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a step ahead in relations between the u. s. sudden cat aunt doha, is upgraded to a major non nato ally, paying a heavy prize. these struggles are people in me about a year after the military seized power again and little sign of celebration. china plays down lou the new year festivities as it fights cove at 19 outbreaks. ah, welcome to the program. the us and russia sat for high level talks a day after the 1st un security council meeting on the trip build upon ukraine's border. secretary of state antony blinkin will speak to foreign minister sag elaborate on tuesday. russia wards limits to nato expansion, while the u. s. is concerned about the border threat today, the in the united nations, we've laid out for full nature of rushes, threat to ukraine sovereignty, and the territorial integrity of ukraine,

as well as the core tenants of a rural based international order. and we, we continued urge diplomacy as the best way forward, but with russia is continuing to build up its forces around ukraine. we are ready, no matter what happens while they've been deep divisions, be un security council meeting, russia and the us accusing each other of spreading misinformation or diplomatic added to james base has bull from new york. the security council heard to very different arguments about the situation in eastern europe. the u. s. which called this meeting says the russian military build up around ukraine is the largest mobilization of troops in europe. in decades, rushes aggression to day, not only threaten ukraine. it also threatens europe. it threatens the international order, this body is charged with upholding. we continued to hope russia chooses the path

of diplomacy over the path of conflict in ukraine. but we cannot just wait and see it, but rushes ambassador vaseline benzene says, all his country's troops are on russian soil. they're not close to the ukrainian border. and as absolutely no proof of a threat from them, he says the us and nato were whipping up tensions as though they want there to be a war. outside the council chamber, i pushed him further on this. are there any circumstances in which russian troops would cross the border into ukraine? can just be clear for it i, i'm not the person to decide whatever happens, but we never, i said it in my statement that no russian politician or even a public figure ever said that we are planning to attack your grade, was a clear answer. it seemed, but then he added this, we will not exclude provocations from, from ukraine inside than the separatist republics. they say they have information

that such provocations may happen. russia had tried to prevent this meeting by calling a procedural vote at the start. 9 countries supported the u. s, but russia was joined by china and objected to the session and 3 other security council members, gabon, kenya, and india, abstained. the meeting went ahead, bought the procedural vote. and the comments of many of the non western members of the council should be noted. the u. s. is aim here, was to galvanize international opinion against what it says is the russian threat. but to achieve a broad international consensus, it still has more work to do. james bay's al jazeera, the united nations, ukraine's ambassador says his government still hopes for a peaceful resolution. we are well aware of russia's history of ploys and provocations. and we will do everything possible to prevent another my nila type

revocation by russia. once again, i have clear instructions from my government to reiterate, to date, the absence of any aggressive intention, as well as ukraine, strong commitment to peace. abdulla meet housman from jeff, all ukrainian reaction to the security council meeting. and a foreign minister jim was speaking to ukraine in media. and a message there was the level of threat is actually not very high at the moment because diplomacy is ongoing. and then a few days ago we heard from president zalinski, very frustrated. president zalinski who had a very lengthy press briefing with mainly american media. and he was trying to say, well, tone it down enough of that panic and knew enough of that. in his words, hysteria, this is not good for this country because the country is already feeling the impact

of this crisis. perhaps not militarily, but economically. for sure. president zelinski said that $12500000000.00 had already left the country since the beginning of the year. and he was wondering how much more would leave. he said, the country couldn't sustain that. there's also an impact i did in the society in the communities. this is a country where a lot of people speak russian does is a lot of countries where many people don't look at russia in a hostile way. and we spoke to many people who told us that their per families were basically torn apart, that they had some people who were when some of them were actually supporting the government in gave some of them a, did the act. it did support a russia or didn't see russia in a bad way. so it is causing a lot of problems and many different levels. and i think the message definitely that you hear from leaders here in ukraine is stop panicking. the war is not there

yet. we've been living under this threat for the past 8 years. we've seen this happen before. this is not yet the time to be concerned. now the u. s. has designated katara major non nato ally not follows a meeting between president joe biden and cutoffs. amir shake to me been hammered. l tawny in washington dc alan fish house more from the capital a warm welcome and bitterly cold washington day for the 1st gulf leader to visit the white house since joe biden to cover cutter has become a key partner on several issues impacting the u. s. this past year, a partnership with cutter was, has been the central to many or most vital interest. i thought it was a key player during the u. s. withdrawal from afghanistan still has communications with the taliban and whose thousands of refugees who still have to be processed before they move to america. with additional assistance on iran, yemen,

the palestinians. the president has decided to give pattern special status, and i am notifying congress that i will designate cutter as a major non nato ally to reflect the importance importance of our relationship. tasso becomes the 18th country to be given the ally status. it provides imported benefits in areas of treat defense and security cooperation. the emmy insist katara was and is happy to help a country that has been an ally with for 50 years. we're very proud that we manage to evacuate tens of thousands of people, of and of, of understand of course we have other issues as well that we're going to talk about the equal rights of the honesty, people and other issues in the region. so, you know, we're very happy and proud of this great relationship. rushes build up on the euclidean border continues to be the most urgent issue for the white house. if moscow decides to invade sanctions will follow, there's a what a russia will respond by shutting off gas applies to key european allies cut out

could help develop supplies of its orn, liquid natural gas, to ease the pressure and nearby the guitar. the purchase of $34.00 new boeing free jets was signed with an option for 50 more passenger liners from the american company. that i was for was note in the early days of the trump presidency. but katara officials insist it has been a steady and reliable partner for the united states in an unsteady part of the world and with its links and connections. it could help solve some problem issues for the united states and its president. allen fisher al jazeera at the white house . now me and mars military has arrested dozens of people to prevent protests on the 1st anniversary of its qu. opponents calling for nationwide strikes. attorney chang is hauling the story force may salt on thailand's border with me, a mar and tony. really an anniversary is off to the time to reflect, but for many the situation is not really been resolved,

but only got worse. absolutely. i think what we've been hearing over the last couple of weeks as we've traveled down the border with me are mars story. after story of how things have changed and got much worse. i was speaking to a young man the other day who this time, 12 months ago, always work. he in communications as a bright young man with a university degree, who spoke very flu and english. now, his sheltering in thailand briefly, he is a fighter over the border. he's going back in a couple of weeks to continue fighting with one of the brigades that sprang up in the last 2 months to literally fight back against military rule. and protests have been continuing a silent strike. we understand today the military had been trying to stop that. but we understand, for the most part, most of the citizen side ma'am i have fallen silent to day. we've also seen an address from senior general men on lie trying to address some of those issues. he

said, a cease fire that was in place that i think many people would question would continue until the end of the this year. and he said that electricity shortages would be fixed and they were trying very hard to resolve fuel supplies. but i think the stories that we've been hearing from inside mer, marsh, over the last 12 months, have been very bad for most people. to drive around myanmar sit his everyday life might look like it's normal, but look a little closer roads a close with barriers, barricaded, military positions and uniforms. soldiers on the streets. luckily, i saw the army. this try to protest. after that i was very afraid. that's why i'm scared to go out again. but there were more protest beside my house. still, i joy. if they feel safe, i will joy to protest. mamma has been ravaged by coven 19 in the past

12 months. the situation intensified after the military targeted medical workers for their involvement and protests and a civil disobedience movement. many were arrested. others fled into hiding today, even basic health care services as guess as i'm and i think i won't forget that day dead hair walkers were arrested and she dare very badly by the army. they even kate, a medicare student, thus why i will return to the hospital in the sit, his food remains plentiful. the prices have risen sharply elsewhere, supplies and production have run dangerously low. the world food program estimates it needs to provide food for 4000000 people across myanmar in 2020 to 4 times the number. the for the qu, the economy has gone into free full banks, limit withdrawals and foreign investment is pulling out fast. and many people ah,

lose the jobs and it is embedding duty and the labor market. and also many people are jobless. but of the many job seekers ah, counting the job, but be a bit less than normal. even basic services like trains and buses are failing. the nation wide rail network has ground to halt. after work has joined the civil disobedience movement and bust prices have tripled as operators, abandoned standardized rules for a new lawyer. or in my opinion, if we get rid of army rule, transport services will go back to normal with properly working buses, a normal ticket price is only historically the people of mere mar, used to military rule. but after a decade of progress and development, the last 12 months is leaving many feeling that they're returning to the past.

the, from what we're hearing from people all along the border, who've been coming from all over me and mark into thailand, is that nobody is unaffected. by the school. but i think the most disturbing thing is the fighting. there's always been fighting in these border areas, but it's got much worse. and the last couple of weeks we've heard of jet fight is attack helicopters, forcing tens of thousands of people across the board. and inside the country, there are hundreds of thousands of people who are homeless and displaced inside. what we're hearing is of a military that is now very much at war with its own people teaching in my song. thanks very much for the update. tony. now still here on out there. i'm sorry for the things we simply didn't get right and also sorry for the way that this matter has been handled. you can chlorine to gatherings during lockdown despite serious failures of leadership and judgment. also the search for

survivors in brazil, upon state floods and land slides are killed dozens of people. they stories after the break. ah here's her headlines for the americas for the 1st of february. hello everyone. great to see use those storms that were across texas. now shifting into louisiana, temperatures have pops up again in miami after that cold spells of the coldest air in more than a decade, your overnight lows recovering as was so low of 20 degrees on thursday. after the northeast, the south facing winds ramping up those temperatures. so we're going to see the snow melts in boston, for example, where he had just picked up 60 centimeters of snow from that, nor easter, more sunshine in the forecast for vancouver, but temperatures are coming down. we've got a cooler air rate across the canadian prairies. and the northern plains,

off to the west coast of the us. things look in common, settled here, los angeles, we've got you in for a high of 19 degrees on tuesday. central america looks like this. we had a record low temperature in havana. your temperatures are bouncing back is while a both by day and night. so 27 by thursday, that is above average for february. we've seen some pretty strong storms through the pay ruffian andes rate into the amazon basin. and those storms that were parked over south paulo has now shifted to rio de janeiro on tuesday with a high up 31 degrees. that's it. so you sent aah! cutter. one of the fastest growing nations in the wanting, cato needed to oakland and development for international shipping companies to become a p, middle east, and trade and money skilfully, mcdowell,

3 key areas of develop filling up from connecting the world, connecting the future, won the cato, cortez, gateway to whoa trade, hulu. ah, what you're watching over there with me. so he'll rob a reminder of all top news stories. the un security council has discussed the crisis in ukraine, russia and the us blame each other for the escalating tension. the u. s. secretary of state will continue talks with russia's foreign minister on tuesday. mammals military is arrested dozens of people to prevent protests on the 1st anniversary of

its qu, opponents calling for a nationwide strike. the u. s. has designated cattle as a major non nato ally. it follows a meeting between president joe biden and katara amir shake to me, but i am adel tawny, a washington dc. well, at that meeting in the white house, president biden also spoke about the war in yemen. he condemned who the rebels for launching missiles at the united arab emirates. there would be 3 attacks in recent weeks safety up a new front to the cold linked particle hate explains. it is meeting with the amir of cutter us president joe biden began by talking about russia and then the united arab emirates, a sign of his country's concern. i also want to note that the us, he defeated a ballistic missile attack launched by the separate issue from yemen yesterday. and we've been a daily contact you a to address those threats. the timing of the launch was important. it came as the

israeli president was visiting another step toward normalizing relations between the countries. the missile fragments came down in a remote area. the u. e responded to the missile with a strike of its own, reportedly out of who's the missile launch site in yemen, across the us government, the who these actions are being condemned. this is a challenge that we are very focused on. we're very focused on it in terms of providing support that are partners, saudi arabia and the you a need to defend themselves against these types of terrorist attacks. the president said he has directed the secretary of defense to work, to shore up u e defenses. clearly these attacks have em have not been 100 percent successful. we continue to, as i said, to 40 explore opportunities to improve our, our defenses and,

and the defenses of our m radi partners as well. the biden administration came into office promising to focus on ending the very long war in yemen. the recent strikes and statements make it clear that is still far from happening now. patty hall, hain al jazeera washington. now the crew of ours pandemic is dumpling chinese lunar new year celebrations once again the year of the tiger holiday, also known as the spring festival, has just begun. but the government has warning the highly contagious armstrong variant has increased the risk of infection as hundreds of millions of people travel to celebrate with loved ones. trinity rebels televised musical performances, bright red decorations, and big meals to put relatives. these are common lou to new year, traditions in china, but this year teaching is missing out on her annual family gathering in the northeast. yes. is it? the hotel restaurant manager has been forced to stay put in beijing,

where she works because of corona virus restrictions shows azure fish, i assume if eigenvalue and i feel sad that i can't go home this year and meet my family. but i need to follow the government's instructions because we're in a pandemic. i don't want to cause trouble for my country, my employer. all my family. chinese authorities are battling to contain an outbreak of the on the con and delta variance of the virus, which has spread to 20 provinces and 50 cities, including the capital to control infections. many of the millions of migrant workers who usually return home for the holiday has been warned against travel restrictions very per region. testing is compulsory. in some areas, a period of quarantine or isolation is required. this video of a communist party official warning. anyone who didn't comply with rules would be detained, went viral last week. the controls have sparked complaints on social media. with many uses saying migrant workers deserve to be for united with family at least once

a year. analysts say they're especially impacted by corbett regulations. a lot of workers, oh actually they have missed the chance to earn a real light with their families. oh, already 2 years now. and a lot of them can only connect with their test using the phones and it has not, ah, meet up with other parents. and they can only rely on the truth for quite a long time. authorities are under pressure to keep infections, to 0. ahead of the winter olympics, which opens on friday in beijing decorations are up. but celebrations are muted and large gatherings bad. before the pandemic, hundreds of thousands of people would flock here to detain, park to celebrate the loony. yes, there would be dragon dallas as market stalls and to live music. but for the 3rd year in a row, the iconic festival has been cancelled. teaching will work over the holidays and

plans to celebrate quietly with colleagues. but despite her disappointment at not going home, she says it's better than spending the festival under quarantine. and katrina, jose me now from beijing katrina, i mean it really is all about keeping a close eye on those transport links and how people use them. i mean that's the main focus of the authorities and the main concerns them over the next few days. that's right. the government's estimates. that's still one point. $2000000000.00 trips will be made this new the new year period. now that's up 35 percent from last year, but it's still nowhere close to the number of trips that we've made before the pandemic . not as we said, as we saw in that package, not everybody can return home this year, but many, all still choosing to undergo at least 2 weeks period of quarantine for many or rigorous testing measures so that they can see that family. china is still baffling

. a growing nationwide corporate outbreak of both delta and on the kron the latest figured we had was 28 new cases, reported today on tuesday. more of them in the southern city of hong job. but there were 2 cases identified in the capital city in beijing. and here for the 1st day of the learn, a new year period, the opening of the chinese zodiac year of the tiger celebrations have been very, very quiet. there is no festival atmosphere on the streets, temple fairs, which have been really traditionally part of this chinese new year or luni, new year celebration. those have all been canceled. all large parties or mass gatherings have been banned, and most restaurants are clerk. so this year celebrations, most families have be very quiet, mostly time at home with the loved ones over a big meal. continue the force with the update. thanks very much. katrina, katrina, you in beijing now the inquiry into u. k. prime minister boris johnson, and what's become known as party gate have some serious failures in leadership and

judgment. it says some of the gathering during current virus lockdown should not have been allowed to happen. the bank has more from london, a failure of leadership behind the famous black door suit, grey's crunch findings more biting than expected. the report talks of high standards not being met by those setting, the rules of excessive alcohol consumption in the workplace and gatherings without clear, authorization or oversight. some behavior, she said, was difficult to justify, against the backdrop of the pandemic. ah, were nothing of early critical of johnson himself. it's perhaps not the big take down. his rivals hopeful, a contrite prime minister, appearing in front of parliament, promising to overhaul downing street and clean up government. but no talk or of stepping down. i'm sorry for the things we simply didn't get right and also sorry for the way that this matter has been handled. i get it and i will fix it

to the people of this country. i know what the issue is. yes. it, one of his government can be trusted to deliver. i say to speak, i guess we can be thought to gray, have been planning to release a full report until london's metropolitan police stepped in calling for her to pare down her findings while they carry out their own criminal investigation into 12 gatherings, including an alleged party and johnston's flat for johnson's opponents. it isn't just about what's in the suit guy report, but what's not in it. for his fears, his critics, they will have to wait for the results of the police investigation to find out more about the most serious offences that could cause the most harm to johnson's political career. the results of that investigation could be many, many months away. even now he is hiding behind

a police investigation into criminality into his home. but his office, the british public on fools. they never believed a word of it. they think the promise to should do the decent thing and resign. the problem is not just the opposition. that's been ramping up pressure on johnson, some of his own. m. p. 's have been quietly plotting against him. thank you. other familiar faces are determined to hold his actions to account what the gray report does show is that number 10 downing street was not observing the regulations they had imposed on members of the public. so either my right on boyfriend did not read the rules or didn't understand what they meant and others around him. well, they didn't think the rules apply to number 10, which was it monday. so a flurry of announcements by number 10 on the economy breaks it and ukraine. this is a government, eager to steer attention away from recent scandals. but when it comes to party gate,

there are still more truths to uncover heads, including the prime ministers may yet role if enough members of his own party decide it's time for him to go. need barker al jazeera, westminster, heavy rain has studied large pulse of haiti, forcing thousands of people from their homes, or bridges clamps, and several buildings destroyed. not many in the region are still trying to recover from the deadly 7 point to earthquake in august. residents of haiti's 2nd largest city capital, had to wade through waste deep water to get out. emergency teams are working to remove debris in brazil after heavy rains calls flooding landslides. across all paula state. doesn't the dad hunt around half a 1000000 displaced in just the past few days? jenny wolf pulls the rescue effort underway. emergency crews rushing, injured victims to hospital by helicopter residents,

work hand in hand with 1st responders lifting debris desperate to find signs of life beneath the rubble, feebly. you know, i'm looking for my nephew, his wife, and a 2 year old child. i said the bodies are still there under the mud, but until now they couldn't recover. the local barber shops turned into make shift offices for firefighters to keep track of those that are missing. and the short loved ones stay informed to listen when the rains were very heavy, the concentration of rain was much heavier than weigh more than 1500 families are now homeless. with homes and streets completely submerged, survivors forced to confront their ordeal and prey. their loved ones are found alive. here is said, i'll not go from eric, who'd noise when i went to the bathroom and then i ran away in the debrief,

fell all over me. i got hurt, but found a hole and thanks to god, i managed to escape, but my father is still there. brazil has seen various incidents of severe flooding since the rainy season began. in october, sal paolo's governor announced almost $3000000.00 in aid to help those affected by the money doesn't mean much to the family members of those that are missing. join wolf al jazeera. ah, what does it with me? so rob, reminder of our top stories. the secretary of state will continue talks with russia's foreign minister on tuesday about the crisis in ukraine. the un security council has met to discuss the issue, russian and the u. s have blamed each other for escalating the tension. russian military and intelligence services are spreading this information through state on media and proxy sites and they are attempting without any factual.