and horses are a way of life. talk to al jazeera goes to kingston to discover more about the cultural and economic significance of these majestic creatures. take his dance horses wings of pride on al jazeera. ah, the u. s. warns a russian invasion of ukraine could begin any day, but moscow accuses the west of lies and of misinformation. ah, hello, i'm emily. ang, when this is al jazeera, alive from doha, also coming up canadian truck drivers to fire court, ordered to clear a key border. crossing with the u. s. after days of anger over kogan rules, man, man, and military ladies mock 75 years since eats unification with

a major show of force. and by releasing hundreds of prisoners. and the u. s. also, industries ramped up by the corona virus means it's facing major bumps in the rugs . ah, we begin with increasingly urgent warnings from the us about plans for a potential russian invasion of ukraine. he was president joe biden will be speaking to russia's. vladimir persian on saturday back says washington was russia couldn't launch and attack within days. but most guys denying the charge and accusing the west of spreading false information as pad petty calhane reports. good afternoon, the u. s. national security advisor took to the white house podium friday with an urgent sound in warning. any american in ukraine should leave as soon as possible. and in any event,

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,

us president joe biden says, well, troops will go to nato countries. he's ruled out sending any into ukraine. if there is an invasion, sealed us and says, 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. we'll speak on the phone saturday. a call that may provide a clear picture of the likely path forward. patty colleen al jazeera washington and mark kim in tis a retired military general, and former assistant secretary for political military affairs under president george w bush. he says violence along the border is more likely to be caused by a train miscalculation than by an intentional. intentional invention sending

those troops into poland. ready during the romania of fundamentally, to show our willingness to support our nato allies. the president has already said that we're not going to be putting troops into ukraine. but at the same time, those who border ukraine have reason to be worried. and this is simply a statement to vladimir putin that if he wants to go. ready into romania wants to go into poland. he's going to be doing that over the bodies of american soldiers. i wouldn't be announcing when i was going to attack where i was going to attack what washington is saying is that there's legitimate reasons to be concerned. and you need to take the proper defensive responses, but i find that the silence of the rushing be more disturbing than if they were talking. you can be assured that the don boss, separatists, the crating separatists,

are doing everything they can to get the russians to come in. so the risk of mistake, and this calculation in my mind, is a higher ability than a decision by russia to intentionally attack protest is continuing to block a bridge connecting canada to the us. despite an order from a judge in ontario. busy to leave the injunction is now in effect and gives police the power to end the demonstrations against corona virus measures reynolds for foods and ontario, superior court judge, ordered right wing protestors to stop blocking a vital bridge between canada and the united states. on friday truck drivers and others clogging the ambassador bridge over the past 5 days have disrupted industrial supply chains on both sides of the border, forcing some auto factories to close. the bridge carries one quarter of all trade between the countries earlier prime minister just and trudeau gave a warning to the occupiers who have been severely disrupting everyday life in the

canadian capital ottawa for 2 weeks. it is time for these protesters to go home. it is time to recognize that this protest is blockade his illegal. everything is on the table because this unlawful activity has to end trudeau spoke with you as president joe biden, about the demonstrations and their conservative american supporters. we discussed the american and indeed global influences on the protest. we talked about the u. s . based flooding of the 9 on one phone lines. in ottawa, the presence of u. s. citizens in the blockades and the impact of foreign money to fund this illegal activity. the occupiers who call themselves the freedom convoy have been lavishly praised and encouraged by personalities. on the right, leaning fox news channel,

police officers moved among the trucks and other vehicles snarling city streets, collecting license, plate information, demonstrators heckled and jeered at them. oh, the protests started among truck drivers, angered by a requirement they be vaccinated against coven 19 when crossing back and forth over the u. s. border. but it has metastasized into a general anti government movement. how to and the convoy? yeah, you got and the mandate got and the mandates and personally all want to ruin whoever's point groceries, pull dawn out of town. i don't care what happens to them, but they got to be banished. us authorities are on guard against similar protests in los angeles aimed at disrupting this weekend super bowl. the department of homeland security is searching additional staff to its incident command, post their strong cooperation with the california highway patrol, the los angeles police department, the anti vaccine protesters are certainly

a minority in canada. 88 percent of its citizens have received at least one dose of the vaccine. rob reynolds al jazeera, navi, and june. i is the executive director of labor community services appeal where she works with non unionized workers, including truck drivers. she says that protests are about more than just vaccine mandates. workers were being treated like employees because they don't have a lot of power and control are actually they're actually registered. i'd like self employed, so they don't get their protections that employee should. so that means they don't get vacation p over time public holiday p. they don't have the right to not have their we just be deducted for any damages. the concern is that their protest is being led to by certain groups that don't actually have the best interest. i've heard of. we can see truck drivers of communities that have gone through corporate . and so it's understandable that

a lot of people are connecting with it to the frustration of what has gone on, and the government not doing everything that they could have to support workers. but the worry is that the machines that are being presented, i simply pro mandate or mandy take away group and communities will actually need to get through this, which includes protection for workers against ms. classification and making sure they have paid sick. he's making sure their system can actually handle crises when we have things like this. so for example, in brampton, where we have a large community, have truck drivers and reach life. community members are already over capacity before cove. it even happened. so if we're not getting funding for our health care system, and we simply lift on mandy's. where is that going to leave our community after this protest is, seems to be more about, like coven, 19, and a frustration at mandy's and not very much addressing the issue that we're hearing from like truck drivers about their issues that word police have mobilized in paris to prepare for the arrival of demonstrate it is that

a part of france's so called freedom come going inspire by canadas horn glaring truck is murderous from across the country. heading to paris despite a police order not to enter the capital. some additional demonstrated in paris has been waiting for the arrival of the convoy me in my ears. mounting the 17th anniversary of union day with a grand military parent and a ceremony comes and days after place. father. another corruption chimed against to post prime minister and sang. so chain and military lead government is expected to announce an amnesty for thousands of prisoners. for more on his story. let's bring in tiny chang. he joins us from bangkok, in neighbouring at thailand. hello there, tony. at what days has a hearing about this prisoner release will a couple of hours ago state media announced that $800.00 prisoners would be released on the occasion of union day. is quite

a common occurrence that happens often on, on big national occasions or buddhist festivals. and in fact, 800, as i think rather less than what we expected. we don't them any more details. no. other than that, they specifically mentioned 46 of those were suspected members of the ara can army, one of the armed ethnic groups that operates in ra kind state. they said those $46.00 people would have the charges against them dropped. one of the reasons we don't know any more is because there's currently an internet shut down. a telecom companies overnight. we're told to shut off the internet this morning between 4 o'clock and 10 o'clock man, mar time. and that's one of the things the military has been doing over the past 12 months to try and limits the outpouring of information, particularly on sensitive data. and i think on this occasion with the military trying to put so much attention on national unity and 75 years of of such that

they are very keen. the bad news doesn't get out there. and tony, as have mentioned, it is union day been given the crew 30 months ago, and the military regime still being in power. i'm assuming there's not a whole lot of immunity happening there. there is. and we saw this enormous procession this morning, supposed to represent all the ethnic groups that make up the union of myanmar. but from what we're hearing all across the country, that union is disintegrating very fast. we've been traveling down the border for the last month, a hearing and literally hearing the fighting, going across. speaking to people who've been fighting inside people from the qur'an the correctly other ethnic groups. but i think most worrying for the burning for the mere mom military is to that fighting is now going on in areas they consider their heartlands areas like st gung, were just yesterday we understand the military was going through torturing villages

in response to a local fighter group so that oppose them. and i think despite this enormous show of union the, the, the military is trying to put on parade that apparently costs $5000000.00 in the capital ne p door. really at this stage, the only people, the military of falling themselves, a sent a sound like some wiring reports. thank you very much for that update. tony chang, life ross in bangkok still hands on al jazeera students in the indian stages. kind of ticker prepared to return to school as tensions remain high over bad on religious heads. ah hello there. let's have a look at the weather in north america. and it's all about the contrasting temperatures this weekend in the u. s. and the west coast and the east coast,

we are seeing the heat continue to build in that southwest corner with the temperature record for february broken in san francisco. well, there's more of that to come. if we have a look at the 3 day for los angeles, while we're going to be touching nearly 30 degrees by sunday, so nearly 10 degrees above average with plenty of sunshine. now in contrast to this, we've got that arctic cold continue across eastern parts of canada, and that's going to affect the east coast of the us. look at that dramatic drop in temperature for new york city. if we have a look, we've got a wintry mix moving in by sunday with some snow. it clears up on monday, but it is going to be rather bitterly cold. so wrap up warm. now we have a look. we've got snow moving across central parts of canada into parts of those mid western states up in the north in particular. but much of the weather is edging off shore along that east coast. some of that rain trickling into florida. we can follow that down to central america. we've got some heavy rain for the bahamas,

and by the time we get in to sunday, it'll be southern areas of mexico that see the heaviest falls that show weather update. ah, one of the fastest growing nations in lou on it development international, a middle east and skilfully myself free as of 2, both filling a problem, conducting the work future while the cross cultural gateway to whoa trade, hulu. oh, wow. oh,

hello are you watching? are 0. i'm emily anglin, reminder about top stories this hour for you as president to set to speak to rushes vladimir persian on saturday to discuss tensions with ukraine. washington says russia has amassed enough troops to attack at any moment. moscow is accusing the west of spreading lives, protested and continuing to block of wage connecting canada to me. you s. despite an order from a judge in ontario to leave injunction gives police the power to end the demonstrations against a code 19 and vaccine mandates. and me and my is monica the 75th anniversary of union day with a grand parade. the military lead government has announced an amnesty for hundreds of prisoners. he was president joe biden has signed an executive order to unfreeze $7000000000.00 in afghan funds. the money was deposited by the afghan

central bank in new york and was frozen prior to the taliban takeover back in august. how for the funds will go towards humanitarian efforts in afghanistan, the other half to relatives of victims of $911.00 and other attacks by groups. christian salumi is in new york and explains why the relatives of the victims and being allocated some of this 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 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 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 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. and marian, natasha is an attorney at prime council law firm and a law professor at battling think university and she says it will take some time to and phrase the funds because of judicial prices. there's taught that this executive order unfreezes the fun, but legally that's not what it's doing and that's not what it can do. it just freed up the possibility that the federal court would do that. but i think that looking at this, we have to really don't in, on the issue who do these funds belong to? they don't belong to the taliban. they belong to the central bank of afghanistan, which was part of a government estate. and that was backing up to commercial banks and off ganeth then. so part of the money belong to deposit it. so think about it. if you're in

your country and you deposited money in a bank, your government 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 taller bonds starting from 3 years ago. many would argue that the u. s. allowed the taller bonds to come into power with no plan, no condition. 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 haven't gotten paid. but in the un, atkins, children are starving, and we're holding up money and a legal process. in

the us, children under the age of 5 warrant received their karone of artifact scenes for at least a few months after that a regulatory body delighted decision on the matter. 50 says it means more data from drug make is find that and by and take before it can approve their vaccine for children and to 6 months to forget. the companies say they expect to have the data by early i pro so today the f d a said that they are who's phoning their review of pfizer tubing shots for children under 5. which was really a surprise since there was supposed to be a meeting on this just next week before today we were talking about having a vaccine, possibly in weeks within, you know, later this month. but what the is saying now is that we're going to be looking at months. pfizer has said it might take them until early april and delegation from

the world health organization. and belgium is in south africa as it looks at setting up an m r n. a vaccine technology in the country. and we could go west south african pharmaceutical company. nancy, it was releasing the vaccine to help poor nations african hands designed, developed, and produced its own vaccine based on maternity. it's part of the w h. i project to support poor countries in making their own vaccinations. if the owners of a modern emerging technology share them with her, we would expedite money for charity. removing the need for large clinical drugs and gutting development and approval time, but at least one year. once again, i can relate all those in bringing them are in a technology transfer. have to this point and i look forward to it sort of the development more than a 100000 people in madagascar, a whiting for emergency aid. almost a week after a powerful cycle and higgs,

but sir, i made land full last saturday, destroying thousands of homes. at least 111 people are known to have died. it was the 2nd destructive stole to hit madagascar in 2 weeks cycling and i killed 55 people and displaced thousands. the on a nation was already struggling with food shortages due to severe and prolonged drought. at least 8 people have been killed in brazil during a place right on a for vela in rio de janeiro. authorities say those killed were all part of a drug trafficking gang. the ride comes a week after brazil's supreme court ruled rios state government must come up with a plan to reduce the depths related to police. wines. security forces in the region have been trying to re climb territory controlled by gangs mexican president andre manuel lopez. alberto has promised nor impunity for the killing of journalists. his

commons follow the murder of a journalist in the southern states of y hacker on thursday. hebert lopez were who run a news website, was shot dead and he's come to people have been arrested. it's the 5th time a journalist has been murdered in mexico. the c 2 journalists working for the united nations humanitarian agency in afghanistan have been released along with 2 afghan nationals. after being briefly detained by the taliban, that were held for several hours. the taliban says the generalist would attain because they didn't have the necessary documents. school's re opening on monday in india's stay terms kind of ticker after they were closed because a violent standoff between pupils, female students have been protesting against a ban on religious headscarf in class. kind of pick up is governed by the political

party of prime minister. no wynja loading. it's being accused of fostering discrimination. have any metal reports from man down? the con, 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 was con, shot to fame. after this video went, virus she seen resisting a group of men demanding she removable car. i am not scared of anyone except the almighty. 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 control the senior over a ban on religious clothing in the southern states, canada that has led to a national debate about constitutional freedoms. women started protesting after they were banned from entering class, while reading headscarf bis box counter protests by hindu groups. the marsh wearing

saffron colored scarf to assert the identity. the color is considered sacred by many hindu. but after vital clashes schools and colleges were close for 3 days. the state government has back the ban in india, dumb way, know the bus is going, but yes, a bit of a minority. so this is what you had just completed on was yet acting like yourself in protest had spread to other regions. authorities in new delhi have detained students, demonstrating in solidarity with the women a court and could not go has allowed schools to reopen. but off students not to wear any religious clothing until a final decision is made. many people are getting anxious in this muslim dominated neighborhood in mound out, they say been only send their daughters to schools that allow head scarves and activists say that the band could lead to muslim gaz. 2 becoming further 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 a otherwise a loving gum earlier. well, it might job many people may use it for different reasons at the, in different stages. but that would be one of the i'm in all most unfortunate thing that might happen had after 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 lawyer. path. nathan ultra sierra could not gov, southern india, chicago auto show is roaring back for a 10 day run. after the pandemic. dr. last he's event outdoors, exhibition of new vehicles comes as he industries injuring a supply chain classes led by a shortage of semiconductor chips. john hendrick reports 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 say 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 side line 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 lockdown. 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 forward and toyota plants in canada and shifts have been caught at general motors factories in michigan as anti vaccine truckers protesting cove at 19 rules block border crossings. and carmakers supply chain. i would say it's a supply crisis and on some level at all, really does trace back to the pandemic. i'm 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 that the microchip shortage all traces back to the pandemic. if you didn't make his really thrown a monkey wrench, the automakers just in time manufacturing system. it was pioneered by toyota and it works like this. say this part was made in the us on a monday. well it could be delivered on a tuesday and im stall into

a car manufactured in canada 2 days later. that way nobody has to warehouse the thing that works well in good jobs. there's not a nissan, as the auto industry accelerates toward an 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, l g 0, chicago. ah, hello, are you watching? m 0, these are the top stories. hassan view as president who set to speak to russia is vladimir putin on saturday to discuss tensions with ukraine. washington says russia has amassed enough troops to attack at any moment while.