was the press, were treated in effect to the car, gall hotel, and many of the stories mention what we received was from the cow. oh, the us warns a russian invasion of ukraine couldn't begin any day. but moscow accuses the west of lives and misinformation. ah, hello, i am emily angry. this is al jazeera alive from dough house are coming up, canadians truck drivers defy a court order to clear a case border crossing with the us. after days of anger over coven rules and miles, military ladies mock 75 years since unification with

a major show of force and by releasing hundreds of prisoners. and 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. ah, we begin with increasingly urgent warnings from the us about what it says of plans for a potential rush in invasion of ukraine. u. s. president joe biden will be speaking to russia. vladimir putin on saturday. that says, washington warns russia couldn't launch an attack within days. but moscow's denying that charge and accusing the west of spreading false information, penny 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. yeah. us president your buttons as 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. news of that change on call between presidents binding and potent kansas russian troops carry out military exercises in ballard. worse stat rassen

has more from the barrows re crane fordham. this is the am a, ty, way running from the city of whole mile in the south, east of values all the way to key f, ukrainian capital, which is around 200 kilometers away. and this is seen as the fastest route in case russia would invade into ukraine, going to the capital p f. meanwhile, russian and bellow roshan a military drills are ongoing in this area in several places. there are several air fields and also other training ground that are currently being used for air defense exercises. all kinds of infantry exercises are happening right now. also near go, milder is an air field being used for air defense by russian troops. right now, there is around 30000 troops according to nato present here, although nobody can confirm this number on the way in here we saw some military con, voice armored personnel carriers being carried into this region at the border,

but also troops willing back. meanwhile, the border was still open, trucks are passing in to ukraine, coming back into bellows. also, some buses we've seen, but so far, nothing else. people here are still very relax and on faced about tensions that are building up here and rich in sac. why is a professor or russian in european politics at the university of kent? he says, despite warnings from western powers, there is no evidence that a russian invasion is imminent. it's becoming more, more bizarre. the behavior of both washington and london. one has to say, the idea of an invasion during the olympics, use it as a cover, could not be more mr. direct. and so i wonder what sort of information they getting or what sort of 5 parallel universe they're living in. yes, the military exercise is going on, but the diplomatic process and response to those treaties is still continuing.

we've had the u. s. and later response leak to the newspaper last week. and we're still waiting for the russian official diplomatic response. so the idea of some sort of invasion and of course, a very different invasion is a bit bizarre, just an unprovoked to him. clearly, the idea of these forces in part is to come to the $130000.00 ukranian tube, poised on the border of the dawn bass. russia put in, doesn't face if you like, a lobby at home, clamouring for war. in fact, quite the opposite. in augusta bellows, even you can, of course, see lensky, the president of ukraine, has argued that the talk of invasion is exaggerated because of course, it damages your turn you an economy and inward investment. so i say i simply cannot understand the logic of washington and london. and why this really has to be challenged most seriously. and to us, you know, what evidence, what bases they are making these extraordinarily inflammatory comments. it's

a dangerous situation, an accidental conflict without been anytime. but a deliberate invasion is extremely unlikely at this moment. tell the news. now one protest is it continuing to block a bridge connecting candidate to the us to spot an order from a judge in ontario to leave the injunction is now in effect and gave police the power to in demonstrations which have been against corner virus measures rob reynolds for poor 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 cove at 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 i'll want to round whoever's point groceries pull, gone 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, navea jeweler, is the executive director on that labor community services of pill, where she works with non unionized workers, including truck drivers. she says the 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 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 they're care system can actually handle crises when we have things like this. so for example, in brampton, where we have a large community 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 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 were me and my mom came the same different danverse re union day with a grand military parade. the ceremony comes days after police filed another

corruption charge against interposed later unsung. so shame being most military ladies have announced an amnesty for hundreds of prisoners. tyler king has been following developments from bangkok and neighboring thailand. 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 big national occasions or buddhist festivals. in fact, 800 is i think rather less the moving expected. we don't have any more details. other than that, they specifically mentioned $46.00 of those were suspected members of the era can army, one of the armed ethnic groups that operates in, we're kind states, they said those $46.00 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 my 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 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 such, they're very keen, the bad news doesn't get out. and we saw this enormous procession this morning supposed 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, the head of the w and show visits. the vaccine research hub in south africa will tell you what he's urging other african nations sojourn. and the u. s. r industries read up on the corner virus means it's facing. mentioned bumps in the road. ah

hello, there 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. and that sense of this weather system that's pushed off into iran, bringing rain sleet and snow here. and you can see that shamal wind picking up blowing down into guitar and the u. e. 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 doha. it comes down to 20 degrees. by the time we get to sunday with quite a bit of cloud lingering around that area. now as you move to north africa, it's looking windy once again across central areas. thanks to the hamilton wins. 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, a 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. ah. the chuckle region of paraguay, one of south and it is toughest. we follow to men who seem to thrive on his challenges. a veteran truck driver, the onset, every call, whatever the web to provide for his growing family and the cowboy who enjoys his ra, lonely life, risk in it. oh, paragraph. on the al jazeera lu

ah, hello, are you watching out 0? i'm emily. i want to remind her around top stories this hour for you as president to set to speak to rushes vladimir persian on saturday to discuss tensions over ukraine. washington says russia has mast enough troops to attack at any moment. while moscow accusing the west of spreading lies. protest is our continuing to block a bridge connecting canada to the us. despite an order from a judge in ontario to leave. the injunction gives police the power to end the demonstrations which are against a convent 19 vaccine mandate. i'm yeah,

my is marking the 73 of the anniversary of union day with a grand parade. it's a military rule is also announced an amnesty for hundreds of prisoners. here as president joe biden has signed an executive order to split and to allocate $7000000000.00 of afghan funds. the money was deposited by the afghan central bank in new york and frozen when the taliban took power back in august. and the order half of the funds will go towards humanitarian efforts in afghanistan, while the other half will go to relatives of victims of $911.00 and other attacks by armed groups. christ insular needs in your can, explains why the relatives of 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 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. it leaves 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, cherry 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 are not enough for some who are concerned. mariam and cash is an attorney prime council law firm and a little professor, a bad land thinking diversity. she says it will take time to release the funds, because if judicial process, there's taught that the executive order unfreezes the fun. 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 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 or 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 bond to come in to 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 to journalists working for the un humanitarian agency in afghanistan have been released along with 2 african nationalists. after being briefly detained by the taliban, they were house several hours. the taliban says a journalist, word of time because they didn't have the necessary documents reported without borders, says journalists advising increasing harassment by the taliban. thanks again president andre manuel lopez abra dawn has promised to anyone who kills journalists will have no impunity. if it doesn't matter all the gentlest in the southern state of walker on thursday, herbert lopez who ran and use website was shot dead in his car. 2 people have been arrested. he's the feet were reporter rama to be murdered in mexico and the see

me to be us were on children under the age of 5 weren't received corona virus vaccines for at least a few months to help us or have delayed their approval of the shot. if the i says it needs more data from drug makers, find that and by and take before it can roll out the vaccine. the children age, 6 months to 4 years. the companies say they expect to have that data by early april and delegation from the world health organization and belgium is in south africa as it looks at setting up a m r n. a vaccine technology hub in the country. a week ago, a south african pharmaceutical company announced it was releasing new vaccine to help poor nations african hands designed, developed, and produced its own vaccine. based on the jonas, it's part of the w h o, a project to support poor countries in making their own vaccination. if the owners of em are immersed in technology share. and then when the hub,

we could expedite manufacturing removing the need for large clinical drives 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 it said the development as spoke person devoris johnson says the british prime minister has received a questionnaire from police. they're investigating allegations of parties how'd downing street during corona virus lockdown. scotland yard announced on wednesday offices with contacting dozens of people believed from fane at these gatherings and that they could be fined. johnson has denied, he broke the law in attending any of these events and has refused calls to resign. to libya now where people have been protesting in the capital tripling, they calling for the parliament in the eastern city of bro to be dissolved and for

elections to be held on thursday. that same government appointed former interior minister, 14 dash aga, as they knew, prime minister and move has re ignited divisions in the war tune. country united nations has back very cold for national elections to come as soon as possible. schools are set to re open on monday in the indian state of connecticut after they were closed because of the violence standoff between pupils. female students had been protesting against the ban on the wearing a religious headscarf in class. canada is governed by the political party of prime minister and arrange a morning expand tuesday, fostering discrimination. have me, mitchell has the story from madame oh, musket 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. what did any luck? i am not scared of any one except your 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 control the ceo 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. one ready headscarf. this parked counter protest by him, the groups they marched, wearing saffron colored scalds to assert their identity. the color is considered sacred by many hindus. but after bided caches, schools and colleges were closed for 3 days. the state government has back the ban in india dumb way. now the boss is always going on. yes, a prison in those are supposed to be me, not it is. so this is what you had a did. i don't get his is completed 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 could not go has allowed schools to reopen, but our students not to wear any religious clothing until a final decision is made. many people are getting anxious in this muslim dominated neighbourhood in mando. 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 the otherwise the loving gum earlier. well, it might job many people may use it for different reasons in different students, but that would be one of the i'm in all most unfortunate thing that might happen yet often must gone. so she's grateful for the support she's received and is

confident. the court will rule in favor of those objecting the bad. she plans to go to university next year to fulfill her father's dream of becoming a lawyer park. nathan ultra sierra cannot ga southern india more than a 100000 people in madagascar are waiting for emergency aid at nearly awake after a powerful cycle and hit that sir. i made landfall last saturday, destroying thousands of homes. at least 111. people are known to have been killed. it was the 2nd destructive stone to hit madagascar in 2 weeks. the island nation was already struggling with food shortages due to severe and prolonged droughts. as had to chicago, where the auto show is roaring back for a 10 day run. not to the pandemic. dr. last ease of n town doors exhibition of new vehicles comes as the industry's enjoying ain't supply. chain crisis lay to buy 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 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 forward and toyota plants in canada and shifts have been cut 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 or 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, and these fell 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, and are you watching al jazeera, these are the top stories. this album, the u. s. president joe biden is set to speak to russia's letting me a potent on saturday. to this gast tensions over ukraine, washington says russia has mast enough troops to attack at any moment. moscow, meanwhile, is accusing the west of spreading lies, protest as a continuing to block, a bridge connect.