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a key summit of african leaders is underway in ethiopia after a to mall, to ecier across the continent that seen military clues conflict and further fall out from the corona. virus pandemic were coming up with a coordinated response to those problems will be at the heart of the 2 day meeting of the african union. the chair of the 55 member blocks commission has warned that several regions of facing serious threats to peace and security will. let's go now to our correspondent archman address. he is following developments from donna's capital across for us and clues and regional security. top of the agenda for the african union leaders and no shortage of cruise or attempted cruise. where you b, where you are in west africa, archman. exactly, and we've seen in the last one and a half years, 5 calls in the region for successful ones. and one failed cool attempt this year

basically to cause in molly the one that overthrew from a precedent book at k to and the transition government agreed upon with a course in molly same mil to june test, sort of send them packing and then introduce it or refer to transition program and then we'll see what happened in guinea and booking of fossil. and now this past week or so, we've seen the course hemmed in. going to be sol. now the, the african lead us west african leaders are calling this an epidemic. of course, and that it is a contingent they want, but it could spread father and that same thing we hear from security experts in the region. but the problem, according to some analysts, is the approach of the west african regional block. of course, they don't seem pop, could they act together to come up with a strong response to these? what we've seen in the last 18 months is an announcement or imposition of sanctions

on qu, leaders in various countries. molly, we've seen body suspended, we're going to fossil suspended, guinea suspended, and some functions. strict scientists were imposed on molly, including economic and total blockade of line and the tamales. however, what we saw in what can a fossil following that meeting that ended shondae a few days ago, the west african need is only agreed to sort of such penn foster from the meeting and from all activities of the regional body. but we haven't seen the announcement of functions according to the chairman of the echoes commission, because the leaders said they were, they were the, the precedent form a person couple agreed to resign. so they're not important functions of the moment . but people believe that as long as west african leaders are not able to come up with a strong response to this, including military deployment, these incentives will continue the last m with c, i west african leaders,

mustang of courage, shotuko, unconstitutional change of government was when yeah, jenna was in power 5 years ago. this sent original book without the shots being fired, yet jemma was forced into exile. they want to see this up and again. but the question is, do they have the resources? do they have the willingness to send a force to take on military cool leaders on their own turf? and thank you for that. that is up and address life from the gun a and capitan aquifer as well over now, to mohammed though he's in addis ababa, the summit taking place in ethiopia. mohammed where the conflict that began in november 2020 has killed thousands of people so far. how was this being addressed at the summit? while live leaders who are gathered here are pushing for negotiated settlement to the conflict in the ticket region of more funding to of the and what is making it even more ident is the dia, humanity, as tuition in the ticket region,

aid agencies including both of the you and are saying that they have very little access and they have been having difficulties reaching the people who need food aid most up to 2000000 people are estimated to be living in farming like conditions in his speech, to the african leaders. you in such a general antonio grotesque called for a quick and negotiated settlement to the conflict. prime minister also committed himself to that. i'm that will go a long way and reassuring not just if you up hands, but also the international partners that the conflict may be about to enter the dialogue face. this is what you have to say. our commitment to pursuing lasting and global peace in our candidly shouting main city. fast excellence is

listen gentlemen. the greatest listen that if you have learned that or the past year is out with those the philadelphia of african brothers and sisters, our existence of the nation would have been at great risk. alright mohammed and of course, another one of the other. greatest challenges facing africa right now is a very slow clothing vaccine rollout doing a global pandemic. what's being said, don, about that. well, that is top on the agenda here. the summit to africa is lagging behind the rest of the world when it comes to covered 1900 vaccinations. and that is not because of supply because africa has received more than $580000000.00 doses of the covered 19 in including $96000000.00 is received just last month.

what is happening is a problem of operation. the most countries do not have the funds with which they could take this, but out of the ports and into the arms of the people who need it most. they are right now calling for more funding for the operations to roll out. covered 1900 for the nation across the continental, only 2 countries that if they shoals and more issues to countries with the pine, the populations have managed to vaccinate just 70 percent of the people. now there's a deadline by the w h. all that all countries should be able to have, but related up to 70 percent of their population by the month of june and africa, it doesn't get the necessary health will not be able to obtain that deadline. moment. thank you very much for that for now. that is my home and the over the very latest. joining us live from addis ababa. thank you. but moving onto the new mound,

the u. s. is waving sanctions on iraq civilian civilian nuclear program is taught to save the 2015 agreement, reach a critical stage. donald trump ended the way with 2 years ago when he was president . that on says it was guaranteed from washington for the revival of the agreement. wrestle said, joins lie from the iranian capital that fed on how significant in this race we will it help get the talks back on track, even salvage the nuclear deal? well, it is quite significant because this is maybe the 1st time doing the button that says that the practical action is being taken. iranian had some conditions to take forward the talks and they were asking the immediate removed off the sanctions and all the sanctions like regarding the nuclear nuclear file. and they were asking for the what is the cations and the got them keys? but what if occasion they are seeing that not on the, on the paper,

but you run needs to see the practical actions taken by do you see that the sanctions are removed and also they are asking for the guarantees that in case of any nuclear deal, this is going to go beyond by an am station and it's going to be binding for the next president of the usa. however, you have to say that it is almost impossible regarding the american political system. but when it comes to the reputation, the 3rd that they can give some of the guarantees. so in this sense, the partial removal of the sanctions from the u. s. c is quite are practical to tap and it is while come in in the us say so far that hasn't been direct was between the iranians and the americans and the, the, for a minister of iran. appli ya said that if the practical actions are taken down been might be a direct talks between the 2 parties. and this a step is a kind of practical action that cool

a paved way for data tours between americans and iranian. and have we had any reaction from the iranian so far? while the running for the minister meet up to lie young just to they said that did the departure renewal off the sanctions is into prison, into run as a good intention, but it's not enough. and something tangible needs to happen on the ground in that says we can see that the iranian for the ministry actually well coming this stuff from the u. s. c. however, that has been another important reaction coming from the, the supreme national security council. the secretary of the national security consultation. connie was a very much important figured in the country and he's very much close to the supreme leader as well. he just today tweeted that the you rounds, the legal right to continue research and development to and to maintain its peaceful nuclear capabilities and achievement cannot be restricted by any

agreements. so what does that mean? many expert here say that the iranians are asking for the guarantees that the deal will go beyond by that station. but however, the american side, that is impossible to say that it's impossible. so by this to eat, alisha cotton is such a powerful figure in the country is sending a clear message to the americans. if the deal is not going to be binding for the americans, dan is not going to be binding for at the iranian side as well. just a round of talks have happened so far and next week we are expecting the 9th, the round also to, to start the delegations, or knowing the capitals for the consultation with the political leader. in that sense, this message coming from the, from the national security council is quite important because you run by doing that is actually keeping the leverage quite high. and we'll see next week, if this is the practical action taken by the usa and the message that they're

coming from, the political leaders in the country are going to have any positive or negative impact on reaching a deal. russell, thank you very much for that update. that is russell said live in fair on thank you now the latest ballistic missile tests by north korea being condemned by more than half of the members of the un security council. but in france and the u. s. are among 8 countries describing the test launches. as a significant escalation, china is urging the white house shall shine more flexibility if it wants to break through his i diplomatic editor james base and new york. she eden. judy of she almost kissed all this propaganda video has been ad in recent days on north korean t. b. kim john on is showing off his question skills riding at speed on a white horse. but it is the speed of progress is countries making that nuclear weapons and miss all programs. it's warring 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 actions. we have all seen, we have all seen what happened if we got full, 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 councils 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, can met 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 bows out a 0 at the united nations and timor had on the news. al, including ah, neighborhoods turned to ruins is landslides and floods caused devastation and bolivia, taking on crypto currency to look at how government's around the world are launching their own forms of digital payment. and in sport ran this for rinaldo, manchester, united and dumped out of the afaik house that's coming up in the air. ah, the u. s. as the death of ice's leader as a significant blow to the group of olivia, him alhashan the alkaloid a she is thought to have detonated a bomb during the u. s. military raid kidding himself, and members of his family. but as then, of course,

he only reports from hearty just across the board over turkey. people want to know how i could a, she was able to hide in plain sight, their wounds hide out of isolator, i believe abraham l. craig, she in northwest syria. been down by the us special forces during the counterterrorism rate on thursday. president joe biden said al cray, she blew himself up to avoid capture 12 other people, including 6 children, were also killed. the iraqi national was accused of orchestrating isolates, accent, syria, and iraq. his neighbors in the town of fatima are shocked that they live next are notorious outlaw sasha, where you are the hall is the higher for the round one. i am, we went out and saw thought helicopters flying low who didn't know who to talk. it was on out, there is a one i had gunfire in special forces, landed on the building. they spent 2 eyes, a gathered with the children in one house. the children couldn't bear while they

were so afraid apart that was a lot in as little al christian, his predecessor, ever back girl. but daddy both chose to hide among families of internal displaced syrians and that, i mean, we were asleep when we heard the explosions. then they called at every one man on the women and children to evacuate the building, saying they would destroy it. they tied us up and asked us a lot of questions. i told them, i don't know anyone from next door, al crashes landlord says he had no idea about his tenant. now he's trying to repair the damage to his property, of the forgotten of an ultimate assess human. let me tell you, i am from another stranger here. this person has been here for a year. you said he was an id p. i rented the house for regular people. how did, how could i know verify his real identity? we don't acknowledge it wasn't tolerate my terrorism. we hummed because of this man and this rate of my life, and i still remaining leaders, haven't commented on the raid, which gets there come right after the killing your through isolator is why the

united states over the last 3 years, many across the board, their fear grew up, we'll see that as a challenge, that could provoke more fear and hostility in the region and with terms of people being forced towards the border with key to non castillo al jazeera, what i did as a crossing to morocco. now a rescue team said they getting closer to reaching a young boy who fell down a 30 to meet her while he's been crap since tuesday. the team is digging as part of a hillside in a delicate and dangerous operation to reach the 5 year old boy is alive. pictures from the scene, katia lopez, hot a, an reports this mission to save a 5 year old boy has group or go for days where yan fell on to the bottom of the well while playing outside on tuesday. he's been trapped. ever since the well isn't the town of barbara read? it's 32 meters deep,

but his face is too narrow for rescue workers to go down and reach him. they've cut a hole into a hill next to the well hoping they can dig a horizontal tunnel to get the boy. they're loyal flush, they don't. american. they turned on the light on the front camera and dropped it down. so they discovered that the kid is still there and you're still talking. i heard him myself, he was begging us to save him. he led, the weather is halt and it's unclear whether the boy has taking any food, water or oxygen that's been channeled to him like, oh, great. okay. i hope he will come out of this. okay. it's like one of our own children has fallen. we're praying for his safety. he's one of our children. the hills have turned into a construction site with hundreds of people surrounding the area, anxiously waiting for a yan to be rescued. millions and morocco are watching the operation unfold. alive, on television, on social media support is also growing. rescue workers say they're getting closer

to the boy, but there is a risk of a landslide. knock on his right, sir hockey. dear, we are living in a true catastrophe. in his area with our son, ryan, we pray to god for good news to make our son all moroccans happy. a helicopter is standing by to take raeann to hospital and across morocco and the world. people are also waiting and hoping would be se castillo. this is a yeah, i'll just you and many on twitter have been posting messages, praying for re on safety to mom. would have people been saying, yeah, well actually this, this has been a, a lesson, an arabic speaking twitter for me. it's, i don't speak it's, i have to thank les, all our executive producer for actually helping me with some of these transactions . this is the hash, like that little the hash tag is say, brown, but it is obviously more prevalent in arabic, in morocco, a small amount there. but i would say actually a lot more over the road in pittsville, particularly in saudi arabia, where there are a lot of, of twitter uses there. i wanted to show you this morocco world news, the front page of morocco, world news dot com. obviously, the top story,

celebrities embassies, express sympathy with little ryan, but also 123 of the 5 top stories are all about ryan. it's a huge story, obviously, in morocco with people, absolutely glued to the television screens and there're their phones. morocco will news also put this out and instagram, i thought this is actually quite helpful. this isn't the, the news you can use. categories showing how this rescue operation is going to look . there's round on the bottom and you see there by the circle at how the well narrows down to just 20 centimeters at the bottom. and then if i get rid of that, you say the 150 meters that have had to dig in and down to get to where ryan is and now hopefully getting to the end of that's official social media channels. i have been charming and is all this is just one example from the u. s. embassy and morocco. in arabic, they're giving their best wishes to rayon and those who are rescuing him. and then

i've seen a lot on twitter football as actually algerian football stars, including this former football andy de la, who has oh, it's not changing there. he goes, see, says infringing for savannah liberty high on we must save a little ryan art work like this is actually been really prevalent. so just selected a couple more here for you there. this one's quite nice on the left. see just down the boss. it's got the world around and that's what it says in arabic. it's like the whole world is down there with him. and this picture on the right, what we are all hoping for. so i think it's some, i mean it's an awful story, isn't it? you can't imagine this idea of a 5 year point down a well, but in the arab world, clearly galvanizing people as well. come on. thank you for that matter. gaskin, our age groups and setting up emergency shelters as a tropical fi clone bells towards it. cycling but sir, i will make landfall in the island on saturday after crossing malicious and re union island strong ones and to venture rain fall expected to put millions of

people at risk. coastal areas have already been evacuated or bolivians have been cleaning up after a series of devastating floods. the man flies, tens of thousands of families have been effected. authorities bracing for more dom pulls the past is one of the worst had areas. fenton monahan reports the these are the remains of neighborhoods in the bolivian city of la, devastated by heavy rain that brought floods and land flight local people are taking stock of the damage. this woman and her family lost their home after was submerged by mud and piano jack, you'll be the where to comb or you of the day before yesterday, rains were heavy and the water came down like a river with great force coming from everywhere. because scared because we haven't been able to be for 2 nights last night at all terrain. and we stayed up until 1 in the morning watching over the house. the 10s of thousands of people have lost homes

and property. many haven't slept for several nights as dark clouds overhead race fears that more rain could come at any time. saving and let me copy all the weight of the mud was coming into my yard. since the mud comes from above, it comes down with strength and when it rains it becomes worse. we practically don't sleep anymore. some local authorities are clearing debris. some houses are beyond salvaging and will have to be torn down. many are blaming the heavy rainfall on a weather phenomenon. linked to extreme weather events is going to video, stems within the family. i mean, at the moment with sufferings you to the linear phenomenon, it's conditioning, whether events and it being characterized mainly by the very short events with an extremely high intensity that almost doubles the rainfall that was recorded and other ceiling. many parts of bolivia are on orange,

alert. many more land slides and rains are expected in the days and weeks ahead. benjamin al jazeera, the move weather updates the jacqueline limits, but he is what else is coming up bush's cumberland coastline. b. ask if it can be saved from the impact of climate change and installed controversy ahead of the mens down the base at the with a jing leah with the here with the details. ah . with all eyes on incoming tropical cyclone bat. sir, i making landfall to what that east coast of madagascar just south of the capital. we know this one's going to pack a punch at one point. it was the equivalent of a category for hurricane was sustained winds of a 145 kilometers per hour. but here's what we can expect about half

a meter of rain in the days to come or press play. see where this goes. it's looking like it's going to dip right toward the south, ducking and dodging mozambique and south africa. okay, let's go to the rest of africa and your weather report rate. now. com, toward the northwest and the northeast. cairo has a height of 19 degrees. we have some active weather that's moved across the english channel that slammed into northern parts of germany right into northern france. and at times we'll see some heavier bouts of rain here and for central areas of europe . pretty quiet. so we do have some showers rolling across mostly cloud cover actually for the balkans. zagreb has a high of 11 degrees and the easter med is also quiet right now except for a few showers and snow over the higher ground for turkey's northeast black sea region. some showers for the levant as well, and we can expect showers for southern portion of spain, but high temperatures. here is seville. 22 degrees on sunday. that's it for me, susan. ah.

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my zimbabwe on al jazeera lou ah, watching on to 0 reminder of our top stories, the south that he summit of african leaders as underway in ethiopia. the $55.00 member african union is under pressure to come up with a coordination response to a space of military coups conflict and further fall out from the corona vas pandemic. the u. s. is waving 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 and 2020 fed on

says it wants guarantees from washington for the revival of the agreement and rescue workers in morocco, a working around the clock to save a 5 year old boy. they're digging out part of a hillside in a delicate operation to reach the child has been trapped the bottom of a 30 to meet well, for 5 days. well, it's returned to our top story. now the african union summit, one of the blocks most pressing challenges, is responding to a series of military takeovers in the past 18 months. in molly anger over the government's failure to protect the people from groups for a clue. in august 2028 months later, the military seized power and chad, off the president was killed on the battlefield. and september, a soldier trained by the french foreign legion lead a crew to depose guineas, president alpha condo, a year after he won a dispute with 3rd term than in the tolbert. saddam's turn, taught general to control up ending the countries of democratic transition and

prompting months of protests and just last month. soldiers in booking of faso detained president, roche bori, another qu, fueled by frustration of a conflict with armed groups. well, let's bring in the constantino's. bear who testified constantino, as his trustee in africa, humanitarian action, which provides relief and advocacy services. he's also a former chair of the african union, anti corruption advisory board. and he's joining us live from at as of a very good to have you with us on al jazeera. why do you think it is that we are seeing so many crews are attempted cruise in africa over the past 18 months? and what does it tell us at some of these, at least a backed by popular support. thank you for how easy it is for the schools. because the root cause the funding of money governors are option that also. we have

a young people coming out of school and then expect patients to fin, then. therefore, what's happening in the democracy movement has been hijacked by the military, which is a most organized force in society. and therefore, things like the movements of the young people and educated people in sudan or been by the military. and this is when we send us, when, when junior wrong, we have for option governance and also the ability of the government to be able to administer the armed forces. a, you've a former chairman, chair of the african union, anti corruption advisory board. why do you think that the union has, i know it's a massive challenge, but why has it failed to address the challenges of corruption enough? what does she, the african union is the condition of the state and government of africa.

the charts of the united nation say, when the people in the admissions for this chapter of the african united states with the head of space and self, and state and government of africa. and therefore, it doesn't have to be kind of linked to soon. society was in wisconsin and therefore whatever the commission or the union is going to decide it is up to the members fits and be able to implement it. and it's been very, very difficult in all the declarations that one when the african making. so some of the african had so states and so is the criticism as it, would it be right to say that, you know, the criticism that we hear organizations like echo was that it's essentially a club for presidents. is that a fair criticism of the african union itself rather than one that serving the interests of the people? well, medically that's the kind of reason organizations reuniting commitments as we have

been in our c. s, government and states that the decision makers, that is very little a link to society. and also with the riving challenges we have in the continent, will have so many months from society that have been made for a long period of time. and therefore, while the frustration in civil society is always hijacked by the ministry, and that's why we have this system. and so far we have over a 100 success from africa and they send along that governments can deliver on will governance. mr. cost, do you know us better who test the constantino's? joining us live from addis ababa there. thank you very much for your time. be appreciated. thank you. now to hong kong,

where leaders are under pressure to change the 0 tolerance approach to the pandemic on saturday. it recorded more than 350 new infections, the highest since dependent began. economists that failing to relax restrictions could jeopardize the territory status as a financial hub. but kenneth reports from hong kong. hong kong is known as asia is world city that economists a warning that could soon change the territory as keeping in line with a 0 coven policy adopted by mainland china. locked downs and mass testing are common place and social distancing. restrictions have been extended, at least until mid february. people have been suffering a lot in the past 2 years and i doubt whether people can stand another 23 years in the current state. so, so to me, this is definitely not ideal. according to a report by the european chamber of commerce, hong kong international isolation could extend into 2024 or until mainland china

reopens to the world. experts say, hong kong reputation could suffer long lasting damage given that to the hong kong is the financial hub. is the headquarters for many multinational firms in the region? ah, and therefore many experts will want to come to hong kong, but you get discouraged by this policy is going to make hong kong last international. hong kong is one of the few places in the world, still maintaining its no tolerance approach to coven and sticking to mainland china's policy. but as a 5th wave of infections sweep through the community, followed by another round of restrictions, people here are increasingly questioning whether the strategies sustainable or not a scandal over a birthday party attended by government officials, has done little to boost trust on monday, hong kong home affairs chief casper choice stepped down after making he behaved inappropriately by attending the gathering last month. the government is also under pressure to boost vaccination rights among the elderly,

currently at just over 30 percent. with our mc crohn infections expected to serge following the lunar new year. festive period. getting infections to 0 is looking increasingly out of reach brit clinic al jazeera hong kong and on the main them carnivores infections linked to the beijing winter. lympics have doubled within 24 hours to $45.00 new cases. strict rules are being enforced, including daily testing for the 3 of athletes who, being isolated from everyone else. and the u. s. the number of people have died in the pandemic has so past 900000 new infections of falling in nearly all states, but death arising averaging 2400 a day. now the us republican national committee has voted to condemn to politicians from its own ranks. ms. cheney and adam kens and good are accused of defying party leadership by taking part in investigation into the january 6 riots on friday.

republican politicians officially described the attack on capitol hill by donald trump, supporters and events leading up to it as legitimate political discourse. hundreds of protest as have driven through the u. s. city of minneapolis to protest the police killing of a 22 year old black man. i mean long was shot dead in his apartment on wednesday to offices use a no not search warrant logs. families just woke him up while he was sleeping, and in the confusion he reached for firearm. mike hanna, report the foot. it shows the police offices unlocking the door with a key and storming into the apartment. in 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 m p d. and i want the police officer that murder my site here 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 carrying license in the bid you earlier locks family appeared with the lawyers in a virtual news conference. they didn't announce any one's name. all they, all they announced was 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 saw to understand what was happening, this latest incident comes nearly 2 years of the george floyds killing by the minneapolis police, sparked international outrage. the depart but now finds itself 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 now many was will have heard of crypto currencies such as bitcoin now and increasing number of governments and trying to regain control of how people spend their money by developing their own digital version of cash. only 9 countries, especially using digital currency, is mostly in the caribbean and my g area, which launched the inara in october. china has trial the digital, ron or e c n y, that's a mobile phone app, which allows users to buy the currency and make purchases. it is all cashless. india is aiming to release the digital repeat by next year prominence and that ends morty says it will allow bias to convert the digital currency to physical currency and vice versa. with ease. 87 countries are exploring options to what's being described as the future of money. and unlike crypto currency, it's issued by central banks, so it's regulated. well, let's get more on this. now we're joined by lay when she is fintech consultant. as

capron asia, and she's joining us live from shanghai, very good to have you with us on al jazeera. so a lot of attention on the digital one with foreign athletes, opposite the paging and being able to use it for the 1st time, you know, outside of it being piloted. tell us how was it different to just making online payments? sure, so in terms of use a ads online template, it is not really much different from what current digital was could do. so people just open their account online with the e. c. and why apps and the topic ob wade. i pay which i pay all accept you ban cards and use it as a payment tool show the pure aqua bar code to the merchants that could accept that . but in addition to this digital, well as it, there's also a hot well or warrant which is currently applied in this winter olympics. so people can just go to this ed him wishes and ta pop. ugh. 7 hot bullet with

a card that has the little window on top of it, showing what the banner is and how much they could use. does the digital one give the government greater visibility into the financial transactions, off it citizens of the people who are using it? well there are 4 different tiers off base security levels. so for the for tier people can just use like a mobile phone to register and, and the transactional image per day would be limits would be lower compared to the other 3 tiers. but just considering that you only use a lot while at a mo, by song to top half your account except euro, there would be very limited the requirement to on your personal id all information . so if you are really concerned about that, that capp hope questions. so just try these lower requirements and you can,

you use this eviler, but there are enough people who are concerned about privacy issues. you as congressman there was a u. s. congressman tom emma cited privacy issues and legislation that he introduced that would prohibit the u. s. federal reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency directly to individuals as he right to be concerned . well, there's already set up for this privacy protection from the got one to one needs about such a digital wallet. so as, as is explanatory, they are a whole different tiers of a level information that's required for your digital word. but, you know, addition to that, like compared with using a card, especially for foreigners like. so 1st of all, the information required is very little and the government would try to provide your privacy on anom to when you conduct the transactions and 2nd novel compared to like using race, al must car to inside china did. the information would be transacted among

individuals to more chance are human backing. this financial systems would be off similar levels. so there shouldn't be so much cassandra or rock bands and of course cash be the most dollars matters. but go ahead with the come with how begins brought by these e c and wide. so i should consider try it. i mean, we are, of course, having this conversation because of the advent of crypto currencies, you know, bitcoin was introduced after the 2008 financial crisis is the form of money that was meant to be independent of government or bank control. is there still an argument for that, you know, does the rise of the central bank digital currencies? is it, does it highlight the importance of di, centralized crypto currencies that are relatively private and not controlled by any government? it's right. that's why the price like you're a shop digital currency is also out of control, like in your videos,

could use it as rebate has method of course, but also one people tried to your saved for their daily lives. and people would also tend to use some stable wise, which would harm lay b and control r y d advised central bank. for example, the u. s. got plenty will not like be con to replace the us dollar either a lady wearing. thank you very much for your time on this. we do appreciate it. thank you. thank you for having me now with a long and well populated coastline. the u. k is a serious risk from climate change flooding and storm damage could make many areas uninhabitable by 2050 the government of san and to spend $7000000000.00 to protect the coast. but exports say hard decisions and needed about which areas are saved and which surrendered to the c on a hall report from sidmouth and devon. this is sidney from the devon coast. a

georgian town that lost a 100 meters of shoreline in a century, a rate that's now close to double in places on its east beach. the clips have been crumbling for years. where once there was climate denial, there is now an unavoidable reality. as we watched, another section fell into the sea. a certain climate change now has changed people's perception in the last couple years. i think there's a recognition that there's a tremendous danger from climate change. coastal defense is already in place, protect the towns problem out, but they've affected the natural title drift, making things worse for the nearby cliffs. down here at the water line, you can clearly see the forces of nature weighing on this landscape down one side. this river runoff made heavier by more frequent storm activity, up above the cliffs,

heavy rainfall that saturate the soil from below the waves lapping all the way pretty much up to the base of the cliffs, their own beach protections washed away. it's a 3 pronged assault, making this world heritage site and others like it all the way up and down the jurassic coast, vulnerable, fragile, prone to collapse. the problem is people live up here, some in large houses with majestic c views and fast receding from lawns. it is worrying, but i assume with the my age is not going to be a physical problem to myself. but the further down the road you get oversleep, the worry will get larger. and there are gardens that are literally falling into the sea down. absolutely. and at some stage they've got to do something to protect the town. a 2020 report by the committee on climate change found that 1200000 homes in the u. k are at high risk of flooding, and a 100000 more will succumb to coastal erosion in decades to come. there's increased

funding for protection but not everywhere can receive it. and that means hard choices lie ahead. basically telling those people who live there. but you will not be will no longer be able to live here in the next 203040 years, you'll have to abandon your house because we can no longer afford to protect you. now, those are really, really tough decisions. and they, they, those sorts of decisions will, will increasingly be necessary in the future. the homeowners overlooking east beach, a clinging on her. now there are plans being worked out by the local council for a protective barrier to be placed in the c. it's a race to hold back the rising tide, jonah hall al jazeera and sit still ahead on the news our a big announcement of the baiting and the picks from one of the was the biggest one to support staff. lia will be here because

i informed opinions that initial thought is on national visual supply is not large enough to adequately do our people in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera lou. a it is time for support now he is lia think, elizabeth. well lots of big news coming out of beijing, but let's start with the 1st gold medal. when at the winter olympics, norwegian cross country scared. he said you're hog snagged the hardware. she

powered her way to victory in the women's ski off one race. and we've just heard that the netherlands irene skelton has won the 2nd gold of the day. and the women's 3000 meters speedskating their total of 6 golds up for grabs on saturday. and one of the biggest winner sports stars in history, sean white, he is confirmed that he will retire after these games. the american snow borders the face of his sport, and as so far $13.00 gold medals across 4 olympics, the so called flying tomato is 35 years old and says he made the decision to hang up his board recently while he was in austria, i broke down a little guy, very emotional and, and called friends and family manager, people kind of told them why i was they all agreed and said, hey, beautiful run. and let's see this through it and see what's next. let's bring in former olympics gear graham bell, his commentating on the games from the u. k. it's nice to have you on al jazeera

graham, but let's start with sean white and his news. what's your reaction to him saying that he's done? well it's, it's about, i'm really, i'm 35 years old in a very young man's balls is quite incredible that he's been able to keep his body together for such a for such a long time. i spoke to him in been ria, the olympic games in the summer in the big games and ria and i thought he'd be retiring then. he was focusing more on his music by playing in a rock band of that song. but to come back and the come back that he made in killing chain to win. gold was quite incredible. but to make it to these games is, is fantastic. and if you can get onto the podium, it would just be, it would be the story easy. basically taken snowboarding and taking it into a different level, you know, people know sure why it's not just through sports anymore. well, what would the support be like without him? do you think, will there be a new shot?

white and it will eventually that might well be. i mean what he did was he kind of took a very kind of professional and sportsmanlike approach to what was a kind of new i'm growing that kind of free style schools. and he was incredibly hard, and that was one of his great talents, is that he could just put the hard work and, and, and i did that from a very, very young age. you didn't come from, you know, it didn't come from a very wealthy family. is parents used to drive him up into the mountains in california? it sleep in the back of the ban, and then the guy writing a snowball. and you know, he was incredibly hard to get to where he was. and yeah, to be going that long to, to $35.00 to a base. and so many and effects is. ready incredible, well shawn's had his time in the fall. you've had years, you've been to 5 olympic games and to talk more about your sport skiing. and

there's some drama going on with the mens downhill event. he talk a little bit more about that. yeah, well we was kind of figured that wind would be an issue on this course. i'm in now young king because you know, the days that cold arctic wind comes down from the siberia when that comes down from russia, china and when it blows, it can really blow hard. nasa training cancel today. only 3 training days and then the race tomorrow. hopefully if the weather is good enough in the wind, the wind dies down, but it's a brand new course. no one had had a chance to ski it trying to the games. there's been no real test events that will come level. so everyone's kind of in, you know, testing it out and it's, then they've tried to make it as difficult as possible. it's not the, it's not the biggest, most intimidating of mountains but, but not to receive the course design. i was actually the limbic champion in support

in 72. i, he's tried to build it in such a way that it's, it is a test. it doesn't have the vertical drop of, you know, some classic down hill courses. but it, it is a test and there is some, there are some decent jumps and when you've got wind high winds, you can get blown quite far off the job. and that's what happened today in the training with the, with alexandra or mac kilda is one of the favorites to way. and he had a tail where, you know, that she had when dying off the jumping that picks you off. it makes you saw even further. and i think it's about 46 meters. yeah, well thank you so much for having that are so thankful for having you on the show and thank you for talking to us graham bow there is a guy race or let's see, let's see. alright to football and manchester united have suffered a shock to feet and the english f a cup they're playing in the 4th round against middles bra who play in the league below them. and there was

a rare miss penalty for christiano rinaldo. but united still went ahead in the game soon after, with his goal from jayden sancho back from came middlesbrough though with an equalizer from matt crooks. and the game eventually went to a penalty shoot out anthony a longer shot over the bar, which means the 12 time champions united or out and middles grow go through. well, shirley is cricket coach justin langer has quit just days after guiding them to a foreign ill ashes went over england. cricket australia said the former player rejected a 6 month contract extension. he's now being linked to the vacant england job following chris silver woods departure on friday, as well as the ashes langer also helped australia when their 1st sever t 20 world cup titled last year into by. i understand, especially given how it mod and respect justin is an absolute legend of the gay. the many people will be disappointed by the decisions i offer just in short term

contracts. the happy there were issues in the middle of last year. you know, i think everyone related to address nice this decision is very much thinking a future focus to put in place a sustainable model that we think is in the best interests of the to the n. b, a in a very tight game between the cleveland cavaliers and charlotte hornets. it looked like the hornets landed, the decisive blow with this 3 pointer from kelly over a junior, with 47 seconds left with the calves. they came back, cut the lead to one, and kevin love hit 2, free throws with 1.2 seconds remaining on the clock. irish golfer, seamus power is the leader at the halfway stage of the pebble beach pro em the puberty. 10 of the 18 holes during his 2nd round to finish with a score of 64 that puts him top the leaderboard on 16 under par 5 shots. clear of the chasing pack in 4 previous starts in the event. power has never finish higher

than 38. 0 well that's all your sport, me into back over to list. thank you very much leon. that does it for me. and is it a problem for this news out the canal, santa maria, standing by more for days news ah and americans are increasingly say authoritarianism might not be so bad. there were several steps along the way. where does the chain of command it seemed like tried to cover dot? what's your take on why they've gotten this so wrong? that to me is political mal brockman, the bottom line on us politics and policies,

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