so these will supply is not large enough. good to adequately do. are people in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera ah 2. ready this is al jazeera. ah, this is in use our own al jazeera. i'm fully back to bo lie for my headquarters in doha, coming up in the next 60 minutes. we're dealing with one of the largest armies in the world. history, very different situation. my french, her go crazy quickly. us present joe biden and urges americans to leave ukraine immediately. washington warns of a possible russian invasion at any time. china is expanding,

influence is top of the agenda as foreign ministers from the u. s. lead quad security block whole talks in australia. also this, our olympic officials confirm a russian figure skater tested positive for a band drug. before the games, a court will decide if she can keep competing on tony chang. you're heading in to the golden triangle, where methamphetamine smugly seems to have increased dramatically, man mas, military crew, and on pete assembly with your sport, will have more for you from those winter olympics, including a new trick of the trade lands, go for a japanese snowboarder. but it's a tearful free, well, who are triple champion? ah, thank you very much for joining us. we begin with a warning from the us that russia has deployed more troops to the border with

ukraine raising fears it could invade present. joe biden says things could get cold crazy quickly, and is urging american citizens to leave ukraine immediately. a crisis has been discussed in australia at a meeting. a foreign ministers from the u. s. said quad security blog, the foreign secretary of the united states, antony blinking, had this warning. simply put, we continue to see very troubling signs of russian escalation, including new forces arriving at the ukrainian border. um, and as we said before, we're in a window, ah, when an invasion could begin at any time, and to be clear that includes during the olympus. meanwhile, diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis, continue the u. k. defense minister ben wallace is in moscow and planned to meet his russian counterpart, sergey chicago as tensions rise. meanwhile, a russian bought separatist leader in easton. ukraine has blamed for the government

in care for raising the stakes by moving military hardware. while we have 3 correspondents standing by this hour to cover this story, natasha butler is in the ukrainian capital kia chance stratford is in the next game eastern ukraine. first we go to dorothy jabari in rushes capital moscow doors a pretty grim assessment from the u. s. president of what lies ahead. what's the reaction 1st from moscow to present biden's latest comments? well, the kremlin has not directly responded to the are comments made by the u. s. president, but we can expect their line to be pretty much the same that they've taken over the past few weeks. and that is, this kind of rhetoric from the united states is only creating hysteria, not only in this region, but also globally. and it's affecting everything from the atmosphere, not only in russia, but also in ukraine. we have heard from ukrainian officials as well that this kind

of talk from u. s. officials is not really conducive to finding a peaceful path for the russians, for their part say that they have never in their displayed any intentions of invading ukraine. and they have said that the reason we have those troops alongside the border with ukraine in the south western part of russia is because they're carrying out military drills as they have done over the past few weeks and months and, and for another country to dictate to us where we can move our troops within our own country is just simply not acceptable. we are also waiting to hear from other officials later in the day i whether or not they'll directly comments on the latest and issues that have been raised by us. officials will have to wait and see the diplomacy. meanwhile, door. so still goes on, what sort of reception might be you, case defense minister receive in moscow to day after, but rather frosty and unsuccessful visit by the foreign secretary of the united

kingdom yesterday. well, i think british officials are hoping the defense secretary ben wallace will have much better luck than at the foreign secretary did on thursday. let's trust a many here are saying it was actually an abysmal and catastrophic catastrophic meeting with her russian counterpart survey. love rob, who i even before that press conference and then walked off the podium, the 2 didn't even look at each other during their press conference following an hour and a half meeting they had. i think the russian officials felt that she came here with a very strict list of demands. and she wasn't really willing to listen to anything the russians had to say. and at one point the russian foreign affairs secretary foreign secretary surgeon love rob said that it was like as a mute person speaking to a deaf person, i think was very clear, very quickly that her trip actually did more damage than good. and i think been

wallace now is hoping that he can salvage this relationship, at least a little bit with his russian counterpart survey, chicago, who are the 2 are due to meet shortly, and they'll have a press conference later. so we'll see how that goes. thank you. for that door such a barry will be checking in with you a little later. of course, dorsey jibari in moscow. nice tensions continue to rise. a russian backed separatist leader in eastern ukraine has just held a news conference less bringing chance stratford, who is in car key forest a tell us about dennis pushed leon and what he had to say and what sort of impact it it'll have on the wider diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis dennis porcelain became the leader of the self declared in its people's republic in 2018 after the 1st lead alexander's aka shanker was assassinated in a bomb blast in don x. something that the separatists blamed on ukraine as did the

russians. nobody came forward and claimed responsibility for that assassination. and a very fiery, a very language used by pushing to day in this press conference. he accused the west of sabotaging any kind of peaceful solution to this conflict. he said that the ukrainians with western support were planning what he described as a military solution to it. he detailed allegations about ukrainian troop and weapons build up on the crane. in government controlled side of the contact zone, he said that the west were to blame for the sabotaging of the minsk agreement. now the minsk agreement, as we know it was signed in 2015 by the separatists and the then ukrainian government aimed at a peaceful solution to this settlement. it's an agreement that the ukrainians are pushed back on saying that it is too heavily weighted in the separatists favor. and if it was fully implemented would give russia

a greater hand in ukrainian affairs. and it was interesting that pushy lynn said that term, the separatists or their side weren't 100 percent happy with the agreement either. but he said it was internationally recognized one and it had to be abided by. he said that he was skeptical that there would be any peaceful settlements to this conflict in the near future. um, so as i say some in the context of the crisis, the ongoing crisis and fairly inflammatory remarks made by him. and let's not forget that anything that pushing says would have been given a green light by the kremlin. and it's very apparent that russia does use the separatists as a form of proxy to put pressure on the ukranian government. of course, preaching denies that he says that this is an internal matter between the ukrainian government and the separatists. he says he has no role in it. he denies that russia

has helped the militarily in any way, although we do know that without basically russian money, that area would collapse economically. so some very, as a say potentially inflammatory language raised. and something that by no means is going to help in defusing, this crisis as the diplomatic efforts continue. thank you for that johnny chance stratford life for us in car cave in easton ukraine. next to natasha butler in ukraine's capital kiev. and natasha americans being told to leave ukraine. russia saying is, is whipping up hysteria. what's a reaction in care what, what's the sentiment among ukrainians? well, you know, just a few days ago we were talking about the sense of optimism that there was the sense of hope because of all the diplomatic efforts that have been going on, returned kia with but also in moscow. but i think things seem to have taken a downward turn, and for many people here, things are certainly looking

a lot more bleak. you have you as president joe biden asking americans to leave ukraine talking about that russian, a military buildup. then you have on the other side, you have the russian foreign minister. so again, north level of saying that he might also consider pulling out non essential diplomatic staff from ukraine. and the ukranian government lashing out out to moscow saying that moscow is carrying out a hybrid war because moscow's begun 5 days of naval exercises in the black and as off. see calling on the international community to do something about it. ukraine now feels it on 3 sides. it a russian forces. russian forces in the east, russian military exercises in belarus to the north. and now those naval exercises are in the south. so there is a lot of tension. things certainly do not seem quite as hopeful as they were earlier in the week. and also there was 8 a meeting in berlin,

this normandy format. you had ukrainians and russians in one room alongside the french and german counterpart without meeting lasted 9 hours with no breakthroughs . once again, he re key. if it has to be said, you know, life does go on, people are looking at what is happening. they have been living with a conflict for the past 8 years in the east. they know that that is nothing new, but there is a sense that perhaps things could get worse. we've been speaking to some ukraine's front line may be far from the shooting range in the capital q have, but is never, far from the mind to filename or stout's, of the veteran of the conflict in the east of the country where ukrainian forces a fighting russian back separatists, he fears russia could attack once again, because he doesn't trust fla, tammy putin, he can do whatever he wants. as to the president, by the say that it, sir, boy was

a nuclear weapon was all france 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 and key f that has been reopened in case the worst happens. it was built during the cold war by the russians who have now become the enemy, 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 through her dialect with russia mostly like not, not to make it worse because they're not interested. little emotional roughly which they're capable of attacking. they want to attack, what would they dare with they really do us more nearly 8 years of conflict, ukraine's 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 keith. as we heard their russian and bell russian troops, i contin in their joint military trails. nato estimates $30000.00 russian soldiers are taking part, the largest deployment to the ex soviet safe. since the cold war. western powers fear the drills could be used as an opportunity to attack ukraine. set thus and

report from the bell russian capital minsk. russia flexing its military muscle, just 50 kilometers from the bela russian 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 and previous military exercises by russian officials have not disclosed the 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 and his own crime. your forces thronged it used 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 the fans, show tanks and metal 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, kia. 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 line with russian contingent on barrison. foyle indicates a possible 2nd front for vladimir putin who makes use of the isolated and international weak position of his prodigy, alexander lucas shanker. lucas shanker, came under sanctions from the west after he was accused of election fraud and 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 turned to russian leader for help. good. it's a book, mass mutual, dose you for military forces have always left bellows after the end of an exercise

right now with of 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 talks will eventually leave after the drills finish on february 20 until dan speculation about the real purpose of this show or force will likely continue. steadfast al jazeera in men's not morehead on this al jazeera and use our including living in limbo life. thousands of venezuelan colombian citizens have had their id is canceled, and gold at last for a swiss kia, who's enjoyed olympic disappointment, speed on, have the details in force later. ah, in the world use foreign ministers of the u. s. lead quad gould meeting in melbourne, australia have pledged to deepen corporation against what they call coercion in the

indo pacific region. the black includes australia, japan, in india, and its remarks are seen as an efforts to counter china's growing economic and military expansion. the group, as discussed, the growing ties between china and russia, as well as the current of iris, pandemic, cybersecurity, illegal fishing, and climate change. for more, let's bring in as sarah clark, who's in brisbin, australia for sarah. so the foreign ministers have released a joint statement. what they agreed on was a wide range of issues of discuss, as discussed at this meeting, letty joint statement that reaffirmed this support for an affirmative open and democratic order for the entire pacific are they also noted this is maurice pine whose australia is foreign minister, a who hosted this gathering in melbourne. she noted that we are in a period of uncertainty and the prosperity in the region is under pressure to the lights of the authoritarian regimes. that, of course, this was

a vial reference to beijing. the reference also as to the growing alliance between russia and china. and you might recall vladimir putin sheet in peng, announced a joint declaration with no limits at a recent gathering before the winter olympics. and this making this, this particular declaration by these 2 countries was also noted at the gathering and it was a concern raised by the court group. now this meeting is also an effort to reassure the region that the pacific and the quad group is committed to not just security arrangements, but infrastructure investment, humanitarian. and i'd, and as mentioned also that maurice pie, and they also noted the europe, russia, and ukraine milk. she crosses and they rise. it might be a global issue, but they raised it and the m anthony blinking. the u. s. secretary of state knows that the same principles apply for the quote group should also be applied to russia and, and how is china, which has been really central to the agenda of this meeting? how is beaching reacting to all this rhetoric?

with china's response to the court group on multiple occasions, other echoed that this is a clique or an exclusive plate group. it's targeting 3rd parties, the likes of beijing. and it's the quote groups, a japan, the u. s. a india and astray there will trying to undermine at china's growth of also libel their actions as inflammatory and undermining the regions prosperity. not unless of course, also a state. the china simply doesn't want this group of countries working cooperatively to try and stifle their military economic expansion as well as territorial expansion across this region. now it's finished the meeting in melbourne. the u. s. secretary of state he heads to fiji tomorrow. then on to honolulu, and he'll be raising the foundations of this joint declaration with the pacific leaders. and they're also the focus will be on climate change. and of course, the next court meeting. this will be the 5th coordinating that will happen in japan in the middle of the year. thank you for that. sarah cock live in brisbane, australia. i've been confirmed that russian figure skater camila valley ever

tested positive for a band substance before at the window. lympics began, the 15 year olds case will now be taken to the court of arbitration for sport. it will rule whether she can continue competing at the games. it may also consider whether the russians should be stripped of a gold medal. they one in the team skating event. such cases are not helpful to the games. i think hopefully most people see that of the, the 3000 people are competing here, 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 got needs to be gone through. well, let's take a closer look at how things have played out in this case. the valley ever was tested on christmas day last year during the russian figure skating championships. she made her olympic debut on sunday in the women's short program segment of the team event. on monday, her unprecedented quadruple john held to the russian olympic committee when the

team event. on tuesday, the swedish lab that tested the 15 year old sample reported an adverse finding. she was then provisionally suspended by the russian anti doping agency. on wednesday, the international lampey committee announced the metal ceremony for the team event had been delayed due to what it called a legal issue on the same day value of a challenge. her suspension, a russian disciplinary committee decided to lift it that evening allowing her to compete to continue to compete the i o. c has appealed at that decision to the court of arbitration for sport laughter. katrina, you in beijing. katrina, quite an unusual situation here. first of all, what are the next steps in the process or what needs to be decided is whether the russian figure skating team can still keep the gold medals that they won earlier this week on monday. and secondly, weather valley ever herself can continue on india olympics. now the i o c says an

urgent legal case is being put forward by the international testing agency, the i t a on behalf of the i or c. and that case is appealing for that suspension ban on value, but to be to be lifted. now this suspension been allowed valley able to continue in competition despite her testing positive, t and z. now tim z or the drug true metacity is a commonly used medication for treating and china, but it's banned by many sporting agencies because it's also known to boost endurance. now what is also complicating this whole legal case is valid, gave is age, she's only 15 years old and the world anti doping agency has certain rules in place to protect minors. so that means she may only receive or reprimand her. and if that's the case, attention will then turn to her coaches and to her own trudge. and that's already raising suspicions about russian athletes who are at the wage and games not

competing under the flag all and them because of previous doping violations. but valley ever katrina tested positive before the winter games. how was she able to compete? that's right. it is a rather complicated timeline is we just had earlier on december the 25th. she was tested at the russian national championships. now that sample was then sent to the world anti doping agencies headquarters in sweden, but it wasn't flagged that the sample was positive, fatigue sealed from attaching true metacity and until february the 8th, that on tuesday, one day after valley, ava already led her team to gold. metal victory. but just before the metal ceremony for that event took place, now sada the anti doping agency in russia says that once they heard about this positive sample, they immediately band valley a the, from the games valley with an appeal that bad. and that band was suspended. so this

current case by the iris he is looking at why exactly that band was suspended, why she's still allowed to compete despite this positive test. but it's also raising questions as to why value of a sample was seemingly unnoticed in this the waters a swedish headquarters for about 6 weeks before finally coming to light by the authorities this week. so a lot of questions still need to be answered. when asked about this russian government through their support behind valley, they said this was a misunderstanding that she should hold her head up high and certainly that's what she's trying to do. she was in beijing continuing training as usual with her coach this week. and she is still scheduled to compete at next week's individual figures, casing events. katrina, thank you for that update. katrina, you is correspondent in reaching lydia is newly selected. prime minister is promising to be a leader for all citizens. fatty basheba was greeted by crowds of supporters. after

his brain touched on in tripoli, he was appointed by the house of representatives spaced in the eastern city of to brook. ashanda is said to replace in turn prime minister abdul hamid debarber, but he says he won't stand down until elections are held. a challenge to the unity government came hours after the bible survived, an assassination attempt acumen, cody months with the court, the upcoming gone. when would be for every $100.00, include everyone we will reach out to everyone with no exception. we don't just started on so that the whole always corporate with the parliament and the council of state. because a government cannot succeed without gold breathing and working the legislative body . i'll just here is malik train. every pause from libya's capital tripoli in the eastern city of to brook. i live his parliament selected a new prime minister that he bossa was voted into office unanimously. he arrived in tripoli on thursday night and was received by hundreds of people. the former

interior minister is widely seen as western libya, strong men, and he's got the backing of powerful lauren groups across the country. including warlord fully for half tres self proclaimed libyan national army or elani, which controls the oil rich is to her belt the other. we will come and support the decision of the libyan parliament. made unfair thay to appoint mister bishop har as prime minister and to form a government that leads to a better future for all libyans. with that but inter prime minister abdul hamid de baber says you will not hand over power. lin s let be amerihome. i will not allow for new transition or 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 been our position that i stayed any 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 intern 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. we took about about eliminating a alimentary elect since are the best solution to the contract because it is 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 libya's west who as support. busy from the way

warlord in the countries is that he bizarre, believe he can bring libya's government back together. but with the un and other powers refusing to recognize them as prime minister. whether he can bring stability to the country or even take office. both remain very uncertain. now, trina, al jazeera, the still ahead on the news, our running out of time, australia's famous corners could become extinct unless more is done to protect them . and on the waves horse liverpool, close the gap on premier league leaders, man city heater has that. sorry. coming to stay with us. we're back up to the ah, there's been a windy spell in northern europe recently, thus 24 hours. in fact,

this little thing here, you wouldn't think it would you be thirty's, skidding down such it gives to day strong winds and they're warmer, the low countries and in germany, that's just a little bit late. winter storm, which i suppose there's not much else to it. once that's gone through, it's just dropping temperatures because ahead of it still 10 degrees above average . so this cold will spread back. i'm a parent body is february supposed to be cold, but the sun's doing a good job of warming things up during the day. for the most part. what comes in from the atlantic bit different book, rest temperature drops as it should do. so mostly european plane is fine and probably scotlands, right, because this windsor southwesterly never particularly cold. so dull windy wet for england tends to snow readily in norway and probably rain in denmark. there's a sun by here. this is saturday's picture, a few showers smitley in spain and portugal may be italy, but it's not extreme fairly strong window. i think across croatia once can that seasonal one that comes down to the coast. in north africa,

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ukraine. foreign ministers of the u. s. lead quad group have met in australia. the security block includes japan in india. they discussed at the growing ties between china and russia, as well as cybersecurity and climate change. and it's been confirmed that russian figure skater camila valley ever tested positive for a band substance before the winter olympics began. a 15 year old case will now be taken to the court of arbitration for sports more now on our top story and the tensions between russia and ukraine. let's take a closer look at why ukraine has long been a particularly sensitive issue. for moscow, it was part of the russian empire before the becoming a soviet republican then winning independence in 1991. when the soviet union collapse, russia is concerned with maintaining regional dominant, and a big part of that is keeping ukraine out of the nato military lives. frozen vladimir putin says the west promised in the past that nato wouldn't expand

eastwards. since 1997, 14 more countries have joined near lions edging closer to russia's borders. attention sled, 8 years ago when mass protest topples ukrainian president, victoria markovich hate pushed for closer ties to moscow rather than the e. u. rushes armed forces responded by an extremely crimean peninsula and backing the separatists. rebellion in eastern ukraine, or let's speak to samuel romani about this. his a russia specialists, an associate fellow at the royal united services institute. rosie is joining as vice high from oxford in the u. k. very good to have you with a samuel. so the kremlin saying right now that it wants to avoid conflict, but it seems to be doing everything to provoke one why. why is ukraine important to russia and why would they invade it now? well, it says so too early to tell with a rush is actually going to invade ukraine. it does seem as if the diplomatic

concessions that they wandered from the west, specially regarding nato expansion, security guarantees, and nato forces. ne, eastern europe are not being met. and that might lead to a more limited tactical military intervention, or that re seizure of give, was abundantly clear of this is 3 decades of russian policy. russia is not the ukraine to be a fully sovereign state. and when ukraine makes any movement towards the last, economically, or in a security sense, or seem to be doing that, russia feels compelled to intervene. so you think there's a strategic goal from moscow? here you think the goal is just negotiations and not a full blown invasion wifi, the full blown invasion will be immensely costly. and it's important to keep in mind that in 20142015, the russians were able to take over crimea. and don bask very easily, but they weren't able to push for cities and he, she, ukraine, like her kiva, odessa, without losing many casualties. they failed to get there. i'm moving for kiya would be even more costly. that's why i think it's more likely that they're going to push for a limited intervention and use that military force to get bargaining concessions.

in the past, putins foreign policy has been quite popular, but according to the latest poles, a military campaign right now, the prospect of invading a ukraine, even in a limited capacity, as you say, is not popular among russians. would this you think, affect his decision making? absolutely, the public opinion played a major role in facilitating at the russian military intervention in crime. and want to keep in mind the putin's approval reading, when 59 percent to 92 percent immediate aftermath of the seizure crimea. crimea was seen as one of the cardinal legacies of his presidency. so it would definitely be constrained to the child, when many people are just focused on socioeconomic issues and the cova, pend, oak. we know that he doesn't allow any opposition within russia. we've seen it. but what about the general said, does he listen to them? and what would their advice boise just simply making these decisions unilaterally? well, decision to intervene in crimea back in 2014. as far as i seen,

it was made by vladimir putin, a small coterie of clothes advisors, mostly drawn from the silver key, which is the russian national security establishment. so the hard line and he western voices identical potter shares, or the defense minister survey shall i give even certain elaborate was most likely not in the room or a major player. so he's likely relying on the advice of very similar are liners this time. and they will determine it to some degree what course of action he techs . so what, what proteins and game is anyone's guess right now he seems to be operating really on his own time table. what is the best case scenario here in your view? well, the best case scenario, i think for everybody concerned is what we saw last spring. the russians basically, i realized that this brinkmann ship is not going to produce concessions. there's domestic pressure. the grad deters a potential military intervention and russia gradually abs retreat says from brinkman ship again. the worst case scenario,

obviously the flood invasion. i think the most likely scenario, something in between and adding to the current tensions right now as a military exercises between russia and bela rose in their 2nd day to day. and the big question, of course, is whether russia will pull back its troops at the end of these exercises as it phase. it will, well, what are your thoughts on this? while these exercises, obviously, i also link to the development new grade. there's $30000.00 forces there. it's the ad biggest forced to apply him into the rushes, made like in a foreign countries and the end of the cold war, at least legally recognized it. sir. also, russia does want to show solidarity with the bell russian government to which has been under strains as the protest in 2020. so it's possible that this is just about showing solidarity with beller is not brain partnership, but i have a feeling that the insurance is that it may have given to the french about leaving right away might not happen the way we might thank. thank you so much for talking to us and thank you for you. your insight on this, samuel romani from the royal united services institute, joining us here from oxford. thank you. now the united nation says the

military co in myanmar a year ago is to blame for an increase in illegal drug smuggling in the region. at least in thailand, a confiscating millions of pills of meth every day. and lawless reported an 800 percent increase in drug seizures. tony chang rifles in the hills on the border with me on mo, an army patrol and thailand emerges from the mist. in this visibility, they can barely see 10 meters ahead. but this is one of the busiest smuggling routes on the border. in recent months they've seen several 1000000 methamphetamine pills and shot dead sick smugglers from me and mo, from the command of knows why they're so busy yet. and i think it's to politics and a conflict between the people in chart and ethnic groups in the provincial capital chain, right. the authority is showing off their latest bust seized the night before. more

than 6 and a half 1000000 methamphetamine pills. in the last 6 months, the amount of crystal meth a meth pill seized, has exploded. the produces, often linked to ethnic tom groups inside myanmar appear to be raising funds. these groups need money at the moment, or money in general that they can jerry through this trade can buy them arms. i can buy them other supplies, which they may or may not need to support themselves that populations are one. sam is a drug smuggler and a police informant. he wants his identity. hidden would have been milan. he says that although the amount of drugs being intercepted has increased sharply, far more is getting through. and even more than that. huh. is waiting to come across the border cut nova, i cannot even guess the amount of drugs that are waiting to be delivered. but i know that there are tons of them so that the produces can produce whatever amount

of drug that the client would smile. and the cost of production is so cheap. can the tie authorities stem the flow of drugs? they say they know where the drugs are coming from. but with fighting between mere mas army and ethnic tom groups, no one over there is thinking about stopping smugglers. the tie army try and make regular patrols down this river. heading towards the golden triangle. this is mia mar. this is thailand. they say often during the dry season is so little water that boats can get down. but the smugglers just walked straight across. 12 hours after this patrol nearly $9000000.00 mess pills were seized just down river. a brief interruption in the flow of illegal drugs into the country. tony chang al jazeera on the time. yeah, my border a guzman proposal aim gonna to tax electronic payments. has provoked a straight protest in the capital, a cra, demonstrators complained that the so called e levy will hurt low income earners already facing high should and fuel prices.

victoria gate and b has more, a protest is march through gone is capital across. the angry about a government plan to introduce attacks known as an e levy. a charge of nearly 2 percent will be added to all electronic transactions of morgan, $16.00. recent poll show up to 85 percent of the country's population opposes the tax protest in say people on low incomes will suffer the most to print the situation for money which is direct, kept in my pocket, physically or kept in my electronic wallet. you start to take the electronic money immune transaction. army is simply immoral, is criminal. the government says the money raised from the levy will pay for development projects. tax revenues have fallen sharply and gone, or in recent years, from 32 percent of g. d. p. in 2009 to 15 percent in 2020 part of the reason is nearly 3 quarters of the countries. $10000000.00 workers are employed informally

and many don't pay income tax. some economists say the levy is not a bad idea, but must be implemented fairly. others say the timing is wrong process, i'll ask a little bit. a bit out. well, prices are good at even last with one big wilbert and chris twice. now we are planned boxes of routes uncovered. come in, and these double brendan alleys, vision to go, people were adult. whoa, blah stupor, corporate taxes, some protest to say they cannot afford to live and to cooling on the government to go slowly losing it. right? so all my grandchildren are homeschooling, i cannot feed them if we cannot access water or food. i don't have anything to survive on. so i'm asking the government to hand over power to someone else. we're really suffering gonna has one of the fastest growing mobile money markets in africa. protest is want the government to think again about the impact of the levy

on the poorest in the country, victoria gate and be al jazeera around $40000.00 venezuelan, so fled across the border to columbia. had their citizenship cards cancelled without being told. as alexander, i'm here to report some bogota mini i children of colombian citizens, some have been arrested while others can't get hospital treatment or used their bank accounts. venezuelan colombian edward custody joan was doing his job and with that recently, when he was stopped by the police for a routine check, he was them founded when he was stole disco. me an id was fake and was arrested for 36 hours with hale. and i was in shock because i was sure i had done nothing wrong . they still handcuffed me and took me to the police station. edward was born in venezuela, but having a colombian mother, he was able to get citizenship when he migrated here in 2019. but now he says he's living in limbo, fearing he could end up in jail again every time he leaves the house. on the part

of the right to my identity has been violated. yes, i was born in venezuela already have a life. yeah. a credit history. everything. now i live in fear feeling that i am some sort of criminal. and edward is not alone. 43000 venezuelan colombian cities in the last year i d. 's in the last few weeks columbia. the national registry says they found the irregularities in their documentation as part of a purging up the electoral sciences. there were cancelled and the majority were not notified since then. more than 200 have been arrested and others have had severe consequences. the director of the civil registry says that while the difficulty many faith, unfortunately they have no option given the fact the records show. some irregularity isn't make, and it's the mechanism we have in our country to integrate people effectively into the rule of law that will give them all the guarantees that correspond to them as

colombian citizens. but the adjustment to the law is inevitably applicable, but some suspect, darker motives, they have the so called irregularities, could be an excuse used by the government to reduce the participation in upcoming presidential elections, of citizens linked to socially been its way. model. others claim it's the government's heavy handed response to allegations of fake id circulating in the country, whatever the reason it's having an impact. audi wasn't great, but i gabriela cadina's who ran so human rights foundation that assist venezuelan migrants has gathered almost 5000 wrongful cases. if people is columbia, we are colombian and every administrative decision that to take effect the life of this people to day. we have people that have cancer and are not receiving their treatment because the situation leaving many to face the real life consequences of bureaucratic decisions. be on the control. allison with m. p at the i'll just eat

up with that. one of australia's best known and most loved animals has been declared and endangered species. a scientific committee recommended changing the colonaze conservation status to protect their populations. environmentally so welcoming the measures to stop the potential wipe out or michelson reports a global symbol of australia's unique while life is now on the brink of extinction . loss of land, bush fires, drought and disease are being blamed for the decline and kuala populations or would decades. the endangered listing means they will be better protected and details action that needs to be taken was true that we live, or we like to live where corollas live. but those developments require what are called offsets, which means that there needs to be a qual, habitat put back. so what this announcement is about is making sure that that's done in the best and strongest possible way so that we do have long,

continuous areas of habitat that are good for quality. and that we also make sure that we've got the population strength in those areas. the kuala has been listed as a bung notable species for a decade. but experts say devastating bush fires in 2019 led to at 30 percent reduction in its population inches 3 years. the listing today is really important to give the species that legal recognition. but what needs to follow is really strong regulatory protection for the corolla. and the government has recently committed more money. we have the legal and status as endangered now. they're really good parts of the equation, but what's missing is the stronger regulatory protection. so while as need stronger laws and they need regulations that prevent the clearing of their habitat, which is their keith rat. late last month,

the government announced $50000000.00 in funding to help conserve the quality but conservation as criticized it for putting a price tag on what's widely seen as a national treasure. and they say, the only way the color can be saved is if the government protects the physical environment. it lipson. when we consume al jazeera sports is next year on al jazeera and top level, russian support for the 15 year old caught up in a drunk raw at the winter olympics in beijing. peter has the latest back to the break. stay with ah

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i time not for sports here speaker, but he thank you a figure skater, who's winter olympics gold medal hangs in the balance because of a doping controversy is getting top level russian backing. 15 year old camilla valley ava has been urged while the kremlin to perform home and defeats everybody. the international olympic committee and international skating union, or appealing against russia's decision to allow valley ever to compete in badging. she test the positive in december for a metabolic agent that's prescribed to treat angina and vertigo, believer lead the russian olympic committee to gold in the team events. joining us now from beijing is a p. sports correspondence. steven wade, steve, always good to talk to you. the russians where the competing of themselves or some manufactured monica, have been tarnished by doping going back all the way now to the olympics in saatchi

once again it's doping. once again, it's the russians. how damaging is this for the reputation? well you, you put the big headline on once again as the russians. you know, we have camille volley, eva just wanting a metal several days ago than finding out the day after that that she tested positive a month ago for a, for an agent. now the question is whether she can skate next week on tuesday for this gold metal, she is the favorite to win gold. in fact, russian skaters the favorites, the goal, 123, sometime in the next several days cast, this court of arbitration for sport is going to have to decide if she's able to skate. can she skate next week or not? then the 2nd question will be the metal she won this week several days ago? can she keep it or does she give it up? waiting in the wings, we had the united states japan as a silver and bronze medal as they would bump up. and canada would bump up to the bronze metal position. so she's in a terrible position. we have a mass and we have

a bunch of skaters who are waiting in the wings to find out if they're going to get any metals at all. so where does this leave the i athene terms of having to take difficult decisions on russia? yeah, the question is, why is the i was see letting russia compete? they had this massive state sponsored doping scanned when 2014, in the last 3 of olympics, they've had to compete under not the name of russia by the name of the russian limpid committee. so officially, russia is not even here. there's going to be a lot of questions for the i o. c. why have they gone so leniently on russia? they've just refused the band and thomas bock the ios, the president has said, we don't feel it's fair to ban the entire team. we feel like we can't prejudice one person for sins of the whole team. what we can't purchase the team for sins of one person. the our see has a black eye here. no matter what happens if they, if she loses the metal, they look bad. if she's loud, escape, they look bad. it's

a blemish, definitely on them again and again, it's russia, doping, steve, i just want to quickly come back to valley eva's well, she's only 15 years old. what becomes of her? yeah, that's the other we have meant that she's a minor so it's possible that she will get off and be allowed to keep this metal under the grounds that she's a minor. she's not responsible for what she took. perhaps an adult gave it to her. she may get a get off and be able to keep the metal. but imagine your 15 year old young woman skating, she's the best in the world and she gets caught up in this mess. it seems incredibly unfair to her. i'm sure right now it must be difficult for her to practice which she is. but how can you practice and keep your focus when this sort of thing is hanging over you? it's a terrible mess for this young 15 year old woman. it's really a mess for everybody know whichever way you look at it. it's a m e s. s. a p sports correspond. steven wade. thank you. as a with me it's, i'm really appreciated. well figure skating jim this, jackie wong says this is not

a good look at all for the russian olympic committee. it's a really terrible place that camilla valley ever is in. like i said she's, she's a minor. who knows what went on behind the scenes, but it, it, it really, it's, it shouldn't be on her. it should be on the system. if it does, it is found out that, that everything is what, what they say it was. right. so, you know, we'll see what happens i think, you know, in terms of the rational committee, part of why they are call walk the entire reason why they're called the russian. oh, the committee here is because the state system doping in years past. and so you know, up to the i o c to really figure out what they want to do with those if, if indeed the be the doping appeal stance

elsewhere there. the new high flyer in the men snowboard hoff pipe. as the legend tips out depends, are you moving iran or mailing gold or the final run? it included a triple coke that's 3 head over heels flips and a twist. while grabbing the board hit on a on the introduce the dangerous trick in december after 6 months of intense training doing 60 drill the day. but it was an emotional farewell for american shore and white the winter at the past 3 olympics. crashing on the final run to finish for the 35 year old, so he's grateful to be leaving behind a legacy for the next generation of professional writers. my name is he's the oldest athlete and the sport to this event. so i'm sure there are a lot of emotions that i would never dream of being able to understand. and he has delivered the best of his performance, just riding on this venue itself as much more important than the result itself. and that's a great message for everybody. and i've been very much that by, by his run

a swiss skier has one gold in an events that's been gut wrenching for her at previous olympics. will champion laura good, better ami, taking up the super g that hero finished for the last 2 of them picked the gold comes on top of the bronze. she came in the giant slalom to time limping. middle mckenna shipper was a distant 9, but at least the american finish the time of skiing out. in her previous 2 races, germany still touched the table with 6 gold medals of norway and sweden, who both at 5. he don't know when doubling japan sally, and putting it in the top 10 level who have reduced the gap. i mentioned the 39 points at the top of english footballs, premier league, the home side, taking care of business and field again, less portuguese food. the other job food, either side of health, i'm in the to know when the food can reduce the deficit. samantha, even further, if they, when they came in actually have no chance to which would be to do to,

to catch them. would that mean me shall not try to play the best possible seas of ross so i can see that. so 1st and foremost, we have to, we know football games and this football club is massive. and since i'm here, i can't remember a game the last and everybody said, yeah, you can lose that game. a blockbuster, n d, a d o has seen brooks install, james, hard and trades philadelphia, but it's agreed to send the 10 time also for the 70 fixes in exchange for unwonted young gun. ben simmons plus 2 other players and a couple of those don't draw picks on any spin, 13 month appropriate, hoping to when he 1st m b. h average up alongside superstars, kevin duran, and kerry irving on the code. it was one way traffic for the memphis grizzlies. against the detroit pistons, jaw moran school. 23 points in memphis, one easily 100. 33107. the grizzlies have now $14.00 in a row and 7 out of 8. now. that's all the sports is funny. peter. thank you very

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let's say berlin or paris, or london man in cairo on al jazeera, in just under a year's time, castles al bait stadium will host the opening match of the 2022 world cup. the official opening of the stadium came on day one of the arab cup, but many friends were already counting down to the big kickoff next november. see you cut back, cuz i wasn't planning to move as this tournament unfolds over the coming days. it will play a key role, but organize is getting ready to host the middle east's. biggest ever school thing event next year. and for the castle national teams, they get used to playing in fronts of expected home crowds. maybe hoping to convince both the fans and themselves that they really all ready to take on the world. in july, the debate they eraser of like people from the american and global story was very powerful on an online at your voice. the comment section is whitehead joining our conversation. we had all active when everyone is protected. it does not apply.

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