ah, ah me 7 smith, i launched in just one month, north korea ramps up it's testing activities. the u. s. tell, show me young to stop provoking. ah, come out on some are you here in the home with the world news from al jazeera, a severe snow storm bat of the east coast of the united states saving tens of thousands of people without electricity. thousands of canadians joined truck drivers, routing against vaccine mandates across the us to call for an end to pandemic

restriction. i'm out. i'm rainy and lisbon. portugal snap election on sundays meant to break political deadlock here. but it could just lead to further political polarization. ah, stop provocations and engage in dialogue that message from the u. s. to north korea after it launched yet another mis solid 7th. this month, south korea's government condemned the intermediate range ballistic missile test. after president mon jay in person, he presided over a meeting of the national security council. this also appears to be the most powerful miss all 5 since us president joe biden took office a little over a year ago. this january has seemed the highest number of miss are launched by killing young in a single month, highlighting the nuclear states expanding also not the government claims to have launched hypersonic and long range cruise missiles,

from rail cars and from airports. that crucially, north korea hasn't tested it's 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 those tests. analysis from robert kelly now professor of political science and diplomacy and national university. he says if young will continue to shelf its military off, nor unless discussions resume with south korea and the us i'm part of it is attention, i think, always right. i mean, and, 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 like 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 some 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. they give the people a year, nothing has showed up nothing short, much in 2021. and so now it's back to test. i think the by people be willing to talk. i mean, i think americans, i think was everybody realize that if we don't talk to them or at least try to rope them into some kind of deal, they're just going to build and build and build reading this promise 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 in the problem. it's 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 is 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 mental force, right. and there's an increase in folks on the north koreans just aren't going to stop. and so look at the counter measures. are the main story today? the strongest winter storm are one of the strongest winter storms in years battering the east in the united states. millions of people are experiencing heavy

and strong winds. more than $120000.00 homes 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 with 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 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 gondo, al jazeera new york, the west african block eco, austin's hill talks with the king of france. those military rulers, un officials, are expected to join those discussions on monday, after the country was suspended from eco us. following last week's qu, rebel soldiers seized power amid growing public anger at the president's failures and stop attacks by armed groups. a military court in democratic republic of congo sentence $49.00 former soldiers to death for their pos, in the killing of 2 united nations. investigators. 5 years ago, that

a catalogue from sweden and michael sharp from the united states were murdered while investigating alleged atrocities in the castle region. it happened as government forces were fighting a local uprising malcom web. following the story 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'd 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 congo state that was behind the killings. british prime minister burst, 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 find live the details in brussels next week with ministers discussing their military options. on monday, bridge and foreign and defense ministers are also planning to go to moscow in the coming days for talk with their russian counterparts. they try to deescalate tension ukraine foreign minister is urging west and allies to be vigilant and firm in their talks with russia. policy us presidents announcement of a small troop deployment to eastern europe, mid fears of a russian invasion. it has deployed more than a $100000.00 strips on the ukrainian border. but as the child struck reports from don, yet so many living in easton, ukraine already align themselves with moscow. this is no man's land between

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

nichol, i says he and many people like him see little chance of a future with a ukrainian government 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 ship it, we are between a rock in 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 one independence or to join russia. most of the people that used to live in this neighborhood, a too afraid to return because of the sporadic, shelly. and now increasing phase of a potential renewed conflict. but there is a side to life internet, so that perhaps reflects a determination to live

a normal life, especially amongst the young generation, many of whom were children. when the conflict started, many young people have left for russia or elsewhere in search of jobs. night clubs like this one only open at weekends and have to close when the curfew starts at 10 p. m. engine, as we are separated from the rest of the world, for example, we cannot use international payment systems and it's difficult to get in and out my travel to, to buy in europe, but those that can't afford to go out. they just stuck. ne, here really, no matter what happens, he a young paper, a 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 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, don't ask us and kurdish forth as the carrying out operations near a prison complex in the northern syrian city of ha fucker. following a week long, the sold by i still fighters, kurdish forces say they regained control of the prison earlier this week. around 260 people were killed. as i sold attempted to free the comrades, the battle forced 45000 people from their homes as well. in the news had perused governments of an oil spill off its coast, have been significantly underestimated as it launches an investigation into the company involved. and the remote bangladesh hospital is been crowned the best new building in the world. ah, 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 zipping 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. the europe grand capital are littered with monuments loading their imperials and their museums filled with artifact oils. the war and occupation approve from their places of origin. ah, people in power. it's close the heated debate, their own right from ownership and meets activists taking matters into their own out of africa. on a just, you know, lou

ah, you with al jazeera, these are the top stories this our north korea conducting its 7th missile test this month. south korea's governments as an intermediate range, ballistic missile. i was launched this time. one of the biggest storms to easton us and decades is battering 10 states for heavy snow. strong winds and bitterly cold temperatures. more than a 120000 hundreds of lost power and war outages are expected. and the west african block eco us as hell talks with bikini fossils, military rouelis you n envoys are now expected to join those discussions. on monday, thousands of rallied in candidates capital also against corona virus restrictions demonstrate as joined a convoy of truck drivers have been protesting for the past week against compulsory vaccines on cross border routes, the support from patty high. 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 90000 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 court demonstrators to those that have 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 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 of the, what we're doing and lamenting all these these monday. you know, we cannot, we cannot kill the patient in the name of your and we cannot do that, right? so we're going to send free. we're going to do e o. 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. paddle haine al jazeera, the u. k. national health services starting to roll out vaccines for vulnerable children between the ages of $5.11, they will receive a new pediatric version of the pfizer biotech vaccine, which was approved by the government last month. infections are currently high among school children in england. boat in portugal, heading to the pulse in the coming hours for a snap election was cold last month after a blocked spending bill brought down the minority socialist government and as adam rennie reports him, there's been many vote of the doubtful leaving. this will 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 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 concerned 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 demik 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. 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 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 cost a pinto, 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 in the left or in 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 have struggled for decades to catch up with richer countries in the block brazilian immigrant edi conciliate. a doesn't believe the next government will do much better when we bought each k won't want to talk to 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, her rooms government says the oil spill triggered by this month. so counting her option, the tongue is twice as big as previously reported. environmental agency estimate

the 12000 barrels leaked into the pacific ocean. executives in the spanish own oil company reps all have been banned from leaving the country while an investigation takes place. money on a sanchez with the light is now from lima. many critics are saying 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 sand. 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 gone a bay which has a lot of protected areas. and there we saw a group of people from the ministry of the environment who had brought to a skimmer, which is a sort of

a machine that sucks the accrued 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 and turned up. and, and the rep, prosecutors are looking at the state of the pipelines really, because a pipelines broke, or at least one pipeline broke. and the captain of the, she said that the, the weather was fine, the waves were not higher than one meter. and so, so what prosecutors are looking is into who is really telling the truth here. and thailand declared a state of emergency on its east in coast. the oil continues to wash ashore there. this is after a leak was detected jana pipeline and the gulf of thailand on tuesday, engineers managed to stop the league, but at least 60 tons of crude spilled into the sea. hundreds of people have in

trying to clean it up, but there are few that could wash up on several beaches and effect coastal communities. right script the calling on the nation government to free a group of fishermen. they have been wrongfully imprisoned. the men rescued wrangler refugees stranded at sea now i'll try almost 18 months ago. they were later arrested and sentenced to 5 years jail for people smuggling. jessica washington spoke to them in a prison in archery. 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 because i was working as a fisherman when he was arrested on a good day he would earn about 9 dollars. in june 2020, a group of 99 ro hanging refugees, including 56 children,

were stranded in waters near northern archie. they rescued by a group of indonesian fishermen, including $50.00, 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. line, my priority was the safety of the re hindered 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 so con prison, where the fishermen are sent to spend the next 4 years of their live. human rights sentences are too harsh and should be reconsidered. many fishermen and i 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, fishermen's, or death and fishermen's poor fishermen who to achieve their goals. the government says the laws are clear when we're done. hopefully this will be lesson for other fishermen. so they won't do the same thing again. in december when about her for hunger refugees arrived in waters near archie. the fisherman did not tell them to shore, as they have done in the past. we don't lose that. 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 on to sierra and

j and a community hospital in a remote corner of south west bank that s has been crowned the best new building in the world. the friendship hospital when the prestigious international prize from the royal institute of british architects, tanveer chandry went to south kira to meet the team behind the project. and 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 of 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 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 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 does 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 appraised the architects for put in care and humanity. at the heart of the design, tundra chaudhry al jazeera shop, kara bangladesh. ah ha, possibly our own al jazeera and these are the top stories north korea, conducting its 7th missile test. this month, south korea's government says an intermediate range, ballistic missile was launched, appears to be the most powerful miss all 5. since you, as president joe biden took office, one of the biggest storms to hit the eastern united states in decades is battering 10 states with heavy snow strong winds and bitterly cold temperatures. at least a 120000.