ah, ah ah, this is al jazeera ah hello, i'm all about this, and this is the news, our life from doha cut me out for the next 60 minutes. russia begins military exercises in bella luce, as tensions rise with ukraine. nato calls it a dangerous moment for european security that he has parliament to points former interior minister, father of chicago as new prime minister hours after the current interim leader

survives an assassination attempt. i took his protest forces major car plans to hold production on both sides of the u. s. canada border. at least 6 people are killed in an explosion. and somali as capital delegates involved in the upcoming parliamentary elections appeared to have been targeted ad. i'm devin ash, with sport, plenty of action from the winter olympics. there's been a golden day for the united states with nathan 10 winning the men's figure skating and climbing came climbing has 2nd straight half pipe title. ah, dozens of russian troops have started 10 days of joint military drills in bella, luce, it adds to moscow's huge, military build up near the ukrainian border. there are a number of diplomatic initiatives, but russia has rejected british calls to pull troops back to their bases. the kremlin says the exercise and will focus on what it describes as repelling external

aggression. ukraine has also started 10 days of war games. russia's foreign minister, saggy level, has held talks for the u. k. foreign secretary in moscow, laross as british and nato troop build up in eastern europe, threatens russia. know what lee, she would she any, unlike maneuvers that russia holds in its own territory when their tubes go back to their basis. western troops far from their own territory of u. k, the us and canada, their troops go to the baltics in the black sea, and they never go back to their bases or go home, you still medulla. have we done something that is not part of our sovereign right? something we're entitled to do in our own country. if russia is serious about diplomacy, they need to move those troops and desist from the threats. now, if we are able to follow a pulse of diplomacy, a nato has put offer on the table for talks to improve

transparency, to improve confidence between the parties. then they're all hopes of a better future. burton's prime ministers are in europe to hold firm on ukraine's right to join nato. borrows johnson has been at the airlines headquarters in brussels for talks. we've got 3 correspondence in the story. this is natasha. butler is going to bring us the latest from kia. we're going to have reaction from moscow with dosage of body. first, let's go to step vos and in men's step. let's talk about these military drills that are going on at the border with ukraine on the bellows side. just talk us through what's happening while russia is definitely flexing its muscles here in the bellows, the kremlin has already confirmed as well that this is not the ordinary exercise that they normally would have here. and bella will said, he sat said, a spokesman of providence, that we are under an unprecedented rep by nato at the board of so the scale of this

exercise is larger than normal nato. a chief insult work was talking about 30000 russian troops that are currently here. that would be the largest deployment of russian troops here on battle. ocean soil since the end of the cold war to have $400.00 missile defense systems. so corey fighter jets and they're all doing this war game, the scenario that loses under attack from nato, that the president here, the leader is being toppled all 50 kilometers away from the ukranian border and 2 hours only to the ukrainian capital p. s. so there's a lot of speculation if this is a real exercise or is this a ploy for a real attack? and there's a lot of discussion about it. and we will only find out that if the bellows is right and rush us right, saying that these troops will actually leave off to the sudden ice 10 days exercise

on february 20. so thank you very much, and this advice i'm talking to us for minutes. we're going to go to natasha butler, whose life was in kiev. so ukraine has russian troops in crimea to the south. it's good russian troops in russia to the east. it's now got russian troops in ballard to the north. how was ukraine reacting to all of this? will the president of ukraine of lanier zalinski was meeting a european business leaders a bit earlier today in kevin, he said that ukraine has the force and the weapons that it needs to defend itself. he urged people to continue with their lives to keep working. but ukraine is however, carrying out its own military exercises around the country for a period about 10 days of the same as those ex, military exercises that are happening in belarus. and mean, in the meantime, of course, the diplomatic of flurry continues. we've got

a military aid coming in from the united states on plains, almost a daily the u. s. that's also been talking to denmark about a new security deal, which could possibly c u. s. troops on a danish of soil. we've also been speaking to people here in the city in kiev because this city is just less than 200 kilometers away from belarus, from that border where those military exercises taking place. but you know, the city is far from feeling like a place on the siege. we've spoken to people who said, look, i'm one man said to us what's happening and been over us. this is just the kremlin putting on a theater, putting on a show for the west for western powers. we don't feel that we are particularly under threat. we've seen this all before. of course, there has been a conflict in the east of ukraine for 8 years now. with russia and, and people feel that this is perhaps not a time to panic, even though there is a certain sense of anxiety. one woman also told as though she had on

a documents ready to flee the capital. should that be an invasion? natasha? thank you very much indeed. natasha butler, i'm in here for us. we'll get. we're going to go to dosage of ari and moscow. teacher was only just a matter of hours ago that we were talking about the fact that french presidency manual macro had a meeting with the russian president vladimir putin. that seemed to be an element of positivity about it. now the europeans, foreign secretary has been meeting russian's foreign secretary out of that go ah, certainly a very different kind of meeting, rob, it's certainly there was no elements of positive atmosphere outcome from that meeting. in fact, it was quite an i see a press conference, the 2 leaders and how's the foreign minister, the russian foreign minister, certainly love rob. i accusing his british counterparts. a secretary foreign secretary lives trust of not being prepared. he said the conversation they had over

an hour and a half behind closed doors was like a new to person speaking to a deaf person. i think that gives you an idea of how things went. he said that the russian position is not being heard by london, and that this meeting was really regretable at the outcome of it. because the position that the russia has is very clear. and their demands that they're making from nato and the united states and western powers have been very clear. and it is regrettable. the russian foreign minister said that the british for a foreign fair secretary is not understanding him. i think there is a sense of frustration that came from today's events. of course, it's not just that this meeting that will be critical. the british defense secretary's due to visit russia on friday. so hoping probably to have a better outcome of those of that visit later on. but for now, this meeting really did not achieve anything if only if anything had re iterates. it's how fragile the relationship between london and moscow are at the moment. and

it appears that the foreign affair secretary's visit only just made things worse door. so thank you very much and be dosa jabari talking to us from moscow. i want to bring in over a few broken up. he's a professor for european studies at stanford university in berlin. he's joining us by skype. thanks very much of you for being with us on al jazeera, talk us through the relationship. the bellows has withered russia. it used to be the case that bothers and ukraine on fairly good terms. that seems to have changed slightly. well, we have to see what the changes have been in bella rows. and since the faith collections in 2020, and demonstrations in the street of mints that have been brutally ended by the regime. the only way of focusing carlita and bella rosters, the life is to have the backing of moscow. and that makes him a condition taker and as the puppet master that controls. ready what's going on in the us letting me put in his head that his troops will back off after about 10 days

of drills if the troops don't leave belarus, where does that leave president lucas shanker but i'm pretty sure he will fight as a reason to explain this in public announcements that because nato is threatening the country and continues to do. so. this is just a fair support from a friendly partner, russia. so i don't think that we consume even further, although everyone in the country knows a. ready week his position is, but us, as we all don't know what exactly the scenario is and what we can once we can only speculate about the next steps. from a strategic point of view, how important is about us and by russia to any potential invasion or action against you train by russia. but it looks incredibly impressive if you

consider that an invasion of a large territory like ukraine is in interest to have a chance to attack from the south from marine and crimea forces from the east, from russian soil, and from the north, in a joint action of russia it is ally loose so. ready militarily speaking, it couldn't be any better. how do you think that having russian troops on, by the russian side is going to go down with the people of bellows? but culturally speaking, they have always felt close to russia. and for many years that was also the most spoken language in the country. in recent years, people switch more to us. and it's also not only the language of the countryside, but also the creative, again of those who are still in the country. and if there would be something like

a regime change in bella was, it would be a natural step to apply for membership in the european union. because a lot of people that i have spoken with don't consider themselves europeans for them. they are located in a continent and europe, but europe is something fundamentally different in terms of culture, lifestyle, and political systems, and so on and so forth. so who do doesn't have left to fear, what is happening in bellows. but it's certainly an advantage to show what he does if he has a country where he can execute his influence in something like a protector, aid or an influential so on. as he likes to have between russia and nato, we need to get to get your thoughts on this or both, and we thank you for being with us on how to 0. so thank you very much. thanks for having me. so this is prisoner's guy said, has announced the supreme judicial council will be dissolved,

it was responsible for it and showing the independence of the judiciary, but said, says it is become a thing of the past. it is the latest and assumes of decision scenes taken in sacking the government and suspending parliament in july. libya's parliament has voted to replace the interim prime minister of the hamid the de where farmer interior, my son of fatty basha, has been named his successor. the challenge to libya's unity government comes hours after the bias survived, an assassination attempt. he escapes uninjured when his car was shot out in tripoli, the by says he's going to ignore attempts to remove him. will manic train his life for us in tripoli, and tell us what we know. first of all about this new interim prime minister. well said he bizarre was the former minister of interior. and during, when he took on the position, he took a really strong stance against armed groups and malicious. are he helped build up

the police force and the security apparatus are here here, especially in tripoli. are so he seen by many as western libya's strong man are now, is this going to be a smooth transition? if we're gonna have to wait and see a we prime minister or the inter prime minister of the hamid de baber has said that he is not going to hand over power until elections are held or so. so, you know, this may, this may make things difficult offer fits, he basheba, when he tries to transition, we may see to a rival, executive authorities vine for power in, in libya, as you know, in terms of balance of power, of, for the last, you know, almost a year 88 to 9 months, a prime minister de baber has been unable to extend his authority in eastern libya eastern libya's controlled by the warlord halle for after i was a strong presence there. and so debated hasn't really been able to, you know,

a rain in the arm groups there or, or, or make executive decisions i, that is recognized by the authorities in eastern libya, a fed, he basha and holly for half there, on the other hand, seem to have come up with some kind of agreement just about an hour ago. oh, clean for after spokesman. a said that they welcome the parliament's decision, so we're gonna have to wait and see what happens next. let's talk about that assassination attempt. we were mentioning earlier on by mr. doc, i made the baber and do we know any more details about what happened? well, source is close to obs means of eva, told us that late last night, around $230.00 a. m. a gunman attacked the debate as vehicle a. we received exclusive footage and you can visibly see that there are 4 bullets

that hit the car. it's a close call. the vehicle is armoured however, so luckily a no one was injured and just goes to show how fluid the security situation is. in libya, the government has, you know, portrayed that tripoli is safe, or that it can receive foreign diplomats and foreign officials. and for the most part that's been true. this is going to raise a lot of questions in the future. if a looping, the ligand security services can insure the safety of foreign officials in the coming in the coming months and years ahead. ali, thank you very much. indeed, that's malik trainer bringing us up to date from gently saudi arabia is warned. it's going to bomb who the targets and the yamani capital sanara and it's told civilians to leave areas used for military purposes. comes after 12, people were reportedly injured in saudi arabia by falling debris at the up high international airport after a drawn was intercepted by local air defenses. the saudi coalition says it's inexcusable that who the rebels deliberately targeted

a civilian airport. drone strikes by the cookies have intensified in the past few weeks. that amount of had on the news hour, including protests and southern india, shut down schools after a band on head scarves. we're going to have the latest on missing to end detentions for profit migrants and refugees. it'll be put under house arrest in the u. s. and just a few days before the super bowl, the lack of black coaches and the nfl is once again in the spotlight. more details coming up later in sports with you as car manufacturer, general motors as cancel shifts at michigan. factory is canadian truckers block of vital border crossing gem is also re routed, shrugs to keep another plant running the protests against covered 19 measures as blocked the ambassador bridge between canada and the u. s. jim says the shift, cancellations were indirect, was bonds to carpets,

shortage related to the protests. so let's get that. he said from john hender is in the port city of huron in the us state of michigan. just bring us up to date with what's happening. john, why are standing on the us side and just across the st. clair river there, you can see on the other side is canada. and on the blue water bridge up there, those are trucks that are crossing over and you can see it's actually moving and there's a 3 hour wait to get here because this bridge wasn't designed to take on this much traffic. the reason we're here is that, as you mentioned, the ambassador bridge in going from detroit to windsor is closed. that is the busiest commercial land crossing in north america. so most of these trucks probably would be crossing over there, but that's been closed by a group of truckers protesting covered 19 restrictions. it started with protest in canada. that's where most of the trucks are. they started in the capital of auto,

and then they've moved to the borders here, blocking commercial traffic. and that his costs in both countries a significant amount of money because it about $3.00 to $500000000.00 us dollars worth of goods crosses over both sides of that ambassador bridge. and so there's been some economic stoppage on both sides. the trucks are able to make it across, as they've been advised to do, but this problem still isn't resolved. the biggest crossing in north america remains closed. there had been traffic going from canada to the us. the mayor of windsor this morning said that that has been stopped by protesters. so at the moment it's our understanding that bridge is closed on both sides. and that means, commerce has stopped on both sides. i know not. no, john, of course michigan biggers center for com. manufacturing, the united states, particularly in and around detroit, where it was we were talking about earlier. gm's is starting to suspend some shift . i would imagine other auto manufacturers much must be watching this very closely

. this is a major economic problem. this isn't just going to delay cars getting delivered from one side to another. what's happening is the industry is moved to what they called just in time manufacturing. so a part is made in canada on monday. and it's in a car in detroit on wednesday. well, that can't happen if those parts can't get across that bridge. so you've had toyota closing 3 plans on the canadian side of that border, general motors. as you mentioned earlier, shortening some shifts eliminating some shifts. and we've even heard that parts manufacturers have said that they might actually have to lay people off, even though this is only been going on for 4 days. that tells you about the massive impact that this has on the industry. so those, those parts are crucial, getting there in just $1.00 to $2.00 days and that's simply not happening them. john, thank you very much. indeed john and, and talking to us from port huron. in michigan. i suspected suicide bombers killed

at least 6 people in somalia, 12 others were wounded but of loss in the capital market issue. it's thought delegates involved in parliamentary elections with the target. malcolm labs and the kenyan capital nairobi with more details and what led to the explosion in mogadishu? the eye witnesses said the attacker ran towards the convoy and the police who were riding on the back of a pickup as part of the convoy shot shot at him. he wasn't able to reach the convoy that he detonated the device. the people that were killed the bystanders at the roadside, it's a fairly busy area. it was not far from the market. the group township bob has said it was responsible for the attack about said last year that it was opposed to the election process and threatened to disrupt it. refers meant to happen over a year ago. and a couple years ago there was a plan that for the 1st time in decade, molly would have a one person one vote election, but that didn't get off the ground. and so instead it's reverted to the previous

system by which plan representative select m p m. p intern. select will vote on the president, but it's stalled. repeatedly, over the last 14 months, we saw fighting on the streets of mogadishu, a year ago between the armed opposition and security forces following substantial pressure applied a month ago from the u. s. and the u. k. who provide military support to the somali government? the process has redeemed the theories of ongoing meetings happening in various provinces across the country. a lot of horse trading going on behind the scenes as plan delegates try to reach a consensus on who they will appoint as m p to represent them. and people who are close to the process say that almost certainly very large amounts of cash will be changing hands as part of the process. so the children says somalia is experiencing its worst drought in a decade, november the charity fund, 60 percent of households at at least one person who lost their source of income,

mostly due to the death of livestock. not more than a 3rd of families included at least one person going without food for more than a 24 hour period. it says 4600000 somalis will face crisis to emergency level food shortages until may. and the u. n. has only been able to raise 2 percent of its a target. well, how much harmon hassan is the somalia country director save the children. he says a lack of humanitarian funding is putting more people at risk. i think if we compare the last to severe drought with this when this, when i came in that area because of the number of the people affected and the number of like folks lost by the community because of the drug in a 2017, about 6 point about i think 6700000 people who are in

need of montana system that's the number has now grown to point 7000000 differently . that more people i need to i didn't support that. it was in 202-017-2321. the number was even smaller, but they had been terry and her family has been delayed and that the death of a quarter 1000000 people. and this is what we are getting now under his arm on time . the number of people who need to increase grade class and last year i think to a great extent this is to contributing to the watson and tuition because the political situation is now i'm the election has to be late. i think that most of the door holding by funding because of the current frequency tuition, 205000 people, i've already been displaced. 70 percent of the family. i'm not able to feed that till the children and

a woman remained. the most affected voters in india's most popular state article day shall heading to the polls for local elections, the ballots, an important test for primary and not end the remedies popularity with utter pradesh and candy for 8 c 80 seats in parliament. what is b? j. p. political group, one the last state elections in 2017, but the parties image there has been hurt by strong opposition. it's now abandoned farming reforms. schools in india's southern con mccarter state continued to be closed after confrontations following a ban on woman's head scarves. the move sparked protests from muslin students earlier this week. we say they're being discriminated against, they were met with counter demonstrations, hinders to support the ban. lovely middle is in mangia in the states of karnataka. she explains how the dispute could it effect upcoming elections. we're outside the college and mondell were a woman wearing a book called was heckled by

a group of hindu students. that video has gone viral and has come to define the control of the in the state of cannot got no forties, including the state government have back the stand of the students saying that religious attire, including the headscarf, violate the dress code in education institutions in the state glena, dad, i'm out of the control, modified the not making any effort with children's well being in state. they are ruining them. i'm ashamed of what's happening in our state. now the high court, which is hearing the matter has all schools and colleges like this one, to re open from monday and has all the requests. and students do not insist on wearing religious attire till the court delivers a definitive judgment on the matter. political on this point out that this one right nation between engine muslims in canada could impact state elections, especially in order for the way in 2017. the bgp came to power on the back of the

hindu vote. and this point out that this time around the issue over here could nash those waters to once again bought a long religious life. so i had an al jazeera, a welcome return to his come back to the philippines for the 1st time in nearly 2 years. impartial law and el salvador, that cost one woman, 10 years of her life, and 21 years old and already a double olympic champion. and we're going to show you how chloe kim defended her title in beijing. that's coming up in sports with jemma. ah hey, there are greatest fear. here's her world weather report. beginning in the middle east, we've got a southerly push of air, so look at it as the temperature in riyadh at 28 degrees, but there is a risk. some of these activity will dip to the south and impact your weight. so we

go in for a closer look on friday. this is our future cash. we can see some of that blue popping up which indicates we may see some showers, even the risk of sundry downpours, not just friday, but saturday. the winds will shift around to the northwest and that will increase our risk of seen some that sand and dust spin around. bit unsettled for western iran, some high temperatures and off gone. his don her up that 20 degrees and top to bottom through pockets on things are looking good as wall and improvement in conditions for turkey. are all that disturbed weather has shopped away. bit of a southerly flow here as well is mere at 17 degrees and we're still talking high temperatures for central africa. put the colors on the dark or the red, the hard, the temperature, so juba at 40 degrees on friday, and then pouring rain to be expected, southern angola, northern portions of namibia, but also for western areas. and cape town, sunshine for you at 25 degrees, and your temperatures are gonna search in the days to come up to 34 by tuesday.

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you can use that to justify stripping away basic civil liberties. the listening post examined the vested interest behind the content you consume. on al jazeera lou. ah, montague, is it a reminder of our top stories? this are russia and bellows have started joint military drills view, ukraine's border. gramlin says the exercises will focus on what it hold, suppressing and repelling external aggression lobby as parliament is appointed fucking for chicago to replace interim prime minister of the homie that the baby came out after the baby survives and assassination returning. he says he will not step down us car manufacturer, general motors, his chance also said

a michigan factory is canadian tacos block, a vital border crossing there, protesting against covered 19 restrictions. g m has also reverted shrugs to keep another plant running. okay, let's go back to our top story on russia and ukraine. as we mentioned earlier, you can prime minister barak johnson and nato secretary general gen stilton bug of held talks in brussels, stores and berg has said, the possibility of conflict remains high. the number of russian forces is going up . the warning time for a possible attack is going down. nate was not a threat to russia, but do must be prepared for the worst. while remaining strongly committed to finding a political solution, renewed russian aggression will lead to more natal presence, not less. here let's take a look at nato's biggest military interventions to this day,

the afghan has down remains nato's largest operation. the military alliance took charge in afghanistan in 2003, following the u. s. invasion in 20. a. one has been described as one of history's biggest efforts in international crisis management. and 2011 nato backed uprising in libya, overthrew and killed veteran liter mom, a good after the 7 month military intervention involved 260 aircraft and 21 ships. and following the break up of yugoslavia in 1992 natal carried out an 11 week bombing campaign resulting in the deaths of around 2 and a half 1000 civilians. in 1995 had started deploying tens of thousands of you and mandated troops. the operation officially ended in 20 or 4. well let's bring in theresa fallon, she's director of the center of russia europe. asian studies is also a former member of the strategic advisors group to nato. and she's joining us on skype from brussels. thank you very much for being with us on al jazeera and how is the nato of to day different to the nato of 1995?

well, obviously it's expanded. they've countries in the central and eastern europe. it because they feared rossa asked for membership. so this started this period of expanding nato membership for countries who asked to be members, they didn't ask to join a don't to fight rosa, but actually to be protected from russia. so say that would be the biggest change right now. given the fact that ukraine is clearly not a member of nato, what are the limitations that nato was facing in the event that it feels that it has to take some sort of military response to russia? well, as you pointed out, you quinn is not a member of nato. what's happening now is that some forces are being sent as a reassurance to nato members, but there are no nato countries sending soldiers to ukraine at all. so everyone is just kind of boasting their presence in

a way in c position and the u. s. has sense weapons and trainers, but no one is sending soldiers. i'm interested and i would be very interested to find out your opinion about this because my understanding is that in order to be part of nato countries have to meet certain minimum conditions with relations and to the level of corruption in the country, for example, or the transparency of its legal system. my understanding is that one of the reasons why ukraine has not already been encouraged to join nato in the past, is because it didn't meet those criteria. does this put nato in a difficult position with regard to ukraine? i would say that we see both in georgia and ukraine, this idea of a frozen conflict. so once the russia sliced off a bit of territory and created this frozen conflict, it's clear that neither georgia nor ukraine could join nato because these countries have to be at peace. and so some have, some analysts have suggested that

a president putin doesn't really want to settle that. don't ask, because that would actually create the impetus for ukraine to possibly join nato. yes. are many requirements to become a member of nato, and it has to be unanimous, all the other members have to want their country to join. i think that it is difficult for these countries and their post soviet period. there has been issues of corruption. we've seen even some back sliding here in europe. you member states like hungary, which is not even considered a democracy anymore by freedom house. so i think that these countries in the post, soviet space have had some challenges in implementing. and i think that there has been some desire now to, to continue to fight heads democracy in these countries because it's not like once you meet the criteria, that's it. so we have seen some, some very worrisome backsliding. and these countries are not only members of the

you, they're also members of nato and they have a vote. so i think that this is something for the longer term that everyone needs to focus more on to improve democracy. we've seen, of course, it has. some analysts have described as an authoritarian advance in the world, whereas democracies are shrinking, and authoritarian countries are growing. just very briefly, obviously vladimir putin and his inner circle in moscow appeared to be controlling much of what is happening with regard to the russian troops. in the event that there was an action that needs were felt at how to respond to. i'm interested to find out the command structure is for nato, and i'm afraid i'm glad to ask you to do this briefly. we, our time is slightly against us. but would, how quickly would nato be able to respond to say, a russian incursion into ukraine that involved putting people on the ground

at this point? it's, i cleared all that need. our soldiers will be put on the ground in ukraine. is that certain sharp enough for you? it certainly is, and i appreciate your time and thank you very much indeed. thank you so much. thank you though with diplomatic efforts, continuing representatives from ukraine and russia are in berlin for a 2nd round of so called normally format talks mediated by a germany and france will as get more. and this will dominate kane, whose life for us in berlin. dominic give us some context for this. how does this play into the whole diplomatic wrangling that is going on at the moment? what's happening on thursday in berlin to different meetings? the 1st one, the normally format. what we have is a collection of very senior advisors. what they refer to as sherpas, but very senior advisors who work for the heads of state or heads of government of the, for respective governments. they're all in berlin,

all talking to each other. they can be seen as the facilitators of the sorts of a gender that might be agreed upon. it talks about talks as it were, it's a way of trying to see what each government's potential room for compromise might be, and areas where they really can't compromise. that sort of thing. that is what has been taking place on thursday in berlin as also worth pointing out that separately to that you have the visit of the heads of government, of the 3 baltic states who are members of the european union, but also members of nature while their heads of government are missing all our shots, the german chancellor in the chart slurry here in berlin. interestingly, the german government's position. these are via the baltic states, where we know that the german government is sending a further contingent of troops to one of the baltic baltic states lithuania. well it's now a measure. the lithuanians have said that they're going to send some advisers

instructors military instructors to ukraine, plus a consignment of surface to air missiles where they're called stinger missiles to bolster the munitions. the weapons that is that the ukrainian government has so berlin on thursday is an area where you have on the one hand, very senior advisors to heads of state of the normandy format, france, germany, ukraine, russia talking to each other about future talks. and then separately, the chancellor of germany talking to those 3 baltic states leaders, all of whom have their own concerns, all of whom either share a border with russia or a border with b. l ross. and we know that russian forces right now, ah, mussing on the border of russia with ukraine, which are also present in yellow rows from military exercises, many of which are taking place on the border with ukraine. dominic, thank you very much. indeed, dominic came, bringing us up to date from berlin,

shall anchors government is pressing ahead with changes to anti terrorism laws despite national and international concerns. the european union says the proposed legislation leaves out important elements that would safeguard human rights and often under supports from the capital colombo calls for changes to shall anchors. prevention of terrorism act grew louder as he jaws. his buller was released on bail on tuesday. the human rights lawyer spent almost 2 years in detention because of allegations that kept changing and i'm looking forward to spending time with my family to with that's it. thank you. thank you. everybody. police arrested him on the anti terrorism legislation and accused the muslim lawyer of involvement in the 2019 east to bombings which killed 269 people. he was indicted 10 months later on charges of fostering hate speech and commonly disharmony for electra vis of a draw, sir. his bullard denied the charges. critic said the p t. legislation is an affront

to the rule of law allowing confessions in cases which they say makes torture common, as well as lengthy detention sometimes without judicial supervision. media has, in this case, medically has been used. the style for individual liberties, very basic liberties like an orchestral lawyers being produced before a magistrate are asking for beer on morning what your charges on thursday, the government table to bill in parliament, amending the p t legislation. foreign minister g o peers says the substantial changes to the existing laws are progressive. opposition in peace pointed out that the european union has expressed reservations about the proposed law. the e, she lanka, joint commission, which discusses common concerns. says the you noted that important elements had not been included in the amendment bill gazetted in if it is on,

on this country cantrell in the supreme court. we have to have it the determination on the supreme court that after there will be a fully made here in parliament, that is the proper pearson for any lose for and against the amendment upon and said the changes are cosmetic and don't address the root of the problem, the purity or water put the legislation is with regard to terrorism. it's not about isolating and protecting the state. the state is about it. 7 years, it is about our welfare at the end of the day, so long as prevention of terrorism act was introduced as temporary legislation 43 years ago. but critic said become a weapon of successive governments, stifle opposition, and defense. fernandez, odyssey ra, colombo. the philippines is welcoming foreign travelers this time in nearly 2 years

as long as they vaccinated the easing of restrictions comes months later than planned because of the con variance. as the infection rate falls, the government is keen to revive the tourism dependent economy. reporters amended on the dog and as more from the whole, one of the country's most popular tourist destination. it's definitely base, i guess, on a lot of consultations with different government agencies. as you know, corporate cases have been slowing down steadily in the philippines over the last few weeks. there was already a plan to open the country to international tourist last year. but obviously the very dominant variance here is on the crime. so it is quite important for the country to open economically. that's because the philippines is one of the worst performing. the tourism industry is one of the worst performing in se, asia, the tourism industry, contributes 12 percent to the countries g d, p. and since the pandemic broke out, nearly 30 percent of all filipino tourists,

workers have lost their jobs. so we are here in the hall. you know, one of the most sought after tourist destinations in the country. we've spoken to the governor earlier, who said this is definitely looking like hopefully like the light at the end of the tunnel. as you know, the same province was also devastated by cypher wright last year. and thankfully, he said that nearly only half of the storage areas were damage. so they're really hoping that this would signal really the start of the economy slowly picking up and making a valuable contribution to the lives of ordinary filipinos who have suffered immensely . since the found demik broke out, the us is set to trial a program where migrants and refugees call to the border with mexico placed into so called home curfew. its regarded as a cheaper alternative than detention centers. but the move has been criticized by rights groups. they say president joe biden has failed to deliberate on his promises of more humane detention measures. while brenda was reports from the

centuries sharla. with death in 2020, as the coven 19 pandemic raged migrants in u. s. government detention facilities in california protested and went to court over dangerous conditions in a final settlement reached late last month, the federal immigration enforcement agency, ice, and private for profit prison corporations agreed to safety, protections for detainees, including cobra, vaccinations and limits on detainee populations, unsanitary conditions and indifferent guards at a rural county jail under contract with ice were experienced by immigration detainee and asylum seeker jo mejilla, there was feces and i year. ready in an and i was just bad situation and it was really hard for us to get clean supplies. we'd see some of the guards would come in and they'd be sick and have a cold the next, you know, they'd be gone for 2 weeks and we come to find out that some of the guards were

actually obeyed. and they weren't taking any precautions to help us out or keep us safe. ah, the american civil liberties union, one a ruling that freed hundreds of detainees wall awaiting asylum hearings. we filed the lawsuit because it was clear from the outset that when coven began to spread ice and g o group, it's, it's private for profit contractor. we're putting people at great risk out of serious harm and death. geo group is contracted by ice to hold detainees, it runs more than 100 prisons processing centers and other facilities. last year, president joe biden issued an order facing out contracts between the justice department and private for profit prisons, but that order didn't cover immigrant detainees. we've been deeply disappointed by how things have played out throughout his campaign bite and promised to end the use

of for profit detention by the federal government, including for undocumented grants. and us would have a huge impact on the ice detention system, of course, because on nearly 80 percent of people who are in ice detention or in facilities that are privately operated, as large numbers of migrants are expected at the us mexico border in the coming months. the by did ministration informed congress this week it will use a home curfew program as an alternative to incarceration. now awaiting an asylum hearing me, he, i cannot forget how he was treated in detention be with, you know, just treated worse than animals. you know, people treat their pets way better than what we were being treated. nearly $21000.00 migrants are currently locked up in ice and privately run. prisons, rob reynolds al jazeera, los angeles woman l. salvatore has been released from prison after serving 10 years for aggravated murder because she had a miscarriage. she was originally sentenced to 30 years before supreme court judges intervened. campaigners to change abortion law say,

although women in similar situations remain in jail. victoria gave them to reports . this was elsie after her release from jail, a victim of el salvador, strict anti abortion laws. ne i me. my son and my parents gave me the strength to carry on. i've been liking every day over these years in prison, sometimes also on the weekends because i knew that i could reduce my sentence. i was waking until the final day i was there. el salvador implemented a full ban on abortion in 1998, including in cases of rape or incest. women who go to public hospitals after a miscarriage is sometimes accused of murder and charged with aggravated homicide. this is what happened to elsie with 17 or the women in prison under similar circumstances. women's rights activists say their work is far from over. but elsie says she's hopeful the others will be released seen as effort again,

galleria, thank you. to those women who were fighting every day for my release and who continued to fight for the other women who are still in prison. i know just like me, they will get a freedom and be with their families sick and other women, wrongly convicted, have called for abortion to be legalized in el salvador 21 year old. evelyn hernandez was acquitted of homicide in a re trial 3 years ago. she had previously been sentenced to 30 years in prison and spent 3 years in jail after giving birth to a stillborn baby. after spending 10 years in prison, elsie says she's ready to move on with her life and wants to ensure other women don't go through the same ordeal. victoria gate and be al jazeera sports coming up after the break on the news r. as a teenager, russian figures that are returns to the eyes of the beijing winter olympics, and the reports she tested, positive for bonds, substance ah,

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lou who target was bored his demo. thank he, rob, the teenage russian figure skater, camilla valley ava has returned to training at the paging winter olympics and mid report. she's tested positive for a banned substance. the 15 year old on monday became the 1st woman to complete a quote jump in and, and picks happy. the russians when gold in the team event. but the metal ceremony has been delayed over what the international olympic committee is calling a legal issue. russian media is reporting that she tested positive for the drug trauma testing back in december, which is typically used to treat angina valley. eva didn't answer questions off to

practice in the i o. c said a can't comment. and russian olympic officials aren't giving anything away either. i thought there will be official information from our official source, whether it's made available until those official information. we won't say anything . there's nothing to say that's got more on the drug report it to be the center of the story, it try metacity, malcolm mccloud as an associate professor of chemistry at the australian national university. and the way it works is it changes the way that the hot muscle metabolite does all kinds of gains as energy. and so given that it can have, have that effect on a pretty important i guess it could be used for input performance enhancing purposes the, the fact that you take the drug was twice a day, suggested it's clear somebody pretty rapidly. and so to have an effect, i'm not aware of any long term effects of

a drug this night shift. so i'm contrast that with something like an anabolic steroid. where you can use a steroid to come from injury. you're trying to build up muscle. and that sticks with you for a period of time. so i wouldn't put it in that category. so i suspect this is december it's, it's all, all history and away sound likely to, to effect. now, the effects of the drug result from the presence of the drugs. so once you let it wash out of the body that i suspect is no longer to a benefit that has been one confirmed anti dating violation. that the games, the iranian alpine skin wholesale shems key has been provision to be suspended. following an out of competition test done on monday, he tested positive for an anabolic steroids which is banned by the world. anti to agency. shanaski was the only man athlete representing around in beijing. now the

action from the game, the nathan check, one gold for the united states in the men's figure skating the performing to the music of elton john 10. after this, he landed a full quadruple jump in the free gates that followed up his weld record performance in the short program the few days ago, which had given him a huge lead. the 22 year old and secured gold, 4 year old boy is often missing out to the middle altogether in film. john, i mean truly i never imagined that be able to make it this far my career and be able to go to, to olympic. and then of course, having the opportunity that i had today that really means the world i sell, of course, has to take a little more time to process, process everything. and he wasn't the only american celebrating gold. chloe kim successfully defended her title in the women's half pipe. she'd already done enough to win before her final jump. kim as a double olympic champion, and she's still only 21 years old. and

a water lympics. it's been a noise. cross country scared teresa. you hug, she won the 1st gold of the games in the 15 kilometer race on saturday, and is now claimed a 2nd goal in the 10 k classic race as well, winning by less than half a 2nd. here's how the metal table is shaping up germany out in front. they have 6 goals with norway just behind with 5 that it's austria, usa, netherlands, and sweden, following with full goats with the safe boat. just a few days away. now the nfl has an ounce. it will host a regular season games in mexico on germany later this year. these are pictures of the cincinnati bengals training ahead of the big championship game against los angeles rams. the ongoing issue of racism and a lack of black coaches throughout the league will not go away. now. softer format, miami dolphins head coach, brian flores filed a lawsuit against the nfl, alleging racial discrimination in pursuit of

a new coaching job. i found all of the allegations whether they were based on racism or discrimination or the integrity of our game. all of those to me were very disturbing. they are a very serious matters to us on all levels. and we need to make sure we get to the bottom of all of them, and we just have to do a better job. we have to look, is there another thing that we can do to make sure we're attracting that best talent here and making our lead inclusive? if i had the answer right now, i would give it to you. i would have him on it. i think what we have to do is just continue and find it and look and step back and say, we're not doing a good enough job here. chelsea will face brazilian side palmera in the final of the club, woke up in the u. a. therapy and champions beat out loud one nail in the semifinals romilly, coffee school. the went up pouncing on a defensive mistake in the 32nd minute. chelsea had

a couple of scads in the 2nd half, but they managed to fend off of the saudi arabian side. the final is on saturday in abu dhabi. it was a frustrating night for the bron james on the los angeles lakers in the m. b a. on wednesday, the lake is faced the portland trailblazer than should have felt confident of a wind full and run a 6 game losing streak coming into this one. anthony simon school 29 point to how the trailblazers registered when at last. 17215, the final school 33 the other way. argentine is rugby cage, marianna does. mom has resigned a just over 18 months out from the next rugby world cup. but asthma has led the payments for more than 3 years now, but says he considered this to be the end of his cycle, your face as he wants to spend more time with his family. and that's we have sports now. i'll have more a little bit later up. jammah. thank you very much indeed. that's it for me rob matheson for this user, i'm going to be back in

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