parts of the van gogh, delta, as they face drought, wild animals, and manmade threat in the constant fight bible risk and all. but swan and i'll just ah, presenting a united front on the ukraine crisis. russian president vladimir putin arrives in china for talks ahead of the opening ceremony of the winter olympics. ah, you're watching your life from headquarters in delphi and gave the also a heads the leader of ice or has been killed. the raid by us special forces took place in syria's. it'll probably more than half a 1000000 people have now died from coven. 19 and india cases have reached almost

42000000 west african leaders hold an emergency summit. the warning that democracy is in crisis across the region. ah hello, amid spiraling tensions with the west, thrushes president has touched down in beijing and what's been seen as a display of unity with china. president vladimir putin is about to meet his counterpart. she, jim ping, the kremlin, says china will pledge its support to russia and its dispute over ukraine. the pair will also discuss a new gas pipeline from russia to china and wider economic cooperation. the u. s. on europe have threatened unprecedented sanctions against moscow if ukraine is attacked. we have dorset jibari standing by force moscow with reaction from there, but 1st will bring in katrina you with the latest from beijing. so katrina,

both obviously on the same side when it comes to ukraine, russia and china. what's the message that the 2 countries are sending to washington? well, yes, china has said that russia's legitimate security concerns need to be addressed. and the foreign ministers from both countries mentioned aging yesterday ahead of putin and she's meeting and so that they coordinated on the positions on ukraine. now this doesn't necessarily mean that china would welcome any sort of attack or invasion on ukraine back to remember that beijing itself has good relations with kids. it's an important trading partner. kid is part of child is belton road infrastructure initiative. and certainly she didn't, paying right now, heading into the winter olympics doesn't want anything to disrupt stability. and it's a very important political year for she and paying as he is entering his unprecedented the term. now that being said, discussions on ukraine and getting on the same page are bound to be very high on

the agenda when the 2 leaders do meet today. the really have been trying to convey a united front. both of these leaders have experienced souring relations with the us and its allies over recent years. and china has signaled that it would support russia economically. should the us impose any sort of crippling sanctions. now how could trying to do this? well, it could do a number of things that could provide loans to russian bank. so firms could help set up alternative payment systems, even encourage chinese firms to evade u. s. export controls. now, outside of financial or economic support, it could also block any meaningful action in the un security council. and what that would also do is create this tacit understanding with russia and china that russia could return the favor. should china do anything in the future to provoke similar actions from washington or from other european countries, for example,

over taiwan or in the south trying to see. so what else should we be looking out for and what else are the 2 leaders one to improve ties on well, russian trying to say that their relationship has never been better. it's really flourishing. and she jumping and vitamin putin do seem to have a genuine chemistry, a genuine friendship. and this is translated practically into the deepening of corporation between these 2 countries. so they work together and everything from trade to space, exploration to energy right now. china receives about 38000000000 cubic meters of gas from east and russia via its power of siberia pipeline. and there has been talk that they would like to increase that amount flowing from russia to china . and kazama has katrina you is giving us, or the point of view from beijing, la snobbery, endorse jibari from moscow to tell us what the russians are hoping to achieve from this visit. well,

vladimir putin has many things on the agenda to discuss with the chinese president . but the main thing that he will be looking for is to secure a deal to build a 2nd pipeline that is called a power of siberia to the chinese are hoping to increase their gas imports from russia. and they want to double it from where it is at the moment, and at this new pipeline would be coming from the u moll peninsula. that is where currently, europe gets all of its gas from a, in russia. so it would mean that this new pipeline, we've built from the same region that russia exports gas to europe and it would be built going through mongolia an into china. this would really change the political scene as well because it will give lottery a potent even more cloud about what a kind of hold he has when it comes to energy demands and supplies of europe as well. there is concern, of course, that this would mean russia's import of gas from the same region as europe would

mean that russia has an option really if and when it chooses to a supply more to russia than it does to europe. that is one of the main turns, but this deal is in the final stages of being agreed upon. it's part of the new, the 15 agreements that are going to be finalized during this visit. and of course, it's a 1st time since 2019 the ladder. you're putting will be meeting with she's in pain, and the 2 men will have a lot to discuss. of course, they're also politically aligned as well. they're both permanent members of the security council. and often china usually backs russia when it comes to voting in that body. the russian president had written an article in the local newspaper on thursday where he highlighted how the 2 countries could really play a significant role in stabilizing global affairs. so there is a sense that it's a very important visit and let me put in before departing probation on thursday was speaking at a press conference with diaz argentine and counterpart where he said that he was

looking forward to supporting the russian athletes at this events. there's $212.00 russian athletes competing in the olympics and he seemed generally excited about this visits and certainly going to be a significant one given the current climate that we're in. yeah, we'll keep an eye out on the visits for the time being. there are some of our thank you for that reporting for moscow. circus president is offered immediate peace talks between ukraine and russia, rodge of tiber tuan, met with ukraine's president vulgar, marizza lensky and kiev on thursday. the lansky welcome the offer. the pair signed a series of economic deals, including one to produce turk has drones in ukrainian factories. but russia back separatists and eastern ukraine, have set up youth training camps and structure. say, students are taught about patriotism and self defense. charles stratford reports in the town of my kids come these teenagers, some of the 5000 members of a youth movement in the pro, russia,

separatist controlled region of east in ukraine. they are all still at school. unami roughly translates to army of the use and structures. many of them form a separatist fighters say they teach patriotism and how to defend the self declared republic dimansky. job 8 years of conflict with ukraine remains unrecognized by any country in the world. even its main baca, russia, the students. it's also a range of skills including martial arts, 1st aid and assembling, and disassembling weapons, which we are not allowed to film. 14 year old christina joined 2 years ago after her cousin was killed during fighting between the russian bank separatists ukrainian army just over the ocean going with them. it's very painful for me when i remember she was like my brother, i joined because of his death because i wanted to remember those last in the war,

especially when we don't want to make the same mistakes that we need. 24 with the union was attacked in world war 2. murals in the school. cordele celebrate russian history and cultural figures like the novelist and poet alexander, pushkin. a map shows crimea painted in the colors, the russian flag. so i thought to come on the, today's class is about the victory of soviet forces over the nazis. and the bustle of stalingrad considered one of the bloodiest battles in history, claiming around 2000000 lives. the manager to the group that i don't unami feels like my 2nd family, my 2nd home when you go through so much together, you become very close at the bit of the nash, but the develops are patriotism. we remember and a proud of our predecessors and i want to eventually serve in the army outside students prepare for a mock battle. we split into 2 opposing sides and fired each other using laser guns

and stacks of tires as cover. but this isn't just again, this might look like fun, but of course it has serious implications. and it's important to recognize that there are similar youth groups on ukrainian government control side also being trained like this. there they, it's hope that the danger is what the crane is described as russian expansionism with its roots in the soviet past. here it starts is tell the children that the danger isn't ideology that has huge residents with both the young and the old. they are working ok. he know within their work for susan, ukraine is not our enemy. fascism is the enemy. and 2014. when the conflict started, we were standing up against fascists. like our grandparents did, we can say we have enemies. our only enemy is fascism. we don't want to just to

make fascism. our friend christina brings us young to fully understand how history can be manipulated to serve military or political ends in any conflicts. if you could almost as away on the abandoned ruins of homes and places where children once played destroyed in 8 years of war with no peaceful solution in sight, a conflict into which the young on both sides of being drawn shall stratford al jazeera. don't ask the us as the leader of ice or has been killed in a special forces operation in northwestern, syria, him and how she made quite a she was one of at least 13 people, including 6 children who died during that rate in the town of ultima and rebel held it lay province. it was the biggest us raid there since in attack in 2019 that killed the previous leader of i sold our white house correspondent kimberly hallett

has more. this horrible terrorist leader is no more in an address to the nation from the roosevelt room of the white house. u. s. president joe biden spoke about the operation. he ordered that killed the ice. a leader abu ibrahim al, has she, me, al, karachi, and i directed the department of defense to take every precaution possible to minimize civilian casualties. knowing that this terrorist had chosen surround himself with families, including children, we made a choice to pursue a special forces raid at a much greater risk than our to our own people, rather than targeting him with an air strike. as us special forces moved in the ice, a leader reportedly detonated an explosive and a final act of desperate cowardice. he chose to blow himself on, taking several members of his family with him. the mission happened thursday in north western syria in italy,

province. residence on the ground said at least 13 people, including children, were killed in the operation. the pentagon said there were no true casualties. the president widened his vice president and national security advisors, oversaw the mission from the situation room of the white house. it was the biggest us rated, syria says the 2019 operation that killed the ice, a leader abu bakar album dottie this operation was literally months in the planning the u. s. targeted the ice, a leader for threats he allegedly posed to us interests and crimes committed in iraq in 2014, including the enslavement of yours edi women. the raid comes a week after the defense secretary ordered the u. s. military to do more to protect civilians in combat operations often largely forgotten in the west postilion. maybe the only, it's of

a lining of this is it has brought media attention to the conflict. and cilia seems from their perspective that no one really cares. and so one advantage in a sense is that this is now go to your back into, into the news. despite efforts to limit casualties. some members of congress are now calling for an investigation into the civilian deaths to ensure that every reasonable step was taken to protect innocent lives. kimberly held get al jazeera, the white house still had on al jazeera pressure, goes on. the u. k. prime minister is 4 of his top aides resign within hours of each other. and back in business, bali reopened to all foreign visitors after nearly 2 years of pandemic restrictions . ah,

i'm sure you're familiar with this picture. old weather tumbles in across the north of europe, down through the middle and down towards the east, where it redeveloped into a storm system without still going on. but this is party bit hard now to what was a fatty settled, middle admitted to have been snow showers, all overcast conditions quite often in eastern europe. but now we're going to change that a little bit more. so here's the overall picture for friday. then the winds are cold, runs the british isles, in the same to norway, southern scandinavia. so line of rain stretching back to france is still relatively warm, spend a portion of it a bit more clouded a few more. shares him was the case recently for saturday. proper stormy picture that in northern pals, norway, the wind is strong again with snow for scotland, increasingly light few wet but london at 10 degrees. paris is still at 9 degrees. this snow proper isn't extreme. it's just snow for the day to potter winter. we're in february now after all. and here's the picture for the south metro and a scattering a showers bit windy maybe for some of the islands in the mediterranean,

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ah, hello again. the top stories on al jazeera, the sour china will pledge its support to russia over its dispute with the west over ukraine. the kremlin has announced president vladimir putin, his meeting shortly with his chinese counterparts. huge and paying for talks in beijing. the us, as the leader, if i saw, has been killed in a special forces operation and northwestern syria. i will. but our him and hashing in could a. she was one of at least 13 people who died during the raid and rebel held it live province. me in mars ousted leader ang santucci is due to face new charges in court. she's already been sentenced to 6 years in detention, and this case could lead to her complete removal from public life. tony chang

reports as she voted in 20 twenty's election. it would have been hard for anson to t to predict her greatest political success would lead to her downfall. since last year's coo and murmur, she's been detained in isolation. only a period court to face charges that may lead to years in prison. what is said none . the less senior members of her party believe she still has a major role to play period. she will have to do more and more for common chrissy and for obama. yeah, i am now approaching 58. she is $76.00, but she is much healthier than me. but the events of the past year have shown the uncensored cheese policy of engaging the military didn't work. she even went so far as to defend the arm is violent cracked down against the ringer. that lost him many

supporters on the global stage. while that didn't punish her reputation at home, it also failed to stop the generals of seizing control on. hi, the majority of the people understand that, you know, uncensored, she was trying her a compromise solution compromised approach. she went as far as appeasing the military in power. ah, but of course that failed. it's very hard to get a sense of public opinion inside miramar, with the military arresting people for their political beliefs. but here in the tie, border town of myself is a lot x l, community and a variety of opinions about the woman. simply known as the lady. me who i want own santucci to be released, said that things can change them all and our holiday. i wanna, i want new people to take over these positions because she is too old and those people should be young like us. her test is continued to take to the streets,

risking their lives to oppose military rule and calling for new men, mar, freed, from the constraints of the past. all of this is happening without on sons who t if or when she's released. she may find herself in a much diminished ro get an update now from tony. he's joining us from bangkok. so just tell us what's happening in court today and what we should expect. tony we haven't heard anything at all from today's proceedings. we usually don't, the lawyers are taken to the facility by the military. they have half an hour with uncensored shoe before the preceding start. and then they generally come out 4 or 5 hours later. we haven't heard anything yet, but that in itself is interesting. she was supposed to appear in court yesterday and couldn't because she was unwell. she complained of nausea and dizziness during the journey from the place where she is being held in secret, to naples, door mare,

mars capital. so we assume that because we haven't, hadn't the, yet, the proceedings have gone ahead. she's going to be facing a number of corruption charges. the military government alleged that they have found documents that show she's been involved in corrupt practices. i think the general assumption is there certainly from people who have looked at this closely, that these are very much trumped up charges. she's actually going to be facing those charges with shawn tunnel and australian academic who was advising her government, who was seized at the same time. she was, the australian government is pushing for him to be released. but at this stage, there is no sign that the military government and the courts which have pretty much followed their commands will be easing up at any point. all right, thank you so much. tony chang reporting from bangkok, west african regional block, as us has held an emergency summit to discuss recent crews in the region. and they're calling for a democratic transition in burkina faso. they've agreed to send military forces to

stabilize guinea. bizarre i did. these reports on the talks and gone as capital a crow gun, as president and chairman of course, not go for. i don't cause with their contagious the rest of africa on the continent . western allies, what with concern up to multiple military cause in west africa, reschedule for who did ties in our region. as a matter of grave concern. this evolution challenges the democratic way of life we have chosen. let's address the danger, dangerous tread, collectively and defies. before it devastates the whole legions the threats of cutting of economic ties and shutting borders of so far afield to dissuade coupons in the region in less than 2 years. the police force cause i've taken place in west africa, including 2 in miami with no success in regional leaders effort to get money back

to democratic system that i feel as a potential coup, largest in west africa, could be involved. and that experts say was what happened in guinea b r y, who was recently foiled. they won that failure to send a stronger signal including military intervention makes the regional block look weaker and irrelevant in the light of recent political development in the region. the only military commitment that he does can give for now is going to be so only for stipulation purposes in the short term, to prevent any fish and decided to send the 1st headed stubborn addition to some additional country. ecstasy with a spate of military coups in the region. even the most stable democracies. i'm vulnerable in lots of these so called democratically elected countries. ok, the claim to be graphically elected,

engage instead in activities that look more like military dictatorship. the manipulate procedure through the can extend the rule that grows, violation of rights, are not able to deliver on the 2 main functions of the state, including one human security and 2nd, physical security. the last one was the african vida sent the military force to stop unconstitutional. change of government was 5 years ago that deployment force the incorrect child for my going to be president jeremy. or if he used to concede defeat up to lose an election. but at the moment, member states of key to send that. so just to confirm, cool, need this on there. many having to fight their battles, i guess, internal and external, right? but if and when they agree to other factors will come into play. these include, where funds for such a force will come from what will be its mandate and for how long questions that lead us at this summit have no answers for,

at least for now. how many degrees i'll just see it across, got a court. nicaragua has convicted to prominence, government critics, and a trial the spark concern among human rights groups. former rebel commander, dora murray, tellers, who's one of dozens of political detainees rounded up ahead of last year's presidential elections. which are guilty of undermining national integrity and students. protests liter lester ellamin was also convicted of the same offense that comes on the 3rd day of trials against opponents of president. daniel ortega, india has officially recorded more than half a 1000000 corona virus deaths, but some experts say the actual figure as much higher. the on the kron variance is behind the countries. 3rd way to cover 19 a study published in the journal science estimates about 3000000 people have died. the government says the claims are baseless. mitchell has more from new delhi exports an estimate this milestone to have been crossed months ago. and that the

actual death could be in millions. you know, what makes this even was, is that how and didn't find a lot of these episodes? well, of course, many of these debts reported an estimated war during the devastating debts. how that happened last summer, you may remember that at the time, hospitals were overrun, so many people died just waiting for waiting for a hospital bed, waiting for oxygen, i mean hospitals ran out of oxygen. so many of these debts were actually preventable crematorium were overrun, families had to wait, i was to commit their loved ones. they actually ran out of what, so they have to go to a forest to chop wood and a complete permissions. the told that crematorium so reporting well, much higher than what the official tally was at the time. and then of course, there was a tragic episode of hundreds of bodies found floating in the ganges,

turned out, cared and poor villagers just didn't have any other way to dispose of the dead just that's just how high the volume was. that episodes piled into political blame game between states and eventually government started pulling off shouts from dead bodies buried by the river bank so that photographer couldn't capture the tragedy. and the extent to which the government had failed in addressing the cobra. 1900 crisis in the country for senior age to the u. k. prime minister have resigned as the so called party gates, scandal deepens. they include boris johnson's chief of staff, private secretary, and director of communications. re challenge has more from the south of england veneer mercer in her resignation letter said you are a better man than many of your detractors will ever understand, which is why it is desperately sad that you let yourself down by making a scurrilous accusation against the leader of the opposition now the other

resignations ah, basically be being presented by loyal as the prime minister, as part of this big clear routes that he promised of the downing street operation following the su gray report. but i have to say it doesn't seem like he's in control of these resignations at the moment and there's a sense that these are people leaving a sinking ship dominant cummings, of course no friends of the prime minister, his former aid now arch enemy tweeted on the day it's the mistake of the signal that the bunker is collapsing, and this prime minister is finished. bali has reopened to all foreign travellers. the indonesian island depends heavily on tourism and is opening up the border despite a rise and over $1000.00 cases. the 1st direct flight in nearly 2 years landed on thursday from tokyo. visitors will have to corn seen for between 5 to 7 days, depending on their vaccination status. jessica washington has more from bali. it's

day one of the reopening, and i don't think there's any expectation of an overnight recovery full of bonnie's economy. this is expected to be a gradual process. as you mentioned overnight, the 1st direct international flight landed in bali and even though there were only 12 passengers on board that flight from japan, they were greeted with quite a lot of fanfare and even applause. because there is a sense that this recovery is now underway, that balis tourism is slowly on the process of going back to normal. now they do have to undergo mandatory quarantine of 5 days, but that is now being marketed as a warm up vacation that these these travellers won't be confined to their rooms. they will still be able to enjoy a host health facilities. this reopening coincides with a rise in coven 19 cases here in indonesia, yesterday, on thursday more than 27000 cases were reported. and as a result, president joke o,

dodo has asked the relevant ministers to reassess the current restrictions and whether they are sufficient. but he also stressed that indonesia is in a very different position to what happened last year. as the delta variant swept through the country. you may remember people couldn't get into hospitals, cemeteries were overwhelmed. people couldn't access basics, likes like oxygen. the president has stressed that the country isn't a much better stage of preparedness and a situation like that is very unlikely. ah, hello again to headlines on al jazeera, the sour china all pledge it's support to russia over its dispute with the west over ukraine. that's according to the kremlin president vladimir putin is meeting shortly with his counterpart she jim paying for a talks in beijing katrina you.