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. as sustainable austria says it will challenge the action in court. a disappearing 3 times faster than forests on world wetlands day. we look at why few of migratory birds are traveling to india during winter. i'm sorry to hide us with your latest sports. we build up to the africa cup of nations, semi final, the painful keener fossa, sanibel and brazil. so why they're one of the favorites to win the balls cut in can thought will. yes, another qualifying wing. ah, so let's begin with the ongoing crisis on ukraine's board with russia. u. s. president joe biden is ordering the pentagon to deploy additional troops to eastern europe. 2000 american soldiers in fact will head to poland and germany in 1000 will be re positioned to romania. the u. s. and nato already have tens of thousands of troops in europe. these movements are unmistakable signals to the world that we

stand ready to reassure our nato allies into turned and, and defend against any aggression. now, as the secretary said, friday, we do not know if russia has made a final decision to further and aid ukraine. but it clearly has that capability. the department of defense will continue to support diplomatic efforts led by the white house and the state department to press for resolution. we do not believe conflict is inevitable. united states in lockstep with our allies in partners, has offered russia a path to deescalate but we will take all prudent measures to assure our own security and that of our allies. with all the while, russia's president vladimir putin says west is trying to look him into a wall with ukraine and insist that moscow's concerns about natives expansionist would have been ignored. russia has mass tens of thousands of soldiers on his

border with ukraine and the u. k. prime minister both johnson has held a phone call with vladimir putin or tulsa jabari is standing by for us in moscow will be live in london shortly on that phone call. with roy challenge with 1st let's say kickoff with a whitehouse correspond, kimberly hallett and company, 7 years president deploying his troops and lots of questions being asked about why he felt the need to do this now. yeah, because it, on the one hand, it certainly appears to be an upping the ante given the fact that obviously these numbers are no match for the 10s of thousands that russia has positioned along the border of near ukraine. this is really just 3000 us troops that are being positioned not in ukraine, but in the eastern flank nato countries. as you have to ask why now, and in fact, that is a question that was asked repeatedly by reporters. in the pentagon briefing as this announcement was made,

the pentagon insisting this is because of escalating activity by russia. but, but many would argue that this is escalating activity by the united states, even as it continues to argue that the best path forward for resolving security differences is diplomatic. and so as a result, there is certainly a concern on the part of many here in the united states that this is continuing to escalate and that it may even be the united states that is doing so now having said that, the u. s. continues to maintain that it is awaiting the latest response from russia . with regard to those proposals, encountered proposals as this. diplomacy continues. but again, this positioning of troops certainly could be the latest sign yet that the united states is preparing for some sort of an invasion of ukraine by russia, even as it is insisting that diplomacy is the beth best path forward. i wonder what

level of support there is more otherwise briefing congress, i'm a cross country well, in the united states, there certainly is a lot of fatigue surrounding conflict in general, particularly given the fact that there was that messy withdrawal of us troops from afghanistan in just a few months back and add to that that the united states is just bad as a population tired after a generation of war. you have to add to that, that in generally, people are used to a little bit of what they call russian meddling. they're used to it when it comes to election interference interfering when it comes to energy supply when it comes to even the theft of intellectual property when it comes to operating a u. s. business. so in terms of the threat, this is nothing new. there isn't anything sort of imminent on the landscape. so the

questions as to why the u. s. president has decided to do this now, certainly are relevant to and with regard to answers, the white house simply insist that this is part of defending nato allies. even as there has been, no intelligence supplied. that those nato allies are under any type of greater threat than ukraine itself. or kimberly, thanks for them to communicate. reporting met, so spin across to europe now to london in front, returning to stanley by a row. so we have this phone call that i mentioned between brochures from the k prime minister and vladimir putin. what do we know about what in the last few minutes down the streets has released readouts of that call between forest johnson and that it may present. it's only the u. k side of this, of course, it is likely that in the coming hours a say we will get a similar readout from the criminal which might have very different information. but the u. k. u side of this says that johnson told rushes,

planning to pretend that any further russian incursion into ukrainian territory would be a tragic miscalculation. johnson told, pretend that he has a deep concern about russia's current, hostile activity, because it's put here on the ukrainian border. and he also underscored to evaluate, pretend that nato has an open door policy, essentially, any european democracy that wants to join nato is free to do so, if, if that's what it wants to do. and that's what's nate. so that's what ukraine has in place since 2009. they also stressed the importance of dialogue and diplomacy and a need to include ukraine in talks. that's what the or johnson said about putin. and they agree together that aggravation was in no one's best

interest. now this conversation that the 2 of them had, of course, comes with a big backdrop. the backdrop is boris johnson's current political woes in the united kingdom. there is a raft of measures in place in a moment's going through that is aimed at tightening up sanctions against russian oligarchs to work together with the us. and it comes off to, i think, the last few days i'm fairly unsavory comments made by russian diplomats about the value of u. k. diplomacy on the world stage and the quality of its leadership as well or a re thanks for that. so that's the situation in the u. k. rory change reporting. let's say i had, i was a monster. now dosage biased. any by and say you k a position on this phone call. what about russia's have we had any reaction from them?

yes, was heard from the kremlin, who said that it was, was a detailed exchange of views. and that president putin told his british counterpart that nato is not ready to adequately address russia security concerns, and that ukraine is also sabotaging the minsk agreements. this was the latest that we've heard from the kremlin, but we've also been hearing from the deputy foreign minister, alexander goosgo, who sent about the troop deployment announcement from the u. s. that these are very destructive steps. this was also comments we heard from the deputy head of the foreign affairs committee from the duma, the member of parliament. that is and he also shared this view that these are destructive steps, all aim to try and sabotaged the ongoing negotiations. the point of view here is that these measures that the united states government is taking are really counterproductive and they're not helping these discussions and diplomatic efforts that are ongoing. we've been hearing from the russian president vladimir putin,

who said earlier on tuesday that the he doesn't believe the americans have adequately responded to russia's security concerns. and even the proposals that they've hand delivered to the foreign mystery last week that they don't address the main issue that russia has with nato and the u. s. and that is, of course nato's expansion. the president putin said that he's studying that document and will respond in due time. but the authorities here are really waiting for president putin to decide what to do next, how to move forward. but in terms of those troops, specifically the ones that are going to polling nearly 2000 of them, they will be very close to russian troops. and that is because as of the past few weeks, the russian army has been moving a military equipment and personnel to the northern and neighbor airborne country of bella roost. they will be holding a 10 day military drill at the request of the bell. the russian government, because alexander look,

jenko had said that he wants to strengthen his country's at borders and they are doing this military drill a with the russian army for 10 days. so this is possibly further opportunity for escalation and complication really in the current climate that we'll find ourselves and the russians have sat despite all of this, they are still open to dialogue and the russian president had said that he would like to see the french president emanuel micron visit muscle to further discuss the possibilities of how to deescalate the current crisis. there are still plenty of moving parts. her daughter thinks that those jibari there in moscow. well, plenty more to lead on the news are including the president of guinea was our survived occur attempts, but it remains unclear who was behind the attack. plus women it may attend, but only if they're separated from men. the taliban reopens afghan universities for the 1st time since they take over. and we hear from santa goals team as they prepare for their africa cup of nations semi final against be keener fasick. that's

coming up in us or ah, so we turn out to the democratic republic of congo where government have killed at least 72 people. attack happened at a camp for internally displaced people in the eastern province of baterri fighters from the co operative for the development of the congo, known as a crew, decker, a suspected of organizing. the rate young group was killed. hundreds of people in the region enforced thousands from their homes in past 5 years. so let's look now at who the co fighters are. the co operative for the development of the congo as a coalition of our groups formed in the 1970s. the group was initially set out to help the lendue community in their agricultural activities into 2 province, detentions where the hammer tribe lead to a bloody conflict and eastern democratic republic of congo. at least 50000 people were killed during that conflict between 19992003. tom per acosta is the regional

media advisor for the norwegian refugee council in central and west africa. and he says the attack was unacceptable, and the aid group firmly condemned. more than 14 children dead. we've seen, we've seen the reports, the images are terrible. and these population, this camp is hosting. around 24000 people and these people are already slept. the violence in 2900 in the region. and now today they are being attacked precisely where they should be safe. but they are not. and we are saying that safety is there, right. so we are calling everyone to ensure that the innocent civilians are protected. we are calling on the government, we are putting on the international community, these violence to stop and need to stop. now, nothing justifies is kind of of violence. but this region you to read in north,

east and congo has a strong increase of violence in 2017. there is a strong inter coming out conflict there between the community of emma and mental or herders at both, and then do the farmers and the overland. so this is the root cause of the conflict right now. been, nothing has been so far to address me. so we are also asking the government to address these causes. now, because there are more and more victims, we don't do any. but also in the d. c. a lightning strike is suspected of causing a high voltage electricity cable to break kelley at least 25 people. several died instantly as the cable fell on homes and on a market on the outskirts of the cap of guinea was how i set up a commission of inquiry to investigate tuesday attempted coup it confirmed 6 people

have been killed, president moto says, a co m barlow. says he survived after 5 our assault on the presidential palace. lexia brian has this report gun, fire and guinea, the sounds capital. the president says and men attacked the presidential palace while he was inside. this i was in the middle of the council of ministers with old members, including the prime minister. and we were attacked with very heavy weaponry for 5 hours. but now everything is under control. when i was elected president, i promised to fight 2 things, corruption and drug trafficking. and this is also linked to that. it didn't even sounds become known as a transit point for cocaine between last in america and europe. it's also no stranger to political upheaval. if the 9 koos or attempted, cuz since it gained independence from portugal and $970.00 full. gimme bizarre has been a fragile stage for quebec. it's because of narcotics property and

a man i in which it is will treat us, did institutions, and the mind them meant military to please tell me, does what properties. it's not immediately clear who's behind the failed qu. some witnesses described the gunman as members of the military, others as civilians. in ballard suggested, many members of the security forces had died. the west african regional block, a co op, and the un secretary general condemned. what happened? we are seeing a terrible multiplication of goes the and our stronger bill is for soldiers to go back to the barracks. the president had called his cabinet together ahead of an echo us meeting on thursday to discuss a string of successful military takeovers in the region over the past 18 months. some fear the violence, imbecile is part of a wave of copy,

can't coups. one of the differences between the situation with him and book in a facile constance or even madam the coin miley is that he's a former, or he is a former. and so he, he has a obviously, and kept it strong guys, we been the armed forces. ah, some golden barlow's rise to power following the 2020 election, a qu after he claimed victory despite opposition, allegations of fraud. they've been reports of tension within his government. and in recent days, he re shuttled his cabinet. huh. mallos described the latest violence as an attack on democracy, and say, some of those involved have been erased it, alexia brian, al jazeera, with the number of

cove related deaths in the united states is at an almost 12 month 5 day to compile by johns hopkins university. shows a 39 percent increase in fatalities in the past 2 weeks. crone of ours infections exceed 75000000 with the oma convent accounting for almost all infections. in the south pacific nation of toner is going back in to look down off to taking 5 covey 19 infections in the capitol. humanitarian aid has been arriving through the port so after last month's underwater volcanic eruption and su nami tongue had not reported any cases before. the natural disaster will earlier my colleague during obligated to spoke to drew heavier, the vice president of tall, red cross, and asked how the new infections were found. what they know we, we had 2 cases of people who were working a wharf, unloading or stuck from the ship. i think they were going through

this thing and where they were found to push to and the government is working very quickly to try to make sure that this is what i'm saying. but i think when not officially announce, but we mo dish about 5 cases. so we hope that the casey stone increase as the cover in hopes that in the next 48 hours, they will be able to make sure that they took over a people. it was an associate, they contacted. how will this locked down that's now been announced by the government effects as their recovery operation in tonga? that is still very much underway and very much needed if you did the very much for companies allow you to change your services. but we continued those who are working

on the response a you it to be fully diction natick. and you had to be tested to make sure that the snow was more spreading off at the correct another. in some afghan universities have re open their doors for the 1st time since the taliban take over . at last august, and female students had been allowed back, but in segregated classrooms. western nations have been urging the taliban to respect women's rights. i lets me to marry. i'm at i his women's rights activists and joins us from virginia in the united states. fire stripe at mar, welcome to the program. at its early days yet is now i think the students just just trickling in. but how hopeful are you that that female students will return to their studies in numbers? hello, can you hear me? yes, ma'am. let's just try that again. i was just asking how helpful, how hopeful are you that female students will be returning to their studies in the

numbers that you might want. i hope the woman and son pick this chance and, and it can be university as much as the con, forcefully. no matter what majors are they going to. but this news is not hopeful at all. because paula, on an honest, i'm just taking woman hostage to take to seek legitimacy and international aid from roland traditional community. yesterday they took another woman the kidnapped another woman, while the 5 other women took on the 19th of january, we don't know anything about them. we don't see women's presence on the streets. a date of birth is for, for their basic rights. are disposed by gunfire shots, you know, whipping and even people to be in the, in the later days. so these act just to show to the world that they are changing

and they are good cannot food. because what they are doing in ground is the fact to actually limitations the fact and the fact that the limiting the woman to act basically sure with the universe. because in the, into the into, into talk about the incidence. you talk about just reports at this point in time that is there actually confirmation of that is that i just want to come back to this, this concept to be returned to education. because i think there is some evidence and people were taking account today. although it was very through 25 percent returned in total students, men and women today and the small as women. so they all, it does seem that they're starting to come back. i'm just thinking as we go to the future in the future weeks, months is warmer. weather comes, are we going to see a bigger return? do you think? if there is an opportune, good. if a call the universities are open for woman,

there will be a bigger turn. yes, i believe in this page and the freedom thinking of going home and we have seen them showing that to the world. but the question is, will call upon allowed him to write because and do the same tropical regional school. they're open for boys to why they're not still seeing primary and secondary education open for both into videos, but only the university. the reason is 1st they did. there are not that large number of women going to the university, but they haven't know that sexualized 33 school authentication of the classes. but the question is, if it, if there is only 2, few minutes to this an engineering class, will the government or the public schools open a separate class with separate remote professors for them? i don't think so. and then the curriculum they are talking about is shandey curriculum, which, which i don't see any help with that with encouraging the woman to return. or if

the curriculum is be restricted, if there is district that if classes are segregated, it was if, if the female students didn't get the chance to use the library or to use the professors in the office if they need to. if it's a female, clarify. so, and if a student is studying medicine or engineering, that we don't have that money premium prices in that major. right. that, that mean that the toilet bonds are taking those women out of the classroom. so the question is, not only if dollar bond are open and the universe is for woman, the question is, i know i didn't get in practice. is it really opening it, sort of the students? are they providing the platform or the opportunities? so those students have access to these classes. so these are the, the questions we need to us prior to a blindly believing meant the tale bunch got them because in the past 6 months, everything,

everything came from solomon is not really honest. and with good intention, general trying to, you know, when some negotiating thing on the table and even going to have to leave it. i do appreciate your perspective on this. it'll be interesting to see how things develop that will be keep your watch for live my time. thanks very much. know that india has been a major pitstop for many migrating birds from central asia and the parts of europe during the harsh northern winter, but vanishing wetlands and degrading habitat to let a few of birds making that journey of tomato has his report now from utility on this cold, foggy morning, a gaggle of gray ladies is perched on an islet. they're mostly found in northern europe. but this time of year leave that icy climate and flock to northern india. happy dare to the college of the peculiar woodland depends on volcanic ecosystems. how much functioning properly functioning, non functioning, are kind of degrading that also because her what her boots are also the natural environmental indicator of the hilt of disorder or less every winter,

hundreds of species migrate from the arctic to south asia, along a route called the central ation fly re, india has the largest diversity of waterfowl in the region. but over the years, the habitats have degraded and numbers have dwindled. this stretch of the yamuna river in new jelly is one of the most polluted in the world. it's also i see girls from siberia spend the winter. i'll miley is an avid bird watcher and participate in the bud senses every year. what i have a job here it is. yeah. a lot from your interview right now in the recent yours is because of the lot. none of the maintenance of the places were to little are in a bad shape because are they were not are taking care of the please. so i, this is a global warming, has destructive rud migration patterns with many to reward or seeing what those who have made the long journey to their winter home. or either through them, through or like this river become more talk in the us home to more than

200000 wetlands. but human activity like dumping waste construction and agriculture had damaged or destroyed large parts of them. it's all to one. major cities have been increasingly inundated during the monsoon season, reflect modernism. i love that be the say. it is the it may the miserable in flood modernism. apart from that, the, the meeting is on a climate in the back. and at the same time, it is not only that he was his dumps are with him. i relate lords, thought, livelihood, opportunity to local liberty. birdwatchers hope the annual census will lead to better conservation policies. they hope for more government funding and better protections. their efforts are slowly bearing fruit avenue, middle al jazeera new delhi was ella had here now dessert molly default on multiple bond payments as regional sanctions imposed on the military agenda for delaying elections. take effect how this remote c in and altogether is proving to be

a haven penguins. and the olympic torch relay begins in beijing, but the public a want to stay away. it's coming up from sport, sir. ah, hello, thank you for joining in. we're going to begin in the middle east. nice to see you and we've had some exceptional heat for oman, the dark of the red here, the higher the temperature, 36.6 degrees. if this had happened a day earlier, would have said a new temperature record rate across the country. now, winds playing a big factor in this story here. so a southerly push through the la that look at that gas. maven hit 20 degrees on thursday. but then meantime around the golf, we've got a north wind blowing down from iraq. so that's putting a bit of a cap on those temperatures. though a has a high of 21 degrees on thursday. we are talking about high temperatures for

southern areas of pakistan, karachi at 30 degrees, but some white weather toward the northeast. la hor, at 11, while below average you should be about 20 to this time of the year active weather around the mediterranean. so some soaking brains. western and southern turkey, justice steady stream of rain, france ali on thursday with the high 15 degrees. certainly the risk of seen some flooding around namibia, but more so around the northern cape in the eastern cape, dark of the color here, the more intense the rain is falling. and toward the weekend, it looks like we're going to have a tropical storm make landfall to what that east coast of madagascar producing some severe flooding that you're up that will soon take care. ah, the 2 boxes from the street to chicago on different paths with the same ambition, fighting their way to a better life than themselves and their families. in

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ah ah, okay, you're watching out 0. 1 of our top stories and thousands of american troops are being sent to europe to reinforce nato and to deter a russian invasion of ukraine. president vladimir putin as accusing the us and allies of trying to new russia into war with ukraine. government and the democratic republic of congo killed at least $72.00 people in a camp for the internally displaced fighters from the on known as predict, suspected to be behind the rate in the eastern problems getting out and set up a commission of inquiry looking to choose days tend to confirm 6 people have been killed, president motor, cisco and barlow says use the 5 to 5 hours sold on the presidential. so let us now return to our top story on the additional us troop deployment to

a senior. we can speak to loose nevada, who's a eurasia program fellow with a foreign policy research institute, joins his life. i zoom from washington, d. seems and of are welcome to the program at 1st. so what do you make this move by job by well, once again, this is a demonstration of united states and nato resolve the meeting, the fret that is being posed by vladimir putin. and what's ironic about it is that it, it is in fact the diametrically opposite of what, who's in the hope to achieve by threaten ukraine in the 1st place. his, his demand meant to have u. s. a. me to withdraw from former warsaw pact. countries like, oh linda romania has resulted in just the opposite with now. forward troops being a deployed to all and and romania by the us, but gary and left the wayne. yeah. by other members of nato. so this is, this is a,

a complete defeat, at least in terms of this demand by but is it the right move when, when, surely at this moment in time, the idea is the diplomatic, the best diplomatic move surely would be to de escalate tensions. and this is not doing that well, i mean, let's be clear, the kremlin precipitated this crisis by choosing to amass hundreds of thousands. it at a minimum of a $100000.00 troops from 3 different directions. belarus, russia, and crimea, which is occupied ukrainian territory. and they did this because they thought there was an opportunity in be aftermath of us lifting sanctions on nordstrom to their pipeline, to germany and the u. s. withdraw from afghanistan. they thought that this was an indication of

a willingness on the part of the united states to withdraw from europe as a whole. and instead, when it is done, it has strengthened the resolve nato. and it has to be pointed out that it is the kremlin, which has invaded neighboring countries. and whether you're talking about georgia, 2008. yeah, a grow. yes. i'd say that point, but when we're talking about the current situation and what everybody seems to be on all sides, everybody wants this to stop. they want to de escalate situation. and the southern troops in sending 2000 transferred from the states and, and redeploying a 1000 within europe, shortest that, this does not doing that. and this is what, what a lot of people last of the, the pentagon spokesman in the press conference saying that, you know, why, why are you doing it now? it's, we're only talking about 3000 troops is not that many in is just postering is not well, i mean it's 3000 on top of the 8500,

which are part of the multi response for so nato that have already been committed. so let's be clear on, in the written responses to moscow's alleged security concerns which were leaked to elbow east newspaper in spain and which the pentagon itself has confirmed . there have been every, any number of efforts to ensure that the kremlin has access to us bases to ensure that our missile shields in bulgarian romania do not also carry offensive tomahawk missiles. and back in december that russia claimed that the, you know, that was a success. so what you, you have is the situation in which nato and the united states, which have not been responsible for the free military incursions that have taken place in areas bordering russia. over the last 14 years has now gone the

extra a length to offer up unprecedented transparency. and all this in order to assuage a concern that the criminal cannot credibly make it great, get your perspective, do appreciate that. thanks very much and day for joining us here. on out 0 loose nevada. ok, thank you. at people living in air is controlled by russian bikes, hepatitis in easton, ukraine say they've been waged between opposing sides, is tensioned flare up. a correspondent, child stratford is there and has more from the nets. in easton ukraine. the situation here in the nets, the capital of the self declared than its peoples republic control by the separatists remains calm, but our increasing concerns amongst people living here. people we've spoken to said that they feel a sense of isolation from the rest of the world. a sense of potentially be trapped between 2 opposing forces. this is a region that has suffered dramatically in recent years in the years since this

conflict started 8 years ago course, no political solution yet to stop even basic cease fire violations. the o. s. e and the last couple of days, the organization for security and cooperation saying that they had seen increasing violations. why both sides. interestingly though they had said that sir, they said that they hadn't seen any big shoot movement of the separatists moving into frontline positions. we certainly haven't seen any real movement of military forces in and around on ets, but we do know that the separatists have all been put on high alert. 14000 people killed in this conflict in the last 8 years on both sides of the contact zone, at least 3000 of them civilians, millions more people living in this region. one can only imagine, very afraid of what could happen if some sort of diplomatic solution is not found.

earlier, we attended a press briefing given by a spokesperson for the separatists here. and he said that the separate his forces were preparing for the worst. remember, my go time has helped us. you and the enemy, we need to be clear here. the enemy doesn't stay still. it has been trained during this time by nato senior officers in ukrainian army once only new old soviet army standards, and nato helped them to change. but we have changed to both us and the enemy are preparing. kamali has failed to meet a debt payment of more than $31000000.00 blaming sanctions imposed following last year's crew. the central bank miss 3 deadlines at the end of january. multiple sanctions were imposed last month by west africa regional organization echo us. after the ministry june to delete elections until 2025. also in molly frances ambassador is being spelled from what's described as outrageous comments made by the french foreign minister. john eve. latria said that molly's leadership was out

of control and illegitimate. the expulsion is expected. the cause of reassessment of the french military mission in molly to confront fighters linked to outside, an eyesore as it beg, has more the future of french troops. and molly is in doubt as relations with the former colonial power to tear it off to france's foreign minister, called molly's military rule. illegitimate. the military called the comments outrages and just kicking out the french ambassador miss paris has become increasingly frustrated. the presence of russian mercenaries in molly to combat on the groups called the russian wagner, group stands accused of 200 minute natural resources such as gold and uranium in exchange for protecting the military government. these are multi 1000000 federal dissolution of molly's such today that they have only one partner, the mercenaries of wagner's group. that's all they can find every one else. once molly, to return to democracy and the fight against terrorism in 2013 french forces repelled

on groups invading molly. almost 10 years on the security situation has deteriorated dramatically with thousands killed and millions displaced by the ongoing fighting and then largely low the sal region. the french military presence has been increasingly questioned and reviewed by molly. as military genta. last month, denmark withdrew around $100.00 soldiers deployed alongside french and international troops. after the miley and government said they hadn't been invited, the current situation requires a respect for commitment and dialogue under part of the manual authorities and a negative spiral in which they have engaged can only be detrimental to the stability of the man itself. but also to the region since colonel, i see mccoy turned launched to sequential cruise in 202-2021. relations with france have soured, as a military leaders established themselves and looked for allies to support their

rule. i said, beg, i'll jazeera, the european commission is being accused of what's been described as green washing because of its proposals to classify gas and nuclear investments. as sustainable over commission argues that gas and nuclear power plants can bridge the energy gap, while coal fired electricity stations as shut down. some countries say, investment should be directed towards cleaner and green energy, light, wind, and solar power. austria says it'll challenge the action in court where germany has long had a strong pro gas stance, but the pose is nuclear. dominic cane has more than that perspective from berlin. the issue here is that the commission has been trying to plot its way through to potentially very divergent roots that have being suggested to it. but like a tug of war between on the one side, the member states of the you who think that nuclear power does have a place in the future of engine energy generation. and then those who really don't

. and those who say will actually there is a place for natural gas and it pitts to on the one side, the french government of president mclaren, who says that there is this place for nuclear energy because it can be managed in small modular areas where the waste product can safely be stored and managed, and then the german side of things which and other member states who say natural gas is an answer. so in one sense, there is an argument that there is a little bit of what they want in this for everybody. and yet they are on the states such as the austrian sewer, so incense by this judgement. they say they're considering legal action because they don't believe nuclear power has a place. the interesting thing here in a sense of how can this be stopped if somebody wanted to, there are only 2 obvious routes. the 1st is if 20 member states out of the 27 e. u. member states were to flatly say no. the 2nd one would be if

a majority of the european parliament were to say no, well, we know that the green party has considerable representation in the european parliament. so it is going to be worth watching, how things in brussels and strasburg develop. but that's the sort of political significance of, of it as it stands right now. but frank, for it's part, says that nuclear energy is crucial to meeting climate targets. natasha butler has more from paris. the fact that the european union has added nuclear power to its green list for investment to me, energy sector is a big win for fraud, because the french government have been lobbying hard and long before nuclear to be included. now frances, on been a proponent of nuclear power, it derive 70 percent of its energy needs from nuclear. there are nearly 20 plus in the country and the french present to my new micro wants to build many more. now, micro argues that nuclear is much cleaner than fossil fuels. i can help your

opinion become more self reliant when it comes to energy for one analyst that i spoke to said in terms of energy footprint to you until you reach new climate goals . nuclear power is not a long term solution. it takes from 10 to 15 years to nuclear plants. so in the long run, you can argue that nuclear can be useful to strengthen your independence. but in the short term, what you need to do is rather invest in new in renewables and in energy efficiency . if you want to be independent and get rid of for instance, the russian gas think region of nuclear on the green list is certainly controversial. not all member states are on board, austria luxemburg, and germany for example, say that nuclear is potentially an environmental hazard, as well as nuclear natural gas has also been included on the list, but by germany in all this is infuriating environmentalists who cues the european union of not living up to its climate promises. one of the most remote parts of the

plan is, is proving to be a refuge against climate change for vast colonies of the penguins. research should say the number of penguins in the will see in antarctica has remained stable during the past decade. the target and be as mona, the will seen and talk to her is an icy wilderness home to the penguin and many other marine species. scientists from stony brook university in new york of travel to this remote area on a greenpeace expedition ship. the here to counter delhi penguins to understand how they and other marine species are coping with climate change. counting penguins is crucial because penguins are an excellent indicator species of the marine environment. they're much easier to monitor it than most marine species are because they messed on land and they're big, they're easy to spot. and so we count penguins to get a sense of how the marine ecosystem is doing. designed to say they count every

group of penguins by hand 3 times over to ensure there's only a 5 percent margin of error, where colon easily inaccessible roads are used to take ariel so then the results show penguin numbers have remained stable in this area in the last decade, scientists say it's evidence the weddell sea is a refuge against climate change across the western side of the well see, at all of the deli penguin colonies that we've visited, we've seen some pretty good evidence for stability in these populations. are quite exciting. on the other side of the antarctic peninsula, and all the penguin populations have really declined. so seeing, at least that's ability for now, means that it seems at least that climate change is, is moving a little more slowly in the what we'll see for these pieces, at least in 2018 the, you propose making the will see a no gazillion for industrial fishing, mining and deep sea drilling bought the initiative was blocked by russia and china

green p says the results of this, so they bolsters the case for creating a huge marine protected area. government have for the last 10 years, been talking about creating a marine protected area here and the well see this is just get more evidence of why that is so critical to protect places that are still really healthy habitats for amazing, wildlife light penguins. it's just another reason why government should be acting now to protect the weddell sea, while they still can. all this new found knowledge will be studied and compiled wants the expedition wraps up. research is hope it can be used to protect these unique waters and the wildlife, which lives in them. victoria gay to be al jazeera, where louisa castle leads the expedition at greenpeace. and she says it's vital that governments fulfill their promises. it's really significant to find out whether it's fail, holding up as a climate refuge. there are few places on our planet which have the kind of shelter

from the devastating impact of climate change. and just on the other side, at the end talk and, you know, we've been huge declines in penguin population. so we all really seeing that, that area on the front line. so the help to find the haven in there, whether that is slightly more buffered from the west impact is incredibly significant. and it really does get that, that signals the government protect the play while they have the chance to protect the system that it's healthy, that it's functioning well. so that penguins and whales can happen like as a, as a refuge for many years. and government departments to protect the percent of the wells ocean by 2030 and yet here in the park year, one year failing to protect like even places like the web we'll see which have such a clear k for protection. that's why we're calling on the few acts now, and also create a global ocean $33.00 at the united nation this year, which would give governments the tools to create a network of the factory across international waters. so that the wildlife that we

see here in the antarctic, which may migrate with thousands of miles, the humpback whales receive, reaching by the side of our ship, you know, travels to thousands of miles across the ocean, making sure they have the courage or of havens across the wells ocean so that we can help out and recover their help and build that ongoing resilience to the climate emergency is to lead hair al jazeera, washington's nfl football team has a new name that i will have all the details. ah.

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now the africa couple of nations and some you fall between sort of golden beginning for us is just minutes away. let's say girl to sarina. oh, thank you very much. all the senegalese, all aiming actually to reach their 2nd straight continental final as medical has never won the title, lost to our gerry or in the 2019 final but head in to wednesdays game on beats. and in 11th straight march is now live full sauce side. your money will lead the team who have full confidence. they say in their caps in you could it, this was going to buffalo. see more savvy out knows things that we don't, he somebody works a lot who makes us want to work. he also gives us a taste of the high level because when we see him working, we realize that we don't do enough and that maybe we should start to work harder. oh. well now to the ball cup, qualifying action from south america where brazil have ended paraguayan hopes of reaching cats out 2022. now they scored full goals in relo her is on say,

and it was felipe casino who got the peak as a bunch. definitely taking it was taking another look at the replay. there you go. real madrid strike o rodrigo also support his 1st since national goal to seal with when brazil have already qualified unbeaten in their 15 games so far. and as usual, looking like one of the favorites to win the world cup in december, well, origin seen are also already assured of a place and on now on beats and in $29.00 games they rested in elm se off to his recent bout with coven 19 but they still be columbia one nel, with the gold from midtown re martinez columbia hope so. all bus over often no scoring. and then last 7 quantifies or has a reminder of the top 4 qualifying automatically with a 5th place team heading to a playoff. it's currently ecuador and europe, why he was set to join brazil and argentina with for fighting off chil, a, columbia and bolivia. and there are 2 rounds of games left in march. moving on now

to more than a decade, the american football team based in washington has officially changed its name from a racist law. that's a means native americans and the team will now be known as the commanders. alan fisher puts on what that change means. we are the command and you name a fresh start for the american football team in washington. when the new season starts in august, the washington commanders will take the field in the traditional bargain doing gold . i think it's important to, you know, understand the old man was retired for particular reason. you know, i don't want to go into a name debate with people, but i'm happy that it's been retired and we're moving forward. it can represent so many different things, right? for the military, it's a very patriotic type of name, nothing patriot but patriotic name. and then for other people, you know, it's a positive work. it's been 18 months since the team dropped a name, which was demeaning for native americans and regarded as racist,

offensive and outdated. the t mono resisted coals from mirrors, senators, even presidents to change. you finally stepped on to the right side of history. when so the team's biggest financial backers said they were happy unless the money's talking, they're just not gonna care. so that's really where you have to hit on. i think that's a huge reason behind the change the campaign to change their name stretched over years with protest, boy courts and lobby, but many still see racist names and other cities and other sports and hope for change there too. i think it's hopefully can i just, again really be one of the greatest demonstrations yet that these name changes can be successful. right. they can be done on the and so really it's, it then turns the, the gays to teams like the kansas city chiefs and the atlanta braves. and you know, the still many schools across the country that still have races, sports mascots to say why night. why not?

you are why not what you know you need to be next. the time is now. i think a lot of it has to do with how far technology has grown. you know, even in the past 5 years, the big thing about technology and things like social media is that it's given more of a platform, tant weiss's are historically silenced. the washington organization has been played with problems off the field involving racism and massaging. i don't the field that hasn't won the biggest prize the super bowl in 30 years. the funds not to not mention dice here will be hoping the new name brings a change of fortune both on and off the field. allah fisher al jazeera, at the home of the washington commanders. well, anna fell stalls. parson present has been paying tribute to legendary quarterback tom brady. he's retired from the game, among them, another famous quarterback, peyton manning, who said it was an honor and privilege to compete against brady, the 7 times super bowl champion anson social media on cheese. they that he to end

his career after 20 t seasons. he won 6 of those titles with the new england patriots before leading the tampa bay buccaneers to the trophy in 2021. anna fell writes, and michael shots, he says, brady leaves avoid an nfl that be very hard to fill. when you start looking around who the best quarterback is right now, right now inside the nfl, you have to start checking. you know, is it aaron rogers or have aaron rogers who's, you know, likely back to back m b p winner or his skills on the decline as many people think the are and then you go to the guys like patch mahoney, josh allen, sort of the next crop of great nfl quarterback. so is it aaron rogers probably. um, but the fact that we're even asking the question is harking back to an arrow where you know it was kind of is brady or is manning the best right now? is it, is it drew brees, you know, as earthy a distant 3rd. now that, that is a fresh debate that we get to have because up until this moment it has been tom

brady for quite some time. the world's best women, ski jumper, will mister beijing olympic soft? failing to recover from coven 19 in time? marita kramer tested positive for the virus over the weekend and cannot travel to china. your strategy was g. it's compete her 1st winter olympics, but the women's normal hail competition on saturday is one of the 1st middle events at the games. kramer's $16.00 woke up events the season and leads the standings. meanwhile, the olympic torch read a kicked off with a low profile ceremony on wednesday morning. the public ross not to watch it in person because a strict pandemic rules among the a 135 torch bearer is in the morning relay. were china's festival champion in winter sports, a speed skater, who's now 80 and former, and be a start yao ming games again on friday, thought well, at least what for me for now, bobby, back later. sorry, great z a later. thank you very much indeed for that vibe. is it for this news?

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