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ah, i'm tell mccrae, this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up. germany refuses to commit to sending battle tanks to you. crime, despite pressure from it's nice hotel, eyes. ah, dozens injured in peru as police confront, protest is demanding the resignation of the prisoners plus how a growing number of polluted cranes are being encouraged to spend the winter. in south korea the us is designated rushes, wagner group as an international criminal organization. the white house is about 50000 of its mission rates of fighting in ukraine. the classification will allow

the us to apply why the sanctions to the group. my can of reports from washington d. c. i a 3rd force and the ukraine conflict. soldiers from russia's wagner group, essentially hired mercenaries, many of them hired from russian prisons. the group is controlled by a guinea pig. oh, seen a close ally of letting me a putin. and this week featured in a video made by his own media service, visiting injured fighters, innocent petersburg clinic. you must not petty a soldier, a war. you must take care of him. therefore, each soldier should be unique, with more than $50000.00 deployed in ukraine. the wagner group has been on the us rate, offer a number of months. and now it's been declared a significant transnational criminal organisation in coordination with this designation. we will also impose additional sanctions next week against wagner and its support network across multiple continents. these actions recognize the trans

continental threat that wagner poses including through it's ongoing pattern of series criminal activity. at the same time though, the u. s. maintains that a mounting rivalry between the bars and the group, and the formal russian military could impact on russian performance and the ongoing war. we are seeing indications, including intelligence, the tensions between wagner and the russian ministry of defense are increasing. wagner is becoming a rival power centered to the russian military and other russian ministries, the russian army has a very little more out. so the only way to spike morale and to bring victory is to bring this people who get a lot of money. well, basically professional mercenaries, and also professional criminals released from jail. that's what styling actually did as well. the us has also accused north korea of arming the wagner group, displaying images of what it says are russian rail cars being loaded with north

korean weapons systems. potentially putting the group in a position where it could change battlefield dynamics and ukraine. something the u . s. clearly hopes it sanctions will help prevent mike hannah out 0 washington. the wagner group has denied recruiting serbs to fight and ukraine. it issued the statement of the pro ukraine activists filed criminal complaints against the organization. sybian law prohibits citizens from participating and conflicts abroad . really, it president alexander bishop condemned wagner after it call for volunteer fighters and serbian language ads. with germany has not yet decided whether to send delivered to tanks to ukraine, despite pressure from nato partners. defense ministers from more than 50 countries, met in germany on friday to discuss the next stage of military support for cave. still boss and reports from ramstein,

airbus us defense equity light. austin was hoping to deliver platter news to his ukrainian counterpart at the armstrong air base. but it was to be no commitment from germany that it would send its lap or tanks still ukraine. we don't feel anything we are just do a responsibility, boot for our population in germany and in europe. and we have to balance all the pros and cons of be 40 res erie decide things like that. just like there is nothing else. and i'm very sure that there will be a decision in a short term, but i don't know why, and i don't know. wow, how the decision will look. this lack of a concrete timeline is despite germany's nato allies, ukraine, itself, pressuring heart for the thanks to be sent. i encourage you to make such decisions that can deprive rational evil of any power. you can start this policy to day. it is in your power to mega ramstein of tags not

to bargain about different numbers of tasks that to open at principal supply that will stop ration evil. some fear attending napa tank could mean an escalation of the war, contract nato into a direct confrontation with russia. with tanks have been sold to dozens of countries around the world. those who want to export him to ukraine need permission from germany 1st, after weeks of international pressure, germany has made it clear that it will take a decision on whether or not to send lap a thanks to you crane. in its own time, president landscape, please, the time is not a luxury. his country has had little effect because germany says it's a decision that needs to be carefully wait. despite the saturday, happy promises of new military heart way for ukraine. you as the plan secretary austin urgent countries not to waste too much time. this is a decisive decade for the world. and this is

a decisive moment for ukraine struggle to defend itself. so that contact group, walmart slow down. we're going to continue to dig deep. and based upon my progress that we've made today, i'm confident that ukraine's partners from around the globe are determined to meet this moment in berlin. a group of protesters also tried to put pressure on the government to take a decision on sending lepper tanks sooner rather than later. step, fasten al jazeera at ramstein eop 8th. who ali hush him has the reaction from the kremlin. it's a matter of concern for moscow, and we can see that in the lines coming from the russian foreign ministry that sees supplying a cave with more weapons, will escalate the situation as for the foreign ministry and will cause more casualties for missed. you also accuse the west of hypocrisy for ignoring the

casualties on the other side of the borders as for the russians. now, also the, the criminal and warm that this, the supply of weapons will take the conflict into another level and will put natal face to face with the russians. it urged the criminal the western alliance to take into consideration the concerns of mosca. because this could help de escalate. however, discourse dmitri prescott spoke certain for, for kremlin, said that nothing is going to change in the field. and this is, this is just create more targets for the, for the russians. and you know, this is kind of escalating the that he thought of here in more school, more school with the more with more consent. and i was also taken into consideration the situation with respect to its public opinion. so it's reaching to

the foreign foreign country is trying to give a position a stance, but also trying to suit the concerns inside the country and try to convey a message that there are still options trying to raise the stake and say everything is going to according to the plan, dozens of people have been injured in peru as police confronted crowns demanding the resignation of president in of all our time. tens of thousands of people from all over the country. marching in the capital one, congress shut down elections and a new constitution boulevard has accused them of trying to seize power and has warned that anyone breaking the law will be prosecuted at least 50 people have been killed in confrontations with security forces since early december. and impeachment, a new president and a state of emergency, a lot has happened in peru since formulated pitcher castillo tried to dissolve

congress on december, the 7th, he was removed from office and replaced by the vice president in a blotting castillo, was detained on december and charged with rebellion and conspiracy. protests broke out in his strongholds, which are rural areas, mostly in the south of peru, a nation wide state of emergency was declared on december. the 14th is protest is blocked roads and stormed airports. then this week, a 2 day national strike was held in the capital, but it sprayed into a 3rd day, and people say they won't leave until the demands miss. marianne essentially has more now from lima. oh, these protesters have been clashing with police for the 3rd night in a row. they are here and about a block away is police that has been throwing tear gas a. the police have blocked the access towards the entry of presidential palace and congress. but protesters are in different

parts of the surrounding areas clashing with police throwing rocks at them. ah, yes, i am from puna. i want to inform people of the reality of this forgotten rural peru, a region that not only has poverty, but also malnutrition. the peruvian state has forgotten our region are children who do not have good quality health care education. it's a region that produces copper, gold richness that contribute to the state. yet they don't care about us. oh, process have gone on in other parts of the country as well. include going to know as well as in that it keep up with protesters tried to take over the air pow wow. these protestors say they want human rights organizations in the country to verify the prosecution of those who have killed under the victims of nearly 50

people that have died in the last few weeks in the protest. now these protestors say that no matter what they will stay in the streets of the capital and all over the country. until d, no one wants to resign. a place in brazil have carried out rides on people suspected of being involved in the storming of government buildings. earlier this month, supporters of former president giant boston our attacked the presidential palace, the national congress and the supreme federal court. they falsely claimed prison, luis and osceola to silver last october elections. when a k u n. a key if has more from rio de janeiro they are accused of instigating ah, what the brazilian government is calling an attempted call. they're being charged with trying to i destroy democracy in brazil, which was just back of brazil ended its military regime in 1985. so

these 3 people, one of them is a truck driver. another person is a former, our public servant who was working for the government of former president, j bowles. fernando who is now in florida and has been there ah, since before lula inoculation because he did not want to pass on the presidential sash. ah, and then there's a woman they have been now the proofs that they have against them is videos that they have posted on social media. one of them calling for the uprising and for the riots that happened on january the 8th. when the storm, the presidential palace, the congress and the supreme court destroyed objects, the ver, very valuable and historical objects are destroyed, all the windows and doors, and they've been posting that all so they were calling for blockades of oil refineries. brazilian environmental agents have restarted n t deforestation rights under prison lula. the silver he has pledged to provide

the bomber agency and morse with more funding and personnel to end. the destruction of the amazon al jazeera spoke with the leader of the mission in the amazon and i'm will be included available under the former, both narrow government. we worked only to solve emergency problems, doing quick jobs just to say as we were doing something without any strategic planning from the government to really competing for a station. i mean, it's like my thumb, i did this account for the past. are you referring to the forest, an area like this? you need to spend about $581000.00 per hectare. so no one's going to invest that much unless they know what they will use the area for in the future. those a did source that perhaps both and i was a government with continue which in a way allow them to occupy conservation areas and get away with committing environmental crime. getting ready for

schools because of the discourse of the former government created a mindset amongst people causing many to invade areas in the far as the pontiff farms thinking that the government would eliminate indigenous lands and legalize these provisions for capital production. chris hipkins will replace just in the arden as new england's prime minister. his political career began in 2008 and he now serves as the minister of education and policing. he became a household name, is covered 19 response minister, where he mistakenly told key ways to spread the legs to social distance. he takes over on february the 2nd and will lead to the labor party in elections this october . i acknowledge that at the moment we're going through some economic turbulence and we're gonna have to navigate our way through that i believe passionately that we can come at the other side of that in better shape than we went into it. i'm really optimistic about our future. i'm really committed to leading new zealand through

that. i know why that is strong, stable, and unifying. i'm a still head on al jazeera. how low can at god. we take a closer look at lebanon's lira as the countries economic crisis in just a 4th year. and tesla tweets ilan musk down plays the power of the social media presence during his full trial. ah, it's been very warm recently in a bit of south eastern europe, radia bulgaria, but just coming in to that is cloud, which is pretty thought a lot of rain recently to the balkan states, which have also had history of rather a warm winter. but unfortunately, recently more recently has been flooding in kosovo and southern serbia. still,

water is largely rivers of overflowed the bank. now the rain has stopped falling now to be replaced by snow because the storms revolving the central measure. this is saturdays forecast is connected with or bringing cold air from the north was already produce snow for example, in poland. that was quite a lot in a short amount of time. and that's all traveling now south and west through you. so the picture over italy in the balkans is a wet windy or snow. he wasn't a big change for some that are warnings out of course. and the bigger picture is that cold snowy weather going across germany towards low countries. and that's with very cold air coming in from the east, that just touching the old nafrica at stormy stuff in the mediterranean. so for example, into this, you know, g of you windy wet weather and the refuse showers around west africa. but in between, it's remarkably quiet, and of course sunny. ah

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the u. s. is designating rushes. wagner group is an international criminal organization. it is about $50000.00 of its mercenaries of fighting and who crime the classification will allow the us to apply wide a sanctions to the crew. germany has not yet decided whether to send a leopard 2 tanks to ukraine, despite pressure from nato partners. defense ministers from more than 50 countries, met in germany on friday to discuss the next stage of military support. keith protests as have been rallying for 3rd di and peruse capital calling for the resignation of prison in a been wanting. she's accused them of wanting to overturn the government after demonstrations turned violent on thursday. the lebanon's currency, the layer has lost around 95 percent of its value since the start of the country's economic meltdown in 2019. it's now trading at close to $50000.00 to $1.00 against the us dollar and state of implementing much needed reforms. the political elite is

accused of creating a confusing exchange right system that's hurting people who rely on at the most st . hold of reports from divert good services, hospital fees, insurance, they're all priced in. foreign currency lebanon's economy has become dollar rice because the local currency is nearly worthless. good, shun assumable, we buy everything in dollars. our goods, our rent, electricity. yes, we should price in the local currency, but it's not possible because its value keeps fluctuating. trading is dominated by the black market exchange rate. it's hovering around $50000.00 lire to the dollar, causing even more economic difficulties for people already struggling to get by. but it's not the only rate. politicians and bankers are accused of creating a multiple exchange rate system to cover up losses in the billions of dollars to

the pixels nancy problem. because their money public sector at the central bank government, the public, is unable to pay them back. they have this major gap and they are trying to shift it because it is through with a hair cut. and how do they do the hair cut through this multiple exchange rate system? it's known as the lawler, lebanese dollar, or bank rate, and it is used to withdraw trapped foreign currency deposits. and while the official rate has been pegged at $1500.00 leader to the dollar since 1997, the government says the fiscal situation means it has to collect taxes and fees at another rate. and then there is the site for 8. hi russell. it's one of the policy is introduced by the central bank to protect the div valuating leader up. it involves something dollars in the market from foreign currency reserve through this exchange platform. but it's proven to be unsustainable. authorities are planning to

increase the official rate 10 fold next month, which they say will help alleviate the crisis. economists disagree when you are trying to artificially fix a the liberty found at $15000.00 and everybody knows that your central bank doesn't have any more, any liquidity, because it's actually running losses of more than 60000000000 dollar. so there is no credibility to this new exchange rate, the political and business liter blame for failing to implement reforms in the financial sector. instead, they have been offering temporary solutions that really lebanese se benefit them and worse than a crisis that's now in its 4th year that they're elses ita. beta hundreds of people have demonstrated against france and became a fossil capital longer to grew. many protest to say the former colonial powers

military prisons has failed to improve security in the country. the u in to thousands of people have been killed since 2015 and nearly 3000000 displaced in violence linked to groups of thing and became foster. the army has freed a group of more than 60 women and children who abducted by gunman earlier this month. the unprecedented mess, kidnapping happened in the northern district of been deaf. it's an area under blockade by armed groups linked to al qaeda and i saw the captives were found by the military in a neighboring province after being held for 8 days. the ceo of tesla has sought to down play the pow off his tweets during testimony in his fraud trial. and california, a loan mosque is accused of misleading and vistas in 2018. that's when he tweeted he'd secured funding to take his electric car company private. but it emerged, the funding wasn't available and shareholders side that tweet cost them millions of

dollars and trading losses. reynolds has moved from santa monica and california. it's business as usual here at this tesla show room in santa monica, california, but several 100 kilometers to the north teslas boss. ellen musk was in a san francisco courtroom, testifying in a trial brought by investors who say his tweets cost them money. now on the stand for about half an hour, musk admitted that his tweets were a form of corporate communication that carried just as much weight as filings with government agencies for the corporation tesla. he also admitted that some people at tesla executives and big investors had asked him to cool it with the tweets stop tweeting because it was costing the company's reputation. but the lawyers did not get to the main point of this trial. that is whether in 2018 when

musk tweeted that he had secured billions of dollars in financing to take tesla private whether musk knew that that was false and that it was an attempt to manipulate the stock price. the investor say it was the securities and exchange commission, which is a government agency here in the united states and regulate public companies. also said that that statement was false and they find mosque a 20000000 dollars several years ago. but that did not come up at the trial to day . the court has been adjourned, and musk will take the witness stand again next week. and he abortion rights protests as have gathered in the us for the annual, so called march for life rally in washington. it's the 1st time that the march has been held since the supreme court overturned the case, known as worthy white and june indian women's constitutional rights to abortion,

that's resulted and restrictive anti abortion was being passed. and several states people have been demonstrating against what they described as the growing militarization of mexico. the protests began off to prison. andries manuel lopez open door, ordered the national guard to monitor mexico city metro system following a series of accidents. john holman reports from the mexican capital the reach of this for about a couple of weeks ago when there was a crash in mexico cities metro system between 2 trains left one person dead and dozens of them injured wasn't the 1st time that it had happened in recent years, 20211026 people were left. that when an overpass in the metro system plus now this much is happening because after the president under his manual help is a reduced, said that he was going assembled them $5000.00 members of the national guard, that's militarized. police force to protect the metro installations. what if this

was sabotaged was basically what he said. the people here are gathered to say that it wasn't sabotage. one that they feel that it was negligence, the, who's these accidents. and to that they're against. what they see is the growing militarization in this country. a lot of activities are managed by a, by what, what national, what an a mean that they're not answered with fidelity. for example, what airports in atlanta, customs milestones, a migration thought we think we are in these are our, to my right. eagle on you can see the police now chasing after a smooth portion of the protest as maybe 2 dozen or so that we're breaking shop windows along the central avenue here. this is a small march. we talking hundreds of people here rather than 1000, but it is a worry in this country to some of the army getting involved,

not just with national defense, but an infrastructure project in mexico. and what they see is a growing influence on the president under is manuel lopez over his species are designated as vulnerable are facing a new threat and south korea. the hooded cry and spending winter in a unesco natural heritage size before they migrated to remote parts of siberia and china. but people in the city of soon sean having to protect them from a severe outbreak, a bird flew in the region unit, kim reports done in this nature reserve. oh, wakened by a collective cry. the hooded crane sleep in these coastal mud flats rich with nutrients and far from the reach of predators. in the past 10 winter as more have come to this unesco biosphere reserve to rest and recharge. before meeting in the spring and russia, siberia, and remote parts of china. by late november,

nearly 10000 of the estimated 15000 in the wild were spending the winter in sunshine, double that of the previous season. thanks to years of conservation efforts and farmers lending their plots, these red patched birds marked as vulnerable are on the mend making for a crowd when it comes time to eat. even the doctor's until monday and the one who get on with me, the reason was so many who had cranes have come to soon john bay can be found in the people's interest. and the more i study the issue, it becomes clear that preservation requires the attention of the world interval. the community is rolling up its sleeves to make this habitat for the hood, a crane more favourable for a healthy stay. rice grains is distributed and there is no ground water illuminating a key factor in the spread of the avian influenza virus in what has been a fear season or the bird flew in japan, a record caseload. some and pools of water has led to a calling of more than 10000000 birds at poultry farms. in is you me

a top wintering site? more than $1200.00 hood cranes were found dead clearing out obstructions, community leaders say artificial habitats such as these while not ideal, must be replicated as habitat. los threatens, hard fought progress. the mayor of soon shawn a town that removed hundreds of electric pulls and wires. when the flying birds got caught in them, says prosperity and ecology must work together. what is often tomorrow's port, yeoman's all, when you serve soon, tom bass, preservation story. you realize how useful it was for the cities development. it helped us move into the future. ecology leads, economic growth, your own result, tortuga. as this town calls for a change from business as usual, migrating birds just want to fly as they have for millennia. unit kim al jazeera st. john's.