home to more than $5000.00 was to chimpanzees more than $1500.00 of them are found on the low mon, to regional and they are from, from safe cuz the vision is under pressure to save them after the resumption of looking and the return of ah, you assault is arrive in poland to support nato in eastern europe. my diplomatic efforts step up to ease the tension between russia and ukraine. ah, hello again on come out 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 that wanting to maintain their links with russia and the frosty relations between the neighbors. also in the news financing, it's missile program with bitcoin, the u. n says north korea's government has stolen tens of millions in digital

currency to pay for recent launches. and 60 years on us sanctions on cuba show no sign of being lifted, but it's cuban citizens are continue to feel the impact. ah, so much focus on the troops and tanks on the board. but right now it's really all about diplomacy when it comes to ukraine and trying to avoid what the west fee as is a possible russian invasion. later on monday we will have the new german chancellor, olive schultz, i heading there to washington d. c. to meet you as president joe biden. i know that death was long bit. russia must know if there is military aggression against ukraine. it will have a high price. we are paving the ways 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 german chancellor mentioning france there, the french president emanuel micron is actually heading to moscow for one on one discussions with russia. vladimir putin. and the a you commission, presidents are still of underline, and she is hosting the polish president andre duda, poland, one of several european countries, where u. s. troop reinforcements have been sent, trying to bolster nato's east and flank as those russian forces mass on ukraine's border. so let's go to joseph jabari and moscow for more on the diplomacy side of things. i think emanuel microns visit is the, is the key on here because he seems to be taking the, the broader approach tools and the idea about russia's concerns in europe rather than just this trip build up. certainly, and i think it's important to highlight that we've just heard from the kremlin spokesperson, dmitri pascall, who said that they don't expect any major breakthroughs. breakthroughs from this

meeting between a president putin and the french president. but because that situation, according to the kremlin, is way too complicated, that is also sentiment that was shared by the french president when he spoke to you as president joe biter on the phone on sunday evening. and he said, don't expect that he major breakthroughs and don't expect moscow to take unilateral measures to deescalate attentions and emanuel micron also said that russia has a right to voice his concerns. and as really, his objective is coming he in coming here is to listen to vladimir putin. he has said that russia just doesn't want to talk about ukraine. they want to talk about more, the general understanding they have of the rules and regulations about nato and the you. and that's really why the french president has cancelled his own plans this week to make the trip to moscow. and then of course, he'll be traveling to care on tuesday. we expect that 2 leaders to meet later on monday and they will be, i speaking to the media following their meeting. the general consensus here is that

a manual micron who shares a good and close relationship with president vladimir putin, is them highest level diplomat to make this trip to moscow in an attempt to try and keep the lines of negotiation and dialogue ongoing and to make it a point to say that russia has a right to ma'am, have its concerns, and then we have to really engage in dialogue to be able to get out of the situation that we're in, which many here think it's very much a complicated one. so, so all these us troops are coming in to bolster notarized forces. is the kremlin reacting to that little they haven't specifically responded today, but they, they have in the past saying that to basically you cannot prepare and prevent ah, for war either you are trying to prevent it or you're preparing for it and that this move of u s. troops now being in poland and is seen as i moved, that could really an ignite further flames of this rhetoric that we've been hearing

from all sides about russia's intentions and that they countermeasure the u. s. is taking to try and prevent russia from invading ukraine, something that they say they're not interested in. but it's important to point out that those troops will now be on one side of the border and poland. and on the other side in bel roost, the russian troops are, are heading there for is a huge 10 day military drill, which will begin on tuesday. this is certainly seen as a move that could really have a potential to be quite serious with the u. s. troops on one side and russian a bell or russian troops on the other. but at the president of bella, luce has said that they want to strengthen their borders. and that is a reason for this massive military drill due to take place later this week. okay. de also jabari with the lightest from moscow. thank you. let's build on what dosa was talking about. there. the russian troops and military equipment, wood from mains on that bella russian border with you cried. and the 2 countries holding joint military exercises, auto bill how made went to find out how old out is affecting the lives of people

who live along ukraine's northern border. a didn't know viet elevate, she border crossing is business as usual. about a 1000 people transit through here every day. going to and coming from bella luce on the other side, russian. bella russo holding joint military exercises, but no sign of that here. still devoted guards say on high alert and prepared. but how listless to you to keep due to a 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, i 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 bella rues and ends up in saint 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 creek northern border is more than a 1000 kilometer long warriors. but nicolai shenker remembers when there were no demarcations with russia. billers and ukraine were all part of the soviet union. he says his life was better than grandma and his wife. now j. 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 your nick doin. you're big? no, no, no, no, no, nobody will fight everyone here. we'll laugh about it though. we don't care. i watch tv, and it's horrible. our troops are mobilizing, 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'm sure me nearby 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. for on to other news and a you and 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 says pyongyang stole more than $50000000.00 through cyber attacks. and 20202021. sorry, yes, that's right. 2021. a separate study indicates as much as $400000000.00 may have been stolen. north korea conducted 9 ballistic missile tests just last month. his mcbride with more from so this does follow a pattern. we do know that north korea has been accused now 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, or talk of food shortages in north korea. and as we get into 2022, still the same question of how to deal with those career,

especially given this flurry of missile launches. while we spoke to ed caesar a staff writer at the new yorker who has conducted extensive research on north korea's hacking activities. he says the crypto currency market is an easy target for digital thieves. it is something to worry, but i do think that some increased transparency on behalf of you know, the crypto currency ecosystem would help you know, through it or exchanges. current exchanges where people buy and sell or that have been, they've been hacked. no more than once. that was one south korea. they've been hacked 4 times. you know, the coin stolen from a hot wallet. so that is a tremendous lapse of security and we don't hear about it because there is, there is no impulse on behalf of exchanges to publicize, you know, slightly more ordered and better regulated sector might need some more transparency . fantastic work done by no, by nation states,

but also by some private sector actors on tracing the assets of crypto assets that have been stolen back to the point of which i cashed out or into currency. and you could just see how sophisticated some of these, you know, money don't bring chains on our. so it's really going to take a huge amount of effort on behalf of the private sector and nation states. they're leasing bodies to get a handle on what's happening there. israel's police chief has asked for an independent inquiry after reports that investigate is use the controversial pegasus spyware to target citizens. coby shall die, says the investigation is needed to restore the public's trust. this is after an is reading. newspaper reported police tracked several prominent figures using that hacking software package that has been linked to the legal surveillance of human rights activists, journalists, and politicians all over the world. in the news ahead said has had one of these

strictest coven border lock towns. but now straight here is preparing to open up to the world once again. that is a major test for hong kong, 0 target strategies. the city faces of reco number sections ah ah, look forward to brighter scully's, the with sponsored by counsel at ways where we go is here a weather report for asia. hello, everyone. great to see you se, asia jakarta, west javert, these thunder downpours here, producing 61 millimeters of rain. these bands of rain on tuesday rate over the malay peninsula. call them pour and singapore looking at some intense rain in the forecast for you as we take a look at china, has some cloud cover for central areas, but snow falling between the gang, see, and the pearl river valley. and speaking of that snow we've been talking day in and

day out for western areas of japan, 133 centimeters depth so far force a paro in february. the record is a 16983 years ago. but here's the thing on tuesday, we'll add to this tally was still some more snow showers for support. oh, with a high minus one. warmth moves back into the picture for the korean peninsula. saw a high 5 degrees cluster of energy through the bay of been gall southern sections. it's going to clip eastern portions of sri lanka on tuesday in time, northwestern india. those temperatures are coming up so that should improve the air quality in places like new delia 25 degrees. an energy across the levant will move to the east and south impacting bach dead. so you're temperatures will fall in the days to come. that's a snapshot of your weather. see you soon. ah, the weather sponsored by katara always. 02 boxes from the street to chicago on different with the same ambition fighting their way to

a better life than themselves and their families. 6 6 in the volatile world of chicago, south side, he's no easy, tough witness. ring site on al jazeera lou aah! on al jazeera, these are the top stories. this our more us soldiers arriving in poland as part of plans to increase nato's presence in eastern europe. while german and french officials are due to meet at ukrainian and russian leaders on monday,

you and reports is north korea used cyber attacks to finance. it's nuclear and ballistic missile program. the report indicates pyongyang stole at least $50000000.00 of crypto currency in the past. 2 years and israel's police chief has asked for an independent inquiry after reports that investigate has used the controversial pegasus software to target citizens. coffee shop tie says the investigation is needed to restore public trust. australia is fully reopening its orders nearly 2 years after the government closed the country off to the rest of the world. from february 21st fully vaccinated travelers can enter the country. that means tourists and finally return study was only allowing in a limited number of citizens and permanent residents, making it one of the harshest border closures in the world. while making the announcement prime minister scott marson alluded to the deportation of unvaccinated tennis by the tire of a joke which 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 was strive you requires you also to be double vaccinated. and i think events earlier in the year should have sent a very clear message. i think to every around the world that that is the requirement to enter into australia. the philippines has begun. vaccine children age between 5 and 11 against coven 19. it's going ahead despite a legal challenge from 2 parents to stop the program. jamila alan doug has moved from manila the 1st day of the vaccination of children, of like a festive affair. here in manila, it's done into newly renovated manila zu, there are math pod and kansas for children who are afraid of injection. but for the government, the vaccination of kids between the age of 5 to 11 couldn't come soon enough. that's because the recent dates of the department of house shows nearly 70 percent

of the cases among the pediatric group last month were from age 0 to $11.00. you look up all fathers, all mothers to convince your relatives and neighbors. all your acquaintances tell them to have your children vaccinated. your children will soon have a normal life. this is the dream li, 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 from your casita says he wants to double the cove at 900 boots, to shalt program to a 1000000 doses a day by the end of the month. fewer than 5 percent of the japanese population has

received those booster shots. nationwide. infections driven by alma kronos about a 100000 for the 1st time on saturday at hong kong as a strict 0 covert strategy. so i think its biggest challenge is the city deals with record infections. hong kong followed china's strategy are trying to eliminate outbreaks as soon as they emerge, but they've been more than 2000 cases in january driven by once again on the crime . the chinese tennis stop punch. why has denied choosing a former government official of sexual assault. her allegation on social media in november was taken down half an hour after it was posted, but she now says it's all misunderstood. disappeared from public view for nearly 3 weeks after making that claim. on monday she met the head of the international olympic committee. katrina, you're now in beijing and said this story is still heavily censored in china despite punctuates denial of the delegation. the ira, serious is punctual. i had dinner with the head of the organization 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, the iris he said it was simply not their position as a sporting organization to pass judgment or to push for any government investigation. that's more of what they had to say. i think we need also to listen to her and we need to 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 3 time a lengthy and punctual eye. 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. and now that purse was quickly taken down and she was then not seen for 2 to 3 weeks.

the i or says, says that they were in contact with her by phone since november the 21st. now this all comes off to 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 dance in any concerns about her well being. certainly the women's tennis association seems to be left out of the loop. they have 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. but the tension between russia and ukraine will likely dominate the agenda at

a meeting between us president joe biden. the german chancellor, olive schultz. his visit to washington is seen as reassurance that major countries are standing up to russia. and it will also set the tone for future use. german relations on fisher recalls 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 schultz. 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 on 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 class. have been that when it comes to international affairs, i think they very much come from the same mindset. they both believe in the transatlantic alliance, also 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 and 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 ok notion, cancers in the we are all concerned about the situation on the ukrainian border with russian troops gathered on the ukrainian border. joe biden has promised sanctions, but any encouragement, but there is 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 sanctions, whether it is energy sanctions, whether it is suspended or 3 to 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 chairman 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. the top judge in turn is he has promised to take the necessary steps to protect the judiciary and sanctity of the courts says softer president chi side dissolved the supreme judicial council. the country's legal watchdog. tennessean police have locked the doors of the council building and stopped staff from entering and evoked by rocks parliament to elect a new president is in doubt. up to several key factions boycotted the ballot that follows the decision from the supreme court to suspend the candidacy. a form of foreign minister has a very because of corruption allegations the voting session is likely to be

suspended. a few than 2 thirds of members take part. police in mexico. evicted migrants from a makeshift camp in the border city of t. juana offices force, sir, round 400 people, to leave the camp using heavy machinery to destroy tense. the migrants from central america had been living in the camp for nearly a year, waiting to cross the border into the united states. in cuba, marking 60 years since the u. s. imposed sanctions on the communist government. the world's longest running economic embargo has mostly affected every day citizens. so in fact, the un estimates the blockades cost the island more than a $130000000000.00. a latin america editor, the scene human has 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 roland 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 this time the united states has an achieved anything, it said tend to want no, it only has our people by the governed 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 cubans one party communist system. but clearly it's failed miserably. your global ago, that you, 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 accuse the united states of violating sovereignty destabilizing countries and organizing rebellion. yet 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 cube as allies, venezuela, and nicaragua. w got 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 course 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 or no,

i don't know of any case and latin america were 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. to see a newman al jazeera in columbia hundreds of wildfires, a burning in the amazon drought hate and often attacks by armed groups a thought to be behind those fires. and now the capital has been put on an air pollution alert. priyanka good to reports, toxic as shocking columbia's capital book gotta a thick cloud of smoke gloom silver. it's 8000000 people carried by troy, winds hundreds of kilometers away from fires, burning in the amazon that iraq was the ceo. cornerstone. secretary 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 mostly in doors. but for those who can't, it's come at a cost lanyard. somebody's up or like want, i mean i feel miss beverly, 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 if 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 or do an army big city because the national park was burnt by criminal hands that seek through this practice or the forest to appropriate the landing lot. and the responsibility for the support practice lies with the fog

dissidence. yes, a lot the 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 the 2016 p. c. with the government are accused of starting fires to crace, cattle or grow coca to make cocaine. its effects are now being felt in cities across columbia. pagoda i'll to sir, ah, half past the hour and these at the top store is a push to find a diplomatic solution to the 10th situation unfolding along the unfolding along the russia. ukraine border is gathering pace. german and french officials are due to meet ukrainian leaders later on monday, the east of the country. also in the news today, a u. n report says.