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a decision by the president to dismantle the country's last independent judicial body. a show of force in libya fight as loyal to the intern. prime minister arrived in tripoli after his successor is named and the country with one of the highest rates of smoking in europe has just approved and me a total ban on tobacco advertising. ah oh, we begin with the crisis on ukraine's borders and the vice president joe biden has spoken to ukraine to president rodney lensky on the phone saying any further russian aggression will be matched with swift and decisive action. the german chancellor, olaf sholtes will be the latest west. indeed, it's near ukrainian president and rushes vladimir putin in an effort to deescalate the situation. he'll touch down in care of on monday before going to moscow on

tuesday, bringing warnings of immediate sanctions. if russia invades odessa versus north vendors clots was on it's necessary to be clear to say clearly that in the case of military aggression or against ukraine. but perkins is turtle integrity. and that sovereignty that will lead to strong reactions and sanctioned that. we have carefully prepared those sanctions and can make them effective immediately together with our hours in europe and in may totally because of her. meanwhile, in ukraine itself, people are trying to go on with their lives. but talk of war and conflict is never far away. it's ashley bought or is following developments for us from kiev. there is a lot of unpredictability here, a lot of uncertainty in the ukrainian capital. but you know, life does go on for most people who have been out to day in the sunshine. shopping, meeting up in restaurants, but all as you say, in the shadow of what may or may not happen on one side, the u. s. warning of imminent invasion,

imminent attack from russia. on the other side, of course, you have russia saying that it has no intention of invading ukraine. so a lot of conflicting stories. also, we thought conflicting reports today over ukrainian s space. there were reports that it was going to be closed, then you had top ukrainian officials, a saying that was absolutely nonsense. it would make no point. it would be, it makes no sense. i should say, to close ukrainian as space. there was now a cabinet meeting with officials and ministers that discussing the situation over in the skies over ukraine. it is a very difficult and complex situation, and in the middle of a list of goals between russian western powers, ukraine, the president flood him is lensky calling for com, urging people to panic. even though each alice seems to bring something that fuels anxiety. now, on mondays, lensky will be speaking to the german chancellor, olaf shoulds. he will be here in the city. he is likely to say to zalinski that he

is bringing all the support of european powers for ukraine. sovereignty is a message that he has given many times before. he said it is absolutely essential, the war is avoided. he will then travel to moscow on tuesday. well, the kremlin continues to reject accusations that it's planning any sort of military action. but as fears grow of an invasion, you asked us of the organization for security and cooperation in europe. i started pulling out of the rebel held ukrainian city of done yet. the o. s. c. e is overseen a civilian monitoring mission in eastern ukraine since 2014, when war broke out between ukrainian troops and russian back rebels are his foreign ministry is criticized. the decisions saying, monitoring was needed now more than ever. well, wash in military drills, a cranes border have been intensifying and recent weeks. the presence of russian forces is the largest on beller russian soil since the end of the cold war. nato

considers the war games a serious threat and a possible starting point for russian invasion and ukraine. step of austin reports now from the broker as field near the border with ukraine. at the blue field rush and helicopter gunship stake through the air near by dozens of russian trucks. the training grounds armored personnel carriers are transported towards the border with ukraine. the south of barrows looks like a rush and military zone is abandoned in the field and above, near the city of homo is one of the 12 areas of russia unbearable conducting joint drills known as allowed to resolve. this is not allowed in the local people tell us . the trip is in bad shape and has recently been used for sports competition. footage, released by the russian ministry of france, show state of the art military equipment in action near the border between bellows

and ukraine. and nato, several divisions of $400.00 missile defense systems and dozens of so called fighter jets taking part in the exercises. in response to questions from the baltic states that loose has confirmed that russian forces are also active outside the scope of these drilled. so military units and sub units from the east, the military district of the armed forces of the russian federation of performing task outside the framework of the exercise. they have been deployed and are performing practical measures to go to southern state border where there are no opportunities to reinforce it using border patrol units of the republic of barrows . they are a lot of questions about the exact size and a real purpose of these exercises happening around 20 kilometers from the border. which ukraine, for sure russian forces are a lot more active this close to the ukrainian capital key has a lot more active than they've had been since the end of the cold war. but for many here, it's hard to believe that war is imminent. after

a government crackdown passes in 2020 independent media will shut down and that was, and it's embattled leader alex on the look shanker to russian president vladimir, put in for health for people living at home, out close to the border. it is difficult to find out what's going on because he won't happen. we were told it won't happen 1st, they said there will be worth what i wish the news and shame because if there won't be a war, they brought tanks and trucks and we thought it was a war. but it turns out it was a test of military readiness. vladimir got so i had a lead off, an opposition party and home is not that optimistic use as many people in ballard. i would like to demonstrate against the possible war, but are too scared to do so. lane you? those nodes that move. i'm personally very worried. i have family, i don't want war like most for the russians. but as i see the developments going on so far under the disguise of military exercises. it naturally makes me very worried

on this main road to new grains capital, kia buses and trucks are still crossing the border. but gear is only 200 kilometers away. and russia show of military force nearby is making people in ukraine and western powers. valley nervous that fasten else's era into bhaskar. belarus. ah, opposition parties intern easier say val unite against present guy side after in out sweeping changes to the judiciary. oh. well, protest have taken place in the camp would love to so he gave himself a pallet to dismiss judges. supreme judicial counsel was replaced under a new decree. it was one of the last institutions independent and the presidency site has made several moves to consolidate power since july, when he sacked the government and suspended parliament leads evoke,

min has more from tunis. this decree by the time prejudicial council was initially a sort of a to paid like a rollback by case side. because the international response, when he dissolved the supreme judicial council, was very, very firm that the g 7 un and european union have have said strong words, demanding congress returned to the democratic path. but what we've seen with the decree today is that he's gambling on their 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 chin asia. so this is another step forward towards the protesters was saying is a complete dictatorship, an authoritarian rule by cai side to day citizens against the crew who were an independent, quiet little broad church event. she joined together with the largest political

party tunisia and nasa, which is the muslim democratic party, which has its opponents a and ease of democratic and sort of a socialist wing and also the distortion wing of politics. and in the lot of the, the opponents of a not to say that they're to blame. so this isn't she quite a controversial alliance between the 2. but as we're seeing there are thousands of people gathering and she a, despite a chi psi and to cream. but protests or band, yet, under the rules of caveat unsanitary laws, they are out in force saying we want the supreme judicial council reinstated just some news from iraq. the supreme court there is rule that hush as a bari is not eligible to run for president as follows, a complaint filed against to combine a piece of corruption charges which she denies. the form of foreign minister was a front runner for the position and had the support of sidney politicians. the baris,

as the decision by the court is politically motivated now to libya fight as their who back the in term prime minister abdul hamid debate above entered the capital tripoli in convoys. the om group say they want to show up to baby position after the parliament in eastern libya moved to replace them with fatty sugar to buy. besides, he won't hand over power until long delayed elections a health malec. trina has more from tripoli. we saw yesterday husband, misery, he's the 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 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 he will come into power? what 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, it's, it, 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 register to vote, and that's more than any other election. and look 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 it can lead the

country towards stability in afghanistan for female activists had been found after going missing several weeks ago. united nation says women and their relatives were leased by the country's de facto authorities. they say the women had disappeared after taking part in protest against the taliban, demanding rights for women to work in access to education, taliban has denied detaining them. group is under pressure from western governments over human rights and as they try to secure aid to tackle a growing humanitarian crisis, 5 you and staff members have been abducted in southern yemen. it was kidnapped while travelling on a field mission in the albion region. 4 of them, a jamini nationals, united nation says it's in close contact with the internationally recognized government in southern yemen to ensure their release with al jazeera ly, from london. marcella had on the program struggling to rebuild their lives, former hong kong protest to say work and study and now off limits.

ah ah hey there you're locked into your weather update for europe and africa. nice to see . here's the thing. we've got a band of snow moved across central parts of scandinavia. now to the south of this, it will be rain, but there could be an area of freezing rain, high temperatures here, oslo 4 stock home 5 in helsinki. 3. so that means more, more likely to see some rain, also see snow across sea alpine region and some pretty soaking rains as well for the south of france. meantime, a band of rain is moving along the eastern shores of the adrian c on monday. now for a drought stricken areas of portugal, i think we may sneak in some showers here, but really the heaviest rain will be relegated to northern areas of spain. now for

turkey and the levant, a few showers here mostly contained to war, lebanon, and areas of syria. off we go to africa right now, some showers along the gulf of guinea, that's impacting abidjan with the high 28 degrees and could see some sand and dust storms along the borders with algeria, tunisia and libya further toward the south. we've got some pouring rain here pretty much stretching from angola right through to tanzania and also for western parts of new media. vinto it has a high of 24 degrees on monday. that's a snapshot of your weather mill season. ah. in iran, the head of a mental health hospital experiments with a bold new treatment the therapeutic power of love, the prescription ray man against all his patients, embraced the matrimonial remedy. but can wedlock lead to becca well being on his

board? the marriage project? witness on al jazeera o a buck back, a look at the main stories. now. the u. s. president joe biden has spoken to ukraine, present to me as a landscape. they agreed on the importance of diplomacy and parents in response to russian military build up around the borders of ukraine. in more protest energy after president chi site, scranton supreme judicial council gave himself the power to dismiss judges. the

council was replaced on the new decree edition. he said the knight against site and libyan fight. as you're back in term prime minister to how many debate of entered the capital, tripoli, and convoys. parliament in eastern libya moves her place to bait that he says he won't handle the power until long delayed elections out and i was ready, police have cleared protest as in the flashpoint suburb of chef gerra in occupied east jerusalem. demonstrations broke out as far right is railey and p from the religious zionism alliance opened a temporary parliamentary office in the neighborhood. chester has emerged as a similar palestinian resistance against israeli control of the city. hundreds of palestinians there of either been evicted or facing eviction from their homes, as there is no one soon re has more on the protest from chef gera. melissa, this is the 10th setup this morning by its mob, been via a member of the connect it for the religious zionist party who arrived,

accompanied by dozens of settlers at the house of a solemn family which has been threatened with eviction. he set up his tent and said that he will move his alimentary office here under the pretext that this will offer protection to the settlers who sees some houses in this area. because according to him, the israeli police have failed to protect those settlers. additional police forces also arrived here to secure the member of the connected on the settlers. this lady has been here since this morning. she came with it. a mob been there and has been provoking the situation and obstructing out journalist work. 73 year old fatima selim, who lived in the house with her 3 children and her grandchildren was also beaten as the family were. attack holly and her son was then detained as he tried to protect his mother. as you can see, the police are standing by the settlers obstruct the media. and dozens of palestinians have gathered terror along with some israeli left wing activists to help defend the solemn family. police have cleared the remaining protest as

vehicles from a key bridge on the u. s. canada border crossing is not yet opened traffic. lisa, around a dozen people were arrested. the brocade was part of larger protests which interrupted across canada against cove in 1900 vaccine mandates. and similar demonstrations of now spread to parts of europe as well as already challenge reports. after nearly a week of protest and disruption, this was the end of the stand off on ambassador bridge since saturday canadian police in windsor ontario. i've been gradually enforcing a court order made on friday to end the demonstration. by sunday, only a few stragglers remained. most had left or been arrested on a vehicle towed away. the bridge is one of canada's most important roots to the us with 25 percent of trade between the 2 countries using it. but for 6 days it was shut. as a protest started by truck is angry at mandatory covered vaccine certifications,

blocked it all new mandate in the past. worse, they let us live or large. we're sick and tired of it. can. it is freedom convoy is they called it looks to be over now, but the idea has spread. this is paris france, $150.00 or so ca, setting off 1st to leal and then on to brussels. i love this is on that. i knew we will tell europe to join us so we can change things because the people need to make their voice heard to know that we are here. today. we have the impression that we look down on things are forced on us and we are forced to get vaccinated in order to keep our jobs. we don't want that. we don't want the suppression. we want to be free. brussels was quite on sunday, but maybe not for long because of cobit government in western democracies have placed restrictions on people's lives. not seen outside of war time. most citizens have complied, seeing them as for the greater good,

the but the vocal minority finding ways to make their opposition rory talents out to 0. us actually say anthony blank in his hel, talks in hawaii with his japanese and south korean counterparts. we discussed strengthening ties in order to help counter china's growing military and economic dominance in the region. they also addressed how to proceed with north korea, which is conducted a series of recent missile tasks. we have a lot to cover and we are very concerned about the corner features and multiple in particular. and i hope you can also have a good exchange of views on how to deal with the situation. a thousands of young people were detained during widespread protest and hong kong in 2019, many of them have since been released, but finding themselves locked out of work and educational facilities are, it's kind of explains, ah,

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 her cross hobble bus and, and i just travelled by pulling university and then i just sort of footbridge where people fly down to escape from from poly. that was quite from other tie 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. 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 their times in prison, and then they decide to stay in hong kong, probably what their name is, job opportunity, a chance to a foster and hung them. so that's where a group called project change has 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 arrested youth are quite this trustful of government funds and be a get some 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 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, maintaining on don't go far and told it's normal for young people to make mistakes hot. we want to give them an opportunity to turn over new, or they need the 2nd chance local. but with hong kong society still deeply polarized. it appears there's still a long road ahead. brit, clannish. al jazeera hong kong, united states as suspended imports of avocados from a state and mexico because of security concerns. this comes after an american official received a threatening phone call while carrying out inspections in michigan state is a major producing region, exporting hundreds of thousands of tons of avocados to the us,

but struggles with gang violence. mexico says it's investigating the threat now in switzerland efforts to ban animal testing for medical and scientific experiments have failed in a public vote. 79 percent of swiss voters chose to keep the practice in a national referendum well than 500000 animals died in swiss laboratories in 2020 and campaign. as it argued. the tests were unethical and unnecessary. but they faced strong opposition from powerful pharmaceutical companies, which, that the research was needed to develop new drugs. but voters of approved a near total ban on tobacco advertising, despite strong opposition by the government. that was backing the ban. hope it will discourage young people from taking up a habit in a country with one of the highest rates of smoking in europe. me, bach, her reports. it's an image of the odds with the country's healthy environmentally friendly reputation. but for you, switzerland,

be the haven for tobacco firms with some of the most lax laws in europe, sundays referendums, change things with voters defying the government. and approving a ban on tobacco advertising in newspapers, the internet. anyway, young people can see them. it's laughable that for 2 years now, a health policy to fight coven 19 has been in place. and now we really have the opportunity to introduce a new health policy. yet the swiss government has advised people to vote no. for me, it's obvious that we have to vote yes to the ban. those backing the van say, the government's opposition is down to the presence of the world's major tobacco companies. several have their headquarters here, and the industry generates more than $6000000000.00 a year for the swiss economy. but the old economic arguments no longer hold sway. there were $9000.00 smoking related deaths a year in the country. the impact on its health system is now at the forefront of people's minds, which are at the group of, of the pool and the lease i voted in favor of banning tobacco advertising. when miners, i think the only arguments of the opponents was the collapse of the swiss economy.

i don't see how it is linked. maybe i didn't understand well, but it seems more important to me to protect children from tobacco. so that if i co, firms have lobbied hard to avoid the bad with opponents, claiming cake and even sausages could face similar restrictions with a campaign fail to convince most people swiss voters showing politicians a big business that it's time to get tougher on tobacco. neve palka al jazeera after season for the upsets and now lighting closed coals. american football superball kicks off and just a few hours. the shy down between los angeles rams and cincinnati bengals will play out in a brand new stadium near los angeles. and his areas rob ran else is checking it out . 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. oh,

to say that excitement is running high would be an understatement. just look at these bangles fans celebrating their teams. first trip to the championship game. since 1988 in l. a. rams fans are snapping up. souvenirs. i'm happy and i'm thankful and cargo weekend. for part, i'd see that we can come out and be romilly 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. and then if you want to set, say behind the bench, you know those g p seats, you're going to pay maybe $30000.00 to take a superbowl tv commercials will cost up to $6.00 and a half 1000000 dollars for a one minute deb this year. this beer commercial was directed by last year's oscar winning filmmaker chloe joe. 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 tv and online, rob reynolds al jazeera inglewood. california was more in everything right here, perhaps not so much on the super bowl, but everything else we've been covering in the program al jazeera dot com ah, just to look at main stories now and you as president joe biden has spoken to crane's president, roger ms. lensky on the phone, saying any further russian aggression will be met with swift and decisive action. german chancellor, la shouts will be the latest west needed to meet ukrainian president in russia's victim of putin and an effort to deescalate the situation. he'll touch down in kiev on monday before going to moscow on tuesday,

bringing warnings of immediate sanctions. if russia invades will disappear north vendor clots was on it's necessary to be clear.