revision because of her off security and there's being a closed religion. one can only be born into the faith in marrying into their religion is forbidden and the population has dwindled even further because thousands have taken refuge elsewhere for safety. ah, a more allegations of shelley in easton, ukraine is russian back separatists and government forces blame each other for worsening violence. and u. s. president joe biden set to talk with his at nato allies about the russian troop build up on ukraine's order. ah, i'm no clock. this is out there alive from to her also tell me off the world health organization picks 6 african nations to establish their own. m r n a vaccine

production. and another one's prime minister apologizes to indonesia for war crimes committed in its former colony. ah, so 1st up, russian state media report, the president vladimir putin will oversee new drills on saturday involving the strategic forces and the launch a ballistic and cruise missiles at this comes as natalie to say the kremlin is looking for an excuse to justify going to war me, while ukraine's government and russian back set protests to the east of the country . a blaming each other for stepping up artillery and mortified in the dawn boss, reach him. the shutting his re ignited fizz of an imminent invasion by russia. andrew simmons reports now from the ukrainian capital. this is linda simpson, at least 500 explosions recorded in less than 24 hours along the front lines of the

don bass region of east of ukraine. the size of the craters are an indicator of the heavy weaponry being used in breach of a limited seats wire meant to be in place. rushing back separatist from a self declared republic of law, hampton, accused ukrainian forces of starting the fighting of the look. really, the situation on a contact line has been exacerbated dramatically him. the enemy is trying to provoke active combat. actually, ukraine's side continues to violate his obligation to observe the ceasefire. not so say the ukrainian forces accusing the separatists of being responsible for all the attacks. dozens of them, they say a kindergarten was hit, and this was published on the military website. there were no casualties, but the same pitcher was being used by russian media outlets using a different name for the village that was on their side of the front line. ukraine says it's a deliberate ploy by russia. it's fake news and her,

the problem there to russian audience are very susceptible to this type offer of this information. enter also des, discern terrorist republics? they are try to, to escalade the level that they did this level, because in this situation, they feel that they, they could, they are one more time rapier in a rush than newsletters, and in russia, media field, international investigations into who was responsible for the attacks are underway thursday's attacks may have been intense, but no more so than countless other days in this 8 year old conflict. it's the timing of what happened in the dis, information afterwards. that has some western powers thinking. this could be the start of something much bigger in brussels, the u. s. defense secretary lloyd austin, said the situation in don't bass will be watched closely. and the president himself

reiterated his warning that russia may cause an incident as a full runa for an invasion. here read the way that they are gay, fall flag operations in every indication we had with a back with the violence in easton, ukraine has undoubtedly worsened an already tense situation. here under simmons, al jazeera keith where ukraine says it estimates a probability of a major escalation of conflict with russia to be low charl stratford, who's more from mary paul in southeast, in ukraine. ukrainian military this morning saying that shelly continued by the separatists overnight. they're reporting at least 2 soldiers been injured in that shelling, similar message from the separatist side of the line of control reports. according to the dpr, the sell to played to net people's republic. they saying that at least 70 ukranian

shells landed in and around on that no reports of casualties that they are saying that there are areas. now without electricity, of course, we have no way of independently confirming that those reports. but of course this escalation and that's what the ukrainians and their western back isn't going. it comes at a particularly difficult time and a time also where the language has been a locked or aggressive from the separatist control. so in the last couple of days lead out of the so player dpr, dennis was shilling saying that he thought that ukrainians would potentially planning some sort of what he describes of it. if we solution to that attack in the last 24 hours, the ukrainian commander in chief festival, she denied that saying that ukraine has absolutely no plans for such an action whatsoever. interestingly, the ukrainian commander in chief also saying that they were increasing concerns about reports coming out of the separately controlled area that the separate tissue

planning evacuations of some villages along the goals out on there. so i suggest some potential full of military move by the separatists. possibly, but they're brushing back as opposed. russia continues to denied as any plans for any invasion. interesting, the last night we saw co boil cranium industry vehicles carrying soldiers and trowing large hillary pcs, south of about 25 global just outside mariel. the situation here, remember, marable at the moment, remains calm. but as a say, very concerning use lines coming out from the depot and buy the ukranian government . as this going to is continues. well, yes, president joe biden is expected to speak to nato allies later on friday. this is america's top diplomat told the united nations that moscow is looking to

manufacture an excuse for war. kristen salumi has this report secretary of state antony blank and made a last minute detour to the united nations on his way to europe to address the security council. again warning that russia was poised to attack ukraine. some have called into question or information. recalling previous instances where intelligence ultimately did not bear out. but let me be clear. i am here to day, not to start a war, but to prevent one. russia's deputy foreign minister, sir gavers shannon called the accusations baseless, insisting that weapons supplied to ukraine by the west. are the real threat google bullied. the coastal is that, as you get, the fact is that the russian forces were on the russian territory and remain on russian territory. and the day before yesterday, some of the units off of their exercises were returning to their home basis. still, many countries expressed concern as the number of russian troops on the border

appears to be increasing. and while russia presented its own evidence of alleged ukrainian war crimes against separatists, the u. s. and others dismissed the claims as a false pretext to invade. these are weak and irresponsible allegations by russia aimed at hiding is responsibility for the occupation of the ukrainian territories and subsequent humorists. while ations, their exxon sits ukraine, remains committed to peaceful resolution. the one thing security council members appeared to agree on as that the 2015 minsk agreement, which was signed to en conflict in eastern ukraine, be the basis of diffusing tensions. but as thursday's meeting made clear, russia and ukraine have very different views on how that deal should be implemented . kristin, selena al jazeera, the united nations, are moving on the 6 african nations to establish their own m r n. a vaccine production to be revealed at the even african union summit in brussels, egypt,

kenya, nigeria, senegal, south africa and john is here, will be the 1st on the continent to receive the technology a europe same to promote its global investment plant. enough recurs chinese trade, their growth was also top of the agenda. at the summit, we have to cross one. it's on the storing for media miller and stanley by for us in johannesburg, with the latest reaction. but 1st, let's go straight to brussels, where the summit has been taking place, a new barker standing by for us there. so neither they were hoping the summit would put declarations of intent in the past. instead in chiva as definitive action plan, did they make progress on that? yeah, that is the hope and i think it's fair to say they've made a pretty decent start. that this was billed as a once in a lifetime opportunity to readdress some of the imbalances and in the qualities between the european union and african nations. but the forefront of many african leaders mines was the huge disparity when it comes to handling the pandemic. and

even before this meeting for frustration among many african leaders about the lack of vaccines that have been provided by the european union, the lack of technological support provided by the e. u to africa. all of that threatened to d rail or any kind of the belief that there will be any great success is here. but nevertheless, this major announcement so this morning that they will be the 6 new vaccine spokes as they're called and various different nations. as you mentioned, they're across the continent. this will allow manufacturers on the ground to have the technology necessary to be able to produce vaccines. that, of course, been rolled out or massa across the european union, but there is still a massive disparity when it comes to the number of people vaccinated at something like 71 percent of the population of the european union had 2 jobs, as opposed to just 12 percent of people in african nations, and although the excess mortality rate in africa was much lower than it was across

the european union, because many african countries didn't have the financial safety nets and structures in place to be able to provide people with financial support. when they were pushed out of work as a result of the pandemic, as many as 14000000 people it's believed are now in extreme poverty. so in addition to promises of technological support, also financial packages have been announced as well. we're talking about a $1000000000.00 worth in financial aid to help the vaccine rollouts and according to us lavon land. the european commission chiefs, by summer, for the 450000000 doses will be sent to african countries too. so a good start more to come hopefully and did or i, dave, thanks for that sir. let's get the from after itself. further south africa fights for me. the meadows in johannesburg, an for me that said, vaccine production is neve, was alluding to their critical issue for the continent seems progress has been made . there is some progress we've also just heard from us,

or i'm a process of african president, speaking at that summit. and talking about the contribution that european countries have made and said yes, while they have donated a significant number of vaccines to the continent, it's just not sustainable and is still pushing for a trips way the in terms of technology transfer. and that remains an issue of contention between the e u and african countries in terms of the transfer of technology and the intellectual property rights, which many of these countries are opposed to waving. and so instead, the initiative around these 6 countries wanting to develop an african may vaccine and distributed locally is now the focus. but on the other hand, on the, on the other hand, sir, um, of course, i also said that we also need an african market for these african vaccines because even through the kovacs facility, for example, which has been used to distribute vaccines, those vaccines are coming from european countries and so we need kovacs to buy into

african made vaccines. now that hub will be centered around south africa while they will be that collaborative effort with other countries like to nicea, kenya synagogue, amongst others. but there are companies in south africa such as average in which because of the intellectual property rights issue, which remains a really difficult one in terms of transfer of technology as well as skills they. ringback will instead to be replicating vaccines like madonna, basically starting from scratch with publicly available information, try to replicate that vaccine and distributed across africa. but again, another stumbling block is even though that has been developed within 2 months, there still has to be trials. and a further than that, in the coming year, approval. so it will be some time before african countries see the benefit of these african manufactured vaccines for a small start, for perhaps

a long way to go for me to french. but for me to mila reporter, i still ahead here and i was 0. make shift medical care in hong kong. koby patients forced outdoors hospitals for the place close to. and i'm john henry in minneapolis where the fate of the lease officer kim potter is in the hands of a judge for the killing of dante wright. ah well, consider the world's weather update. we're going to begin in australia where temperatures are soaring and so to is that fire danger in western australia as we had more to the more the north we've got temperatures in the forty's winds will be a factor at times as well. so low humidity, high temperatures, and strong winds as a perfect recipe for dangerous fire conditions. off to new zealand,

we've got wet weather, wobbling around south island. now by the end of the weekend, this will move into wellington. so a gloomy and soggy forecast. to be sure southeast asia looks like this, our usual storms come in and go in from this area, but i want to get your rate to southern sections of china. winds are shifting around. so really cold air will start to dig in across hong kong and we've got a plume of boisterous here. so for the next 3 days, we're into single digits for hong kong centers hadn't been below average here for weeks, if not months, that we set another record for snow in japan, western horseshoe over 6 hours. 39 centimeters is still never all that. what whether we're talking about in southern china, it's going to move across the east trying to see and pull into southern japan, but it's going to beat up with some cooler error. so once again, that means more snow for western areas of hon. sure that we've got this weather maker to the west of hope tato so it's going to be a snowy weekend there as fall soon. the,

the criminal gangs are selling these children into slavery in the one the one east investigate. had the traffic is dating justice own our to sierra ah, al jazeera, with blue ah, how the are you watching al jazeera, remind about top stories this out, and russian state media reporting president vladimir putin will ever see new drills

on saturday. it will be strategic forces at the launch of ballistic in the cruise missiles come to the time of soaring tensions between russia and the west. president j biden expected to hold talks with nato allies in the coming hours. the un security council meeting on thursday, secretary of state antony blink, and accused moscow looking to manufacture an excuse for war 6 african nations to establish their own m r and a back c production to have been revealed and the african union summit in brussels . europe also aims to promote its global investment plans in africa. chinese trade groups being touch, prime ministers, apologize for systematic and wide spread extreme violence during interviews. use war into independence, while crew to the says the government takes responsibility for the war. crimes committed in the former colony target because it's report news from indonesia with

these nomadic because of that forces taking action against republicans for decades . the dutch government said the army had done nothing wrong, as it attempted to regain control of their former colony during indian easiest 4 year long war of independence. that started in 1945. but his study by dutch researches has concluded the army did commit war crimes against civilians, and that political and military leaders largely ignored the attacks. the dutch prime minister said the findings are harsh but unavoidable, and issued an apology for what he called a collective failure. did almost it online for the systematic and widespread, extreme violence from the dutch side in those years and the consistent looking away . but previous cabinets to them i make today on behalf of the dutch government, a deep apologies to the people of indonesia, for reports of violence and massacres, have been around for a long time. but it wasn't until 2017 that the government commissioned an investigation is estimated more than a 100000 indonesians were killed,

did extreme vault. can the fate of his highness for him? this extreme violence took many forms such as torture, executions without trial beatings, right? theft detention, and the and human conditions, valid reprisals such as the shooting of civilians and messed potentially. but some in the netherlands think the country has nothing to apologize for. they say the report is biased. a belt book is normal in all law. violence is normal when you're in war, there was a war going on. whatever people want to call it, be it police action or a war of d colonization on. but it's all true, although i can see it from both sides. because i am 50 percent javanese and my family fought on both sides of this battle. drake, on it was very violent on all sides. the netherlands finally recognized in denise's independence, in 1949. but more than 70 is owned. the country is still coming to terms with its

colonial past. victoria gate and b al jazeera, hundreds of people to be rescued from ferry and greece after a fire broke out $298.00 people were on board the vessel. it was near the island of course, through the time on its way to italy. the cause of the far is not yet no. a court in india has sense and so to get people to death and live more to life in prison for the all met about bombings, 14 years ago, 56 people were killed in at least 200 were injured in a series of explosions in 2008 in the state of could europe, 21 die devices detonated in just over in a blouse, happened on buses and car parks and at a public hospital to hong kong. now where the healthcare system is the breaking point after a record surgeon cove 19 cases, hospitals of reached 90 percent capacity. patients have been treated in makeshift open air spaces. territory reported more than 3500 new cases on friday straw in

east strain. some patients have been discharged early, and authorities are looking to increase testing, nazi and hong kong u haul only some hong kong has already worked hard to increase its testing ability . at the end of the month, we should get to around 300000 latoya. we have limitation to our resources, lee, we have expressed our needs and i trust the chinese government will directly respond to our needs that think i let enough bricklayer to has more from a major hospital in hong kong that it certainly isn't getting any better. they've set up more tense here, there are barriers set off and a few he says as well to accommodate for the surge in patients. many of them elderly people lying outside and the beds behind me. and we've seen this for the 3rd day in a row. the hospital authority has apologized for this situation. however, it is happening again, another record $6000.00 cases. so it has to be said, there is a capacity problem. hospitals are overstretched,

and there's no quick solution to this. the government is working into expanding isolation facilities, including turning hotels into quarantine facilities, student dormant freeze, and housing estates as well. they're also looking into building a make shift hospital like the one we saw early on in the pandemic, and who han, which was built in 10 days. there also, i have a designated fleet now of taxi drivers who take pete patients from home to isolation facilities. the policy is currently that if you display any symptoms of covert or even if they're mild, you should in theory be transported to an isolation facility. however, because of this bottleneck, people are having to wait thousands of people across the city or having to wait at home until they're admitted and some of for some that day just doesn't common truck drivers protesting against cupboard 19 restrictions in canada's capital of auto

bracy for police crackdown offices are trying to m nearly 3 weeks of demonstration . they've arrested several processes, including an organizer of the so called freedom convoy formula. so justin trudeau has defended his decision to invoke the emergency giant, which gives more powers to elise. hundreds of people have gathered at the yo sate of minnesota for the funeral of a black man killed during a police rate early this month. a may, i locked, didn't live at the apartment and wasn't named on the warrant, but was shot within 10 seconds. a police entering mourn has called for an end to what is known as no knock warrants. a u. s. judge is expected to sentence a white police officer for the killing of a blackman, a former officer, kim potter was convicted of manslaughter in december. she says that fatal shooting of dante wright was a tragic accident, after confusing her hun gun for her taser. john 100 reports now from minneapolis.

kim potter sealed dante wright's fate in a matter of seconds. now and in minneapolis court room, each potter's future that will be decided, prosecutors are asking for a 7 year prison sentence for potter convicted in december of manslaughter. her lawyers are asking for probation and what they say was a tragic accident. remember yelling, teaser taser taser and nothing happened. police camera video shows right apparently trying to escape a traffic stop potter. it fires what she says. she thought it was a taser. ah, the weapon she drew was her gun. right. was killed by potter just as protestors filled the streets of minneapolis during the trial of derek showman, a white police officer later convicted of killing another black man, george floyd. earlier this month, the minneapolis swat team serving

a no not warrant shot, a mirror look to death. as he rose from his living room sofa holding a legal gun in his own home. they were looking for some one else. the incident marks the latest killing of a black man by a white police officer. i don't think these are trials are going to make a difference that we're seeing violence against young black men and women. and i don't think is, is surprising. i think it's alarming and we do need to get to the root of it to stop this homicide charges are rare in the us for a police officer acting on duty. convictions are rarer still and when they do come down, sentences tend to be lighter when the killer wears a badge after shooting laquon mcdonald, 16 times as he walked away from police knife in hand, chicago police officer, jason vandyke, was convicted of murder, but released earlier this month after servant less than half of his nearly 7 years

sentence census and does matter has to set a precedent. jason vandyke was the 4th of chicago police officer on duty and 50 years. the b try a convicted form for murder period. but what this is is, is that, yes, the activist community and organized community in chicago have been doing great work . what the judicial system answer cargo did you. this and system in cook county is felling us as she hands down her ruling for kim potter. the judge can't help but be aware that the sentence in the courtroom will also resonate outside john henderson, l g 0. minneapolis at mexico's government is under increasing pressure to investigate the killings of 5 journalists within the 1st 6 weeks of this year. hundreds of reporters rallied outside the military headquarters and towanna were present. hundreds, manuel, loafers over. doors was holding a news conference has been criticized verbally, abusing journalists, referring to them as thugs, mercenaries,

and selves at least 50 reporters have been killed in mexico since december 2018. thousands of factory workers have gone on strike and haiti's capital to demand better pay. many of them make clothes for big brands which are sold overseas. but say they're paid less than $5.00 a day. tripper has us from the factory floor to the streets of the haitian capital . these workers from an industrial park and put a prince. i demanding a raise to them minimum wage. matthews yourself says he can barely survive on his income. we take to the streets to protest, to make our voices heard, especially with the international community because we live in poverty. there is no government that thinks of us. many of these people work to make textiles and clothing that get sold at large scale retailers in the us and other countries. they say they are paid less than $5.00 a day for 9 hours of work. they're demanding the equivalent of 15 and inflation

rate of around 20 percent in the country is a major concern worker say they spent half their salary to pay for transportation just to go to work. awesome, because we are launching the movement to demand the gum and listen to our voices so that it can adjust the minimum wage. we've made some steps and sent letters to them that had never heard us. the protest began last week and on thursday, the police again use tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the demonstration. factory workers use burning tires to block the roads. were protesting peacefully with sticks. the police are abusing us. we do not consider them as police. we consider them as gangs haiti is in the middle of a political and social crisis since the assassination of president juvenile maurice gans control large sectors of the capitol and violence and kidnappings. i white bread. the country is also struggling to recover from

a devastating 7 point to worth wake, which destroyed the southern tape of the peninsula. something the acting prime minister addressed at the donors conference on wednesday. i didn't have a cinema who knew this shrug natural. haiti was not or in the hit by a natural shock, but it's also affected by others of human origin which shows as vulnerability, social and political movements and rising crime constitute the challenges we have to face as tensions in the caribbean island run high workers here say they will continue with their struggle for better wages. they say they haven't had a race in more than 3 years and will continue protesting until the government meets their demands. greece, i will. i'll to cedar authorities in brazil have warned of more heavy rainfall in the wake of flooding in a landslide that killed at least a 117 people. sovereigns have run out to learning. people in the hillside tourist town, the patropolis to leave, to follow some of the heaviest rains, nearly 100 years victims families have started to vary the dead. as many as 116

people remain missing. the weather office in the united kingdom is issued a rare red warning for the southern and central england storm unice has just made landfill. and this extreme winds are expected to cause danger to life. it comes just days after another storm caused power outages and transport disruption. in some areas, schools have been close in the army is on stand by. ah, so this is out 0. these are the top stories and russian state media is reporting that president vladimir putin will oversee new drills on saturday, involving strategic forces and the launch a ballistic and cruise missiles. it comes at a time of soaring tensions between russia and the west. a russian back separatist at east ukraine of accused government forces of launching new attacks on friday at

least 500 explode.