al jazeera ah al jazeera with this is al jazeera ah $10.00 gmc here on al jazeera hello, i'm kim all santa maria. welcome to the news. our u. s. soldiers arriving in poland to support nato in eastern europe. while diplomatic efforts step up to ease the tension between russia and ukraine, we also hear from people on ukraine's border about wanting to maintain dealings with russia and the frosty relations between the neighbors. also in the news financing, it's missile program with bitcoin. the u. s. is north korea's government is sold in

tens of millions and digital currency to pay for recent rocket launches. and the tenant style mixing for weeks off for accusing a chinese official of sexual assault now says she was misunderstood. and i'm leo harding with sports as switzerland's. b, up foot winds, the men's downhill at the winter olympics, and synagogue declares of public holiday as they be egypt to win their 1st ever africa cup of nations. ah, the troops and tanks are on the border, but right now it is all about diplomacy. when it comes to ukraine and trying to avoid what the westfield is a possible russian invasion, we start, well, actually, later on monday, the new german chancellor, all off schultz will be meeting you as president joe biden in washington. i know that death was long this, russia must know if there is military aggression against ukraine. it will have a high price paving. the ways of that talks can take place. again,

there are talks between the u. s. and russia in the nato, russia council and also the so called normandy format, where russia, ukraine, france, and germany meat. and that is now the basis for us also talking to each other in washington. so it's a german later than the french president, emanuel cron, heading to moscow for one on one discussions with russia's. vladimir putin, the e u commission president as lavonne de line is also hosting the polish president under duda. that'll happen shortly. poland, of course, one of several european countries where u. s. troop reinforcements have been sent. trying to bolster that east and flank which niter has there, is russian forces mass at ukraine's board. okay, more on the diplomatic moves, dosage a barry in moscow. i'd say emanuel microns visit is probably the most important of them. what's, what are they hoping to get out of that one? well, the french president and his coming here at the request of the russian president vladimir putin. the 2 men have certainly been staying in touch. they've spoken on

the phone 3 times already over the past 2 weeks. and that russian president was very much keen to have the french president visit moscow. and that is what is expected to happen later today. emanuel micron has cancelled his visit to mar, say this week to make the trip 1st to moscow, and of course, he'll be visiting a kiev on tuesday. the french president spoke with the u. s. president joe biden on sunday during the phone conversation. and micron said that we shouldn't expect unilateral moves by the russians to deescalate the pensions and that russia has a right to have its concerns. the french president also as had a number of phone conversations with a series of a world leaders. and he's going to be the most senior european leader to visit moscow since the crisis began. but he also has been saying that a he has identified at the issues and concerns. and that is what he's hoping to discuss with vladimir putin, to in the hope of trying to de escalate attentions. and the 2 men haven't seen each

other since. the summer of 2019, when vladimir putin was in the south of france at a summit. and, and the relationship seems to be going strong. and of course it seen as one of the most important visits because there's hope that emmanuel micron will be able to get some idea of how to move things forward. and we have the normandy. # agreements that is going to be discussed as well later in february. that's for countries that will be a meeting again in berlin. and of we also expect the german chancellor to visit moscow later on in mid february. so there is a lot of diplomatic moves coming through this country in an effort to try and de escalate pensions and at this visit certainly will be important because mcgraw has said that he wishes to discuss russia security concerns. and to clarify the rules of nato n e u, which seems to be at the hearts of this problem exactly the bigger picture, rather than just this current escalation, dose. speaking of current escalation,

with all these u. s. troops coming in tulsa into, into poland. any reaction from moscow to that? not yet, but we'll, i shortly hear from the kremlin spokesperson, but the general sense here is that you cannot prevent and prepare for war simultaneously. and that is what, according to minneapolis here, what is happening with the u. s. troops now and touching down in poland and that they have to remember, of course, that russia is going to be holding a huge military exercise with bell roofs from this thursday for a 10 day period. and they will be, of course, a alongside the border of the veterans chairs a border with pullin. so there is some concern that you have, so you are soldiers now on the ground in poland on one side of the border, and then russian and bell russian forces on the other carrying out these military drills. but the sense here is that the americans are not really interested in di, escalating tensions. they're just trying to incite russia into carrying out an

attack, which of course, they say they're not interested in that still. so jabari in snowy, moscow does matter. thank you. dosa, the russian troops and military equipment says, daughter was saying, remain on that. bella russian border with ukraine. the 2 countries had been holding joint military exercises, and hota bill hm. it went to find out how that is affecting the lives of people who live a long ukraine's northern border. a did milva yet elevate. she border crossing is business as usual. about a 1000 people transit through here every day. going to and coming from bella ruth, on the other side, russian, bella russo holding joint military exercises, but no sign of that here. his devoted guards say they on high alert and prepared. but how listless tv dick still keep your book and here it depends on the forces which will oppose us. and on the situation we will face. the only thing i can say

said there are units ready to react in case of any threat coming from the neighboring country. there's little to show in terms of military build up on the ukrainian side of the crossing. this ditch was dug a while ago. it's now being reinforced with coils of razor wire. this road is more than 2000 kilometers long. it starts in odessa on. the black sea goes to cave towards the north of the country, crosses below roofs and ends up in st. petersburg in russia. so should russia decide to send its troops across the border into ukraine from bella? ruth, this would be a perfect way in from here, it's an easy for, i was drive south to the capital. but at the moment it's ukrainian troops who are on the move north you chris, northern border is more than

a 1000 kilometer long warriors. but nicolai shenker remembers when there were no demarkation. russia, billers and ukraine were all part of the soviet union. he says his life was better than grandma knew his wife. nadia is suspicious of us and says that no one here will tell us what they really think people here closely linked to russia. valerie petrovich tells us people into mary go shopping across the border. that's where he got his boots, and he doesn't see their big neighbor as the enemy ringing in utah, tanya, but no, no, no, no, no, nobody will fight. everyone here will laugh about it. we don't care. i watch tv, and it's horrible. our troops are mobilising, mobilize in russians. don't care why let them come. we will welcome them. they won't do anything to us. we are not afraid, because we are a part of russia. but i'll join me near by you, ah,

if they were to invade russians could also come through this and keep crossing. it sits at the junction of ukraine, bella roost to the west and russia to the east. the 3 sisters monument, a symbol of brighter days, between the 3 countries and natalie and his wife are on the way to visit their daughter and grandchildren in moscow. they don't go as often because of the uncertainty of a looming war. but he, like most people living near the border, don't agree. oh see why relations between cave and moscow have reached such a low point. hud abdul hamid al jazeera along ukraine's northern border. let's move on to other news and a united nations report which says north korea has stolen tens of millions of dollars of crypto currency to help finance it's nuclear and ballistic missile program. it's as young and stole more than $50000000.00 through cyber attacks between 2020 and last year. a separate study indicates as much as 400000000 may

have been stolen. all up. north korea has conducted 9 ballistic missile tests in the last one more on this one throbbing bride and sol. this does 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 this cyber crime. because of

course, if 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, or 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. let's go to manchester in the u. k. now talk to ed caesar, who is a staff writer for the new yorker and has conducted extensive research on north korea's hacking activity. thanks for your time. and i have asked so many guests on this channel about north korea is miss up program and how it manages to keep developing it. despite being so cut off from the rest of the world. maybe this is part of the answer. now, when you, you, you underestimate north korea is ability that your peril. yeah, absolutely. this is gotta be a big part of the answer. you know, it's, it's perverse. there's a country here where,

where few than one percent of the population has access to the internet as we would understand it, which has some of the world's best computer hackers. and so you have this, this really strange situation where they have this incredibly talented casa of hackers who are working out of the reconnaissance general bureau in trent yang. we got to about 60027000 was the number of people that were in the cyber operations program for the north koreans. and they'll bring in a huge amount of money. so the belief is that it is, it is all originating from inside north korea or other sort of proxy act as in other places working on this. so it's, it's hard to get a handle on, on precise numbers of who's working inside of who's working outside of north korea . but certainly the reporting, the i did last year for new york, i was out, you know, there were cells outside in china, vietnam. and in other parts of

a southeast asia and the stars of the program are apparently catch in jan. this just almost something which we now have to recognize and deal with the fact that it's crypto currency, it's becoming more prevalent. and that if there is an ability to hack into things, to steal things, and this is just going to be part of a, the way things of finance now in it and a new thing for people to worry about. it is something to worry, but i do think that some increased transparency on behalf of you know, the crypt currency ecosystem would help you know, through their exchanges. printer currency exchanges where people buy and sell a crypto that have beam baby hats. no more than once, there was one in south korea that had been hacked 4 times, you know, and the coin stolen from a ha, all it. so that is a, you know, tremendous lapse of security and we don't hear about it because there isn't. there is also no impulse on behalf of the exchanges to publicize his fat am, you know,

slightly more order than i'm better regulated sector might lead to some more transparency. yes, i was going to say that regulation, and that's going to be half the problem, isn't it? because the, the, the attraction with, with crypto currencies is the level of anonymity you get that's right, but it's also, you know, money loaners, paradise. and they're just fantastic work done by, you know, by nation states, but also by some, for our private sector actors on tracing the assets of crypto assets that have been stolen, you know, back to the point of which they cashed out. and so it's a fair currency and you could just see how are sophisticated on some of these, you know, money don't bring chains on there. so it's really going to take a huge amount of effort on behalf, but the private sector and, and nation states, they're policing bodies and to get a handle on, on what's happening there, etc. so this is really, really interesting,

and i'm glad we could talk to you about it and, and the research you've done. thank you for your time. my pleasure. were coming up 15 minutes past this news out here is what's ahead. israeli spyware scandal deepens . now police are accused of using hacking tools to spy on public figures. also a major test for hong kong, 0 cove to strategies the city face is a record number of infections and in sport action from a thrilling mens downhill event the beijing winter olympics lee. it will be here around 10 to the out. ah, so that israel spyware story, now police the police chief in israel, has asked for an independent inquiry after reports that investigate, has used the controversial pegasus spyware to target citizens. colby shopped, i says, the investigation is needed to restore the public's trust. this is after an is reading newspaper reported police track several prominent figures using the hacking

software pegasus by was been linked to the legal surveillance of human rights activists, journalists and politicians all over the world. more of this with our forces in west jerusalem, nothing new here. harry, in the sense that pegasus is being used. but why are these latest revelations having what seems to be a bigger impact? well yes, i mean, the initial reporting from this business newspaper calculus came out last month that the police were using is hugely controversial software domestically as well as it's used by foreign governments and potentially by the security services against palestinian n g o z and others that it was also being targeting the police are also targeting is ready citizens, but now we have a much full comprehensive list of the people who allegedly have been targeted in this. and the extent of it is enormous. they're a former directors of government ministries, the communications ministry,

the technology minister, over the finance ministry, the transport ministry, for example, as well as that, a number of activists on both the right and the left. individual mezz. also, people associated with the investigation into the trial of the former prime minister benjamin netanyahu. so that the extent of the names and also the apparent casualness with which the police were using this, the initial response from the police last month. having that had been occasional use of this kind of technology with court warrants with judges being involved well, according to this report, which as you say is not being referred for an independent inquiry by police. so gone are those initial denials. they've been using it for fishing expeditions with an s and with a p h. they just been going on without any active investigation just to see what they can find. and so this is being seen as a real abuse of power and of individual privacy. and the interior minister has

called it an earthquake reminiscent is true of the sorts of oppressive actions of oppressive regimes in the 20th century. harry benjamin netanyahu, former prime minister benjamin netanyahu 9 keeps coming up here. can this have an impact on his his trial? well, that is one of the big and most intriguing questions here. already the former communications ministry director sherman, who turn state's witness against nothing. yahoo! he was due to be giving evidence next week. his name had already come up last week and there was a question as to whether he could therefore be giving evidence and whether that should be delayed. now there are other figures including one of benjamin netanyahu sons, abner, that his phone was allegedly targeted in this way, potentially because they were looking for communications from his mother, benjamin netanyahu wife, sorry, and then the potential impact of her communications on this. and so we have this

really mind bending kind of irony here, that benjamin who had been kind of using the software as part of his bid to improve relationships with a lot of regimes, a lot of governance in the region. that of course, came with a huge backlash when they're all sorts of allegations about pegasus is use. it's potential links to the gym out. show g murder, for instance, which was denied at one stage by an a so but further revelations then came out emmanuel macro and others being targeted. so there's a backlash that now there's a potential that the police were using it against netanyahu, released his close associates in their investigation. the police were saying that they were divisions between those using between the investigation into him and, and it's use elsewhere that, that is something that has to be really investigated. and so could this now come to his rescue in terms of disrupting his trial? it is pretty extraordinary. it is. thank you. how full set reporting from west

jerusalem. let's get caught up on some coven news australia fully reopening its borders nearly 2 years after the government closed the country off to the rest of the world. from february 21st fully vaccinated travelers can into the country. and i mean the tourists can find the return study with only allowing in a limited number of citizens and permanent residence. making one of the harshest foreclosures in the world while making the announcement prime minister scott morrison alluded to the deportation of and vaccinated tennis player of a joke of last month. but we just want to stress that you will need to provide that proof of vaccination. your visa is one thing that your entry into a stride, yes requires you also to be double vaccinated. and i think events earlier in the year should have said a very clear message. i think that every around the world that that is the requirement to enter into a strategy. the hong kong strict 0 covered strategy is facing its biggest challenge

is the city deals with record infections. hong kong followed china's strategy of trying to eliminate outbreaks. as soon as they emerge, they've been more than 2000 cases since january driven by the contagious all micron variance have a looking now at some of the lightest numbers out of hong kong. this is from our world and tighter at oxford university. this is over the whole pandemic. the rolling average is it's known of data cases up here. we're looking at an average of a $140.00 cases each day, which i know doesn't sound much, but you can see how low it has been prior to that. and this is the highest that it's been. and there is an expectation of a big spike coming in the next few days, vaccinations this is what's interesting in that the amount of people who are fully vexed in hong kong is 64.3 percent. and as you can see, that is plateaued after a good rives through the middle of last year. there is a real slow down at the moment, and the number of people getting vaccinated. this number here is 0.3 percent. that is the number of the, or the proportion of the population in hong kong per 100 people. that is actually

getting any level of vaccination every day. so less than one percent of people getting vaccinated. they getting tested though, and we can see brit clinic in hong kong outside the testing center with a whole lot of people behind it ever it they surely are getting tested come our people here. i have been lighting up for hours. there are a few 100 people here, and the queue isn't moving particularly fast. i have to say i, but this is one of the 64 testing centers set up around the city where people can come either they've been ordered to because of mandatory testing or because they're concerned that they might be positive. all that they've been in close contact. this is uncharted territory. as you alluded to before. you know, people haven't experienced cove, it in major cities. it like it may have in other cities in the world, 614 cases. that's a record. yes. i was hovering around 300 cases, also a record, but the concern is the number of untraceable cases. they tested sewage in

a number of districts, a car across the city. and there was a lot of covey in many of the districts. so the concern is that there are hundreds of chains of silent transmission in the city authorities, calling it on the unprecedented challenge for the city and urging people to stay at home. it's expected that there will be tightened restrictions from to morrow. and unfortunately, because people have been gathering for chinese gay festivities over the last week, paces are expected to surge come out. and as you said, vaccination rates just aren't where authorities walk them. if you look at people over 70, it's actually only at around 30 percent. the hope is though, the silver lining perhaps is that people will look at this surge and want to go and get vaccinated. that's what authorities are really hanging. their hopes on come out and yet break with all of that information. it seems that hong kong is clinging to the 0 coverage philosophy of i can call her is there any indication that they might

move from that? well as you say that you know, it does seem like they've got the foot firmly on the pedal when it comes to cove. it's 0. there are. 8 a few indications that perhaps they might allow people who are a symptomatic whole closed context to isolate at home. but that's not set in stone yet. hong kong borders are still by a large shots. there was a to a quarantine for people who are residents or who have visas for the city. kerry lab has said repeatedly, time and time again that the priority is opening up the border with mainland china . not opening up the international borders. much to the dismay of the business community here who say that i be of clothes board a jeopardizes the position of as a hong kong hong kong as a financial hub. and that it could trigger an exodus here. but as i say, the priority seems to be on mainland china, mainland china, as we know, is following a cove. it's 0 policies. so there's no indication that they're going to willing, i,

willing to open up to us even come out. so it seems like a bit of a catch $22.00 i right now and to add fuel to the fire you might say is an ear chamber commerce report that suggested that hong kong might remain isolated until 2024. that certainly has residence here. and the business humanity alarmed goodness made brit clinic reporting from hong kong to the outside of testing center. thank you. the philippines has begun vaccinate in children aged between 5 and 11. going ahead despite a legal challenge by 2 parents to stop the program, to ms. allen dugan is mo, from manila, the 1st day of the vaccination of children looks like a festive affair. here in manila, it's done into newly renovated manila zu, there are mascot and kansas for children who are afraid of injection. but for the government, the vaccination of kids within the age of $5.00 to $11.00 couldn't come soon enough . that's because the recent dates of the department of health showed nearly 70

percent of the cases among the pediatric group last month were from age 0 to $11.00. you look up a lot of fathers, all mothers to convince your relatives and night is all your acquaintances tell them to have your children vaccinated. your children will soon have a normal life. this is the case dreamily important. and although coven cases have been blowing down over the past few days, here in manila, the situation is different in many provinces, across the country. so for the parents are bringing their children for vaccination today, they remain hopeful that this would finally be the way for the reopening of food and their return to normal fees for their children. again. japan's prime minister phobia because she says he wants to double the coven booster shot program to a 1000000 doses a day by the end of the month. fewer than 5 percent of the japanese population

receives the boost to show nationwide infections, driven by all microns, the past 100000 for the 1st time on saturday. the chinese tennis stung show is denied accusing a form of government official of sexual assault. her allegation on social media in november was taken down half an hour after it was posted. she now says her statement was misunderstood. from joy appeared to dissipate, i should say, from public view for nearly 3 weeks after making that initial claim. on monday she met the head of the international olympic committee. katrina, you with more from beijing. she says the story is still heavily censored in china, despite punctuates denials that she made those allegations. the ios hears as punctual. i had dinner with the head of the organisation on saturday and that she was invited to the headquarters in switzerland and after that attended a number of winter olympics events. now, when pressed about a situation on monday morning at a press conference that i received said it was simply not their position as a sporting organization to pass judgement or to push for any government

investigation. let's hear more of what they had to say. i think we need also to listen to her and we need to read what she's saying. as we've also discussed, we've been in contact with them. we remain in contact with her metro in person. we've invited to come to europe and we will meet again. and i think, i think we can say that we are doing everything we can to make sure that the situation is as it should be the tennis star and through time lengthy and puncture . why on november, the 2nd of last year, posted on way will about her relationship with a former chinese vice premier jungle. the accusing him of sexual misconduct. now that puss was quickly taken down and she was not seen for 2 to 3 weeks. the i o c says that they were in contact with her by phone since november the 21st. now this all comes after the publication of a article by the french newspaper, the keep web pung denied,

accusing jungle lee of any misconduct. and she also said that she would be willing, at the concern around her well being important to note that during that interview, she was accompanied by the chief of staff of the chinese olympic committee. one con, so far as the international community have not said whether this will death in any concerns about her well being. certainly the women's tennis association seems to be left out of the loop. they had suspended any tournaments in china going forward, and china's foreign ministry will not be drawn into any questions about his situation. simply saying that sports and politics should not mix. and any reporting about a case with in china remains heavily censored in the news. a heads forest fires in columbia's amazon blamed on criminal gangs. choking to capital with smoke plus tree planting drawings, can look at some new technology that could help tackle climate change. and then support celebrations in senegal, the country winds its 1st asked

a couple of nations title, spoke with lee. that is elijah ah hey there, we know at least 10 people have been killed after tropical cyclone that sir. i rolled across madagascar. this is a glimpse of some of the damage. we also know up to a quarter of a 1000000 people somehow some way impacted by this. so here's where the storm is on monday, out over open water, but it's kicking back. rain for western and southern areas. press place where this goes, it's going to continue to dip to the south mainland africa is going to duck and dodge this. that certainly good news when you consider there's been some flooding for eastern portions of south africa now toward the top end of africa. our har matt in wind, is stirring up the sand and dust around and jemina $33.00 degrees,

and also some showers around the gulf of guinea. lot of snow coming your way for the alpine region. $4050.00 centimeters to be expect it snow over the higher ground in the balkans. rain as we head toward ground level when you consider these high temperature. sorry, 8 o 9 in belgrade. 10 is full. eventually pushing to turkey on tuesday, so for now enjoy it. we've got a southerly flow that pops up the temperature to 13 degrees and it's them both of those shower starting to leak in. but check this out by tuesday intense rain and wind 6 degrees. they're certainly going to feel bad and gloomy conditions, wednesday and thursday, that sure weather update will soon take care. ah . the latest news, they're leaving extremely high privacy on for 10 years. they was the victims of not just, most people got to chatting with detailed coverage warning that only problem infections . so empower live partial,

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ah, you're in the news on here at al jazeera and these are up top stores, more us soldiers arriving in poland as part of plans to increase nato's presence in eastern europe while the german and french officials are due to mate ukrainian leaders later on monday. new and report which says north korea, use the cyber attacks to finance its nuclear and billets del massage program. the report indicates pyongyang stole at least $50000000.00 of crypto currency in the past 2 years. and chinese tennis stop punctual is met, the president of the international olympic committee. after concerns of her well being, she says, a post she made accusing a chinese official of sexual assault was misunderstood. the tension between russia and ukraine will likely dominate the agenda at a meeting between you as president joe biden, and the german chancellor, olaf schultz, his visit to washington, as seen as reassurance that nato countries are standing up to rush and aggression.

it also set the tone for future us german relations. alan fisher reports in power for 16 years anglo merkel wasn't afraid of confronting american presidents. she stepped down, his german chancellor. december was replaced by all of sholtes. it meant a fresh start in us, german relations. something welcomed by a man who saw a job biden's election as a good thing. we had to give the 1st for a while, we feared that for the previous government under president trump, it may no difference whether a country with a democracy and a friendly ally or not. it is now clear what binds us together. it's clark doesn't have been it when it comes to international affairs. i think they very much come from the same mindset. they both believe in the transatlantic alliance and wash up basically the position is very clear, very similar. there should be no change orders in europe. it's not the 1st time that you have met the spoke on the fringes of the g. 20 summit in room in october,

when shoals was finance minister and virtually after he became chancellor. they'll meet face to face now with a looming international crisis. and the notion fences in the we are all concerned about the situation on the ukrainian border with russian tips gathered on the ukrainian border. joe biden has promised sanctions but any encouraging but there's a wadi, the russians might retaliate by cutting off gas supplies to europe. and the hardest hit will be germany, the brunt of the blow back costs from economic sanctions, whether it's financial functions, whether it is energy sanctions, whether it is suspending or $32.00 forever will be borne by the europeans and by some europeans, not by all, europeans. that also has little implications or show to the head of the center left social democratic party. as a career politician who came late to the top job, he's been called the german joe biden. the, to have a lot in common. she had goals,

mutual objectives, but schultz knows it also plays well at home. when there's a german chancellor ready to tell us president, where to go? alan fisher, i'll gita washington, tennessee. the top judge has promised to take necessary steps to protect the judiciary and court sanctity of the course. this is the day after president christ side dissolved the supreme judicial council, which is the country's legal watchdog committee and police of locked the doors of the council building and stopped stuff from entering the vote. and following this conference, you know, this is escalating, isn't it from yesterday when there was some approaches now, you know so much push back here. yes. that while the judiciary window of pushing back against ty sides throughout, i as you remember back in july and the 25th of july. yeah, he made this bold move,

dismissing parliaments and, and government and then decided to rule by decree. that meant, but he took the 3 main powers of governance into his hands, legislative executive, but it's been a real battle to gain control of the judiciary. he's been trying to force through prosecutions and politicians. and the judiciary has been pushing back. so. yeah, this is the culmination of a really long, bitter wrangle with the, the superior judicial council. and now it's come to a real head. and the surrounding area is c. as sam, the supreme judicial council building, an echoes will happen back in july, when all me in police surrounded the at the house of parliament and prevented and peace from going in, in the same things happening. here. we were hearing from different members of the judiciary like the young magistrates who is saying that she this is an extension of the push back. they're saying that what they think is happening is that chi side is

trying to purge the judiciary. so we've seen similar purges, but they've been mold behind plays doors as were seen in the ministry of interior. but the judiciary is a, is a public facing office. yeah, i said there's, there's no way for chi side to hide. this said, this is a very open demonstration of his determination of his style of rule, which i've got some people are now accusing him, hate him, of becoming a dictator. leave open updating us with the situation in tennessee right now. thank you. i now vote by iraq's parliament to elect a new president is in dallas after several key faction said they would boycott the ballot as follows. the decision from the supreme court to suspend the candidacy of form, a foreign minister, which is a barry because a corruption allegations the voting session is likely to be suspended. if you, within 2 thirds of members take part, murmured abdulla had in baghdad, take us through this one. it seems that any election that happens in iraq his days

there is some sort of a controversy surrounding him. ah, will a camella? we're now at the headquarters of the council of representatives. decision has been held, but the quorum to elect a new prison. it has not been reached according to sources inside the session. only about more than 50 members, only are taken part in today's session, out of as you know, $329.00, the total number of the parliament at members. now this happens after the major political blocks, including the se, movement that won the majority of seats. the sunday coalition that includes 2 major soon near parties, including to cut them of progress led by the current speaker, the parliament and the kurdish tax. could this town democratic party,

the major kurdish a plot? these coalitions have come together and have decided to boycott, in fact, not so take part and today's session why in order to fail, or to foil the choice of a new president. why? because there are no many, namely how she had as he body. the former foreign minister and the former finance minister also posed accused of corruption who is facing allegations of corruption at the supreme court's. and that's why he is not it. he's not taking part in today's session, he's not being good and voted for. that's after the supreme court has suspended his nomination. now, many members of the political blocks supporting pushes the body,

say that did not take him part. and today's session, unless ha, ha, ha, ha ha, she had, see body is being brought back to this at race. whether or not he will come back. this remains at the hands or at the decision of the supreme court. went out though i had updating us from baghdad. thanks my hope. the pakistani army has strongly condemned an attack which killed at least 5 of its soldiers that were shot from across the border and afghanistan by pakistani taliban fighters, december, the armed route withdrew from a sci fi with the pakistani government that attack as his days after pakistani soldiers fought with separatists in baluchistan province. that was wednesday, 9 soldiers and 20 fighters were killed. the pakistani military says to army posts were targeted and one of the biggest raids in recent years. and some tele medicine . the situation is not good after the explosion to restrict checking every where we're sitting here to provide bread and butter to our children. there is nothing in

the market or that savannah area i by the door. come, we came here in the morning. first we were working. and after finishing work, 11 o'clock, we came to this place. we haven't left oh, there was a lot of damage. we don't know what happened and sod, my police in mexico evicted migrants from a make shift camp in the border. city of t. juana offices forced around 400 people to leave the camp using heavy machinery to destroy temps. the migrants from central america had been living in the camp from nearly a year, waiting to cross the border into the united states. tuba is mocking 60 years since the u. s. imposed sanctions on the communist government. it was longest running economic embargo was mostly affected. ordinary citizens, the un estimates the blockades, cost the animal than a $130000000000.00. a latin america editor, listen human reports. the disintegrating buildings of tobac, once magnificent capital, a reflection of a crumbling economy in which was once regarded as the jewels of the caribbean. it's

as though the country had been frozen in time back to 1962 to when the united states declared an economic, financial and diplomatic embargo against its tiny communist neighbor. it was at the height of the cold war, 75 year old rolanda ignacio reese was 15 then just 3 years after the triumph of the cuban revolution. 60 years later he lament that the embargo is still in place of the robber. they should have removed it long time ago. if, after all these tam, the united states has an achieved anything, it said tend to want to know. it only has our people by the govern remains in place . he's not wrong. the world's longest economic embargo has certainly hurt ordinary cubans. limiting access to medicine, cheap us imports technology credit through a u. s. dollar dominated financial system. washington's purpose has always been to

modify or force out cuba, one party communist system. but clearly it's failed miserably. your global, a good idea. on the contrary, in cuba case embargo has become a fundamental component for the survival, the cuban state. as current government a tougher the sanctions. the easier it is to accused the united states of violating sovereignty destabilizing country and organizing rebellion. and that is exactly what happened when economic hardships and restrictions on freedom of expression exploded into unprecedented mass demonstrations last year. good uncle, referring to 60 years of economic embargo president miguel diaz canal alluded to sanctions against cuba as allies, venezuela, and nicaragua at w to ga galena, a mortal. this criminal and a moral policy imposed systematically against us is a massive violation of the human rights of the cuban people and is the same one that is now threatening and attacking other nations of our region with unilateral

coerce of measures our sanctions against venezuela and milder once against nicaragua, daniel ortega have, in fact, encouraged alliances with china, russia and to run, making them less dependent on the u. s. no, go, no. i don't know of any case in latin america, we're sanctions of produced the desired results. even partially the same might be said for unilateral sanctions in other parts of the world. but while they may not be effective, they remain washington's preferred means of persuasion. you see a newman al jazeera, a former costa rican president has taken an early lead in sundays national election . was there, mary? if he get us as 27 percent of the vote in the preliminary results trailed by the conservative candidate, fabrizio alvarado alvarado. i think that would be the election is expected to go to a runoff in april costa rica, one of latin america's most stable democracies, but high unemployment and corruption, of course, widespread discontent. now in columbia,

hundreds of wildfires are burning in the amazon droughts. hate and asked and attacks by armed groups of thought to be behind the fires. and now the capitals been put on an air pollution alerts. brianca group to reports toxic as shocking columbia's capital book auto. a thick cloud of smoke gloom silver. it's 8000000 people carried by troy, winds hundreds of kilometer away from fires, burning in the amazon that i had. okay. was the ceo cameras, that was a good thought here as a law we have decided together with our secretary of health. to decree, a yellow alert for the prevention and care of severe respiratory disease in bogota throughout the public and private hospital system. the air quality is so bad, the government says it's best to stay most the endorse. but for those who can't, it's come at a cost lanier, somebody's up or like want, i mean i feel may barely get the yellow alert for pollution haunts me because i

work on the street every day and it's harming my lungs more than it should because it has increased more in columbia's amazon record temperatures and deforestation. blamed on formal fact. rebels are creating a combust of makes here the defense minister gets a 1st time look at the nation's largest national park, a unesco world heritage site under threat, and a love or you this up, what do an army big city? because the national park was burnt by criminal hands that seek through this practice of the forest to appropriate the landing. and the responsibility for the support practice lies with the fog dissidence. yes, ever since the fark rebels disarmed and gave up control of the territories, they once held destruction of the amazon has been on the rise. groups of rebels who rejected 2016 p. steel with the government are accused of starting fires to grace,

cattle, or girl. coca to make cocaine. its effects are now being felt in cities across columbia. priyanka got their, i'll to sir. sports is coming up on this news. all one of the world's best skis crashes out in just a 1st run at the beijing when to really leah is here with more in a moment. a

with the whole lou. ah ah yeah, if you look at your sport, what are you got models or some football and synagogues president? he is declared that monday is a public public holiday to celebrate the country's 1st ever africa cup of nations.

title, it was the audio monet who scored the winning penalty in a shoot out to beat 7 time champion, egypt in the final all the more impressive because he missed a penalty earlier in normal time, but disappointment for his liverpool teammate egypt. captain mohammed sala, who still never won the biggest footballing prize on the continent. it was 3rd time . lucky though, for synagogues coach al, you see, say, who was involved in their 2 previous finals. losing as a coach of 2019. and as a player way back in 2000 to see say, was applauded as he entered the post match news conference. ah, that's awesome. thank you very much. the boys never gave up. well, i think not really proves the mental strength of this generation. we're very happy we dedicate this pick treat to the senegalese people because since independence and until now we've been running after this 1st star. now he will always have

a star and shirt, si se was then interrupted by several of his players who brought the celebrations end of the press room. why not? the team will arrive back home and synagogue in just a few hours. and if what we're about to show you is anything to go by the players will be greeted by quite a party on their arrival. here's our correspondent asset bag, who watched the match with fans in the capitol car. they watched, they waited and they prayed. then with

twice before they reach the point, lost this time and then took them to shoot out. it's the 1st ever africa couple maisha victorious at last. throughout the day they've been hope and preparations every other post and treat painted in the countries colors even hair. i don't mind faces and lips. shrines in the neighborhoods, repairs come from senegal is celebrating their porch and the team is expected back on monday to find an entire nation out on the streets to welcome them home. i said big algebra tucker.

ah, the flagship event of the winter olympics, the men's down hill scheme was won by swiss rates are bits foot its been delayed by day because of high winds. but when it finally got underway, the man made course known as rocket did not disappoint. no one had raced on it before and it was voice who came out on top. finally getting a gold metal to go with the silver and bronze that he won in south korea. 4 years ago frenchman john clary finished with silver missing out by just a 10th of a 2nd. and that replaces bodie miller as the oldest olympic medalist and alpine schemes. austria mathias mare who was aiming for 3 straight olympic titles. it is settled for bronze and it was not a great day for american superstar mikaela schiffron. she crashed out of the women's giant slalom on her 1st run in china, but still has more chances to win gold shipment is hoping to enter all 5 individual

events. in canada's max parrot one gold and the snowboard slopes style events get this 3 years after he was diagnosed with cancer parent was told that he had hodgkin's lymphoma in late 2018, but in 2019. and now he was cancer free after 12 rounds of chemotherapy. now he's also and one picture. and that when lives canada up, the overall metal table there, 4th, currently its sweet and out in front with 3 gold metals followed by the russian olympic committee and norway, who both have to the canadian women's ice. hockey team refused to take to the ice for nearly an hour against the russian olympic committee insisted that they get their opponents covered 19th test results before play 6 russians had tested positive last week and were place in isolation when they did eventually come out. both teams were wearing masks under their helmets, russia, russia took theirs off during the 3rd period, but canada kept them on and it didn't affect their performance. canada winning this

one easily. 6 goals to one to the n. b a and the defending champion, milwaukee bucks are fighting their way back into form after being hampered by injuries earlier on in the season. there now up to 3rd in the eastern conference after win over the l clippers star player yana sons and comple top scored with $28.00 points at 10 rebounds. next they play the lakers. in rugby france have kicked off their 6 nations campaign with a bonus point went over italy, b scored 5 tries altogether in paris, including a hat trick for winger, gavin valliere, the french go top level with ireland as they aim to win. the 6 nations title for the 1st time and 12 years in american golfer tomahawk, he has one for the 1st time on the pga tour. he made for birdies late in the final round to beat jordan speith by 2 shots at the pebble beach program in california. it was worth the wait, as he takes home more than one and a half $1000000.00. well,

that's all your work from his back over to come all. thank you lucy, in the next news. our finally in australian biotech company says it wants to plant a 100000000 trees around the world by 2024. look at how it wants to do it. come up with these drones are designed to revolutionize the fight against global warming. they're called seed dropping drones, and they can plan for the 40000 trees a day. they fly above remote and rugged fields that are often difficult to reach firing, fi, pause on to the ground, and leaving the rest to nature. so whilst we are planting different types of agitation, that could be trees that could be shrimps, that could be grasses. what we're doing is rebuilding the ecosystem that can support healthy soil's micro communities wildlife. the drone was designed by an australian biotech company. the team is hoping to plant a 100000000 trees in 2 years, eventually that will provide amazing her system services to humans and animals and,

and thought of the whole globe. so that includes pollination and clean water, clean air, and cabin sequestration. here seats are isolated and matched with a perfect blend. each pod is created to thrive in the environment it's expected to grow in. while the drone relies on artificial intelligence, the often tedious work that leads to that innovation sorts here is not a solution to global warming. the solution is not to emit the c o 2, but it does help the global warming problem by removing c o 2 from sphere and usually creating a cooling impact over the regions where you've grown the forests. air seed has already planted more than 50000 trees in australia and south africa. next year is planning to extend its reach to other parts of africa, southeast asia, north america, and europe, party lopez of a young al jazeera. all right,

stick around, i'll say in a couple minutes. the latest headers. ah mm hm. and frank assessments for china, it's all well banner said from the 0 call it strategy. if the rest, the world cannot get to get informed opinions at all, costs focused on needs enough, right. is that stable critical debate? why group would be the claims that need to constitutes i lead to stan cho threads to russia, but it's precisely his actions that's rated this insecurity in the region. in depth

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$5000.00, was to chimpanzees more than $1500.00 of them. i found them the law mon, to regional and they prophecy because the vision is under pressure to save them after the resumption of lugging and the return of ah u s. cell does arrive in poland to support nato and eastern europe. multiplan matic efforts step up to ease the tension between russia and ukraine. ah, hello again, i'm kim. i'll santa maria here in doug how this is the world news from al jazeera. we're also going to hear from people on ukraine's border.