one moment off, very proud all was when we covered the depaula as quick as 2050, a terrible natural disaster. the story that needed to be told from the hall of the affected area to be then to tell the people story was very important at the time. ah, 3 failed rainy seasons pushed 13000000 people into severe hunger. the warning is sounded over catastrophic drought in the horn of africa. ah. hello barbara sarah, this is al jazeera life from london, also coming up the diplomatic effort to de escalate tensions between russia and ukraine. the french, german and polish leaders say the priority is to prevent war in europe. the corruption trial of former israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is delayed by

allegations that police use the legal spyware to hack his phone and reclaiming their rain forest that was highest court rules. indigenous communities must have a greater se over oil and mining projects on their land. ah, hunger is getting worse across the horn of africa and dade agency say it's only a matter of time before hundreds of thousands of lives will be in the balance. kenya, somalia, ethiopia, and the re tray are suffering the most after 3 rainy seasons failed and the humans world food program says that 13000000 people across the region now face severe hunger. unicef says that around 5 and a half 1000000 children in the region are right now at risk of acute low mile nutrition. the biggest concern is that a drought a decade ago could actually be repeated and that drought killed a quarter of

a 1000000 people in somalia alone. well, together units so found the world food program are asking for $450000000.00, which they say is the only way to prevent catastrophe from some piri is a spokesperson for the humans world food program. he recently traveled to kenya and says, hundreds of families are waking up each day, not knowing where their next meal will come from. i have just been to go to cambridge and over the weekend i met pastoral families, but it lost entire hands of last door to the drought in and farmers were felt to have this not once or twice but bryce. they have been 3 consecutive failed, brainy seasons and 3 consecutive fell drained seasons would deal a huge blow to anyone. it what, what is strange is that it is ordered at the beginning of february, and typically you would have grazing posture. you would have water ponds that would have regenerated from october to december. shorts rainy season. this time it

different. these know grazing posture that he's no browse, these nor water sources. they're all dried up on your tradition rant high salmon, even his high up is 50 percent. and at one rural health center that i visited, like data counting, theresa in this in charge told me that they are now having to treat more people from mount nutrition than any other element. so the situation is quite, di, these are families that are scattered across north east of canyon. they also put a huge number in somalia, particularly in the central parts. and you also have quite a few of people who have been affected by the drought in, in the south himself, eastern part of ethiopia. so you do have a cross your own people. what now struggling will wicking up angry with the law. i deal with the next me will come or the us food agency also says that a psy clone that's damaged crops and madagascar will worse and food shortages in

that 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 series of environmental and climate disasters in recent years. same as it avi has one cycling, but sir, i brought with it heavy rain, strong winds, death and destruction. the tropical storm weakened 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 whether they live on the beach or in the city. we really have to find a solution. the world's food program warn the cycle and destroyed staple crops,

making a food shortage crisis in the months to come, almost inevitable. we know for sure that the life feel than the rice crops will be damaged, will be lost. so this is the main main. the crop for mother go mcgasey people is and they will be seated effective 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. the un warranted 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. then basra v o g 0.

ah, the leaders of germany, france and poland are meeting in berlin to discuss ways to deescalate tensions over the russian that military build up on the border with ukraine. german chancellor, olive shots said their common goal is to prevent a war in europe. he warned russia would face consequences for any incursion to ukrainian territory. was like in mind, the monsieur, this is an antique. our common goal is to prevent war in europe. marsh was a shot. the amassing of russian troops on ukraine's border is of great concern. and our appraisal of the situation is united, as is our position on this, be of any further attacks on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of ukraine is unacceptable. and we will draw wide reaching consequences. my so i clicked on to russia was politically economically and g. r. strategically?

here's 20 or french president manuel a crow and meanwhile emphasized the importance of europe, remaining peaceful and stable in zone constant. readers yield only some interviews . we will continue to act in the following greeks with simple goals. the 1st one is to avoid war peace and stability of the european constant or our treasure. and we have to do everything in order to preserve them. secondly, we need to consolidate and constantly defend the unity of europeans and our allies from our shak castile that was empty. thirdly, we need to defend the principles that have made that you in the past 30 years. you particularly respect of the sovereignty of every state, territorial integrity and respect of our values defined in our charters. no shock. all this came just hours after the french president emanuel micron met the ukrainian leader in here. he said, russia and ukraine can now move forward with talks after carlinville enemies lensky . he saw concrete and practical solutions. russia maintains it has no plans to

invade invaded neighbour despite massing 800000 troops near the border on 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 reward with russia's president vladimir putin in moscow. on monday, the french president, thrusting himself at the forefront when it comes to european diplomacy, you're bringing to the ukrainian capital, his efforts to diffuse detentions could've been pushing some any push on more or goal for coming weeks and months is to have a stabilization of the situation and to kickstart through new currency mechanisms or 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 court also said he had received commitments from both the ukrainian and russian presidents to respect the month agreement,

which was signed in 2015. ukraine has all the seen this cease fire agreement as favoring russia that i felt, but for the french president, it's the only way to protect you trained sovereignty and consider france also pledge 1300000000 dollars 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 admitted 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, though 1st spoke of so if the policy um yes, we can cover our needs when it comes to anti tank weapons for land and mobile unit . also produce several types of talked go where from us war you cleaned has improve . it's multiple launcher rocket systems will her, which will help protect its borders and coasts. but for now is diplomacy that is prevailing. even though president zalinski is being cautious. daphne perhaps a little of the optimism shown by emmanuel michael for his feet flora yet, and 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 putting has everything to do. this is specially as this person is very sincere, as i understand in this the young i shouldn't, 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 a cause vision when it comes to europe, security. with that, that i meet al jazeera cave, the corruption trial of visuals, former prime minister has been delayed after allegations of illegal spyware use by police, and is really newspaper claims officer is hacked. the phones of benjamin at now sun and his associates protested his business leaders and cabinet ministers are. busy also said to have been targeted using the israeli made pegasus spyware. prime minister, naphtali bennett, has promised an inquiry harry force it is in west jerusalem and as more now and how the allegations could affect nation 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 this. 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 so far have been saying that any use of the software is separate from the investigation that the allegations against the charges against that been based upon. but certainly they will have to try to prove that. and so his lawyers are saying that this has to be probably investigated and that it does potentially pose a threat to the, to the validity of the trial going forward. but also the fact already see allocation 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 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. busy this inquiry will have to try to sort out that have been protests in the occupied westbank city of nap close after 3 palestinians were killed. is really forced to say the men were suspected of involved went in recent attacks against soldiers, palestinian officials are demanding an international investigation into the killings and of chappelle has more. it was just after mid day in the occupied westbank city of nablus when his really 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 spraying it with bullets and broad daylight visited notice. lane is on mister yard fence after these rarely forces left people gathered to see what happened. no one suspected the vehicles were carrying the israeli soldiers simply because of the palestinian number plates. these railey soldiers continue to fire 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. our family members gathered outside the morgue to share their sadness and anger along with members of the community. who can only go cannon plotted themselves. sure, my son has been hunted by the israelis for 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 have it with us, i am really sad not only for this crime, but for the entire situation. the palace in people have been in for decades. 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. bob. ah deluxe a martyrs brigade, the armed wing of the fatigue party says it will retaliate. ah, 3 more young men caught up in a seemingly never ending cycle of violence. inter chappelle al jazeera still to come in this her shower hong kong and forces it's toughest cove and restrictions. yet as daily cases reach, new eyes. religious leaders write a letter to mark zuckerberg asking him to stop plans for instagram kids.

ah, believe it or not, this snow has stopped now for western japan. hello everyone, let me show you. so support 00 just the other day. you set a record, a daily record for 60 centimeters of style, but that's all come to an end or pocket of their over the korean peninsula. and also for portions of china, joan jo at 11 degrees that is above average. clouds are drifting around and also some showers in between the gang, see and the pearl river valley. not too far away from grey lynn, with the high of 7 degrees next for go into the philippines and around mid to now some heavy falls here, especially for eastern portions, but pretty much from sebu rate into devout. we're going to get socked with rain, and there is a moderate flood advisory in play here, after se, asia,

we've seen about a 150 millimeters of rain over the top end of sumatra, over the past 24 hours. i think much of the same on wednesday could see some flooding through the malay peninsula and also western areas of borneo got a lot of activity around to have an iwatsu and also new caledonia, darker the color, the more intense the rain is there. now we'll go to australia and winds of factor across western australia that's not helping with the fire fight, but neither of these temperatures surging to 37 degrees on thursday. that sure weather update. susan ah, the ciocca regional paragon corner of south america. we bought a 2 men who seemed to thrive on the challenge. a veteran truck driver us is every call, whatever the web to provide for growing time and the cowboy who enjoys his run

the risk in it. apparently, on the al jazeera lou ah mind are now of the top stories on al jazeera, the u ones. world food program says 13000000 people across the horn of africa face severe hunger because of drought. kenya salon the ac obelia and the re tray are suffering the most to the failure of 3 rainy seasons. the leaders of germany, france, and poland met in berlin to discuss ways to deescalate pensions over the russian military build up on the border with ukraine. the german chancellor,

all of sholtes said their common goal is to prevent a war in europe. and the corruption trial of israel's former prime minister has been delayed after reports that police tact the phones of benjamin netanyahu. son and his associates, prime minister, enough to lead bennett has promised. and hong kong has brought in its toughest restrictions. yet his battles are, records, daily number of coven, 1000 cases, 625 infections were recorded on tuesday. public gatherings will be limited to 2 people even outdoors and people will only be allowed to invite members of one other household to their residences. but climate reports from hong kong, a record serge of cases in hong kong, triggering the cities toughest pandemic measures. yet come, we are gonna get to you today. we are in a fear pandemic situation. i hope that the public will accept that we have to go back to to more 3 gent 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 as 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. fine for those who break the rules will double to nearly $1300.00 us dollars. you go, you got 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 to 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 from the government should 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 of 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. for it climates al jazeera hong kong. argentinians are marching through when desirous to demand that the government stops repaying its debt to the international monetary fund. for testers,

gathering outside the presidential, palace blame the i. m f. for an economic crisis that has plunged in many argentines into poverty. the record, $57000000000.00 loan triggered austerity measures in the country. the argentine governments struck a $44500000000.00 pre agreement with the i'm ice in january to try to restructure that loan protest. her said that that should be ignored and not be paid, that i suppose has worn out from the rally. or here in front of the residential side, left hand side is where thousands of people have gathered here to express their concern about the or ongoing negotiation between argentina's governments and the international monetary fund. negotiations have been ongoing on how this country is going to be over $40000000000.00 in debt that were taken during the previous administration of modi's, micro negotiations around the way the governmental written amounts of pre agreement

. but people here are extremely concerned about the possibility of the government implementing austerity measures that have heard this country. and so i didn't, tina for effectors in the past. negotiations are currently underway. gina is asking me to be allowed to say rules to be allowed to make a start paying and also ask him that some type of adjustment in public sending me to meda. most stanley said that an agreement is necessary for this country that we will certainly see this country, recession comment and the possibility that tina will be completely isolated from the international financial market. so i'm agreement for most of the analytics. we have spoken to say that it's necessary, in order to help us come to recover from the in what many describe as a david versus goliath battle ecuador is highest court has ruled that indigenous

communities must have a far stronger say of oil and mining projects that impact their land. the ruling is a serious blow to present and he and molasses plans to award mining and oil concessions in the amazon rainforest lucien human reports. ah, this is the ancestral territory of the i co, fun community of seen on the way at the entrance of the amazon basin in ecuador calculations. this indigenous community has lived off of what the rain forest provides from food to medicines and boats. but when they discovered that their territory was being invaded by gold mining projects all along their river isolated community took action, men and women. there was a let's, we also have the right to protect care for and patrol our territory to identify the most impacted areas to tell the state enough enough contamination enough of putting

our territories in danger. but their indigenous patrols weren't enough. was as common. some was are we began go into the capital to the minute ministry to see what was happening mean, and we discovered that the government had approved 52 money concessions for 25 years. wasn't there was never any consultation, nothing yet. as soon as with the legal assistance of the n g o amazon front lines, the community brought a lawsuit against eco doors government al jazeera was visiting the community when they received the supreme court verdict. oh, you've won, you won. the unprecedented ruling obliges the state to consult communities over oil and mining projects that impact their land and to seek their consent. it applies not just to this indigenous community, but to all those all over the country. many of whom suffer massive environmental damage from the oil industry. the country's largest, the ruling is

a blow to the government. ambitious plans to double oil production and significantly expand mining, most of which take place in the amazon. now we can see this movement spreading across ecuador and spreading across the amazon, because what's happening in ecuador is actually happening all over the amazon. a kudos mining association insist that responsible mining is imperative for the country's development. it is only due to a math. this is an indispensable industry for human beings and also for our economic welfare. we don't oppose consulting communities, but we oppose being discriminated have me late last week. the tiny seemingly community has won a huge battle, but it may not necessarily have the last word since the court ruling does leave room for exceptions in the name of overriding national interests. lucy newman al jazeera. the former pope benedict the 16th as,

as the victims of sexual abuse in the catholic church for forgiveness and inquiry found that he knew about abusers when he was 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 published with their calling effect check denying that he was involved in any news called 75 religious leaders from 20 faiths have written to meta chief executive mark zuckerberg, calling for him to abandon plans for a version of instagram, for young users, instagram and the parent company mehta platforms, of course, formerly known as facebook, have come under intense scrutiny over the impact of their services on mental health . last year the whistleblower francis hogan leaked tens of thousands of facebook's internal documents alleging the company knew its products were damaging to teenagers. mental health meta says the documents that paint a false picture and that instagram for kids actually aims to provide

a safe place for younger users. they delayed plans to set up the app after the leak, while the letter spearheaded by the fair play not for profit organizations said the app will serve as a catalytic gateway for young children to be or to the already documented problems . adversely impacting teens cutter callaway is a signatory to the letter sent to the met, a chief executive officer mark zuckerberg. he says, the risk to young people needs to be considered a head of profit. when a multinational corporation, their own research demonstrates that the product that they are purveying is causing damage to our most vulnerable and impressionable. and it's, and coming upon all of us. and that's not just religious leaders, but it because that's who we are. and it's, it's incumbent upon us to say that we'd like to ask them to think differently about their product. and to put the interests of their consumers over profit,

specifically with the platforms and their economic model. and a lot of the research that i've done in sort of the experimental psych, a world is really focused on the affects the psychological effects of digital media . and it's not all digital media, but in particular web 2 point, oh, platforms like instagram. not only is there architecture there algorithms driven in ways that leverage some of the most susceptible and vulnerable parts of a developing mind. but they also are driven to profit off of those. and so it's kind of a dual a problem. one is the way that these algorithms run, but then to it's the way that the economic model is based both for facebook and instagram. that flicks western the power of the dog is leading. this year's oscar nominations competing in 12 categories of this year's 94th academy awards. the film's director, this jane campion also made history, becoming the only woman to be nominated for

a best director. oscar for the 2nd time, the sy fi, drama dune is also for best film as well as 9 of the prizes, and kenneth brenna has become the 1st person to be nominated in 7 different oscar categories. throughout his career this year he wrote and directed the film belfast . ah and now the top stories on al jazeera, the ones world food program says 13000000 people across the horn of africa face severe hunger because of drought. kenya, somalia, ethiopia and the retreat are suffering the most after the failure of 3 consecutive rainy seasons. unicef says that around 5 and a half 1000000 children in the region are now now at risk of acute long nutrition. the biggest concern is that a drought a decade ago could actually be repeated again.