0 ah, we're leaving eco friendly solutions to come back. dress to our planet on al jazeera. ah . the sun's troops to eastern europe as fairs grow. russia could invade ukraine, the kremlin calls the deployment destructive. ah. the horrible watching obs. 0 life my headquarters here and are also coming up reopening their borders. new zealand loosened some of the wells, toughest covert 19 restrictions perused. political crisis continues. the president swears in a new cabinet for the 3rd time in 6 months, and we are the command. washington's football team has

a new name after years of controversy. ah, welcome to the program. the military standoff over ukraine is escalating with the u . s. president, sending thousands of american troops to eastern europe, 2000 soldiers will had to poland and germany, while a 1000 more will be deployed in romania, the us and nato already have tens of thousands of troops in europe. the pentagon says they move since a strong signal to russia, which continues to deny its planning to evade ukraine. our white house correspondent, kimberly halgert has more after ramping up the possibility for weeks of a rush, an evasion of ukraine. the white house on wednesday, downgraded that threat from president vladimir putin saying an evasion is no longer

imminent. i use that once, i think others have used that once and then we stopped using it because i think it sent in a message that we weren't intending to send, which was that we knew that president couldn't have made a decision. still, the united states is sending more troops to eastern europe, with some of the forces will be reposition to romania. others will be coming from the united states to poland and germany. it's a response to president putin who has position tens of thousands of troops inside russia near ukraine's border. it's important that we send a strong signal to mister putin and frankly, to the world that nato matters to the united states. it made it matters to our allies and we have ironclad, oracle 5 commitments an attack on one is an attack on all the roughly $3000.00 troops will bulls through the nato presence in europe and are in addition to the $8500.00 us troops put on stand by last month,

by you as president joe biden. the united states maintains diplomacy is the best path to resolving security disagreements. russia, once assurances, nato will halt expansion into former soviet republics like ukraine. but the west won't provide that guarantee. instead, biden's promised severe consequences if whom in vain. he has shown no signs of being interested or willing to deescalate the attentions. the u. s. forces will reinforce nato, the eastern flag, working with host countries, as nato has not yet activated its response force to counter what it refers to as rush and aggression. i think there's an argument aspect to what they're doing, which is to put something on the table that can be taken away. a check if you will, in exchange for russian non aggression against you. great, despite no no russian threat and no signs of an eminent invasion of ukraine. the

pentagon says the movement of troops could begin soon, and there could be the possibility of even more true movements in the future. kimberly hell can al jazeera washington dust jabari house ball from oscar. we've been hearing from the russian deputy foreign, a secretary who said that this is a destructive step. alexandra goosgo has said that this is not really const conducive. and it just illustrates that the americans are trying to escalate the attention rather than trying to de escalate. we've also been hearing from an m p who is the deputy head of the foreign affairs committee here in duma. and he's been saying that said, this is an absolutely destructive step and that it's an action that can be qualified as an attempt to derail the negotiations that are ongoing about russia, security concerns. there is

a sense that the united states is really trying to corner russia into giving in, on their demands that they've been making from the u. s. government and nato, about the expansion of nato, as well as a, going back to the 1997 level of membership. the russian president vladimir putin said that they want to see that level of members, really because the numbers keep increasing and that is very much a security concern. charles capture and is a senior fellow of the council of far relations that he says the us wants to send a message to russia. i'm not surprised, this has been in the works now for a couple of weeks. i think there are 2 main goals from washington's perspective. one is to take a prudent step to reassure allies that the u. s. is going to defend them if they faced an attack. and keep in mind that both poland and romania have a border with ukraine. poland has a long border with bell roost, where the russians are building up force. and the other goal is to send

a message to put you want to play hardball, we're will play hardball, and you need to know that if you invade ukraine, you're going to find a lot more nato capability on the eastern flank along russia's western border. it's in addition to some forces that ended up in the baltic countries and in poland after the nato summit in 2016, a response to russian aggression in ukraine, the annexation of crimea, where it's a modest increase. and i think that's deliberate, because biden wants to send a signal of strength and reassurance, but he doesn't want to take a provocative move. so this is really a prudent move and intended to push back against russia. see if, if i can't convince them to go to the negotiating table, we're at a very critical stage right now. in the international diplomacy. though their reports, at least 8 people have been killed in the u. s. that operation, northern syria, is believed an al qaeda affiliate fighter was the target in the town of men in

italy, province homes in the rebel controlled area with damage. resident say they had shelling and gunfire. cro virus is killing americans at a far higher rate than people in other wealthy nations. now that's according to analysis by the new york times. a daily number of covey related deaths in the u. s . is at its highest level and always to get data from johns hopkins university shows a 39 percent increase in the past 2 weeks. now, a daily average of more than $2400.00 fatalities. the zealand diseases strict border controls impose any 2 years ago in response to the crone of iris pandemic, vaccinated new zealand as an australia will be allowed home without quarantine. for the end of this month, citizens returning from the rest of the world can come back from mid march. all travel restrictions will end in october. it's time to move again. and so today

in 5 steps, we move forward with our plan to reconnect new zealand to the world. beginning with step one. today i am announcing that the fully vaccinated k ways and other currently eligible travelers from australia will be able to travel to new zealand from 11 59 pm, sunday, 27 february. and instead of going into in my queue, will be able to south isolate. when hey, how's ball felicity of tauranga? from february the 28th, we will see vaccination, new zealanders who are in australia able to return to this country. and while they won't do the quarantine in a hotel room, which situation at the moment, they will still have to isolate at home at the moment that is 10 days self installation, it will come down pretty quickly to 7. and i think most people are expecting it to continue to drop away after that and the not too distant future 93 percent of the

population fully vaccinated and that is a population or vaccination of people are age 12 and over. so it's a large chunk of the population that is now fully vaccinated. the whole point of the elimination strategy from the government's point of view was to try to prevent people dying to save lives and also protect the health system. and since the pandemic began with only had $53.00 deaths and new zealand. so i think most people would agree that from that standpoint, the elimination strategy has been a success. but it had to come to an end at some stage, and while on the cron did see the border reopening delayed slightly. it also came with an acknowledgment from the government that because micron is so contagious that they could not keep it out forever and sure enough we've got community cases of, of, of the, on the cross very and in new zealand now. and soon that's going to be potentially hitting up into thousands of cases a day. so then you would have the situation of people going into quarantine hotels

healthy, fully vaccinated. while there are people in the community who are affected, the toner has gone into locked down after 5 at cove, at 19 cases reported in the capital, new cor loafer. in 48 hours. it's the 1st time the pacific island nation has imposed the measure. apart from one reported case, last october, toner has been virus free residents all struggling to recover from a volcanic eruption unseen army last month. bruce president besser kasteel, has re shuffled his cabinet after some of his closest allies resigned. the political crisis of frustrated peruvians with many, saying he's not fit for the job. marianna sanchez has more from the capital lima. what a for the o. c. hailey rescue. then bill august, the you're swearing a new cabinet. the 3rd in 6 months. the latest shakeup comes after the interior and prime ministers resigned this week. you could exclaimed cathedral only cross an

inner circle of advisors operating behind the scenes there not appointed ministers in this political crisis. shows corruption, former prime minister to vasquez, made serious accusations that the government is not fighting corruption. we have all our president questioned and it's generating an enormous mistrust towards the authorities. most of it was former practice or under investigation for corruption. the last presidential term was marked by a series of political crisis, but let the south american nation look for precedents in only 5 years. the attorney general denounced the free legal sponsorship and influence peddling. the farmer and union leader denies amy allegation. instead, he said he hasn't been trained to be precedents a critic say, that is unacceptable. you know, as you get this group,

he should be prepared and especially in such a dramatic situation with the health economic and labor crisis. peruse has regressed several points in its policy rights, and this is an element that is not for experiments. we need clear answers from our rulers. opinion polls say more than 60 percent a fool vents, discipline of this government. many peruvians see that gasdio has a credibility problem that he's not qualified for the job, and the country is a drift. former prime minister, mr. vasquez says that castillo could begin solving crucial issues by surrounding himself with competent people. the growing discontent appears to be overshadowing some of his achievements, like the fight against the coven. 19 demik, at least 80 percent of the target population has been vaccinated. at least once. we get it, we should change his mind immediately because he is runing everything economically . there are no jobs, no sales,

dental made it. he really does not deserve to be there. he's totally incapable. we prove that day by day is a shame. this person is the head of peru. lawmakers have to decide whether they will approve the new cabinet. but for now, many opponents say they are focusing instead in paving the way to work, change him. but diana santa, so just need not be too well still had her on al jazeera, be with sends military support to the united arab emirates after a string of attacks by who the rebels also the son of the late president said, and marcus is accused of riding a wave of misinformation in his bid for the philippines top job. ah, ah, look forward to burly to sky's the weather. sponsored my cattle airways. we haven't finished winter yet. once again,

the store systems developing the eastern mode. but before it comes in, there's a bit of an increase in the breeze and looks quite sandy. they'll be sandstorms in northern egypt, parts in saudi as well, is dry. otherwise the shamal is going to be lighter on its way down through the gulf temporarily. you know, that's gonna return, don't you? this is the picture on friday than the rains by this time reached, northern egypt is reached syria and lebanon. it's snow for turkey, but is tumbled back in the sunshine. the attempt is starting to rise. in fact, the system caused boots from west to east will be bringing snow once again to the matters of western iran, northern iraq, few showers, probably thunderstorms down in queue weight as well. beyond that, it's fairly dry. you'll see some snow in the fondles of pakistan. maybe afghans don't take either saturday. and that's the shamal. that always follows these cold spells quite a strong one. falling out into a sandstorm, the empty court on the you, a, maybe temps is dropping a little bit, but nothing like as cold, it has been the last week or so 24 and though ha, 19 q weight,

significant weather in southern africa. this from if is still the remains of anna, the last tropical cyclone in encouraging big chows in the southern kate, nissan cape. this, of course, a new storm on its way him for the weather sponsored by katara, always killing the debate they erased, out of like, people from the american and global story was very powerful. annette online at your voice. the comment section is whitehead killing our conversation. we are on protected when everyone is protected. it is not by being nationalistic about us. you just look at it in a very different way. say that perspective men and men meeting each other and you don't have any pollutant. let me get bigger clearly this analogy 0 lou .

the me talk about what you on there with me. so robert, reminder of our top stories. the us is deploying thousands of extra american troops . the eastern europe, the pentagon says the moose and a strong signal for russia, which is a massive troops that ukraine border. there are also reports of at least 8 people have been killed in the us that operation. nolan theory is believed, and i'll kind of affiliate find that was the target in italy problem. uneasy island is announced a phase reopening of its border. it been largely close for almost 2 years and some of the world. toughest corona virus restriction, the united arab emirates says it's destroyed 3 drones and entered it's as space on wednesday, the armed group, we at the what the heck said it launched the drones to target what it calls vital facilities. the group continues to say that it will continue to attack the us until

it stops interfering in yemen and iraq. the us to send the find to jensen was shipped to the us in response to those several attacks by who the rebels and yemen . the 3rd missile attack was accepted on monday, a as part of the saudi led coalition war in the m. and i'm at other top has more from demons, capital fellow. so far we haven't heard from the host these here that they have carried out any attack. and also we haven't spoken about this group or their involvement or any link to the to this group. so far, the host he's at this moment, i believe just still waiting for the united arab emirates to make it move to answer to their terms in order to stop their tags on the united states. as so far the calling on the united states to stop, it's

a vote to stop involvement in the solid quality and war in yemen and also to withdraw its forces and also to stop its financing or supporting any any well, the way the describe any military men on the ground in yemen so far the, this new newly imagined group which has declared themselves or ignited themselves a lot of the how and do so far, it is no relation or leading to the hoses. may be the from iraq walk through, responded to some low v as, as the to the sample size. and we increase in days, especially a few days ago big demonstration was held in iraq in support of, of the whole these and also v. m. and he's under the control of the hoses. so far, this newly emerging group has proven what the observers say that now

the, the conflict which is in yemen has started to, to, over to effect or to impact other countries in the region. below is the editor of arab digest. he says the recent attacks on the capital w or a worrying escalation. the escalation is working. i think very work for the u. e. because this is a country that prides itself in a neighbor that's very volatile of being a sea of stability that has lots and lots of tourists that has foreign businesses for flourishing there. some of these kinds of attacks are incredibly disturbing for them are on this group, this militia group that has claimed credit. i mean, they're tied very closely to his blog, which of course is linked very close to iran. so this ups the ante because the monday attacker who these took credit for and did the previous attacks going back

a couple of weeks, the ones in which there were a victim in that attack to be killed and several wounded duties took. again, we're prepared to stand up on those attacks. now this attack, that would be 7 claim. i would think that from the m a radi perspective, they must be feeling a bit of a cancer because they're who says that they'll hit them. now this group has an attempted to hit them and of course i think that there is a link to, to the chase to get away because talks are going on right now in vienna. and this will be a very unsettling one of the big issues for the gulf states in particular. the saudis and morality is the ballistic missile capabilities that the iranians have. they want that to be in the, in the j. c, p, a p. already that's hammered out that joe biden is really quite anxious to get back into. it looks like they're not going to get it. turkey and armenia resumed

commercial flights for the 1st time in 2 years. a plane took off from his stumble full yet and lay till wednesday evening night months. the 1st stage of normalizing relations between the neighbours. that relationship has long been strained because of mass killings of armenians. in the early 20th centuries. guinea besides government says 11 people are killed in tuesday's attack on the presidential election palace pub, me, it's been seen as an attempt to among the dead were full civilians, as well as members of the military present moto says to call on barlow to survive what he says was an attempt to kill him along with the prime minister and cabinet. now he believes the 5, our attack was linked to drug trafficking rather than a bit over throw him military leaders in became a facet lifted a nationwide curfew. it's been in place since they seized power just over a week ago. now the qu, leader, pool of lead amoeba has been appointed interim head of state,

asked at present or about a remains under house arrest. west african regional blog echo us suspended became defense they, when the qu happened, leaders from the group will meet and gone later to decide whether to impose sanctions on the military. and the address has more from across the cross i me to was initially call to address the unfolding situation in working possible. but 2 days before it started, we all saw what happened and how now a lot of people here believe that we may not have seen or heard the last of such a comes in west africa region that was notorious for cause in the past. now the question on everybody's lives, if, what, when, what stuff can lead us do to stop these attempts from recurring in the region? a lot of people say to little, because already these region is already fighting. so many players are the same time . and there is little appetite on the part of what stuff we can make to spend the

improves to try to rest power from soldiers who i'm constitutionally took away power from democratic electra civilians. and because this is because many of these countries are also battling to put out their own pies, the biggest contributor to any regional military build up nigeria is having to deal with its own problems. and you said you see in the north east of the country, a succession is movement in the south. it's of the country, banditry, kidnappings. and all these vice is happening all over with military currently engaged in at least $32.00 of us $36.00 states. now the last time we've seen such move was, like we said in the gambia, when yeah, general was forced to retreat and handle the power to democratically elected government. while these meeting this particular be to holding in across a lot of people will be watching closely to see what, what's african read lead us will do how far reaching or how far they're willing to go to take measures other than imposing sanctions, causing bonus,

cutting of economic aid to countries why, who have taken place so us to stop this from continuing in a region that was notorious for cause in the past. the philippines election commission is set to decide whether to buy the front runner, ferdinand markov junior from base presidential election. the son of the late lead a fed and marcos is popular amongst many voters to my own deck and has more from manila. this is the 22 year rule of president ferdinand marcus is seen to day as a brutal and divisive period. in philippine history. a people power revolution forced him out of office and into exile in 1986. but decades later, his son friend in and mark was junior and also known as bon bonded. is a front runner in this year's presidential election. my intention to run it may seem surprising to many, but the political resurgence of the marcus's didn't happen in an instant. oh,

experts see the marcus's have spent years using social media to rewrite history or say, online means like this. new zealand prime minister has since dar turn, breezing bomba. marcus, junior, or of the american basketball superstar michael jordan, receiving a box of bread from the late president, have dominated online chat groups. it's even said that the marcus's will give away tons of gold bars and other treasure. if bunk one becomes president treasure, that fact checkers and journalists say does not exist. but the story has already spread widely on social media, even after twitter announced last week that it has suspended hundreds of pro markers accounts. i think it's also important to configure the desperation of many

oracle happiness. oh, and that desperation, economic and social their needs. are. the pandemic has exacerbated that. and this is just the market of exploiting that desperation. making filipinos believe that there is a quick way out of poverty. al jazeera requested an interview with mr. mark. as his campaign team, there was no response. the market camp has repeatedly denied owning social get to farm. we know that so should be just very low verifiability. that will be one shining star and democracy in asia is now for the box lighting country. the philippines is the biggest facebook user, in se, asia, and the 6 in the world's researchers say, the higher populations exposure to social media, the higher it's beyond the ability to dis, information. this information they say has the power to obliterate the ability of

people to distinguish what is real and what is not. jamila dog and i'll 0. manila, 20 people have died. origin tina's capital to taking contaminated cocaine. more than 50 others have been admitted to hospital. now they are all reports again, cut the cocaine with a toxic substance to reduce costs. police have made dozens of arrests. large parts of haiti are still in the water after trenches rains on sundays. these 4 people have died. authorities are struggling to distribute drinking water and say some communities remain out of touch. thousands of homes have been damaged. at least 24 people are confirmed. have died in a landslide in ecuador capital kito. it happened on monday night. the city's mass, as 6 others are missing. the disaster was triggered by the heaviest rains and almost 20 years. after more than a decade, the nfl team the washington redskins as officially changed its name to commanders.

for years the team had been criticized for using a name that seen as derogatory towards native americans. alan fisher house the story. we are a new 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 burgundy in gold. i think it's important to, you know, understand of the old mammals retired for particular reason. you know, i don't want to get into a name debate with people, but i am 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 favorites, but pediatric name and then for other people, you know, it's a positive work. it's been 18 months since a team dropped a name, which was demeaning for native americans and regarded as racist. offensive and outdated. the team on a resisted coles from mirrors. senators, even presidents to change. he finally stepped on to the right side of history. when

some of the teams, biggest financial backers said they were, i'm happy unless the money's talking, they're just not gonna care. so that's really where you have to hit and i think that's a huge reason behind the change the campaign to change their name stretched over years with protests, boy courts and lobbying, but many still c racist names and other cities and other sports and hope for change there too, i think it's hopefully going. 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 then turns in the gays to d. r teams like the kansas city chiefs and the atlanta braves. and you know, there's still many schools across the country that still have races, sports mascot to say, why not? 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 ground, 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 chat weiss's are historically silenced the washington organization has been played with problems off the field involving racism and massage it a i don't the field that has one the biggest prize, the super bowl in 30 years. the funds snatching up merchandise 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, ah, your children there with me said robin. a reminder of all top news stories, the u. s. is deploying thousands of extra american troops. the eastern europe, the pentagon says the move since a strong signal to russia, which is massing forces at the border with ukraine. we do not know if russia has made.