recently that's come away temporarily got showers in the normal path, rush into this circulation off. commodore riverview has been pretty stormy. it goes away during so se, but we left was only 20 degrees. should be much better. ah, the great thing about being a news presenter than at bill clark on to 0 is that it's a truly global operation. if you will, child is here. you're seeing news from parts of the world, but other networks just don't cover. you're getting a truly global perspective. we have an extensive network of bureaus around the world. we have many, many correspondence in all corners of the globe. if you really want to know what's happening in the world right now, you need to be watching al jazeera ah. the 5 for the ukranian town of solids are key denies,

claims that russian forces have taken control. ah, my money inside zelda, zara. life from dover also coming up flights in the u. s. regime on to thousands were grounded for hours, used a technical problem, and also claims responsibility for a suicide attack in afghanistan near the foreign ministry that killed at least 21 people. on to grand rebels in ethiopia, begin handing over their heavy weapons is parts for deals and 2 years of conflicts in the north. ah. hello and welcome russian forces a lead by mercenaries from the wagner group say they units, i'm control of the east in ukrainian town. osalla. dar became denies that the salt

mining town has fallen. the fighting there and in buck moose is led to some of the bloodiest battles of the war so far. natasha butler reports from keith. ah, in full all the battle is relentless. the one thriving sold mining town and east in 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 look at rog, vox units. so take control of the entire territory. so laid out, a cauldron has been formed in central city, in which urban fighting is going on. that scheme probably, and of course the spokesperson for rushes defense ministry didn't comment on the claims, but said the russian airborne unit surrounded the town. securing it would help

russian forces net pushed to capture the entire done. but the region bought ukrainian military officials and some soldiers on the ground, se solar door has not fallen, and that ukrainian forces holding on here. but as all our positions are still holding from time to time, this close combat and artillery fire on bobo, ukraine's president, all those dismissed racking claims, additional money that developed earlier they know the terrorist state. and it's propaganda 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 were 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 as lengthy, was in the western city of louise to pay his respects, the soldiers who died in the conflict. he also met the way in your presence and

foolish president andre, due to the said poland with send leper tanks to keep as part of an international coalition. to help can create keepers long said 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. frances pledged, heavy armoured vehicles and the u. kays, considering sending its challenger to tanks. some european countries are increasing pressure on germany to do the same. tanks alone, clearly can't change the was direction, but they'll certainly help bolster ukrainian horses in the face of moscow's ongoing firepower. natasha butler, i fear or the criminal has appointed its highest ranking general to lead its military campaign in ukraine. the larry gerra seymour has been the russian

armies chief of general staff over 10 years. he replaces sergey suit of gin, who's now been demoted to deputy. russia's commanding officers have come under lot of pressure and criticism in recent months as moscow has failed to achieve any major progress in its war in ukraine. parallel falcon high as a military analyst. he says the last time a top general, like juris simone was sent into the field was during world war 2. this is totally extraordinary now it's, it's not the promotion. it's a demotion for the chief of general staff because chief of general staff, that's the number 2 in the russia military, and many respects him and number one them down. he is just commander of the fighting task force. so this demonstrates the now is simply not, not there simply extraordinary situation. such things didn't happen in russia now since 1941,

when the german nazi very much invaded them. chief of general staff gregory shook of was sent to the front by joseph stalin. so this demonstrates that there's a kind of emergency and he's going to have also of course deputies, the chief of the air force, air space troops and the chief of the army. also there, i mean there's only the, she will, the navy was not there in command in the field. so yes, this is a very abstract, ordinary situation. chiefs of general staff and brushing normally do not do such things. i mean, he's in charge of the nuclear deterrent. he can send the nuclear missiles flying to other continents. he has a nuclear football as the chief of generals that, i mean, he's a really very important person. flights i presume to the united states all the technical glitch, so thousands of planes grounded for hours. the problem is being blamed on the can

piece outage at the federal aviation administration. the government transport agency, hardy, j. castro report to ronald reagan at port in arlington, virginia. it was a sight not seen since $911.00 thousands of plains round. it all us airports due to a nationwide stoppage called by the federal aviation administration. no. nothing like this says ban 11. obviously, you know, everything just happened because of the system. i think they should just punch control alt delete the as a says a computer failure was to blame. specifically the notice to air mission system or not, and suffered a temporary outage without it, like crews could not access the latest safety alerts about fly conditions and runways. we still consider this to be a vital safety system because this is the one that moves messages that pilots need on anything from the taxiway or runway being out to an issue with the navigation

beacon to maybe an upcoming military or space operation of in a certain sector the outage did not impact quite already in the air. the ground stopped lasted about an hour and a half until yes, a said the computer problem was fixed. the cause of the outage remains unclear. there is no direct indication of any kind of external or nefarious activity, but we're not yet prepared to rule that out. president joe biden has ordered an investigation. the white house says there is no indication of a cyber attack. the f a is working aggressively to get to the bottom of the root causes for the system outage, so that it does not happen again. meanwhile, thousands of delayed are canceled flights, have colored flight status for the airports read. this is the domino effect of the ground stop and it's impacting travelers already battered by a chaotic holiday travel season. try to wilford smith hopes his flight from washington to fort lauderdale. florida will take off on time. his wife is waiting

there, he said, and he hasn't seen her in a long time. oh, my 1st thought was freaking out. like, oh, i haven't seen her in 5 months and now it may be a day or 2 more. that an apparent technical glitch can hold the u. s. air travel industry impacting millions has drawn renewed scrutiny to the systems vulnerabilities. a full investigation has been promised. heidi jo, castro, al jazeera washington u. s. secretary of state and city blinkin, an u. s. t of unsexy, lloyd austin are hosting their japanese counterparts in washington dc. if sign new agreements expanding their military ties and have been discussing the growing threat from china's ambitions in the region. length. im commanded to pounce decision to double its defense spending by 2027. japan has been a key american allies since the end of world war 2. very japan strategies align

closely with our own national security strategy. or both of the key challenges that we identify as well isn't how to effectively address them. we're committed to upholding shared values of democracy and human rights. defending the international rule of law. continuing to lead the world and tackling global challenges that no one country can solve alone, like the climate crisis delivers lifecycle heinous and washington d. c. with more on the grievance, the hampton site. one of the things that the japanese officials say they're going to be doing is they're going to go to an inhabited island and they're going to build a training center. they're complete with to run runways from the defense side. what the news they made there is that they're going to sort of change the way us marines are grouped on the island. they're not going to increase anymore in japan because obviously that's very controversial with the japanese public. but they're going to be doing these things where they create a basically 2000 man,

grouping their focus will be answer valence. and being able to launch missiles ships, we believe that the u. s. has agreed to said more. miss more missiles at ammunition that can target ships. we don't yet know if that's going to be us based equipment that is based there. or if the japanese are going to buy that, one of the big asked has been, japan wants to buy tomahawk missiles or tomahawk missiles are a very sophisticated weapon. it's a cruise missile. it can go up to 1600 kilometers. it's precision. it's an important thing to realize the us only actually sells tomahawk missiles to one other country because they're potency and that's the united kingdom. so we'll be looking for that to see if that develops on friday. they also said that there were sign agreements involving japan in the us space force. so it is a sign that japan feels that it needs to shore up it delusions, is it another sign that the u. s. e. 's, china as their biggest,

is what they called the pentagon, pacey and threats. while high know click is a senior advisor, the national asian national bureau of asian. with that, she says the threat posed to japan from china, north korean, russia, and force the historic plans to double its military spending. the japanese last month published their national security strategy, as well as the national offense program guidelines and midterm defense programs. all of which highlight an increase in investments and defense that are predicated, quite frankly, and addressing the very dangerous challenges that the people's republic of china, the north koreans, as well as the russian pose for japanese security. fundamentally, what's historically unprecedented here is the fact that the japanese are publicly acknowledging the challenges that they're facing. i

would actually use the word threat the rather that they are facing and that they are taking again, unprecedented steps in terms of doubling. in essence, their defense budget. which is again historic and unprecedented. now the united states will provide additional sales of military capabilities. my understanding is tom off is one of them, which is a cruise missile that was for the 1st time in, in post war to history provide that japanese with what most observers would, would call an offensive capability. but that the japanese, referred to as a counter strike capability. this is again, very significant. i saw, has claimed responsibility for suicide explosion that killed at least 21 people in the african capital kabul. a dozen more injured in the bloss,

which happened near the foreign ministry office. a chinese delegation was reportedly in the building meeting with the taliban on the blast occurred. to grand rebels have begun the hunting in heavy weapons to the army as part of a p. still signed in south africa 2 months ago, and the conflicts in the north. malcolm web has more, more than 2 years since the conflict began to gray and rebels have started handing over weapons to ethiopia, the federal government. it's part of a peace agreement signed 2 months ago. bone had been on the esper, the agreement to some i'm in nice to be carried out. we have disengaged it from our frontline for life. t d f has also done the same thing. we have done this by agreement. the leaders of the to grey and rebels, dominated ethiopia as politics and ministry. for nearly 30 years. of the prime minister abbey ama took office in 2018. they defected with

a substantial fraction of the army and its weapons. african union inspectors were there to see them being handed back to the government. we have seen the hand in and taken over the military hardware by above, due to gran defense forces and the national defense force. the p still stated that the foreign forces should leave to grey. i retry his army fought there on the government side. access to de gray is restricted, but humanitarian workers say, era trained soldiers a still there have been accused of executing and raping civilians. activists say that the grey and rebels have been pushed into a corner. they have been told by a, by any of the americans that they have to accept what they've been. what has been to them now is the trickling of

a exchange. the total disarmament of principals is the only posted protecting the graph. again it be bought by every sample poses. the un estimates half a 1000000 people have died from violence and starve ation. during the conflict, hundreds of thousands of others have been forced from their homes. people are still waiting to see if they'll be lasting, peace, or justice. malcolm web al jazeera, a hat on al jazeera, we meet the team of tom vivian, mind clearance, experts taking expertise with down at the gym village keys, and setting the wrong message against awe.

with the weather in china remains an anomaly, has been for about 18 months now. it's now warmer weather than it should be. for the most part of this matter plat generating significant writing. the size that reading extending across the walls hung should be 8 degrees is 16, up towards beijing. birds not snowing. it has been snowing in china. japan ticket hunt shoot. but that's gone. that means the avalanche risk will start to increase, particularly after replaces that are quite possibly by rein extends to the korean peninsula. but then you find it still in china and it's still not got cold. beijing might see bit of wet snow. that code still got to penetrate and it's not been a frequent visitor this winter. anyway. the bottom end of what should be a dry ne monsoon is now persistent wet for the central philippines. flood risk. landslide risk here. this rain really is out of season. this should be dry, january and february dry months, the whole of in the china, but not at the moment. so it's nice to see this thing what it should do in india

and pakistan, bangladesh should be fine, was tommy persistent fog poor at occult his frequent visitor deleon, particular that's being blown out of the way by increasing breeze, but the real telling cold it's the northwest that look, cobble start on friday, near record, minus 20 full. ah ah ah ah ah ah

ah ah, welcome back you watching al jazeera mind if our top stories this, our russian forces led by mercenaries from the wagner group say they have gain control of the east and ukrainian town of sonata keep denies the claim, pricing in the area is intensified in the past few days as russia tries to gain ground flights of resumes in the us of the tech glitch saw thousands of planes ground of ours problems being blamed on the computer out to the federal aviation administration. president joe biden has ordered investigations. us actually stay ounce me blinking and us defense actually lloyd austin have signed new agreements

with japanese counterparts to expand military ties. a also discussed the growing threats from china ambitions in the region. how cambodia is sending a team of mine clearance exposed to ukraine to help clean up land mines an unexploded ordinance they take with them decades of experience and expertise learned in their own country. tony chang reports from ukrainian mind clearance teams, painstakingly go through, recently regained territory. it's slow but essential work before civilians can return and start rebuilding their lives lactation browsers. and in fact, our soldiers are immediately followed to the liberated areas by those who restore all conditions for normal life. the 1st and most basic one is de mining the occupies leave behind thousands of unexploded minds and ammunition he believed provide an estimated 25 percent of the rockets. missiles used in ukraine,

don't explode on impact, leaving a deadly hazard that must be carefully removed and destroyed. the d. mine is from cambodia due to arrive in ukraine. this is familiar territory in an unfamiliar country. now will be a similarity. now will be a difference. and however, i strongly believe that stand not operation proceed year to ensure the safety of operator. i'm not re, might difference after the civil war in the 19 seventy's and eighty's, an estimated 6000000 pieces of unexploded ordnance remained hidden across cambodia . finding it in the thick undergrowth is difficult when the explosives become more unstable over time. but the munitions deployed on modern battlefield, such as ukraine a very different. and this is where the cambodian team can pass on its wealth of knowledge of the upright order munitions. in use across the globe, all of us,

the different overseas technologies progress. i'm hugely, in the last 2030 years. but the basic so d mining, you know, will, will transfer often those weapons are produced in nations, not immediately impacted by the war in which they're deployed. and the can also serve as a testing ground for new or more lisa ammunition is. the cambodian genocide was a very different conflict to the war in ukraine. but it was wage with weapons from the superpowers of the time china, russia, and the united states weapons that remained lethal. decades after the conflict was over. 30 years after fighting stopped on the killing fields of cambodia, unexploded munitions still kill or maim, hundreds of civilians. every year, the legacy of a conflict that prevents people leaving it behind tony chang, l t 0 non pin basses. venezuelans have marched in the capital, caracas,

demanding better wages. the group included public health workers, teachers, and pensioners. they're employed by the government and an between 30 and a $100.00 a month. and inflation has been making it hard to make ends meet. it rose to a 155 percent last month. brazil's capital is bracing for more demonstrations from supporters of the former president variable scenary security forces assessing up barricades and shutting down main avenues to traffic on sunday . protest as invaded the supreme court presidential palace and congress in an effort to overturn the general election. and since then, messages have been circulating on social media edging crowds to rally against president louise and austria leader to silver's election results. communication ministers told al jazeera their attempts to destabilize the government could become more extreme. paul payment to says brazil needs the support of the international

community to defend its democracy. his banks are less in american ada salisia newman love. what is inside brazil's presidential palace communications minister paolo p mentor shows us where mobs, calling for the overthrow of the government. first entered his office on sunday. he says supporters of former president jade bald sonata, destroyed everything inside the 2 adjacent rooms and still documents, computer files, video cameras, and sensitive security information on a hard drive. while some stole the flag, others as be meant that knew exactly what to take and where to find it. built of sheila bill, one person was arrested yesterday and inside the backpack was a laptop from the institutional security bureau. the minister concedes that some security forces in charge of defending the capital were complicit in the attack. nevertheless, he insists it's made prisoners lula, the silva stronger fit volume. this episode to serve for brazilian society to give

a great demonstration of appreciation for its democracy and institutions. most of large segments of the population that did not support lula at this moment or behind them, the supreme court of law and the legislative branch in support of the judicial mrs . law who needed to bring to justice with those responsible for these criminal acts . oh, although we offered no evidence be meant the says that as the investigation into sundays events advances, former president j both scenarios participation in the process will become increasingly clear. also nato who left brazil on the eve of president luna's inauguration is in the united states. will both um, oh, boston our has to return because he created the image of a leader and now was followers. believe that he ran away when the natives amongst like a general and a battle who flees and abandons his troops alley. he's at a crossroads so felt as he returned to brazil and faced possible criminal charges

for what happened with overly hide and go down in history. as someone who abandoned his own supporters like a coward running away shop will sima follow. educate. i asked him if the government could guarantee that there won't be new, similar attacks against the countries institutions. if you group those people who despised democracy and our federal system have an important organic presence. now country of the more isolated they feel, the more radical they will become. so that's why we're now seeing attacks against power transmission towers. increasingly these groups low from disputing electro and political power to becoming a legal group who carry out violent acts that priscilla's not accustomed to us when now facing another type of acquisition, which will require a different type of response from the government fiercely. i will pour a government that is still fragile and will need all the international support it can get. the mentor says president lula is moved by the response to the attack by

global leaders, including the support of you as president joe biden. he confirmed lunar plans to visit the white house in the 1st fortnight of february to show his appreciation to seeing human al jazeera brazilian. and he's 17 people have been killed in storms that continues abbas had the us state of california majesty workers struggling to clean up the widespread damage as is of residence and still on the evacuation orders. in some parts of the state. officials expect another powerful weather from to hit the state on friday. rob reynolds has moved from the seaside town of capital f. one of the reasons that this series of storms has been so destructive and deadly is that people here in california, as in many other places around the world, often build structures in places where they might be better advised, not to. and there's an example here where i am in capital, you can see these

a brightly colored buildings behind me that are right down on the shoreline. they were just battered and heavily damaged by waves high surf that has come in over the past several days of waves up to 7 meters tall. ah. and you could see that some of the windows and doors are actually boarded up. so a nice place to be when the weather is good, not so bad, not so good when the storms come, ah, as they inevitably do, german police have started to evict hundreds of climate protesters to make way for the expansion of the coal mine activists have been camping on the edge of the mine and the deserted village of looked out for the past 2 years to fasten reports. oh, as dawn broke, burst into the village, taking podcast, us by surprise. activists occupying the entrance to lieutenant were pushed back.

shame on you. they shouted at police. those who didn't follow orders were carried out with the police often using force to remove them. so what is being here is that from almost every state in germany, police is being sent here for this eviction. and that really shows the priorities of the state and the government. people here who are trying to defend our likelihood, what's rank to do to, to stop climate destruction. that's where the priorities i to evict those people. and that's really absurd and crazy. one by one, they're being dragged out, making the village of littered m, tier and m tier as we speak. but this protest has been lasting for years, is not over yet. thousands of police officers were used to clear the village which had been occupied by activists for the past 2 years. during the dinner her meet hit

in one of the houses she sees literate as a symbol of germany's failing climate policies. what we really want to get as many people here as possible because we know if we are many, we can still stop the cold from being burned. so that's why we're playing for time . that's where we'll be, we will be as far as up, up as we can go. and then they will need some time to take us down. but the time and affinity is running out, while protests will show some acrobatic skills, police have brought in specialists personnel to remove them from roofs. and 3 houses. the show down at the mine has become particularly uncomfortable for the green party, whose minister has been responsible for keeping coal for your plans open. he says the war and ukraine has delayed climate goals. lower is how does i to believe that climate protection and protests need symbol. but the empty supplemental flip that.