just the, you know, the new horizon for visually impaired the rockies. they finally have their own football team. training was launching in october in the city of karbala. the specially designed to both was donated by egypt, denise troy. it created cracking sound to allow players to locate it. these players hope to join football clubs and represent their country in competition. but other iraqi provinces don't have their own teams because there are only 5. elise specially designed bold ah potential breakthrough for ukraine, the u. s. moves closer to providing advanced battle tags to came on lab reports

that germany may do the same. and several top ukrainian officials resign or are dismissed over accusations of corruption and the biggest government shakeup since the war began. ah, hello i money site, this is out there alive from day or so. coming up. he's ellen's lay. belinda, chris hipkins is officially sworn in as a ne prime minister to the shock resignation of jacinta or dead. aah! anti government demonstrations and peru remains defiant, despite calls from the president for a truce. on the u. s. justice department and 8 states to google a keesing. it abusing its dominance in appetite. with

weeks ukraine has been pleading its western allies the battle tanks to bolster its campaign against russia. and now cave appears set to receive some of the most advanced combat vehicles in the world from the u. s. and germany. sources of told al jazeera that the biden administration will approve the delivery of m one abrams tanks. as soon as wednesday, the u. s. president is yet to make a formal decision. the tanks could take months or even years to reach the front lines. russia says the supply of such tanks will be a blatant provocation, but ukraine's president laudermill zalinski says his country needs decisions on real deliveries. that of the region by the wooded. there is a lot of talk about tanks, about modern tanks that we need and about the way this shortfall can be filled if it's a lot of efforts, words promises. but it is important not to lose sight of reality. but it is not about 5 or 10 or 15 times the need is larger, michigan,

arrow more fish in the appeal. the ship discussions must be concluded with decisions, decisions on real strengthening of our defense against terrorists from washington. d. c is passing calhane. a source in the us government has confirmed to me that they are close to finalizing a deal on providing us made m one abrams tags to ukraine. now of course, a lot of things can change. a lot of different international players are involved in these sort of discussions and decisions, but the source did say that they expect that it could be announced from the white house on wednesday. this comes after weeks of top military breath saying, all the reasons why it wouldn't work to help you crane get these tanks right now. they say things like, the 4 person crew that operate the take. these are very modern machines. they need a lot of training, but the bigger factor is they need even more maintenance to keep these. again, very complicated, but powerful takes running. they said that would in fact take time. there were some

complaints that the us uses, jet fuel to power these one a rooms, but in reality they can in fact run on diesel. so they were asked about this is the pentagon today, why? say all the reasons why it wouldn't be immediate and then potentially make this announcement. and they responded by saying, we're also looking at helping ukraine over the medium and long term. that seems to indicate that they don't expect if these tanks are in fact sent to ukraine, that they will be on the battlefield anytime soon. again, they need to find the source. are they going to try to build up here in the united states, or try to use that money to pay other countries to give up there and want to abrams tanks? so again, it seems that if a deal is in fact made, if it isn't announced, it is not going to be on the battlefield anytime soon. and that's what the top military brought from us has really been focusing on, is what they see as a very short turnaround to the upcoming spring offensive. germany is also expected to decide seen on the weather, to authorize the exports of one of the wells most advanced battle tanks to ukraine

. german media reporting that the chancellor shawls has already decided to send them. i shall spend building on berlin to supply leopard tea tanks and allow other countries to transfer this island for me. requested permission on tuesday. how many came reports from belin? this is the weapon system. the ukranian president says his country needs to fight the russians. the german made leopard to main battle tank. see here during a nato exercise, in lithuania, it's both heavier and faster than many of the tanks. russia is using in ukraine and widely used by other european countries. several of whom now want to re export them to key. if to end the conflict, we need to arm you cry, unfolding aquinas able to defend itself and turn russia is not able to push through with this a gender of imperialism, and still incur territory. on tuesday. the polls formerly asked germany to allow

them to do just that. the view from nato is clear, while anti aircraft weapons and missiles can defend against air attack and armored personnel carriers can transport troops to the fighting, the strategic value of heavy armor to punch through the front lines. his clear battle things are, of course important, or both to be able to repel a russian, a new offensive spot. also for ukraine to be able to retake territory, to, to win, answer a prevail as a sovereign in the pen nation in europe. but there is another angle to a decision by germany to release the leper two's son believe it could lead to an escalation in the war and to a worsening of relations between berlin and moscow. a kremlin spokespersons said on tuesday, they are all ready at a low point, and that is the problem facing all of shots. the legacy of the 2nd world war hangs be on german governments. thanks like these help the ussr defeat nazi germany. and

yet, 80 years later, it's modern german tanks that might help defeat russia in ukraine. dominic cane al jazeera at the soviet woman morial in berlin. sidney free bag is a contributing edison, the digital magazine braking defense. he explains the difference between the german american tax. the leopard and the american abrams are actually twins. they both came out the same project, joint national project in the 19 seventy's. they're very similar. big vehicles heavily all, much, much better protected than anything. the soviets built me think the russia was currently happy. ukrainians currently have much better targeting systems which are electronics. the difference between leopard and abrams is primarily the engine. the leopard has a diesel, much more common, much easier to maintain the abram to the higher performance, but rather more finicky turban engine, which is very unusual for

a tank. although there are some ukrainian trends that do have turbans. the biggest difference though is simply there are 2000 leopards in europe and when we get $200.00 abrams, there's a huge logistical structure, a spare parts, warehousing, skilled maintainers on the ground for leopard that don't things just fragrance. the russians once were masters of armored warfare, they once were masters of defense against armored vehicles, but it appears that those gills had degenerated. they do have a large supply of shoulder fired. anti tank weapons similar to the javelins and the british and laws are made famous really on this war. our theirs are not as advanced and more to the point. their troops are north bill trained and not as we motivated . several top ukrainian officials, including governors, have lost their jobs in corruption scandal engulfing the government. is the biggest shake up in president zalinski administration since the war with russia began. the

1st to resign was kayla tymoshenko, the president's deputy head of office. he's been implicated and scandals involving his use of expensive cars. it is denied any wrong doing. the deputy defense minister has also resigned following an obligation that his department overpaid suppliers for soldiers, foods and the changes came 2 days after the deputy infrastructure minister was also arrested and accused of receiving kickbacks of up to $400000.00 in a deal to import generators the road, yes, when you call in the government continues to carry out the necessary forms for our country. this involves building anti corruption edifice or, well, this entail systematic and orderly work that's vital for ukraine as a require conditions for euro integration form. natasha butler has bonus from the ukrainian capital. well, the cranium present, followed to me as lensky had indicated on monday that he was going to make some

changes in the government circle because of a number of recent corruption scandals and allegations. what we now know, what those changes all we've seen, a number of top ukrainian government officials have resigned or been dismissed the same for a number of regional governors, including the governor of the capital keys. now, as lensky says, we all look at a time of war. there is no place for crops in at any time, very particularly, no place for corruption at a time of war when all politicians or people should really be focusing on the war effort. he's also said that all officials are no longer allowed to go on holiday abroad. they should be remaining in ukraine and very much focusing on that war effort. as i said, look for so lensky. he knows that you have western powers, ukraine's allies all sending billions of dollars of military and humanitarian aid to the country. they of course, want to know that the money is being well spent and not siphoned off by allegedly

corrupt ministers. semanski is also very aware that for ukraine to become part of the european union, one of the conditions is that corruption is sometime in the country. chris hipkins has been sworn in as new zealand prime minister. i followed the surprise resignation of just send to all day last week. it faces the task of reviving the government's waning popularity ahead of october's general election. adrian brown has moved from wellington. this has been a quick and orderly political transition of wednesday. jazz hinder arden left parliament for the last time, mobbed by colleagues and supported the gathering was a reflection of this country's wide cultural diversity. the transfer of power was completed when chris hipkins was sworn in as new zealand 41st prime minister. his

deputy is carmel zeppelin, the 1st person of pacific islander descent to hold the position, the post confirmed by governor general, dane cindy cura. the 1st mary to hold up position hipkins who led the government's response to cobit 19. has promised to focus on what he calls, bread and butter issues. when jazz inter are then became prime minister, her popularity was undeniable. but her rating stead on a backlash against kobe 19 restrictions increase food costs, rising mortgages, concerns over crime. analysts say people simply want someone to blame and that person seems to be just inter arden. yes, i think she to her, absent every stop. i haven't covered an inch, the shootings and all that. so the thing that she's dish last hit my go towards cmj . i know what the stroke takes and i know that i no longer have enough in the tank to do it. justice last thursday's announcement was one that few saw coming an

unusual acknowledgment from a world leader that she was burnt out, vicious abuse on the streets and online raised concerns over her safety. she's received death threats and so her child, the next election will be in less than 9 months, which means hipkins may not be in the job long, especially as opinion polls show labor now trading the conservative opposition. our journey is leading office at a time of her using, although she'll remain in p for 3 more months. and good 42. she still has plenty of time to ponder a new career and the one she's left pinky on the bottom of my head. the greatest privilege of adrian brown al jazeera wilmington classified documents have been discovered at the home of the former years, vice president mike pence. his lawyer says they were taken to pants as indiana

residence at the end of the last administration. he says, pants is cooperating with the investigation. it comes weeks after similar discoveries or precedent jo biden's properties or my present donald trump is also being investigated after hundreds of files were found at his florida home. last year. still add on out of these mass shootings only the $24.00 of the new socket. ongoing communities in california to mass you things and 48 hours families and saddam stuff, all region struggle to rebuild their lives in the room for destroy ah

hello. they will have a look at africa in a moment. the 1st to the middle eastern is more heavy rain to come for parts of saudi arabia and the gulf states. you can see the cloud bringing those heavy arrange further east into the united arab emirates to buy lightly to see some of that rain lasting through to the weekend and with it, the temperature dipping down only 18 degrees celsius on thursday. so well below the average with that rain expected to last through till at least friday, elsewhere up north, a much clearer picture, some cloud coming in places like bay root and the chance of a shower or 2. but for the wetter and wintry weather, we have to head to the north of africa, algeria turned into somewhat of a winter wonderland. while the mountains did up in the north, people enjoying the snow, then we could see more of that to come as a system in the mediterranean chucks, the more heavy rain and some stronger winds at coastal areas may rain edging further east into to new zia and libby up further south,

a much clearer picture. we are expecting, however, the rain to intensify in coastal areas of gabon suddenly on thursday. heavy rain as well coming into western madagascar, thanks to that weakening system. but it will be zambia that sees worst of the heavy rains with through soccer sink thunderstorms on friday. ah ah, with blue

ah ah, holding back he watching al jazeera mind that top stories, the sour ukraine look set to receive advanced battle tags from the u. s. in germany to boost its defenses against russian forces, sources have told al jazeera the washington will approve the delivery of em one abrams tanks. as soon as wednesday, the cranes prime ministers promising greater anti corruption outlets following a wave of high profile resignation. top adviser to the president for deputy ministers am 5 regional governors left their post on tuesday. the biggest shake up in president zalinski administration since the war with flushing the gap. and chris

hipkins has been sworn in as new zealand prime minister former cove at 19 response minister place is jacinta arden calling has the prize resignation. last week a vigil has been held to remember the victims of saturday's shooting. at a dawn studio in southern california, 11 people died in the attack in monterey park. on tuesday there was another shooting a 2 agricultural uses in the northern city of hoffman bay. 7 people died in that attack only in america. it was she, this kind of courage, this kind of chaos, this kind of destruction of communities and lives and conflicts in a sense of safety and belonging which we whole yearned for. regardless of our political stripes. security forces in peru, her father tear gas at thousands of anti government protesters in the capital, lima, they're demanding that president dina bloss hayes resignation and new elections.

luasa is called for a national truth following weeks of unrest. so far more than 50 people have been killed. the crosses began in december off to form a present. pedo castillo tried to dissolve congress and was arrested. arianna sanchez has more from lima. oh, does he leave? i have made peace. oh protesters with my mental de la garza, they've hit me on the head. this is a murderous dictatorship. we came here peacefully. they not policemen. they kill us . oh my lord, security forces are open fire against president. do you know or not? they have asked for forgiveness, but she said the bullets did not come from the police,

but from protesters can be billed on day. and i know there are videos where it seems there are using sling shot, but it's not that it's a weapon that can kill someone chance have been fired from home to kill people in the protest. it's not the police that shooting it. well, that's why we ask the prosecution to a salary. the investigations, ah many people came from the high land. i got the message from the border group in between believe, yankee dual. and she's going to stay here to produce medical marsh today for the theme of lima. but they have been here for nearly a week, and they said they will stay. they have nothing to do until president dina resigned from all leaders from latin america and the caribbean have called for coordinated regional funding, falling economic and climate crises. it came in the final declaration from the

summit in the autumn tinian captain when his aries. they expressed support for talks between the venezuelan government and its opposition and demanded the lifting of us blockade on cuba meeting mark the return of brazil, which left the block under the previous administration. teresa by reports from whence aris i recently were presented to latin america and the carrier gathered here in one of the sites to discuss integration development. but also how to face the challenges of this part of the world is facing today. the fact that this regional pool is known was graded back in 2010 during what was known as the pink, tight composed of center, left and left. when leaders in latin american was created to counter the influence of the united states in this part of the world. the leaders present here in woodside is celebrated the return of brazil to these regional form back in 2019 during the government of yeah, i equals one out of you know,

that was i was leaving this for mostly because of the preference of venezuela and cuba griffin will have a fever, and brazil should have never left. mil doing remodels money. that's in my 1st 2 terms in office. i dedicated myself to the task of building to latin america based on barnes entrust solar. it is with great joy and very special satisfaction is brazil is back in the region and ready to work side by side with all of you, with a very strong sense of solidarity and closeness. and his opening statement argentinian president, a lot of a fernandez, expressed the importance of defending democracy and also warned about the risks of each team, right in the world of the same time chilion precedent, guardian vote, each said that human rights need to be protected everywhere in the world, so i am looking over the thought, elizabeth, we know that the values of freedom and respect for human rights and the principle of holding periodic and general elections by universal suffrage are essential

elements of democracy. and in this sense, i reiterate as others have done that we need to see venezuela back in unilateral forums. and if the members of a collect presented a final declaration in which they express the importance of preparing for climate change, for example, or defending indigenous communities and languages in latin america and the caribbean. but they also express the importance of working together towards solving the conflicts that are ongoing right now in this part of the world. for example, the situation in haiti with a political and economic crisis in plato, there's been riots for weeks or have left dozens of people dead. but also they requested an end of the embargo on cuba. rwanda's military has fired as a congolese fighter jet, which it says violated it's as base video posted on line shows the plane being hit on for landing in goma, the eastern democratic republic of congo. reason advances made by m. 23 rebels in

the region have increased tension between the neighbors. the d. r. c accuses rounder backing, the group, which could golly, as denied a recent fighting between tribes in the dark for region of western saddam have left dozens of civilians, dead or wounded. out is there a correspondent and is our back door? we went to an area where violence has left hundreds of people homeless and hungry. this is how the village of armor i in south dawn for looks like following days of tribal violence, emerald. one of the hunters who initially fled for safety has just returned to find her home. yet her winds had a good. they destroyed the house and stole the livestock. they stole everything, everything and we came back to find nothing in place. we have no food and we have nothing to eat or drink. 14 people lost their lives in the fighting. aside from amory, 15 other villages have been subject to acts of arson and looting with scenes like

this one across that belief municipality is sought doth for an estimated 17000 have been displaced. they've mostly made their way to existing refugee camps. those who couldn't are living in utter misery here among the winds. they don't only desperately need food and shelter, but also security. i'm a global and the government must bring security to this area. this means there should be an army and police force here. we want stability to prevail in the region . heard the assault proposal sooner will tribal fighting has now subsided quasi bill area with a renewed ho for peace. but a safe and organized return is still huge. challenge in the absence of freel measures to guarantee security. instability in the area, the authorities sent a joint security force to keep the peace and to encourage people to return to their

villages with a promise to try to help them rebuild their lives. oh no, no, no nozzle. i thought we're proud it is the return of this people voluntary lead to their villages and homes almost done. we will help them build permanent home to live in will. that will either have government and of course responsible for bringing security to these areas aren't door for hosts, a $155.00 displacement camps. most of them date back to the beginning of the conflict in 2003 with over 3000000 people living there. the caps are overcrowded and miserable. so until the government begins to deliver when its promises, new victims, such as a mirror, can only wait and hope. the u. s. department of justice has said google accusing it of the legally stifling competition online advertising revenue. the loss it was filed in conjunction with 8 us states, was key to say the firm has maintained

a monopoly through anti competitive behavior. and once its advertising business, broken up, giggles parent company alphabet says that the lawsuit is based on a flawed argument that would slow innovation. for 15 years, google has pursued a course of anti competitive conduct that has allowed it to halt the rise of rival technologies, manipulate auction mechanics, to insulate itself from competition, and force advertisers and publishers to use its tools. in so doing google has engaged in exclusionary conduct is severely weakened, if not destroy competition. in the ad tech industry mich stultz is a competition director for the electronic frontier foundation. he says, the low seat will most likely change google's behavior and practices. even if the d o j in the states, donor cheever break up of google or a spinning off of some of its advertising businesses. there's still positive

effects, i think on the internet can come from this and, and the model for that is among others is microsoft, after it was sued by the governments around the turn of the millennium units. even though they didn't achieve a breakup of the company really did change the company's behavior. and i think that's a strong possibility here in a model that, that with the public trash diamond and with the increased oversight and scrutiny that comes from a suit like this. discipline companies, practices, so even if these business structures remain a lot of the practices that are specifically called out in this lawsuit or are gonna decrease overtime at a minimum, lasers wearable gadgets have gone on display as with exhibition in tokyo, the annual wearable expos showcases all kinds of technology that can be worn on a person's body. this is event is promising. everything from virtual reality to

smart watches, rob mcbride checked out the latest gadgets in tokyo. this is an expert that is coming like japan out of the pandemic. this was held at the same time last year, but only about half the numbers of people here. if we have a quick pound around, they are expecting over the course of the next couple of days or so around 1400 exhibitors from all around the world about 70000 visitors coming to visit here. most of the visitors last year were all from japan, but now the board is, are open again, we're going to be seeing far more international visited. and the, as far as definitions go, wearable gadget has the name suggest is basic began to think that you do where that has another function other than what it would seem to do. so for example, the watch is the most obvious example apart from telling the time, it's also been telling us our blood pressure and heart rate and feeding that

information to other devices may be sending it to our doctors, insurance companies. and with the advances in technology and supported by super fast internet speed, it could also do other things like you being used for payments, which we, because very important in a post pandemic world. because all of these wearables are also possibly fashion items. you're seeing a very exciting tie ups between the big fashion brands and the tech company. so for example, your latest sunglasses, apart from making you the coolest on the book, i will also be streaming images live to whichever device you want. so it is a very exciting period in time excited to go. so for japan, of course, as one of the world's leading industrialized bolden economies, it was also one of the slowest to come out of the pandemic, but seems to be making up for lost time with a message here, at least that japan is back an iceberg. the size of greater london has broken away from and talked to her this time last last.