on al jazeera, did you know, you could watch out as they were english streaming live on like youtube channel, plus thousands of our programs. award winning documentaries. and in depth news reports. subscribe to youtube dot com forward slash al jazeera english. ah. ready to we've cut off rushes government from western financial, the u. s. and allies and violet flu of sanctions against russia over its actions in ukraine and hold back on the toughest penalties. as president vladimir putin is given, parliamentary approval, to use military force outside of russia. ah,

hi there, i'm given al, this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up. we are near the front lines of the conflict in the east, in ukraine where the threat of invasion is stoking more fare and resentment. and with the argentinian wetlands ablaze, the un report warns extreme wildfire i had to stay and multiplying. ah, the u. s. allies have warned their leaving room to punish russia further after announcing a range of new sanctions. u. s. president joe biden accused very mad portion of beginning and invasion of ukraine after the russian leader recognized the independence of separatist regions in the countries east. they encompassed don bos, where separate us had been fighting against ukrainian forces since 2014 alan fisher . reports from the white house for weeks is warned of sanctions mo,

faced with what he sees as russian aggression in ukraine. joe biden has acted. we're implementing for blocking sanctions on 2 large russian financial institutions . v e b and our military back were implementing comparable sanks is on russian sovereign debt. that means we've cut off russia's government from western financial will also impose sanctions on russia's, a leech and their family members. they share in the corrupt gaze of the criminal policies and should share the pain as well. the president has spent a lot of time with his national security team over the last 48 hours. they insist they've covered all possible moves for more school. and the next step by vladimir putin will dictate for the u. s. reaction bite and still hopes for a diplomatic solution. but there was a wanting to the american public. an extended crisis might hit them in the pocket. defending freedom will have cost for us as well. and here at home, we need to be honest about that. one expert says it makes sense,

the bite and hasn't thrown everything at russia, they sadly leaving a diplomatic off ramp. they need to keep, you know, part of their powder dry. to see what is next move is this, this gross violation the go further violation of ukrainian territorial integrity. there has to be a cost for that. i. the euclidean foreign minister has been in washington part of the international medical round of top level talks. he's been meeting defense, secretary lloyd austin at the pentagon. he says the russians have tried to split the west with their actions. something that has failed, and i have never seen, they know more united. the more resolute standing firm is one alliance in support of ukraine's right to defend sovereign territory. it's 2 years since then, candidate biden tweeted out that vladimir putin would be reluctant to take any aggressive action if he was president. because he's gone,

taught to tour with them in the past, he touted his foreign policy experience. he's going to need all that experience. if he's to reach a diplomatic solution to what is a growing military crisis. allen fisher al jazeera at the white house. president person has been given approval by his parliament to use military force outside of russia to support ukraine separatists who to ask for the measure to back flies is who have been at war with ukrainian army since 2014, no senators voted against the decision. rushes deputy defense minister said ukraine is nathan with no choice as old negotiations. stoled un chief, antonio tennis has accused the kremlin of distorting the concept of peacekeeping response to its military. subordinates can do hans. when troops of one country in 3 to 3030 of another country, without its consents, they are not impartial peacekeepers. they are not peacekeepers at all united

nations in line with the relevant security goslin general assembly resolutions, thence fully behind the sulphur entity, politically dependence, and that it's all the integrity of ukraine. within each international recognized bolos. we are continuing to support the people of ukraine. throwed, humanity said reparations, and human rights efforts. at this critical moments, i called for an immediate cease fire and the re establishment of the rule of law. we need restraint and reason. we need the escalation, know the u. s equity of state adney blinkin, and the french foreign minister cancelled separate meetings with rushes, top diplomat survey levels. lincoln says it's clear russia isn't interested in talking president putin's deeply disturbing speech yesterday. and his statements to day made clear the world how he views ukraine. not as a sovereign nation with the right to territorial integrity and independence,

but rather as a creation of russia and therefore subordinate to russia. it's a completely false assertion that ignores history international law and the 10s of millions of patriotic ukrainians who are proud citizens of a free and independent ukraine. the regions in east and ukraine recognized by the kremlin as independent extend, far beyond areas on the rebel control. and that's creating uncertainty for people living near the front line of the long running separate is conflict. while the other hamid returned to a town she reported from last month, the threat of invasion is exposing social divides. uncertainty is hanging over at the fca. one of the frontline gowns in eastern ukraine when we met chaplain no lena, 3 weeks ago, she brushed away the prospect of war. now she's worried and feels uncomfortable being on the streets. some of her neighbors are openly hostile to her. oh,

my grandmother her from mike me? yeah, i of the mon you or years mustering you have though i knew what they think ukraine is guilty party when it comes to this shelling they don't believe russia could act like this. my life is at risk in this kind of society. anything can happen, especially now with less than the kilometer away at the front line. soldiers on alert. recently the shelling has intensified evidence still fresh of the latest rocket attack. the frontline here has been moved ever since the mince agreement was signed with leader sides making tutorial gains or losses. but now the recognition by russia of the to says, proclaim republics of de yes and lugens put into question. when do new lines are going to be drone? the agreement set a full 120 kilometers demarcation line, giving the russian back separatist only a 3rd of what they see as their historical land. now,

with official support from moscow, they could try again to expand their control. i seen that, i think it will be border old for the nascar, hans derision as they are, was at the bus not on with this era that already have brought further. and i think that is the reason of the most dangerous situation here. basically, we understand that there we are, are on the way of them do ukrainian army is in a difficult situation. many civilians in this area don't support it. they welcome to separate his back in 2014 and continued to support russia. now others, like victor, blamed a current situation under government in give us one quarter. they fighting for who they fighting for here. i don't see any sense on that. if it's for me or my family, there's no need. what are they doing here?

if you're shelling the separatist all the time, rush, coddling them on the runway, said if our president had negotiated with them, then things could have been different with the minsk agreement. now in tatters, ukraine has declared at vive can other towns and villages along the frontline, restricted areas. but for the soldiers, the most difficult battle could be winning over the support of the people. whatever that hamid of jersey were at viva, in eastern ukraine. moving to other world news now and fires fuel by an unprecedented drought have destroyed hundreds of thousands of farmland in northeastern argentina. theresa both reports from santa thomas near the border with brazil. the wildfires are rapidly moving from one place to another and consuming almost everything in this area in the argent time province of korean. this and fire fighters are also moving fast, trying to burn

a control line that will slow down the advance of the flames. and i said, well, what they are doing is burning a line that will force the parts slow down and then they will attack and with water . there's already group working inside, which we have to stop before it reaches the road. because if it passes there, there are thousands of heck to the pine trees, and it will get even worse. sort of the over 800000 heck there's, they have already been destroyed and with it, livestock grains and was life. this is an area that generally sees abundant rainfall, but strong winds, lack of humanity, and drought time, making it easy for fire like this wind to spread all across the province on an average of our own. 30000 hector's of land are burning every day. also at risk are $12000.00 hector's of marshlands in e without be area is a natural reserve where caymans, amphibians, another $300.00 species of birds are being affected. fire fighters from brazil

and other parts of the country leguinn aside, is have come here in an effort to prevent the fires from causing even more damage. no, no, no, mid, only done damage, but it is in charge of the fire fighters that have come from when a site is only gonna cause a lot of address. and the only thing we can control is nature. so you need to control everything else. cody interest is lacking resources, they don't have the equipment they need. they have gray people, but they're not prepared for the pickup trucks, fire fighting kits, uniforms, among other things. so it was thrown young, have yet a store of these desperate. he says he has lost almost everything he owns. most of his land was burned by the fire, and like many others is currently in debt. so sometimes i don't want to continue, but i have to because what am i going to tell my family? i have a family of 60 people, 19 work with me. where's my family going to work? there's no work here. aside from this rain is crucial at this point to prevent the

fires from spreading to other provinces. but heavy rainfall is not expected until march. a long wait for those involved in the daily fight against the flames. that is, i will, i'll just cedar korean. this argentina. the 3 military says israel has also a number of miss aisles on positions and is bore the province of quinetta. the attack was launched from the israeli occupied garland heights, and only caused wants been described as material damage. the weather is next and then ah, another victory for abortion and landmark moving columbia health is on the way how india and pakistan is set aside. the differences to deliver aid to afghanistan. ah

hello, we have more stormy weather, moving across north western part. solve here a paste, a little better than it has been recently, but it's a, it's all relative. we a name storm. we got our next system already started to push in from the atlantic some more wet and windy weather coming through here and bear in mind that part, surfer western england, they still have to severe flood warnings in force and across that northwestern corner right down across the low countries, northern parts of germany, it scandinavia, more than a 100 flood warnings in force. here some lie be show us longest bells to find from our old storm. still pushing over towards at east side of europe, just noticed another little circulation down towards a onion sea that'll bring some very heavy, raining across greece and turkey over the next few days, sliding a little further north is there we go. some rice think the snow there into eastern parts of europe, but more lively down paws, blustery showers,

gale force winds rattling in to that northwestern corner across sir island, through the u. k. pushing all the way back up toward sir scandinavia. so we are going to see more very wet and windy and when she weather coming in over the next couple of days, central air is a little dryer as we go on towards thursday. that cloud and rain tucking in behind and still very disturbed that eastern side of the med ah, the frank assessments for china. well, banish it from the 0. call it strategy if the rest of the world cannot get to get informed opinions at all costs luckiest on needs. and on fridays on that statement, critical debate. why group would claims that native constitutes an interesting chill threat to rush up, but it's precisely his actions. that's rated this insecurity in the region. in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera

lou. the me 0 reminder about the whole story this out. the u. s. is opposing new sanctions on russia, cutting off 2 major institutions from west financing. the move comes off, the president vladimir putin recognize the independence of 2 separate health areas . if you crank us next tuesday to cancel the meeting this week with russia's foreign minister, so guy level the blank and says it makes no sense to hold talks. as russia has started and invasion of ukraine fires fueled by an unprecedented drought and

ravaged a hundreds of thousands of heck this in north eastern argentina. 15 separate blazes have destroyed farms, pastures and wildlife emergency in argentina as adding weight to a report that wounds of an increasingly fiery future for the world. the un environment program predicts that the number of extreme wildfires will increase by 30 percent by the middle of the century and their scorching places that have never been prone to find before. like the arctic tundra and the amazon rain forest. the report, the authors blame our warming climate but also unprecedented levels of land clearing for agriculture. tim christ officer is from the u. n. environment program and joins us now live from givea in denmark. thank you for your time. if this report really does make a grade reading makes a grim reading, but it is also a message i hope, because we know that this is coming and we can prepare. the main message of the

report is that we have to shift our entire global stands from being reactive to fi . us fighting them only when they break out to being proactive and being better prepared. yeah, i mean, how do we do that? as you say, the report calls for a diversion of funding i to would planning and prevention as opposed to keeping that money aside for actual fire responses. so how does one prevent wildfires globally, particularly when climate change is part of the problem we've developed in the report what we call a fire ready formula for planning and investment sir? right now, most government spend almost all the funding on responses to fires, which is expensive and ineffective. we advocate for a shift to about one 3rd to planning early detection of prevention. one search to the response measures and preparedness and search to recovery after the fires, which is also important for ecosystem restoration so they can quickly or regain

their important existence. so this is for people and for the climate. but what is prevention actually mean? what does that actually look like? we have, for example, work with say government of indonesia to have what they call fire clusters. so they're provincial governments have 247 readiness rooms where they have early detection capacity. they can then deploy fire brigades that are very close to the actual fires, so they are decentralized across the country. so we use latest technology, a quick, a crisis response mechanism, and are more investment and being ready with the right equipment before that fire occurs. and wild fires and climate change are mutually exacerbating, so they make the are the worth was rather, so what is the trajectory then if we look at your directory of climate change, what does that mean for the trajectory of wildfires in the report?

so we project that even with a moderate emissions scenario. so even if we manage to curve emissions, wildfire are still going to increase. this is because the earth systems have a long response time and therefore it is clear that wildfires are here to stay. they are going to increase and we, we have to be better prepared. of course, we also need to be better prepared because we, we urgently need ecosystems. forests keep lance 7 us as cob and stores. so when we risk that these carbon stores are going up in flames, then we lose one of our best allies in the fight against climate change, which is nature. h of a solutions can help us clearly to both mitigate and adapt to climate change, but the most important message remains that we have to, urgently and quickly curve our greenhouse gas emissions globally. i thank you very much for your time. we'll have to leave it there for time. tim christoph,

in there from the un violent program, colombians are celebrating a landmark court ruling that decriminalize is abortion up to 24 weeks of pregnancy . it's the latest game for abortion, rights, and latin america where some of the wells, toughest curbs are meeting growing opposition. monica naca reports women's rights activists shed tears of joy for years. they've been fighting for the right to legal abortion. now columbus constitutional court has made it possible that we could cheve meant for all women. we want a greater recognition of our full citizenship, more security over our bodies, and over our sexual and reproductive rights. oh, i can do that every year. colombian prosecutors open 400 cases against women, accused of having illegal abortions, or those would lie gently helped them. more than 340 women have been convicted

since 2006. until now, colombian women were only allowed to terminate pregnancies, in cases of rape fetal deformity, or if the mother's life was in danger. but even those exceptions weren't always respected. in atlanta, both middle bank just and 202-4000 girls between 10 and 14 years gave birth pregnancies and children that young can only be the result of ripe. the only explanation for such high numbers is that women needed more protection. that's what we fought for. so 4 out of 5 judges voted in favor of extending abortion rights. despite opposition from the catholic church and pro life activists who prayed in front of the court. man, i mean the feminists believe this is a step forward for women. when embryology it's a step backwards because the fight for women's rights doesn't include murdering others. it's amazon denazi's young, president of undock. it was opposed his wealth. he sang, the decision is too big to be made by 5 judges on the name on that coy,

allowing abortions until 24 weeks. columbia's court has raised the bar e compared to countries which have taken giant steps to defend women's reproductive rights on what most countries the time limit for having an abortion is for shorter . in the meantime, women activists say it's not enough to have their rights on paper. they say they'll keep fighting to make sure the law is implemented. monica not give al jazeera hundreds of undocumented migrants of clashed with the national guard and the saw the mexican city of tampa trula. mostly from haiti and africa. the i've been demonstrating in front of the national migration institute for almost a month, a demanding that documents be process so they can safely enter the us state. police joined the national guard to help control the protests. there are long queues for fuel in sri lanka. the government is running low on foreign currency, which is needed for impuls. there was shortages that many pumps. the state owned

oil company can't get loans to buy more fuel because it's already 3 and a half $1000000000.00 in death. if you shortage is also crippling the power grid and this is leading to rolling blackouts, india and pakistan our previous on political and trade disputes to transport much needed aid to i've gone a storm. 50000 tons of wheat grown and india is being taken through pakistan as an india correspondent with brian and reports from the border. it's a rare sign of cooperation of the trade links ended almost 3 years ago. the indian trucks carrying we'd arrive at the border with pakistan. the cargo has been transferred to afghan trucks. the compromise reached between india and pakistan because both wanted to use their vehicles. the weight will now be transported 650 kilometers to the afghans city of gelata, bought him on the what i thought it took us a long time to reach india and now we are going back to have gone to sun via

pakistan border. we are very grateful to india for the support to the downtrodden of guns. india propose sending the weight to have gone astound last october, but it took 4 months of negotiations to make it happen. job manager and assistance . several you and resolutions, which emphasized that any medicaid in the system not being sent to have this done by the international community should be facilitated or trade between india and pakistan has been suspended since august 2019. the food date is one on just a handful of areas of cooperation between the 2 countries and who and a half years boxed on suspended bilateral trade off to india, revoke the autonomy of indian administered kush, made in 2019. both countries have no direct travel relations either and their missions and deli, and as lama bob has been, can lead downsize, the, the world food program will distribute the a to some of the 9000000 afghans. it says,

i just one step away from famine. you can imagine when you have people with nothing and cold winter families having to send their little kids to su, pawleys or to decide who to feed or not children. malory's, pregnant and like taking mothers nothing to eat and the government expects the $50000.00 tons of weight to be delivered. within 3 months. elizabeth brought him al jazeera at the toddy walk at border crossing in punjab. honda is on the pucker fountain side of the border. i'm just a few 100 meters from the international boundary between india and budget on the walk. our daughter, a border day of our drivers, are going to be transporting weight from india, which was donated by the indian government. the world food program and drug have

already been cleared on the indian side. but it will take more time for those trucks to be cleared by buckets on the customs of the ridge, the convoy will drive under guard to the border door from dest trying to reach the bod from where it will be handed over to avoid food program. this is 50000 tons of donated by india. the people of one it's done not long ago. it was a big border crossing where trade between the 2 country. however, after a j made in good bread d 9, did that trade came to a grinding heart. these drug, some of the 1st drug to be crossing from india into budget on laden reduction and read the united nation dead already worn. there. 25000000 people in one or on may

fed ex dream hunger. while 9000000 people have delivered a brush. bake of famine budget don had done because of the exception of the situation existing and i've run it done on your manner daddy and ground to allow the indians to be able to donate the people of honest on c advisor to the prime minister on economic affairs already hinted that they did beneficiary for board india and budget on also to be able to use their tray, the party drugs, the 1st of the lot. they are going to be many more of our drugs who carry that $50000.00 in a matter of 30 days, data and important developments that may provide an opportunity for boarding nuclear countries to start reading again. religious groups in australia have expressed regress about the shelving of proposed legislation, protecting minority fates. the bill aimed to ban discrimination based on

a person's religious beliefs. there was concern could be used to target people and l g b t communities. sarah clark reports from prison rather saying is the head of the australian seek association. he represents of faith that is considered a minority religion in australia, but is the fastest growing. he says, despite his rising popularity, it's still widely misunderstood in the country, and is often vilified by some members of the public. teaks look different to a normal person veering turban, then sporting beads. so in a way it, sir, it's so maria, difficult situation for, for a growing kid serves greatly in the, in the schools legislation proposed by australian parliament would have offered protection to people who felt exposed because of their own religious beliefs and such discrimination in their workplace. school or university would have been banned,

but critics argued the bill would enable prejudice against other groups, including gay teachers and students, and should cover all forms of discrimination. it was amended to include laws preventing religious schools, discriminating against students on grounds of their gender and sexuality. that cause division in federal parliament and the bill was shelved, politics should be left out and it should be all about the people who they serve. so at the end of the day, everybody should be treated equal. some community leaders say it's not just a matter of discrimination, but also of safety. since the massacre of 51 people by gunman in an attack on 2 mosques in christ church, 3 years ago, members of some religious group say they feel targeted. and this bill offered greater protection, women are concerned about wearing the file and stepping outside because all the attention that attracts the vilification, et cetera. and we're certainly,

we've had direct reports where women, for instance, think twice before they step out. many australia considered the country promotes a multi cultural environment, but there are no national laws specifically protecting people against religious discrimination. if they are raising concerning my child that their rights are being undermined on the religious rights. and it's something we should take seriously. the religious discrimination bill may be shelved for now. there's some faith so hoping that federal parliament will revive at a given the contentious nature of the debate. that's unlikely to happen any time soon. and a federal election is expected by may this year. sarah clark out 0 brisbin, australia ah, this is out there, and these are the tops towards the u. s. is opposing new sanctions or russia, cutting off 2 major institutions from western financing. the move comes after

president vladimir putin recognized the independence of 2 separatist held areas of eastern ukraine. the u. s. sector of state has cancel the meeting.