repair 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. ah, this is al jazeera ah. 15 dollars g until you hear on al jazeera and come out santa maria, welcome to the news. we do not want war in europe, that message coming from russia's liter directly as he hosts the german chancellor in moscow for talks on the ukraine crisis. russia is, in fact pulling some of its troops back from the border with ukraine after completing their drills. also in the news, canada activates emergency power is never used before. in an effort to in the

protests against coven, 19 back same rules. and the former president of honduras speaks out off to the u. s . demanded his arrest, an extradition, accusing him of links to drugs, cartels and sport and emotional returned to the beijing eyes for a russian figure skater, camilla valley ava. it's the 1st event for the 15 year old since the court cleared her to compete, despite failing a doping test, a pre olympic events. ah, so once again was starting with the diplomatic efforts to end the crisis, or at least ease it between russia and ukraine. the german chancellor, as you may have seen, has just finished a news conference with the russian president vladimir putin in moscow. after earlier russia said some of its military units were now returning to their basis. so that finished the drills near ukraine's board. that's true, but build up,

as of course, spent at the center of all these warnings from the west that russia may invade ukraine, but it is not clear how many units are actually being withdrawn and how far back they are going. nato secretary general has also said it yet to see any evidence of this de escalation from moscow, but says there is reason for cautious optimism in resolving the crisis. vladimir putin says he is really ready to work further with the west, despite being unhappy with its answers to the criminal security concerns. the linear even the by at the do we want war or not? of course we don't. and it's for that reason that we have submitted a proposal as to a negotiation process as a result of which there should be a guarantee for security, for everybody including our country. unfortunately, we have already said this, we have not yet received any kind of substances answer to the submission yet, and then you'll look the curtains and provide to mr. i fully agree that diplomatic

if it's have yet to be exhausted, and we have to find a peaceful resolution to this crisis. several troops of a pull back, which is a good sign. and we hope that this will continue. we're prepared with our allies in the a u, a nato, to take steps for the improvement of various of mutual interest. as always, we have a team of correspondents all over the world covering this story from left to right . kimberly. how could our white house correspondent in washington, charlie angela in london? step thomson is in better rates, but we're starting in moscow with dosage. barry, who's of course, been watching what we've been saying coming out of moscow in this. what was it about an hour long news conference? yes, it is nearly an hour. and i think mainly it was obvious that it was dominated by the russian president vladimir putin. he was asked some very tough questions and he took his time in answering, he made his position very clear. yet again, he called at his nearly 3 and a half hour meeting with the german chancellor,

all of shoulds useful and comprehensive. he said that the 2 men had a lot to discuss. this came as he announced a 10000000000 dollar further investment from the russians into the german economy. and he spent the 1st bit of the, in his statement talking about the economic ties between the 2 countries. he said that that will continue. certainly, and of course, the supply of russian gas to germany is very much part of that relationship. he said that the russians supply nearly 35 percent of the gas that the german population uses and that will continue. and he said he will only grow. and he was hopeful that north stream to will get online soon. that is, of course, the $11000000000.00 project pipeline that takes russian gas from siberia directly to germany. that has yet to beget the right regulatory permissions from the german government to stars, but it is been ready to go since december. also noteworthy is the position about

nato, and the talks with united states vladimir put, it was very clear that they have to have a discussion now about nato's further expansion. he said it's not just about the issue of ukraine at whether or not they will join today. or tomorrow or in the future. he says, the issue huseby dress. now he doesn't want to wait anymore. he wants to talk about expansion of nato. and he wants to clearly talk about the core issue that at russia has with nato in the united states on those key points, right? those are all the big picture issues which have been addressed in that news conference. i'm wondering dall sir, about this apparent grabanko pullback of russian fruits. confirmation of that. who is it coming from? well that is coming from the russian defense ministry. the chief spokesperson, major general igor condition called made the announcement earlier on tuesday, saying that as a result of

a number of drills finishing units from russia's western and southern military will be heading back to their home base. now, we have to take this, of course, to the greatest fault because there is no details provided about the numbers about what would happen to the equipment, the military equipment that is in certain locations that have caused a lot alarm by the western countries. the defense ministry just said the troops that have finished their drills will fall back to their home base. others are still taking part in large military drills, but this is the 1st official confirmation that we've had that shows that there are some troops that will be re stationed back to home base. what this means in the next few days in terms of whether or not this will be escalate, the situation will have to wait and see. but for now, this announcement is certainly significant. and it was also hinted out by the russian defense minister during a meeting. he had survey sure, go with the russian president vladimir putin,

where he said that this would take place in the coming days. and now we have the official confirmation from the ministry defense mystery spokesperson, what it will indicate in the next few days. we'll have to wait and see whether or not western countries as well as nato secretary general has said that they have to confirm that this is actually going to take place on what it means in terms of numbers. but for now, the russian president was asked about during this press conference and he said he had no comment to make on the subject. so we'll have to wait and see what comes from it. ok, so that's dosage of by restarting us off with the word out of moscow. that dominant cane in berlin into the mix now as well, and dominant to high profile visits by all i've shown in 2 days how successful are otherwise the district now looking it depends very much on your perspective as to how successful mister schotts is. mission might seem to have been let's be clear that his mantra was all about de escalation in kiev

yesterday when he met president. zalinski is what his mantra had been for some time . and now it appears that some russian troops are pulling back from the borders of ukraine. so to a certain extent, perhaps he looks at that and says, yeah, well, we heard him say that that's welcome. but from his perspective, de escalation is a process, not an event. removing a small contingent of troops is not necessarily going to mollify the ukrainians who are worried if there are still around a $100000.00 russian troops, actively drilling, firing live, ammunition and that sort of thing. as part of their exercises in close proximity to the ukrainian border. and it's interesting also to note that when mr. shots was speaking about gas pipelines, which of course, from his perspective is not just north stream too, but only other gas pipelines which pipe gas into western europe through germany, where he is dependent. his economy is dependent to a large extent on russian exports. russian gas exports,

that is so clearly from his perspective, there are certain parameters within which he can operate and certain that he can't really operate without. so when he was in care of, it was clear all assistance that was possible to give to the ukrainians, but no weapons. and then in moscow with president putin presenting this united front of european, disapprove of the thought of some active aggression against the ukrainians. the can't go too far because to do that would be to invoke potential problems in terms of his own energy supply. so that is the way the prism with which or through which to view what mr. shots is doing. and the other thing to bear in mind here is that the ground swell of opinion in germany, in monks, ordinary germans, looking at the prospect of some kind of war or cry. they really don't want their country to get involved in any way whatsoever, if possible, in any kind of conflicts, which might involve russians being fired upon with german weapons. that's the way

to look at all this right now. okay, thank you. dominant came there in berlin. well, russia's parliament is calling on president putin to recognize, to russian, back to break away regions in east and ukraine as independent states. we've got child stratford now in how heave in east in ukraine, near the border with russia. let's get an update from you. charles. that's right, yes. russian lawmakers to day voting on a resolution to potentially recognize those break away states. now we've subsequently heard other self declared breakaway states. we should say, we've subs when we heard from the criminal spokesperson, dimitri prescott, who has said that there has been no agreement on such a recognition. and interestingly, during about a may putin speech, he said that sir, he hoped that the french and the german leaders could put pressure on the ukrainian governments to, to resolve the crisis in the dom bass peacefully. we've also heard from the foreign

minister to veto calais by hey, who said that say, any recognition although self declared break away, republics would be a violation of international law and would destroy the mince agreement. so what is the minsk agreement? well that means agreement was signed in 2015 as well. 13 articles in it's 7 years later, not a single one has been fully implemented. the ukrainians always saying that they were forced to sign this agreement because in 2015 i will basically losing the war . they say that he's heavily weighted in rushes favor, but there are concerns that have this kind of language that is coming out of russia to recognize these self declare states that so that could well instigates or push some sort of according to analysts military action from the ukrainians which these analysts say would, i would push a counter reaction by, for example,

the russian back separatists with the help of russia because of what is believed to be hundreds of thousands of ukrainians. but of now got russian passports inside those areas. giving a vladimir putin potentially the pretext to, as he, as analysts of alluded to as, protects russian citizens. so the situation is very complex in that area. the minsk agreements is, is something that has failed dismally. so fall despite the innovations of what seemed to be the beginnings of deescalate tree language from vladimir putin and from western leaders. this vote in the duma by russian a little makers to day will not go any way to helping further de escalate the situation. to cement alliance, who at all, isn't it? thank you. charles stratford in kentucky, if in ukraine moving on step wanston in lynette which is in west and belarus,

we were talking earlier. steps about the idea of russian forces pulling back maybe drills are ending. what have you been seeing and hearing? well, we haven't seen any troop withdrawals in the south part of bellows, where we have been traveling today. in fact, the ministry of defense here and bellows has released footage of the st. george into russian by the ocean drills ongoing. they fired to talk got missiles said today, and they released this footage also in the lumen yet at the air base. we are presumably as $400.00 missile defense systems are being stationed all the way from the far east of russia and also suca fight the jets. we actually saw to go fight the jets or at least fighter jets because you'll be flying over. so at the same time as the ministry of defense in russia saying that the, these, these joint drills are coming to an end. and some of them have already been wrapped

up. it's still ongoing. nato thinks that we're around 30000 to russian forces here in ballard. at the ukranian border where we are, and lots of people here, especially at the board, are very nervous about this press and off russian forces. they're very skeptical about these statements coming from moscow, saying they're going to be withdrawn. they're going to go back to the basis. what will happen also with the equipment as store. so let's say many are worried that definitely a part of these forces will stay behind here in ballard. stepped often in linear syn, bella, race, great stuff, a thank you. step off to washington, we go. i white house correspondent, of course with kimberly, how good morning. kimberly. what is the u. s. position? i mean, russia says it's pulling back. all the u. s. has been saying for the last couple of days is that actually there are more troops coming in. the u. s. is treating these reports with skepticism. they are going over the analysis and military intelligence very carefully. and i can tell you that the u. s. ambassador to nato

julianne smith is saying that this is something that the united states has seen before. she recalls that back in december when russia said it was d escalating. only 2, they allege ramp up the military presence along the border with ukraine. and so that is why there is a bit of skepticism about these latest reports. oh, of course the united states would like to look at this with some optimism, but at this point there is simply no way to confirm that there has been any sort of d escalation on the part of latimer putin. in fact, just the opposite. the united states believes still that there is this window that russia is now in for some sort of in imminent invasion of ukraine. now, having said that, there sort of the planning to deal with an imminent attack by russia is still ongoing. we know that the defense secretary lloyd austin is on his way to brussels

as we speak. he will be going to the nato headquarters. he'll be meeting with the military leaders of belgium, poland and lithuania, were also watching carefully to get reaction from the u. s. president, he is not expected to appear before the cameras it for quite a few hours until later in the afternoon, washington time. so we'll watch carefully to see what he might say later. but for now, you can be resting, assured that there is a lot of skepticism in washington about these reports of any sort of pullback by the russian military help it. okay, thanks. that is, kimberly, how could i white house correspondent and from washington we go to rainy london. charlie angela is there for us. as maurice johnson holds an emergency motion today . yes he's. he's definitely showing signs that he's making ukraine an absolute top priority for this government, and possibly a welcome distraction from his own trouble. so he returned from a long awaited

a tour of no thing than yesterday. cat cut it short, canceled it for that phone call with biden yesterday, and an emergency cobra meeting. earlier. now he much from that meeting, trying to strike a balance between optimism and realism. optimistic saying he seeing some diplomatic openings with russia, saying that we're seeing rush, an openness to conversations, but realistic saying that more signs on the ground, a showing or pointing to a potential invasion. and he said the intelligence he's heard is not encouraging. and how it's referring to the briefing he will have got from his security chief much which will obviously remain classified. but what he did share was the building of those field hospitals in batteries and the build up of tactical troops along the border, which he said is not a reassuring sign. that interestingly, he said that the u. k. has decided to keep the embassy in kiev open to show the u. k. support for stability in ukraine despite the risk. and despite the fact that

most other countries have already relocated the bulk of their embassy staff outside of the capital. so that's gonna be a situation under constant review. and he also spoke of you case specific sanctions on russia that will be clamping down on the ability for russian banks and companies to raise money, to raise capital here in london. and also exposing the ownership of property in london and elsewhere in the u. k. in those a sanctions, the actually could have some teeth because the u. k. is traditionally a very popular 2nd home for many russians and a and a place where they've parked their money. so that was boys johnson talking tough. i'm treading a fine line between optimism, but not happy about what he see on the ground. ok, charlie angela running out our team of correspondence on the russia. ukraine story going to charlie. so let's talk about the troops. because while whether they're

drawing back or not, we know they have been a lot of russian troops in place. the west of accused moscow massing more than a $100000.00 of them around the north and the east of ukraine, including areas that moscow with an easy, striking distance of kiev. for the past 8 years. let's not forget, ukraine has been battling around 35000 russian back rebels who controllers set to eastern provinces. russia reportedly has military personnel there, though the kremlin denies that. and moscow's also deployed forces in crimea, the region which it annexed from ukraine in 2014 add on to that the russian war ships which are blocking large areas of the black sea and the sea of as of for naval drills and mosque. i moved 30000 soldiers and heavy weapons into bella race for joint military trails with us from moscow. now puzzle feldman has the defense and military analyst and a columnist for nevada yet because that to thank you for your time. if russian troops are indeed pulling back than what has been achieved, i don't see how this can simply be put as well. they were just trails and now they

are over. i whoa. yesterday, after meeting between president for the reports in his defense minister survey chicago, it was announced that some of the grills will be, oh, were, and the troops in the south and western military districts, or will move back to bases. but other drills, low continue in other parts of russia. that's a positive move. that could be the end of the present crisis as we have it right now. partial, at least the escalation over though it's too early to say that that is actually happening because their reports say that there are a bombers arriving in syria with capabilities to destroy aircraft carriers. and there's an american aircraft carrier just nearby in

the mediterranean, and also french, one italian one. and now they're deployed together with the russian, a massive russian task force in the mediterranean. so that's not the very good sign . so the, the, we're not yet the, it's not yet the, this crisis right now is not over. but i believe that it will be over as, rather soon because the russian military are in the very, very high state of readiness, not only around ukraine, but in the entirety of the country, including strategic nuclear weapons of different sorts. ab a. so they are cocked and loaded, but they can stay inside just against that your position for a continuous way there have to step down. and i believe that most likely, i hope, at least that they will step down without, without any kind of real real war happening. but that is not the end of the entire story because without a comprehensive political solution of the problems,

we've been rash and the west in half a year are going to have or something we're going to have the same crisis and as may be going to be even more work. exactly. so they both sat, an ideal caught a solution you, this is may be a something tactical you are quite right in saying that there is of them. we all know that there is a larger political solution needed to stop this happening again. but it's the vis what just happened. everything you just described. that was a confrontation waiting to happen. that wasn't just drills. it wasn't just normal military drills. it was a confrontation whiting to happen. it was, it was a threat. oh yes, it's called the knowledge or brinkmann ship or a bouncing on the brink of war. it sir, uh, well known tactic in trad, during the cold war, a li brinkmann shipper term was coined in the fifty's by john foster, dallas dablin, secretary of state. so that's kind of, since a nuclear war is so terrifying, you kind of

a balance on the brain can to get concession and yet russia still claims rushes to hines. it wasn't the aggress said that it didn't want to invite anything and it won't do anything. but again, i keep coming back to this point when you move that many troops into and around one country, it is a specific threat. let's say there was not only against ukraine, there have been deferments of rush and strategic nuclear weapons including submarines covered by other surfaces, ships and, and other attacks that marines in the sea of a corpse in the butt. bear and see a russian task force in a mediterranean no ukrainians there. so russia was actually a cocking and a loading for a possible war with the united states. hopefully of course this was just of course brinkman ship, but there is always a possibility that something may go wrong. i mean good to go car who ations are one

thing, but there can be an incident that can begin unraveling at all when you're moving so close to the brink. it's a very dangerous act. yes. and it may bring results, but it also can bring a possible, a serious con for with military confrontation or clean. it's all coming back from the bring in that power falcon her in moscow. thank you for your time. we appreciate that. now a little earlier sammy's ident spoke to the mayor of keir botanic, which kirk, the former boxing world champion, who explained that concerns about the russian troops at the border and how the city planned to defend itself. we have done half exactly information we have 3rd, so much so much information right now is the, from different her sources. we have different informations and, you know, we're from our east, the partners, we see the no russian small for troops back to our board. a russian sold, so they move away. ok. now

u. s. intelligence reports have been quoted by the media sang. the u. s. believes u. s. officials believed that if russia does invade kiev, your city, that you will, the mayor of and responsible for will fall within 48 hours. are they right? ah, feels the fall. we prepare them for the defense l, a. c t, and to defend our country. and 1st of all, is our new grade in mildred forces. so ready to fight. and also i'm responsible for trivial defense and to we have to defend our cities. we have to defend our families . we have to defend our future because our future is you will be a part of the european family as democratic, modern ukraine country. and it's just russians not happy with that

because it's no secret mister put in one, where am i to rebuild saw it in prior to washington fire and the grand have to be the very important part of this empire. i'm not, i appreciate i don't want you to speculate, but i want to get a feel for what you are planning for in the case of an invasion. do you think you can continue to hold on to the city or are you planning to operate? i know you've signed up yourself personally for ukrainian minute for units. are you planning to operate simply as some kind of grill of force and, you know, give up the, the hope of holding on to, to the control of the city. we had no where they're planning here for any scenario that we do a mo, how will be developed whole situation. but we also prepare for worst case it, but the 1st of all is the ukrainian, the army is pretty strong. eva eve,

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after meeting with the german chancellor shelves in moscow. russian defense ministry of confirmed the partial pullback of troops, but the military gave no details on exactly where it's happening on how many of the width of accused rush of massive $100000.00 personnel and nato secretary general says he is cautiously optimistic about russia. announcement, he said so far has not seen any signs of the escalation on the ground, the us ambassador to nato, as it's too early to say. so often we talk about latest developments in a story like this for the past 24 hours while each development and seem to be contradicted. sometimes in a matter of minutes, a series of tweets just to show you all the mixed messaging which we've seen on multiple fronts. so starting here, this was referring to the ukranian ambassador to the u. k. who's speaking on radio in the u. k. and said this, i will just try to circle it here. my pencil will work. one second. no,

it's not working, but oh, there it is. the country might not agree to join nato if it would avert a war with russia, which was a pretty huge statement to make a have him. only a matter of hours later was now saying they will be no change of policy to become a member of nato. and that was on the same network, so i was contradicted, it was been backed up again by the president. and here dmitri labor, a foreign minister, who said it has been shrines on the line here in our constitution and national foreign policy strategy. so yes, we're still very much want to join nato. been on the ground as we've been talking about these things like this. the russian military activities were pictures just fresh on the 12 hours ago showing new build up. so what purports to be new build ups there, and then it comes to the russian foreign minister. he says, rushes, not threatening anyone and doesn't want to, and we've been threatened with catastrophic consequences. have you ever heard of say anything of this kind? richard white's defense expert at working start global consultants. they the author

of global security watch russia with us from washington d. c. that's just a little example really of the last 3 months, isn't it all this back and forth? i know we can expect to hear different things from different sides, but the back and forth here has been quite something. yes, i have to agree. it's been very confusing. some of this is deliberate. we know that the, the actors don't want to convey precisely their intentions are what they plan to do . so they give off different signals. the russians are particularly skilled at the us and, but just even some of be objective facts come assessed by various news organizations such as yours or west or other other media. it's, you know, there's not a lot of clarity. some things are clear though. we know that russia has been billing out its forces along the cranes border. and we know that this is provoked a lot of alarm in the ukraine and especially other countries. but precisely what's going on, what might be the resolution?

lot of possibilities that are still open at the moment, russia says it is pulling its troops back and it seems to be a token to a guest earlier. it seems to be sticking to this idea that no, they would just drill. there was nothing out of the ordinary. well, it was 100000 troops in and around one country, wasn't it? they, how does moscow stick to that sort of line? well, russia engaged had, since i would say the past decade, prickly since the georgia war of 2008. the russian military has been emphasizing drills, training, readiness. and so they engage in many drills, a series of annual, very large drills in different parts of the country. and then many smaller drills are particularly ones without much advance notice they call the snap drills. and so what we're seeing normally wouldn't be so out of the ordinary that it just been as drill as in april where they mobilized ukraine and then dispatch what's been

alarming here is that this has been going on for a month. there's been a steady flow of russian forces to the particular areas around ukraine to the north and palo rooster, the east, along most of the central russia, and then in the south through crimea and the black sea. and it's also involved a bunch of units, types of forces, which would you normally wouldn't use unless you were planning a major operation. these kind of enablers, electronic warfare, a systems, for example. we've had reports of blood supplies and medical units. so this is why it's a vote concern, and this isn't just your, your regular annual or semi annual drill around ukraine, that there might be something more in the works for tonight's, with us from washington dc on the news out today. thank you so much for your time. we appreciate it. thank you. me. a ganna songs acting foreign minister is leading

a taliban delegation that has met e u representatives here in don't ha, the you says it's still not officially recognizing the taliban government, but it wants to keep communication channels open. some of jade without those tools . this is not the 1st time they've met, representatives from the european union. this was especially representative from the european union and agencies meeting the de facto government in afghanistan, which calls itself the islamic emmet off of kind of fun. it is an urgent mission on the agenda of the foreign minister, who says that he is in doha to speak to all sides and talk to them. not just about the pressing issues inside of venison, but about the very important issue of, of gone funds which the united states have decided that it will be using for other purposes. then returning to understand. and that is something that the afghan government in charge says it's illegal to discuss that. and all the other meetings they've been having here in the country capital have with us is the chief of the political office and,

and the nominee for the united nations. mr. to try and thank you very much for joining us. you've been meeting gcc representatives in the last 24 hours. you've also met you representatives. what are you trying to get out of this? as you said, that this is not going to be a recognition of the government in charge of one son is under our control. there is no place we are. we do not have control. we have control all over the country. the people of our plan is some support us. it was the support of the people about my son, but we fought for 20 years in order to to liberate our country. that is, that would mean to the people up up on the sun. the sanction imposed on the people above line is done by you see in the international local community are punishing the people above the sun. the humanitarian crisis created now, and the people above on the sun are passing through is because of those sanction

they are going to be continuing these meetings. it is an area of meetings, a high level delegation, which is going to be meeting people from the country side about the airport in cobbled to resume chartered flights from there. it, there's also going to be discussions about humanitarian aid. and these, some sort of resolution to the political, a status of the current government in afghanistan, which the taliban wanted to be removed, the sanctions to be lifted. and them to be recognized by the international community, including those european leaders who met the taliban today, saying that this is not a recognition of the government, but merely it opening of a door where the people who are in charge of of gunnison should be dealt with should be negotiated with and some sort of solution needs to be found for the millions of people in afghanistan suffering from the current political and economic situation that united states is asked honduras to arrest and hand over its former president. he's been accused in federal court in new york of receiving money from

drugs cartels more from cathy lopez or the young. ah, security forces were called in on monday night to surround the wealthy neighbourhood where the former president of underwood lives less than 3 weeks ago when orlando and on this was in charge of the country. now the u. s. as calling for his arrest, an extradition. oh, prosecutors in new york have repeatedly accused and former president of involvement and drug trafficking, alleging his political rise was fueled by drop profits. i am under kind of a company what we've been calling for his arrest since 2015. when we denounced the former president was a drug trafficker corrupt and associated with criminal jo from an admin. this was prison for 8 years. he was, prosecutors have accused him of receiving millions of dollars in exchange for protecting drug shipments through their country. the money was reportedly also used

to bribe politicians and help his political career rather, not via the former cruiser, and has repeatedly denied the allegations in an audio recording on tuesday. he said, he's willing to voluntarily turn himself in the story. but boy luther, i'm ready to collaborate and voluntarily go to the authorities at the moment the supreme court judge is assigned to this case so that i can face the situation and defend myself accordingly. his legal team, our user will take its direction from the supreme court of on door to us and not from foreign countries, isn't the view in life. it's up to the executive power of the nation. we must wait for an independent body of the state to make the corresponding decisions at mann, this law office on january 27th. when the new president, your modern pastor was sworn in on that same day, he became on board as his representative to the central american parliament, which overseas political and commercial treaties across the region. and as

a member of their group, his lawyers argue the former president has immunity from criminal prosecution. paseo lopez of a young al jazeera menorah chapel has reported extensively form honduras far as he's in mexico city. today. what is the situation now after the events of our early tuesday? our sources in the 100 capital tell us that there continues to be a large police presence surrounding the home of former president, one, orlando. amanda is now the reason that we haven't seen any more movement on this per se, since the late hours of monday evening when that extradition order was announces. because it's ultimately up to the hunter and supreme court to issue an arrest warrant for police to move and act on these on these charges. something that we haven't seen yet. and it remains unclear when exactly the supreme court is going to be issuing that order. we also don't know what the official charges are against

president wondered lender demanded as of yet, what we do know is that in the days and weeks leading up to the announcement of the extradition request, we were hearing a lot of chatter from washington from lawmakers on capitol hill among them senator bob menendez, who was referring to the former 100 president as a drug kingpin. so at the very least, we know that the charges will be related to international drug trafficking. ok, thanks for that up that that's my wrap. hello. in mexico city with an update on what's going on and understand. meanwhile, mexico as president has suggested politics and economics. other reasons behind a u. s. ban on mexican have a carter's. the suspension on imports was announced after us official reported being threatened while doing inspection work in mexico. farmers in mitchell can state are reportedly extorted and attacked by cartels and criminal gang. 2 months now since typhoon ride devastated large areas of the central philippines, nearly $10000000.00 people were affected by that storm. jamila allen dugan has this

report now from bo, whole province, one of the worst hit areas. jesse garcia, thought he was just an ordinary typhoon. these said they were by the sea side with their children until the water rose like a wall. you'll thin me feel up when i all of a sudden our roofs were blown away. and we had to swim away from the current with our children. those terrible, terrible baba, but all of us are brave only thankfully, jesse said their house in his boat, which he once use for fishing, is now this choice. this causal vineyards, in all by is one of the worst. his areas here in the province of ball survivors here tell us some of them were able to salvage a few pieces of whatever is left of their homes. but for what they say when they're not even allowed to rebuild here any more, typhoon y, locally known as the dead caused extensive damage in the science and the men in our

region. it killed at least $400.00 people and displeased millions more. government officials say the damage is comparable to super type when a young in 2013 the strongest storm on global record. according to the united nations, more than 2000000 people are in dire need of assistance and access to food, shelter and medicine remains limited. hundreds of towns are still without power and boiling water will announce our a hard the folk. there are hard the race and the there used to confronting these hardships. but of course, we need all the help we can get considering that the 200000 people about 80000 of totally destroyed homes right now. early in the gym, ours is now homeless. her 15 square meter home was swept away by the storm surge. nothing is left, she said, and they feel grateful if they are able to eat twice. city. the situation here is

repeated many times over. at least 4 other provinces remain in desperate need of aid. there are communities which were already reeling from the economic impact of the pandemic. so typhoon rice, devastation has actually scaled back recovery efforts even further. shemelle alan dog and al jazeera ball province central philippines. paris is launched its 1st noise radar as part of a plan to target loud motorcycles and other vehicles. the machine measures noise levels of moving carson can identify license plates. the french capital plans to start issuing fines from early next year. authorities can already sanction the owners of noisy vehicles under existing legislation, but they need the equipment to catch the driver in the act. still ahead on this news, our sport and the european champions laid knockout rounds begin later on tuesday, with a much frankly worthy of being a final, the details in a few months. ah,

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a repository of knowledge but an access point to the world beyond blue hill or at the latest from virginia. now the winter games with our thank you so much. come all rush and figure skater, camilla, belinda was able to put the doping scandals surrounding her to one side and dominate the eyes of the beijing games. on tuesday, the 15 year olds performance was good enough to put her on top of the women's short program standings. she now progresses to the free skate on thursday were no metals will be headed out if she finishes and the top 3 on monday sports courtside valley

ever should be allowed to compete at these games despite failing a doping test and a pre olympic event. it's claimed contamination with her grandfather's heart medication could have resulted in the positive test on the world anti doping agency is investigating the adults in charge of the teenager. carto donovan is a former world karate champion. she says, the valley of a case raises water concerns. well, how young athletes are treated, we have thing to where they entire history of and it opened that the focus goes down to the archies. when many cases, the support personnel, if the entourage is the system and the culture so like we're never going to see meaningful change unless you go after the book. young athletes in particular female athletes. they're just disposable too, or they're being broken. they're being abused under no, potentially being doped or, and certainly has done in the past and all in order to win metals go pop point to

be going to say this is a no fun part of the reason i think we've got things about so bad and lead support comes down to the fact that actually in particularly female athletes, they have 0 say in was happens and what decisions are made in their sports. so there's nobody acting in their best interests. like i've come through, you know, i'm, i'm on the other side or sport like i've just recently retired, but all of my sports career has been, you know, if you speak up there will be negative consequences. it's not that there might be, there absolutely will be. it just depends on how severe that might be. and so you learned from a very young age, frisky or corin studer tend gold and the women's down hell, the world champion, edged out spending time holder severe and go john fy? 1602nd it's it's right 27 year olds 1st. so one big metal is with switzerland's. 4th quarter of these games in our claim. china is eileen, do just miss out on another goals. the u. s. borne free, certainly true silver and the women c. slope style,

my pilgrim on to switzerland finished the 1st one, a gold medal in the big air competition last week. am 18 year old. phil has the half pipe about to come. i guess our of austria has one. her 2nd straight, limpid gold medal in women, snowboarding big air at 30 gas, or was the oldest rider in the final. by 5 year, 17 year old su evening, one goal for the whole nation and the man's big air event. it's china is 6 school model out the game for passing countries and that whole 5 goal thank hoover in 2010 and in sweet skating. japan had looked that for a 2nd street gold medal and the women pursued until one of the gators fell with just half a lap to go about handed canada gold metal. their 3 women team set a new olympic record in the pro football now and the european champions

league round of 16 gets under way. in a few hours time period. phase men are hosting round madrid. the 1st comes with both teams leading their respective leagues. well, our 13 time european champions, but the french side are looking to win the continents top club competition for the 1st time. no, i 42. there isn't a favorite. i think it's a knockout game that could also be the champions league final because of the names of the 2 teams, the players and the quality paras, sanisha might have been waiting more than 50 years to win this title. thousands of people have been honoring one of american football is most influential figures. they gathered at the oakland coliseum in california to pay tribute to john madden, who died aged $85.00 in december. well, this was where mat in 1st rose to fame as the super bowl winning coach of the raiders. al jazeera gabriel elizondo reports on his unique legacy stretched across

decades. well, the book starts now. one man, an icon to 3 generations of american football fans in 3 different areas, coaching, broadcasting, and gaming. that man, john madden, who embodied everything football. he started as a player before his career was cut short due to injury. but older american football fans likely remember john madden when he coached the oakland raiders in the 1970 s, his no nonsense attitude. gaining him the loyalty of his players. he super bowl when and when he retired, the winning, his coaching nfl history, a coaching career that was kept by an induction into the pro football hall of fame would have satisfied most people. but not john man. most middle aged football fans likely only no. john madden from his 2nd act and what an act it was after coaching,

madden spent the next 3 decades in the broadcast booth as a flamboyant analyst. but you can't make yourself one dimensional with over 15 sports emmy awards. he's widely considered the greatest football analyst ever for his ability to explain the game in simple, yet entertaining terms. john madden was one of the most famous and recognizable people in all of american football. during the season would seem like he would appear everywhere. but one place you would never find john man was at an airport. john madden did not like to fly at all. he was claustrophobic. so he took a bus everywhere around the country and had said, madden cruiser hole on the side of the bus. so everybody knew who was inside and he stopped all the time at small little cafes in order to eat and talk to people and learn what their life was like. he loved it. he loved getting to know people. he

was the ultimate man of the people. ha longer football fans, those under 30 years old, probably only know maddened by the video game that bears his name, madden, and phil. one of the most popular sports video games of all time has sold over a $130000000.00 copies and generated nearly $4000000000.00. john, earl madden, a man who stature is unmatched in a uniquely american sport. gabriel is hondo al jazeera new york. that man would have enjoyed the late trauma at sunday super bowl. the l. a rams team had been enjoying a day out at disneyland to celebrate their narrow win over the cincinnati bengals. it's just the 2nd time the franchise has won the nfl biggest price. okay. and that is all your sport for now. come all back to you. oh, thanks far. we'll see you again. 1800 hours. gmc downtown next news al,

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jazeera so therefore fathers for the soviet 25 years after independence. they too must become men defenders of lithuania, preparing for the possibility of war. waiting for invasion, a witness documentary on al jazeera, which is no man's land between ukrainian government forces and set british fighters with the self declared to next people's republic. the city seems more russian than when we were lost here on the surface, at least we are between a rock and a hard place. there are no jobs, we are doing our best to survive. this was where some of the heaviest fighting took place between pro russia separatists from the ukrainian government forces. when

conflict started in 2014, most of the people that used to live in this neighborhood a to afraid to return because of the sporadic shilling. and now increasing phase of a potential renewed conflict. ah, we do not want war in europe, the message from russia's leader off to talk with the german chancellor in moscow of ukraine. and russia, as it is pulling some of its troops from the border with you right after they've completed their drills. ah, i'm come all santa maria here in doug with the world news from al jazeera. the former president of honduras has spoken out after the u. s. demanded his rest and extra.