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permission. if other eyes do the same ah, i'm carried on to mrs. al jazeera lawson. doha also coming up. busy reserves president is in argentina on his 1st international trip since returning to office. he's aiming to rebuild ties. strain by his predecessor focused on begins, restoring electricity after major grid failure, left much of the country without power. and we hear from tanza, naz opposition leader and former presidential candidate to do this suit. he's heading back home to years in exxon. ah, germany appears to be moving closer to a proven deliveries of its high tech battle tanks to ukraine. he sees them as

crucial to its defense against russian forces, with germany's foreign minister says, the government won't get in the way if parliament wants to send the leopard to tanks from its own arsenal. it follows days of pressure on but in from ukraine's western allies. from that, cate reports, a consignment of german weapons makes its weight eastward. these are elements of a patriot missile battery, which is being deployed in poland. they're being sent that to protect the goals against malfunctioning russian rockets. that may miss targets in ukraine. to be about midpoint and slight if not, can be told him the colon after slovakia is now our 2nd area of operations and the training of ukrainians on the patriot system is also running simultaneously. and therefore, it only makes sense that for the time being this deployment in poland will be limited to 6 months. and then we will have to see how it will continue in the future on phone. but in ukraine, the need is for tanks. specifically, the german manufactured leopard to main battle tank. many analysts consider it to

be the perfect weapon system for ukraine, which would give it a material advantage of a soviet era tanks which make up part of the russian forces. the leopard too is in the arsenal of many e u countries and several of said they want to give some to the ukrainians, but can't without german permission. since they manufacture the tanks, they hold the re export rights. now poland says it is considering sending them to ukraine even with no german authorization. we will seek this approval from germany, but this is a secondary issue even if we don't get such an approval in the and we will give our thanks to bring us with an a small coalition of countries, even if germany isn't in that coalition for months leopard to issue has been growing and importance in germany. many politicians from within the coalition and without on now arguing in favor of releasing them, including the foreign minister who told french t v. on sunday. if asked,

germany would not stand on the way until night the weapons systems germany is allowed to be deployed to ukraine have been predominantly defensive. but main battle tanks are mostly offensive instruments. ultimately, the decision so allow german made tanks to be used against russian forces in ukraine. is one for the chancellor. all our shots, dominant came al jazeera berlin. so why are germany's tanks considered so vital to the battle in ukraine? or leopard tanks were launched in 1979 and have been upgraded several times and currently around 2000 in 13 european armies, but in varying states of readiness. leopard 2 is valued fritz maneuverability. it's lighter than other comparable models, such as britons challenger to. you can also hit targets 5 kilometers away, while on the move, they considered the best option for ukraine, more widely available and use much less fuel in the u. s. abrams. ukraine says it

needs at least 300 western tanks to repel a possible spring russian offensive, or cave at once the tanks to help it break through russian lines. fighting is currently sent in on the town of buck moved in the east, where rushes, wagner mercenaries, and ukrainian forces are locked in battle. it cranes army has shared this drone fitted, showing the area it set to show impact craters. damaged high rise apartment blocks and destroyed businesses. with less close, combat artillery and aerial attacks produced, the city is mutilated, but under the control of the ukrainian armed forces, with the ukrainian flag stands back moot. mr. in short, this is all information as of today. don't worry about backward back, much dash back, much keeps holding on back much is ukraine official or meanwhile the kremlin says

e u countries are risking more destruction in ukraine by supplying it with powerful weapons or the hashem has more from the russian capital. was guy's been reacting to news of western weapon supplies to keep the deputy for a melissa survey of yap grove warrant that these weapons are going to be destroyed by moscow. we up. gov also down blade reports off long range ballistic missiles supply from the u. s. to ukraine and said that this is an element of psychological war for now. mosque has been over the past few days, escalating its position with respect to the weapon transfers. dmitri pascoe, the spokesperson for kremlin, said that this is taking the whole conflict to another level on that nature will be involved him directly. and this is kind of an attempt to deepen the reluctance. he, on the european side may lead in germany back to re, of course, he said that the you, as 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 the new ambassador still on the diplomatic front, a mascara announced that its downgrading its relations with estonia, following colleen's downsizing of the you of the russian embassy there. on another note, the f. s. b, the russian for intelligent service, said that they have reliable sources. i stating that the ukranian army is a stock filing weapons and nuclear plant in euclid. oscars, a foreign minister has accused the west of trying to destroy everything russian. several of robert made the comments after meeting his south african counterpart in pretoria on monday. so africa's government has maintained what it's calling a neutral position on the ukraine. conflict. number of people protested as the meeting to place we owe you

a favor in favor of for useful resolution of disputes and will be, will be told is ready to discuss. negotiate with solution to any conflict with us. in september, president zalinski sank, signed the decree, breck, she bitching 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 end through diplomacy and negotiation. as we believe this is, the desire of all of us in the globe for africa is one of russia's most important

allies in africa with relations between the 2 nations. going back decades during the cold war, the soviet union that backs the a and c. and it's fight to end apartheid africa is also member of the bricks. economic insecurity book long with brazil, russia, india, and china. south africa is chairing this year's summit. in recent years, russia has used its relationship with south africa to expound its political, economic, and military goals. of cross the continent from the miller has more form pictorial . this is the 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 a visit with africa, defense minister to russia last year. a number of bricks, meetings coming up as well as naval exercises between russia of africa, china,

due to take place in february, may suggest otherwise. and that told africa, willing to hear what russia has to say around how it went to develop its relations with african countries. and the emphasis was very much being on that grouping. 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. south africa has refrained from condemning russia action in the ukraine, and just to be 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 of the soviet union. and we engage in those countries as an alternative to the width. we russia

is increasingly isolated and criticized. brazil is a precedent. there is necessarily that the silver has promised to improve ties with argentina, which became strained on his predecessor table sonora. when he was speaking in one of ours on his 1st foreign trip since taking office this month, we signed trade agreements with his argentinean counterpart of berta fernandez and discussed the possibility of a common currency for that america. if you know the stimulus to come by, our finance ministers are currently working each with their own economic team to make us our proposal for foreign trade until inspections between the 2 countries that he's done in our common currency to be billed after much debate and many meetings, well, what's or isabel has more of this stuff from what is ours while we're here right in front of the presidential pilot in the center of when a site is where leather cielo was just meeting there with precedent out of the

fundamental to some. this is his 1st flooring trip, but it is not a coincidence. there's been a history and brazil of when a president takes off it. the 1st country it visits is argentina, that it was suspended was 8, was when i was in office. and that's something that president latha wants to change . he was supposed to be at the devil's economic forum and he preferred to stay in the region, trying to strengthen that relationship with other countries. and also in a way we build that relationship with countries such as argentina, just a few minutes ago, there was a press conference happening inside of the presidential palace where lula was asking a man based for his forgiveness, saying that valuable. so nato was a very violent and that he was an educated when referring for countries of like harden tina. that was when i used to call a socialist country with massive economic problems that he blamed to governments such a of that about at the fund. this among the announcements of where made was

a strategic partnership between argentinean and brazilian companies. the possibility of building a common currency between both countries that were very, you know, when the ask about the specific on the possibility of, if they were, they were just beginning to evaluate the possibility of creating something like this and later on some other countries in the region could join in, but this is very, very preliminary. so lots of discussions going on and this is, you know, just the beginning of a longer trip on tuesday. precedents from all across the region will be meeting here for us. some, it's a region i block, some aides all for latin america and caribbean nations. that's going to be happening here in what a site is. public workers have marched in venezuela's capital to demand better pay in the face of soaring prices. is a 3rd demonstration of its kind this month on monday, the government said inflation reached more than 230 percent last year. salaries for public sector employees haven't changed since march

electricity is slowly being restored to large parts of pakistan after a nation wide power grid failure. most of the countries to engine 20000000 residents were effected by the outage is the 2nd major breakdown in 3 months. the fault is being blamed on that reactivation of some power generation units that will shut down as a cost cutting measure come out high. the reports from is i'm about for the 2nd time since there's new government power in april after the award of no confidence against him on con, the country has seen a major breakdown in the country, electricity power system today, pockets on experience. yet another outage that 2nd and they've got had the affected life across the country where the deal was here and it's bought. they depend on electricity. so they can use their reading machine. i'd rather be able to cut that

. but as you can see, these people are just waiting for electricity or a don, and i mean the last 4 days raging. they cannot afford to go bob rich spiraling inflation anyway. nobody believe me. i got a year since morning. they're waiting for the trustees that we can start our daily chores. unfortunately, there isn't any hope, and that has made us worried about how we will make our livelihood for the day out or not got enough, barney, we do bundle with the board. but sean, 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 incompetent government who are not been able to restore the power this morning and are making it hard for us to earn anything for the day. the bad to add to that frequent fall guard which i've got now also affecting outboard. the bottom of the thick can not be fixed as long as it is in the traditional public sector and as

long as it is controlled from one office. and if we have 9 distribution companies in the country or 10 or whatever it is, whether we were the management outsource, whether we do a private dice, whether we will work out something with the better with the federal government in the provinces. the discourse needs to be fixed by indeed a warning trying for the people of pockets on and origin power that the country can not afford to lose electricity or such a large scale. also ahead here now to sierra former s t r special agent is charge of violating your sanctions against russia and the u. k. government on the pressure as the green party chairman faces calls his resignation. ah

hello, that was not in north america. we've got a bit of a hot mess of a situation developing in the deep south as one storm system sweeps out from the north east where it brought some heavy snow to the likes of new england and eastern canada. we got another one developing down in the south that says that cold, the air merges with the warm air rising from the gulf. we get the severe storms of very heavy rain heavy snow as well for places like texas, stretching into arkansas. and we will see that shimmy its way towards the east coast, bringing potentially some snow to new york city. by the time we gets wednesday, some improvement in the temperature on thursday. some warmth coming back in last quiet across much else of the u. s. that west coast getting a break from the really wet and windy weather, but temperatures still sitting below the average for the life of california now was move down south central america and the caribbean. so much quiet to picture lots of sunshine to be found. some wet weather from that storm system. edging along the east coast of mexico pulling into the bay of cam patchy by wednesday,

we will see itself over to cuba. by the time we get into thursday with her van at seeing some of those thunder down paws by thursday, the temperature however, sitting in the early thirty's. so lots of heat to be found here that to weather ah, to inculcate a culture of knowledge, openness and pluralism, world wide, and to reward merit and excellence and encourage creativity. the shake ahmad award for translation and international understanding was founded to promote translation and honor translators. and acknowledged the road and strengthening the bonds of friendship and co operation between arab islamic and wild couches. lou

ah, watching out here reminder of our top stories now. germany says it won't stand in the way of poland wants to send high tech battle tanks to ukraine. cave sees the german made hardware's crucial to its defense before those days of pressure on but in from the cranes western allies, brazil's president lewis, and i see that a silver has promised to improve ties with argentina, which became strange under his predecessor. he was speaking in von as ours on his 1st foreign trip since taking office this much electricity slowly being restored to large parts of pakistan after a nationwide policy with failure. most of the country is 220000000 residents where a fed to bobby outage is the 2nd major breakdown in 3 months. opposition

party leaders in turns in error welcoming a decision by present some years to lou hassan to lift a 6 and a half year ban on political rallies on saturday, attends in ears main opposition. party held its 1st public valley in that more than 6 years north west in the city of windsor offense. man opposition lead in former presidential candidate to do this. who has announced plans to return home on wednesday of 2 years. an exile in europe is soon left tons near in 2017. after he was shot, 16 times my unknown gunman well turned to this city that told the out there he's not surprised. the government has failed to stop. the st. barry pressure, a fade that he's on that he's on the illegal bet on point period to bio position part is has been lifted ease because they vary pressure has

favor after high vicious c as a gym and it says one year of prison. i may have found the mistress and. 4 that that pressure did not work, the opposition has broadened it has grown stronger, and that is why they were compelled to leave the, the bad, the illegal bad on police clock. typically what needs to be done badly to do that. we pause thought the years ago at the time we were going mount the party. and that is a, carry out, a thought are going constitutional and politically form in order to move our compet away from the, the constitutional and political nations high ranking s the agent to investigate. the russian oligarchs has been accused of working for one and violating us sanctions. agent, charles with hon,

has been indicted for helping russian billionaire leg pasco, who had been sanctioned, but he's period not guilty to for criminal charges, including conspiracy and money laundering. going to goal is that for my head of the f. b, i's counter intelligence division in new york. well, let's go live tomorrow. hannah in washington, d. c. for mike, this is, of course, cause a stir hasn't. what more can you tell us? well, it has, indeed, this is a very senior for my f. b, i, officer, he retired in 2018. but even before he retired, he was carrying on tech to the t's, which would've appeared to be helping the very person that as head of the counter intelligence he was supposed to be investigating. that is all like that. plus get a russian only gog now he's been charged with assisting data pasco, who was placed on the us sanctions list a back in 2018. and it's alleged that he and a former russian diplomat who is now

a us citizen assisted therapy. jessica and also indulged in money laundering. now there were 9 indictments laid against mcgonigal, but in a separate case, another 9 indictments were unfilled in washington d. c. here he is going to face charges of activities in the balkans in particular including receiving funds from an old baby and businessman, which he did not declare. now he's expected to appear virtually in the dc court. on wednesday, he will plead at that particular point. but this, as i repeat, is a very senior f b i officer. he would, for example, have been at the forefront of the f. b. i investigation into russian involvement in the 2016 elections. so he has a lot of knowledge, he hasn't been charged with espionage as yet, but certainly had a lot of knowledge in terms of russian activities. and also in terms of ca, activities against various countries,

including russia and china. like hannah law office in washington, d. c. thank you for that or staying in the us send for members of the far right oath keepers group have been convicted of sedition for their role in the storming of capitol hill in january 2021 and charges for the civil war era, which is rarely used the verdict comes weeks off to another jury convicted 2 leaders of the group for their part in the attack. the chairman of the u. k. is conservative party says he'll fully cooperate with an independent inquiry into his tax affairs, a demon. so holly is resisting calls to resign of the details of the multi $1000000.00 dispute emerged from minister miss she sooner had ordered investigation . your position says it wants him to come clean about his knowledge of the matter. on saturday, it's how we said he had settled the outstanding tax bill for the barber has more from london. richie sooner has said that he's asked his independent ethics advisor

to actually look into the case saying in mister c. next words, there are questions that need answering. a statement has come out from the dean's or how we welcoming what he calls the prime minister or ministers refer to this matter too. so to say lori magnus and his team, he says he's confident that he acted properly throughout and looks forward to cooperating, but very much insisting that he's staying in his position. now, the investigation senses around reports that a dispute between the dean's or how we and her majesty's revenue and customs was resolved last summer when the teams or how we was actually chancellor of the exchequer. and in effect in charge of h m r c. the report saw that he paid around $6000000.00, including

a 30 percent penalty for not disclosing everything that he should have done. now the, the, the time was allegedly related to shares. but nadine's, the, how we, how did you go? of the famous polling company, which he helped to set up. and it's been reported that the money that he gains was actually put in a gibraltar base trust, where his father is a director. the dean's a how we again refuse any suggestion that he acted dishonestly. a judge in lebanon has fall charges against 8 senior security officials for the 2020 bay route port blast tara baton resumed his investigation after more than a year. break 202 people were killed when chemicals stored in the warehouse caught fire, causing a massive explosion. the inquiry into the blast has been derailed by legal challenges. the head of the rock central bank has been sacked as

a deena continues to lose value against the us dollar. economy has been struggling after years of war corruption and the pandemic with of the why it has more from back that prices are going gar, penny, rockies tours. since mid november, the dinner has declined against you as dollar losing about 10 percent of its value . a board on it says he double, it checks the price tags every time he comes to the supermarket. to settle there, i will, we're having a little bit of a shopper and is blame it on the dollar exchange rate because most of the products are imported. in this case, the government should pay our salaries in dollars what the future exchange rate is fixed at 1417 hours 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. he is 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, by syria and yemen. consequently, iraq steel wire 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 on. 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 we promising the dollar. either way, it's the iraqi people who bit of the brand of the changes. ma'am, would have that were algebra, but that the world health organization has calls for immediate action to protect children from contaminated medicines after a series of deaths linked to cough syrup. while the warning follows the deaths of more than 300 children in indonesia gambit and was becky stern from acute kidney injury last year, w h o says the cough syrup had high levels of toxic chemicals is asked for products

made by 2 indian companies to be removed in 7 countries in while a w h o chief was appealed for more than $2000000000.00 in funding to help millions of people facing health emergencies around the world. for a good number of people around the world, 339000000. it's not a happy new year. instead of hope, the new year brings fear, fear of diseases. seat of starvation, fear of conflict. feed off clay met relayed to disasters that are driving people from their homes. the world can not look away and hope this crisis resolved themselves. that's why we're calling on our donors around the world to support doublet. joe's health emergency appeal for 2.54 bill. any us dollars. ah.