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also coming up on the program. a new power struggle bruise in libya, parliament of points, a new prime minister hours after the current leader survives an assassination attempt. suicide bombing in somali as capital kills at least 6 people, while the country struggles to solve a political crisis. and bumper to bumper problems on the u. s. canadian border, where truck drivers are rubbing on their protests against corona vars. maxine mandates. ah hello and welcome to program our top story. tens of thousands of russian and better russian troops have started 10 days of major joint military drills. nato estimates 30000 russian soldiers have been sent to barrows, largest deployment to the ex soviet state since the cold war. now the kremlin says

they will return to that permanent basis in russia wants the exercises finish. but western powers, fer it could be used as an opportunity to attack ukraine out there. as it step lawson reports now from the batter, russian capital minsk, russia flexing its military muscle, just 50 kilometers from the bellow. roshan border with ukraine. 4 weeks troops have been arriving even from russia as far east than 1000 kilometers away. it is clear that is as far bigger than previous military exercises. rush officials have not disclosed. the number of soldiers involved. nato speaks of 30000. if you consider that an invasion of a large territory like ukraine is in, quote, his interest to has a chance to attack from the south from marine. and it's a crime your forces from the east, from russian soil and from the north in

a joint action of russia. it is ally bellows. so. ready military speaking, it couldn't be any ah, but at least by russian ministry of defense showed tanks and metal launchers being used in the drills and military jets in the ear. from the bellow russian border, which is great, it is less than a 2 hour drive to the capital key of what's the latest worry if this is a serious drill or a ploy for real attack. for the next 10 days, the world's eyes will be on the largest russian contingent on barrison foil indicates a possible 2nd front for vladimir put a new makes use of the isolated and international weak position of his prodigy, alexander lucas shanker lucas shanghai came under sanction from the west, after he was accused of election thought and a violent crack down on the opposition. while the bell or russian leader has always stressed the independence of bellows and refrained from condoning, put into military actions in crimea and eastern ukraine. yes. now turn to the

russian leader for help. good. it's a book, mass mutual dose, you poor, military forces have always left bellows after the end of an exercise. right now that a more participants in the rhetoric is aggressive. i think location because attitude is caused by his annoyance with the west, which in the front it doesn't recognize him as a legitimate leader. he believes russian troops will eventually leave off. we'll finish on february 20 until then speculation about the real purpose of this show of force will likely continue, steadfast and al jazeera in men. will u. k prime ministers describe the war games in europe the most dangerous moment, or is johnson is held, talks with nato lead again, stolen bug, part of diplomatic efforts to try to diffuse tensions with ukraine. but little progress was made by sending the case foreign secretary to moscow, where less trust was accused of grandstanding and refusing to listen to how rushing

counterpart circle of roles, tulsa jibari reports, now from moscow. british foreign secretary on her 1st official visit to moscow. this trust followed diplomatic protocol by laying a reef at the tomb of unknown soldiers close to the kremlin. a gray and cold days started the foreign secretary's trip, but it was an even colder reaction from her russian counterpart, sir gay lover off following their near to our session behind closed doors, little jewell and tim stool. i'm disillusioned about the fact that our conversation is like between a mutual and a deaf person. the month to remove russian troops for russian territory kept coming up during only go she ations. it is regrettable. as far as the ologies ultimatums and threats, this is a dead and st, and yield nothing. unfortunately, some of our western colleagues have been carried away with this and their public statements. i cannot call this diplomacy, study law for av, made a clear that the british are not listening to russia's concerns. fundamentally

a warn ukraine would be disastrous for the russian and ukrainian people and for european security. and together, nato has made it clear that any incursion into ukraine would have massive consequences and carry severe costs. the british efforts to reduce tensions continued in the belgian capital, where prime minister boris johnson met nato secretary, general yen sultan berk. both presenting a united front against what they say is russian aggression. this is probably the most dangerous moment. i would say them in the course of the next few days in what is the biggest security crisis that europe has facebook for decades and we've got to get it right. and i think that the combination of oh, sanctions, and oh, military resolve. test diplomacy is a, what is in order from brussels to warsaw. in the same day,

boris johnson visited the polish capital. to reiterate, britons resolved to protect nato allies. another 250 british soldiers are due to arrive in poland soon, making it home to the largest overseas deployment by britain's armed forces. a fact moscow says is further evidence of nato's eastward expansion. lis trust came here hoping to get some reassurances from her russian counterparts, but it seems her visit may have caused more damage to the fragile relationship between london and moscow. the british defense secretary is due in russia on friday, no doubt hoping for a better outcome door such a bari al jazeera moscow. meanwhile, just a 2 hour drive from batteries ukrainians in the capital. kia, val watching rushes drills closely. many civilians have started learning, self defense and gone. sales are also on the rise. as asher bought reports from kev,

ukraine's front line may be far from the shooting range in the capital, kiev. but he's never, far from the mind of leonid or stout's have a veteran of the conflict in the east of the country where ukrainian forces are fighting, rushing back to their protests. he fears russia could attack once again, because he doesn't trust vladimir putin. he can do what i wish he was as to the president by the say that it's a boy was a nuclear weapon, was all friends and i agree with him. 100 percent. his like a little dictator unit says people must learn to protect themselves. the owner of this gun store says that more and more people are coming in to buy a weapon worried by the situation. the sales have gone up by 30 to 40 percent in the last 2 months. in another part of the city, a placement converted into a bomb shelter, one of thousands in kiev that has been reopened in case the worst happens. it was

billed during the cold war by the russians who have now become the enemy to a full scale invasion would lead to a 3rd world war in the center of europe. it wouldn't be only ukraine involved, but all the other countries, anxiety here over russia's military build up on ukraine's border is being exacerbated by moscow's latest move, military exercises in belarus. less than 200 kilometers from here. but not every one is worried for many daily life is a bigger concern than the kremlin. i think the russian villa so the most like doing this exercise is for the world to have a dialect with ration most of it like not, not to make it work because they're not interested in the show, an emotional phosphate which they're capable of attacking. they want to attack, but would they dare with they really do us more nearly 8 years of conflict cranes, east of cast a long shadow. but most hope that the ongoing diplomatic efforts will put a di escalation in sight. the latest crisis natasha butler al jazeera. he had

or ukraine's as the presence of russian warships off its southern coast as part of a hybrid war, and makes navigation impossible. rushers, staging naval drills in the black sea at the same time at hold ground drills and banner roost that ukraine is accused rusher of trying to obstruct its trade routes by setting up the fact blockades at its southern ports. crane is one of the walls leading exporters of steel, grain, and sunflower. oil with exports carried through the black sea and other sea. ah, there is a new power struggle is brewing in libya. a replacement has been named for the interim prime minister just als after survived in a fascination attempt, former interior minister 15 bershana was chosen by a parliament based in the east of the country. there's no sign that the carnita

abdul hamid debate will step aside. car was shot and tripoli early on thursday, said having to named leaders could deepen existing divisions between rival factions as they struggled to reconcile. molly trying to brings us more now from aaa and today's session and eastern levine, the city of to brook or the parliament said at union, and miss lee approved that he was other as the new p m. now 30 percent are seen by many here in western libya as, as live as western libya, a strong man. or he, when he was fort when he was the minister of interior, he took a strong stance against malicious. that brought him into the sort of the limelight . he got 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. 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 khalifa, huffstutter, who in 2019 launched military offensive to take the capital, he was unsuccessful. he turned back to western libya and has a huge, a power base there, a betty bush, her and the, and carry for after her of thought to come to an agreement. in fact, just a little while ago khalifa have to spokesman amazon. miss marty are said that they support the parliament's decision to name fet hypatia 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 going to have to wait and see what happens in the next days and months ahead. to me, the judges of protested after the president again said he dissolve the supreme

judicial counsel in a move which would cement his power, magistrates and lawyers gathered outside the palace of justice. council is responsible for ensuring the independence of the judiciary is one of the few areas independent of kind of t suspended parliament last year. after announcing his plan on sundays, he now says he'll dissolve the council by to creep. the judicial watchdog has rejected the decision. saudi arabia is one that it will bomb who fee sites in yemen. capital is told civilians to evacuate areas use for military purposes is comes after 12 people are reportedly injured by falling, deb bring it into national airport when a drone was intercepted by ad defenses. coalition says it's inexcusable that who the rebels, deliberate, targeted a civilian airport at least 6 people have died after a suicide bomber attacked in many boss carrying election officials. in the somali

capital market issue, the on group osha, bob says that it was behind this assault bombing has so rode me the presidential palace have been several attacks in mogadishu. recently is rival political faction struggle to hold elections. malcolm web is tracking the story for us from robi the eye witnesses said the attacker run 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 out. 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. 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 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 the process watching out there, alive from london, still hopefully on the program. the viking for the right to was her

job in class. religious tensions play out in india's colleges and hold your horses us. your career talks might not be dad. doctoral suggestions. it's only a matter of time before they get back to the bargaining table. ah, there is still surprised me quite warm weather in europe. it's down here to clean romania, but is being bitten into by yet again. more cold weather is always coming in from the north. it has to on for the last few weeks. maybe no big surprise next storm systems on its way in the last one that's bringing the low attempts to this one here, but it hasn't yet reached rumania, hasn't reached. the black sea hasn't reached bulgaria, attempt to still hear about to 10 degrees above average. everyone else back to

normal and once the front gone through with a few snow or sleet chows, the sun shines back out. so by saturday it's winding up. admittedly, the snow warnings are mine, f a noise is norway. we expect me to just snow here and it still winter rain disappointed, dismal weather in that southwest, me over england for example, most a dog here. he's back in the sunshine on the tail end. a few showers in italy and back to the south of france. there are no more but 2 lofty sunday, pre knowles to tell the attempt is done in bucharest by this time on saturday. and the wind is no longer that strong. in egypt, the ha matters still blind, the dusty seasonal winds through most nov after it takes the dust off to the as always islands, whether it's been seen as a very orange glow in the morning and the evening. when madagascar it is still raining, as it is, and i go to, ah, egypt, strong man is ruling with an iron fist unless silence from his allies is deafening

. us was perfectly happy to trade off the mark, receive for security. why a weston lead as turning a blind eye when even the citizens have fallen victim to his repression? executions, torture censorship is not accepting. and you won't hear such strong words from, let's say berlin or paris or london man in cairo on al jazeera loo. ah ah, welcome back. watching al jazeera life from london, i'll main stories this hour, thousands of russian, i'm better. russian troops have started 10 days of military drills as tensions grow

over russia's presence all nights. border with ukraine. u. k. prime minister is warmed, that it's a dangerous moment. for europe, fatty pasha guy has been named his replacement for libby as interim prime minister abdul hamid the baby just hours after he survived an assassination attempt, as no sign of step aside. and at least 6 people died when a suicide bomber attacked a mini boss, current election officials and a somali capital market issue the on group. i'll sure bob has claimed to have carried out the attack and high novice stories of following covert cases arising sharply in the pacific autonation of toma which was totally virus free. and to last month, it's believe the omicron very into arrived with shipments of age in the wake of a volcanic eruption. and so you know me on january 15th 31 people have tested positive in the most recent 24 hour period. bringing the total number of cases in

toner to $64.00. 3 major car plans in the united states have been forced to cut or stopped production as a direct result of protest by canadian truckers against covey restrictions. a group of drivers is blocking the ambassador bridge and detroit, which carries a quarter of all trade between canada and the u. s. compounds and by ford, general motors and toyota, a struggling to get parts. the mayor of the canadian ordered towns as police are preparing to physically remove the protest as well. let's get laces from john henry, who's in port here and on the united states canada border. john, can you stop by telling us what's been happening behind you? sure. thing that bridge we're talking about, it's close. that's the basset or bridge in detroit. i am at the nearest crossing to that it connects port huron with sonya on the canadian side. and that bridge you

see behind me is the blue water bridge. and on that bridge you can see that the trucks are moving but at a snail's pace. and they've been waiting anywhere between an hour and a half to 3 hours over the course of this day. busy to get across that bridge because it really wasn't made to handle that kind of traffic. and there could be more problems like this because earlier on thursday, at protesters also close the bridge connecting manitoba in canada with north dakota . so the, there are now 3 crossings that have been effected, the one in manitoba and the ambassador bridge almost entirely closed this one open, but going at a snail's pace. so that affected the economy all on both sides here. and meanwhile, those protests continue and government and don't seem to be cracking down. most of the approaches are going on on the canadian side and just introduce the prime minister there. he said, canada won't be bullied, they will follow the science. these protestors are demanding an enter covered 19

restrictions and vaccine requirements such as the requirement that the truckers themselves need to be vaccinated in order to go into canada. but some provinces in canada has started dropping those coven restrictions. nevertheless, there seems to be no end in sight for these protests. of course, these crossings are of economic and commercial significance on they. so how is this affecting your smithville industry? well, it's only 4 days into these border blockage protests, but already the auto industry has been badly affected. you mentioned earlier, there were some plants closing. there's a ford plant on the canadian side, 3 toyota plants closed for the time being. and then here on the american side in michigan, there are general motors plants that are cutting back on shifts on their assembly lines. so already the auto industry is affected and that might seem strange after

just 4 days. but the reason for that is that the auto industry now runs on a just in time basis. so a part like be made in canada on a monday by wednesday. it's in a car in detroit that way they, they don't have to stock up a lot of equipment and that sort of thing. and that works in good times. but it hasn't been working during their pandemic which disrupted the supply chain. and this just exacerbates that. so you've already got a chip shortage here in the u. s, which is unrelated to these blocks. but new blockages are, are really hitting the auto industry at a very bad time as it's trying to recover from the pandemic. but we don't see the will among politicians or forced by police to stop what is going on. so the protest continue. thanks very much shot henry pushing us from pull here on a similar convoy of trucks and other up my motorists in year has been banned from entering the capitals of france and belgium drive is protesting. vaccine positive reached the

northwest coast of starting off from the south of france on wednesday. they are now on the road to paris despite the police ban. with the aim of going on to brussels drive as you ignore the band in france, face fines of around $5000.00. while brussels please have set up checkpoints on main roads into the city. police in new zealand, if arrested around a 120 protest is speaking out against corona virus restrictions there. they've been staging a city and outside parliament of the capital. wellington, for the past 3 days, protest is want to and mandatory vaccinations for government staff including health workers, firefighters, and teachers. they say they were inspired by the truck is brocade, and canada or the swedish government has lifted cove in 1000 restrictions. despite objections from many scientists, sweden took a mostly hands off approach to the pandemic, and never went into locked down. now, vaccine passes will no longer be needed and there are no limits on how many people can gather. events in public spaces,

for testing effectively stopped on wednesday. so it'll now me difficult to know the exact number of cases in the country. meanwhile, improving vaccination rates in africa is that still proving difficult, but the world health organization believes the pandemic is on the verge of being brought on to some level of control on the continent. as we stand here today, we're finally able to stay. that is, the current trends hold, that is light of the end of the tunnel. as long as we remain vigilant, and we act intensively, particularly on vaccination, the continent is on track for controlling the pandemic. the pandemic has taken a brutal, tall, with tens of thousands of lives lost an incalculable damage broad to african economies and communities. the world bank estimates them, it has pushed up to 40000000 people in africa into poverty. now we've been following developments in india very closely. voters in the most popular state

would have pradesh, heading to the poll for local elections. more than 150000000 people are eligible to vote, making it a key tasks or prime minister to render modi's popularity. modi's party, a janitor party, or b, j. p. one. the last state election in 2017. and he's hoping another victory will help him in national elections in 2024. but the b j. p. 's image has been hurt by strong opposition to farming or forms that have now been abandoned, as well as high unemployment and the government's handling of the pandemic. meanwhile, in southern india, schools remain closed across the state of karnataka. an effort to reduce tensions over a ban on women's job. muslim students and parents say they are being discriminated against. off to several schools, denied entry to go wearing kit jobs or has gone last week. a protest on tuesday was met with counter demonstrations by hindus who support the ban 12 percent of people

in the state and muslim, the local government is ruled by modi's hindu nationalist party, which has been accused of fostering discrimination. probably mid town is in monday and the state of karnataka explains how the dispute could effect state elections. we're outside the college and mondell, what a woman wearing a bull call 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 up. now 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. remo dad, i'm out of the good door model that they're not making any effort with children's well being. instead, they're 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 and this point out that this would arise ation between in muslims in canada, could impact state elections, especially in order for the age where in 2017, the bgp came to power on the back of the hindu vote. atlas point out that this time around the issue over here could nash those waters to once again bought a long religious life. now, a summit between the leaders of north career and the u. s. is only a matter of time, according to south korea's president mage i in. it says that kim jong and joe fight and should discuss north korea's nuclear weapons program expires. concerned that the country could resume missile testing, which he says would cause an instant crisis. mcbride has more on the story now 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 korea and also international media. it comes as he has only a few months, more left in office. he remains fairly up feet about the prospects of dealing with north korea, saying that it is possible conditions could exist whereby joe biden, like a pre deceptive, 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 and politicians for many years to get the parties around a table and sign a full piece decoration. 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 a little time left in office, the chances of achieving that before he leaves office in may remain extremely remote. ah, just a quick look at the main stories of following this, our tens of thousands of russian and better russian troops has started 10 days of major joint military drills. this is the latest move to really add to fears of a potential invasion of ukraine. they tow estimates 30000 russian troops have been sent along with fighter jets and nuclear capable missiles. meanwhile,

burson has been making diplomatic moves on several fronts, meeting the nato leda prime minister, forrest johnson, want of europe's most danger.