oh, wow, the lawns knew babies were dying, i did it. nothing about people and power investigates, exposes, and questions they use and abuse of power around the globe on how to deal with severe snow storms back to the east coast of the united states. thousands are left without power. i'm gabriel's hondo in a cold and snowy new york city were a major snow storm has hit the entire northeast of the us. ah, hello, i'm darren jordan. this is out as a reply from doha. also coming up thousands of truckers drive and the canadian capital in protest against vaccine mandates for crowds across into the u. s. on the

border between ukraine of russia, we've been to people longing for normal life as diplomatic efforts to avert the crisis. continue. and dozens of former soldiers and democratic republic of congo are sentenced to death for their role in the killing of 2 un investigate. ah. one of the strongest winter storms in years is battering the eastern united states . millions of people in 10 states are experiencing heavy snow in a hurricane force winds around a 100000 homes are without power and more outages are expected. gabriel is under reports now from the it was by far the biggest snowstorm 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 more prepared but got plenty of food and yeah, well, 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. it looks cold. yeah. for the tourists in times square who braved the minus 10 degrees celsius conditions. it was something to behold. i've never knew where 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 of 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 ando, al jazeera new york. so let's talk to nbc is chris balloon,

who joins us live now from boston. chris, so experts are predicting record levels of snow in boston. tell us what's been happening that yeah, hi there. darren, we have endured about 18 hours of heavy snow and heavy wind here in the city of boston. and thankfully, over the past hour or so, the snow has started to taper off a little. i know it probably does. it look like it. but there were times today where the snow was falling at somewhere around, you know, about $5.00 to $10.00 centimeters per hour, which is an incredibly high clip. when you add that in to the winds, that were gusting at more than 80 kilometers per hour. it was a very, very nasty stores throughout the day here. now perhaps the good news is, is that local officials have been warning people for days to stay home,

stay off the roads and just let the storm happen. and it appears that most people have listened to those warnings. if this were a week day and people perhaps are trying to get to work or school, they might have been much, much worse. of course there is a heavy clean up that needs to take place here. the mayor of boston insist that schools will be open on monday, but that's going to be a lot of clean up to take place between now and then. there are more than 100000 people without power in eastern massachusetts, especially south of boston. that area down through the south shore. and cape cod were 2 of the hardest hit areas seeing the highest sustained winds for the longest period of time. and also as your reporter mention, that, that coastal flooding that started coming on shore. so with so many people without power in the temperature now dropping well below 0 over night, there are going to be people who need heat. and the state of massachusetts is working with local partners to open up warming shelters and places that people can

go if they do lose their heat. luckily in this part of the country in this part of massachusetts, often heat is not electric. it's often or fuel oil, so hopefully people have heat in those air is where they're most effective because it is going to take some time to get the power back. god. oh electricity, cruise. some have come down from canada, others have come up from florida. they cannot go up in their bucket trucks to repair the lines. if the winds are still this high. so it will take some time for them to get their power back on. it will take some time for all of these cities up and down the eastern seaboard to dig out. but i think you have to say for a potentially historic storm delivering upwards of 60 centimeters of snow to 70. ah, the, the various have fair, pretty well considering derek. all right, so nbc is crisp alone. they're reporting live from boston. chris, thank you. now,

british prime minister boris johnson says the u. k. is considering making a major later deployment in response to the massing of russian troops on the ukraine. border officials will finalize the details in brussels next week with ministers discussing the military options. on monday, britain's foreign and defense ministers are also planning to go to moscow in the coming days, the talks with their russian counterparts. in an effort to deescalate tensions. meanwhile, ukraine's foreign minister has urging western allies to be vigilant and firm, and that talks with russia. it follows the u. s. president's announcement of a small troop deployment to eastern europe. the mid fears of a russian invasion. more than a $100000.00 troops now gathered at the ukrainian border. but as charles stratford reports not from denette from any living an eastern ukraine already align themselves with moscow. this is no man's land between ukrainian government forces and separatist fighters with the self declared de next people's republic. the russian bank to authorities and ask 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 last here. 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 mil rules 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, nay. what used to be done and scampered? this was where some of the heaviest fighting took place. between pro russia separatists and the ukrainian government forces. when conflict started in 2014 nichol, i says he and many people like him see little chance of a future with a ukranian government wanting closer ties with europe, a nato, russia, promot,

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 residence like vladimir occasionally come to try and repair their homes. mccook should say, we are between a rock and a hard place. there are no jobs. we are doing our best to survive. many people say that i 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 half 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 stuck now here, really no matter what happens he, a young people are trying to find joy in life. we try our best to live like people do 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, her international backers always fail to understand. charles tripe al jazeera, don't ask. a military court in democratic republic of congo has sentenced 49 former soldiers to death for their part in the killings of 2 united nations investigators

5 years ago. zeta kaplan from sweden and michael sharp from the u. s. were murdered, while investigating alleged atrocities, mcafee region. it happened as government forces were fighting a local uprising. malcolm webb has more now, from the kenyan capital. 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 connelly state that was behind the killings time for so break here now to 0. when we come back, i'm adarine in lisbon. portugal snap election on sunday is meant to break political deadlock here. but it could just lead to further political polarization. peru face is an even bigger coastal clean up as the full scale of an oil spill becomes apparent. marla, stay with us. ah, while the national weather service has called it a historic storm. hello, everyone. here's where the nor'easter is on sunday. moving across the canadian

maritime provinces, snow for them, but for newfoundland and labrador were talking about rain, which is how much snow is this going to drop? $45.00 centimeters across the maritimes in those winds will be howling at more than a 100 kilometers per hour. westbound, we go, we do have some showers and rain for vancouver and seattle on sunday, but for the west coast of the us, things are quiet here. los angeles at $22.00 degrees and check this out. cold air has rushed as far south as miami. just 16 degrees, we look at the overnight temperature here, 3 degrees. it's not record breaking stuff. the record is minus 3, but cold to be sure. and those north wins are also dragging down the temperatures and nasa havana and also can coon just a high 22 degrees on sunday. heavy falls across the pacific coast of south america through the andes, into the western amazon basin. and those storms that were stuck in the river plate region have now moved further toward the north in this is plaguing the southeast

corner of brazil, rio de janeiro, a $28.00 degrees in sao paulo, some rock and storms for you, with a high of 22 that's it, caea. ah, the corona morris has been indiscriminate in selecting its victims. it's devastating effects of plague, every corner of the globe, transcending class creed and color. but in britain, at this, proportionally high percentage of the fallen have been black or brown skins. the big picture traces the economic disparities and institutional racism that is seen united kingdom failing citizens, britons true colors, part one on al jazeera. ah

ah, welcome back. a could remind about top stories here. this i, one of the biggest storms to hit the eastern us in decades is battering 10 states with heavy snow, strong winds and bitter cold. at least a 100000 people. i've lost power more outages and flooding. they're expecting. but as prime minister bars johnson says the u. k is considering making a major major deployment in response to the massing of russian troops on the u claim. border officials will find lots of details in brussels next week on a military court in democratic republic of congo. a sentence 51 former soldiers to death for their part in the killings of you and investigators. zide a capital under michael shop. 5 years ago. now a convoy truckers in canada, protesting against a vaccine mandate has descended on the capital ottawa, the so called freedom convoy was launched in response to new rules that went into

force a week ago. they require all truckers who cross the border into the u. s. to be vaccinated, opponents say the policy hurts businesses and drivers livelihoods. this convoy is although freed up, it's not only with the truck drivers, it's actually for every single person you, me, buddy, down the road. it doesn't matter. it's all about your free choice. that's what it should be. like i said, if you're vaccinated, cool, you did it. well, most people did it because of work, but you know, you should do it off of free will on your own choice. we came here is we're because for a better life, our kids are kids just to make things normal. again, things been going on too long the way they have it. well, while truck has protested in canada, thousands rallied in paris against france is vaccine pass. some protest has weighed canadian flags in solidarity with the demonstrators. their critics of labeled

french measures discriminatory and excessive. the past came into effect on january 24th and is needed to enter restaurants, use public transport. and for some events now, delegation from the west african block echo as is in between a fast. so to meet with the leaders of monday's coo, when the military seized power, its leaders said the president was failing to stop violence by arm groups in the north. well, now the armies my recruitment drive to send more people to the front lines. nicholas hawk reports from walker to go in search for his families approval, marry him, his brother joined burkina faso. his army with a uniform comes respect, but also the risk of death. she didn't make much of the call he made when night announcing he was 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 heading home. bodies of soldiers are returning in coffins among them. miriam's brother, he was killed in an ambush by al qaeda fighters. he sent these people as he can

much. when i see soldiers uniform, i want to break down and cry. it reminds me my brother of a corpse laying in a coffin. still, the sight of uniforms makes me scared me. fear is spreading. millions are displaced . i'll kite a nasal 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 tax. this is what is less of working. if i says military headquarters, it was attacked in 2018 by now coda affiliate for years on it still has not been rebuilt. curled amoeba promise this change in the military to shore up the morale of 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 de amoeba joined the fight to save the country. i am ready to take up arms because each time de attack to put our country in morning. why is

this happening to our country? why are we under attack? those that killed her brother are al qaeda fighters, but only by name says miriam. they are locals. she believes poverty is feeling the violence and not ideology. poverty and unemployment means young men are lived by armed groups. if we need to find a way to feed families and bring back the states 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. why do go through the government says the oil spill triggered by this month's volcanic eruption. their tongue is twice as big as previously reported. the countries environmental agency estimates 9012000 barrels leaked into the pacific ocean from a refiner. it 2 weeks ago. spanish island oil company reps on his blaming the navy for not issuing a some ami alert after the eruption. marianna sanchez joint us live now from lima and marianna. this oil spill is now much larger than previously thought. so just

how big is it and what's happening with the cleanup? that's right, darren, it is as you say, is much bigger than it was thought it was 1st reps all have said talked about a barrel and how spilled them after the few hours they kept on moving and the spill kept on showing how the scope of the bill kept on showing it, they talked about $6000.00 barrels and now in the ministry of environment, how said that it is twice as much, $11900.00 barrels. it's, it could be even more than that, but they're going with this a twice as much as rep. so had initially said now, many critics are saying that the clean up has been really slow and precarious. first rep, so hired a few wall and fewer some fish. remember where on the beach and that started to clean up really sweeping the the, the crude from the sand and,

and then they started hiring more people. we could see just very few people on the beach and just about the few kilometers north of the main area of the spill. we were at the corn a b which has a lot of protected areas. and there we saw a group of people from the ministry of environment who had brought to a skimmer, which is a sort of a machine that sucks the a crude from the waves. but we kept on seeing the dark waves washing and washing ashore, so red. so says that now they have hired more than 2000 people. they say that they have cleaned up 35 percent of the spill. we don't know if that is the case, but what we really know is that the dark wave or the dark kid is the mass of oil of crude is still moving north, and it's still contaminating everything as it goes north about 200 kilometers from,

from, from the area of the main spill already north darren and marianna, just briefly. peru apparently is now demanding compensation from rep. so what will prostitute will be looking for them? well they're really looking for who's telling the truth because our reps all has said that to the navy did not warn them at that. if there was a, a wave as nami, coming from the, the rupture in there, the volcanic eruption in tonda and, and the rep and prosecutors are looking at the state of the pipelines really well because the pipelines broke or at least one pipeline broke. and the captain of the ship has said that the weather was fine, the waves were not of higher than one meter. and so ah, so what prosecutors are looking is into who is really telling the truth here. a

writer, marianna sanchez life was there from lima peru. marianna, thank thailand, has declared a state of emergency for its eastern coast. as oil continues to wash ashore there. and leak was detected in a pipeline in the gulf of thailand. 20 kilometers off a coast of wrong province on tuesday. at least 60 tons of crude spill into the sea and is washing up on my ram point beach, a popular tourist location, around 350 people involved in the clean up. the navy is now working to fix the leak . italy's 80 year old president, sergio marelo has agreed to serve a 2nd term after parliament failed. choose a consensus candidate map that a law map that a law map that either a minister says matter molars staying on out of a sense of responsibility. we had wanted to retire from the largely ceremonial jobbies held since 2013. there were 7 failed rounds of balloting to choose his

successor, leaving behind a deeply divided parliament. boat is in portugal le, heading to the poles and coming out for a snap connection. it was called last month after a blocked spending bill brought down the minority socialist government. but as adam rainy report from lisbon, many vote is doubtful. it lead to an effective government green grocer. pedro gomez says his business, one of small margins has gotten even tougher. the past 2 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 cove it had, it's been crisis over crisis and for small businesses that's he'll and he 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. this 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 prepare demick levels. some voters are worried though that the government is it risk of missing out of billions of dollars and you recovery funds if they don't meet certain requirements . pulse, so cost a socialist holding a slight edge of the social democrats. few voters though are fired up. he said, i mean, 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 lead or the right that further polarizes portuguese politics rather than bringing parties to the center. that's how political scientist and tony acosta pintos sees it. the 2 major parties will face basically the same type of challenges if the socialist, when they will have problems and negotiated with their left the communist and the left ring block. if the social democrats wins, they will have problems in negotiate with agreement. with the radical right dream, a party expected to make gains on sunday could be sugar a far right wing party form just 3 years ago. currently holding just one seat, it could win as many as it doesn't, according to polls. portugal, the poor country in western europe have 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 when we put,

each key won't allow 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 has many here uneasy about the future. adarine al jazeera, lisbon. not doctors have been baffled as to why people with the so called long covey and feel shorter breath. even though scans of their lungs are clear, a group of researches think they might have the answer. normal c t scans suggest those who experienced long lasting breathlessness abnormal long function in a pilot study. research has got patients to lie in an m r i scanner and inhale a liter zen on an odorless, colorless, tasteless, and safe gas. it works like oxygen, but can be traced visually during scans. the scientists found that circulation of oxygen in the body was less effective in those with long covert than in healthy people. they say this suggest the virus may cause microscopic damage in the lungs

of some will dr. history and al, what is from the university of south hampton. she says, the study is an important step towards understanding the condition, the mechanism of long cold. there's been no really unknown for the past 2 years and, but it's in the quiet findings are not surprising to me that there are, you know, there's something going on that the base some of the basic tests and scans that patients are having who have symptoms along covered or not showing up. so these are really promising and the study will go on and you know, because this, these are only pilot data from the study, but it is promising. and let's remember the study, the people who are where the impaired gas transfer was found. you know, from the long to the bloodstream, but actually people who weren't hospitalized to come. so these are not the people who have very severe code at the start at which isn't the majority of long covered patients. blanca, it happens in old age group groups. unfortunately, we do know it's more common and adults and children at the age group that seems

where, you know, most commonly happened in sort of the adult working age group, which is about, you know, 35 to 69 years of age. 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 code with like like people in health care, social care and teaching profession. but everybody can have long and we still can't really predict accurately who is more likely to go on and have it. it could really follow very mild infections at the start. so although it's more common and severe, and you know course if you have a severe infection, you end up in the hospital. you are you, there's a very high portion of people who don't recover for months or even years after. but actually, the vast majority of people don't go into hospital covered, and therefore the vast majority of long copays for people who aren't hospitalized

initially. now apple has come out with a personal safety guide for its latest gadget. the air tag that's after several women came forward to say, these are being misused by stalkers. a device is paired with the phone and the use of the mobile can get real time data on the air tags locations. one woman discovered in their tag, in her cast gas tank that, ah, type at jack of the top stories here on al jazeera, one of the biggest storms to hit the eastern us in decade is battering 10 states with heavy snow, strong winds and bitter cold. at least a 100000 people have lost power and more outages are expected. and mrs. crisp alone has more now from boston. we have endured about 18 hours of heavy snow and heavy wind here in the city of boston. and thankfully, over the past hour or so, the snow has started to taper off

a little. i know it probably does. it look like it. but there were times today where the snow was falling at somewhere around.