surprisingly between the egyptian islamic scholar mohammed abdul and russian novelist, leo tolstoy in the french and egyptian surrealists all 3 breton and jewels and 9. let's really think his answer released on al jazeera oh, american traditions should leave should leave now. you, as president says, things could get crazy quickly as concerns grow. moscow could invade ukraine. ah, a mineral god this out there, a life into also coming up. there's a power struggle in libya as pollen picks a new prime minister. but the current leader refuses to step down. i'm john hender in the us border with canada where the truckers blockade is really slowed down.

commer running out of time warnings, australia's famous call is could become extinct unless more is done to protect. ah, though as president is wanting things in ukraine could get crazy quickly, and he's urging americans to get out. russia has been sending troops to the ukrainian board at raising fairs that it could invade. joe biden says, if that happens, he will not send troops to rescue americans who are fleeing in hours alone. but look, that's why would i have asked is american traditions should leave, should leave. now, we're dealing with one of the largest armies in the world. it's a very different situation and things could go crazy quickly. how did you, castro has more from washington d. c. this is an interview that president biden gave to m b. c. news. he said

essentially that americans sure to leave ukraine now because in the case of a russian invasion, he said there would be no scenario that he would order u. s. troops in to rescue stranded americans. because in his words, he said that would be a world war americans and russians shooting at each other. and he said there is no scenario he would allow that to happen. the president's words, echoing a very similar warning issued by the us state department also today, which told american citizens to leave ukraine now, using a private or commercial means, again, reiterating that the u. s. would not be going in to help americans leave after the fact. if russia does invade, of course this is all coming after us intelligence assessment has found that more than a $100000.00 russians troops have amassed near the border with ukraine, with fears that they will achieve full capacity to invade the country by february

15th, which is something that russia denies, present buttons warning comes as russian and bella, russian troops begin joint military drills. moto estimates, 30000 russians, hold years, all taking part, the largest deployment to the ex soviet state. since the cold war, worse than pals fare, the drills could be used as an opportunity to attack read chrome, softballs and reports from the by the russian capital men's russia flexing its military muscle just 50 kilometers from the bellow, roshan border, which 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 the largest territory like ukraine is in, quote, his interest to has

a chance to attack from the south from marine and urban crime. your forces from the east, from russian soil, and from them to was in a joint action of russia at its ally bellows. so. ready militarily speaking, it couldn't be any better, but it's released by russian ministry of the fans, show tanks and metal launchers being used in the drills and military jets in the ear. from the bell russian border which ukraine it is less than a 2 hour drive to the capital key of was a lead of 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 lie, just rushing contingent on barrison. foyle indicates a possible 2nd front for vladimir within what makes use of the isolated and international weak position of his prodigy. alexander lucas shanker lucas shanghai came under,

sanctioned from the west after you was accused of election fraud 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 bella luce after the end of an exercise right now with a 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 took sl eventually leaf acid at rails finish on february 20 until than speculation about the real purpose of this show of force will likely continue. steadfast an al jazeera in mintz. there are fairs, a new power struggle is brewing in libya. the pawns voted to replace entering prime minister abdul hamid baber. just hours offrey survived an assassination attempt,

but de baber says he won't hand over power until elections are held. malleck train in our reports from triplet in the eastern city of 2 brook, i live his parliament selected a new prime minister that he bossa was voted into office unanimously. he arrived and tripoli on thursday night and was received by hundreds of people. the former interior minister is widely seen as western libya, a strong man, and he's got the backing of powerful orn groups across the country. including warlord, fully for afters, self proclaimed libyan national army or elani, which controls the oil rich is the high belt, the other. we will come and support the decision of the libyan parliament made on 1st day to appoint mister bishop car as prime minister and to form a government that leads to a better future for all libyans with that but in turn, prime minister abdul hamid the beaver says you will not hand over power then as let

be amerihome, i will not allow for new transitional stages. i will not be deterred from our role in the government until elections are held. the government of national unity will continue its work until it is handed over to an elected government. and for the moment, the un agrees that we've seen the reports of the appointment of herb of another o prime minister. this is part of stephanie williams. ongoing consultations. our paula, i mean our position that i stayed, i think very clearly yesterday. oh, remains unchanged. if your position remains unchanged, you still recognize entering prime minister as the prime minister of libya. is that correct? yes. the short answer is yes, to be both main task as in term, prime minister was to hold elections, but the country has to rival legislatures, the parliament in the east and high council state in the west. in december, the vote was postponed because they couldn't agree on the rules for holding it. job

realist weighs a political analyst and says, changing the government now will only prolong the conflict with the customer. lemonade in a alimentary elect ends of the base solution to the contract because it ends the mandate of the rival legislative houses. it's clear the parliament and high council of state are blocking the way and don't want elections in order to stay in power. as a major political figure from libby as west west support. busy from the way the lord in the country is that he believes he can bring libya government back together with the un and other powers refusing to recognise them as prime minister. whether he can bring stability to the country or. busy even take office, both remain very uncertain. now, trina, europe, the u. s. virgin can use federal powers to end the food a blockade. along the shared border. thousands of truck is have been protesting co restrictions by display disrupting the flow of cargo canadian problem to suggest

intruder will hold a virtual meeting with opposition leaders to discuss ways out the crisis. john, the engine reports from port huron and michigan. ah, along the u. s. canadian border, the truckers blockade is slowly taking its toll. this paddle border is moving faster than traffic and is rebels in 18 wheelers demanding an end to cove at 19 restrictions continue using their freedom convoy to block the border on the canadian side, the pain is being felt on both sides. ford has stopped its auto assembly line in windsor. toyota has closed 3 plants across ontario, and general motors is cutting shifts in michigan, and those closures threatened to reverberate throughout the auto supply chain. despite the added time and traffic, this trucker says the demonstrators have a point, everybody, ah, right, whatever. one of the i wanna die, i wanna die out of van. i support him. you know?

but i think it kind of sucks in all the traffic hearing. on thursday the truckers opened another front blocking all lanes on manitoba main. crossing to north dakota and with the ambassador bridge blocked from detroit to windsor traffic on the busiest land crossing in north america is shut down entirely from the u. s. to canada and all but closed in the other direction. trucks carrying everything from cattle to car parts which under automakers just in time delivery system need to be delivered within 48 hours to keep assembly lines rolling. have been diverted to the crossing between port huron, michigan, and the canadian city of sarnia. at the blue water bridge. these trunks are getting across to canada, but wait times have been up to 3 hours and traffic crawls. and that's likely to continue as long as the truckers blockade goes on and politicians seem unwilling to crack down. we are canadian prime minister justin trudeau insist canada will follow the science. not only are canadians hired of this hand, demik ah,

the challenges were facing her there also, of course, tired of the restrictions. oh, hired of the locked status. understandable. but you know what helps lift restrictions. you know, it helps move beyond the lockdown. vaccinations but some canadian provinces, including alberta and saskatchewan, had eased coven rules in quebec and prince edward island announced plans to do the same. but with plans for a freedom convoy in the us, the truckers protest show no sign of vending. john henderson, al jazeera, on the u. s. border with canada. the usaa has an inflation has hit its highest level in 40 years. concealed prices rose by 7.5 percent over the past year. energy cost, so the biggest jump up to 27 percent. now present, joe biden says he expects inflation, it will ease or the end of the year. i'm going to work like you don't bring gas

prices down, which i'm working to make sure that we keep strengthening the supply, change them, bring the cost of energy and everything else. goods have come to america down by helping the poor, 247 by changing a whole range of things. it, you know what's happened with coven, coven has caused significant increase in prices in the supply chain. jonathan grover is professor of economics at mit. he says at the biden administration isn't entirely responsible for the sharp rise and inflation. i think i day can take some blame. in particular, as i said, friday stimulus was big, although at the time many experts including myself thought it was right sized. so ah, i'm, and i think they could take a little bit of blame because i think they could have moved a little more aggressively to try to make cheap 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 coping which predated iden,

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. 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 was off. and part of that is going to be, can we get all of america to behave responsibly and get vaccinated? mask up 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 is a higher vaccination rate than 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. so head out 0. you

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powerful on an online, at your voice. the comment section is right here. join our conversation. we had all protected when everyone is protected. it is not the play being nationalistic about this. you just look at it in a very different way. say that perspective made and mid meeting each other and they don't have any solution. let me put it clear for you this dream. on al jazeera lou ah, the audio desert, a reminder of our top stories this hour. the u. s. president is warning things in ukraine could go crazy quickly. these urging americans to leave now as concerns grow that moscow could invade the country. this comes as russia and by the roost

begin 10 days of military drills near the border with ukraine, western countries, of ward russia, of economic and political consequences. should it run pop, what they call military aggression? woods, kia libya's parliament has appointed a new prime minister. fatty boshra was picked to replace abdul hamid de baby who's refusing to step to babe. it says you learn a hand over power to an elected government. more now on all top story and britain's foreign secretary, liz truss has visited moscow in a bid to ease tensions on the russia ukraine border. but as tulsa jabari reports, that's hoax, they have produced little progress. british foreign secretary on her 1st official visit to moscow. this trust followed diplomatic protocol by laying a wreath at the tomb of unknown soldiers close to the kremlin. a grey 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 amused person if that 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 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 ah sanctions and oh, military resolve. test diplomacy is a, what is in order from brussels to warsaw in the same day force, johnson visited the post capital to reiterate britain's resolve, 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 for their evidence of nato's eastward expansion. list trust

came here hoping to get some reassurances from her russian counterparts. but it seems her visit me 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. the reuters news agency says the us plans to help the u. e. replenish it's missile defense interceptors. after spite of attacks by who if you rebels. the iranian aligned group has waged a string of attacks only in recent weeks. many have missed their targets, but one rocket attack killed 3 civilians last month. the head of the us central command told reuters us will do everything i can to assess the u. e in defending itself. and meanwhile, shot know from attempted to drone attack injured in tor, injured 12, people in saudi arabia's upper airport. the drone was accepted by air defense systems, humans who the rebels say they it

a military target at the airport. the saudi led coalition has been fighting movies in yemen since 2015. and it is years ordered 40 to fight to jets from france as it looks to replace its aging fleet. paris has been trying to expand its ties in the indo pacific. that's after australia's decision last year to cancel a french submarine deal in favor of a strategic alliance with the u. s. washington as separately approved the sale of warplanes and an easier as well. but that deal hasn't been finalized. and the u. s . secretary of say, antony blinkin is in australia to discuss growing china. russia ties on the meeting of foreign ministers of the so called quad in melbourne. the chords, the years lead block that includes australia, japan and india, was set up to counter china's growing influence in the region. lincoln met his australian counterpart where his pain in melbourne, head of dogs. sarah clark is following the visit from brisbin. there's

been some various by lat sure, independent, a picture of attendees in the last hour or so at that court meeting is set to get underway. and the next couple of hours a central to the agenda will be china, russia, and of course regional security and solve the inevitable that the lights of russia and ukraine will be discussed at this court meeting agenda. the central goal of these quad talks is to counter china's push into the region at with this group will be looking to collaborate and push back on a set of mrs. was china's military expansion of the likes of the spirited area of the south china sea. and the goal of the quote group is to present alternative to what china is offering in this region. the americans, they blinking author refers to this quote initiative as being affirmative. so they're trying to offer a clean, a free democratic and open alliance for the region. now it's also expected to address the threats posed by the likes of russia and china. you might recall we had

vladimir putin and she'd in paying in the last a week or so raised a sore can certainly boost its partnership by making a declaration of no limits strategic partnership pledging mutual protection of core interests. and of course, that refers to likes of ukraine and russian, of course, at china and taiwan. as i mentioned, it's inevitable that to blanket we'll be discussing the crime. russia issue on a very pat agenda for this quote, meeting in melbourne. and then think testers have concern that russian sig estate, her camilla valley, eva tested positive for band substance before the olympics began. the 15 year olds case will now be taken to the court of arbor taishan for sports, which will rule whether she continue, whether she can continue competing at the games. it's all it may, it may also decide whether to strip the russians or of the gold medal they won in the team skating event. on tuesday, officials delayed presenting the metals to valley eva and her teammates. such cases

are not helpful to the games. i think hopefully most people see that of the, the 3000 people are competing here though, some wonderful sports and graceful, and hopefully we can continue to concentrate on that. but you'll also appreciate that we need to the, these cases need to be prosecuted properly taken care of properly. and due process needs to be go, needs to be gone through more than $200.00 judges and lawyers. and she nicea protested in the cap will cheerless against the president's decision to dissolve the judicial watchdog, the body overseas, the independence of the judiciary. but president, ty said, says it's outdated, critics say the sides decision as part of bid to consolidate power. after he sacked the government and suspended parliament in july, hundreds of protested im gonna against the new tax proposal on electronic payments . the government's planning to introduce a nearly 2 percent tags known as the e levy applies to all electronic transactions of it's $16.00. politicians who

backlog, they will help raise money for development projects. the demonstrations also rallied against increases in fuel prices and the cost of living award winning all like wednesday raquira bus. yeah. flew who fled uganda on wednesday, says he was tortured while in custody for almost a month. but he says he still plans to return to his country at some point. his claim of missed treatment is the latest example of a deterioration in human rights in uganda. off over the past year, he was arrested in december because of critical comments. he posted about the president on twitter early cancer care about she has just spoke to out there about his ordeal in prison in december. noah's arrested by the on the if see which is in charge of the president and his immediate relative was taken to the headquarters of the if see where it was good was

beaten, was beaten with blood un buttons for thomas a lie as to clock flesh from my thighs made it, they may lift that dungeon or my body was full of them at the electrical hours are asians and all my legs are stolen. i am right now now seeing a flock, chas, uncle, rock, chas. they really beat me. i almost died. then they denied me medication to call my passport. they refused me from trying to get a good medication from europe, from u. s. a. d. i decided to run out of the country and i believe that i'll be fine. and why sam k, a will have to return to my country and this time around or not sneak into the

country or is that this issue before the empower they got no rascal from staying in my own country. they can never make me already. my own country, so i have to go back to glenda and visited this barbarism. it is to the advantage that is our they keep so i'm the european union. i use a if they are issuing god sanctions against some of he says they should not leave odms of him and his son several italian cities have turned out the lights and some of their best known landmarks to protest rising energy bills in rome, the lights, the city hall was switched off for an hour. major cities in italy, se energy costs are putting a dent there on your budget. they estimate energy bills will rise by nearly a 3rd. that's at least $630000000.00. australian government is declared

qual as, as endangered. after accepting the recommendations of the threatened species, scientific committee. the status has been upgraded for populations, new south wales, queensland and the australian capital territory. bush fires, land clearing and prolonged drought, and put the species at risk of extinction. the corolla has been under pressure for a while because of climate change because of long dry spells as a rural australia and i know that well. and also because of disease, we estimate that up to 50 percent of our populations have chlamydia, so that's a real pressure. and of course the bush 5. so coming out of those fires, i asked my scientific experts to really examine whether the quality listing, as you said on the endangered spaces list, needed to move up a notch. and today's announcement is that it has, which is all about priority conservation for this extraordinary marsupial, nika bannon is the head of campaigns of the humane society international australia . she says,

the move has to be accompanied by stronger regulatory protections for quarles. part of the reason is because the decline has been so steep and so sudden and the caller was recognized as vulnerable to extinction in 2012 and in just a short space of time. since then, we've had really steep declines in the species numbers on the east coast of australia. so now it's been listed as endangered, recognizing that sadly, it's even closer to extinction. the listing today is really important to give the species that legal recognition. but what needs to follow is really strong regulatory protection of the corolla, and the government has recently committed more money. we have the legal status is endangered. now, they're really good parts of the equation, but what's missing is the stronger regulatory protection. so while is need stronger laws and they need regulations that prevent the clearing of habitat,

which is that key threat enough's enough for the quality really if we won't qualify to survive decades into the future, then we need to draw some lines around that habitat. we need to draw some lines around it and say, developments not appropriate here quite as need this habitat to survive. and we need to designate where and development on going to element is appropriate. and it's not beyond the wit of the australian government to do that. so that's what we're really calling on them to do today because trays are really sad date. ah, this is out there. and these, the top stories, the u. s. president is urging americans to leave ukraine as concerns grow that moscow could invade the country. but he said he won't send troops to get americans out. biden was asked about us citizen safety on embassy news, you know, from alberta.