sanctions saying a conflict of hers, it could be the largest in basins this whole port, 2 cans of the magic tops. a few possibilities what we live from moscow to bring you the latest development on al jazeera. ah, thrasher begins military exercises in belarus as tensions wise with ukraine, nato calls it a dangerous moment for european security. ah, i know about this, and this is obviously rely from doha. also coming out to libby as parliament appoints former interior minister, fussy, bashar gosh, as new prime minister hours after the current interim leader survives and assassination attempt talkers protect forces,

major car plans to cut back production on both sides of the u. s. canada border at least 6 people killed in an explosion in somali as capital delegates involved in the upcoming parliamentary elections appear to have been targeted. ah, thousands of russian troops had started 10 days of joint military drills in belarus, made odds to moscow's huge military build up near the ukrainian border and our number of diplomatic initiatives. but russia has rejected british calls to pull troops back to their bases. the kremlin says the exercise and belarus will focus on what it describes as repelling external aggression. a cuckoo ukraine has also started 10 days of war games, rushes father minister saggy lovegrove held talks with the u. k. foreign secretary in moscow morrow says british un nato troops in eastern europe threatens russia.

know what lee? she mashini. unlike maneuvers that russia holds in its own territory when their tubes go back to their basis. western troops far from their own territory, 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 passive diplomacy, a nato has put offer on the table for talks to improve transparency, to improve confidence between the parties. then there are all hopes of a better future. britton's prime ministers urge europe to hold firm on ukraine's rights to join nato bars. johnson has been at the alliance headquarters in brussels

for talks. assassin is joining us now from the validation capital mens. with more than the start of russia's military drills. russia is flexing its military muscle right here in ballard. scrambling has already confirmed that this is not the usual exercise. this exercise sold allied resolve for basically defending the unions state, which involves rush and values against what they say is a nato, an imminent attack. the remnants added to an unprecedented threat to the territory, and that's why this gain of this exercise is much larger than the usual exercises these countries will hold. normally, nato chief has estimated their 30000 russian troops. forces are here now in ballard roast. that would be the largest deployment of russian troop since the end of the cold war. and they're holding officially war games. basically,

a scenario that bella, luce, is being attacked by nato and its leader is being top of, but this is all happening. just 50 kilometers away. from the ukranian border until i was away from ukraine's capital. he f. we have. so you fight to shadow involved to ask for 100 missile defense systems. it's a large operation. and as you said, rush and baller was saying, this is just an exercise. news for us, we'll go home after february 20, but there's a lot of speculation if, if this just maybe a small screen for a real attack. so there's a lot of anxiety about these exercises so, so to say, natasha burrows in kiev and she says most ukrainians aren't expecting an invasion or the president of ukraine of lot m is lensky, was meeting european business leaders, hair and give a short while ago. and he said that ukraine has the force and the weapons that it needs to defend itself. and he said,

what's important is that people in ukraine keep working carryon out with their daily lives. we've been speaking to people as well in the city to find out how they feel about those military exercises are happening. and but arisen one man told us that he feels that this is russia putting on a show for the west that it doesn't really affect people in ukraine. he doesn't feel that or the country is being threatened that this is all just a bit of theater. put on by the kremlin, but we spoke to other people. we spoke to one woman who said that she's very worried indeed, she feels anxious. she has her documents ready to flee. the city if she needs to, because what you need to know is that, you know, kia, this is less than 200 kilometers away from that border with belarus. it is for a close indeed, if you like, and some people here all worried about a possible attack. they are worried about a possible invasion, even though this is far from being a city under siege. people are very much going about their daily business because as they have said repeatedly, look, we have been at war with russia for 8 years now. so that threat is always loomed

large. not everybody's in moscow. and she says, the visit by liz trust, miter worsened relations with russia. the british foreign secretary came here with a few lists of demands that she was going to make of the russian officials to try and get them to de escalate the current situation. this trust came to moscow and saying that she wanted one of her 1st objective was to make it very clear that the sanctions package that the british government has on stand by should russia decide to invade ukraine is going to not only affect russia's economy, but also president vladimir putin's inner circle and their holdings in the u. k. the 2nd point she had was that the russia has a chance to de escalate the situation. she has put all the owners of what has taken place over the past few weeks on russian shoulder saying that they are the ones that are going to have to show by removing some of their troops alongside the ukrainian border. further back away from that border to show that they're

interested in, di escalating. now, the russian foreign minister was not having any of that. he said after an hour and a half meeting at a press conference that the conversation he had with his british counterpart was that conversation between deaf and dumb music basically. and that's the, a rhetoric that was coming from london was not conducive to dialogue. they don't consider that diplomacy. oliver. i've said that london is not hearing moscow and it became very clear, very quickly. the 2 officials were not even looking at each other at the press conference was very much i see atmosphere in that room. and we all saw it, i think a lot of analysts to be saying that her trip actually has done more damage than good. and she's the 1st foreign secretary to visit moscow in 5 years. and i think we are now understand why the relationship has been strayed and it's clear now there they have a long way to go before they can even call that a friendship at this stage to this is person, as i said, has announced the supreme judicial council will be dissolved magistrates and

lawyers protested outside the palace of justice. judicial counsel was responsible for ensuring the independence of the judiciary. it said, says it's become a thing of the past. this is the latest in a series of decision sides taken in sacking the government in suspending parliament in july to japan. this is a 1st, it's inconceivable. the president of the republic holds all 3 powers in his hands. a huge step backwards were here today to tell him he should revise this position. it's in contrast, the spirits of the rule of law, one that's based on the separation of powers. libya's parliament is appointed fatty was shar, guy to replace the interim. prime minister rachada used to be the interior minister and had sent to take over from under homemade debarber. the challenge to libya's unity government comes hours after the baby survived. an assassination attempt is kept on dangers when his car was shot at in tripoli. my trainer has more from tripoli. and today's session in eastern living in the city of to brook are the

parliament said at union, and miss lee approved that he was other as the new p. m. now fed to bizarre, seen by many here in western libya as, as lived as western libya. strong men are he, when he was fort when he was the minister of interior, he took a strong stance against malicious, or that brought him into the sort of the limelight. he got you general support from people, especially the international community. they thought that he could help us stabilize the police force and the security apparatus, especially in western libya, are in terms of balance of power or the current prime minister abdul hamid baber has, for the most part, been able, unable a, to extend his control in eastern libya eastern libya as controlled by the warlord holly for half tor who in 2019, lost the military offensive to take the capital. he was unsuccessful. he returned

back to western libya and has a huge, a power base there, a fatty bush other and the, and carry for her after her of thought to come to an agreement. in fact, just a little while ago. actually for half the spokesman amazon. miss marty. i said that they support me parliament's decision to name that tabitha. as a new prime minister, will this be a smooth transition? while the hammer waiver says he's not handing over power to this new prime minister . so we're gonna have to wait and see what happens in the next days and months ahead. saudi arabia's warned little balm, haughty targets in the ebony, capital, santa, and has told civilians to leave areas used for military purposes. and 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 healthy rebels deliberately targeted a civilian airport. drone strikes by the who these have intensified in the last few

weeks. best car manufacturer, general motors, has canceled shifts at michigan. factory is canadian truckers block a vital border crossing gym has also re routed trucks to keep other plans running the protests against cobra. 1900 measures of blocks. bassett, a bridge between canada and the u. s. gm says the shift cancellations. what in direct response to a shortage of carports linked to the protest on hundreds following developments from port huron in the u. s. state of michigan where i'm 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, 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 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. still ahead on our desert, promising to end detentions for profit migrants and refugees to be put under house arrest in the us abortion law in el salvador. that's cost one woman, 10 years of her life. ah, they're great to see you. here's her world weather report beginning in the middle east, we've got a southerly push of air. so look what it does with the temperature in riyadh at $28.00 degrees. but there is the 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 cast. we can see some of that blue popping up which indicates we may see some showers, even the risk of thundering 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. enough. got to stop her up that 20 degrees and top to bottom through pockets on things are looking good as walt an 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 of the red, the higher 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. that's your weather update season. ah frank assessments for china. well banished from the 0 call it strategy if the rest

of the world cannot get to get informed opinions at all costs luckiest on needs. and on fridays on that statement, critical debate library would claims that native constitutes an interest and she'll thread to russia, but it's precisely his actions that's rated this insecurity in the region. in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera lou. the me you're watching might have a top stories. this are russia and others to started. joint military drills near ukraine is border. a kremlin says the exercises will focus on what it called

suppressing and repelling external aggression. libby as parliament is appointed, former interior minister $15.00 to replace the intern prime minister of the debate, but it comes out as after the baby survived, an assassination attempt us car manufacturer, general motors has canceled shifts. the michigan factory is canadian shockers block of vital border crossing there, protesting against proven 19 restrictions. g. m has also re run the trucks to get another plant running. i suspected suicide bomber has killed at least 6 people in somalia. 12 others were wounded but lost in the capital market issue, and saw delegates involved in parliamentary elections of the target webs in 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 found sure 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. we were 1st meant to happen over a year ago. and a couple years ago, there was a plan that for the 1st time in decade, tamale 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. than 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 planned. 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 this process. so the children's as somalia is experiencing, it's worse to drive in a decade in november, the char, to find it's 60 percent of households had 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. some money 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 for hum mohammad her son is the somalia country director at save the children . he says, a lack of humanitarian fundings,

putting more people at risk. i think if we combat the last 2 severe drought with this one, this one. i think it's very serious because of the number the people are connected and the number of life folks lost by the community because of the drug. in a 27 p. about 6 point about i think 6700000 people who are in need of montana systems. that number has now grown to 10700000. differently. that more people i need to i didn't support that. it was in 202-017-2321. the number was even smaller, but the material has gone from the has to be late and that the death of a quarter 1000000 people. and this is what we are adding now under his arm on time . the number of people who are in need to increase grade class and last year i

think to a great extent this is contributing to the watson and tuition because the political situation is now i'm the election has to be late. i think most of the holding by the close of the current frequency question, 205000 people. i've already been displaced. 70 percent of the family. i not able to feed that till then. i'm children and a woman remained the most affected language governments pressing ahead with changes to anti terrorism laws despite national and international pressure use. as the proposed legislation leaves out important elements that would safeguard human rights. now fernandez reports from colombo cause for changes to she, lancoste 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 we're that leading custody of. 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 easter bombings which kill 269 people. he was indicted 10 months later on charges of fostering hate speech and communist disharmony for electra vis. redraw, sir, his blood denied the charges. critic said the pity legislation is in the front to the rule of law, allowing confessions, in cases which they say makes torture common, as well as lengthy detention sometimes without judicial supervision. ged has, in this case, medically has been used to study 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 prettier legislation. foreign minister g o peter says the substantial changes to the existing laws are progressive. opposition in bees pointed out that the european union has expressed reservations about the proposed lo, 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 here. it is on, on this country cantrell envelope. in the supreme court. we have to have it the determination of the supreme court that after there will be a fully mirror here in parliament, that is the proper pearson for any lose for and against the amendment upon and see the changes are cosmetic and don't address the root of the problem, the p t 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, shall anchors. prevention of terrorism act was introduced as temporary legislation 43 years ago. but critics aids become a weapon of successive government to stifle opposition. and this n. lynette fernandez. oh, to 0, colombo. what is an, in his most popular state or top of their show heading to the polls for local elections, the valid and important tests for prime minister, not under modi's popularity or to potash, a transfer 80 parliamentary seats. molly's political group, but our children, knotty party, the b. j. p. one, the last state elections in 2017 but the parties imaged there has been hurt by strong opposition to its now abandoned farming reforms. schools in india is

southern connor to cotton and, and taca state continue to be closed after confrontations following a ban on woman's head scarves. the move sparked protests from muslim students earlier this week to say they're being discriminated against liberal, met with counter demonstrations, from hindus to support the bomb. metal is in monday. we're outside the college and mondell, what 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 bassy in the state of could not got no parties including the state government had backed the stand of the students thing that religious attire, including the headscarf, violate the dress code in education institutions in the state i know that i'm out of the going to modify 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 request. the 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 would arise nation between you and julian, muslims in canada. could impact state elections, especially in order for these where in 2017, the bgp came to power on the back of the hindu vote. analysts point out that this time around the issue over here could not those waters to once again bought a long really just like the you i said to try program where my grandson refugees quarter the border with mexico are placed into so called home curfew is regarded as a cheaper alternative to detention centers, but the move has been criticized by white scripts. they say president joe biden has failed to deliver on his promises of more humane detention measures. ronald suppose los angeles. in 2020 years,

the colbert 19 pandemic raged migrants in the 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 coven, 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, me here it was feces. ready and you're. ready in and it was just best 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, have called the next, you know, they'd be off to 3 weeks. and we come to find out that some of the guys were actually infected with over it. and they weren't taking any precautions to help us out or keep us safe. the american civil liberties union, one

a ruling that freed hundreds of detainees while awaiting asylum hearings. we filed the lawsuit because it was clear from the outset that when kobe began to spread ice and g o group, it's, it's private for profit contractor. we're putting people at great risk of serious harm and g o group is contracted by ice to hold detainees. it runs more than $100.00 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 by the promise to end the use of for profit detention by the federal government, including for undocumented immigrants. and this would have a huge impact, nice detention system, of course, because on nearly 80 percent of people who are in ice detention are in facilities

that are privately operated. as large numbers of migrants are expected at the us mexico border in the coming months. the by the administration 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. we were, 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 and el salvador 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 the supreme court judges intervened. complainers to change abortion law, say, although women in similar situations remain in jail. victoria gave him the reports . this was l. c. after her release from jail, a victim of el salvador,

strict anti abortion laws. ne jaime. 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 soon. as f. what 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 as to other women, wrongly convicted, have called for bush, and to be legalized in el salvador 21 year old. evelyn hernandez was acquitted of homicide and a re trial 3 years ago. she previously been sentenced to 30 years in prison and spent 3 years in jail as to 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. ah, this is audra 0. these are the top stores thousands of russian troops and started 10 days of joint military drills and bellows. at odds from mos was huge, military build up near the ukrainian border.