aah! al jazeera with the u. s. warned that russia has enough troops at the ukranian border to invade. but moscow accuses the west of lies and misinformation. ah, the whole roman you're watching out there, like my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes. a state of emergency declared in canada's most populous province after days of protest that the border truck drivers are angry about cov 19 measures. also 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 the u. s. auto industries revved up, but concerns about k with 19 slowing down production and driving prices. ah, welcome to the playground, we begin with the increasing the urgent warnings from the us about plans for a potential russian invasion of ukraine. u. s. president joe biden will be speaking to russia's, vladimir putin on saturday. and that says, washington warns russia could launch the attack within days, but moscow's denying the charge and accusing the west of spreading false information, particle haine reports. good afternoon, the u. s. national security advisor took to the white house podium friday with an urgent sounding warning. any american in ukraine should leave as soon as possible, and in any event in the next 24 to 48 hours,

we obviously cannot predict the future. we don't know exactly what is going to happen, but the risk is now high enough. and the threat is now immediate enough that this is what prudence demands. he warned that these russian military exercises could quickly turn into an attack on ukraine, possibly with bombings and missile strikes. and eventually a ground invasion. russia has repeatedly denied its intending to attack its neighbour, but with the current build up of forces and equipment along the russia, ukraine border, the u. s. believe it could. and in another sign of urgency, a virtual meeting friday morning, between the us president and his european allies, nato, canada, poland, and romania. soon after the pentagon announced an additional $3000.00 troops, will be headed to poland in the coming days. on top of the nearly 2000 that are already on the way, in addition to the 1000 soldiers deployed to remain ya. you as president joe biden

says, well trooped. we'll go to nato countries. he's ruled out sending any into ukraine. if there is an invasion, still the u. s. insists there is still time to come to a diplomatic solution. the administration has taken its concerns about russia, you know, very publicly, very earnestly, very forthrightly and, and there's a potential reward here. if putin eventually takes an off ramp and begins to de escalate, the white house has confirmed the president biden and russian president vladimir putin will speak on the phone saturday. a call that may provide a clear picture of the likely path forward. patty colleen al jazeera washington. now yes, president joe biden has signed an executive order to unfreeze $7000000000.00 enough gun funds. now the money was deposited by the african central bank in new york and was frozen prior to the taliban. take it for august, half of the funds will go towards humanitarian efforts in afghanistan to the half

to relatives of victims of $911.00. and the tax by armed groups were kristin salumi as in new york and explains why the relatives of the victims are being allocated. some of us got some 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 biden 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 takeover. 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's going to be done. at least many questions on answered, and that has humanitarians concerned. 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 humana, 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 by an administration has decided to do, protecting some of that money for the lawsuits that are pending here in the 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 mister college days,

a founder of c panel and humanitarian fundraiser for going to son, he was a financial catastrophe, is imminent. afghans are left without a working economy system. i collapsed central banking system and predicted net 97 percent of the country is going to be affected by this crisis. the, the lack of support in terms of service delivery for people has a major impact, the lack of the banking system and any address through which a proper accountable system that doesn't exist right now could be transferred to the people. so the situation is it's worse, right? now, and it seems like it's not headed the right direction at all. we are already and

catastrophe, and it seems to be getting even worse. the death of the issue in here is, is not off resources. just after the collapse of the previous government, the united united nations called for support, got pledged for $1200000000.00. it's also notable to know that before the collapse of the government over 50 percent of honest on was in poverty. and so this is as much as systematic issue even bigger than the resource issue right now. the protest as are continuing to block a bridge connecting candidate to the us. despite an order from a judge in ontario to leave. the injunction is not in effect and gives police the power to and the ongoing demonstrations. truckers have been protesting against the coven 19 vaccine mandate. the stand off on the ambassador bridge has disrupted operations for several

u. s. automakers. while julia televised to dress canadian prime minister just intruder acknowledged that every 1 may have coven 19th tea, but explains how the blockage is damaging the economy. the illegal blockades are hurting canadians, whether they're in ottawa, windsor, kuth, 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. they're impacting trade supply chains and manufacturing the people. these blockades are hurting her every day. families. tony miller live from brampton in canada is navea jeweller. she is the executive director of labor community services of peel, where she works with non unionized workers, including truck drivers. good. have you with us on the program is that you like we just begin with the fact that the court say and now,

but can you end this without having your concerns addressed? i so definitely the concerns have been raised and they'll definitely have to be a discussion on this. but i guess what we're worried about is that the korean protests are also heard. drivers we're hearing from a lot of, i reside the blockade at the border is preventing them from able to do, are being able to do that from being able to get families. it's affecting their work and livelihoods as well. and i get the other main concern that are occurring from a lot of truck drivers in the region. i made that action that has come up through these protests isn't actually addressing a lot of the concerns that truck drivers are facing on the job. i'm so a lot of the, the thing i haven't been discussed here and so it's worrying that that's not part of the discussion. and so when this is done, you will still seem working conditions as before. so was the protests or something

else apart from the cove at 19 mondays? because reading around the subject, this issue of miss classification of truck drivers seems to be at the core of the problem. could you just explain to our international audience what you mean by miss classification? yes, so misclassification is when workers were being treated like employees because they don't have a lot of power and control are actually they're actually registered. i like self employed so they don't get their protections that employee should. i'm so that means they don't get vacation p over time. i'm public holiday p. they don't, i have the right to not have their, we just be deducted for any damage if they can't go to the li record if they're not being and they don't have protection that they get injured at work as they're being class. i'd a self no assent be their employee. so of course you have the scenario under the aim of most of these truck drivers that he won't buy misclassification to be sorted

out. but what we have seen of the image is from canada being used and turn turning up on social media pages around the world in sensing a sense of fear about cov, 19 and misrepresenting in paul to what this protest was about. are you concerned that the protest itself has been hijacked by some areas within the social media scenario? i. yes. so the concern is that the protest is being led to by ah, you know, certain groups that don't actually have the best interest i've heard of. we can see truck drivers of communities that have gone dual raid. and so it's understandable that a lot of people are connecting with they do the frustration of what has gone on in the government. not doing everything that they could have to support workers. but the worry is that the solutions that are being presented, i simply pro mandate or, and he mandate takeaway griffin communities will actually need to get through this,

which includes protections for workers against armies, classification and making sure they have paid sick to you. making sure that your system can actually handle on crises and we have things like this. so for example, in brampton, where we have a large community of truck drivers and realized community members, i'm are huh. r. 80 over capacity before cove. it even happened. so if we're not getting funding for health care system and we simply lift amandito, i'm where is that going to leave our community after? so or not, stevie. would it be true to say that? that said, a lot of this protests was more about co working conditions rather than the issue of covert 19 and mandates to be vaccinated military. so this wrote, as it seems to be more about like over 19 and a frustration at mandy's and not very much addressing the issues that we're hearing from like truck drivers about their issues at work. so we're not hearing a discussion of missions. i'm and the protections i workers are needing particularly truck drivers and more so just

a dis whether we should have mandates or not. so interesting discussion, i'm sure we'll continue on in the days i had for the moment to navea jeweller, thanks for joining us. well, so i had him all the al jazeera, me and mom balked at 75th anniversary of union day 20, i'm sorry, 2 hundreds of prisoners. also the head of the w. h overs and se vaccine research up in south africa. what is the other african nations to do? ah, ah, look forward to scores with sponsored point cutoff airways. hello, let's have a look at the weather across south asia in this ways, the 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. we've got the wet and windy weather thanks to the enhanced monsoon, bringing showers and some storms to tom and i do as well as to carola 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, now 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 while it's gonna blow away by monday and they'll be plenty of

sunshine ah, the weather sponsored by katara always the chuckle, region of paraguay, one of south america, stop it, we follow to men who seemed to thrive on it, challenging a veteran truck driver, answers every call, whatever the web to provide for his growing family and the cowboy who enjoys his rough, lonely life risk in an old paragraph on al jazeera lou ah,

look about you're watching al jazeera with me, so he'll run a reminder of our top stories he was president joe biden has signed an executive order to unfreeze $7000000000.00 in afghan funds. there. half of the funds will go towards humanitarian efforts in afghanistan, the other half to relatives of victims of 911 and other attacks by armed groups protest as a continuing to block a bridge connecting candidates the u. s. despite an order from a judge in ontario to leave the injunction is now in effect and gives police the power to end the ongoing demonstrations against a coven 90 vaccine mandate. and the u. s. president has said to speak to russia's vladimir putin on saturday to discuss tensions with ukraine. news of that phone call comes as joe biden ordered 3000 more troops to poland, over warnings of a potential russian invasion of ukraine. oscars accusing the west of spreading lies . well, russian troops are carrying out large scale military drills in valerie,

as well as naval drills. they ukraine's border in the black sea. the ukrainian foreign ministry has formerly protesting those exercises can't says the war games make navigating critical waterways virtually impossible. charles strafford reports now from cock give in northeast and ukraine's joint russian embellish and military exercises near the ukrainian border up to 30000 russian soldiers and most of the better route army taking part in the 10 days of drills including missile defense systems, tanks, and fighter jets. moscow has around a $100000.00 troops station, close the grains borders. ukraine invoked to cause from the so called 2011 vienna document, which is an international agreements on military transparency, which russia is a signatory of demanding moscow provide detailed information timeframes. the

military maneuvers, several western countries including france, launched fresh diplomatic efforts this week to persuade russia to back down. so far, those efforts have failed to bear significant fruit. moscow says it's demand that they never be further. nato expansion east, including ukraine, is being ignored. ukraine's foreign minister told al jazeera roches concerns are illegitimate, and ukraine would not concede to moscow's demands. but russia violated virtually every rule of international law related to securing the year. so now it wants to impose on others, the discussion that you guys are expanding nato. are doing something else and that inflict damage my security. the last thing the west should do in response to that question using is actually to agreed to take this concern seriously. instead,

it's us, ukraine and other countries who are suffering from russia as actions should ask them a question. well, how will you rush ensure your security without inflicting damage on the secure, on our security, new satellite images published by a private us company show what it says is new russian military deployment, new ukraine's border. more nato troops and weapons are being sent to bolster the alliances eastern flank. in a rare press conference in the russian bank, separatist hill territory, the leader of the self declared the nets, people's republic accused ukraine of planning a military solution. so the crisis, something ukraine denies me, i do not rule out that ukraine can attack at any time. they have everything ready,

the concentration of forces and capabilities allows them to do it at any moment. as soon as there is a political decision, russia says it has no intention of invading ukraine, but it says it will be forced to take unspecified military technical action. it is demands and med most goes main tomorrow and is that ukraine never becomes a nato member. and that's something that the us and it's nate. so allies say is a non starter diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis. continue to fail. charles stopped, but al jazeera, called cave, eastern ukraine. i mean mar is walking the 75th anniversary of union day with a grand military parade. the ceremony comes days after police filed another corruption charge against the deposed prime minister and young sushi. the military lead government is expected to announce an amnesty for thousands of prisoners cit more the so tony chinese monitoring events for a cert from neighboring bank caulk and these reports of potentially more prisoners

being released for the hearing. we've heard in the last hour on state media, the $800.00 prisoners will be released without no, that's the start over by the prisoner release, or of that. the final number we don't know exactly who these prisoners are or what they've been charged with. other than that, 46 of them are we're members or alleged members of the ara can army, one of the ethnic arm groups that has been in conflict with the military genta or they have had their cases drops. now that may be an indication of the fact that term the military are trying to placate the era, can army, there have been rumors swirling around. they've been and talks at this stage. it's very hard to get any more details. however, because the internet, a mere mom, has been shut down. we learned last night that the army had sent out a director of to telecom companies for the internet should be shut down between 4

am and 10 am in the morning today. and i think that's an indication of how sensitive they are on today on, on to day at which is a, you know, an important one for me on mars history and one in which i think the military wants to try and demonstrate the union remains very strong. solely given the events of the past 13 months. what else are we expecting the regime to say our, our new d and day will be an address via television some time later that may well be and we've seen men on law use opportunities like this to, to address the nation to talk about unity and union day would be the perfect opportunity for that, but it has to be said, you know, if you look at, so what's going on in me on march the day and what has been happening over the last 13 months. it really is a country that continues to descend into disarray. i spend the last month travelling along the border with thailand. it where the conflict is really rice of

what was up to the borders. you can hear the fighting going on inside. i think more worrying for the military is that fighting which has happened on the borders for decades is now going on in the center of the country. and i think as much as the senior generals may appear on television and try and convince the nation that the union remains strong. that is not something that most people in miramar believe. and the only people that are really convincing themselves will continue to monitor what goes on through the day for the moment. tony ching, their force in bangkok, thailand, thank you. no people have been protesting in libya's capital. tripoli demonstrate as a calling for the parliament in the eastern city of to brook to be dissolved and for parliamentary elections to be held. on thursday, the government in the east of the country appointed the former interior minister, fatty basheba as their new prime minister. the move has raised fears of a return 2 divisions of the war torn country united nations as back to their call, the national elections as soon as possible. not to journalists working for the

united nations humanitarian agency and have gone is that have been released along with to afghan nationals after briefly been detained by the taliban. though, held for several hours. the taliban says the journalists were detained because they didn't have the necessary documents. with france says it'll relax. a movie pandemic restrictions of vaccinated tourists. travelers with a european vaccination certificate will no longer need to undergo a covert 19 test. 10 to the country. france also known, so it would soon drop as requirement for vaccinated travelers from outside the you will hello has ations as the acute phase of the pen, then it could end by the middle of the year that say about 70 percent of the world get vaccinated. doctor ted ross gabriel's was speaking during a visit to south african pharmaceutical company, african where the 1st covered 19 vaccine was made in africa using medina sequence.

if the owners of em are immersed in technology share. and then when the hub, we would expedite manufacturing removing the need for large clinical drams and catching development and approval time, but at least one year. once again i laid all. ringback those involved in bringing them out in a technology transfer had to this point and i look forward to it started the development for me to 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 has said that while half of the people in the world have received at least one jab, just 10 percent of africans awfully vaccinated him echoes 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 transfer hub in south africa is meant to accelerate that vaccination process, largely bringing the manufacturing of vaccines to african countries where that information that technology and science will be transferred both locally and across the continent where the other vaccine manufacturing can be boosted and they are expecting that an increase in vaccination of manufacturing. whoa, help lower income countries. i'm africa really is at a disadvantage at this point. and we also heard from the belgian develop, administers here supporting the w h o program in south africa saying that the patent waiver issue is one that has continued for 2 years and hasn't moved. so a transfer hub is really an ideal solution, a structural solution to the problem that african countries have faced,

but also is 2 years to late. it will still be a while before we see them manufactured and distributed a with regards to african. in particular, they have developed 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. if we look at by of ac, they say that they have the ability to manufacture about 50000000 doses or over the next period. but even then, that will beginning the months to come. so still some time before african starts receiving jobs. a, with vaccines made in africa. the chicago auto shave is roaring bank for a 10 day run starting on saturday. after the pandemic drove last year's event outdoors fix emissions of new vehicles comes of the industries enduring a supply chain. crisis lead by shortage of semiconductor chips. john 100 reports on

from chicago. the largest auto show in north america rolls back to chicago and it's gone electric, new electric cars, trucks, even a hybrid camper of sorts of bound here as u. s. automakers plug into a trend said years ago by their european and asian counterparts, but just a few kilometers away. production lines at chicago's only auto plant have ground to a halt. sidelined by a lack of the computer chips needed to power them as consumers around the world gumble up chips to run new home electronics during ongoing viral locked downs. the chip shortage has been going on for, let's just say a year and it's likely to continue. it has caused the, you know, decrease in the production of vehicles and that is cause prices to go up as always happens when there's a shortage in supply. both new cars and used cars. it's unfortunate, and chances are it's going to last another year. is chip makers rush to build more

semiconductor plants. the computer chip shortage is just one of the series of pandemic. you're a supply problem. assembly lines have also stopped it. ford and toyota plants in canada and shifts have been cut in general motors factories in michigan as anti vaccine truckers protesting covered 19 rules block border crossings and car makers supply chain. i would say it's a supply crisis and on some level at all, really does trace back to the pandemic an in one way or another. even the blockade at the canadian border right now between the us and canada is what's it about? it's about masks and vaccines, so it, that, that the microchip shortage all traces back to the pandemic. if he didn't make his really thrown a monkey wrench to the auto makers just in time manufacturing system, it was pioneered by toyota and it worked like this. say this part was made in the us on a monday. well, it could be delivered on tuesday, an install into

a car manufactured in canada, 2 days later. that way nobody has to warehouse the thing that works well in good jives just not a lisa. as the auto industry accelerates towards in increasingly electric future. the question you as carmakers face is, how soon can they increase production and lower skyrocketing prices to meet pent up pandemic demand. john henderson al jazeera chicago. ah, he, what george is there with me? so rahman, in doha reminder of our top stories, u. s. president joe biden is set to speak to russian president vladimir putin on saturday to discuss tensions with ukraine. it comes as us as ordered, $3000.00 more troops to poland over warnings of a potential russian invasion, but mosque as accusing the west of spreading lies. we.