aiding wall tea with which were almost walked out across this region 2 decades ago . ah, a showcase of the best documentary films from across the network on al jazeera. ah, no breakthrough in the nicest phone call between the us and russian presidents to manage growing hostility over ukraine. ah, i'm kim val. this is al jazeera alive from dough, also coming up despite rising anger chin. izzy, as president appoints a new judiciary council, which further increases his strong hold on pell. the top us japanese and south korean diplomats meet to discuss north korea after it began the year with

a series of missiles hester, and find his roland triply to support the inter and prime minister after a push to replace him. ah, that makes his phone call between the u. s. and russian presidents lasting an hour has failed to reach any breakthrough on ukraine. the white house released this picture of joe biden on the call saying he repeated warnings of severe consequences if lead about putin goes ahead with an invasion. u. s. secretary of state and the blanket says it's not too late to avoid conflict. a diplomatic path to resolving this crisis. a crisis created by the unprovoked massing of russian forces all around you train that diplomatic half remains open. the way for moscow to show that it wants to pursue that path is simple. it should the escalate rather than escalate

and it should not only talk about seeking a diplomatic outcome, but actually worked toward one the kremlin described the posen bite and coal as businesslike, but added that the russian side received no substantial answers on its concerns. like nato has potential expansion into ukraine. meanwhile, ukraine has received another consignment of weapons from the u. s. this is part of a $200000000.00 security package. military a to key if has so far included anti tank missiles and launches. many citizens said, are willing to fight if russia invades, but president of a lot of men in ski is calling for com. natasha battle reports from keith on mar yanna. so her sort of a clear message from keith to moscow at a rally where thousands of people are choo, crane's government, to stand up to russia some here, ford for ukraine. veterans of the country's war with russian back separatists in

the east. and they say they'll fight again. we are ready. we are at the white. if it happens, we don't want to, but it will happen. we are here to say, this kind of meter is about the brand new people are do go gather all. i want to get it to so that we're not separated real over content. and we're also, i'm protected if it needed in any time. so that's why we're here. some demonstrators gathered beneath the statue of tad, us shift jenko, and 19th century poet, an artist, a symbol of ukrainian national pride. as moscow continues to build up its military hardware and forces on ukraine's border. some western intelligence officials say key if could be a target. washington says that russia could attack ukraine at any moment. the kremlin says it has no plans to invade, but some countries are taking no chances and advising their citizens to leave. the

u. s. is evacuating its diplomats. a difficult situation for ukraine's president who called for com, the truce, did we have different information? and now the best friend for an image that hispanic in our country. and all this information details only for benny doesn't help us with so much conflicting information. most people here don't know what to believe. some say they've heard it all before. others anxious, but no one wants another generation growing up with another wall. latasha buckler, al jazeera key, if more countries are telling their citizens in ukraine to leave immediately, australia is evacuating. it's embassy and kiff. the situation as you are all hearing as well, is deteriorating and is reaching a very dangerous stage. and i want to send a very clear message on behalf of the stranger, a liberal democracy who believes in freedom and the sovereignty of states. not just

in europe, but in our own region as well. that the autocratic unilateral actions of russia to be threatening and bullying you tried, is something that is completely and utterly unacceptable. we had earlier from the u . s. x ray of staying talking about ukraine and the blank and made those remarks while discussing another global holds bought the korean peninsula. he's been hosting foreign ministers from japan and south korea in hawaii. they talked about how to proceed with north korea after a series of missile tests. we have enough to cover and we are very concerned about the portal features and multiple in particular. and i hope you can also have a good exchange of views on how to deal with the situation from the broad as monitoring developments from sol. these tests have certainly raised the stakes here in asia pacific and i think it's been important for me and to be blinking point of

view. and also from his counterparts from south korea and japan, really to put on a united front in their joint statements. and also in that joint news conference that they have delivered in hawaii with all of the participants condemning what they called provocative actions by north korea. also hinting at the possibility that can juggle in the north korean leader has possibly said that he might end the morrow, tore him on nuclear testing. and also the launch of longer range intercontinental ballistic missiles, which would certainly really step up with that would certainly be an increase provocation and blink. and also accepted the fact that the north koreans could use the current crisis in ukraine and exploit that to launch more missiles, but did not seem phased by that saying he and the allies here in asia pacific already to meet that challenge. as far as the americans are concerned, he said that we walk and chew gum at the same time. interestingly, he also made

a direct comparison between north korea and what russia is doing at the moment, saying they are of a piece saying these are actions ro, actions that challenge the international rules based order. and that the allies should stand up against such actions. but i have here in the asia pacific and in europe, that they should combine, stand up on behalf of their citizens and citizens worldwide saying it's a traditional role that the u. s. is taking, taken in rallying such opposition to these actions, accepting and that the us now faces multiple challenges at the same time to new jersey as president chi sides has issued a new decree appointing a new supreme judicial council. this further erode judicial independence or been ongoing protest since he said he would dissolve. the counsel, last week, initial council was responsible for ensuring the independence of the judiciary.

it's, i, it says it has become a thing of the pulse. this is the latest and a series of decisions that has taken since sacking the government and suspending parliament in july. and each of all quinn joins us now on the phone from tunis and he's here just explain to us what this means. a new temporary judicial council. well, this is something he announced off to his announcing the dissolution of the superior judicial council. and immediately following that there was a huge international response from the g, 7 embassies, and also from the un and other major organizations. so this idea of creating a new supreme judicial council, it does seem like he was peddling a bit and trying to save face and, and keep peace off to the foreign minister. was trying to tease g 7 ambassador. since i know this is all part of the democratic transfer, but apparently he was quite an unconvincing. so they were drafting new decrease on

thursday, and this is the, the resulting decree. what it is, what it seems to be, is a consolidating of the 3 main power of states. so back in september, when he decided to rule by decree, he certainly had executive legislative pilots. that was quite straightforward. but since july, the 21st, when he made this power grab, the judiciary has firmly opposed him and there's been a long, bitter battle between ty side, the supreme judicial council. so said this, this week, these past 8 days, everything has come to a heads. and all this week, the, the magistrates from the association of magistrates has been striking and fighting back. they've been demanding your reinstatement to the supreme judicial council. the supreme judicial council itself has filed

a court case against the ministry of interior to demand the keys to the headquarters back. and there was a hearing on friday, but as yet we haven't heard the judgement say, no. i know. lydia had said that this was sort of one of the last sort of independent bodies, a watchdog bodies in the country. so obviously now this movie critics are going to jump on this. i want to ask you, i know there are there planned protests in the coming hours? how do you think these developments might affect that yesterday? protest is telling me they were expecting a peaceful protest because they also consented amongst the police force because there's been a lot of purges. so the, the police forces quite split. but off to this, this pronouncement that may, i will change so the police were expected to just contain the march today. but with this announcement to so taking more control

over the situation about judicial appointments, those plans may be changed and we might see a very different states revise on the march today. something more like january 14th, but we'll have to wait and see how that plays out. the, the plan for the march is to surround the period traditional council building and demand for its reopening. or i will, we will be monitoring developments on the ground there. of course here on al jazeera for now, thank you for that update and it's your vocal and in tunis. libby invited to back the interim. prime minister of the hundreds to baseball have entered the capitol, tripoli, and convoys. the armed group say they want to show up the variables position after the parliament and eastern libya moved to replace him. the bible says he won't handle the power until long delayed elections. the hell trainer explains from

tripoli, now were, is year and mortar square in the capital. tripoli, where a large large group of people, especially armed men in view and uniform, have gathered up to protest. the move buy of fitz, he besought to take over as prime minister. yes, i understand people are sick and tired of these legislative branches, both the parliament and the high council of state. now the parliament. oh, hold it in that tuba to become the new crime minister on thursday. the current intern prime minister aba has said that he will not hand over power until elections or until elections happen. elections were scheduled to take place in december up, but they were delayed. they were postponed, who called on people to take to the street, and to demand that elections happen. he said he's putting court to plan for

elections to happen in june. the speaker of the high council said another legislative body. hearing tripoli, us said that betsy bizarre received enough recommendations for him to take on the position that he bershana still has to form a government a he'll put that list forward, swore to the parliament. if they give him a vote of confidence, it's going to be really difficult for obs. how me to be about to continue to stay in power up to how me debate might be losing on the political level. but here in the capital tripoli in martyrs where we can see that on the ground there is a large but there is a large support, especially armed men that support abdul hamid vega. we're going to have to wait and see how the situation developed in the coming days and weeks at saudi arabia has transferred $80000000000.00 worth of shows in the national oil company to a public investment fund in years to diversify the kingdoms economy conference. mom

had been sa, mom says he plans to use around coast welsh to help move away from oil dependency in the future by investing, investing mother and everything from over to the british soccer team. you cancel united still head on al jazeera. as afghanistan's humanitarian crisis deepens, the telephone demands access to billions of dollars frozen in the us. and super bowl shirts, super bowl rather showed up 100000000 american vocal pads that she wanted to see. the los angeles rams take on the cincinnati bengals. ah ah, look forward to scores with a spoon suit point cutter. it weighs how low there the weather set to turn unsettled for much of europe over the next few days. as high pressure holding on in

the east is going to be kicked out by low pressure that's bringing wet and windy weather in from the west. now that's going to be welcome to places like the iberian peninsula. we've got severe drought in places like spain and portugal, portugal suffering, it's worth drought in 20 years. an reservoir levels are dwindling in spain. so that wet and windy weather is going to be rather welcome in the north west. we're going to see snow fall across the northern mountains. and as we go into monday we'll, it's going to spread across east some heavy snow for the alps. it is going to turn wet and windier across the mediterranean for places like italy. but as we had to the north west, this is where we're seeing the more intense weather for britain, an island on sunday. we've got warnings out for heavy rain in whales and it's going to move across the north sea. that weather system turning into significant snow for scandinavia, so heavy snow for norway and for sweden, and it'll get heavier on monday in finland. and in estonia is what is western parts

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ah, there was a out there on her reminder of our top stories. this, our tennessee, as president, has appointed a new temporary supreme judicial council, given himself power to approve and dismiss judges have been protest since he announced he would dissolve the existing counsel last week than his phone call between the us and russia. presidents has lasted an hour but failed to reach any breakthrough on crane to abide and repeated warnings of severe consequences. if vladimir putin goes ahead with an invasion. the u. s. at south korea and japan of held high level talks to discuss what they call the threat posed by north korea. the talk follow a series of missile test fi pyongyang i've gone has down central bank has called on washington to reverse in order to return only half of the $7000000000.00 in afghan assets held in the us. joe biden says i, the other half a 911 victims,

many afghans are demanding the money back as an economic and humanitarian crisis. stevens thorburn manley reports shar anew in downtown kabul, if usually crowded with shopping, but as the economy is tanking, crowds are thinning and businesses and the major commercial district a shutting down or closing early in the foreign reserves. the could rescue afghanistan is sitting in a bank 11000 kilometers away in the u. s. but president joe biden is only releasing half of the funds to afghanistan. the rest is to be shared out among victims of $911.00 in the u. s. as well as other attack victims. but as a girl come up at it up the $3500000000.00 belongs to afghanistan and the people. and if the u. s. is paying this amount to those who lost their lives in the 911

attacks then the u. s. should pay compensation for the 20 year war. and the people who died in afghanistan to thou, or kabul, is a city under pressure. many can barely afford to eat was but other more than i. so i was good. most of us sleep with empty stomachs because we don't have jobs to find money and feed our families like before in shot. and now some one was distributing bread to the poor, and there were hundreds of poor and starving people, fighting over one piece of bread. and i was thinking, it's better to die than being disrespected this much. xtreme hunger is nationwide. it's estimated more than half the $39000000.00 afghans are suffering the human fat. the afghan economy is in free fall. and so, or it's people in the u. s. says it will use the release funds to buy much needed aid, but not by the taliban,

which it doesn't recognize as the legitimate governments. taliban leaders say it's not america's money to give away that when it's tom. hello. hello, whoa, whoa, whoa. the people of afghanistan want their rights. the funds that are blocked in the u. s. belong to the afghans any to the rights to take them. the decisions made about these fonts should be made by us that he's lama camera, 2 cookie family. ah, others have displayed the anger biden's decision on the streets of the capital. but however, they express themselves moved here, say the money belongs to afghanistan and they desperately need it. oh, nor about money. i'm to thir, crowds of anti vaccine protests is our continuing to block a key bridge on the u. s. canada border. a police are clearing trucks that have blocked the ambassador bridge since monday. for protest, this arrived on foot. they're angry that they must be vaccinated drive across the border. demonstrate is also gathering and also approaches camps of power lines the

canadian capital for 3rd weekend. how does your culture has more from washington d. c? the truckers are protesting. canada stringent pandemic restrictions including the requirement that all truck drivers be vaccinated when entering from the u. s. they continue to partially block the ambassador bridge border crossing in windsor canada . despite police efforts to remove them, some trucks remain blocking that crossing. and more protesters have arrived on foot to join the party like atmosphere, where people are chanting freedom and seeing the canadian national anthem despite the frigid temperatures. now that bridge normally see some $300000000.00 in goods travel between the u. s. and canada with a 3rd of those good being auto parts. so this disruption now in its 6th day, has force some auto manufacturers on both sides of the border to slow production. now protesters are also rallying in the canadian capital ottawa,

and this is the 3rd week and they've done so. prime minister justin trudeau has been clear in asking them to leave. however, they appear determined to stay and police say there is no clear deadline for their removal. and those protests have spread to the netherlands truck has arrived in the hague, whether be blocking the city center, lisa calling them to move the convoy. organize the say, the block a will stay post to all covered restrictions and lifted. buildings in new zealand have used water sprinklers and music to try and break up protests against pandemic restrictions. the strategy house was hundreds of incoming outside parliament and wellington, since tuesday, protesting against pandemic restrictions more than 120 people been arrested. thousands of young people were detained during protest. and hong kong in 2019, many have since been released, but finding themselves locked out of work into education opportunities for credit

reports. it's been 3 years since months of anti government demonstrations rocked hong kong some such as former frontline protested derek tie. the memories linger when i took a cross hobble bus and then i just traveled by university. and then i just thought of footbridge where people lie down to escape from from poly and that was quite from ty was a 21 year old philosophy student when he became one of the 1st protest is arrested by police in june 2019. he was charged with an awful assembly and sent to prison for 4 months. he is one of $4000.00 protesters detained for their role in the pro democracy protests. many who have been released say they've found it difficult looking for jobs or higher education places because of their criminal records.

those what me, who have served at times in prison and then they decide to stay in hong kong. probably what they need is job opportunity. a chance to a funds to and hand them. so that's where a group called project change who stepped in to help thousands of arrested protesters providing life planning, counseling, and legal support. we don't accept funding from government because we want to be autonomous. i mean, a lot of arrest stuff like distrustful or government funds and we get the nations from individuals and private parties. the hong kong government says it has a system for rehabilitation, but it's being criticized for not doing enough to help protesters. china's leaders in beijing intensified their crack down in hong kong in 2020, imposing a controversial national security law. in the name of restoring stability. hong kong democracy movement has been silenced. if it come here, pray, here's

a guard. this. the whole area was closeted in protests. are now most physical reminders of the resistance movement have faded or been scrubbed out. a changed hong kong is in its place for school principal leaking, man. it's important not to abandon the protesters, even as the territory moves on maintenance. don't know, fog told it's normal for young people to make mistakes hold. we want to give them an opportunity to turn over a new vehicle. they need a 2nd chance. but with hong kong society still deeply polarized it appears. there's still a long road ahead. brit clinic al jazeera hong kong vote is in switzerland deciding whether to ban most tobacco advertising. it's less restricted there that in many other countries. the situation critics claim on lobbying by tobacco firms, who have headquarters in switzerland and other referendum question on sunday is

whether to end all animal testing, including medical research experiments. sedans, military leader, i'm tell father albert han says an investigation is on the way to the deaths of protest is who opposed. last year's takeover, health officials say at least 79 people have been killed in demonstrations since october. crowds of returned to the streets in the past week, demanding civilian will and justice for lives lost. or hon also repeated commitments to hold elections next year. a former graduate rebel leader who was arrested during the political crackdown 8 months ago has died. you go to is was 73. he held free, the current nicaraguan president. daniel ortega from jail when he was also a rebel in 1974. but take his government, arrested torres and thousands of other opposition exhaust you. ortega then won his 4th consecutive term in november in an election critic say was rigged.

hundreds gathered in mexico to remember a journalist who was killed in his home this week in the southern state of or hucker. heather lopez is the 5th reporter to be murdered so far this year, and mexico making one of the deadliest years in the country for journalists and decades to people have been arrested in connection with lopez's murder. a sports court is due to meeting basing to decide whether russian figure skater camila very eva should be allowed to continue competing in the winter olympics. a week ago, the skating superstar became the 1st woman in the history to lead a quadruple jump. but in the pic, organizes se delayed to sorry they delayed presenting her team, it's called metals. rather often, it was reported that she tested positive for using a band drug before arriving in beijing. the court's decision is expected by tuesday . offer a season full of upsets and nail biting clothes. coals. american footballs

superball kicks off tonight. the showdown between the los angeles rams and the cincinnati bengals will play out on a brand new stadium near los angeles. reynolds, as their final preparations underway for what promises to be an epic clash between the cincinnati bengals and the los angeles rams in the national football league super bowl. wow. to say that excitement is running high would be an understatement . just look at these bangles fans celebrating their teams 1st trip to the championship game since 1988. in l. a. rams fans are snapping up souvenirs. i'm happy and i'm thankful and hurtful, but we can support our team that we can come out and be rambling family. the game will be held on the rams home turf, the futuristic new, so fi stadium in inglewood. just outside l a. the venue was chosen before the

season began. the hope all is going to be great and we've got some amazing stars in the game and, you know, really good stories around that. so we're just really excited. fans are already flocking to events and exhibits in los angeles in advance of the game, like this one called the nfl experience. so just how much are fans willing to pay for a ticket to the big game? the answer may astonish you. ticket sales search engine seek geek is keeping track the range we sort of see right now at least as you can kind of get in the door around say $6500.00 a ticket. ah. and then if you want to said, say behind the bench, you know those g p seats, you're going to pay maybe $30000.00. a ticket. super bowl tv commercials will cost up to $6.00 and a half $1000000.00 for a one minute add this year. this beer commercial was directed by last year's oscar winning filmmaker,

chloe zhao. unlike last year's super bowl when coded 19 restrictions, limited grout size, the $70000.00 plus seat place is expected to be packed. the league will place masks on every seat and wearing them will be mandatory. everybody can holler and scream and celebrate, and root on our hometown team. safely behind a k 95 or in 95 math. about 100000000 people are expected to watch super bowl 56 on t v and online rob reynolds, al, jazeera inglewood, california. ah, i'm giving out with headlines on al jazeera, tennessee, as president has appointed a new temporary supreme judicial council. and given himself the power to prove anderson.