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ah, i money inside dissolves their life and are coming up. poland says it's ready to send german made battle times to ukraine without balance commission, if all the allies in the se, brazil's president is an argentina on his 1st international trip since returning to office. he's aiming to rebuild ties straight on his predecessor. and we have for him, townsend, he is opposition, leader and former presidential candidate to do to lease you heading back time. ah, now at least 7 people have been killed in the shooting in the us state of california. it happened in the city of half moon bay,

south of san francisco. authorities say that a suspect has been detained. the motive for the shooting is currently unknown. through investigation, the suspect identified as chung lee's owl, a 67 year old half moon bay resident at $440.00 p. m. zach was located in his vehicle in the parking lot of the sheriff's sub station here and half moon bay, by a sheriff's deputy now was taken into custody without incident scaling. now to rubber animals in los angeles rub. what more can you tell us? well, as you heard there from the san mateo county sherif christina corpus moline. this incident, the 2nd in less than 48 hours here in the state of california,

involving mass shooting, took the lives of 7 people in 2 separate locations in half moon bay. that's in northern california, not far from san francisco. a 4 people were killed at a location that was described as a mushroom farm. and 3 others were shot dead at a trucking company, not a not far away. one person was critically under injured and is being treated in a hospital in the, at stanford university hospital. the suspect as you heard the sheriff's a is in custody. describe as a 67 year old man named shout john lee, or truly shall, excuse me. he is a described as a, a resident of the area and the motive is on noun. the weapon that was used is not, has not yet been described. and a local officials, a local, a la elected official council woman said that the victims were of agricultural

workers, ethnic chinese people of were working at that mushroom form. and apparently also the trucking company, half moon bay is a coastal community. it's about 40 kilometers south of, of san francisco, about 11000 people lived there. and of course, this comes right on the heels of the la disastrous, deadly shooting, killing 10 people at a dance hall establishment in monterey park here in southern california. on saturday evening, on monday, a 11th victim of that shooting, died in hospital, in that instance a 72 year old man, also of asian dis, it's a killed himself. as police closed in on him, he is a dis believe to be the suspect. we say that the that he was the person who carried out that crime. so these are 2 crimes committed a short period apart in which both the shooters and the victims were people of

asian heritage. and this comes amid a very disturbing rise of hate crimes directed against asian americans. and people have asian heritage in the united states over the past several years, which has the have raised fears, intentions in asian communities all across the country. so again, to, to summarize 7 dead, one critically injured in half moon bay, south of san francisco, suspect is in custody. motive is unknown, moline. okay, thank you for that update rob reynolds staffers in los angeles. now germany appears to be moving closer to improving deliveries of its high tech battle tanks to ukraine have sees them is crucial to its defense against russian forces. germany's foreign minister says the government won't get in the way if pollen wants to send the lap and 2 tanks from its own arsenal. on his days of brush on berlin

from the cranes western allies, dominic cannibals, a consignment of german weapons, makes its way eastward. these are elements of a patriot missile battery, which is being deployed in poland. they're being sent there to protect the polls against malfunctioning russian rockets. that may miss targets in ukraine to be around mid point and spiders. and that's could be tom the industrial colon after slovakia is now our 2nd area of operations and the trimming of ukrainians on the patriots estimate also running simultaneously as alex. 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. phenomenon phone is 0, 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 over 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 tax, they hold the re export rights. now poland says it is considering sending them to ukraine even with no german authorization, not just company mother cosco. we will seek this approval 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 la train anyway within a small coalition of countries, even if germany isn't in that coalition as m. c. for months the leopard to issue has been growing in 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 now the weapon systems germany is allowed to be deployed to ukraine have been predominantly defensive. but main battle tanks

are mostly offensive instruments. ultimately, the decision to allow german made tanks to be used against russian forces in ukraine is one for the chancellor. all of shots. dominant came al, jazeera berlin. so why are germany's tongues considered so vital to the battle in ukraine? the leopard tanks were launched in 1979 and have been upgraded several times there currently around 2000 in 13 european armies, but in varying states of readiness. the last 2 is valued for its maneuverability. it's lighter than other comparable models, such as britons challenger to. it can also hit targets 5 kilometers away while on the move. and they're considered the best option for ukraine, them more widely, available, unused, much less fuel. then the u. s. abrams. ukraine says it needs at least 300 western tanks to repel a possible spring russian offensive keep wants the tanks to help it break through

russian lines. fighting is currently centered on the town of back moot and the east where rushes, wagner mercenaries, and ukrainian forces are currently locked in battle. ukraine's army shed this drone footage of the area it's said to show impact craters damaged high rise apartment blocks and destroyed businesses. carmen says each companies are risking more destruction in ukraine. i supplying it with powerful weapons. ali ashan has more for moscow. moscow has been reacting to news of western weapon supplies to keep the deputy foreign minister said a gay of yahoo. gov warned that these weapons are going to be destroyed by moscow. we up. gov also down played reports of long range ballistic missiles supplied from the u. s. to ukraine and said that this is an element of psychological war for now . moscow has been over the past few days, escalating his position with respect to the weapon transfers. dmitri prescott,

the spokesperson for kremlin, said that this is taking the whole conflict or another level on that nature would be involved in directing it. this is kind of an attempt to deepen the reluctance he, on the european side may lead in germany. but to re, of course, he said that the u. s. some buses go to moscow. the new bicycle will arrive within the coming days on issues between moscow and washington are going to be discussed with the new ambassador still on the diplomatic front, a more strong announce that it's downgrading gets relations with sonya following. to leans downsizing of the you of the russian embassy there. on another note, the fs. be the russian foreign intelligence service, said that they have reliable sources. i stating that the ukranian army is a stock, wiley, weapons, and nuclear plant in euclid. russia's foreign ministers,

the keys, the west of trying to destroy everything russian sag elaborate, made the comments after meeting his south african counterpart in pretoria. on monday, south africa's government has maintained what it's calling a neutral position. only ukraine conflicts, a number of people protested as meeting to place. we all in favor, in favor of for peaceful resolution of disputes. benito will be real b. ball with regular discuss, negotiate of solution to any conflict. will earth in september, president zelinski, sorry, a slave. the degree brush, 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 or flymkoff negotiations. our sincere wish that the conflict

currently between russia and ukraine will soon be brought to a peaceful land through diplomacy, a negotiation. as we believe this is the desire of all of us in the globe opposition party leaders in towns, an air welcoming a decision by president samuel saloon has found to live to 6 and a half year ban on political rally on saturday. townsend as main opposition party held its fast public rallied mountains 6 years in the north western city of monta. meanwhile, the townsend, an opposition leader and former presidential candidate to lease 2, as announced plans to return home on wednesday. i'll 2 years in exile in europe. lisa left towns in 8th 2017. after he was shot, 16 times an unknown gunman turned to lease. he told out his aries, not surprised that the government has failed to stop descent. barry pressure,

a fade that he's on that he's on the illegal bet on poly period to bio position part is has been lifted ease because they vary pressure has favor after high vicious gym and it says one year of presence by me, a little high from adams pression. 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 the 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 terrier, constitutional and political nations,

brazil's president louise in last year lily da silva has promised to improve ties with argentina, which became strained under his predecessor j. o. bull sanara. he was speaking in when his aries on his 1st foreign trib since taking office this month. theresa by reports, ah, for decades, new brazilian precedents made argentina their 1st flooring trip. ah, jade will. toneta rejected that tradition. but he success. oh, let us eva wants to go back to the all ways and improve relations between south america's giants and emotionally dordy. again, assume we have a history that united us. we've cultural things in common. we have to improve health care. we have to organize our energy developments. we've spoken about the benefit of brazilian electricity. dear lua, this is your home saloon. well, that's even for a man. this also discussed the possibility of a common currency to promote bilateral trade and reduce reliance on the us dollar

equity north of neutral before the end. our finance ministers are currently working each with his own economic team to make us a proposal for foreign trade and transactions between the 2 countries that has done in a common currency to be built after much debate. and many meetings, rather than lola field, also came towards internet to participate in a summit by a region, a block of latin american and caribbean nations. for the left, 5th block back in 2019 during the government. a former president are you also know because of the presence of cuba and venezuela, the presence of eula in this sum. it also shows that he's prioritizing rebuilding the relationship with its latin american neighbors. among those countries was venezuela president, nicola, my lord are worth all to expected him when a site is but suspended the trip. the venezuelan government said there was a plan of aggression against their leader on sunday,

venezuelans leaving him when aside is said argentina should not come legal. am i the widow? oh, mighty other your sanctity malkita left to venezuela. 5 years ago, her daughter had cancer and there were no medicines to treat her. oh, my god, i'm a blessing of impotence. how can i be that a democratic country will receive a tyrant, a person that's destroyed a country and has allied itself with the iranians and russians? i feel horrible. this is happening. brazil and over 30 other countries will be part of the summit. happening in our site is on tuesday. it's a regional block that will allow countries in this part of the world to discuss integration and how to best solve the challenges they face. that he said, well, i'll just see that i want to cite is still ahead on al jazeera, a former f b i special agent is charged with validating us sanctions against russia. and music streaming service falsified becomes the latest tech firm to announce major stuff

comes ah hello, that was not in north america. we got a bit of a hot mess of a situation developing in the deep south as one storm system sweeps out from the northeast where it brought some heavier snow to the like the new england and east in 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, a 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 get 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 likes of california now

was move down south central america and the caribbean. so much quiet a picture of 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 petrucci. by wednesday, we will see itself over to cuba, but the time we get into thursday with havana, seeing some of those thundering down pause by thursday. the temperature however, sitting in the early thirty's. so lots of heat to be found here that you ever ah, the, from the al jazeera london, bro call center to people in thoughtful conversation. generally whenever you talk about race races, then people like to play with no host and no limitations. our society, i structural racism built into it. part one of 5 a shaheen and adam rather fed low paid people tend to be migrant. labor

disproportionately women in terra, that ultimately comes down to prejudice. few d. b unscripted on al jazeera lou, lou, we'll come back to watching al jazeera mind. if i top stories this out. germany says it won't sound in the way of poland wants to send. holly tech battle tags to ukraine keep sees a german made hot, whereas crucial to its defense, stays at prussia on berlin, from ukraine's with some allies. li, 7 people have been killed in a shooting in the u. s. state of california. it happened in 2 locations in the city of hoffman based south san francisco. a suspect has been brazil's

president louise inoculated to silver's promise to improve ties with argentina, which became strange under his predecessor speaking. inborn as aries on his 1st foreign trib. since taking at least in brazil, believed that an alleged drug trafficker was behind the killing of a british journalist on an indigenous activist last gene. don phillips and burn perrera were shot dead in a remote part of the amazon while during the search for a book. felisa gang leader who's been in custody since december ordered the murders and supplied weapons and boats to the alleged to life or is bracing for more large scale process. calling for the resignation of the president, dean up lottie. countries marched through the cap to lima on monday to demand fresh elections a day ahead of a planned mass rally. the crisis began in december after the former president

peddler castillo, was arrested when he tried to dissolve congress. 50 people have died in the violence since then. marianna sanchez has moved from lima. it usually doesn't happen. the police, according protesters here in the center of the capitol. most of the people here are people from the high lung. many of the process here are poor nowhere. 3 weeks ago, police open fire and 17 people were killed only one afternoon on the government because they say they think there will not be any justice to make them feel important. and another part of the country more than the 5 be all ready been deal with international with

the government. 6 are trying to protect most are not protesting once in these a rather reduced by the government, a y adding fuel to the unrest? no, nobody, nobody. oh, of the country. thousands of ambulance workers have walked off the job in england and wales latest in a series of strikes. my health cast off struggling with soaring living costs for several miles from london for the 3rd time and a little over a month. i believe stuff ready themselves for a day, a strike action to thousands of members of 3 separate unions working off the job across much of england and wales to demand a pay award that keeps pace with a rising cost of living. the message that the service is already stretched beyond its limit. you know, people wait several hours from dealing face every single day when they not on the

strike. so it's not any different today than it is any other day, unfortunately. and that's the thing that's got to change, that's the reason why we striking for them on the face of the delay mondays are typically the busiest day for billing services across the country with temperatures in many areas, well below zeros. the day began, the message was to keep emergency 999 lines as clear as possible. we know when it gets cold that the number of non non calls go up. they, they go up appropriately because people have got certain clinical conditions. do suffer more in the code. the public can really help us out, but only phoning 999. what it is a life. and let me just see on a picket line in london, managers were coordinating with striking cruise dispatching them when emergency calls did come in. but the message was even serious incidents would face substantial delays. less serious ones could expect no ambulance cover at all. the intensification of this strike action looks that to be maintained with another 11 strike plan over the next 2 months. the biggest single day of action likely to be

the 6, the february. when nurses will join the striking paramedics, the unions. and since the solution is in the government's hands, a pay increase of around 10 percent risky through not is the decision maker is to come back to the negotiating table. get this sorted out. he's the leader of the country to these people and go back to work. as prime minister was visiting a mental health unit in the north west of england on monday, his government says it's working to negotiate to pay settlement for the next financial year while investing and providing services like those for mental health . we will provide more mental health ambulance is more crisis centers that are based in communities. more mental health professionals engage with 111, all of that will give people the care that they need. and crucially, will also relieve some of the pressure that we see in any department. but in the short term, that pressure on emergency provision is only likely to increase. we've knock on postponement to shuttle treatments to as health workers vow to continue their

industrial action, or a force it al jazeera london, our former talk f. b. i official though investigated. russian. oligarchs has been accused of working for one and violating us sanctions. agent charles mcgonigal has been indicted for helping sanction russian billionaire or leg that impacts or is pleaded not guilty to for criminal charges, including conspiracy and money laundering mcgonagall as the former head of the f. b . i's counter intelligence division in new york. i cannot has morn the story from washington. this is a very senior for my f. b. i officer, he retired in 2018. but even before he retired, he was carrying our tech to the t's, which would've appeared to be helping the very person that as head of the country intelligence he was supposed to be investigating. that is all like that a plus get a russian ali gog. now he's been charged with assisting debtor, pasco,

who was placed on the us sanctions list back in 2018. and it's alleged that he and a former russian diplomatic who is now a us citizen, assisted thereupon oscar and also indulged in money laundering. now there were 9 indictments laid against ad mcgonigal, but in a separate case, another 9 indictments were unfilled in washington d. c. now he's expected to appear virtually in the dc court. on wednesday he will plead at that particular point. glen call is a former c, i a deputy national intelligence officer for trans national threats. he says it will be hard for authorities to charge the agent with treason and espanol sch. we don't know at all so far as i'm aware of how the f b i came to know that one of their own was spying for the russians. really. and that could be true. aberrations in

his personal behavior in his spending patterns could come from a human asset. the united states has someplace it could come from following other individuals who are of interest to them. lead the f, b i to mcgonigal himself. you always are looking for anomalies and behavior and patterns. this is what intelligent services do. this is a major success where the russians and their failure for the united states. there's no question about bad songs. but this is what 9 states do. and what every intelligent service seeks to do and to stop the impact, we don't know either say, an endless problem for the law enforcement authorities in the department of justice in the united states. it's very hard to prove treason and espionage.

and even when the law enforcement agencies think that they can prove this in court, often they decide that it's wiser not to do so. because to do so, of course you have to, you reveal evidence, a judge in lebanon has resumed his investigation and the to the 2020 report. last off, the 13 month break. and i was charged against 8 top security officials and ordered the release of 5 others all and 200 people were killed when chemicals stored in a warehouse court fire, causing a massive explosion. inquiring to the boss has been derailed by legal challenges. electricity is slowly being restored to large parts of pakistan, often nationwide power grid failure as the countries 220000000 residents were affected by the outage. the 2nd major break down in 3 months of being blamed on the reactivation of some power generation units that will shut down as

a cost cutting measure. japan is experiencing a population decline with a number of bus going down every year for more than a decade. the prime minister for me because she does says the country must act now to address the crisis. is government has promised to introduce more child friendly policies in an effort to reverse low birthrights. japan has the oldest population in the world with 30 percent of people over the age of $65.00 in a mosque is returned to court in the city of san francisco to testify in a class action lawsuit filed by tesla investors. they alleged that must missile them with several tweets back in 2018, which he claimed he secured funding to take tesla privates. the deal never happened . resulting in a $40000000.00 settlement with security regulators and the latest round of tech sect and layoffs. it's the music streaming service spotify,

which is announced a 6 percent cut in its workforce. that means around $600.00 employees will be fired from its offices around the world. just last week, google announced it would cut 12000 jobs. microsoft is also cutting $10000.00 jobs and spending on its products slows that brings the number of people laid off in big tech companies to at least $48000.00 in the month of january, adrian wetlands, a tech s f, the arch independent. he says the firms are compensating for rapid expansion during the pandemic. what's going on is that these companies to, all of them are saying the same thing to say they grew too quickly during the pandemic. they were lowered by a false sense of strength in the economy and now with potential recession, particularly in the us, but also elsewhere in the world than our prospects aren't as strong as.