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ah. on the phone, this is the news i live from doha, coming up in the next 60 minutes. russia points this highest ranking general in charge of its military operation to ukraine. this fighting escalates to the eastern towns of back moot, i'm, sala, plains returned to the skies in the us after a technical glitch halted thousands of flights. president joe biden ordered an investigation. people look for their family and friends, offer an explosion, may be african foreign ministry, has killed at least 21 people and rebels in ethiopia to cry. region begin hand again. the happy weapons under deal signed with the government and its boot. saudi arabia is linked with another major move in the sporting world is being reported. the kingdom was agreed to take over w w, wrestle. mm

. we begin with breaking news. russia has appointed its highest ranking general to oversee its military campaign in ukraine. for larry garage im off is chief of staff of the armed forces for the defense main street. since the changes will increase the effectiveness of how its operations manager, gras, him offs, appointment comes 3 months after a previous re shuffle. he's been russian, not the russian army, chief of general staff for more than 10 years. could asked him off for a place he said guy sort of akin as commander in ukraine who's now been demoted to deputy. russia's commanding offices have come under a lot of pressure and criticism in recent months, as moscow has failed to achieve any major progress in its war in ukraine. when you inside sufficing over the eastern towns of black mountain solid of the bloodiest battles of a war. so far, russian forces led by mercenaries from the wagner group have been trying to seize control of the area for months. moscow says it's units of cut off access to solider,

but ukraine denies the salt mining town has fallen. russia media has released these images of vog to liter yevgeny. pre goes in the mines. kia says the pictures were staged. latasha, paula has more from the ukrainian capital. the russian defense in history saying that airborne rush in airborne units have surrounded the town from the north and the south. earlier we heard of from the head of the russian mercenary, a group wagner yevgeny. goshen who said that his fighters had taken control of the city even posted a photograph of himself alongside some of his troops saying he was in one of the town soap minds. well, that certainly has not been confirmed or verified. but what we do know is that the ukrainian defense officials are saying none of this is correct. they are saying that ukrainian forces are still fighting in the air. in fact, one top military official said,

fighting between ukrainian forces and russians was intense. he compared it to battles in world war 2. it is a very difficult situation on the ground. we know that. and in the past few days, though, british officials from the ministry of defense have indicated that to solid or could indeed, perhaps fall into russian hands shortly. now if that was to happen from the russian perspective, it would certainly be something of a victory of bracken field gain, which they haven't had for many weeks and months. it would also allow them to focus more on the town of background, which isn't far from solid r a victory. there for them would be highly symbolic. ukrainian and russian forces have been locked in intense fighting there for many months indeed. and russia and ukraine have agreed to a prisoner swap and a meeting between the countries, human rights officials in turkey. 80 people will be released to the exchange cinema custodial who has more from a stumble. this is not the 1st time that turkey has meditated between russia and

ukraine in terms of prisoners swap. but also trickier has been mediating about reducing the tension between the 2 countries as well. apparently at what encore has defined itself as a role in this conflict. in it's a neighborhood in the black sea is air to be a balancing act between the warring parties and to kia has been very clear and very vocal about. it's a stance against the russian invasion of ukraine air, but also to kia, has provided a weapons like a drones arm, drones turkish may, drones or to ukraine, but also managed to mediate between the 2 countries. that's why this position of to kia as a balancing factor has been appreciated by most of the circles, especially at the time when to care lost. credibility in international arena has a strained relations with the west, even a, with nato, as

a strong member of nato. turkey has very har, statements against the, against the started school or the, the infrastructure of nato. but after this, a medication effort, especially after the grain deal that was initiated by the united nations, a to care found itself a very secure positional. okay, well let's return to our top story or russia appointing a new general in ukraine. as bringing dmitri trend in who's in moscow, he's a political analysts. welcome to the program. how do you read this shuffle for general? good, awesome. of what message do you think the kremlin is trying to convey? well, i think that the a message, the kremlin has says not so much the message that the kremlin has trying to convey . i don't think it's about public relations. i think this is about lea, a streamlining of the chain of command with regard to the crane operation and the, the appointment of the chief of the general staff,

joe grass im of to be the person in charge of the operation means that the importance of the operation has grown and that the scope of the, of the operation may expand beyond what we see today that i think is very significant. that's, that's how i read it. why not the scope of the operation but in terms of the scope of his overall power? what sort of power does he wheeled in the battlefield there in ukraine? what sort of power does russia wheeled or does talking about joe or not so much general good as the most particularly. right. but, you know, the, a general sort of, he can who until now, from september until now was the person in charge of the operation was in control of the russian forces. busy in the, in what used to be ukraine,

which is now formally part of the russian federation, sold a southern and eastern areas of ukraine, at least as they were, until the, until they were taken over by, by the russian forces. the chief of the general staff. however, is someone who isn't in charge of the entire russian armed forces, including those that are not in your crane. they have been some and an intensification of russian bill or russia military contacts recently. so general garrison, my rather than general sort of, you can and someone in charge of the russian forces that are currently deployed in bellows. there are also other things that are linked to the warren, your crane, which for moscow is not just

a bi lateral. busy conflict between moscow and kiev, but rather a war, a fish coin still a proxy war between russia and the united states led west. so all russian forces, wherever they are. busy could be a could become. busy busy more closely linked to the operation in ukraine, you mentioned that there co said a guy instead of eke in the man he previous previously held. this role does, his whip on. he, of course, was, was known worldwide as general armageddon because of his tactics in syria. is his replacement and indication that the kremlin would, did, was dissatisfied with his work. and you could well, i don't think so. pseudo began remains. i would say the principal deputy general asked him of for this operation. but general, sort of the officer. here's the other is permanent position is here,

don't be. busy space forces of the russian federation. busy i think he will continue doing what he has been doing, but as i said, the scope of the operation is growing. just as the escalation of the war continues . we started the war on the cranium side with the we're providing ukrainian enforcers, web, javelin, anti tank missiles. right now the talk is about providing your crane where the armor, where the heavy tanks from natal countries. at some point it may escalate even beyond, back to the south system. the patriarchs have been promised to ukraine and also at some point there may be combat aircraft. so the war is getting bigger, more dangerous. and i think this is above the level of the field commander. this,

this is now in the hands of the, all the old commander of the russian non forces. this is, this is at least my reading of the point to meet you trying to really great to hear your thoughts on this incredibly critical new appointment by the criminal. thank you. you're welcome sir. ah. the united states where flights are resuming after a technical glitch saw thousands of planes grounded for hours more than $4300.00 fires were delayed and $750.00 cancelled. and passengers are now being warned. it could take hours to clear the backlog. the problems being blamed on a computer outage at the federal aviation administration, that's the u. s. government's transport agency. what cause it's unclear, but officials say there's no evidence so far of a cyber attack present. joe biden,

though, has ordered an investigation. all right, well let's go to heidi joe castro, who's that reagan airport in arlington, arlington virginia heidi oversee this caused a major back logo of flights. a huge amount of disruption is much of that being seen where you are leave is certainly is, and the numbers of delays and cancellations continue to grow. by the minute we're now more than 7500 flights delayed. well, over 1000 counselled across the united states, all of this apparently caused by a computer glitch. we're still waiting for a full explanation, but we know that the f a a's system that alerts pilots just before they take off about any pressing safety issues like runway conditions or anything obstructing the flight path, et cetera. that system went down over night. we still don't know why it went down,

but were told by the white house that there is no indication of this be a cyber attack. and as you said, president biden has bowed a full investigation and were expecting a press conference perhaps with some answers. finally, in the coming hour, but that doesn't help. of course, the thousands of people who are stranded at airports, this is sort of a repeat of what we saw over the holiday travels season. not quite as bad. the fact that the ground stopped this morning only lasted 2 and a half hours was significant in that this could have been so much worse. but here, outside of washington, we're seeing about one 3rd of flights here that are still on time. the vast majority are delayed and certainly there are worry travelers hoping to get to their destinations on time, and this is still not over as more and more flights appear to become impacted already. many thanks, the update audio, castro, ronald reagan, apples and arlington, virginia plateau had all the news hour,

including german police, have been a vixen climate protest. us from a village after plans to expand a coal. mine will tell you why fountains of ambulance workers of a u. k who have gone on strike for 2nd time this winter and in sport will tell you about an injury scare for no joke of it. shower head of the australian open. ah, rebels in ethiopia, northern to cry region have begun handing in their heavy weapons to the federal army as part of a peace deal signed in south africa more than 2 months ago to end the 2 year conflict. the terms of that agreement include disarming the rebels, restoring federal authority into cry, and reopening humanitarian access in the region. the un estimates half a 1000000 people have died from violence and starvation during the conflict. hundreds of thousands have been forced from their homes. malcolm webb has more from

the canyon capital. nairobi to green forces has said that they're handing over the weapons. we've seen some video that reports from the ground, confirming that some heavy weapons are being handed over. we don't know how many, and we don't know if it's all of them. another to graham force is lead is dominated previously dominated. ethiopia is military and politics for almost 30 years. and when the conflict began between them and the government of prime minister avi, i made to stave it 2 years ago. they defected with a substantial fraction of the military that was loyal to them on the peace agreements that were signed in south africa. and also 2nd agreement signed here in kenya's capital nairobi stated that as their weapons were handed over, that the federal government forces should withdraw from to grey at the same time. and foreign forces should also withdraw. now access this ill heavily restricted to

gray, is difficult to verify the claims, but humanitarian access has opened up a bit in recent weeks or tech late. deborah michael is an activist and associate editor of the got a website, the documents, crimes and to grime. he explains why that the grand rebels agree to disarm what they have to accept. what to what has been to them now is the trickling of a exchange. the total disarmament of principals is the only posted that protecting the people. again, it be bought by every day. now the immense amount of suffering, right, in terms of the basic necessities for medicine. one thing understood, right people simply desperately in the community . we sampled of a wood with trickling so much that this guy could play around with. now they

have to simply succumb to whatever the demand of them and how something happens. no one knows what's going to happen to the members of the spec, because so it keep them in the agreement finding in africa, they include likely in i will be it that there will be what they call d and d mobilize and the read the question. so they have agreed that there will be really great. it will be apartments if you can just by barry better unlike any men, the officer guy would find the idea of joining the ferry forces, right? tens of thousands of the gotten woman joined that. so i don't see that. i mean they talk reintegration would be different pulses. ok,

well let's bring and carried him to 0 in the south by. he's an assistant professor of social anthropology and the artist of university and a member of the parliament. welcome to the program of handing over of these heavy weapons, of course is a real milestone in peace efforts. the south african agreement seems to be going to plan isn't how you sit. yeah, it is in a good inception and a good commitment from the both parties, you know, even before the beginning of the hunting over have you been away from that to get in for forces. the federal government took the boldest front door to implement the government by the opening the you monitor, access to the region and or sorry, connecting then barry, starting the sort of business like the electricity, telecom him an intimate when was all part of to get averages. that are now being connected, including the copy that and it is a good start. so that's part of the argument that we can also see for

a good commitment from that to get him for us. and that, that there is a start that heavy handing over of heavy o'connor with the knotty tools. okay. the anatomy, we don't know how much it is and how much, how much we'd be left. but at the beginning of this kind of, you know, hunting what, what heavy or kanadi seems it would, it would be what confidence building is to be between the 2 parties. and is it good and you've seen or for each of the are in that the get people i say hold on a disarmament of heavy weapons is meant to take place at the same time as who withdrawal of foreign and non federal forces. are we seeing any evidence of that? you know, the problem is in all that we didn't see any option to set them and for them both parties and also the monitoring. anybody can people so didn't to give any details what is going on on that island. but for, for us, send us any bill we only see, we only hear from the one getting him. that's the gram for us. i don't know

how the started a hunting over. they have the opportunity that, that isn't what aspect to in the detail, information coming from both party thought, i fancy and think about this. and he talked about confidence building, remind us exactly why the to gray and forces were encouraged to sign up to this deal in the 1st place. you know, the problem is in all the last 2 years, simpson, a very separating from both books for all parts of it in all, not only to get out of the region, but also the armada and up for me. but ingredients people are suffering from this. the conflicts the company sees in all these and with we are not paying a bill a very heavy present, but i'm an off in that was off. he has him on a monday, the resorts in terms of the resource. i think we want to be able to the, they don't, i think they decided that they, they see that the, you know, continuing this kind of, you know, conflict for long may, may crit, if put up it did establish that he didn't on zillow with correct. hey, be devastating situation to that again. i think that the end of the christians that gives them a good, a good listen to some and also to the federal government. that's when are you

talking about a devastating impact to the region? the conflict of course, created family like conditions for hundreds of thousands of people in the regional population and displace millions as well. are we now starting see at all a meaningful reversal of this crisis? yeah, i think so. don't know what date is going on, but for the last woman this, we see in all the, your mantel food and the medicine sort of now it deli, but at the thought that the graduate in this kind of, you know, the, the agreement that it isn't all giving it would be written it up is dividend was that we get into anybody leads us with thought that i think that we hope that things will confirm this week. but the beginning of this i had no hunting or would there be a bernardi? and he thought that over a month or so, commitment to in the what so peaceful means and follow, you monitor accents that he didn't since in all giving a good it would be with ample that he can input to the entire put babington that they've opened, that population as well. professor carried into sarah and addis ababa great to talk

to you. thank you very much. you're welcome. at least 21. people have been killed in a suicide explosion and the afghan capital kabul near the foreign ministry office. a dozen more people have been injured. the boss reportedly happened when the chinese delegation was meeting with the taliban at the foreign ministry. over della bye. he is a lecturer the american university of afghanistan in kabul. he says the latest attack is an attempt by iso to gain no to riots. he the profile fits i, a ski and i, a ski has been making advances and has been conducting such sophisticated attacks. we saw an attack on chinese within up on, on, in kabul a few weeks ago. and then this, while at a high level meeting is taking place is concerning because it drives foreign engagement away. the thought of bon policies have been helped and then having the one thing that looked like a win for the ones which was the security situation improving. that is awesome

dispelling. i think that they're looking for high profile targets to hit so that they could get more and more media comp reach the fact that the planet one can hide and deny other attacks that occur. including the attack that happened on cobble airport, the official casualties of which the taliban never released. so attacks such as these tend to capture the international media imagination. and that's what, but i a ski on the world map and makes it a real threat for up on a sun for everyone else. of all my a rainy defense ministry official has been sentenced to death on challenges of spying. for the u. k. only raise a bar, he was arrested in 2019 and accused of spying for emily. 6, which he denied a bowery also holds the british possible. it says that supporting the family of barry and urged the rain no authority to release him. the reception pound has

plunged to a new record low against the us dollar one year ago was worth around $15.00 to $1.00 that was to value to $30.00 to $1.00. the fresh out of all the sort of he comes 2 months off to cairo, agreed. a $3000000000.00 rescue loan from the international monetary fund. analysts say this may be assign cairo's shifting towards a flexible exchange rate mechanism banked by the i m. f. leasing. germany's northwestern village of lucel raf, our vixen climate activists, to allow the expansion of an open pit coal. mine was rejected. the protest this request to stay and police have started removing them or the $1000.00 protests of being come to luke's rap. since sunday stopped crossing how small it's an enormous operation on going here in the village of flutes who had from the very early morning, hundreds of police officers stormed into the village. there was a lot of chaos. there was a lot of pushing. some activists got injured and now you can see that the more specialized forces have come in because some of the activists have caged themselves

in here in this structure here, behind me, you see that cranes are being used. and one by one, they are being taken out out of these structures. but also out of ad there, barricades, the barricades have also been a very thoroughly been demolished now by workers from police are also from the energy company are w e o, who owns the mine here? that has to be expanded according to the government, and the government says, due to the energy shortages, we need this mind. we need this call because the german government is very reluctant to use nuclear energy at the moment and has decided not to use any more energy from russia. so, but the climate act of his say at this is the time to stop using call to start more focusing on renewables. and they are now hold up here in this village. you can see they have climbed on the roofs. they're also living in 3 houses up to 10 to 20 meters high, so it will be still quite

a job for the police to get them all out. so you can, our thousands of health workers have got on strike demanding higher pay. this time ambulance workers walked out after negotiations with the government failed, or mr. richie soon access. he's committed to the public health care system. i'm haywood reports from sheffield in northern england in the cold of winter solidarity among striking staff. more than $20000.00 ambulance workers are taking industrial, shown in england and wales in a dispute officially about hey, but really so much more than just fax. the frustrations out the long, long hondo visit the hospitals, which are delaying our ability to turn out to live care for our patients. the pressure that that's putting upon our stop, we'll join to look after folk and we're not, we're waiting. we're waiting to look after folks, we're losing valuable staff because they're the pressures they're feeling. we can't deliver the care that we want to deliver as paramedics. there are concerns about

public safety. during this walk out with fewer emergency crews available. people are being told to only call for an ambulance if it is life threatening or a very serious situation, like b will college of nursing who agreed at national minimum service level. the ambulance unions have refused to do that, insisted on local arrangements. obviously that made contingency planning much more difficult in terms of safeguarding patient safety ambulance service here in yorkshire is still providing some cover. and we saw people on the picket line rushing off to respond to emergent says this crisis comes after talks between the government and unions. broke down early this week, but staff say it reflects a deeper crisis within britain's and 8 chairs. and there suspense become prime minister, where she soon next winter of discontent with nurses and other public sector

workers being so walking out. the truth is mister speaker, i'm proud to come from an anita family and that's why i'm passively committed to protecting it whitmore funding, more doctors. and i said on a clear plan to cut the waiting list. donna has been a nurse, but 37 years. she's also a labor counselor and was always advocate for our patients, which always make made taken action like this and quite difficult and quite a moral dilemma and as much as anything. however, i think that now because of the staffing levels, because of the safe looking safety of patients, we need to be able to advocate our patients. and this is the only way that we can see to do it. many staff say this crisis isn't just down to when to precious that years of under investment, which is denied by the government. here they concerned about the impact to strike how's on my patients, but say they need to safeguard the future of the service. they set out to provide and he would al jazeera sheffield in northern england. so had a lounge,

a 0. find out why scientists are sounding the alarm about the world's ocean temperatures. and tennis stars play for peace and youth crane labs coming up with joe in sport ah and off we go with your weather update for the middle east and africa to see you. here's a picture on thursday, some more rain popping up for that western side of saudi arabia. it's also chuck and a bit more cloud covers through, at the rest of saudi arabia for us here in though i think it's mostly going to be an overcast stay on thursday, but those winds finally start to back off, but much fresher, air has been brought into play here we are just 12 degrees and doha. 18 that's

below average for this sub the year. winds will be a factor in southern pakistan, karachi, 50 kilometers per hour. gus, it's flushing out the fog and smog rain for as long as bob, but snow up against the foothills of the himalayas. let's put this a few days for because we've got some dangerous cold coming here. tashkent in was becker's stand minus $24.00 degrees that's approaching record lows for the month of january. still a lot of rain in the forecast for on tahlia. at rain is also falling over cypress on thursday. it is a windy, sure, from elders to cairo when warnings and play across the coastline of libya could seek us about 60 kilometers per hour. we had land sites, eastern d, r, congo, but looks like the bigger pulses of rain will be toward the west on thursday. and heat wave conditions persist for the western interior of south africa. on thursday, sir later. ah, the african narrative from african perspectives could be from one in

a briscoe to be a good flight. i knew series of short documentary by african filmmakers from kenyan nigeria and rwanda, margie joy. i would love to talk somewhat conservation from about joy in the traffic and feeding the game africa direct on just what we do at al serra is try to balance this story and leave the people who allow us into their lives, dignity and humanity. the world economic forum returns to dabble since january to assess the global economy reshaped by the pandemic. and the war in ukraine can lead us from government and business prevent a promised decade of action becoming a decade of uncertainty. extensive coverage on al jazeera ah

ah. heal watching al jazeera, remind of our top stories this, our russia has appointed villarreal good awesome off. as it's new commander to oversee the military campaign in ukraine, the defense miss recess, the changes will increase the effectiveness of how its operation is managed. flights are resuming in the us after a technical glitch saw thousands of planes grounded for hours. the problems being blamed on a computer outage at the federal aviation administration isn't biden's ordered investigation rebels in ethiopia, northern to cry region have begun handing in their heavy weapons. the federal army is part of a peace deal signed in south africa more than 2 months ago to ends. the 2 year

conflict only results from billions election suggests the opposition will return to parliament for the 1st time in 4 years. the democrats, 128 seats out of the 109 member assembly, was barred from running in the last election in 2019. but the party won a court order in november allowing members to stand in sundays poll. i'm, it is tourists is following the process in cotton. the pro vieno results would now have to be endorsed or rejected by the constitutional court by law. the court has up to a week to decide whether or not to reject or to accept the results announced by the election commission. what one official from the electoral commission told al jazeera that we may hear a decision probably in 2 or 3 days time. what this decision or what these announcement means if the result stands as they are ivy democrat, the main opposition group is back in parliament with 28 seats. it's a good start according to some political analisia,

but not enough for the party to move through its agenda in parliament, which is, which include of course, the repealing of sutton laws. it cuz it is inimical to democratic growth on democracy in been in republic. but again, it's also helpful when it comes to endorsing our candidates to run in the presidential election in 2026 are basically the electoral law provides that are for a candidate to run in the op a presidential election. he has to he or she must be engrossed by ah, some number of members of parliament as well as mares of cities across been republic. so $26.00 is a good start. according to political analysts right now. all eyes are on the opposition and their supporters as well as the streets of been republic. we haven't seen much action on the street yet, but that depends on how well we have received the information. just filtering in about the provisional results at their party has 128 of the 109 seats. parliament, brazil's capital is bracing for more demonstrations 4 days after protest,

a storm several government buildings, security forces, the setting up barricades and shutting down main avenues to traffic on sunday. protests is trying to overturn the general election trash, the supreme court. the presidential palace and congress since their messages have been circulating on social media urging crowds to rally, was described as take power. the nation remains on age when president lewis and i see a little de silver says, every gesture against brazil's democracy will be punished and latin america added to lucy newman has more from the capital priscilla. a short while ago, we spoke to communications minister pablo the men here in the presidential palace. he says that the government already knows who financed the attack against the presidential palace, the supreme court, and the congress building on sunday, and who financed the thousands and thousands of people who were bus peer to the capital. he says they are members of the powerful farming lobby and also the gun

lobby. but the idea logically behind all this are people radicals. he called them that are part of the evangelical church. he would not name specific names. he also says that there are still people out there who are going to continue to try to undermine and sabotage democracy in this country. a kind of undercover maybe even guerrilla groups, since they're called, attempt included on sunday, didn't work out. but his harshest words were, performer president tried both who not, who is currently in the united states and who left this country just shortly before the swearing in of let the field on the current president wilson at all. if you take volta, both in euro has to return to brazil because he created the image of a leader. and the interpretation now amongst his days is that he escaped in the moment they needed him the most. like a general abandoning his troops on the face of the enemy, he escaped,

he fled and abandoned his own troops. my minister be mentor says that the president ruler silva is extremely moved and surprised to a lo, please, by the incredible reaction that has come from the international community phone calls from head some state from all over the world, including us president joe biden. he says that the fever will be going to the united states invited by president biden in the 1st half of february, not only to thank him for his support, but also to put forward his agenda for putting brazil back on the global map. in other news, at least 17 people have been killed in storms that continue to batter. the u. s. state of california emergency workers are struggling to clean up and repair widespread damage. thousands of residents have remained under evacuation old is in some parts of the state. officials expect another powerful front to hit the state on friday. i'm joined by rob reynolds, who's in capital lanier,

santa cruz in california, and rob once made the storms so deadly will need. there are a number of things. one of them is that here in california, as elsewhere around the world, people often build in places where they might be better advised. not to an example here in capital that you can see over my shoulder, those brightly colored buildings. they're right down on the water's edge, and they were heavily damaged by high waves waves that were a 7 meters tall or more over the past several days in this series of storms. that's hit this coast. it's a nice place during a for most of the time when the weather is good when the storms come, as they always do. not so great. and the same is true of people who build in flood plains or, or low lying areas or on hillsides which are thrown to mud slides and, and earth flows. another reason you can attribute to climate change. these

atmospheric rivers, as they're called, are not in themselves necessarily new. they've been recorded going all the way back, in fact, to the 19th century. but a weather scientists say that the intensity and frequency of this a batch of rainstorms may have something to do with the temperature of the water on the ocean surface. rising, allowing more moisture to go into the air, which comes down as precipitation. a very complicated set of atmospheric phenomena . another thing, a more directly related to climate change on the ground is wildfires. you know, california is subject and has had wildfires of a larger area and intensity than ever before. and that is something that firefighters and scientists have clearly linked to climate change. what happens is that when a hillside say, has been denuded of all of its vegetation due to fire,

the roots have died. there's nothing left to hold back all of that water, all of that, a of earth and, and stone. and so it comes cascading down in mud flows. another thing is um the drought that's also related to climate change and the drought that we've suffered for many years here in california. one of its impact is it weakens the trees and then the trees can be toppled in high winds. and unfortunately, we have seen a number of people actually killed by falling trees over the past several days. as the governor of california gavin newsome pointed out, the number of people killed in this series of storms exceeds that of all the number of people who died in the wildfires over the past 2 years. if i'm wrong, what, what are the expect saying? is there any relief from the storms in science

unfortunately, now, i mean its, it's raining fairly lightly now, but according again to governor newsome, we expect to get 3 more atmospheric river cyclone tight storms hitting the coast and going inland over the next couple of weeks. no let up, he said, until the 18th of this month, neve rentals live in capital a california many thanks was staying with the environment. scientists, the sounding the alarm after our ocean serge, to their hottest ever temperatures for another year in a row, researches in china. the u. s. italy and new zealand say 2022 eclipse records from the 3 previous years ocean's absorb about 90 percent of the excess he caused by greenhouse gas emissions and is causing long lasting marine heat waves that are already having devastating effects on underwater life. are warming waters also have a major influence on the world's weather, leading to more intense rain events and floods,

as well as hurricanes and typhoons. i'm joined by a lauren gifford, who's a postdoctoral fellow at the university of arizona school of geography development and environment. she joins us live from lewisville in colorado. welcome to the program where you her. there are a colleague, rob rentals reporting from my california on the serious flooding. how might warm oceans play into this and lead to more unpredictable weather patterns? lauren: different could you, can you hear me? yes, i can hear you. hi, great. i was just, i was just saying we, we just heard from our colleague rob reynold, supporting from california on those serious floods. wondering to what extent warm oceans may lead to more unpredictable weather patterns and floods like them i. this is the new reality that we're living in. so scientists have been warning for decades that increased carbon dioxide pollution was going to lead to these extreme

weather events, entities, abrupt ecosystem shifts. and this is what we're seeing now. this is what we saw in bangladesh. a few months ago and 7000000 people were displaced because of extreme flooding. this is, this is the new reality. and is this entirely manmade or is it partly explainable in terms of natural oscillating changes in sea temperatures such as land, nino elijah, you know, there's always been fluctuations, but it's the extraction and combustion of fossil fuels and the, the increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that comes from that, that is really precipitated these rapid changes. so, so yes, human influenced, of course, all of this has a massive impact on what lives beneath the waves warm a seas clearly mean an impact on bio diversity, but also potentially the migration of sea life as well. yes. so it's a we're sees are, are changing how we live, how we fish, how we grow food,

who acquires that food. you know, who does that fishing? for example, in new england where i'm from lobsters move further out to see to actually get warmer water in winter. but this is sort of changing, see temperatures mixes that up and changes that and leads to lot of unpredictability and fisheries unpredictability for coastal communities. and as we've seen in low lying communities, all over inland communities as well, it's, it's, there's a lot of uncertainty coming our way. so the impact that inevitably is not just environmental. it also has a social and economic implication as well, people's lives and livelihood. absolutely. so i'm a human environment geographer, i think about how those 2 are connected. but the human, the social, the environmental, the economic, they are inextricably linked and climate change is changing. the way we understand those relationships. fundamentally, i guess, i suppose the $1000000.00 question is,

is this a reversible you know, there's technologies that are being developed right now to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, literally remove it from the atmosphere. and we're seeing a lot of interest in a lot of investment in technical carbon removal. so there's ways to be hopeful. we're also seeing a lot more ambition coming from governments coming from private companies who are using science to base targets to change the way they manage carbon dioxide pollution and other pollutions. and so there are reasons to be helpful, but we really need support for that law and really great to hear your thoughts on this law and get it from the university of arizona. many thanks. thank you. now tens of thousands of opposition supporters have held a mass sitting in the banquet that she capital. they want the government to hold the next election on to a non partisan caretaker administration. tanveer child re reports from decker

o during the past few months. the bank with a government has climbed down on opposition parties, but that didn't stop tens of thousands of opposition, supporters and people from all walks of life from taking part in protest rallies like this one in the capitol. dr. o, we are here to show our solidarity with all who are protesting against his carrying government. we want democratic elections, and i can take her govern. many are also angry at the government for failing to stop soaring energy and food prices. i've gone along, but we are here to demand democracy, protest against the rising price of essential food items. it's hard for us working class to make ends meet. security has been tightened across the capital. wow. and later and their political lines were democracy movement taken as a country. and here in nap all done in the capital donna on wednesday main our

position leader futrell islam was just released on monday after a month in jail. told us a large number of opposition leaders and activists are still in jail and says they're living in, in human conditions. he has called for the pump release our party, b and b in as all it said, the other parties below going to a different a worst he or more chairs were france. there was a honda and i was the same for ram. that was painful program for it's ration democracy and as well as the have also simultaneously announce a program which will just go for the forms of does state after the election if the election is a told in under the county government. the government though remains defined in recent months, several people who have been shot dead by police hundreds injured and thousands

have been arrested. that opposition rallies across the country. all millennium will go below gordon. we have been able to meet any challenges in the past and to day and a shake has seen as leadership of amo league compared to any other time is much stronger and more united. the opposition line says it will continued to pass home its 10 point demand that includes the resignation of the government and the transfer a power to a nonpartisan caretaker administration before the next general election. tunbridge audrey al jazeera deca silly had lounge a 0 tea time australian opened champion. no me a saw her reveals the happy reason why she's withdrawn from this. he has tennis tournament as coming up with jack. ah ah

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ah ah, you know the sport. thank you very much, which is 3 days ago to time australian open champion, they are mere soccer announced she wouldn't be playing at this year's tournament. now the 20 vibrant has revealed why she's pregnant africa posted this tweet, showing a baby scan alongside a statement in which she said she's looking forward to having her child watch. one of her matches and added that. she'll be back in australia next year. asako who's also a to time us open champion, hasn't played since last september, after withdrawing in the 2nd round of the pan pacific. an to an injury scare for navarre jacob. it's just a few days before the 1st grand slam of the season. he's 9 time winner in melbourne, but had to cut short of practice match because of a hamstring issue, saying he didn't want to risk anything. meanwhile,

it's confirmed jock of which will play a major role in the break. awake professional tennis players association will be joined by women's number 2 on stripper and 6 are the top players to form an executive committee of the organization which is divided tennis. it sits outside the current governing bodies, the atp and w t, with the main aim of increasing pay a power joke which says they are not calling for boycotts and rival tools. well, jock, which is great rival, not a rough on the dow has a so did we got for the australian open the well number to joined a host of tennis stalls in melbourne for fundraiser. hi, equate, diana? yes, them scott, and martha castillo were welcomed on to the court to huge cheers. along so 99 year old lena stanislavsky, ukrainian refugee to join to strain in 99 year old henry young for a knock about to all proceeds from the tennis place for peace event will be used to support the humanitarian efforts in ukraine. fixed

a little bit into your world life. very happy. i will be back here in australia. the specially may be part of this great event that that's how it all been boarded together for for the be sin in a korea having here her from player to start that softening goal. they impact other of the was just her happy door to be part of it. i'm hopefully the situation will, will answer at the walmart tournament in adelaide top seed andre rubel ab crash shouts in the 2nd round off to losing 2 sets to one. she, defending champion vanessa fanatic. how can i his wrapped up the match in just under 2 hours? he's in $35.00 winners and cindy dan, native american football player, the mar hamlin has been released from hospital 9 days after suffering a cardiac arrest on the field. the buffalo bills safety, who's $24.00, was going sepi after collision with the cincinnati bengals opponent. during the game,

hamilton recovered rapidly after coming out of his medically induced coma with doctor determining he was fit enough to be sent time. now to another huge potential move in the sporting world by saudi arabia, the reports of the kingdom is now agreed to bite w w e. wrestling. oh, good. every one biggest wrestling promotion already has a 10 year deal in place to hold events in the south in saudi, including its crown jewel shows. his reports come days after w debbie's former boss, vincent mon returns to begin a sales process. he since been elected executive chairman, if the board after his daughter stephanie resigned. his chair, woman, and coat ceo is no fish o comment from debbie. debbie yet spots, if true is, would be the latest major move that saudi arabia has made in global sports earlier this month, one of their top football teams, our massive christiana,

rinaldo. they took over at newcastle, united in 2021 with the club car, a sitting 3rd in the premier league in motorsport. saudi began holding formula races last season, part of a multi year deal. the doc, her rally is currently taking place there too and has been since 2020 saudi has held some of the world's biggest boxing fights, including the re match between alexander the sick and anthony joshua. the country is also back to the live golf series, which saw several taught names like phil mickelson defect from the more established pga tall, creating a major rift in the game. there has been suggestion that a saudi arabia buying the debbie debbie would take the company back to private privately own. ah. whereas it had been publicly traded ever since 1989. so that would give a, are far more control over the content to one entity.

instead of having to worry about our shareholders. ah, a privately owned company would be less accountable to the public on in the, it's in the air occurrence of say, a sexual misconduct issue. right. the one that vincent man i had experienced last year, which was the catalyst to him stepping down. eleanor's also the concern about i'm the women's wrestling division women i have in a lot of ways carried the content over the last few years and ever since they were being given a are almost equal billing with her mil wrestlers. i does that take a step back. so there are from a content standpoint, there are lots of concerns. their fans would have about what direction i saw the control debbie. debbie would take or back to announce aaron al nasa has denied

there's a clause in his contract, which commits him to helping saudi arabia bid for the well cup. the country is reportedly considering a shot at hosting in 2030, but our nasa se rinaldo is main focus is on the club and working with teammates to t success. the 2030 woke up host or hostess, upsets me, confirmed a fee for congress in 2024. all right, now sandy is also hosting the spanish super cup rail madrid, or preparing to defend their title. this is the team training at the king for had international stadium in re out the home ground of rinaldo, new club al massa. they faced valencia in the semi finals in the next few minutes, while it's barcelona against rel bettis. any other last fall tie had of sunday's final walk, little particle, but the friends are very close to us and there's a great atmosphere. so i really like playing here and on christiano, it's a fantastic signing for our nasa. we wish christiana all the best because he's a legend of our club, just like garrett bail. he's decided to retire and we wish him all the best for the

future. he's in the hearts of all the ro, madrid, fans, rail city rivals that lead to gun madrid. have agreed to let their portuguese stars while felix leave on loan is gone to chelsea in the premier league until the end of the season with chelsea paying around $10750000.23 road. felix has also started has only started 7 of not let her go 16 lee games. i'm very, very happy to to we're ah, and chelsea is one of the great themes in the world. and though to, to help the team reach the objective. so i'm very happy and very excited to to player and to play and stuff or ridge slice coffee player i can make a difference in the final 3rd, the pitch young birds obviously still have a lot of really good experience. so i was just a quality player that gives everybody a lift and italy whole is inter milan survived to scare to get past palmer in the

carpets highest and co. your ich gates that here beside palmer the lead in the 1st half that out of martinez equalized for ins. huh. is deflected effort, meeting generally lupo, the 44 year old, is playing in the sun siro 27 years after his 1st appearance was stated, he denied as jacko and the game went into extra time before. couldn't keep out, but just got a chair to be you want it for enter to seal their place in the quarter finals. all right, that is all useful for now. thanks a lot, joe, with us from any bulk of this news. our service a, mary, i'm the mozy in london for more. the days news you're watching al jazeera. ah, ah.

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