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has all of his top aides resigned within hours of each other on thursday. and the historic plunge for facebook stalks as more users decide to log off for good. i'm doing again, rosco, with sports that opening ceremony in beijing is just a couple of hours away. as the city becomes the 1st ever to host to both the winter and summer games, we live in the bud nest. stadium is our aah! ross is deteriorating relations with the last to taking center stage before that opening ceremony of the winter olympics president vladimir putin. as met his counterpart, eugene ping in beijing, a head of the games in a joint statement. they said be opposed the expansion of nato, and they called on the alliance to did schwartz, they're calling cold war practices. now that's as tensions between kevin moscow showed no sign of falling. russia massed more than 100000 troops ukraine's border.

both countries have been holding military drills. russia is also offered to beef up its gas supplies to china. the u. s. in europe are threatened moscow with unprecedented sanctions. if ukraine is attacked while dosage about is going to be standing by for us in moscow. first of all, we're going to go to katrina you with the latest in beijing. katrina, if i understand correctly, this is the 1st time in 2 years, the presidency. jim ping has met a foreign leader face to face. and it's let me put him. what are we making of this that's right, well during this meeting today, between she and putin, both sides hailed the relationship as being at a level really that's never been better than the closest that russia and china have ever been. they have a high degree of mutual trust and it seems that they agreed to their father to only deepen that cooperation. now, this is an addition to a close personal friendship that these 2 leaders seem to have. they've met now 38

times since 2013. they show very similar governing style, some very similar views of international politics. and for president vladimir putin was the 1st major leader to confirm his attendance at the winter olympics at a time when the u. s. and many of its allies with announcing diplomatic boy coats of the events. so his visit to china is much loaded here. i think really this relationship. it's a top 2 main dimensions. one is political. these countries definitely a lot in common in terms of the ideology and i think specifically what they're both very tired of and what they both oppose is a world order under which the u. s. is the dominant power. so i think during this meeting, what they're doing is showing how strong their partnership is and also showing the world, perhaps a potential count away to the u. s. and other european powers. and of course,

the other dimension of this relationship is very practical. it's based on that can all make and economics and trade. china is russia's biggest trading partner. they did about $12840000000000.00 and trade in 2021. that's an unprecedented volume of trade between the 2 countries. and that's only set to increase, they also do a lot together in terms of energy. russia is involved in the building of, at least for nuclear plants in china. and of course, russia and china also have the power of siberia, a pipeline which supplies at least 38000000000 cubic meters of gas. true china from eastern russia were just before we came on air. there were some lines beginning to drop from the agencies about the details of this joint statement. that's kinda what more have they been saying? that's right, as much weighted statement. now what we were really looking for was any specific signal from china that it would support ukraine?

now from this joint statement, we haven't heard from bay june yet, but what we're hearing from the kremlin is that china really still on paper wants to maintain its neutral stance. but there are some statements within this state, which implies strong support of russia when it comes to its policy in ukraine or its actions on the ukraine border. the joint statement said that each country supports each other's foreign policy, that no country should improve at security at the expense of others. and also that both countries are per unilateral actions towards specific countries. they seem to agree why to and more. why does security issues both express concern over the office alliance between the u. s. the u. k. and australia. they called on nase hope to turn its back on what it described, the cold war approaches, and also oppose the creation of any a new military or other blocks in the asia pacific. when it comes to china specific

things, unsurprisingly, russia is that it whole heartedly supports the one china principle that it supports the thought, the view, the taiwan is a part of the main line and it opposes any taiwanese independence. katrina, thanks very much. indeed. katrina you talking to us from beijing? what dos as a body is life for us in moscow and katrina was just saying there are a lot of those statements where he's actually under underlying and supporting agreements and an understanding that already existed. but a lot of this meeting is about trade and gas is a big part of that. certainly the russians were going to china to sign nearly 15 agreements and most of them have to do with the gas sector. and we just have heard from the i kremlin, that's a china and russia have agreed to a 30 year deal where they will be the,

it's a number of pipelines, but one of the most important ones that will be completed in the next 2 to 3 years will be the power of siberia to and that's a pipeline that will go from the amal peninsula in siberia through mongolia and into china. now that is significant development because this is the same peninsula that supplies europe's oil. it currently rushes, exporting nearly 200000000000 cubic meters of oil of gas to europe annually. and they are looking also to a supply from the same area to china in the coming years. this is certainly giving a vladimir putin more political leverage about where he can direct his gas exports to shoot things escalate further. but this deal is now seeing it initially, a 10000000000 cubic meters of gas increased to china over the next year, annually they want to see the number from 38000000000 to 48000000000. but of course,

this will said there a mr. of increase even further the exports of russian gas to china. this is seen as a significant and development because it will not only improve russia china ties. because according to the statement that we've had, the joint statement, there are no borders between russia and china, and the friendship doesn't and is not influenced by international law environment. meaning that the 2 countries will continue to strengthen their ties. but lottery important certainly is very much supported by a chinese presidency, jim ping, who has said that the security demands such a brush as the making of the united states when it comes to nato is very much supported by a china. so we see this relationship deepening, not only i've with the financial sector and the economy, and a comic development between the 2 sides, deepening with the gas deals, but also the political seems very much the 2 countries are aligned door. so thank you very much indeed. does dorsey jibari talking to us from moscow?

let's go to sammy pruitt, who's a senior fellow with the international institute for strategic studies. he's joining us from singapore. really good to have you with us on al jazeera them so far, publicly. this is about trade and it's about political support. what else? our analysts going to be looking for when you're absolutely right. the laser that i mentioned that china and russia have wore a strength that partnership and, but it's really the military and strategic dimensions that we'll be looking at. and when we go through this very long document, this joint statement issued by russia and china, we're looking really for those instances where there's mutual support or simply recognition between russia and china on that positions on specific security issues and things like orcus actually all courts against the confer, arriving in this document just on that very quickly, you can see that the person of russia being more enthusiastic to endorse specific

chinese concerns insecurity rather than the other way still seems to be the case. the chinese support for russian positions is still quite general on the principles of its disputes around the enlargement of nature. one analyst that i interview just recently described increased cooperation between russia and china as a strategists nightmare. why would that be? well, in some respects, the geo politics of this period of history are now coming really in to clear focus, a partnership non alliance, or should ads. it's not a mutual defense alliance like nice there is, but a partnership between china and russia. one needs to look no further than a map of the world to see just how much of eurasia they dominates. but more importantly, something that this statement alludes to, but something i think is becoming very aware, increasingly where to all of us is that it starts to link security of fans in the asia pacific with security affairs in eastern europe and europe. more generally,

in a very direct way, they'll be more than a ripple effects if something seriously escalates in relation either to ukraine or to taiwan going into the future. but just to final observation on that, there's no real sense of this partnership running out of gas quite literally. it's going to keep running because the economic bindings between the pair of them and the level of us prussia, the both us but china, russia. rhonda also seems to show nice signs with biting from a, from a, a global p r point of view. it is. one would think an opportunity for both russia and china to show that they are no longer in or they are not in isolation, which is a way that very often the west and certainly the u. s. have attempted to portray them you're absolutely right. and i think m. yeah, a lot is changed in j politics and last single, 15 years and actually now, but china and russia to develop the sponsorship, they have a credible position to take,

to say that it is not the international community that phrase that we started stop seeing. but we remember from the ninety's in the 2 thousands often used by the usa . and this document does make a claim to say that we all say represent a significant suede of humanity. but in times of the p all points, my mind was a sort of cost back to the thought she went through and pick some of you. of you might remember this. in february 2014 vladimir putin authorized the annexation of crimea, weeks softer, russia her state the salt, she wins her lympics. so they're still that fear right now. that actually boots and comes back to russia from this visit to china. and authorize is something particularly severe, and ukraine recall actually rule the out. but i think the, the p r, perspective, the t lead is together is going to play, i think, quite strongly in some of the world. and in all the parts of the world, it will simply confirm people's worst feelings about these t regimes. sammy poorer, it's good to get your thoughts on this and we appreciate your being with us and

i'll just, you know, so thank you very much indeed. thank you. russia about separatists and eastern ukraine. have set up training comes for youths. instructors say students are taught about patriotism and self defense. child stratford reports from the town of mac if come these teenagers, some of the 5000 members of a youth movement in the pro, russia, separatist controlled region of east and ukraine. they all still at school. you know, me roughly translates to army of the youth. instructors, 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 think of it ocean, 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 did went to soviet union was attacked in world war 2 murals in the school. kartel 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 though. 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 $2000000.00 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 to our bit of 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 whole, the danger is what the crane is described as russian expansionism with its roots in the soviet past. here it start to tell the children that the danger is an ideology

that has huge residents with both the young and the old then they are working ok, he know within their work for susan ukraine is not our enemy fascism. is that the enemy? in 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 friends are too young to fully understand how history can be manipulated to serve military or political ends in any conflicts. if you kilometers 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 anymore ahead and these are including we're

going to tell you what people in california are doing at home to fight global warming. and egypt reached the final of the africa combinations after a tense penalties shoot out with hosts. cameroon. joe's going to have all the sport coming out ah, the u. s. as the leader of iso was killed when he set off a bomb during the special forces operation in north western syria, our believable him, i'll how she me all cray. she was one of at least 13 people, including 6 children who died during the rate and the time of my and rebel held it live province. it was the biggest us raid there since an attack in 2019 that killed the previous leader of ice on our white house correspondent, kimberly hoggard. as 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 isolator. 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. residence 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 or might in 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 easy the 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. presbyterians may be the only, it's of a lining of this is it has wrote media attention to the conflict in cilia seems from their perspective that no one really cares it. so a one advantage in

a sense is that this is now grow 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 help get al jazeera, the white house said m garcia. louis live for us at the hot. i shall go some crossing on the border between turkey and syria. and him talked to us about the area where the attack took place. how are people there reacting to all of us? a worldly attack happened in nearly 5 kilometers behind the skate that separates turkey, syria border. turkey and syria has nearly 900 kilometers of florida, which is the longest them. oh, the neighbors. according to what we have listened so far from the locals and n g o representatives, the locals of ultimate town,

which is again right behind the skates, very close like nearly 2 kilometers closer to the shape. they have been very terrified after the attack because that was a very wide scale military operation conducted by the us special forces in the area . an ottoman town is an area where you have hundreds of thousands of id peace, who escaped the war, bombs and rock hurts me styles during entering old us a 10 years syrian civil war and, and they, they were very afraid a, when this operation a to place it friday on friday morning or thursday night, let me say so we have in speak to we have been speaking to the people and they are saying they are afraid to speak and they are actually still in shock at one because of the scale off. they'll peroration 2nd many civilians had no idea what kind of a person was living there. we are told that the civilians acknowledged that there

was a very high profile. what they called g, heidi, a jihadist a person living in the area, but they had no idea about his affiliation, whether he was a member of i's still h. d as or harass at din or any other armed islamist group in the area and jihad is, are kind of appraised among the opposition as they are fighting the a syrian government. so i, some of them are very surprised as far as we learned and a is. there are videos on the internet. you can, you can see them. you can see the, we're one woman living very close by a bow, a blue brought him a grey. she's 1000. she was actually a taken with her children away from the area by the u. s. a military members, so that she could be safe, but she was so scared she is explaining that i her arms were tied. of course of this operation means a lot as the u. s. a politicians have said this is a milestone, especially from the u. s. perspective, but,

but there are some questions. rising one ah, why is this operation take place now? a, when the u. s. was claiming that i still was older, the defeated an iraq and in syria it to how could and i so high profile i as a leader, i was able to take refuge in an area controlled by, hey, at ta harold, sophomore h t, as because we know that since mid 2017 h t as a conducted dozens of, ah, operations or assaults, or maybe more than a 100 at that targeted i shall members. so we're trying to take refuge in it live. so this is also said that scene also assign, ah, as the a hostility of the area at towards those other armed groups. so these are questions arising right now or also as the area is very close to the turkish border. there are some risks or threats that turkey and the turkish officials are facing right

now because as, so a is, this is the 2nd time in iso leader is being targeted by the u. s. military in a 2 and a half years, very close to the turkish border. this is a, what's the turkey secret officials should assess in terms of recent, in terms of any kind of threat that would create inside, which it would end up. as a refugee influx of the turkish borders said, i'm thank you very much. indeed. that's an am costello talking to us from near the turkey serial border. you can promise boys. johnson's facing pressure to show off is premiership is the so called a party game. scandal deepens for senior aids resigned on thursday, including johnsons, chief of staff, private secretary, and director of communications for fate, the head of policy. many of them miss said she quit because of a false accusation. johnson made against the leader of the opposition. john hall is lifeless in london. both johnson had said, oh,

certainly his supporters had suggested that bar johnson was going to make changes in the light of the civil service investigation into party gate. are these part of that, or is this people jumping ship? well as ever it depends who you talk to, who you listen to. the initial responses after those resignations on thursday were pretty unkind towards the prime minister. one former foreign secretary said he'd become toxic within the party. another unnamed cabinet minister was reported to saying it feels like the end it's all falling apart. well, those are views and that's a particular view that we have heard in recent weeks. another view, the opposite view comes from another unnamed cabinet minister, also reported on friday morning saying he promised action on mondays. you mentioned that to clean up the downing street operation. the action has begun, and maurice planned over the next 48 hours. the problem with that view is that

while 3 of the 4, in fact now 5 resignations, there's been a 5th on friday. i'll talk more about that in a moment. while 3 of those resignations were connected in a variety of ways with the party gates scandal, including one of them, the private secretary, martin reynolds, who wrote the infamous, bring your own booze, email, the 4th resignation you mentioned that monita is quite different. she, a person more loyal to the prime minister than most she's been at his side for 14 years, the head of the policy department in downing street hers. and indeed, the other person from her department this morning, the resignations of principal following that false accusation in the commons against kiss tom of the labor party leader johnson said as director of public prosecutions he had failed to prosecute the pdf file. jimmy saffel. well, mooney remote wrote that was unacceptable. a partisan, that tax, garrulous. she said not part of the normal cut and thrust of politics. he'd asked him to apologize. he didn't,

so she decided enough was enough and she has gone. so while downing street is very much trying to spin this as a planned operation, part of a promised reset, the mercer resignation indicates that the rock goes much deeper and it leaves johnson's premier ship. not just at the rest of senior age now in downing street, but looking distinctly shaky again with wavering am please deciding whether or not to press the go button on a vote of no confidence against him. potentially persuaded by what looks like a new round of couse, john hall in london. jonah, thank you. still had an al jazeera back in business valley, reopened to all foreign visitors after nearly 2 years of pandemic restrictions, auto workers and lexical make history with a vote that could shake up labor relations across the country. and it's for the actions already underway. beijing is we build up to the opening ceremony of the winter olympics that's coming up with joe.

ah. 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 of 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 ray with some cold rad, behind it into north, near, but tensor fade out for the sas. you are the be a few shouted northern spain, eking away the temperatures in the south. it's 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 england, probably no man to norway, but this wind the southwest is not a cockburn ready,

so antwerp won't feel that great. a team's bad 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, a wind is the story in north africa with the hamas and strengths in once more. probably more. so for the soft tick of madagascar, this dangerous storm. the 1st of this size a scene for many a year. ah, there was a time when the aka banjo river flowed through are enough to sustain lies in the northern callahan desert all year round. 2 but that's changing. we've got a 3 men in different parts of the alcove and go down as they faced drought, wild animals and man made threat in their constant fight. what's

a viable risk in it? all? botswana on al jazeera, there are some of the media stories, a critical new could the global news media gas spread. also on al jazeera government, shutoff access to social media, americans are increasingly saying authoritarianism might not be so bad. there were several steps along the way where the chain of command, it seemed like tried to covered up what's your take on why they've gotten this so wrong? that to me is political malpractice, the bottom line on us politics and policies and the impact on the world on al jazeera. ah ah,

what you want, is it a reminder, i told stories, this are in russia and china have released a joint statement opposing the expansion of nato and accused the alliance of the cold war approaches. prisoners letting me put in is in beijing for talks with his counterparts aging thing ahead of the winter olympics. the u. s. as the leader of eisen has been killed in the special forces operation in north western syria about abraham all haitian me, holler, tracy was one of at least 13 people who died during the raid in rebel held it live . promise you k prime minister bos, johnston's facing pressure to show up his premiership as the so called party gates, scandal deepens for senior aids resigned on thursday, including johnston's chief of staff, private secretary and director of communications. facebook's parent company has suffered one of the biggest over stock market wipers. metters share value fell 26 percent on thursday, wiping nearly $230000000000.00 off its value. the company that owns facebook

changed its name to matter and october last year. since then, it's lost about half a 1000000 daily users, mostly in africa, latin america, and india. facebook's also been affected by changes apple has made to its privacy policy. it's no more difficult for facebook to target users and that's led to fewer advertisers using the platform as bringing garrath beavis. he's the global editor in chief at tech radar. he's joining us by scope from london. good, happy with us on al jazeera. what's driving this drop for facebook? well, you mentioned there are a number of things that are causing this. obviously a slow down in use of growth. and one of the 1st drops that we've seen is something's going to little bit bit more worried about the whole situation, but absolutely the, the revenues now how they come by, as a result of the contract is having a big effect. also don't get seeing big investments elsewhere facebook matter as it's called. now look in the future,

it looks to invest in virtual reality and other systems such as that. so let's expand on that a little bit. i mean, the development interface built into virtual reality is an interesting one, but, but how does facebook move on from such a significant drop? and obviously, i'm reading that what part of the problem is that it's, it's leadership, it's user ship effect. we had just leveled off and it's saturated the market and that's as far as it can go. well, lately, he is going to be a plateau where the maximum number of subscribers or uses daily. and that's probably why we're seeing this investment in terms of platforms, because ultimately, facebook itself is a platform. and depending where you go in the world, how big it is, how dangerously can be affected by revenue. so for instance, in some parts of the world is the internet and other parts is just, you know, it's an app on a fire that can be used. we can have the amounts of tracking that, that need to be there for the modeling of advertising. but by making it a possibility for the math of the be the next big thing where you can go in a timely fashion and facebook. that's the big play that

a lot of people are investing in right now. it's not just facebook and microsoft making big, big acquisitions to perhaps try and get into the same thing as well. so the belief is in the future, user wants a far more interactive and immersive experience and that's why the big investment now. i think that because this is more people than perhaps one might have expected, have chosen to adopt apples privacy and techniques and also imagined privacy techniques and other similar, similar organizations are people more aware of the need or the desire to keep their identities on line. a secret from companies that make their revenue from selling them advertising. i mean absolute, it's a business model across the whole internet and it's very prevalent one as well. i think the apple is made, it's taken it from buried in the settings to be users could not be trapped to very much front and center and give them a direct choice. has become a very big difference. and that's definitely leading the charge in terms of making

up the most prevalent amongst the most different categories of uses. so while i think the absolutely people always are concerned about that privacy and i always will be, is the fact is being made front and center in that choices when they download the new app. it's making a difference here just very briefly, because time unfortunately is, is a bit short, but how does facebook move on from this, in terms of monetizing whatever it then develops into it, as you say, for example, virtual reality, because one would assume the same privacy concerns are still going to be there. well, the problem is we don't know how the veteran t y will work, whether they're met, the best will actually be a thing where that would just be the internet. we better to go. so what we really find out is which platforms become prevalent, but no guarantees. it will be facebook doing the leading the charge. so we'll have to see what happens there can be this good to have you on the show. thank you very much indeed for your time. so around 6000 car workers in mexico have voted for the new trade union. the change at general motors as seen as

a test for new legislation aimed at breaking the grip of traditional unions. as john holman reports is one on one of the 1st secret ballads of its type. a change of shift in the general motors factory salon mexico, and the change of god with the union to of the 25 years. they now have new representation and hoping things will be different. lower that they say. the truth is that there was always a c t m union jack and they never represented us. they always looked for personal benefits and protected the factories, interests. now, an independent workers union has taken charge. that could be hugely significant for more than just the $6000.00 workers here. it makes core, it's a common story that unions are in cahoots with big business, rather than getting employees better wages and benefits. the g m workers. insulin, for example, told us they were paid lesson attempt of what the counterparts in the u. s. good. i've always thought that a labor reform, one of the requisites of

a renegotiated trade deal between this country, the us and canada, aims to change that. it gives met, can work as the right to vote on the unions and labor contracts in secret ballot. something that rarely happened before the election in ceylon was seen as a bell with a vote, with the new secret elections work. on thursday morning, the results, the new cynthia union trance, the old one. it's headed by paint worker alejandro morales. now she's came to get started in conduct as at any up without the contract that we have was completely on the side of the employer. there were many rights for the workers and we have to change that. we have to be a union that really defends them a whole lot. but it's not just mexican workers who stand to benefit from miss. there's a reason why you as union reps watching this vote carefully. it's obvious why in particular the us wants is negotiated for in the u. s. m. ca trade deal. we curl, co opted unions mean less pay and benefits for employees,

which in turn means cheaper mexican labor costs. the u. s. wants to stop. what it says is unfair competition. but there's no guarantees that sellers will be repeated in the many mexican companies that don't affect u. s. or canadian businesses. nozik doin is the last embrace this sectors where there's inches from the u. s. government and unions who promoted this reform are going to be observed and we'll now see the closest we've had to free and fair elections. but we're talking about a very restricted number of companies. there are thousands of others in mexico that have protectionist unions and will never have those elections. it will be up to the mexican government itself to choose if it wants to change that, or simply lead its own reform. langrish john holman, al jazeera metzger, city. india has officially recorded more than half a 1000000 corona virus deaths, but some experts, so the actual figure is much higher. they all micron variant is behind the

countries. 3rd wave of covered 19 a study published in the journals science estimates about 3000000 people have died . the government says the claims are baseless. molly has reopened to all foreign travelers. the indonesian island depends heavily on tourism and its opening up the border despite arise and covered 19 cases. the 1st direct flight in nearly 2 years landed on thursday from tokyo. visitors will have to quarantine for between $5.00 and $7.00 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 joe co 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. according to lockdown and taura has been extended by another 48 hours. the pacific islands have 5 confirmed infections after having only one until last month to nami disaster. much needed aid also brought the virus evacuation orders are being issued in madagascar as a large cycle. and approaches from the indian ocean cycling, but said i is forecast to storm the east coast on saturday with high winds and rain that could effect up to 600000 islanders. it's already led to the death of at least one person in malicious. and it's also affected the nearby french island of our young people in california now required by law to separate their food waste from other rubbish. for composting, that's part of a plan to reduce organic waste sent to landfill sites by 75 percent. reynolds reports la centuries, just taken the arms of composting food waste is

a simple daily chore for kristen delaney and her daughters kitty and dakota. los angeles mom put scraps into a been where worms break them down into rich soil, which she then uses in her garden like a diverted maybe almost a 1000 pounds of food, just like our family of 4. like that's a lot, a lot of snacks starting this year. most of california's $40000000.00 residents will be required to separate food ways for composting in an effort to reduce greenhouse gases that cause global warming when dumped in landfills and left to rot . food waste emits methane, but methane loose, and when it comes from, the breakdown of our food waste of our organic waste is $84.00 times more potent than carbon dioxide on the front lines of the compost battle. teresa english works

for a community composting company called composed double l. a. she is part of a team collecting organic waste from $800.00 households. when people find out that the pseudo espanol info is actually creating more greenhouse gas, and i think that i, it can be upsetting 20 percent of california has methane emissions comes from our landfill when com posted this garbage doesn't emit methane, and it's like black gold for farmers and home gardeners, monique figure eto, is composed of all las founder. what we do is we take their scraps, we bring it to one of 11 partner farms, they turn it into soil and then either the partner farm gets to keep it. it's distributed throughout the community by volunteers, or it goes back to our members to use in their garden beds. if everyone in california gets on board with composting, it will take a bite out of global warming. can fornia authorities say once they've reached their

goal of composting, 75 percent of the state's food waste? it will be the equivalent of taking $1000000.00 cars off the road for an entire year. last year we diverted almost $200000.00 pounds of food scraps, and that's just individual households coming together to make a difference. so it's really impressive what collective action can do when everybody does a little bit. it really does add up for the delay. any girls, it adds up to an important lesson. they, i want them to know where things come from and where things go. teaching a new generation to cope with a warming world. robert olds, al jazeera los angeles. so how did al jazeera, we're going to hear from a 4 time olympic skier and what she thinks of the downhill course at the beijing game that's coming up with joe in sport. ah,

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lou. a sorry for the sport. here's jo rob. thank you very much in just over an hour's time . the 24th winter olympics will officially begin in by jake. the opening ceremony is set to take place at the bus nest stadium, which was built for the summer games back in 2008. beijing is the 1st city ever to host both the summer and winter olympics. but the build up has been dominated by coven 19 restrictions and diplomatic boycotts to help us unpack. all of that. when go live to the stadium now to speak to associated press, correspondent stephen, wait. stephen, you were there in beijing for the opening ceremony for the summer games in 2008.

how does that compare to today's build up could not be more different. you know, i was there in 2008 i recall very clearly was about 30 to 33 degrees, very hot, humid sticky night. a night of grand anticipation. bridging had waited years and years and years for this event. the city was electric. right now it's under 0 here, probably 2 or 3 degrees below 0. it's very cold, the stadium is going to be more or less empty with some selected people and it's such a different atmosphere. i don't think many beggars are focused in on this event. the way they were in 2008 of course are going to know what's going on. but the, the difference is stark. very, very start said stephen, we were talking to you and took care last year at some games that code 19 is still a massive factor here. how do the restrictions compare this time around?

i would say the restrictions to these games are 10 times more than tokyo. let me explain. when i left japan to come over here several days ago. first of all, i had to download an app on my phone. i had to be tested twice in tokyo before i could even get on the plane. when i got off the plane, i was tested several several times in the airport with my people and has mad suits got on a bus, was taken to the hotel in the hotel. we can't go out of the hotel except to go back on the bus and go to the media, the media center, or to a venue. then you're really the venue. you get back on the bus. you go back to the hotel you. this is an isolated puzzle. there's no contact, no contact with any bagginger. i can't walk on the street, get a cup of coffee. i cannot leave the hotel. so it's a very, very isolated feeling here. and when the games are over, we're going to be put on a bus, taken a plane and taken away. so the difference between tokyo is stark. after tokyo, people came in turn was could wander round the city, go out,

need none of that will take place here. we are separated completely from the city of beijing and the 20000000 people who live here. i want to talk to you about the other big issue that surrounded me games in earlier we saw russian president vladimir putin in basing. but several countries not sending any diplomats because the, china's human rights record. how damaging is that for the i see in china? or they certainly got a lot, a lot of bad bad publicity leading up to it. that's been the story coming in. the gains not about who's favored to win the ski jump. the story has been the weaker the internment camp diplomatic boycott led by the united states. the absence of most western countries here in a diplomatic farm. to day when the opening ceremonies take place. you'll see general secretary sheeting thing. you'll have vladimir putin, the president of russia, and thomas bock that will be about it. there are some dignitaries from small central asian countries,

but not many other people. and what's interesting is the dominating winters sports countries. let's say norway, which is favored to win the middle table, norway, sweden, the u. s. finland, canada. those countries who do well, almost have no representation here. the countries who do almost nothing have representation because they do business with china and feel obliged to be here. so that's, that makes these games also very, very different than 2008 when there were hundreds of heads of state and heads of government who showed up to see this grand opening for china. this is so so different. luckily that he thinks the more not to protest the year expects athletes to make a stand by i don't know, you know, the athletes are in a very difficult position. the, i'll see put them in a very difficult place under rule 50 apparently. they can talk, they can say whatever they want, as long as not on the podium. however, the chinese government has warned that if you speak out, if you offend us,

you're subject to some prosecution perhaps under chinese law. so the athletes assert, trapped in no man's land, you know, i think many of them probably will not risk saying anything. secondly, many of them are not engage very politically. most athletes in the olympic games, i think go to one game, 70 percent. go to one games, so i think many athletes will not risk saying anything, but we really don't know. we'll be watching for that to see what happens. and that the see how the i o. c and the chinese government reacts. all right, that is stephen wade for the associated press in bating, thanks very much speaking to us was not have the opening ceremony yet, but the action has been on the way for a couple of days in some events. us women's ice hockey team, one that opening game against finland, 5 go to to the americans, the depending champion. we've also seen the 1st action out on the slide. we've qualification rounds in the moguls earlier. we spent 2 full time winter lim can shimmy hot. he says, despite the heavy coated 900 restrictions,

the athletes will just be happy to get the chance to compete. at the end of the day, everyone just wants to to compete. and they understand that there's a close that out there. i mean, the pictures i seen a kind of crazy when i, when the food whole, it was all about socialized and it was really promoted to talk to other olympians. and now you've got your plastic, almost one meter by one meter next to you to just make sure that everyone is safe as possible. and you know, these are big sacrifices to make in terms of your experience and you're getting from the game. the end of the day we are getting an lympics and i think that's the most important thing. there's always a chance that your dreams ripped apart at the last minute from injury. this is, this is not tough of an injury because you aren't putting yourself out. let's take the risk, it's just the risk is everywhere around us, and i really feel for those athletes, i can't,

i can't even imagine how it must be to be 4 years of work. and then at the last minute to have that taken away by something that's out of your control. there's no natural snow in the mountain region. official snow to press about this. but actually over the last decade, sky races have used artificial snow on numerous occasions. more often than not in races. so it is something that can be used to skiing on. it's very cold yesterday was minus 21 in the mountain region. so the snow is super, super aggressive. it's really, really compress colds. now it's not the, the melt freeze overnight. they may look at injecting it later on the games. we pad with chemicals to make it kind of more ice like and less grippy. it's very feeling base this olympics eloquence gauge is not about force or aggression. it's all about the feel that the no test the bad. none of the athletes have skied it before. it's a level playing field for everyone. we. we were slightly nervous about the downhill

at some savory ribbon event. and we want to say exciting. want to see it challenged the athletes in every aspect to down to what that's at times the technical and gliding. and that was a bit of worry about how this track would be bought. we've had 2 training on say, fall on the men. i and all the reviews are really positive, like the best austrian ski is in the world of saying this downhill is worthy of the lympics. and we didn't have that 4 years ago in korea because the nature of the terrain. so it's really, really positive. i mean, i guess i was just talking about, i'm so excited to see this unfold. it's, it's historic and so many ways all 2 of africa's best football is we'll face each other in the final of the africa nations on sunday. mm hm. it's solid egypt to a place clinical. and his liverpool team might study a money after egypt beat. cameroon, in the semi's, frustrating goldstraw at full time ended with egypt coach carlos kiddos, receiving a 2nd yellow card for badgering the officials and being sent off,

he missed the extra time and penalties. cameron missing 3 in the shootout to send 7 time champions egypt into the final was also payback of the camera and beat egypt for the title in 2017. and this is what it meant to fans on the streets of egypt and city of keys at just outside cairo, egypt who are going to some days final looking to extend their reco run of titles. but also when they're 1st since 2010 in the a, b a, the l i type is b. the lake is by single point death thriller on thursday, making it 5 straight wins over that cross town rivals. there were 5 lead changes in the final 63 seconds of the game and the davis put the lake, his up, 110 to 19. he finished the night with 30 points, but was full seconds to go ready. jackson made this layout that the clip is back out in front. davis went from here to 0 as he missed a jump shot that would have won the game for the like his is taking this one to 111

to 110. are you, what is it about you guys find yourself in so many dramatic games on, on are we just wanna get the chance? you know, the money's worth so that's, that's why i think that's all the plans you enjoy. those are for one of the best, mostly best players. so i think that's what we all in life. i mean, everybody was when i'm sure all that you want to blow anybody out or we're just over a week away now from the biggest sporting event in the us. the super bowl, the cincinnati bengals, will take on the l. a rams for the vince lombardi trophy at the si fi stadium in california. the bangles end of the team street is 31 years without to play off when the season and pulled up a late fight back to the kansas city chiefs to the f. c. championship. but much of the talk around the big event has been about allegations of racism by form of miami, had coach brian flores. he's suing the nfl in 3 teams, claiming that hiring practices a racist,

hadn't been overlooked for several positions. he was interviewed for the teams, denied the allegations. flora says he hopes his little seat will help increase the number of black general manages head coaches and coordinators. and his message is being heard by the players. you know, you got 31 on the streets. you honors were, you know, people come to see to players and, you know, the players in his league or on a majority, you know, black in f american. so, you know, it is huge for, you know, to player to speak out for me or, you know, i always want to be, or i always want to do, you know, things in football, you know, after my career is over, we're in, um that just that just gives me an extra incentives to, um, you know, to become a genome. it, you know, becoming a for alpha. so, you know, i can, i can change things for the better such a scenario to go before that winter olympics begins, i will bring you more fats in on exports burleson. rob, joe, thank you very much indeed. and very now go ahead is going to be here. a couple of minutes was more in all these stories. don't forget the website. i'll just hear dot

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