a inglorious food pond to one out. just a diverse range of stories from across the gland from the perspective of on network journalists on al jazeera ah. ready after high stakes talks in kiev and moscow, the french president heads to berlin as diplomatic efforts continue to prevent war in europe. ah. hello barbara, are you watching al jazeera, like from london also coming up the corruption trial, a former israeli prime minister benjamin isn't? yeah. was delayed by allegations, the police use the legal spyware to hack his phone. tens of thousands made homeless by

a powerful psych loan and aid agencies. warren matter gas far could see the 1st climate change related. and the in iran, a sobering thought, despite a decades long ban or alcohol, millions of people battle addiction. ah, hello, thank you for joining us in a diplomatic push to avoid armed conflict between russia and ukraine, french president, the manuel micron has touched down in berlin with the chancellor. all of shots says the leaders will discuss a common goal preventing war in europe earlier. micron met the ukrainian leader in keir, he said, russia and ukraine can now move forward with talks after telling volota, musing lensky, that he's so concrete and practical solutions where russia maintains that it has no plans to invade its neighbor. despite massing a 100000 troops near the border of the bill,

hamid reports now from the ukrainian capital. it was the 1st visit by a french president in 24 years. emmanuel, my call in care of after holding a 5 hour marathon meeting room with russia's president vladimir putin in moscow on monday over the french president, thrusting himself at the forefront when it comes to european diplomacy. you're bringing to the ukrainian capital, his efforts to defuse the tensions that was one of the push. and so many push on our goal for coming weeks and months is to have a stabilization of the situation and kickstart through new guarantee mechanisms, a lasting de escalation in this context. the cool had, in this you have shown the restraint that all parties have shown and word indeed are essential. i call also said he had received commitments from both the ukrainian and russian presidents to respect them in the agreement which was signed in 2015. ukraine has always seen this cease fire agreement

b as favoring russia about but for the french president, it's the only way to protect ukraine sovereignty. and consider france also pledge $1300000000.00 to help stabilize the economy. signing deals to improve some of the infrastructure around the country, but with no sign of de escalation yet, ukraine continues to prepare for the worst case scenario. ukrainian troops are to hold military drills around the country, starting february 10th. the same day rush and bella ruse are due to start phase 2 of their joint exercises, the ukraine and minet, she will be displaying some of the weapons received from nato members. this army has grown from 6000 to nearly 850000 combat ready troops. and the country has also upgraded its own military industry. on the 1st spoke of a few of them, yes, we can cover our needs when it comes to anti tank or weapons for land and mobile

units. we also produce all types of tactical, where from us war ukraine has improved its multiple launcher rocket systems, wilker, which will help protect its borders and coasts. but for now is diplomacy that is prevailing, even though president zalinski is being cautious. dampening perhaps a little of the optimism shown by emmanuel michael for his feats law yet i don't trust words in general. every politician sincerity appears in their specific steps . in our case, the sincerity is de escalation. i believed it put in has everything to do. this is specially as this person is very sincere. as i understand in this, the young should me, i don't know an entity in europe who would be able to put strong pressure in russia . the occupation of our country is still not happening. it seems all parties have agreed to continue talking to normandy, contact group. we'll be meeting on thursday, france, germany, ukraine,

and russia sitting at the same table. if anything, it would reaffirm my course vision when it comes to europe, security, or that that i mean, al jazeera cave. ok, well charlie angela joins me in the studio now with more on this, sir. so charlie, the leaders of germany, france, and poland, our meeting in berlin. i. we're waiting for a news conference, but some statements have come out, haven't there? yes. with this is their 1st opportunity, really to swap the notes on the diplomatic efforts they've been making so far. we heard just now from chance or sholtes, who said that common goal is preventing war in europe. and this crisis is really a test for the new child that he's going to be reporting back on his meeting in the u. s. with president biden, where president said that the nord stream to pipeline is firmly on the table and will not go ahead. if russia and vase now schultz has very delicately side step this issue so far, there was jim tubing, a very key energy source for germany going forward. it'll be interesting to see if a mac or an duda press him further on this issue. president macro is going to be

giving more details of his private meeting with goose in in moscow where he says he got a clear sign from the russian president that he would refund his commitment to the mink. still but there's a lot of confusion. the french are claiming that russia privately agreed not to carry out any new military initiatives, but moscow is denying this. so again, duda and the answer sholtes will be drilling down on macro. what exactly was said with putin behind closed doors. macro, i think we'll see once again taking the lead. he's really positioning himself is the, is the key mediator here. he does hold the rotating presidency to the european council and ultimately sees it if sees it is his duty to represent europe here because ultimately this is europe to white security that is going to be threatened. absolutely. it's interesting that they said that the common goal they have is to avoid war in europe. and what we're seeing now is 3 key european powers. and all of

this now we're used to seeing at france and germany, perhaps get involved that the highest level. what does poland say in all of this? will poland oversee shares, a border with crane. it's one of its sir closest neighbors in terms of kind of cultural ties to and today a b came out to say that they would welcome up to a 1000000 refugees. if russia was to invade ukraine, they would take them over the border and the deputy interior minister saying that in line with the geneva convention, those people would be under polish protection. but there are serious doubts about whether or not potent could actually deal with such an influx. you might remember better. ition doesn't look as jenko when he urged refugees to travel to the border . they were pushed back by political admin, easier, terrible images, human rights abuses. so and yos, have also said that this offer is absolutely irresponsible. poland does not have the capacity to take anything like that. number, they estimate,

there's about 2000 places to house refugees and 10 centers around the country. only . another 800 places available, a border guard station. so i think you'll probably see some pressure from macro on to really on, on putting, to create that capacity quickly to deal to deal with potential refugee influx and make good on that promise. great. that charlie for the moment thanking, of course, we're waiting for that news conference in berlin. i know you'll be monitoring it for us. thanks. now another news, the corruption trial of israel's former prime minister has been delayed after allegations of illegal spyware used by police. and is really newspaper claims officers hacked the phones of benjamin it. now son and his associates protest or his business leaders and cabinet minister as are also said to have been targeted using these really made pegasus spyware. prime minister, enough tally bennett, has promised that inquiry will hurry for citizen west to ru slim and is more now on

how the allegations could affect net m. yowse corruption trial. as far as his lawyer is concerned, this is something that they are very much trying to use to their advantage already before these latest revelations came out. there was this one very significant witness against us and you know who the former director general of the communications ministry. i form a very close associate of netanyahu. there were questions as to whether the allegations that his phone had been drained in this way could affect his testimony, which was originally scheduled for next week. now we have that yahoo son and other very close associates, also being drawn in school. this prosecutors sofa have been saying that any use of this software is separate from the investigation that the allegations against the charges against that being based upon. but certainly they will have to try to prove

that. and so his li lawyers are saying that this has to be probably investigated and it does potentially pose a threat to the, to the validity of the trial going forward. but also the fact already see allegation that the police weren't as they had been saying, seeking propositional approval for each use of such technology. that essentially they were going on expeditions, trying to see what they could find on phones and then building cases around them. the police have been denying, at least that part of it, saying that they were only acting in proper criminal investigations. however, the, the broadness of these allegations are extremely serious. and that is what this inquiry will have to try to sort out there being processed. cindy occupied westbank city of knob loose after 3 palestinians were killed, is really forced to say the men were suspected vol went in recent attacks against soldiers, palestinian officials are demanding and international investigation into the killings. under chappelle has more. it was just after mid day in the occupied

westbank city of nablus, when israeli special forces, along with domestic security agency, sion bet carried out the raid. according to witnesses, under cover troops used a taxi with palestinian license plates pulled up next to a car and opened fire. sprang it with bullets in broad daylight visit a notice lane is a messiah fencing. after these weighty forces left people gathered to see what happened. no one suspected the vehicles were carrying israeli soldiers simply because of the palestinian number place. these rarely soldiers continued to 5 for a minute. they fight more than 80 bullets and the young palestinian men were killed on the spot. the palestinian men were accused of involvement and recent attacks against israeli soldiers and civilians. the troops were filmed, taking weapons from the vehicle before they left the scene. oh, a case of extra judicial killings, according to the palestinian authority, that requires an international investigation. family members gathered outside the

morgue to share their sadness and anger along with members of the community. oh, grandmother nicole got a lot of them. summer school. my son has been hunted by the israelis from months. the israeli intelligence called for my children and threatened them for my son to give himself in israel's defense minister, been against commended his security forces for the operation. prime minister naphtali bennett, says, there is no immunity for terrace. but as all of us shut it off, i am really sad not only for this crime, but for the entire situation. the palace in people have been in for decades. what i am and if i wouldn't have ugly when we are used to these crimes. but we must act in response. i am really sad. we are filled with anger, but no one is lending us a helping hand about the alexa martyrs brigade, the armed wing of the fatigue party says it will retaliate. 3 more young men caught up in a seemingly never ending cycle of violence and are chappelle out here. the you and

food agency says a psych loan that's damaged crops and that a gas car will worse than food shortages in the country. at least 21 people are dead and more than 60000 have been left homeless. the indian ocean country is one of the poorest in the world and has experienced the theories of environmental and climate disasters in recent years. sympathy has gone cycling, but sir, i brought with it heavy rain, strong winds, death and destruction. the tropical storm weekend as it moved across madagascar, but not before causing serious damage. thousands of buildings destroyed or flooded across the island. it's already southern africa. the 2nd biggest cycle on this year, the residence of menagerie. the epicenter of the storm are still waiting for help. our house collapsed. we don't know where to go. we have no food. we have nowhere to go. all our things were in our house. the children's clothes, school supplies, everything was destroyed. we have to help everyone. where do they live on the beach?

in the city? we really have to find a solution. the world's food program warned the cycle and destroyed staple crops, making a food shortage crisis in the months to come, almost inevitable. we know for sure that the allies feel the rice crops will be damaged, will be lost. so this is the main main. the crop for mother government, i guess the people is and they will be seated, will affect it in that food security in the next a 36 months. if we don't do something immediately, and we don't pass them to recover, an estimated 150000 people have been affected so far. more than 3 quarters of madagascar 28000000 people live in poverty aid workers are expecting the number of affected people to go up. still reeling from a tropical storm in january, which killed 55 people before the extreme wet weather. communities were coping with years of such severe drought that you unwarranted could lead to the world's 1st

climate change related famine. the african continent its liter say, is paying the highest price for climate change. in basra, v o g 0 still to come in this half hour, a survivor as it react after the former catholic po benedict, the 16th asks victims of church sexual abuse for forgiveness and hong kong and forces its toughest coven restrictions. yet, as bailey cases reach, new hines ah, the pouring rain and the blustery winds have moved away from its stumble, hollow, everyone, so that energy out toward the east. we've got snow over the higher ground. lower ground is small, for example, in ankara with the high of 2 degrees. outbreaks of rain across cyprus and levant

and also breezy conditions through the adria addict, the g, and, and the eastern mediterranean. now for central europe, things are calm. we've got high temperatures here, so for example, budapest, 14 degrees in belgrade, 11 for you. soak it in after the northwest, also high temperatures. london coming in at 12 degrees button. ok, there's some snow and wind for scotland and same goes for norway and we know what goes up. let's come down. so we'll take this out a few days. the dark of the blue and the purple, the lower the temperature. so london, 7 degrees on friday. that's below average objects. suppose that to what's going on in africa. conversely, the dark of the red, the higher the temperature here. so bungie 38 degrees, your february record is 39. so getting mighty close, here's where the remnants, the leftovers of tropical cycling bats. right? are out over the open water and we've got some soaking brains, really from southern and goler into western namibia. i stay in cape town at 24

degrees. ok, that's it for me. i'll catch up with you later. the on into different world. but creatively and philosophically and 9 out of the world, the surprisingly between the addiction islamic scholar mohammed abdul and russia novelist during the french gypsies relays on bread and jewels literally, thinkers and so on. al jazeera lou ah,

la will come back. he is a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera, the leaders of germany, france, and poland are meeting in berlin to discuss ways that the escalade pensions over the russia military buildup on the border with ukraine. the german chancellor, all of shorts said their common goal is to prevent war in the corruption trial of israel's former prime minister has been delayed after reports that police hacked the phones of benjamin if now son and his associates prime minister naturally bennett, has promised them. and the us food agency says a cycle that's damaged crops and madagascar will worse and food shortages in the country. at least 21 people are dead and more than 60000 have been left homeless after psych loan, but ca battered the country's eastern coast. this past week, people displaced by 10 years of war in syria are struggling to survive in the north

western province of it live. tens of thousands have been left homeless by the conflict and unemployment is wide spread. al jazeera is seen him to say, go reports. now from the town of ottoman where people say they're now battling the rising prices. basic goods. these women in the town of ottoman in northwest and syria, hope every stage might bring them some income. there among at least a 1000000 people the place by the war for living in 10 cities in what is considered the largest community of this place, people in the country. maria opened the workshop for women in her community 2 months ago with a few resources. marya and her friends make traditional dresses from fabric that's been donated their seeking supports from n t o. so more women can join them, especially those who lost their husband. we launched this project because there are many which was around here. we only to work to provide for our families,

but we don't have the opportunities here except for knitting at home and selling our work. and that's why we try to include as many women as we can. very, i'm husband died in an accident 5 years ago. that left or depending on what were help, she could get and raising her 3 children alone. others are grateful for the hope she's given them. i have 7 children and my husband doesn't have a job. we learn how to. so here from miriam, now hoping to make a life of our own at the province's law rebel health area and syria with a population of nearly 4000000 people and unemployment is rise. the turkish theory is used as the main currency, but a collapse in its valley is making data life harder for the cost of living. rising fat. the people who live here tell us their lives haven't calmer for the past 3 years. what they were bomb and walk it's effect. but the latest battle they phase is the rising food prices in the market. 2 years ago,

the local authorities switch from using the syrian pound to the turkish director of void and collapse in the war torn regions, fragile economy. everybody on the exchange rate, you ask for a bunch of parsley. if they let me check the dollar price, people don't have mercy on each other as the wholesalers raise the prices. so july, i make little profit because many people can barely buy a packet of bread. some this place people here have been uprooted several times and starting over has become routine and many say they need international support. now if they're to cope with a dar conditions, they live in seen m castillo al jazeera asthma. it left north syria, a former co, benedict, the 16th has asked the victims of sexual abuse and the catholic church for forgiveness. and inquiry found that he knew about abusers when he was the archbishop of munich,

but failed to report their crimes. the former pope has rejected allegations that he was involved in any cover up. his lawyers are published what they're calling a fact check denying. he was involved in any misconduct markets. eroni is your coordinator for the survivors network of those abuse by priests. he says the apology isn't enough for victims to fully understand the gravity of these lapses, this one you have to keep in mind that in sort of this case is overlooked by benedict. i was the accusation, right? that he overlook. crimes committed by his priest. well, is some of these cases, the perpetrators were prosecuted and found guilty. so these were known facts. and despite that, even after a prison centers, they were literally kept on this priest but allowed often to work with children putting this child in obvious danger. so those are or fact that nobody can, can deny that are really shocking. the fact that priests were allowed to minister to children and families young, vulnerable people,

even after being prosecuted. just pedophile says, is truly appalling. the speaker of libya's to book parlor based parliament says elections will not take place this year, but a new in trim prime minister will be chosen on thursday, but the incumbent abdul hamid. the baby hat, who leads the tripoli based unity. government says he will stay until elections are held in june. there's been increasing friction between the countries. rival at legislatures, elections in december were postponed because they couldn't agree on a new constitutional framework. hong kong has brought in its toughest restrictions, yet as it battles a record. daily number of coven 19 cases. 625 infections were recorded on tuesday, friday. for those who break the rules will double to nearly $1300.00 u. s. dollars. but climate reports now from hong kong, a record surge of cases in hong kong,

triggering the cities toughest. pandemic measures. yes. come yacoma, getting. today we are in a fear pandemic situation. i hope that the public will accept that we have to go back to the most stringent level from thursday. only 2 people will be allowed to dine out together. more than use, including places of worship will be ordered to close. and for the 1st time, there will be limitations on private gatherings at home to the new round of measures. also focus on the need for vaccine passes, in order to improve low vaccination rates among the elderly. with residents needing to prove their immunized against coven 19 to enter shopping malls and wet markets. fines for those who break the rules will double to nearly $1300.00 us dollars. you go you golf out. i agree with the measures because the situation is worsening. otherwise, how can we get the virus under control? we have to be patient. i or the, i think the government should encourage people to stay at home in the state. the government should open more testing seen to so that people did not have together.

here was only, there was no difference between 2 people or 4 people, gathering more from the government to think about how to control the spread of the virus. in these social distancing measures, a meaningless shortage of vegetables is adding to pandemic. grievances in hong kong after truck drivers who tested positive were unable to transport them from mainland china. into the import reliant territory. panic shoppers swept several local markets, clear of fresh produce mainland chinese authorities have offered to help with labor shortages if hospitals become overwhelmed. for now, hong kong appears to be sticking to the same 0 tolerance strategy adopted by the mainland with locked downs and mass testing. now commonplace testing centers like this one as scattered across the city since cases started to escalate. they've seen a surge in demand with long cures forming hong kong cases might still sound low compared to other major cities. but for many people here,

this is uncharted territory. brit planets. al jazeera hong kong campaigning has kicked off in the philippines ahead of a presidential election set to take place in 3 months. candidates are vying to succeed. president, rebuild that. there's a 6 year term, comes to an end. contenders include the mayor of manila, the son of a former leader and the retired boxing champion. voters will head to the polls on may, 9th. now more than 150 and years of asked the you to block the construction of a border wall. busy between poland and bell of roofs, the 180 kilometer long metal barrel barrier is being constructed through the b l o . v. as in forest, the world heritage site to deter migrants crossing into the e. u. for umbrella roofs. more than 40000 people from the middle east of canister and africa tripe across the border last year. the organizations say the project will block migration routes of the european bison links and other endangered

species, putting them at further risk. it's going to iran now the country has one of the highest rates of alcohol addiction in the middle east, and that is the spite of course, a battle liquor since the slamming revolution of $979.00. while the government is slowly admitting that there is indeed a problem, critics say, many addicts are left to fight their own battles. russell said their reports now from tehran. ah, askan is a recovering alcoholic. it was just over a month ago that he decided to get help and with iran now reaching out more people like him, his toughest. these may well be over this or that with angela after staying sober for 5 years, i had a relapse and started consuming alcohol in a way that made me realize once again that i was losing control of my life and destroying myself. addiction is a chronic disease. and having now been sober for 41 days,

i can say that anybody who wants to quit non mas, let go of the fears if they're after a beautiful life. i'll call is top who in iran, with tough laws, against buying, selling and drink him. at the very least, i'll cortex face being shown by society and even their families. and this makes it hard for them to come out and seek help. last month, the debit, the interior minister said around quite meet in iranians. drink alcohol annually and with alcoholism, becoming too big a problem to ignore. iranian authorities have begun to take measures. goldman institutions are open in how best special wards and we have sensors to treat. i'll call it's, but some doctors believe a lot more can be done with her. so if i'm doing this on was after he was, there aren't enough clinics for the people to get help. the health minister says they've set up 50 rehabilitation clinics across the country, but i don't think any more than 5 or 6 of them are active. and so the staff don't

have sufficient skills to treat alcoholics with on the a handful of we have clinics await about. iranians are turning to the other organizations. jack gives you, he is no stranger to the troubles of alcoholism, but he organizes of cortex anonymous meetings into iran, to provide a space for addicts to share their stories and get better and massage the money. i could, i'd be 19 years since i got sober and 15 since i started holding these meetings. we make an effort to help people, but it's not enough. we should, we're an issue culturally make the issue public. but our government turns a blind eye because our religion says alcohol is forbidden. but it also says it's mandatory to help others and save lives with, nor could have government regulation, says, of bootleg, all caught in iran of likely to thrive. but for those seeking occur good, or at least some places we can go bristle server al jazeera, tara, the netflix western. the power of the dog is leading this here is oscar nominations, competing in 12 categories of this year's 94th academy awards. the funds director

jane campion has also made history become the only woman to be nominated for a best buy rector oscar for a 2nd time. the sy fy drama dune is also up for best film as well as 9 other prizes . and kenneth bonham has become the 1st person to be nominated in 7 different oscar categories throughout his career. this year he wrote and directed the movie belfast . ah, and now a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera, the leaders of germany, france, and poland are meeting in berlin to discuss ways to deescalate pensions over the russian military build up on the border with ukraine. german chancellor, all of schultz said their common goal is to prevent a war in europe earlier. micron was inc here for talk civil odami zalinski.