ah, shoot documentary from around the world about those who won't give up their fight for justice out. is there a select justice ah, a warning of a possible cyber attack on years banking system as diplomatic efforts to deescalate tensions between russia and ukraine continue. ah, i mean wrong on the south, is there a life and i also coming up i'm john 100 on the u. s. canada border were protesting truckers are disrupting hundreds of millions of dollars in commerce every day. to moscow not to last several years, sites live the requirements,

but the white house age is students and teachers to keep were and face covers brush and figure skater. camilla vajella is back on the ice of the beijing winter olympics, despite legal troubles, which saw her gold medal ceremony delight. ah, diplomatic efforts are intensifying in hopes of diffusing tensions with russia over it's true build up on the border with ukraine. the u. k. foreign secretary, less trust is visiting moscow for talks, while prime minister boris johnson is in warsaw and brussels. and germany's chancellor. olaf schultz is hosting several european leaders in berlin, ukraine's foreign minister says western leaders are making progress and averting a russian invasion of ukraine. french president emmanuel macro, met a russian president vladimir putin and ukraine's blood m as lensky. in the past few days. natasha butler's following developments from kiev,

where the ukrainian foreign minister says his country won't accept any ultimatums to diffuse the tension with russia. dmitri labor or giving a press conference here in kiev, and he went over a couple of points. really, he said, 1st of all, in terms of the situation along, keeps along ukraine's border. he said that it was calm, it was quiet despite the built out of a russian troops there. and that i caused some of the comments he made earlier today in which he said, look, the situation is still very tense, but it is under control. he said he also welcomed a recent diplomatic efforts by various a western leaders. he said that those efforts that really helped to or reduce tensions that helped to ease tensions. and that the a president zalinski had also welcomed them. he talked about the french president emmanuel mcgraw, who met with the russian leader vladimir putin in moscow on monday and also with

the ukranian present in kiev on tuesday. or he said the macro had put no pressure on a ukraine, had not come with any proposals, but it only come with opinions particularly when it comes to a efforts by ukrainian and rochelle senior advisors to try and revive the piece process for the east of ukraine. that those are the so called minsk agreements. they are a talks that are being mediated by france, by germany. something that emanuel mark raw has said is very important. indeed, he sees that as a possible way to try and diffuse a tensions of ukraine. perhaps a possible solution to the crisis. the u. s. is accused russia of escalating tensions by planning more military exercise in belarus. the jewels planned for thursday, russia says, is trying to repo and at times on its borders or that of by the route, but it comes, as the pentagon says, moscow has been deploying more troops to its frontier ukraine. the 1st convoys

carrying u. s. military equipment have arrived in romania, that's where a 1000 american troops are headed in the coming days, though, joined some 900 service members already station there. it's part of the additional troop deployment ordered by president joe biden. and the european union's top financial regulator is wanting the possible russian cyber attack and is urging banks to be prepared. that's according to the reuters news agency would says banks are conducting cyber war games in preparation for a possible attack. last month, the u. s. cyber security agency warned of potential critical threats to american assets. you k organizations were warned to bolster their defenses as well. that was over fears that a hack in the ukraine could spiral beyond its borders like it did in 2017. the not per chair, cyber attack was a virus that crippled parts of ukraine's infrastructure. it later spiraled around the internet, spreading to international companies and costing them billions of dollars. hello,

easy paganini. paganini is a cyber security and intelligence experts explains our attackers could exploit defaults and global banking systems. there is no computing system that is totally secure banks or privilege a target for both state sponsored argus and also cyber criminal gangs. an attacker could use the so called the 0, the exploit to target the any see stem. and that has a great the likely you, the success, as you know, these are flow that the computer system that is not to know at the time of the attacks. these means that the defenders have no idea of a bargain, the system and yet ox troy, in order to breach, due to target networks. you must also consider the initial, they say doctors like russia was our where is your city and usually have a multiple 0 the exploits in the us and i'm for you to reason defense from the attacks is not simple.

code is proven a says called a growing protest. movements against cronum forest measures a threat to the economy shock as a blocking a vital border crossing with the u. s. as a protest vaccine requirements and panoramic restrictions. automakers, ford and toyota, say the interruption is hurting production of their facilities. john henry reports on the american side of the busiest land crossing between the u. s. and canada, not a wheel is turning. traffic on the ambassador bridge had been stopped in both directions . now on the other side, from canada to the us, just a trickle of trucks is allowed through. on monday, hundreds of angry truckers disrupted north america's most bustling international commercial connector and they say they'll keep it up until vaccine mandates and other coven 19 restrictions. are abolished on both sides of the border in a heated exchange in canada's parliament, or time minister just to,

to go into canada. won't be bullied. you can't end a pandemic with blockades. you can end a panoramic by decreeing you can even ended by legislation. you need to ended with science, you need to end it with her. and even as canadians are tired and impatient for at the end, we're going to continue to be there for them to support them through it and to make sure we do everything necessary to and her, oh the protesting truckers say they'll continue their blockade as long as it takes so far, police have been reticent to cleared the roads. you know, domino effect when to stop added up with these guys. to save each day, hundreds of millions of dollars in commerce crosses the ambassador bridge, including 25 percent of canada's total global exports. so with billions it stake

each hour and each day the chance of a confrontation between police and protesting truckers increases in the u. s. and in canada, patience is wearing thin. it will have to be resolved one way or the other. i'm not saying not a suggestion. you know, it's been better rouzan and us please us that may not be the solution, but there has to be. it is we're awesome. it is obviously the same as the stand off wears on. it remains to be seen whether the 1st to lose patience will be the protesting truckers or police john henderson al jazeera on the u. s. canadian border. and there are reports, a similar protest convoys planned in the u. s. white house press secretary gen searcy says washington is closely monitoring the situation and is working with canadian officials. ambassador bridge is canada busiest link to united states and accounts for about 25 percent of trade between the 2 countries and said the

blockade poses arrest to supply chains for the auto industry. because the bridge is a key conduit for motor vehicles, components and parts and delays, ah risk disrupting auto production. we are in close contact. we've been doing a great deal of work on this. alicia with randall, our homeland security advisor can be the meeting just to day. a growing number of democrat lead states in the us are rolling back faced mos mandates. on wednesday, the governor of new york state says and or mosque policies, businesses would not be renewed. and the states of illinois and massachusetts says avail, and some mosque requirements by the end of the month, she have returns, he has more from washington d. c. it's about assigns is also a matter of public health policy. the metrics, the, the centers for disease control uses the federal organization here in d. c is rates of transmission. that's what they're looking at when they decide on their recommendations for masking mandates. and because all the cronies,

so transmissible those rates are really, really, really high. so that's why the head of the cdc said that the cdc is not ready yet to recommend loosening vaccine monday to then she points to, you know, around the statistics which are very, very we're in new cases. are still, it's around $240000.00 a day in the us. daily depths of 2500 a day or, and hospitalizations were sent over about 100100000 patients. having said that, with the statistics because of all microns trans admissibility, there isn't that very, there is no specificity about how many of these cases actually specific coded cases . and how many people are people who went to hospital or something else and were found to have on the grounds. what we're looking at now is a debate about the use of those metrics, or perhaps the metrics should be different, especially when you're looking at different regions of the country. so instead of looking overall transmission rates should we be looking at overall hospital capacity? because in the end, it's all about saving the public health system and about vaccination rates. in particular areas, there's a real worry among some public health officials there is that when on the chronic

spreading, it's such a right even when you're wearing mosques because it's producing so much virus that then people are going to not really believe much in my city. most london, 20 new zealanders have been arrested during a protest against vaccine mandates. there are concerns and the demonstration outside parliament was again on choose. they could go on for days more than a 1000 people are gathered to denounce requirements and certain workers get jammed . there are also opposed to monday mandatory facebook vaccinated foreign taurus, clovers, the philippines for the 1st time in nearly 2 years. the easing of restrictions comes months later than planned after concerns over the army con variance, but a decreasing cases as pushed authorities to open borders in a bid to revive its tourism dependent economy. south korea's president is calling for a summit between us president joe biden and that north korea's kim jung and moon j . n told south korean media that the 2 leaders should discuss pyongyang,

nuclear weapons program. despite the ongoing impasse, he also expressed concern that north korea could resume nuclear and long range missile testing, which he says could cause an instant crisis. robert bride has more from sol, i think from president moon j, and this is a pretty realistic assessment of the current state of play on the korean peninsula . this was in an interview with media here in south grand, also international media. it comes as he has only a few months, more left in office. he remains fairly up beat about the prospects of dealing with north korea, saying that it is possible conditions could exist whereby joe biden, like his predecessor, could meet with a kim jargon of north korea to talk about the nuclear rise ation. reminding the world, of course, that the americans have said they are committed to diplomacy, that they are willing to start the process of dialogue any time anywhere. but it

does come of course, against this background of increased missile testing by north korea, that in the month of january alone, north korea fired off and 9 ballistic missiles to cruise missiles. and what was the busiest flurry of missile activity in all of the years of its weapons development? also, he ended on quite a sober notes. some, a sobering point about the possibility of a formal piece declaration to end the career walk is, of course, has only ever been in place an actual armistice. this has been one of the goal of diplomats politicians for many years to get the parties around a table and sign a full piece declaration. well, he has confirmed that south korean and us officials have agreed on a form of words for such an historic documents. but has admitted that with the little time left in office, the chances of achieving that before he leaves office in may remain extremely remote. still headed out 0 and the e. u incentive. going to take

a new shot at vaccinating west africa against coven 19. and we take you to indonesia, where police are being condemned, cracking down on villages, fighting to save their livelihoods. ah, it seems every few days as a storm system, the eastern med that runs across the levant to walls iran. well this is the latest one. is dying out on thursday, but it's still active enough to bring strong winds and probably raise dustin north, major chows all the way from the far north, up towards syria, still snow up in the caucasus, and eastern turkey and west in iran. the shouts of rain triggering probably a few thunderstorms in this part ne, pass of saudi arabia. nothing to south. that in fact is quite worn to heart. $24.00 and in viet at $27.00. and the sun returns to most,

to syria places to the west. during friday, now, madagascar as you know, has a pretty vicious weather recently. that's all gone now that was in the south, but it is still the wet season is more rain the north. it could be flooding from that. it's seasonal rain so you can follow it through southern africa through malawi, through zombie down to the arc of anger down to well when talk and beyond. not quite the skeleton coast, but certainly sudden angola and namibia look fairly wet. and in contrast, what was a very wet situation in most of south africa is much dryer than it was. kate turn is not particularly won't the bone but in the fall cross, it hits it a significant warming. ah. the corona virus has been indiscriminate in selecting its victims. it's devastating effects of plague every corner of the globe,

transcending class creed and color. but in britain, a disproportionately high percentage of the fallen have been black or brown skins. the big picture traces the economic disparities and institutional racism that a scene united kingdom fail, it citizens, britain's true colors pop 2 on al jazeera. ah ah, you're watching out there. a reminder of all top stories. european leaders are making a diplomatic push to stop a military conflict between ukraine and russia. friends, president emmanuel crohn, met the country's leaders this week. the u. k. forms extreme this trust is visiting

moscow talks. while primary subarus johnson is in warsaw, ambros. he's taught us to regulate his warning, major banks and the possible russian cyber attack that's according to the reuters news agency says back to conducting sub and canada. as prime minister says truck is blocking a vital border crossing with the u. s. or a threat to the economy, the so called freedom convoy, once vaccine requirements and other coven 19 restrictions scrapped. and the un secretary general is calling vaccine inequity, the world's biggest moral failure. and tony gets harris said the made the remark of the launch of the world health organization's new campaign to address the pandemic . the w h o is asking rich countries for $16000000000.00 to get vaccines medications and tests to poorer countries. we know that unless koby 92 is become available to all it is no mystery infection rates will stay high and patience

health systems and economists will suffer a new viral strains may have all posting a threat to all of us once again. so, investing in act day is the mutual interest of all countries. set a goal by 300000000 coin of ours vaccines from the e. u in a bid to boost immunity across west africa. european commission president as le van de leon is in senegal for the deal. she confirmed. the block will pledge a route, a $140000000.00 for covert vaccines across the continent. the doses will be produced, their purpose built factory outside the capital deco. when people wind some to sig vaccine, some time was not available when some vaccine was believe not being efficient or causing problem. people wanted different vaccine that was the existing. so disorder facility where you have a agility where you can do different technology is a great opportunity where you can, so of those different meets for africans in,

in general. and the last thing is that people may also trust better vaccine that are met locally in our experience as we are doing these for more than 8 years. now, we realized that many african prefer to be vaccinated by vaccine manufacturing africa. so we hope this would help actually increase the trust that they have in des, vaccines, and somehow her addiction infection hesitant. russia media reporting olympic skater, camilla vajella, tested positive for a band hot medication before leaving beijing on wednesday. olympic officials delayed presenting the 15 year old and had he made a gold medal for their when the drug is banned by the world, anti doping agency is a performance enhancing stimulant. it's the same drug that prompted the ban of the russian. bob said same after the 2018 olympics obviously we um ask for and hope for the patience and understanding of all the athletes in involved

here. but it is a legal case. i am bound by that legal case as you are. ah, and i am unable to say anything more concerning jones's live from beijing. katrina was the latest welcome. lavelli is a russian figure state figure skating star. and she led her team to olympic gold medal victory on monday, after performing an unprecedented quadruple jump. now that team was supposed to be given the middles on tuesday, but that ceremony was delayed juice on certain reason and delayed indefinitely. now, when asked about why the iron spokesperson, mach adams, as we've just heard, declined to answer and just explained that this is a legal issue. and he said, any potential doping case was speculation only. now the speculation began when

a russian newspaper on wednesday, the newspaper r b c reported that the value of a tested positive from a sample obtained before the european championship about a month ago. now she tested positive for the drug, try test a try metacity or t and z, which usually treats angina, but is banned by the anti doping agency because it can increase endurance. now the timing of that sample could be adding to legal complications because it was about a month before she headed to beijing. and another potential complications is also a value of as age. she's only 15 years old and according to the world antidote, the agency athletes who commit doping violations under the age of 18 do not have to be named. now valley eva and her coach turned up to training as usual on aging on thursday. they would not give any comments to reporters or any interviews. so it does seem that she intends to continue with her training and her, her presence here at the olympics. but her support is all concerned that this

incident will not only endanger the russian teams. figures case in gold medals, but also her chances of winning and competing at the individual event, which takes place next tuesday and for which she is a favorite concert you live from the life process in beijing. thank you very much. now voters in india's most popular states are to producer heading to the polls for local elections, the balance, the key test of primary sinner, inger modi's popularity with the state accounting for 80 seats in parliament. modi's brought yet general to party on the late last state election there in 2017, but the b j. p. 's image has been hurt by high unemployment. and his handling of the pandemic and india's ban on women's religious headscarf says ignited more protests and prompted the government to shut down schools and universities and karnataka state. this week, the debate about whether the hindu dominated government is safeguarding the rights

of india's minorities, is up. this is up the center of the controversy. poverty middle now reports. wow. videos that define the growing tensions in the state of to not to got in southern india. students aligned with him to groups heckler women, for wearing a boycott as competing religious. john's a hood. every religion has freedom, they're falling their culture and i'm following mine. they should let us follow our culture and not raised obstacles for us. a few weeks ago, 16 needs students were barred from wedding head scarves in the classroom. those protests have now spread across the state with more women, demanding the right to cover the heads and cloth, opposing them up in the groups. they have been marching, reading, saffron colored, scarves, and shoals, and some hoisted a saffron flag. the color is considered sacred by many hindus ego uniform, a living song, uniforms seem for every one. whether it is hindu,

muslim or christian, they should abide and very uniform and the he job has to be kept outside the gate. the state government run by prime minister marines are more these party gentle party has supported school and college administrators in banning muslim girls wearing head scarves in class. the route has v ignited the debate about minority lights in india that these in the sub greenacres groups are the same. you know the self same groups that since 2008 attack women in the same coastal karnataka, india for visiting bubbs for vetting western clothes are they of valentine's day is coming up. and the same groups are to be out on the streets. excellent couples level is, was sitting together and saying that you're not allowed to factor nice with somebody who's not your spend and so on. so these are extremely regressive groups. there is nothing feminist about bed or objection. took a job. they are merely trying to are, prevent any, are you notice the sink,

the spaces for muslims in our colleges, and more think the spaces for interaction between hindu and muslims. the state government closed all high schools and colleges until friday, while the high court judges here legal arguments and decide whether or not the law on constitutional freedoms is been broken. partner middle arches, eda, new dairy. there's been an attack on the convoy olivia's answer in prime minister in the capital tripoli abdul hamid debate. i was returning home when his car was fired upon but he escaped unheard. the incident comes a day before the house of representatives is due to meet, to choose a new prime minister. and the international court of justice is ordered uganda to pay $325000000.00 to the democratic republic of congo. the fine is reparations to the death of tens of thousands of people during a conflict 20 years ago. that's when you gonna and ruined him back to rebels. fort

a congo least troops for the control of the mineral rich region of a tory. the fine is far less than the $11000000000.00 that the democratic republic of congo was seeking. the court's decision cannot be appealed. as your mother, sanger is a researcher for the democratic republic of congo at amnesty international. he says the ruling is a step forward, but the fine should have been bigger. today's ruling by the international court of justice is very important. symbolically 1st, because for, i mean, for the 1st time since the congo wars started, a state is being held to account. there was this 1st rolling in 2025. we recognize the responsibility of uganda, and now there are also the compensations coming. now, it saw the amount of compositions since a very little compared to the damage compared to the number of victims. but it is

still some important step. it's also some, somehow depends on the or says government willing to make sure that you're gonna pay what it has to pay. because you know, it's the, the court, the court of justice has done its work. but now, there is a diplomatic work that needs to be done, but did your see to make sure that the money is paid and that it goes to to their victims. i mean, as i say, seeing them amount of recreations that has been decided by the court doesn't seem to meet the level of the damage, but still it's a, it's an important step for, for the victims. in rob's grades are criticized security personnel and indonesia, after a police operation, lead to the rest of the dozens of people, villages,

and were dos, will protest against plans to develop a rock binding site in central java. jessica washington in one us village. central java. the police presence remains high, up to earlier 10 scenes between security officers and residence. dozens of people were brought that to their village after being detained by how many proposed mining . one man explained how he did haines i was at the mosque where it was time to praise, open the door and went to wash myself. then i was taken away by police. i got here opposed to refuse to let authorities survey them. a legal aid lawyer was also detained, and communication in the area was disrupted. grant nisha condemn, very much condemn the ah,

excessive force used by the police and under state barret, this authorities plan to create the mining side in what us the end the search well will be used in the construction of the ben and dan, a major government project this very office that this will create a college equal degradation in, in the village authorities say they have already given people the chance to voice their teams. but i thought the luck of with the ad get on that we had already communicated with the regional government with people religious leaders in waters. so we could go and start measuring the land of those who agree with the project. local police say they were trying to prevent conflict. the belgium is one of these is major ongoing infrastructure projects. it's construction is considered a priority for the central government, but some have concerns that officials might be putting development the full human

mind human life group say other recent infrastructure projects have also resulted in land defeat. the accusation of land grabbing. deborah, his government has put priority over development. ah, rather than human rights, a security rather dance liberty rights group, the calling for an investigation into the conduct of security personnel. jessica washington out is here to counter. ah, this is out there, and these are the top stories. european leaders are make a diplomatic push to stop a military conflict between ukraine and russia. friends present among low emanuel. the kron met the country's leaders this week, the few k foreign secretary. lest ross is visiting moscow talks while prime minister.