i for the job. well, a festival is celebrating the manasseh, your culture, which is the middle east, north africa and south asia. tonight we are celebrating south asia in another part of town. a mother picks up her children from school. she is a busy mother of to work part time yet you still find time to volunteer because there has received a record number of volunteer application up. any people world cup. this group of go on a farm to live and work in cats. so they'll get to see their team play in a country they've helped to transform a well behind me here you can make out the fee for fans festival. that's where up to 40000 supporters can watch matches on big screen with from propaganda and managed manipulation to the colossal consequences. the listening post reveals the power

behind the media and the impact on, on life. it's one of the biggest reasons why iraq is back out of democracy. there's no accountability. oh, now does iraq president putin is trying to use winter asa weapon the war. the nato secretary general calls on member states to do more to help ukraine as russian strikes destroy its infrastructure. ah, thank you for joining us. i'm cyril, than you. this is al jazeera, alive from doha, also coming up journey germany signs a 15 year gas deal with guitar to reduce its energy dependence on russia. funerals are held in the occupied westbank for, for palestinians killed drink confrontations with israeli forces. here at china sends

a manned mission to its own jangling space station. ah, and nato secretary general is calling on member states to pledge more aid for ukraine during winter as braces for more russian attacks. yes, stoughton berg spoke ahead of a nato foreign ministers meeting underway in the romanian capital. russian attacks on ukrainian infrastructure have left millions of people without power. stoughton berg accused russia of using winter as quote, a weapon of war. but he said that nato is prepared to meet this challenge. russia so recently for losses, including its withdrawal from had some demonstrate the incredible courage and bravery of the ukrainian forces. it also shows or support terms of our

support makes a difference on the battlefield and must continue the russian military and retains significant kept this on the large number of troops. it is winning to use her extreme brutality and leave ukraine cold and dark this winter. and ukraine's foreign affairs minister has urged nato to continue to provide weapons to the country's military. but he says it must work faster. the last time i was invited to the native ministerial, i came with 3 wars which were weapons, weapons, and weapons. and a lot has been done since then in helping ukraine to equip all army was necessary weapons. and you've seen how we deliver to day. i have 3 different war, 33 other works which are foster, foster and foster. we appreciate what has been done, but the war goes on. we proved that we can defeat russia. we prove that we can win

together in the interests of the entire euro, atlantic space and the world. andrew simmons is live in bucharest. so andrew, you just heard there, the ukrainian foreign minister, a saying they need weapons faster, faster, faster. is he going to get his wish? that is an open question. kula is making a very strong point here, that the supply line is slow. it's slower than they'd ideally, like, remember, europe is trying to fuel ukrainian army with an immense amount of weaponry. needs that in order to continue this fight, but it's not just the speed of delivery. it's the type of weaponry. that's a question. because right now, air defense is a colossal area of need. we seek these russian attacks from the m missiles at strikes. and also drone strikes from the rainy and made drones. there are

causing massive impact on the infrastructure for energy, also water supplies. and so what we're hearing this foreign ministers meeting is a lot of calls for assistance to try to repair this vast infrastructure. the u. s. is reportedly coming up with a plan to do this, but then what is the point in doing all the repairs? if you're not able to have a steadfast, impressive system of air defense to, to stop or at least seriously reduce the level of intense attacks. and the russians are actually making on all of the infrastructure in the ukraine. so we're expecting to have something soon from the secretary general stole to learn about what action is going to be taken. of course,

nato does not have an overarching role on deployment of weaponry. that's a political issue. it cannot be seen to be directly interfering in this conflict for obvious reasons, with russia or nuclear power. so what we're going to see is some sort of plan. it could involve the united states, it could be individual states, a but a plan to try and address this crisis, this humanitarian crisis, which is getting worse by the day. and also some sort of, some sort of initiative to bring in weaponry at a faster rate. i am trying to get the production lines and the, the process of approval in individual states to get weaponry, a supplied see if that can be improved and to at least block kate ukraine, which is very grateful. it says in every diplomatic move, it makes it, it's grateful for the assistance it's getting from european states from the united

states in particular. but the speed is the issue, the speed and the type of weaponry. andrew simmons, thank you very much. he'll tell us when you get any information on the outcome. thank you. earlier we spoke to video clips co, the mayor of key, and he says, ukraine needs nato allies to provide more military supports main point for air defense and direct systems, sir, because safety right now is mean priority for everyone in ukraine. and yes, of course we are very appreciate for support to political support, financial support him in dan health, but we need right now generators for now for our country, we need to also defense weapons and direct systems and defending systems because one more time. safety is main priority for every citizens of our hometown

in our country. it's situation right now he's holding grain and also in capital is critical because after the last rake is attacked to our hometown is our infrastructure was also have huge damages destroyed. and we were, i think, 24 hours to bring the water and heating back to apartments, to homes in our citizens. actually right now there heating can to water in the homes. but we have the deputy, the 50 percent of electricity as mean one half 1000000 citizens of our hometown without electricity, european countries diversifying their gas supplies in order to reduce their dependence on russia. with that in mind, germany has struck a deal with guitar to supply 2000000 tons of liquefied natural gas. a year starting in 2026. steel will run for 15 years while that from dominant cain in berlin.

from the german perspective, this is a deal which the minister concerned robert hardback has said is great. he said that from his perspective, this 15 year deal shows that cats are, is part of the world market. he says that there are the countries in the world market, but let's be clear cut represents one of the biggest parts of the world market. from the german perspective, a governmental perspective, that is, this is also good news because very recently they've shown the world one of the new floating l n g terminals. i've been to see myself in the port of vin, hadn't have, and, and so this deal, which would represent 3 percent of germany's gas needs. well, it will when eventually this comes through will be coming to places like that and half and, and feeding germany's gas requirements for those 15 years. but what it also spells out is clear that this environmentally concerned and conscious german government is

having to accept the needs the necessity of having fossil fuels for a very long time. mr. havoc has said we're going to be carbon neutral by 2045. steel runs to 20. 41. no question about it. right now. the situation, the energy crisis is forcing this german government to make decisions that would really prefer not to, but openly say, they say that this deal is great. dominant cane reporting there. now let's take a look at germany's gas import since the beginning of the ukraine war and how they've changed before the war. in 2021, russian gas accounted for more than half of germany's import, 55 percent. now, germany no longer receive gas directly from russia, it has halted imports through the north stream one pipeline. however, note that berlin is still importing russian gas through 3rd parties. germany has increased imports from belgium, from the netherlands,

and from norway. this deal with guitar will supply just under 3 percent. 2.7 percent of germany's annual gas needs. and no brenner is the executive editor of operations that energy intelligence. and he says, we will see germany sign more deals like this. one surely is the largest gas consumer in europe, and it has a very powerful industrial base that it needs to support. and so, you know, there are certainly going to be other other deals like this where we see germany go out to, to identify other supplies that it can bring home. because our is the most important source of supply with expansion of the north field in 2 phases. coming on roughly 20252026 years, you know, the most important chunk of additional supply coming into the world market around that time period. now, you know, we will see additional supplies coming from united states. we will see additional supplies coming now globally, from places, whether it's a new guinea other,

you know, other elegy facilities or is really the biggest. and it's also seen as, you know, they're very reliable supplier and incredible reputation in the market for meeting a contract for having their projects run effectively and efficiently. and so, you know, it's, it's probably the most important additional gas supply coming out of the global market. you're over that you're still ahead. on l 0, we will see how chinese authorities are trying to come. public anger, cause play coven, 19 lockdown. ah, anticipation is rising. and so with my counselor anyways. hello, there. the weather in south asia is looking largely pleasant. you can see from

a satellite image, barely a cloud in the sky, we still got some showers trickling into the west coast of india. that's going to change as we go into thursday. we will see that rain start to pick up on the east coast. that's as those showers creep across the bay of bengal from fear thunderstorms for the 1000 of sri lanka. and the rain continues to fall for me and my but for bangladesh baton near pole, largely clear skies, lots of pleasant conditions. and this is a new story for much of the north of india and into pakistan for central asia where we have seen temperatures come down here. we are going to the temperatures come down for vast areas of east asia that's already happened for mongolia and northern areas. of china that hold their, plunging its way towards the southeast thought, bringing some heavy rain to the likes of central and southern china. taiwan as well and into japan were like, can see those snow flurries last into thursday and the temperature is set to dip down to places like fall in the korean peninsula as well as tokyo. and the rain

continues. we've also got a bit of a wintery mix more central areas, but up in the north clear skies with lots of sunshine. beijing at 2 degrees celsius to with sponsored by cats. are there ways it's one of the most recognized sites around the world. frames for support for fall and wide. good for the fans back home is more than just a football club. anyone who says policy should be left off or does normal football is normal? politics in this says he's not gonna ah, the passion on the politics of liverpool, f. c. to fight joint part of the firms who make football series on al jazeera lou .

ah, you are watching l 0. a reminder of our headlines this hour. the war in ukraine is said to dominate talks as nato foreign ministers meet in romania. the alliance is discussing how it can help defend ukraine against russian attacks. germany has struck a deal with guitar to supply 2000000 tons of liquefied natural gas a year starting in 2026. the arrangement will run for 15 years or china has just sent 3 astronauts to it's space station while they're not there yet. the rocket was launched from the edge of the gobi desert. the crew are traveling on board the shun jo, 15 spacecraft and we'll spend the next 6 months living in the chang station. chang on means heavenly palace. and it is now the 2nd place outside of earth's atmosphere . we're astronauts have a permanent presence besides the international space station and who are the

director of the u. k. national space academy and a science advisor to the european space agency. he joins us from lester and again, we're thankful because you, you walked us through the, the, those, those delicate minutes of the launch about an hour ago now. so we're an hour into this where the astronauts and what happens an hour into a space launch. great to be with you again. so i'm just looking at my screen on the right hand side. and so since we spoke last 60 minutes ago, they've traveled just under 30000 kilometers right now. they are 380 kilometers above via over the pacific ocean. and what they're doing now is they are catching up with the jungle space station. and so they doing what's called a fast rendezvous and, and what it means is they're gonna catch up with a space station that got to talk with the space station. and bear in mind, you know, both of these structures are traveling at that speed of 98 kilometers per 2nd at once. they're there that we coining the 3 crew members who are on board can be

a handle the period of a few days. and then they're set for 6 months with a fully operational station. and one of the reasons why china has been so proud and so confident of this, you know, you remember i said you, i was amazed that they were broadcasting the launch effectively line is that this is a milestone. you said that correctly, that we've now got a 2nd space station in which we had the i ss which, which european space agencies involved with had their own, all bits for more than 2 decades. but this is a new structure, new science, the brought reason. so new capacity to be able to conduct the sorts of research in bio medicine in pharmaceuticals, in material science on these the hor chris without the effect of gravity and that gives us new insights into all of the sciences. so it's a really exciting site. how does this space station compare to the international space station, which by the way, is russian american, european and japanese yes,

we got we, we've got 15 member states are involved in the i assess, although we've conducted experiments on behalf of researchers from a 100 countries around the world, this is much smaller, this is just under a 100 toms in size, so maybe one 5th. the size slightly lower will be and slightly different angle of what color angle of inclination. now, although it is smaller, as i said, we had parts of the, i assess up there for nearly quarter of a century. it's getting old. and so as a brand new structure, with new technologies on board, morton hardware, this is really going to add to the capacity of humanity to conduct that type of research in this unique environment. is that the case that the, that the space that we could find ourselves in a situation where the chinese space station at some point becomes the only one because the i assess is going to be sunset effectively. now i was in a, i was in a meeting a couple of weeks ago with one of the senior members and a teleconference. going to senior members of the chinaman space agency as they call

it. and they design like he's 10 years. and so, you know, we're, we're looking at decommissioning the, i assess in 2031, breaking up re entering the atmosphere. so most of its life, i believe we will have these 2 structures on board. and as i say, it gives us extra capacity. but we need to remember as well that human spaceflight and exploration is a program that driven as much by geo politics as it is by the science potential. and so this is china making a really bowl statement to the world, but not only of we are right in in space flight, but we intend to be one of the real leaders in this area. yeah, and the americans are worried by the way that the, that the chinese might overtake them. and they've said as much in, in recent days ahead of this launch that listen. thank you so much for joining us. thanks for all that perspective in context. a pleasure speaking with you today. thanks very much. they're all really good to join you again. thank you. there an israeli soldier has been jail said 10 days for taunting in israeli activist and he

occupied westbank city of hebron. another soldier was film throwing an activist on the ground and pushing him. he's currently suspended. the man who is likely to be israel's new security minister. it's a mar, vandevere says the decision quote weakens the hands of soldiers from western slim alan fisher reports hospital said little news. you live feder. let's say this is jeff. this is the soldier spending 10 days in an is really army prison is really activists had gathered in the occupied westbank city of hebron. when a fact finding trip i, i it became very violent very quickly. the soldiers have been suspended. it's not clear what other punishment the soldier who through the punches no faces, but the soldier who, verbally abused one of the activists has been jailed for 10 days at the activists asked, if filming the incident was against the law, the soldier responded. i decide what the law is and you are acting against the law

. he also invokes the name of the man likely to be israel's new security minister. i'll try nationalist. it might been given saying, bank give year, we'll make order here. you've all lost it. all you do here is finished. as he walks away, you can see the skull patch on his uniform, which says one shot, one kill nor a morse. i decide it might been give you visited the family of the man jailed. he demanded the army rethink the punishment. seeing the sentence was not right. and inappropriate. it might been given, was already a controversial choice for the new rule of national security minister. he has a conviction for incitement and linked to a group described by both the u. s. and the israelis as a terrorist organization, now he's being accused of dragging the israeli army into a political row. and criticizing the leaders of an organization, you'll have to work with very closely. allan fisher al jazeera was jerusalem,

the rocky prime minister mohammed, she elsa, donnie, has arrived in iran on an official visit aimed at strengthening ties between her aunt and baghdad. the country's 2 leaders are due to discuss issues including rocky mediation between iran and saudi arabia. baghdad has hosted 5 rounds of talks between saudi arabia and iran since last year. all focused on normalizing relations . it's been 3 years since major protests against corruption in iraq, and many people say no justice has been achieved for those who died during the unrest. protesters accused the government of making iraqis even poorer while fueling ethnic and sectarian divisions. ma'am, what bill wired reports from baghdad? dish she had you had, he says, among all the memorabilia he has. these birds remind him the most of his late son. most of all, he says he takes a care of them every day. the same way. his son used to most of our was a senior year university student of administration and economics in baghdad. he was

killed by a sniper during the 2019 nationwide protest against the government. while at your leisure, my son was like all other ambitious protested with a revolutionary urge due to frustration. they saw sons of corrupt politicians having lots of money while they didn't have a penny. oh, they were disappointed by political status and crop regime family created by both iran and the united states. so they developed the state of awareness and desire to make a change. the years ago, iraq was shaken by the largest demonstrations in its modern history. crowds massed in baghdad to her, he is queer, as people demanded jobs, better services, and an into state corruption. the numbers grew and the demonstrations spread. so with leading to the resignation of former prime minister adul abdul maddie, nearly 700 protesters were killed by security forces. tens of thousands were

injured. in many cases of abductions and force disappearances were reported. while both the current and previous governments have pledged to ensure accountability for violations and abuses link to the demonstrations, victims, families and human rights organizations are still concerned. human rights activists accused iran bagged groups of carrying out the killings were not get other cormier . concerned authorities have deliberately concealed the identity of perpetrators which it names as a 3rd party because some official institutions are involved and the correct down against dissident voices and others whom money polluted the protests to shoot their interests for battle had you heard, he keeps records of people killed along with his son, including those in other provinces. he says, messages have been left on the doorstep of his house, warning him to stop us. oh,

this is worth remains of most of us in his family's house. his father says his sons of friends took some of his clothes to keep in memory of hand, to keep alive his quest and to continue seeking justice for his death. amador hate al jazeera, but that authorities have deployed additional police officers in china. they tried to head off more protests against the government. strict coven 19 controls. after forecast, more police patrolling the streets of beijing by night. oh, it's a far cry from scenes and the chinese capital just the day before. the government has increased security and several major cities. following the biggest protests and decades. and shanghai scuffles broke out when police officers demanded people believe images from their phones. and not filming any more. this woman is saying, authorities are keeping tight control of what spreading on social media. they don't

want people to see that there are other people who are. you know, courageous enough to go to the streets to protest. barricades now lined the streets where hundreds of people had gathered before calling for an end to strict lockdown, spe, warranties, mass testing, and disruptions that have been enforced for 3 years. reports quoting demonstrated, say, authorities have opened inquiries into the events of the past few days and have been summoning people suspected of attending protests to give written statements detailing their activities. many people have used the demonstrations to speak out about a range of grievances including censorship and diminishing civil liberties. despite the challenge to the chinese government, unless the down to the force any change, people can go to the street or someone as spontaneously to boys. they are discontent to demand for freedom. ah, you know, but for any kind of movement to sustain, you need an organizing structure and you need

a civil society groups. union activists by those people are gone. they are in jail . they are silent though. are there any desire or the media briefing on tuesday, health officials did say they would address concerns about excess of controls and fine tune regulations to limit the impact on livelihoods. but they stopped short of conceding, there was a problem with the xerox. the policy downtown, good evening to leila, some citizens and the general public se, the biggest problem is the oversimplification of the provincial control measures ye, ye arbitrary imposition of restrictions and a one size fits all approach your shoulder. it's not the 1st time the government has acknowledged public frustrations. in the past, though nothing has changed, which suggests it could be some time before china reconsider its response to the pandemic. patrick, fog, al jazeera hong kong, ah. and on to some world cup action,

the netherlands are leading to nil against guitar et al bait stadium, a win that will get them through to the knockout stages. could tar already know their fate? the host team can not progress beyond the group stage. falling losses to ecuador in senegal, so this will be their last appearance, senegal, a leading one. neil and near decisive match against ecuador currently underway at holly for international stadium. senegal need a when to progress to the round of 16 while a draw would be enough, ecuador, and in a few hours, iran will take on the united states easily. the most politically charged contest of the world cup. many members of the iranian diaspora feeling conflicted about the match. rob reynolds went to meet one member of the iranian community in las angeles . ha, comedian and actor mazda, brawny, has many admirers in the iranian american community. and like many members of that community in what some have nicknamed tehran jealous,

this year's world cup presents a dilemma. i can tell you how i feel. i've always been a fan of football soccer. my whole life i played as i was a kid. i was always a fan of team leap, but this year it's really different is gonna be hard to take any joy in watching it because of the footage we see coming out of iran. iran has seen widespread protests and, and often violent crack down on demonstrators since the death and custody of masa armine arrested for violation of laws regarding how women dress support for the protests is wide spread in the large los angeles. iranian american community with protest slogans, appearing on billboards and shop fronts. the usa, iran match is weighted with significance, especially given the long history of rank war between the 2 countries. i like to say that there's lot of republic took americans hostage for $444.00 days. and they

took iranians hostage for 43 years. so we're seeing the women of iran, the use of iran, the brains, everyone has had enough to think that there's a, a feeling of being torn to, you know, kind of like honor your iranian routes by routing for the team or feeling like that's routing for something else instead, it's a very bittersweet time free writing americans. a lot of iranians are saying it's not a time to watch for fall or to celebrate anything. the way i see it though, is i feel that this is a chance for a team lead iranian team to shine a spotlight on what's going on with the people of iran. and there's gonna be a lot of eyeballs on that game when, as iran plays the usa job, ronnie says the world cup match can be a significant moment for iranians everywhere. i hope that there's some form of.