all right, well this will certainly come on the heels of news that there was a strike in syria. one that we know many people wondered why in fact the united states was still even there, or why the u. s. president continued the trump, or a policy of keeping troops in syria given the fact that they had been asked to leave by not only syria, but the kurds themselves. and so there is no question that the u. s. president will have some questions to answer, but certainly we're getting some clarity now. but why the united states was there obviously that the leader of isis was killed. and also, just to carry on this statement from the president is last night at my direction, the u. s. military forces in the north west of syria successfully undertook a counter terrorism operation to protect the american people and our allies to make the world

a safer place. thanks to the skill and bravery of our armed forces. we have taken off the battlefield, the head of ice is the leader of isis, or i sole, all americans have returned safely from the operation. i will deliver remarks to the american people later this morning. may god protect our troops. now i can tell you in terms of the president schedule, that the president is scheduled to travel to new york city where he will be not only attending a per breakfast, he'll also be talking about crime. in fact, i passed the president's motorcade as he was headed to joint base andrews for that trip. so already he is juggling a number of stories that he is going to have to be addressing. but also in the midst of this, not only is he going to have to talk about the tactical operation, but also we understand the casualties that were involved and some of the collateral damage in terms of the fact that there may be innocent civilians, even children. that were taken out in this operations,

so some tough question that are going to have to be answered and it harkens back again to some of the dead attacks and the messy operations that occurred in afghanistan, that the president is still reeling from. you'll remember the attack on the aid worker that really the united states. in that withdrawal i really just apologized for, but there was really no accountability. and so they're going to be questions about that yet again. and as a result of this is going to be something that, well, the u. s. may be congratulating itself there are going to be some detail questions that are going to have to be asked. and one of the things that we know from the past when it comes to dealing with the leadership of iso, particularly, is that the nature of the organization is very fragmented. just because the u. s. has been able to or has claimed to have targeted and been able to kill this particular individual. that doesn't necessarily mean that there's going to be a knock on effect or

a ripple effect across isolate self doesn't well, you are absolutely right. it's a, it's a fragmented organization that has many tentacles, so even if the head is taken out, there are many commanders underneath that will still be able to not only carry out the logistics, but also the ideology. and so the united states may feel that it is one, some sort of tactical victory, but the ideological victory in many ways may be harder to fight. as a result, in many ways, sometimes the, this only intensifies of fighters determination to press on even more. and so this is often something that the west doesn't understand, and this is certainly going to complicate matters further for the united states. we should point out for a united states military, that is

a battle weary has been through a generation of war in afghanistan. does not really have the support of the american public anymore, and it is very different than it was say after the september 11th attacks. now, questions why there are these prolonged wars and this military war machine that seems to be not always in the ordinary americans, best interest. kimberly, thank you very much indeed. that's kimberly hawk at our white house correspondent. i want to go too soon. of course, you know, who's talking to us from new symbol system, or more to we know about the attack itself. waller up, we know that the attack before the attack, the u. s. officials informed the turkish side, turkish officials that they would be conducting a counter terrorism operation in utmost a border at 10 town or by the a turkey turkey syria border out mays. the is like the giant at it,

it 10th city. it, let me say because many of the id piece or hundreds of thousands of id piece have been living since the civil war erupted and syria and, and there are always repercussions like that. there are cells or who are fleeing from inside it lip and it taking refuge in those camps. so from time to time, we heard the u. s. conduct a similar operations. we know that the operations are ended around 132 a m air last night. a, as the civil defense, a reported there are 13 casualties, civilian casualties it because of this attack. but our local sources confirm a us that it among those 13 casualties. 6, our children for our women and 3 are men. also local sources, especially the ones who want, who reside in the area. tell us that the u. s. a officer, they do

u. s. military actually 1st called on the targets to evacuate the building. and they, they, they'd repeated that goal for several times. so as they were telling us that maybe the u. s. officials were actually in the u. s. military was planning to capture the target alive, but apparently a cell was targeted. this is what many experts and a local sources have been telling us. and we will need to hear more from the u. s. president joe biden about the other details of the operation. but this is what i can tell you from our local sources for now. and cinema. it is interesting, isn't it? there to, is being reported. and you asked me to quoting the pentagon, that as you say there, that the military helicopters were broadcasting a message in arabic to the people within the house. and this does follow a succession of drawn attacks in which the u. s. a has been accused of killing innocent civilians during those unmanned drawn attacks. the suggestion might be

that it's changing its tactics to try to limit the number of civilian casualties. oh, well, definite as this is what is pursued by the locals as well when i speak to them air . but i also heard or from the turkish of earth, security a sources along with the local sources in ed lived that that was a very white scale operation. and it just, let's remember that a, when a, when the military, sorry, it's such a sells it, they pinpoint that this is a single target operation. but in these kinds of cells also hold that clause by area a close by building. so if a cell is located out in one building and they usually take air the a, the surrounding 2 or other 3 buildings as well. so that no one knows where, where they are residing. but of course, the situation in atlanta is very different than when people are,

were taking refuge under the olive trees this at 2 years ago during the irish and bombardments in ed live. but ah, as i said, when they heard the u. s. a calling god that the u. s. military calling gone for evacuation. the locals at 1st thought that they were trying to get the target alive, but also among the locals. there are some other rumors, ella, or some say that there, there was also woman target ad that was chased by the united states. but of course, all these are information repercussions that we get from the local sources. we don't know what which of these lines are going to be confirmed in the further statement or of the u. s. president joe biden air, but there are 6 children for women, and 3 men who have been killed during this attack. this is, ah, the ugly truth of the counter terrorism operation. center costello talking to us from is stumbles and am thank you very much indeed. i want to bring in our so our

sheriff is a new university teacher in international relations, politics and history of law for a university. he served earlier with the euclid military and served in iraq and afghanistan is joining us by skype for london. good to have you weather sir and al jazeera. and the point that our correspondence were, were making earlier on the u. s. is gonna have to answer some questions about why it was having troops and heavy equipment inside syria in order to be able to carry out this at a targeted attack was as i think, one of your correspondents. i suggested that to one of the reasons for sending in troops robin then carrying out drone strikes was, would have been to, to reduce the likelihood of innocent casualties. and in that respect, i think the us is showing an uncharacteristically high degree of

risk for its own personnel, because in the recent past, it's chosen to transfer the risk to the, in a sense, living around the target areas. now, of course, despite having sent troops on the ground to take out this high value target, a man believe to be the current leader of isis is as, as is being pointed out by saying i'm just a few seconds ago. the tragedy that 6 children who all by definition, innocent, and several adults both male and female have died. now of course, we don't know whether they were killed by the american action directly. oh, they were killed by some individuals within the building who led the suicide best and decided to make a monitor all not just of them selves,

but also the families involved. and so we don't know the details yet, but it is a worrying situation in new york city. right? people would quite rightly want to have detailed ounces in justifications by the, the, from the government. what kind of impact do you think this is going to have on the view of the united states by syrians? well, i think it's all going to have a positive impact. i think the problem that the united states has a really come to terms with is that even though we use it doing the right thing, by attacking these terrorists who everybody decides, agrees all the people that need to be got rid of one way or another. the problem is, is that the, the creation of these terrorists is primarily the result of the super powers, the united states. and of course, russia, in the past,

a creation on government spaces destroying, effective governments. allowing these terrorist organizations to flourish. the taliban came into existence and indeed all kinds of off to the soviet invasion by the u. s. that created this sort of a govern space for them to come into existence. and of course they wouldn't. there wasn't really any terrorist organization operating in iraq and it was the destruction of the iraqi regime that's allowed a successes and indeed isis to develop. and i'm pretty certain if the syrian regime had full territorial control as it did over a decade ago, we wouldn't be experiencing these problems. and so i think the practical successes, but a lot of it is being taken out. i'll back that is being taken out by the americans

and now we have this very spectacular tactical success. those can be continued, but we don't want to be here in 10 years time talking about yes, another raid killing yet another leader. i think we need to understand the political challenge of counter terrorism and create the conditions on the ground where the local people see all dead. oh, forces that represent them are establishing security as indeed they did a few decades ago. as i was just talking to with our correspondent, kimberly harker of one of the things that we didn't know about isolate that it is essentially fragmented, that tends to work on a cellular operation. it does a targeting an individual like this towards the top of the organization in this case said to be the leader of the whole organization. does that actually make any difference in terms of the effectiveness of iso? yes, you can do and you can go both ways are very much depends on the individual you've

taken out and the individuals that are likely to replace them. for example, when the coffee was taken out of the salvos, a blood thirsty individual, but organizationally and strategically, he was not very confident. and it appears that a leader such as well by dowdy who replaced him, will fall strategically competent and therefore able to grow the organization. so very much see who replaces this individual but you're. ready absolutely right. on the situation we have out there is that we've got several branches now, all vices operating, semi autonomously, effectively autonomously. we've got several branches of all kinds of jobs. those moves for factions in and indeed my own research, which is involved interviewing prisoners both from ices and i'll kind of it from

central asia is clear that there is a massively brutal in fighting between these organizations. in the many ways it's better to allow them to continue to fight each other rather than fighting innocence and projecting their they, tara brought. so what we have is an increasingly fragmented a number of groups. all of them have their own agenda and they're in capabilities. and it's much more difficult to keep track of them. and certainly it was a lot easier when we had been logged in. and i'm, and i was, well, hi, re running the whole if you like, terrorist out i nearly a decade and a half ago. so you do complicate the situation by taking these people out of our shop. we appreciate as always your opinions and this. thank you very much and did so thank you. pleasure anymore. had on the news i, including i'm rob reynolds on the shore of the salton sea. in california and

beneath our feet here is a treasure trove of lithium, the mineral that will fuel the clean energy revolution. and senegal seal their place and the final of the africa combinations. joe's going to have the details in this ford ah, in the latest diplomatic effort to ease fears of a russian invasion and ukraine turkey's president is in give for talks with president vladimir zelinski. turkey has good relations with both countries and hopes to act as a mediator. moscow's condemned the u. s. decision to send more troops to eastern europe, and nato says the kremlin moved 30000 troops and weapons to bellows over the last few days, dosage about his standing by and moscow. first, let's go to hodder at the hamid for the latest, from kia hot out. so turkey's president is going to be talking to ukraine's

president, what does he hope to achieve? well, turkey has been very clear in his position from the beginning. i mean, it didn't say that it thought that it would be very unwise from russia choose is to provoke any kind of escalation or indeed to invade ukraine. but also turkey is in a difficult position because it wants to keep its good relations with the russian. it wants to keep its good relations with ukraine, actually, president resident deborah or an enter one has what has been pitching himself as a major inviting both president vladimir zalinski of ukraine and vladimir putin to anchor are 4 talks that hasn't happened yet. now he is here in camp. he has been received in our gran pump. we saw him on the red carpet, was president the landscape then his 1st public, whereas were released lava. oh,

great anna. so clearly showing his support to ukraine's lover ukraine means glory to ukraine. ah, there's a lot on the agenda part is crisis is a lot of bir, bilateral affairs to be sorted at the trade volume between the 2 countries has reached $7500000000.00 and as far as she and is about 2000000 the ukrainians who visited turkey last year, during the pandemic, as, as curious and so as a great deal of income for turkey. and then there's also all these defense agreements that they have. a turkey has provided ukraine with their by rec, died drones back in 2019. now those drugs were used during dinner, gordon, or caraballo war and gave the military edge to us air by john over our mean as are those drawers have been tested already and approved to be very efficient at the moment the is a deal between the 2 countries were whereas turkey provides the out

a shell, and the end of those jones are produced gen give, now there's supposed to be signing probably as we speak now, because we did see his convoy in the street going fell out from the presidential palace. he was supposed to go to the hi as strategic counsel of that deal would provide actually ukraine with improve drones, a better a higher quality of drones. and that should be produced here in ukraine. so there's a lot going on between these 2 countries. and in the end, cherokee is a nato member id to the 2nd largest army of nato. it is also on the baltic sea, so it does have certain things. it has to is certain agreements. it has to respect that in case that see, is used by either ne to or russia is a very complicated situation for jerky. really, at the end of the day,

he's going to try to keep try to be keep level headed between the 2 sides. and in the meantime, of course, the u. s. and some natal members continue to supply weapons and other and supplies and back up to ukraine. yes, absolutely. and actually today, a few hours ago to sevens, batch of the $200000000.00 defense eggs packaged and the u. s. has provided lately, ukraine has arrived. this time they were, i mean niches for rocket launchers, about 80 ton of that last week, or as of last week actually 500 tons of i mean mission had already arrived in to couches or you can see the amount of aid that keeps on pouring into your ukraine now, everybody says that this is only for defensive reasons, not for any kind of offensive operation. i am president zelinski sees the idea of

having a better trained, a better equipped military as a deterrence. he says, that's the only way for ukraine to stand on his 2 feet and to be able to keep the piece as he put it, but certainly with each other each load of o cargo of equipment coming here of weapons coming here. well, the reaction on the other side in russia is totally different. russia is saying that those are provocative acts. so certainly on one side, you see them a feeling stronger, but on the other side, it does not solve the situation when it does not help the crisis de escalate. auto thanks very much. indeed. hot out the honey talking to some of the ukrainian capital, kia, let's bring an door such a body, who's lifers, and moscow. how is moscow going to be reacting to president? are the ones visit we heard from harder? they're saying that the president out of one is walking a fairly difficult,

tight road between the 2 countries. well, it's interesting because we just heard from the kremlin today that vladimir putin will be visiting a turkey at some point later in february. we still don't have a firm dates, but it appears that the russian president will make the trip to meet with the turkish president at some point this month. and of course they will have a lot to discuss. so i think given the current climate, it will be timely for vladimir, put in to see what he can get from the turkish president. terms of some kind of understanding about the security guarantees that russia's looking for. but we've also been hearing from officials here about reaction to the u. s. troop announcements that was made in washington on wednesday. we heard from the deputy foreign minister, alexander grew sco, who said that this is certainly a destructive step and that intent, this is the move by the u. s. government only intensifies the military tensions.

and of course, we've also been hearing from the nato secretary general yonce dalton berg, who said that there was now through $30000.00 russian troops that have been deployed to the northern country of bela bruce at that is, of course, because russia in belarus will be holding a 10 day military joint drill called ally resolve as of february 10th. they will start that exercise and it will be important to point out that 2000 nearly 2000 of those u. s. troops that will be re deployed will be heading to poland. that is a country that of course, shares a border with bell roofs and we've been hearing from the russian defense minister, who is in minsk, meeting with the bell. russian president, alexander lucas jenko, and the 2 men have been discussing further cooperation when it comes to their militaries. and according to the president of beller, bruce, there will be 20 military exercises that will be held in the year 2022 between russia and belarus. so there's certainly going to be an increase cooperation

between those 2 come reason and the nato secretary general saying this is the biggest military deployment that we've seen around from russia. and since the cold war ended. and this is something that is of concern for nato forces, but of course, this is something russia announced weeks ago and they've been moving military hardware and personnel to carry out these drills for weeks now. so it's not anything new on this end. but for the time being, the feeling here is from the kremlin and officials that as the latest moves by the u. s. government. and of course, now the comments from nato is not conducive to what everybody's trying to achieve. and that is to continue with this diplomatic process and to try to deescalate the current situation door. so thank you very much indeed. dasa jabari in moscow. and i understand that there's going to be a press conference between president vladimir zalinski of ukraine and also prisoners. i should tell you about one of turkey that's expected to start possibly within the next 6 minutes or so. so we'll bring that to you as soon as it begins.

but let's move on. let's talk to her. i'll just hear the senior political analyst more. one bush auto, he's joining us on skype from a post. good to have you whether we were with us mormon. i want to talk to you about the troop movements that the u. s. has been making around about around europe . nobody actually knows what president brookins and game is in, in the, and all of this. is there a risk? do you think that by sending these troops in and by arming our troops within you, ukraine, that you as president, you're biting, might actually end up forcing president putin, into a corner from which the only response is actually some sort of military action. yes, that'd be alarming. tonight is that by the does bush person put an end to corner a dangerous corner whereby the russian person would have to act because of the accumulation of assets natural

or bad, approaching russia and its facets close by in so many ways you could see that we are at the cost of a 2nd cold war talking about war a few months now a couple years. but i really see it coming and i see the pretext of ukraine being one whereby the russians are actually, we organizing alliances. the americans are the organizing lines. it's been a way that the symbols, the old war. busy so ne, to the head and he said, you're all be at the american's upset them be extended. so since, since the last couple decades, all the way to almost ukraine. but russia is reorganizing itself with most respect to spend on other countries in a way that some say it is more of a soldier towards this,

the old good that we're all so that you have it may, it's a very dangerous situation. you could control and none of us really, i mean, we in the mean that we tried to cover the story escalate, but you know, we asked them the question is, why, why and how did we get here? why is friends? but why did, insisting that russia once for one person with an insists, that's why and why, if frustrating be, is about ukraine, why isn't there talking to the president? it must be urgent for him to do so. because another war in europe would be devastating not to steal, but he was about to cations. we're looking at the situation at the moment between the u. s. nato and russia, essentially western european countries. let's talk about what's happening towards

the east. what is the possibility? wonder consequences of this would be to strengthen ties between, say, russia and china. and i would china and north korea, for example, who have amnesty towards the u. s. to a degree in a variety of different levels. how are they going to be watching all of this? yes, this is probably the most important question, and i think you could say that china is the prince in the war room. if you will. order has been an approach for the last year on the washington to show to try and couldn't 10, both rising china and russia or a certain time which for to be sounds like was an impossible task. these are all superpower nuclear. so they are very, quite, quite rooted within their neighborhood. and they do have

a mission and social support. america just got out humiliated for me again this time iraq to try to continue to try this dual containment of gene and moscow seems like an impossible task. and that, unfortunately for washington is bringing moscow and beijing closer together, perhaps more than ever before. and the next meeting, tomorrow i would say between 210. and she's being going to be key in that direction and probably will inform us a lot about the russia next steps. so why the united states did something similar against iraq and iran that will contain in the book that also includes korea. but today to confront china, russia, korea, or to say, why the united states is fitting it's form problems internally. it's all problems will do with the alliance problems with and so,

so forth is quite remarkable on the part of the, by the message. and that's why i think it could, it could be dish dorski and it could be 2 requests. because moving forward, there are the rushing but chinese might start having, you know, how did you going to need to move forward if somebody can use to in but the expansion of american allies in asia and europe with a frenzy stuff a was coming. i guess you can a water coming against i want so, so forth, because that's the one alarm, not much about the dirt, it's more of a hype that's actually on the, on the consequences. while i'm, thank you very much indeed that small shot. i'll just get a senior political analyst. ok, let's go back to our main story. us special forces announcing they've killed him off. she me all korea, she's the leader of iso,

was bringing our white house correspondent. kimberly hall. what more do we know about what's going on? kimberly, well, we can tell you that the white house has issued a statement, the president of the united states, sending out an extensive statement, but also tweeting, i know you have that tweet if you want to pull it up, i can read it along with you. i says that last night, at my direction, the u. s. military forces in northwest syria successfully undertook a counter terrorism operation to protect the american people and our allies to make the world a safer place. thanks to the skill and bravery of our armed forces. we have taken off the battlefield, the name of the leader of iso, and then a little bit more that isn't in the tweets. that is in my statement is all americans have returned safely from the operation. i will deliver remarks to the american people later this morning. may god protect our troops. now we're getting a bit more information. we believe that the u. s. president is set to return to the

white house from a prayer breakfast he is attending up on capitol hill. and that is when he will make those remarks. we're not exactly sure the precise time it could be. i'm looking at my watch in about an hour's time. but again, these are very rough estimates. now also looking at that statement, you'll know that it says that the, they're all the americans are special forces that were in this operation have returned safely. that's not true of the civilians on the ground. in fact, we know that there were casualties and we're hearing that at least 13 children could have been what the military calls collateral damage in this operation. so they're going to be some questions the president's going to have to answer with regard to that. why this was not a more precise and surgical targeted operation. why innocent victims were part of this operation? and this is a president who still having to answer questions about the messy withdrawal from

afghanistan and the fact that innocent people were killed in that withdrawal. so the americans are not really in a mood and don't have the appetite for war as they might have 20 years ago. it's about the same sort of ra mentality that we saw after september 11th. and so this is the president that may be met with a different tone and tenor from the voting public than say, we would have seen george w bush after this type of an operation. and so it'll be interesting to see what the u. s. president has to say when he makes those remarks. the other point that i think is important to note here is that of the fact that the united states is even still operating in syria, i think will be of the surprise to many americans. and they were under the impression under donald trump, george, or rather our joe, by his predecessor, george, joe biden's, predecessor,

that the most of the us troops had withdrawn. and so the fact that this operation has been conducted will be a bit of a surprise and be a lot of americans really say, why was this even happening? so there's going to be a little bit of frustration, a little bit of irritation, and some questions are going to have to bend, and there's going to have to be some explanation. and so will be watching very carefully to see what you as president joe biden has to say in the coming hour or so with regard to this operation. kimberly, as you mentioned before, the u. s. military had been criticized for it's joan attacks, which had resulted in civilian civilian casualties. this one, as you were talking about as a hearing also from our correspondence. and of course he, although basten is stumble, but this is a different nature. this was the helicopters going in this was, we understand or is being reported that they were broadcasting warnings to the people in the targeted house to, to evacuate the house and so on. it sounds as though there has been some sort of

effort to try to minimize the, the number of civilians civilian casualties. but as you are saying, whatever effort might have been has not been successful. i think that the american public is more sophisticated now and recognizes that warfare is also more sophisticated now, and they don't have the same tolerance for these types of excuses from their leaders that they had in the past. you'll recall the strike on that aid worker that they were told was a so called terrorist ended up being an aide worker in afghanistan, delivering water. and the military basically just said, oh, sorry about that. that didn't sit well with the american public. and in other words, a, the u. s. military murdered with impunity. and the u. s. public knows that this is what goes on and it's not acceptable to a growing number of americans, especially as the voting public becomes younger and better educated. and so

increasingly there is less tolerance for this and you're seeing that reflected at the, the voting booth with each successive election. and so with respect to this latest case, the military may make the argument that they did these broadcasts and that they warned people. but do how, how a young child may not even be able to understand the broadcast and have the ability to comprehend the danger that's in front of them. so is that even sufficient? and those are the questions that the u. s. military is likely to be asked and whether they have a sufficient answer, i will be met with some skepticism in the eyes of not only americans, but around the world. you're kimberly, thank you very much overseas you mentioned we're going to be waiting for president barton to make those comments in about an hour's time or less than that on or off to release that national prayer breakfast. but for nar, kimberly, thank you very much. indeed. the tony's only 2 winter olympics open in beijing on

friday, organizers say use of preparations are complete, but the lead up to the games as being far from straight forward corona virus infections are increasing both inside and outside olympic venues that as katrina, you reports from the capital, china's facing diplomatic boycotts because of human rights abuses and restrictions on freedom. ah theme song, welcoming the world to watch the 2022 winter games, while the olympic torch makes its way through bay jake. china has promised to deliver a safe and splendid global event to sell, but achieving this is it going to be easily mo, from a nation wide outbreak of curve at 19 and record cases abroad. a testing it's 0 tolerance. pandemic strategy. participants are greeted with help is it has map suits and must undergo a rigorous testing rating before and during the event though it's found to be

positive or immediately quarantined and could miss out on competing. there's been a lot of athletes that are testing positive right now. and it's scary because you put in for years since the last games you know, johnny put in 20 or years to get years and for all of that to go to waste in the last week last couple days it would be a tragedy. and so that's always kind of on your mind and it is stressful tickets won't be sold to the chinese public. instead, spectators will be hand picked by authorities. this will be the 2nd olympics to take place during the grown of iris pandemic. but ms is here a much stricter than during the tokyo games. participants are sealed off in a closed loop system. the road lane just below me is restricted and gains vehicles only, and local residents have been warned to stay away, even in the event of a crash break down. heavy handed measures have led to an olympic atmosphere unlike

any other. but for beijing that message is clear. there's not going to be the great crap crouch, you're not going to have the tourism boast. ah, that would have accompanied something like this. and so for beijing, what they want to show the world is that they're able to carry on regardless of how difficult situations become. difficulties also include crit, ism of china's human rights record, and diplomatic boycotts by the united states and canada. britain and australia. chinese officials have dismissed this as political grandstanding, but analysts say china's president is eager to avoid further embarrassment during the event. if he does not get the game happening as expected, then it will be quite a bit of a slap in the face is not a, a fatal punch in any sentence. but he will be very embarrassing for she. jim pain, chinese rights activists living in the capitol say they've been visited by

authorities and want to stay silent during the olympics. within the bubble, the i oversee says, athletes are free to express their views outside of formal events or ceremonies. but organizers say, those who break chinese laws with behavior or speech that is against the olympic spirit will face certain punishment. katrina, you al jazeera, they ting. new zealand is easing strengths. border controls, imposed nearly 2 years ago in response to the pandemic in the initial stage. of a phase reopening vaccinated, new zealanders in australia will be allowed home without having to quarantine from the end of this month. when, hey, as this report for almost 2 years, new zealand has been largely shut off from the rest of the world. tight border restrictions have seen it control the spread of coven 19 better than most countries, with only 53 deaths from the virus. and now with the army kron variant, already circulating here,

the government feels the time is right to open up the was life before. and now life with covered bed, that also means there will be life after covered to a life where we have adapted where we have some no melody back from the end of february, fully vaccinated, new zealanders will be able to return from australia without having to quarantine soon after, it will be extended to new zealanders and other countries and to all visitors by october, key to this decision was the vaccination rate, which is recovered from a very slow start. more than 93 percent of the eligible population is now fully vaccinated. and the minimum time between the 2nd and 3rd doses has been shortened to 3 months. the government was also coming under increasing pressure politically, economically and legally to open the border. thousands of diesel and is, are stuck overseas unable to return home because there aren't enough quarantine or m i q hotel rooms and some

a taking the government to court. it's easy to hear the word in my queue and immediately associate it with headache. there is no question that for new zealand, it has been one of the hardest parts of the panty mac. but the reason that it is right up there is one of the toughest things we have experienced is in pad. because large scow, loss of life is not at this stage, quarantine will be replaced by home isolation for 10 days, which is expected to be shortened to 7, possibly fewer in the months ahead. wayne, hey, al jazeera towed on new zealand. the dog maker, madonna, has launched trials for the 1st over h i v vaccine using the same technology developed for their coven. 19 job. that is 7000000 people worldwide are affected by h. i. v and aids. despite decades of research and trials, the still no effective vaccine because the virus is so complex. madonna's new m r n . a vaccine teaches the body how to make proteins that trigger and immune response

against the fast mutating virus. the charles, using antigens that triggered a successful immune response in previous tests. it's hoped m r n a could be the key to making rapid progress towards a new vaccine. jeffrey lazarus as head of the health systems research group at the barcelona institute for global health. he told us more above the initial stages of these vaccine trials. this is a phase one trial. so this is the earliest stage after proof of concept, the 1st few people received from the vaccine just a couple of days ago. so this will be a multi year process, but given again the rapid success with them, the coven, 19 vaccines using m r and a technology. and that after 30 years, we had a malaria vaccine approved last year for the 1st time. obviously expectations are going to be very high. what we know is that the emerson, a technology was not both frankly, very well thought of or successful until the curb 1900 vaccine. so, so now that we've seen that, that technology can work there,

madana and pfizer actually going to be trying to develop more than 20 different vaccines. there's been so much attention given to h. i v. aids in recent years, both in terms of vaccines and treatments and issues related now to quality of life that you know that the focus on an h i. v vaccine is definitely going to capture the world's attention. and i think everyone in the field in another fields will be closely watching on as the phase one trial progresses and hopefully moves to phase 2 and phase 3 trials. because h a v vaccines have been failing for over 2 decades. i remember being at the aides conference in 2008 when we expected a vaccine to be successful and again, it failed. so given the success of the m r n, a vaccines against cove at 19, this is, this is fantastic news. lithium is a key element in the fight to slow global warming. it's used in batteries,

the power electric vehicles, which policy makers around the world hope will soon replace fossil fuel burning cars and trucks. rob reynolds reports my california community at the center of the race for lithium. california's salton sea shimmers like a mirage in an arid land, but its waters are nearly lifeless, full of salt and agricultural chemical run off the farm. and communities near the sea are among the poorest in the us, with high unemployment and nearly one and 4 people living in poverty. frank salazar is a local resident and activist what we lack is opportunity. you know, i think opportunity is what we need here in this, in this county. the salton sea is shrinking as streams are diverted to farming on windy days, toxic dust from the dry lake shore fowls, the air. when you look at the asthma levels of our local children, when you look at the cancer levels of our local residence there through the roof, but far below the seas, flor lies

a vast reservoir of super heated water rich in lithium. the element used to create batteries for electric vehicles and a key to slowing global warming. we have what some of described as a saudi arabia of lithium here in the state of california. the stakes are high, not only for the regions, future prosperity, but for us national security. the u. s. wants a domestic supply of lithium today. more than 80 percent of all, lithium is mind in australia, chile, and china. but the salt and seas, treasure trove of the mineral, could change those numbers dramatically. we expect to produce about a 3rd level in from this site. it's incredible. resource companies are already drilling what you say in the background. there are 2 production wells full diamond wells that will produce enormous amounts of ron to fade the plant that which will be located. he state and local officials envision

a lithium based industrial complex with battery factories and electric car manufacturing, while pain job with benefits that currently are in here in imperial county salivate . when i think about it 510 years down the road, how big it can be? conservationists like aileen anderson, approve of the environmentally friendly extraction process, powered by geothermal energy. they hope lithium projects will generate funds to restore the salt and see which is a crucial stop over point for migrating birds. and she's looking at the big picture . if we're gonna transition to clean energy and get off our fossil fuel induction, the fans going to being key component hope for a region down on its look, and a planet heating up. rob reynolds al jazeera imperial california still had on al jazeera the winter olympics officially sought on friday, but the counting action is already on the way in beijing is coming over jones board

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ah ah ah. time for the sport. here's joe rob. thank you very much. we'll have still one day to go before starts of the winter olympics in beijing, but some of the events have already begun. the mixed doubles. curling competition is underway at the national aquatic center, with a very small domestic crown because of coven 19 restrictions. but those supporters were able to cheer on china's 1st competitors in the games. so young and see who won that opening match. but it wasn't a great day for the hosting the women's ice hockey,

which also got an underway on thursday. china were beaten 31 by the check republic . we mall that with a big hit. that 2018 silver medalists, canada, switzerland in that match. and it was the canadians who won that one convincingly 12 goals to one. it all gets on the way for rail on friday with aging set to be the 1st city to ever host the summer and winter games. you know, pick talks, relay continues, having stopped off at the great wall of china, making its way to the opening ceremony. the birds nest stadium, which was the venue for the 2000 and late summer olympics. but these games have been controversial since paging one, the hosting right back in 2015. i've been hit by a diplomatic boycott from several countries, including the u. s. person al strayer. over china's human rights record. athletes are allowed to express their views, but not in the field of play or on podiums. thomas by the president of the international and the committee once the sport to say separate from politics. we

are writing a new check. in sporting history, we can only accomplish these mission. it was the limby games stand above and beyond. all political differences. this is only possible if the olympic games are politically unusual and do not become a tour to achieve political goers. india is home to the world's largest mountain range, but it has a patchy record when it comes to when to sports, anyone athlete is representing the country, the beijing and picks when traffic say there is little government supports and few financial incentives. the sports people have natal has more nestled in the himalayas in indian administered kashmir. the town of good mark is one of a chas highest and largest key resorts he dog. it's also way out if con 1st took up his key pulls and now he's competing into slalom events at the olympics in beijing

committee skiing queue training. i was trained by mercado for the 1st 8 years. he talked me the basics, the state and national level champions also trained. you're in good mug. they inspired me by and i also learned by watching daniel, eventually i started training in europe and other countries. those experiences were great for exposure and skill development. take him every couple of heavy the india has sent only 15 olympians in the history of the winter games and has never won a medal. con is the only entrance with yeah, many of those king to compete say there's little money and knowing to nationally recognize federation to support athletes. constraining was funded by his father who runs the ski shop. his family and friends also supported him. perhaps night is a national level snowboarder who once dreamed of competing at the olympics due to no support from government and from the private please. i couldn't make it in

reality. and i think this dream is gonna die in goldberg only. oh, as far as the infrastructure is concerned, are we, we snowboard here on a very, very basic infrastructure. we don't have any slopes for snow borders, no lift, personal borders. over the last 2 years, hundreds of enthusiasts have attended training camps and competition sponsored by the government. but the local sporting body says more needs to be done to spot and support. budding talent might be monday. other countries are winning metals, so why not india? kashmir has the best assets in terms of snow. we have slopes and new equipment. we request the ministry to conduct international level tournaments and coaching camps to boost our youth. there's no darth of talent here. we will have more irish kinds con hopes to break into the was top 30 at the game. his greater goal is to inspire more people to take up the fort. but no said getting the support that's needed will be an up his dos bob middle algebra,

new delhi. seneca have reached the final of the africa combination for a 2nd straight time off the beating bertino faster in the semi ultra goal 1st health center goal. the breakthrough in the 70 minute, courtesy of abuse yellow. they then doubled the lead and 6 minutes later through research a looking at a pool to go back in the last 10 minutes. but it was cynical caps in the liverpool study of money who's wrapped it out for the lions of toronto, $31.00 the final go into the african final in their history as a class of giants. later at the africa combination, semi final is it pitts, host camera and against egypt, camry and have the tournaments top score, and i ranks in vincent, a boot becca, who's got 6 goals and 5 games. and i'll have home advantage, but the defense hadn't come up against the player of the level of egypt mohammed balance so far, and the competition and egypt are out for revenge. having lost the cameroon in the 2000. and 17 final,

earlier we spoke to african football gender. scary al smith. he says that each it's mom and seller has made no secret of his desire to win the title. but he thinks that thursdays much will be too close to call. there's a reason the semi final is being billed as probably the biggest fixture that could have happened is couple of missions. and it's because between them and, and it's your top 12 titles that you know to more successful size and competition history. that means that it's not easy to call asked div also being perhaps 2 of the best sides. most a lot like his teammates or your money who has got it. i keep saying that he doesn't care about individual awards in this competition. all he wants is the gold medal or on his neck on sunday. remember most one european achilles, the highest, especially the primarily good champions. the, the wants this the semester spectrum, legacy. you know, in the countries for marcella in a country like egypt. you are not

a legend if you are not one at least africa. and so he needs this for his legacy. ah, canada, flying in that quest to qualify for the cattle well comp, they beat el salvador to nails, make an 11 games unbeaten in the north of central america and caribbean region. i see the hutchinson and david school. the goals are the canadians who are looking good to make it to their 1st cup since 19 so with 3 games to go, it is canada 4 points clear at the top with the us and mexico occupying the other 2 automatic qualifying spots. team in 4th. go into a playoff, and that's currently panama fighting off costa rica and el salvador thompson go for bryson. de chombo has reportedly been offered more than a $113000000.00 to become the face of a new gulf super league. the projects backed by saudi arabia has approached several

big names. it is yet to be launched to sambo and any other player who signs up breasts a lifetime ban from the more stablished p j and your pin tools. sadie rapier is already invested heavily in the asian tor nelly hall. the world's top 50, a currently competing lucrative saudi international of to ram one. it is italian player mateo manifesto who leads the way after an 8 on the pol round of $62.00. well, 10 is not one of our joke of it has made his 1st appearance as being deported from australia of his current of virus faxing status. so met with his countries president alex and roach, to thank him for support. during the 11 days, the 20 time grand slam champion was in and out of detention joke, which described it as an unfortunate event. but said he would give his side of the story to the media in the next week to 10 days. all right, that is all useful for now. we'll have more we later rob joe, thank you very much indeed. and that's it from enrolled madison. this news and i'm

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