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thousands of people law without attic tricity. i'm gabriel's dondo in a cold and snowy new york city were a major snow storm has hit the entire northeast of the us. and we report from the disputed region claimed by ukraine and russia. people say they caught between a rock and a hot place all about bus. i'm adam rainy in lisbon. portugal snap election on sundays meant to break political deadlock here. but it could just lead to further political conversation with so in the past few hours, north korea has conducted another missile test. it's 7 this month. south korea's government says an intermediate range, ballistic missile was fired, lead president min j in to personally preside over a meeting of the national security council. it also appears to be the most powerful

missile fired since u. s. president joe biden took office a little over a year ago. this january has seen the highest number of miss launches by peeling young in a single month, highlighting the nuclear states expanding arsenal. government claims to have launched hypersonic and long range cruise missiles from rail cars and airports. the crucially north korea hasn't tested its intercontinental ballistic missiles or nuclear weapons in 2017. however, leader kim jong and has indicated he may end. the more than 4 year fries on let's bring it all together with robert kelly now professor political science and diplomacy based on national university with us on scott, did i thank you for your time, professor 7 in a month. it is north korea looking for some attention here. i mean, does it is going to possibly going to be a war in ukraine. they still corona virus. there's all sorts of things happening and all the while north korea keeps putting his hand up. yeah. yeah. i mean,

i think part of it is, i think, always, right, i mean, you know, north korea is sort of, has fallen behind south korea by, you know, by several decades now. right. in terms of development, when people think about korean, the world today, thing about south korea, the workers don't like that. and so one of the ways they sort of equal the tables, if you will, one of the ways of prove that they can, you know, match and go over our b for peer equals to the south is the missiles and the weapons tests, right? them neck at them on television, but i think the larger issue is that they don't think that they got a deal in the last couple years with jane as president south korean down from going to meet them. and nothing really came of that. the people a year, nothing has showed up. nothing showed up much in 2021. and so now it's back to tests. but is anyone in any mood to talk about the deal? you just feel that these sorts of missile launches are? well, they'll be seen by the, like, the president biden, and the western provocations. yeah, i think mind people be willing to talk, i'm and i think you americans, i think almost everybody realizes that if we don't talk to them or at least try to

read them into some kind of deal, they're just going to build and build and build reading this problem is going to get worse and worse, right? i mean, i've been on programs. well, you know, like, 10 years ago we were having the same conversation, right? the problem is just sort of marching on. and either we find a way to sort of get the north koreans to read a deal and they can, and that's prove the very, very difficult, right under donald trump, a great opportunity. and i think they generally wanted it, you know, but if we can't, we can't get into a deal with them then, then we just have no choice, but to build, you know, sort of counter mis elevation, right? and that's like building nuclear, its own missile course, right? and there's an increase in folks on the north koreans just are going to stop and look at the counter measures. what has the test and indeed 7 tests over the course of a month. as we keep saying to watson, told us about miss our capability. i'm always fascinated by the advancements in technology apparent investments in technology by north korea for a country that is so cut off. yeah, that's actually one of the things that surprised a lot of the community. i agree with you. right?

that how do they actually do this and that's a whole other discussion. i think the primary answer. i do a lot of smuggling and they bring in a lot of illegal funds and then they sort of use it to proliferate and gather knowledge from other places. and import what they need, i think that's sort of a short answer. but i mean, the longer answer is, but you know, they've been worked on this for a while and i think they see this is really core to their national security. ne army is pretty outdated, it's very large, but it's sort of outdated and based on sort of also be models and then the americans in south french really start out paste it. so the one area with a north korean still have a genuine military edge, isn't missiles and nukes, and that's where their real looks like they're really putting their effort. and that kind of makes sense, right? because i mean, you know, that, you know, the green army start on the ground, the north koreans would lose. and so it makes sense for them to put the resources where they get the most bang if you will. buck or, but i mentioned this before, but there's a lot going on in the world right now here. and evidently is but where it is, north korea sit in the importance level at the moment. if you've got a potential war in ukraine, if you've got the iran nuclear deal still ongoing,

as i said, corona virus, even things just to do with infrastructure and whether in the united states. i, one way north korea sits on the list. creation will never be what china and russia army, northridge, isn't that it just, it just will never have that kind of power and is leadership is not bad psychotic and dangerous, but they're not kotik. and yeah, i actually think it's fair to say the north koreans are certain neolithic, they're not okay. i mean, they're dangerous, but they're not, they're not in the way that we think of almost terrorist groups. but back in the united states, i mean by it's, it's got a lot of things do as you pointed out, and i think also buying people realize that, you know, putting a lot of effort into north korea is sort of little return for a lot of you know the reward for a lot of input, right? in a lot of effort. i mean, north korea is really, really difficult, right. and the north koreans don't make it easy. negotiate with them. so here's the thing, you know, we got china and russia, and corona, and the economy and you know, all these other things going on and the north koreans don't look like they're actually really a minimal. they just can gain the negotiation, which is what it looks like. did with, from that i think the buying people just like, you know,

we can just sort of push this further down the list. and certainly if he is really helping in conflict american presence when they're trying to figure it out and doesn't work and why they just kind of give it up because it's too difficult on sort. i think it's become like that. it just becomes such an unbelievable forney tangle, that american presidents are just not going to wait into it unless they feel like there's some really serious deal on the table in the north. koreans are just, there is not doing that. i mean, they had there came from trumpet and blue it professor robert kelly, always a pleasure, talking to you. thank you for your time. thanks. wrapped me onto the news. one of the strongest winter storms in years is bathroom the east in united states right now. millions of people in 10 states are experiencing heavy snow. strong winds. more than $100000.00 homes are without power and more outages are expected. so gabriel is on there with the support from you. it was by far the biggest snow storm of the winter in new jersey in pennsylvania. the snow hit hard and fast, and local officials urged people to stay home and be ready for anything more

prepared. we've 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 in 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 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 over in canada, thousands have rallied in the capital also were against corona virus restrictions demonstrate. his joined a convoy of truckers had been protesting for the past week against compulsory vaccine. the drivers on cross border routes, the support from patty killing. ah, toya has a new soundtrack. as protestors moved to surround the parliament, a movement spurred on by truckers makes itself heard. as the signs make 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 on of concern. and the police. you said he felt he needed to bring an extra officers. the risk factors extend beyond the court demonstrators to those that have already indicated online, and it's not as forums that they're prepared to engage directly or indirectly with the events that will transpire over the next several days year. and some of them has been very clear and inside a hate, an encouraging acts of violence in criminal. 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 goes to see also what we're doing when we're and lamenting all these these monday. you know, we do not. we can not kill the patient in the name of here, and we cannot do that guys. so we're going to send free, we're going to do either. yeah, the question now, when will this stop? it's a well funded protest raising more than $8000000.00 on go fund me. meaning this may be the sound of the city for a while to come. i had to call hain al jazeera him on the truck is protesting, canada thousands rallied in paris against frances vaccine pass. some processes actually wave canadian flags in solidarity with the demonstrations that critics of labeled french measures is discriminatory and excessive. the vaccine pop came into effect on january 24th. it is now needed to enter restaurants to use transport and pull some of them and thousands out on the street to vienna is voicing their

rejection of their government vaccine mandate, australia, lower house of parliament as possible, making job compulsory for adults and tuesday. but chances are called the hammer has also other cove at $900.00 restrictions will be a military court in democratic republic of congo was sentenced $49.00 former soldiers to death for their part in the killing of 2 united nations investigate 5 years ago. the catholic from sweden and michael sharp from the united states were murdered while investigating alleged atrocities in the cosigned region. it happened as government forces were fighting a local uprising, knock on web with more on this month. and i already the 2 investigators went 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. if 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 commonly state that was behind the killings. the west african block eco, says hill, tulsa, picking us also military rulers, un officials are expected to join the discussions on monday. this is the day off, the country was in fact suspended for a while. soldiers power on monday, the growing public anger at the president's failure to stop violence by all right,

we'll check the weather next and then peruse government. there's an oil spill off the coast, has been significantly under estimated as it launches an investigation into the company and the remote bangladesh hospital. it's been crowned the best new building in the world. ah. while the national weather service has called it a historic storm. hello, everyone here is 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. so just how much snow is this going to drop? $45.00 centimeters across the maritimes in those winds will be howling at more than 100 kilometers per hour. was found. we go, we do have some showers and rain for vancouver and seattle on sundays. but for the

west coast of the us, things are quiet here. los angeles, 22 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 there was northwind are also dragon down to 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. and this is plaguing the southeast corner of brazil. rio de janeiro, 28 degrees. in sao paulo is some rock and storm through you with a high of 22. that's it, sir. the counting the call

a rough now you off the full run is there were some must have stopped. markets have to say, the prices are 10 year high. well, because the cooking becomes even more on the portable nigeria, petroleum administer on reforming the nation oil sector. counting the costs on al jazeera, what we do is try to balance the story and the people who allow us into their lives, dignity, and humanity. oh, a on algebra where these are the top stories north korea has conducted its 7 missile tests this month. south korea government is an intermediate range for listing folks

. it's time. one of the biggest storm to hit east and us in decades is getting 10 states with heavy snow. strong wind the over 120000 people. last power outages are expected and thousands of rallies and candidates capital against corona virus restrictions demonstrated joined a convoy of truckers have been protesting for the past week against compulsory vaccines. the drivers who work hot for the british prime minister bars johnson says the u. k. is considering making a major nato deployment in response to the russian troops from the ukraine. border . officials will finalize the details in brussels next week with ministers discussing their military options. on monday, versions forums and foreign and defense ministers are also planning to go to moscow in the coming days. the talks that that russian counterparts trying to de escalate

hold attention. ukraine's foreign minister that was urging western allies to be vigilant and firm in their talks with russia. as, as after the u. s. president's announcement of a small troop deployment to eastern europe. mid fears of a russian invasion, more than a $100000.00 troops and are gathered at the ukrainian border. but as charles strafford reports from than yet, so many living in east in ukraine already align themselves with moscow. 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 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. ne, what used to be done at scare port? 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 the ukranian 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. when i have to show that 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, eat 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, 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. nightclubs 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 i can't afford to go out. they just stuck. ne, here really now,

no matter what happens, he a young paper, a child 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 as 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 donated sc boat is in portugal. le, heading to the poles in the coming hours for a snap collection, was called last month after a blocked spending bill brought down the minority socialist government that many reports and there's been many vote as a doubtful. it will lead to an effective governance 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 coveted, it's been crisis over crisis and for small businesses that 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 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 the 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 left or the right that further polarizes portuguese politics rather than bringing parties to the center. that's how political scientist, antonio. acosta, 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 rhetoric of writing

a party expected to make gains 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 thought for me to politics is the same all over the world . politicians fight to hold the country back and not for. 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. adam rainy al jazeera, lisbon. peruse government says the oil spill triggered by this month cannot erupt. itala is twice as big as previously reported. the country's environmental agency

estimate 2012000 barrels leaked into the pacific ocean from a refinery 2 weeks ago. spanish and oil company rep. saul is blaming the navy for not issuing a tsunami alert after the erupt. mariana sanchez report from lima. many critics, the cleanup 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 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 field. 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 crude from the waves. but we kept on seeing the dark waves washing and washing ashore reps. we'll have said that to the navy did not warn them that there was a wave nami coming from via 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 weather was fine. the waves were not higher than one meter. and so, so what the prosecutors are looking use into who is really telling the truth here. a community hospital in a remote corner of southwest bangladesh has been crowned the best new building in the world. the friendship hospital one the prestigious international prize from the royal institute of british architects, tanveer chandry,

went to sub tequita to meet the team behind the project. and model hospital with a 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 implied 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 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 to even the brakes are natural. it's clean, neat and beautiful, both inside and outside compared to other buildings in the area as local. we feel

proud the board with the 140 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 were the villages doing to sort 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 can, 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 to 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 putting care and humanity at the heart of the design turn re, child re shop cara, bangladesh. ah,

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