[000:00:00;00] ah, we'll just wait till this is al jazeera ah, you're watching the news, our life from headquarters, and i'm getting obligated coming up in the next 60 minutes. ukraine's president is on his way to washington to meet president joe bite in his 1st trip abroad to the russia invasion. the ship from

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ukraine's resilience and defense capabilities. he's due to address congress and hold several bilateral meetings. washington has been keys biggest supporter and it's fight against russian troops. we have several reporters covering the landscape visit. we have charles stratford standing by for us in the ukraine in capital key. particle haine is that the pentagon, my can is that the u. s. capital. but 1st, let's bring an alan fisher who's joining us from the white house where we expected to lensky within the out, within the hour allen big picture. let's look at that 1st. how significant distance visit was the words the key period here are important, significant and symbolic. it's $300.00 days since russia launched this invasion of ukraine. this is the 1st trip that followed. amir zalinski has made outside of the country, and he's coming here to the country. that has been his biggest backer and his biggest supporter is going to meet with joe biden in the oval office that a self. a significant moment has been here before back in 2021. but there's

a lot more weight to this visit this time round. he will also speak to jo biden's national security team. that's going to be important because vladimir lensky has got a shopping list, things that he would like to see being added to the battle against the russians in ukraine. he will get some of the things he wants, but not all of them. that is because the americans don't want to change the posture that they've taken when it comes to confronting the russians through ukraine. though just in the last hour i've been speaking to join kirby who is the spokesman for the national security council. and he says it's highly symbolic that vladimir zalinski is here to meet the president and speak to a joint session of congress at a time when his country is in the middle of a battle for it's very survival. i think that stands really as testing it to, to how much american support means to president zalinski into the ukrainian people that he's willing at a time when his cities are under attack,

to come to the united states and to talk directly with president by new members. of congress about what the united states is doing to support his country. i think that it really is. busy show the, the solidarity between our 2 countries and quite frankly, between ukraine and countries all around the world. because the united states is helping lead a global effort to support ukraine that this is all come together rather quickly. there was a discussion between the 2 presidents on the 8th of december, just a week ago, an invitation was issued to the ukrainians to come here to the white house. 2 days later on the friday, the ukrainians said they would like to do it and they confirmed it just on sunday that the americans of health with travel arrangements here to get vladimir zalinski to the white house. it's no up to him to do the job of convincing congress, convincing the white house to give him the tools to do the job again to russia. he knows he's in a fight against vladimir putin. what he doesn't want to do is end up fighting with

his greatest ally for more resources to finish the job. all right, allen, thank you so much. alan fish are reporting for us from the white house. let's not bring in my cana. he's joining us from capitol. hill, where president zelinski will be addressing congress a little later on. so, what do we expect him to say to congress and, and how crucial is the timing of all of this? my considering that republicans are poised to take control of the house in the next couple of weeks. yes, indeed. i mean the tribe being is crucial, as you say, republicans assuming control of the house on january, the 3rd, moving from the democratic control. now this entails a number of aspects, and that is the extent to which a republican controlled house will continue to support the administration and its efforts to provide supplies to ukraine. or whether there's going to be more resistance from the republicans than that has been from the democrats. now, largely, the house is totally united in terms of its support for ukraine. many of the members today will be wearing clothes,

the color of the ukrainian flag to show their support. but there are elements within the house, particularly within the far right to the republican party, who have to be making noises about the continuous a being given to ukraine. even the man who may become speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy, the republican leader said a few months ago that it would not be a blank check for ukraine. i'm the republican house, however, he's back track on that slightly. but he still has members within his parties such as marjorie taylor green, who insist that when the republicans take over all a to ukraine will stop. so that all those elements within the republican party, which may but devil that tends to support the administration in providing further h, ukraine. but it also goes to ways, while the administration has been pressurizing house members in recent weeks, in terms of getting more a for ukraine from the the house as well. there's been some pressure on the administration to give up on some of the demands being made in particular,

long range, missiles, systems which as you heard, the administration is not considering giving. they are some of the how to fuel that type of element should be added to the a being given to ukraine. so there is pressure on the administration from some of the house on aspects like that. all right, thank you so much. my kind of reporting from capitol hill. so the united states has been the largest provider for a to ukraine. the war began almost a year ago since january 2022. the u. s. has provided nearly $50000000000.00 and assistance to ukraine. the largest contribution has been made through more than $20000000000.00 and military supports. and over $15000000000.00 of financial support in the form of loans and aid through the economic support funds. and finally, around $10000000.00 in humanitarian aid, meaning emergency food and health care assistance, as well as refugee support particle have joining us from the pentagon, where we do expect a, an announcement to significant announce and patty,

that is on the u. s. applying patriot surface to air missiles to ukraine, correct? at exactly. i have to tell you it's been quite the mystery here on the pentagon cuz we expected this announcement to come last week as early as last tuesday and it just kept getting delayed. so now we know why, but it's coming from the state department 1st. they're saying that the u. s. is going to provide $1850000000.00. busy to ukraine in this latest round of aid. but what's important is what's included in this, this is something that the ukrainians of at been asking for for 300 days. they wanted patriot missile batteries. and what those are, are those long range cruise missiles, they're capable of shooting down planes that much higher altitude cruise missiles. now they're going to be some issues with this. it takes a long time to train people on how to use operate, maintain the patriots. and i'm talking months in need a crew of 90 people. that training is going to be done in a 3rd country and the u. s. is only so far saying they're going to give them one

patron. busy missile battery and while it is effective at cruise missiles, you're not going to use a $4000000.00 rocket. that's how much one of these munitions costs to shoot down a $50000.00 drone that's been really plaguing the ukranian electric system. but it, it is a good air defense for a small area. so basically think a military base, it's very effective in protecting a small military base, but it's not going to be able to, for example, protect all of keep one other thing that's interesting in the announcement while they didn't give out numbers, they said they are going to be giving them for the 1st time joint, a joint ammunition during direct attack, munitions. basically they're called j dams. and obviously for a reason what those are is there's a special kit. it takes a dum bomb and it makes it into a smart bomb. so it will dramatically increase the effectiveness of the ukrainians in the sort of long range attacks. interestingly, they're not telling us how may j dams. i expect we're going to get more information . hopefully, the pentagon is going to be doing

a background briefing here at 20 g m t. there's a long list in this point, 85000000. 1 of the main features is going to be the more high mars munitions. those have been proven incredibly effective in ukraine counterattack against russia. so 1850000000 to new munitions that the u. s. has been really hesitant to send to crane one page heard battery ad on no number of j dams. with that could prove really critical in the fight against russia and the right party. thank you so much particle, hain reporting from the pentagon. let's now cross over to ukraine and control stratford. he's joining us from the capital cave. so charles, this visit signals, the importance of ukraine's relationship with the united states doesn't. it's how's it being looked at in keith? well, it's come as a very welcome sign that obviously the u. s. as ukraine's main western back is still amenable to sending vital weaponry over this comes at

a critical time in this war 10 months off to the invasion ukraine facing unprecedented challenges. notably these attacks, these kind of calls you driving attacks miss all attacks on critical infrastructure energy infrastructure. at least a 1000 missiles and drones launched on substations electric substations in the last few weeks present. sitting ski only last week saying that the damage was estimated to be worth around $1500000000.00. and that was before 2 more giant biologies attacking these very important stations and obviously putting millions of ukrainians into a situation of having to endure rolling blackouts and, and freezing conditions when the heating goes. because of course the winter temperatures are dropping all the time. in addition, of course, there are increasing phase certainly amongst the military establishment in ukraine

. notably the head of ukraine's armed forces last week saying that he was convinced that russia would, in his words, have another go at key. if there are increasing phase, the russia could be preparing for a large winch, offensive estimated at least $200000.00 russian troops. being prepared for that, of course, betters the better rouge and lead. alexander lucas shameka has repeatedly denied that batteries would get involved in terms of sending troops into ukraine. but we do know the better route was used, obviously, as a staging post full the invasion on february, the 24th. and then of course, there is the dia, an intense fighting on various areas of the front line. and it's pretty much just stalemate. those incredible gains that ukraine made an account through offensive in september and cho, by those large areas around car cube and is in the east,

and course the deliberation as they call it, of song in the south. around a months ago. the situation has very much real ground to a halt yesterday. we saw ukrainian president in the hot spot, the town of buck moot, where we know that there are thousands of ukrainians that have died and russians in the fight for that city. the russians making very little gains there, but obviously the ukrainians is suffering hugely in defending it. so as i say this visit to the us comes at a hugely important time for the grains for the ukrainians in this war. and as you heard patchy say, party go high and they describe in no way is this patriot missile system because silver bullet said that many people think it's going to be there is a lot more weapons and a lot more money that he's going to be involved if president landscape continues to in his words, yes, defend this country. all right, thank you so much. i'll start for reporting from keith. so as we mentioned, the us military

a to ukraine could include the highly sophisticated patriot air defense system. here for defense editor alex could top a less who has more on how effective the weapons actually are. the patriot air defense system is 40 years old, but has constantly been improved over the years and is designed to protect vital cities and air bases. the latest version can detect incoming crews and ballistic missiles up to a 150 kilometers away. the advanced intercept to missiles once launched in the right direction, or then able to guide themselves to hit oncoming aircraft or missiles. well, that's the idea anyway. is records being patchy when used during the gulf war in 1991. the failure rate was found afterwards to be between 60 and 95 percent. but it was still sold to us allies in the gulf like co 8 saudi arabia, the u. e and cutter her recently as 2017. the saudi armed forces were reporting regular fe is against iranian design,

missiles lost by huffy rebels in yemen. despite these failures, the information received on these missiles has allowed the manufacturers to improve the patriot into an effective air defense missiles system. this information will be especially valuable as russian missile inventories, one low in the war, and ukraine. and russia increasingly relies on a rainy and built drones and short range missiles. will the patrick make a difference to the war? unlikely? the u. s. has few patriot batteries to spare, and the cost of each missile fired is $4000000.00 compared with 250004 russian cruise missile, and $50000.00 for iranian dro. the arrival of the patriot is more about showing political support for ukraine than it will be about defending the country. let's say to robert hunter has a former us ambassador to nato. he's joining us from washington. d. c. welcome to al jazeera mr hunter. just give me your, your overall view of this trip president zalinski is trip to, ah,

washington dc. while they have to demonstrate to the people of ukraine and particular to mr. put the key factor in all of that. he and his page will continue to stand by ukraine, and after the meeting with mr. joe ask is having with a joint session of congress tonight to show that congress will stand behind it, even though the republicans in january will take over representatives and a lot of republicans are now little cautious about how much money is being spent. also, i think that president, pardon, will have a hard to hard talk with mr. landscaped about the need to move to negotiations. if indeed, pester, protein can be brought around to the side that russia will make no more advances. it economy will suffer and that it might as well declare victory, so to speak, and go to go changes. so this is a,

an effort to demonstrate support to try to have an impact on mr. burton. so, so what you're saying is behind the scenes, then you think that the u. s. president will be trying to encourage the ukrainian president to enter negotiations. i think that he will indicate too much does the landscape that jan is paid? will stand with your grain. if an opportunity comes for serious negotiations, as we would expect the great image to be flexible on that point and not exercised vito, it is going to be very important. i could try to return job to kind of arrangement that might have been possible before, which is ukrainian sovereignty or all of its territory, but with some shelf determination in those parts of ukraine, some of which are now occupied by russia. oh,

where they're essentially either russian ethnic people or they speak russia. i, there is a potential solution here. but again, the person who has to make that decision that he has had enough is mr. burton and nobody can tell me. except to what extent do you think that bite has really put the war in ukraine at the center of his foreign policy? and perhaps you can explain to are sort of international audience if you believe that to be the case. why, why is it that way? well i haven't know if i actually had to, there were various things done that lead up to the war on february 24th, when mr. potent went into the ukraine, which is on a job that i made by central european security, which is the most important security area in the world. well, trace united states and mr. barton had no choice to make this the center where american foreign policy and he's done

a pretty good job now giving support to your crane, but providing genuine escalation of the war. and certainly keeping nuclear weapons and table to just part whatever mr says. but now your question, as i said before convincing mister potent, that he will gain nothing further. why the war even is what he's doing. joe tried to destroy the infrastructure in ukraine and had time to negotiate show as bob was going to go back as we say in the car. and she was a back child her session. our discussions that have been going on between the united states and russia will have the impact. it has to have to try to move this away from active combat. but you will have to ask in moscow and procure dispatch brister where he has a wide, okay, over to determine. thank you so much, robert hunter for speaking to us from washington dc. thank you. now president

zelinski strip comes as the russian leader vladimir putin has in meeting with senior defense officials and said there are no financial limits on what his government would provide to the military. he's also approved a proposal to increase the strength of the armed forces by 30 percent. the kremlin says there is no chance of peace talks when ukraine as long as western countries continue to supply us with arms 0. i mean, the army has more on the kremlin reaction to president landscape, visit to the us will not go to the trial. must have reacted to the announcement with a statement from the prevalence spokespersons. he said, russia is not expecting any positive results from the lens. he's a visit to the united states. we also added that, providing more weapons to ukraine will prolong the conflict wallet the spokesperson also added. the russia's position remains the same, condemning the united nations to port to ukraine, particularly with weapons which might result in a direct confrontation with moscow. i walked regarding the me approved meeting with

leaders and commander of the defense ministry. he focused on the so called special operation in ukraine, and they discussed the results of the conflict. wouldn't accuse nato and the united states in particular of trying to weaken russia through the prolonged conflict in the ukraine yet. why wouldn't said most trouble do its best to increase its military capability? when also added, moscow is ready with nuclear matter in order to maintain the stability of russia to plenty more head on the altar and is our including the challenges facing the incoming is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu, as he tries to form a coalition government. parts of malaysia or underwater, as heavy floods has the country's east coast. ah. first protests have been held in some cities and gone to san against the taliban

decision to ban women from universities. demonstrators have pledged solidarity with female students. girls have already been banned from middle school and high school . as laura con report. some analysts say the latest government order points to a clear divide in the taliban. this defiant just students is taking a stand against the taliban, withdrawing their education. they say their own bishan and dreams cannot be taken from them. my bio member who committee askar in the 21st century. if there is no education, we will vanish from the face. if you have no one is going to take us seriously and we won't be able to demand, right. only with education can we understand our rights and responsibilities? this was the notification of an indefinite ban on women's university education. a gynecologist and kabul says a lack of female doctors could put lives in danger. if there is no schools, no university's and no guy nicole or just female doctors,

that number off our or maternity mortality to read this. and please indeed my b. despite strong condemnation from several countries and activist groups, the taliban is yet to respond officially. but sources of told out to theera the taliban is divided between reformists, many of whom engage with the international community during talks in doe, hon. and a more conservative faction. one unless says the decisions made by small minority. i think that the vision is within the cover me. last i live on you make was she ended these with the u. s. daughter and go have got to learn that they are not against women educator. there's only 5 people who are managing the whole idea of the heart 9 isn't gonna be covered. was the destination of the heart more than a year before the taliban took power in afghanistan. it's 1st deputy leader,

sir jude and her connie wrote an article published in the new york times. it said women's rights to education would be protected, a promise that has been rolled back, but the u. s. also failed on its promised to use economic tools as leverage to moderate the telephone. in 2021, it proves nearly $10000000000.00 in assets belonging to the uk gun central bank. women say the still suffering. please don't, but more sanctions in afghanistan did each sanction you put on we are having to result. i mean, when i say we, it's women who are like the are eliminating woman. they are giving us. why isn't each time many women say they was shocked by the announcement? i wasn't any shocked. i couldn't believe that there was some rumors that are going to ban goes from attending universities. but we didn't know that this will happen in the middle of the finance, and you want to lead these guys graduate for the moment,

sees like this women walking to university hoping to shape their career paths will stop for the foreseeable future. laura con al jazeera, i began be, as government says, it's stopped a coup attempt that says some members of the army were planning the overthrow on tuesday. for soldiers have been arrested with the searches on for 3 alleged accomplices in a statement. the government said the situation is under control. peruse no president, dina, but arthur has reached her re shuffled part of her cabinets. florida has appointed a new prime minister and finance minister. they were sworn and just hours after congress approved her request to move elections forward by 2 years. peru has seen widespread protest and former president petro castillo was impeached and in prison . 2 weeks ago. sanchez has more from lima. it seems that to proceed in the days just starting to to have a government, if you will, after these 2 weeks of political and social turmoil in the country,

she has named her prime minister. she has brought up the defense minister alberto that i love to be the new prime minister of coming to chief us here. and he has the experience of being a defense minister before a former defense minister with former presidents are young. oh my love, but she has kept her of her foreign minister food last night, declared the mexican ambassador. when i grew up the after the mexican government gave asylum to the family of former president, fatal gas t, you'll hear the outs. i'll type the embassy. everything is quiet but last night to the ambassador who had, who was ordered 72 hours to be able to leave a left with lillia. but it is the wife of president former president see

you and her 2 children to the airport. they are now in mexico. but now, president manuel lopez for a lot from mexico has said that relations between the countries will remain firm as they have always been still ahead on al jazeera, another, a strike action in the u. k. that's affecting hospitals on medical facilities across the country. discovery and the ago, but could bring the pink in one population back from the brink of extinction. ah, this is your weather update for the middle east and africa. thank you so much for tuning in. we are seen some showers developed around western saudi arabia will go in there for a closer look in one second through the rock that's stopping down in q a. because i think for western saudi arabia,

we're going to see some big downpours around jetta. that's the picture on thursday, but watch what happens on friday. darker the blue here, the more intense the rain will be falling. and as a result is going to feed in a bit more cloud cover at the doe house. what times on friday could see the potential for an overcast sky off to pakistan. we go, it's a quiet pitcher here, could archie at 31 degrees and there is some of that activity moving across the across mountains on thursday, it is fairly quiet through turkey. we had that precipitation move away through cyprus, push across the levant, leaving a trail of cloud cover behind forbid route and ramallah ramallah got a high 14 degrees on thursday. central africa, we've had bands of rain stretching from the western democratic republic of congo, or through malawi and into mozambique. right across the moves and b channel into madagascar. this is nasty stuff. it's gonna trigger some flooding in time across

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african export import bank african union commission, a f c, f t, a secretariat, and the premium partners connecting african markets. lou ah, come over again. the top stories on al jazeera news, our new koreans president has landed in the united states for talks of president joe biden. it's his 1st known trip abroad since russia's invasion in february and these of a life pictures of the white house spots were biden as expected. to be receiving for logan mercer lensky, the ukrainian leader will then address congress and he'll also hold several bilateral meeting called russia leader vladimir putin has been meeting senior

defense officials said there are no financial limits on what his government will provide to the military. he's also approved a proposal to increase the strength of the armed forces by 30 percent. protests have been held in some african cities against the taliban decision to ban and women from universities. demonstrations in general about and capital people health science pledging solidarity with female students. the deadline is looming for the formation of a new israeli government. the incoming prime minister benjamin netanyahu has until midnight local time. to finalize, the coalition from mcbride has more from west jerusalem. this does seem to be going down to the wire for a number of different reasons. it proved to be very problematic in dealing with his new partners. because of course, there has been this shift in the right woods in the makeup up the connected. so benjamin netanyahu and the could not only dealing with other mainstream right wing parties,

but also these much smaller parties way over on the fringes of the very edges of the political spectrum at the right wing of the political spectrum of people who were considered to be on the verge of politics. now finally, they have with a few see teach great influence over the formation of this coalition. and they have been using that exerting pressure on netanyahu to demand various ministries and so on. in addition to that, demanding special extra powers for the ministries that they have been promised, which meant that netanyahu has, has to push through various bits of legislation in the connected to make all of this happen. now it does seem as though we've, he has now a 10 day extension which runs out today. wednesday. it is expected that by be well before midnight. he will be able to make that all important phone call to isaac hurts. are the president to say yes he does have in place is coalition and a will then have 7 days for the formal swearing in. but we do know from the makeup of this extraordinary government, that this will be the most,

the most nationalistic, and also religiously orthodox government, that israel has had to date, the founder of the collapse crypto currency exchange f t. x has agreed to be extradited to the united states. at a hearing in the bahamas, sam bank mon freeze lawyer said his client was anxious to leave the island. bank. mon fried is facing multiple criminal charges accused of committing one of the biggest financial frauds in us history. chris is salumi, joining us from new york on the story. boy, what happens next? kristin? well, the former billionaire and f t x founder faces 8 federal charges when he arrives here in new york and a possible life sentence. the charges include securities and wire fraud, money laundering, and also a political campaign finance violation. all of this to say that under us law, once he arrives here, he has 24 hours to appear before

a judge where he will be formally facing those charge. he'll enter a plea, and at that time the judge can decide whether or not to allow bank been free to be free on bail while he awaits his trial. given that the 30 year old m i t graduate had so many financial resources at his disposal. it's likely that he'll be considered a flight risk and that will be a complicated process to iron out. it could take more than a day, but he will be expected to appear in court within 24 hours of his arrival on these charges, which the securities and exchange commission here has described. the crypto exchange that he founded as a, a, as a, as a brazen fraud. just remind us, once again kristen, how we actually got here. yes. well,

it was on december 9th that the united states filed charges against bagman freed, who was living in the bahamas. that's where the crypto exchange was based. i. it was standard for him to appear in court. there. it wasn't clear if he was going to be fighting his extradition charges to come to the united states. but as he told the judge, his lawyer told the judge in court that he was anxious to return to the united states and to try to make the customer's whole. it's estimated that he cost them $1800000000.00 and the charges are very serious. the current c o who took over the company, testified before congress that the company was a complete failure of corporate control, that there were no proper record keeping all of these questions which bagman freed will have to answer for in the coming months. all right, kristen,

thank you so much. kristen salumi reporting from new york. thousands of ambulance workers in the u. k. have joins picket line, so the strike comes a day after similar action by nurses. the government says account afford more than a 4 percent wage increase while the health sector staff, 119 percent jona hall reports from london ambulance workers have joined a long list of public sector strikes driven to industrial action because of low pay in the face of a crippling cost of living crisis in this sector, perhaps more than most low pay as life and death consequences. it's not just to be paid one of the reasons why the services and such as the because the government hasn't been based hopefully in the workforce. and people are leaving in the rules and it's one of these cumulative things. he hasn't good people leave, it means those 2 are left behind or under even more pressure. and too often,

the ultimate price is paid by patients. according to n, h s england, the number of patients who died while being transferred to hospital in an ambulance more than doubled from 40 in 2021 to 93. in the past 12 months. the number of patients who suffered severe harm in ambulances, triple to a 154. and more than 5000 patients came to some sort of hom, on their way to hospital like their colleagues, the nurse, you know, ambulance worker wants to risk patient care by going on strike. but what they'll tell you here is that the ambulance service has been risking patient care for a long time. what they want is better pay that leads to better stopping levels that leads to better care. but as with the nurses, the government is refusing to negotiate beyond the payoff of 4 percent well below inflation at almost 11 percent. i think we're held together by the goodwill of our clinician and i just work across the country, but it's on sustainable is

a crisis. without intervention from this government. we've got serious concerns for the future and i check, i'm health of the nation in general. the ambulance workers say there when this fight, even if it means more strikes in the new year, but an improve pay off, or they say will only be a small step towards saving the national health service. they're proud to represent jonah, how l $20.00 london, sir, lancaster, consumer price inflation, east 65 percent in november from november from 70.6 percent in october. 2022 has been a hard year. first. are lincolns with food medicine and fuel shortages? tens of thousands of people, so to the streets flaming the government for corruption and for failing to prevent a crisis in alpha. and then this takes a look back. ah, her own the kristi, yahoo salonica her for many like, wasn't them? would the leggy,

it will continue. the student leader has been detained under tara laws since august, months of shortages of food, medicine, powdered milk, fuel and gas. combined with up to 13 are long power outages brought people to the streets, demanding present, got up a roger boxer, his brother, the prime minister, and his enter administration, stepped down opposite balop ought to allow don ne, are we didn't expect this when we voted for them for the latest to destroy the country for us and our children. tensions escalated when government loyalist attacked, peaceful protested, who had been camped outside the president's office for months. in retaliation, people, torture government vehicles and ministers homes. a member of parliament was beaten to death in the violence that followed. prime minister, mind the raj, epoxy was forced to resign. the president appointed running vicar missing her as

the new premier. that decision did not go down well with protesters who wowed to continue their campaign. these are the scenes. the government is desperate to avoid . the crowds over and the president's house, forcing present raj a boxer to flee 1st from his house. and finally, the country and the sheer number of people trying to get in to see the president vows, is posing a real problem, the prepares, 3, any put her attention on the political leadership and what the political leadership could do. and there is now, i think recognition that there has to be political accountability. vicar missing a, stepped into the void, voted in by the pro roger pox, a parliamentary majority to complete the presidential term. and he wasted no time in breaking up demonstrations. this clear out launch at midnight when the day he took his ought to wolfish. but the economic issues haven't gone away. the crisis at

the fuel pump and the wider sri lankan economy is far from over. despite the government's attempts to show it, has things under control. what's on a, do you say they have stabilized the economy and are confident of bailouts from the international community? this crisis is primarily a governance crisis that has manifested itself as a crisis in the economy. and what's happening now is we are trying to fix that economy without fixing the governance. and i think that is set up to fail. prison vicar missing, he says he will use the police and the military to prevent disruptions and challenges to the government's authority. that doesn't face with something with the leggy and other protest leaders who say they will not back down in 2023. with a fernandez algebra colombo, australia and china have agreed to more high level talks on trade. human rights and security, australia's foreign minister penny wong is in beijing for talks with the chinese

foreign minister to try to mend relations between the 2 countries. it's a 1st visit by a top australians, a plymouth in 4 years. ties between china and australia have been strained since beijing imposed trade barriers on refused and independence inquiry into the coven. 19 pandemic. i did set out all positions on issues which are now also important to strengthens and are important to the government. relevant called compliment, messes, trade, blockages, human rights, as well as regional security, international security, and the norms and global rules. we're trying to pin our prosperity. we have agreed to maintain high level engagement and we've agreed to further dialogue in range of those areas richer. kimber has more from hong kong about the meeting between the chinese and australian foreign ministers. personally, leaders from both sides made it very clear that they're absolutely committed to improving this long standing difficult relationship. china's foreign minister wang, he said,

he's prepared from his side to completely reset the ties as they're the last few years haven't happened. he's blamed australia unilaterally for making this relationship so difficult to under the previous administration of scott morrison in particular. but when listening to penny wong as feed back in the question and answer session after these meetings, it was clear. there's still a lot of major difficulties for this relationship. and none of them seem to have been immediately addressed. whether it's the trade sanctions that we'd imposed on australian exports to china, whether it's accessible, australian consular officials to detained australian citizens in china. whether it's australia's view, which is a western view in large part of human rights concerns in china with regards to the northwest region. of sin, jang or tibet. none of these things have been immediately addressed as a result of this meeting. and so it's not really clear how many steps could be taken in the short term to find a resolution on these issues. but for the time being from both sides, a commitment, the more discussion and for more constructive discussion and to move beyond the

difficult types of diplomatic disagreement that was really commonplace during the last 3 or 4 years of australia. scott morrison leadership up to 2100 refugees have reportedly died on a both stranded and indian waters. it's thought between 10200 people on board the vessel near the andermann and nico bar islands act the same most by grants have died of thirst and hunger. and some have drowned at least 5 children have died from monsoon flooding and eastern malaysia. more than 65000 people had been forced from their homes. florence louis has more from could subaru, helen pennington gun. you are the worst affected areas, but the majority of people have been displaced by floods coming from these 2 states . now where i am now is new part of a town called basi a month, and people here say the water level was up to waste level just this morning. now it's begun to recede and because that been, that's been a day's respite from the rain. the weather forecast is heavy,

rain is expected to continue until later this week. not only that water levels at many river blank on in some done range and on that level indicating still quite high. and that is a cause. then there's no indication yet of people who've been displayed when they can go home. after years of legal battles, democrats in the u. s. congress say they will release redacted copies of donald trump's tax returns the house ways and means committee says it will release a report in the coming days. it could shed light on the former president's finances and foreign dealings. republicans voted against the move, saying it sets a dangerous precedent. last month, the supreme court allowed trumps tax returns to be released to congress. in the coming hours, the committee investigating the january 2021 attack on the u. s. capital were released. it's reports. article hain takes a look at what we've learned so far. ah,

on the day this shocked to the country and the world in unheard of breach of the u . s. capital building attacked by a violent mob of americans. how did this happen? and who is responsible? that is what the january 6th committee set out to find out all of us here today, focusing mostly on former president donald trump, who called his supporters to washington and sent them to the capitol, saying he would go with them. we fight like hell. and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. oh, he said the election was stolen. but in testimony before the committee, it was clear, he was told repeatedly, he lost the election, telling aids he didn't want people to know. he lost without objections, but what that when he made the clearest it never before seen video, how bad the violence was, how close the country came to seen its elected leaders attacked or principally

killed. several senators told to run from the mob they were walking right into. then this moment officer eugene goodman, lured the mob up the stairs. if they had turned right and walked just a matter of meters, they'd likely would have found an unlocked door with senators inside. we saw how close members of the house came to the mob, making their way to the last possible escape. the interactions breached the window and a protester were shot and killed trying to get to them. we now know how close to vice president mike pence came to coming face to face with those calling for him to be hung only 12 meters. and the committee said, trump knew that his supporters were armed that day, frustrated that so many couldn't come to the rally because secret service was using metal detectors. i don't i think care that they have weapons. they're not here to hurt me. take that thing mags away. and weapons in the committee, her testimony, the trump, himself, wanted to go to the capital, lunging for the wheel and

a secret service agent who refused. but there are several things. the committee has not answered yet. why did it take so long to get approval for the national guard to be deployed, governor, i don't know who had been approach congressional leaders that were able to be moved to a safe location by capital police. made frantic calls that went unanswered for hours . the committee produced evidence, the trumps inner circle. knew something was going to happen. people like rudy giuliani, i remember looking at him saying, rudy. did you explain what's happening on the sex? he, he had responded something to the effect of. we're going to the capital. going to be great presence going to be there. he's going to look powerful. he's, he's going to get the member. it is going to be with the senators, but what we still don't have hard evidence on. if this was a planned coordinated attack, the committee voted unanimously to refer to the justice department for criminal charges against the former president. but they've already been looking into this. there's

a special prosecutor that's been appointed. a grand jury in washington has been hearing testimony that will likely determine if in fact the attack here on the capitol was planned. and if so, who will have the price for it? particle, hain, i'll just 0 washington. the white house says it needs another week to prepare for the end. the us border policy that's been in place since the start of the pandemic . it was due to expire on wednesday, the rule known as title 42 allowed the use of cobra, 1900 protocols to deport asylum seekers. how does your customer met some migrants who have made it as far as a texas border city of el paso. in nicaragua, sooty martinez wasn't economics. professor regina roscoe worked at a call center taking calls from english speaking customers. both are young mothers who say leaving was difficult but necessary because the political violence any could iowa was too dangerous for their children. i was about to go to one of their

protests and everything i liked. they were starting to show shooting to everybody. no sir, no boy, mother, we can't return to our houses. we were driven away from her home there. my family had sacrificed for years to have martinez says her father and indigenous leader was imprisoned for opposing president. danielle ortega, after some of her students were killed in demonstrations. she took her 2 year old daughter and fled for the u. s. paying off, gangs along the way, and arriving at the bridge to el paso, they're not feeling that i me now let him. there was an, an ending line of migrants from many countries. yeah. but my daughter was very sick . so people like me past 2 to frantically u. s. border agents treated the child for pneumonia and released them in el paso. she and her mother are now recovering at a shelter run by the episcopal church, or these are people who will do and have done anything for their families. um,

these are the kind of people i want as my neighbors us authorities are processing and releasing about 2500 migrants a day in el paso. some are sleeping on the streets as they wait for buses out of town, even as temperatures drop below freezing. i don't know, so at the elite, when we arrived at the border between mexico and the united states and turned ourselves in, it was a huge relief that we were finally out of danger. whether the worst was behind us with him, i saw an affair. for all the people you see here who had been granted temporary permission to live in the u as while they fight for their asylum cases. many more remained waiting on the other side of the border in mexico. they had hoped that the u. s. would relax, border pandemic restrictions this week, which would likely have better their odds of getting in the now it appears that will not have been at this time. the u. s. supreme court has temporarily extended the restriction at the request of republican lead states that say they can't handle

more migrants coming. the state of texas has sent additional soldiers to guard the border listed on sale, noise. our wish isn't to invade any one. levy is to live in a country where we have the right to work to live a dignified life, to be free from oppression. midday the biden administration wants congress to approve 3 and a half $1000000000.00 to secure the border and provide humanitarian aid. meanwhile, the migrants already here say they're that much closer to their american dream. heidi joe castro al jazeera el paso, texas. germany's foreign minister has handed over more than 20 cultural artifacts known as the benign bronze. as to nigeria, the items are a collection of sculptures on clocks that were looted from what was been the kingdom of benign in 1897. the return as part of an agreement the country signed

earlier this year. waller's new hope for it critically endangered species of iguana that live on the side of an active volcano. in the galapagos islands, scientists were worried. the pink iguana could become extinct within years. but the discovery of hatchlings and juvenile reptiles could change that felicity ogilvy reports cleaning to a tree on the side of a volcano. this is the youngest pinky gwanae scientists have ever seen. the reptiles, a bone grain, and gradually become pink as they age in north garcia, east all night. we have never seen a young pink iguana. the species was 1st described in 2009 before that the pinky guano was not known since then. we had not found an young iguanas. this is a very important finding to secure the conservation of the species. the wolf volcano is one of the most remote spots in the galapagos islands, but that hasn't protected the pink iguanas from the threat of introduce species

like rats. the volcano is active and last erupted in january, also putting the reptiles in danger. if there is one i just was swimming in both of them, an estimate that there is a population of between no more than $2300.00 grown specimens. this means that if we hadn't made this discovery, and if we hadn't fought the threats they are facing, it could become extinct in a few years. plans to save the pinky guano from extinction include a captive rating program. now there's proof, the reptiles of breeding in the wild, leaving them one step further from extinction. philos yogi al jazeera. well, the 2022 football world cup has come to an end. but cats are will continue to host other international competitions next year. january kite surfers will compete in the freestar category on floyd beach. sarah. hi, ros reports for kite

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the ally of pictures where the ukraine's leader is set to meet president joe biden . these are the latest pictures in fact, so this was a short while ago, when zalinski did arrive at the joint base andrews joined andrews bass actually, and this is his 1st trip abroad since rushes invasion in february. he is treated that he hopes to strengthen ukraine's resilience and defense capabilities. once again, these are the latest life pictures. lauren taylor picks up her coverage on the story in just a moment. it's coming up to 19 gmc watching out 0. and we are expecting that the ukranian president wrote amendment key to arrive on the south loan or the white house shortly. the 1st time he's known to have left ukraine since the february 24th invasion. what has been seen whitehouse when you speak to us president joe biden

and members of his national security team. it also addressed a joint session of congress with me here in the studio. i don't know who is a former ukranian m p, and she's now based in london as a consultant. she joins here in the studio. thanks will be with us. so this is a big moment for phys lensky to talk to the, the importance for ukraine of the district of washington. good evening, lauren. it is quite a remarkable moment. and i wouldn't be afraid to say as storage moment when, as you rightly say, the president of the country at war finally, leave his country to come to the u. s. a state who's been by ukraine side from the very beginning of this for supporting and became the biggest ally to address the congress of the country and to gain more support from the united states ahead of his mission. we've had a state department announcement about an additional 1850000000000000 military systems, including the 1st transfer patriot defense system. how big

a difference will that make into the patriot air defense system is going to make the biggest difference in securing the lives of civilians of ukraine. because we've been seeing attacks from jones and miss l. 5, flying from russia and bothers towards ukraine. so that will help save lives and cover the skies of ukraine as we've been requesting since the beginning of the war . i. there are talks that there's going to be attack ends, which is another long range air defense systems. so the package that's being preferred by the u. s. is extremely important for ukraine to go on in this for. i don't know it, cuz the time in that thank you very much. we'll load. we'll stay with you and turn you a little later. but let's say bring in festival alan fisher, who's a monitoring developments force in washington. so alan, it's quite a, it's quite a big moment, isn't it for zalinski. and that took us through that kind of protocol as, as he arrives. well of course it's significant because this is his 1st trip outside of ukraine since the russian invasion,