mission for this former warlord, liberia has become the frontline of a drug war. it cannot afford to lose. he says it's a battle he will fight out of responsibility and killed for his past crimes and for his country. ah, he crane's military says pro russian separatists have opened fire on more than 30 settlements on the front line, killing 2 soldiers and forcing the ukrainian interior minister to take shelter. or russia's president overseas strategic nuclear drills involving hypersonic ballistic missiles. ah, or norton taylors is out there alive from london, also coming up

a suicide bombing kills at least 13 people at a restaurant, central somalia. that was packed with officials and politicians ah, celebrations, and molly, of the withdrawal of french troops, even as 8 soldiers killed in clashes with rebels. and as beijing's winter olympics brought her clothes at the highlights and the many controversies of the 2022 games . ah, hello ukraine's president has vowed not to respond to russian provocations in the east of his country. ukrainian military says pro russian separatists have opened fire on more than 30 settlements. ah, water shells are exploded, close to ukraine's interior minister as he and other politicians toward the front line of the conflict in the east. then is one austere ski was forced to seek cover

. the government says no one was hurt, but at least 2 soldiers were killed elsewhere on saturday, both keys and separatist forces and accused each other of provocative actions in recent days. greens military says mercenaries have arrived in separate, just run dynette, to carry out what it calls, provocations alongside russian special services. meanwhile, separatist leaders in eastern ukraine awarded a full military mobilization. they submit a spike of violence in the region, which is feared russia will use as a pretext for an invasion. the russian president vladimir putin has been overseeing major nuclear drills involving the launch of hypersonic missiles and other weapons . crane's president of miss lensky is told a high level security talks in unix, but it's too late to impose sanctions after the bombing start. he said the global security architecture is always broken and called for a clear time frame on ukraine joining nature. and we would do more lakisha,

this will resume low mounts. we will defend our land with or without support from our partners. because as al, give us 800000 pieces of modern weapons, little 5000 helmet equally appreciate the support that everyone has to understand that this is not some kind of donation ukraine shippy reminding or begging for nibbler who this is not just a port gesture ukraine should be bowing downfall yet. this is your contribution to european and international security which ukraine has been serving as a shield for 8 years now. we seem rocky and matter. our little james bays gave us this update earlier from the security conference in munich. i think the main thing that is going to be the takeaway of the day actually is not what he said, although that's important. not come to in a moment. it's the fact he was here. he was warned by senior us officials not to make the journey that the threat to his country was too great. and yet he travelled on the left here about an hour ago to go back to ukraine. but he travelled here to

munich. and i think that in itself was a show of defiance to president putin. i am not scared. my people are not scared. i didn't think there was certainly on the position of russia and it's threats. he had the same position as, as the rest of the nato alliance. but there were some differences of opinion there on the issue of sanctions. for example, he said that it's all very well and talking about these unprecedented sanctions. but what sanctions all are there that are worth anything to him? if there's already been an invasion, he said the sanctions need to be there to prevent an invasion and we'd like, not necessarily the sanctions in i spent an announcement of these new strongest sanctions. exactly what they are to take place as soon as possible or so on. the whole public nature of the intelligence and president biden saying that a war could start any moment in the present portions already made the decision.

presence lensky was clear that running he can, he can't work with the situation in terms of explaining to his public that a war any day could start tomorrow. charles stratford has been speaking to residence near the frontline in east in ukraine. there are hundreds of villages like these along the front line on the ukrainian controlled side on what's increasingly worrying the amount of civilians that are still here. as we understand this, evacuation continues in the separatist control areas or is increasingly wiring also . is that in villages like these, there are also a lot of ukrainian military and we've been speaking to some of the civilians here about their fears were soldiers staying and what were once private homes. military vehicles passed by the talia runs the village shop. she has little hope, a peaceful solution to the crisis can be found. moda was him,

did this. the military's been here for 8 years, but we all feel like target. of course the military in the village makes the risk greater. i'm afraid to even think about him evacuation. if i had to suddenly leave my home with only a bag of documents and most of the families of those buried in the graveyard of left the village. people tell us the shelling in the area and the last couple of days has been the worst in years in yellow. so it's very frightening. i felt the fear rising up 3 me when the shelling of started with only been here since the beginning of the war. but where can we go and who can help us? we had about the evacuation on the other side and it's not a good sign. there is no good that will come out of this is mainly the elderly left here. now they say the shelling has been worse at night. people in villages like this one close to the front line are afraid they are aware of what the russian back

separatists on their side of the front line of now calling a mass evacuation of civilians are they are asking what about our safety to char stratford, al jazeera, eastern ukraine, under simmons, joseph, lie from that, ukraine's capital kevin, andrew, i, i got even hearing from people inside donetta, the russian back breakaway province, where they're telling you yes. so we're trying to piece together and verify the reports that have come out of this breakaway republic and indeed le hans as well off the need for great care and a need for caution and the mass evacuation. but the 1st of all, we spoken to to women. they're known to us for obvious reasons for security, we can't give their names. and that woman is in her forties with 2 children. the other is in her twenties. and we're hearing basically that both of these women were

alarmed, obviously by the air raid sirens on friday morning. they went out to see what was going on. ah, they said that there was absolute panic. the people was, were really quite terrified by what was going on, but by being told that they needed to leave of the city. however, what they say is that, that the was a build up before this event, the air raid sirens went off, where they saw both saw a different as they described. soldiers on the streets, aside from the that the usual reserve is to they've been used to for all of this past 8 years of war. they had noticed that there were men in different uniforms with different weaponry. and they were quite aggressive. they said there was a, a real feeling that some, that something was afoot at. now this does fit with a report from a ukrainian military intelligence which says that the wagner units,

ah, working in the republics. and they are these wildly units are pretty well known acquaintance . horace, in fact, in various conflicts, that russia's involved in a central african republic for example. and also used a lot in, in syria, that mercenary units paid of mercenaries engaging in a whole variety of violence actions. now, according to the intelligence they work alongside what they call special services, what they mean is rushing the special forces. and so that, that is, 0, one thing that as a lot, a lot of people are in the area and both of these women are saying that they're pretty uncertain about where they're going next and to, and you're the master vacations that began on friday, continued it would appear so weak, but again, we can't verify this. um, it would appear so that the one of these women said that that she went out of her

apartment and was, was walking down the area market area where there were a number of buses on friday. the weren't many people getting on these buses. i'm the talking to other people. she says that, that the really isn't a huge volume of people leaving that the people do want to lee, but not necessarily to go to a to a roster of the russian city where that apparently evacuating to. so what we're, what we're hearing is that there is concern about whether or not things are being exaggerated. and furthermore, dennis pushy lynn, the head of the, at the net sca republic i had been on t. v. calling for this massey evacuation because of the threat of calling for the offensive and calling for people to, to get ready to leave. he, in that video that they would appeared, it was portrayed as being filmed on friday. but the, if you look at the meta data,

it's now known that this recording was made 2 days prior to this whole alarm going off. so, and they denied that they were going to do it. so it was dated quite clearly the 16th of february, which is not the date when it was released. so that's just one, no factor which, which caused doubts about whether whether or not you trust at once being reported out of the republic. anderson and thank you very much indeed. what, despite the apparent escalations, the kremlin insists a diplomatic solution is still on the table. meanwhile, president putin has been overseeing major drills involving russia's nuclear forces . don't hunter by reports from moscow. vladimir putin gave his go ahead for the start of the nuclear drills, joined by his bell russian counterpart, alexander lucas. shane co rushes, president chil saturday for these wargames. usually they are held in october. the

exercises involved russia's northern and black sea fleets. it's air force as well as soldiers on the ground. the kremlin says the missile systems all able to launch nuclear warheads hit their intended targets. there's room, roma, grimalda's shoe. so 3 exercises of the strategic deterrence forces are being carried on in the course of which tasks of joint management of nuclear weapons and weapons of increased potential danger will be worked over in the course of committing an operation of strategic attack forces. the russian backed leaders of the self proclaimed republics of don't ask and the hans in ukraine's dumbass region announced the mass evacuation of women and children. on friday evening, in the southwest region of ra, starved russian citizens continue to be bust. then after being forced to leave their homes in ukraine in the middle of the night, and the situation is terrible. shooting has been heard for 3 days. we had to load the apartments and get dressed quickly,

but they said that in order for us not to create any danger for ourselves, we need to evacuate. i'm 75 years old. i'm single. i don't have anyone to help with this makeshift refugee camp at a local children's health center in the village of krazny, the sound which borders ukraine to the west is home for some of the 30000 people who have fled. a state of emergency has been declared in the roast off region. as shell was found to have landed in a residential area a kilometer from the ukrainian border. a 2nd shell was found nearby, which russian official say was fired by the ukrainian army. with a window of diplomacy quickly closing saturday's nuclear exercises serve as yet another example of russia's military straight. but as the security situation continues to rapidly deteriorate on the borders with ukraine, many see the possibility of conflict as increasingly inevitable door such a party al jazeera moscow. still to come, this offer,

disgusted by the military's use of lethal force on protested hundreds of police and soldiers defect to the resistance in the sinkhole of his indian administered kashmir, hoping near by farmers of a vital lifeline. the crops ah hello there. we've seen some exception, the unsettled weather across the north of europe over the past few days. thanks to storm units that brought dramatic winds to the low countries as it worked its way further east is going to take the severe gales to the baltic states on that when to re whether towards western russia. but there is going to be more wet and windy weather to come behind it. we've got an area of low pressure, quite a large area that's moving into the north west bringing heavy rain to island and

britain. we've got warnings out again for winds and that heavy rain northern areas we are likely to see some snow in scotland by the time we get into monday and that system's gonna move across the north sea, taking us or we conditions to southern parts of scandinavia. we've got more wet conditions for the low countries as well, but further south of this is still some nice and fine weather to be found across the iberian peninsula. in particular, temperatures have been down here slightly, but we are going to see them creep up. by the time we get into mondays, lots of sunshine for spain, it's going to get wet and windy across the mediterranean for places like italy, wintry as well for the balkans. but by the time we get into tuesday, that's going to creep away and we'll see the temperature come up in bucharest, that should weather update. ah, a boss is in washington dc with a dream making

a painting for unity for people who are struggling out as the real world meets of palestinian seeking inspiration for striking you in the heart of the american capital. the benefit of street art is a kind of conference you will. his plan for universal artwork, succeed, oregon. the colors of home on out is iraq. ah ah, or one of the top stories here are 0. mortar shells of exploded close to ukraine's interior minister, as he told the frontline of the conflict in the country's east. at least 2 soldiers were killed elsewhere on saturday. ukraine's president has vowed not to respond to

russian provocations or ms. lensky is told, high level security talks in munich, that it's too late to impose sanctions after the bombing start. he called for clear time frame on ukraine joining nato and said the global security system is almost broken. russian president vladimir putin has been overseeing major nuclear drills involving the launch of hypersonic missiles and other weapons. and he's 13 people have been killed in the somali town of ben edwin, after a suicide bomber blew themselves up in a restaurant. at least 18 people were injured in the attack has been claimed by the on group. asha bob witnesses a. the venue was packed with local officials and politicians. one of those kill was reportedly a candidate in parliamentary elections. at least 8 soldiers had been killed by gunmen in mali. 14 others were injured when government forces were attacked near the border with burkina faso, a same region was targeted by iceland fighters. earlier this week,

at least 40 civilians were killed. me, well, let me celebrations in the capital, but i call it with the withdrawal of french troops. and it comes out to paris, said it, ending its 9 year mission against fighters linked to al qaeda. and i saw molly's willing military june to told paris to go without delay from says it could take between 4 and 6 months. bank has more from neighboring senegal. the situation for the french in malia has deteriorated the terms of those relations ever since. the military genta took controls but more so, since they said that the elections wouldn't take place at the end of this month, and they could stay in power until 2025. both the french and the europeans upset the relations or the new toys that the modern military has with the russians, not russian soldiers on the ground. the maryan authorities say that's a part of a bilateral agreement, but as you said, the security situation does continue. 8 soldiers were killed, 14 were injured, and 4 still missing. and now that took place near the pina, facile border by

a group linked to i feel. now what that goes to show is that the situation may have moved away from the north of molly. like it was back in 2013 with separatists and military insurgents had taken over large strength of the country, the french into vent. how pushed them out. now it's for to decide how region that's a vast region, the size of germany and goes across around 10 countries in the french say that their mission will continue. this whole region will be it not in multi, but although his groups may not control. lots wades of molly, still have the ability to carry out attacks against malia and military. but again, that the situation and the relationship with the former colonial have a france and molly has really soured and the maryan military have said that they should leave with attitude a and under the supervision of the maryan authorities. exhibition showcasing historic treasures france is returned to beginning is being held in the presidential palace to celebrate their return. present at least an open exhibition

of the 26 artifacts which were stolen almost a 130 years ago. tens of thousands of african works are still in france. meanwhile, u. k returned to benito bronze is to nigeria on saturday. rescue workers in brazil have pulled more bodies from the mud in the city of federal police, which was devastated by floods and landslides on tuesday. at least 130 people have been confirmed dead, or more than 200 others are missing. such rescue teams trying to clear the deb re hundreds of homes have been damaged or destroyed, forcing many families and to shelters that had been multiple warnings about the dangers of mountainside construction in the city in the mere degenerate states. fancy meals i leave. there's a huge rock that's about to fall on my house. i had to leave, but my neighbor is still under the rubble. nobody can find her nor her 12 year old child. i think so, but i'm sure the as soon as the sun comes back and the weather improve,

the politicians won't care about us anymore. we went up so people will clean up on their own streaming engine build again on their own. and after a while, the same thing will happen again using the last piece on every list. farmers in the district of indian administered kashmir, a consent for their crops. after sink hole appeared and swallowed a stream environmentalists. it's a disaster for people to rely on the fresh water for their livelihood. for india correspondent elizabeth were on reports. this massive sink hole appeared overnight with the town of coca. naga indeed administered, could meet fresh water which used to feed a popular trout fishing stream is now falling into the hole that led to a 20 kilometer stretch of the brand new river drying up. killing many fish farmer up the rashid who lives near by says the water provided a lifeline. first one of the c. it's been over 3 days since the water has disappeared from the stream. we're worried because the harvesting season is

approaching, the water in the stream should be restored. we use it to get our body and orchard. if this doesn't get restored soon we'll face many problems. sink holes can be caused by the chemical disillusion of limestone rocks in the river. the researchers say they need more information about this one step at a need. why? it is very rare here. this hasn't happened before. so we've come here, collected samples, collected the soil particles, and we'll go look at this in the laboratory to see what's called the thing called attempts to divert water away from the whole have so far failed. local officials are asking people not to go near it, while experts investigate how to deal with it. environmentalists say the whole can be plugged but not before they find out where the water was going. how deep is the depot sinkhole? and is the water coming out from there? and if it is coming out which place how much it has several because it can do some

tunneling also, which is dangerous because if people are living in the area and this tunneling has taken place. so then those areas become weak. people living close to the stream, say they're concerned, they could be more damage than we are living in fear because the sink hole may cause the land to collapse. we live near the bank of the stream and it's a threat to our homes in our lives. the government is being urged to act quickly before the woman, whether it causes more smarter mouth and 3rd flood, the send cold. elizabeth per item, algebra, new delhi. a me a lot more than 2000 soldiers and police have defected and joined the resistance movement since last year's military. coups many say they laughed because they couldn't keep working for the genta after use lethal force against protest as and activists largely reinforce them way. river forms a natural border between thailand and myanmar for decades. it's been used as an informal border crossing, usually by villages,

fleeing fighting between ethnic armed groups and young ma soldiers. lately, a new group of migrants has been making that journey deserted from yon mars military. doctor min long, long had served the army for more than 20 years when he decided to leave. at 1st, he worried for his family safety as they were being watched. but his wife and children have since left the country at a google nubile, we are experiencing torture and murder by the juncture, every day. as a doctor, that's unacceptable. sam, there were so many factors that were pushing me to leave the military thing. the one was the night, right, they arrest people at night and set the bodies back to the family. the next morning, the bodies had been cut open and the organs removed. al jazeera has not been able to independently verify what he says, but unauthorized autopsies are reported to have been carried out on protest is killed by security forces. the activist group assistance association for political prisoners says more than

a 1500 people have been killed by the jupiter since the coo last year. the military disputes this number and says the group is biased. but other former military personnel have cited the use of violence against civilians as a reason for deserted set to saw is a former army engineer who joined the civil disobedience movement in march up joan . i, my, and emily, if i'd stayed an army, i would have gotten promotions, a higher ranking, but that's not what i want. i want to live in good conscience. i live. i don't want to live with guilt and sadness knowing that killing people. i don't regret my decision. former army captain lind had on set up a facebook group to encourage soldiers to join the resistance and estimates about a $1500.00 have deserted the military. as of last september, he has left myanmar and says he's unable to return home, saw him here, you saw him word for my family. i don't know whether they're safe. i've had cut off

contact with them for my country and my people's future. but i do worry for my family, can i have your resistance groups including the national unity government, a shadow government working to reverse. the qu, are encouraging more people from the security forces to join them. they say those numbers are growing, but that may not be enough to challenge me on mars well equipped military florence louis al jazeera canadian police abuse to pepper spray and stung grenades on people . still protesting against covered restrictions in ottawa, as they tried to clear a blockade footage appears to show police on horseback, knocking down some of the demonstrators in occupying the city for the past 3 weeks . or friday night, they arrested at least a 100 people and towed around 2 dozen vehicles. the protest began with truck drivers angry at code 19 restrictions and vaccine mandates, but turned into wider anti government discontent. men and china has set a center, 2nd medical team to hong kong to help the territory with its surgeon code 19 cases

. the team will help build new isolation facilities to ease the strain on the health care system. hospital beds a currently over 95 percent full with some patients including the elderly, being left in beds outside in the cold. as if you were quoted 6063 new infections on saturday. the beijing winter olympics, georgia closed on sunday up to 2 weeks of competition. and despite diplomatic boycotts and global protests by activists, organizers say the event ran smoothly, but strict code controls as well as a doping scandal, left their mark on the event 20 you reports for measuring. with the 2022 beijing olympics soon coming to a close team. china is celebrating its highest winter metal tele ever. it was the 2nd time the chinese capital horses and olympic event. the gone was the festive atmosphere of the 2008. some, again, it's very different now the said, the novelty to a certain extent is worn off. it's a winter games,

which by nature is a smaller event. it's winter so. so p people, you know ons outdoors as much. and then of course we've had cove it. so all of those things point to a more muted atmosphere here help is in protective suits. and morning corbett 19 tests were a part of daily life. olympic dreams ended abruptly for those who tested positive for the virus seems pretty unreal. of all the people. what happened to myself, i have been doing everything in my power to stay free of cove. it started the candlestick for some strict quarantine measures. were too much to bear. many complained about heavy handed controls. i am not even sure i will ever be allowed to return to the village and obviously this is very hard for me. top competitors was the only ones the spotlight,

chinese tennis play. a punk shy, appeared at the stance with international olympic committee head, thomas buck. after giving an interview, denying she made sexual assault allegations against a retired politician rights groups criticized the decision to use a weaker athlete to light the torch at the opening ceremony. and the featuring of a soldier who fought on china's border with india incense to new delhi. more aga was sparked after 15 year old russian figure skater, camilla valley ava, was allowed to compete after testing positive for a bad substance. we'll do everything to investigate is these case billy and did the dropping gulf of children is to you, belinda, unforgivable muscle and pick the i r. c. field. a difficult questions about time is human rights record, previous games held in russia. so keep an brazil's rio de janeiro res. similar questions from here. the sun, the and winter olympics will return to the western world held consecutively in paris, milan,

and was angela's venues less likely to attract protests. the organizers of the beijing olympics hoped the legacy of the event will be felt in a burgeoning winter sports industry and confidence that the city can pull off a successful games. despite a global pandemic, katrina you out a 0, beijing ah, top stories on al jazeera ukraine's president has vowed not to respond to russian provocations in the east of his country. ukrainian military says separatists backed by moscow, have opened fire on more than 30 settlements. officials also exploded close to ukraine's interior minister as he and other politicians toward the frontline of the conflict than his monasteries. key and others were forced to take cover the government.