repair for their jam. i try to do the same then minutes later once the earth is just a blurb below it's time to free fall united against war. the leaders of france, germany and poland, discuss ways to defuse the ukrainian border crisis. ah, i'm about to say this is how does he rely from doha. also coming up, beware of i. so the mountain nominated to come on to us forces in the middle east, warns the armed group is getting stronger. thousands, march on the streets of argentina's capital to protest against an i m f bailout

plus restoring history. we made the archaeologist helping to train palestinians to protect ancient sites in gaza. ah, okay, let's start with the tensions between russia and ukraine after 2 days of shuffled diplomacy, the french president says things can de escalate. emmanuel mccaul has been meeting the leaders of both countries, speaking in berlin, the heads of germany, france, and poland to say their common goal is to prevent war in europe. honda of the hamid has more from kiev. it was the 1st visit by a french president in 24 years emanuel my call in give, after holding a 5 hour marathon meeting today with russia's president vladimir putin in moscow. on monday, the covenant they put a push in so many push on law. our goal for coming weeks and months is to have a stabilization of the situation and to kickstart through. you can see mechanisms

a lasting de escalations in this context. the cool had, in this you have shown the restraint that all parties have shown and word 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, 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 look of both 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 talked go where from us war. 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 bernacki this 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 putting has everything to do. this is specially as this person is very sincere. as i understand in this 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, give natasha battle is live for us in kia. so the european leaders say they're going to continue to work to deescalate the crisis french president emanuel. michael certainly seems more confident by that. how much room is there?

do you think for optimism i think from the point of view of european powers, as long as there is dialogue with russia, there is room for optimism and that's why a diplomatic efforts continue in kia the spanish a foreign minister has been meeting his counterpart as those efforts to try and deescalate the prices of ukraine to continue. now, on tuesday evening, the leaders of france, germany and poland, met to in berlin. they said that they were united, they were going to continue their efforts to do everything they could to diffuse tensions with russia. they also said that it was absolutely imperative the war in europe was averted. now, the french president minute micro also briefed his counterparts on the talks that he had had in the criminal monday with the russian president vladimir putin.

emanuel my crawl came out of that meeting, saying that he had gained some assurances from moscow from the russian president that russia would deescalate. well, that doesn't seem to be the same story coming out of the kremlin a spokesperson, a fool of the russian president saying that that's not the case. a tool that no, a guarantees were given to fraud said no deals were made but their work. he said, some points of convergence, even though we don't know exactly what those points of convergent saw. the problem is, of course, that's acquisitions on both sides remain entrenched as they have been. and for the past few weeks, you have on one side, russia continues to say that it wants an end, and they chose open door policy that it doesn't want ukraine to become a member of nato in the future. on the other side, you have western powers saying that ukraine, of course, has a right a to safeguard a. so a sovereignty ukraine t f saying that it has every right to determine its own security needs. on sunday,

ukrainian or russian political advisors are going to meet again on 1st a what we read into that yes, a significant meeting, a senior political advisors from ukraine and from a russia meeting in berlin alongside the a french and german count spots. this is all part of the normandy format of talks. this latest initiative coming again from france and germany that are trying to get the 2 sides together to talk. it is significant that ukrainian officials and russian officials will be in the same room. now they are a discussing a ways to try and revive a peace agreement to try and end the conflict in easton ukraine. these talks took place in the same format 2 weeks ago. berlin, the officials came out afterwards and they will said that they had been extremely positive. that is why they wanted to continue. in fact, the ukrainian president of law demotion,

lensky said that he hoped that perhaps these talks could even lead to a summits between ukraine and russia in the future. certainly some optimism that from a ukrainian president. nevertheless, as i said, the diplomatic efforts continue. and next week we are expecting the german chancellor, ala schultz to be both and kyo and in moscow. natasha, thank you very much. this natasha butler, alive in give a serene, sold, has been killed and several others have been wounded in an israeli airstrike. live a capital damascus. israel's military, he says the attack hit missile batteries and radar and says it was in retaliation for cross border anti aircraft fire. earlier, syria said it's air defense is intercepted. israeli missiles is, was launch hundreds of raids, targeting iranian allies in syria in the past few years. few soldiers and a civilian have been killed and a bomb attack in iraq. and what happened in the saga area of rot, but west of the capital baghdad, the soldiers were targeted as they were driving back to bass from vacation. it's

the 2nd such incident in 2 days. the u. s. has warning that our hider and ice allowed getting stronger the general nominated to be the new boss of the u. s. military central command says armed groups could use the anger of the lack of food and water in the middle east. as a recruiting tool, particle hand reports from washington and american convoy with a helicopter, an armored vehicles made its way tuesday to assyrian prison. this was the scene of a massive fight between the islamic state and sta 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 cast 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 kill. if you are confirmed, your response were 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 senator 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 challenge is ahead from the st. come theater is also burdened by civil war and humanity in crisis. the areas home to 9 of the top 10 most dangerous violent extremist organizations, including al qaeda in 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 in senate hearings about the middle east, china isn't a big part of the conversation. but corolla says, china now has economic deals and 18 of the 21 countries with in central command,

he says connor in their influence will be a big priority. as he looks to lead the u. s. military from egypt to kazakhstan, particle haine, al jazeera washington. iran has unveiled a new massage with a range of almost 1500 kilometers since, according to the semi official tuscan m news agency, it adds to the country's arsenal of long range missiles. observers have warned of original arms race, a saudi arabia, and the u. e. c to most of their own capabilities. an aid to the president of democratic republic of congo says the serious evidence of a national security threat. it follows reports of a failed could attempt to the weekend. the president spokesman has appeared on national television warning that efforts to destabilize democratic institutions would not be tolerated. the presidential security adviser has reportedly been detained since saturday, accused of undermining state security. accardo is highest court has ruled, indigenous communities must have more say about oil and mining projects that affect

the land, the decisions a setback for the presidency plans to award contracts and the amazon rain forest. our latin america editor this year newman reports. this is the ancestral territory of the i co fan 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 medicine 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. when it was a letter, 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 calm as amazon. we began going to the capitol to the money ministry to see

what was happening mean, and we discovered that the government had approved 52 money concessions for 25 years. mostly there was never any consultation, nothing with the legal assistance of the n g o amazon front lines. the community bought a lawsuit against echo 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 and 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 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 lately we get 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, lucien human al jazeera reason, indonesia have arrested dozens of people taking part in a protest against plans for a rock mining site and happened in central java where people have been trying to stop police entering the time when things is set of turn violent agencies say

they're not allowed access to what us village local media reporting power lines may being taught. schools in india's southern con, tucker states have been order to shut down for 3 days after protests against a ban on religious head, scarves. please foreign tear gas to disperse crowds at tuesdays demonstrations. many schools have been preventing girls way head scarves from attending classes. they'll positions accusing the state government controlled by the b j. p of discriminating against muslims sometime either. yeah. meeting this thing that you america with an are leading you to really dabbing is good. i know a lot of those students who were the he job started this raw fust. if they ended, we will also, and it still hadn't all does it a more pressure for hospitals in sri lanka, health workers, go on,

indefinite strike, demanding better wages and bitcoin bost, husband and wife and the u. s. are accused of wandering billions of dollars and stolen crypto currency. ah hello, welcome to your world's weather update. you know, for western australia about a quarter have this state is under a catastrophic fire danger alert. that's a highest level. part of the issue is we've got blustery winds and look at this. those temperatures have come up again in perth to 39 degrees. it's going to be short lived in terms of those high temperatures, but the winds really for the next few days got seem between 30 to 50 kilometers per hour. so that is going to complicate the firefight on the cyclone has formed in this is gonna ring out it's moisture over new caledonia than a watt to getting into some of these shower activity as well. we've got

a river of moisture for the south island of new zealand. some of these spots over the last little while saw a meter of rain. and here we go again. rainfall warnings in play was about $240.00 millimeters, mostly round the southern else, but that is leaking more inland in time for the north island, high heat and humidity, off to southeast asia for mid now. the philippines, a 127 millimeters over the past 24 hours flood advisories there. we've also seen some flooding on borneo now for china. central air is fairly settled, some clouds, some showers to be expected, and for tokyo, get ready for this. we've got some snow coming your way thursday into friday, about 10 to 20 centimeters to be expected. ah. the ciocca region of paraguay, one of south america's we thought a 2 man who seemed to thrive on his challenges. a veteran truck driver answers

every call. whatever the web to provide for his growing family and the cowboy who enjoys his rough, lonely life, briskin at paragon on al jazeera lou ah, you want to go to 0 mind over top stories. this are leaders of germany, france and poland. discuss ways to deescalate tensions and ukraine's border with russia. speaking of berlin, they all agree. their common goal is to prevent war in europe. the general

nominator to had the u. s. military central come on to says al qaeda and i sold could use anger at the lack of food and water in parts of the middle east. as a recruiting tool. schools in indian southern karnataka states have in order to close because of growing anger against abandoned religious head, scarves, police of fire tear gas to disperse, cries, healthcare workers into a lanka of started an indefinite strike. the demanding better pay and fader promotions talks with the government to failed. only staff and emergency and critical care units will continue to work well. fernandez has more from outside a hospital in colombo. there are something like 18 different trade unions under the health service umbrella that have joined this work suffrage from monday's and indefinite strike. anything from nurses till about a few technicians do a public health inspect the people who are in charge of the sort of corporate operations and some work in terms of anti coover activities. there's also

a single brick here in lancaster and doors. public inspect, perform a sort of a vital role, but all of this work has stopped even though emergency services are being continued . so that's what is all about 7 demands. and they said they don't have a choice. the government says they will give in where possible. but there are certain things that just are not do about this is the really bites because the free service here in lanka, offered the most vulnerable, those who don't have the resources or the where we thought to seek private health care go to private hospital and you know, get them to be into. so the national hospital is a massive building. you see behind me one of the main building, the main entrance here. i mean, these are places where people come from far and wide, seeking the various services database clinic, diabetic treatment wound clinic, you know, don't work and they don't have the money to seek private medical care. so they have

to make the journey. yes. smaller lines. foreign ministers in taiwan, what's been called up milestone visit. most countries refuse to recognize the sovereignty of either region. fair opened embassies in 2020 and that infuriated china and somalia, semi autonomous region of somali land says it was to increase trade with taiwan and bring its investments in its oil and gas sector surgeon, people in parts of the occupied weiss, banker, observing a strike to mourn 3 palestinians killed and nobliss by israeli soldiers that have been calls for demonstrations. there is rarely checkpoints and settlements in response to the killings palestinian officials demanding an international investigation and chappelle reports. 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 in broad daylight visitors notice lane. is amelia fencing after these weighty forces left people gathered to see what happened? no one suspected the vehicles who carrying israeli soldiers simply because of the palestinian number plate was. these railey soldiers continue to fire for a minute. they fight more than 80 bullets and the young palestinian men 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. oh, 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. sure. 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 me. 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 on us, i am really sad not only for this crime, but for the entire situation the pallets 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 bottom. ah, deluxe a 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. inter chappelle al jazeera in argentina, the government's negotiations with international monetary fun to repay some of its massive dance is provoking a furious reaction. with soaring levels of inflation and poverty protests who say the poor will be hit hardest. as a government tries to avoid defaulting on its debt mountain,

lisa bull reports from bon ascentis. ah, they came to express their anger about the negotiations between argentina and the international monetary fund. thousands of people in front of the presidential palace demanded the governmental prioritize. the people, instead of the i, m f, wholesale media has been a lawmaker for years. but i mean, the government is renegotiating 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 poor issue. in 2018, the i m f granted the government of our fuel natalie, the biggest loan in history over $50000000000.00. again, tina says it needs to recover from the pen demik and wants to pay back once the economy starts growing again. thinking it was the 2nd deck, raymond, sorry. i was traveling with high. all right. i see the document is

hoping to announce an agreement in the next month before sending it. so congress people here are extremely concerned about the impact that the agreements will have in their lives there. oh me now. when seen, he says she's not concerned about the i m f, but about argentina's economy. inflation is expected to so passed 50 percent this year. that inflation is affecting a small commercial business because of the prices. today you have one price for the next day. another dollar increases and it has an impact and interests and trauma. we get on it paralyzes us. we just want the uncertainty to and economy say, an agreement with the i m f is crucial to prevent argentina from being isolated from international financial markets or not been yeah, i'm with child. got the usaa argentine it has no option. it's, are you agree with diana or default to i'm and to default is to re live the christ

of 2001 and nobody wants to be in this 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 heard them in the past, and they fear it could happen again. but he said, well, i'll deceit at one aside as peru has a new prime minister after a 4th government reshuffle in 6 months. former justice minister annabel taught us, replaces hector valez. he resigned from a cabinet which lasted just 3 days after denying allegations of abuse in his late wife. president pedro castillo is 6 months role, has been marred by a series of setbacks including of failed impeachment attempt f. b, i. agents have arrested a husband and wife, accused of laundering 3 and a half $1000000000.00 worth of crypto currency. almost

a 120000 bitcoin was stolen. when the digital money exchange bit phenix was hacked, 6 years ago, prosecutors say some was transferred to the new york couple, but the u. s. department of justice says it's recovered. most of the fortune she hobbled tansy has more from washington, dc for the dear j was about justice, it was clear that they really wanted to give out message across that no matter what people may have heard, bitcoin and other cryptic currency is traceable by their investigative that it is not a safe space for, for crime. the cryptic currency space is something that they are there are opportune up to monitoring. so 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 70 $1000000.00 worth of coin were taken. now,

the reason why these enormous thing is being trained around today, a $4500000000.00 and $3600000000.00 is the value of bitcoin has, has grown so greatly in that 5 year period. so about $71000000.00. that's with $4500000000.00 of which the d r james recovered $3600000000.00. so what they're trying to do with that is restore confidence in encrypted currency as a place where if, if your money's next, if someone tries to steal your, your crypto currency, there are tools that was fortunate can use to try and try and recover it. and in fact, just just to the previous weekend, i saw that a cryptic currency company had $4400000.00 worth of of the coin stove. and just a few days ago, archaeologists or restoring ancient sites in garza money had been abandoned for years. because because of his really attacks, but as una outside reports, palestinian students are getting foreign help to teach them how to protect their heritage. because this trip is small in area, but it steaming with ancient,

tells an artifact that confirm its historical importance. but he, israel's repeated attacks as well as a lack of interest in archaeology. here have had a negative impact on tourism in antiquities, in this trip. now after years of delay, foreign restoration missions are returning not just to rehabilitate these sites but also to train dozens of palestinian students in the field of restoration enter ecology, the bigger hall developer of hogan for years we have been developing a program for the preservation and restoration of the site of st. herron in parallel with its restorations. we have also developed a series of training courses, the archaeological sites of garza named to its historical periods from the cannon night era, through the ottoman period. and up to the beginning of the british colonization. the most famous of this era is the pasha palace, which dates back to the mon look period. during the british mandate, it was

a police station. the monastery of saint hilary in which states back to the byzantine time, is enter kilogram hill on which a most yak floor whisp town during the settlement of the sands. another important archaeological site, which has been recently rehabilitated, is the byzantine church into ballier. it includes integrated architectural elements and contains colorful mosier lores depicting the nature of life in garza. but according to french archaeologist renette altair, there are many difficulties facing the restoration process. local text complex, the complex context of garza has full access to manufactured tools made and gaza. for example, to call them cut stone palestinians working in there are key logical fields. hope there will be more research into other sites across garza,

to show for the dupe of on the discovery of antiquities need support and experts in the field who have a good amount of knowledge and ability to discover, restore and deal with antiquities. to preserve them. the restoration of these are kill logical sites, space the way further. happily he should have dozens of similar sites across the gods. this strip those behind the project hope that this will bring attention to these ancient sights. despite israel sees on the regions, gaza has a history that dates back to thousands of years and the evidence is still present today. human is c, l 20 gods out. ah, this is all just here with these are the top stories leaders of germany, france and poland of discussed ways to de escalate tensions on ukraine's border with russia speaking berlin, they all agreed their common goal is to prevent.