0, there is no channel that covers world use like we do, we revisit places state i'll deserve really invest in that. and that's a privilege. as a journalist, ah, the u. s. ones are russia invasion of ukraine could begin any day now, but moscow accuses the west of life and misinformation. ah, hello, i'm emily angry. this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up canadian truck drivers defy a court order to clear a key border crossing with the u. s. after days of anger over cargo to me in miles, military leaders mach 75 years since the unification with

a major show of force. and by releasing hundreds of prisoners and the u. s. also industries wrapped up by the corner virus means it's facing major bumps in the rush . ah, we begin with increasingly urgent warnings from the us about what it says, the plans for a potential russian invasion of ukraine. u. s. president joe biden will be speaking to russia's vladimir persian on saturday. that says, washington warns of russia could launch an attack within days, but moscow's denying the charge and accusing the west of spreading false information. paddy calhane 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 yet 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. still, the us insist 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 russian tribe said carrying out large scale military drills in belarus as well as naval drills in the blank, faint, neither border with ukraine. he says wargames, making navigating critical waterways and virtually impossible. child stratford

reports from khaki and no faced and ukraine joint russian embellish and military exercises, neither ukrainian border up to 30000 russian soldiers. and most of the better rouge an 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 to you grains borders. ukraine invoked a clause from the so called 2011 vienna document, which is an international agreements on military transparency which russia was 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 farm, as the told al, jazeera roches concerns are illegitimate, and ukraine would not concede to moscow's demands. russia violated virtually every rule of international law related to security in the last 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 of my security. the last thing the wes are doing the response to that question is, is actually to agreed to take this concern serious instead its us ukraine and other countries who are suffering from russia's actions should ask them a question. well, how will you russia insure 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. the ukraine's border. more nato troops and weapons are being sent to bolster the alliances, east and flank in a rare press conference in the russian bank, separatist held 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. its

demands and med most goes main tomorrow and is that ukraine never becomes a nato member. and that's something that the us and nato allies say is a non starter diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis. continue to fail. charles stopped, but al jazeera, called cave eastern ukraine. protest is continuing to block british connecting canada to the us to spot an order from a judge in ontario to leave. the junction is now in effect and gives police the palace to end the demonstrations against corona virus. measures reynolds were poor and ontario is 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 asked 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 end the convoy? yeah, you got it and the mandate got to end the mandates in person. we all want to ruin whoever's point groceries at home, dawn out of hand. oh here 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 surging. additional staff to it's incident command,

post their strong cooperation with the california highway patrol, the los angeles police department, the anto 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 in france, thousands in place have been mobilized ahead of the arrival of convoys spine by those protests in canada. but earth from across the country are heading to paris despite a placeholder not to into the capitol. checkpoints have been set up in a right controlled buria. oh, barry's rama. have been erected. they're expected to hold it. sim rallies out of the way. can't men marry? is mocking the 75th anniversary of union day with the grand military parade. the ceremony comes days on to police, found another corruption charged against to post later uncensored chain. they much related lead government has announced an amnesty for hundreds of prisoners,

tourney. chang has been following the ceremony from bangkok, a neighbouring talent. the 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 big national occasions or buddhist festivals. in fact, 800 is i think rather less than moving expected. we don't have any more details other than that, they specifically mentioned 46 of those was suspected members of the era can army, one of the armed ethnic groups that operates in kind states, they said those 46 people would have the charges against them dropped one of the reasons we don't know anymore is because there's currently an incident shut down telecoms companies overnight. we're told to shut off the internet this morning between 4 o'clock and 10 o'clock man more time. and that's one of the things the military has been doing over the past 12 months to try and limit the out pouring

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 such, they're very keen, the bad news doesn't get out today. we saw this enormous procession this morning. suppose to represent all the ethnic groups that make up the union of man ma. but from what we're hearing all across the country, that union is disintegrating very fast. still ahead on al jazeera and the w. h. o visits of vaccine research hub in south africa will tell you what he is urging other african nations to do. and students in the indian state of kanaka, prepared to return to school as tensions remain high over a religious ban on heads guns. ah

ah, look forward to scores with sponsored cattle, it weighs how low they will have a look at africa in a moment. but 1st to the middle east and things are going to turn rather unsettled and windy particularly for the gulf states in the days to come in that sense of this weather system that's pushed off into iran, bringing rain sleet and snow here. and you can see that shamar wind picking up blowing down into guitar and the u. a ye, so a lot of dust is expected to be kicked up hazy sunshine. and we're going to see a dip in the temperature. have a look at doe, comes down to 20 degrees by the time we get to sunday with quite a bit of cloud lingering around that area. now as we move to north africa, it's looking windy once again across central areas. thanks the hamilton winds. it's calm down though, for the north east, for egypt and libya. lots of sunshine coming through here remains dry for much of the horn of africa with doubt. drought persisting in kenya. it's further south that

within the seasonal rains and the west weather for places like malawi as well as zambia, edging all the way to northern areas of mozambique and is more wet and windy weather in store for madagascar as we go into next week before the weekend. we got rain in central areas of south africa, but it remains rather dry for johannesburg. with sunshine in cape town, it will be warm on monday, for the weather sponsored by katara always. today's culture today is steeped in the regions way to the magic past. 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, unprompted and uninterrupted discussions from our london broadcast santa ah,

on al jazeera. ah, ah, hello, you're watching out a 0. i'm emily anguish, a reminder about top stories this hour. but you as president who said 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, protest as it continuing to block a range, connecting canada to be us. despite an order from a judge in ontario, to late the injunction gives police the power to and the demonstrations which are against a coven. 19 vaccine mandate. i'm yeah, my is makin is mtv of anniversary of union day with grand parades and the military

lead government has also announced an amnesty for hundreds of prisoners. you as 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 frozen when the taliban took power in august. half of the funds will go towards humanitarian efforts in afghanistan, the other half to relatives of victims of $911.00 and other attacks by armed groups . kristin salumi is in new york and explains why the relatives of the victims are being allocated some of that 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 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 knows rat calli is the founder of a c lab and online humanitarian fundraiser for afghanistan, he wants to financial catastrophe, is imminent. afghans are left without a working economy system. i collapsed as central banking system and is predicted 997 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 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 in a 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 call 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. in the u. s. children under the age of 5 warrant received a corona, virus vaccines for at least a few months to health authorities delayed their decision. the f d. a says it needs more data from drug make is find that and by and take before it can approve a vaccine for children, an age 6 months to 4 years. the companies say they expect to have the data by early april, a delegation from the world health organization and belgium is in south africa as it looks at setting up an am i renee back, same technology in the country. a week ago, a south african pharmaceutical company. now the state was releasing a new vaccine to help poor nation's african hands designed, developed, and produced its own vaccine. based on minturn is, it's part of

a w h o project to support poor countries and making their own vaccination. it'd be own notice of em, are immersed in 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 and for me to mila, has more in this story 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 jab, just 10 percent of africans are awfully vaccinated in 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. 7 both locally and across the continent where the other vaccine manufacturing can be boosted. 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 are with regard to africa. and in particular, as 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 back, they say that they have the ability to manufacture about 50000000 doses over the next period. but even then, that will beginning the months to come. so still some time before african starts receiving jobs with vaccines made in africa. france says it will relax. some of the pandemic restrictions for vaccinated tourists. travelers with the european vaccination certificate will no longer have to have a coven test to into front, says it will soon drop its requirement for vaccinated travelers from outside the u

. s. spokespersons bars, johnson says the british prime minister has received a questionnaire from place. they're investigating allegations of parties held at downing street during corona, virus lock downs, scotland, scotland yard rather announced on wednesday that offices we're contacting dozens of people believe to have attended the gatherings and that they could be fined. johnson has denied he broke the law and attending any of these events and refuse calls to resign. people have been protesting in libby as capital tripoli, they calling for the parliament in the eastern city of to brook to be dissolved and for elections to be held on thursday that government appointed former interior minister fatty basha, as that new prime minister. the move has rig 90 divisions in the war torn country. united nations has back to nicole for national elections as soon as possible.

schools are sent to re open on monday in the indian state of cannot to come asked after they were closed because of violent standoff. between pupils, female students had been protesting against a ban on religious head, scarves in class. had me middle reports from mandia. ah, was 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 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 ceo over a ban on religious clothing in the southern state of good nautica that has led to a national debate about constitutional freedoms. women started protesting after

they were banned from entering class. one ready headscarf. this parked counter protest by hindu groups, the marched reading, saffron colored scalds to assert their identity. the color is considered sacred by many hindus. but after riding clashes, schools and colleges were closed for 3 days. the state government has back the ban in india, dumb way nerdy. balsam is going on. yes, a prison in those are supposed to be me noted. saw the see what you had a did. i don't get his is completed on that 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 could not go has allowed schools to reopen. but all 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 all head scarves and activists say that the band could lead to muslim gus. 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 up loving gum video. 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 to the us now. and the chicago auto show is roaring bank for a 10 day run out to the pandemic drive. last year's event, outdoors exhibition of new vehicles comes in the industries in during

a supply chain crisis led by a shortage of semiconductor chips. john hinge and explains 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 if 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 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 cut at general motors factories in michigan as anti vaccine truckers protesting covered 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 and 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. the panoramic is really thrown a monkey wrench,

due to automakers 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 a tuesday and im stalled 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 out his ear? these are the top stories this hour. the u. s. president joe biden is set to speak to russia's vladimir persian on saturday to discuss tensions of ukraine. washington says russia.