issued by our oil, be it for public opinion or profit. once you make people 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, another escalation in yemen. conflict, the u. s. e says it's intercepted a missile attack by the 30 rebels. ah, hello, i'm on inside. this is out. is there a line from doe? was that coming up? we're absolutely open to a diplomatic engagement without pre conditions. the u. s. a north korean, so resume talks to end as nuclear program officer flurry of missile launches by

pyongyang. oh oh. oh tickle socialists celebrates as their policy winds. the majority in sundays, parliamentary and a jarring controversy, top musicians ditch. specify often, the streaming device is accused of spreading, coven 19 misinformation. ah, we begin with breaking news. the united arab emirates says it's intercepted am destroyed, a missile, fired by yemen. heathy rebels. it is the 3rd attack of its kind and recent weeks. the defense ministry says deborah, he fell outside populated areas. the target was unclear, but it comes just a fortnight after healthy drone strike on the capital lava. darby killed 3 people

and a tweet. the eas general authority of civil aviation said the following and movement in the country is going on as usual, and on flights operating normally. and there is no impact on flights and airports as a result of the ballistic missile launched by the hasty rebels. on the contrary, mohammed al a tap has the latest from santa no, we are witnessing another cycle or violence between the whole these from one side and also the solid quality that with the spokesperson, especially on the spokesperson, or send a message or a statement about the his groups are turning again the universe and that he will give more. it is in the within the coming hours. but so far we are still waiting for this press conference. we expect this meet on 10 of your press conference to be held for the afternoon, which you is expected to give more details about the operation that he described as

a wide scale operation that has targeted of what he described, the eval bobby, and also the onerous buzzer so far, the administrative difference says that the counter such a dad and the i'm going to suited such missiles that have been launched by the hope is. and also, one of these missiles had landed in, in an area where the star populated area. and no harm has been a, has happened there. so far, the observers believe that the occurrence of the, this cycle of violence has taken place outside short lived over. so some kind of says fire between the whole of these on the union, rob emerald, will james fall is a senior fellow with the middle east institute. he says, diplomacy is the only way forward. the situation is becoming more dangerous because

the nature of weaponry that's being used in these attacks is becoming more depth. and that's all the more reason why one hopes that the parties will be able to find some way to resolve this contract. this conflict. i really think that the who these are just trying to been craft to bring pressure on the saudi. you a correlation to bring things to a favorable close from their point of view. the only way this is going to be resolved as if saudi, the emirates and the who. these are able to sit down together directly after remediated apparatus such as the united nations and work things up. let's not forget that this war was really started by saudi arabia and the emirates, and so the who these essentially are striking back, they're not very happy over the use of force inside their country by the rates are by saudi arabia. you've got to put that into this perspective to really understand

what's going on. there isn't any other alternative because neither side has been able to gain is decisive, military advantage over the others when the saudi to the emerald went in t. m. and they obviously thought they would be able to overwhelm the who, who these fought them to a stance to. and so what you've got is something that was stale, me, since neither side will prevail militarily based off present circumstances. the only other alternative is diplomacy. all after nearly 8 years of conflicts, yemen is deep in a humanitarian crisis. millions of desperate for food and medicine and the un and other aid agencies. a warning the situation is likely to get worse as a bank reports malnourished, but receiving treatment. her brother lost his life for the same reasons. there are hundreds of other families in a similar situation in this port, city of who they did in western yemen and across the rest of the country. let them be sylvia. hadn't she suffers on the nourishment you mania and will so die rare and

about cough? her condition is unpredictable. as you can see, she is very fro. leo masa is one of the few receiving treatment. they are an estimated 40000 children, not getting the food they need to grow up healthy. and a further to 1000000 suffer from moderate man nutrition of those will help them with regretfully, the cases we receive are all very critical that are considering the ebony style, living conditions, city, lack of medical care and failure to treat other symptoms. my also lead to acute under nourishment. it's very alarming. we lose hundreds of children. many emmys do not have access to medical facilities. the war has been raging since 2014. 8 agencies are struggling to meet that demand in 2015. the united nations declared jim and one of the biggest humanitarian crises in the world and was saudi arabia and the u. any of spend billions of dollars on the wall and comparison very little

has been spent on those who have suffered as a result. i said, bay of dessert. the u. s. is urging north korea to join direct talk sanity conducted it 7th missile test this month. and then she fired a medium range missiles on sunday talks with the u. s. store back in 2019 north korea one sanction lifted in return for limits on its nuclear program. we are open to having diplomatic discussions. we've offered this over and over to, to the do p r k, and they've not accepted it, but we're absolutely open to a diplomatic engagement without pre conditions. our goal is to, to, in the threatening actions that the dpr k is taking against their neighbors. let's bring in rober kelly's professor. political science and diplomacy at national

university joins us from sound. thank you for your time. president by the may be ready to talk. but judging by the number of missiles kim has had tested this month, it doesn't sound like he's ready to listen. yeah, this is actually pretty surprising just how many they're doing so rapidly. i have this feeling. this is sort of their way of expressing discontent at the binding people didn't really make much effort on north korea last year. you may remember that donald trump, of course, met him john several times and that's what we've got north korea out there in the media and are needed something of a pure equal the united states or lisa, or green media. that's how it was reported. and then all the, some people just drop more free all together. and i think this is a way of sort of saying you have to pay attention to us. if you don't, this is what you got right. a key day coming up next month, b a c is anniversary of the birth of kim john and father kim jong il. this sort of an investor is usually marked in some sort of significant way. could we see perhaps the test a long range missile or perhaps even at an icbm s yes

. so that's what the, the south koreans are now warning impact. president moon just said that i think a few hours ago that the north trends may actually step up to a longer range inter continental testing, or maybe even a nuclear test. those will be usually disruptive. the icbm tests are the ones that sort of help to get the united states close to conflict with north rebec 17. that's when trump said fire and fury. yeah, i don't know if the north koreans want to go down that route. i think it's already established. they have an icbm and they have their weapon and they've done multiple have some sure they need to do that. they do step up and do that. then it's a really obvious, a major publication. the americans are probably trying some, some kind of signal. but i mean, if i are the north minutes, i would try to get people to talk rather than you know, how much pressure do you feel the u. s. is to make something happen. i mean, we've got south korean president min jay and he's of course, been a big supporter of the dialogue and the engagement with the north. he is of course,

approaching the end of his presidency soon. that's got to weigh on joe biden. you know, i think the by people are willing to talk to their friends is actually one of the things i really don't understand terribly well about north going behavior. my sense is that the people are actually open to them. i think what the buying people learn from the trunk administration though, if you can't run off into the sort of big someone. so i haven't done a lot of groundwork 1st and that's where it's from really fell down from basically got on the plane of buddhist thing. for us and handling and just met it and just walked into the room. there really wasn't a lot of planning. there really been a lot of technical work done before. and that's one of the reasons why nothing came of meeting. right. and so i think the buying people willing to talk, but it's kind of gotta be a fair amount of groundwork on 1st and what exactly are the want to give them? what would they give us? you know, what are we going to have inspections, or they can be like safety protocols. we're going to look at more facilities where they want, they want money. and there's all kinds of things that they're all kind of swats that can be arranged. but you know, that the north koreans aren't actually really putting more much right now. right? i mean, they have to actually show up in order to strive to deal with the buying on. so i'm

actually getting a credit surprise with a paste the task because my sense of the buying people are willing to talk if the north koreans shop robert kelly really good to get your thoughts. professor, political science and diplomacy at present national university. thanks from us president joe biden says the taliban government in afghanistan will not be recognized until it releases on american taken hostage. 2 years ago, the navy veteran mark frederick was kidnapped in 2020 while working as a civil engineer. and couple believes he's been housed by the tell about affiliated hi connie network. i've got install has seen a worsening humanitarian crisis since a telephone takeover prompted the suspension of international aid. or in a statement president biden said the following, threatening the safety of american. so any innocent civilians is always unacceptable and hostage taking is an act of particular cruelty and cowardice. and

taliban must immediately release mock before it can expect any consideration of its aspirations for legitimacy. this is not negotiable. portugal prime minister has won another term in office. antonia costa's ruling socialist secured a full parliamentary majority victory in sunday, snap election. he's promising to govern for all portuguese, as he prepares to take on an economy struggling to bounce back from the pandemic. adam righty has the latest from lisbon. this was really unexpected. coming into this, we had the polls showing necking neck results with the center. right? opposition party, the social democrats and tony. of course to we've seen this crap the wasn't going to maintain power, but what it looks like is come monday. he's still going to be the prime minister and he's going to be the one look in the form of government. what this election is also showing us and what one political analyst called it is perhaps the most disruptive election since the return to democracy. in 1974,

is it there's another player rising in that shape or enough it's a far right wing party. it's on target twin perhaps 8, maybe as much in the 14 feet. the numbers are still coming in. it only had one seat in parliament after the 2019 election. they've never had a far right party like this since the return to democracy. and some people are watching to see if parties are going to have to negotiate with this up and coming hard, right, populous party, and what effect they're going to have on the political scene in portugal. so it is a very momentous night here in portugal sunday going into monday. but 2 people are celebrating right now. although the results are preliminary in that time, tony costa, the current prime minister, things are going to hold on to power. and the shake party led by andre ventura who is really had a big showing and making a splash in portuguese politics. while antonio costs the printer is a professor of political science out the university of lisbon, he explains the economic challenges facing the new government. well,

basically the priority says in other european democracies in this case is basically to, you know, with the end of the pandemic to use ending because of portugal. it's very important to use the funds of the whipping union to recover the economy, specially off of southern europe as the new would be in countries. and the program is basically negotiate and it will be very important, i think. and then of course, to restore several segments, i've been put chicken economy that are central light pointed stories that they've been den, almost a very problematic with the pedantic. so basically, the socialist did manage to add too much lead to say, a moderate economic policy and enforced foreign policy with some

increase in social benefits of what we could call a sort of a mini portuguese welfare state. still ahead on our desert seeking justice for slain president. why the future hopes of thumb in booking foss? i'll riding on landmark trial ukrainians rally to thank western power for their supports against the russian troops build up on it. ah, ah, look forward to bery to scully's with sponsored my cattle ways, your weather report for asia right here right now. hello, everyone. good to see you. fairly quiet across india. temperature is starting to come up to what the northwest new delia hi of $23.00 degrees. still a few spits in spots of rain toward the southeast corner,

but by and large things will improve tonight. it's got a high of 31 degrees and in fact you're going to lock your temperature in there for the next few days. looks like fog to start, but okay, tuesday, february, the 1st you're pretty well where you should be for this and the temperature wise as we go towards se asia right now, getting striked with some pretty heavy bands of rain west java, east jarvis have got to be on the lookout for some flooding dare. and the ne monsoon look at this, it's really giving us some driving rain over high noun, some showers for coastal vietnam. and for southern china, hong kong you've got some disturbed weather as well. so that's putting a cap on your temperatures, just the high of 15 degrees, which is below average. you guess fit, it's still snowing western areas of japan, so honshu and whole kado. and at times these winds will gust up to about 80 kilometers per hour. also the risk that we could see some snow flying around parts of the korean peninsula. souls got a high of 4 degrees on monday. that's it. that's all. see you soon. oh,

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welcome back you watching al jazeera linda thought up stories this. our united arab emirates says it's intercepted and destroyed a missile fight by humans who the rebels. the defense ministry says debris fell outside populates. there is, it comes just 2 weeks. santa, who is the drain strike on the capital arm. adobe kill 3 people. u. s. is urging north korea to join direct talks often conducted. it's 7 of missile tests this month. talks with the u. s. stalled in 2019 north korea want sanctions lifted in return for dean equalization. portugal prime minister has one fan consecutive term in office on sonya cost is ruling socialist secured. a full parliamentary majority victory in sundays, not election. miniature chiefs and senior officials from the economic community of west african states have begun talks with the leaders of the kina fast those cou, a wall suspended from the regional block off to the meta. she took power nearly

a week ago. now, you and officials expected to join the discussions on monday. now the crew leader, paul henry amoeba, says deposed president or cowboy has failed to contain violence from groups linked to iso and al qaeda. will the military take? ivan burkina faso is the 5th in africa in just 18 months. in molly anger over the government's failure to protect the people from armed groups, but the all me to stage a coup in august of 2020 president abraham bull because case i was arrested and resigned on state television. 7 months later, the military seized power in charge after the president was killed on the battlefield. his son was quickly installed as leader in breach of the constitution . in september, so de, trained by the french foreign legion, let a crew to depose guineas, president alpha con day a year off to he won a disputed 3rd term. then in october, it was saddam's turn. top generals took control appending the country's democratic

transition and prompting months of protests. so what does this all mean? let's bring in william laurence. he's professor political science. the american university joins us now live from washington, d. c. thank you for joining us. so why has africa seen so many coups in such a short time? well, there's many reasons for this. one is a slamming insurgencies that are not under control under supported and under appreciated, military officers, the code pandemic, the economic crisis that results from it. and it big powers being distracted by all those very same things. and so there's less international pressure to sort of stay within the guard rails and keep the democratic governments or democratic transitions on track. so the big way we saw actually was from march to october of 2021. we saw about 9 cruiser qu, attempts in this area that stretches from the atlantic to the red sea. so from

guinea to sudan by with the failed, who attempted niger and then all these countries in between. but we had a bit of a gap for to regina fast, so in january and of course the burkina who was directly affected by and modeled on the to model you had how these military take her has been generally greeted by the people. if these countries about $5050.00, about half the country's people are happy that strong men took over who they believe can do a better job against islamic insurgencies and might be less corrupted in about half the cases. the. so the military's is part of the problem and just cementing their rule that happened in sudan and union. chad so it depends more on the circumstances and the relationship between the population and the military. sometimes in military seem as the savior and perhaps can even get the economy running. sometimes the military controls part of the economy like consider in other cases the,

the population. so don't trust the military either. so there's districts of government and military in co asked, which is the regional block of west african states has responded with harsh sanctions on many of those countries where military coups have taken place. how successful has that been in terms of putting countries off clearly not very successful, almost entirely unsuccessful in part because of france as opposed to these greeting, frances, increasingly unpopular and insects colonies. and then the core sanctions for some people are seen, is just an extension of this international opprobrium against failing against the good leaders who kicked out failing governments who had previously been supported by a go us and the french. and so i know it's, it's not working out at all and, but there's another problem which is the copycat effect, right? this wave of who's and if, who leaders, if makers, aren't sanctioned at all international that could increase. cool. so it's kind of

a double edged sword here. you have to kind of sanction them where you don't want to sanction in a way that makes the more popular. and that's difficult for the international community and 8. okay, thank you for your time william lauren's professor political science at the american university. closing arguments have begun in the trial of more than a dozen defendants accused. over the assassination of the king of fossil former president, thomas and kara, the african i can, a icon was killed with 12 others in a qu, back in 1987. nicholas hack reports from walker digger in the heart of warrior dooku . a tribute to a pan african icon and a symbol of strength and defiance. burkina faso as president, do my sancho. i was killed in a cool 25 years ago long before elder warmer was even born. and yet his murder trial is important and significant to her. it comes at a time of uncertainty following monday school. we need justice, so we can even believe linda in

a possible future. this has been all the few days that we are in the so the way she, you know, we, we have no government. let's say that we have no institutional. lo, that i stable now. so we are just asking our selves is we can just hope that what has been started look, continue. so i think it won't affect this what i think. but i'm not sure. last monday as lawyers and to my son car, his murder trial were about to give their closing statements. the hearing was abruptly adjourned, had happened after colonel dunbar arrested the president and took power in a qu, in a televised statement. he said, justice will follow its course. their trial is now said to resume in the dock of the accuses colonel them. he was former commander she'd bel gin, derry he along exile. former leader bless go by way. are accused of being behind sanker as murder from want your head of every one tons to wanted the truth, but i tried, he didn't want dam version of the truth away and not the reality of what happened

to convince god you surely after company was ousted from power in a popular uprising in 2014 january stage a coup. it's in this hotel in the wealthy neighborhoods on the outskirts of walker do that. has of states from the west african block echo was met with general gender . a they held talks ended the qu, which led to his arrest. this was seen as a success for echoes in restoring democracy to this country. drake, who is in one year echo us, is now facing an institutional and regional crisis. satirical cartoonist, demo gets fears the latest. who could delay on cars, trial fuel, a molded full gown about the death of sanker. we all feel like we know what actually happened. who it was like and who was, where was the question here is we, are we going to be able to purchase the current political situation and bring justice? so we can move on one of sale for people like coma leaving the past behind. also

means forging ahead into an uncertain future. nicholas hawk al jazeera walker today leticia in the us and debasing what to do about russia, which has more than a $100000.00 troops station outside the cranium border. one senate is proposing a potential compromise is pascal haine, reports from washington a massive show of force tanks, artillery more than 100000 russian troops. the u. s. military says, this is now a strong enough force to take over the country of ukraine. on monday, the un security council will put the issue front and center with the u. s. ambassador saying she will try to make russia feel isolated in the world. our voices are unified and calling for the russians to explain themselves. we're, we're going to go in the room prepared to listen to them, but we're,

we're not going to be distracted by their propaganda. and the ukranian ambassador to the u. s. is hoping to rally the international community as well. with a warning, if ukraine will be further attacked by russia, of course, they will not stop in india after ukraine, but with russia able to veto any action at the un. this is likely to be more theatre than a solution. but one prominent us senator has a new suggestion saying the u. s. can't given to russia's demands that ukraine will not join nato, but ukraine can, but it's his decision to make if he decides that the future membership of thursday b, one made o for ukraine in the question of russian occupation of ukraine are 2 things to put on the table, i think we may move toward a solution to this. this week, the u. s. senate is expected to take the bill that would spell out severe consequences if russia acts, which would include sanctions, which would include more military assistance, which would include helping them to fight back against the cyber attacks that the

russians will continue to use against ukraine. and also to help on a disinformation campaign that rushes actively involved and to try to stabilize the zaleski government, but the by no minister. she wants to hold off on sanctions as a deterrent, hoping that the threat of freezing russia out of the international banking system is enough to stop any military action which russia says has no intention of taking her in cuba on sunday, a show of gratitude. ukrainians take to the streets to send a message that they appreciate the support. oh, even as many hope they won't need it. patty call hain al jazeera washington canadian truck drivers and thousands of anti vaccine protesters have shut down the capital all to work for a 2nd day on sunday. they are running against corona virus restrictions, including compulsory vaccines for dr. is working on cross border roofs. specifies announce measures to combat cove 19 disinformation falling around between

musicians on the platforms. total price of put cost of joe rogan, the streaming service says it will add an advisory to any podcasts. that mentions cove it and direct listeners to resources from trusted health and science. professionals and comes off to the roxan neil young on the platform to remove his music accusing the po costa of spreading misinformation, took on a corin is a research fellow at harvard law school. she says, company's log specify can't be held liable for the spread of miss. informational net platforms. misinformation are included. 19 vaccines is mostly hurting minorities directly because we don't have the same access to information and education around information as others. right. and in this case, what's happening is that there's a communications decency act that was paid past in 1096. that protects platforms like spotify, facebook, google for, from being liable about what their current,

what their users, the content that their users post. so in this case, it protects them really from anything that they post except for certain things like federal criminal law, things that are related to copyright. so they don't have to do anything really. if you think about it, every time we see these companies testified heard of congress, it's, it's really a, a circus where they're promising to show protections, but they're not liable, which is why we need civil society. we need a employees at these companies. and lastly, we really do need for individuals who post content like neil young and joni mitchell to make a case a protests against spotify to, for them to take any action. at least 19 people have died and brazil's largest state because of land slides and flooding, flood waters of heavy off to heavy rain.