ah, ah, african story from african perspective. i'm the marine by the just a business when a short documentary from african he'll make, i'm going to do that from south africa. ethiopia, paint nigeria, we been to go over some stuff in this class today. she saw this as my, and my role africa direct on al jazeera ah secretary of state, anthony blink, and postponed his trip to beijing as a chinese surveillance balloon continues to float across u. s. s. base. ah,

hello, i'm darn jordan. this is al jazeera live from dough are also coming up ukraine, which is closer to joining the e u. but more reforms are needed before any membership proposal is accepted. his 1st visit to south saddam po process tells me that a fresh start is needed to move towards peace and to look inside one of the world's largest jails. el salvador unveiled its view mega prison, with a capacity to house, 40000 inmates. ah, the united states has taken immediate diplomatic action over the presence of a chinese surveillance balloon above us soil. it says the balloon is a clear violation of its sovereignty. with the u. s. secretary of state postponing a planned visit to beijing. china says it's a civilian balloon and not being used for spying our white house correspondent,

kimberly hall kit reports. the sing is up in the sky. china surveillance balloon is triggering a diplomatic rao that has prompted us secretary of state antelope lincoln to postpone his weekend trip to beijing. it's an irresponsible act, and that the p r c's decision to take. the section on the my plan visit is detrimental to the suction of discussions that we were prepared to have. the u. s. is accusing china, a violating international law. the balloon is still hovering over the skies of the united states. it was 1st tracked over the aleutian islands near alaska, and travelled through western canada and into the u. s. state of montana where it was spotted near a military installation home to some of america's nuclear missiles. i have no idea what the thing is. that seemed so brazen and just so insane to me that

that any one would even attempt to just push a balloon over the sky. the chinese foreign ministry acknowledged ownership of the balloon and expressed regret for the incident, but said it was merely collecting weather data, not intelligently. the pentagon has its doubts. still, it says the balloon is not a threat to any one on the ground or plains since it's flying well above commercial air traffic. but there are questions about why the pentagon is allowing the chinese surveillance balloon to linger, looking at the potential for debris and the impact on civilians on the ground or property damage right now, as i mentioned we, we assessed that it is not pose a risk to people on the ground as it currently is traversing the continental united states. that hasn't satisfied biden's critics and congress who believe the u. s. needs to take further action to punish china account reward. the ccp for this kind

of fly and violation of her sovereignty by pretending everything his business as normal. anna a grip and grin session was, she's in pain, as if it was happening. would have been a terrible look for years diplomacy. the ccp will continue to push the envelope until we push back. this isn't the 1st time the china has lives to spy balloon over the united states. the pentagon says that in recent years, surveillance balloons have been spotted over guam and hawaii. but in the case of this current balloon, the pentagon won't say whether or not it eventually will be shot down, only that it's expected to drift over the united states for the next couple of days . kimberly help get al jazeera, the white house. i want to say was, was in jordan, i was more and what the postponement of lincoln's beijing visit means for us china relations. there are some who have argued that if the trip had gone ahead

and the secretary of state had met with a number of high level officials, including perhaps the chinese presidency, asian ping, this would have been in fact a start of a perhaps warmer relationship between washington and the ging, some have argued however, that could have been construed as an endorsement for beijing to continue its policy for it's part of the biden administration has argued that it is going to engage with china where it needs to. it's going to compete with china in other areas, and that it will work along side china on some commonly shared concerns and goals. so the u. s. has already been walking a very fine line in terms of how it calibrate its relationship with beijing. this is a moment where the u. s. has a basically said, we're going to stop where we are. and that as the administration deals with this saw matter of this surveillance balloon, then it will decide at what point,

perhaps later and 2023. when the secretary of state antony blank and can return to beijing for those talks that had been agreed upon by, she's been paying and joe biden at last year's conference in southeast asia. so for you officials of met in key for jaime symbolic summit, ukraine's president vladimir zalinski has urged the block to speed up its membership. but the e u was coding for more reforms. latasha bought a reports from keith. ah beret siren sounded in keys at the start of the you ukraine. summit a meeting as much about symbolism as talks you leader side by side with ukraine's president in keith. a show of the block support via crane and a message to moscow that despite its attempts, keith's looking west ukraine wants to join the you. it's candidacy was accepted last year and it won't succession negotiations to be fast tracked. but

a you lead to say that fulfilling the many conditions required may take years if there are no rigid timelines. but their goal that you have to reach reforms, for example, to improve a situation in the canada country to then reach at the accession negotiations and the session exec itself. you're not immune. nation to forge ahead is impressive. nasir for talks also focused on military support for ukraine. follow to ms. lewinsky once again urging western leaders to send keith more weapons. yes, from woodcress with us broil. if weapons deliveries or accelerated, namely long range weapons, we will not only not withdraw from buck much. we will begin to de occupied storm has what, which has been occupied since 2014. when is the last all the you says it will continue sent in military and humanitarian aid ukraine and will

train 30000 ukranian soldiers. it also pledged money. 40 mining and reconstruction in the country, as well as a new round of sanctions against russia. the tense packages on its way. we have the aim to have it in place by the 24th of february. it has a volume of round about 10000000000 euros. its massive how package again, it was the 1st time that any you saw made had been held in a country in wartime. although there were differences during this semester over the speed of keys you membership process. you leaders agree that ukraine is fighting this war against russia not only for itself. with the whole of europe. natasha butler, al jazeera keith. united states is to send another $2000000000.00 worth of military assistance to ukraine. it'll include longer range precision rockets for the 1st time. last month, the white house announced just over $3000000000.00 and military aid to help ukraine

and its neighbors. a salma been j as in moscow with more on rushes response to the latest usa package. when in the last few minutes we heard from the kremlin, saying that the world must not forget the comments made by president tutoring in, in the remembrance of starting rod just 24 hours ago where the russian have said that the do not welcome the. the thanks to ukraine president put in diluted to what happened 80 years ago and thing that net, once again, it is german tank headed to words. the russian border with trust is on them. and russia is going to make use of its full capability. and it is going to respond to it. he did fall short of saying they're going to be headed toward its voters with european countries. but it did say that this is going to be something that history

also has a lesson for all of the people who are helping ukraine, obviously pointing towards the 2nd world war. and this is something that we've heard from the russian government since the beginning of the war of painting it with a picture of how not the germany was the war against russia. russia has insisted that it is war. went to war with your brain because of the presence of what it calls, not seed. and that is why it continues to be there to make sure that it's boarded are protected from what it calls it's good. this is something that russia is going to be continuing on as we enter this, the stages of the 1st anniversary of the war. the european union has agreed on price caps for russian oil products, a $100.00 a barrel cap has been set for refined products that traded it premium like diesel. cheaper ones would be limited to $45.00. the price limits come into effect from sunday. the head of the roman catholic church is appealed to south sedans,

leaders to end years of bloodshed in the world. youngest country po, process is on my historic visit there. the leaders of the anglican church and the church of scotland yard president saw the care and his bitter rivalry, masha, to turn their backs on violence and corruption, or matessa reports on the capital, juba. in a 1st since the birth of this nation, the head of the catholic church pope francis's insults had on together with the archbishop of canterbury, justin welby, leader, the anglican communion, and ian greenfield. the moderator of the scottish church, the religious leaders on what they call a pilgrimage for peace in a country way, fighting continues to kill and displace large numbers of civilians. with him, you are cool to renew the life of society as pure sources of prosperity and peace. so greatly needed for the sons and daughters of south su down. they need fathers, not overlords. they need steady steps towards development,

not constant collapses. solid sedans leda saw the care promised to resume talks with armed groups who did not sign the 2018 piece deal in one of the holy fargo bomb francis. historic visit dwaa gadri. an hour in the garage on mount. lindsey goodness, read as the year of these are your consolation. i am officially announcing the live 3 of the suspension of their own. these dogs will do all our groups a day before this visit. several people were killed in central equatorial state in violence between capital herders and the local militia felt sit on as the predominantly christian nation. in the past, the church is played a huge role in resolving differences between different ethnic groups and political

parties. some people here hope his high profile visit in college, is they politicians to work towards peace. now, boy, to leave the church has been urging south sydney's politicians not to return to war in 2019 hope frances, now to kiss the feet of fowl to don's previously warning leaders. during a meeting at the vatican. some we as buck get yet to see what a vote so much in the process that the letter dated been associated with them. and then on that note, the chair to demand is to, to focus on seeing a doctor. people leave that to be sought to don, broke away from saddam to become independent in 2011. after decades, a conflict, but long lasting piece remains elusive. people frustrated by how long it's taking to implement the piece agreement. have huge expectations with so many crises happening elsewhere. they help his high profile visit, reminds the world of the needs of salt to done. how much asa algebra juba. these

european prime minister has met with to graham leaders for the 1st time since the 2 sides reached a peace deal in november. abbey, i'm as delegation, met the to grinds to discuss how the agreement had been implemented so far. and what the next steps may be, the deal between the federal government and rebels from the northern to guy region ended 2 years of conflict, which killed half a 1000000 people and displaced millions more. a palestinian man shot in the occupied west bank on friday has died of his wounds. bella holloway was shot at her water. a checkpoint south of nablus. the palestinian red crescent, says he was injured by his ready gun. fire is ready, forces of kill 36 palestinians in the occupied west bank since the beginning of 20238 of them children will in 2022. there are more than 800 attacks by israeli settlers on palestinians in the occupied west bank rights group. say the violence is being fuel by a growing sense of impunity. and as bernard smith reports from ramallah, many victim say, there's no point and even filing police reports the ambulance crew were lucky to

escape without serious injury when settlers threw rocks at their vehicle last week . they were called out to the palestinians who been injured when settlers attacked a village in the occupied west bank and a metal partition, college minister. i didn't think we would make it out of there alive. and we were driving between cars that were on fire and i would never have expected that they would attack an ambulance. there were an average of 17 settler tax a week on palestinians in 2022, a 170 percent increase in 5 years. according to the un, was that with israel's new governing coalition, including foreign ministers, elected by settlers, many palestinians fear the violence will get worse. the u. s. government says it opposes settlement expansion and the legalization of outposts. but these railey government is promising to do just that. those new grey and white apartments over there are a legal settlements right here in the heart of the west bank. and last year, just 3 percent of police cases involving settle of violence resulted in

a conviction. farrah salamis from an israeli group that monitor settler attacks. he says they now have no fear and come right into the villages. out bucket anointed dizzy bill. a 3rd enormous shot him off there, emboldened because his railey law enforcement gives them impunity and the power to carry on escalate when there is no accountability the attacks increase and so does the violence today because they are in a position of power when the government, they feel more immune settlement started appearing, not long after israel occupied the west bank in the 1967 arab israeli war. there are now around $290.00 of them all illegal on the international law. the settlements in blue on this map, a gradually expanding and will eventually joined together a tactic, palestinian official hassan di glass says was used when israel was found it home with him. pub grammar, who don't? buffy out at hayley philosophy. they want to implement a plan to transfer palestinians from areas close to settlements,

a st. similar to that, and 1948 when zionist gangs committed massacres and, and still fear to drive palestinians out of their homes. today we have another attention, you gangs, new names, price tag, hill, top youth, you name, it is called the magazine. no settlers have been charged in connection with the attack on the ambulance on saturday. israel police say they'll investigate the incident, but have yet to make any arrests. bernard smith, outers era, ramallah for a short break here now to 0. when we come back and marine experts make a critical push to save aquatic. biodiversity open to protect 30 percent of the world's oceans by 2030 or not. stay with ah hello one place to say we got some choir to where the coming in to the southeast

corner of the us. now, after our recent, i store the systems making its way out of the way tightly packed i supposed come here behind around or area of high pressure. that is a normally blast. we're looking at dangerous windshield over the next 24 hours or so. temperatures recovering in our water, ram minus 14 cells is something of a recovery to in new york. and that sets the trend over the next couple of days. it shouldn't be as cold as we have seen over the last 24 hours or so still seems neither forecast that'll pull out of the way bright skies come back in behind. few snow flurries there into our central and eastern parts of canada, but for many it is looking fine and dry. we have got more wet weather, more wintery weather coming in across the western side of the continent. though extensive snowfall, as you can see, making sway all the way down across good parts of california and over towards the rockies. but for many, it doesn't hurt too badly make our way through the we can not see about to across the car. been lots of love, the sunshine blue skies may be just the archer. wet weather will be across the

western side of a region. central america, seeing some lively downpours and as we go through the next hour. so still some wet weather there to southern parts of mexico, sliding all the way down into guatemala. ah, a city defined by military occupation is never been an arab state. he with the capital of jerusalem. everyone is welcome. but as the default spectrum that maintains the color projects, that's what we refuse. it was one of the founders of a settlement with this and the story of jerusalem to the eyes of its own people, segregation, occupation discrimination, injustice. this is apartheid of the 21st century. jerusalem, a rock and a hard place analogy 0. lou.

ah, welcome back her to mind about top stories here. this at the united states has taken diplomatic action over the presence of a chinese surveillance balloon. floating high up the country. the secretary of state has postponed a plan, is it to beijing. china says the balloon is not being used for spy. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski has hosted a summit of european leaders in keys where they have discussed ukraine's membership application to the block. savanski, also urge western allies to supply his military with long range missiles and the head of the roman catholic church is appealed to south sedans. leaders to in years of bloodshed, processes on i'm historic visit to the country. the leaders of the i didn't church and the church wisconsin protecting the world's oceans is seen

as a critical part of the fight against climate change. scientists and marine experts are coming together at congress and vancouver to chart a course to secure our seas and help protect marine biodiversity, his environment editor mc clock. looking in from space, you can see why we call us the blue planet. yes, oceans cover. 70 percent of the world we live on and they are a critical resource. indeed, life below goes far beyond the beauty of this extraordinary by diversity. the oceans play a huge role in regulating our planetary systems storing carbon for example. they also help shape climate patterns. and of course, are a lot of for the well providing protein for 3000000000 people and an income to at least 10 percent of the world's population. so the oceans are provide a main source of food for the last large proportion of our planets. so if we think about fisheries, just in the tropics alone, we think that's tropical fisheries. employ about 200000000 people. so that's

directly and indirectly livelihood. that depends on fishing activity out food, food, and fish, in particular, is the main source of protein for any of the vulnerable coastal communities around the world. and in addition to providing the source of food, the ocean is also a key regulator of the global climate system. bucks the oceans are in trouble. reefs a dying ecosystems are collapsing fisheries. a disappearing drastic measures are required. currently, less than 9 percent of our asians have some form of protection and that's often not even enforced. 30 by 30, the plan to protect 30 percent of our world's oceans by 2030 ames to more than triple that with better oversight to it would be a kind of global network of protected zones that could have a dramatic effect on restoring ecosystems by diversity. and fish populations, what we have there is an international efforts to, on the one hand, realized the value of our oceans. both in terms of,

by the vested the regulation of the climate and the value for people. and we have discussed this with efforts to protect the ocean from our human activities. ready there is a substantial challenge because there is, as you know, a lot of human activity in the ocean, so that means displacing not activity and perhaps limiting it and therefore the livelihood that depend on those activities. so it is quite a complex challenge to, to achieve. it is counter intuitive, but the evidence is if you protect more, you can catch more. the bottom line is, what's good for the ocean is also good for us. and the world we live in a congressional committee in the philippines has endorsed a bill to protect marine areas in the contested south china sea, where beijing claims several islands there. the sprightly islands and scarborough show are among the richest fishing grounds in the country. but officials say chinese activity is endangering the ecosystem of their reef. bonneville reports from manila for 30 years. now, scientists from the university of the philippines,

marines, science institute, have been serving damage to marine life in the west, philippine sea part of the south china sea, within the philippines exclusive economic zone. this underwater footage of dying reefs was taken during recent expeditions. the destruction has been most extensive in the last decade or soap. coral reef are no longer there. coral east have now become islands, and those are manmade islands. so the reclamation of that now putting off additional sentiment on top of those reefs definitely killed those. reese says 2013 china has reclaimed nearly $1300.00 sectors of land in the spread lease, according to the asia maritime transparency initiative, chinese coast guard, and fishing vessels also have an overwhelming presence. this video shows philippine of fishermen being driven away in early january. china continues to play most of

the south china sea despite a 2016 international ruling that favored the philippines. aside from scientists here, the philippine governments intelligence agency has done its own study. a senate employee last year revealed that the estimated cost of china's reclamation activity so far is $650000000.00. in an effort to save the west philippines see from further degradation, legislators want parts of it declared marine protected areas. they said the measured doesn't target any specific country. the proposed law will place a temporary ban on fishing. filipino fissures unions are concerned. fishermen in the area will lose their livelihood, but proponent, say that won't be the case. nobody will stop them if, if there's only anadia that we will declare as that goes on where there will be no movement when cyber, nobody will be allowed there. but on the surrounding areas, everybody against going to go visit. the question is how to enforce the law. china

has never acknowledged the legitimacy of an international ruling. barnett below al jazeera manila. so let's bring in pepe clark is the ocean's practice lead out world wildlife fund international. he's in vancouver joint us live from there now, pepper. good to happy with us. look, i mean, we hear a lot about how important it is to protect the world's oceans. but how critical is this in the fight against climate change and why is it so important? we've seen dramatic changes in our ocean over the past century, declining fish population economy condition as of habitat. industrial, the fishing has been a key driver. and of course, in recent decades and into the future, climate change is really reshaping ocean ecosystem. we need to ease the pressure on our ocean from the fishing, from destructive fishing from pollution and other factors that reduce the resilience,

devotion to the impacts of climate change and also reduce their productive capacity for human well being. we have tools to, to do. we know that science face and restorative fisheries management is a useful and effective to coastal community lead conservation is also a marine protected in concert. okay. one of the most pop, you know, you know, if it's during the last nature notion let's, let's talk specifically about the problem in the seas. up the philippines. i mean, the philippines government says, look, china is endangering the system of their reef. but this is a hotly contested area of the south china sea. how is this affecting their cover, the reason and, and the livelihoods of local people? this this is a really concrete example of the difficulties of showing marine conservation and sustainable likelihoods in areas that are politically or politically contested. if we contrast that with the kernel triangle for the stuff where the 6 countries in the kernel triangle, including in the philippines and indonesia,

collaborating to manage and can, says car rapes and fisheries resources. that, that collaboration is proving much more effective from a conservation and sustain livelihoods perspective. and i'm just a final thought pepper. i mean we, we, we have this summit in vancouver where you are now where, where scientists and climate experts a trying to chart a course to secure our sees what are the challenges you and they face in coming up with a roadmap to move forward. the scale of the challenge is enormous, the time period is short, but also importantly we have to do this. well, we need to do this in ways that are inclusive and ethical, that involves particularly vulnerable coastal communities and decision making. and also that protect the right parts of the ocean. so we're enhancing the long term productivity, protecting ecological processes, and delivering an optimal outcome. so for people in nature, over the decades ahead, pepper clock really good to get your thoughts and your analysis. thank you very

much. and even talking to have a thank you. thank you. now, a salvador as president ny mckayla has defended a newly unveiled mega prison built to house thousands of alleged gang members, the so called terrorism containment center. as a build outside check, a luca se of a capital san salvador alan fisher has more. it's the biggest prison in the americas, and will be home to $40000.00 inmates, including some of the most violent people on the continent. present ne berkeley was given a special tour of the jail at tech alert built in just 7 months. he was shown the 7 security rings from the watch towers and electric fences for the solid, steel isolation sale does normally like one of them. okay. so it's important to remember that the people that will be held here, the terrorists who will be here are the highest ranking members of the gangs, the historic leaders, el salvador has a gang problem. in march. last year, the government declared a state of emergency to fight it previous efforts to break the gangs and el

salvador overcrowded jails, haven't worked. even with 24 hour locked don's stripping and humiliating inmates even putting rival gangs into overcrowded sales together. they were still able to run their operations on the outside and smuggle in phones, computers, guns, even prostitutes. then last year, police, an army arrested more than $62000.00 suspect, the gang members and those that what with the that the crack don't has lead human rights organizations to complain. innocent people are being scooped up. civil rights are being ignored. but ordinary people tired of gang violence, see they're happy with the changes. it's bringing with what i like them because at least now we feel fell before we always thought something would happen to last. before we trusted no one way. now we shall say with 60000 people already in jail. el salvador has 2 percent of its adult population by.