right, but also on the more ability and inspiring story, people trust algebra to tell them what's happening in their community in a clear and, and by kind of an african, i couldn't be more proud to be part of, you know, ah, the, you, as a nato say there are still no signs that russian troops of pulling back from ukraine's borders despite moscow's claims, ah, day of national unity in ukraine and defiance of a louise threats of a russian attack. ah, hello, i'm about this and this is our desire alive from doha also coming up. devastating

floods and mudslides read through brazil's imperial city metropolis, killing more than 90 people, like sand castles in as soon army. that's how one doctor in hong kong describes hospitals reaching breaking point daily cove at 19 infections of surged by more than 40 times this month. and a pay dispute with teachers in zimbabwe has left children under supervised in schools with nothing to do with the u. s. a nato as a rush, as id, more troops around ukraine, and there's no evidence of a pull back despite moscow's claims. nato secretary general jen stoughton bug says the alliance will now look at boosting its forces in central and eastern europe from brussels and eve. bach begins our coverage fis bump diplomacy as defense chief

some nato countries, including the u. s. and germany arrive at alliance headquarters to strengthen their stance on russia and pool 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 kia in 2014 and returning to base. but nato secretary general was quick to dismiss. any talk of a de escalation of tensions. we do not see any sign of the escalation on the ground, nor withdrawals of our troops or equipment. this may of course change. however, what we see to day is that, that russia maintains a massive invasion force ready to attacked with high end capabilities from crumb yard to barrows. strong words to from european union chiefs in strasburg,

urging moscow to come to the negotiating table. lou schwab was ordered. 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 your there was little sign of any russian troop withdrawals in belarus on wednesday. this another show of military muscle for the cameras joint exercises would beller, russian troops, only deepening fears, a neighboring ukraine that an 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 signal that it will be willing to join talks about door remains open. due to marcia, 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 salt and 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. leave park al jazeera brussels. there's been a cyber attack and ukraine's defense ministry, and it's the worst the countries seen. the government suspects russia may have been behind. it claimed the kremlin denies, and assured defiance against a potential invasion ukraine held a national day of unity and 200 metre long flag was carried through the olympic stadium and key f elsewhere. president vladimir zalinski, attended military drills. biden's day was the day the u. s. intelligence had suggested that russia was likely to attack la la la bullock in a capitulation. we are seeing a large concentration of troops. it hasn't change of the last week. we're seeing

some small rotations, but i wouldn't call these rotations a pullback of russian troops cause to throw out there. we will confirm the pullback of russian troops once it happens and once a short period of time passes after the number of groups of military forces and hardware decreases at those parts of the border. t. thank you. chose to hartford reports now from khaki eve and how a small but patriotic gathering marked unity day. oh, oh, upon 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 hold give the gathering was held to mark what the ukranian president volota may zalinski called a day of unity. the flag was raised from half mast soldiers stood to attention after the national anthem, a singer tried 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. joe, for the unity of our country, they want to be united. we want to be very united, nearby, 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. this before in the field, it's quiet as usual, is just a normal routine day people whacking children at school. i don't know what will be will be. i am not worried. there is no point in the main method when a day when you as intelligent services predicts a possible rush, an evasion of ukraine show of unity here in the eastern city of car, give us

a small group of people. and their message is the ukraine remains unified. against what they in the government and their western back assaye is russian aggression. char stratford, al jazeera, called cave thrushes for the monasteries, mocked western media for labeling weapons, state invasion de dosage or body has more. from moscow. we've been hearing statements coming out from the foreign ministry spokeswoman, who said that it really this is not something this country take seriously because of course they have no intention of invading ukraine. this was that a weekly briefing of the foreign ministry where as this spokeswoman said, that's a really, it's a rhetoric and it's hysteria that is created by the western media. let's listen to some more of what she had to say. oh yeah, couple fake, a crises, kicks, mute. there is a space on the u. s. state departments website that used to publish stories about the so called russian fake or use our please publish stories about your own faith williamson graded by your american media. if you need examples,

i shall send you some desk of and may be for the 1st time in human history, the so called aggressor, which the west appointed russia to be on the so called victim, which ukraine is being described as are both denying everything that is being reported marie, certainly vladimir point has made it very clear that he is not going to invade ukraine, but he does want to have a conversation with his u. s. counterpart president joe biden, about the security concerns that he has about nato's further expansion with hospitals and testing facilities in hong kong, are buckling under the pressure of a major covered lighting outbreak. the worst since the pandemic began with beds filled to capacity, patients are being treated in makeshift open air spaces. the territory reported a record of nearly 4300 cases on wednesday. that's 40 times higher than the daily rate at the start of the month. and an increase in truck drivers,

testing positive is causing food delivery delays and hong kong from the prices of freshman louise vegetables of surged and some parts of the city on kong and ports, 90 percent of its food. okay, let's go live now to brookside. it says hospital in hong kong, are the hospitals still running out of bed? is there any sign that they are getting in control of the situation? they are indeed rob. this one particularly is struggling. dozens of people are outside, many of them elderly. they're sitting in out on a hospital beds out on stretches, waiting for space to free up inside. it's raining, it's cold. and these people have been like this yesterday as well. now the hospital authority, they apologize for this situation, but again, we are seeing tents being set up to accommodate for people to free up space.

clearly this hospital is dealing with a capacity problem. now this is something that authorities, as i say, have apologized for. but this appears to be an ongoing problem as cases here escalate under the cities dynamic 0 infection policy, people who even display the mildest of symptoms have to be sent to hospitals like this, or quarantine facilities. now in order to accommodate for that official say they may need to free up student accommodation, hotels, or even housing estates as well. they're also looking at perhaps building a makeshift hospital like the one that we saw in bullhorn at the very start of the pandemic. to accommodate for this increasing problem here like the one that we see behind me. it is cold. the rain is picking up. it's windy and these people, hong kong, most vulnerable of residents, are clearly i in a at tuff position here. so the city has made this a top priority,

but in day this is quite a hot breaking situation to see how much pressure is there from beijing to make sure the hong kong choice to keep this under control or chinese president she did. thing has made it clear that hong kong authorities should take all necessary steps to curb this outbreak, the worst outbreak that the city has ever seen. he said that it's important for social stability that hong kong gets this outbreak under control. now carry lamb the chief executive home of hong kong. she said thank you to president c for his concern and vowed to unite the hong kong public to combat this virus. lamb is doubling down on the cities, no tolerance approach to the virus despite the escalating cases. and despite the fact that this is one of the most densely populated cities in the world, beijing is offering manpower. it's offering assistance in terms of medical kits and

medical supplies. as well, but there are no plans yet for a city wide lockdown, much like the one that we see across the border in places like c on and other strategies that we see there in terms of pulling out its toolkit to approach the entire city together. but the cities vaccination rate, when you look at the elderly population, it's only at around 30 percent. so that's also adding to concern here. many people are criticizing the government for not doing enough 2 years in the pandemic. and we're seeing these kind of scenes. many people are saying it's just not good enough . why wasn't more done to prepare for this day? right, thank you very much. that book fun talking to us from hong kong soccer is corona virus cases have exceeded 90000 for the 2nd straight day. there is no break as seen a sharp rising critically ill patients. at least 389 people are in intensive care unit sets and increase of 76. in the past day, people have been urged to get

a 4th vaccine shot. rescuers have saved at least 21 people in brazil after flooding a mud slides swamped a historic mountain tone. at least 90 people have been killed after the deluge destroyed 80 structures and i topple us. bathing 400 people without a home. got a lopez on a on as more the forest and magnitude of this rainfall was unexpected. within hours streets across the brazilian city of the properties were submerged. nearby families are stunned as once and mudslides get closer to their homes. the current so strong it push vehicles along streets like toys, even a burst is aimlessly drowned away,

nearly covered in water. families are now dealing with a devastating aftermath, including hearing about neighbors who didn't survive as good. don't don't, 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 neighborhood 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 a monthly average for the entire month of february. the region of silver problems and the damage of last year's heavy rain were more than 500 people were killed. this year again, already fear the death toll will likely rise. recovery efforts are underway. president have 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, still ahead and ours is either. we're going to look at claims of genocide from the russian president and what washington sees as a pretext for military action and the race his face is getting crowded and dangerous. ah hey there, thanks for joining in. here's your headlines for the americas. we've got a messy mix of weather for the canadian province of ontario. we're talking rain 1st and then it's going to switch over to some freezing rain and pick up about 10 centimeters of snow. is that cold air rushes in. so here we are on friday, dark of the blue and the purple, the lower the temperature, but still keeping that warmth then for the eastern seaboard of the us was found. we

go a bit of activity around british columbia rolling across the canadian prairies, but nothing out of the ordinary here. and for the west coast of the u. s, the sellers have come down big time in los angeles, picking up some hail over the higher ground. so we've got you in for a high of 22 on thursday. very active weather for the south is while pretty much stretching from kentucky, right to the u. s. gulf states. and in fact, across the northern areas of texas into oklahoma, we could see a tornado here, severe thunderstorms, and definitely some drenched rain being fueled by that moisture from the gulf of mexico. there has been flooding in honduras and those showers still coming at you for that caribbean coast of central america. now for south america, heaviest frame will be along the eastern side of the andes into the western amazon basin, out toward the south atlantic. and we've had some big storms around rio de janeiro on thursday, and that continues, ah,

i have because is the world's leading coca producer. but it's weak infrastructure makes traveling a challenge. we follow to dr. do as he grapples with repairs to his many backup, and yet one of the few willing to drive to remote villages risking at all ivory coast of our desert. ah ah, the me just a reminder of the top stories this head of nato says the alliance will look at boosting

its forces in eastern europe, western powers, believe russian troops, a still building up around ukraine's and show defiance against a potential invasion ukraine held a national day of unity widens to the day, russia was reported in likely to return on comes, hospitals have become overwhelmed with over 19 patients to be seen in beds outside, reportedly because it's too crowded in doors. uncle liter county, lamb says hospitals and clinics are struggling to cope. russia has opened a criminal probe into the ill treatment of the civilian population in ukraine, following the discovery of mass graves in the countries east. last year, president vladimir putin has said that genocide is taking place there against russian speakers of the us says the claim is based on lies and it's a pretext for invasion. and chappelle reports rushes f b. i says this is an image of

a mass grave. the bodies of 295 civilians killed by ukrainian forces as they carried out indiscriminate shelling and 2014 other undated photos. broadcast on stevie are said to show more atrocities. they sit with president putin's narrative about what is happening to the russian speaking population in ukraine's east coast . and we have because in our assessment and what's happening now in that dumbass constitutes, in genocide, u. s. has called the claim a reprehensible falsehood. we are particularly concerned about president putin and other russian officials, they're ongoing mentions of quote unquote, genocide and the dawn bass. there is no basis of truth to any of these allegations. these are false narratives that russia is developing for use as a pretext for military action. against ukraine, 876000 ukrainians, and in that scandal, hands have been given russian citizenship. and now russia's parliament is asking

president putin to formerly recognize the break away region. we're seeing, quite frankly, is the ability and certainly of certain actors, nation state actors like russia to drive the new cycle and to project whether it is on a course narrative or in some cases. and we've certainly witnessed it from here in washington efforts to drive the new cycle, right? a potential invasion around potential threats or even false flag operations. so what you're seeing right now is the information battle that is proceeding potentially a military invasion of ukraine. claims the genocide have been made before in 2008, president accused georgia committing genocide enough cardeana set. yet before sending $30000.00 troops into the breakaway provinces, just a few months earlier, georgia said it would join nato. andrew chappelle al jazeera, the us says, is in the final stages of in direct talks with iran to save the 2015 nuclear deal.

fans is also taking part in discussions and it's foreign minister says an agreement could be just days away. indirect negotiations between the u. s. and iran resumed last week after attending haters. we are in the midst of the very final stages of, as i said before, a complex negotiation with the key stakeholders here. this is really the decisive period during which will be able to determine whether a mutual return to compliance with j. c. p. away is in the offing, or if it's not, again, we are sincere and steadfast in our efforts to test the proposition as to whether a return can be achieved. in a landmark decision, the european union, the top court, has cleared the way for the block to withhold funds from members teams that violate democratic rights and freedoms. the ruling dismissed a case by poland and hungary,

challenging the new funding law. the e u has been in a feud with poland and hungary populous governments on protecting human rights. syrian government airstrikes have killed at least 4 people and injured 3 others in the northwest. they targeted a fuel market in italy, the last remaining province held by rebels. volunteers from the white helmets tried for hours to put out the fire cities decade old conflict who's killed nearly half a 1000000 people. rebels from if you is to get i region are being accused of killing civilians and raping dozens of women in the hot region last year. and honesty, international report says ticket i am fighters, committed atrocities in the tons of china and cobalt. nearly half the victims of sexual violence, they said they were gang raped, some of them, as young as 14 years old. more than a 100 sudanese detainees, including high profile politicians and on hunger strike because of what their lawyers call unjustified and illegal detention. they part of the protest movement

against the military takeover last october. at least 81 people have been killed and more than 2000 injured in clashes with security forces. but can a fast as cool leader has been sworn in as president, 3 weeks after toppling the democratically elected head of state. ball are where you, sandoval dominga told the o took the off of office in a televised ceremony, which had no fallen representatives in attendance. it had a military hunter that overthrew rosh mar christian cowboy. a last month sim bobby's government has suspended. teachers have been on strike, demanding, better pay and working conditions. they say rising inflations, eating away at the salaries, and they want to be paid. and us dollars a government's offering them a raise, but union saying it's not enough. automatic reports from hardy, it's another week of children going to school in zimbabwe and doing nothing constructive because there are no stop the government to spend at thousands of

teachers with 3 months without pay for going on strike, demanding more money to we are not linear. yeah, nobody yeah, no teachers, yano rimming around the government has offered teachers a 20 percent pay increase payment of part of their salaries in us dollars and other incentives, including free education for the children and loans for housing. but unions rejected the offer, saying it's still not enough. the government here employs about 140000 is nationwide is not known exactly how many of them are in strike. the education requirements, if they can be replaced with thousands of i'm employed teachers, are you looking for union leaders? believe politicians out of touch with reality. those who as opposed to manager education, if found an escape route with their own children, are living in private schools in a little private schools. and some of them are living in exotic leanings and as bit

in australia you is. i'm on whether listened us. but so the public school is now so much neglected because they don't affect this as into does anybody. so they don't like nancy muscle cells gas from his house to supplement his income. he and others have been the teachers want at least $540.00 us dollars a month. right now, the earning less than $100.00. it teacher gets. i bought a 2 years. it's no. and you need to break that amount into transport. i lauins is the housing i lauins and is it basic salary is also included in that 80 years? economists warrant paying salaries in american dollars will fuel inflation with no side so far, willing to budge these little to no learning. taking place in many of us in bobby's public schools. had a master al jazeera had at a former president of 100 us one, orlando hernandez has appeared at his 1st extradition. hearing united states

swanson handed over for allegedly engaging in drug trafficking and others was arrested at his home. on tuesday, the left office less than 3 weeks ago after 8 years as president, scientists have determined a ro rocket expected to crash him to the moon. next month was built by china not space sex. astronomers previously thought the out of control rock had been launched by elan mosques. company now they believe the rocket that is going to hit the moon on march. the 4th is a booster. used in the 2014 chinese space agency launch. astronomers sale the mistake highlights the problem with trying to track objects in deeper space and also fears of collision and debris clothing space in december, china had complained to the un thing it's astronaut, sad to maneuver their space station out of the way of to space ex starling satellites, us rejected those allegations, seeing if there had been a chance of a near miss. it would have notified chinese officials well in advance. but space is

getting crowded. at the end of last year. there were 5000 active satellites in space that's twice as many since 2010. some were calling the recent forties of private companies entering space tourism a new space. race observers estimate there are going to be 30000 new satellites orbiting earth 10 years from now. well, steven feelins, an expert in space law, man is emeritus professor bond universities joining us now from 70. thank you very much indeed for being with us is getting very crowded up there. is there any sort of legal situation or legal agreements that have been put into place to try to control any of this? well, good afternoon, rob. well, we have a lot of law that regulates the international uses. and those trade laws that were put together really, you know, 50 or 60 years ago that your work well have meant that space has by and large work thus far. but as he said in your introduction, the technology is raced forward. the number of actors in space is great for in

there are so many more things that can be done. and as he say, that has resulted in 2 things. and a large proliferation of space to very literal, literally hundreds of millions pieces of space, debris, all through earth, all that. and then secondly, as you also mention, various companies, you said 30000 bit plans are from various countries and companies, maybe 300000 satellites to go up in the next 10 to 15 years. and so i have this area with all of this debris will become even more has, as we think more and more thing in the space of cost space is incredible. it's allowed humanity to do so many things. the reason i'm talking to you now is only because we have space technology, but that's the point. we are so dependent on space, we have to manage the way we move forward. otherwise we risk it becoming

inaccessible and navigable and unsustainable which would have impacts on or i can understand that the international agreements would cover, say, foreign governments who were sending spacecraft upwards. no, of course we, as we've just been talking about, we have a lot of private enterprise who are starting to do this as well as the nature of the legality or the nature of the law is going to have to change. because if you have a private company, for example, that causes an accident where they be a satellite, owned by a foreign government, is there. who do you soon? basically is my question and how do you do it? that's a good question, though, in this treaty regime that i mentioned, we have a liability framework. so that in your example, if an american satellite crashed into, let's say, a russian satellite in space under this regime rusher and settle, if you b rusher in the united states would be able to cross to each other. so it's

a country to country thing. even if the actual rocket was part of the collision is a private enterprise. and so what happens there is it's up to each individual government which is subject to the international liability regime. it's up to each government to properly regulate those companies within the jurisdiction to ensure that what they do does not unduly prejudice or raise the risks unexpectedly in space. and so it's a, it's a tough one because companies go to the government government when we encourage their companies to go to space, to do entrepreneurial things, to create economies, to do great things. but on the other hand, the countries themselves which have a potential liability if something goes wrong, also have a responsibility on a global basis to ensure that i said in my earlier remarks that we don't go.