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and come all santa maria here in doha. this is the world news from al jazeera prince. prince andrew has reached an out of court financial settlement with the women accusing him of sexual abuse. and a former president of honduras speaks out of the u. s. demanded his arrest and extradition, accusing him of links to drugs. cartels. ah . so it's still going all the diplomatic efforts to ease the crisis between russia and ukraine. the german chancellor. i held a news conference few hours ago with the russian lead of vladimir putin in moscow. that was after russia said some of its military units were now returning to their bases. after finishing drills near ukraine's board up at troop build up has been the center of western warnings that russia may invade ukraine. at this stage. it's not clear how many units have been withdrawn, or how far back nato's secretary general has added his voice and said is yet to see

any evidence of de escalation from moscow. but he says this cautious optimism, reason for cautious optimism in resolving the crisis. and vladimir putin himself says he's ready to work further with the west, despite still being unhappy with its answers over the kremlin security concerns mish linear. even though by it do we want war or not? of course we don't. and it's for the 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 they go mattress and the curtains and by the vitamin they said, i fully agree that diplomatic, if it's have yet to be exhausted, we have to find a peaceful resolution to this crisis, several troops have a pullback, which is a good sign. and we hope that this will continue. we are prepared with our allies

in the you and nato, to take steps for the improvement of areas of mutual interest. so those are the 2 ladies hear more from joseph jabari on platinum food and comments. he called his near the 3 and a half hour meeting with the german chancellor. all off showed 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. the supply of russian gas to germany is very much part of that relationship. he said that the russians supplied nearly 35 percent of the gas that the german population uses. also noteworthy is the position about nato, and the talks with united states, lot of we put was very clear that they have to have a discussion now about nato's further expansion. it's not just about the issue of ukraine, whether or not they will join today or tomorrow or in the future. he says the issue

has to be addressed. now, he doesn't want to wait anymore and 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. on the past, our diplomatic editor has spoken to the us ambassador to the united nations, linda thomas greenfield, asking her whether the u. s. can verify rushes claims that some of its troops are pulling back. you've not been able to confirm that their troops are, are pulling back. we've heard these reports just as you had. but what we know is that russia still has more than 100000 troops on the ukrainian borders. so the threat is still there. we will keep leaning in on a diplomatic way forward. as long as the russians are willing to, to continue to the discussions at the diplomatic table. the crimes government for

its part says it will believe in de escalation when it sees it. the foreign minister wants moscow to pull back all remaining forces from the shed border. natasha butler, now with some reaction from yes, we have heard from ukraine's of foreign minister to metro. calais vall, let me just read you what he has said. he has said that we and our allies of manage to prevent russia from any further escalation. it is already the middle of february and you can see that diplomacy is continuing to work. so he's obviously seeing this as a positive sign. but, you know, the mood here really does swing between pessimism, an optimism almost on a daily basis. we are, are in a city that so some u. s. intelligence has said it could be under attack at any moment, could be encircled by russian troops or any day now, but that's just not the feeling you get when you are out and about in the city where normal life seems to be. oh, the way things are going,

people are going to school. you know, i was walking around, i saw people off to work, the tramps will pack. there's lots of traffic, people in shops and restaurants. on monday, even it was valentine's, of course, and they were a couples in restaurants, having, you know, romantic dinners, this does not feel like a city a possibly that is going to be under siege. but there are some signs that people are starting to worry about starting to make some contingency plans, making sure that their documents are in order, making sure they perhaps have some stalks of food and water at home. or in fact, one, a service station manager that we spoke to said that some, some of his large jerry cans are the people use for fuel have sold out because people also stocking up on fuel. so some people are starting to think, look, if something does happen, it is best that we're prepared. so these russian troops, let's take a look at where they are. the west is accused moscow of amassing more than a $100000.00 of them to run north and east of ukraine,

including areas that put moscow with an easy, striking distance off kia. don't forget though, for the past 8 years, ukraine has been battling about 35000 russian backed rebels are controlling 2 of its eastern provinces. russia reported as military personnel station there, the kremlin denies that. and it's deployed forces in crimea region which moscow annexed from ukraine in 2014, and out at sea. russian warships are also blocking large areas of the black sea and the city of as a sea of, as of for naval drills. and you've got to for the north, moscow moving 30000 soldiers and heavy weapons into belarus for joint military trails, with stick, with beller, is steadfast. and is there in look at london yet in the south and says, there are at this stage no obvious signs of any russian troop withdrawal? well, i have to say there's quite some more skepticism here. also in the south of valor was about the statement that the russian troops are leaving or about to leave. it's

also very hard to verify the statement here on the ground because there has been some footage are released by the russian ministry of defense is showing a tanks and troops are leaving, but there wasn't any mention of for a day or time or location. we're here at luna and yet air base, which is one of the location where reportedly high and equipment from russia was brought in as far as 10000 kilometers away from the far east. the eastern command, apparently as 400 missile defense systems are here and also so guy is a great fighter jets. well, we know now that this exercise or whatever is happening here hasn't ended because just a 20 minutes ago we heard of high to chat station to the air, presumably on a training mission. so definitely activity here still in the learning yet. and it's also interesting to note that the, the russian ministry said that the western and southern command was going to be

withdrawn back to their basis and russia. but i didn't mentioned anything about the eastern and central command. and what we've known so far is that there are many tropes brought in from the far east. now a developing story where prince, prince andrew, has reached an out of court financial settlement with virginia. jeffrey says, the woman who accused him of sexual assault in her 20 years ago when she was 17 years old, a prince has, for his part, always denied the allegations. charlie angela in london, keeping an eye on this. what's the, the details of this decision, charlie? while lawyers are both good fray and prince andrew say that they have reached a settlement, an undisclosed some, but also that prince andrew will be making a substantial donation to virginia grew phrase charity that supports victim's rights. and i do have the written filing from prince and his lawyers, which i think is very interesting. it says prince andrew has never intended to malign,

was good for his character. he accepts that she suffered both as an established victim of abuse. and as a result of unfair public attacks, it is known that jeffrey epstein trafficked countless girls over many years. prince andrew regrets his association with that scene and commends the bravery of miscue fray and other survivors. though it's safe to say that the his settlement has come completely out of the blue in recent weeks. the 2 sides have been nothing but adversarial with the duke of york's lawyers saying that he wanted his day in court . he wanted a civil trial. he wanted to be able to stand up and give evidence under oath. and there was already a trial date penciled in for between september and december this year. in fact, the prince, andrew was due to give his witness statement on march 10th, which is just over 3 weeks away. so yes, a very surprising development. in this case, it, the 2 sides have settled with prince andrew giving an undisclosed some tombs fray

night very carefully. worded statement wasn't that what charley, regardless of his being or a settlement, or whether it did go to trial. but damage that it has been done obviously to, to the victims but also to the wider royal establishment that ceo's worth remembering how long this has been going on in the allegations 1st surfaced in about 2015 when virginia goof re alleged that prince and you had assaulted her on 3 separate occasions when she was just 17 and prince andrew. fasick li denied these allegations and but g refrain insisted that they were true saying that she was put in this position by the prince's friend, jeffrey epstein, who was later convicted for trafficking girls, but the jews, consistent denials, did nothing to make this go away. and it's really hung heavy over the royal family

. and as a result, he lost his right to use the title, royal highness. he was stripped of his military titles. he was stripped of his, his duties, his, in his service to the u. k. as the royal family and the queen tried to distance themselves very publicly from the scandal and the duke threw his legal team in repeatedly said that the claims were false and without foundation they tried very hard to get it throw. now arguing that because virginia fray had successfully sued epstein in 2009, that she could no longer pursue any other individuals associated with the case. but of course, the judge throughout that argument. but interestingly, going back to that statement, this is the 1st time that the duke is actually said. he regrets his association with epstein, which to many might sound quite surprising that he didn't renounce his friendship with a convicted p to fall earlier. but yet this is the 1st time he said it. so change

in tone there from the duke, obviously. but the question now will be whether or not he can return to any form of public life. whether he would be allowed to buy the royal family, whether he can rebuild or would want to rebuild any kind of reputation here in the u. k. comma charlie angela. thank you for that update. in the news a head canada activates emergency pals never used before. and method to and protests against coven 19 vaccine. and 6 months after the town, a bunch of power in afghanistan talks continue into how to gain international recognition. ah hello the weather set fair across the middle east now largely dry and fine winds easing down. for the most part we have had some brisk winds recently. just around

the red sand, evenly shit, grassy ease off. as we go through the next few days, temperatures generally for the right in peninsula into the mid twenties is the mid teens just around the levant. 15 celsius, therefore damascus. similar temperature too for bay root and well the same as we go on into work thursday. mike away a little further westward, northern africa generally settled and sunny. we got a few showers, just scraping the coastal fringes of virtue nicea, maybe into the far north of algeria as well for time it even these should ease off, wanted to shout to just around the gulf of guinea, easing over towards the ivr coast towards liberia. but lossy, try and settle until we run into the, the tropical bell, where we have got some rather live showers, particularly to spilling outs of angola, southern parts of the democratic republic of congo, northern areas of mozambique, also seeing some very wet weather, good awakening, tropical cycling. now that brought some very heavy rain into northern parts of

madagascar, it will drift into the mozambique channel. we'll see that wet weather increasing fall mozambie with a fish house to the south africa. ah frank assessments for china. well banished from the 0, call it if the rest, the world got together informed opinions at all costs luckiest on nice enough reading from that critical debate would be the claims that need to come to an interest in your threat to russia. but it's precisely, he's actually that created the insecurity in the region in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera. oh, the

ah, the top stories on al jazeera russian president vladimir because he is ready for further talk to the west. after ordering, some russian troops to pull back from the border with ukraine, a spoke in a meeting with the german chancellor shalt nato's secretary general's and he is cautiously optimistic about russia announcement. but so far we haven't seen any signs of the escalation on ground. the us and bath is the you and also if it's too early to say, moscow is withdrawn and versions prince andrew reached an out of court financial settlement with the jenny defray. she had accused him of sexually assaulting her 20 years ago. when she was 17 years old. the prince denied the allocation. it's returned to our top story and earliest time he said and spoke to the mayor of kil patel. he quit the former boxing world champion who explained him the concerns

about the russian troops at the border and how the city planned to defend itself. we've done half exactly information we have 1st so much so much information right now is the, from different her sources. we have different informations and, you know, we're from our eastern partners. we see the are russians move troops back to our board, russian stalled. so they move away. ok, now us intelligence reports have been quoted by the media sang. the u. s. believes u. s. officials believe that if russia does invade kiev, your city that you're the mayor of and responsible for will fall within 48 hours. are they right? her, 1st of all, we prepare them for the defense l, a c t, and to defend our country. and know 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 european, a part of 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, something good going wrong in the russians coming here. how to build a fence ready to fight in air it civilians have to defend our city. clear answer of canister hands acting, foreign minister leading a taliban delegation that has met e u representatives here in cutter. the uses. it's still not the officially recognizing the taliban government burden wants to keep communication channels open . sullivan surveyed visit the talks and 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 understand 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 going to son, but about the very important issue of i've gone funds which the united states have decided that it will be using for other purposes than 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 don't 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 up. you've been meeting gcc representative 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 had to. we do not have a control. we have control all over the country. the people of our plan is done support us. it was the support of the people about my son that we fought for 20 years in order to to liberate our country. that is the woodman to the people up up on the sun. the sanction imposed on the people above one is done by us say in the international community out or punishing the people above the humanitarian crisis created now and the people above behind the sun are passing through is because of those sanction they are going to be continuing the 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 resume,

chartered flights from there. there's also going to be discussions about humanitarian aid and the some sort of resolution to the political status of the current government in venice on which the taliban wanted to be removed. 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 opening of a door where the people who are in charge of, of gone on should be dealt with should be negotiated with and some sort of solution needs to be found for the millions of people in going to sun suffering from the current political and economic situation. a soldier has been killed in syria after an explosive device death night and under a ministry bus in damascus, state elevations of 11 others were injured. another on the bus was going up into capital back in october. in that case, 14 filters were killed. if you, if he has parliament voted for an early end to a 6 month state of emergency that was declared in november when rebels from the

northern take our region with threatening to march on the capital, addis ababa. they have since retreated and security has improved. the 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 in this report 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 as lives less than 3 weeks ago when orlando hernandez was in charge of the country. now the u. s. as calling for his arrest and expedition. 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 criminal. we've been calling for his arrest since 2015. when we denounced that the firm president was a drug trafficker corrupt and associated with criminal joe,

and that was it. moon, this was president 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 this boy boy loose, but 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 instruction from the supreme court of an dude us and not from foreign countries. this interview was too much, 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. look at numbers law office on

january 27th. when the new president, yamato pastor was sworn in on that same day, he became on doris as 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 mexico, as president, has suggested politics and economics for the reasons behind the us been on mexican avocados. the suspension on imports was announced after us official reported being threatened. while during inspection work in mexico, farmers in mishawaka state are regularly extorted and attacked by cartels and criminal gang. soon too, we are looking into the mantle to understand what was the threat. the truth is that mexican of a cat is have been exported here, but we have to check what happened and all of this, there's also been

a lot of political interests. there is competition. they don't want mexican avocados to give them to the united states because it would take over the u. s. market because of its quality. there are other countries interested in selling ever caro's. and present russian dissident like santa valley is on trial once again. this time he is charged with fraud and insulting a judge is accused of embezzling funds from his now band anti corruption foundation . the valley narrowly survived an assassination attempt with chemical nerve agent novick choked in 2020 a bit of corona virus news view, unvaccinated workers above the age of 50, and it's the one to have access to their workplace. as of tuesday, it's an extension of the government's green past hill certificate, which is required to access the most public venues. employees in the private sector, left to show proof of vaccination against coven 19 anyone court working without it could face fines and suspension without pay. thousands of nurses in australia's

most popular state, new south wales of walked off the job for the 1st time in nearly a decade. the staging a 24 hour strike, demanding better pay and more staffing during the pandemic. the nurses defied a last minute order by the states industrial relations commission to call off the strike, which it said could put public health and danger stuff for more than a 150 hospital attention, pottery and candidates prime ministers, invoked emergency powers never before used to end protests against covet restrictions. the so called freedom convoy began as a demonstration against vaccine mandates. that was more than 2 weeks ago. it since spread to other cities and blocked border crossings into the u. s. allen fisher reports the main bridge. lincoln, canada to the u. s is open again, police enforcing a court order ended the 60 blockade by protesters demanding an end to coated restrictions. they made several arrests and set up barricades to stop it happening again. the protest hit supply chains on both sides of the border. but i say

candidates, parliament and ottawa protestors are refusing to leave even as the local government eases covered restrictions. prime minister just intruder has had enough invoking special emergency measures to confront the protesters. this is not a peaceful protest at the borders. busy in different parts of the country, the blockades are harming our economy and endangering public safety. 1988 emergencies act allows the federal government to insure security during national emergencies. this has never been used. a similar move was last employed in 1970, the prime minister then to his father pierre. the scope of these measures will be time limited, geographically targeted as well as reasonable and proportioned. the so called freedom convoy protests began because canadian truckers opposed

a vaccine or quarantine mandate for cross border drivers. but it soon became a rallying point for people opposing the to do government. and now it spawned copycat protest globally. in belgium, demonstrators, there were joined by others from france, holland in germany, to demand a hold to cupboard, restrictions by europe's governments. the messenger leave us alone. we are peaceful . we will leave you alone. we are not accepting any japs, any man. and israel, a convoy of trucks drove the main highway from television to jerusalem, heading for the parliament building. we all support canada and support the truckers kong v that went up to 2 and we do hear the same critics of accused the so called freedom convoys of having little popular support. but authorities are aware of the disruption. even small protests can cause and like canada,

i know examining what actions that are available to keep roads, bridges, and supply lines open. alan fisher algae 0 washington. ah, top stories for you on al jazeera russian president vladimir putin says he's ready for further talks with the west. after ordering, some russian troops to pull back from the border with ukraine. but he spoke in a meeting with the german chance the olive shots in moscow, the linea, 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. nato's secretary general has added his voice,

saying he's cautiously optimistic about russia's announcement, but so far hasn't seen any signs of the escalation on the ground. and the youth ambassador to nato.