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a deadline to start paying and roubles. germany calls it blackmail. i'm john, hindered in alabama. really striking my workers who've been on the picket lines for a year, still hoping for a contract, still hoping to get their job back. and on the same, with your school to through a decade of will cut preparations, the drawer for the tournament, and concert takes facing doha in a few hours time. welcome to the news, our 5 weeks into the war. ukraine says russian forces are withdrawing from the north and areas around the capitol. it includes hosta mel. that's where russian troops seized an airport in the 1st few days of the invasion. a troops are also leaving the northern city of china. heave after shelling it for days. russia has pledged to reduce its operations in those areas during negotiations in istanbul taking place this week. and further,

virtual talks between the warring sides are set to get underway in the coming hours . the red cross is leading an evacuation of civilians from mario paul on friday, but it's unsure if aid can be delivered. around a 160000 people remain trapped in the besieged port city with little food, water, or shelter. we go and live to have some i had better from moscow in a moment. but 1st let's bring in rob mcbride, who's joining us from the vive in western ukraine. so ukrainian officials are saying that russian forces are withdrawn from several areas north of keys. how is this withdrawal being explained? rob? that's right, we're getting reports from a number of different locations as cities and towns all between this at the area of the fighting. basically the northern front at between keys in the border with russia, the authorities of the capital a cave say there are some places on the outskirts of the cities such as air, pin and bravery. these are places that are seen a lot of the intense fighting of recent weeks. the troops,

russian troops have been withdrawing their unit. so from there also a gas stove mel. this is the location of a very important airport facility in a military facility just to the northwest of keith. now this was taken by russian paratroopers. you remember the very 1st day or so of the conflict. it was retaken with a counter attack by the ukrainians. gradually, as the russians advanced, they took this airport again. well, now footage is emerged on social media drone 14 showing a very a deserted airport but very badly damaged facility. but the russians having left from there also from cherokee, this is a city very close to the russian border. the governor of that city says that not only have russians pulled back from the city, but also out of the region as well. he said, so it does seem as though the russians are withdrawal units. they said they would do, they said there would be concentrating on the east of the country. it's difficult to tell exactly what these units are going to do. now they, it does look as though they are being reorganized regrouping, replenished,

you remember, some of these units have actually been out in the field living on the canvas set for months. they were on. i suppose it exercises him. gallo russia in russia itself from last november december, so they would be in need of replenishment or of new recruit said joining the ranks have been regrouping and waiting to see what they do. but of course, the fighting still as intense in the east of the country and also down in the south around maria pope. so and thinking of my up on how our efforts going to get people out of the besieged port city a, it has been problematic to say the least to try to get the 2 sides to agree to a cease fire to allow that humanitarian corridor to be set up, they have been trying out for a couple of days, but according to the international committee of the red cross, the, i'll see they have the 2 sides have agreed just today friday, a to set up finally at this sci fi to allow the convoy and to get in the ukrainians

have sent down towards the city now 50 full buses which it is hoped will basically form the, the most of the convoy to bring aid into the city. but also bring people out, many of the 1000 to a desperate to get out the ukrainians. also hope that other private vehicles and cars will be allowed to join this convoy to go along the coast above dance, which is a, a city, this guy controlled by the russians, but then had north into ukrainian territory. but it remains to be seen just when that will happen. the latest we are getting from the deputy mare of mary paul is simply until now it has simply been too dangerous for anybody. i tried to leave the city also accusing the russians in the last couple of days of stopping even small amounts of humanitarian aid getting into into medical. all right, thank you so much. rob mcbride reporting from the ve been western ukraine now. the ukranian president vladimir zalinski has warned russia as consolidating and preparing powerful strikes in the countries east and south. russian forces have

faced tough resistance in their battle for a car. keith. the 2nd biggest city in the country is report by i said, bake contains distressing images from the starts. there's only death here. bodies of young russian soldiers lying unclaimed, apparent victims of port tactics or so the ukrainians tell us you're watching, considering for you for the day it was very intensify and our guys had high morale . a special operation was plan together with a 92nd brigade. they flanked this position and then cleared the russians had poor defensive position, say the enemy's exposing them to ukrainian artillery. this was a russian defensive line. all along here you have what's left over of this intense battle burnt out. tanks, weapons left behind grenades. they didn't even have time to take some of their

data with everywhere we look, there are signs of battle with and fear of chemical attack, ukrainian soldiers salvage what's left. the village of mother rowan is back under ukrainian control, but the cost has been high. a fierce battle pushed the russians away from the gates of her keith porsha, just like the glare. 21 year old. you jenny, has been awarded, ukraine's highest honor for destroying 5 tanks and other heroics during battle of the war. he tells us it's the 1st time he's come across the use of phosphorus, the highly flammable chemical force from bug, but she'll rosabelle m as we 3. but it, it, with my 1st experience with phosphorus airstrikes will know scary, is the phosphorus you saw 1st, they used the air strikes than the phosphorus below. my eyes were burning. i

couldn't breathe through my nose. it was like really difficult to brute those. but the equipment was burning, just gate was bad, the thing and below not quite independently verify its use. this is one of the main streets. in this village. i just completely destroyed every building, every window. everything that you see has some sort of damage. there's bullet holes in the doors, the windows have been blown at the bricks all over the place. and we've been told that we can only stick to this main road because everywhere around hasn't been completely de mind, because the fear is that the russians have left minds and booby traps behind for the ukrainian soldiers taking this place. but as you seek, there's not much left. i said bake algebra outside huck if an oil de po, in the rest of the city of belgrade, on the border with ukraine is on fire. the city is governor,

says ukrainian military helicopters attacked it, but keith has not claimed responsibility and munitions up near bulger. roads caught fire on wednesday that anya d. d has more from bell dorado and russia. la la, la la calhoun, that previously there were some incidents where ukrainian shells fell over some villages in belgrade region. but russia says this is the 1st time an oil facility has been targeted. the governor says to ukrainian helicopters penetrated the russian air space without being noticed by the air defense systems and targeted and oil tank. fires are still blazing at the oil facility, and the russian ministry of emergency announced that the fire fighting operations are still ongoing with around $200.00 fighters using about 60 special units to fight the fires. all the people in the area have been evacuated. also, the russian ministry of emergency has mentioned that they fear the fire skin spread to 8 oil containers. the mayor of belgrade region denied then use that to people

have been injured and received unnecessary treatment to lava. so fire fighting operations are still going on. and so as to prevent any fire spread to other oil containers and tanks. and now we're bringing how some hot about our he's joining us from moscow to tell us what officials are saying about got incidents in belgrade. hash them. and also the state of peace talks well there in the governor burgers is saying that the helicopters involved in the attacks were flying at low altitude and the target of the fuel depot in blood, which is on the, on the border with the ukraine. the authorities are saying that they are making all the necessary efforts to ensure there's no disruption of fuel in the, in the area. the same time in the 1st reaction, the kremlin said that the attack on belgrade is not going to be helpful in the talks with ukraine. and as far as those stokes top are concerned,

or russian foreign minister. so gay, love ra from india said that there's a progress in those talks and that russia is working on our response to the proposals made by the ukrainians, insisting other same time that the ukrainians understand. now the status of both crimea and a duly asked until hands as follows. crimea is concerned. you remember that when the russians have been insisting, and one of the key elements of the deal is for the ukrainians to recognize crimea as russian, and also recognized both self declared republics of the guns. and on his way remains to be seen. how chalks, with further evoke particular when it comes to other issues, particularly when it comes to the security arrangements that ukraine has been asking for. something similar to the nature's collective defense mechanism. and they're both of the key guarantors will be playing to in the future to secure and to the, the security of ukraine. love. rob has also been saying that the, the,

the west and nato were trying to use the ukraine as a front to further undermine the stability in russia. and now that russia is sending a clear message, the can not tolerate this to happen. and this, he says, this explains why we're launching this a special operation in via credit integrate and of course house. and the other big headline is that the deadline for, or countries to pay for russian gas. and rubles that deadline is today. what's happening with that? well, today they are russian energy company gas from said that he sent messages to the main suppliers, the contractors asking them to, to start paying in the local currency or the rouble. and so gay lovegrove, when he was asked about this particular question about the new rule which is, has been implemented which ask all the or the supplies to be accepted in rubel has said that his country has been attacked economically by the west and by the

americans or that they have been imposing sanctions of that, it's about time for russia to create its own mechanisms to protect its own economy and shield itself from any further repercussions from the impact of those sanctions . and he said that this is why we are now asking all those countries to be in rural . it further elaborated on what is widely seen as a russian perspective. when it comes to this whole issue. he said that the u. s. in particular, wants to impose a world or that dominated by the us, where the euro, we're the, the daughter, and then the euro are the key currencies. now, as far as russia is concerned, it wants to also ensure that its local currency is the key global currency in, in global trade. and i think the russians have been saying so far that they are adamant they would have to go forward with the need for all those companies to pay them in rubble. okay, thank you so much. has him had about our reporting from moscow?

we'll continue this conversation and speak to chris weaver, who's the chief executive officer of macro advisory, a strategic consultancy focused on rush and eurasia. joining us from london, welcome to al jazeera, so at gaz. brown at the heart of this. but is this more about protecting it? from future sanctions than it is depriving europe of gas. yes, exactly. exactly right. this is to some extent, is because medic, because the actual procedure that's changing requires the gas customers in europe to pay into gas from bank in dollars or euro's as part of the existing contract. and then guys from bank will convert that money into roubles for, for onward transmission to 2 gas problems. so the only change that's being made today is that there's now a new kind of intermediary bank from bank in the payment process. but for europe in customer system, a in euro's and dollars,

and then the reason the russia has done this is possibly, is a move towards eventually moving everything to a ruble contract. but this is not the case right now. this pretty much ensures that gas from bank cannot be sanctioned because of course the, the critical issue for, for the rushed economy is that it is able to not only export key commodities like gas, but also that it can be paid for and can bring the money back to moscow, therefore, it needs at least one big bank to remain able to use the global swift payment system. and gas from bank is, is one of those banks. and it now means that is pretty much ring for or fireproof, if you like from being and food in the future sanctions because that would automatedly then the to a default in the payment system like how likely is it. but here a p and countries actually paying roubles? no, they don't have to pay in rubles. they pay to go from bank in dollars of years and

then go from bank, we'll take care of the conversions of the do not. this is, this is not a move to ruble payments, such by the customers. it simply puts an intermediary bank in the system that then pays russia in roubles, but the customer will continue to pay years or dollars. and that's been confirmed by president people. and bye bye bye, both transfer shows and, and the italian prime minister, who said that the confirmation from president putin saw it is a kind of a change in the payment system. but it is not moved to, rubles yet. we're a long way off that we, we did here, however, about 24 hours ago from the german chancellor who called this political blackmail to the extent that now europe cannot really sanction guys from bank. and therefore, they cannot cut russia from the global financial system because if they were to sanction guys from bank, then it means that germany or other european countries could not pay for their gas

. and therefore they would disrupt the contract and lead to gas disruption. so to that extent, it does raise the stakes and it means that, you know, europe pretty much has to know kind of a treat guys from bank separately. otherwise they could run the risk of gas disruption. so it does raise the stakes, but it's, it is not what we originally were told, which is the customers would have to pay rubles into gas from today. that's not the case. they pay their foreign exchange into gas from bank. who does this conversion for them? it makes from bank more important for the rushing payment system and also for europe's energy security. understood. so just on the issue though, of gas disruption. i mean, there, there had been some speculation up to this point that could russia actually turn off the top to europe? is that likely at this point? i would say no, not at all. because remember, russia is just as dependent on the money it receives for export and gas as the

european customers are for their energy needs. so this would be a mutually destructive moved by russia, and there's no indication that russia is planning that they are certainly playing clever as it were. with regard to the payment systems, try and protect gas for bang to try and protect $1.00 russian banking system. but there is no indication whatsoever to russia is planning on disrupting export flows . despite everything to something at a medical level and ukraine, russia has been consistently, has been very consistent in this position that it will always honor foreign contracts, provided the country party does the same. so russia stays, it will not be the one to break the contract. it is kind of tailoring the contracts, but he said it never break so that there's no indication whatsoever to russia is planning to cut of any energy supplies or other material supplies to the west, so long as they can get paid for those exports. i'm just looking at sort of the

bigger picture and the price of crude oil, it has been inflationary over the past couple of months as you know. how do you, how much pressure do you think there is on other oil producing nations to turn up their, their oil production? when katie, there's a lot of pressure from the consuming countries to, to do so on opec countries in particular. but do bear in mind that opec plus group has been struggling to actually meet their production targets anyway. they have not said they took a long time, for example, to raise production to the january agreed levels. and since then of the paulding well short. so of course conflict, saudi arabia or do have spare capacity, but they seem unwilling to move too quickly because remember, they're now making, finally, making a lot of money, running budget surplus based on the current all price. those countries, i've been running budget deficits for years with lower oil price and only now have sort of move back into

a budget surplus. so they're not willing or not willing to jeopardize that, to add it to do anything that flash price and therefore bring them back into a budget deficit situation. so it's not surprising therefore, that the opec countries that have capacity or unwilling to turn that on at this stage, we of course have the management from us that they're going to happen, strategic reserves. and that's can, but really that's not going to make much difference. interesting, your price is still holding well above a $100.00, because the strategic reserve released us only covers the amount of oil that the u . s. the bending from from russia, approximately a $1000000.00 or $7000000.00 barrels a day. so it doesn't really, it only covers the missing oil, it doesn't really add any extra oil in the globe of system. so that since yesterday shouldn't disrupt the oil price. and that's what the market is telling you today. thank you so much. chris weaver for breaking it all down for us from long and now

plenty more. head on the al jazeera and his hour, including poland capital, under pressure, thousands of refugees are streaming into war thought, but can city services keep up? in 4th, peter will explain why it was an emotional day for an i only osaka, in my end. ah, but 1st the war ukraine is front and center of talks between china and the european union, brussels as pressing beijing for assurances that will neither supply russia with arms, nor health moscow circumvent western sanctions. the virtual summit is also aimed a diffusing growing tension between the 2 sides in a moment's we'll go live to dominant cane and berlin. but 1st katrina you is joining us from beijing to tell us what china is hoping to get out of the summit. katrina well, china really wants to strengthen it,

ties its ties with the you. the block has overtaken asian as china is biggest trading partner in 2021. the cheer did a walk, a more than $700000000000.00 worth of trade. so during this virtual summit, beijing is going to try to underline the mutual benefit of strengthening that relationship at one stoves or shake off this label of systemic rival, which you officials have been calling china since 2019. now, on the agenda, according to aging, will be things like other than trade, climate change working together on the environment, but efficient are really going to want to 0 in on the ukraine crisis, specifically beijing stance when it comes to this war and its support of russia it's going to try to convince paging to be on europe side when it comes to western sanctions. now the big problem with this is that china has a very friendly so called strategic partnership with russia, russia, foreign minister, again love ralph was just in beijing meeting with china's foreign minister,

one year on wednesday. and during that meeting, the aging reiterated this description of the china russia relationship having no limits. and of course, we had to prove to himself in the aging meeting with chinese president, she jan king invading just weeks before the russian invasion took place. and china has continued to do business as usual with russia for the duration of this war. so european officials are really going to push china. they're going to want assurances that china is not going to try to help moscow sidestep economic sanctions are just not going to provide military aid. and paging so far has denied that. so during this meeting on friday, it's going to want to diffuse those tensions preserve this robust trading relationship that has with the you know, so try to find some common ground with you. officials ok, let's find out if they can do so with dominant cane. he's joining us from berlin. katrina, thank you for the time being. so dominic, china, your relations were already on rocky ground before the ukraine crisis. how are you

countries looking at the summit? well as katrina has just been telling us the use position, these are the china is very much the hope that the chinese can use their good offices to try to in to see, to try to persuade the russians that a retraction and withdraw a due thing of the situation ukraine isn't everybody's interests. one interesting thing to point out here is what certain you officials have been saying all were saying prior to someone getting underway on the sidelines on this, which is a factor pointing out, look that the embed you the, the element of russian trade china, about 2.4 percent, which is dwarfed by the land to trade between china and the you 10 times as much more than 25 percent with you. and therefore it's important the china to remember in the us the officials who is doing most of its trading ways. but there are issues

sticking points between you and china. far away from the idea of what's going on in ukraine. we know that from the you perspective, the e u has expressed its real dissatisfaction with the way it believes that china has been dealing with the weaker population inside china that has anger. the chinese government and chinese government said it's not for the new to try to interfere in the internal affairs of a sovereign country. so it has to be said, there are many people in the media and others looking on this thing, but it should not be. we should be expecting too much to emerge from this and certainly katrina is right. you is looking hoping that it will be able to persuade the chinese side to do whatever it can to persuade the russians to defuse the situation. and certainly the stress from you is that chinese should not be trying

to get help to walk flooded. putin and his forces are doing and ukraine. all right, thank you so much dominant. came reporting from berlin. now since russia's invasion, more than 2000000 ukrainians have fled to neighboring poland, the mayor of warsaw is pleading for help. the capital is already struggling to cope and a potentially overwhelming 2nd wave of refugees is expected. kimberly, how can, how's more? ah, warsaw is a city under stress within days of rushes, invasion of ukraine, the children of refugees started showing up at polish schools such as this one desperate for normalcy. some still in shock. no toys belmont flirted with her nagging dis, is a tragedy. the biggest problem isn't needing shoes or clothes is the psychological site. these children don't want to be in poland, demis their fathers fernando, going across town at one of warsaw as busy as hospitals. the situations the same,

every day on top of serving hundreds of polish patients, ukrainian refugees are showing up by the dozens of the sole bullet. often i got a value of the wolf. me usually it's infections. they also have all kinds of aches, muscle eggs, stomach aches, di, rear respiratory infections. sometimes they a bruised from traveling out of china. since the start of russia's war and ukraine, poland has absorbed roughly half of the 4000000 refugees that have fled. within weeks, warsaw saw it's 1800000 population swell by more than 20 percent overwhelming city services. it's estimated there are more than $400000.00 ukranian refugees living in and around warsaw. they're drawn to the region because poland government has promised free education and health care for ukrainian refugees living in poland

for up to 18 months. warsaw is barely managing. that's because there's no system for delivering these services on a mass scale. people ask me, what's the problem? there are no tense there. no camps of refugees. yes, because they have been accepted to our homes. but if we have more and more and more and we have no strategy, then of course the system will break down and it will mean that we will be overwhelmed and that we are not going to be able to effectively hope all the refugees. warsaw mayor says the international community is providing assistance, but he was the united nations to help manage the effort. so far, poland government has refused. the mayor says he's not sure how much longer the city can cope. and the refugees who are currently being welcomed into warsaw may soon have nowhere to go. kimberly help get al jazeera warsaw, poland. still aheads, on the al jazeera news,

our 365 days of no paid why these miners in alabama are holding the picket line. and the longest strike in the us states. history and, and, and the a legends record is overtaken by a new modern day hero. peter won't explain, it's one 0, ah, ah, hello there this time, last week, much of europe was basking in unseasonable warmth. well, things have changed and turned very wintery. we saw snow fall in parts of the u. k . some of those flakes falling in west london, but it wasn't enough to settle and there is going to be more wind to whether it's a come wintry showers for pots of britain and ireland. it's going to be cold to hip, the heaviest snow we have to look to more sensual areas. france has got some

warnings out for snow. the low countries as well, and that's going to extend further east across the alps. both forgot cold conditions, bringing temperatures down. we have a look at the 3 day for zurich. well, we're going to be touching freezing on saturday as that heavy snow comes in, but it isn't improving picture by sunday. now for the south of this is where we're seeing the very unsettled weather. temperatures are higher here, but that's causing some severe storms to roll across into italy and the balkans. we could see some flooding here and we've got some warnings out for. * strong winds across the mediterranean. no farther west of this. however, for spain and portugal, we're going to see the sun come back into southern areas. it's much settled picture here. and it's a similar story for greece, with sunshine in athens on the weekend. ah . when the shots came from the holiday and the 1st tracks,

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a top stories on the dollar. russian forces are continuing to withdraw from areas north of keys. it includes hospital where true fees, the airport in the 1st few days of the russian invasion, moscow announced that would scale back its military operations in the area on tuesday. and all that has been set on fire in the russian city of belgrade. that's near the border with ukraine. the cities governor says 2 workers were injured in an attack by 2 ukrainian military helicopters. ukraine husbands claimed responsibility . buses are heading to the besieged port city mario poland,

southern ukraine to evacuate trap residence. he has accused russian forces of blocking the convoy, despite announcing a local fire. while the russian foreign minister says he hopes trade with india can bypass the use of the us dollar, saying russian money was being stolen over nights, circuit laboratories in new delhi for talks with his indian counterparts. he says the unreliability of western nations means using national currencies is essential for the future. we don't want to give them the cisco, which would be glows in it. and we're going to want to give the system whose musters can steal your wonderful women. as regards to your emotion to blue oil supplies, supplies will hide technology. if you do want us to learn anything from us, we are easy to discuss and to reach mutually suitable for so cool. that's got more

on those with elizabeth veronica. she's joining us from new delhi, so we're hearing saga oliver of speaking about establishing alternative payment systems. elizabeth, tell us more about what he had to say. hello derrick, that's right. so j leverage said that for many years now that russia has been working with india, with china and with other countries to establish these alternate payment systems using national currencies. for those reasons, because he said that it is not that western nations have not been reliable and that this is now the time to intensify all of these efforts. and in fact, officials from the russian and indian central banks have been meeting this week to work on those alternate payment systems and how to use bags which are immune to us factions. so gala rove also spoke about what he described as

a very close relationship and friendship with india. and he said that he appreciated, and he is what he called. and he as an independent foreign policy, that they respect each other's mutual interests. and that sentimental really on the line, they discussions on friday, on regional and on international issues. and again said that with the west imposing sanctions on russia, that they are bound, he said by the markets that they are open to looking at other markets to creating these other markets. and again that they are ready to sell what ever indian needs. now, india's and ports of russian oil last month will 4 times the amount that they were in march of last year. and that is because russia has been offering oil and other commodities to india at low prices. it's something that india has faced some

criticism over, but india's government, the external affairs minister, has very much defended these import, saying that a, whenever there is a rise in fuel prices, that to all countries that any countries will look at acquiring fuel at lower prices. and he said that energy supply, the energy that india imports from russia is only about one percent of its total energy needs. and speaking of the relationship between the 2 countries, i mean, they are a long term allies as you're saying low. so how was india withstanding pressure from western nations to condemn russia's actions and ukraine? while so far it has abstained from all of the votes at the united nations on russia and ukraine. and it has said that it will continue to maintain this independent foreign policy, which again, russia has said that it's very grateful for and has been interesting to see some

was of a shift you could say, because when the russian invasion of ukraine began, we heard from countries like the u. s. and the u. k saying they would really like to see india take a much tougher stand against russia. but more recently the u. k. foreign secretary less trust. she was in india and new delhi on thursday. and she said that india was a sovereign nation and that the u. k. wasn't going to tell india what to do. she was referring to the indian imports of russian oil. we also heard from the u. s. state department on thursday, and they said that washington isn't looking to change india's relationship of moscow, but they will remind india and all of their partners and allies that they have to use whatever influence they have to put an end to the wall. but really interestingly that we had much um, harsher woods, you could say from the deputy us national security advisor who was for international economics who was in india on thursday. and that he said that they will be severe consequences for anyone who tries to circumvent us. sanctions on russia, it's banks. right. and also that, that,

that india really can't look to russia to have any influence in his ongoing disputes with, with china that it would be foolish of india to think that thank you so much, elizabeth moran. i'm reporting from the deli, singapore, malaysia, have reopened their borders after 2 years of covered 19 closures. people who are vaccinated can now visit without having to quarantine. but they'll have to show a negative covert test. partially vaccinated, people have to corn teen for 5 days. thousands of people have been crossing a one kilometer road between the 2 countries. it had been closed since the pandemic begun. florence louis has more from malaysia's capital, kuala lumpur. y 04184 o w. after 2 long years of border coaches. malaysia is welcoming back taurus from abroad. your quarantine requirements for fully vaccinated travelers are lifted from friday during 3 earth. impossible to go here? impossible. i'm certainly very good id auburn again. so i'm here for the 1st

the and very heavy. the building manager jim visitors still have to show a negative cov 19 test result before they leave their home nations and undergo another test on arrival. foreigners must also have travel insurance with a minimum value of $20000.00. travel agencies like this one have already seen a surge in the number of malaysians traveling overseas. after the government lifted a travel band last tobar. they're now hoping they'll also be a boom and visitors from abroad request are there, but i think we have to wait a couple of more months to see uh whether or not they do materialize. and i think i think part of it is that the government still has ah, restriction imposed. so unless it's removed, i don't think tourism would really go back to prevent them in time as fast as we expected to be. the tourism industry was badly hit when malaysia shut its borders

in 2020, and domestic tourism was also affected when interstate travel was banned. for much of last year, malaysia transitioned to prepare for an endemic phase of corona. virus also means other restrictions are being lifted. prayers and religious activities can now be held without physical distancing requirements, which means most like this one here can be filled to capacity once again is different when this is cathy enduring path is different. it feels different when he even knows congregational while, but this space in between your a huge difference is not saying you stand saw volleyball disorders or lou, malaysia reported a daily average of more than 18000 new corona virus cases in the last week. but most were mild or without symptoms. the government has indicated it's prepared to ease more restrictions over time. as the world learns to normalize life. with corona virus, florence li, algebra, cologne, port. hope frances has asked for forgiveness from indigenous leaders in canada,

calling for an apology, following decades of child abuse in church run schools. 150000 indigenous children were taken from their families and forcibly sent to the residential schools mostly run by the catholic church. the canadian government aim was to assimilate 1st nations anyway, and met his children into mainstream society, from 831 until the 1990 s. at least 3200 children died in the schools. they were forbidden from speaking their native languages and sexual abuse, violence and neglect were common. item rainy's joining us lie from vatican city. tell us more about what pro. but pope frances said today to canada's indigenous communities at him. well, during the most important thing he said is, i'm sorry he officially apologized, asked for their forgiveness. and he said along with the canadian bishops he asked

further, pardon? he called these acts that you just described, deplorable. he said they totally run counter to the teachings to the gospel of jesus christ. so he said, how can you teach someone the faith if you are going against the faith in the way that you teach it? so coming into this final day of a week long conference, many were questioning if he would make an official apology and just moments ago here st. peter's, he did. they also were asking if he didn't, that they would want them to come to canada and apologize. there, well he's already apologized and he also just said he's going to visit canada. so these were perhaps not a 100 percent expected. this was what these community delegates were hoping for. and they seemed to have really moved hope francis in their meetings throughout the week. so what else our delegates asking of the pope adam what's the varied group of several different 1st nations people, and some of them are asking for the return of artifacts from indigenous communities

. this vatican behind me is also home to one of the world's largest museums, the vatican museum, and they have many indigenous artifacts from all over the world and even from canada. so there's that. and perhaps more importantly, many are asking for the vatike into released church records so they can see more specific documentation of possible abuse that might have occurred at the schools in canada. so those are the, the main other things that they're asking the pope, and we're not clear if he's going to deliver on those. but he did you say it's going to visit canada. so we'll be seeing more developments in a month to come out and we'll keep us across the story. thank you so much. adam rainy reporting from the vatican city in alabama. the longest strike in the u. s. states history shows little fine of being resolved. members of the coal miners union walked off the job in april last year. they want better wages, john, 100 reports. this is a portrait of patience. these miners have spent a year picketing to get their jobs back,

but warrior met coal has yet to offer them even what they earned before they went on strike. a way to just get back 5 years ago. i think i think a lot of gas will be happy with it. that's $365.00 days without regular pay. the longest strike in alabama history with 1100 miners living off a union strike fund. and i had plans to go to houser, to move on with my life. all that money's gone every day. they watch non union replacement workers drive to their old jobs. that's led to some confrontations by replacement workers. and by striking minors, prompting a judge to temporarily ban picketing when the strikers returned, chris broo. baker says there'll be some harsh words for those who crossed the line . i'm sure you got me a lot of things say it in the bath house. they probably said me said on adding pelvis descending more than 600 meters beneath the earth for scraps of coal is a dangerous job. in 2001, my number 5 exploded,

killing 13 miners. a year after the strike began. these mine workers are still out here drawing attention to their cause, occasionally getting a hunk of support from passers by. we asked warrior met coal for comment, but they didn't respond. i am reason where they become a cause celeb drawing support from nationally known activists like rage against the machine guitar as tom morello, and by taking their cars on the road to new york, ah, out through the miners picketed in front of black rock, a major investor and warrior met cole. the alabama miners are hoping to take part in a comeback of shorts for unions in the us, even here in the anti union south than a so called right to work state that bands unions from collecting dues, from any worker who doesn't volunteer them. the desire for work is who here to for have had to give concessions at every bargaining table. discovering that they are

a commodity and they are forced to be reckoned with after $365.00 days. these minor said they're not going anywhere. we're not going back down, we were not back down. we will not turn around. and it was one day longer one day strawman, even if it takes another year. john henderson, al jazeera brookwood, alabama early results of a vote by amazon employees in new york suggest most of them want to join a union. it would be the 1st of the company sites in the us to become unionized vote counting continues on friday. workers at an amazon warehouse in the state of alabama also voted, but appear to have rejected forming a union that result could be overturned after a recounts. amazon is the 2nd largest employer in the u. s. still ahead on the al jazeera news, i will have the sports news. peter will be here and will be building up to a big moment in del ha. as the draw takes place for the 2022 world cup.

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boys day dreams kicked around on the streets of their childhood. are now the pride and pressures of men. soon to be measured in gold scored and shot saved by cutters . national football team. when these 23 players take to the pitch in november, they know many might view them as a long shot. barbara asian cove, jumbo's a. so going to be easy for the teams to when it gets us, it's will be hard for them. unremitting difficult for them. this will be the teams introduction to the world cup. as host katara will be a top seed tv. this is the 1st time footballs. premier competition has been held in the middle east and only the 3rd time it's been held outside europe and the america is a lot of misconceptions about a region. it's time to to bring people are closer to each other. i think us 14 and, and definitely full dilemma. and even more like a wilco can do so ha ha. since 2010. cut our one. the bid to host the 2022 world

cup. the country has been in a perpetual state of construction, millions of migrant workers in the last 12 years have transformed desert into the stadiums, roads, hotels, and metro system that will make the world cup a legacy for cutter. but amnesty international says thousands of workers have died due to unsafe conditions and many were exploited by employers. country officials say 3 people have died on the job for world cup related projects. and reforms have been implemented that if improved workers rights greatly, this country of 2800000 people has never hosted an event on this scale. if attendance estimates, pan out, cut ours population will swell by more than a 3rd. during the world cup to assist with security, the turkish government is sending a team of 3250 people. it includes riot police, special operations forces,

bomb experts and bomb sniffing dogs. it's also training about 700 countries, security personnel, no matter the outcome on game day cut, our national team has already logged several entries in world cup history and become the embodiment of the football aspirations of this country and region. natasha game, l g 0. doha. the draw is only a few hours away taking place at dough submission and conference agenda. get rob's bed joe. the draw is always a special moment. it's when the tumor really comes alive. what can we expect later? well, you're right, that pizza. it really. it's starting to feel very real now this troy is taking place behind me out of the mission center in around 5 hours from now. and i were expecting about 2000 especially invited guests among them. of course, the coaches of the teams that have already qualified, but also the federation presidents and some special guests to like the welcome home

basses. for example, former england captain david beckham, i will be getting some speeches from the mayor of katha, the fee for president johnny and container, but also be unveiling the mascot for this well cup. but then we'll be getting down to the business of the drawer. the bit that all of the funds around the world will be watching for that. some will know which of the teams the $32.00 teams that will qualify $29.00 of which are already in the troll. we'll find out who they'll be playing in the group stages. now that there are full parts, one includes all the 7 top well ranking teams that have already qualified, plus the host capital. and then the other teams into $23.00 and $4.00 and now will be put into 8 groups. now as i mentioned that, well i will be on the stroll later on and i'm going to bring in all africa football, janice, africa for x. but i should come again should talk about what's what we can expect from the teams from that continent. now,

also 5 teams qualified in the last week from africa. what can we expect? what it's going to be expectations? and we think that really the teams have to do better than they did in 2018 in russia because none of them met it out of the groups they did. and now you get the feeling that you know, a team like synagogue have been ranked number one in africa, says 2018. they have the quality they are. players were applying that tread in your playing at the highest level to quickly valley it. what meant the side, my nails course and that should give them a good chance at least to i, the court to find those camera know so good fighting spirit to have a, a coach who has played out the woke up before we go about song and then you have obviously gonna gonna, they have a young team, they also have some experienced players. you know, like the captain did i use playing here outside in gut? i was formerly coached by chevy. you get the feeling that, you know, he's had a lot of experience over the years and that they should do better in that regard and, you know, the funds they expect a lot i, i believe this job also quite notable by the absence of some of the african pow

houses that we've been used to seeing for so many years on the world stage for example, egypt, nigeria, what do you think went wrong for those teams and one of their funds now going to be feeling about this? well, well, obviously it's interesting. you say that because now that brings us to the discussion where we're saying, okay, we should have more representation on the african continent. 5 slots is not enough for a continent that has 54 countries because ivory course, they have top players in the world. wilford's aha, civil holler, and discipline who can you know, who to go to log to to the woke up here in cut off again nigeria, a little bit unlucky against gunner was a very close game. and also while do they can see that very late in the extra time, and these are the arab well jumping up one here in december just a few months ago. so you get the feeling that it's very sad for them. and i still fresh, it's just 72 hours since they fell to qualify, but they will be following very closely. and i think for the nigerians they'll also be supporting the rest of the african representation. i shall thank you very much. well, i shall makisha will join us a little bit later in our special program,

looking ahead to this straw and getting all the reaction from around the world. at 1545, g m t on out is there english. but for now, from here, another 5 hours of waiting to go before we find out who's teams will be drawn against who's in the great stages. so thanks a lot we'll speak to you again later. have a coach of carter is spaniard felix sanchez. he's led the team to the asian continental title and says the host will be strong opponents for whoever they're drawn against in the office ranking, almost all of them there in front of us or anything, we're going to phase. it's going to be really hard. it is the 1st time that we're going to play a woke up as a cut that saw in terms of expedient. we have less than any other team. but i think the motivation that our players, they have, they have been working very hard for the last 4 years to, to reach this woman. so i'm confident that we're going to compete and we're going to compete our best level and compete well against or feel ponens. and you can

follow the will come through as it happens live in the hall. we have a special program here on al jazeera. a coverage begins at 1545 gmc, milwaukee. buck superstore yana. since he combo has become his franchises, all time leading scorer, the greek cit. the new mark against brooklyn met you ever took the great kareem? abdul jabbar, who remains the old time leading point score a coffee in b a. this was the 3 points that in train specially to confer in facts history now has 14216 point full movie before 44 points in the same size. 12119 when full but it was an emotional day for me. i saw as she read the final the miami open. she for back from sit down to beat belinda bench on thursday. i talk, i have struggled with her form and by her own admission, her mental fe to in the last few years, jackie say will be here at the end of the match. a song will 15 coming well,

number one, eager to be on tech incense that a final. the poll saw jessica gould in straight fits on the main side will number to the new made for david. missed out on the chance to overtake novak jock of each of the top of the rankings. the rushing will beat and dr. holden who that who catch in the miami open quarter finals, there's a to a tired that of the lead aboard of the 1st round of the 1st women's gulf major of the year, the chevron championship australia's mindy lee and american jennifer capture both shot 6 under past 60 sixes at the mission hills country club on thursday is the recent history of rivalry between these 2 li one. the last major of 2021. that was the evian championship and capture was the runner up at that events. and that's all the sports needs for now. i'll be here again in a few hours with another updates. very yeah,

will speak to you then. thank you so much, peter, and thanks for watching the news. our and al jazeera nicholas is with you in just a moment. you'll have much more of the day's news. thanks for watching. bye bye. ah. mm. and i am at the ongoing ukraine. russia will some neighboring countries in a rush attack on that soil. do you take that as a serious possibility of, of rush or attack? i think there is serious possibility, and it's absolute certainty is, would like to do it own in deputy foreign minister, pamela gibbons, he talks, challenges, era, the figures, the school to land on the planet is coming to the middle east for the 1st find some

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