afraid you can use that to justify stripping away basic civil liberties. the listening post examined the vested interest behind the content you consume on al jazeera. ah, a 7th mis. i'll launch in just one month. north korea ramped up and testing activities, the wide range of weapons. ah, and come on santa maria, here in the world, news from al jazeera. here is a severe snow storm battering the east coast of the united states. right now. it's that tens of thousands of people without electricity. also thousands of canadians joined truckers rallying against vaccine mandates to come into the u. s. calling

for an engine pandemic restriction. and we may be indonesian fishermen jail for rescuing stranded rank a refugee rice group called with everything. ah, no korea conducted another missile test. this was the 7th of this month. south korea, governments as an intermediate range, ballistic missile, was fired and said president min j into personally preside over a meeting of the national security council. it also appears to be the most powerful miss all 5, since you as president joe biden took office a little over a year ago. january has seen the highest number of missile launches by young young in any single month, highlighting the nuclear armed states expanding arsenal. the government claims to have launched hypersonic and long range cruise missiles from rail calls and airports bus crucially, north korea hasn't tested the intercontinental ballistic missiles or nuclear

weapons since 2017. however, late a kim jones and has indicated he may end the more than 4 year phrase on those the launches. last now we spoke to robert kelly, professor of political science and diplomacy at his own national university as pyongyang will continue to show if it's military off and all, unless discussions resume with south korea and the us part of it is attention, i think, always right. i mean, you know, north korea is sort of the, 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 about south korea grants don't like that. and so one of the ways they sort of equal the tables, if you will, one of the ways to prove that they can, you know, match and go over our b or peer equals to the south is the missiles in the weapons, right? them neck at them on television, but i think the larger issue is that they don't think that they got a deal on 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 much in 2021. and so now it's back to test. i

think the by people be willing to talk. i mean, i think the americans, i think was everybody realized that if we don't talk to the rectory and at least try to roll them into some kind of deal, they're just going to build and build and build redman. this problem is going to get worse and worse, right? i mean, i've been on programs. well here, you know, like, 10 years ago we had 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 prove the very, very difficult, right under donald trump and a great opportunity. and i think the gentleman is wanting to know if they, if we can get into a deal with them then, then we just have no choice but to build, you know, sort of counter muscle of ation. right. and that's myself. building nuclear are its own missile forest. right. and there's an increase in folks on the north koreans just aren't going to stop. and so look for a counter measures on to the news. one of the strongest winter storms in years as battering the eastern united states. millions of people across 10 states are experiencing heavy snow and strong wind. more than $120000.00 homes are without

power and more outages are expected. gabriel, alexander reports for new york. 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 knew where the snow is actually while 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 condo, al jazeera, new york. the west african blocky was as hell talks with picky fancies, military rulers, un officials are expected to join the discussions on monday. this is the day after the country was actually suspended from equal was the number rebels soldiers the power on monday, and the growing public anger with the president's failure to stop violence by group more on this one with nicholas huck. and we're going to be in search for his family's approval. miriam's 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 one 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 ambush by al qaeda fighters, just helping people. 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. fear is spreading. millions are displaced. al qaeda. 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 taxed. this is what is less of working. if i says military headquarters, it was attacked in 2018 by nel keita affiliate for years on it still has not been rebuilt, curled than me, bob promised 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. 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 a military cause in democratic republic of congo, a sentence 49 former soldiers to death says for their part in the killings of 2

united nations in best to get his 5 years ago. excuse me, as i had a catalogue from sweden, michael sharp from the united states, they were murdered while investigating alleged atrocities in the casa region. it happened as government forces were fighting a local uprising. malcolm web as mo, from nairobi, 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 met with people from that 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 commonly state that was behind the killings. thousands of people have rallied in canada's capital also against corona virus restrictions demonstrate as joined a conway of truck drivers have been protesting for the past week against compulsory vaccines on cross border routes into the us. petty calhane has ah, noah 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 day. 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 an extra officers. the risk factors extend beyond the core demonstrators to those that i've already indicated. online and it is 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 has been very clear and inside a hate, an 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 is the all the, what we're doing when we're limiting all these these monday. you know, we cannot, we cannot kill the patient in the name of your and we cannot do that guy. so we're going to send free. we're gonna do easy for the question now, when all 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. medical hain al jazeera, the u. k. is national health services starting to roll out vaccines now for vulnerable children between the ages of $5.11, they will receive a new pediatric version of the pfizer by and take faxing approved by the government

last month. infections are currently high am on school children in the world, whether it's next on al jazeera and then 3 months since the military coup in sudan was speaking to the family of a victim, died, demanding change master map that i love is one of the biggest jobs in italy, in politics, but he didn't want to keep doing it. italy's person and does have stability. amanda . ah, ah, look forward to brighter skies. the winter sponsored my cattle airways. hello, thank you for joining in. here's your world's weather report. beginning in the middle east. we do have energy across the eastern mediterranean that will eventually slam into the la vance and move for their east drop down some. what

weather in the queue. wait, but that several days out. let's focus on the good stuff for now. here's sunday, plenty of sun, but we see that when are they? the wind out of iraq that's going to drop temperature is a bit nama just 17 degrees on sunday, you'll feel those winds pick up just a bit. after ward pockets dawn off, gone as dawn iran fairly quiet here. in fact she raz, at 16 degrees, that is while above average. ok, let's get you to the east or med rate. now where that active weather is. this is throwing rain around the greek islands and southern turkey, but this time around. yes, it's rain. so antalya has a high of 13 degrees. central africa, fairly quiet. we'll talk about some high temperatures here. so job at $37.00. bungie $35.00 and a boucher at $36.00. but if we go towards southern africa, this is where we have the leftovers. the remnants of tropical cyclone honors, zip across southern areas of angola, dropping down what, whether into northern namibia central areas as well. and for cape town, it's a mostly cloudy day, with

a high of 28 degrees on sunday. thanks for joining in see later. oh, the weather. sponsored by katara weighs julian. the debate fate eraser of black people from the american and global story was very powerful on an online your voice . the comment section is right to join our conversation. we are all protected when everyone is protected. it is not being nationalistic about this. you just look at it in a very different way, said that perspective men and men meeting each other and they don't have any solutions. let me put it clear for you this dream analogies era ah ah,

on al jazeera, these other top stories north korea has conducted its 7th missile test this month. south korea's governments as an intermediate range, ballistic missile was launched. my biggest storms to hit the eastern united states in decades is battering 10 states with heavy snow strong winds and bitterly cold temperatures. more than a $120000.00 homes of lost power and more outages are expected. and thousands of rallied in canada's capital against corona virus restrictions demonstrated, joined a convoy of truck drivers in protesting the past week against compulsory vaccines working cross border groups. the british prime minister bars johnson says the u. k is now considering a major nato deployment in response to the massing of russian troops on ukraine's border. officials will finally the finalize the details in brussels next week with ministers discussing their military options on monday. britain's foreign and defense ministers are also planning to go to moscow in the coming days for talks

with their russian counterparts. they try to deescalate attentions, ukraine's foreign minister is urging western allies to be vigilant and firm in their talks with russia. this is after the u. s president's announcement of a small troop deployment to eastern europe made fears of a russian invasion, more than a 100000 troops and i gathered at the ukrainian border. but as charles stratford reports from done yet so many living in easton, ukraine actually already align themselves with moscow. this is no man's land between ukrainian government forces and separatist fighters with the shelf declared due next peoples 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 year. on the surface, at least the statue of lenin still stands, prowled over the main square next to a russian flag. but there 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 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. once in 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

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. like 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, whom an international backers always fail to understand charged with al jazeera, don't ask you s and kurdish forces the carrying out operations near a prison complex in the northern syrian town of ha soccer. following a week long assault by iso fighters, kurdish force to say they regained control of the prison early this week. around 260 people were killed in iso attempt to free their comrades. battle forced 45000 people though from their huns. now military leaders remain in control of sudan,

3 months after the coup, with little sign of a return to the democratic transition, the antique who movement or continues dozens of protest as have been killed. and has he been morgan reports from the city of one melanie, relatives of those who died hope and movements demands will still be fulfilled. gats in mohammed's family is in morning. the 24 year old from what med any incidence. a da 0 state was killed during an ant military protests a week ago. hello. hello. what the horrible. i was in cartoon. someone called me and said your brother was hit by a tear gas canister. i called those who are with him and they told me he had had a small injury when in reality he was hit by a bullet to the head. then i got a call from someone who gave me his condolences. that's what i knew my brother had died and i said, oh, garcia was the one who supported this family. he dropped out of school to drive an auto rick show. whenever i called him,

he was either of the funeral or at weddings helping people as a state has witnessed large protest since the military took overpower in october, dissolving a 2 year transitional government, which was meant to lead sedan to democracy. security forces have repeatedly you hear guys and live ammunition against demonstrators at least 70 a protest who have been killed and more than 2 and a half 1000 injured what met and may not be the only city beside the capital. 2 more 1000 cub taken to the 3 to protest against military rule, but its location in central for them is significant. it shows that the demand for civilian rule and democracy transcends the social and ethnic barriers that used to dominate example nickel 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 let them in 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 guessing. people came from all over the state and from neighboring states. we want to see the future of those protesters who died, envisioned we want to democratic united sir don gaseous family say it may be painful, but they take comfort knowing he died, demanding change, and to see a better country. he bought morgan, alta 0. what made any sudan? hundreds of people in kosovo have demonstrated against government plans to increase energy prices. oh wow. well it's in pristina tried to contain the crown of that move towards upon the building. because of has been suffering from an energy crisis over the last 2 months that led to want to print power cuts or italy's 80 year old president, sergio martha rella has agreed to serve

a 2nd term after parliament failed to choose a consensus candidate. he was planning to retire but was persuaded to stay on. it follows 7, failed rounds of balancing to choose his successor, leaving behind a deeply divided parliament. or in this report from notting baba, he repeatedly ruled out serving another term as president. now off to please from italy's various political parties. sergio matter ela has agreed to stay on broke law more in that door, but as it entered, larry probably got sad of german that i'd like your clinical my, my mother in law who's 80 was elected by members of italy's parliament and regional representatives at the 8th attempt he emerged as the front runner on saturday morning after they've spent days trying and failing to reach agreement on a single name. on friday, mateo saline head of the far right league party had appeared to back the head of the secret services. it is a better bologna to become the country's 1st woman head of state that went down badly with other groups in the right we block. i'm already going to shoot us over

the as there's 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 used that role wrongly. the handling of the situation is really shocking that he, with many italians, have expressed support for the prime minister mario druggie to take the presidency . but some parties of insisted he's too important to lose as the head of government's matter, ella, staying on, even if it's just until the 2023 general election in theory leaves druggie free to oversee italy's post. pandemic recovery. maya draggy is like the architect of that plan and is the person who's really best capable of seeing through some of these very challenging reforms. so the question is, if he became the president who had become the prime minister and all the politicians belts, that if he became president, they wouldn't be able to agree at success or prime minister. and the government would class. the economy has started to pick up. but more than $200000000000.00 in

a you, funds for italy depends on a tight, tiny table of reforms. nadine baba al jazeera, peruse, government says the oil spill triggered by this month's volcanic eruption. natania is now twice as big as previously reported. environmental agency estimates nearly 12000 barrels leaked into the pacific ocean executives from the spanish owned oil company rep. saul have been banned from leaving the country. while an investigation takes place, thailand's declared a state of emergency on its eastern coast as oil continues to wash assured there, a leak was detected in a pipeline in the gulf of thailand. on tuesday, engineers managed to stop the leak bars. they 60 tons of crude has already spilled into the sea. hundreds of people of been trying to clean it up. there are fears it could wash up on several beaches, affecting coastal communities. rights groups are calling on the indonesian government to free a group of fishermen. they say have been wrongfully imprisoned. the men rescued

wrangler refugees stranded at sea now. almost 18 months ago. they were late or arrested and sentenced to 5 years jails people smuggling. jessica washington spoke to the men 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, but as i 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 909 ro, hank of refugees, including 56 children, were stranded in waters near northern archie. their rescue by a group of indonesian fishermen, including 50, 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 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. 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 so con prison, where the fishermen are sent to spend the next 4 years like human life sentences are too harsh and should be reconsidered. many fishermen and i believe they should help anyone in distress at sea, but that tradition also carries risks. there is a possibility where smugglers made use of you know, in the us and fisherman's,

or death and fishermen's of poor fishermen who to achieve their goal. the government says the laws are clear. when done, when done. hopefully this will be lesson for other fishermen. so they won't do the same thing again in december, when about her for hanging refugees arrived in waters near archie. the fisherman did not tell them to shore, as they have done in the past. don't know that we don't say we're trying to help as much as possible without having it backfire on. 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 aren't sarah anti. from the apple has come out with a personal safety guide for one of its latest gadgets, the air tag. this is out to several women came forward to say they being misused by

stalkers. the device is paired with the phone and then the user, the phone can get real time data on the tag movements. one woman no discovered an attack and her cause gas tank. ah, coming out half past the hour on al jazeera, these are the top stories north korea has conducted its 7th missile test. this month. south korea's government says it was an intermediate range. ballistic missile that was launched appears to be the most powerful missile fired since you, as president joe biden took office of a headlines, one of the biggest storms to hit the east us in decades is battering 10 states. with heavy snow, strong winds and bitterly cold temperatures. least a $120000.00 homes without electricity and more outages are expected. more from n. b c's, crisp, alone in boston. we have endured about 18 hours.