analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al jazeera in south korea military service is compulsory. ah, but some refused to take part in 18th weeks. those dodging the drop on al jazeera ah ah, the bay jane winter olympics kickoff overshadowed by covey. 19 and a diplomatic boycott over china's human rights rank it. ah, you're watching al jazeera live from doha. i'm fully vegetable. also coming up.

russia and china present a united front. their leaders commit to a stronger strategic relationship in the face of pressure from the west. the u. s. waves, some sanctions on iran, as talks continue to try and salvage your 2015 nuclear agreements. mergers, job machines going stronger than ever. and the u. s. reports better than expected employment growth despite the pandemic. but businesses are still struggling to fill empty positions. ah, china's prize it encouraging paying has opened the winter olympics in bay j. nearly 3000 athlete, sorry, in a strict bible because of covered 19 and foreigners are not allowed to attend. the games have also been overshadowed by concerns of human rights abuses. david stokes reports from g olympia, who are you in the way for more?

oh, after a troubled build up the 24th winter olympics have officially begun in beijing? the venue for friday's opening ceremony was the birds nest stadium originally built for the summer olympics, back in 2008. it's the 1st city ever so spoke the winter and summer games. dear fellow olympian, your olympic stage is set you are for i fear. after overcoming so many challenges, but vow your moment this come the moment you have been longing for like the tokyo olympics last year, toby 19 has given these games a different complexion that taking place inside a closed loop system, keeping competitors and staff away from the general public athletes must get tested for cupboard 19 daily, and there were no foreign funds with only a small handpick domestic audience allowed to attend. some of the world's best winter athletes are unable to compete after testing positive. this is not tougher

than 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 day 4 years of work and then at the last minute. so had that taken away by something that's out of your control. several world leaders have traveled to beijing for the games, but other nations, including the u. s. britain and canada have declared a diplomatic boycott over china's human rights record. specifically, its treatment of muslim wages, china to noise human rights abuses. the people's republic of china is perpetrating a campaign of gross human rights violations, including janet sought over the next 2 weeks. is an urgent moral duty to shine a bright light on the many human rights violations being perpetrated by the host nation. beijing 2020, to organize the say. the games will be carbon neutral. oh, venues will be powered by renewable energy. and 5 of them have been repurposed from

2008, but with very little slow, full, more than 200000000 liters of water have been used to generate fight powder for the alpine locations. let's not be name in artificial snow is used her in a consistent way for decades. you now in a winter or a competitive sport. what is really important life for any other activities that sir we, we practice is to try to do it in the most efficient way. with the lead up to the olympics dominated by politics and coping. 19, most of the athletes will help the focus now shifted to the action. why, as nearly 3000 competitors from 91 nations, quite to take home a gold medal. david stokes al jazeera russia's president was one of the few world leaders to attend the opening ceremony. vladimir putin, hel, talks with his chinese counterpart. it was teaching things 1st face to face, meeting with a well beater. since the beginning of the pandemic, katrina, you report from

b j that in inclusion and she didn't ping standing shoulder to shoulder, showing what they describe as an unshakable bond. the leaders of russia and china met ahead of the opening of the winter olympics in beijing. it's the 1st time president she has met a foreign counterpart in person since the beginning of the pandemic, like a satanist luther ruthless or spirit of friendship and the strategic partnership, her route to the unprecedented levels. banjo on maria ad there. so she went olympics 8 years ago, we promised to meet again. we have kept that promise. the leaders signed a joint statement, presenting a united front on a range of foreign policy issues. they called for nato to end its expansion and for the military alliance to abandon it's so cold, cold war approach. they also denounced the orca security alliance between the united states, britain and australia, and the formation of further blocks in the asia pacific. the statement comes as

both russia and china experience souring ties for the u. s. and it's western and european allies. but doors, allies are also at odds. they see that the west is not speaking with one voice, and i'm has some odd division. so this benefit spoke, russia and china. the visit comes as tensions escalate over the presence of more than $100000.00 russian soldiers on its border with ukraine. washington is threatening to impose tough sanctions on moscow. should its forces invade. they ging says russia security concerns are legitimate the intentionally, yeah, here is to send a very clear message to the west that russia has options that russia china relationship is a possible alternative for, for, for moscow that is, is not going to be backed into a corner and leaders are expected to find 15 agreements on issues ranging from trade to technology during putin's visit. russia will increase gas applies to china,

and has announced a 30 year contract for a new pipeline between the 2 nations. china already received gas through what's name to the power of siberia pipeline that began pumping supplies in 2019 economic support from china could undermine any western effort to punish any possible russian incursion into crane. but i'm gonna say an even bigger concern. is it possible deepening a military corporation between moscow and they do? she didn't being has often spoken of his deep friendship with vladimir putin who was the 1st major leader to confirm his attendance at the beijing winter olympics. the u. s. u. k, canada and australia have not sent officials to the vet in protest against china's human rights record. katrina, you al jazeera, they jing and ram photon is said to meet the german chancellor and french president in moscow next week to discuss the ongoing military tension in eastern ukraine. why

more in a manner microns visit? but for so many cane has more from berlin on germany's diplomatic efforts there. all those in the media here in germany, but also in the international news media you've been saying, where is all our shots? what c p an up to? why are we not hearing more from him in so far as ukraine is concerned and, and other world crises? well, he is planning lots of different involvement. so we know that on monday of next week he will be in washington, d. c, meeting president joe biden. the german government has slight difficulty in that it wants to emphasize diplomacy and the threat of sanctions against russia. if there's an act of aggression and yet it doesn't want to arm the ukrainians. it doesn't want to give weapons to defensive weapons to kia, even though they know there are increasingly loud voices coming from key f, asking for precisely that. so it's quite difficult. half that mister schultz and

his colleagues are having to, to go down by trying to talk tough to the russian government while stressing the need for diplomacy. and yet also trying to appear like an ally to those in kiev who are asking for weapons which the germans don't want to give them. the french president manuel my call is hoping to use some of his powers of personal persuasion to try and de escalate the crisis with russia. ukraine when he arrives in the russian capital on monday to meet vladimir putin, the russian leader. now the 2 men had a telephone call on thursday evening. we understand it last just an hour. and this is the 3rd time that the tooth spoken on the phone in the past few weeks is all part of the french presence efforts to really try and push diplomacy to try and put the european union back at the center of diplomacy. because the li say,

are very adamant that this isn't about a manual micro on a solo mission to moscow representing fraud. this is the manual micro trying to talk to russia on the hall for the european union. france has the rotating presidency of the your opinion at the moment, and he is traveling to moscow very much on behalf of the e. you, it's worth also noting that micro will be going to kill just after his meeting with president putin. no doubt, to brief for lensky, the ukrainian president on the talk that he had with a russian leader. in other world news, the u. s. is waving sanctions on yvonne civilian nuclear program as talks to save the 2015 nuclear deal, enter a critical stage. the waiver was ended by former us present. donald trump in 2020 was in jordan has moved from washington. essentially what to the secretary of state antony blinking has done on friday is restore one part of the deal that was

reached back in 2015. this sanctions waiver allows foreign companies and governments to assist iran in the maintenance of 3 of its nuclear reactors. both share a rock which is a heavy water reactor and the terror on research reactor. otherwise, without this a waiver, these companies and other governments could find themselves in trouble with the us, possibly facing sanctions or ra, criminal charges of their own for assisting the government. this is a purely a maintenance some type of relationship. you're bringing in parts, bringing in the ability to monitor the amount of, of, of uranium that has been processed. and basically making certain that everything is safe at these 3 facilities. this is a technical step, one that needed to be done just for the safety of these facilities. and to in order

to load, try to make certain that all of the terms of the j, c, p, away or ra nuclear deal can be complied with. you need to have the ability for other parties, not just the u. s. and iran, but other parties, other companies, other governments to know what's going on inside these facilities have the technical information available. so that they can best provide the assistance that the iranians would need to keep these facilities running. still ahead on al jazeera, why the usb havoc and bodies bully after 2 of its own members of the last year's capital he arrives. and the us city of minneapolis is under fire again after another black man is shot and killed by police. ah, ah, look forward to brighter skies the winter sponsored my cattle ways. it's

not slogan beijing. well, not natural anyway, but it is throughout japan. western hunt, june ha qaeda you've seen this day after day to day and he carries on the air leagues out very cold air across the still open water, relatively warm and that generate snow shows doesn't do much further west. as you see. mostly it's fine. not particularly warm, but not extraordinary. are there is some snow developing in the middle of china. again, heading out slowly uses along the yangtze. i think we handle pick up a little bit. not a significant about necessarily the forecast, for example, looks like this. a day of snow on monday, but it's just a full likelihood temperatures staying above freezing the most part. so it's not going to settle for too long south of all this. and i think ross that we will also sit in houseman, in the showers throughout bornea and a good potter, malaysia. even sudden, tyler, which has been dry just recently. the orange tops, the heaviest rain. so probably western boyer most of india's dry. same is true for lanka, we've seen showers in the northeast there, marching slowly ne, with,

with the snow up in baton, for example. and some snow coming to northern afghanistan doors in pakistan. but the northern plain of india disappointingly, though warm foggy in the morning, smockey all day. and that won't change any time soon. oh, the weather sponsored by cataract ways of the world of high frequency share trading, exposed. i had this engine that was basically trading. it could last $30000000.00 was a terrifying experience. how artificial intelligence has raised the stakes and risks on the money markets is markets go faster, faster. we're opening up the possibility for an instability for no use with money box on al jazeera. ah

ah, you're watching al jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour, the winter olympic games have kit kat kicked off in bay jane overshadowed by co vic 19 and also concerns about human rights abuses which prompted some countries to sage diplomatic boycotts. the u. s. is waiting some sanctions on iran civilian nuclear program as talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. enter a critical stage. former president donald trump ended the waiver in 2020 other news and more than half the un security council has condemned north korea for launching a medium range ballistic. miss heil described sandy's launch as a significant escalation that seeks to further destabilize the region by china says

it's the u. s. that needs to change how it deal to a young young i diplomatic editor jane space has this report from the united nations. she eden and new york, she almost kissed all this propaganda video has been aired in recent days on north korean. t. b kim john own is showing off his questions, skills riding at speed on a white horse. but it is the speed of progress is countries making with nuclear weapons and miss all programs. it's worrying. diplomats, there were 9 miss are launches in january a record in a month. and the most recent launch was an advanced intermediate range ballistic missile. ambassadors came to a closed door meeting the 3rd this year. before it even started though, the chinese ambassador made it clear he felt there was a vicious circle and the u. s. needed to do more invoking the summits that president trump had held with the korean leader in 20182019. they should come up

with more attractive and more practical, more flexible approaches, policies and accents. we have all seen, we have all seen what happened in figure pull. we have all seen what happened the hanoi china and russia wouldn't agree to a joint security council statement at this stage. that clearly angered 8 other council members, which came up with their own statement read out by the u. s. embassy. the cost of the council's ongoing silence is too high. it will embolden the dpr k to further defy the international community. your chinese colleagues said that the u. s. needs to do more, and he specifically referred to the hanoi summit and the singapore summit, which president trump had with the supreme leader kim. so is it time for president biden to get directly involved in the diplomacy?

united states has made clear that we are willing to meet with the north koreans without pre conditions. but before we can connect our president to meeting, we need to have a better sense of what there is to achieve. the united states would clearly like the security council to take a tougher stand on pyongyang, but china currently actually wants to ease sanctions on north korea. and it's a subject that will come up again on monday when the security council under the presidency of russia hold. so meeting about sanctions around the world, james spies out a 0 at the united nations. thousands of people have protested in miley against that former colonial power france. they were celebrating the expulsion of the french ambassador. he was given 72 hours earlier this week to leave after the french foreign minister described manley's military leaders as a legitimate and out of control. relations between the 2 countries have been

strained since the military sees power in 2020 while a series of recent schools in west africa and the corona virus pandemic, on top of the agenda at a today's summit of the african union leaders, air under pressure to increase the number of africans have been vaccinated against covered 19. why would i do? has more from addis ababa. a belfry can union headquarters in the philippines capital. the foster summit with b point stood over video link in more than 2 years. the newly established africa center for disease control africa cdc, is leading efforts to keep the 2 days summit corbett, free the decision to all the summit in the possum. ah, since the advent of brother pandemic was to kim with the express, our decision that we're going to make it safe. top on the summits agenda is how to set up a quick solution against covered mountain in the continent. although covet vaccine

supplies enough recoveries and significantly the continent is struggling to expand roll out with only 11 percent of the population fully vaccinated. african heads of state and government covered here will also discuss another epidemic of multiple who's in the continent. emboldened by popular hunger was of the can. military leaders in molly gideon, burkina faso of cut it out folk whose in 18 months they followed military takeovers instead done and church in 2021. more than 115000000 africans that to day living under the rule of soldiers who illegally seized power. the african union with it's often much hyped slogan of african solutions to africa. problems has been unable to do much to tackle what sama calling on the p d'amico cruise. the now increasing calls for more action from the continental body. there is such as of cruise has a lumped was done because the remaining civilian didas on friday,

cold and emergence is some of the digital economic community of west african states . of course, miss not really falling to the illusion that the military takeover will solve the problem. they cannot solve the problem and that will not solve the problem. because we have seen it in the past. the african union suspended, muddy guinea burkina faso had done, but not chad. some analysts worn, the double standards could hop dire consequences. there is a break down into official contract between the government and the people. the government are not delivering for the people, but the benefits of economic growth are going to those florida rich and the poor continued to the poor. and the marginalized continue to be marginalized, with many african nations facing mid to security threats. relentless humanitarian disasters and millions of young people with no prospects producing the number of crews might be a tall order for the african union mohammed i do. i'll just eda, i disobey few p. the mer i'll z u. s. city of minneapolis says impose

a moratorium on no knock. warren said, comes after a 22 year old black man was shot dead during a police raid on an apartment. my can ask the story to put it shows the police officers unlocking the door with a key and storming into the apartment. within seconds of a verbal warning, 22 year old m l luck lying and blanket is dead. as an emotional news conference on friday, family members called for justice and accountability. i believe that he was executed by the apd and i want the police officer that murdered my site to be prosecuted and fired. in the video lock can be seen holding a gun. family members said he had a permit to carry the weapon. amir was a gun carry license in the bid you earlier logs family appeared with the lawyers

in a virtual news conference bade him announce any one's name. all they all, they announced that they were, they're executing a warrant, waking somebody out of sleep, while lawfully possessing a gun. the minneapolis police department has confirmed that locks name wasn't on the warrant. these are wrenching videos to watch their painful but it's necessary. and i hope that it provides some answers along with the questions the minnesota gun owners caucus released the blistering statement criticizing the police saying mister lock did, what many of us might do in the same confusing circumstances. he reached for a legal means of self defense. while he sought to understand what was happening, this latest incident comes nearly 2 years after george floyds killing by the minneapolis police,

sparked international outrage. the depart but now finds itself at the center of another controversy. a lawyer for locks family pose this question. as he called or change the fact that it's repeatedly black americans who end up in that situation makes us wonder. why isn't it any america? why is it only black americans that we don't give a chance to to live in these situations? the minneapolis police department is being investigated by the justice department to see if there's a pattern of civil rights violations. my kind of jazeera washington, the u. s. republican national committee has voted to censure to politicians from its party. they're accused of defying party leadership by participating in the investigation into the january 6 riots. republican politicians have largely boycotted, the democrats lead inquiry into what they call, legitimate political discourse. adolfo franko is

a lawyer and republican strategies. he says to lawmakers who were centuries, how democrats to use the inquiry as a partisan political weapon. the reason they've been censured lab because of their views. the reason they've been censured is because they're participating in a watt and a political theater on capitol hill, where the leader of the democratic party for the 1st time of the house, the speaker, for the 1st time in our history to met as denied properly at the minority leader and the republican leader, his right to select members of the committee once was. and so that was the decision of the republican leadership. and the 1st time in our history that a speaker says, no, we're going to have functionally, a partisan view of what happened or review, i should say. what happened in these events? that was a dispute here? had a leader mccarthy, the republican leader in the house been allowed is it's our tradition for 250 years to select his members. we will not be having this debate is just inherent in there

. it's a, it's a whitewash. that's a partisan political leader that's taking place. it is for a president trump. meanwhile for me, you as vice president mike pence has this miss claims by donald trump that he could have overturned of results of the 2020 election. and i heard this week, the president trump said i had the right to overturn the election president, trump is wrong. i had no right to overturn the election. the presidency belongs to the american people and the american people alone. and frankly, there is no idea more on american than the notion than any one person could choose, the american president, the covey, 19 dest, all in the u. s. tops, 900000 on friday, keeping the u. s. set the top of the list of countries with the most current of our assess guffman figures show. while new cases linked to the only con variant are

falling daily dead for sale. rising an average of 2400 americans are dying. daily health experts are attributing the increased to the fact that only 64 percent of the population is fully vaccinated. the u. s. job market has i seen an unexpected up turn in january despite a chronic, soft shortage. more than 700000 more jobs were created in november and december. the white house is hailing the figure as a sign the economy has remained strong despite the pandemic. will go chirping just in the past 3 weeks to days. extraordinary job reporting data was collected for cobra. crisis has been cut in half down and half in just 3 weeks. still to many cases, still we have to be on the, on the alert. but to be clear, this is a dramatic require when americans have been putting their jobs in record numbers, especially in low wage work, it's partly due to health fears and generous stimulus payouts. because of course 19

managers are now getting creative to entice them back. christine salome expats beach weather is still months away, but businesses along the new jersey coast are already looking to fill summer jobs, including more than $400.00 at this boardwalk, fund zone. if we don't have employees unfortunately, like we had to do last wait a short hours. so a lot of the guess i wanted to come, we couldn't stay open and see the whole time that we usually do. so a lot of guess or just the point in that. so we're hoping we can go back to our regular operating hours. we just need to have those employees to fill those long days. nearby restaurants are also looking for more help. normally we'd wait for april or may to start hiring for the summer. we're starting now at the robinson l house. they've raised their starting salaries to $15.00 an hour. well above the states minimum wage. places that rely on tourism like here on the jersey shore really have struggled, but labor shortages are

a factor nationwide across retail and service industries. many businesses that have been dealing with supply chain issues, forcing them to raise prices are also now having to raise wages. big chains like macy's, department store, have cut operating hours. others are getting creative, offering bonuses on the case of this pizza delivery chain. cash incentives for customers who pick up their own orders. some states have even deployed the national guard in response to health care workers shortages experts, blame fewer childcare options for working parents and generous government benefits during the pandemic for the problem. i think there's jobs to become a lot more unpleasant. we've also giving people lot of money. they're not still getting money, but they certainly got a lot of money over the last couple years. they have less need to work. and also they have more option. other say the pandemic lead many people to rethink how work fits into their lives and to question whether jobs involving long hours and low pay

are really worth it. industry groups, including the national retail federation, are pushing the government to authorize more work pieces for immigrants to make up for the shortages. for every worker is looking for a job, there is almost 2 jobs open that they can choose from. so that's really putting a strain on our, on our, on our members for sure, with the pandemic and it's special unemployment benefits beginning to fade away. they're hoping to bring back the workers and the fun before the summer tourism season. really heats up. kristen salumi al jazeera seaside heights, new jersey farmers in greece have been demonstrating against rising energy prices. they stage attractive protests on a highway and central grease. some say higher fuel and electricity prices have increased their production costs by as much as 50 percent. farmers say the government's $2200000000.00 power subsidy for farmers is not helping enough.

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