life goes on. the port city has seen fierce battles between pro russian separatist and de ukrainian army, the mural of little molina, who lost all of her family and her left arm in a rocket. that, that

a reminder of the suffering the city has been through a few days ago, parliament passed the bill that allows civilians to carry weapons in case of invasion. but sales aren't going up yet. new finding here, marketing, there's no panic in 20132014. we were selling a lot of automatic firearms, but at the moment there's no such demand. and it hasn't been an increase in demand for ammunition buffering it's. i've seen people here are resilient and many say they are ready to face any danger. the village is near the front line and now part of the military zone residents are allowed to return here because it's actually fairly safe at the moment. but we've been driving around and we could barely find anyone. this woman is one of the few people we came across, switching between russian and ukranian. she tells us life is good. they have water,

electricity in a shop. and she has made her own plans in case of war, missouri. nice. oh, good domains. yep. and of, we've built an underground shelter in our own backyard. we'll go there. we don't want to leave. this is our head. let's do president viola demo zalinski called on people to remain calm and he's blaming. foreign media was spreading panic. ukrainians have learned to rely on themselves carry on with their lives. whilst kidding, through the fog of information where that bill hamid al jazeera in eastern ukraine . a military court in democratic republic of congo is expected to deliver a verdict on the 2017 killings of to you and investigators. american michael sharp and zeta catalan a swede were killed while probing alleged atrocities and the central. cuz sy, region, the fighting was between government forces and a local arm group. come on, inner and supple. falling. the case was from nairobi. is malcolm web. malcolm 2017

is a few years ago now. why is it taken so long to get to this stage? well, it was 5 years ago, the doing not conflict that the killings took place. and then there's been a un investigation this investigation by the congolese government and taking quite some time the military court process was held up for sensitivity, the coven, for quite long period. there were a total of nearly around 50 suspects in this court, of course, and taken a long time to go through all of these proceedings. but proceedings which rights activists say are not all centric. anyway. the judges in this quarter army officers, the military courts, have been frequently chris's eyes by rights groups a congo for not offering fair trials for not having any independence from the chain of command or even the control of the states. and in the states. many people,

including other investigate the suspect could have been behind these killings that took place 5 years ago. malcolm, thank you very much. to europe, ruling classes in italy have asked the current president sergio matter allowed to carry on for a 2nd term politicians who spent the past week voting to find alternative. but they failed. the 80 year old methodology has previously said he doesn't wish to continue in the job. not in baba is following that story from london. it does appear that there's a strong consensus now on saturday that there should be an approach made to ask sergio mater, unless he's a 2 years old to stay on for another 7 year term as president. now this comes after a whole week of voting to try to pick a new head of states, which is really gone no way. so there are reports in italy that actually the prime minister, murray or dr. g. how's aust,

sergio mater ela to stay on. that's off to all of those coalition parties in government, basically realized that they were getting nowhere fast with all the other options. and so really trying to urge much rather to stay in his position. but he's previously made it very clear that he is not interested in doing so. what i was mentioning voting that sexually involving just over a 1000 parliamentarians and regional represent representatives from across italy whose job is to pick the new president. it is a largely ceremonial role, but it is seen as a very important one as well. and during his term, sergio, martha rella has actually seen 5 different governments come and go in italy as well as the coverage in 1900 crisis, which of course isn't over yet, which devastated his country. so a lot of people are saying, well, he has actually got the experience needed. so let's come here on this program 3

months since the military coup in sudan. we speak to the family of one victim who dies my thousands of truck drive as a stranded on argentine as border with chile. ah . hello there a winter storm blew east out of the mediterranean, bringing rare heavy snow to parts of the levant. over the past week, this was a scene in lebanon. while the snow has stopped falling. we are likely to see more of that, however, as well as some wessa weather, as another system sweeps across the mediterranean was we're expecting heavy snow to pull east across turkey. that'll edge into paces like syria and lebanon. by the time we get into the mid week, but it is looking a little bit dryer further south,

if you showers coming, insecure, weights on monday. and it is looking rather windy once again across many of those gulf states. and as we move across to north africa, the wet and windy weather theme continues for libya and egypt. you can see that system pushing its way to the east kicking up a lot of sand. but not only here, we've got the harm mass and winds blowing up a lot of us the horace and pushing it across into the atlantic. it remains while the hot and dry here for the wet weather. we have to head to the south. we've still got the remnants of psycho and bringing some heavy rain to the likes of angola, zambia as well. madagascar remains clear for now, but we are watching a cyclone pulling its way west and we'll keep an eye on that track that show ever. ah, there was a time when the octagon going to the floors were enough to sustain life in the northern color. it doesn't allow you round,

but us change. we fun in 3 men and different paths and go down as if is drowned, gaunt animals and manly threat. the constant fight for surviving risk and what's going on? i was just blue ah, good past the hour you're watching l to 0. my name's peter w, top stories around 5000 flights of been cancelled in the us as the east coast there prepares for huge snowstorm. the bad weather is projected to move through the northeast this weekend with new york and boston. expected to be the most effective

u. s. president joe biden says he will send troops to eastern europe soon to bolster native forces em attentions over ukraine. top defense officials are urging russia to deescalate on boarding parties in italy. have asked the current president sergio much of allen to carry on for 2nd term. politicians are spent the past week voting to find an alternative, but they failed. now it's been 3 months since the military coup insta, dawn, and sparked massive protests which continue despite a crackdown. now the relatives of those who died during those demonstrations hope, the antique who movements to man's will be fulfilled. he but morgan reports now from the city of what madonna gave him a how much family is in morning, the 24 year old from what made any incidence, al jazeera state was killed during an ant military protest a week ago. hello. hello. what the horrible i was in cartoon,

someone called me and said your brother was hit by a tear gas canister. i called those who are with him, and they told me he had had a small injury. when in reality, he was hit by a bullet to the head. then i got a call from someone who gave me his condolences. that's what i knew my brother had died. and i said, oh, garcia was the one who supported this family. he dropped out of school to drive an auto rick show whenever i called him, he was either of the funeral or at weddings helping people. as a state has witnessed a large protest since the military took overpower in october, dissolving a 2 year transitional government, which was meant to lead down to democracy. security forces have repeatedly you hear guys and live ammunition against demonstrators. at least $78.00 protest who have been killed and more than 2 and a half 1000 injured would met and may not be the only city beside the capital harpoon. more 1000 cub taken to the 3 to protest against military rule,

but its location in central for them is significant. it shows that the demand for civilian rule and democracy transcends the social and ethnic barriers that used to dominate down on the pick a landscape. for decades, for down central region was more stable than other areas which suffered from civil wars. but since december 2018 when per dance revolution began, many more people in cities closer to the capital, joined the anti government movement. that movement was re ignited when the military to control her fee wouldn't let them in there. the protest movement in was madame, is not less than what is happening and hard to him. when to protesters from here were killed including guessing, people came from all over the state and from neighboring states. we want to see the future of those protestors who died, envisioned we want to democratic united sir don, got some family say it may be painful, but they take comfort knowing he died, demanding change and to see a better country. he but morgan august 0,

was mad any for them? me? scientists are concerned about the new sub variance of koby, 19 ami kron b. a point 2 is being called stealth ami crohn, because it's harder to detect using p. c. r. tests has been confirmed in 40 countries. experts say it appears to be even more transmissible than the original on the chrome strain. dr. richard, the cells is an infectious diseases specialist at the quote zulu natal research and innovation sequencing platform. he says the sub variance is not a major cause for concern. the fundamentals haven't changed. so we have some good preliminary data from the u. k. this week that the protection from the vaccines is very similar against b, a dot one, and b a g dot 2. and so the fundamentals of what we need to do have not

changed. there may be some subtle differences and there may be something about this that, that makes it slightly better. it didn't factoring people and passing from person to person. but ultimately, we know what we need to do to protect people and to protect populations. thousands of truck drivers are stranded on the border between chile and argentina as they wait to be tested for cove at 19. some have been waiting for weeks putting a strain on the goods they're carrying and on themselves is leo harding. ah, going nowhere fast. thousands of trucks are stranded in argentina. as the drivers wait to be tested for coven 19 to inter chilly. and the weight is taking its toll. yes, it will say my like it though you. i've been here for 2 weeks. yeah. look when i've got a refrigeration unit, but not enough guest to run the fridge. many of these trucks are carrying refrigerated goods,

with the engine having to stay running to keep the products from spoiling us, got killed, come diesel is running out and they have equipment that cannot handle being on for a long time. the engines running all day and night and they starting to fail and fix the cargo. when we get to chile, we'll have to come back because of this. it's all stopped going in and going out there with, with no where to go. the drivers rely on sharing food to eat and use makeshift toilets and showers again, cuz i know that and we go into the city by a few things and split them among ourselves. the people nearby give us a little bit of food, whatever they can do to help. and even if it's a little though, right now we have a bathroom and a shower that they sent for us, but we have to pay for it. a similar problem has been affecting drivers on the northern border of chile, where they also face long queues. endo jonathan, this is becoming a real problem. the authorities of the presidents have to take care of this row after row. these truck drivers are forced to wait in close quarters during

a pandemic for a test they need to finish their job. leah harding al jazeera, such as is in india, have been struggling to stay afloat during the pandemic rising infections and restrictions of the industry hard. but a famous circus in one of india's worst affected states mahar rostrum is hoping for a revival. ah, that'd be a moment. i'm gonna use them good. cuz if we restarted after the 1st way, for just 20 days later, we faced the 2nd wave and we lost some lot of investment about $337000.00. all the money we had in recent, helplessly to reopen, was gone. and so it was a huge loss by god's grace, we're getting back on our feet. probably we did some events and shows i perform as an artist, the song in the movie for them at way. some now we survived. now we're allowed to

open with 50 percent capacity. we're taking all the missions leverage negation disinfection according to covered safety protocol. oh, the crowd is less than normal. it's enough for us to survive. we believe somehow we're moving towards what's normal. ah, argentina has reached the deal with the i m f to restructure more than $44000000000.00 worth of debts. the presidents of the agreements after a year of talks but allow access to new funds. but critics want the government to suspend repayments, saying the country can't afford the monica yet. a key f has more from when osiris argentina's president alberto fit man. this presented the agreement with the i m f as a life saver in yellow from a for a way, who knew we had a new surround down neck without the agreement, we had no horizon, no future fernandez,

had inherited from his predecessor malady. so maggie of $44500000000.00 debt with the i m f. one that argentina could not repay, especially while ceasing of recession spiraling inflation and cove. 19 ah, argentines took to the streets during the pandemic to show they weren't willing to make more sacrifices to pay their creditors. ah, the government's only option was to negotiate a new agreement with the i m f. that would be politically acceptable implants. he bowed and the body of maces. we have endured months of very harsh negotiations to undo the hom inflicted on argentina. economy minister marchin grossman explained that the agreement would buy argentina more time to pay the debt without forcing it to make drastic public spending cuts the government, he said, would continue to invest in them for structure, science, and technology, paving the way for better future. 69 year old bed, the bed is watch the news,

but was unimpressed as long as she can remember, argentina has been moving from one economic crisis to another, struggling with high inflation and debt in the city. a song great beat. all this agreement may represent a relief for the government, but it won't change a thing for argentines. prices have been and will continue going up. the government will raise taxes to pay its costs, and inflation will continue to impoverish us is a vicious cycle that doesn't end. the markets reacted positively to the agreement, mainly because the lack of one would have led to a default, a cordless seed not credited anymore. gumbo, the agreement will not produce major changes. it basically gives argentina some space to breathe. our problems will not be soft, but if we had no agreement, they would be significantly greater with the agreement. it's only the 1st step in yet another long process. it still has to be approved by the i m f board. and by

argentina's congress, monica, and i can also sera when a site is, scientists say they've been able to extract animal renee from the air for the 1st time. the mess it could be a powerful, neutral, to help track and conserve wildlife, alexia bryan has more armed with a tiny vacuum. and a filter scientist christine bowman is gathering data at the copenhagen. so she's trying to find out which animals are kept there. not by wandering the enclosures that from the air. what we found was that we can not only detect the animals that are kept here at the so we could also detect even species that i used to feed the animals here and assume they're using what's called environmental dna. it's been used before to work out the kinds of fish or plants living in water. but these scientists and denmark in the u. k. have worked out how to capture e dna from the air. they filters catching microscopic pieces of fur, saliva,

and faces while life is difficult to monitor. but if you look for giraffe, an open savannah, that's fairly easy. but if you look for something like a tape here, like this, not in a, in a pin like this, but in dens, rainforest, it's immensely difficult. if this works in a greater scale, it'll revolutionize the way we look at greenforest animals. the teams worked in zoos because it made it easier to confirm the source of the dna, and how far it had travelled. identified dozens of species, including mere cats living, 245 meters away. the researchers think it will be useful in the field to help track and conserve wildlife. there are 2. it's a small one until now scientific to rely on the signs animals leave behind travelling to remote areas using camera traps to snap pictures of hard to find creatures. the wonderful thing about environmental dna is almost every

other bio monitoring method we have requires that the animal be present when you're assessing them. so if you're using a camera trap, they have to walk in front of the camera. if they walk behind it, you'll never see them. the great thing about environmental dna is it's more like a footprint. they leave it behind. it's early days for the researchers who don't know why some animal dna wasn't detected, even though they were in the zoo. and it's unclear won't impact the weather, could have on collecting the data. but the scientists hope the answers to some of the toughest questions and conservation could just be hanging in the air. alexia bron al jazeera, around is broken out in france over the price of a begets. they usually cost around a dollar and a bakery, but a friendship market changed decision to sell the bread for a fraction of that price. as upset bakers natasha buckler. as the story from parish, the french bakers, a baguette isn't just a loaf of bread. it's

a work of art. both girls, hipaa, you drop by lubano for them on a new natasha. people think old bread is the same, but it needs a lot of care. the dough is alive, you have to feel whether it's good or not in your $35.00, your traditional bakery so packets for around $1.00. so a decision by a major french supermarket chain to slash its by get price to $0.30, a scandalized or tis, nor bakers, like john felipe, your 3rd to replay. oh, they are disrupting prices compromising on the flower and quality like young is about passion. it's not just about money in business with aunty retail in the class says the cut price by get aims to shield customers at a time of inflation and rising prices. but the move has caused something of an uproar in france, some fear, and erosion of french values, others the demise of quality. the debate has even made its way into the french presidential campaign,

leggett hamilton of santiago. i looked through laclede le ferry that he sent for began. the flour is $0.10, so prices are being destroyed, sever jacqueline destruction velo, the bagget price war has so, and he stirred emotions. but there's also the question of taste. every year in france, surprise is awarded for the best bagget in paris. the jury is made up of top bakers, but also members of the public because nearly everyone in france has an opinion about what makes a good bye get. so let's see if people can pick a 30 cent by get from a traditional one. she says, hello, hello, yes, yes, version to la. yes, that always gets a tradition. you know, when you go abroad, you can try hard to find a fringe faggot, but it doesn't exist thing types wrong. we get off of an older cookie. it has to be all crusty and very fluffy inside. the supermarket is called the bagget ro, ridiculous. it says the promotion poses little long term threat to bakers as it

will end in a few months. but the debate reveals that few things in sight. passions in france quite like this.