it is clear for you this stream on al jazeera, unprompted, and uninterrupted discussions. from our london broadcast center on al jazeera. ah, a priority is to prevent war in europe, france, germany, and poland. discuss ways to deescalate russia. ukraine, tensions. ah, mother, i'm give adele. this is elena, they're alive from dull hop, also coming up. that coin bossed a husband and wife stand accused of trying to launch at $3600000000.00 worth of stolen crypto car unsafe israel. spyware scandal grows the corruption trial of former israeli prime minister. benjamin netanyahu is delayed and the fast climate

change famine could hit madagascar after crops are destroyed by a powerful cyclone. ah, a new day of high level diplomacy has played out as attempts to made to restart stalled. these talks between russia and ukraine, speaking in berlin, the leaders of germany, france, and poland said their common goal is to prevent a war in europe. the french president had just flown in from kia, where he met with his ukrainian counterpart of the adult neat has more it was the 1st visit by a french president in 24 years. emmanuel mccaul in cave, after holding a 5 hour marathon meeting with russia's president vladimir putin in moscow on monday. but we don't think what it pushing so many push armoire or go coming weeks

and months is to have a stabilization of the situation and kickstart through new currency mechanisms, the lasting de escalation in this context. the cool had, in this you have shown the restraint that all parties have shown in word indeed, or 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, 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 rues, are due to start phase 2 of their joint exercises. the ukrainian minet, 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. on the 1st book of up

a few of them, yes, we can cover our needs when it comes to anti tank weapons for land and mobile unit . we also produce several types of tactical where promoter score. but for now it's diplomacy that is prevailing even though president zelinski is being cautious. the happening perhaps a little of the optimism shown by emmanuel michael brings feats law 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, especially as this person is very sincere. as i understand in the young 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. with that that i meet al jazeera cave, us president joe bivens picked to be the next commander of central command is

warning alcorda and honestly getting stronger. general michael carrillo told a senate confirmation hearing that china is now increasing influence and investment in areas that the operating medical hame has that 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 u. s. military airstrikes. it took days to repel the attack. a concern for senators tasks with that in 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 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 carrillo 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 extremists organizations including al 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 and senate hearings 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 counter in their influence will be a big priority. as he looks to lead the u. s. military from egypt to catholics, don pedal haine al jazeera washington the f

b i or the rest of the husband and wife team alleging they conspire to loan the billions of dollars worth of crypto currency. more than 10900000 big coin was stolen and hack of crypto exchange bits in x. in 2016, the u. s. department of justice says it's recovered the coins, its largest ever financial seizure, most get more now from shepherd towns it who's in washington, dc. and she, even though it's 10900000 bitcoin, the value of that bit coin since it was stolen has gone up dramatically. how significant is this? i think with the j, the department of justice is trying to use this as, as a marker to say, look, despite what you've heard, we can use detective work to trace crypto currencies like but coin. that's the, the spaces that are being inhabited on above above the law. so we have this case them in, in 2016, a virtual currency exchange called bit find ex was hacked into and then the bitcoin

that was stolen was only worth $71000000.00. but because bitcoin has appreciated in the valley, so much in that 5 year period, that's why we're getting these enormous numbers and the largest financial seizure in india. a history of, of $3600000000.00 for $71000000.00. actual $4500000.00, the dear james managed to recover $3600000000.00 off that $4500000000.00 of bitcoin to suspect the rest of them ellia lecture sign, have a morgan husband and wife. then other cubed off hacking in to the car exchange system, but they are accused of money laundry and using an array of quite sophisticated techniques in an attempt to, to loan to the money. in fact, the weather is labyrinth of crypto currency, currency transactions. but in the usual flyers, the deer j, they say criminals always leave traces that we're up to 5 days traces. this is what

the deputy attorney general have to for 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. and you might think that perhaps the dear jane part is rather wary of crypto currency given the potential perhaps to, to evade national national authorities. but actually not want to be, i don't know what actually one of the attorneys was working on the case. one of the investigators working on the case said that what we're trying to do is actually restore confidence encrypted currency. it's clear cryptic currency is going to be very important to the global financial architecture moving forward. this shows. busy them that people can be secure with their cryptic currency that if anything is stolen, that they're all means to try and find it and, and that will be accountability. and indeed, just over the last we can do. i mean, clearly this is a problem. that was another cryptic currency company that had $4400000.00 stolen

from it said just the last few days. this is something that is carrying on shampoo towns in washington dc. thank you. the corruption trial of israel's former prime minister has been delayed master allegations of illegal spyware use by police on monday and israeli newspaper reported off those hats. the phones have benjamin netanyahu son and his associates, protested business leaders, and cabinet ministers also said to have been targeted using the israeli made pegasus spyware. by minister natalie bennett has promised inquiry how force it is wester with them. he explains how the allegations could effect at yahoo 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 yahoo son and other very close associates, also being drawn in school. this prosecutor so far have been saying that any use of the 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. israel has launched as strikes in syria, killing at least one soldier and injuring 5 others. the military says it's in response to cross border anti aircraft fire earlier steering's that you said it's defenses intercepted israeli missiles. israel has launched hundreds of error rates on a rainy and targets and syria of the last few years. still come here on al jazeera, no warning is sounded of a catastrophic drums and the horn of africa and reclaiming their rain forest equity, highest roof, indigenous communities must have a great to say of a while and mining projects on them. and ah,

ah, look forward to burritos guys. with sponsored by capital airways. 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 in to 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 have been goal southern sections. we've got this cluster of energy that's just going to swipe eastern portions of sri lanka, 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 has seen 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 drifting about and we've got some showers in between the games and the pearl river valley. and believe it or not, this snow has stopped for now across western japan. that's it from the seas it. oh, with sponsored by casara ways. this feels like representation of who i am and what i want people to remember me by boxes. my get out to is, is not a human, just mark against the people around like, got away. i'm telling the story about my, my friends going to take the future to do a don't so bad with you. deep. oh ward, we're the documentary witness. on out his era.

ah ah, you're watching all 0. how reminder about tom sawyer. this hello diplomatic efforts are underway to resolve the ongoing dispute with russia of ukraine, the ladies of germany, france and poland to have met in berlin and an attempt to restart talks between moscow and kiev. the u. s. has seized more than $3600000000.00 worth of stolen crypto currency. it's largest ever financial seizure. a couple in new york has been arrested and charged with trying to launder that money. the corruption trial of israel's former prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been delayed to allegations that police used controversial spyware. and his rating newspaper reported officers

hacked the phones of his son and his associates. starbucks is being accused of retaliating against employees we're trying to unionize in the us. the coffee house giant fired organizes from its memphis business saying that they violated policies for using the store off to alice and giving tv interviews work. is it more than 50 starbucks locations across 19 states have filed for union elections with kathy crayton joins us now from buffalo, new york. she is director of cornell university school of industrial and labor relations. thank you very much for joining us. what does it say to you that starbucks has just outright fi it? these organizes and memphis. before we see is that there's been an acceleration of unionization movement across the united states, as you just mentioned. and i believe that starbucks is looking for

a way to disrupt that acceleration. and part of that may be by trying to terminate all 6 of the union organizers at the memphis store. it's definitely an aggressive move. or even if the employees thought, you know, even if the employees may have violated a technical role, and it's still a bold move by starbucks to fire all of the employees, which is really the capital punishment of employment. you know, to lose your job. there were other alternatives, but we could have been disciplined or warned, or suspended even. but termination is very drastic. it seems, as you said, that these employees have momentum on their side. 7 in terms of unionizing across these various states. i mean, starbucks that unionizing one, starbucks, unionizing rather could have been shot down. you know, if it was just 11 stole,

but that many of them is much hot to target, right? will they be able to keep up this momentum? do you think? i think the, the momentum for the workers is accelerating, and i think it's going to be quite difficult for starbucks, too. i work on so many france at the same time. what starbucks has in its favor is that american labor law is extremely weak for employees in the private sector. so what, there is one law, the national labor relations act, and that covers all private sector labor law throughout the entire united states. and that law is antiquated. it was past 1935 and there hasn't been any meaningful labor law reforms in favor of workers since that time. so it allows, for example, for long delays are before employees get an election. and it allows the employer to

engage in a lot of tactics into union tactics against employees. and then even if the employees, when the remedies under the statute are very weak. so for example, these 6 employees, if they're terminated and that fizzles out the labor movement at that particular store, the, the employer faces very, very low low remedies which it can easily pay. okay? that one i want to be concerned about as reputation though starbuck should be concerned about a reputation and it's called to investors. it acknowledges that it's walking the fine line between an anti union campaign and also not wanting to tarnish its reputation as a progressive company by being too anti union. so yes, i do believe that this may have been

a rash move on starbucks part to terminate these employees as it appears very heavy handed on the employer's part. all right, i thank you very much for your now, says that kathy crayton, director of cornell, university school of industrial and labor relations thousands of miles from what aside, is demanding their guzman not to pay its debt to the international monetary fund. the i'm f as in tough negotiations over how argentina will pay back billions of dollars. that is a ball reports from argentina's capital. aah! they came to express their anger about the negotiations between argentina and the international monetary fund. ah, thousands of people in front of the presidential palace demanded the government to prioritize the people. instead of the i m f. hotel damita has been a lawmaker for years in williams bumper america. the government is re negotiating the agreement and they know they won't be able to pay it. and in 2 years we will

have the same problem. we cannot pay back that amount of money without strangling the poorest. in 2018, the i m f granted the government of audi, seal mercury, their biggest loan in its history over $50000000000.00. argentina says it needs to recover from the pandemic and wants to pay back once the economy starts growing again. i didn't have thinking it was the 2nd agreement with high inflation rates. i see the government is hoping to announce that level agreement in the next month before sending it. so congress people here are extremely concerned about the impact that the agreement will have in their lives. are amina, when seen, he says, she's not concerned about the i m f, but about argentina's economy. inflation is expected to surpass 50 percent this year. the mileage thus young at the inflation is affecting a small commercial business,

is because of the prices. today. you have $1.00 price the next day, another the dollar increases and it has an impact and inputs and transports. we're scared on it paralyzes us. we just want the uncertainty to and economy say, an agreement with the i m f is crucial to prevent our g. tina from being isolated from international financial markets or not been e. i'm with john, but not the euro. argentine has no option. it's either agree with di m. f or default to young men to default is to re live the christ of 2001. and nobody wants to be in the situation again. and that's why an alternative is better than a default. we see an agreement as opposed to step if it hops, argentina increases central bank reserves and stabilize the economy. ah, but these people are not convinced. they say the i m f, measures have hurt them in the past, and they fear it could happen again. that is, i will, i'll deceit at one of situs. ecuador is highest court,

as wald. indigenous communities must have a strong assaye of oil and mining projects that impact their land. the ruling is a serious blow to president game or last. i was plans to award mining and oil confessions and the amazon rain forest. the see a newman reports. 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 could generations. 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 little 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. as, as commerce amazon, we began going to the capitol to pneumonia, ministry to see what was happening to me. and we discovered that the government had approved $52.00 money concessions for 25 years. was there was never any consultation, nothing with the legal assistance of the n g o amazon front lines. the community bought 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's 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 countries development. it is only today 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, has 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, a newman al jazeera, a landslide in western columbia has swept away houses, killing at least 14 people, and injuring 35 others. one person is still missing,

and more than 60 homes have been evacuated. heavy rain in the coffee, growing provinces threatening more landslides. at least 20 people or dead and 55000 have been left homeless and madagascar on her side. clone slammed into the islands eastern coast. the indian ocean country is one of the poorest in the world . and if experienced the fairies of environmental and climate disasters in recent years, famous robbie has more 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. 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 cities. we really have to find a solution. the world's food program warn the cycle and destroyed staple crops, making food shortage crisis in the months to come, almost inevitable. we know for sure that the life of the rise 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 still affecting the food security in the next, the 36 months. if we don't do something immediately and we don't pass them to recover an estimated 150000 people have been effective. 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 leader say, is paying the highest price for climate change. zing, basra, v o g 0. hunger is getting worse across the one of africa and aid agency say it's only a matter of time before hundreds of thousands of lives will be in the balance. kenya, somalia, ethiopia, and eritrea. a suffering. the most stuff to 3 rainy seasons failed and the u. n's world food program says that 30000000 people across the region now face severe hunger units if says around 5 and a half 1000000 children in the region a 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. to get a u. d sat in the world. food program are asking for $450000000.00, which they say is the only way to prevent catastrophe. thompson perry is

a spokesman for the u. ends world food program. he recently traveled to kenya and says, hundreds of families awaking 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 this north once or twice. what price they have been $3.00 consecutive failed, rainy 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's different. there is no grazing pasture there, he's no browse. these no water sources their own dried up, well nutrition rants high,

some in even as high up as 50 percent. and at one rural health center that i visited in like data county, theresa, the next in charge told me that they are now having to treat more people for mount nutrition than any other element. for the situations 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 than himself. eastern part of if you will be a so you do have across your own people. what now struggling well, waking up, angry with them. no idea of where the next me will come. campaigning as officially begun in the philippines for a presidential election in ne candidates vying to succeed president for to go to 30 masses 6 here turn comes to an end contained isn't that the mayor of manila, the son of a former president of a time boxing champion netflix west in the power of the dog is leaving this. he has

oscar nominations, competing in 12 categories at this. he is 94th academy awards. the films director you zealand. jane campion has also made history by becoming the only woman to be nominated for best director a 2nd time. ah, there was an algae, there are these. 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 key f. like in mines of a few to assist and kick, our common goal is to prevent war in europe. marsh was a shot the amassing of russian troops on.