in the world while providing for her family plays in boundaries, winning games. that's amazing about precious moran gay in the game. my zimbabwe on al jazeera, ah, the u. s. warns at russia has enough troops that the ukrainian border to invade. but moscow accuses the west of lies and inter make misinformation. ah, robin, what you i was there life by headquarters here in dough also coming up. a state of emergency declared in canada's most populous province. after days of protest at the border truck drivers angry about covet 19 measures. for the u. s. c's is more than $7000000000.00 of frozen afghan funds. the money will be split between humanitarian

aid and compensation for $911.00 attack victims and protestant garner gates to do tax on electronic payments with fears it'll hurt people on low incomes ah, bottom to the broker. we begin with the growing military stand off in europe. u. s . president jo bye will be speaking to russia's. vladimir putin on saturday to discuss tensions with ukraine that says by nor does 3000 more troops to poland over warnings of a potential russian invasion of ukraine. washington says moscow has amassed enough troops long the ukrainian border to launch a major invasion at any moment. russia's consistently denied plans for an attack and as accusing the west of spreading false information. how did your castro has more for washington dc? just minutes after we heard the national security advisor telling americans ukraine

to leave within the next 48 hours. we'll just after that announcement, the white house has announced a call now schedule between you as president joe biden, and a lot of your prudent for tomorrow morning. washington time, so there certainly is still hope from the white house that there could be a diplomatic resolution to this. the pentagon announcing now the doubling of the number of us troops that will be deployed to poland and romania, now sending another $3000.00 us service men and women to that region. no, pointing out, they will not be ordered to serve in combat missions. they are there in case this russian invasion happens and the aftermath. now this is coming as we just heard from the national security advisor, jake sullivan issuing those dire warning. saying that an attack, an invasion from russia on ukraine could happen at any time that knocked forward the expected or possible timelines before there were speculation that russia could

wait for the conclusion of the olympics in china as to not upstage its ally. but now it appears that according to us intelligence which sullivan declined to go into details to share of the he says, there appears that russia does have the military forces amassed now at the ukrainian border to launch and eminent assault p j currently is an ortho, and fully united states assistant secretary of state for public affairs, he says biden has made a deliberate choice to make this confrontation public. many times you, you try to quietly resolve the crisis behind closed doors. in this particular case, you know, the administration has taken its concerns about russia, you know, very publicly, very earnestly, very forthrightly. and there's a potential reward here. if putin eventually takes an off ramp and begins to de escalate. there's also the risk that putting russia on the spot putting,

put on the spot, requires him to do something to say face, but it is going to be ministration. has decided that it's going to public confront putin both to prepare the american people for the prospect of something happening in ukraine and also preparing europe. that should that happen, they'll need to be this aggressive response. i still think it's more likely that putin will hold off, you know, given the emerging alliance between russia and china. i think you'll be hesitant to embarrass president g while he has this olympic moment. but i think, you know, jake sullivan is simply saying that given the increased level of activity of russian forces in around ukraine, you can't take for granted that we still have a number of days to resolve this. in other news truck, a staging blockade on

a bridge connecting canada to the us have in order to leave for a judge in ontario, granted an order to enter the protest. the province has declared the state of emergency in response to the blockade which is causing gridlock. dr. is a protesting against a covey. 19 vaccine mandate. the standoff on the basset a bridge has cold parts shortages, 4 major automakers. well, during a televised address, canadian prime minister just intruder knowledge that everyone may have caved 19 fatigue, but explained how the blockage is damaging the economy. the illegal blockades are hurting canadians, whether they're an ottawa, windsor or emerson, their endangering jobs, the threats to our economy, and to public safety. the blockades are hurting small businesses and neighborhoods at the border there impacting trade supply chains and manufacturing the people. these blockades are hurting her everyday families. political aid is

following the elements from washington. d. c. the premier said by issuing this state of emergency for 42 hours, possibly longer. it allows them to start arresting people. and he said if they do that, people could face up to $100000.00 fine to year in prison. one of the big concerns obviously, is the size of the protest. people's been bringing children, the premier said, please leave your children at home. please go home, they're afraid with the weekend that those numbers are just going to swell. a really interesting way to protest me if you think about it, it's really hard to deal with something as big as a semi truck. so the question is, how do they go in and get them out if they were to get their drivers out of the cabs? how do they move the trucks? do they have to have them towed? where do they told them to? and obviously it's very scary because the truck of that size, somebody had a bad motives, they could do a tremendous amount of damage, especially in

a large crowd situation. so we do know that the police in canada have called in reinforcements. they don't have any sort of national guard like here in the united states, but obviously it's going to be a tricky operation if they want to go in. they'd 1st have to figure out how to get them out of the truck, how to move the trucks and how to protect themselves well, facing down these huge semi trucks. so very interesting predicament, really for the police trying to figure out if they move in, how do they do it, and how do they do it safely? the yes president joe biden has signed an executive order to unfreeze $7000000000.00 in us. can sons, the money was deposited by the can central bank in new york and was frozen prior to the taliban takeover in august. half of the funds will go towards humanitarian efforts in i've done this on the other half to relatives of victims of $911.00. another attacks by armed groups christine salumi is in new york explains why the relatives of the victims are being allocated some of the chemist on money. they

have already won. lawsuits that were filed years ago here in new york against the taliban and al qaeda against the taliban for its role in those attacks. and so they are suing to get access to that money as a result of those judgments. at the same time, the bite and administration is dealing with increasing calls to do something about the dire humanitarian situation in afghanistan from the united nations. and domestically here as well, people are concerned about what's happening there because of the taliban take over. the bind administration does not want to recognize the taliban or let them have access to this money. so they're saying that they are going to set up a trust that will be overseen by a 3rd party to get this money into the country while avoiding the government. now,

there, this is still months away. they're not saying how that is going to be done, at least many questions on answered. and that has humanitarians concern the united nations again has warned that the country is on the brink of economic collapse. and already we've received a statement from one man of terry and group refugees international that says that they're worried that this will further cripple the banking system in afghanistan and perpetuate the suffering of afghans. but for now, this is what the biden administration has decided to do. protecting some of that money for the lawsuits that are pending here in new york while at the same time freeing up the money for humanitarian purposes. although not quickly or not enough for some who are concerned baton. she is an attorney at a prime council law and a law professor at bay atlantic university joins me now. law via skype from washington dc. good, have you with this, mr. tash on the program. it's an interesting move by the us. but is it legal?

i think we really have to address that issue at this time. i mean, there's talks that this executive order unfreezes the funds, but legally that's not what it's doing and that's not what it can do. it just frees up the possibility that the federal court would do that. but i think that looking at this, we have to really zone in on the issue, who do these funds belong to? they don't belong to the taliban. they belong to the central bank of afghan, as dan, which was part of a government estate. and that was backing up the commercial names in afghanistan. so part of the money belong to depositors. so think about it. if you're in your country, you deposited money in a bank, your government, you know, collapses. and then other parties want to take money that you've been waiting for access to. so legally, i think that this is the issue is that, you know, let's get a little bit of context here as well. the u. s. was negotiating with the taliban starting from 3 years ago. many would argue that the u. s. allowed the taliban to

come into power with no plan, no conditions. the withdrawal was botched. and now the u. s. is trying to put some conditions. but using these funds that are needed to infuse the afghan economy with capital right now, there been restrictions on how much people can take because there's a fear of capital flight. the economy is collapsing, civil servants having gotten paid. but in the an afghans children are starving and we're holding up money and a legal process. okay, mr. touch, let's assume that focus and but back in all the legality of what's happened. history often shows that a change of regimes in a country that often leads to a fight over assets, which is what you've just been telling us of what the legal interpretation of that situation under normal circumstances ignore if there is anything that we can call normal right, we're in a very interesting situation where the u. s. has itself stated that is not recognizing the taliban government. so in that context, the taliban don't have

a legal authority over funds that were collected in the name of the central bank of afghanistan, which was part of the islamic republic of afghanistan. so it's not really legal to issue executive orders and as capable and smart as federal judges are. they're probably not given the context of the governing situation. they are just because the taliban have taken over, doesn't mean that they own legal title to funds that were collected in the states name. and if the u. s. is not recognizing that entity as owning those funds, then how is it going to allow those funds to be used to pay for judgments against that entity? what the u. s. needs to do as it should have been looking for taliban assets in the last 20 years. where are those assets taliban were being funded? whether they're in bank accounts in pakistan or other countries. that's the legal um you know, a work that should have been done using this money and freezing it from mines. while the afghan economy collapses and children die, there's a moral wrong to it,

but it's also not legally correct in my opinion. so if you have an organization or, or government as we see, you know, as the taliban law, but they're not recognized internationally either by sovereign states all by the un . how did they then fight this? would they, or can they fight this legally, in any, in a, via any route in the courts either through the u. s. or in another 3rd country? well this is the legal limbo that we are in. if the taliban are not recognized as the government of afghanistan, then they are not owning those funds. the question becomes, who can even defend the rights of the central bank of afghanistan? and in that situation, then these legal questions should not be presented where that entity does not have legal representation. that would be in what's called inequitable under the law. sometimes you have to do it based on bad on matters of justice. i mean,

the u. s. were based on rule of law and justice. we said we were going to get us down to instill democracy. obviously that did not happen, but we as a nation, we as a country should follow those same legal principles that we are expecting others to do so. so we have to find another solution whether it's using this trustee system. all the funds should be with the trustee in the mean time. and it can be managed through the central bank without giving taliban control. because we have to really, there's a private sector in afghanistan that has ownership of funds, not even the government. and that would be a solution that would be equitable that does not take away from the claims and judgements that families of $911.00 have. those are claims, but this is just not the right part of money to obtain those funds from. it's a very complicated situation that i will be keeping a very close eye on for the moment. maria, at her touch, thanks very much. joining us from washington, d. c. thank you. thank you. so her here on out as a report from south africa where the head of the w h. o is visiting

a vaccine research hub. also, students in india, state of connecticut will return to school on monday as religious tensions remain over a headscarf. ah, ah, look forward to brighter skies the winter sponsored boy cut off airways. hello, let's have a look at the weather across south asia. in this ways is sunshine and settled conditions to be found. it's dryer up in the north, a bit of a brisk wind coming in to play by the time we get into sunday. but it remains rather clear up here. it's down in the south that we've got the wet and windy weather, thanks to the enhanced monsoon. bringing showers and some storms to tom will not do as well as to corolla and sri lanka. seeing much of that wet weather by the time we get into sunday, we've got a few showers popping off around that east coast in places like chin i. but along

the west, it's rather fine and dry with a lot of warmth. the temperature in mom by coming in in the early thirty's, that was moved to east asia. we've got quite a bit of a wintry mix coming into play across northern parts of china. but the focus is still northern japan. we got heavy snow for her cargo. it's going to edge down to western air isn't it's getting rather wet on sunday for those southern islands, thanks to a weather system. pulling out of east and china, bringing wet weather to shanghai for the weekend. but you can see that behind me for beijing we are going to see quite a bit of heavy snow. and if we have a look at the 3 day, well, it's gonna blow away by monday and they'll be plenty of sunshine. oh, the weather sponsored by casara always. egypt, strong man is ruling with an eye and fift, and the silence from his allies is deafening. the us was perfectly happy to trade off tomorrow for sleep, for security. why are western leaders turning

a blind eye when even their own citizens have fallen victim to his repression? executions, torture censorship is not acceptable. and you won't hear such strong words from, let's say berlin or paris or london man in cairo on al jazeera. ah ah, welcome back. you're watching ultra 0 with me. so robin a reminder of all top stories. the u. s. president is set to speak to russia's vladimir putin on saturday, to discuss tensions with ukraine. these are that phone call comes astray bod, noted 3000 more troops to poland over warnings of a potential russian invasion of ukraine. vasquez accusing the west of spreading

lies. a judge in ontario is granted in order to end the blockade of a bridge connecting canada to the us. the injunction gives police the power to end the on getting demonstrations. truckers have been protesting against a coven 19 vaccine mandate. and the u. s. is seeking to release frozen afghan assets, president biden signed to the executive order. it allows washington to split the $7000000000.00 the humanitarian aid to have got his thumb and victims of 9 to left the time people have been protesting in the b as capital. tripoli, demonstrators are calling for the parliament in the eastern city to book to be dissolved and for parliamentary elections to be held on thursday. the government in the east of the country appointed to form a interior minister fatty sugar, as that new prime minister. in the 1st phase of a return to divisions of the water country, the united nations of back that call for national elections as soon as possible.

when a spokesperson for boris johnson says, the british prime minister has received a questionnaire from the police, investigating allegations of parties held at downing street during corona virus locked downs. it follows scotland yard, announced wednesday, the offices were contacting dozens of people believe to attend to the gatherings and that they could be fined. johnson has previously denied. he broke the law in attending any of the events and has refused calls to resign. with the world health organization says the acute phase of the pandemic could end by the middle of the year. that's if about 7 percent of the world gets vaccinated. dr. ted ross and gabriel's was speaking during a visit to south africa, pharmaceutical company, african, where the 1st coven. 19 vaccine was made in africa using medina sequencing. if the owners of a modern emerging technology share and then when the hub,

we could expedite manufacturing removing the need for large clinical trends and catching development and approval time, but at least one year. once again, i can relate all those involved in bringing them out in a technology transfer have to this point and i look forward to instead of the development for me, the villa has more from cape town. much of the emphasis really has been on the disadvantage, that african countries are in or facing regarding access to vaccines. the, the director general of the w h o is said that while half of the people in the world have received at least one job, just 10 percent of africans are fully vaccinated. that goes down to about 5 percent for lower income countries. and so really, the vaccination programs and rollouts have been concentrated in rich countries and

so africa largely forgotten. and now the establishment of a trans, for hub in south africa, is meant to accelerate that vaccination process, largely bringing the manufacturing of vaccines to african countries with that information. that technology and science will be transferred both locally across the continent with the vaccine manufacturing can be boosted. they are expecting that an increase in vaccination of manufacturing will help lower income countries. africa really is at a disadvantage at this point. and we also heard from the belgian development as those here supporting the w h o program and south africa saying that the pay cont waiver issue is one that has continued for 2 years and hasn't moved. so a transfer hub is really an ideal solution to a structural solution to the problem that african countries are faced. but also is 2 years too late. it would still be a while before we see them manufactured and distributed with regard to african. in

particular, they have developed to the vaccine, but they're likely to only start clinical trials in the 4th quarter of this year. around november, perhaps, and only in 2024, get the approval. they need to manufacture these vaccines on mass and distribute them. and we look at bio vac. they say that they have the ability to manufacture about 50000000 doses over the next period. but even then, that will begin in the months to come. so still some time before african starts receiving jobs with vaccines made in africa. long as reporting another record rise in daily current virus infections. 1300 people tested positive despite restrictions, being enforced by clement has more another day. another record number of daily cases here at hong kong with authorities worried about the number of silent trains of transmission in the city. now, beijing is stepping in say it will ramp up assistance in the city,

offering more tests, offering more medical equipment, more man power to help hong kong. this also talks of perhaps make shift hospital being built to treat and isolate patients to so may land at hong kong officials meeting on saturday to discuss the best way forward. will there be a city wide lockdown here at home called like was seen across the border in places like c on? that's the big question that people hear. osgood, hong kong is already under the strictest requirements, strictest measures that we've seen since the pan debit began with a 2 person gathering limit, which police have been out and falls to hands. fine. those who breach that gathering role, that's on top of a dining van off to 6 pm trains of reducing capacity and as already flight bands and quarantine requirements to enter the city as well. so there's no sign that hong kong is about to a band. it 0 curve, it's strategy, just fly c escalating cases here. the front says it'll relax. some of the pandemic

restrictions of vaccinated tourists. travelers with a european vaccination certificate will no longer need to undergo a coven, 1900 test, and the country france also announced it would soon drop as requirement for vaccinated travelers from outside the e. u. 2 journalists working for the united nations humanitarian agency and have gone his thumb, have been released along with 2 african nationals. after being briefly detained by the taliban. they held for several hours now. the taliban says the journalists were detained because they didn't have the necessary documents. schools are reopening on monday in india's state of connecticut. after they were closed because of violence standoff between pupils. female students have been protesting against ban on religious head. scarves in class cannot occur, is governed by the political party of the prime minister under moody. its being accused of fostering discrimination by the middle reports. now from monday,

a oh must gone, con has become a local hero. people from across india have come to take photos of themselves with her, and some give her gifts and money must con, shot to fame. after this video went viral, she seen resisting a group of men demanding she removable car. without any luck, i am not scared of any one except the all mighty. i thought of him, he was the one who gave me the strength and now all this respect, i am very grateful. i experience has highlighted a controversy over a ban on religious clothing in the southern state of karnataka that has led to a national debate about constitutional freedoms. women started protesting after they were banned from entering class. when ready, headscarf, this parked counter protest by him. the groups, the marched reading, saffron colored scalds to assert their identity. the color is considered sacred by many hindus. but after violent clashes,

schools and colleges were closed for 3 days. the state government has back the ban in india, dumb way nerdy. boss's home is going on. yes, busy. induce us up as we me noted. saudi sawandi had a dead aah! down to get his is going to get on. and was yet acting to get to. so i did a gentleman. protest had spread to other regions. authorities in new delhi have detain students demonstrating in solidarity with the women a court and cannot go, has allowed schools to reopen, but asked students not to wear any religious clothing until a final decision is made. many people are getting anxious in this muslim dominated neighbourhood in mound out. they say they only send their daughters to schools that allow head scarves and activists say that the band could lead to more than god's. 2 becoming for the marginalized and segregated from others in schools. some teachers are worried about the long term impact on students. the once you have stood poison

into this, so otherwise a lot, the videos. well, it might, the many people may use it for different reasons. at the, in different stages. so that could be one of the, i'm in almost unfortunate thing that might happen yet often must gone, says she's grateful for the support she's received and is confident. the court will rule in favor of those objecting the ban. she plans to go to university next year to fulfill her father's dream of becoming a loyal poverty mythology sierra cannot cost southern india carlos plans to tax electronic payments. have provoked to protest of the capital. demonstrators complained that the so called e levy will hurt low income earners already facing high food and fuel prices. victoria gate be house. the story i 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

at morgan, $16.00. recent polls show up to 85 percent of the country's population, oppose is the tax protest in say people on low incomes will suffer. the most proprietor situation for money which is not kept in my pocket, physically or kept in my electronic wallet. you start to kick the electronic money . amy transaction, i make it simply immoral, is criminal. the government says the money raised from the levy will pay for development projects. tax revenues have fallen sharply and garner 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 in formerly 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. processes skeleton

out? well, prices are going up even largely one big well, brunswick and chris twice. now we are pretty much what i've written coverage come in and these other brendan ali, vision to the people were adult. whoa. lost her coverage boxes. some protest to say they cannot afford to live and calling on the government to go slowly. i mean, right. so all my grandchildren are homeschooling, i cannot feed them. 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 one the government to think again about the impact of the levy on the poorest in the country, victoria gate, and be al jazeera authorities and thailand erasing to contain these 2nd oil spill in less than 3 weeks of its eastern coast. that a 5000 liters poured into the sooner the province of rayong,

the oil came from the same underwater pipeline that sprang a week, a leak last month, polluting near by beaches. now, the government says the latest spill is unlikely to reach the shoreline. well, more than a 100000 people in madagascar awaiting for emergency aid almost a week after a powerful cycling hit basra, the made land for last saturday, destroying thousands of homes. at least 111 people are known to have died. it was the 2nd destructive storm to hit madagascar in 2 weeks cycle, and anna killed 55 people displaced thousands the island nation was already struggling with food shortages due to severe and prolong drought. ah, what's your desire with me? said he'll rob. reminder of our top stories. he was president joe bible will be speaking to russia's president vladimir putin on saturday, to discuss tensions with ukraine. it comes as the u. s. has ordered 3000 more

troops to poland over warnings of a potential russian invasion of ukraine. moscow accusing the west.