6 for the stories which have marked their lives and careers. gabrielle, it is on the cover, the tragic story of 2 reinforced activities, brutally killed fighting the devastation brought about by loggers and ranchers. returning to the amazon, gabriel learned how their campaign for sustainable development brought them on a collision course with those who sought to profit from the forest destruction or jesse or correspondence ah, a severe snowstorm, but as the east coast of the united states needing tens of thousands 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 and the u. s. ah. hello,

i'm darn jordan. this is out as they are alive from dell are also coming up. thousands of truckers drive into the canadian capital in protest against vaccine mandates required to cross into the u. s. on the border between ukraine and russia, we speak to people longing for normal life, us diplomatic efforts to avert the crisis. continue on dozens of former soldiers and democratic republic of congo was 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 and strong winds. more than a $100000.00 homes are without power and more outages are expected. gabriel is under reports 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 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 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 near 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, and be seen as crisp alone as in boston, with more on the situation that 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 into the winds, that were gusting at more than 80 kilometers per hour. it was a very, very nasty store 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 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. thousands of people have

rallied in canada's capital ottawa against corona virus restrictions demonstrations, joined a convoy of trucks who have been protesting for the past week against compulsory vaccines for driver's working cross border routes. particle head reports. oh, iowa has a new soundtrack now as protestors moved to surround the parliament, a movement spurred on by truckers makes itself heard. as the signs may clear, this is a reaction to covey restrictions, mainly because canada and the us now say, if a trucker wants to cross the nearly 9000 kilometer long border, they have to be vaccinated. the canadian transport minister joined al jazeera to defend the policy. we have mandated a vaccination vaccination for transportation sector for the airline sector for marine sector, for the rail sector last fall. and we've done it successfully. so now almost 99

percent of workers in those sectors are fully vaccinated. that is reduced infection rate. that is your reduce hospitalization, that's reduced absenteeism. and that added resilience to our supply chain. today, there are reports, the canadian prime minister justin trudeau and his family were moved to a secure location of concern. and the police. you said he felt he needed to bring in extra officers. the risk factors extend beyond the court demonstrators to those that have already indicated online and, and others forums that they're prepared to engage directly or indirectly with the events that will transpire over the next several days here. and some of them have been very clear and inside a hate encouraging acts of violence, criminality. there were no reports of violence early saturday, but there was plenty of profanity lay signs and strong opinions expressed a problem. however, we're going to look on those to see also what we're doing with adding all these these monday. you know, we cannot,

we can kill the patient in the name of hearing that we cannot do that guy. so when it's done free, that's what we're gonna do. ah, the question now, when will this stop? it's a well funded protest raising more than $8000000.00 on go fun me. meaning this may be the sound of the city for a while to come had to call him al jazeera while truckers protested in canada, thousands rallied in paris against francis vaccine pass. some protested wave canadian flags and solidarity were the demonstrators. their critics of labelled 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 event, british prime minister bars, johnson says the u. k is considering making a major nato 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 also planning to go to moscow in the coming days for talks with their russian counterparts. an effort to deescalate tension ukraine's foreign minister is urging western allies to be vigilant and firm in their talks with russia follows the u. s. presidents announcement of a small troop deployment to eastern europe and mid fears of a russian invasion, more than a $100000.00 troops are now gathered at the ukrainian border. but as charles stratford reports from done, it's many living in easton, ukraine already aligned themselves. but moscow. this is no man's land between ukrainian government forces and separatist fighters with the self declared don't ex paypal's republic. the russian banked 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 lenin still stands proud 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. ne, what used to be done at scaffold? 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 ukrainian government wanting closer ties with europe and nato. russia promote 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. 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 neighbourhood, a too afraid to return because of the sporadic shelley 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 are 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, 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, her international backers always fail to understand. cha, stratford al jazeera, don't ask, and ukrainians of how they commemorative march. the cadets who died trying to stop rushes army from invading kids. in 1918, hundreds gathered to honor the so called heroes of cruelty and

a flowers of their graves. just 400 ukrainian selves and cadets how back nearly 4000 russian troops is believed. nearly $300.00 of them died in the battle and since become a symbol of ukrainian independence. so to come here and just here including we meet the individual fishermen jail for rescuing stranded, working the refugees as rights call for their relief and the remote bangladesh, the hospital that's been crowns the best new building in the world. ah, ah, look forward to burritos guys with sponsored by cut on airways? well, it's been a cool month for new delhi, but temperature is are on the rise. hello, everyone, good to see you. here's a forecast on sunday, plenty of sun, but sparky conditions still a new deli getting up to a high of 21 degrees temperatures across the western gods into the thirties and

toward the southeast corner. that's really where we have the showers, but they're peering out on sundays. so in fact, the next several days for tonight we've got some wall to wall sunshine in the forecast for you se asia looks like this. outbreaks of rain and storms across this area, but not as bad as it has been in past days on. take you to the philippines. some solid bands of rain. you're over lose on island. darker the color, the heavier the rain. so we'll have to be on the lookout for. i've seen some potential flooding in that area. central eastern china looks like the gloomy conditions. plenty of cloud to go around, but those showers have skirted away. so shanghai 7 degrees, we've got that northerly wind. so that's actually just the touch below average, we are talking about see effect snow once again for western areas of japan, honju and hope kado. so in fact, over 12 hours we could see about 30 centimeters of snow. skiers and snow borders

are certainly loving this winter. that's it for now, sir. oh, the weather sponsored by casara ways. lu, europe's grand capitals are littered with monuments loading their imperial pass. and their museums filled with artifacts, spoils of war and occupation uprooted from their places of origin. people in power explores the heated debate, their own rightful ownership, admits activists taking matters into their own and out of africa on a jessina. ah ah,

welcome back. a quick reminder, the top stories here, this are one of the biggest storms to hit the eastern us in decades is battering 10 states with heavy snow, strong winds and bitter cold. more than 100000 people have lost power and more outages are expected. thousands have rallied in canada's capital against corona virus restrictions demonstrate has joined a convoy of truckers who have been protesting for the past week against compulsory vaccines. the driver's working cross boy roots and british prime minister far as johnson says, the u. k. is considering making a major major deployment in response to the massing of russia from some of the ukraine. border officials will finalize the details in brussels next week. north korea has conducted its 7th missile test this month. south korea's president is holding a national security meeting. the recent launches of displayed a range of weapons including hypersonic and cruise missiles. a military court in democratic republic of congo has sentence 49 former soldiers to death for their

part in the killings of 2 united nations investigators. 5 years ago, zeta cut the land from sweden and microsoft from the u. s. were murdered while investigating atrocities in the cosign region. it happened as government forces were fighting a local uprising. welcome way, that's mon, after my reading. the 2 investigators when the 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'd 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 lee state that was behind the killings. an echo last delegation has begun, talks with the keena faster military june to comes a day out in the country was suspended from the west. african regional block rebels . soldiers seize power on monday and growing public anger. the president's failure to stop violence by groups through government says the oil spill triggered by this month's volcanic eruption. natalia is twice as big as previously reported. countries environmental agency estimates nearly 12000 barrels, leaped into the pacific ocean from refinery. 2 weeks ago. the spanish owned oil company rep. saul is blaming the navy, but not showing us an army alert after the reception functions of relations from lee. many critics attain that the clean up has been really

slow and precarious. first rep so hired a few volunteers. some fishermen that were on the beach and that started to clean up really sweeping the the crude from the sounds. and then they started hiring more people. we could see just very few people on the beach and just about a few kilometers north of the main area of the spill. we were at the corn a bay 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. rep will have said that the navy did not warn them that there was a wave. nami,

coming from the russian in the volcanic eruption in turned up. and, and the rep, prosecutors are looking up the state of the pipelines really because the pipelines broke or at least one pipeline broke. and the captain of the ship has said that the, the weather was fine, the waves were not higher than one meter. and so, so what the prosecutors are looking is into who is really telling the truth here. italy's 80 year old president sergio montela has agreed to serve a 2nd term after parliament failed to choose a consensus candidate map that i did. i mapped that a law map that ada a minister says matter related, staying on out of a sense of responsibility. he had wanted to retire from a largely ceremonial job. he's held since 2013 it follow 7 fail balance to choose his successor, leaving behind a deeply divided parliament voters in portugal le,

heading to the poles in the coming out for a snap election. it was called last month after a blocked spending bill brought down the minority socialist government. but it's out on rainy reports now from lisbon many a boat that doubtful at 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 been crisis over crisis. and for small businesses that's, that's heel and 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 to bring unemployment down to prepare the mc levels. some voters are worried though, that the government is at risk of missing out of billions of dollars and you 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 challenges if the socialist, when they will have problems and 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 black brazilian immigrant edie conceal yet a doesn't believe the next government will do much better for me, but it won't allow me to politics. it's the same all over the world. politicians

fight to hold the country back and not move forward. so 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 rank groups calling on the indonesian government to free a group of fishermen, they say, have been wrongfully imprisoned. the men rescued ring refugees stranded at seeing their archway almost 18 months ago. they were later arrested and sentenced to 5 years jail. the people smuggling jessica washington spoke with a man in a prison in archie. it locks him away until province noodle heater and her 6 children are hungry and increasingly desperate. her husband fazel has been in jail for 15 months and the family source of income is gone to them. my baby was only 4 days old when they arrested vital. sometimes we only eat twice a week. puzzle was working as a fisherman when he was arrested on

a good day he would earn about $9.00. in june 2020, a group of 99 ro hanging refugees, including 56 children, were stranded in waters near northern archie. the rescue by a group of indonesian fishermen including 5 all captured global attention, but that wasn't the end of it. fossil and 2 other fishermen were convicted of smuggling for their role in that rescue. going along our line, my priority was the safety of the hinge of children. i just wanted them to be safe and on land puzzle says he was approached by abraham a man who asked him to help rescue his family from the sea. the 3 fisherman accepted a payment of about $200.00 each. that's. i've never done that now. we didn't understand that we broke the immigration law. i hope my country can forgive me. now, as the fisherman await the result of an appeal, they spend their days in this crowded cell. this is to con prison. when the

fishermen are sent to spend the next 4 years of their lives, human rights groups say the sentences are too harsh and should be reconsidered. many fishermen in archery believe they should help any one in distress at sea, but that tradition also carries risks. there is a possibility where smugglers made use of, you know, in the sand fisherman's or edison pisser, men's are poor, his ermine to, to, to achieve their goal. the government says the laws are clear. when done one gun. hopefully this will be a lesson for other fishermen unless so they won't do the same thing again. in december, when about her for anger, refugees arrived in walters, near archie. the fisherman did not tow them to shore, as they have done in the past thought. nella w. done to la lou saying we're trying to help as much as possible without having it back. fire on us. the arrests have unnerved them. they are more cautious about

rescues now. as they wait for the release of their friends, they say they don't want to face the same fate. jessica washington out to sara and j. a community hospital in a remote corner of southwest bangladesh has been crowned the best new building in the world. the friendship hospital won the prestigious international prize from the royal institute of british architects, are desirous tanveer charger, went to sat kira to meet the team. but the project, a motto hospital with the climate conscious design and build with bare minimum of resources now named best new building in the world. so when we started the design, the 1st thing we realized was the budget or the fund. we're going to be the greatest concern and that's why we have implying all local materials, local craftsman. but at the same time we realize that the people of us in the surrounding areas where villages. and so we had to be sure that they would accept

this as a place that they can come for care then to national re by award has been well received by those who leave and work in the area. non, i know we have not seen any hospital like these before. it blends in video oil. it's knitter, nothing artificial is used. even the brakes are natural. it's clean, neat, and beautiful, both inside and outside compared to other buildings in the area as look out. we can bout with them on what the impact of climate change in nature was a major consideration for the architects. we realized that the landscape was changing. the agriculture landscape was changing from agriculture, people who were moving into from farming because of the rising sea levels and, and the sea water that has come in and even underground. so we had to sort of look into those issues in detail, study and research. why this was happening and what,

where the villages doing to that of combat that and we sort of took their wisdom and brought it into the design of this hospital. the canal inside the building plays a crucial role. the canal also helps at a different level. it helps with the micro climate and cooling, so it helps to avoid any form of air conditioning and power consumption in the entirety of the compass. the other aspect of this canal is it is a divider. so we were able, in terms of the zoning of the hospital, we were able to separate very clearly the outdoor departments and the indoor departments in patient departments. space was designed not just for hospital wards, treatment rooms and operating theatres, but for general healing and wellness too. when you walk into this building, it doesn't appear like a hospital. it blends in so well with the local landscape and topography. there's a sense of belonging to the nature. if we don't take care of our nature of our

environment, in all aspects and in every corner of our planet, we will not be able to save our home, which is this beautiful, beautiful place that we have. the judges praise the architects for put in care and humanity. at the heart of the design. tundra chaudhry al jazeera supp, kara bangladesh. ah, type of quick check of the headlines here on al jazeera, one of the biggest storms to hit the eastern us in decades is battering 10 states with heavy snow, strong winds and bitter cold. more than a 100000 people have lost power. more outages are expected and bases crisp alone has worn out 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 doesn't look like it, but there were times today where the snow.