ah ah more us troops arrive in poland to reinforce nato's eastern flank, as russia says it has no plans to invade ukraine. ah, hello and welcome on peter w. watching al jazeera, alive from our headquarters here, indo are also coming up. pakistan says 5 of its soldiers were killed in cross border firing from afghanistan, stealing crypto currency to fund nuclear missiles. sanctions hit north korea's new

ploy as, according to a report from the united nations. also ahead, senegalese football fan, celebrating as their team wins its 1st ever african title. ah, your top story, more us troops up arrived in poland to reinforce nato's allies in eastern europe, amid the russian military build up on the border with ukraine. there are, of course, continuing fears of a russian invasion, although moscow denies it has any such plans. ukraine's president says, resolving the stand off through diplomacy does remain the most likely outcome from special hesky in eastern ukraine. now to serious charles stratford has more a u. s. military aircraft touches down in poland near the border with ukraine. on

board, a few dozen elite u. s. troops and equipment. the initial contingent of around 1700 us soldiers ordered to head to europe. because nato countries fear a russian invasion of ukraine. deployment of elements of the 2nd airborne division are here to enhance the readiness interoperability across all domains with our polish allies, and if necessary, defend any portion of nato satellite pictures supplied by a private us company had been published, which is said to show the latest russian troop build up in bearers, ukraine's neighbour and russia's ally. the russian military build up includes nuclear capable bama patrol's part of moscow's huge joint exercise with batteries called operation resolve. the criminal says 11 days of war,

game starting on thursday, are aimed at training to repel an attack on russia's southern borders. the white house national security adviser said negotiations with russia was still an option, but time is running out. we believe that there is a very interesting possibility that vladimir putin will order an attack on ukraine . it could take a number of different forms. it could happen as soon as tomorrow, or it could take some weeks yet. there was a different mild, a toad from the ukrainian government, ukraine's foreign minister tweeted, do not believe the apocalyptic predictions. different capitals have different scenarios, but ukraine is ready for any development. to day ukraine has a straw me unprecedented international support and ukrainians, faith in their country. this enemy should be afraid of us, not us, afraid of them. another example of caves cautious attempt toning down the language

of its western backers. off the president, laudermill zalinski told his us led allies last week to take a breath and calm down. russia still maintains it has no intention of invading ukraine, but of course, if it did, that would be the 2nd invasion in recent years because of his annexation of crimea in 2014 off the weeks of negotiations between nato countries in russia that has be no significant outcome to those talks. the french and german lead is heading to moscow and cave. ready in the coming days, the space for negotiated settlement to this crisis is small, but it still exists. charles traffic al jazeera spittle, his eastern ukraine. well, let's stay with his story. al jazeera is rosalind jordan picks up what's going on there out of washington. on the sunday public affair shows here in the united states, it was the white house national security advisor, jake sullivan, who was arguing why people should be worried about

a potential russian invasion of ukraine on his way back to the white house on sunday afternoon, u. s. president joe biden spoke briefly with reporters about the situation. ah, i'm not going to speculate on that. i think frankly cannot get on monday, the u. s. president will welcome to the white house, the new german chancellor, old schultz. they're expected to talk about the risk of a russian invasion in ukraine and the potential impact that could have on germany's energy supplies. no hectic diplomatic efforts are underway to defuse the crisis in and around ukraine. the french president emanuel macklin will be on his way in the coming hours to moscow to meet the russian leader vladimir putin and the german

chancellor. as we were hearing the from rose jordan is traveling to washington to meet joe biden. love schultz. his trip is seen as a visit to reassure the bite administration that all nature countries are standing up to russia. i know that death was learned this. russia must know that if there is military aggression against ukraine, that will have a high price. meanwhile, we are paving, awaited, at tools can take place again, there are talks between the us and russia in the nato, russia council window, se, and of course, also in the context that germany in france can bring forward a so called normandy format, where russia, ukraine, france, and germany meet, there was not much life there for a long time. we have managed to get that back on track. and that is now to basis for us also talking to each other in washington with me if he, the pakistani army, how strongly condemned an attack on its soldiers which killed at least 5 of them. they were shot out from across the border in afghanistan by pakistani taliban fighters in december, the angry withdrew from

a sci fi with the pakistani government. while the attack on the pakistani army comes 2 days after the soldiers fought with separatists in the province of the launch, a stone fighting broke out on wednesday, killing 9 soldiers and 20 fighters. the military says to army posts were targeted and one of the biggest attacks was seen in recent years. when the situation is not good after the explosion, they're strict checking everywhere. we're sitting here to provide bread and butter to our children. there is nothing in the market pilot to come. we came here in the morning 1st. we were working. and after finishing work, 11 o'clock, we came to this place. we haven't left. well, there was a lot of damage. we don't know what happened inside. ok. let's take a closer look now, what's happening across the border between afghanistan and pakistan attacks by the pakistani taliban have been increasing since the afghan taliban takeover in cobble in august of last year. the united nations is estimating several 1000 pakistani

taliban fighters on now across the board in a chemist on the recent attacks, the racing fears of violence last seen back in 2014. then the military launched a major operation against various groups in the north west. displacing more than $1000000.00 people in the same year, the group attacked a military run school and per shower. $132.00 children were killed last spring in a son, jeremy, and he's a senior expert at the united states institute of peace. he joins us from arlington, virginia, as found me. it should be filed. what's going on just now under this was always going to happen pakistani taliban people in afghanistan, firing back across the board. that is correct. this was in the works. this was predictable. steegal or is not starting to affect market times security situation and you know, to empty bottles, surgeons have been strengthened by the thought of on example in support. they have

really stepped up in the bar. so buck is on and one group in particular, there is a concern here that they get the other bond clock is often on the back of the other one is the leadership. well, a lot of good fighters are enjoying the fact to asylum into other bonds. and that is very ironic, i mean, despite being allied to buckets on getting get supported in the us government does on i'm not speaking meaningful steps to, to stream district. the goods in for the government in islamabad is this particularly a worrying time in as much as historically, particularly over the past for at least 15 or 20 years age. the pakistani taliban has always wanted something distinctly different to the afghan taliban. but if they are moving towards each other, is that

a particular headache for the government in islam about below has been but each other in the government has consistently downplayed dimension all your grandfather bonds, relationship with the, with the other money. in fact, you know, by any leadership, political leadership decision to celebrate the dollar bonds or in the us defeat. i think that is proven to be fairly short sighted. i suspect that going forward with the other one will redeem their lines with big buck bunny thought about breath, and that it will continue to disappoint the bucket leadership. that border area between the 2 countries is incredibly porous, but incredibly important from an economical and economic point of view could or should the pakistan government go further than it's gone to date when it comes to, i guess not going to war with the taliban,

but taking them on has been sensing this border to make it less darn down than even in my timing. and the other end is not enough to stop the movement up. these are the insurgents. they continue to cross over. so the question that i think on the policy makers are now deliberating is more next, what, what, what are some of the options that they have at hand? and one option that remained on the table is some kind of a military action. it could be the word demean, danderset, assassination off the top eaters, or the insurgents across the board. it could also be a more word kinetic action and it are what is within the bulk of money security establishment was advocating. such policy response remains to be seen. i think there are some, you know, some really important set in order to extra consider and i don't think the boss,

any leadership has made up its mind yet on how to proceed forward. ok, we must leave it the spend. jimmy, thank you so much for your time. and joining us from arlington, virginia. thank you. and report is claiming north korea used cyber attacks to fund the nuclear and ballistic missile program. the report says pyongyang stole $50000000.00 of crypto currency in the last 2 years. a separate study says as much as $400000000.00 may have been taken. north korea conducted 9 ballistic miss l test. last month. robin bright now from so they still follow a pattern. we do know that north korea has been accused for years of being involved in all sorts of nefarious international criminal activity as a way of getting much needed foreign reserves to basically let it survive. it has been involved, for example, has been accused of being involved in international narcotics in illegal sales. but

it does seem to have found a lucrative avenue in cyber crime with another report in 2019, for example, from the un suggesting that north korea had managed to accrue $2000000000.00 worth of digital assets in recent times. with the current economic, dire straits that your career is in, it seems as though it's not going to desist from the cyber crime because of course, it faced his international sanctions. the impact of 2 years of basically being cut off from the outside world. by the pandemic, it is very difficult to di, economic straits. there are talk of food shortages in north korea. and as we get into 2022, it's still the same question of how to deal with north korea, especially given this flurry of missile launches. well, jim anderson is a tech expert and he's also the ceo of social flow. he says, crept currencies onto hard is to trace,

as people believe in many ways crypto currency, the criminal's dream, or a rogue nation. if you want to look at it that way because it is anonymous and you can't find it, but the very fact that it's not backed by a government means it must be traceable. and so you, for example, you have $100.00 bill life if it's got a serial number on it. but good luck trying to understand who's used that $100.00 bill crypto currency, it's actually traceable. and you're, and nobody is dependent on you getting it right. every single time, if you're anonymous for a 1000 transactions and you slip up just one time, then all the sudden, not just the transaction you slipped up on every single prior transaction is no longer anonymous. so i think it's a lot less ideal for road nations or criminals than you might think. so when you talk about these exchanges, if i have a crypto currency in an exchange and i have to log in, what do i have to use? i have to use a username and password and that is almost always the biggest point of vulnerability you. you launch a fishing attack against me. i don't really realize that i give you my credentials

. i mistakenly log into what i think is my crypto currency exchange. but it's that if it's a server hosted by somebody malicious all the sudden they have my username and password and within minutes if not seconds, you know, they can drain my wallet, transfer that crypto currency somewhere else that i can't get. and again, it's not backed by a government, so it's, it's very effective once they've hacked and gotten your credentials. and i strongly suspect that that's a big, big portion of how they've managed to do the tax. still to come here on al jazeera, a misunderstanding why the chinese tenants are punk ways that she never accuse anyone of sexual assault. tens of thousands of people have been displaced by a 2nd sight clone and madagascar on death toll is rising. ah, ah, look forward to burritos guys. with sponsored by capital airways.

hello there. let's start in north america and it's a much more settled picture the start of this week, thanks to high pressure. that remains in charge. we are still seeing some significant weather at the edge is particularly coastal areas. we got weather systems moving into the west of canada, bringing some heavy snow to british columbia. and some of that wet weather is going to trickle down into the north west pacific. but further south of this look at that, plenty of fine, dry weather, lot of warmth, coming into places like san francisco and los angeles. and it's a similar story for much of the south. it's that east coast, however that where we're seeing much of the action, you can see that storm system swirling its way up north is going to bring some heavy rain to the likes of george or the carolinas as well as virginia. and we are expecting sleep snow and some freezing rain from new york on monday. that clears by tuesday is going to make its way to eastern areas of canada and places like nova scotia. but it remains rather wet for much of florida. we could see some flooding

here, and those showers join up some heavy rain that slightly to sweep into the bay of cam picture in mexico. by the time we get into tuesday, some of that heavy rain pulling across the yucatan peninsula, but for places like cuba, it's a much t y, a picture with sunshine in havana, blue weather sponsored by katara ways. i'm just in den storytelling around the biggest issues we've done with ah ah, people have come to spect lawson al jazeera over the years. it's,

they're reporting the commitment to under reported places, the commitment to the human story. but it's also the idea of challenging those. ah, welcome back. you're watching al jazeera line from though how your top story so far today. the u. s. is reinforcing military bases in eastern europe senior u. s. defense officials are accusing russia of planning an invasion of ukraine and allegation moscow denies. the pakistani army has strongly condemned an attack on its soldiers which killed at least 5 troops. they were shot out from across the border in afghanistan by pakistani taliban fighters. a human report claims north korea, you cyberattacks to fund it's nuclear and ballistic missile program. the report says pyongyang still $50000000.00 of crypto currency in the last 2 years. now, the chinese tennis star pung chalet says she never accused any one of sexual

assault in an interview with a french newspaper. she says the social media post she shared in early november has been misunderstood. bung said she removed it after half an hour because she wanted to. the tennis star disappeared from public view for nearly 3 weeks. after that, social media posts i'll correspond and katrina you has more on the interview from beijing. she started that interview reported lay vice expressing gratitude. but to all of those who had express concerned about her well being sports organizations and all the athletes. the main message of that interview was that she was safe and that she didn't understand why there had been so much concern about her and her well being. she denied that she had disappeared. she said she had always been in view and she simply wasn't replying to messages about her concern because she was overwhelmed by the men. she also said that she had some computer problems or not functions, which prevented her from replying to all the requested emails. she did say that she

had been in contact with the i c and when asked as to why she didn't reply to simon steve, who is the head of the women's tennis association. she said that she found that the w t a message or the statements about her situation, had been exaggerated. what was very strange that she seemed to bristled any questions about the original way will post. now this of course is of course that sent shock waves through chinese social media and of course, through the sporting industry in the general public. this was posted in november to where she basically accuse jungle the former high ranking chinese communist party official of sexual misconduct. while in a relationship with her, now when she was asked about that post, she simply said that she, she took it down for personal reasons that this was a private matter and that had it had caused a huge amount of misunderstanding. but she didn't explain the reason as to why she

postage in the 1st place. the most senior judge and she says he has accused the president of illegally undermining the judiciary is independence case i. e has dissolved the supreme judicial counsel. that's the countries and legal watchdog for testers have rallied in support of the move in the capital tunis and lies of oakland has more from their protest is on the march in tunis after the announcement by president chi site does owe to nature's legal watched up the supreme judicial council, their march was on the 8th anniversary of the assassination of left wing politician shall group allied by gunman who have not been caught. the anniversary is always an emotional day for 2 nations. a well loved champion of human rights and freedom ballads loss is still felt deeply and his matter remains unsolved. his supporters demand the launch of a murder investigation every year and cold for the prosecution of whoever was

responsible. many tenicia to say they've lost faith in the justice system, a leo and pull it out of their pacific walk today. what all pulled good parties, associations and independence have come out to say that corruption is all we're not . we all know. everyone knows that before july 25th, good judicial appointments were based on party affiliations. and the supreme judicial council was essentially built on party affiliations. oh, side says the supreme judicial council is corrupt and is preventing politically sensitive cases from being prosecuted with the help of what he called hidden powers . member one, how good can you give us a law do another? and if you write, as i said to dissolve to superior council of the judiciary, where positions are sold, tell of these so much. these critics of the president say he's targeting the judiciary in order to consolidate national institutional power. they cusick love

a power grab suspending parliament and dissolving government last july. since then, ty site is ruled by decree, overseeing all state institutions, including the judiciary which continues to push back against his one man rule. the conflict between the judges and the president here seems far from over. in his ear feltman al jazeera tunis, prime minister of libya's unity guzman says he'll continue to carry out his duties and to the elections are held in june. abdul, hamid babies. comments came after the speaker of the parliaments at the chamber would choose a new interim prime minister on monday. elections were scheduled for december, but they were delayed because of disagreements between the different political parties. the african union, summited, ethiopia, has finished with a condemnation of the recent wave of military coups a you leaders, also a calling for permanent seats on the un security council. and they called on the host nation to announce a ceasefire with the rebels in to cry. mohammed,

oh is that that to day summits in the philippines capital concluded with a cold for greater africa presentation in the global stage. 70 as of to the creation of the united nations. a you lead us complained of africa was still under presented on the u. s. security council that demanding at least 2 prominent on 5 non prominent, sits. it is the right time to reform and leave at the allies the night. the mission system to reflect current global realities, and then sure that it is a model representative inequitable body. only fairly present tissue and thoroughness, potency ins austin distortions, con, usher in a just iraq in multilateralism. yeah. 7 7 the past 18 months, i've been celtic for africa with cruise in church guinea, molly book in a fossil sudan, as well as the protracted civil war. here in the few appear. the eu has been

accused of one inconsistent response, notably by not suspending chart from the 5th to 5 member organization. after the military took over following the death of longtime leda addressed debbie. every african leader in the assembly has condemned unequivocally the pattern of what the resurgence of the cycle or the wave of unconstitutional changes of government. the african union's efforts to combat the covered mountain pandemic will also discussed at length. after a long delay of accommodations begun receiving lud donations of covered 19 bugs in, in november. or the continent is still far behind global bugs. initial targets. partly due to what some say on logistical challenges. governments now hope the

a use creation of a continent white drug regularly to the african meds. his agency helps them roll out vaccines to catch up with other parts of the world. also and differences between members of the unions relationship with israel brought into the open palestinian prime minister mohammed should tie a med and impassioned plea to lead us to reconsider their decision to give israel observer state us up a you meetings. we believe that the granting is right. observe what a status of african union is. undeserved rewarded. this actually at a wad that encourages israel to continue violating international treaties. a breach in goal agreements with us. the prime minister was supported by some important member states, including nigeria, south africa, who's the ruling party. the african national congress supports the palestinian calls in the end, the palestine. an argument was worn and leaders agreed to suspend israel's observer status. madame de welch is eda a december?

the mayor of also has declared a state of emergency is canadian truckers and their supporters continue to paralyzed parts of the capitol. on the 10th day of protesting, ah, city officials are calling it a siege and they say the demonstration is a security risk over the weekend, protest groups of also gathered in other cities and towns in solidarity. thousands of demonstrators in rotterdam had been rallying against corona, virus restrictions and vaccine mandates. most measures have been relaxed recently, but protests was want all restrictions lifted. the police also demonstrated in the same part of rotterdam. they were demanding more resources. at least 10 people are dead and madagascar after a cyclone made landfall on sunday asked julian wolf reports tens of thousands of people in our clearing up after hours of devastation, cycling, but the rain slammed into madagascar as eastern coastline with heavy rain and wind

speeds of a 165 kilometers per hour flooding roads and leading several houses completely submerged. tens of thousands of people have been displaced, alaska for the marine of vision. wilma thought it was early morning, nor still sleeping. our landlord came to tell us that water was rising, who got up to moved furniture all while to water continued try the house, started cracking. some of our furniture was still upstairs and the crack started to get worse on margaret. some far belongings have been destroyed, not got as she should, that the residents use tree branches to measure the depth of the flood. the damage compounded by the destruction left by another cyclone, 2 weeks earlier, which killed dozens and displaced a 130000 people. michelle de la demonte lucia. hi, i don't think the damage is big. the wind was very strong and even if people took her to protect their belongings, that had been a loss of damage to laundry,

have done. fulfill b o a, the disease had prepared food to distribute those in need with you and evacuation flights on standby children and worried parents fill the floors of this local evacuation center. and i say the guardian of michael campbell, we live on the hill on the edge of a cliff. the wind was strong, but our house is also strong. early in the morning there was a landslide to be safe. the head of the neighbourhood told us to go to the evacuation center. that's why we're here. madagascar has recently suffered drought, another country hit by extreme weather as a result of climate change. gillian wolf, al jazeera, senegal has won the africa cup of nations after beating egypt in the final on penalties and a girl one for 2 in the shootout after both sides failed to score an extra time. the final was played in cameron's capital, yolande. it's the 1st time and a girl has won the africa cup of nation on m albany. the boys never gave out. i

think that to really proves the mental strength of this generation. we are very happy, we dedicate this fix to, to the synagogue, these people really, to the senegalese people. because since independence until now, we are running after this 1st start today, we will also have a start in our shirt. ah, exactly half past the hour, 330 g m t. you're watching al jazeera, these are your headlining stories. the u. s. continues to reinforce its military bases in eastern europe, amid fears of a russian invasion of ukraine. the kremlin denies it has any such plans. meanwhile, ukraine is playing down the threats of a russian invasion and is reiterating its cold for a diplomatic solution. we believe that there is a very distinct possibility that vladimir putin will order an.