the al jazeera english proud recipient of the new york festivals broadcaster of the year award for the 50 year running ah, digging in on the ukranian border more than $100000.00 russian troops on standby to the east of the country as military and diplomatic efforts to avert the crisis continue. ah, hello barbara sarah, this is al jazeera life from london also coming out. i'm gabriel's onto in a cold and snowy new york city. were a major snow storm has hit the entire northeast of the u. s. a military court in

democratic republic of congo delivers its verdict from the 2017 killings of to you when investigators sentencing 51 people to death and the battle of the get will tell you why a route was abrupt in front of the price. so base traditional loaf of bread ah, as the standoff of ukraine continues between russia, the u. s. and it's nato allies, the country's foreign ministers. as western allies should remain vigilant and firm more than 100000 russian troops and masses of military hardware remain station, the east of the border with ukraine and fears of an invasion remain high. but as charlie stratford reports, not from the netscape, many of the people living in eastern ukraine already aligned themselves with russia . this is no man's land between ukrainian government forces and separatists

fighters with the self declared don x people's republic. the russian bank to authorities and have given us rare access to the territory they control for the 1st time since 2017. the city seems more russian than when we were lost on the surface, at least the statue of land in still stands, prowled over the main square next to a russian flag. but they're also vast pro russia murals on buildings. this one reads russian, don bass, a heart in the colors of the russian flag, sits in the snow covered park destruction from 8 years of conflict is worse. now. what used to be done at scamp ward? this was where some of the heaviest fighting took place between pro russia separatists and the ukrainian government forces. when conflicts started in 2014

nichol, i says he and many people like him see little chance of a future with a ukrainian government. once in closer ties with europe and nato, russia from russia will help putin warned the west don't dare to put a foot in this region. there is no future with ukraine unless it changes. some residents, like vladimir occasionally come to try and repair their homes, may not have to ship $32.00. we are between a rock and a hard place. there are no jobs. we are doing our best to survive. many people say they don't want to go back to ukraine off to what's happened either people want independence or to join russia. most of the people that used to live in this neighborhood, a too afraid to return because of the sporadic, shelly, and now increasing phase of a potential renewed conflict. but there is a side to life internet, so that perhaps reflects a determination to live a normal life, especially amongst the young generation,

many of whom were children. when the conflict started, many young people have left for russia or elsewhere in search of jobs. night clubs like this one only open at weekends and have to close when the curfew starts at 10 p. m. engine as we are separated from the rest of the world. for example, we cannot use international payment systems and it's difficult to get in and out. my travel to, to buy in europe, but those that can't afford to go out. they just stagnate here. really, no matter what happens he, a young people are trying to find joy in life. we try our best to live right people day in the rest of the world. russia has always denied supporting the separatists militarily, saying the conflict is an internal matter for the ukrainian government and their opponents to solve. but russia's influence here seems stronger than ever. something people say the ukrainian government international backers always fail to understand

charleston but al jazeera, don't ask on millions of people on the east coast of the us have found themselves blanketed under snow and battered by winds. as one of the strongest winter storms in years. hits thousands of flights had been cancelled, and states of emergency have been declared any could all get worse. gabriel and his own da has more from new york. it was by far the biggest snow storm of the winter in new jersey, pennsylvania. the snow hit hard and fast, and local officials urged people to stay home and be ready for anything were prepared. we got plenty of food and we'll just hunker in. in boston. the storm was being compared to a historic blizzard 44 years ago. that left the city buried in 60 centimeters of

snow. this storm seemingly packed close to the same punch. it wasn't quite as bad in new york, but the city didn't escape unscathed. the snow left every one and their dogs shivering. what is your name, little guy? this is basil basil you're shaking. are you cold? oh my gosh. call for the tourists in times square who braved the minus 10 degrees celsius conditions. it was something to behold. i've never seen new york with the snow, so it's really well i can make and dream winter. well, i think it's awful, but it's nice. while the snow is beautiful and it can be fun to play in, it also can cause problems and be quite dangerous. the storm is being called a bomb, say clone, and it's affecting the entire northeast of the united states, where 70000000 people live at the coastal peninsula. cape cod, near boston,

twitter users posted this video showing how strong the wind and snow were blowing close to upwards of a 112 kilometers per hour. storm surge was a concern in low lying areas all along the eastern seaboard. once all the snow melts, it turns to water and officials warned of localized flooding. throughout the northeast, there were at times blizzard conditions, wreaking havoc on travel. at airports, thousands of flights were canceled, and commuter train lines were halted. the storm is expected to taper off, meaning sunday will likely be the day of cleaning up. warming up and digging out gabriel's condo, al jazeera, new york. a military court in democratic republic of congo has sent in 51 former

soldiers to death for their part in the killings of 2 united nations investigators . 5 years ago, veda kept alon from sweden and michael sharp from the united states, were executed while investigating alleged atrocities in the cafe region. it happened as government forces were fighting a local uprising. 4 of their congolese colleagues are still missing. malcolm webb has more from the ruby the 2 investigators went there 5 years ago to try and investigate reports of massacres of civilians at the time. that's what their mission was. they would they would, they met with people from the community. they were misled by somebody who they thought was the translator. it turned out to be somebody working for the security agencies, then they were apprehended on the road, held up at gunpoint, taken into the bush and executed. now the whole incident was video, the video was released taken on a camera for and that was released just

a few weeks later. what initially appeared to show members of the armed group who were in a conflict with a government carrying out the execution later on closer inspection because of the language they spoke. because of other minor details. there was some fairly major questions about that, which gave a lot of credence to the kind of growing belief among many that this was in fact, the congo state that was behind the killings. italy's 80 year old president, saturday, my paranoia has been overwhelmingly voted in for a 2nd term by parliament. he had actually wanted to retire, but was persuaded to stay all in a period of political instability. the dean baba has one he's repeatedly ruled out serving another term as president, now off the police from italy's various political parties. sergio marcella has agreed to stay on for o'clock and i don't, i didn't really got sad of drama that i'd like to know who was elected by members

of italy, parliament and regional representatives at the attempt emerged as the front runner on saturday morning after they spent days trying and failing to reach agreement on a single name. on friday, mateo sal vini, head of the far right league party, had appeared to back the head of the secret services. eliza, better bologna to become the country's 1st woman head of state that went down badly with other groups in the right we glock. i'm going to shoot us will be as is a relative majority of the center, right in parliament. we gave them a leading role in the negotiations to solve the stalemate, but now we must say they use that role wrongly the handling of the situation is really shocking. so many italians have expressed support for the prime minister mario druggie to take the presidency. but some parties have insisted he's too important to lose is the head of government matter rela, staying on, even if it's just until the 2023 general election in theory lead druggie free to

oversee italy's post. pandemic recovery my o. draggy. it's like the architect that plan and there's the person who's really best capable of seeing who some of these very challenging reforms. so the question is, if he became the president who would become the prime minister and all the politicians felt that if he became president, they wouldn't be able to create a successor, prime minister, and the government would class. the economy has started to pick up. but more than $200000000000.00, any you funds for italy depends on a tight towing table of reforms. the dean baba al jazeera, a delegation from the economic community of west african states, is in booking, a fossil to meet with the lead of monday's coup. when the military seized power, the leader said the president was failing to stop violence from groups linked to isis and al qaeda in the north of the country. the army is on a recruitment drive to send more people to the front line. but as nicholas hart reports now from one good to go, it's a dangerous mission. in search for his families approval,

miriam's brother join burkina faso was armed with a uniform comes respect, but also the risk of death. she didn't make much of the call he made one night announcing with going to the front line. the war in the north feels far away from work. i do almost like it's happening in a different country. but now the reality of war is hitting home. bodies of soldiers are returning in coffins among them. miriam's brother, he was killed in ambush by al qaeda fighters. just helping people much when i see soldiers uniform, i want to break down and cry. it reminds me of my brother of a corpse laying in a coffin till the sight of uniforms makes me get fear is spreading, millions are displaced. i'll hide a nice old fighters continued to gain ground almost a week after colonel dominga took power in a qu, there's a precarious calm in the capital and fear that with political instability he will likely be more tact. this is what is less of rick enough. i says,

military headquarters, it was attacked in 2018 by al qaeda affiliate for years on. if phil has not been rebuilt, curled than me, but promise this change in the military to shore up the morales troops that has suffered so many losses. and it starts with a call to arms broadcast on the radio, across the nation, the message of colonel dom eva joined the fight to save the country. i am ready to take up arms because each time they attack to put our country in morning. why is this happening to our country? why are we under attack under those that killed her brother? are al qaeda fighters, but only by name says miriam, they are locals. she believes poverty is filling the violence and not ideology. poverty and unemployment means young men are leered by armed groups. we need to find a way to feed families and bring back the state's authority in those remote areas while she cannot bring back her brother. she hopes peace can be brought back to

this nation. gripped by bloodshed, nicholas hawk al jazeera walker. dooku you're watching al jazeera stella head will tell you why thousands of truckers are stranded on the origin. time border was chilly and i'm out. i'm rainy and lisbon. portugal snap election on sunday is meant to break political deadlock here, but it could just lead to further political polarization. ah, while we flip the switch on once again for our see effects, snow for japan. hello everyone. here's the picture on sunday. seen those winds and that snow pile up for western horseshoe and hook kado fact looking at about 30 centimeters over 12 hours, sky borders, snow, borders, love and is but of course some dangerous driving conditions. central eastern portions of china right now,

mostly clarity that rain. his peter de way shanghai has high 7 degrees in the forecast for you on sunday, getting striped with solid bands of rain across, lose on island on sunday. have to watch for the risk of seen some flooding here. and now take it down under and one fact 1st for stop in southeast asia where we do have outbreaks of rain and storms across this region. ok, i did promise you, we will get toward australia and we've got pouring rain across the north, central areas as wal locked into some pretty high humidity toward that southeast corner. so that could sparks and storms just like that. temperatures are coming down in perth at $36.00 degrees, but then they'll shoot rate back up in the days to come. southwest corner of new zealand, we do have some scattered showers, rolling across here, looking better for the north island. gets been mixed sunday cloud with a hive 27 degrees. don't forget the sunglasses soon. ah.

the story of zimbabwe, in her words, history is always told from the perspective of the great man, whether it's david livingston, all robot mcgarvey. my responsibility is to tell this involvement story in a way that it hasn't really been told before the ordinary. everyday life was involved with the people. i'm writing about patina, kappa, out of darkness, my zimbabwe on al jazeera. ah ah, a reminder now of the top stories on al jazeera efforts to find the diplomatic

solution to the now from the military. prices on the border between ukraine and russia are continuing ukraine's foreign minister says western allies should remain vigilant and firm with russia. millions of people in the u. s. east coast of woken up to a severe snow storm which threatens to get worse. thousands of flights have been canceled. the new york slayer is telling people to stay indoors. a military court in democratic republic of congo has sentenced $51.00 former soldiers to death for their part in the killings of united nations investigation was denied that catalan and michael sharp, 5 years military leader, and remained in control of sudan 3 months since the cool with little sign of a return to the democratic transition. the anti cru movement is continuing with dozens of protest is killed. and as he but morgan reports now from the city of wide meta ne, relatives of those who died. hope the movements demand will be fulfilled. guessing

how much the family is in morning. the 24 year old from with met any incidence anticipated date was skill during an anti military protest. a week ago. and 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 large protest since the military took over power. in october dissolving a 2 year transitional government, which was meant to lead down to democracy. security forces have repeatedly here,

guys, and live ammunition against demonstrators. at least 78 protests who have been killed and more than 2 and a half 1000 injured. what mother need may not be the only city beside the capital, how 2 more thousands have 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 for dance revolution began, many more people in cities close to the capital joined the anti government movement . that movement was re ignited when the military took control. fee wouldn't have been there. the protest movement in wide madana is not less than what is happening and hard to him. when to protesters from here were killed including get seen. 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 gathers, 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, hundreds of canadian truckers are occupying the streets of the capital altar, wine protest against coven vaccine requirements. the self styled freedom convoy came from all parts of the country. sun driving 7 or more hours to be part of the demonstration. they're unhappy that drivers now live to prove they are vaccinated to cross the us border. the doctors have been left baffled as to why people with long covert are often breathless, even though scans on their lungs showed nothing wrong, but researchers think they might have an answer. normal c t scan suggests that people who have suffered lingering breathlessness have unimpaired long functions.

so researchers instead asked patients to lie in an m r i scanner and breathing a little little over xander. that's odorless, colorless, tasteless, and crucially safe gas. it operates a lot like oxygen, and the scientists could then see that there was a significant change in how much transferred from the lungs into the bloodstream. they say it shows damage nobody had identified before and gives an indication of where to look to explain. and crucially treat symptoms that linger for a year or more. doctor news, renal one is an associate professor of public health for the university of south hampton. she says there's still no accurate prediction of who is affected by long coded, long co that happens in all age groups or groups. and unfortunately, we do know it's more common in adults than children and the age group that seems where, you know, most commonly happen instead of the adult working age group,

which is about, you know, 35 to 69 years of age. but it can happen in children, it seems to be slightly more common in women than men. and also seems to be more common than people who have their profession as a profession. kind of frontline, perhaps more with more exposure of covered like like people in health care, social garrett and teaching profession. but everybody can have longer with that. we still can't really predict accurately who is more likely to go on and have it thousands of truck drivers or strain that on the border between she lynn argentina as they wait to be tested for coven 19 some have been waiting for weeks, putting a strain on the goods that they're carrying and on themselves, layer harding reports. ah, going nowhere fast. thousands of trucks are stranded in argentina. as the drivers we to be tested for coven, 19 to inter chilly in the week is taking its toll yet here philip m. i like it

though you i've been here for 2 weeks and i've got a refrigeration unit, but not not guess 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. oh god, i took up diesel is running out. they have equipment that cannot handle being on for a long time. the engines running all day and night and this starting to fail and fix the cargo. when we get to chile will 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 divine. okay. that and we go into the city bar fi things and split them among ourselves. people need about give us a little bit of food, whatever they can do to help. even if it's a little 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 faced 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 vouchers in portugal had to the pulls for a snap election on sunday. but the pole could lead to more division and political uncertainty. just as the country requires steady leadership to get billions of dollars from europe's kennel demick recovery fund. adam rainy reports from lisbon. greengrocer pedro gomez says his business, one of small margins has gotten even tougher these past years. he hopes portugal snap election on sunday leads to a political consensus that propels portugal out of the pandemic right now. businesses are being strangled by higher taxes more than ever and it's been hard to

cope with that. and ever since coveted, it's been crisis over crisis. and for small businesses that's, that's, he'll really hard to deal with. the overwhelming majority of seats on sunday will go to both of portugal to leading parties. the ruling socialists on the left and the center right opposition party. the social democrats. the election was called in november when the socialists, former coalition partners, the communists, and the left, his block, voted with right wing parties to kill the 2022 budget. bouncing back from the pandemic is the top concern for many voters. prime minister antonio costa over saw one of the most successful vaccination campaigns in europe, and the government has helped bring unemployment down to pre pen demik levels. some voters are worried though, that the government is at risk of missing out of billions of dollars and e recovery

funds if they don't meet certain requirements. whole show cost as socialists, holding a slight edge of the social democrats. few voters though are fired up. he said it made me pretty. i don't have a lot of hope in the election. i'm still not sure which party to support. maybe it's better if we have a correlation. when voters go to the polls here on sunday, they could end up electing a new government, whether it be on the left or the right that further polarizes portuguese politics rather than bringing parties to the center. that's how political scientist, antonio, acosta, pintos, sees it. the 2 major parties will face basically the same type of challenge if the socialist, when they will have problems negotiated with their left, the communist and the left wing block. if the social democrats wins, they will have problems in negotiate with agreement with the radical right tween hawkins is a party expected to make games on sunday could be shaker. a far right wing party

form just 3 years ago. currently holding just one seat. it could win as many as a dozen according to polls. portugal, the poorest country and western europe has struggled for decades to catch up with richer countries in the block, brazilian immigrant edie, conceal yet a doesn't believe the next government will do much better, but it won't allow me to thought me to politics is the same. all over the world, politicians fight to hold the country back and not move forward. it's a fight for power. who will win that power and what they'll do with it? as many here, uneasy about the future. adam rainy al jazeera, lisbon. now to a food fight in france over the price of, of a get they usually cost about a dollar at bakeries. but a french supermarket chain is now selling the bread for a fraction of the price with some accusing the retailer of destroying french values . natasha butler explained from paris. ah, the french bakers, a baguette,

isn't just a loaf of bread. it's a work of art or both goofy, by your visual fire. i lubano aluminum, who not optional people think or bread is the same, but it needs a lot of care. the dough is a life. you have to feel whether it's good or not. yeah, if, if i'm your traditional bakery cell 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 baker's lecture. felipe, just her to reply. oh, they are disrupting prices and a compromising on the flower and quality lighting is about passion. it's not just about money in business. more with faulty retailer, klaus as the cut price by get aims to shield customers at a time of inflation and rising prices. but the move was 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. let me get that. not enough. santino a locker l'aquila fair in $0.30 for began flour is $0.10, so prices are being destroyed. savage of chain destruction venue. the bagget price war has certainly stood emotions, but there's also the question of taste. every year in france, the prize 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. yes, yes, version to le. yes. that boy, if it is a tradition, you know, when you go abroad you can try hard to find a french bag out, but it doesn't exist same time. so we get off, but i know the 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. natasha butler, i'll just 0 paris. ah . and now the top stories on al jazeera efforts to find the diplomatic solution to the mounting military crisis on the border between ukraine and russia are continuing. ukraine's foreign minister says the countries western allies should remain vigilant and firm in discussions with russia. in now has more than a $100000.00 troops station near the border with concerns it could be preparing an invasion. charles stratford zane an area under the control of russian backed separatists speaking street b today. this is.