opposition to the mine run strong signs against it, like this point are found across the community from around the world. very hard to get a sense of public opinion inside me. i'm up with the military arresting people for their political belief. ah, this is al jazeera ah hello, i am adrian finnegan. this is louise. i'll buy from doha, coming up in the next 60 minutes. another diplomatic mission to moscow, germany as chancellor to tell the washing president, don't underestimate the west's response to a potential ukraine invasion. earlier there was no breakthrough in the latest phone call between president vladimir putin and joe bite.

more anger into his ear after the president appoints a temporary body to double the judiciary, giving himself more power over judges. also, i'm adarine in southern italy, police on the lookout for members of the mafia. after a string of bombings in the city of philadelphia have set people on edge. and in school assemblies is getting ready to host a super bowl. 56, the rams have hung feel advancing, heading into the nfl shampoo, keep decided against the cincinnati bengals. ah, so we begin in ukraine and the latest diplomatic efforts to prevent what the west fears is an imminent russian invasion. germany's chancellor is the latest leader heading to moscow and keith, olaf schultz says that he'll warn president vladimir putin not to under estimate the consequences of an attack. the kremlin continues to deny planning any offensive,

despite a huge military presence on ukraine's border. earlier, another phone call between us president joe biden and vladimir putin lasting about an hour failed to come to any breakthrough ukraine. meanwhile, is going to keep its air space open to international travel. despite the threat of conflict, al jazeera natasha butler, georgia star life from moscow. natasha, what is happening right now? a round ukrainian airspace? well, there had been conflating reports a bit earlier in the day as to whether or not ukraine was going to keep it as space open. particularly after that dutch national carrier kaylon decided to cancel all of its flights a to and from ukraine at a moment's notice. on saturday now, a senior ukrainian official though has clarified the situation. he says that there's absolutely no intention on the behalf of the ukrainian government here to

close ukraine's and a space he says that will be absolutely pointless. is completely nonsense. he said, he said, of course, as i space will stay open, anything else would amount to a blockade, but it just goes to show you ah, how difficult the situation is becoming in terms of messaging for, for the ukrainian a government we saw on saturday, the president florida, mayor zalinski saying look, we need to stop making people panic. panic is actually fueling our enemies. he said, you know, we need a car. many people to continue life as usual, but it's becoming harder and harder really for him to keep putting that message across. when on the other hand, you have a foreign nationals been evacuated. you have a foreign diplomats, having the embassies close us. diplomats, for example, whole u. s embassy, a closing down here in the capital. so very difficult situation for the credit in government, they want life to go on. they are calling for com. they're saying,

look, we don't necessarily have any information about any form of invasion for the time being it's business. as usual, germany's transfer owner shorts them is to visit ukraine. what are we expecting to come out of that? yes, the german and chance to expect it here in the capitol on monday, you'll be meeting with zalinski. they will of course, be talking about crisis. all that sold, sir. this is his diplomatic push, his part in trying to avert a war in europe. he has said that this is really the goal of europeans to have a virtual on their european soil, and also be talking to the ukrainian leader about ways in which germany could help ukraine's economy, which is suffering deeply in this crisis. and he will, once again reiterate european support for ukraine's territorial sovereignty. who then travel on to moscow on tuesday for a much awaited

a visit to the russian president vladimir putin. the 2 will sit down for talks and their 1st face to face a meeting to discuss the crisis shows expected to say, look, if russia were to invade or attack ukraine, the west will respond with very strong sanctions. indeed, it wouldn't be easy for sholtes. of course, he's coming after anglo merkel. the german chancellor putin worked with for many, many years. merkel a fluent, russian speaker as well as shoals as has been on to some criticism during this crisis. here. some people said that had been almost invisible on the diplomatic scene. he's obviously though trying to make up time. i'll just earth and sasha buffer report the life her from care of natasha money. think centered. will eurostar for the organization to security and cooperation in europe begun to withdraw from finance in eastern ukraine. several countries, as you heard of shouting the embassies are urging their citizens to leave ukraine right away. the situation as you are all hearing as well ah,

is deteriorating and is rating. i very dangerous dives. and i want to st. very clear message on behalf of australia, a liberal democracy who believes in freedom and the sovereignty of states, not just in europe, but in our own region was will that the autocratic, unilateral actions of russia and to be threatening and bullying? you cried. is something that is completely and utterly unacceptable. u. s. secretary st anthony blinkin says, despite how bad things look, 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 ukraine. that diplomatic path 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 work toward one. ukraine's government is often accused of ignoring what are described as neo nazi paramilitary groups, fighting russia back separatists. many se sounds groups have been unaffected, fighting force in the near asia conflict in easton ukraine. charles stratford reports now from cock give it. look these men training on a football pitch in easton, ukraine. say they want to defend their country from russian aggression cry. coal has its origin in german nationalist groups of the 18th and 19th century. and the leaders of the group say it has thousands of members. one buffalo offered only 60, have bought their own license weapons, and regularly serve alongside ukrainian army soldiers on the 420 kilometer front line. 24 year old glib, studied homeland security and crisis management university. he says one day he wants to open a gun shop. why did you choose like?

because or more logically, closer to me. so i decided to join the when you say they are more ideological, closer to can you tell me what you mean by that? how. what do you believe in idea what you can pause that why call is not the only group accused of being neo nazis. that is, appeared in ukraine's is the conflict with russian bank separatists started in 2014 others like these men with the powerful as of the battalion, been incorporated into the ukrainian security services under the ministry of interior. for i call on many groups like them have been praised by ukrainians for their willingness to take up arms and defend the country against what they describe as russian aggression. but that does not mean that they are popular amongst voters

at the ballot box. the coalition of right we groups only managed to win leslie suite, the center of the vote in the last parliamentary elections in 2019 with some of its leaders, such is dimitra. yarrow sh would be made, advises to the head of the ukrainian military. well, disciplined in this torch rally resembling nazi gatherings in 1900 says he's germany, hold a banner honoring stefan dera, ukrainian nazi collaborator, widely recognised as organizing the massacre of tens of thousands of ethnic poles and ukraine, towards the end were to go forward and dera is the nickname, fellow fry co volunteers, gave this man 24 year old. barden says the group has its origin and what he calls pans slow visible, connecting similar minded people across slavic regions of eastern europe including russia. but that changed when the conflict started off and it's more the more

if the west respects democracy and pluralism views, they have to respect our views, but he gets a political future. we would need to show people, we can be competent leaders. we need to gather light minded thinkers, qualified and educated people. if we manage that and we will have a political future and political strength experts say the far writing ukraine has its origins in football, hooliganism, poverty, and a country that along with many other post soviet states, as struggled with political corruption, the russian ukrainian border didn't really exist for the move and the russian far right. and the ukrainian far right moved in the same circles. and then when the war came, some of them chose one side and some of them chose the other. and the fact is that the connections are still very much there in some parts. and it's almost certain that there are russian agents of some sort within these movements. for i call leaders say they've been overwhelmed by people wanting to join since the crises

between ukraine and russia has escalated that nato countries through their weight behind ukraine. they should have to be aware of what this conflict is creating on both sides. charles, dr. al jazeera car kid, eastern ukraine, opposition party's ensure nicea vowing to unite against president chi side. after he announced sweeping changes to the judiciary. more protest to taking place on the capital optis i owed gave himself the power to dis most. just dismiss judges. ah, a new decree is replaced the supreme judicial counsel, which was one of the last institutions independent of the presidency. so i had made several moves to consolidate palace and sucking the government on suspending parliament in july. and as they have open is life for us in judas, is it so this new temporary judicial counsel? what does it mean?

these say this decree by the time pre judicial counsel was initially a sort of a paid like a rollback like high side. because the international response, when he dissolved the supreme judicial council was very, very firm. they g 7 un and european union have, i have said strong words, demanding price returned to the democratic path. but what we seen with the decree today is that he's gambling on less support and that he's more interested in gathering the 3 main powers of state of legislative executive. and finally, now the judicial power within geneva. so this is another step forward to what's the pretest is saying is a complete dictatorship and no authority and rule by chi site. i'm one of these protests about the we're seeing today about the these changes all against president . so i had, in general they specifically about the

dissolution of the supreme judicial council, which is the judicial and justice system watchdog. but the, the movement called citizens against the crew have been campaigning against ty side since september. when he issued a decree saying that he was going to rule by decree, decree of law. and so this is like another chapter in their opposition against side to day citizens against the crew who are an independent acquainted a broad church event. she joined together with the largest political party tunisia and nasa, which is the muslim democratic party, which has its opponents and the use of democratic and sort of a socialist wing and all say that just dorian wing of politics. and a lot of the, the opponents of a not to say that that to blame. so this is actually quite a controversial alliance between the 2. but as we're seeing there are, yeah,

there are thousands of people gathering and she, and despite a chi psi and to bring that protests, a band that is under the rules of caden, silent, she knows they are out in force saying we want the supreme judicial counsel reinstated elysium oakland reporting live there from to miss alyssia really thinks indeed 5 you and staff members have been abducted until than yemen. they were taken on saturday while travelling in the abbey, on reaching to the city of 184 from a young lady, nationals, the internationally recognized government in southern. the evans says that it's working to freedom much more to come this ha, including o refusing to back down hundreds of protests as continues a block of vital border crossing between canada and the u. s. a. blow to her shows . barry's hopes of running for iraq's presidency as the former foreign minister,

struggles to shake off corruption allegations at a sport. chelsea celebrating the 1st our club world cup title. andy here with that in the rest of the school, little ada. ah, libby and sciences, shoot back the interim prime minister abdul hamid, the baby of into the capital tripoli in convoys. the armed groups say that they want to shore up to babies position after parliament in the eastern libya removed to replace him. the baby says that he worked hand over power until long delayed elections are held onto serious. malik trader reports now from tripoli. we saw yesterday husband, misery. he's a speaker of the high council of state. that's a legislative house based here in tripoli that shares power with the parliament. and he said that that he received enough recommendations from its members for him

to move forward a sort of like a nod of approval from the high council of state. does this mean that that he will come into power while we're going to have to wait and see but still needs to form a government? he's going to give that list to the parliament if they give him a vote of confidence. i mean, really, it's a, it's a on a political level, it's going to be a done deal for me today, but he's going to be forced to hand over power on a political level. what he's trying to do, what the baby is now trying to do, is trying to change the general view, the, the, the view among people. here. he's saying that he's going to announce a roadmap for elections to happen in june. and this comes after elections were postponed in december. we need to remember that the baby came into power in march, and he was passed with leading libya to election. and more than 2800000 libyans are registered to vote, and that's more than any other election and looked at history. so there's

a huge appetite. libyans are sick and tired of these legislative houses that have remained in power for year upon year, right. they want to vote who they want, they want, they want to control them. they want to vote for who they think can leave the country towards stability. sedans, military leader, and all fatter. elbow hands says that an investigation on the way into the deaths of protests as she opposed last year's tre. cobra health officials said that at least 79 people were killed in demonstrations since october. crowds have returned to the streets in the past week, demanding civilian rule and justice for lives lost behind also repeated commitments to hold elections next year. with crowds of anti vaccine protest has continued to block a key crossing on the u. s. canada border. police have been trying to clear trucks

from the ambassador bridge since monday truck drivers are angry, but they must be vaccinated across the board up. the movements encourage similar protests in other countries. as cartier lopez had i on reports. ah, police in the canadian city of windsor peaking clearing out demonstrators, the protest, her sample of the vital bridge crossing the border with the u. s. a before days are gone for no reason. most our truck drivers have leather protests against a government order requiring they be vaccinated against corporate 19 to cross over many drop off voluntarily. ah, but others seed on the street near the ambassador bridge. a small yet defiant crowd of people who say they will not give in the mere date in the passport. they let us live, our lives were sick and tired of in about 25 percent of trade between the u. s. in

canada, passes over the ambassador bridge out or manufacturers are especially reliant on the route and say they've been losing tens of millions of dollars during the protest. but many of those drivers transporting goods say they've had enough. on friday, i've been working on monday. i ridiculous. i survived this long. i'm a big boy like myself. i don't know what kind of medicine i mean the truckers fontes has resonated and other parts of canada leading to criticism of prime minister just in trudeau. in the capital ottawa, thousands of people gathered outside parliament hill on saturday to protest against government mandates. and in toronto, demonstrators, march on the streets showing support for the so called freedom handle. that name has also been taking up in france, where protesters drove hundreds of vehicles into paris in a similar rally against coven restrictions. but these protests have angered others

in canada. what does freedom me? what freedom do they want? in january and february, all the provincial governments and the federal government started to say that they will unlock things. they will open up things. this was all ready in the works. what they've done is actually shut it down for the pilot test, are now impacting more than trade in have extended beyond coven, 19 into a call for an end to perceive the restrictions on personal freedoms carts. hello. this is leanne al jazeera in mexico. hundreds of people have gathered to remember a journalist who was killed in his home in the southern states of war ha comp. hello perez is the 5th reporter to be noted so far this year and mexico making it one of the deadliest years for journalists that and decades the u. s. s. suspended imports of avocados from the mexican states of mitchell con. where'd gang violence is increasing? the decision was made out to an american official received a threatening phone call during inspection work president under asthma,

while lopez overall has struggled to contain gangs fighting over territory of lead to the a record levels of violence. a series of buildings and asked and the tax has been carried out in southern italy's puleo region. since the start of the year, it's seen as a sign of the local matthews presence in a region where the government is trying to loose out organized crime. the community has been trying to rid itself of the mafia for years that us out here as adam rainy reports now from the city of folger. that's proving a big challenge. the aftermath of a string of recent bombings in our some attacks and for just a small city and southern italy, no injuries were reported. the message was clear, the local mafia was pushing back. over the past 2 years, police have seized millions of dollars and assets and made several arrests. some businesses are now refusing to pay protection money to the mafia. alessandra lito

ran a construction firm here forth until his business was burned down by the mob facing death threatening. he relocated his family and now had the new launch to local anti bracketing association. she thought she was done by some estimates 70 percent of businesses here. pay protection to the mafia. a figure we con, confirm with the association, we are trying to show people, they are not alone. the only way to root out this problem is to stand up together. in the wake of the bombing police have increased patrols and investigations and set up routing checkpoints, poor and underdeveloped. like much of the south fortune has been the base for the so called forth mafia. for decades, unknown to many outside italy, the collection of clans in the area make most of their money of extortion, drug trafficking and prostitution. the bombings weren't jeff directed at people not pain protection. the owner of this flower shop that was bombed, wouldn't speak on camera, but she said,

no one ever came here asking her for money. and that's what scares her. most investigator said these attacks were meant to spread fear. prosecutor antonia longer showed us the mafia's reach here and how the case rolled this area on the southeast coast of italy. we're getting that. typically the organization clearly feels the need for marketing attacks. i meant to send a clear message, the 5 we are here and she's young. despite recent gains longer isn't convinced to take the local mafia down soon. no son will talk to me, but i'm not optimistic. the path to justice is going to be a long one. there. awesome. hopeful signs. the situation is still uncertain. there are lots of powerful clams on the culture of crime. here. fiji. let me look at be jill anti and his family run a chain of health clinics. in the area, treating thousands of patients, the mafia came calling, despite the risks, his family said no, no monuments, not me. if he's in the future,

if my children follow in my footsteps in this work book after teaching them their whole life about morality, christian values are tough to say, look, if you want to continue this work, you'll have to give money to criminals at all. it would be hypocritical and absurd . a really awful thing for them. not all here feel they can stand up to the mob. they know when the police aren't there to protect them, the mafia could come calling again. adarine al jazeera forger, italy, thousands of young people would attain during protests in hong kong in 2019, many have since been released, but finding themselves locked out of work and educational opportunities. brit credit reports. it's been 3 years since months of anti government demonstrations rocked hong kong for some, such as former frontline protested derek tie. the memories linger when i took a cross hobble bus. and then i just travel by poly university. and i just thought

a foot bridge where people fly 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 under full assembly and sent to prison for 4 months. lee 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 like me who have served their times in prison and then they decide to stay in hong kong. probably what they need is job opportunity. a chance to fond and hand them, so i'm not necessary for working, studying, or keep in touch with the societies. that's where

a group called project change has stepped in to help thousands of arrested protesters providing life planning, counseling, and legal support through the process. i mean, 3 or 4 years to lot of ration and, and clarity. i mean, so got to be kind of laws generation of use. we don't accept funding from government because we want to be autonomous. i mean, a lot of residue stuff like this trustful 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 as long as they amended them. mystics regretted their mistakes, and the sincere a promise that they will contribute who dash so soccer. and they be always well cup and accept the bell. 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, and many opposition leaders are in jail or have fled into exile if he'd come here 3 years ago this, the whole area was plastered 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. the school principal leaking, man, it's important not to abandon the protesters even as the territory moves on maintenance don't go far and told it's normal for young people to make mistakes hold. we want to give them an opportunity to turn over new people. they need the 2nd chance yet, but with hong kong society still deeply polarized it appears, there's still a long road ahead. brit,

clannish al jazeera hong kong. let's go to whether update now his kara, hello there. we'll start with the middle east and it is a rather quiet picture for much of the region with plenty of sunshine, but just a few showers, a grazing parts of the levant, in particular for syria and lebanon. and if you showers popping off around coastal areas of oman in the days to come, but it's really the wind that stealing the show. we've had a shamar wind blowing down the gulf that wind chill has knocked temperatures down in places like doha and dubai. but by the time we get to choose day, we will see them start to pick up. now the wind remains an issue across the red sea and we are seeing the windy weather sweep across northern parts of africa. we could see some sandstorms in algeria, libya. antonia and some coastal showers creeping in from the mediterranean. by the time we get to choose day for the west or whether we have to head further south, we've got the seasonal rains, of course, flooding in the south, east of the democratic republic of congo. this was the scene in lubin bashi,

and the shop of thunderstorms could cause flooding problems raging all the way from angola up to tanzania. you can see the heavy rain, their heavy rain as well for interior areas of south africa, but sunshine and warmth for cape town and is more wet and windy weather pulling into madagascar in the days to come. we'll keep an eye on that. carmody. thank somebody is ahead. here on al jazeera, as afghanistan's humanitarian crisis deepens, the tongue of on demands access to billions of dollars in 1st funds in the us and his sport. a moment to remember the crowd of what's known as the loudest hole in goes ah, from international politics to the global pandemic. and everything in between. it did not respect work for people and your our planet,

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clear the remaining protest is blocking a vital bridge on the u. s. canada border. they've been demonstrating against fantastic restrictions for almost a week, but oppositional parties introduce you of i and to united against president chi side. after he announced sweeping changes to the judiciary. more protest to taking place in the capital to decide gave himself the power to dismiss judges. or critics accuse side of setting shanicea back on a path to authoritarian rule. with a series of moves that began in july, as protests over the government's pandemic, response and worsting economy gripped the capital side, invoked emergency powers. he dismissed the prime minister and suspended parliament . in august, he extended the suspension of parliament indefinitely. the following month, he crossed himself the power to rule by decrease and removed parts of the constitution conflicted with his actions. in december,

he announced plans to amend the constitution and hold elections by the end of this year. but until then, he'll effectively have absolute power. but he had hand whitlow is a researcher, and political analyst each wants to buy from tune is good to have with us all these, the actions of it all for a terry and bent on absolute power or the actions of a man than merely on routing out corruption of cronyism in order to return the country to democracy. hello, thank you for having me. i mean, this look very difficult question, and it turns on who you asked in teja. if you look at, from a political perspective, it's clear that this not someone's history happening in the recent by different degrees. and then the for the freezing of the parliament are definitely on the step deck and my depression. but on the other hand, we need to understand a large portion of the population still have trust in the president in a way, i'm ben. and the corruption has been

a real problem to me. so many people in the day would rather have believed in science. good intention, but question the way he's doing things, you know, the 2 things are not necessarily mutual exclusive in a way. you know, this can be a president. i mean, who can be believing in what he's saying? we're not, we can not be sure, but what is thinking in the federal 9 amendable believe that is actually fighting the corruption in sure, but this does not necessarily prevent he is undermining the democratic institution . he is undermining democratic, elected parliament and independent judiciary. if people are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt for the moment, what today is protest about well, there is, i think, different kinds of people and different kinds of thinking about what i said is doing. there today is to most treatment that has been, i mean, a group engineer who has been a very clearly posed the site visions. we have seen initiative called the citizens

against the coo and another party, which has been the largest parking the parliament that is now blocked and they have been very decisively against them against the self goodbye christ. i am by the decision from the very beginning, but we have seen a lot of people who have given in benefit of the doubt and these people are growing more and more anxious. right now. these are not necessarily all of the people in the street today. they're citizen engaged. ready and not about him being against christ. i am from the beginning, but there are people who are not still going to the trees or still anxious, who are still anxious about a situation, but they're not picking street just yet. so what would it take for people to come out on the street, on mass as they did at the that the start of, of to does is revolution of the beginning of the, of the arab spring. i mean, these demonstrations today, i'm in a big that a lot of people there, but these are not mass demonstrations day after day after day. yeah, so there is about looking to talking to people broadcasting today due to some

independent numbers. this is a very large demonstration, but if you look at the, the history of what happened. i mean, i think teaching people to bay are growing more in there and about like i started doing. but at the same time, the you not see a really every law trinity of what has been in place before i eat, has taking decisions that i did not make huge and satisfied. it did not make majority of patients happy and did the turn out with getting lower and lower parties were getting more and more fragmented. ready so people were dissatisfied with the previous phrygian with the previous system in pleasanton, asia right now, yes, they're going to enter the site, is doing what they do not know. who can fix things? can you say it can not? so for them to protest that they don't want to going back to what was in place before. so there needs to be an alternative. that's possible, you know, but i think at the moment can you just do not believe he is very optimistic alternative to what site is doing and as long as he do not see a very pleasing,

they'll turn it to them. i think they're not going to do more for it. and what about his promise to hold elections by the end of this year? can he be trusted on that? are people willing to wait? i mean, so 4 people have been, not all i mean, again, you cannot to pick up can asian people as one lot. many people have seen have been waiting or they've been watching anxiously, but they have not. there not been doing much except for a few figures, of course, but can we trust and will i think that the question in we're going to theory has always, it's clear that the amount of intentions are not necessarily a guarantee that the things will available. go along a few ones or she wants to, you know, so even if i say it is jen, and if it is intention, which many people have doubts about and, and, but this is not the question here. the question here is to have a democratic system. so if you're going to election under a presidency that have offered power extend, i mean,

i think there's reason to doubt that the dielectric of can have a lot of problems when we have the online publications going on in here right now. and the participation to the consultation has been much lower than what site has been expecting. you know, so we have really need to be really skeptical about the why have democratic or these elections or their friendly them itself will be really good to talk to you soon. thanks and did, but had i'm looking into this. thank you very much. more on our top story you crate earlier, we spoke to richard soccer, professor of russian and european politics of the university of kent to the u. k. he says there's no appetite to war in russia. and the putin is using the border issue to address launch a security concerns. the you can crisis is a symptom of the larger crisis, which is as far as moscow's concerned. the failure of the breakdown of european security order, which was not happy about so many, many years. yeltsin wasn't happy with it. and booting has constantly said, look,

we really need to have a system in which we are not simply faced by enlarging later into voters. the idea of russian invasion, of course, nothing can be excluded, is extremely unlikely. because what on earth would russia do with trying to occupy country before the 1000000 people who would put up stiff resistance? it would mean damaging russia and not just talking about sanctions from hell being imposed on it, but also massive internal divisions. but my feeling is that you actually will keep these forces and keep this up for many, many months. and so the west will get exhausted and my old him at play the game as if, as i argue the game is ultimately all about diplomacy and trying to get issues onto the agenda, which should have been on the agenda for most concerned many years earlier. so they can keep this up free for months and then they can just just go back home and say, look, exercises completed,

no face lost. there's no mood and appetite for war within russia. somewhat heads of coast are talking about this, but they'll go home, no price last and it's the west which will have a lot of egg on its face as it were for having talked by an imminent invasion, even during the begging olympics, which by any standard is extremely unlikely. earlier, and that is how we have it from the u. s. secretary said, talking about ukraine said it's not too late for diplomacy. anthony blank and made those remarks while discussing another global hotspot, the korean peninsula. he's been hosting foreign ministers from japan and south korea in hawaii. they talks about how to proceed with north korea. after it's series of missile tests, we have enough to cover and we are very concerned about the portal to future multiple in particular. and i hope you can also have a good exchange of views on how to deal with the situation as rob mcbride as

monitoring developments from sol. these tests have certainly raised the stakes here in asia pacific and i think it's been important to from and to be lincoln's point of view. and also from his counterparts from south korea in japan, really to put on a united front in that joint statements. and also in that joint news conference that they have delivered in hawaii, where the all of the participants condemning what they called provocative actions by north korea. also hinting at the possibility that can juggle on the north korean leader has possibly said that he might. and the more a tory among 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 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 about here in the asia pacific and in europe, that they should combine, stand up on the behalf of the 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, iraq's supreme court has ruled a cautious barry is not eligible to run for president. it follows a complaint filed against him by a piece of corruption charges, which he denies. a kurdish politician was the favourite to be chosen by parliament

for the largely ceremonial post or on this now from alzheimer's, muffled up to what had her joints live from backdoor bagdad mackwood. as mary's been speaking about this, what she had to say will he has been speaking here. her adrian, this is the headquarters of the could the stand democratic party, which is a body belongs to, in fact, he's the only a nominee if representing the party in the prison till in the presidential race. he has just refuted, denied and rejected the court's decision. ah, considering it in his words, put it to sized. he also said that since he was acquitted by the court in 2016 when he was accused of corruption and mismanagement, when he then was a finance minister. then in his view,

there is no point. there is no point in at banning him from running at for a prison. now, the question now is whether or not his party, the did the could this time democratic party will be able to push for another and no money, especially with the fact that today is considered the deadline. the last day in the constitutional period allocated for presidential candidates to submit their files to the a parliament, a presidency. and where does this play into the white a turmoil right now at a rocky politics. well it's, it's very complicated because now z berry belongs to the could distant democratic party, which is a major ally of the sod risk to movement which achieved the majority of seats in

the parliamentary elections along with the sunny coalition, which is called sovereignty coalition, which it includes both as im 40 and it took up to more progress party which is led by the speaker of the body of the parliament. these major, the blocks boycotted the session that was allocated for choosing or electing. the president of the republic that is only a after the, at the federal or supreme court as suspended the body from running for president. because of the lawsuit that was raised against him by a number of lo makers accusing him of disqualifying of not being a suitable for this a job. so the question now is whether or not, if there will be a re shuffle of that, that the landscape of a alliance is in, in the in m, i mean, the political blocks,

will they change positions that remains to be seen out there as marford. the other were head reporting leather, from baghdad, but he thinks he did. mahard saudi arabia has transferred $80000000000.00 worth of shares of national oil companies, republic investment fund that's being used to diversify the kingdoms economy. crown prince ma haven't been some answers for. he plans to use a rum cose wealth to help move away from oil dependency. afghanistan central bank has called on the you asked to reverse order for afghan assets held in america. president joe biden is to return half of the $7000000000.00 and set aside the rest for september. the 11th victor, slower. bert manley report. shaw in new in downtown cobble is usually crowded with shoppers. but as the economy is tanking, crowds are thinning and businesses and the major commercial district a shutting down or closing early 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 hiccough, 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 than 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 much, but other more. and as though 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. extreme 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. as it will you to release funds to buy much needed aids, 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 the wellness ton hello. hello, who? the people of afghanistan want their rights? the funds that are blocked in the us 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. tricky. oh, this of displayed the anger. it 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 lord, burton money, only thir swiss voters are deciding whether the band most tobacco advertising it's less restricted than in many other countries. a situation blamed on lobbying by tobacco firms with headquarters in switzerland. another referendum question on sunday is about whether to end all animal testing, including medical research experiments. hundreds of people, if not through the british city of manchester, protesting against the rising cost of living. the frustrated by rising inflation, tax increases and higher energy bills. the british government has announced to one off energy rebate, the other measures, but protest to say it's not enough. as the 2 week luda new year's celebrations come to a close, people in taiwan have sent colorful lanterns into the sky. that meant to symbolize

the release of hope and prosperity into the world coming up next in the sport, but olympic 1st begging for these solar female athletes. i'll be here with that. and the rest of the days, actually just a few ah, discarded clothes from rich nations are funneled through charities and sold to impoverished nations. on an unprecedented scale. a massive industry sift through the unwanted garments to re so to some of the world's poorest inhabitants. but much of what arrives is unfit for purpose and is fueling environmental catastrophe. people have power troubles to gonna to uncover the dirty secrets behind the wolf. fashion addiction that white man's clothes on edge is eda with

blue blue blue ah. hello again. sorry for his id. thank you so much, adrian. well, america's biggest sporting event he gets underway. a little lights are on super bowl. 56 will see the los angeles rams taking on outside as the cincinnati bengals . rob reynolds reports from inglewood,

california. 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 in fargo, but we can support our tea 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 the 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 ad 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 route 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, now the international olympic committee is asked the world anti doping agency to investigate. the adults working with russian figure skater came in a valley. eva, a hearing is taking place right now in beijing that will decide 15 year olds olympic future. i've had tested positive for a band substance at a pre olympic events. the teenager is set to give evidence to the court of

arbitration for sport via a video coal. a decision is expected. in the next 24 hours. we can expect that it's going to be a long night. and after the hearing, we will tell the media when we are supposed to announce the final decision, it will be tomorrow afternoon, but at what time we don't know exactly. yes. so escape marker ultimate says secured his 1st olympic title, automatic taking gold and giant followed by less than 2 tents to the 2nd of conditions for all the competitors with heavy snowfall and throughout the event $33.00 of the 87 stuff is we're unable to well the bad weather force to dispose of the women's, the son of the cation been supplement, cross country for by 10 clump to relate that was done by the russian olympic committee. more snow forecast for monday, with temperatures in the mountains set to drop further and reach minus 35 degrees celsius. a new competition is made its w appearance, the women's mano ball,

the 1st of all, one person, both slave and that the games. county, humphreys, of the usa has taken the lead up to heat, the metals they'll be handed out on monday. the pro james is had another career. le not case at the m b a's all time record for most points in the regular season and post season combined. james is 26 points against the golden state warriors taking him past the mark set by kareem abdul jabbar. anytime i've been late with some of the grades i've always been in all you know, been appreciated, opportunity to play the game and at the highest level. now i love to have a basketball uh being a part of m b a and being able to do a spider you know, so many different sets of generations. chelsea celebrating their 1st at a club world cup final, a penalty an extra saw from kind habits to the european champions, beating palmera, she won't london club. i've known every possible trophy and of the ownership of russian roman abramoff shirt. we struggle in the moment,

we don't play our best football. it's not our best moment. in general, we struggle a little bit individually and as a team. but as pet chase's says, many times we managed, we managed to find a way to win and to be in the final and to win the final. and and for this, the team to serfs, full credit, american gulf as sam rod put on quite a show for the crowd at what's known as the loudest hole in gulf around $20000.00 fans in place of the 6th. think that the phoenix opens witness. his martin, it's a hole in one hispanic assessment. one of the still heading into somebody's one room, a kukes behind the 2 and a bit of studies history for raleigh palka. he won the longest tie, break in 80 pizza history to reach the fine of the dallas open. finish 24. 22. is he eventually bates? john. okay. thought his high school's looking for now adrian and the manufacture

date. and that is it for that is all, but i'll be back in just a couple of hubbard, so not out 0. it's my pleasure. the days tops tours, i'll see you then. ah, freefall precision. these athletes are experts in the art of jumping out of planes . more than 40 military parachuting teams have descended here to the desert of guitar to compete for the world championship title. the competitors are all active military members and have been training for years to get here. most have tens of thousands of jumps to their names. each country will compete in 3 disciplines. freefall, skydive, accuracy, landing, and 4 way formation. men and women compete separately. but under the same flag, you know, i can't do a story about parachuting and not jump out of a plane as we climb up the teams mentally prepare for their job. i try to do the

same then minutes later, once the earth is just a blurb below, it's time to free fall. oh, stories of life. and inspiration, i oh, series of short documentary from around the world that celebrate the human spirit. again. cod. oh . how does your select express himself the sport style maam, flying the flag for her nation. we have been putting blanking face in playing crickets on rugby ha, country before you ring maximum. my dream playing in the word girl. while

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