examining how propaganda and profit shaped content all hail the algorithm on a jessia farming is changing drastically in romania with this years. somehow harvest devastated by drought. it's milder weather and lower rainfall, but a changing the seasons. farmers around here say there are only 2 seasons. these days instead of for the summer and the winter autumn this year in temperature terms only lasted a couple of weeks. the around is planning differently for the year ahead. there'll be no some flowers, no call, no weeks on this bomb being replaced by crops, more resistant to trout used to feed lifestyle, not people. he and his son are slowly adapting, but climate change may well outpace them. ah, pushing for a victory and ukraine. russia appoints

a new military chief as the battle for the east and town of solider intensifies. ah, lo, i'm mary. i'm noisy in london, you're watching algae 0. so coming up on the program, this hour us present orders an investigation into the technical glitch that grounded at thousands of flights for hours. as soon as the attack north ganeth stands, foreign ministry, at least 21 people have been killed. and rebels in ethiopia, north integra region, hand over weapons, as part of a peace deal signed last year. ah, hello and welcome to the program. so we begin in ukraine where the head of the russian private military farm. wagner says, the mining town of solid door is now and a rushing control claim that strongly disputed by ukraine's president for moscow

control of sola del would be one of the most significant victories of the war. so far, the military success it desperately needs. moscow has in the posse days, tried to reinvigorate his campaign in ukraine, including promoting new staff to keep positions within its defense force. on wednesday appointed its highest ranking general to oversee the campaign in ukraine . milady got us him off is now chief of the staff of staff of the armed forces. defense ministry says the changes will improve the effectiveness of how the operation is managed. meanwhile, ukraine is saying that the fighting over the eastern towns of backward and solid are, are the bloodiest battles of the war so far. natasha butler has more in this now from keith in solid or the battle is relentless. the one thriving, sold mining town and east and ukraine is now a wasteland of the months of fighting between ukrainian or russian forces supported

by mercenaries from the russian. wagner group its head. yes, kenny precaution places a photo of himself and his troops online saying that taken control of solider, but there is didn't huge. you will go wrong and get a vox a unit. so take control of the entire town out. a cauldron has been formed on central city in which urban fighting is going on at ski, probably, and of course, the spokes person for russia. the defense ministry didn't comment on the claims, but said the russian airborne unit surrounded the town. securing, it would help russian forces pushed to capture the entire bus region, but ukrainian military officials and some soldiers on the ground. se solid all has not fallen. and that ukrainian forces holding on here is all our positions is still holding from time to time. this close combat and artillery fire on ukraine's president also dismissed rocking claims that

developed at least they know the terrorist state and its trip again to, to try to pretend that some parts of our city of solid are almost completely destroyed by the occupiers is some kind of achievement of russia, they will present and are already presenting this to their society in order to support mobilization and to give hope to those who are for aggression. but the fighting continuous dynamic front is holding. 30 zalinski was in the western city of louise to pay his respects to soldiers who died in the conflict. he also met the list the way the president foolish president andre. due to the said, poland was sent leper tanks to keep as part of an international coalition to help create keepers. long fed that among the heavy weapons that it needs tanks are essential. but western powers have been reluctant to send offensive weapons that could be regarded by moscow as a sign of escalating the conflict. but the tide is turning from 2 pledged heavy

armored vehicles and the u. k. is considering send to get them challenger to tank. some european countries are increasing pressure on germany to do the same. tanks alone, clearly can't change the walls direction, but they'll certainly help both ukrainian forces in the face of moscow's ongoing firepower. it's actually butler. this era has been a bit of a shakeup with the way russia is handling this. as we reported earlier, they have a new general in ukraine. this is the 2nd high profile appointment in his many days . mitre trenton is a political ambler based in moscow, and he explained what's behind this latest move by the kremlin. so this was about the streamlining of the channel command with regard to the cream operation for the appointment of the chief of the general stuff, joe garage to be the person in charge of the operation. manged up the

import. no, so the operation was growing up. the scope of the operation may expand beyond what we see today. dollars that is really significant. emergency pow cuts have been introduced in parts of ukraine because of increased demand. as freezing went to temperatures stretch a crippled energy system that national grid operator says the cuts are in place that the new pro and harkey regions, while other areas continued with schedule electricity supply equation. good months of russian missile and drone or tax on is energy infrastructure officials is saying about 40 percent of a system has been damaged. well, are all the top story this our thousands of flights have returned very resumed course united states off to a technical glitch which grounded planes for hours. this is being blamed on a computer outage at the federal aviation administration says the us government

transport agency more than 7 and a half 1000 flights have reportedly been delayed. nearly 1000 were cancelled. i jo castro brings us more in this now from ronald reagan airport. in arlington, virginia numbers of delays and cancellations continue to grow by the minute we're now more than 7500 flights allayed well over 1000, cancelled 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 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 went down overnight. 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. president biden has vowed a full investigation and we're 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 in the fact that the round stop 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. the 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 at least 21 people have been killed in a suicide explosion and cobble near the foreign ministry office does and more people were injured, blah supposedly happened when a chinese delegation was meeting at the meeting, the taliban at the foreign ministry. obey de la by here is electra at the american university of afghanistan in cobble. he said people in the city are concerned about

worsening security issues. there are 2 major concerning aspects of what happened today. one was that this is that a very high security area. there are multiple checkpoints. you have to have specific documents to access that street. and the fact that it happens at such a bad moment. it is concerning 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 the chinese. we didn't up on a spawn in kabul a few weeks ago. and then this, while at a high level meeting is taking place as concerning because it drives foreign engagement await the thought upon policies have been helped. and then having the one thing that looked like a wind for the winds, which was the security situation improving. and that is off dispelling ah,

now rebels and in europe, his northern tig, why region of started hunting in that heavy weapons to the federal army? part of the peace still signed in south africa more than 2 months ago. to end a 2 year conflict in terms of the agreement include disarming the rebels, restored during restoring federal authority and take wry and reopening humanitarian access in the region. now the un estimates the half a 1000000 people die from violence in salvation during the conflicts. hundreds of thousands were forced from their homes. malcolm web that brings us more in this. now he's in the can in capital. my robi to green food said that they're handing over the weapons. we've seen some video of that before, from the ground, confirming that some heavy weapons are being handed over. we don't know how many we don't know if it, all of them. another to great influences, lead is dominated previously dominated, ethiopian military and politics for all my. when the conflict began between them

and the government of prime minister had just david 2 years ago, they defected with a substantial fraction of the military. that was loyal to them, the peace agreement that was signed in south africa. and also 2nd agreement signed here in kenya's capital nairobi, stated the weapons were handed over that the federal government forces should withdraw from the great and st. simon's foreign forces should also withdrawn out. access is still heavily restricted to great, difficult to verify the claim that humanitarian access has opened up a bit. in recent weeks. police in germany is northwest and village of louis, or has been a victim climb activists to allow for the expansion of an open pit. coal mine that a court is rejected, the protest is request to stay and police have started removing them more than

a 1000 protest hasn't been kept in its wrath. since sunday said lawson brings us more this now from the town. since the dawn police basically ran into the village of little hot, they're creating chaos among the climate protesters. and since that moment there have been dragging and carrying on carrying out climate activists, one by one and what we seeing now in the last few hours or so is that the more technical staff of police is involved in the operation. as you can see here are some activists are caged in. they have caged themselves in this structure here, and a people from police with climbing a equipment. i'm not going up in this f structure. they have been taking out activists one by one. the activists are screaming a little hard to shoot, stay a we shouldn't move this village because of the expansion of the mine. but police say has been instructed after the government has decided that this leg night coal

is still needed for germany for the energy supplies because of the war in ukraine. they say we have no other choice but to expand this mind for the moment. so this village here, little rod, as you can see, it's now going to be demolished, or there's a lot of heavy equipment bull doses here as well. and i have to say to police is making a quite some progress here in this last few hours a lot of bullies of already moved in way into the village. but what they would find there is a lot of activists high up in trees than to 20 meters high in 3 houses and also on the roofs everywhere. so they will have to get some, some special skills to get them out. you know, acting out is our life in london, will sell to bring you on the program after break thousands of british ambulance workers walk off a job with warnings that tech call out with a life threatening emergencies. californians price again. another powerful storm

with thousands of homes ready without power. ah now as the cooling trend across central europe in the last few days allowing abyss note follow me, alpine tops the driving force, the weather is still the atlantic and that isn't particularly cold. it brings plenty of rain or stay a lot of snow. currently falling in sweden, but i think as today goes on thursday, we'll see brighter. well that stove falling less and less rain to replace it quite possibly. the storm system going across scotland snow. the tops here, there's the attempt to the single figures, but if you go east is pushing out really cold at has been in city of moscow. for example, recently. petersburg only just about freezing in spain and in portugal, the day is looking fine. not especially warm,

but not especially cold. the rain still to come in in the north west of spain. but in contrast, the eastern med, this is no storm system producing huge amounts of rain, probably snow easily and land in turkey and in cyprus that all moving, crossing towards some event that a bigger picture on friday in europe, steve, more snow coming to the swiss, french italian alps, maybe not. the austrian alps, attempts is, haven't changed very much otherwise. in north africa, the wind is probably the thing still, it's very strong across north libya and egypt and the harm athens bringing dust the hand towards nigeria. ah, we, i generation of good people, but very ambitious, very united, very put food and i'm very good about soon. you might be competing more right now,

but it's known for long. you will soon field. the sim higgs. we feel every day from today's home coleman. you got 3 women group who would get back to the front line active with your future children on a job 0. lou . ah ah, welcome. like watching al jazeera one, are we call the main stories? now bosher is appointed, it's high ranking general to oversee the campaign in that ukraine with our a garrison mob is now chief of staff of the all forces i. one particular bitter. the operation oversee is a back of a back what and to solid dog, and which at which you cry to set off the bloodiest bottles of the water for

thousands of flights resuming across the united states after a technical glitch. so eyes brown did call is problem is being blind on a computer outage at the federal aviation administration. the us government transport agency, canada is also now experiencing the same thing, but no flights have been delayed. and 21 people have been killed in a suicide explosion in cobble that reportedly happened when a chinese delegation was meeting with the taliban. the foreign ministry of brazil, now that the capital is bracing for more demonstrations. this comes for days off to protest to stormed several government buildings. the supreme court has ordered that state authorities prevent road blocks, and the invasion of public property was on sunday. that protest has tried to overturn their general election. the ransacked congress, the presidential palace, and at the supreme court. since then, messages have been circulating on social media urging the crowds to rally,

and her essentially take power of the nation remains on edge and the president, louisa matthew lillard is silver, says every gesture against brazil's democracy will be punished. alas, america is salisia. newman has more now from priscilla a short while ago we spoke to communications minister pablo 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, dr. bull's who, not, who is currently in the united states. and we live in this country just shortly before the swearing in of let the field on the current president wilson that all will be taking olga both and hero 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 premier says that the president 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 states 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. now the usa of california is pricing fine now that powerful cycling just stays off to a barge of storms. killed 17 people and forced tens of thousands more from now homes on choose day. torrential downpours calls, flash flooding, closed key highways. couple trees swept away cars, at least 66000 homes and businesses remain without pallet. a new storm is expected at northern california is full cost to bring more snow to the sierra nevada mountains. 34000 people have been told to leave their homes. so let's get more this now from ra branyon. he joins me from santa cruz. what made the storms so deadly?

well, marino nino, there are several things. one of them for quite frankly, is that people here in california as many other places around the world, tend to build in places that they might be better advised, not to. there's an example of that, if you could see through the reins storm over my shoulder here in capital law. it's near santa cruz, those brightly colored buildings. they're, they're built right down next to the water, so they were heavily damaged by a high surf as the storms came through. nice place to be when the weather is good, but not so good when the storms approach, as they always inevitably do. another thing that's making this particular situation worse is climate change. you know, we've had these atmospheric rivers here in california for a long time, even recorded in the 19th century. but scientists say that there could be a connection between warming surface temperatures. oh, on the, on the oceans,

and the amount of moisture that's released into the atmosphere that could make these storms more intense and more frequent. on the ground, you can see the impact of climate change. one of them is a wild fires which have over the past several years been of a lay exceptional and unprecedented intensity and area coverage. and those fires have left scars on the hill sides where the vegetation has been burned away. there's nothing left to hold back. the rocks in the mud, so when the hillsides are saturated, there is a mudslide and those can be extremely deadly. and something that everyone has to be very vigilant about ah, in, in the though the hilly areas on the california coast and the same thing is true in the interior on flood plains and so on there, there could be flash floods. now, one other thing i wanted to mention is we've had a drought in california,

it doesn't look very much like a drought right now. but in fact, even this amount of rain, that intense of moisture that we're seeing is not going to make up for the deficit in rain that we've had over the past several years. and what one of the things that drought does is it weakens the trees and in a, a high winds than the trees may topple over. and unfortunately, we've seen in sacramento in lots of other places around the um, the state trees have actually fallen and killed people in their cars or, ah, walking on the sidewalk and so on. ah, so that's a very unfortunate set of circumstances and, ah, the forecaster say, another storm on the way, the governor of california gavin newsome said in a press conference yesterday. the storms will last until the 18th of this month, maria. all right, thank you very much. from santa cruz, california, rob reynolds reporting now thousands of workers in britain's national health savish

have gone on strike and a dispute of a pe this time ambulance black as walked out authentications with the government ended without any agreement. and i would report now from sheffield in northern england, in the cold of winter solidarity among striking stat more than $20000.00 ambulance workers are taking industrial action in england and wales in a dispute officially about hey, but really so much more than just facts. the frustrations of the long, long hand opposite the hospitals which are delaying our ability to turn out to live care for our patients. the pressure that that's putting upon us stop, we will 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 precious. 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 be real college of nursing who agreed a 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 that government and unions broke down early this week. but staff say it reflects a deeper crisis. within britain, st. 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 with more funding, more doctors. and i said on a clear plan to cut the waiting list. donna has been a nurse for 37 years. she's also a labor counselor and was always advocate for our issues was always, may, may take an action like this. i am quite difficult, unknown, quite a moral dilemma as much as anything. however, i think that now because of the staffing levels, because of the safe looking at 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 winter precious, but years of under embezzlement, which is denied by the government. here they concerned about the impact of strike household my patients, but say they need to safeguard the future of the service they set out to provide emma haywood al jazeera sheffield in northern england. our early results from the election in benin suggests the opposition will return to parliament for the 1st

time in 4 years. the democrats, 128 seats in the 109 member assembly. it was bought from running in the previous election in 2019. but the party won a court order in november, which allowed members to stand in the polish has gone on sunday. well, now tens of thousands of supporters of several opposition alliances in bangladesh held mass citizens across the capital. i demanding the government's resignation the release of general position members. a new elections under an interim can take a government convict. chandry explains more about this from back r o. during the past few months, the bung with a government has climbed down on opposition parties, but that didn't stop terms of thousands of opposition. supporters and people from all walks of life from taking part in protest rallies like this one in the capitol doctor. oh, we are here to show our solidarity with all who are protesting against his carrying government. we want democratic elections. i'm decade take

a government. many are also angry of the government for failing to stop sorting energy and food prices. i've gone along, but we are here to demand democracy and protest against the rising pro of essential food items. it's hard for us working class to make ends meet, not security has been tightened across the capitol i and later, and their political democracy movement taken part in rally the country. and here in nap, well done in the capital donna on wednesday may not 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 he either bodies below going to a different or go bushed he or more chose were france. there was

a honda and i was the same for round that retain fine program for it's ration democracy and as well as they have also simultaneously announced a program which will just go for the forms of does state after the election. if the election is adult hill under the carrier government, the government though remains defined in recent months. several people have been shot dead by police. hundreds injured and thousands have been arrested. that opposition rallies across the country all millennium globally. accordingly, we have been able to meet any challenges in the past, and today under shake has seen as leadership of armor league compared to any other time is much stronger and more united. the opposition line says it will continue to press home. it's 10 point demand that includes the resignation of the government and the transfer a power to

a non partisan caretaker administration before the next general election. turnville chaudhry al jazeera deca, russia plans to launch a rescue there. so international space station to return 3 stranded astronauts to earth at rest scoff was damaged by a misha royd russian cosmonaut sergey for our curve. and dmitri patel in and along with nasa. astronaut frank rubio arrived at the station in september. it would you to return in december, but a leak was found in the rocket that was supposed to bring them back to earth. russian space agency says the new rescue capsule will launch in february and will be unmanned care. well, there's more everything we're covering, right? he can get over latest on what's been happening in ukraine as we see. fighting being stepped up a made a russian shake up of those who are managing the operation in ukraine, al jazeera dot com for more on that. ah.