whatever the weapon to provide for his growing family and the cowboy who enjoys his rough, lonely life, risk in it. oh, paragraph on al jazeera. ah a warning of the most dangerous moment as russia holds drills with galleries, concerns of growing moscow could invade ukraine. ah, hello robin, your geologist there alive, my headquarters here indo are also coming up. automakers on both sides of the u. s . canadian border a falls to reduce their operations as protest against cov 19 restrictions continue

. also use inflation hits a 40 year high consumer price as jumped more than expected. raising phase of interest rates could go off and fears of a power struggle in libya as parliament picks a new prime minister. but the current leader refuses to step down. ah, welcome to the program, the u. s. president is urging americans to leave ukraine. joe biden says he will not send troops to rescue americans fleeing the country if russia invades. now this comes as russian and bellow russian troops begin joint military drills. nato estimates $30000.00 russian troops are taking part, the largest deployment to the ex soviet state. since the cold war. now western powers fair the drills could be used as an opportunity to attack ukraine. that vast reports now from the bell, 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. 10000 kilometers away. it is clear that is as far bigger and previous military exercises by russian officials have not disclosed a number of soldiers. info. 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 ants and crime your forces from the east, from russian soil, and from the north, in a joint action of russia. at its ally bellows. so. ready military speaking, it couldn't be added footage released by russian ministry of defense show tanks, and mr. launchers being used in the drills and military jets in the ear. from the

bellow russian border, which ukraine, 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 baller awesome soil in decades, 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 shanker, came under, sanctioned from the west after you was accused of election fraud and a violent crack down on the opposition. while the bell of 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. nothing new of all those you poor military forces have always left bellows after the end of an exercise. right now, the more participants and the rhetoric is aggressive, i think location because attitude is caused by his annoyance with the west. and the

fact it doesn't recognize him as a legitimate leader. he believes russian trucks will eventually leave after the rail 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. well, earlier in the day, britain phone secretary less trust, visited moscow. but as dosage of our reports, her talks that produced little progress, british foreign secretary on her 1st official visit to moscow, the trust follow diplomatic protocol by laying a reef at the tomb of unknown soldiers close to the kremlin. a gray and cold day started the foreign secretary's trip, but it was an even colder reaction from her russian counterpart, sir gay lover, are you following? they're near to our session. behind closed doors, bottles, jewell, and tim stool. i'm disillusioned about the fact that our conversation is like

between the mucus and the deaf person demands to remove russian troops for russian territory kept coming up during only go. she ation. it is regrettable. as far as the ologies ultimatums and frets, this is a dead end street 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. yet, 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 and 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. less 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. no natives leading and stole to beg 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. night was not a threat to russia, but we must be prepared for the worst wat remaining strongly committed to finding a political solution. renewed russian aggression will lead to more natal presence. not less well to the days of the news now and libya's parliament has appointed a new prime minister thought they basheba was picked to replace the interim leader . shawna used to be the interior minister these set to take over from abdul hamid deborah debt. the challenge to libby as unity government comes out as aust debit survived an assassination attempt. now he escaped uninjured. when his car was shot

in the capital, triply the un says it will yet recognize the new prime minister. i were positions that i stayed. i think her clearly yesterday oh remains unchanged, but we're, she's on the ground. try together a more details and trying to keep the processes trust her if you still recognize if your position remains unchanged, you still recognize entering prime minister as the prime minister. libby, is that correct? yes. in the short answer is yes. monitoring has more from tripling. and today's session in eastern libyan the city of to brook are the parliament said at union and miss lee approved that. he pushes her as the new p. m. now fetch bestsellers seen by many here in western libya as, as live as western libya, a strong man. ah, he, when he was fort, when he was the minister of interior, he took a strong stance against malicious. are 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 khalifa. huffstutter, who in 2019, launched a military offensive to take the capital, he was unsuccessful. he returned back to western libya and has a huge, a power base. there are fatty bushes, her and the and curly for have to her of thought to come to an agreement. in fact, just a little while ago actually for have to spokesman amended. miss marty are said that they support the parliaments decision to name that he basha, as a new prime minister. will this be a smooth transition will abs?

hamid 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. lucille gl marty is the director general at the cedric institute. a thing focused on libya . he says that fatty a, bashar goes appointment, risk derailing political developments in libya. the plan is not to develop a vision for libya to govern nivia, but it is to disrupt the ability of this kind of national unity to present itself as the sole unified government in libya. it is also a plan to disrupt any attempt to return to the political negotiation to the roadmap for elections without having the house of representatives at the center of this. so i think it's more of a disruptive move. it will duplicates the governments that will return libya to years, parallel divisions if it doesn't continue. and then it's really about bring friendship . it's about the ways in which political actors and factions spoil political prices

and do that by playing this really nasty game of darren and, and try to see how much their opponent can move and push them and send them to their will. and i think today this is also about putting you and special envoy, stephanie williams at the center of this crisis, to ensure that they can bend her to their will and ensure that the road map suits their needs and the needs are quite clear. this goes back, not only in the last 12 months, but over the last 5 years since libya's last piece process in the city of scott to morocco. this is about control of the presidency. this is about control of the supreme commander of the armed forces post. it's about determining libya's posted defi, political character, and that's what this conflict has been about for several years. friends says it's counter terrorism, forces of kill 10 members of an armed group in became a fast. so now the fighters were from a group thought to be connected to the in sour la la movement. it's believed to be behind many attacks on civilians in the north, including one on a police space near the molly and border that killed $57.00 people. operations at

several years, centuries have been disrupted as canadian truckers block a vital border crossing the protests against cave in 1900 measures have blocked the ambassador bridge between canada and the u. s. general motors as counsel shift santa michigan factory. one, ford is running it canadian factories at reduced capacity. drill 100 has more from one of the other main crossings. a port huron, that bridge we're talking about. it's close that the basset, or bridge in detroit. i am at the nearest crossing to that. it connects port huron with sarnia 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 the day 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, 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 passenger bridge almost entirely closed this one open, but going at a snail's pace. so that's effected the economy all on both sides here. cool, still ahead on al jazeera shavanne carries out another suicide bombing in somalia. as the country hills parliamentary elections and earthquakes, a super time food on the corona virus pandemic were in the heart of the philippine islands on reopened to tourists. ah. that the southern states,

the u. s. half warmed up. this is more so there should be little bit warmer in places that doesn't mean winter's gone away. must not forget. it's still february button, southern california to forget it. these are record highs, but they last well above average in, for example, in san diego beyond the weekend to the super bowl, even on monday, wrapped in the thirty's persistently, at least 11 degrees above the average, but to say still cold. and it's cold in the midwest, typically, and central and eastern canada, given us a cold bit of air is bad abuse. and whether it's producing some freezing rain or snow on its way through toronto, and eventually it'll affect northeast of the u. s. as well. but these behind fairly fine weather temperatures come down little bit because the tail end of that frontal system, which emanation the cold gets a few shares, dallas, texas, and given that big temps difference, we seen some big thunderstorms in cuba recently. don't often get tornadoes that was one though, did some damage, not far away from the capital. and i can't say it rule out any more. the air still much the same all way around cuba and same in the bahamas. otherwise,

standard weather for the caribbean, and still very wet, potentially in ecuador, the good part of brazil. surprising me in the fall. se of brazil, a drive is being quoted. ah. in iran, the head of a mental health hospital experiments with a bold new treatment. the therapeutic power of love, the prescription ray man against all odds, his patients embraced the match a manual remedy. but can wedlock lead to better well being on his board? the marriage project, witness on al jazeera. oh,

a look about what you have to do with lisa whole rom reminder of all talk new stories . the you as president is warning the things in ukraine could go crazy quickly. he's entering americans to leave now. so this comes as russia and batteries begin, 10 days of joint military drill, men, ukraine, border libby as parliament as appointed former interior minister. fancy the shock to replace entering 5 minutes to meet the beaver. the challenge to libby is unity. government comes out as i said, the baby survived an assassination attempts, some major ca, manufacturers in the us. the scale bar called production of the canadian truck has bought the vital border crossing for full stay that protesting against candidates cobra, 1900 vaccine mandate. in the us,

inflation has hit its highest level in 40 years. the consumer price index rose by 7.5 percent over the past year. energy cost sol, the biggest jump by 27 percent, and president biden says full show inflation will ease by the end of the year. i'm going to work like you don't want to bring gas prices down, which i'm going to work in to make sure that we keep strengthening, supplied, changed, and bring the cost of energy and everything else, the goods and come to america down by helping them for 247, by changing a whole range of things that you know, what's happened with coven? cobit has caused significant increase in prices in the supply chain. well, i did a castro, has more from washington d. c. this is the biggest and fastest price increase that many people have ever seen in their lifetimes in 40 years. and americans are seeing it in every sector of

the economy. in particular, electric bills are 27 percent over the past year. there is also a price increases, of course, in gasoline, and rent in clothing and medical care costs, and a stroll down any grocery i'll makes it more than visible that prices are going up, particularly as of last month and makes good seeing the biggest price increases the federal reserve is expected in the next month to raise interest rates that could help the situation. economists are also expecting prices to drop on their own as those covert related supply chain issues, hopefully resolve. but certainly, the democrats who are taking the brunt of the criticism at this point with republicans attacking democrats for having passed that nearly 2 trillion dollar rescue package that is now being blamed for having overheated the economy. now whether or not that is true is still debatable. but what certain is that as the mid term elections come up in this fall, which will determine whether democrats retain their majorities in congress?

this rising inflation rate will become a major, a political liability. doesn't grievous is the full professor to call a called economy. it's at the massachusetts institute of technology. joe's been alive from lexington in massachusetts. mr. griffith, thanks so much for joining us. we had president biden, that talking about the fact that the supply chain and covered with big issues regarding the issue of why inflation is the high, the moment in your opinion. where does the problem lie? well there's no wiley answer, but i think the problem lies mostly supply chain issues. if you look at inflation last year, over 2021, the 70 percent inflation was accounted for by cars. fuel costs and meet ah, 3 areas were supply chain issues and coded played a huge role on. clearly some of the blame lies in a stimulus package that in retrospect was probably somewhat too big. ah, but i think if you look at the total amount that was spent maximus package,

it's not enough to really explain what we're seeing now. i think really supply chains. this is the major corporate. it's often quite easy to blame a sitting head of state, a for inflation in any country. i mean, it doesn't really happen overnight, but in the case of the u. s, how much blame can this administration be responsible for and how much of it a sort of a long term build up of the problem? i think i day can take some blame in particular, as i said by the stimulus, was too big. although at the time many experts including myself thought it was right size. so ah, i'm, and i think it can take a little bit of blame because i think they could have moved a little more aggressively to try to make cheat tasks available for individuals to get folks back to work. but i think overall, it's not about them. look, most of this is about the long or effects of coverage which redated i'm, which are terrible new s because the decisions present trump made. ah,

and really most of the effect is not, you know, on the, on the edge. some decisions by may could have been made better, but really, inflation be almost close to what it is now, even if he hadn't done anything he did. so of course, part of this decision about how to solve the economy will be in the hands of the federal reserve, who many who think may increase the interest rates, and that's going to affect homeowners, especially when it comes to the issue of mortgages. i mean it, is it all in the hands now? of the federal reserve on i think it's in the near term. it's launching hands the federal reserve. but i think really, by the end of the year, it's more in the hands of how the supply chain bottlenecks resolve. and part of that's gonna be, can we get all of america to behave responsibly and get back in mascot so that we can finally crush this virus and get, get everyone back to work, get teachers back to work it shocker workers back to work. and that really is about social attitudes, ensure that the division in this country that opened up under president trump,

i just traveled to south america, which has a higher vaccination rate in north america. everyone's always massed yet to show vaccine car to get in the grocery store. there's no political divisions driving it . we need to get to that kind of attitude. and the meantime, the president in the here and now in the past few hours has, does recognize the problem is addressing the problem and is talking about trying to help families, certainly with prescript prescription drugs and the cost of those that, that tangible things that he's trying to do to reduce cost by fixing or capping the rate of these, some of these issues are, these are, these, it is, is a big issue that he can deal with is it's always, it is a small issue in a much bigger pot of problems. well, in terms of today's inflation, it's a small issue in terms of the long run health of the us economy. it's a huge issue. ah, our runaway health care prices are a major driver of the you are federal deficit. we need regulation drug crisis on the problem. there is the politics are the current,

the last version of bill back better when it started had a very aggressive prescription drug price regulation provision. it got watered down significantly and now that that, that legislation's effectively dead. i think this is a important issue to take on them, but it's more about long run health of the u. s. economy and less about immediate reduction in inflation. jonathan group from mit that in massachusetts, thanks so much for joining us on al jazeera, my pleasure of the 6 people have died in somalia after a suicide bomber attacked a minibus carrying election officials in the company. mogadishu, the armed group alger, bob says it's behind the assault, the bombing hit of road near the presidential palace. there have been several tanks in margaret issue recently as rival political factions struggle to hold elections. malcolm, which is in the canyon capital my re be with more details will lead to the explosion . in the somali capital, 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 klan representative select m p 's. and then 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 this process. indonesia has ordered 42 funds, gents from friends, as it looks to replace its aging fleet. paris has been trying to expand its ties in the indo pacific as a frustrating decision last year to cancel a french submarine deal in favor of a strategic alliance with the u. s. washington has separately approved the sale of war planes into these are as well. but that deal has not been finalized the head of london metropolitan police. a step down following a series of scandals and questions over her judgment. crested at dick says the said

he is by left her no choice after withdrawing his confidence pressure on her has grown over an initial choice not to investigate, locked on parties of the prime minister's office, along with racism. allegations of the murder of a woman by a serving officer, she was the 1st woman to lead the force. hong kong surgeon new cove in 1900 cases is still accelerating with almost 6000 new infections over the last 24 hour period. now that totals increased tenfold since the start of the month, despite the aggressive isolation policy, medical experts say they fit tens of thousands of daily cases by the end of march with unvaccinated elderly people. a major concern in japan's biggest wave of new cases is showing signs. it might be about the peak, the government is still extending its restrictions for 3 more weeks to ease the pressure on the hospitals with particular concern over all the people that are also plans to increase the vaccination program. the philippine government is welcoming

back phone travelers after 2 years of crow virus restrictions. the pandemic is estimated to cost nearly $8000000000.00 in torrison revenue. drill allendale reports now from the whole province region that felt the impact more than most. this title being devastated by a powerful earthquake in 2013 the century. oh churches remained a pop tourist destination until the pandemic broke out the months long locked down and the closing of international borders to visitors devastated the tourism industry. here for months, the dig thousands unemployed, just as the science province was slowly recovering last year. type food right? destroyed many parts in december. oh la panel who works on a tourist both says the lack of visitors was just too much but of messiah, but young it was like you were happy the other day and the next day your said,

but because you might have had a job the next, the heat home, how could they be my expenses? so when you started operating again, even though we only had blue cross commerce, it turned like we were already back. you know, people say visiting baja list anonymous with seeing the entire country. the province is rich with biodiversity and sleep in history. this is why it's long been called the heart of the philippine islands, the tourism in the she accounts for nearly 12 percent of g d p. so the government's position to re open the country to international travelers. again, escovedo case is decreased significantly. is giving men here a renewed sense of hope and purpose. the impact so positive because you're talking about the drivers, the port thurs, the tour of the re, doors, we're looking at a great multiplier effect. and that also reverberates to agriculture that

reverberates the fisheries. because all that influx of visitors contributes to a volume of need. earthquakes, a super typhoon and the pandemic. the litany of tragedies may seem unbearable. ah, but the roman catholic church has always served as a moral and spiritual con, pass for communities here. and so in times of hardship, the faithful say prayers to guide and know that somehow there will be a better way jamal alan dog and al jazeera behold, province central philippines. though t, as in india, is most popular state of the brother sher heading to the polls. for local elections and it's the key terms for prime minister unearned remedies popularity is but the urgent party won the last states election in 2017. for the b. j p's image has since been hurt by a strong opposition to farming reforms that have now been abandoned, as well as high unemployment,

and it's handling of the pandemic. the venture search an umbrella j as to discovered the h i. v virus has died at the age of 89 luc montagnier won a nobel prize in 2008 for his work, identifying the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes aids. he went on to receive multiple other wards, including frances highest declaration. the lead on the on air, on tiny spot controversy in 2020 by saying that he believe code 19 was created in a chinese lab. ah, it was under there with lisa. he'll run the reminder of all the top stories. he was president this morning. the things in ukraine could go crazy quickly. he says, americans to leave. now, this comes as russia and valerie begin 10 days of joint military drills. ukraine, florida.