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russia joins forces with the vog. the mercenary group, intensifying its assault on the east and ukrainian town of salazar ah omni barker. this is al jazeera life from dough. also coming up china response to south korea and japan cove at 19 curbs on his travelers by suspending short term baez's for their nationals. brazil's lead urges his generals to stand up to the supporters of former president john bolton aro, calling for a crew. some of the willis violence, peru since anti government protest began. 17 people dead, as demonstrates as demand the release of before the president. ah, welcome to the program. ukraine's dumbass region is experiencing an uptick in

fighting with russian troops now, being assisted by mercenaries from russia's wagner group, the british defense ministry says it appears. russia has taken control of much of the salt mining town of solider. it's near back. moot, where troops on both sides have suffered heavy losses. we mile rushes, state news agency task is reporting. there's a change of command in the army. moscow is said to have promoted colonel general alexander lap into chief of staff of its ground forces. he was previously commander of the central military district, and russia's defense ministry says it's being conducting. naval drills on the norwegian scene is as it's frigate is arm to where they hypersonic missile capable of evading western air defenses. charles strafford has more from keith present lensky last night, acknowledging that the battle for solely dot was indeed intensifying he saying that the ukrainians had in his words one time in order to get more men and supplies inside that town now solid is around 20 kilometers. ne of the town of

buck, mood, of course, buck mood is seen some of the most intensive fighting over recent weeks and months . a town that is often nicknamed a meat grinder because of the sheer amount of men that have been killed in it on both sides. solely dog is a salt mining town. it is the largest salt mine in ukraine and it has a vast network of underground tunnels. around 200 kilometers, in fact have underground tunnels, some as high as 30 meters. i mean a football match, for example, is being held under ground in solely in the past. so one can you imagine this is a huge strategic importance. we can only speculate that certainly according to the russians, they saying that the ukrainians are using those tunnels as defensive positions to store ammunition and so on. so we can only speculate the fighting. there is

particularly intense because it is of such a strategic and military importance, whether we're going to start seeing such a thing as a seizure, such as what we saw around the as a style plant in mariel pool was months ago, remains to be seen. well, let's take a closer look at russia's wagner group. the private power military force was founded in 2014. i felt moscow, alex crime in the group was founded by russian business. man, you have guinea, pretty good in who's close to president vladimir putin. he also has a catering business and was once called putin chef. the wagner grape recruited russian prisoners to fight in ukraine, promising they'll be free men when they return. if of course, they survive the war. well, it is on the teeth of is a russia analyst and lecturer, queens university, belfast. he explains how the fog group is managed to strengthen his presence in ukraine. there is a lot of tensions and competition when russian army and security forces

between each other and. and pre gordon has established himself as a person who is distinct by the fact that he is group. i'm when you say group, we're talking about tens of thousands of men equipped with most modern weapons, including $900.00 tanks, aircraft, chiller, and so forth. i actually don't want to weigh bill to continue to advance against the ukranian army and bach with them sort of the area where everywhere else, sonia, because of russia, was this wayne retreat. and now here, haven't been at the age for many weeks and month i'll find it on their costs seemingly or overrunning very important strategic, strategic down. so it's a big winnable pre gotten himself as well as for russia more generally, they always been very close linked with russian armed forces and with russian security forces. usually the we used will things which of the official russian

forces didn't want to be going to seem to be doing. for example, in syria, i mean other parts of africa where the way of raking but the same way they are going to joins the heap with the, with the russian security forces in russian army in general. and if you look at the level of the equipment and military things to have with them, as i said, including planes and so forth. and it's not just here, it was all saying them in libya and so forth. you know, you see the basic is an official army, but basically this t o are very much more part of the ah, putins also no more generally, but understand precautions obviously in charge of it. and for him, it is extremely important to show that he is the one capable of winning when everybody else is losing on the russian side. ah,

china has taken his 1st vitality steps against countries imposing covered 19 curbs on its travelers. it suspended short term visas for south koreans and japanese citizens. paging says entry restrictions for chinese travelers are discriminatory. katrina, you report some beijing china seems to be using south korea and japan to send a message to other countries which have impose restrictions on chinese travelers and hopes that the role these restrictions fact ms. also warning nations that are considering imposing research and asking them to think twice about it. now this move is going to impact all parties involved to south korea and japan. china is the biggest trading pon and there are plenty of south korean and japanese businesses and operations here. and they will no longer be able to send the business people here to attend to those in person. and this will also no doubt impact china's or an economic bottom line. but according to china's foreign ministry staging says that it has the right to impose counter measures on these countries. drove on ginger and

regrettably a few countries still disregard science in fact, and their own corporate situation. their imposing discriminatory entry restrictions on china, china family, you took these and we'll take reciprocal measures what we call and relevant countries. we can basically measure factors and science and to take proportional measures. on sunday, china began opening up its international borders while corbett 19 tests are still required for those entering the country. mandatory quarantine at a government facility is not and as a result, we've seen a surgeon booking some chinese travelers going all over the world. and there's been a split response to that. some countries like thailand are happy to receive as many chinese tours as possible, but other countries, including the u. s. u. k. canada and australia are wary because at the mormon china is experiencing a surgeon cove 19 infections. the w h her has said that beijing has been under representing the scale of the outbreak here,

and it wants aging to provide more accurate hospitalization, and dec told data the china denies that it's withholding any information dislike. continuing to release suspiciously, low figures and unity kim has more on south korea's reaction from so south korea says beijing's decision is very regrettable, doubling down on its position that it's warranty and policies are not discriminatory, but based on science, but certainly on the ground level on the people, the people exchange, there is disappointment. those who had headed into the chinese embassy here in store for these as on business trips or school trips were turned back, disappointed, and they don't know when they will be able to continue on their planned lives. it should be noted that travel between the 2 countries is not normalized about 5 percent of flights from pre pandemic levels are currently running with no immediate plans to raise that. but in 2019 china did send the most number of tours to south

korea about $6000000.00 accounting for about a 3rd of the total that year. so any hopes that had emerged in the new year that south koreans would be able to travel to china is now being dashed. also percolating is the concern of geopolitical implications. the, using a government has been st. anthony ties with washington and tokyo to push back against a belligerent north korea and a more ambitious beijing. so could this be quarantine and cove issues leading into the politics? now the news, brazil's president has criticized the army for not doing enough to stop supporters of his predecessor from storming the nation seats of power loose and ass, yolanda silver accused. the generals of not standing up to the protest. us who were allowed to camp outside the military headquarters in brazil. the president made the comments during a meeting with governors where he promised to punish those responsible for sunday's

attack. these 1500 people have been arrested so far. and in brazil, as large as city sal, palo thousands of people rallied in defense of democracy and to show their anger that sunday's attack or latin america editor lucio newman, was there the 1st public response to a very public attempt to undermine brazil's democratic institutions. many thousands of people gathered in so paolo the country's most populous city, to repudiate sunday's assault on the presidential palace supreme court, and congress buildings in the capital, brazil. yeah, almost everyone here, eliana blames former president jane ball. so nato, whom she believes was the mastermind of the attack. i mean, he must be jailed for all the things he's done in this country. he promoted militia thieves the tax on the amazon black guys, and now that we won't let the specious pass, never again. earlier,

police detained him, began questioning more than $1500.00 rubles sonata activists suspected of taking part in the assault. the camp did set up months earlier, just a kilometers from the presidential palace has been demolish. they'd echoed bull scenarios, unfounded claims that a literal fraud stole his re election last year for, for gilbreth of all, the justice minister says the culprits were hoping to inspire a nation wide revolt, but failed in their attempt to overthrow president lula. the seal that had been sworn in just a week earlier, most of them is all to copy all browse a little. we witnessed a brazilian version of the u. s. capital building attack, but with 2 differences. first, no one died. and secondly, we have more people under arrest here than in the u. s. and very quickly, the investigation into financed and lead. the rage is just beginning. i bought a job rides yesterday. we believe many big business interests paid for the buses to

bring those coo mongers, to priscilla and sort of camps. those businessmen need to be investigated and punished ah, demonstrators here also wanted to show that the president is not alone. they are swinging that game of crammed name, rob, imprisonment, the former president, also nato. they're also said that they will not tolerate in an estate or any of those people who have already been arrested. they are calling terrorism mongers. but the justice minister says that for example, there's no possibility of extra guiding the former president. fernando from the united states, where he is right now because he hasn't been charged with anything, at least not yet. whether the newly installed president of latin america's largest democracy will be strengthened or weakened by the m. s. vented attack is still far from clear lucy and human al jazeera. so paolo, they're watching al jazeera, still a have severe storms and floods, butter, northern california,

forcing thousands of people from their homes. the voodoo festival, in beneath the place widely considered to be the birthplace of the ancient ritual. ah called snap warnings and fog warnings are beginning to be lifted across northern india. hi there, here so, so details right now on wednesday, right across india, it is a fairly quite pitcher so and take you to pakistan. got some what, whether leaking into baluchistan province. no, for k p k, the mountains. this will be raining, his mom about his wall, but for the kept old territory round the mountains. this of course will fall as snow as one side of his throat wanted sack about. but look at this waking up on friday morning. bitter cold, locked into the bitter cold tear. cobble minus 19 degrees. so this is some

dangerous cold. as we head toward asia pacific, it's looking like this. it has just been relentless, rain in sabu city, extreme flood advisories in play here. and for southern vietnam and cambodia. rain still falling, but it's cutting across a areas of thailand on wednesday has been some deadly landslides, across indian easiest java province. just a few showers in the mix on wednesday. i think the bigger downpours, though, will be across sumatra. island, china temperature is a run and well above average, for example in whoo, hon. at 18 degrees. it's 10 above where you should be. winds have shifted warmer air here as well. so that means we just don't have the ingredients for that see effect snow in northern and by stretch path. that's it, susan. ah ah, ah

. ah. lou ah ah, welcome back here watching al jazeera, remind of our top stories this out, fighting in ukraine's dumbass regions intensifying. the british defense ministry says it appears russia has taken control of much of the salt mining town of salida . ukraine's military has been fending off attacks and the town for 4 days. china

has suspended short term visas, full south koreans and japanese. the same response to covered 19 comes imposed on chinese travelers. beijing describe the measures of discriminatory and not based on science. brazil's president lewis a nastier lula da silva, has criticized the army for not doing enough to stop supporters of giant bull sanara from storming the nation seats of power. he also promised to punish those responsible for sunday's attack. at least 17 people have been killed in peru in the latest demonstrations demanding the resignation of president, dean ability security forces confronting crowds as they try to overrun an airport. in the southern city of uli aka marianna sanchez reports from lima. ah, secuity forces confront protesters in the southern region of who knew it. the other men says, nearly 9000 demonstrators using homemade weapons and explosives,

try to overrun the airport in the city of julio security forces responded with live ammunition. it's the deadliest day in more than one month of violence across they do what we camera. i was holding my camera when a police officer asked me to kneel while pointing a gun at me. then i heard a shot and felt my foot blocked. then i felt a crap, i took 4 steps. i fell the floor because i couldn't walk. official c ambulances were prevented from moving freely. a doctor was killed while assisting the wounded . and a 17 year old girl was shot and killed in the crossfire. hospitals are overflowing with some of the wounded in critical condition. if we go, i want to call the central government. how can we have so many? did people? tens of thousands of people have marched to demand the resignation of precedent. dean of lou audibly. markets have been looted, roads blocked and 25 provinces are on strike. some of the victims were bystanders

hit by stray bullets are coming into play, but he was out walking with friend lives nearby and they went for a walk. and then as far as we know, a bullet hit him, the government blames former precedent is august the year for the month long unrest . you know, if it would be, well, they sent me people who announced a crude, a ton from the same government palace whose unduly, coordinating these mobilizations to seek impunity and to achieve what they didn't know how to achieve or we're not allowed to achieve in defense of democracy also the answer is in jail in the things that i'm looking at the u. s. house did in december after he tried to shut down congress and arrest the prosecutor investigating him for a legit corruption. with the violin spiraling, some members of parliament say they are unlikely to give the cabinet a vote of confidence on tuesday. further deepening the crisis, the government has promised to restore peace, but many peruvians are unsatisfied. and they said they will take their

demonstrations to the capital to demand that precedent. deed, i will learn the step down and new elections be held immediately. me innocent is i just eda lima here as president joe biden is pushed through tougher action on the legal migration and drugs in a meeting with the mexican leader andrew manuel lopez abra door. the talks come ahead of the north american summit where they will be joined by canada's prime minister to raise a boat reports from mexico city. i hear you as president joe biden made with his mexican counterpart and brakeman while at the presidential palace in mexico city. if he supposed to latin america, his entering the white house, the 2 leaders held a bilateral meeting to discuss some of the pressing issues affecting both nations and to improve relations. that was trained by mr. biden's predecessor, donald trump. dividing the dinner la. yeah, president biden. you have the key to significantly open and improve relations

between all countries of the american continent printing in the medical. yeah. on tuesday, mexico, the us and canada will discuss important issues ranging from economic corporation and climate change to legal migration and drug trafficking. we're looking at a bite in arrived a few days after the detention of will be the or the son of the drug loaded, known as the chapel, who's currently detaining an american prison. experts say the u. s. is likely to ask mexico to do much more to stop the trafficking of illegal drugs such as spent any of that kill thousands of americans each year. but only say fighting the flow of drugs into the us will be c, fentanyl being theme of the day as it were basically depressing domestic political issue in the us as well. more so than mexico. is that so far? everything seems to indicate that we're repeating the same mistakes that has been repeated in the past. we are still relying on the same vocabulary to same practices

of trying to curb the flow of illicit drugs from mexico, from latin america, widely speaking into the united states and other parts of the western world. another key issue on the agenda, migration. hundreds of thousands of people are trying to reach north america every year. last week, president biden, and now super all programs to allow 30000 people from haiti. q of any will. and the car was to enter the us legally every month. and mexico has said you will accept $30000.00 deputies from the us each month. over 2000000 people were detained, trying to cross the us mexico border in 2022 human rights were having very critical with north american countries, migration policies that they stay make it difficult for asylum seekers to find safety. but leaders in the region are also under pressure to find solution. many hope that you want to turn out if will be discussed during the me. it will not only criminalize my rights but help them in a path. so a better life. they sell as

a seed at mexico city. now the u. s. justice department is reviewing a bunch of potentially classified documents found in president jo biden's, former office. the documents were found in november 2022 in a locked closet by his personal attorneys at the biden center. it comes as republicans take control of the house of representatives, promising to launch wide spread investigations of biden's administration. police in germany, a removing climate activists who gathered near an open cut mind and the western village of loots rough thousands of climate ac. this form human chains and set up a city to stop the expansion plans. earlier this week, police made repeated warnings for the protest is to leave the village. its wrath is due to be demolished in order to expand a coal. mine is part of germany's plan to maintain coal supplies, while it reduces its dependence on russian gas and oil. so vast and has more from the cam, please is clearly moving closer and closer to the village to are lit up and i'll

step out of the shot. so you can see what we are talking about. this is the village that is now at the center of an international climate protest. it's basically on the edge of one of the largest lick night brown coal mines here in germany. and the village has to be demolished. all legal battles have been lost by the climate groups, and you can see also on the village there is this banner, it says 1.5 degrees. that's the temperature. that of course, has been decided by the buyers climate, an agreement that would be the maximum temperature if that is really the aim of germany than this village should stay. so it's basically very symbolic for this climate movement. and they have been chaining themselves here on this road to make sure that the police couldn't get to the village. but as you can see, a happy equipment has been brought in by police. all kinds of bulldozers, cranes are there, were active. it's very high up in poles and they also have been removed. police has

basically brought in all kinds of experts like climbing experts, all kinds of technical advisors to make sure that this whole operation, which they have described as very complex and dangerous to be done as peaceful and safe as possible. families of those killed him by reeves 2020 port explosion on demanding justice. they've gathered outside the justice palace in the liberties capital. the bloss killed more than $200.00 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless resignation since the explosion of penal home for more than a year. i'm here for justice, which is that he and ultimately been here for the 1st 2 and a half years, almost. as you know, they are always dragging us from one excuse to another because it's the same could eminence in different faces. some of them are out of judges. some of them are politicians, some of that odd need so coldly that than this country, but they are all water criminal. i'm he because i want justice to have justice. i

need the truce to have the to us. i need to wait a minute. corruption, as the interventions of the political power specially and named it has been law within the dishing because they are impeding the judges from doing what they have to do. and they think that to wait forget, we shall have it years present. joe biden is declared emergency in the state of california, which has been battered by storms, tens of thousands of been ordered to leave their homes due to severe weather conditions. rentals ports from santa cruz hillside gives way in northern california. as the state reels from the impact of powerful back to back storms, rain, wind, and high water have caused wide spread damage. evacuations, and several deaths. 35000000 californians are under a flood alert. tens of thousands are without power, and others face flooding, mud slides, and the danger of falling trees. several major highways are blocked. a lot of run

off a lot of dangerous flash flooding potential with a system. and there's also high winds. president joe biden has declared a state of emergency in parts of california, which will allow federal aid and resources to flow in more quickly. one of the worst hit areas was here in santa cruz, where as you can see behind me, the historic capital a war was cutting to buy heavy serve rivers also overflowed their banks and high winds caused severe damage in shops and homes. the cost of the damage is still being counted, but it will certainly run into the 10s of millions of dollars. further south, near santa barbara, the upscale community of monta, seato was evacuated, the celebrity studded towns $10000.00 residents, include the duke and duchess of sussex. and oprah winfrey the flash flood death situation is now the potential is therefore county wide flash flooding. and so

please stay vigilant. in santa cruz county, 32000 people were evacuated when the swollen sand, lorenzo river spilled over its banks. at least a dozen people have died in the storms. maria could shiara barely escaped a similar fate. a huge branch, harpooned my roof, and i live in a small studio. so i have 2 kitties and we could have been killed. residents are frustrated by widespread road closures can't make it to work. it's like a, like a rat trying to get out of amaze, trying to find that different little route to get 5 massive weather systems called atmospheric rivers have rolled in off the pacific in recent days. more rain is forecast for the rest of the week. the only benefit for californians is heavy snow

fall in the mountains, which will help relieve the states severe drought. rob reynolds al jazeera, santa cruz, california national view today festival is being held in burning. ah, the country is widely seen as the birthplace of voodoo and the celebration star with the ritual sacrifice of a goat. the festival also involves music dancing and drinking alcohol, a procession to the atlantic ocean pace, respect to enslaved ancestors who had taken away from beneath. i would address it viewed the route to do celebrations, rather in wieder. what's happening here is the culmination of days of preparation days of re tools, as well as months of preparation before this particular grants in on what's happening in this venue is the celebration of or do i religion itself. that combines traditional doses of rituals purchased by

a board of bruce as well as government officials. this religion has moved out of the shadows, says 1996 when the government recognized it. and for the past 1011 years, this festival has been holding. yeah, and we're the headquarters of the border kingdom we spoke with a point to where is the supreme leader of border in the hall was who said they want to reach out to as many people as they can, is that all that is still claims are human beings, as well as to prepare people for the years now in terms of adherents set up, millions of what would wash it was. yeah, in the new republic and millions more across the world. personally in the caribbean . what we've seen in the past few days with hundreds of videos, especially from county bill bruce. another portal was cool, came here to be part of this particular event. now, what we're looking for, what they are looking for is of course i read.