much appetite to do that at the moment. if you look at the continent or the subsequent v, each sub region, if you look at the problems happening in those countries, many countries are having to deal with their own internal problems. nigeria, the biggest contributor to any west african military deployment is having its own problems dealing with boycott. i'm dealing with iceland, dealing with vendor tree kidnappings. taking hostages full run some in the region. you're talking about nisha, you're talking about value, which is having its own security problems and talking about what kind of fossil you talking about several countries including child which is also just a buckle ready or buckle hardened in dealing with crisis like this in west africa still hadn't al jazeera, we're going to have more on the top story. u. s. president joe biden is expected to make a statement on the killing of the isolator in city. ah,

hey there, thank you for joining in. here's your weather report for asia. great to see you, some intense rain falling across northern india, stretching from sar rate into what's been gall. we'll go in for a closer look. and keep in mind the darker the color here, the more intense the rain is whether it's in play for the indian state. to be har and what, spank gall, some thunder downpours and we see that energy move in bangladesh. dhaka has a high 23 degrees now for that southeast corner of india. things are quite ne, monsoon is subdued. so while tall sunshine for ny, with the high 31 degrees storms coming and go in across our equitorial countries, the asia pacific. and if i take you to the philippines right now, pretty heavy batch of rain for central areas. so again, darker the color, the more intense the rain is. moderate flooding is expected here. now rain that had been plaguing, southern sections of china has scooted away. it left a lot of cloud covers. so from move on to gray, lin right through to hong kong. bit more sun though, for hong kong,

those showers are still over taiwan. type a has a high 16 degrees off to japan. we go to snow, still falling, we got the right win direction off the sea of japan. so that's piling up for western horseshoe. and hope kado. meantime ciocca has got a high of 9 degrees on friday. that's it for me. see you soon take here. ah. join the debate, they erased out like people from the american and global story was very powerful on an online your voice. the comment section is whitehead killing our conversation we had on protected when everyone is protected. it is not by being nationalistic about this. you just look at it in a very different way, say that perspective magnet and men meeting each other and you don't have any solution. let me get it clear for you. this dream. on al jazeera lou.

ah, watch out a 0 mind about top stories. this r u. s. president joe biden says the leader of i so as being jailed and arrayed in northern city of special forces, conduct the operation enabling province. at least 13 people, including children, died and the attack turkeys president is in kia for talks with president vladimir zalinski. it's the latest diplomatic effort to ease fears of a russian invasion of ukraine. moscow's condemned to u. s. decision to send more troops to eastern europe. okay, let's stay with our top story i want to bring in. so tom bought a cot, he's the finding director at the center for conflict and humanitarian studies at doha institute. he's joining us by skype from doha. it's good to happy with us on

al jazeera and what is your interpretation of the nature of this attack? well, obviously it had to be a very high value target because of the fact that the us involved it forces directly as the, as you know, there has been a number of attacks ever since the getting that back in october, 2019 for other leaders had been killed but they were all killed using drawn. so this, this one is by far the most important attack it happens very close to the turkish border. so the risks, some instability or difference would be where the turkish state. so the target must have must be very important for much. we hear so far. this is laura. she is

a very controversial character. he started the 1st as part of the stomach state of iraq. and in fact, around 20078. he was detained by the united states and imprison. he collaborated with united banks and he gave many names of affiliates appears that were part of the stomach stage at the time in iraq. then he seems to have been reborn again as part of as a top leader. and i. so i sold and was known as the person who more or less designed the campaign against the eighty's in iraq. and one of the most controversial aspects of them is that he has a very name, but he's actually darkman and city. although he's the rocky national given the fact that the u. s. is regarding this as a success, 13 people including children,

died in this attack. the u. s. right to regard this as a success of course, i mean they will say it's a success from their strategic objectives and this objective was to eliminate this leader. but overall killing civilians cannot be justified and cannot be counted as tiny success. the real issue is live and in larger, syria is the syria complex united states, whatever they do now, it's been more than 67 years there are targeting individuals that is not going to resolve the problem. if you were to visit that area and see the circumstances under which millions of people are living, you cannot be surprised for and other organizations ability to recruit young men and possibly women. the circumstances are absolutely and forgiving and they're very, very,

very difficult in these areas. so the answer to terrorism really is that they must tackle the root causes of it all. and that is the ongoing conflict, syria and the tradition of these roughly $4000000.00 people in an, in claim is not going to resolve it. that will be always continuous feeder or people like others. i mean, you can really do it, but somebody else would come out with similar extremist ideas and would be able to recruit these young men and women. how do you think that this particular incident is going to affect the operations of i? so it's, it's very difficult to say i, so as has been really focused for the last 3 or 4 years on syria, and they've killed quite a few syrians, estimates from the city and human rights observatory is about 600 people have been

killed by, by isis but depending on what the intelligence information united states has, obviously is going to have some, some effect internationally. i think it probably won't have much of an impact. he is not a charismatic leader that is known internationally or followed. so i think it should be limited to the package having within syria. what do you think this is going to mean for, for people within syria itself? how do you think syrians and those with an i so are going to respond to this. i mean, for syrians, maybe the only sort of aligning of this is it has brought back media attention to the conflict. and so for the last couple of years has been taken out of the media.

very little known about the circumstances. these millions of people live in the north, northeast northwest. they just had a very, very harsh winter. 6 years people continue to live in tens, for example, in very difficult circumstances. and it seems from their perspective that no one really cares. and one advantage in a sense is that this is now brought back into, into the news. i do hope that the international community led by the 9 states will seek a permanent solution to the problem, something that is sustainable. give the right to attention to the conflict and hopefully bring together the russians and others and use it as an opportunity to maybe for all those global forces to agree on what is very clear cut situation at the moment. but to leave these people in this, in grave, under the higher her shot or any other militant group is not going to resolve it

because now they've, they're taking a life of their own, these minutes in groups feeling a gap. they're working almost as a bridge of smoke for smuggling goods between turkey and the state of syria. and they have found the of identified other ways of livelihood that is going to give them additional presence without any resolution in the interests of the city and people. so to come, we appreciate your time, sir. as always. thank you very much. indeed. you're welcome. thank you so much. earlier i spoke to off saw shock. he's in a varsity lecture, luck with a university, and he explains why the us used a grand operation. one of the reasons for sending in troops rather than carrying out drones strikes was, would have been to, to reduce the likelihood of innocent casualties. and in that

respect, i think the u. s. is showing an uncharacteristically high degree of risk for its own personnel. because in the recent past, 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 the tragedy of 6 children who are 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 over. they were killed by some individuals within the building who led the suicide best and,

and decided to make a monitor all not just of them selves, but also the families involved. 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 is that the united states hasn't really come to terms with it. even though we use it's doing the right thing by attacking these terrorists who everybody decides it. all people that need to be got rid of one way or another problem is that the, the creation of these terrorists is primarily the result of the super powers united states. and of course, russia in the past creating on government space is 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 to sort of the may have been the government space for them to 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 alco 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 that let's move on to some other news news in and is using strict border controls and post every 2 years ago in response to the pandemic in the initial stage of a phased reopening, vaccinated new cylinders in australia will be allowed home without having to quarantine from the end of this month when hate has the support. 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 cove at 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. there was life before. and now life with covered bed. that also means there will be life after coveted a life where we have adapted where we have some no melody bag from the end of february fully vaccinated you zealanders will be able to return from australia without having to quarantine soon after it'll be extended to new zealand is in 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 hour h i v vaccine,

using the same technology developed for their own coven, 19 job. 37000000 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 with owners, new m r n. a vaccine teaches the body how to make proteins that trigger an immune response against the fast mutating virus and trans, using antigens that triggered a successful immune response. in previous tests, it talk to m r n. a could be the key to making rapid progress towards a new vaccine. jeffrey lazarus is head of the health systems research group at the barcelona institute for global health, and he's told us more about 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 m r and a technology was not both, frankly, very well thought of or successful until the curb 19 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 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 because government has withdrawn licenses of 14 non governmental organizations. it comes as to high profile opposition figures a judical trial, for subversion that among dozens of the president's political opponents accused of violating the constitution or latin america editor, the sea, and newman reports their new immigrants. what's happening inside my now was she put the prison? it's when more than 40 government opponents had been tried behind closed doors for alleged conspiracy, terrorism, and much more human rights into director of human newness, calls it a judicial farce or have not been able to prove any crime against this. people who have been practically kidnapped and kept in prison, violating the law and denying them due process,

there is no presumption of innocence. the lawyers have had no access to them until the day of the trial. this is a model of an isolation. so in union says the cues suffer from cruel and becoming treatment, including torture, would be presidential candidate phillips, my dad, the other faces up to 24 years in prison for leading an opposition coalition that demanded free and transparent elections last year. his wife, who says she and their daughter were forced to flee, nicaragua believes a guilty verdict is a foregone conclusion. i feel might be facing though. i think the hardest part is having to console our 8 year old daughter and knowing that he might be arrested, felix sent her a tight message saying he loved her and would always be thinking of her. but it's difficult. hammer, president ortega began arresting his staunchest opponents, including 7 presumptive presidential candidates, 6 months before november's elections. he ran and when a 4th consecutive term,

virtually unopposed, but the elections were widely dismissed as a sham for members of candles. fernando, cham, laurel's family. i now been tried, and some of her we are facing a great injustice based on political vengeance. not just my sister christiana, but my brother, pedro, whacking and 2 cousins. all of the prisoners are innocent and are being tried for participating in civic protests because they represent the desire of nicaraguans to hold free elections. vehicle deangela, former ortega allied remedy a deus and emblematic rebel commander during the 1970s sandinista revolution was also being tried. this week on charges of treason as is 24 year old, listed a lemon, a student leader who helped organize mass protests against ortega in 2018 or take a has ignored widespread international appeals to release the opposition prisoners preferring it seems to make an example of those whom he accuses trying to overthrow

his government. but by tightening control and encouraging more nicaraguans to join the 10s of thousands of already fled the country, the trials could end up making the country's political crisis. even worse. seeing human al jazeera, there are says, mysterious and sudden, brain injuries suffered by diplomat stationed overseas, were probably caused by electromagnetic devices than intelligence panel investigator, the cause of the symptoms known as havana syndrome. since 2016, about 200 us and canadian diplomats of complaint about a range of illnesses including vertigo, california had its gold rush almost 200 years ago. now the hunt is on for lithium. the highly prized battle is a key component of batteries to power electric vehicles and the drive to combat global warming. rob reynolds reports from a community in california looking to strike it rich. california is salt and see

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, but we lack is opportunity. you know, i think opportunity is what we need here in this. in this county. the salt and see 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, an electric car manufacturing, while paint 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 eileen 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 going to transition to clean energy and get off our fossil fuel induction, the fans going to being key proponent, hope for a region down on its look, and a planet heating up. rob reynolds, al jazeera, imperial, california. it's not long, largely opening ceremony of the beijing winter olympics. but corona virus infections are threatening to overshadow. friday's ceremony. and as katrina, you reports china's also facing diplomatic boy cards because of human rights abuses . oh, theme song,

welcoming the world to watch the 2022 winter games, while the olympic torch makes its way through beijing. china has promised to deliver a safe and splendid global event to so on, but a cheating this is it going to be easily mo, from a nationwide outbreak of curve 19 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, are immediately quarantined and could miss out on competing. there's been a lot of aspects 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. witnesses here a much stricter than during the tokyo games. what does that mean? a 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 the jig, the message is clear. there's not going to be the great crap crouch, we're not going to have the tourism boast. ah, that would've 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 criticism 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 it will be very embarrassing for she. jimmy chinese rights activists living in the capital 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 ging, emily angland is going to be here in

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