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a 1000000 people have now died from over 19 in india. cases have reached almost 42000000 and pressure grows on the u. k. prime minister is for his top aides resign within hours of each other. ah. hello. the winter olympics will get underway in beijing in the next few hours, but it's russia's deteriorating relation to the west that's taking center stage before the opening ceremony. russians, president has touched down in the chinese capital for talks with president she and what's been seen as a display of unity between the 2 major powers. the kremlin says china will pledge its support to russia and its dispute with ukraine, vladimir putin and she jumping. we'll discuss a new gas pipeline from russia to china, as well as wider economic cooperation. the us on europe have threatened

unprecedented sanctions against moscow if ukraine is attacked. we have dorothy jabari standing by for us and moscow. but 1st let's get reaction from katrina. you from beijing, so both countries are on the same side when it comes to ukraine. what is the message that they're sending out? well, that's right. so these 2 countries really want to portray a united fund and strength in that partnership that they have together. so both leaders on, as we speak, sitting down together in a baiting state house known as w ty, be getting that meeting. and afterwards she didn't paying in president who said, we'll go away for some private lunch we've heard. now, china has said to the world, but russia's legitimate security concerns need to be addressed. and the foreign ministers from both countries met yesterday in beijing ahead of the meeting of these leaders. and they said that they coordinated positions on ukraine. now this

isn't necessarily mean that aging would support a welcome many sort of invasion or attack on ukraine. aging itself has very good relations with kia. it's an important trading partner, kevin passive, beijing's belton road infrastructure initiative. and also just going into the olympics. she do things certainly does not want any disruptions, just ability, anything to distract from the, the, the event that's taking place in aging. and it's also a very politically sensitive year for she didn't thing as he enters his unprecedented the term in office. now that being said, though, you crate is bound to take up a lot of space in the discussions to day on friday. these 2 leaders have a lot in common and they've hailed the very close ties. russia has said that these ties are up at an unprecedented level. they have similar views on the world and similar governing styles and both have had souring relations with the us. now,

china has signaled though that it wouldn't support russia economically. should the us impose any sort of crippling sanctions? any chinese economic support would help to buffer or protect russia from feeling completely isolated or alienated? how china might do that is still up for discussion. it could offer loans to russian banks or firms. it could help. so it up some alternative payment systems or even encouraged chinese firms to evade u. s. export controls. now outside of that economic support. ringback china could also back russia and visa any sort of meaningful action in the un security council . and of course, this partnership, what it would do is create a sort of tacit understanding that should china find itself in a similar sticky situation in future. attracting any publications from the u. s. already sections from the us because of its actions on taiwan or in the south china sea than russia would or could return the favor. yes. so on that point you make on

the economic interests. i mean, what we're hearing on that front, to what extent will the economic interests really play a role in this meeting currently taking place? i think it's really going to be a big part of their discussion. so she didn't thing and present vladimir putin. they have a famous layer, really strong connection friendship or even chemistry, but this is really reflected in the practical deepening corporation between the 2 countries. when it comes to trade, both sides have said that they want to expand that in 2021. russia. so trade between russia and china recently reached unprecedented levels. it was $140000000000.00. now president fusion has said that he wants to increase that going forward, increasing that to even $200000000000.00. and of course, the 2 countries corporate on a variety of other areas from space exploration to energy,

which is another big one to watch. currently, russia provides china with 38000000000 cubic meters of gas via its power of superior pipeline, which funnels girls from eastern russia directly to china. that's hugely important for china. and during this trip there is talk that we could see that agreement on gas expanded as well. ok, thank you so much. katrina for that update from beijing. let's now find a view from find out the view from moscow and bring in the georgia bar. she's joining us from there. so how is lottery putin seeing this trip and what a russian officials trying to achieve? well, we've just been hearing from a vladimir putin v r kremlin his and sending out her stay in parts of how he seen this meeting with the chinese president go so far. and putin has said that it's a good example of building worthy bilateral relations. and that they help both countries

develop, certainly lottery put in is looking to secure further deals and mainly in supplying china with more gas. there is a deal that is up to be finalized that is called a power of siberia to pipeline. that would see russia build another pipeline from the amal peninsula through mongolia and into china that would double the exports. this country has to china to meet the, i guess, demands of that country. and it's very significant because they am all peninsula, is where the russians are now also using that area to export gas to europe. so it could really see a one market over another. really, if the president decides that is more profitable or more politically a sound for him to do so, it could mean that europe's energy supplies could be diverted to china. but for now, they're russians haven't as said anything to that effect, but that many analysts have spoke to say it gives putin the option. and of course,

the power to do so if and when he chooses to for the time being that is a very significant deal that they're looking to sign during this trip and is one of nearly 15 agreements they're going to be finalizing. and the 2 men are now meeting for the 1st time since 2019 lottery potent had said that it was a very important trip because not only to support the $212.00 russian athletes competing in the winter olympics. but also to show this, this strength and unity of the 2 countries and how important russia and china can be in terms of stabilizing global affairs. we understand that the, a russia, as it ends, has been looking forward to meeting as she jing pen. and this relationship is very, very strong. are the 2 countries are, of course, permanent members of the united nations security council, with china saying that they fully support russia's security demands and guarantees that it's made from a nato and the united states when it comes to what they've been arguing over the

past few weeks about russia's concern about nato's further expansion. so it seems that it's a very important time that the russian president is in china to further streatham, the ties between 2 countries. thank you. dorothy jabari reporting from moscow. russia about separates us in eastern ukraine, have set up training comes for youths. instructors say students are taught about patriotism, unself defends tro. stratford reports in the town of macau abuse teenagers of some of the 5000 members of youth movement in the pro russia separatist controlled region of easton ukraine. they all stood at school. unami roughly translates to army of the use and structures. many of them form a separatist fighters say they teach patrick ism and how to defend the self declared republic. dimansky john 8 years of conflict with ukraine remains

unrecognized by any country in the world. even its main becca, 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 think of it out. she met 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. we don't want to make the same mistakes that we did when the soviet 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 will 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. just to the cliff that i don't unami feels like my 2nd family, my 2nd home when you go through so much together, you become very close to our bit of the nation develops our 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 whole that the danger is what the crane is described as russian expansionism with its roots in the soviet past. here it starts to tell the children that the danger isn't ideology that has huge resonance 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 that 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 adjust to make fascism. our friend christina and your friends are young to fully understand how history can be manipulated to serve military or political ends in any conflicts. if you could almost away all the abandoned ruins of homes in 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 u. s. as the leader of iso has been killed in a special forces operation and northwestern syria, him and how she made. she was one of at least 13 people, including 6 children who died during the rate and the ton of ultima and rebel held it live province. it was the biggest re us raid there since in attack in 2019 that killed a previous leader of ice. all our white house correspondent, kimberly how kit 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 up, taking several members of his family with him. the mission happened thursday in northwestern, syria in it live province. residents on the ground said at least 13 people, including children, were killed in the operation. the pentagon said there were no true casualties with the credit anymore biden, his vice president and national security advisors over saw 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 albert daddy

. 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 his 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 proseries. it may be the only a silver lining of this is it has brought by media's attention to the conflict in silvia seems from their perspective that no one really cares. and so a one advantage in a sense is that this is now grocery 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 help get al jazeera, the white house still had on al jazeera back in business, bali reopened, to all foreign visitors after nearly 2 years of pandemic restrictions. and not was it not because we know we can do things about this. the u. s. president outlines his plan to fight, raising gun violence, as republicans accused him of being soft on crime. ah, ah, look forward to burritos galleys. the with the sponsored boy cut on it weighs yet another in the succession of storm systems. the north atlantic is coming through and it sheds its large yes, across most of northern europe. at some point,

sometimes we start to regenerate lows in the eastern map. this one's on its way out now that the pictures it stands in on friday, windy and snowy weather, to scotland, and for norway. and then we push that band of re, with some cold rab behind it into north nearby tensor fade out for the sas. you are the be a few shouted northern spain. eking away the temperatures in the south has been quite high up to say an endless year for example. but it's stormy. weather continues so on saturday, fairly strong. wind other rain or snow on its way through scotland, through northern ing to probably normal to norway. but this wind the southwest is not a cockburn where his won't work, won't feel that great a teams that average to be honest. remember freebies, the coldest part of the year. his hero picture on saturday, generally fine and sunny weather. the most part there is snow in eastern europe and new western russia. of course, this is an improving situation is currently quite windy than in greece. for example, i wind is the story in north africa with the hamas and strengths once more. probably more so for the self ticket of madagascar. this dangerous storm. the 1st

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hello again. the top stories on al jazeera, this, our 1st president detailed what he calls unprecedented. close ties with china during a meeting with president she in beijing be show if unity comes is relation deteriorates with the west over russia. true build up near ukraine. the us as the leader, if i still have been killed in a special forces operation in northwestern, syria, him and hash him in for she was one of the at least 13 people who died during the rate and rebel held problems. now india has officially recorded more than half a 1000000 corona virus jacks, but some experts say the actual figure as much higher the con, very inches behind the countries. 3rd wave of code 19 study published in the journal science estimates about 3000000 people have died. the government says those claims are baseless poverty. metal has more from new delhi export the

estimate this milestone to have been crossed months ago and that the actual debt could be in millions. you know, what makes this even was, is that how undignified a lot of these episodes? well, of course, many of these debts reported an estimated war during the devastating debts. how will that happen? 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 hot for those 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 for us to chop wood and 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 photographers couldn't capture the tragedy . and the extent to which the government had failed in addressing the cobra. 1900 crisis in the country, bali has reopened to all foreign travellers. the indonesian island depends heavily on tourism and is opening up the border despite a rise and cove with 1900 cases. the 1st direct flight in nearly 2 years landed on thursday from tokyo. visitors will have to corn jean 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 giotto 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 variance 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 is in a much better stage of preparedness and a situation like that is very unlikely. made mars ousted liter uncensored. she is due to appear in court again this time on charges of corruption, including the purchase of a helicopter, while in office. she's already been sentenced to 6 years in detention. new charges could lead to her complete removal from public life for the foreseeable future, tony chang reports that she voted in 20 twenty's election. it would have been hard for uncensored she to predict her greatest political success would lead to her

downfall. since lost his coup 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, nonetheless, senior members of her party, believe she still has a major role to play period. she will have to do more and more for democracy. and for obama. yeah, i'm 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 armies violent crank down against the ringer that lost her 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 and her kind. the majority of the people understand that, you know, uncensored, she was trying her

a compromise solution, a compromised approach. she went as far as appeasing the military in power. ah, but of course that fav, it's very hard to get a sense of public opinion inside mamma, with the military arresting people for their political beliefs. but here in the tie border town of myself as a large exiled community and a variety of opinions about the woman. simply known as the lady, me who i went and santucci to be released so that things can change the l. m. o 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,

tony cheng al jazeera, on the time me on my buddha, for senior aides to the u. k. prime minister, who resigned is the so called party gates, scandal deepens, include boris johnson's chief of staff and his private sector. ryanne, director of communications were a challenge, has more from the south of england. bonaire emma said in her resignation that i said you are a better man than many of your de taxes 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 being presented by lloyd as the prime minister, as part of this big clear routes that he promised of the downing street operation. following the su gray repose bought. i have to say it doesn't seem like he's in control of these resignations at the moment and that there's a sense that these all people leaving a sinking ship dominic cummings, of course,

my friends of the prime minister, his former aid now arch enemy tweeted earlier on the day it's the unmistakable signal that the bunker is collapsing, and this prime minister is finished. us president joe biden has outlined new measures to tackle raising gun violence. he visited new york city where 5 police officers have been shot since the start of the year. gabriel alessandro reports in many cities in america, gun violence is on the rise, including in new york, where thousands of police officers lined the streets to say good bye. after 2 officers were shot to death in an ambush, the gun used to kill the officers was a glock, 45, equipped with an illegal modified drum magazine that could hold 50 rounds. joe biden was in new york on thursday touring communities on the front lines of gun

violence. america's murder rate has jumped nearly 30 percent in recent years. at guns sales have swords since the start of the panoramic. in the us, more than 30 police officers have been shot so far this year, bye to her new york's police headquarters, where he rejected calls from summon his party to reign in police spending. the answer is not to fund the police. is to give you the tools, the training, the funding to be partners. that's why i called on the congress to pass a budget later this year that provides cities like new york and others with additional $300000000.00 for community policing. but already the budget of the new york police department, the largest in the us, is $10000000000.00 a year. if we start to finding public safety though, in terms of how much money we spend on police, that's the wrong approach. we should be asking for metrics to measure community, well, be safety, school attendance,

employment. all the things that we care about in a neighborhood should be the way we defined safety. not simply how much we're spending on policing or how many officers there are in the city. on thursday president by announced new initiatives to try to slow down gun violence, including the launching of 5 illegal gun task force is meant to try to stop the flow of illegal guns traveling between different states. new york's mayor eric adams points to the so called iron pipeline, the name given by law enforcement to a loose connection of highways from the southern us to the northeast, used by gun smugglers to move weapons. we've got to break and destroy the i a pipeline that allow southern states in this country to produce weapons that ends up on the streets and take the lives about police officers. a community advocate say biden, and adam's policies just focus on more police. we can over please communities,

particularly the communities of color and think that this is going to be the solution. it's short sighted. it's an old practice and tactic that adams with the mayor wants to take on. and it really focuses on incarcerating or bringing those policing tactics into mostly communities of color. everyone agrees the violence needs to stop. the question is only how best to do it. gabriel is condo. how does it new york? ah, hello again, the headlines and i'll just 0 rushes president has held what he calls unprecedented close ties with china during a meeting with president she jan, paying in beijing shelf, unity comes, is relations deteriorates with the west over russia. true, build up near ukraine country and you was in a chinese capital with more on those talks discussions on ukraine and getting on

the same page about to be very high on the agenda when the 2.