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so we begin, this news are where the west pushed to arm ukraine in the nearly year long war against russia. you foreign ministers of pressuring berlin to allow member states to send that gentleman made battle tank leopard to help cave poland. prime minister says he will go ahead, even if he doesn't get berlin's permission of this company. mother, we will seek disapproval from germany, but this is a secondary issue even if we don't get such an approval in the end, we will give our thanks to locate any way within a small coalition of countries. even if germany isn't in that coalition, where the kremlin says in countries are risking more destruction ukraine by supplying it with powerful weapons. russia's foreign minister, 2nd level, he's in pretoria in a different matic, outreach mission to try and defend moscow strategy in ukraine. south africa has remained neutral in the conflict and refuse to condemn russia's invasion or else speak to dominic cane in berlin. so dominate that discussions,

go all any closer to tanks, actually being provided to ukraine on the face of it's not especially much closer other than to say, we know that the foreign minister of germany, analynn bell, bach on french t v yesterday was saying that no request officially had been received for the release of those tanks, but if such, a request were to come and the government would not stand in the way of their being released. why does this need to be done? was quite simple when germany allowed the sale of these tanks to other countries around europe. there is a specific clause which says that the german government has to approve the re export. that is sending of those tanks from the country they originally was sent to elsewhere beyond ne, so now clearly nasa is not a, you're heard a, she's me, ukraine is not a ne, so country therefore german permission is required. and that's what the crux of this matter is. now, it is worth making the point, not just on leon, a bell,

buck in the cabinet, but other cabinet colleagues have said that they think it would be fair for that to happen. but crucially, the decision about whether this happens or not, it's not their decision is the decision of all our shots, the chancellor, that he has been more reticent about committing to the release of these weapons systems without some kind of commitment from other countries. specifically, the united states, it is worth making the point that to day we have seen certain elements patriot miss our systems and other things being sent from germany to poland, but not to ukraine. so again, the crux of this matter is, is all our shots prepared to allow those weapon systems to be released. and given the fact the polish government is putting pressure on him, that pressure is only growing and it's also inside his own cabinet to or don't. and thanks for that settlement came in at berlin. let's get some perspective now from moscow. his alhashan moscow has been reacting to news of western weapons supplies

to keep the deputy foreign minister said j at yahoo cove warned that these weapons are going to be destroyed by moscow. we up. gov also downplayed reports of long range ballistic missiles supplied from the u. s. to ukraine and said that this is an element of psychological warfare. now mosque has been over the past few days, escalating his position with respect to the weapon transfers. dmitri pascoe, the spokesperson for kremlin, said that this is taking the whole conflict to another level, and that nature would be involved in directing it. this is kind of an attempt to a deepened that he looked and see on the european side may lead in germany. back to ref. gov. he said that the us, some buses are to moscow. the new ambassador will arrive within the coming days and issues between moscow and washington are going to be discussed with you on buses are still on the diplomatic front. a most gotta announce that its downgrading gets

relations with sonya following. colleen's downsizing of the you of the russian embassy them. on another note, the fs. be the russian foreign intelligence service said that they have reliable sources. i'm stating that the ukranian army is a stock filing weapons and nuclear plant in euclid or more now and why japanese blackwood tank has been in the spotlight of recent weeks at the german chancellor. left shalt hasn't made explicit about why germany is holding off, but domestic politics and fear of escalating tensions with russia have all played a role. no doubt. berlin has also reportedly pressured the united states to send its abrams tanks to ukraine to try and deflect pressure from the e. u. but washington says the maintenance of the abrams makes them too complex to be useful. so far, early the night kingdom has confirmed it will transfer its modern battle tanks, the challenge it to, to ukraine. let's now speak to gillian public. his research associates at the

federal armed forces university joined us. now from hamburg. good to have you with us, julian said this german hesitancy it's, it's more about a combination i guess of history and current concerns. right? um yeah you you're right at least and what it looks like, you know, from the outside of course, on the one hand you asked of the voices from the chancellor h all the time saying that she may need to be careful and don't want to be asked in their decisions on the other side, of course, it's a decision of a new image of giving the green light for standing again, german tanks into the east of europe if you would say so. and so it seems that in berlin, it's not such an easy decision to make yet a parent talking about sen. again, 14 tanks in its own right. that's obviously not enough. but what, in your view,

what is a total number of times that would be required to make a difference on the ground? well, this always depends, of course, on the combined effort. if you consider what the you train in general loosely mentioned recently, he said he needs not only 300 tanks, but also 600 infantry fighting vehicle and 500 how with us. so what is relevant here is that the effort of combined arms to create sufficient combat operation. not relying only on the teams on the conglomerates together with infantry, with other vehicles. and also actually, for instance, to eventually create the efforts and the, the battle power for the training on the forces and for the aim. so we taking now territory, ultimately, do you think ukraine will get what it wants? well the,

the decision all the time depends of course on the one and for the leo pop tangs still from german and berlin and the german government. on the other hand, you already have other countries as, as the u. k. of sending or intending to the challenge or to main battle tanks. then now you have more. i'm rich in infantry fighting, being from the u. s. also from germany. the models are being sent and the near term . so there is more and more coming together, but it's still, of course, a long way for really sending those numbers of $300.00 things or $600.00 infantry fighting be right. and in a sense, from the ukrainian perspective, time is running out because there is talk that russia is looking to launch a major offensive in the coming coming weeks, immediate month. yeah, exactly. time's running out on the one hand from this perspective on the other.

also, if you look what analysts are saying in terms of the ending of stocks of soviet era s, it's regarding the old soviet style tanks or ammunition. so at some point in the future, numbers will go down and ukraine will depend more and more also on western ammunition and consequently, also more on the western acids. what would you say finally about the overall approach from the nato alliance? when it comes to ukraine military you see that many nations from nature waggling a lot, not only money, but i'm additions assets and you see the top 5 for donate to us from the u. s, u k, germany, poland, and canada, all our nato members. and this is on the one hand to pick, signed, assign. now on the other, you also see that nato, of course, doesn't have their own assets. it can,

all would be able to deliver to ukraine. where you only have, for instance, secretaries talk about who's ever saying that he's on favor or nato would be in favor of sending one more assets or certain essence to you train. jerry will leave the appreciate your perspective. thanks very much. i had you in a public speaking. thank you. but we mentioned russia's farm and as a segue, leverage is in south africa for talks. he's been meeting at the foreign minister that melody pendle in pretoria. south africa's military will hold joint exercises off it's coast with china and russia. next month. we all your favor in favor of you slow resolution of disputes and will be will be bold is ready to discuss. negotiated solution to any conflict on us. in september, president zelinski site assigned the degree bresh,

submitting all ukrainian officials to negotiate on anything with the russian federation. so i believe it is absolutely obvious as regards to the origin of the problem of lack of negotiations. our sincere wish that the conflict currently between russia and ukraine will soon be brought to a peaceful land through diplomacy and negotiation. as we believe this is the desire of all of us in the globe. let's here now more from patricia for me to mila has this. this is leverage, 2nd visit to the african continent in 6 months. and it's really about cementing relations with a number of african countries, including south africa. now officially, south africa has said that to remain neutral with regard to the conflict in the ukraine and the role that russian played. but meeting such as this one,

as well as they both, it's all for the african defense minister to russia last year. a number of bricks, meetings coming up as well as naval exercises between russia, of african china, due to take place in february may suggest otherwise. and that south africa, willing to hear what russia has to say around how it wants to develop its relations with african countries. and the emphasis was very much being on that recruiting. that group made up the result, russia, india, china, and south africa. we've also heard from south africa, foreign minister saying that that grouping should play a greater role. they should be mechanisms put in place for that grouping to play a great role in terms of global safety and security of south africa, has refrained from condemning russia action in the ukraine. and just solving through venture called africa might be, of course, is debatable. but it really is about creating friends and allies of the mentoring that relationship with new friends and allies, old,

old friends and allies that might have been lost after the break up of the soviet union. and engaging those countries as an alternative to the with russia is increasingly isolated and criticized upon more still ahead on the news are including iraq's a failing economy. we look at the driving forces behind the depreciation of the country's currency. and hong kong welcomes hundreds of thousands of visitors from mainland china for new that new year. celebration after code is 954 coming. all those managers saying his clothes have a growing belief they can now, when i mean ah . so brazilian president lewis industrial luna da silva, is in argentina for his 1st international visit since returning to office lula is

meeting argentinean husband alberto fernandez. they'll be discussing the creation of a common currency for the latin american region, and they'll both meet other leaders from the region for summit about would be on tuesday. let's across now to the argent outside the argentinean, presidents officer, treasure berza, and one of those. it's theresa. this is all about mending ties and strengthening relations. right. well, that's correct. this is luella phillip 1st whoring trip and he decided to come to argentine, which was a tradition by brazilian precedent that was changed by former president. it boy fernando. and here it's very, very clear that in a way you'll ever seen wakes trying to mend some of the broken bridges that were burnt out while zeta was when nato was in office. he's going to be participating in the summit of the latin american and caribbean countries. that it's going to be happening here on tuesday. it is expected also that oppress henry last year. i just

met with president a lot of the fernandez here in the presidential pilot. that you can see behind me where argentina and brazil are announcing lots of commitments of arrangements between each other among them building a pipeline that will go from argentina to brazil. and the possibility of course, of a currency between brazil and argentina would be called the currency sword. and ministry of economy far. and tina has says that they are not discarding that other latin american nation could join in. this is something that has been proposed in the past, but that it did not work mostly because of political and macro nomics of problems in argentina, but also in other parts here in, in the country. so there is not of expectation about what's going to be happening here. but the most interesting thing that's happening in when our site is at this point is, is this meeting a meeting? where many of those who will be attending are from center left governments in the region. we're seeing the left to winning in brazil at the center left here in argentina. in chiller, we're seeing something similar happening in columbia,

among other things and, and what most of the people we have spoken to here is that this is a very clear path towards more integration in this part of the world. right. and that meets senior regional leaders on tuesday amongst those that he will be talking to will be the venezuelan president tells us likely to pan out doing well, what's very clear about the visit by president lola towards in tina for attends what is known here as the se luck, which she's the summit of the latin american and caribbean countries. here is that back in 2019 brazil left this organization because of j e to was when out of because cuba and venezuela were present in that some a 10 right after taking off is lula announced that brazil was going back and it's very, very likely that he'll be meeting president nikolai, my daughter, for example, the cuban president, meal, the acronym we do know that mother would always expected to arrive for dinner tonight, sole held in lots of secrets here. we don't know at what time he's gonna land or

anything like that. but this is also happening where there are big protests in venezuela right now. in the past few years, the venezuelan government has tried to control the hyperinflation in the country that reached 1000000 percent forcing thousands of people to leave the country. and he has started to impose some of scary t measures regular writing, the use of the dollars on the streets. and it has sparked big protests, especially from doctors, from teachers, among others who are saying that they're making between $15.00 and $20.00 every month. and that makes it very, very difficult for them to survive and that's why they have taken to the streets regularly precedent. my lord is expected to be arriving here to what a sight is doing this day to participate in this sum. it is going to be a picture that is not going to go a notice mostly of what is something that i spoke before about the possibility of integration right now. there's negotiations on going being venezuela between the opposition and the government. and when we go back to let the field run their role,

he would play in something like this. well, he's a man who has, you know, we're always supported negotiation. he has said that who would like to see a democracy. i democratic also nation of power in venezuela, and clearly this is something that lola is going to try to promote here in when a site is when this company takes place. all right, that's a picture. and one is ernst to rosa bi reporting, thanks to read. power is being restored to launch pods. pakistan after failure of the electricity grid left millions in the dark businesses and hospitals have been hit as the national grid went down early on monday. authorities say, getting the whole system back online could take several hours to will hider is in islam button has more for the 2nd time since there's new government doke power in april after the award of no confidence against them. ron khan, the country has seen a major breakdown in the country, electricity power system. today, august on experienced yet another outage,

the 2nd and they have gotten the affected life across the country where the steel woke head in islamabad. they depend on electricity, so they can use their vending machines at relative. be able to cut that steve. but as you can see, these people are just waiting for electricity to return and admins a lot. so for days rages, they cannot afford to go bob for it spiraling inflation. anyways, nobody believe me. i have got a year since morning. we are waiting for the trustees that we could start our daily chores. unfortunately, there isn't any hope and that has made us worry about how we will make our livelihood for the day. i'm not, i'm not barney. i only do it monday, which i the board. what is on we are all daily wage earners, and our work is totally dependent on electricity, which is cutting and welding and can't be done without power. the shows the incompetency of this government who has not been able to restore the power since this morning and are making it hard for us to earn anything for the day. he's in the back over i to dad frequent fall. busy guards which of course is now also

affecting outboard. many industries are shutting down because of foreign exchange shortages. and also because the raw materials are not being imported into the country because the government as important to ban on import this electricity crisis only showed the incompetence of the brethren government, which had said that it would investigate the last time the country. so a major breakdown in its electricity supply system. however, there was no action taken despite promises. and it appeared that this time again, there will be no action from the government. the bomb was sick, the can not be face. as long as it is in the traditional public sector and as long as it is controlled from one office and we have 9 distribution companies in the country or 10 or whatever it is. whether we way into management, outsource,

whether we're going to privatize whether we will work out something with the better with the federal government in the provinces. the discourse needs to be fixed, but indeed a warning trying for the people of pockets on and doors and power that the country can not afford to lose electricity or in such a large scale, depriving tens of millions of papers of electric power. a popular radio john mr. cameroon has been found dead martinez. so ago was the houston baby program. at a private station. he often tackled corruption and singled up prominent people in his broadcasts. he went missing on tuesday for porters without for to say his badly damaged car was found near a police station on the outskirts of the capital. one day. they want an independent or a judge in lebanon, has resumed his investigation into the 2020 bay route port blast. after a 13 month break, more than $200.00 people were killed on chemical stockton. a warehouse caught fire

causing the explosion. the judge ordered the release of 5 people, but also announced charges against 8 others, including the chief of the state security agency sinner. honda has more now from beirut families of the victims of the fork explosion are welcoming the resumption of the investigation. it has been stalled for more than a year, mainly due to political pressure. judge to be tired, was facing lawsuits, lawsuits calling for his dismissal lawsuits that were filed by former ministers officials. he had charged with criminal negligence in that explosion. so there are welcoming this decision. no court order was issued for the resumption of the prob, raising a number of questions on. but what we understand that judge better is based on his decision to resume the prob, on legal justifications. we also understand that he is filing further charges against top security officials. men like the head of general security,

major general abaz ibrahim. no, he's been up against a political and security establishment that has been rejecting any form of accountability. they have not been cooperating with the prob, so it's unlikely that the general abaz ibrahim is going to cooperate with judge guitar. so how far will he be able to push in order to the answers on who was responsible? a for that explosion? one of the biggest non nuclear blasts in recent history, we still do not know what caused the fire that led to the explosion. we still do not know who owned the ammonium nitrate, which was stored in one of the warehouses, but it's an established there is an established fact and that is officials as high up as the president were aware of the presence of highly exposed material at that port. warehouse and did nothing about its residents of a bedouin village in the occupied westbank say they will not move even though their

homes are threatened with demolition israel's far right. national security minister it's more been committed, has demanded that the village of con, alabama should be destroyed. in 2018 israel supreme court approved to plan to bulldoze it, to make way for illegal israeli settlements. courts now asking the government's why it hasn't happened. neither abraham has more now from colonel emma allison is, are protesting here against the visits by israeli la cood members over there. they are members of the ruling party in the government of benjamin netanyahu and israel . and they are calling for the demolition of the mud village now 2018. these really supreme court greenlighted the demolition. but as many palestinians save international pressure, the i c. c prosecutor. even warning that this could constitute a war crime. transferring people living here. so, but they're not renewed calls now, and there is

a court case in the israeli court against the government. not demolishing the structures here. and now as far as people here tell us, they have no intention of going anywhere. we're seeing children that have been born after 2018 after the court at green lighting, the demolition and palestinians say they want to build on their lands and they have nowhere else to go and jump in when it will a dinner. and i want to know there are 3 generations here. our children will raise their families here, like our grandparents did, were here before the settlement for our do, men will establish in 1984. but we have been here since 952 before the occupation of. ringback people here say that their simple way of life has always been on the threat, living under israel's military occupation. but they're saying that now that threat is becoming more and more eminent. they're telling us that the only thing they're

left with is persevering. sled hernandez, another blow to the u. k is conservative party i minister we should launch is an investigation into the tax affairs the party chairman the main suspect to the machine. california killed himself was done with police and in for 50 minutes or so action from the israeli. an open is coming up in the age. the 1st have a grand slam title. ah, here's your headlines for the america. nice to have your long so for the u. s gall states. here's what's going on. we're getting this warmer feet of air slamming up against cold air coming off the rockies. that's going to spark some storms on

tuesday through texas, mississippi, arkansas, and some serious snow for the southern plains. now speaking about snow, we've had serious snow through massachusetts, parts of the state, 20 centimeters and for the canadian city of saint john's, nearly 50 centimeters of snow fell that so still falling on monday through new brunswick. but this will be a rain event for nova scotia and halifax, where there is a rainfall warning off to the west then. and it's much quieter here. just a few snow flurries in edmonton, looking good in portland with the sun cloud combo and a height of 7 degrees and it is also dry in california. that is the good news. temperature is not bad. there's a snow through the rockies, it will meet up with that warmer air, sparking those storms on tuesday. so that snow and rain in the northeast of the u. s. and eastern candidates dropping down, impacting florida, the bahamas, western cuba, the yucatan peninsula. right through to mexico's gulf coast on monday. now for the top end of south america, things are drying off in french, diana, but weather alerts for him, but now some brazilian for how much ramos c and thunderstorms have cooled things

off in his cell. that's it. susan, ah, with the when the news breaks, when people need to be heard and the story told, it's incredible that more people were injured or killed. this is me receive on the ukrainian capital with exclusive interviews and in depth through all that i did a lot more than $2000000000.00 that might have addressed. nigeria is going by deficient in widespread public. al jazeera has teens on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and lied to face tough times. the man tough question. what exactly are you asking for you? what the troops on the ground, the rigorous debate we challenge, conventional wisdom racism is so deeply entrenched in the country that is identified with america itself. when you challenge racism, it looks as if you're challenging almera and demand the truth. there is no serious

discussion about this because it goes to the very root of who we are up front with me, mark lamb on hill on al jazeera hulu . ah, hello again. you know what? she all the 0 reminder, broad top stories are, and berlin is coming under increased pressure to give the go ahead. delivery of german made tanks to ukraine. poland says it wants approval to send it left at 2 times, but will make its own decision. berlin doesn't commit to brazil, president is on his 1st visit abroad since returning to power. used to nazi luna to silver will attend the summit of regional leaders in argentina where he and the

argentine presidential pushed for common currency. for latin america. and authorities in pakistan are working to restore electricity or from nationwide power outage. the energy minister claims a fault in the national grid. so on that, let's bring in economist and energy expert mohammed to be our car, joins us on skype from islamabad. damage american, welcome to program. why has this happened? do you think? is it just down to technical issues or does it run deep them? well, this is not the 1st time it has happened. so it's probably the next some infrastructure issue which has not been addressed. in fact, this time the outage is been. ready for a longer period, and it's hard to have not yet given us a good indication as to when following bridges store. so i think that this is an ongoing issue with the power sector box hadn't made

a lot of investment in the public generation. unfortunately, even the, the agreements are division, those investments are made, have contributed to another dimension of the energy crisis. but let me stick to what is happening right now. that little investment has been done in the transmission and distribution system, right? is a big mismatch generation. and the consumption set up tomorrow and what is. ready so you say is an ongoing issue, which is made worse by the global energy crisis, and the soaring prices of energy known not just by when the energy a energy, gretchen has gone to further ward foxon will order the suffering. but you've been before that box on has almost up 70 percent of the power

generation capacity park sun has been made and what we call the i p p. the investment for private producers. and these are on a by a buyer or fee for system capacity payments. so and those capacity payments are linked to the huge 17 percent. it turned on the door with the daughter and sort of. ready the buddha be appreciating against a donna that is added to the cost of energy. and to the extent that now all that 77 percent of the i p p followed which box and is every, all the cars are paying for it. in any case, less than 50 percent is actually being taken off and used. so even for electricity, which hasn't been produced, the consumers up big to the cost of energy has been exceedingly high. as a result,

the industry is dying is becoming uncompetitive, exposed, declining, and then now we have a foreign exchange prices, as it is not okay. or an exchange i was a payment crisis. energy crisis is going to get worse as it gets closer, and people start using more air conditioning. but what can the government do about it before that? even before that, we have another angle to this, which makes it more complex that much off this a privately produced power is based on imported fuel financing. and which is one of the most expensive to it's not going back. send us a jump on that. we just run out of time just to see if that makes it worse. so the bottom line is, what can the government do now? i think it needs to be 0. first of all, i mean, of course the transmission issue there for the best community to restore power, but we need to sort of increase a lead lead to i'd be peace, produce

a powerful issue. the consumers are big and giving, given at subsidized ridge through the export sector for they can and donna's to pay for the important few. and that would be wonderful project. instead, the government has shut down the industry like a notch number of industry. 2 is shutting down our son, and we have again, traces on top of that we are facing among different prices and the quantity sions are finding amongst themselves is the political prices as well. and they are not paying much attention to what is happening with the economy or the energy sector with the industry. i think box on is facing a very be a good time at this moment. all right, we'll leave that my manager back on appreciate to respect to thanks very much indeed. now the chairman of you case, conservative party, says hill, fully cooperate with an independent inquiry into his tax affairs at eames while he is resisting calls to resign off to details of the multi $1000000.00 dispute emerge

of prime minister she soon at have ordered an investigation but the opposition says it wants him to come clean about his knowledge of the matter on saturdays. oh, he said he had settled the outstanding tax bill. integrity and accountability is really important to me. and clearly, in this case, there are questions that need answering, and that's why i've off our independent advisor to get to the bottom of everything to investigate the matter fully, and establish all the facts and provide advice to me on the deem to haul with compliance. with the ministerial code, i'm pleased that nadine to hallway has agreed with that approach and has agreed to fully cooperate with that investigation. nadine bobbers covering this for us from london. so that's a british prime minister. will this come things done? i very much doubt it. let's not forget just a few days ago, prime minister wishes sudak was saying that the dean's or how we had addressed the matter in fuller's the labor party, the opposition started to call for his sacking. and just as you heard,

he's now saying there are questions that need to be answered. so he's asked her so lori magnus, his ethics advisor, to carry out an investigation into the year tax affairs of the tory party chair. now, am the deans or how he himself is put out a statement in the last few hours, welcoming this development and insisting that he will be staying in his position while that inquiry is ongoing. but it's not just, i am the opposition labor party that have been raising a very large eyebrow and suggesting that richey snack is an acting toughly enough. listen to this a. busy conservative politician, dominant grieve, the former attorney general has agreed with the deputy leader of the labor party angela raina. he has said that richie soon act should not need his ethics adviser to tell him whether or not that is a holly was in the wrong. now these allegations center around and

a payment reportedly that happened last summer when mr. hall, we was chancellor of the exchequer effectively in charge of h. m r c, the former inland revenue. and he reportedly made a payment of $6000000.00, including a 30 percent penalty. that's the crucial thing because he is still insisting that any mistakes were careless rather than deliberate. but it goes back to shares that he had in you. gov. the polling company he helps have found and revenue from that was put into a trust based injury balter where his father is a director at that particular firm. so a lot of people are starting to ask, well, this seems to be a very of a discrepancy. if you like, saying that, oh, it was a, an honest mistake that it's hard to square with moving your money elsewhere unless

it were, unless you're trying to say that, that was a mistake that you didn't know you were doing that as well, perhaps. and away from that issue was the government reaction to allegations that the, the man who became chairman of the b b. c, helped to arrange alone for birth. johnson, when he was p. m. and then he and himself got the top job of the b, b, c. that's right, another embarrassment for richie sooner care involving his is not direct predecessor, but the man who was forced out last summer, who's popped up in ukraine summer saying that he's trying to escape this scandal. but he's hit back himself on monday saying that it is nonsense that so the chair of the b, b. c, which had shop, knows and knew nothing about his or personal financial affairs. richard sharp has put out a statement or a letter t b b c, stuff in which he says, try to my appointment. i introduce an old friend of mine and distant cousin of the van prime minister, sam, blithe to the cabinet secretary as sam wanted to support boris johnson. but richard shop is insisting he did not arrange alone. he did not get involved in any

financial transactions. this is at least a reminder of the cozy, some would say corrupt a relationships between some in the media and politics. here in the u. k, the chair of the b b. c has always been a political. busy appointment, so richard shock saying nothing on toward happened boards. johnson who poohing any suggestion or that her there was anything wrong. but i think this might rumble on at least for a while, yet as well as the or the nadine's or how we tack sir, scandal as they're calling it. or i did him thanks a lot. and he mother now ambulance staff in the u. k. a on a strike and dispute overpaid. this is the 1st time that workers from all 3 unions walked off. the job on the same day, promptly warn't warnings for the public to only call emergency services and life threatening situations. harry force it is more now from london. this is the 3rd strike violence workers in the last 5 weeks and it is

a major 13 separate unions calling out their members and large areas of england and wales affected in terms of the impact on public health. it is likely to be considerable in terms of serious life threatening emergencies. they will still be attended by ambulance. is there a manager here at this picket line? for example, who will assign such calls? to striking paramedics will come off the picket line and go and attend those, but still serious but non life threatening cases, they are expected to be delays. and i've been in since attending those and in less serious instances, there may be no ambulance at all. that will be on its way as far as the people we've spoken to here are concerned. this is an issue of the cost of living, the low pay that they say they have been suffering with for many years. the impact on service of the kind of stuff turnover that, that creates the head of one of the striking unions says that the answer to all this is staring the government in the face. it is raising pay. the government,

though in the shape of the health sector, barkley has called this hugely disappointing. he says he has been having constructive talks on 2023 to 24 pay, but the unions won't pay awards immediately. they want the current situation to be tackled in terms of what's gonna happen in the coming weeks. well, we're told that could be some 11 strikes between now and march the 20th. so that is an intensification of what is already a very major around a strikes the situation looks set to continue. the governor of iraq central bank has been sacked as the iraqi dinar continued to lose value against the us dollar. erect economy has been struggling after years of war corruption, and the pandemic route up to one has more from bite prices are going job in iraq, is tours since mid november. the denali has declined against u. s. dollar. losing about 10 percent of its value. a bought on it as

he double it checks the price tags every time he comes to the supermarket and suddenly i will be having a little bit of shopping is blame it on the dollar exchange rate because most of the products are imported. in this case, the government should pay our salaries and dollars what the official exchange rate is fixed at $1470.00 d not as per dollar, but recently it's been trading as high as 1600. since november, the u. s. has tightened the rules on international transfers to prevent money laundering. it's reduced cash flows to iraqi banks by about 80 percent. lou are the 100 for guided emory key. it's cleared u. s. federal reserve scrutinizing foreign transfers from iraq. and especially to those countries unfriendly with 2 u. s. army, such as iran, lebanon, syria, and yemen. consequently,

iraq's daily via transfers from the u. s. have been cut from $240000000.00 to only $22000000.00. on a day. the government has launched a campaign to combat illegal currency trading and promised to hold further discussions with washington to stabilize the exchange rate were higher. dodges allen. this is one aspect of an economic challenge that requires a brave response and practical solutions to end the wrong financial policies inherited by the current government. in the meantime, the prime minister has extended credit to small businesses by half a $1000000000.00. despite government promises to contain the depreciation, many iraqis are worried about an increase in prices ahead of the holy month of ramadan. especially in imports such as gas and wheat, a number of currency exchanges have stopped trading until that is more certainty about trades. some iraqis blame the central bank for the shortage of dollars.

others accused the united states of were promising the dollar. either way, it's the iraqi people who bear the brunt of the changes. mammals that were had algebra bar that police in the or state of california say the main suspect and a mass shooting has been found dead. 72 year old who can trans shot himself as he was call it in a car park. officers believe he opened fire at a ballroom dance studio in a town east of los angeles on saturday. can we at least 10 people, rob reynolds has been falling? the developments in monterey park. a massacre in a quiet community, celebrating lunar new year. 10 people, 5 men and 5 women were killed when a gunman entered the star ball room in monterey park, california, saturday evening. 10 others were wounded. some critically, one of the county's most heinous cases. hours after the killings police in torrence

48 kilometer south west of the crime scene surrounded a white van believe to be linked to the shooting. as officers closed in a single shot was fired from inside the vehicle. at 1252 p. m. r sheriffs, a swat team approached and cleared the van, and determined the suspect sustained. a self inflicted gunshot wound and was pronounced dead. at the same. investigators conducted a search of the vehicle and determine the mail inside the van was the mass shooting suspect. the gunman was, who can train a 72 year old man of asian descent? police said he had several firearms including a semi automatic machine pistol. police have not disclosed a motive. we want to know. we want to know how something like this. something this awful can happen, and congresswoman judy chew represents the area. there are also other rumors about

this being. i had to spend awe by a has been who are caught his wife, dance, and heir. please say shortly after the monterey park shooting. there was a related incident at another nearby dance studio who can trans, entered the studio with a gun, but was disarmed by patrons. he was disarmed by 2 community members who i consider to be heroes because they saved lives. this could have been much worse. people in monterey park, a city of 61000 whose residents are pre dominantly, asian american, were stunned by the violence. i was shocked. i was because the bar, i'm dancing studios where i go dancing on monday evenings with friends. and i was the head close to me. you know, my kids were afraid to go to sleep last night because they were afraid, the shooter, my break the windows and come in or something i had to tell them. now it is okay. and i'll come for them to go to sleep. the killings came at the lunar new year.

normally, a joyous family oriented festival. moderate park now joins a long list of us towns and cities, scarred by deadly gun violence. what should have been a time of celebration is now a time of morning in a community that may be changed forever. rob reynolds, al jazeera, monterey park, california, and celebrations for the lunar new year happening around the world. people in hong kong, up ushering in the year of the rabbit for the 1st time since the beginning of the cobra 19 pandemic. the territory is welcoming hundreds of thousands of visitors from mainland china. jessica washington reports now from hong kong, hong kong typhoon temple fountains and welcoming the year of the rabbit. this temple is well known for its fortune telling practice, known as count tim. most visitors come here with hopes for the coming year family. i am here to pray for luck on i wish to have good health and more money and stay happy with my girlfriend. with political unrest and the pandemic recent years have

been difficult for hong kong, and the territory is now in a shop economic downturn. but many want to put all that behind. then this is the 1st learning new year holiday since hong kong ease to most of it's $1219.00 regulation temples around the city, a resuming constant, but weren't allowed when attend demik. rules was still in place. worshippers and visitors returned to this temple. since we started its practice of burning incense this week. okay. i think it is good to even matter if before do the new year. so that be po can celebrate together at west calhoun station, thousands of people from mainland cities, across the border with hong kong for the 1st time in 3 years. a son in law, we visited many times before, defend damage, we come function, and we love hong kong, the rail network suspended operations in january 2020 and only resumed them this month zombie. we are here to visit our feminine hong kong. i haven't seen them for

3 years, and i missed them. economists say the recovery for industries hit hard by the pandemic won't happen overnight. but there's reason for some optimizon, this great thing, a confidence that when the mobility is that would be like a repay all sectors growing mall growing and also supporting the business that already has been 3 years suffer from the pandemic. as people gather the skis with their families, many a hoping this year will be much better than the most. jessica washington out 0 hong kong is still ahead here in al jazeera in sport, christiana, rinaldo has made his debut in the saudi proudly sana will be. it tell you how i got on ah.

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ah, or let's get on to the board has sana, thank you very much, nick, will i no back joke of its bed for a record extending pants. australian open tide till remain on track. the said put his injury concerns to one side as he progressed into the melbourne quarter finals and to richardson reports. oh, this is astonishingly good for a joke of it right now. nothing that dinner can do with saying 5 to novak jokers which may have a strength of hamstring. but any injury worries looked far from his mind in this match against hung player alec daemon. oh oh, nothing. tell him. australian open champion required

a medical timeout during his last match, but demon always grunted no such respite. o joker, which winning in straight sets to move in to the last date with, with us. anyway, let alone here in melbourne. i keep on going. obviously, i don't want to celebrate too early. i'm, i'm feeling the tournament. i was feeling very good in the 1st match, 2nd match, not so great. and so i, i know that things can change really quickly and, you know, i don't take anything for granted. i'm really pleased with the way i played with the way it moved to day or the way i hit the ball. so let's keep going jock of which will next. thanks, rushes. andre roop left his match against danish teenager holger una, went to a 5th set tie break multiple chances to win

until a moment of fortune eventually decided the match in rue black favor. ah, had been for their phone been made on fabric and to make her return the dinner. and then the. ready bus or it's the largest problem, moment of my life and now i can go christian also if i put up for sure i'm going on 3 american players are in the melbourne quarter finals for the 1st time since 2000 including 20 year old ben shelton playing in only his 2nd grandson, the tournament and the richardson al jazeera in the women's jaw are a nasa bellanca is through to her 1st australia open called the final. the bell russian now overpowered belinda been the teacher of switzerland 7562 to which at the last 824 year old is aiming for her 1st. ever grand slam title shall played.

don't have a kitchen of krisha next. a super her to read the ring, that's all i all to down course she's, she's in the balloon ballplayer. ah, and i did a stairwell in the beginning, but i was able to come back in the march and super happy with the mindset on court . so it was great, much force is carline garcia is out. the french player was stunned by world number 45 at magdalen. it of poland in its compatriot, eagle. why take was eliminated in the 4th round on sunday, shall face former world number one, caroline discovered in the last 8 arsenal manager. mikhail, our tater says that that confidence and belief among his players is growing as his team aim to win the primitive title for the 1st time in nearly 2 decades. on sunday they beat matches say neither 3 to it in equity, i scored twice in his 2nd was the decisive goal for arsenal or 5 points clear

at the top of the table with us get much better than that and was a beautiful moment, especially one because were pushing and pushing and pushing and dingo wasn't coming . and he came, i didn't, i made it even more difficult, but he was just electric and it was really emotional. really passionate and i lost it. graciano. rinaldo has made his debut and the saudi pro lee come d 5 time battle, a dull winner captain to his new club on nasir as a to call it to fuck. and the re, at france had already caught a glimpse of a ronaldo earlier in the week when he led and all saw 11 who lost a friendly to leonor message p. s g. that's also where he got that black eye. another school twice in that much, but say the off the school seat in this one on know so $11.00 neil and the table

buffalo bills, blair, demari hamlin that made his 1st public appearance in suffering cardiac arrest during an nfl game. earlier this month, hamlin came out to support his team in the playoff encounter with the cincinnati bengals 24 year old collapse during a regular season game against the bangles and had to be, as i stated, and couldn't inspire his team to victory. the bengals beating the bills 27 to 10. they'll now take on the kansas city chiefs for a place in these suitable stories galvanized. now just his presence is so warm feeling and actually we wanted to play for him and continue our our mission. and again, we just ran, switching to play better than us tomorrow. thank us. he san francisco, $49.00 as be the dallas cowboys. $19.00 to $12.00 foot to reach this 2nd straight,

nf c championship game. the cowboys haven't made it to the super bowl since they want to title and 1995. the 49 else will face the philadelphia eagles next sunday. and that's lose ball for me. we'll have more for you later on. but for now on hand you back to nick. excellent. thanks a lot. we won't see you little bit later about it from may mclaughlin muse, all but i'll be back in a couple of hoffer up ah, ah. with

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october in the city of karbala. the specially designed to both was donated by a japanese jewelry. it creates a cracking sound to allow players to locate these players hope to join football clubs and represent their country in competition. but other iraqi provinces don't have it own teams because there are only why you believe specially designed to bowl under cover reporting for exclusive stories. explosive results al jazeera investigations. the news pressure grows on germany to supply a level 2 times to ukraine. poland says it's ready to say without.