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this hour flash floods and lance lives in brazil can at least $38.00 people north of rio de janeiro and hundreds of palestinians bid farewell to a teenager. killed by israeli forces in the occupied west's back and in sports, we to knock out heavy weights canada from lans, limping hockey tournament, sweden and bumped their place in the semi finals after a hard fought victory in beijing. ah, thank you very much for joining us. nato secretary general says the alliance is looking to increase its forces in eastern europe. in stoughton berg says, there is no evidence russian troops have pulled back from the border with ukraine. but moscow insist a partial withdraw is under weight. need. blanca begins our coverage with this report from brussels. fis bumper diplomacy as defense chiefs from nato countries,

including the u. s. and germany arrive at alliance headquarters to strengthen their stamps on russia and pour over the latest intelligence. and this is what they've been looking at. a russian defense ministry video claiming to show a partial pullback of forces from near ukraine. the kremlin says combat equipment and troops were leaving the crimean peninsula. seas from cave in 2014 and returning to bass. but nato secretary general was quick to dismiss any talk of a de escalation of tensions. we have or heard the signs from moscow about her readiness to continue diplomatic efforts. but so far we have not seen any de escalation on the ground. on the contrary, it appears that russia continues to military buildup strong words to from european union chiefs in strasburg, urging moscow to come to the negotiating table. lou schwab ogletree the choice to

days between war and tragic sacrifices that would go along with it or the courage of a political engagement, a courage of a diplomatic negotiation. very clearly european union chooses diplomacy and chooses negotiation. we will demonstrate discourage you. there was little sign of any russian troop withdrawals in belarus on wednesday. this another show of military bustle for the cameras. joint exercises would beller, russian troops, only deepening fears, a neighboring ukraine that had invasions imminent, on the land, and in the air. nato says russia has reached full combat readiness. but there is a shred of hope. in recent days, russia has signal that it will be willing to join talks about door remains open, do too much. and nato runs the risk of being drawn into a long, protracted stand off with russia due to little. and it runs the risk of a possible invasion in ukraine. something that could destabilized the whole of

europe. russia is creating a new normal, said stoughton berg. by using force to contest the principle of serenity in europe . the alliance, he said, must respond possibly with a new nato battle group in romania. the hope of an easy end to the stand off is fast fading. the fog al jazeera brussels, or we have to correspondence covering development this hour in a moment will go to our white house correspondent, kimberly hawkins in washington. that traced in natasha butler, whose monitoring enact reaction from ukraine's capital, kia and natasha. as this set, nato defense ministers was being held in brussels to day. ukraine was holding a day of national unity so called day of national unity. and the president has been speaking about a tell us more. yes, followed him. is lensky ukraine's president saying the ukrainians are strong, that they are ready to defend themselves, that they are ready to fight fight. he says whether it's for every the 1617th 18th,

april or september. now zalinski was talking from the port city of murray. pole in the south. east of the country are very close to the front line where ukrainian forces have been fighting russian back separate is now for nearly 8 years. so as a highly symbolic choice of location. and this is the day, the zalinski is called a day of unity in ukraine. he called for this a couple of days ago. the idea is to try and rally some patriotism to try and say, send a message to moscow that ukrainians are united, that they would fight if they were attacked. and he chose the state of february 16, the significant date is not a day chosen by chance, but it's the day that has some western intelligence sources said that russia could begin an invasion. and so what has ukraine been saying? as far as russia's claims that it's been a withdrawing some of its troops, including from crimea, what, what's her assessment of rush into appointments?

was lensky also touched on that. earlier in the day he said, look, shows the proof show, asked the evidence. he says he has not seen any evidence at all, that russia is drawing down any of its troops on ukraine's board. and we know that is the same sentiment. the we have heard from other a western allies that they simply haven't seen the evidence. the foreign minister here in ukraine has said, look, this seems very much along the lines of what we seen before from a russia that they say one thing, but they actually do another. however, the foreign minister did say that if there was to be any form of draw down than that would be suddenly welcomed as a sign of de escalation from moscow, it would be seen as a sign that the diplomacy is perhaps working. in the meantime, i should say as well, the ukrainian governor has also commented on these huge cyber attacks that took

place on tuesday night here cyber attack. so the government said targeted to major state banks or the websites of the defense force and the army huge attacks. they said on a scale, they're not seen before, even though they didn't damage any infrastructure. just the web pages, ukraine's president against lensky said, or when it comes to those cyber attacks though, to the government here, believes of foreign forces are behind those attacks. he is not pointing the finger at any one in particular or naming them. but again, western intelligence hazard in the past the russia could use cyber warfare against ukraine. natasha, thank you for about dave. natasha butler is our correspondent in care of their las out go to our white house correspondent, kimberly house in washington, dc. kimberly where do things stand as far as the white house is concerned? well, fresh warnings of potential cyber warfare in the united states as well from the f b i. the national security agency warning,

particularly defense contractors to be wary of potential attacks, particularly when it comes to not only military plans, internal communications, and even the intentions and terms of a strategy and so on. this is something that has been put out as an alert in the last couple of hours. and in terms of those claims by russia of a draw down, the u. s. secretary of state saying that the intelligence that has been seen by the united states indicates just the opposite. in fact, they report that they are seeing more bolstering of russian forces along the border with ukraine, not less. so add to that. and given the fact that there is this belief that there is still a window of and a potential for an imminent invasion, the u. s. president joe biden will be holding a consultation telephone call as they continue to coordinate closely with allies. that phone call will be with the german chancellor,

all of sholtes. and that will be taking place at $930.00 g m t. why is this important? because the german chancellor was meeting in moscow just a 24 hours ago with vladimir putin. so i in the effort to try and continue to try and de escalate something. the u. s. president says as a primary goal, he is working with his allies at the same time, preparing for any eventuality, including a russian invasion of ukraine. kimberly, thank you for. kimberly, how can live at the white house? well, as we've heard, ukraine has been holding a day of national unity present. zalinski chose to mock it on wednesday. after reports that a russian invasion was imminent. it was observed across the country, including in border areas near russia. chance stanford has more from car case city in the east of ukraine. oh, on us, young brother's fate shall yet smile. our enemies will perish, liked you. in the morning, some words of the ukrainian national anthem

o koya was national dress of the ceremony in a park in the eastern city of call give the gathering was held to mark what the ukranian president volume is zalinski called a day of unity. the flag was raised from half mast soldiers stood to attention after the national anthem, a singer try to rouse the crowd with a popular song about morale and peace. ah, but only a few people came to watch. after posing for photographs, the choir began to leave. j for the unity of our country, they want to be united. we want to be very united, near by outside the tent, where for years people have signed up for the army and donated money. poster of the russian president and his bell rouge and ally and fellow neighbor of ukraine. but

the city is calm since before in the field. it's quiet as usual, is just a normal routine day people working children at school. i don't know what will be will be i am not worried. there is no point in where we met that on a day when you as intelligent services predict, say, possible rush of evasion. hope you cray sure of unity here. eastern city of kirk you once a small group of people and their message is that ukraine remains unified against what they and the government and their western backers say, is russian aggression. charles stratford al jazeera, called kiff fennimore had on this news hour, including suicide bombers in gunmen attack, multiple targets across somalia capital, and he's 5 people are killed. austria is mandatory vaccination law, is in doubt after the government announces li, like sation of most corona virus restrictions, and in sort find out how a pretzel help planned

a gold medal for his care at the winter olympics. ah, they know the world news. a funeral has been held for a palestinian teenager who was shot by israeli forces in the occupied west bank. antonio me had banquets, he was killed during confrontation between protesters and he's ready soldiers in the town of nabby sally, on tuesday. death comes days after another teenager was killed by israeli gunfire near the town of cheney. neither abraham has mo, from co fry, in any occupied westbank where the funeral was held. another day, another funeral, and another young man loses his life in the occupied was the bank. by the way, the 4th is higher. this time you had better lucy, who has been killed in confrontations with these really poor says on tuesday, he's been a man who was arrested why

b is really forces before you were injured also multiple times. and it's only been a few weeks since he was outside his resale. now he's being taken to his family to bid him to find them for well. and the family says, while they almost have gotten used to him being in jail and behind bar, this is too much for them to handle. young had the riots out and he had about that evening. i'm crying for anyhow and for my son to because i can't protect him anymore. all our children's lives are under his throat to have. you can't protect them from the occupation. overall, there has been an increase in violence, and people fear that a later escalation that this child was a rough neighborhood, didn't occupy these jerusalem, that the situation is going to be heading towards an escalation thought. i'm a 100 rooms, albuquerque. you wasn't, it is really were behaving as if the own, the land does. if we have no right to it or they want us out, we'll keep fighting,

even if one of us has killed every day. rebels from ethiopia, he cry regional being accused of killing civilians and raping dozens of women in the neighboring emperor region. last year. and amnesty international report says the rebel group committed atrocities in terms of china and cobble nearly half the victims of sexual violence in china. say they were gang raped some as young as 14 years old. the sexual violence was followed by beatings, death, threats, and ethnic slurs. people in cobol say tpl. f rebels, went after unarmed civilians in an apparent revenge killing spree. while we spoke to donatello rivera, who is a senior crisis advisor at amnesty international, she describes how survivors had to walk for several days to get treatment. the medical facilities that existed in the regions were not very sophisticated, but even both medical facilities were due to the medical personnel sled given the abuses that were being committed by the graham forces. ready and so the

survivors were left with no option but to walk for days and days, days until they reach areas where the, where function medical facilities now for survives of great. that's particularly problematic because the host re cared that should be administered within the 1st 72 hours or within the 1st 5 days, depending on, on the type care and you know, not none of the victims of the survivors had access to that the same is true in co bull with some of the survivors of the killings were left for dead and who were injured. they also had to 4 days until they could reach areas where the where functioning medical facility studies areas the where outside the folder.

ready of the 2 fighters, i mean, i think is important to, to stress that these are not situations of civilians being caught in the cross fire this, these are not collateral damage cases. these are cases of civilians, men and women who were deliberately targeted in somalia. at least 9 people have been killed in the capitol, mogadishu, including 2 suicide bombers, and a police officer. internal security minister says al, sure bob fighters attacked police stations in the early hours of wednesday morning . malcolm web is monitoring developments from nairobi, endeavoring kenya. the group out bob is said, it came responsibility for attacking several government target throughout the capital market issue. we've heard that police stations in security checkpoints have been attacked to police spokesman bertha bertha and said in one incident to vehicle

packed with explosives was driven into a police station. local resident described the explosion as like an earthquake in another location. police said that the attack because then stole the police vehicle, police pursued them. local resident said that they would gun battles they went on for about half an hour after the attack they got. now this all come at the same time as to molly is very drawn out and much delayed in direct election process is going on right now. there's a whole series of meeting going on behind closed doors in which class representative a trying to agree on who they will select to be members of parliament. later this month, members of parliament due to elect tamale as next president election was meant to happen over a year ago. the delays, of course, tensions which run into violence on several occasions in the group ship. bob said it's again the whole election process and is disrupted. it attempted to disrupt it

violently on several occasions in brazil flooding hescamp at least $53.00 people. vehicles and houses were swept away in the city of patropolis, north of reiteration, error. after months. rain fell within hours. cut lopez harriann has more. ah, the force and magnitude of this rainfall was unexpected. within hours streets across the brazilian city of the properties were submerged. nearby families are stunned as floods and mudslides get closer to their homes. the current so strong a push vehicles along streets like toys. even a birth is aimlessly dragged away, nearly covered in water. families are now dealing with a devastating aftermath,

including hearing about neighbors who didn't survive. first mortgage, w, j. it's very sad to see people asking for help and not being able to do anything. it's a feeling of desperation, a loss. our city is gone, our neighbourhood is gone. this group desperately tries to hold on. the mobile fire department says more than $250.00 millimeters of rain fell within 6 hours. that's more than the monthly average for the entire month of february. the region is still recovering from the damage of last year's heavy rains were more than 500 people were killed. human this year. again, a stories fear the death toll will likely rise. recovery efforts are underway. president hyatt, also nato who's visiting russia, has called on the local government to deliver immediate support to what will likely be a long term operation. katia,

locus of again al jazeera. while i saw speak to monica in our cave was launching developments from buenos aires in our neighboring argentina. how the debt or keeps rising in brazil, monica, why have the rain's been so bad this year? yes, it's now 66 people and this was a very unusual phenomenon. not only it rained a lot in a very short period of time, $260.00 millimeters employee hours, which was what they expected for the whole month. but like in 2020, there was almost no rain in brazil. so we're talking about the effects of climate change on the one hand. on the other hand, the problem, the graphical problem is city, which is very close to be addition euro, it's all full of bound to well and on these mountains built houses.

not all of them with the right permits and they'd be maybe slums in some cases or poor dwellings. and theirs. and the soil is a very small amount of soil covering. he's rocks over the must slice, come, they're very, very intense. and to were sort of help have the people who have, in effect, had been getting well, there are groups that have been putting together hell to give you know, food and, and there's been, there's no electricity has some parts of the city. also, people are, be remembered at this same place 11 years ago, was a like a place where that was the biggest natural tragedy in brazilian history with 900 people that had died 3 cities around the area. not just, not just that often. so now, yes, they're pretty together or separate. people are trying to help a fireman find

a war still under the rubble warranty, the mud and, and basically they're trying to make for help each other. but they're waiting and hoping that the raise will not continue. monica and i care. thank you very much for that update. argentina is dealing with a high annual inflation now running at 50 per cent. some analysts are forecasting it will climb even higher this year, despite promises by the government to control prices for a sub worry for some beneficiaries on how people are trying to adapt. it's a culinary hot spot in the central market of when a site is and people here pride themselves in cooking the best spanish or b as in the city. but with the countries inflation rate at 50 percent. but the seattle lydia ileal says she has to make a next re for each month to keep the business going out of container a sequel margin. tina is a disorganized country,

but we learn to serve the situation. it's a constant challenge and a learning experience. our products have very good quality, i don't want to reduce our quality. so what i do is try to sell as much as i can. so again, in quantity and don't have to increase the price as much. the government has been trying to regulate the rising prices with controls and other economic measures, but it has not succeeded. inflation has been a problem for argentines, for decades, and that's why people implement strategies to protect their income in this market. for example, waters need once a month to agree on the price of certain cuts and they promote those prices. in car voids like this one, the problem we're told is that this among the price of fif went up around 70 percent. so now they have to change this cardboard once again. wholesale use hulu now owns able to shop. since epidemic beef consumption has dropped significantly, and he's still trying to recover from the economic impact. oh is the beef culture in argentina is a huge with barbecues over weekend. what we see is people not eating as much be

flagged before, and they are eating pork and she can instinct ah, inflation for it is the government to guarantee that salaries and pensions increase to keep up with a constant rising prices. protest like this one show, it does not always work. on tuesday, thousands gathered in the center when aside is to demand more government assistance . argentine and international monetary fund, or in financial talks to negotiate more than 40000000000 in debt to target inflation. but economy say the fight to control racing prices, won't bc baycove and argentina there are several factors that have an impact on inflation. that's why it's so difficult to talk later on as there is an integral plan that attacks all those causes of inflation. it's like a monster with a 1000 heads. argentines have gotten used to living with inflation, and many are found ways to survive, but it's a vicious cycle that has hurt the countries chances of growth argentines have

gotten used to living with inflation. and many have found ways to survive it, but it's a vicious cycle that has heard the countries chances of achieving long lasting economic growth. there is, i will, i'll yessenia one of hades. a former soldier whose deserted man, mars army, has told al jazeera of the brutal tactics he says are being committed by a feared regiment since last year's corps. the army has faced allegations of abuse including torture and massacres. all of which it denies tony chang spoke to the ex soldier who was in hiding near the time he and mar border. rebel fighters approached a convoy of burning vehicles on christmas eve. it was the scene of a massacre. they say, well than 30 men, women and children executed their bodies burned, hook you up. they say it was mere mars army. specifically, the much feared 66 light infantry. mia mars military leadership have denied involvement. but those tactics, a well known to captain minto,

whose name we've changed for security reasons. he served in the 66 light infantry until november when he deserted. now he's in hiding. he says he in his soldiers were taught to believe that any one who stood up to them was the enemy. and with angrily, diana, the army seized the ethnic groups like terrorists, enough where they tell the soldiers that all the ethnic groups are terrace. that's why they fight against them. they want to control everything. despite decades of oppressive rule, members of mere mars army or tappman doors, they're often called inside the country were held in high regard. their role as guardians of a divided nation often superseded reports of atrocities against ethnic minorities, including the ringer. last year's military coup changed all that the stature and the reputation of the tat, but i have taken a massive hit ah,

the people of myanmar, white, white, frankly, heath, and our view them as terrorist at one stage it was thought that the trickle of to thank tis coming from over there in myanmar might turn into a flood that didn't happen, the army closed ranks. and since then it's been very hard to know what's going on in military minds. hi, on a misty hill side along the time you are my boarder. we got a rare insight into the concerns had been listed soldiers. as we filmed a border outpost, several soldiers in plain clothes approached us friendly. they chatted openly in english and ty, with a worried about the fierce fighting going on between mamma's army and its people, is talking like a vada of anesthesia if we worry about that. but in this region lay in the site, we don't have any blog and about another adding the group here. but are you worried about the fighting inside man? mars? well yeah, a little bit o captain,

me at tow can be more open about his concerns. since february there is no happiness, he sings, my homeland is destroyed. now he's committed to fighting against the army a fight. the song lyrics says we will win. tony chang al jazeera on the time, you're my buddha. oh. still ahead on al jazeera assigned to say there is set closer to finding the queue for h i. v aids after promising results from treatment method on kong hospital struggle to deal with this worst corona virus. outbreaks in to pandemic began and in sport, an impressive display by the cut opens top seeds section ah

hello, the weather set bare across so the middle east over the next couple of days, very little going on. lots of pleasant sunshine coming through. we'll feel that by day, not too bad at night, a low, a little chilly, of course, with the clear skies. here we go logically as guys a chance to one or 2 showers into a robin. nothing too much to speak of. seen temperatures remedies inside of the mediterranean at around $1415.00 degrees celsius into the mid teens. mid twenties there, across the arabian peninsula, and more of the same as we go on into friday, whence falling light charges, and missed just around the gulf, but nothing too much to speak of. margie troy across a good part of northern africa because he wanted to shout into more the parts of egypt over the next day or so. more so into northern areas of libya and a few showers there just around the guinea coast for west africa. want to shower, started to creep in here, but again, large you draw, the majority of the showers, went to the tropical belt. of course, sir, was seen some more wet weather, their southern parts of the democratic republic of congo, out of angola,

pushing across into zimbabwe. seeing some wet weather coming through here into mozambique, and here we have the remnants of a row tropical cyclone that's gonna feed some very heavy rain into most and big for friday, and intensifying further by the weekend ah, from international politics to the global pandemic. and everything in between, it did not restart to poor people and pure our planet promised to ensure the safety of women. what paths the doctor 15, the ford back that people actually have more fuel. why is the u. k, so hostile to transfer the mysteries, all of us join me if i take on the live, dismantled misconceptions and meet the contradiction. hardly get up, put on al jazeera

overnight success. last all really thing night after 9 to that family way involved in consistency. m. and g investments lou ah, again, you're watching the news hour on al jazeera with me fully bachelor, a reminder of our top stories. the head of nato says the alliance is not convinced russian forces are withdrawing from the border with ukraine. defense ministers have

been meeting in brussels end of agreed to discuss the creation of new battle grounds in eastern europe. moscow insists, however, it's reduce its true presence. it's released these pictures. it says show military equipment on the move in crimea. russia onyx to reach him in 2014. meanwhile, ukraine's president voted me as the lens he has address crowds during a day of rallies to mock national unity. he says his nation remains prepared to defend itself. and more now on the russia ukraine. tensions are springing our senior political analyst mon, bashar was live from london. my one thank you for being with us on the disconnect and the mistrust between the 2 sides. the western russia is still there. but do you think from what we've seen in the last 24 hours or so with the russian saying that they're starting to withdraw some troops, nato, saying that it's still open to dialogue? do you think we could see a di escalation? well, clearly we are still at that critical crossroads where the could be

a turned towards war or a turns towards peace judging from what but as them put in said then his tone yesterday, during his press conference with chancellor schultz, is that the russia? yes. intends to deescalate and is looking to work some sort of a structured diplomatic process. but listening to the secretary general stall them berg the to day. that of nato, that no, there is no such pulling back and there is no such destination. and that's how i find quite pity at betty and pitiful, i should say on both parts on the part of the russians and the americans and, and stockton morgan, that way, he is really more of a scandinavian face to american policy and nato. it's pitiful because it sounds like it's the entire things being manufactured. and in fact, if you listen to some of the reports or from a jazz here on elsewhere, does the people in ukraine and elsewhere,

not actually convinced. they feel that this is all being manufactured, manufactured, but terribly serious. we are talking about 2 superpowers nuclear powers with thousands and thousands on warheads. and i mean by that, russia and the united states going got to loggerhead one against the other in europe deploying forces in an, in an unprecedented way, the last decade or 2. and this could have unintended consequences if there is, by one way or another, some sort of an attack on ukraine night. i want to ask you a my one about putin strategy here because i read your opinion pisa early on our website. very interesting. of course, what put in his intent is any, any one's guess. but it seems that he, once again, might be trying to exploit some of the vulnerabilities that exist in the ways that some western need is a facing right now. i'm thinking of my call here was facing an election. i re election, probably sunni in france. what,

what do you make of the russian strategy and is it one that's working ethan? well, clearly put in that has put this through. and we've, we know from his landmark speech to the munich security conference, back in 2007. that's 15 years ago that he's been quite consistent in saying that the united states has been a domineering height, but a violent force in the world. and that it could not be trusted and that russia needs to take the initiative. and it did right next the next year in georgia. and it did then after that in ukraine, and after that in syria. so russia, russia's putin has been quite consistent in saying we need to stand up to the americans trying to, in fact ally, russia with china to stand up to the united states. and basically saying that the western so called rule based systems is unacceptable. that is made up by the west

and that on the international law, it needs to be respected. and in a sense that the u. s. policy and net to policy in iraq. afghanistan, also in the balkans, was all in violation of international law. and russia would not take any more. that's not to say that russia's own policy, of course, was consistent with international law. but for the last 15 years, we've seen duffle to build up that today's getting quite dangers where moscow and washington are a dog ahead. these are nuclear powers, and booting is trying to explore the divisions between germany and france on the one hand and the united states on the other. the united states went to rebuild nato nato that only a couple years ago. busy we thought of it as irrelevant as brain dead, as micro called it. but today, it's back to be the center stage in european secured the structure that is not to the dislike of putting, putting the strength exploit the differences among the western powers. and all of that is really leaving us more and more to words. unstable escalate to the

situation, but as i said could. ready if so, a lead to a major major consultation, because if, if, if, if wouldn't have, in fact, goes in some form or another ukraine. and is slapped with masses a sanctioned by the united states and others quibbling, the russian economy. that will definitely need to furnish commission. what would that be? i'm not sure anyone has 4 to through. it could be terribly dangerous to european, under the national security, a dangerous moment in the thank you very much. my one for that marin bashar is our senior political analyst with the current a virus pandemic. now in hospitals in hong kong, are struggling to keep up with an influx of covered 19 patients. a new wave of infections comes as a city's leaders or sticks to it. 0 cove 19 strategy mainland china is putting

pressure on authorities to control the situation. gillian wolf has more. these cuban 19 patients both young and old, wait outside one of hong kong, major hospitals for their turn to be seen inside a facility filled to capacity. they are finding the bay. they're finding a bit the quality weight on. did they find the big the territories, 5th wave of coven 19 has seen daily infections search 40 times since the start of february, with hospitals and clinics struggling to cope these mix. if chance provide some relief to an overall medical system that has reached its capacity. solar. hi, good young. the current pandemic situation is very serious. so the number of people waiting for medical treatment i searched it had to separate general patients from those are covered through diversion sections outside. hong kong has reported more than 25000 cases with more than 220 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. for

residents like yancey who is required to provide a negative coven 19 test to his work every week. it seems like there's no end in sight for forming the world. i feel so bad for the hospital workers, so they're working so hard at all. but the government is not doing what they should do or heard more citizens would support them. are you? the situation has sparked widespread criticism among members of the health and education sectors. with one doctor saying, i've worked in health care and hong kong for a decade. our public hospitals are always stressed, we buckle every time. there's a flu surge now with a disease that is more transmissible and severe than the flu and requires expose staff to quarantine. hong kong hospitals are sand castles in a soon army. these new public housing units which are supposed to cater to tenants, have become quarantine stations. and even these have nearly reached full capacity. but for hong kong, 7500000 people there is rising fatigue with the changing restrictions. the global financial hub is expected to introduce

a vaccine pass next week that will require proof of vaccination before entering public venues. in person classes are suspended until next month. and 2 years of seal borders have effectively turn hong kong into one of the world's most isolated cities. and this is ultimately the theme for a region that is determined to stop coven 19. at all costs. drilling wolf al jazeera austria is lifting most of its remaining current of ice restrictions. the government says cases are manageable enough to allow those to be lifted by march 5th. it's putting down in a recent law to make vaccination. compulsory dominey king has a detail key decisions being taken, both in berlin and in vienna, regarding the relaxation of the covey restrictions that are in place for such a long time. the motivating factor here being the belief by both governments that in march there will be an opportunity to relax the restrictions,

so that federally both in berlin and in vienna. then people will no longer need to have to prove their vaccination status or their recovery status. just to have to be able to prove a negative test conducted recently. but the key thing here is both in germany and austria, although that's a federal decision. each state will be able to interpret how it should implement that. so we know, for example, that the mayor of vienna, remember vienna is a state in the federal republic of austria. that man said, well begin to relax things slower. so people might still have to prove their status in terms of vaccination or in terms of recovery. but the point that's very much worth driving home here is that there had been a feeling that austria was leading a trend where people were saying it was important to have a mandatory vaccine requirement. that is still the case in australia will take come into force in the middle of march, but there are those who now wonder whether it will really be in force and here to

in germany. although the federal government says it's committed to trying to get that implemented. there are many leading politicians, notably the prime minister bavaria, who say maybe we should slow down on that. police in honduras have arrested former president juan orlando have mondays at the requests of the united states. and under his was president less than 3 weeks ago. he was escorted from his home in handcuffs and a bullet proof vests flanked by police. washington has requested he be expedited on drug trafficking and weapons charges. let's me talk, correspondent, manju, arapahoe who's just arrived in honduras. he joins us on the line from tegucigalpa. tell us more about this case against a former president. and when is he likely to be expedited to the us? well, please continue to move along quite quickly here in honduras, following that extradition request by the united states against the former 100. president lander mandate informal spent the 9th under the custody of the hunter and

security forces. we will go to a spokesperson from the courts. it said that her family had come to visit him last night by. busy by wednesday morning, if he did, however, appear before a judge in the under and capital judge has been tasked with overseas. this is caused for extradition by the united states. that preliminary hearing cars not included, it had gone into recess, resumed again, shortly. there still more than an hour left because the corporate 100 president is wanted in the united states over drug trafficking and weapons charges us prosecutors have a lives that the former 100 leader help people to keep the traffic a 500000 of cocaine from south america. through hundreds and ultimately into the united states. so again, this one is the purpose of hearing that the former president will be appearing

before. and there are a couple of seconds to learn from the from the 1st of the 1st hearing. the person is exactly president. this is going to be held in detention while his next appearance before a judge will also waiting to hear when that next year exactly is going to take place. now the president up on supreme court in seattle again, but here it's already glasses, somewhere around a little more than 2 hours now got into another about an hour. they proceeded some time this year on wednesday. now we have heard some reports of confrontation between supporters of the demonstrators looking out apartments is the last outside of the supreme court. and the thing that we should mention is that an extradition piece is similar to the one that we're seeing. of right now the person

is not months, but given the high profile of this case in particular, it's speaking about a former leader of the country are expecting that the case the perceive themselves could move along quite a bit faster. thank you for talking to us and bringing us the latest fare from take received out by minute wrap. hello. now in the us, a woman with leukemia has become the 1st female to be cured of h i v. she was treated using a new method that involves umbilical cord blood from a donor with natural resistance to the virus. the stem cell transplant was initially used to treat her cancer, but she's now been free of h i v. for 14 months. the woman is the 3rd person to date to be cured of the disease, or let's speak to dennis nasha. bob is his distinguish professor of if he margie at the city university of new york, and he's joining us via zoom from new york. professor nash,

thank you very much for being with us. this has been described as cutting edge treatment. is it treatment that has potential i think, you know, not at this time. this is, as you mentioned, we have to remember, this is a treatment that took place in someone who had both a chevy and leukemia. and bob, some very complex procedures, all the dangerous procedures that you know, someone who didn't need to be treated for a life threatening condition, likely kenya would not want to undergo the average person living with the child would not want to take on these, these risks. and moreover, the procedures are difficult to implement safely in many parts of the world that bear the greatest burden to be specifically in resource limited setting, right? but when they say the woman with cured, what does it mean? is it, is it the same as being undetectable? h i v b, undetectable in your system where it says something different. yeah,

this is something different. this means that the virus is basically vanquished from the person from the person's blood from the person cells. this happened because the treatment for me 1st you know, really destroys all for blood cells. and then she received stem cell transplant on top of that. so it's, it's very, it's unheard of extremely unheard of for people with h. i for this to happen for people with a chevy. the virus always comes back even after it is undetectable. if you stop treatment and it did not happen in the 3 cases that we had to date. so if i understand you correctly, this can only be applied to people will have leukemia, right? what would be, what would attempting a stem cell transplant in anyone who doesn't have a serious condition pose what i mean? what, what will be the risks involved? yeah, it carries with it a high risk of a bad outcome including death. and so meanwhile, people the average person who

h i v can live healthy life with normal life expectancy on life saving treatments that we're lucky to have. we've had some major advanced field of treatment and prevention and so with the same treatments we can prevent transmission as well as treat it. we can prevent transmission from mother to child, from sex in needle sharing partners to one another. and so this is what we need to be focused on now for the 80 percent of for the $38000000.00 people who are looking to the chevy around the world. going to ask you what information this particular research gives on what direction h i v research should be taking to try and get an elusive cure. yeah, i mean, i think a cure 3. sure this is very important developments very, very welcome years and progress, right? a cure for each have been highly sought after since it was recognized as

a life threatening viral infection of pandemic proportions nearly 40 years ago. but it's really been a loose to date to some of the feel free to why is that? why is h i v so difficult to care? well, it's a very widely buyer, as many viruses are. and it's, it can hide in places in the body that make it very hard for treatment that can kill the virus to reach. and so even though it may become undetectable in blood test, it doesn't mean that it's not there. and when you remove the treatment, the virus begins to replicate again. you never find found a way except in these 3 patients to really vanquish it. professor dennis nash, thank you very much for talking to us about this. thank you for your time. thanks for having north korea has celebrated the 80th birthday of late leader kim jong il at the festival known as the day of the shining star to place in the northern alpine town of siamese john close to mount pike to north korea,

says kim jong il was born in a forest at the foot of the mountain, but historians outside of the country say he was likely born in russia's far east veteran indian singer in pop music composer. bob p. laurie has died at the age of 69. ah, he was one of the country's most influential music directors and brought disco to bollywood. his songs were hugely popular in the 19 eighties and nineties and still ahead on the news hour and 40. it's been a day of surprises on the beijing ice winter olympic action coming up. ah

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ah, for sports his far. you so much have a way to canada have been knocked out of the men's ice hockey tournament at the winter olympics. they were stunned to nothing by sweden in the quarter finals on wednesday. lucas wall mark and anton land or put sweden through to the final for canada have been the gold medal winners and this event in 2 of the last 3 olympics, united states will also be watching the finals from home. the top seeds were beaten by slovakia in the quarter finals for seconds away from a victory before that goal. tie the game up to 2. so back here then went on to win in a shoot. trying his hopes of meddling in the men's. 5000 meter relay were dashed when sun long lost his balance with just a 3rd of the race remaining. charles hamlin led canada to victory, the 37 year old,

claiming his 4th olympic title. south korea finish. second and italy and 3rd french skier command noelle has won the gold medal and men slalom. a stunning 2nd rung saw the 24 year old move up from 6 to 1st place. no one had finished just outside the mouths at the last olympics and young cheng is the 1st french gear to win this title for 2 decades. our whole lead a one to american finish and the men slope sound. his final twisting jump has become known as the pretzel is good enough for hall to win his 1st olympic gold. american men have captured 6 of the 9 metals since this event mated games debut. 2014 russian figure skater. camilla valley ever left the ice in tears after her performance in the individual women's event on tuesday. the 15 year old is the favorite to win the gold, but no battles will be awarded when the competition concludes on thursday. l eva is the subject of an anti doping investigation. after failing a test and the build up to the games,

olympic organizers say they will wait for the outcome of that process for finalizing the results. we prefer not to have all this going on. absolutely. we prefer to be having a normal competition without this distracting from it. i think everyone would agree with that. the athletes particularly and it's the athletes that i, that my heart goes out. but we all where we are the i c. as with everyone else has to follow the rules. jackie wong is a figure skating analysts. he's in beijing for the lympics. he says there are signs that valley as being badly affected by the situation. when i've seen her in practice, she has been steely. she has been focus, she has been doing her job when she needs to do her job and when she's practicing. but you can absolutely see that this is weighing on her mind. she has had times when she went to the boards,

talked with her coaches broke down and you know, the phone, her ability came out more than a few times during the last few days. i absolutely expect her to continue to be focused and continue to be you know, kind of single tracked by me when it came when it comes to the actual competition. but you can also imagine that she thinks about it during her for escape tomorrow, and all of a sudden everything sort of spirals under, out of control in her head. and she completely has a meltdown, right. i don't expect to happen, but i would imagine that it's either she scapes very well as, as how she would normally skate or she, it's a complete disaster that she can sort of dig herself out of. so i don't think there's an in between to that. kellen as women speedskating team have been talking

about their title when a moment the slip from rivals, japan handed them a gold medal on tuesday and had been ahead in the team pursuit fun until that fall on the final lap. they are unbelievable or it's been like people and yes we have, we have a lot of respect for their team. but i, i also think that we, we push the limit and so today and they weren't able to hold it in the last corner and we sit on our feet and yeah, and we also, we also have the olympic record. it's a big night in the european champions, lea. 2 round of 16 games are coming up. german champions, bar munich, face r. b, salisbury, away. big one. no. c, 6 time winters. liverpool take on enter. milan, liverpool, defender trends. alexander arnold, using the pre match press conference as a chance to stoke the teams, domestic rivalry with manchester city. obviously not making any digs book,

you know, ha, my city's amazing seem to have been able to lift cherrmis leaks or been couple of firms for they haven't been able to. i'm trying to see we've when both of last few years. so just shows that we're able to do in both compositions and the murray has suffered one of the most embarrassing defeats of his career is he was dumped out of the counter open form. well, number one was humiliated. 661 by spain's roberto battista a good in the round of 16. he had another blow to the 34 year old who struggled to recapture his best form following hip surgery and both 20182019. 5 time canada as dennis shapell beloved had a much better day than his country's ice hockey team. the number one seed needed less than an hour to beat. so vacuum player alex small can in straight fats to problem or face arthur kinder lack and the vinyl. hey, that is all your sport for now. fully backseat bar. i thank you very much. that's

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