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ethiopia starts generating electricity from his grand renee. sounds damn, that's triggered a dispute with egypt and sudan and a passenger is found alive on board a greek ferry that speed on fire for days. 11 others are still missing and i have he, december to the sport will be live to beijing as the winter olympics closes and sunland . finally, when gold in men's ice hockey in the russian defending champion, i'll have the best of the action from the final day of competition. ah, welcome to the news or we begin in eastern ukraine where the situation remains tense. their affairs, at any escalation in fighting could lead to a bigger conflict according to monitors, as be more shelling in the disputed region. russian back separatists say, villages have been hit while ukraine's army says its positions have come under fire

. around 2000 seats, 5 violations have been recorded and don bass on saturday. both sides are accusing each other of provocations around $30000.00 russian soldiers are due to finish military drills in belarus, but it remains to be seen if thou return to their barracks. and that's been happening as well. leaders meet for a 3rd day at the music secure c conference ukraine's president vladimir zalinski has called on russian leader vladimir putin to meet him to resolve the crisis. while our diplomatic editor james bay's will have the latest from the munich security conference, but 1st chance stratford joins us now from mary paul in easton, ukraine. and charles, of course, and saturday, saw intense shelling in that contested southeast and part of the country. what has the situation been like overnight?

the situation overnight so has been considerably quieter. i am don't a coin a cliche, but it feels as if there is been the beginnings of an easy or an eerie. com certainly here in mary or full. and we understand and further up north, along the 420 kilometer front line. we earlier got reports from the people inside jeanette, so that there had been the sound of explosions. and we can know in no way of verify that certainly the last half an hour or so, people that we've spoken to in around the airport in don at jca saying that they've heard a few explosions. they cannot confirm whether they were incoming or outgoing. of course the, the accusations by both sides continue the ukraine an army this morning. interestingly, in its daily sit rep is accusing the russians of moving heavy weapons. closer to that front line, which they say is oversee of

a violation of the minsk agreement. the minsk agreement has a very strict articles on the movement of heavy weapons article to i believe it is that says that sir, weapons of a 100 millimeter caliber or more should be more than 50 kilometers apart. so there are indications certainly by the ukrainians, accusing russia of violating that side of the minced agreement, sir. and of course, the russians and the separatists are accusing the ukrainians of doing the same thing in recent days. we've been around villages in this area, a number of villages we have not been allowed into by the military, which is very strange considering in recent times we have had free access. there is a sort of certainly a, according to as i say, the separatists of ukrainians are moving weaponry into that area as well. the ukrainians saying of course that they had no intention of launching any kind of

military operation into the separatist controlled area. that something that the separatists accused them of planning. meanwhile, this mobilization effort in the separatist controlled areas goes on. we understand seeing pictures to day pictures, reporting the showing inside one of these centers where men between the ages of 18 and 55 can sign up to join the separatists. also, the evacuation we understand is ongoing of civilians in the separate controlled areas. we've actually spoken to people in those areas though, and asked them about whether you know, they are going to be prepared to move, to be evacuated. many of them saying that they are refusing to go, they still are highly skeptical as to whether they need to, whether there indeed will be any kind of escalation initiated by either side. but as i say, the situation here this morning, considerably quieter than it has been the last couple days. charles stratford in

mary paul, thanks very much. let's go to munich now. james bay's our diplomats. canada is standing by a great deal of resolve and unity certainly on the diplomatic fun to munich over these past 3 days. james, i wonder whether that message has got through to moscow and to president putin much for analysis. well yes, it's been a very busy 3 days of frantic diplomacy. no diplomacy. i think that involves the russians. so nothing that potentially is going to stop the war in terms of the piece of land, but what they're hoping is the joint result of what we've seen here in munich, munich, security conference in the last couple of days. and it's continuing now and you can see the coach outside wrapping up in the next couple of hours. many of the delegates now leaving that hoping that the message of unity is going to be one of the things the president will take into account. and when he sees the nato and the you are united as they have not been passed for some considerable time by the

threat from russia, maybe he will think again, but of course, you know, the president biden says he's already made up his mind to stage an invasion, there is unity, but it is worth saying that with regard to that decision being made, not many of the other nato. and he, you leaders believe things or these are publicly saying that things are as imminent as that. and there is the big question mark. if there is an invasion, will the unity continue when they have to impose what the americans want, which is new, very high level sanctions, sanctions like we've not seen before on russia. will that be then some differences strictly between some of the european powers that have important trays. economic energy links with moscow. i think that is a big question going forward. i think the other thing that moscow will of notice from this meeting and perhaps it wasn't as much remarked on, was. busy the chinese were here one,

use the state counselor and foreign minister china, and he made it clear in his speech and mean security conference. yes, russia's security concerns need to be respected alliance is a thing of the past, talking about nato and talking about the cold war not wanting to attend to a cold war. but the key thing, i think, he said, is that territorial integrity and sovereignty of all nations, including ukraine, must be respected. and i think that's china. putting a little bit of a warning there to president putin, that they've not entirely happy with the direction that things are going in. china also has quite a bit of business interest in ukraine in dinner. we're running parallel to all of this, james, of the ongoing murmurings of more talks more negotiations. looking ahead to this week, we are expecting in theory, love roth, and blinking to be meeting yeah. that is, that is out there. both sides seem to be saying that the meeting will take place in

europe this week. we think probably thursday this week, we don't know the venue from previous experience of meetings between the us and russia. i think the greetings of always taken place on neutral territory and i neutral territory means a country that is not a member of nato in the past. switzerland and geneva, as seemed a very easy option for both. clearly there's a base of the un, they're both have missions that the you and they're so substantial diplomatic staff . but remember, also we've seen some summits take place in the past between the u. s. and the russians in finland in helsinki. i would say those 2 cities of the main options, but i, after i had an i caveat to all of us speaking privately to western officials, western diplomats, and some of the western leaders. they're all saying yes, blinking lab roth important meeting. if an evasion hasn't started by then,

we shall say for the moment james, bizarre diplomatic editor, thanks for joining us from munich. while keeping our message russian president vladimir putin has overseen, was described as strategic nuclear exercises. the kremlin says its warships and submarines tested nuclear capable weapons, and missiles dalso jibari has the story from moscow. so miss latimer pollutant gave his go ahead for the start of the nuclear drills, joined by his bell russian counterpart, alexander lucas. shank, 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. those were grooming roma, grimalda's shoes, or 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 back leaders of the self proclaimed republics of don't ask. and the honks in ukraine's dumbass region announced the mass evacuation of women and children. on friday evening. in the southwest region of restore of 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 any one to help me out of. a state of emergency has been declared in the roster 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 officials 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. doors jibari al jazeera martha carols is a senior consulting fellow at the russia and eurasia program at chatham house. and joyce, we know by scott from north hampton church in the u. k. good. have you with us, mr. giles, on the program. i mean, nate has to be very clear on its deployment strategy, its strength and its weaknesses. when telling the world what they're going to do, potentially, militarily and financially, should russia invaded with how they played their hand to soon? well, in fact is the opposite. now you heard from your diplomatic editor just now how the message coming from both nato, the, the west in general,

is one of unity. but that's very different from saying what you're actually unified to do now with ukraine not being a nato member. there's a limited amount of support directly and militarily that could be offered to you grant. and in fact, the u. s. and the u. k. at a very early stage in this crisis, ruled out direct support to ukraine, which is the one thing that might have caused russia to think again, if it is planning to launch an invasion. now, meanwhile, you have the you and major western powers talking about sanctions. but there's been very little that specific on how exactly they would respond to a russian escalation. and russia might reasonably think that those sanctions would be so painful for the west itself economically that there's a limited amount that would actually be done. so most of the actual practical measures that the west could take to actually deter russia have already been rolled off the table. do you think that president putin is looking for chinks in the we might say so called political financial or military arbor that is being assembled by the e. u. a nater. well, there's no doubt that in fact,

he's already found them. let's not forget that this invasion force has been master ukrainian border has already achieved some of its objectives because he's already got the conversation going with the united states about limiting the sovereignty in liberating the security choices of the countries neighboring russia about rolling back the glock so natal protections are taken away from them, and russia can habits way. so to some extent, within it already, as one of our ambassadors put it ahead on points in this game, even before he's actually mounted, that escalation, that seems to be imminent. is there a psychological difference to what happened in 2014, to what's happening right now? in the fact that the, you and native often been accused of being too slow to deal with what happened with crimea and rushes invasion of that area to what's happening right now. is it a whole to, to, to, in, in his tracks? well, there are differences and there are similarities. now, the playbook that we're seeing from russia at the moment, all of the steps that they go through when preparing to mount a major results and pretended somebody else's fault is we're really familiar. it's

exactly the same as we saw, for example, in 2008 before the conflict with georgia. but the big difference, as you say, this site is that the west has been paying attention. this has been a build up that has taken months and there's been plenty of time to put in place an adequate and appropriate response. the problem still though, is what exactly you and nato can do. because unless you do provide direct support to ukraine, that would deter russia from actually mounting mental military assault. anything else as a secondary measure that only happens after the fact. of course, mister giles, china was also mentioned by a diplomatic editor, james a little while ago. putin went to beijing at the beginning of the olympic games, shook hands as sheeting, pain, and china has been quite clear on its position. yes, they agree with russia to a point. the issue here is a financial sanctions hit russia. china doesn't really want to be too affected by that. it's already having its own problems. there is

a very interesting relationship developing that that's quite right and trying to what, what to be effected either way, whether it is by the invasion itself, which of course, is going to trigger the chaos in europe with all of the over still from the fighting refugee flows economic disruption, and let's not forget, of course, the cyber onslaught that was likely to accompany it will have global effects, not just in europe itself, but also if there are count images from europe sanctions on russia itself, that 2 is going to have ripple effects which may well effect china and china may not necessarily want to see a precedent of european empires reasserting themselves in the way russia is trying to do at the moment. interesting times i can draw thanks so much for joining us from chatham house and then join us from both hampton chinese k. still ahead here on the news on the hub to wait and and to get job. no, we don't even have that kind of thing. can, with just gathering in nigeria and lecture halls will tell you why tens of

thousands of students might not be able to finish their studies on what the indian state has been jobs. those local actions could be the head of general elections in 2024. and always at the top of the metal table with a record golden hole in beijing that phone coming up with pizza enforce ah, the grand e c o p and renee sold stuff has begun generating electricity for the 1st time in the p prime minister element and other dignitaries at the site for the inaugural ceremony of africa, the largest hydro electric power project. if you, if you says the $5000000000.00 development will power, it's economy by egypt opposes the damn, saying it'll reduce fresh water supplies from the niles of millions of its citizens . that although sit on 1st, welcome the project at night to voice similar concerns, cairo, and car 2 wanted agreement before the dam with to get

o began filling. but the design of a says that's impossible. talk so headed by the african union, has also failed to resolve the dispute in journalists, some you'll get to choose, you know, from the capital, addis ababa of the interesting times the theo pins. but them is very, let's be very pleased with what they're seeing right now. well, to begin with, this is the one of the biggest, if not the biggest public projects, ethiopia opens up. ever experienced your parents. i excited this is like a go find me projects where you feel they've been raising money since 2011. that's when the construction of the renders is begun. but it's just the middle class per say that's been donating money or outside organizations that every day, if you've been sandy, feel hot taken to heart. the fox that this project will move the field from once on a dependent nation to

a nation that can be self sufficient and give the most basic services to everyday fuel. as you have to understand what you're open, the majority of the deal partially and fully reside in darkness. if you move, if you go outside of the some about, for instance, there are many villages and towns that are in darkness. and even in the sub box, it's money neighborhoods with no enough indic tricity. and this is believed to provide if you're open again and explicitly that is needed by them and their baby excited, you can see it. indeed, they may be excited, but as we've just said, some of the few neighbors are not such as egypt and sudan, but there are other neighbors and other parts of the continent that will be interested to see how the impacts on them. what are they saying? well, to begin with, open government has been saying this is not just providing electricity to

ethiopians, but this is about putting, if your parents and a status to export electricity to neighboring nations, the japan government has been saying that they are not endorsing the treaty. that was signed in 1929, 1959. and specifically that gave egypt 66 percent of the resources from this 9 and 22 percent, to the sudan and the way see yoga. and it's your peer has been known as a nation. that was really one of the poorest nations, but this is it in providing if your parents basic support including development. but again, it's your bet is insisting the prime minister has been saying that this is not going to be affecting egypt much. in fact, it's going to compliment and bring some kind of resources to friendly nations as well as if you get some you get to choose in. that is up of

a thank you. thank you. a strike by university lecturers in nigeria is threatening graduation plans for final year students. as emmet address reports, the academics are warding that. they'll continue the disruption until the government implement that agreement reached 13 years ago. hallways, once bustling with student activity on our quiet. it's only day since public university teachers in nigeria walked off their jobs, but lecture halls already covered with dust. the gum winters expressed surprise, but the lecturers unmoved. the consider so phrased equally a new serious. i'm sure an idea is how knows of rice because we did into a club will by night and say though, when i was re 13 years ago, educators in the government signed an agreement to end on the potomac of strikes at nigerian universities. but teachers say, this was never implemented. in the past 20 years, there been nearly as many strikes by could have mixed off in nigeria. in

universities, the industrial dispute has disrupted academic calendars. as a result, students sometimes take 6 to 7 years to complete a 4 year degree program. these students come to the university merely every day hoping for positive news, the hub to, to graduate and dare and to get job. now we don't even have that kind of thinking, but his peers and private universities have no such worries. federal government has almost our 100 university and they have so many challenges head of them in our, on when you live for i bet nobody did naturally. you up, walk us more to be on the with the institution. years of neglect, have left public universities over crowded and with poor funding for research and salaries. union leader say most professors and less than a $1000.00 a month lecture. a say they are tired of meetings and agreements,

but the government feels to implement that warning one month. they will make this strike indefinite if there is no break through army decrease al jazeera kernel nigeria. now the closing ceremony for the winter olympics begins in a few hours time organized in china, say the event ran smoothly. but the games were held against the backdrop of diplomatic boycotts and global protests. strict cove, it 19 controls as well as they've been scandals. all left their mark while lloyd has finished on top of the metal table with 16 goals, the most have a one to win to games, host china, germany in the us as well as the russian olympic committee. all made it into the top 10 results could change depending on the outcome of an investigation into a failed drug test of the russian figure skater, camilla valley ava city in his line for us in beijing. i mean, not the perfectly choreographed olympics, the house would have light controversy, and tears were evident. that's right. so

being said from the beginning that politics and sport should not mix, but this is really a politically charged event from the beginning. before even started, we had a diplomatic boy called by the u. s. and several of the allies. and in that 1st week we had the appearance of chinese tenants play, a puncture. why in the stands with iris? he had told me this book now punctual. i late last year accused a chinese politician of sexual assault than later disappeared for a few weeks only to reappear and deny those allegations. well. her appearance at the olympics raised eyebrows and questions about her overall well being. and of course, there was the huge challenge of core of the 19, now china said it was a success and that it prevented any cases snowballing from inside the bubble. there were about $450.00 cases, mostly in total. but there were a lot of kids among athletes who will either struggle to cope with the really heavy handed isolation and quarantine measures. and from those who are forced to withdraw

completely from their competitions because they tested positive curve at 19. and finally, we had this huge controversy around the biggest casing event with russian staff 15 year old camilla valley ava testing positive for a band substance and still being allowed to go forward and continue to compete. now she performed her in her last event on thursday evening and under enormous pressure stumbled multiple times during her performance and ended that event in tears. and there was a huge backlash from the international community aimed at her entourage at the rather shilling a cold reception of her when she was quite clearly emotionally distressed. that just expanded not to katrina because the i see now have a lot of lessons not only to learn but to take away from these particular game, certainly around duping because it is a huge problem to play devil's advocate. you know, you have all these athletes. so frustrated that while battle ceremonies a postpone,

they don't actually get that chance to get their rewards in the limelight at the event that they've trained for for years. it's a moment missed and it's a very regrettable moment for many thousands of them or hundreds of them that have turned up for this particular olympics. yes, that's right. so there was lot of sympathy, of course for valley eva. but as you mentioned, there are a lot of athletes who left in limbo and quite destroyed by this whole thing, especially those who competed in that figure. skating team event. now the russian team who won gold in that event of all that gold metal is up in contention now. but those are one silver and bronze and that event us the team, us and team japan the left completely in limbo. they're not going home with any metals, so to speak, despite their years of hard work and preparation tending. ready a clear conclusion into that investigation to value have as possible door being offense. so those athletes involved have described this whole thing is heartbreaking. they said this

is really tarnished, not only figure skating, but the whole olympic system in general. and it helped raise a lot of questions about the age of athletes allowed to compete at a high level under this amount of enormous pressure value. have of course itself is just a minute. she's 15 years old. and so there is now a debate and questions raised about whether figure skating athletes should be at minimum age, 18 or 17, which is what happens to the moment you in beijing. thanks very much. and we'll have plenty more on the final day of the beijing olympics because it's all great britain colors and a long wait for a gold pizza. we'll have the details. i'm the best of the action and left without a livelihood fishermen in peru reveal the long term effects of the countries was the logical disaster. ah

maybe surprising that violent storm unit is just about blown out here it is leaving the baltic for western russia. it has to be replaced fairly quickly by this much bigger, but luckily, not as violent system, which will become, i think, rather more widespread, more people are going to feel it as is what's happening at the moment. then this is strong, southwest winds. they are not cold, tucked in with the cold wind follows being snow to the high ground in northern ireland and scotland and any ground to be honest in norway. this is strong wind again and eventually is low, radiate for the south, which is part of europe. currently enjoying fairly fine weather to get in spain and portugal. but the picture on monday looks pretty obvious. temperatures dropped, the winds up showers of rain or snow on the hills, particularly in the abs. and there are certain ins brook in the 5th, the austria out the to leon, mountains with gusty wind on monday and then temps is dropped and 2 with a day of wellness, persistent snow on tuesday. this is normal, winter weather,

still february after all, in north africa, things are quarterly. hamilton is blowing quite strongly and interesting because it's blowing fit west, which is taking the dust, which eventually end up in the amazon. it's also knocked temperatures up in, for example, togo burkina, faso. when the a record highs ah dictatorships to democracies, activists to corporations, control of the message is crucial. oil companies have become very good at recognizing ways to phrase what they want you to hear. we care about the environment you do to, you should buy our oil cleared for public opinion or profit. once you make people afraid, you can use that to justify stripping away basic civil liberties. the listening post examined the vested interest behind the content you consume on al jazeera,

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back separatists leaders, claims civilians and dumbass continue to be evacuated to russia. and russia says hypersonic miss also been last during so called strategic nuclear drills. they were overseen by present lots of putin on saturday. the feminine denies the latest exercises will increase tension. let's take you straight back to the munich security conference coming hours. the american vice president is speaking a live event. let's listen to text. of course you think we do share information? certainly because we want to make sure that we are all working with the same information when we make these very critical and meaningful decisions. the last question about sanctions, and i said it yesterday on the stage. everybody didn't agree at the beginning about what the consequences should be. if russia re invade ukraine, we had to me, we had to discuss it. because each of these nations, i mean i spent, i was spend time contrib, my time with the chaslek, jeremy,

and stress. i spent time with the president me yesterday. when we look at the significance of these sanctions, they are immense. and so all nations who are a part of this understand that we cannot take lightly or speak lightly about what we are prepared to do because we do understand the cost of the exacting. and it is severe so we have had these discussions again through a process we have arrived at this place and done and back to the last question we will obviously reassess depending on how the, the days weeks and months ahead. roll out. and you do all the follow up for them. i was just gonna ask, do you believe that the u. s. and ukraine are now more on the same page about what the intelligence suggests they have been in the past. i can tell you that there has been direct communication about the intelligence. so there's nothing is being held

back. the prime minister of italy does not agree with all the sanctions plans. he said yesterday that he does not feel that energy should be sanctioned. does that not undercut us efforts to impose tough, painful, severe financial sanctions? as i've said, this is an alliance of nations that each have their priorities and their, their individual concerns about how anything we do going forward will impact this specific country, their economy and security. so again, i would not deny italy from having its perspective or its list of concerns. we all do actually that has been part of this process. and so italy is very much at the table in terms of these conversations about how we can do this in a way that achieves the intended purpose. which back to the earlier point is about

deterring russia from invading a sovereign nation. and we all understand, including every country in europe, what war in europe looks like and what it can mean for the citizens of each of those countries. thank you. thank you. thank you, ma'am. don't you alter their english and a couple of hours. see american vice president taking questions from reporters about obviously the sanctions that may be imposed. should russian troops all russia invade? you create a new real detail about what those sanctions would be, but significant. they are. according to the american vice president will follow that story, of course, continually here on the channel. let's move on ne, to al jerry's president, who happens to be in cat offer a 3 day visit of joe medea to bu ne, has been holding talks with catalan's initiate to me and been haven't done, tommy,

the 2 were expected to discuss the relations and the upcoming arab summit by middle is life for us in doha, where that meeting took place at what seems to have come out of it. yes, from the looks of it. so the, the 2 leaders have discussed 2 main issues. one of them is, or 2 main points on the agenda. one of them is the bilateral ties between algeria katara. the genie president has with him the high level delegation of several ministers, including the minister of foreign affairs, the minister of energy, and also the head of one truck. that's probably africa was largest energy company, which is julian. so energy supplies, energy cooperation, has been discussed between the 2 leaders and also other issues. other points related to the ties between those 2 countries. however, the most probably urgent points are most important on the edge. and these also the

forum that is underway now in the ha, that's the goth exporting countries forms. and the funny thought is going to take place on tuesday. we understand the jenny presidency is going to attend a cutout and our julia are 2 of the biggest world produces of natural gas. and they are concerned by what's going on probably in, in europe, that crisis the looming at crisis that is possible. if ga, supplies are cut between russia and western europe, this is just speculation by observers here, thinking about probably this is going to be discussed in the summit. and the 2 leaders would like to coordinate their staff to work this issue. and also all the issues rate to ga, supplies across the world. this for me to go to take this as i said on tuesday. and it truly does, i'm going to attend it. if you see what happens out of that meeting as well as a moment ma'am, involved in doha, thank you. now the greek coast guard is reporting that

a passenger has been found alive on board a ferry that we don't find since friday. several others remained missing. emergency senses and still trying to get the blaze under control. the vessel was heading to italy with 288 passengers. when the fire broke out victoria gave us the story. turkish passengers rescued from the euro ferry olympia prepared to leave corfu their boarding boat. it'll take them home to stumble and put it to the italian coast guard, helped us a lot. they brought us to coffee and put us up in a hotel. the turkish embassy also helped us along and we are very grateful to the italians and the turks. luckily we didn't die. that is the most important thing. the race doesn't matter. also what the port is las guarantee bacchus. he's waiting for news about his missing father. many gall millions, i talked to the port authorities and they told me information about the fire. i've

been to the other side of car through so i could see the 30. i saw the fire go out on gray smoke appeared, then suddenly the bolt caught fire again. the way tonight would be bob's on us. the arrows go by, my legs are trembling. the ferry caught fire off the coast of call sue on its way to italy. the relatives of one truck driver on board say they're worried. he may not have had time to escape for them to go over with them yet. he was afraid of current. a virus you had health issues and because he was afraid of catching the virus due to overcrowding on the ferry, he often preferred to sleep in the truck, especially if it was not a long trip to rescue teams are unable to board the salary to look for missing people because the temperature is still su holt, relative fear, the authorities will cool off the search. i mean, the, some of our legal mcgonigal women. we spoke with the coast guard a while ago. they're waiting for the effects of the water being used by firefighters to create cooler conditions so that they can enter their doing what they can men. and they are concerned,

tory from the greek prosecutors of orders and inquiry into the cause of the fire. the captain of the theory has been questioned and released it, tory gate, and be al jazeera voters, have been job in northern indira. the latest to go to the polls in state assembly elections. it's seen as a litmus test for prime minister and remote is governing party, the b j. p. farmers make up the states biggest voting block and they were heavily involved in successfully protesting against agricultural forms. last year, well following or the vote is elizabeth parameter the, the polling station and the city of by the allah enjoys be now elizabeth, you know, whenever there is a regional election, there's a lot at stake. first small parties and large parties, those that did successfully very well in the previous election to what might happen in 2022. what sort of indications are you getting? so very good question. so it's

a very interesting situation here in punjab, the electoral battle, it's expected to be between india's main opposition party, the congress. it's only one of 3 states out of $28.00 in the country where the congress is in power. so holding on to power and punjab, the importance of that can't be stated for the congress party to remain relevant as a national party in the country. and the other 2 parties are, should all money are carly bell, a regional party, which very interestingly caught it's alliance, would that the countries governing but at the age of the party, the b. j. p. in the central government because of the farm laws because they were so unpopular here in punjab. and then the 3rd party is the army ard me, a common man party which is in power in delhi, has been in power in delhi for the past 7 years. and is really fighting to show that they can win elections outside of the capital. said those are the main parties

. the main issues here in punjab are all firemen remains one of the biggest issues because it's known as the state, as known as india's bread, basket. and we've been speaking to voters today have been telling us about, you know, the real serious challenges facing them. the same as we hear in other parts of the country. you know, rising unemployment, the rising cost of living while their wages remain low. then there are issues which are very unique to punjab, environmental such as water. depletion is a lot of organized crime, mafias, which control and legal, sad mining, liquor, distribution, drugs, one of the biggest drug problems, drug abuse problems in the country with a real proliferation of heroin and opium. and of course, all parties promising to deal with all of these issues of the week sir, leading up to the election. of course, as you say, per job is a unique state her to the west of the country, which has its own issues, but also to pradesh has been voting your these past few weeks as well. in a several phased election,

often described as the florida of india because of the numbers of legislators. it takes both to the national government in delhi and also because of the state that it is how much of a litmus test are these 2 states. and this election fodder and ramadi, because we're way, maybe about 18 months away, 2 years away from a general election. exactly. and as you know, with a for their, she's known as india's bell, whether stayed and staying in power in or the for there is so important for find mr . medina, morty, on his part of the age of the party for their bed. you know, for a really give them a huge boost for their bed for a successive 3rd victory in that general election that's coming up in 2024 defeats there. in order for the ish or in any of the other 3 states will throw kind money pooled and go all which a staging elections this month, where the b, j. p is and power. that will add pressure on the party amid criticism of high

unemployment, and also it handling of the clothes. 19 pandemic. again, the beach, if he has not been a significant player here in punjab, they are expected to do well in order for their, their main challenger. there is not the congress, it's a regional party, so much worthy. but it will be really interesting to see not just how they do here that are there and of the for there should also here because of the impact of the farm laws. and the fact that most of the farmers, the people taking part in those demonstrations were from punjab and from what the british was brought him bear in by the allah. thanks to julius the rescue workers in brazil. so they have little hope of finding any more survivors in the city, devastated by landslides and floods. at least $139.00 were killed in but through police, including children and hundreds more still missing heavy rain caused the deadly floods on choose day of our mental disaster zone has been declared in northwest and

argentina, where wildfires are affecting national parks grant. this province is home to the largest argentine wet, planted red animals area. many have been killed or poisoned with the smoke. others have been hit by cause while trying to escape a cleanup at a rep sold facility in peru is continuing a month after a major oil spill. the spanish oil giant says the operation could cost more than $65000000.00. it hopes to clear this village by the end of march, but as marianna sanchez reports from lima, local fishermen say the damage will last much longer. these fishermen should be on the shore, casting their lines for their daily catch. but last month, old bill disaster has left more than 2000 art is no fisherman without their likelihood loving mendoza, both of them let them in our life and has been cut and we don't know what to do. they've turned to camille kitchens for survival. oil giant reps so gave them

a $130.00 in vouchers. that wealth of the, like lou says it's not enough. now that he feeding it seems this month, i will not be able to pay my bank debt. the electricity, water, everything in the house. we ask rap sold to help us get more than 12000 barrels of crude spilled, impacting flora, and fauna along 80 kilometers of the coast of lima. experts say it's the worst ecological disaster and they do come with amazon and gone this year. we are in a position to confirm that theoretically we have collected almost 98 percent of the oil, both from the sea and from land rep. ssl has filed a lawsuit, blaming the oil tanker. the company says these pipes that tore off the mean under water pipeline, we're in optimal condition, and extraordinary force, meaning the ship moved, ripped them, causing the fuel leakage. la, an expert in maritime accidents says the spill should have been minimal if valves that immediately blocked the fuel passage when an accident like this happens,

had been in place. but they were not. there him, you know? oh yeah. if the terminal had those ralphs that separate, feel the dupes, maybe elite edward of spill during the closing procedure. to me, that's the real cause. because breakage on these types of dominant is a common incident. who said burn mental assessment and control agency could find reps with $80000000.00 rep. also, they will still be done with the clean up but many vision and see the damage done will last for years and they don't know how they will be making a living from now on shellfish. divers recorded under water showing despite what reptile says, the water is polluted, laughing, the fuel give the damage to the natural bank will be irreparable for a long time to clean. it is one thing, but to decontaminate is another story. for now, these fishermen can only watch and wait and wonder what will be the long term effects of the worst ecological disaster on this coast. medina, such as,

i'll just cedar lima be to well still a had here on al jazeera, the beijing winter. olympic games are coming to an end piece will be here. with a recap, it's full ah, rape as a weapon of war leaves the very deepest, scott, scott, so rule that the victims, men and women can barely talk about it. are the only witnesses who can help bring about justice. al jazeera follows human rights campaign is in libya, investigating right since the 2011 recognition libyan unspeakable crime on al jazeera. examining the impact of today's headlines, there are threats to peace and security that don't appear on the tv screens.

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committee to one villa pucca and hundreds to be in and in each had a goal. is the fence became the defending champions. if the 1st time finland have won the golden this event, i think contested the final twice previously. no way finished up with the 7. with a wrinkled 16 gold medal, thanks to norwegian cross country ski said hug. who clinched her food at these beijing game, she powered the victory in the women's particular need to free the math start. as she ended her olympic her in germany kept off a dominating performance of the sliding thing 3rd by clenching the 9th of 10 available gold medals. this time in the for man, bob slave, francesca free day, she laid, he's cruise to the top of the podium, head of a 2nd team from jimmy with canada, taking bronze at 3 this 2nd, the gold of these games. and for the over all for the man may call the ice, kaiser britain cleans base 1st gold medal in beijing thanks to the women's kernel theme. lay by mere head. they b, japan, 13,

and the final meal hit to fell short in the 2014 semi finally. and she finally got the gold in her and then picks. but there was disappointment for ski still, mckenna schiffron, who missed out again on the middle in a 6 rates of the game the 3 time and then pick and over will, cup champion, lead aging empty handed, austria for golden. the make seem parallel event. germany was taken and no way food . so here's a final check on the beijing went to linux, middle table, no way finished. top 4 gold medals. the head of germany. ho session. china had their best performance at a wince, against the total of 15 medals. 9 of which were gold, which put them food in the overall standings. but when i buy a p sports correspondence stephen way to his in beijing, stephen, always nice to talk to you. let's start with the host nation. they best ever showing it a winter olympics. how to the local feel about the nation's performance on

this is a good example of the home nation using a home field advantage, you know, in bear, in 2008 olympics china also top the middle table. this is sort of typical countries do well when they have the games and they invest a lot of money. this is the best, china's done since vancouver and 2010. so very strong performance. i'm sure everybody here is pleased. you should note that the california barn, eileen goose, $12.00 gold medals and silver, so she contributed their hall for china. let's talk about the camilla valley ava doping matter. will that be? would ultimately defines these olympics i think so, you know, for the 1st 5 days it is games. there was no doping scandal. we're talking about all sorts of sports, some of the, some other issues here. human rights issues in china when the adobe scammer came up . it sucked the air out of every everything else and she took the stage. she was the story for about a week, a week and a half here. so i think these games are going to be defined by that. it's also

going to be defined by russia doping, this is the 5th straight game, starting with sochi in 2014, in which rush has been involved in doping scandal. that's bad news for the i o. c. they have got to get away. got it's got to find a way to clean this up. i think the image was terrible. you know, if you saw her skating thursday night falling 3 or 4 times, being humiliated in the eyes that been being humiliated or coach afterwards. that was a shocking scene. i don't think i've ever seen anything so sad. she is not the villain . she's more of a victim in the ouse. he's going to have to work hard to straighten this out and deal with these entourages and the coaches and the people around these athletes. i think stephen, this is the 2nd olympics in about 6 months now to have been held in a coven 19 bubble. how did beijing compared to took? if o $180.00 degrees difference in tokyo, we had a 14 day quarantine for athletes and journalist. many journals were free to rob,

around after that time, so many spent time in tokyo, getting those city here. nothing were locked up in our press room in our hotel. we went to the venues. very draconian circumstances here is a very, very odd olympics. i don't think there's ever going to be another one like it was weird. might, might be an appropriate word. i think the chinese guard would gotta do what they wanted. they kept journalist kick cooped up, which is convenient for them. i think many journalists, many athletes are welcoming, getting out of here, not that didn't enjoy the experience, but i think the experience of being tested every day, being cooped up in a hotel, being observed all the time. athletes bringing burner forms these games. i think everybody we happy to get out of here and i think china also will be happy to wrap it up. they've got a congress people's congress coming up later in the year. so i think they'll be happy to have us out here to. stephen wade, it's always good talking to you. thank you very much. english primly lead as

mentioned to city of suffer to re the fees of the slipping to a 3 to home loss against them. hotspur felton's january signing day and could save sky with them ahead of the full minutes with these 1st go for the club city equalized before the break. a spring when back in front. thanks to harry kane. we had more. isn't it the penalty 2 minutes into added them to again equalize, but cain headed home, what would be the winner on 95 minutes? said his lead at the top is down to 6 points and 2nd, best liverpool. have a game in hand. great compliment to, to my says cd because also or so to night to they show it to be the best them in my opinion. then there war and to win a game like visa, it means that the read a birth bed for most really they can keep the ball in contact with hurricane to have these 23, or 4 touches that gives time to san francisco to run in always is difficult,

but in general we control yeah, we in the states, so we were there all the time to write laugh and crosses when shoes and we were there. but we could not, you know, we're going to do it. mohammed fella has become the 10th liverpool fe to score 150 golds for the club. the egyptian reached the milestone when he gave a sigh. believe against no rich salas, 150 goals have come from 233 appearances making in the 2nd fastest liberal player to reach the mark. the home side secured 31 victory with recent colombian. recruit to lewis the us scoring 1st. go for the club on the back of an incredible 34 uninterrupted bosses. watsonville reco, it's absolutely insane as well. and the goal is goal today, maybe is shows the whole range of the things he can do. he help the team on to the massively with 1st playing as everything going back to left, winged and being right by speaking. so it's really helpful to have

and chelsea. we're heading for a drawer with crystal palace until moroccan forward hacking the edge. found a winner in the 18 9th minute chelsea, a 3rd 7 points behind liverpool. british boxer mere con says he's considering retirement after a crushing defeat a cal broke on saturday. the 35 year old's fight was stopped by the referee in the 6th round. 151 of the most bitter and long running feuds in british boxing more than i ever expected. 1000000 boxes on the 17, maybe a peek, too early my, my, my, my career deals in the lympics. one will tell you 125 in the gamma. right on time, on monday, i want to spend time with kids in the family. the nfl coach who suing the leak and its teams over religion. racial discrimination as been hired. brian flores has been taken on by the pittsburgh steelers as an assistant coach earlier this month. the

former dolphins coach claimed a roof interview minority candidate for head coaching positions, wasn't working. the nfl called these allegations merrick las despite the new job flores will continue with these lawsuit. former french open champion, jaelyn asked the panko has completed a remarkable week by winning the w t. a event in dubai to reach the final the left been defeated for grand slam champion and in the, beside a cruise past russian. the veronica who that m. f of a 6 love sick for it's off, the pain goes 5th, korea 5 mentioned with 10 to the top 20 in the ranking for the 1st time since 2018 and spaniel. little bit about these a good one. the cut it open for the 2nd time, the 3 mentoring is 10. 80. the titles will number 16 into the dominant week for the strength victory in the final of the defending champion nigger last the last really from georgia. that's all before these more later. so thanks very much peter. you have the one she goes out there with me. so the emily will be here with more news

on the other side of the brain for them to let thanks very much for your time and your company. ah, news, news, news, news, news, frank assessments for china will benefit from the 0 calling strategy if the rest of the world to get informed opinions at all costs market on needs enough right in front of our critical debate. landreth would be the claims that need to come in and it just ain't your threat to russia, but it's precisely if he's actions that created the insecurity in the region. in

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fisheries officials have a should notices, banning people from selling or eating malice found along the getting river. the area affected by the red tide is small, but news of the algae bloom has affected seafood traders in the area. ah. are intermittent shelling from both sides as tension escalates in east in ukraine's don't bass region to ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the fighting with pro russian separatists. ah, hello, i am em liang when this is al jazeera alive from dough house coming up. atheist, dance generating electricity from its grand renee sounds damn. that triggered a dispute with each.