changing the world with what do you think's been driving the volatility market? counting the cost on al jazeera. ah, a priority is to prevent war in europe, france, germany, and poland. discuss ways to deescalate russia. ukraine. tensions? ah, i'm kim vanelle. this is angie, they're alive from dull ha, also coming up, the coin bust, a husband and wife stand accused of trying to load at $3600000000.00 worth of stumbling crypton currency. israel spyware, scandal grows the corruption trial of former israeli prime minister. benjamin

netanyahu is delays, and the fast climate change famine could hit madagascar of the crops, and destroyed by a powerful cyclop. ah, a new day of high level diplomacy is played else's attempts were made to restock. stalled peace talks between russia and ukraine. speaking in berlin, the beat is of germany, france, and poland said their common goal is to prevent a war in europe. the french president had just flown in from care where he met with his ukrainian count parson. although del hamid has more it was the 1st visit by a french president in 24 years emanuel mccall in give, after holding a 5 hour marathon meeting room with russia's president vladimir putin in moscow on monday. would've been pushing so many push a more or go for coming weeks and months is to have

a stabilization of the situation. it's kickstart through new currency mechanisms are lusting de escalation in this context. the cool had, in this, you have shown the restraint that all parties have shown and words indeed are essential. 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, you rain 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 rues, are due to start phase 2 of their joint exercises. the ukraine and millet, she will be displaying some of the weapon we received from nato members. is army has grown from 6000 to nearly 850000 combat ready troops. and the country has also upgraded its own military industry. under louis bukosa of consumer bung.

yes, we can cover our needs when it comes to an anti tank weapons for land and mobile unit. we also produce several types of tactical where promoter score. but for now is diplomacy? that is prevailing, even though president zalinski is being cautious. the happening perhaps a little of the optimism shown by emmanuel michael. for instance la yet and i dont trust words in general. every politician sincerity appears in their specific steps. in our case, the sincerity is de escalation. i believe that putting has everything to do. this is specially as this person is very sincere. as i understand in this, in a young assured 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 with that that i meet al jazeera cave, us president joe biden's pick to be the next commander of central command is

warning alcorda and i so getting stronger. general michael korea told the senate consummation, hearing the china is now increasing influence and investment in areas the groups operating medical have has the story in american convoy with a helicopter, an armored vehicle made its way tuesday to assyrian prison. this was the scene of a massive fight between the islamic state and f. b. a fighters in january. it was an attempt to free. i still fighters imprisoned inside, even with us military airstrikes. it took days to repel the attack. a concern for senators tasks with betting the general nominated to take over us central command at his hearing tuesday press reports indicate that up to 200 fighters may have escaped, and hundreds of people will kill. if you are confirmed, you'll be responsible for helping ensure the s t f and the iraqi government have the capacity and support needed to address the threat from ices and properly detain

these prisoners. the sen seemed likely to confirm general michael gorilla to the post. as he assured them, he would address their concerns, spelling out what he sees as the challenges ahead from the centcom theater is also burdened by civil war and humanitarian crisis. the areas home to 9 of the top 10 most dangerous violent extremist organizations, including el cater and isis, which are both reconstituting, all of these ill trends are accelerated by water scarcity and food insecurity. china has significantly increase its investment and influence in the region, and russia acts as a spoiler normally, instead of here in about the middle east, china isn't a big part of the conversation. but corolla says china now has economic deals in 18 of the $21.00 countries within central command, he says countering their influence will be a big priority. as he looks to lead the u. s. military from egypt to catholics. don patty, gal haine. al jazeera washington. the f

b i has arrested the husband and wife team alleging they conspire to loan the billions of dollars worth of crypto currency. more than 10900000 big one was stolen in a hack of crypto exchange bits in x. in 2016, the u. s department of justice says it has recovered the coins, its largest ever financial seizure. let's get more from cher baton. has been washington d. c. she had possibly, cont, all these arrests for the dear j was about justice. it was clear that they really wanted to get that message across. no matter what people may have heard bitcoin, and other crypto currency is traceable by their investigators. that it is not a safe space for, for crime. the crypt currency space is something that they are there are opportunities up to monitoring. so look, looking at this case for 2016, we have a virtual currency exchange called bit 5 x,

which is where people go to buy bitcoin using dollars and convert bitcoin and into dollars that was hack into and $71000000.00 worth of bitcoin were taken now, the reason why these enormous thing is being trained around today, a $4500000000.36, is the value of bitcoin and has, has grown so greatly in that 5 year period. so about $71000000.00. that's worth $4500000000.00 of which the d r james recovered $3600000000.00. this couple links to sign and, and have a morgan at the morgan. very interesting. go to google, who by the way, but that's the side side issue and you know, and they're not accused of the original hack into, into the, into the exchange. but i'm trying to launder it in a very sophisticated way. actually, it was a very interesting term that the assistant attorney general use that we're using a labyrinth of crypto currency transactions. so that's why then despite this is the cation of the attempt at laundering. but the i,

j is very happy that they were able to trace this and we got this comment from the deputy attorney general. the message to criminals is clear crypto currency is not a safe haven. we can, and we will follow the money, no matter what form it takes, what would be the attorney is working on the case that was quite interesting. you would expect the dear j is rather wary of cryptic currency but, but actually what he said was interesting said like it's clear the crypt currency you've had to stay. it's going to be a major part of the financial architecture of the world going forward. so what they're trying to do with that is restore confidence encrypted currency as a place where if, if your money's next, if you want to try and steal your, your crypto currency. there are tools that was lowered for some can use to try and try and recover it. and in fact, just just in the previous, we can, i saw that a cryptic currency company had $4400000.00 worth of of bitcoin stolen just a few days ago, chamber towns in washington dc. thank you. the corruption trial of israel,

former prime minister, has been delay soft allegations of legal spyware use by police on monday and israeli newspaper forces officers hacked the phones of benjamin netanyahu. son and his associates, protested business leaders, and cabinet ministers are also said to have been targeted using the israeli made pegasus spyware. prime minister, natalie bennett has promised an inquiry. hurry force, it isn't wester ruthless, explains how the allegations could effect now who's 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 yahoo, son and other very close associates also being drawn in school. this prosecutors so far 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 the legation that the police weren't as they had been saying, seeking proper judicial 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 would 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. the former roman catholic pope benedict, the 16th, has asked the victims of sexual abuse and the church for forgiveness. and inquiry found he knew about the abuses when he was archbishop of munich in the late 19 seventies and early eighties. but failed to report the crimes. but his lawyers published their calling effects check denying that he was involved in any misconduct. dominic caden has moved from berlin. now what he said is he is admitted there were grievous faults that took place and he is apologized for the suffering that would that the people who were the victims of child abuse as, as priests, an inch in southern germany. remember that southern germany is the hot land of catholicism in this country and there are many in church in that part of southern germany. you have said that they believed that they were victims of sexual abuse.

it's not what the pope of the form of hope is said to day, which stands out in one sense. it's more the reaction that's come from people who represent that community of victims who say that this is just yet another opportunity missed by the former pope where he could have gone into detail about the errors that were made. could have accepted some sort of responsibility for the way things planned out. still ahead on al jazeera, a warning sounded the catastrophic drops in the horn of africa. and increased the government considers new measures to come. violence is sporting events along the murder of a football fan. ah, ah, look forward to brighter skies. the winter sponsored my cattle

a ways. let's go with your weather update for asia. hello, everyone. nice to see you have some good news for the northwest of india. these showers here, stretching from sar rate into new delhi. we'll help clear up the atmosphere, clear up the air will shut out some of that smug. in fact, we may power up some thunderstorms here as well. now, toward the bay had been gall southern sections. we got this cluster of energy that's just going to swipe eastern portions of sure longer, but it will leak into colombo as well. so a few days of thunder downpours to be expected. next stop, we're going to go a wider look at india right now. i want to point out the western gas stellar's stretch of weather here by 28 degrees for you on wednesday. se asia looks like this . you know, over the past 24 hours. the top end of sumatra picking up about a 150 millimeters of rain, think we'll see the same on wednesday through the malay peninsula and also western portions of borneo. certainly the risk of seeing some flooding here. also the risk of flooding across mindy. now, especially those eastern portions, there is

a moderate flooding advisory in play. now china is looking like this. central parts clouds drift in about and we've got some showers in between the games and the pearl river valley. and believe it or not, the snow has stopped for now across western japan. that's it from me. see it? oh, with sponsored by casara ways the world of high frequency shad trading, exposed. i had this engine that was basically trading at kinda lost $30000000.00. was a terrifying experience, how artificial intelligence has raised the stakes and risks on the money markets. with market school. we're opening up a policy delay for an inch building for no money bought on al jazeera ah

ah, dodging al jazeera reminder of our top stories, this, our diplomatic efforts are underway to resolve the ongoing dispute with russia, ukraine, the leaders of germany, france, and poland have met and voted an attempt to resign talks between moscow and t. f. u . s. is seized more than $3600000000.00 worth of stolen crypto currency. it's largest ever financial seizure. a couple in new york have been arrested and charged was trying to loan to that money. the corruption trial of israel's former prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been delayed of the allegations that police used controversial spyware. and his reading newspaper reported officers hacked the followings of his son and his associates. the syrian

government is reporting its defense forces. had 5 anti aircraft missiles of what they say were israeli fighter jets over the capitol, damascus. israel is reporting anti aircraft missiles fired from syria exploded mid air of israel. 3 soldiers had been killed when an improvised explosive device blew up in western iraq. one civilian was also injured in the boston, and the province. a local official says the explosive was left behind by iso. the soldiers were accompanying hunters from kuwait who are unharmed. hunger is getting worse across the one of africa and agency say it's only a matter of time before hundreds of thousands of lives will be in the balance. kenya, somalia, european, and eritrea. a suffering. the most of the 3 rainy seasons failed and the u. n. world food program says that 13000000 people across the region now face severe

hunger. yulusef says that around 5 and a half 1000000 children in the region right now at risk of acute malnutrition. the biggest concern is that a drought a decade ago could be repeated, which killed a quarter of a 1000000 people in somalia alone. together you nice f and the well food program are asking for $450000000.00, which i say is the only way to prevent catastrophe. thompson perry is a spokesman for the un. well food program. he recently traveled to kenya and says hundreds, the families are waking up each day, not knowing where their next meal will come from. i have just been to carry to cambridge and over the weekend i met pastoral families that have locked entire heads of livestock to the drought. and farmers were felt to have is not once or twice what price. they have been 3 consecutive failed, brainy seasons and 3 consecutive fell drained seasons would deal a huge blow to any one it what, what is strange is that it is only the beginning of february,

and typically you would have grazing pasture, you would have water ponds, that would have regenerated from october to december, short rainy season. well this time it different. there is no raising posture. there, he's no browse. these no water sources, they're all dragged up. well, nutrition ramped high. some in even is high up as 50 percent. and at one rural health center that i visited in like data county isa messing charge, told me that they are now having to treat more people for mound nutrition than any other element for the situation is quite di. these are families that are scattered across north east of kenya. they also put a huge number in somalia, particularly in the central part. and you also have quite a few of people who have been affected by the drought in the south himself, eastern part of europe. so you do have across your own people, what now struggling well, waking up, angry with no,

i deal with me will come at least 20 people udette's and 55000 have been left homeless and madagascar on for sidelines slammed into the islands, east coast. the indian ocean country is one of the poorest in the world and has experienced a series of environmental and climate disasters in recent years. they miss roving has more cycle and 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 . i love 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 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 go mcgaffey people is and they will be seated affecting the 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 leaders say as paying the highest price for climate change. then basra v bozier. a landslide in western columbia has swept away houses, killing at least 14 people in during 35 others. one person is still missing, and more than 60 homes have been evacuated. heavy rain and the coffee growing province is threatening more land lives. the us mission in the united arab emirates is put out a warning to citizens that a possible missile or drone strike has occurred of abu dhabi. so the details is still unclear. who the rebels in yemen have claimed several attacks on the u. e over the past few weeks, that includes one in our bizarre, the in january which killed 3 people in hong kong is brought in. it's toughest restrictions. yes. as a battle, the record number of covered 19 cases,

people will only be allowed to meet one other person in public and only invite one other household into their own home for clinical reports from hong kong. a record search of cases in hong kong triggering the cities toughest pandemic measures. yet, can we get to you today? we are in a severe penned situation. i hope that the public sector 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 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. fines 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 should encourage people to stay at home in the state. the government should open more testing seen to so that people do 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, i'm meaning the 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 peers forming hong kong cases might still sound low compared to other major cities. but for many people here, this is uncharted territory. brit clements al jazeera hong kong. a convoy protesting against pandemic restrictions has caused disruption in new zealand capital. wellington, hundreds of most a mosque was demonstrated club streets around parliament. as politicians returned from this on the breaks. they're angry about mosque mandates and requirements for workers in some industries to be vaccinated. canada, his prime minister justin trudeau was calling for an end to a protest there by hundreds of trunk drivers against vaccine mandates. he's due to return to parliament to discuss the crisis in the capital or what progress has been counted as seat of power ottawa occupied by truckers on the supporters for more

than a week. now protested, call it a freedom con boy. the police say it's a siege on the capital. in the depths of winter truckers from across canada are off road, adamant that covey 19 vaccine mandates for cross border drivers must end or the prime minister should resign. on monday, just intruder accused them of trying to do a democracy. it has to stop. the people with auto don't deserve to be harassed in their own neighborhoods. they deserve to be confronted with the inherit violence of a swastika flying on a street corner, or a confederate flag or the insults and jeers just because they're wearing a mask. the police are turning off supplies of fuel on funds to put

a brake on the porter. a court has also put injunction on the loud sound of horns disrupting the life. we went after the funding. our efforts combined with the cities efforts eliminated to go fund me. $10000000.00 are no longer accessible to the demonstrators. but the battle is far from one. the truckers are showing no signs of leaving. i would guy on the street for my kids, my grandkids. here there's no like we saw people on the side of the street with their songs at o'clock at night 40 below in the weather, standing there with their signs and telling us that were the only hope a bunch of truckers with their hot sticks and flags that come on, how could we get here? hundreds of kilometers away from ottawa at the main crossing between the us and canada. there's heavy traffic as support as poor in from south of the border,

prominent republicans, including former president donald trump, tesla founder ilan musk and far right. anti boxing groups have shown best support for the truckers, but in canada most people are vaccinated, including many of the protests. why it is not because canadians love getting needles. is because canadians trust science, canadians trust each other. but these demonstrations show trust in the government, and a truth may be winning for some brianca group there. i'll sera starbucks is being accused of retaliating against the employees who are trying to unionize. and the u. s. a coffeehouse giant fired organizes from its memphis business saying they violated policies for using the store after hours giving tv interviews. workers at more than 50 starbucks locations across 19 states have filed for union

elections, grace and stepping on measures to stop violence at sporting events. after a football fan was killed by supporters of arrival team, the prime minister is calling for action to curb unruly behavior. kathy lopez, haughty on, has more. this is were a 19 year old football fan, was killed in the northern greek city of the solo nicky. the street is now lined with candles and flowers, hawkish come panels was scammed to death outside the artist to sullen ag club stadium. he's believed to have been killed by supporters of arrival team after a brawl. the case has led to a national debate about violence and sporting events for 2 years ago, so we can't get over it. my entire family has been affected. i have a 17 year old grandson who wears the teams yellow jersey all day. and now we feel afraid, i'm 72 years old and i been going to the stadium since i was 8. we never had these

types of situations that mm hm. at least 9 suspects have been arrested. that many say it's not enough. the outrageous fueling calls for tighter rules and punishment under pressure at the government announcer will submit a bill in the coming weeks to parliament with stricter penalties and more police controls. yet them at opposite to so public use are combating violence. among football fans is an obligation we have towards greek society of the youth and the millions of fans in our country. yet in the past 2 years, significant steps have been taken up. the government will continue in this direction and we expect everyone in society to contribute to eliminate sports violence. the sport has been played by violence on and off the field in recent years. these photographs of makes of weapons are among the items confiscated by police. a sign that the threat of violence is always lurking. and now the murder of alkies is pushing the issue to the forefront. ha, ha, ha ha. i feel awful about it. how can you not?

i wonder what these people are thinking? how can they live? it all seems on thinkable. all this violence taking place, the yellow jerseys of the artist football club have in place in the neighbourhood where alkies was murdered. people here say it's a reminder to authorities and the community of a senseless tragedy. cartel office of the young al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera. these are the top stories. diplomatic efforts are underway to resolve the ongoing dispute with russia of ukraine. the leaders of germany, france, and poland have met in berlin and an attempt to restart talks between moscow and here to show you was like a mine's of a seal assist, antique. our common goal is to prevent war in europe. marsh was a shot, the amassing of russian troops on ukraine's border. what is of great concern and our appraisal of the situation is you night you too.