the problem is not just affecting simple pain killers and antibiotics across the continents. the european medicines agency says currently, 13 key drugs are in short supply. the shortage of medicine applies across europe. this berlin pharmacy stones are increasingly having to find alternative drugs to those doctors are prescribed in order to help their patients not very quickly. we have a lot more work to do to supply the population with medicine. so far we have still somehow found the solution for people, but we often had to improvise. so sometimes we relief and not the active ingredient will strongly prescribed and theme have to adjust the dice search. ah, the use top officials promise more sanctions against russia. head of friday's ukraine. europe summit in keith.

ah, i'm carry johnston. this is all just there a lot from do also coming up israeli delegation visit, see dawn to finalize. the text of an agreement normalize and relations republicans as to democratic congresswoman ill hung up from a powerful house committee, over her criticism of israel and half a 1000000 are free airline tickets are up for grabs. in the bid by home come to boost tourism ukrainian. preston let him answer landscape urging the european union to impose more sanctions on moscow. head of a stomach and keep on friday was soon after arriving in the ukrainian capital european commission to president a savant alon said, a sanctions package including price caps on as an oil will be ready for the 1st

anniversary of russia's invasion. thus, despite divisions between members stayed, so for what the cap should be. soleski says the block is moving too slowly to speedily. you've replaced gazelle dang, as when she does thank. just the common to ask for. the european union is to reduce russia's ability to bypass sanctions. the sooner this is achieved, the closer we will get to the defeat of russia's aggression. we have noticed that the pace of sanctions has slowed down a bit while the terrorist state has speeded, adapting to sanctions. it is worth to catch up and fix it east. we believe we can do it today. russia is paying a heavy price as our sanctions. are you eroding its economy, throwing it back by a generation. the price cap on crude oil already costs russia around $160000000.00 euros a day. and we will keep on turning up the pressure further. we will introduce with our g 7 partners and additional price cap on russian petroleum products. and

by the 24th of february, exactly one year since the invasion started, we aim to have the 10th package of sanctions in place. meanwhile, russian president vladimir putin has worn that moscow will respond to the west with more than just tanks. his marking 80 years since the world war 2 battle of stalingrad hootin condemned germany's decision to supply caves. with leopard to battle tanks, he said russia would be victorious in ukraine. kicked up jagger with europe is run. those who are dragging european countries, including germany, into a new war with russia and irresponsibly talking about it as a done deal. those you expect to win against russia on the battlefield. they apparently don't understand their modern war with russia will be completely different. we are not sending our tanks to their borders, but we have what it takes to respond. they ran it and using military hardware will

not be the end of it yet. everyone has to understand this. funding. ukraine's reconstruction is one of the main topics of discussion as european union leaders gather in case for talks. but even as the war continues, the rebuilding has already begun in butcher near cave natasha butler met people who are trying to rebuild their homes and their lives. in boucher on the outskirts of keith valentino watches as builders repair her home. it was damaged by shelling when russian forces occupied the town last year and experience, she says, was worse than living through world war 2. the common that they should they to follows weekly. everything was destroyed, the tv, so for clothes i couldn't stay so i went to my neighbor's basement. we spent weeks there. there were explosions nice and day russians and ukrainians firing. i don't know how i survived 20. the house now has new windows,

and soon the roof will be finished. valentina sweeps up shavings from the timber to fuel her burner. butcher's town council, his financing reconstruction in this neighbourhood. one of many districts pounded by russian artillery. nearly every house in this street has been damaged and is the similar picture in so many parts of ukraine. it is clear, the rebuilding the country is go to the years and cost a lot of money as the war continues in ukraine. so does the destruction mangled infrastructure and bombarded buildings and now part of the landscape. some people are forced to survive in what's left of their homes. keep estimates that reconstruction will cost at least $350000000000.00. the e u has an idea about how it could be funded. ukraine will rebuilt

and done. i just must be jump, inserted. we are fully frozen over 300000000000 euros options says, i am sorely convinced these shoots in this will be used for ukraine's workman's torturing laura. not only you members are convinced about using frozen russian assets for ukraine's reconstruction, but some say it would be a form of justice making moscow pay to rebuild what it has destroyed. even though low amount of money could ever fully restore people to shattered lives. natasha butler, al jazeera butcher. ukraine. are you the pentagon that says it's tracking or suspected that chinese spy? belinda spotted an u. s. s. based on wednesday by reports that military leaders even considered shooting it down with the state of montana. let's speak to our pentagon correspondent, patsy cocaine, who's lie for us now in washington, dc. patty, what more can he tell us?

well, i know la, pretty late in the day we heard from the pentagon spokesman brigadier general pat rider. he gave it on the record for attribution statement. he basically said that they are tracking this high altitude surveillance balloon over the continental united states. he says it's fine so high up that it doesn't pose a danger to any sort of commercial aircraft, but that they were taking steps to make sure that it couldn't gather any sensitive information. he very specifically in that for the record for attribution statement, didn't blame it on china. shortly after that reporters were given a background briefing from a senior military official. that basically means we can use the information, but we can't release that person's name. this person did very specifically blame china said they had several ways of confirming that it was in fact and chinese surveillance balloon didn't exactly go into detail as to how, but did give several other very interesting points. he said he was asked about the nuclear missile silos. those are in montana. he seemed to indicate that yes they

believed the balloon is in fact flying over those nuclear silos. but he said that they don't believe that this balloon has any additional capabilities to help china gather any additional information other than it would already have, for example, using low earth orbit satellites. but he was also asked about some of the options, and he did confirm that the president present joe biden asked for options when he was briefed on this. and because they've had fixed wing aircraft up, they're taking pictures, taking video ad they did park a bunch of f, 22 raptors in billings, montana on wednesday on the off chance that they decided to take what they call kinetic and kinetic actions. basically shoot it down, they said they looked at all of what the balloon was capable of doing, didn't think that it created enough of a risk to create the danger that it could be posed by shooting it down. he was asked about the size of this. you said it's really rather large one, give specifics like as of as big as a boss is a biggest car,

but he said it would create a very large debris field. so they weren't confident that shooting down one was necessary or 2 could actually not. they couldn't guarantee that nobody on the ground would be hurt because of this very long debris field. one thing they did stress is this is the 1st time they've seen what they say are chinese spy balloons . again, without giving any evidence, but they say this has happened several times of the last several years. the difference now is this one seems to be hanging around the u. s. a little bit longer than the other. once a classical hang live in washington, d. c. thank you. oh, going to stay with this sir. glen a call is a former deputy national intelligence sofa sofa transnational threats with the cia . he joins us now from boston. welcome to the program. firstly, what's your take on this balloon? citing and tracking? well, i didn't have to deal with surveillance balloons during my career. so this is a little bit novel by the way, it's reprise,

since balloons have flown over the united states even since world war 2, the japanese sentiment that they, they contain bombs just as not. so we learn that it's not the 1st, there have been some prior to the, by the ministration surprise to me is that the chinese would do it. they have satellites that are sophisticated and it's unclear to me. and i guess to everyone what intelligence advantage they could gain by doing this. so perhaps it fits in with the warrior diplomacy in a way, in the sense that china has pursued. which is to be aggressive in the pursuit of its interests until there is a strong pushback when indeed it's been counted as a chinese spy balloon. if that's the case, what does this say about china's assertiveness in this field?

well, it's not a surprise that china conduct intelligence nations do in the united states, of course is a crime target of interest for china as the 2 most powerful nations on earth and competitive rival. certainly what it shows that they are being aggressive. i don't really see a particular benefit that they weren't attain by this unless they have some technology that they can use in a balloon that a satellite couldn't recreate. i find that hard to imagine, but perhaps us the case. otherwise, it seems to be shorter to me or ham fisted step or one they're willing to have made public. are we likely to see more of this than going forward? do you think? well, that's

a good question. the normal course of events and intelligence flaps issues, they're supposed to come become public. this nature are that the nation that is on the receiving end of the intelligence operation will make a different matic protest. and that's essentially what has happened here, and, or will publicize it and say, directly, and by the act of publicizing it, ok, we found you out. now stop this. because otherwise things will deteriorate. and the normal responses for the offending or the committing car for you to say also sorry, of course it was unintentional. and then it stops for a while. but that remains to be seen. if it doesn't, then i would expect will become distinctly more likely that a subsequent episode or episodes would probably be shut down. thank you. we

appreciate your time. thank you. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu was attended the opening of chad's embassy near tel. aviv is a major step and normalizing relations between the 2 countries. chad severed ties with israel in 1972 in solidarity with palestinians at yahoo has been trying to build a ties with a muslim majority countries since his 1st term as prime minister. or meanwhile, israel and sudan have agreed to normalize relations. israel's foreign minister, eli cohen has just returned from cartoon where he met sedans, army chief abdel fatter, the hon cohen says, an agreement will be signed once the african nation transitions to a civilian government. sedan host to the arab league meetings were members vowed not to recognize the state of israel in 1967 after the 3rd arab israeli war.

or stephen, the soonest is a professor of politics at university san francisco. he joins a slide from santa cruz california. so let me ask you, 1st of all, how does this square with sedans previous position on this rather and why the change now, do you think one reason is that the military is back in power with the sudanese government agreed with us pressure under the trumpet, ministration. to move towards normalization are relations with israel, but that's only because they are truck administration and insisted they would not lift their crippling sanctions against the country if they did otherwise. so, but it was assumed that the with civilians eventually coming to power, they would not agree to it, but now the military and so that it is, is going ahead. now, if this may be just a move on their part with the assumption that civilian rule would reject,

it might be some buying time. but also might be the fact that as many people suspect the military doesn't really plan on actually giving up power. after all, how does this play that into a why the strategy in terms of getting african states on side as well as far as his read is concerned? oh, globally, especially with the ascension of the hard right. when government, in israel with overtly racist policies that are countries that are distancing themselves from, from israel reevaluating their relationship. so there is a, the israel isa, and they're, us supporters have a motivation to try to counter that by increasing relationships with majority muslim states, other african states. but the, the fact is that both chad and sit down are incredibly poor countries. since it sudan has been under increased sanctions because of the military coup,

they're desperate for israeli technology. they're desperate for capital. and i would not be surprised if the us state department was sent to behind some of these efforts as well. can perhaps conditioning some degree of aiden support with normalizing relations with israel. right. but even so, is this a sustainable long term policy for a country like sudan and others on the african continent? it depends on how rapidly the pro democracy, the movements progress in sudan has a very impressive in large pro democracy movement over through the genocidal a 30 year regime of a i'll be for just a few years ago. they had a coalition government for a time, but now their military, 2nd military coups, the other they're struggling some more. i don't doubt that they're the civilian. and so eventually gain control in sudan. i don't think it will look very kindly

towards the military officers that ruled over them or the countries that supported them, including israel. ok, stephen, dennis, thank you for insights. here today. when i was there i put are still ahead. aaron al jazeera ah says delivered his message for the final day of his landmark visit, the democratic republic of congo. ah, hello, the weather is set fair across much of by northern china trip. it shall. archie drives well to refuse no ship flurries,

just making their way into western parts of japan, but not as wise, but not as heavy as they have been recently. there you go. you can see little bit of snow there to know the hunch you into hawkeye. dry weather to the south of that cool enough in tokyo at 7 degrees celsius temperature sit around 3 celsius, therefore sola 7. therefore beijing. temperatures will start just not up a little bit, please to say as we go on into sass day. but notice that no, just coming back into that western side of japan central, there's a china still seeing some larvae shouts and longest bells of rain down towards the south. we will see for the shower, down towards hong kong, good scattering a showers across southeast asia. some live the ones they're into, were borneo think indonesia probably seen the worst of the weather as we go on through the next couple of days. we'll also see some lively showers around them. lay peninsula on a 2 showers to into southern parts of thailand over the next couple of days. so the parts of india also seeing some lively showers this tropical disturbance just making its way through little area of low pressure, brought some very heavy right into shall anchor, please,

to say it does conscious way out hedged walls. mold these brightest guys gradually coming in behind. ah, every year in china, an estimated $80000.00 children are abducted by one of their perils. 101 east follow some mothers desperately trying to re unite with their children on al jazeera, tough tars, the man tough questions. what exactly are you asking for you? what troops on the ground? the rigorous debate we challenge conventional wisdom and demand the truth upfront with me. mark lamond hill. what out there lou

ah, the watching, i'll just hear a reminder of our top story. now. you are paying the commission preston ursula. yvonne de lion. i says, a new sanctions package, including price caps on russian oil will be ready for the 1st anniversary of russia's invasion of ukraine. she made the comments soon after arriving, and keith, i handed the summit to ukraine's push to join the ear. the pentagon says it's tracking a suspected chinese spy, believe spotted in u. s. s. based on wednesday, there are reports, military leaders even consider that shooting it down, but decided against it because of the potential safety risk from falling debris. israel and sudan have agree to normalize relations. israeli foreign minister, eli cohen says an agreement will be signed once the african nation transitions to civilian government. now, hong kong has launched

a multi $1000000.00 campaign to booster tourism and investment as part of the initiative, half a 1000000 airline tickets will be given the way to visitors, hong kong economies struggling to recover from kobe 19 restrictions. and the government's crackdown on descent has led to an exodus of residence in recent years where it's a kimber, joins us alive now from hong kong. so richard, just how big a deal is this? that does seem like a concerted push to put hong kong back on the tourism map. certainly as needed by the hong kong government's own big spending standards. this is a huge campaign. it's not just giving away hundreds of thousands of flight tickets is going to give away more than a 1000000 spending vouchers for tourists to arrive in the city is also organizing business delegations for professionals from hong kong to travel overseas and try and spread the word and inviting business delegations around the world to come to

hong kong to see how the city is back up and running. this is not just a local economic problem, although there is a big local economic problem. g. d, p in 2020 to strength by 3 and a half percent. the 3rd time in 4 years that the economy has contract it here. but it's also a reputation or concern because while hong kong is remain closed for so much of the code at 1900 pandemic with tough quarantine roles in place and dealing with the overhang of those controversial political reforms. as a result of protests, other asian financial centers like singapore, have been open to business and not just welcoming tourists and business people, but also hosting large scale financial events and international sporting events. so the pressures really mounting on the hong kong government to try and tell us the chief executive john eat, put it yesterday, try and tell good stories about hong kong to the world and try and get the reputation of hong kong back on the map. and richard, just, how badly has the economy been hit by the pandemic and the crack down on descent?

well, there are some pretty sobering statistics out there. it's not just the economic contraction that tells the story, but back in 2019, even during the mass street protests against the government, hong kong received $56000000.00 visitors that tens of thousands per day back in 2021 during the height of cobra, 1900 restrictions the across the whole year were only $90000.00 visitors coming into hong kong because it was such an unattractive place to visit with a times 2 or 3 weeks of mandatory hotel quarantine required for anybody coming into the city before they ran out to go about and do that business. this is been a big shift now for hong kong. we just opened up only in the last 2 or 3 months. and it's really trying to tell our story, as i say, to the world, to try and make sure that it's still considered a great place for investment and a great place to travel. and there are lots and lots of schemes in place from the government to encourage top talent to come and work and live here. and it's just a case of really waiting to see whether that will be successful. the big question

really is, will tourists come back and will the business community want to invest in as a result of what's been a tumult to a 3 year period? and he live in hong kong for spanish came by. thank you. republicans in the us house of representatives have voted to remove a muslim congresswoman from the chambers. foreign relations committee, democrats say ill. hon. omar was targeted because of her identity. victoria gay to be has a details. an emotional debate. congresswoman ellen omar, a refugee from somalia. i'm one of the 1st muslim women in the us house of representatives voted off the foreign affairs committee. republicans pointed to these tweets from years ago where she criticized the pro israeli lobbying group, saying it's all about the benjamins. she later apologized, and this one where she seemed to equate atrocities carried out by the u. s. military to those committed by terrorist groups. she later said she did not mean to compare them. the republicans now in the majority, moved in

a party line vote to kick her off the committee. omar said it wasn't about her words, but her skin color and her religion. this debate to day, it's about who gets to be an american. what opinions do we get to have? do we have to have to be counted as americans? this is what this debate is about madam speaker. there is this idea that you are a suspect if you are an immigrant, or if you are from certain parts of the world or a certain skin tone or a muslim, it is no accident. that members of the republican party accused the 1st black president, brock obama, of being a secret muslim democrats accused how speaker kevin mccarthy, of payback. after democrats stripped to republicans of their committee assignments in the last congress, a charge he denied will not removing her from other committees. we just do not

believe when it comes to foreign affairs, especially the responsibility of that position around the world with the comments that you make. she shouldn't serve there, but this is what the clear this if it was tit for tat we would have picked people took them off all committees and said nothing about. we don't believe that the republicans, he lost their assignments a much different story. representative paul go saw tweeted out an animated video that appeared to show him killing congresswoman lexia casio cortez, who said this move was intended to target women of color. i had a member of the republican caucus threatening my life and you all. and the republican caucus, the warning him with one of the most prestigious committee assignments in this congress don't tell me, is it about consistency? and representative marjorie taylor green was removed after video she recorded before her election surfaced. where she seems to express racist is la phobic and anti semitic views, including targeting i'mma. there is an islamic invasion into our government offices

right now. okay. they are you. so you saw after mid term elections, what we saw so many muslims elected. i don't know. i don't know the exact number, but there were quite a few what we had that woman out of minnesota. now she's going in congress and she's going to wear a head covering democrats say they will appoint a more to a different, but still powerful committee and de la wound republicans that that move will backfire. i yield back and served to make her voice stronger. her leadership praised worldwide, victoria gate and b algae 0. but francis has addressed at tens of thousands of young people at the stadium in the democratic republic of congo, or not. everyone was happy to see the head of the roman catholic church. demonstrates us called on him to do more to stop sexual abuse by priests. welcome web reports from the coma these capital. the 3rd france who spoke to about 60000 young people in a stadium in kinshasa is the 1st time the pope has come to democratic republic of

congo, lou, 40 years. you said the foreign plundering of congos minerals is fueling conflict, and must stop talking to deploy. when i deplores the war continues and dnc in east of the country, you see what happens in ukraine and all the international community mobilizes. what happens in d? c is much worse. the roman catholic church is one of the most powerful institutions in congress. millions of people depend on it for health care and education. people are trying to get into the stadiums to see the pope contests as many st. trade as a setting drink some food flags, and i know everybody here is happy with the pipes. these activists say pope frances has failed to stop sexual violence by clergy. benjamin kit vocal says he was repeatedly raped by a belgian priest for years when he was

a boy in a remote village. he says, years later, the catholic church in belgium paid him $25000.00 compensation. but the priest went on to work in an orphanage. the mother never broke because the abuse are still working. they promise to the program from the media still working. so very low just yet to campaign is say the catholic church continues to protect sexual abuses and to bury complaints of abuse, including the recent case of a 13 year old girl in congo, who says she was raped by a priest. and if he doesn't act, he's contributing for the continued a wrong reason to believe that with abuse story comes out in africa. it'll be worse than it was in the west. and you as a western europe, like until the po takes measures to hold his vicious embrace. busy accountable, we're never going to know that story. 4 years ago,

pope france is introduced rules to stop sexual abuse and cover ups. the campaign has se then not followed in the developing world. and most of those abused hearing congo still suffer in silence. malcolm web al jazeera, kinshasa democratic republic of congo. authorities in mexico have raised an alert level for the area surrounding the aqua cattle volcano. after it began to spew ash and gas across the region. the evacuation order for the nearby village has not yet been issued, but local agencies will continue to monitor the situation if it wasn't ah, he's out there and these are the top stores. european commission president earth lavonda lion says a new sanctions package including price caps on russian oil.