international politics to the global pandemic, and everything in between. join me, if i take on the large, dismantled misconceptions and debate the contradiction. mark lamond hill. and it's hard to get up front on algebra ah, face to face, the french and russian presidents mate as part of a concise, a diplomatic push to ease the crisis in ukraine. and we hear from people on ukraine's eastern border who wants to keep strong links with russia despite frosty relations between the neighbors. ah, hello, i'm on the inside. this is al jazeera life and also coming up a new atlas developed by scientists in france, in the u. s gives a clara,

but mixed picture of the wealth mountain glaciers. and off to 60 years of un sanctions against cuba, we find out the impact of had on its people. ah, russian troops and tanks the only ukrainian border but it's a big day of diplomacy as well. 2 lead his work to avert a possible russian invasion in moscow. the presidents of russian moscow met one on wand. frances amanew mackerel said he didn't believe in miracles in key. if the german foreign minister has met with our ukrainian counterpart, a 2nd visit in 3 weeks, new german chancellor schultz is in washington. he will hold talks with us president joe biden in the next few hours. finally, polish president on by duda has met e and nature lead us as the alons continues its deployment of troops to poland on

all the countries in eastern europe. there is a process now going on within nato. also, of course in goals. consultation with all media military commanders to adjust our presence in the sun, part of the alliance to referred to strengthen our returns on the fence. or if russia really wants less nato, a close to the borders, they get the opposite. doors into by has very latest from moscow. vladimir put in was very keen for the french president to make this visit. they've been speaking on the phone over the past week 3 times. and where their russian president, to extend that the invitation and the french president had to cancel his trip to mar, say this week to come to moscow. and of course he will travel to keep it on tuesday . but he's already stated before arriving in moscow at that we should not expect to any at huge breakthroughs. emanuel micron spoke with

a u. s. president on sunday evening, and he said that we should expect to hear the security concerns that russia has and not to expect any unilateral moves by moscow to de escalate. the current situation at emmanuel mac wrong is seen very much as a man was trying to make peace in the middle of all this crisis. he's coming here and currently meeting with florida, you're put in the hopes of trying to clarify some of the a sticking points that russia has when it comes to m. nato as well as the e policies. and it seems to be at the heart of this dispute, it was a sentiment also shared by at the kremlin spokesperson than that no major breakthrough is expected. there's also a sense that emmanuel microns really very much trying to position himself in a place as of to be seen as a peacemaker. and also back home for a domestic audience as well. we have to remember that friends at the french public

will go to the post to elect a new president in april. so there is also a very much a domestic agenda for the french president during this trip as well. will. dominant kane has the latest on germany's role in trying to resolve the standoff. there has been building pressure on the german government, particularly on chancellor's shots with people asking where is see, what's he been doing? what's he up to? well, now we know he is in washington dc, missing president biden, where we can expect all manner of declarations of friendship alliance between the 2 countries publicly. but privately, perhaps some more, rather pointed questions from the president biden, to chance the shots about what does germany really want to do? what are, what are its intentions? some of those intentions have become increasingly clear today. so we know the german defense ministry is sending $350.00 further troops to augment its contingent of troops. in lithuania, the problem there is that although in lithuania,

there is the, the concern about the ukraine crisis. the point here is that those german troops are at least 450 kilometers away from the nearest ukrainian border. and the country of belarus is between the ukrainian border and where they're going to be. and that is the crux of this ukranian government is looking for help looking for ways to bolster its presence on its front lines with russia in its view. the german government wants very much to be seen as being at the forefront of diplomacy. but it does not want to send its munitions, its weapons to the front lines of what could, what is currently, what seemingly an undeclared war or washing shapes and military equipment remain on the bell. irish and border with ukraine. the 2 countries have been holding joint military exercises. oh, that does hamid when to find out how that is affecting the lives of people who live

along ukraine's northern border. at denovia elevate, she border crossing. it's 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 roofs are holding joint military exercises. but no sign of that here. still the border guards say they on high alert and prepared. but how the littlest to view the food. if you keep luke you're booked, adhered to them. 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 is now being reinforced with coils of razor wire. this road is more

than 2000 kilometers long as starts in odessa, on the black sea goes to cave towards the north of the country, crosses bella roofs, and ends up in saint petersburg in russia. so should russia decide to send its troops across the border into ukraine, from bela 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 rewards or yeah, but nicolai ashika 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 petrovitch 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. we'll laugh about it. 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 beller, 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 found

a 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 kevin moscow have reached such a low point. what does that mean? edges era along ukraine's northern border hunter, the mourners and morocco have attended the funeral. the boy at the center of a rescue operation watched around the world of yo ryan, fell into a fancy to me to well last week. he was trapped for 4 days, while west teams worked around the clock to save him. his body was recovered on saturday. now israel's police chief has asked for an independent inquiry after reports that investigators use the controversial pegasus eyewear to target citizens . coby shop tie says the investigation is needed to restore the public's trust. it's often israeli newspaper report and police track several prominent figures

using the hacking software. the peg is program has been used to spy on human rights activists, journalists, and politicians around the world. hurry forth, it has moved from west the initial response from the police last month had been that there had been occasional use of this kind of technology with court warrants with judges being involved well, according to this report, which is now being referred for an independent inquiry by police so gone, others initial denials. they've been using it for fishing expeditions with an f and with a p h. they just been going out 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. already the formal communications ministry director, shlomo filbert,

who turn states witness against nathan, 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 son's abner that his phone was allegedly targeted in this way. potentially because they were looking for communications from his mother, benjamin netanyahu wife, sorrow, and any potential impact of her communications on this. and so we have this really mind bending kind of irony here. that benjamin had been kind of using the n s o software as part of his bid to improve relationships with a lot of regimes, a lot of governments in the region. now there's a potential, but 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 a year and report says, north korea has stolen tens of millions of dollars of crypto currency to help finance its nuclear. ballistic missile program says peeling young stole more than $50000000.00 through cyber attacks between 2020 and last year. a separate study indicates how as much as $400000000.00 may have been stolen. north korea conducted 9 ballistic missile tests last month. and caesar is a stamp rise of the new yorker and has conducted extensive research in north korea hacking activities. he says the crypt currency market is an easy target for digital thieves. it is something to worry, but i do think that some increase transparency on behalf of you know, the crypt currency going ecosystem would help their exchanges protect currency exchanges where people buy and sell crypto that have been maybe heights, you know,

more than once. there was one in south korea, they've been hacked 4 times, you know, the coin stolen from it. so that is a tremendous lapse of security and we don't hear about it because there isn't. there is actually no impulse on behalf of the exchanges to publicize. in fact, i'm spending more ordered and better regulated sector might need some more transparency on this fantastic work being done by know, by nation states, but also by some private sector actors. i'm tracing the assets crypto assets that have been stolen back to the point of which that cashed out are into the currency. and you can just see how sophisticated some of these, you know, money don't bring chains on. so it's really going to take a huge amount of effort on behalf of the private sector and nation states. they're producing bodies to get

a handle on what's happening there. still ahead on al jazeera, find out why hong kong 0900 strategy is facing a big test authorities doing about that ah, walk into your world's weather report for the middle east and africa. nice to see you every one. so here's the same energy across the levant, moving to the north, and it will drop down to the south, the north and east, i should say. so look at pockets. and what this is going to do for you, some showers late wednesday into thursday, and your temperature down to 18 on friday pretty well where it should be for the time to year. let's go back to the here and now dealing with a wind out of iraq, north northwest, or least. so that's shamal with an up the sand and dust at times, especially when you consider for doha, those wind gusts 55 kilometers per hour on tuesday. now through pockets, we've got

a few spits of rain across the country. it's dropped down the temperature in karachi to $26.00 degrees, but intense rain will be falling in istanbul. really rate across western areas of turkey through to the south winds have shifted around his fall. so you're certainly going to feel that for it's stumbled on tuesday with a high 6 degrees. here's the latest on tropical cyclone. but sir, i, we know up to a quarter of a 1000000 people somehow some way impacted by this storm. there's the damage. we check out where it's go and in the days to come, it's going to dip to the south. now the good news is, mainland africa. is going to duck in dodge this one, especially when you consider there's been flooding for eastern portions of south africa. that's it from me. see the gutter, one of the boston growing nations in the world. i needed to open and development into

a national shipping company that middle east and he skilfully knocked down 3 key areas of the boat, who filling up from it, connecting the world, connecting the future. while the cato gotta gateway to whoa trade. lou. the me watching out the reminder of stories this hour. it's a big day of diplomacy as well. leaders work with multiple russian invasion of ukraine. the french and russian presidents the talking one on one in moscow and the german chancellor in washington for 2 more soldiers from nathan countries arriving

in eastern eastern europe from western lines trying to increase presence in the area as well. police chief adults for an independent inquiry on the court that investigates his views, the peg at the my with the targets citizen israeli newspaper reported that and he tracks several prominent figures using the software at least 10 people have been injured by the sudanese security forces who find t gas to disperse demonstrators marching towards the presidential policy. cartoon. thousands has staged weakly rallies to denounced the military rules and submitted. she took over an october early $79.00. people have been killed by security forces since then. pro democracy groups have refused to negotiate with the army until there is a civilian lead administration. have a morgan have despite a band on gatherings in the central part of the dance capital by the state security

committee processes against military rule. on monday, once again, the street making their way to the presidential palace to voice the anger against the military rule, which is now in the 4th month. processes are demanding that the military return to the barrack, but they also having other demands which include accountability for the process. this will have been killed since the military overpower and late october last year . all the government also demanding the release of its ample detainees when arrested by the military because of their opposition to the military rules. security forces have repeatedly dispersed similar protest, and nearly 8. the processes have been killed. one and 2500 has been injured since the military take over last year. on monday, security forces. once again, you've got to disperse processes from the vicinity of the presidential palace,

where they tried to make their way, let the military know that they want power behind it. so civilian government now sit down, sovereignty counsel headed by general abdel who led the take over, says that it will not handle the power unless one elected government or a government that comes to power through a political consensus. and that is the issue here. political consent has been very hard to reach since that take over many political parties have refused to actually sit down with the military and negotiate a deal to nominate the transitional government to me until july 2023 africa. and i've been put on the un mission in today has been trying to and the political deadlock, but for the time being for us to continue to take to the 3 demanding the military, hanover power, the civilian government. thing that is the reason why this happened there are believe in 2018 and they will continue to process until the civilian government is in place.

and schools in many countries in southern africa, went back to full time classes. this monday to nearly 2 years of blended learning, but it is and bob way, several teachers failed to show up for work. how to matessa reports from the capital robbery. what was meant to be a full day of lessons for the students in zimbabwe turned into a few hours of loitering because the teachers didn't show up. after being closed since december, because of the coven. 19 pandemic schools here have opened again. but some teachers say it's not safe for all students. to return to class. we need more teachers, we need more space, we need more classrooms, and we need more abolition facilities have not been billed, shown here. school, you know, where the new classroom block or new toilet were, were built, you know, was missions with all this is politics. all this is just mere talk and nothing has happened on the ground. then the is the issue of salaries and average work in the

public sector in zimbabwe takes home less than $200.00 a month. there are 4 schools on the street. some teachers have turned up for class, others haven't. for years teachers here have complained that most public schools are in equipped and wages are too low. ultimately, it's the children who are affected the most. charles, my dad, he got tries to explain to the students why he and some of his colleagues are not teaching. renewed food right now. we need money for transferred to we need to money for mitigation and to be our surgeons his school fees is needed now. so where are we going? is it and we love our country. we love our week, we love the children that we teach. we have this sort of attachment with them. but the situation is just making it impossible for us to do anything. the government has so far ignored demands for salaries to be paid in us dollars or this and bobby, and dollar equivalent saying the country can't afford it to try and protect more

citizens from the pandemic. the government is encouraging 16 and 17 year old to get vaccinated. but making all striking workers go back into the classroom to teach these children could prove more difficult. how to matessa algebra had any australia's fully re opening its board as nearly 2 years and the government closed the country all to the rest of the world. from february, the 21st fully vaccinated travelers can enter the country. it means tours can finally return australia was only allowing in a limited number of citizens and permanent residents, making it one of the all ship order pleasures in the world. hong kong, straight 0 cove and 19 strategy faces. it's biggest challenge yet as the city deals with record infections. hong kong has followed china the strategy of trying to eliminate outbreaks as soon as they emerge. but they've been more than 2000 cases

since january. driven by the contagious on the con variance. the philippines has become vaccinating children, age between 5 and 11 against code 19. and going ahead, despite the legal challenge by 2 parents, stop the program to mila allan. doug has more 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 date of the department of health, so nearly 70 percent of the cases among the group last month were from age 0 to $11.00. you look up a whole lot. all fathers, all mothers to convince your relatives and night is all your acquaintances tell

them to have your children vaccinated, that your children will soon have a normal life. this is the dream li, important. and although covert cases have been flowing 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. wrongs parliament has failed to relax. a new president of the federal factions. we courted the latest pilot and happened after decision by the supreme court to suspend the candidacy of the former foreign minister who shows the bar because of corruption allegations, parliamentary groups and negotiating to break the deadlock and peas. also get to choose a new prime minister for months after the general elections. a former costa

rican president has taken an early lead in sunday's national election. joseph maria, forget us, has 27 percent of the vote. in preliminary result, he is trailed by the conservative candidates for briefly alvarado. the election is expected to go to run off in april closer because one of latin america's most stable democracies, both high unemployment corruption have caused wide spread discontent. cuba is marking 60 years since the u. s. imposed its devastating sanctions on the island nation. the wells longest running economic embargo has mostly affected cubans the an estimate. the blockade has caulsey allan more than a $130000000.00. a latin american that is salisia newman 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 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 to know. it only has our people by the governor mans 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. you're can able to go daddy. 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, the stabilizing countries and organizing rebellion. yes. that is exactly what happened when economic hardships and restrictions on freedom of expression exploded into him president of 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. it probably the guard 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 ones 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, a new atlas developed by researches in france in the u. s. is giving a clearer, bought mixed picture. the wells mountain lace is there are around $250000.00 of them across the globe. now the findings by the institute of the environmental jeers sciences and dartmouth college show that overall they hold less ice and fresh water than expected. now that is good for the fight against rising sea levels,

but the research has gloomy implications. but drinking water, agriculture, and power generation in places that depend on the place is as about a quarter less glacial ice and drinking water than previously thought in south america's tropical and these mountains, which run through ponts of bolivia, columbia, ecuador, peru, and venezuela. and it's the opposite in ages himalayan mountains. data shows the region has about 37 percent more ice than scientists anticipated. from n. molina is a post doctoral scholar at the institute of environmental jr sciences in grenoble and france. he says this hope that data collection could help experts in monitoring the sea level rise. in fact, what you have to keep in mind is that are still you does not include the greenland and under the guise sheet, who in the long term will be the major drivers of seal arise. and just looking at the total volume of the ship, compare to the glaciers. if

o and dr. with males, it has the potential to increase the seat of a rise by more than 50 meters, which isn't for way more than the 25 centimeters from the glaciers. we are going to radio, the data said publicly so everyone scientist and policy maker can use all that to, to anticipate the effect of climate change on fresh water resources. and she'll have a rice and we hope that our data will also be used in other climate studies to more accurately model the future. relational, gracious.