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to invade ukraine. we will watch for the so called hall's wife operations were russia, manufacturers of america justifying the african union. and new leaders are gathering, also in brussels to discuss investments vaccines and security. and vietnam is accused of cracking down on activists even using superglue in the locks on their doors of the homes. and i'm german ash with sports, disappointing end for controversial figures. casey can mill valley over the beijing winter olympics, the 15 year old russian of finished so forth in the women singles after being allowed to compete, as might sessing positive for a band substance before the game. ah, good, have a company welcome to the news. are we begin with the escalating crisis on ukraine's border? russia has expel the deputy chief of the us diplomatic mission in moscow. it's

demanding, all american troops in the region be withdrawn and that no more weapons be delivered to ukraine. when it comes just hours after nato said, it's concerned that russia is trying to stage an event as next keys to invade its neighbor, russian, but rebels and east in ukraine and kia government forces have accused each other of shelling their positions, fears the arrest could spark a full blown war were raised at a nato meeting earlier in brussels, where the u. s. defense secretary lloyd austin, ward of russian provocation. we and our allies will stay vigilant. we will watch for the so called false flag operations, where russia manufacturers a dramatic event to justify and attack a play that we've seen them run in the past. and we will continue to explore ways to enhance our amos as united states and others have done with additional troops.

deployments, tornadoes, eastern flight, but russia denies it plans to invade ukraine. it says it's withdrawn. 10 convoys of troops from crimea, though nature says it hasn't seen any evidence of a pull back. well, we have full correspondence on the story in a moment, we'll be hearing from andrew simmons in kiev. ne parker has the latest from that nato meeting in brussels. dasa jabari is standing by in the russian capital, moscow professors cross over to washington dc, and ross, georgia and rose. i mean, what reaction from the state department can we assume that you're not going to be happy at this news? while the usaa state department has already put out a statement saying that it is unhappy with the decision by the russian government to expel the number to diplomat at the russian a at them at the mission, i should say in moscow law bart gorman, he's a long time a career diplomat, the number 2 person a with the and

a lot of experience in dealing with security matters. the pretext of that to the u . s. says that to mr. gorman was expelled. i had nothing to do with his a length of service. they say that he still had time on his visa to continue had service. and they also said that the russian government has degraded the number of people who can work at the u. s. mission and moscow at to a low, a level lower than that. here in washington at the russian embassy and the state department says that is of very worrisome at a time when there needs to be more diplomatic contact between the 2 governments than ever in the state department is suggesting that if you don't have enough people on, on on deck, you can't carry out the full of breadth of discussions that need to be had, particularly at a crisis moment. it is worth pointing out, however, that the u. s. ambassador to russia,

john sullivan is still on duty. he had been back in the u. s. in a, in the past year for several weeks while there was another, a back and forth about the staffing levels at both embassies, rose george mera in washington dc. thanks very much for the latest. let's cross over to moscow now. where dorsey jibari is standing by dole, so let's just expand very quickly on this diplomatic expulsion what the russians are saying about it. well, we have yet to hear officially. the reason that the russians have decided to expel this senior career, the career diplomat really barts foreman, is somebody who was responsible for managing she aspects of the relationship between us and russia. here in the u. s embassy in moscow, and i think it's telling where things are heading. it's certainly was very unexpected news here, and we're still waiting for the russian foreign ministry to explain as to why he has been expelled. of course, the americans have said that his visa is so valid that he hasn't exceeded his stay

of over 3 years. and the russians have not provided any specific reason or statements as to why he has been expelled. of course, he's not. this is not his 1st step in russia. he has been here before and he has been worked here at previously from 1999 until 2001. and then again, he was here from 2014 until 2016. but i think this is very telling now about where the relationship between the 2 countries are heading in the days. ahead. and again, it's been very fast a of lots of comments and meetings across the globe really over what's going on. now of course, the us had sent a letter to moscow explaining the security concerns that moscow had, and there was a response to that now in some shape or form. i believe. yes, americans said hand delivered

a written response on january 26 and to russia's foreign minister here in moscow and that it's taken russians this long to respond. we knew it from sergey lover of the russian foreign minister that and his 10 page response was ready. and vladimir putin had to just give his final approval and is now been officially delivered to the u. s. embassy here in moscow. and at this statements, the response from the russians have been also released to the media. and there's a few points i want to just highlight. the russians have said that the american proposals unsecure to guarantees came as a package and only chose to discuss specific issues. and that's the demand that the americans are making, the russians withdrawing their troops from certain areas within russian territory. these territory is absolutely unacceptable and that russia is now insisting that the united states has so remove all its forces and weapons in central eastern europe as well. as baltic countries, and i think the most significant point here is that russia is saying debts if at

the united states doesn't abide by what the russians are asking, then there could have certainly military consequences that russia will respond accordingly. i think this is the strongest language we've heard so far coming from moscow. but there is one at certain points of hope. the russians to propose that a u. s. in praxis implement the idea of reciprocal i practices on medium and short range missiles, and that russians of proposed and integrated approach towards strategic security. and that they've invited the united states to jointly, ids of develop a new security equation. i think, although the gist of this 10 page response has been very negative, there is still a small glimmer of hope that the russians are willing to discuss. a future security can condemn agreement with the united states. docile jibari moscow. thanks very much. let's cross over to brussels now and he barker is standing by food for

thought in terms of those comments coming out of moscow. neve, that defense ministers and defense secretaries can think about and talk and discuss where you are. what have been to that today's salient points? we've heard of z from lloyd austin. yeah, that's right. we're just hearing those points for the 1st time from door sir. i think the suggestion is about the us and russia perhaps said each of each other impossible task at the moment. we know this is a high level game of, of brickman ship. one side is asking the other one to deescalate 1st, but obviously that's a very challenging decision to make or without taking in the full consideration of the security situation in eastern europe. which is what lot austin has been focusing on, or when he spoke a little bit earlier on, he was quick to pull cold water on the suggestion that russia, as in any way reduced its troop presence around ukraine, saying that the opposite was indeed true. and the backdrop to all of their sienna

stultz and berg, nato secretary general is a, a situation in europe where the security climate is deteriorating very, very rapidly. indeed, the nato allies having to contend with the largest build up of russian forces in eastern europe since the end of the cold war. and as such, nato is having to reconsider its role in europe. reconsider where it puts extra troops as the suggestion of a new battle group being sent to remain here. more troops being sent to bulgaria of concerns though that that could aggregate aggregate aggravate rather vladimir putin and he could respond in turn. there is though, hope of diplomacy. very lastly as a sidebar to all of there's just down the road of the you where you leaders are being brief. we gather that there are rumors that the you could be trying to broker face to face talks were teen putin and zalinski that see if that actually materializes confirm if need for us in brussels because over to the ukrainian

capital and recipients standing by for us a lot all the diplomats, the defense ministers are all talking to each other. andrew, we're hearing of various reports of some sort of skirmish violence in the southeast of the country. that's right, that is a dumbass of the region that's been of war for 8 years. skirmishes are frequent events in this area, but this has significance according to many observers because of the intensity of it at one stage. during thursday, a number of attacks made on both sides. it would seem, and the russian backed separatists in law hands were the 1st to actually accuse ukraine of an attack which involved a series of weapons of which our band under the cease fire agreement from minsk minsk agreement, which didn't prove to be a peace agreement. but it did have

a limited ceasefire in place that now the foreign minister in the ukraine accused the russian batt separatists of being at the aggressors. and he said that this was a significant increase in intention at a time that did not a suit anyone at all. furthermore, there were suggestions at many levels that the russians were using dis, information a back in moscow and media report. so. busy that the ukraine were the aggressors, and furthermore, and the use of a, a picture, a photograph of a kindergarten, which they said the ukrainians hadn't had attacked when, in fact ukraine says it was the other way round that the picture of this, of this kindergarten was on the ukraine side of the front line. so this is, this is the area now which is actually quite calm. but it has to be said that there

are concerns that this could be a foreigner or of something much bigger, but really are very hard to put any credence to that suggestion right now. andrew simmons in care for us. thank you. well, plenty more had hail the altars their renews are including thanks thing extradition to the united states for cocaine trafficking, the former president of on dearest is now in custody america. our work gave o. y. coleman is on the strike in the united states. taking a wall street and install it won't take a big step towards the quarter finals of the europe in champions late. ah,

you and african union leaders are meeting and brussel for a 2 day summit. europe wants to promote its global investment plans in africa. the chinese trade, the grades and issues around the supply cave in 1900 vaccines insecurity also on the agenda. welcome web reports now from nairobi. african leaders meeting their european colleagues in brussels in belgium. the e u is africa, the largest trading partner, according to un data. but africa's trade with china is growing. the concern if you will, and you're not just you, but i think of it in the u. s. and other african countries drifting slowly towards the towards the east. particularly in trade here in kenya's capital, nairobi, china's growing present can't be missed in the 1990. the main road through the city was built by a german company,

a new highways now being built in its place by chinese contractors funded by a chinese loan. it was more than a century ago that european powers scrambled to colonized most of africa here in kenya, british colonialists bill. this is an administrative center. in 19 theme. the things have changed now and gallery, and it was off by the new chinese bill highway. and china is one of the world powers who are today buying for influence for africa resort. russia held it 1st for africa 3 years ago. president vladimir putin for mister aiden trade deals without the conditions, often demanded by the west. between meeting delegates were wound with weapons at arms. fair rushes, military presence in africa, is growing as are its arms exposed to the continent. do you want the world to know it's still a major player?

but economists say it's terms of trade with africa over on fair, profiting from cheap african raw materials while selling back services and manufactured goods. and one of my criticisms of african governments is i don't think they're very clever at negotiating a common position. and i think that's why quite often they suffer, particularly with china who wants to always negotiate one to one disputed. the eas promised a $170000000.00 of investment, although it's not clear how it will be raised or spent. it's widely seen as an attempt to counter the chinese infrastructure, loans and projects which critic say tolerate corruption. and lu, african governments into debt traps. part of the challenge for a long time has been the leadership, corruption, lack of integrity, the mismanagement over sauces and all those things of, you know, money comes into the country through age. that's why aid has not had significant impact in africa. the use now talking more about trade than aid and promising

better terms. but malcolm web al jazeera nairobi can yeah. well, as we mentioned, a covert 19th, vaccines and the pandemic are on the agenda at the meetings, more or less that's cost over to for me. da miller, who's in janice brakes of africa? for me. i mean, on monday, the european union issued sort of the latest refusal to way vaccine, peyton, so what one does, how the continent can fight the pandemic when this is the result from the e u e u, saying that they are all they are until they won't execute them to the frustration of the continent as a whole on the continent continues to be frustrated. we have heard from south african president silver. um, of course a who is attending that summit. he has said that he is called, what's happened in terms of the delivery of vaccines to the african continent. his call did vaccine or partake. he's also said that we're not in a position to take crumbs from the european table. and now it's time for us to be

self sufficient. so the india, as well as other africa, have been at the forefront of fighting for this. peyton waiver. it isn't happening . and now instead, countries like south africa with various partners, a trying to manufacture their own vaccines using publicly available information to basically recreate existing vaccines. very similar to the motor. no one we've had the launch of a number of companies in south africa in recent months. and while that's happened, it may still take some time before we see the actual production of vaccines by african companies in africa and distributed across the continent. so far, just 5 countries across africa have had about 30 percent, or at least more than 30 percent of their population vaccinated. we've heard from the africa cdc that there's very little information coming out of countries like a retreat where they don't even know if there's a vaccine rollout. but once these companies are up and running, one of the most recent average in, in cape town in south africa,

they'll be looking to recreate a vaccine distributed in africa. but even then, they will only begin trials later this year. and we'll then look at approvals on the following year. so still a wait for many africans and a sort of sustainable roll out of vaccines. and really, due to the frustration with developing developed countries rather, and their treatment of developing and poor countries in terms of a vaccine roll out for me to miller for so in johannesburg, thanks very much. well, another issue of course is security. and that's also going to be raised on the surveillance cross over to us of burgers in senegal, capital, docker. and i said really, there are many democracies across the african continent, but there's also been just as many coups in recent months. so one wonders who will be the democratic partners in the that the you can actually work with certainly across west africa, for example. well exactly, i'm standing in the country that is a democracy, senegal, the other one has been in the you do raise a valid question, but they have been

a number of cruise has been wanting. molly book, you know, fast, so and give me an attempted crew and give me bustle. and if you go back even further, just last few years has been around 7 cruder attempted to 6 of them in form of french colonies. but they are those that believes that even in certain democracy, some of the leaders use the democratic structures to carry out on democratic reforms. for example, the president list on what's to change the constitution. so it could stand for the 10 of also those questions about what the front of europe, where the democracy is a fundamental principle for them to carry act operations in the region. it seems that their main priority is security regionally and for europe, and to take on what they see as terrorists. but yes, it is a difficult situation, but front continued and the europeans can. you can you to work in body after the military crew in 2020 and from the french troops continue to operate in burkina

faso. that is also a military coup. but it does raise the question about security. because money was $1.00 of the fundamental places, one of the largest areas where they were kind of got separations and it does offer some real difficult challenges. now, for the french and europeans, france says it's military withdrawal is not a failure to be able to jump, but after 9 years of being in molly, they're fight against groups linked to al qaeda and i. so it's now set to change as conditions for the french are no longer cordial. france as nigeria will become the hot for they fight against terrorism about his youngest immediate delma. look, we cannot stay engaged militarily next to authorities who do not share our strategy, nor our objectives. that's the situation we are confronted by. and molly today is oldie ah, when the french ambassador was expelled from mali, demonstrates his celebrated in the capitol d'amico. the mother of experience is an

experience that is openly mac opening up a new era in west africa. because now it's possible to a pulls to what the former colonial masters are doing. and it's also possible to adopt a new strategy that is not a strategy prepared or adopted by for us. the operation which initially began in molly has expanded throughout the whole region with french troops based in different countries. european nations have joined operations, and there's also a $15000.00 strong un peacekeeping force in the country. a series of crews in mali . burkina faso, guinea and an attempted cute in guinea by so as change the dynamics in the region. front is uneasy with molly's military joint, his relationship with russia, while he says they are russian soldiers in the country as part of a bilateral agreement,

this growing anti french sentiment among protesters in west africa. we came out today just say we set up with the french army. they should stop playing with africa. we cannot suffer under the sun while their children comfortable over there. they have everything they want, however, they still come here and exploit our resources. so lubbock, william, deb, i'm not going to be going to do. we know they are our enemies. we ask them to open their vehicles so that we have an idea of the content. they refuse. we know what is inside suspect items. they should apologize. change countries and go far from us, amongst that could be political implications to front is true pre deployment. west african leaders are aware of growing anti french feelings. and they also concerned about the crews in the region, not wanting themselves to lose favor amongst their populations. less their faith also ends up in a qu, withdraw from mali. a monster major strategic shift by france ends a 9 year mission that successive french presidents had argued was crucial for

regional and european security. it now has to redo plates troops to other west african countries to protect its interest while keeping those nations on site. i said big, i'll just there are the car. now the us says it's in the final stages of indirect talks with iran to say the 2015 nuclear deal. friends is also taking part in the discussions and it's foreign minister says that agreement could be just days away. indirect negotiations between the u. s. and iran resumed last week, after a 10 day break. 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. the syrian government as trying to have killed at least 4 people and injured 3 others in the northwest. they targeted a few markets in english, but the last remaining province held by rebels. volunteers from the white helmets group tried for hours to put the fire out. and city and state media say the country's been hit by a 2nd is rarely a strike in 2 weeks. that happened in the town of the kia south of damascus. a report of the target did an army post. no one was injured, but the strike did cause some property damage. well, still a had hail the news. our exist wave of covered 90 has been hospitals in hong kong. on the verge of collapse will hover pools. and a day of celebration turns into moving us 30 guests that a wedding in india fell into a well. and that the beijing winter olympics, canada united states to play gold and with eyes on the list always coming up

ah, where we go with your weather update for the middle east and africa. nice to see you. we've got some cloud drifting around northern areas of the middle east that may generate some showers into northern syria and iraq. but other than that, it's fine and dry. we go in round the gulf, we see a southerly flow of air here. so over the next few days, that's going to pop up the temperature in riyadh at stellar forecast here. but then that wind shifts back to the northwest, so that drops down your temperatures to more line with where they should be for this time, the year through pakistan, things are fairly settled here. a few showers, not too far away from the horon. in fact may plague lahore off to iran in afghanistan. few clouds floating around here is wall now leftovers of what was storm dudley's start to sink into turkey. moving west to east. we've got snow over

the higher ground and a quick shot of some showers for estoppel. with a high of 13 degrees, central africa looks like this. we can find heat from juba into bungie, right through to buddha boucher may hit 40 degrees on friday. okay, now we've got somewhat weather here with leftovers of cycle loans slamming into central, northern mozambique. that's likely going to cause some flooding and another tropical storm on the way for madagascar. this one looking to make landfall early next week . the chap they'd see later, ah, rape as a weapon of wars leaves the very deepest scars scars so rule that the victims men and women can barely talk about it. ah, the only witnesses who can help bring about justice al jazeera follows human rights campaign is in libya,

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look back here watching out there in these are with me. so robin a reminder of all the top stories. russia has expel the deputy chief of the u. s. diplomatic mission in moscow. it's demanding. all american troops in the region be withdrawn and no more weapons be delivered to ukraine. washington called it unreasonable. nato has repeated concerns that russia is trying to stage an operation as an excuse to evade you crave. that's after russian back rebels and eastern ukraine and government forces accused each other of shelling positions. and russia says it has no plans to evade ukraine and it's published new video of what it says. it's thanks returning to that basis. but the u. s. and nato say moscow is adding more troops, they ukraine, and there's no evidence of a pullback. well, speaking on the white house lawn us present, joe biden told reporters are still a high risk of a russian invasion. how high a very high because they have

a job worker number one, number 2, every, the believe that they are gay for why got ready to go in every indication we have with let's bring it out. is there a senior political analyst? small boshra joins me now. from london. hi ma, what i mean europe stuck in the middle between finding a peaceful end to the situation without, as you say, in your opinion, piece, appeasing russia or angering the usa. absolutely. because they have their feet closest to the fire as it were. whether it's ukraine or germany, europe seems to be squeezed between what seems to be to imperialist bowers at loggerheads, practicing the worst kinds of bring friendship. and what do we mean by bring my

ship? because by the way, we use it a lot, but we don't actually get to the bottom of it. it means pursuing very dangerous policies. way past any safety limits before presumably pulling back. and that is very dangerous for the europeans for the great news. because we're talking about 2 global nuclear powers, right? that basically are, i don't want to say exciting one another, you know, to war. but certainly listening to present bite in every week every few days saying that the russians are gonna go to war next to morrow. they would be after the middle of the month, there is a certain escalation that is not to the liking of the europeans. so the europeans have tried to pursue a dom, a diplomatic path. certainly they have tried harder than moscow harder than washington because they gone to end up being the price whether it is for peace. and

certainly if there's going to be war, you say there, you know that europe has its seat very close to the fire and there yet again, one might say that that stock division some have their feet slightly closer than others when it comes to things like sending munitions to arms or bolster our support or north or of the area and of nato allies within the, the, the, the, the tension zone. absolutely, and this has been that the lemme of europe since the early 19 fifties were. it was 1st established as some sort of a common market. it is here. no different countries were different interest, different languages, different accents, and yes, different proximity and different alliances. you know, you will see somewhat like in the hungarian or been getting closer to russia even wants to have nuclear cooperation with russia. and then you have the british rule, one to have much closer relations with america,

so much so that many are reminded of the so called, you know, becoming washington is poodle. and then there are lost in the middle, like france and germany who are trying to chart a 3rd way forward for you or more autonomous are from nato. certainly in the french and the germ has been talking about or the irrelevant or the increasingly irrelevant nato. the dead or the brain, dead, nato, and so, so forth. but believe it or not, it was put in the last couple of years, who's basically been handing nato back to the americans on a silver platter. if anyone is revived nato over the last couple years, it is put in by his various bill across city in ukraine, in georgia and elsewhere. a moment to look further a feel sanctions or something russia doesn't want, has made that very clear. but if it did invade, how much support would it get from china? because put in, just recently went to the opening of the olympic gains over in beijing. he shook

hands with she, jing paying unit, affirm their friendship. and it seems to be an, an, an, a, a uni in our, of a like mines against america right now, cuz neither country really likes the u. s. at the moment it on a usually it would, we would say something about the $64000.00 question. this is the $64.00 trillion dollar question because it on, it depends. i wouldn't say the future of humanity, but clearly the future of the balance of power in the world. because for the time being and for a number of years, a china has been what we called international relations, passing the buck to russia. meaning, russia has been basically been the confrontational power over that, over the past 15 years since put his famous or infamous speech immunity in 2007, russia has been basically confrontational to worse united states and wants to put

an end to what it's deems. hyper american of use of force around the world and china has been moralist. com supporting implicitly russia, but from the sidelines sometimes of the security council and so on, so forth. but i think as you said, after that winter olympic visit, it's this should have been something meaning the chinese have already voiced theoretical support to moscow in its position was in the west and nato, and the expansion of nato on so on, so forth. but if war actually take space and, and the west does a bose massive sanctions on russia. will china come to the rescue? and then it says being at become part of very the sanctioned regimes. because as we all know, anyone who will then deal with russia in terms of secondary sanctions, would also be sanctioned by the united states in the west. and that would basically

put china and russia in one front against the west. and that is a major escalation in ward relation. so will china do it? will china actually carry the burden from russia and the sanctions against russia by supporting russia fully? and what would it get out of that will then russia become a junior partner for china in asia and globally, again, that's going to change the security structure not only in the west and in europe, but around the world. and you write it as a 64 trillion dollar question for the moment to mom. bushera, thanks very much. you can find out more about the russia ukraine crisis and read mar ones. piece on our website at al jazeera dot com, the west united against united on ukraine divided on russia. the hospitals and cove 19 testing facilities known congo buckling under the pressure of the worst outbreak. since the pandemic began, beds are filled to capacity and some patients are being treated in makeshift spaces

in the open air. brit klent has more from hong kong. dozens of patients, many of them elderly waiting outside in the cold and wet weather just to get a hospital bed inside under its dynamic 0 infection strategy. hong kong requires any resident who tests positive to go to a hospital or a quarantine facility, even if they have mild or no symptoms. as a result, thousands of waiting to be admitted. hong kong government is looking at ways to cope the huge numbers, including the possibility of turning hotels, housing estates, and student dorms, into isolation, wards. adding to the concern is the sluggish vaccination rates among hong kong, elderly, currently less than 30 percent, or if everyone in hong kong is willing to get fascinated, the situation will be better. it will cost a lot if hong kong wants to stamp out corona virus infections, like in mainland china, i think the mainland cobit control measures may not suit hong kong. but the message

from beijing is clear. get your house in order hung pro baiting media quoted chinese president. she's in pain as telling hong kong to take all necessary steps to contain the virus from yacoma chief executive carry lamb, thanks chief for his support. and thou, to unite hong kong to fight the virus. the hong kong government is facing criticism for seen, for like this old people waiting out in the cold for a hospital bed. 2 years into the pandemic. many asking why more wasn't done to prepare for this day. brick cleansed al jazeera hong kong. now south grades krona virus cases surge past 90000 for the 2nd day. the re star break has seen a sharp rising critically ill patients. at least 389 people are in intensive care and increase of 76. in the past day. people are being urged to get a 4th vaccine short. dr. dale fisher is the chairman of the w. a chose outbreak alert and response network. he says he's not surprised by the trends emerging in south korea or hong kong. what you're saying is actually nature take,

it's course. if you do nothing, then most obviously widespread and transmission so. so to actually see cases, people might be asking why there's a large number of cases i would say that's the natural state and well done for keeping it 0 for so long. but you're always sort of, i guess, pushing against the tide this this outbreak or this, this, this recent surge, i know hamsters were, were accredited with some of the, the, the arrival of, of coven, possibly tourists or travelers. other people that could have brought it in and applying quarantine and only other measures to try and keep it out. we've seen this file eventually and in most of asia, which was going over 0, australia, new zealand in china. many times we're saying outbreaks seated possibly by

fresh and frozen food so. so we know it's hard to keep it out and the natural state is for it to get in and start to, to grow. all these countries have, have, eventually had to accept that coven is getting in. there's a lot of pain and keeping it out. and when it gets in, eradicating it again, is also a lot of pain. i mean, social pain, i mean, economic pain. so or so, yeah, the rest of the world is had to accept that living with the virus is the, is the only long term strategy. and i think hong kong will soon have to come to terms with this because eradicating it with their current numbers will take some extreme and as i said, painful measures how to restore peace in me. and mom has been the focus of the latest meeting of asking foreign ministers or report from st. louis as following events from malaysia. the crisis in yona has exposed divisions within our psion.

now, once again, myanmar military government was not invited to a ministerial level meeting within ours, yet its participation downgraded to a non political representation. some of the members have taken the view that man mars military government should not be invited until they've demonstrated a commitment to implementing a peace deal negotiated by ours in, in april last year. that deal includes initiating dialogue and granting a special envoy full access to the country. and last year, special envoy, a diplomat from brunei, cancelled a shed your trip because he was told he would not be able to meet with ousted leader on santucci and others. he had proposed this year, special envoy, commodious foreign minister, has said he plans to visit me on march next month is not yet known, who he will meet or other who he will be allowed to meet. but he has said that as in has not made contact with the national unity government. that's the shadow

government opposed to the qu, because this group has been designated a terrorist organization by the gender. now, 4 months activists have been calling for argent to do more to resolve the crisis in myanmar, including recognizing the shadow government as well as supporting in arms embargo against the gender. and it appears that ours in is not ready to do either. the ours in foreign ministers meeting in pen on penn this week is bound to disappoint those, hoping that as it would take a much firmer stand on resolving the issue in myanmar. no government agents of vietnam mobbing accuse of routinely restricting the freedom of activists including super glaring the doors of their homes. human rights watch is urging vietnamese lead us to end the arbitrary restrictions on freedom of movement. the wash looks as around 200 and some de activists have either been put on the house arrest or bang from travelling. in the past 20 years, actor is reported a soul to intimidation by playing glow security gods. and they've been denied

meetings with foreign diplomats simone case with a u. s. president. not the vietnamese government hasn't commented on the allegations that speak to phil roberts and the deputy asia director for human rights. what joints me now from bangkok? good, have you with us on the program is drop. it said i me why all the authorities so worried about free speech and civil society groups. while quite clearly the vietnam government is trying to maintain control over civil society. they want to make sure that activists were speaking out about land rights or democracy or human rights or not given the platform to do so. and one of the ways they do that is keeping them locked in their homes, barring them from leaving their homes or their neighborhoods using police, using thugs, in some cases, super glowing locks closed on the, on the outer doors of people's houses. it's, it's shocking, it's outrageous. would it be wrong to think this is just happening now? war? has there been a steady erosion of free speech in public debate over what several years?

well, it certainly is the case that this practice in terms of restrictions on freedom of movement has been going on for quite some time. but what we have seen as a significantly worsening situation in vietnam with activist given a longer prison terms of facing a more. ready arrests, i mean, there's been a really concerted effort by the government to try to wipe out the dissident movement in vietnam and, and part of that has been intensifying these kind of restrictions on freedom of movement as well. most people haven't really paid attention to this is so much because you know, other issues are seem to be more serious in vietnam. but, you know, for the activists who base this part lead of restrictions and being able to simply go about their business. it's, you know, one of their biggest concerns if this is happening. so obviously why we hearing it from human rights. what should not, from diplomats themselves in the country?

i mean, is it because the international community is preoccupied with other issues, like the pandemic a and me and ma, for example? well, i think we are seeing a real sort of decline of the kind of pressure that we saw in the past against vietnam on human rights issues. vietnam, you know, as seen as being a country that is less worse than countries like burma where, you know, obviously there's a major human rights disaster that is ongoing after that military coup. but i think that people underestimate the vietnam government that you're talking about a country that has well over a 150 political prisoners. ah, that has systematically denied basic freedoms to its people over the years. and it's a single party dictatorship. and these sort of things i think, need to be part of what the international community is talking about when they raise vietnam. and not just talking about vietnam being opposed to china or vietnam being the new asian tiger for economic development. for robinson from human rights,

which thanks so much for joining us in bangkok. thank you. now a wedding in india has resulted in the death of 13 guests who fell into a well a concrete slab covering the 15 meat. a deep hole collapsed under the weight of a group of women and girls. others were taken hospital in utter pradesh to be treated for their injuries. now please of fatigue ass on anti q protest, as in the sudanese capital cartoon. ah, groups of demonstrators marched in several areas across the city. some set fire to ties at the entrance to the airport. the rallies are the latest to the series of protests against october's military take over. security forces of kill dozens of people in the unrest. the full presence of an juris faces extradition to the united states. the cocaine trafficking, the marble repair reports now from the capital one, orlando hernandez, was taken to court after hundreds of police surrounded his home. in

emotionally charged gathering outside the supreme court of 100, many hope recanted glimpse. a former 100 president, one of the lender amended wanted by us authorities on international drug trafficking and illegal weapons charges. edmund is arrived in handcuffs and chains for a preliminary court hearing related to an extradition request filed by the united states. earlier this week. i are here to celebrate, we're here to celebrate the narco dictatorship that is failing today with its greatest liter pensions outside the court lead to minor scuffles between critics and supporters of the former president going to we are supporting our president in pace. so dignified process is carried out and he's brought to respected. we are also supporting him peacefully as the national party is leaders of the party. we're

not looking for trouble. we are not attacking anyone. we just want our president to realize he's not a lawyer. in a mandate was arrested on tuesday at his home in the 100 capital us prosecutors allege edelman. this helped facilitate the trafficking of hundreds of tons of narcotics from columbia and venezuela over the course of his 8 years. as president allegations, the 53 year old, former hunter and leader has repeatedly denied his fate. now, in the hands of a judge overseeing a request for extradition by the united states. when they get on the side of super cynthia, in order to guarantee his present that the expedition proceeding, he will be provisionally detained at the cities of the special operations command of the national police. and the federal prosecutors in new york had previously named edmond as a co conspirator, in a major international drug trafficking case. and last year,

a u. s. judge sentenced president and man, as his younger brother, tony at mann, this to life in prison. overcharges related to cocaine trafficking. having concluded the 1st of 2 appearances before the supreme court, former 100 president, one, orlando at a man, this will remain under the custody of security forces until march 16 for a 2nd and final extradition hearing. by the way that i follow al jazeera legacy. alba, the canadian officials as truckers protesting against mandatory cove at 19 vaccinations, the dismantling their last blockade on the u. s. border. but demonstrate as in the capital artwork. mustang put police have ordered them to leave, threatening to arrest drivers and cancel their licenses. if they don't, i shut down the city center for 2 more than 2 weeks, demanding vaccine mandates and other restrictions be scrapped. a 1000000 lanterns have been let in thailand to celebrate a buddhist festival. the dom mikaya, buddhist, sank, was founded 52 years ago. some consider the movement to be controversial because of

its an orthodox interpretation of buddhism. its wealth and links to a former prime minister. while still ahead, install the latest on the teenage russians, the cascade who was controversial, yolanda competed thursdays, singles event. ah ah

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not by space, sex owned by the american tie. kid, isla buske. sorry to say the arrow highlights problems with tracking space. debris and china recently complained to the united nation because the chinese space station had to avoid to space at satellites. the company rejected that saying the chinese would have been notified well in advance. if a near miss was likely start on the 29th and update on all of the winter olympics, these under gemma po performance by the russian nurse gates at all at central controversy. absolutely, that's completely right. so how she was controversially as to how mentioned that allowed to compete. and in the end, surprisingly finished outside the metals in the women singles event, russian teenager coming to the valley that was favorite to win gold. that stumbled on multiple occasions in the free skate treating she finished in full place, ensuring the metal ceremony could go ahead. the aging winter olympics valley that

had been allowed to skate despite testing positive for a band substance before the game. the 15 year old it breaks down in tears when his pools are now compassionate and it should because when the gold medal ahead of another russian, alexandra teresa, the positive test occurred back in december, the russians have blaming its own contamination with her grand her grandfather's medication but the head of the u. s. anti doping agency is travis, target isn't convinced even if he did have a legitimate need, and let's hope that he did. if he had this drug, that doesn't mean it's going to jump from a closed container and a medicine candidate into someone's urine at a level 2 point one, nana gram. so it raises serious questions and alarm bells to the legitimacy of the story. and it can't be one, it's simply accepted because you know, an athlete or a coach or a trainer or limbic committee, states that what has caused as positive test, a lot more investigation in scrutiny of that story. it has to be done earlier in

the games. the very eva, one gold and the team event, and no metals have been awarded 10 days after the events, the united states. he came 2nd, met his eyes, the president thomas back who was reported to have offered them torches instead of metals. until the day, the case is resolved, that placed upon decline to meet with back away from the skating controversy, mckayla schiffer and his crushed for the 3rd time at the games. the american failed to finish the solemn leg of the combined events. it means the green family champion has not wanna madeline, any of her 5 attempts invaded. and instead of combined gold defending champion footsteps, michelle gave them different then having again to forget that not the case of the japanese speech gave me the khaki. she one have for these games and fuck individual goes. it came in the 1000 maces with an and then pick reco time the khaki had already won. 3 silvers invading the rivalry between canada and the u. s. and

women's ice hockey ended with canada out some talk with the canadian $13.00 goes to 2 against the defending champion, captain mary, who has twice to claim the gold medal of her career, is the size of a candidate in the last 7 game. he has, the metal table is shaping up, then neu, out in front with 14 gold medals for cliff germany in 2nd place. and it's the u. s . sweden, in house china, rounding out the top 5. there are no male. i saw key players from the n. h l competing in beijing because of cove at 19 concerns. so the action continues back in the league and check out this content save of the season. and not even by goalie . you definitely need to look at the re site to see what sort of ounces leakage costs. and it came up with this double block in the 3 c on when. if the carolina football now and liverpool is taken a big step towards the champions league, quarter finals after a to know in a way into milan,

both girls came in the final 15 minutes fancy. right? so for me to open the scoring with this header that was followed by a strike from a $100.00 liverpool that in a strong position heading into the 2nd. like on march the a half time doing it up. if, if it's a problem of time like today, be up to a half time, i don't tell the boys all my god job done. put your legs on the table. it's. that's a very tricky result. and why should be think differently about his mouth? 6 tom champions, when his vine munich had a tough life, they went to go down the way to the south of side to playing in the out stages for the 1st time, but by entry level in the 90 s minute. when kingsley came and scored the equalizer, so it's 10 heading into the 2nd to the n b i. and the bron james in the late because they became a not looking ankle injuries. anthony davis to be the utah jones davis have to be helped from the course off the landing awkwardly in the 2nd quarter out the

thankfully x rays showed it was justice framed and who with these treatments during the fall break in his absence. james, let the lake is the victory with 33 points, including that don't just feel that they fought from 12 points out in the 4th quarter. and it was often read about the size of the game winning st. and across town. in los angeles, thousands lined the street to welcome home the l. a rams football team. now the football champions, they beat the cincinnati bengals on sunday. they all seem in the city to wind championships in the last 2 years for the lakers and daughters. it didn't get parades because of the pandemic. even the hollywood sign was decorated to say roms . house. thanks very much. jemma less crossover straight to the un where there was a special meeting going on, of course, with the a scenario of the tension in ukraine on his border areas. let's just listen in to

the russian federation and his excellency mr survey, but she sion, he's a deputy minister for foreign affairs of hon of 11. you think your date of the meeting today is not a random. this as a day one or 7 years ago and with a security of the united nation, loosened them passed resolution 22 and your own youth. your finance unanimously adopted the packet of measures by the implementation of the means of agreement as the on the international legal basis to settle on their level conflict in the east w. creighton. and that is why the main goal for the meeting today we see in the reaffirming by the security council of the fact that there's no return a trip to this momentous for your brain to amazon document. unfortunately, 7 years down the road, we are increasingly thinking that the implementation of the misc agreements is not something that in the plan that's in the plans of our ukrainian neighbors, this stating that of opening out. let me give you some examples. as recently as

yesterday evening, the vice prime minister of ukraine irina vest shogun stated that there will be no new laws on the special status of dunbar. so no direct agreements. and this took place after zelinski had a meeting with chancellor shots. she also acknowledged that there is no pressure exerted by west on them to implement them is could bring us on the 4th of february . and there was an interview by the rainy and channel one plus one by the minister of foreign affairs caliber. he said that the means could be met, can not be implemented on russian terms, and in those terms who thinks as a direct dialogue between ukraine and don boss. despite the fact that this is clearly stated in the packet of measures, this a same idea was as compressed by the head of presidential. you bring in physician administration, your mock at they resend to a meeting in norma jim. earlier on the 2nd of february, mr. columbus said that no ukrainian region will have

a veto right on the state decision. this is cast in stone, so that will be no special status, as our russia says, no veto. one day, early on there was a february zalinski, also recalled for the world and tanya of ukraine, his inability to negotiate, he hinted at and i'll turn a to a new solution to the conflict and on bass and says that and again kate k of have a different view to the order of the implementing the provisions of them as government on the 31st of january and the introverted associated press, the secretary of new national, secure and defense council, stated that the implementation of the men's agreement means destroying of the country. they were assigned to add the barrel of russian guns and germans and the french looked on and every one irrational, rational person understood that the implementation is impossible. ukrainian politics are trying to implant the opinion in the west of them. minsk agreements are again.