fusions, torture, censorship is not acceptable, and you won't hear such strong words from, let's say berlin or paris, or london, a man in cairo on al jazeera. ah, a diplomatic blitz, the u. s. and germany, mason washington, and say bow ready if ukraine is invaded on moscow? russia as president welcomes proposals presented by his french count about to deescalate the crisis. ah, i there, i'm can vanelle, this is al jazeera ly from doha. also coming up hong kong 0 cove at 19 strategies in question. as the numbers of covert current of ours cases at an all time record.

and the mountain lacy is don't contain as much i says we thought and that's bad news for communities who depend on them for fresh water. ah, well, they did the stepping all efforts to diffuse the stand off over ukraine in washington, president joe biden hosted german chancellor. allah schultz. by the more russia of strict to economic measures, including blocking a gas pipeline projects to germany, germany, united states, together, other allies and partners are working closely together to pursue diplomatic resolutions of the situation. and diplomacy is the very best way forward for all sides. we both agree including best. so for russia, in our view, and we have made it very clear, we're ready to continue talks in good faith with russia. germany has also been a leader in pushing de escalation of tensions and encouraging dialogue with through

the normandy format. but if russia makes the choice to further invade ukraine, we are jointly ready, and all of nato is ready for her. and moscow, frances president amended mccolan has how talks with vladimir putin before heading to ukraine on tuesday. who's in said some ideas brought forward by his french counterpart, could help find a solution to the crisis season if they'd be speaking if you would be, the president preferred to come to russia to share opinions about what we should do next. and some of his ideas and proposals about which i think are too early to speak, but i think these ideas could form a basis for our further and joint steps. meanwhile, the youth foreign policy chief justice browl said europe is going through its most dangerous moment since the cold war barrel is also traveled to washington hall talks with the us secretary of state antony blinking. went, let's go to mike can. i joins us now live from washington, d. c. hi, mike. ah,

the u. s. president and, and the german chancellor seemed to be very much singing from the same song sheet. well kim, they went to great pains to indicate exactly that, and i can't remember a german chancellor speaking in english during such a formal news conference. it would appear that olive shots chose to do so. to emphasize the fact that germany was completely on the same page as us when it came to dealing with the threat of russian expansionism. so the 2 leaders making very clear bite and saying repeatedly that he trust germany completely and that they have exactly the same ideas when it comes to how to deal with this crisis. but behind the scenes, there are differences, though that didn't come to light publicly cheaply. germany, for example, has refused to put its troops along nato's eastern flank, which all other allies have done, including the united states. also, germany is at odds with its allies by sending only non lethal equipment to

ukrainian forces. so there are differences in terms of germany's response to the crisis. this would have been a deeper subject of deep private discussion between the 2 leaders. my can't think of you as why the nordstrom is so important to germany and also to the u. s. well, that was a big elephant in the room during the meeting of those leaders, the president biden. in fact, italy stated that a should russia invade ukraine, the u. s. would hold to probe the construction of that pipeline. now that pipeline goes from russia through the baltic ocean, bypassing ukraine into germany. now it's absolutely critical for germany's energy supplies, and certainly germany would not be drawn on whether or not the nordstrom to pipeline would be part of his sanctions package. in fact, the german chancellor, a duke vic, clearly declining to state that emphatically that that would be the case. now this

is a major issue for the u. s. in terms of getting some kind of common stance on what sanctions package should be implemented. should russia invade ukraine? they want complete unity among all the nato partners. but germany is on a slightly different level. here. are russia provide some 80 percent of its trade? obviously, that gas pipeline of critical importance to germany. all of these issues creating a problem from us in terms of getting a united front president biden and state department have been speaking about finding alternative guess resources for germany. but as it stands at present, that pipeline is crucially important in terms of the diplomacy in resolving the situation. because at this stage would appear, the nato allies have different positions on whether that pipeline should be included in any sanctions package. and my candidate for us in washington d. c. thank you. let's bring in edward joseph. he is anton professor at johns hopkins university school of advanced international studies. he joins the south

from washington, d. c. thank you so much for joining us. what do you make of what came out of that meeting between president biden and the german chancellor? i think it was quite significant. first, let's remember that the reason for shoals to come here was affirmatively to demonstrate that germany is a reliable ally. so that's the context he doesn't come here enough posture of disagreement with washington. he comes here in an effort to assure up the alliance and shaw american of faith and to push back against doubts expressed here in the u . s. and in europe as well, about germany's commitment and 2nd, the way i read this press conference and nordstrom to the all important question. nordstrom to is that i see it that by then and sholtes have agreed on a formula for dealing with ord stream 2 in which it is biden who emphatically, without any question, says this project will be terminated, it will be ended,

not just suspended, but ended. if russia invades and shots, yes, dodges the answer because that's the agreed formula. sholtes doesn't say nothing. he says we're in full agreement with the united states, and we are fully unified. so that's my reading of this line and did insect when out some concession, an agreement from schultz, but they agreed on a formula that allows shots to manage his domestic politics. please, how does that form in a work for the gen and counts and of well, it works for him in his domestic politics because sholtes and biden understands us . of course, they're both politicians. he understands that for shoulds to come out and state that domestically in germany is highly problematic. he's just taken over in december who in this unprecedented 3 party coalition. and there are formal

agreements and formal constraints within that on as part of the coalition agreement about what germany can do to support ukraine. and obviously there's divisions within germany in the business community. and let's remember the former german chess or care hud shredder is basically in the hands of the russians on this. he's just been appointed to the head of gas prom after representing rosena. so biden understands that he gets that and yet it appears that there is, is really a tacit german agreement that this project is finished. and that's the important signal here to vladimir putin, that you're gonna face severe consequences including to your pet project, your major project towards string to if you invent ukraine, please. while the west is, is creating contingencies for if russia invades ukraine, ukraine's president has asked the west not to create panic, was wondering your thoughts on that, i guess divergence. well, that,

so it's very clear. it's also understandable. a president zalinski is in a, a delicate position because he cannot afford to send the same message to his citizens that the u. s. has done, for example, to have citizens in ukraine encouraging them to leave president. unless he cannot do that, he has to maintain a firm stance. he has to maintain morale and he has to sustain the possibility that yes, ukraine could be embedded in by the way he's backed off, they backed off some of their original dissatisfaction with us. but he, it panic is not good in that kind of a situation in it for any country. so that's the line that they are walking the job . the tone is slightly different in keith than it is in washington. but i think that there's very clear understanding and collaboration between keys and washington

on the subject of the russian threat please. i thank you very much your time. i have lived there and with joseph adjunct, professor johns hopkins university school of advanced international studies. thank you. lou, hong kong strict 0 covered 19 strategies facing its biggest challenge. yet as the territory deals with reco infections, the city has been falling. mainland china approach is trying to eliminate outbreaks, as soon as they emerge. planet has more thousands of hong kong residents queuing out at testing centers across the city. on the day the territory records its highest number cove 19 cases. since the pandemic began a record 614 infections were reported on monday, nearly doubled, the number announced the day before many of the cases are untraceable. thirties called the shop serge,

an unprecedented challenge and urged people to stay at home for people in hong kong who lived for months without any local transmission last year. this is uncharted territory. really worry not only for myself, but mostly for my family or the people around me basically. yeah. it's been a crazy a once a year started, you know, and no one expected this the whole more you fall off the the government should be more sites. in fact, i have a strategy and romance to let the public understand the purpose of that anti epidemic masher said that government does not have any road map of tragedy now. but all the rhythm plants, hong kong authorities have given no sign, they're willing to via, from the 0 coven, 19 strategy adopted by mainland china. especially when vaccination ratings among hong kong, elderly remains sluggish. direct pandemic controls is still in place, including flight bands and quarantine facilities for those who test positive. hong kong is bracing for social distancing restrictions to be extended even further and

officials war that cases here could rise in the coming days as the effects of last weeks learn a new year. gatherings take hold. brick clinic al jazeera hong kong. a canadian court has banned truckers from sounding their horns in central ottawa as part of a crackdown on an 11 day long anti government protest by truckers. oh, the so called freedom convoy began as a protest against a covert 90 vaccine mandate. the cross border dr. is it since evolved into a wire to protest against prime minister justin for those pandemic measures. ottawa's mer jim watson, the fair to say, to emergency on sunday, saying the demonstrators are a threat to resident safety reports of racially charged attacks. still ahead on al jazeera, the warnings of k, austin hazy as the opposition is demanding, the prime minister step down fucking fears of even more violent and know what is

yes. and costa rica the presidential election still surprised results. ah welcome to your weather report for the americas. hello, everyone. beginning in south america, we've got storms through pedro bolivia, western areas of the amazon out toward the south atlantic. if we go in toward the southeast corner of brazil, that rain still coming out, your weather alerts in play. looking to add about another 100 millimeters. it's going to be breezy for porter lake gray with a high of $27.00 degrees. now, as we go to the caribbean, look at this around the bay of competitive, intense rain, or dry and in some colder air. so that's likely to power up some thunderstorms from the yucatan right into southern mexico and guatemala. now as we check in on the

gulf states of the us, that rain is draped back over florida. so tampa can expect some downpours at times . now watched this through the atlantic, we got the storm racing up. it's going to produce a heavy swath of snow for new brunswick, we could see about 10 to 15 centimeters. and for halifax, i think about $75.00 millimeters of rain. on top was found, we go a warm search of air rate across the canadian prairies, the northern plains billions at 12 degrees. that is, while above average land this weather reports in the west coast of the us. the stellar's stretch of weather for los angeles continues, and we'll get you up to 32 degrees by thursday. enjoy season. the frank assessments for china will benefit from the 0 call strategy if the rest, the world together informed opinions at all costs market nice enough,

right in front of that critical debate. landreth would be the claims that need to come and then she'll threat to russia, but it's precisely if he's actions that created the insecurity in the region. in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera. ah ah, what's your desert reminder and on top stories this l. u. s. president joe biden has vowed to shut down a crucial russian gas pipeline to germany. if moscow invades ukraine. comments came as german chancellor. all of sholtes visited washington. and in moscow, russian president vladimir putin met his french count, found a manual club,

hootin said he hoped that war could be avoided. hong kong is seeing record corona virus cases going into question. it's strict at 0 covered strategy. strict measures remain in place including flight bands, targeted, locked downs and business restrictions. israel's police chief is asked for an independent inquiry after reports that his offices use the controversial pegasus spyware to target citizens and softer an israeli newspaper reported police tracked several prominent figures using the hacking software. the peg, as his program has been used to spy on human rights activists, journalists and politicians around the world. yoyo hall and we got to slim. this is a black day for the state of israel without referring to my issue, which of course has wide implications. i think this case concerns all citizens of the country, not right, not left. all citizens of the country without exception, something inconceivable has happened to year. gideon levy is

a economist at the ha reads newspaper. he says the political earthquake caused by the revelations is only just dancing. nobody should thinking this is a surprise when a country like israel sells those systems, those devices to the worst regimes in the world. where the country like israel holds 5000000 people in the west bank and gaza. i'm very, very strict and targeting. so it's kind of stayed there. we always say, look, everybody's doing so good patient and we'll get back into it and we'll slowly but surely damage this so called these when democracy and this what we are witnessing now, they talk a former high senior officer from the secret services from the shower. they nominated him as the chief of the police. and now everyone is

surprised that he tried to import from his people and devices and methods and way of thinking from the seeking services who are fighting terror into our domestic life. and this what's happened and a. busy yes, it is surprising by, by deals identity over the people, you know, the prime minister, son or the general manager of the justice ministry. we have, i mean, those things you hear from them all the dark regimes not from the country place to be a democracy. at least 10 people have been injured by sidney security forces, who fight tag us. that demonstrates is wanting to with the presidential palace and call to thousands and staged weekly valleys, to denounce nitro, since the military takeover in october. i think 79 people have been killed by

security forces since then. defies a ban 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 and if for the month that those are demanding that the military returned to the barrack. but they also having other demands which include accountability for the processes who have been killed since a military overpower in late october last year to solving government. also demanding the release that was ample of the detainees who have been arrested by the military because of their opposition to the military rules. security forces have repeatedly close to the 1st similar process and nearly 80 processes have been killed. one and 2500 has been injured since the military take over last year on monday, security forces. once again,

you guys to disperse protests from the vicinity of the presidential palace where they try to make their way to let the military know that they want power behind it . to 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 a transitional government to leave until july 2023. i forget the hon. the un mission incident has been trying to end 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 out the durable isn't in 2018. and they will continue to process until

a civilian government is in place. schools and businesses have closed across, hazy and large numbers of police officers of patrolling the streets. it's been 7 months since president juvenile luis was assassinated on they would have marks the end of his term, which has been taken over by prime minister audio. only the opposition is demanding that only step down saying his administration is unconstitutional. haiti's current crisis has been decades in the making 12 years ago, a catastrophic earthquake killed around 316000 people. since then, the country has struggled to rebuild a year ago. thousands protested, saying president movies this time and office it ended and accused him of illegally holding on to power law stood on movies was assassinated in his own home. the judge over seeing the investigation says he feared his life. the island was hit by another earthquake in august to kill more than 2000 people, criminal gangs,

and alpha to control half the country. there are a few shortages, hospitals are closing, and many people are too scared to leave their homes. either rumbold is communications director at policy t a. a non governmental think tank based and hazy. he says, prime minister audio own refills, empowered because in support from the us. quite frankly, i don't think he's going to step down late today or tomorrow, but i think it would be your best interest, you know, to compromise the read the whole position here in the hey to because is no longer legitimate. he can, he can stay for longer and he can't organize elections here because people are not going to participate in any kind of solutions that he's going to organize. we sent in the last elections only 20 to 25 percent of the haitian population in the elections. and we were talking about a population of 6100000 in the borders. so in we had

a peaceful kind of peaceful situation that time now we have a situation where there is a lot of insecurity. people are afraid, gangs are everywhere. so it's, it's not, um, we're not gonna say that people are going to wanting mass in if he tries to organize election ac twice the state in power. so i think it would be the best interest of the country, the wall nation, so that the prime minister can, you know, talk with a position, one of the name, montana group or ben group. so they can have a new go for an excellent ford for the country in the coming months. costa rica is sad for presidential run off in april after no candidate secured the 40 because they needed to win sundays election for my president. so as a maria, forget us came 1st. at the surprise runner up was the former world bank official, rodrigo chavis to home intervals. but now the winner of the 1st round of custody cause elections was expected. x president, posing muddy a. forget is. the runner up was no good,

rodrigo chubb is an internationally recognized economist, nevertheless, seen in costa rica as a political up star of the 6 months. his finance minister in which he classed with the outgoing president. now the 2 men who had to run off this april for chavez, who polled him full place that's already in the achievement bob was how and as they won't run, we're going to a 2nd round. the new body who did youngest body of this campaign is going to the 2nd round. but we are leaving behind to conflict the confrontation, some struggle to make peace with a man whom several women accused of sexual harassment during his more than 20 years with woe bank. he dismissed the claims as gossip and lies. the man who now facing the run of drags the weight of his own scandal behind it goes to recon media accused. jose maria forget is of receiving bribes from a french telecommunication company back in 2000 and full. he denies that the case

never went to cool and presents himself an ex president running with one of the country's oldest parties as a safe pair of hands. 10 points clear of chavez. he's feeling confident. oil at all costs to day, costa rica won it up on them, yet we're not. was not even the pandemic could stop the civic spirit of our people, then west a way of courage and love for our homeland, our responsibility to take our country for lunch. congratulations, costa rica to day we return to shine in the world. but that's painting a very rosy picture of an election which saw about 40 percent of the electorate declined to vote. that's the highest abstention for a 1st round in 70 years. only say that's not just you to the pandemic, but a general lack of enthusiasm for the political options. even as living costs rise, and unemployment stands at 14 percent as well. now seniority is forget is and shove, is we'll see who gets the chance to tackle that as a run again in a pool. john homan al jazeera hundreds of mornings in morocco have attended the

funeral of the boy at the center of the rescue operation, watched around the world. 5 year old round fell into at 30 to meet a well last week. he was trapped the 5 days while rescue teams went to round the clock to save him. his body was recovered on saturday. a new atlas developed by researches in france in the u. s. is giving a clara, but mixed picture of the world's mountain lacy's. there are around $250000.00 of them across the globe. the findings by the institute of environmental geosciences and dartmouth college show that overall they hold less ice and fresh water than expected. and that's good for the fight against rising sea levels. but the research has gloomy implications for drinking water, agriculture and power generation and places that depend don't places as about a quarter less glacial ice drinking water than previously thought in south

america's tropical andes. mountains, which run through parts of bolivia, columbia, ecuador, peru, and venezuela. but it's the offices in ages himalayan mountains. data shows the region has about 30 percent more likes then scientists anticipated julian wolf has the story. these mountain glaciers contain less fresh water than originally thought . and that doesn't just mean a loss of natural beauty. it puts the fresh water supply for millions of people at risk. it's easy to just focus on the impacts. oh, ice lot song torrison because those are, was in the western will visit glasgow systems as a later activity. but actually people who live around them and actually downstream from the more important it depend upon them as a buffer the amounts all to the answer. the river systems from which they irrigate that crops and drink high resolution satellite images have allowed scientists to more accurately calculate how fast the glacier is moving. the foster and moves the

thinner it is and the less water it contains. that might mean the world sea levels might not rise by quite as much as originally thought. what you have to keep in mind is that our student does not include the greenland and the antarctic ice sheet . who in the long term will be the major drivers of sea level rise and just looking at the total volume of the i, she compare to the glaciers. if all and dotted with males, it has the potential to increase the seat of a rise by more than 50 meters, which is way more than the 25 centimeters for from the glaciers. countries around the world are struggling with disappearing glaciers. peru is investing in desalination to make up for the loss of fresh water and chilly hopes to create artificial glaciers in the andes. but that won't be enough that

ultimately when all last is mel, sea level rise will be less than we thought it would be. but none of us want to end up in that situation. we don't want all the classiest about. we want the to last as long as possible. and the fact that 20 percent less, i store the matching glasses, if nothing else changes, means that they'll disappear. 20 percent sooner. we don't want to be in a situation where there's no ice left on it. we want to preserve the ice on the earth and now overnight becomes a more difficult challenge. a challenge, those most affected hope, the world will accept gillian wolf out as the vinegar for boys have received the heroes. welcome after returning home as africa, cup of nations, champions for the 1st time. it's the biggest triumph in the country. sporting history, senegal beat egypt on penalties, and the final of the tournament on sunday. and the celebrations have not stops with monday declared a public holiday in the country. not one,

we feel very happy. we are so proud to win the africa cup of nations. we have waited so long for this in previous cup games, you've been through so many regrets and disappointments, but this time it's all that made it to the final victory. we love our footballs, and we are proud of them. until now i can't believe we won the final contest. it feels like i'm dreaming that so awesome. some folks, ah, this is al jazeera and these are the top stories. u. s. president joe biden has vowed to shut down a crucial russian gas pipeline to germany. if moscow invades ukraine, his comments came as german chancellor, olaf schultz visited washington, germany, the united states, together of our allies and partners, are working closely together to pursue diplomatic resolutions in this situation. and diplomacy is the very best way forward for all sides. we both agree including.