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pledging to deliver battle times to ukraine, and it's fight against russia. resident jo bought and insists it's not meant to escalate the will. that's what this is about. helping ukraine defend to protect you . crazy land is not an offensive trip to russia. ah, i money inside this is out, is there a life? and so also coming up. facebook's parent company meta says it will restore former us president donald trump's account. solve to a ban of 2 years. i'm sorry, clock reporting from australia with thousands of people who rally across the country on this strategy. die calling for change and i've gotten astounds coldest winter in 15 years, kills more than a 150 people and pushes millions farther to the brink of starvation.

ukraine's military campaign against russian forces has received a major boost from its western allies. the u. s. has confirmed it's sending 31 abrams tanks earlier. germany announced it would provide 14 of its most said fonts leopard to tags. berlin will also allow all the european countries to deliver the german made combat vehicles from their own. all snows, spain, finland, and the netherlands have suggested they are open to doing so. on the case. also sending 14 of his challenge a 2 tanks, the kremlin has dismissed the deliveries as disastrous and costly and says they will go up in flames. ukraine's commanders and unless have said they will need $300.00 western tanks to make a difference on the battlefield. i whitehouse correspond kimmy holcombe begins all coverage after days of deliberation, u. s. president joe biden made the announcement ukraine has long hoped for today.

armina the united states will be shown in $31.00. abram turned to ukraine. the equivalent of one new current battalion, according to the pentagon, it'll take months, not weeks to get the tanks to the battlefield, widen says he made the decision after securing similar commitments from the leaders of france, the u. k. ad following germany's decision wednesday to send the leopard 2 tanks to ukraine. russian officials have already denounced this latest move as an escalation . something biden was quick to counter today's announcement. bills on hard work and commitment from countries around the world, but by the united states of america to help ukraine defend his shop, renews territorial integrity. that's what this is about. helping ukraine to fan, to protect you. crazy land is not an offensive threat to russia. the move marks a major policy reversal for bided overriding the advice of

u. s. generals who resisted sending the maintenance heavy machines. the abrams have been in use for a half century and rushes aware of the tanks vulnerabilities. since february, the u. s. provided ukraine with more than 27000000000 and security assistance, the white house insists issues of training and logistics, including getting the jet fuel needed to operate the abrams tags to the battlefield could be overcome through training. it means to be seen how well the ukrainians will be able to absorb this hardware and use it. it may take at least a quite a while before they they can do it in before it has an impact on the battlefield. still, president biden insist the addition of the abrams tanks will make a strategic difference as ukrainian forces rapid to defend territory in expected

spring counter offensive. kimberly help hit al jazeera, the white house with japanese decision to send times to ukraine, follows weeks of intense pressure from its allies. dominic cane explains from belin . the leopard too, is one of the most widely used tanks in europe, manufactured in germany, but exported around the continent. it is the weapon system. the ukrainian government believes it needs to fight russia and for weeks ministers in kiev called on ministers in berlin to allow them to use the leopards in the country. now that call has been answered. 14 german tanks will be sent to the crane and other european countries will also be allowed to send. our goal is to quickly make 2 tank battalions available together with our allies. there are a lot of countries which would also like to contribute in the deliveries and we will coordinate and ensure that it becomes possible step by step in the chancellor

says he understands many germans are deeply concerned by his decision, but at least for other european countries have already said they are prepared to use their latitudes to help you crane you ready to participate in one or another way. those, there are many ways to do it because we know that this low body issue also need training for the drivers for the maintenance and so forth. it in the spare parts, it needs the whole ecosystem of the about tanks and b, b, b. consider what is the best part for us? here at the russian embassy in berlin. the reaction has been quick and condemning the ambassadors says that germany has abandoned its historical responsibility to russia. 45 by not see crimes during world war 2. calling the decision extremely dangerous, he says it takes the conflict to a new level of confrontation. and yet some analysts believe that with russia reportedly building up its forces for a spring offensive, germany felt there was no alternative to allowing leper to be sent in ukraine.

everyone, all the military experts are expecting that russia is preparing for spring and the europeans now want to back ukraine in the ukraine government and ukranian army to be ready to defend the country in sending his country's tanks to ukraine. all our shots has done something, no other democratic chancellor here has done allow another country to use german tanks to fight russians in a war in europe. and so while shalt stated goal is to prevent an escalation between russia and nato. it may not be too long before the heavy weapons of both sides are in use against each other. in ukraine. dominic cane al jazeera berlin, while ukraine's president the laws ms. lewinsky has hailed the decision by the us in germany to send tanks at the historic achievement on concert on wishing you

much. and i think mister chancellor, old german politicians and public figures for their willingness to strengthen the defense of europe. but this is also a very powerful step by the united states. ukraine will receive abrams. thank you for the decisions that i thank mister president biden. personally, i thank congress. i thank every american family for the tangible strength of american global leadership glitches the best with the key now as speed and volume. the speed of training our military, the speed of supplying tanks to ukraine, the amount of tank support. we have to form a fist of tank, a fist of freedom, which will not allow tyranny to rise again at all in moscow. the kremlin has dismissed the plan as absurd spokesman dmitri pet scope says keys allies overestimating the benefits of funding tanks to ukraine's armed forces. you should know the blue gauge, just touching a little book that interest you time can get me to you. which and daughter be sure

that there wasn't any. you can give her a piece of plenty committee conscript camino before you show me. but former us president donald trump will soon have his facebook and instagram accounts reactivated. the social media john meto says the accounts will be reinstated in the coming weeks. trump was suspended on facebook and all the social media platforms off to the january 6th attack on the years capital in 2021. when he posted this message on his truth social platform in response, he said, such a thing should never again happen to a sitting president or anybody else who is not deserving of retribution. how to j, castro has mon, the story from washington dc. there was a long explanation posted by met as president of global affairs in his effort to be

transparent. he said that this was because the public should hear from their politicians, quote, the good, the bad, and the ugly, particularly so that the public can make an informed decision at the ballot box. and of course met a heroes referencing the upcoming 2024 u. s. presidential election and this decision to allow trump, should he choose to reactivate his accounts, it could be a significant one that shifts the dynamic of that presidential race. given that trump heavily used tools like advertising on facebook, creating lists of quarters, which she relied on in his previous campaigns. now if trump comes back though, there will be guard room guard rails awaiting him. these are specifically developed after the january 6 insurrection of the u. s capital by an independent oversight board that was created after trumps initial ban. now these guardrails will entail specific rules for public figures in which meta says they will weigh what potential

there is for real life harm. to result from the speech of these public figures, politicians in peru have moved to impeach president dean up watty. she's been on the pressure falling weeks, yvonne and demonstrations cooling for a resignation. a new elections period has been in crisis since december when the former president peddler casea was arrested. after trying to dissolve congress. 50 people have died in the violence. adiana sanchez has moved from lima 3 left wing parties have presented this impeachment motion for arguing, permanent boyle in capacity another. that's one of the arguments to see took place and the other one would be treason. now these legislators have presented this motion are allies of former allies, a former student steel who is in jail. and they have argued the reason for

this of the spiraling unrest of the handling of the unrest where more than 50 people have been killed. many of them by fire arms exchanges with protesters and the security forces. now they are seen that president would love to have had a terrible management of the crisis. pass more than 6 week for radio, political and rest in the country. but the congress will 1st will have to debate this motion to accept it. that is likely to happen on thursday, but they will meet 66 vote to accept the motion to accept it for a debate. now it's possibly unlikely that it would pass because it's the majority of both are now held by rightly parties in parliament,

and they are in control of parliament. and they are supporters now of president. the lot of rallies underway in several cities across australia, calling the change in the way the national day is observed. friday they commemorates the arrival of the 1st british settlers in the 18th century indigenous group. see it as a day of morning saying that it glorifies the invasion that demands a change have been gaining momentum in recent years. sarah cluck has moved from brisbin. what is a large group of people, thousands of people every year, could even say millions of people who celebrate estrella day being they guide the barbecue and have a bob to that have lunches at home. they go to the beach and they celebrating the beginning of modern style. it was back on january 26, 1788 when the british 1st fleet settled in the city co. but there's also a huge group which is growing, i should say over last decade. also that don't want to celebrate australian state.

they calling this a day of morning and we're one of those occasions we started rally in the central sophistic district of brisbin. that was a rally where people were very angry. they want the displacement of 1st nations. people acknowledge on that day, and i say that 1st nations, people need to be acknowledged on a great a national scale, as opposed to celebrating australia. i know we have seen under the albany, the government entity open, easy, who's a prime minister. he has seems to be this thing this year he will hold a referendum where he will allows friends to vote on whether or not to change the constitution to acknowledge 1st national people as well as giving them a role on a national policy making basis. so this is certainly a diag mixed emotions. we have rallies around the country with thousands of people are actually gathering that to demand the people listen, these try and government and the strange people acknowledge the arrival. and the 1st sit was being the 1st nations people, not the colonialism, australia which began on january 26 back in 1788,

while the controller say around australia days tied up with the impact of colonization on aboriginal australians. rural massacres. land left an impression of indigenous communities. more recently that was seen in the stolen generations of the 20th century, where indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families over several decades. of the damaging legacy of colonization is feeling cools for the national day to be moved to a date that unites will, australia's that spring and martian langston. she's the foundation chair of australia's indigenous studies at university of melbourne. she choices from would end in australia. thank you. for joining the program. what are your thoughts on australia day? should it be abolished? ah, thanks lisa question. marlene, yes i think australia di should be abolished. we're not an invidious situation in australia where our national di celebrates the invasion of the colonizing

british fleet that arrived in sydney code. as your presenter explained, on the 26th of january, 1798. 0 thereabouts. i was hanging about in the area for some time and eventually brought in 11 ships, most of which had a cargo of convicts and established a penal colony. and australia had long been slighted by the british as a penal colony to offload its convicts because of the independence war of independence in america. away the british would no longer welcome to dump they convicts. so australians muster straightens, who celebrate astride to die, are not even aware of this, and indeed, ah astray, to die as it's presented to us now by various are, australia, di committees are on january 26 is only 29 years old. originally

this di was new south wiles die and are for years in davis since 1938 aboriginal and torres strait islander strides have objected to this triumphal hist, celebration of our colonization because of the great harm that was caused to our peoples over 235 years and there, i can't imagine that there are any indigenous people who are not carrying this burden of colonization in a very intimate way. ah, in my own case, for instance, my grandfather and his twin brother were brought in his opens to a reserve, a crowned aboriginal reserve in queensland. i'm following a decades of massacres. and recently, historians of estimated in been the region of central queensland where his traditional country was the estimated death toll of aboriginal people

massacred by the british and litre by australians was about 70000 people. that they are, they are that sorry to interrupt. they are now plans for this referendum to implementing indigenous voice to parliament. if this is passed, would you consider that a step forward for the indigenous community? absolutely. in fact, i, i served as the co chair with professor tong coma who last night was appointed senior australian of the year in the australia di awards. and together we are wrangled 50 paypal on 3 committees to co design an indigenous voice model. we've had a number of reports ah, out to the public, to went to the cabinet in the previous government. and we consulted very widely. we consulted tens of thousands of people on a,

in the previous 3 years. and i've, we believe we've designed, i are very good model for i voice to parliament for indigenous guidance. we're only 3 percent of the population. and yet i, we are the most disadvantaged. the poverty is extreme in many parts of australia and the results are absolutely horrifying. ah, we welcome the prime ministers offer of a referendum on the question of constitutionally entrenching a voice to parliament because every advisory body in the past established from after the last referendum in 1967 has been abolished on a whim by h government one after another with had so many advisory bodies, ah, that, you know, we've stopped counting. we want a, a formal advisory body to advise parliament on legislation that affects us

constitutionally entrenched. and we hope that us, most australians will vote yes, but it's very simple and elegant proposition. must have really appreciate you talking to us masa lankton foundation chevy, australian indigenous studies at the university of melbourne. thank you. thank you . still head on al jazeera. ah, my multiple ideas in exile, townsend is opposition. leader promises a new chapter for his company. and amazon work as a 1st strike in the u. k. demanding wages that match the spiraling cost living ah, with this is your weather, sorry for the middle east and africa. good to be with you. we're starting in the

middle east where there's a lot of rain wobbling around in the gulf, so it's going for a closer look here. i think really, along the entire coast of the united arab emirates, got some saki rain in the forecast. some of that may clip us here in doha, with the high of 22 degrees. certainly across the country of cats are fairly quiet conditions in pakistan, temperatures a bit lower than we would expect for this stuff the year, but in other spots, temperatures are above what we would expect for the month of january. we've got storms crossing over the aegean, that's going to slam into the western side of turkey a. it's a pretty soggy forecast to come on friday for on talia. and it's been white in windy for the last few days across that northwest section of africa for the co sign of algeria, indonesia. that unfortunately continues on thursday. we've got wet weather coming in to the coast of not only gab on, but right through the congo. some of this could be pretty intense stuff and where there's been a lot of rain is madagascar that west coast all because of this tropical storm here

. and it's just meandering here, dropping more than a months worth of rain on that west coast. also heavy falls of rain in the forecast for loop soccer on thursday with a high of 21 degrees. susan, ah, ah, the answer was an arabic. my name is how i was abducted by the cia in 2004. a german citizen was kidnapped and tortured by garcia. he came over with me into interpretation of powerful documentary jokes her story of how the geo politics of the post 911 world ruined the life of an innocent deal mastery case on al jazeera. ah

ah ah. in watching al jazeera alonda top stories this out, ukraine has received a major boost from its western allies. the u. s. has announced it will be sending $31.00 abrams battle times for defense against russia. aaliyah, germany said it would provide 14 if its left to tax, the kremlin has dismissed the plan as absurd spokesman to meet your pest scope. so keeps allies. what overestimating the benefit? sending times, he said the vehicles will burn like all those have the full social media, john meta says it will reinstate former us president donald trump's accounts the coming weeks suspended on facebook and instagram off to the capitol hill rides. he says the bomb should never again happen to an american president. tarzan is

a former presidential candidate to unduly su house returned home from exile. he survived an assassination attempt in 2017 and later fled to belgium of the general election in 2020 leases. return comes after the president somers new who has an lifted a 6 year ban on opposition rallies. catherine sawyer reports ah, to lisa is welcomed home by hundreds of his supporters in the wrestler. he fled tanzania, soon after a general election in 2020. i didn't have one guy below got the money. we now want a new constitution. lisa will stand firm when it comes to constitutional and election reforms. that's what we have been fighting for. we want an independent electoral commission. what we're seeing changes politically. we're seeing more freedom with our media space is becoming bold. we have no fear when we are being interviewed by the media not least su competed against former president john palmer magole who died just months after winning his 2nd tom. he came 2nd,

but rejected the result saying it was marked by irregularities in 2017. he was shot 16 times by a note, attackers in the capital to toma. that case has never been resolved during that period. several politicians, activism and journalists walked daily about them yet, but turns in is 30 year journey. as a multi party country was not easy. it was not decorated with marble, but it was decorated with stones. there was blood spilled and people have suffered ha ha ha ha. c but things have since changed politically. president, some me, us lou who hudson recently lifted a ban on gathering of political parties, imposed during that election opposition leaders have been calling for electoral and political reforms for many as an independent electoral commission. they say they

also want the head of state to be held accountable once a presidential pam ends. 20000000 in our country. the president is like a god who has all the powers to elect and appoint all judges. the president selects the chairman of the electoral commission along with little bit hesitant, has had talks with the opposition, and promised to talk about reforms with you. some political analysts say the president is came to break with some of the ha predecessors, hard line policies and restore democracy tanzania goes to the election in 2025 and men here are hoping the president will not go back on her words. as the election, drew's nearer, catherine, sorry, i'll g 0. an extreme cold snap is sweeping parts of asia. japan has been badly hit recording some of its coldest temperatures. in

a decade. heavy snow full and strong winds have disrupted traffic and grounded hundreds of flights. enough, god has done more than a 150 people have died in the freezing temperatures. that's the coldest winter in more than a decade and more extreme weather is full cost, cut her lip is hurting and reports it's the coldest winter to hit scan as 10 and 15 years with temperature is dropping to minus 34 degrees celsius. avoiding the freezing cold isn't an option for most people. in this makeshift camp and cobble shalysea is displaced and doesn't have much to protect her family. she's not the conditions were simply too much for 2 of her children. oh yeah, the, the mazda must give about the so called recently 2 of my children die. we don't have enough to hate the roads. when we came, we tried to breeze to keep warm, and was distributing aid to survive. this weather is challenging. humanitarian

group say the telepaths or recent ban on female workers and nonprofit organizations is limiting their reach the in this local school. the weather is also proving challenges during the early morning and night, the weather is so cold that most of our students cannot come. some older students match to make it, but young ones cannot. most foreign aid has been suspended since the taliban returned to power in 2021. the government has limited support and money. the most of them when we asked friendly countries and the united nation well to help all the poor and needy people affected by this situation. and people are struggling to survive. now humanitarian groups fear the harsh winter will further deepen and already dire humanitarian crisis. katia le, visible young al jazeera,

hundreds of amazon warehouse workers in the united kingdom and gone on strike for the 1st time to demand better pay. the online retailer says it's offering competitive wages. employees say they're struggling to make ends meet. when and marks reports. for many amazon workers in the english city of coventry, the company that called itself the everything stool has fail to pay them anything close to what they deserve. or need the time you added your rent, your mortgage, your food, your bills, your bicycle, nothing that i dislike will tobacco for months, multiple strikes across many british sectors have reflected a rampant rise in the u. k. inflation rate. amazon's always sought to keep customer prices under control and says its employees pay remains competitive medicine slight on today. but while britain's minimum wage will rise in april to $13.00 an hour,

amazon guarantees only a fraction more than that to some employees. if it hasn't but the g m. b union signed up more members on top of the half a 1000000 already on its books. and hundreds of star formed a picket line to push for far more money following the example of counterparts overseas. we've taken that from what's happening in america. we saw amazon talking round, trying to persuade work is that they didn't need a union because i was paying $15.00 an hour. they've now raised that to $18.00 an hour, but meanwhile worth is in the ukiah lagging far behind their on 10 f. 150 it is warehouse at the moment. what we want to do is bring them up closer to the american colleagues. with britain's cost of living crisis set to continue. the company may soon struggle without further action to maintain loyalty among its thousands of warehouse workers. de la marx al jazeera.