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with ukraine after sank. they have completed their drills. also in the news, the former president of honduras speaks out after the u. s. demanded his arrest, an extradition. i accuse him of links to drugs, cartels, and britons prince andrew reaches an out of court financial settlement with the woman, accusing him of sexual abuse and in sport and emotional returned to the ice at the beijing olympics for rush in the figure skater, camilla valley ava it's the 1st event for the 13 year old since a court cleared her to compete, despite failing a doping test in a pre olympic events. ah, once again, it's the diplomatic efforts to ease the crisis between russia and ukraine. dominating the news, germany's chancellor has met russia's president vladimir putin in moscow. the 2

leaders echoing similar messages about extending dialogue to avert war and some of russia's troops. sultan military girls are actually pulling back to their base. another potentially on the stand off tool set jabari begins are covered from oscar rushes. defense ministry says these are some of its troops, which had been positioned on the border with ukraine. they're returning to base after finishing training exercises and jelly middlebury algebra as the training comstock and the troops, as usual, marched back to their home stations, units from the southern and was some military districts that completed the tasks already have started loading on trains and motto vehicles they will start moving to their home bases, individual units will march on their own in military column. we're still little. while this raises hopes that tension could ease between russia and ukraine, there are still large scale military exercise is taking place. and it's not clear how many units are being pulled back. use of the troops draw down came just as the

german chestler all off schultz arrived in russia for talks with president vladimir putin, who said war was the last thing he wanted me ish linear. even though by it, 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 chests are all sold, sat, some aspects of russia's demands on ukraine were worth considering. the squad, stressing the need for diplomacy to succeed. the diplomatic look the curtains and provide to me should i fully agree that diplomatic efforts have yet to be exhausted and that we have to find a peaceful resolution to this crisis. several troops have been pulled back, which is a good sign. and we hope that this will continue in the belgian capital nato secretary general yan sultan burg, expressed cautious optimism at the news of the russian draw down nay. there are

signs from moscow. dr. diplomacy should continue. this gives us grounds for courses, optimism, but so far, we have not seen any sign of the escalation on the ground. despite these intense diplomatic efforts, there are still many outstanding issues at the heart of the crisis. let me put and says he is ready to talk to you as leaders about ukraine's request to join the 30 member nato alliance. and he says that is a conversation which cannot be put off any longer. something both nato and us leaders have refused to discuss. so far and until that issue is resolved, it is now clear that this crisis could continue for months to come door such a worry al jazeera moscow. let me introduce you to the team this our natasha butler in kiev and ukraine. our diplomatic added to james bass at the you and in new york . i'll be with you to shortly. i'm going to start in washington though with

kimberly, how can, what sort of reaction are we getting out of there? and i believe the president is going to be speaking roar and a couple of else right laid, add to the precedence schedule, the updated guidance. now for the u. s. president, he will be speaking about the situation in ukraine from the east room of the white house that is scheduled for around 2030 gmc. so this is significant because it follows a whirlwind of diplomacy in terms of reach out the president himself making a telephone call or holding a telephone call with the french president, emmanuel mack crawl and as well we know that the u. s. secretary of state antony blank and speaking with his counterpart, the russian foreign minister survey lab raw the read out from that has not been put out by the state department. but we are hearing from the russian side that it was very unhappy with the us rhetoric and still looking for a pathway forward,

but not happy with the way the conversation. the general tone of the united states was at this time. so on the heels of that, this announcement that the u. s. president, going to speak to the american public and the world about the situation in ukraine and add to that. we also have the u. s. defense secretary traveling to brussels to nato headquarters to meet with the military leaders from belgium, poland, and lithuania. there are significant developments. they've all happened in just the last few hours. it certainly shows that again, this dual track the united states has been on this one of deterrence as well as diplomacy is very active. but it's unclear exactly what the president is going to update the american public on a given the fact that so much has happened in just a short period of time. okay, so 2030 gmc, that's 2 and a half hours from now. thanks. kimberly, kimberly, how can i, what else correspondence james base of diplomatic editor in new york,

what have you got from the yeah, well here i think people are watching the situation ec streamline closely and not really quite sure what to make of it. because clearly, the new element is those comments from russia that russia is going to start with drawing some of its troops. they say the exercises are over the spokesperson for the un secretary general saying we welcome any and all movements the point to de escalation, whether it's on the ground or whether it's rhetoric and that was the spokesperson for the un secretary general. now i also managed to get a short zoom conversation with the us ambassador to the united nations, linda thomas greenfield. and i asked her whether they saw any truth in this idea that russia was pulling out it not been able to confirm that their troops 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 border. 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 the discussions at the diplomatic table. when i asked the deputy russian ambassador to the united nations in the last 24 hours, whether they'll be an invasion of ukraine. he laughed at me. now, you know that if russia does go ahead and pull out its forces, this will all be dismissed by the russians as us hype. so your someone who sees the intelligence, the rest of us do not see is there now and has there been a genuine threat of invasion? we had said over and over and over again that there is a genuine threat of an invasion. it's being reported by, by all of the news outlets. they're seeing it as well. and this is not

a laughing matter. this is not funny. this is about the loss of innocent lives that would not need to happen if the russians would choose diplomacy and not move forward to further in the ukraine. while i think the coming hours come, all are going to be absolutely crucial. russia saying that it's pulling back some of its forces. we're gonna see, i think, in the coming hours, whether the u. s. and nato, except that or not or not, and whether they see evidence of it. and i think it's worth reminding you, come all that the un security council will be meeting on the subject of ukraine on thursday. okay, thank you, james james bayes. as our diplomatic editor, let's go to the heart of things in care of with natasha butler. what is the ukrainian reaction like to this idea of russian troops pulling back i, i am guessing it sort of a year. well, believe it, when we see a situation i indeed, and it's

a folder during the course of the day earlier, when those comments came out from russia, thought it was going to pull some of its trips back from the border. the foreign minister dimitra collabo said that he saw that as proof that diplomacy was working. this was a positive sign of de escalation later though, as it became apparent during the day that there was no actual proof of this pullback. and we've heard various a western officials and leaders saying they are still waiting for proof. well, caliber has now said we will believe it when we see it that the russian federation, he said, is often saying that it does things, but then it does exactly the opposite. so lot of skepticism hear about that. and also just in the past few hours, we have heard from ukraine's government. they are saying that there has been a major cyber attack on 2 on the websites and on the infrastructure of 2 state

banks here in ukraine and on the defense ministry website and the army website. they're saying the huge cyber attacks. they of course, very concerned by that. now they're not saying a who is behind those attacks, but we know that in the past a weeks there have been several western intelligence officials who have suggested that russia could carry out major cyber attacks on ukraine and more broadly. ah natasha, what is the mood like in in care of with all these developments will look it's a very unusual atmosphere and the mood really does seem to change from day to day. sometimes our to our shifting between pessimism and optimism, people here are really don't know what to think in many respects until now though most people been pretty sanguine about the situation saying look, we have to wait and see. we feel like we don't really know to believe as a russia, is it the western powers? are we really going to see an attack or not?

in the meantime, we just have to live a life as usual. but there's certainly been a bit of a change in the past few days. we heard from the president of ukraine, valadez lensky, who has gone from calling for com a couple of days ago to then a saying that ukrainians must be ready to fight, calling for what he's calling a day of unity. on wednesday, february, the 16th a day that some intelligence officials in west have said could be a day or for an invasion. so people are now starting think look, maybe a need to prepare for the worse. so we've been speaking to some of those people to find out exactly how they are preparing for the future. silva says his son yvonne brings him joy in what he says is a world of hysteria. he doesn't want to leave his home and keys beside it. consider doing so to protect his family. if russia were to invade ukraine over day, i'm thinking about what to do with my family. you as a go to leave, for example, to was the part of your green or go to village where my parents of my wife leave.

they have small house, but at reserves, for example, they have for electric generator. they have 4 solar panels. so at least we will have a tricity, for example, which will be working most people in the city attire, to thinking about what russia might do next. for 8 years, they've lived with conflict in the east of the country between ukrainian forces and russian back separatists. but the recent crisis is fueling a renewed sense of anxiety. things seem very normal in the city. people are still going to work or to school. the soaps restaurants are busy, but as the situation continues, some people that we may tell us that they are worried and making contingency plans . if there is an invasion where you go to western ukraine, but if there is any to fight, my entire family will begin to. russians are just showing off, making noise play. acting. russians aren't only influencing ukrainian opinion,

but every one else, but russia will destroy itself. if it invades diplomatic efforts to avert a new war, have seemed at times to go round in circles with little sign of a breakthrough. moscow now says it's pulling some troops from the border, but ukraine's government is skeptical. and all the rest is go for that. i said post, you know, we continuously hear different statements from the russian federation. so we have a rule, we believe not what we hear, but we believe what we see. if we see the blout, we will believe in the desk. elation 40 years ago, this huge arch was built on a hill in the city to celebrate russia and ukraine friendship since then some one has painted a large crack in the monument. no one here wants a new conflict, but history has taught them to be prepared. natasha butler al jazeera keith. let's go back to the issue of the russian troops and show you where they have sent

in to this point, been placed. and russia's been accused of amassing more than a 100000 soldiers, all round the north and east of ukraine. and i forget, for the past 8 years, ukraine's been battling around 35000 russian back rebels who controlled 2 of its eastern provinces. add on to that the deployed forces in crimea, which moscow annexed from ukraine in 2014. then up to see russian warships blocking large areas of the black sea and the sea of as of 4 naval drills and to the north. moscow moved 30000 soldiers and heavy weapons into belarus. for military drills, we can talk more about and more with heading raker, who is a security expert at the federal academy for security policy in berlin. thank you for your time, sir. actually i just sing as you are there in germany. i'd like to ask you about chancellor schultz who has had these 2 high profile high profile visits in the past 2 days. he's only been in the job for a couple of months now as the spinner, a sort of a 6. can i use the word successful beginning to his,

his leadership being so prominent in this or in the situation? so 1st of all, it has been a great challenge for the newly formed government, less leaning and very careful about it's, it's a robust events policy not to be too spoken in that. i think they will count this as a success. but it's for me obvious that the decision to de escalate or at least show signs in this direction has been made before the visit of chancellor shows maybe could have used the occasion of the german visits to maybe drive a wedge into the west with collision and alliance simply by showing that the more lenient, careful position has been rewarded by this, by the steps. but we have to see my the earliest because i've been absolutely right . whether this turns out to be a real withdrawal tone. if it does,

i suggest it almost starts to look a little good for present in person. because i mean, he's always said we didn't want to invade. we don't want war. we were never going to do anything. now he can sort of say, well look, it didn't happen, no one crossed any borders. and let's go and work on the bigger issues. now, i think that who has achieved a number of very high profile strategic goals. the one is to show how fragile the situation of ukraine is making it even more difficult for ukraine to, to move to what nato and to the west unfold. it has also made clear that there are differences among the western powers and that it's difficult to come up with a very stern and outspoken and concrete from the fact that sanctioned by the way the oil price has risen to over $95.00 per barrel. which is a nice reward for the russians at least for the time. so i think he has

a chief quite a bit. some things might have been wrong because they like sweden and finland have discussed more openly about natal membership. and it has been, it has become clear that russia is a threat. and jason, what we've gone to to the future, we will see that. yeah, so let's talk about the future. we've gone to the bring here. and if war is a verse had been that is obviously a very good thing, but the, the underlying issues have not been addressed. do you think there will be a concerted effort to do that? now to stop all of this happening again in another 6 months or another 12 months, i believe that the main demands of the russian president so that nato says good bye to the open door policy. and that there is a buffer zone of states that do not belong to either side. this has not been been rewarded. this is, this is, there's no agreement on that. and he has received no promises in that regard. and i think he cannot really have expected. but i've, i fear that now russia isn't

a position that it could easily step up the tensions again, either by surrounding and strangling ukraine militarily or by supporting the session. it said, let's not forget that the do. my has to recognize the to specialist the district don't, it's going to hands so that might change the configuration of our country again . and of course, there's always the possibility fund, needling ukraine for, for hybrid threats a cyber be economical. i think that the story is, is not over for a very long time. the one good thing might be that there are opportunities to, to reinstall negotiation for me and confidence building measures and all of that. but i think russia is still on the neck of ukraine, and we should not forget that. heading back in berlin. great to talk to you. thank you for your time. thank you. and we will have more on the stories

a common than you saw, the fight of his life. former heavyweight champion vitality quit, goes we'll talk to us about his plans to defend t, as in his role as the city's mayor. and we'll have sports years later as well. one of the american footballs most influential figures is remembered. it is a tribute to the multi talented john man. ah, there's more news concerning russia though, the imprisoned dissident lexi nevada is on trial. once again. this time he's charged with fraud and insulting a judge. well, he's accused of embezzling funds from his now banned anti corruption foundation. remember the valley narrowly survived an assassination attempts from the chemical nerve agent, navi chalk in 2020. are some thoughts from alexei? what have you ever russia specialists, an associate professor of national security and strategic studies at curtain

university in perth, who told us the timing of this court case is deliberate. the eyes of the world in suddenly the west is on your brain, then the winter. so now lonely as much when public, he's in the eyes of the west, the media will not receive any problem. and in fact, i believe that the kremlin believes that given the current state political negotiations concerning your questions off the villages in russia and all that made in your brain. i think the probably bill is not only will be on on, on the bottom of the charges for the west to discuss this matter with russia right now, hans, it's probably an ideal time to rob the trial so it doesn't look like it's happening in last moment. and at the same time, the attention of the west is elsewhere. there are a couple of charges that he has been accused. the one is the fraud,

and that will may, i may get a hold or a or a couple of years in addition to the current sentence. and i think all it requires is to be out of the game for the time of the election. the 2nd charge is installed on the wall at the rock, but more importantly it's about count them in him. as someone who breaks the law, create an impression in the eyes of the rest of the electra that she has not been by the role. then someone who actually offense, elderly and respected members of the russian community, and by that discredit discrepancy is, is that you as, as the charismatic of russia. so. busy called on systemic opposition. the united states says asked contours to arrest and hand over its former president. he's been accused in federal court in new york, receiving money from drugs. cartels on the russell has more. the security forces

were called in on monday night to surround the wealthy neighbourhood where the former president of honduras lives less than 3 weeks ago. one or lender would have done this was in charge of the country. now the us is calling for his arrest and extradition. i know the prosecutors in new york have repeatedly accused the former president of involvement in drug trafficking, and alleging his political rise was fueled by drug profit. amanda kent, i'm anyway, we've been calling for the rest since 2015. when we denounced that from a president was a drug trafficker, corrupt associated with criminal out of the amend. it was president of honduras for 8 years. us, prosecutors have accused him of receiving millions of dollars in exchange for protecting drug shipments through the country. the money was reportedly also used to bribe politicians and help his political career. the former president has

repeatedly denied the allegations in an audio recording on tuesday. he said he's willing to voluntarily turn himself in because he knew i'm ready to collaborate and voluntarily go to the authorities at the moment the supreme court judges assigned to this case so that i can face the situation and defend myself accordingly. it, amanda, as his legal team argues, it will take its direction from the supreme court of honduras and not from foreign countries in the view, but it's up to the executive power of the nation. we must wait for an independent body of the states to make the corresponding decision blip it. amanda is left office on january 27th. when the new president c o matic acid was sworn in on that same day, he became honduras is representative to the central american parliament, which overseas political and commercial treaties across the region. and as a member of that group, his lawyers argue the former president has immunity from criminal prosecution.

manuel rapport with that report is in mexico city for us now. where things stand, manuel off to those events that tuesday morning we've been speaking to our sources in the 100 capital since late on monday evening when that extradition order by the united states against former 100 president wonderland the man this was announced. there's been a heavy police presence outside of the former president's home since monday night. the police presence is still there today. on tuesday, early in the hours of tuesday, there was a security detail that was sent to the state of lin feet at the home state of the former president to stand guard basically outside of properties owned by the former president. now the reason that things appear to be at a stand off, the reason things appear to be moving quite slowly, is because ultimately it's going to be up to the hunter in supreme court to issue a warrant, which in previous cases of extradition, we've known this to take days, weeks, if not months. so we just the last few hours there was

a judge that was sworn in that will be tasked with overseeing the extradition request by the united states. but again, this is a product, a process that we're still unsure as to how long. exactly it's going to take. thank you for that update that is manuel. drop hello. in mexico city. in the news ahead, how the world's biggest financial institutions are keeping the coal industry alive despite all the promises to cut fossil fuel emissions. garbage piled up on beaches, livelihoods still in ruins or in the philippines to month stuff to type in rice web 3. and in sport, germany, it comes as a feat, unprecedented in any olympic bob state. event, the details with foreign ah

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defense ministry has confirmed the partial pullback of troops off to military drills. are details though, on exactly when it'll happen, how many will be withdrawn? the west has said russia has about a $100000.00 personnel on the border. nato secretary general says he is cautiously optimistic about russia's announcement, but it said so far, he's not seeing any signs of de escalation on the ground. the u. s. ambassador to the you and also says it's too early to say if the patrol is happening. little earlier, sammy said and spoke to the mayor of keith, the tele crisco. he explains here how the city plans to defend itself. in the case of an invasion. we've done half exactly information we have 1st so much so much information right now is the form different her sources. we have different mood formations and, you know, we're from our easter partners. we see the no russian small

for troops back to our board or russian stalled, so they move away. okay, 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? ah, 1st of all, we prepare for ford to defend our c t and to defend our country. and know, 1st of all is our new great, and 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,

sir, 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 washing empire and the grant have to be 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 war skis,

but the 1st of all is the ukrainian, the army is pretty strong eve for if something good going wrong in the russians coming here. how to defense, ready to fight in air it civilian have to defend our city? clear answer. as you prepare for every scenario, i'm wondering what does the mayor of italy believe in his heart? do you believe russia will invade on february the 16th? we hope not. we keep a, we are in an either what does no panic in our home country in or no panic in our hometown, but the old people nervous and everybody keep being across and hope we find diplomatic solution of this conflict. even not. ah,

let's see. we ready to fight, we've done have another choice. we have great new gas friendly people, gas for we friendly country will not aggressive to anyone, but if aggressions come, we're ready to give the ask for, for aggression. and i want to tell is, will be paying full price for any aggressions for any aggressive. what's your opinion, sir, on ukraine joining nato? do you think ukraine should not, at this point, at least be trying to pursue nato membership as an dependent country? is our choice to be democratic country to be part of european family to be part of nato. russians not agree with that. i want to remind 1992

ukraine signed budapest agreement where united states, red britain, and also russia the duration give guarantee of and dependency and thorough integrity. for our home country, we give up our nuclear weapons. what now? that why they answer. we have to be there to build security for every citizen. so now our country and that why they asper nato is good way. we understand allah, our well as our wishes to not accept from russian federation, they want to rebuild the russian empire to rebuild soviet union. we was in soviet union, the weird dont want bag to usaa and we see our future as part of european family

onto the news in britain's prior britain's prince. andrew, i should say, has reached an out of court financial settlement with virginia fragments of the woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her 20 years ago. when she was 17 allegations which prince andrew has always denied charlie angela in london. keeping an eye on this one. charley, it doesn't seem that long ago that prince andrew was talking about wanting his day in cause and finding the charges. absolutely, i mean this is nothing but unexpected. from both sides. really, prince andrew saying that he wanted to see this through to trial. he wanted to give his evidence under oath and virginia cafe saying she would not settle the she also wanted to go to trial. the in part to show that even the most powerful a not above scrutiny. so this is a real turnaround. i mean, prince andrew was due to give his witness statements on march 10th, just 3 weeks away. a trial date had already been penciled in for between september

and december. this year, and in january the prince submitted 11 reasons why this case should be dismiss. now he settling, we actually have a written statement finally from his lawyers and it's, it's interesting to, to just let me read a little bit of that. prince andrew, they say has never intended to malign, miscue phrase character. and he accepts that she has suffered both as an established victim of abuse and as a result of unfair public attacks. and that could be in reference in part to the fact that in recent weeks, the duke of york's lawyers have been accused of victim blaming. miss gray, the statement also says it is known that jeffrey epstein traffic countless girls over many years. prince andrew regrets his association with epstein and commends the bravery of miss godfrey and other survivors will no doubt this development will be received well by the royal family who were reportedly very anxious of any

embarrassing details that could come out in a trial in the run up to the queen's a platinum jubilee. later this year. as of yet buckingham palace has refused to comment though as well there might be an anxious about a given the amount of effect this has had on the water, royal family and on prince sanders roll within it. that's really, it's worth remembering that this case has been going on. all of the accusations have been around since 2015 when miscue for i accused the prince of sexually assaulting her on 3 separate occasions when she was just 17 accusations that the prince emphatically denied. but he, the reason that she was put in that position was that through jeffrey epstein, a very close friend of the prince who was later convicted on peter filed charges. but the prince's consistent did. i did nothing to make this go away. and yes,

he was stripped of his is his royal title, his royal highness. he was and he was not allowed to carry out his military duties . his charity obligations as the royal family really try to distance themselves a publicly from the scandal. but interestingly, going back to that statement, this is the 1st time he's ever actually said he regrets his friendship with jeffrey epstein, which might sound surprising. a saying that he was a convicted peter fall in 2019 in a news interview. he refused to renounce that friendship. so we are seeing a definite change in tone from the duke in this statement. the question now is whether or not he would ever be able to return to any form of public duty public service to this country, and also questions and now swirling over where the money for this settlement. and the donation will come from. okay, charlie angela, thank you for those updates from london. afghanistan's acting foreign minister is

leading a taliban delegation that has met e u representatives. here in tata. the e u says it's still not officially recognizing the taliban government, but it wants to keep the channels of communication open a summer been devote was at the talks her and her 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 emmett of kindness on. 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 gun is done, 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. then returning to a van to sign. and that is something that the afghan government in charge says is 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 in the and the nominee for the united nations military to try and thank you very much for joining us up. 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 says 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 rehab of control all over the country. the people of our plan is some support for 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 usa in the international community are punishing the people

above the sun. the humanitarian crisis created now, and the people up by the sun are passing through is because of those sanction they are going to be continuing these meetings. it is an array 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. and there's also going to be discussions about humanitarian aid and the 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 gone his son 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. it has been 2 months

now since typhon right devastated large parts of the central philippines. nearly 10000000 people were affected by the storm and at least 2400000 still need help. jamila alan jogan has been to bo province, one of the worst hit areas. jesse garcia, thought he was just an ordinary typhoon. they said they were by the see side with their chill doing until the water rose. like a wall. you'll seen me fill up when i all of a sudden our roofs were blown away and we had to swim away from the current with our children. it was terrible, terrible baba, but all of us are brave. thankfully, jesse said their house and his boat, which he once use for fishing, is now this choice. this cause though vineyards in obey 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 a debt caused extensive damage in the desires and them 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 records. 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 bonnie water, well on, on sort of hard. the folk there are hardy reese and the they're used to confronting these hardships. but of course, we need all the help we can yet considering that the 200000 people about 80000 of totally destroyed homes right now or lean the gym hours 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. chameleon dog and al jazeera ball province, central philippines. then look at a report now from several n g o's, which has found major financial organizations, provided over $1.00 trillion dollars to the coal sector, and says between 20192021. this is despite many of them having made net 0 pledges. the study showed banks from china, the us, japan, india, britain, and canada. they were responsible for 86 percent of global coal financing across

reducing coal use as a key part of efforts to cut greenhouse gases and to bring emissions down to what we call net 0. by the year 2050, more than 40 countries promised to end the use of coal. after the climate talks in glasgow in november. mohammed haters with us now to talk about as an economist in london. were you surprised? i, i hate to say i wasn't when i read about this report and looked at the details it just despite all the pledges, it didn't seem a huge surprise. no, i'm not surprised. you know, because we have to realize that after the pandemic, after the look down, you know, the quite a little sexual in the whole, the global, the, you know, economy, the whole world is really suffering. a lot of the problems among, you know, those, the sectors is the energy sector and could be in the cold sector. is one of the most critical at the moment. taking in consideration that there was

a great amount of great number of country rely on their energy power generation. on course, for example, you know, india, china, other countries, or most of those countries in the world depend on this sector. the energy or the electricity innovation depends on 60 percent. oh, it's our on, on cold. so that's why people are surprised, they'll do when they are like, you know, you have international conferences for me, for the clean environment and the emission. this is a nonsense in reality, to be honest, and we have to be sure we have, we have to be more reasonable. and if the, if the, if all this whole would like to improve the environment, you have to sit down and put a plan. you can say, you know, for, for the,

i think to have about like 130000000 with the cold, 6, or, and 1000 and hundreds of thousands of miles all over the world. and in many institution employ, a lot of people that you have to shut down next day. so okay, fair enough that i very much take that point that you can't just switch from. let's just say dirty energy to clean energy. it doesn't happen over night, but yeah, i was just still surprised at the number $1.00 trillion dollars. if that's going into coal, i mean, i suspect it's not that amount that is going into longer term clean energy projects . ok, i mean it could be, you know, the number is in question, but definitely it justify you know, the amount or the, or the size of the sector and how much the world is still depend on the sector. and so that's why nobody can deny that. what the question is,

what is the real amount to be spent there? this is something indeed the really detailed analysis to find whether this amount of money is really going properly to the sector, or some money is leaking here or there. that's a different question. but nobody can deny or, or off these banks not to finalize this or this glancing because there are the clients and the world need them. at the same time, the banks rely on them because the bank, if the banks have the money, they have to employ it some way. they can. you can sell the banks, ok. you have to buy, buy, say, to diversify, you know, your, your investment and don't put it in one basket. but there are institution or the corporation there. they still have a commitment toward them. a good reality check then from 100 to thank you so much for your time. so we appreciate it. you're most welcome. in

a moment sports and the russian skating stop is at the center of a doping scandal puts on a display to remember in beijing the winter olympics action coming up. ah ah

ah ah ah ah, look at your sport is far. come all. thank you so much. russian figure skater, camilla valley ava was able to put the doping scandal surrounding her to one side and dominate the eyes of beijing games. on tuesday, the 15 year olds performance was good enough to put her on top of the women's short program. stan,

things should have aggressive to the free skate on thursday where no metals will be handed out. if she finishes and the top 3 on monday is 4th quarter said valley, they should be allowed to repeat api games despite filling a doping test in a pre olympic event. claims contamination with her grandfather's heart medication could have resulted in the positive test world anti doping agencies investigating the adults in charge of the teenager carpet. o donovan is a former world karate champion, and she says the valley, if a case raises water concerns about how young athletes are treated. we have seen track the entire history of and it opened that the focus goes down to the case. when many cases, the support personnel is the entourage of the system and the culture. so like, we're never going to see meaningful change unless you go after the people, 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 when metals go pop point to

be going to say this is a no fun part of the reason i think we 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 of sport, like i've just recently retired, but all of my fort square 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. germany made history and the man's 2 men, bob slay event. francesco free recon dorsen marg. is letter german suite of the podium if he never accomplished before in any olympic bob slaven going back 98 years, germany is a bob play stronghold as it comes up of all tracks. so ski or corn stood or to gold

and the women's downhill. the world champion, edged out with defending title holder. severe go job. 16. hundreds of a 2nd. it's a 27 year old 1st olympic medal. 17 year old to you mean one gold for the whole station and many big era then china's games are happening. country that's happening concert by trying to miss out on an upsets in the men's rights hall. he canada roll over there. limpid host region on any china 72 now peace, sweden and the last 8. and in speedskating, japan had looked set for a 2nd street old metal in the morning until one of those caters, fell off the last go back to canada or metal 13 sets in olympic record. an approach of thousands of people have been honoring one of the american footballs most influential figures. they gathered at the oakland coliseum in california to pay tribute to john madden,

who died aged $85.00 in december. this was where mat in 1st rose to fame as the super bowl winning coach of the raiders zeros gabriel alexander reports on his unique legacy stretched across decades. the blood starch now. one man, an icon to the 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 1900 seventy's, his no nonsense attitude gaining him the loyalty of his players. a super bowl when, when he retired, the winning his coach and 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 mad and 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 madden, was that 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

learned what their life was like. he loved it, he loved getting to know people. he was the ultimate man of the people. longer football fans, those under 30 years old, probably only know maddened by the video game that bears his name. madden nfl. one of the most popular sports video games of all time and 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 ando al jazeera new york. well, number 10 owns deborah's in to the last 16 at the da by tennis championship, but tennesseans, darby, verizon, vera in 3 sets to advance. this is deborah 1st turn met since deciding not to continue to be austria. oh, been due to a back injury. next for her is jessica pergola at the united states.

okay, and that is all your sport, but i will come back to you far. thank you. so much for that, we're all done here in doha berner that i handed over to lauren taylor and the scene in london. i'll have more news for you in just a few minutes. ah . a chest in washington dc. with a dream, lincoln painting for unity for people who are struggling out as a world meets a palestinian seeking inspiration for striking you in the heart of the american

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