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take control of the ukrainian city. china accused as the u. s. a violating international practice after it's shocked on a suspected spy balloon. pakistan's former president pervis. masha has died in dubai after a long illness and the venice carnival is back in full force after years of skill down celebrations. i'm devin ashwin sport ramirez. suffer a shop to fit to my okay and lava. and harry kane becomes totland each time tops. flora, as he puts buzz ahead against manchester city in the premier league. welcome to the news. our ukraine says it expects a major russian offensive this month. he is expecting more military supplies from western allies, but the defense minister, i say, they have enough preserves to fight russian advances. this is the battle for

control of the eastern ukrainian city of buck loads continues. the city has been the focus of moscow's offensive for weeks, saying best ravi is in keith with more on the fighting. it's been a very active day all up and down the eastern front in this conflict in ukraine. but there is very little debate about where the major flashpoint is currently in the war and ukraine, and that is in back. move the comments from the wagner chief, if guinea a pri, gorgine really lining a very squarely with what the government here. and keith has been saying, the wagner chief saying that ukrainian troops aren't retreating, and the president vladimir zelinski saying that they will continue to fight for, but the place that he calls ukrainian fortress, he says that his forces will hold on as long as they can. but he has also said, seemingly preparing his country for bad news that may come from the front that things on the eastern front are getting more difficult and will continue to get

more difficult in the days ahead. ukrainian forces say that they have killed a 140 to 200 wagner of fighters in 10 hours of fighting in recent days, saying that so called zombie soldiers, mercenaries working for wagner. simply walking wave after wave into machine gun fire. but they say that they are out numbered ukrainian forces are out numbered by the sheer mass of fighters that russian forces are able to bring to bear to baltimore, the city that remains under siege. the russian defense ministry says ukrainian forces are planning to blow up. buildings and crime, a tourist can then accuse moscow of targeting civilians. it hasn't provided any evidence to support the claims. russia is also accusing ukraine of hitting civilian areas with missiles and the occupied don. yes, region. moscow says at least one person was killed in the attack, while the war has lead european nations to impose new restrictions on russian oil

that has come into effect on sunday. premium products like diesel and jet fuel will be kept at $100.00 a barrel by products that trade below the price of crude, including industrial lubricants, will be kept at $45.00. western insurance and shipping companies will be banned from handling the refined products unless they were purchased at or below those limits. there are concerns, the caps could lead to a rise in global diesel prices. step faster has more from amsterdam. hello, this predicted that the impact of the embargo which is implemented today on oil products like diesel and the price cap will be higher than what happened after the embargo and crude oil, which was simpler, implemented last december. many countries here in europe, we're fairly much depending on russian diesel. for example, for example, the german government has bought more than 600000 tons of diesel just in january to stock up for it is possible embargo to be implemented. other european countries

have done the same. this shows that they were very much still depending on this, russian oil product. germany, for example, around 13 percent. and it also means that they don't expect a huge price hike immediately because there's enough stock. they say here in europe, but what that they are predicting is that in the next few months there could be higher prices. so the truck drivers of people who work with diesel, we have a real need for diesel, which is quite an important part of the economy here in europe, of course that there will be higher prices as well. and there's also this fear because a lot of refineries here in europe have closed down over the last couple of years because of climate reasons that they will need to go elsewhere to refine these oil products. and it could be going to asia to the middle east, maybe to china. so that means that there will be more higher prices because of all

this. and also there's a serious fear that could be shortages in the next few months. something that the energy minister of saudi has pointed out that these embargo will eventually lead to shortages. but that's something that's here. a lead us in a european union, they'll say won't be the case. they say we need to set a very santa varies from message to russia to make clear that they can profit from this war. and that's why this embargo, after long the bait within the european members, because some of them wanted the price cap that was going to be much lower. now it's decided on $100.00 for these oil products is high quality or products. so they decided they needed this embargo to send this message to russia, neil atkinson, as the former head of the oil industry and markets division at the international energy agency. and he says, the measure is won't have an instant effect. it's going to take some time. i think

for the russian economy to really hit the rocks, we found that with the crude price cat, we've been in operation already. and quite frankly, i think that's a lot of uprooting mindset is such, he is so obsessed with the war in the ukraine. now he's going to take a considerable period of time before the russian economy deteriorates so far, that he has to call it quits and leave ukraine. i don't think the economic pressures of european union is attempting to impose on russia will have an early and you can argue that because in, in taking 2022 as a whole, russia actually exported slightly more crude oil an oil products than it did in 2020 was because of where they were cut, backs and supplies to markets that to europe in the united states. china and india grew hugely increased in parts of crude oil from russia, particularly india, where imports of russian oil went from next to nothing to re 1000000 pounds

a day at one point. so, you know, it takes a long, long time for these and bogged to take place if they ought to have an impact. and of course, these, these are sanctions, these buggers are not universally respected. china has accused the united states af, overreacting after washington, shot down its balloon early a week after it entered american aerospace, the balloon was 1st spotted in fairbanks, alaska, on monday than by wednesday. it was soon near missoula, montana the chinese balloon that floated over kansas city, missouri on friday by saturday morning. it was seen in the skies over memphis, tennessee, before being shut down by us fighter jets off the coast of south carolina. later that evening. china insist that with a weather balloon, that straight off course, particle hate has more a clear shot as it happened, a missile hit the high altitude balloon and it begins its descent in end 2 days of

long debate about what to do about this massive air balloon suddenly saw something take off and again i knew it was a missile and you can see the explosion. you should have shot it that winning the insane. instead of letting it travel all the way across, you thought it was just that. i think it's terrible that they let it get this far start with. and what i've heard are more and more of china claimed it was a weather balloon that was blown off course. president biden says he gave the order to shoot it down last wednesday, decided without doing damage to anyone on the ground. and decided that the best time to do that was got over water. within our, within 12 mile limit, successively took it down. the pentagon says in f $22.00 fighter jet launched a single missile to bring the balloon down into us territorial waters. pentagon

officials say now they're turning their attention to recovering the balloon. they think it's going to be a fairly simple operation. there already, several us navy and u. s. coast guard ships on the scene. they planned to use us navy divers and unmanned submersible to bring it to the surface in the next few days. and then the us will decide if they want to publicly and the debate offering proof of what this was. it's still an open debate because huge balloon was in fact, following the air streams of the area and that it has a tractor of it. it is not loitering over montana, it was shot off the eastern seaboard. so at this juncture, this idea that this is somehow a spy ship, that was liberally said by china. it seems a little bit far fetched. but us analysts say the fact that they believe a similar balloon as travel in latin america makes this theory more likely. i did not believe that it was just a weather balloon loan. of course, it would be quite

a coincidence if you have this o loon going into u. s. air space, while apparently there is another one. crossing latin america a simultaneously infringing upon other countries here space another strain in an already frayed relationship which was supposed to take steps toward improvement on saturday. instead taking a step back particle hing al jazeera washington plenty more had on the altus. urine is our including. we report from kato's ecuadorian said to the polls to vote on constitutional reforms, and a call for justice in the ra, after a young you to blogger, is killed by her father. and sports cut our hosts round one of freestyle kite world cup action coming up with german. ah,

pakistan's, former president for velma sheriff has died at the age of 79, alexia bryant takes a look back at my sheriff's life on the controversy surrounding his political career. prevail, mashhad i was living in exile for years. fighting to clear his name. the form of pakistani president was charged in connection with the 2007 assassination. a former prime minister, been as he abuto, he was also sentenced to death after being found guilty of treason before a court in pakistan overturned it in 2020. the head of the military had seized power and a bloodless coo and 1999 and served as president from 2001 until 2008. after the $911.00 attacks will shut off, aligned himself with the so called war on terror. general michelle of is under the american petition is this is not a war against terrorism. this is a war against islam. he also supported the war in afghanistan, trying to balance relations with the u. s. and tribal leaders shot af late. it said

the united states threatened to bomb pakistan if he didn't commit to fighting al qaeda. blue sheriff was criticized for failing to improve the economy at home. and maint ties with india, despite a high profile visit to agra, which many had hoped would lead to better relations firing. pakistan's chief justice in 2007 proved to be his fatal political move. it led to street protests. napoleon was that bill go gone. i raised my future in the hands of the nation and the people let them be the judges. ultimately, the man who survived multiple assassination attempts was forced to resign. a year later, sheriff lived in exile for a while, but the law of power was too attractive. he tried to stage a political come back and 2013. 0,

i was thinking the governor would call me back. i would say, save pakistan. but that did not happen today. my nation ordered me to come back. i came back, put in my life in danger to save pakistan. instead, he was arrested and charged with murdering pin. is he a booter, the 1st woman to be democratically elected and a muslim majority country? the government allowed shadow to leave in 2016 to seek medical treatment for serious illness. he'd always denied wrong doing, and maintained the cases against him were politically motivated. people in ecuador are heading to the poles on sunday, to elect local officials and vote on constitutional reforms among the issues being decided or enabling the country's military to join the police and fighting drug trafficking, and also reducing the size of the country's national assembly and vision. as people say, the results of the referendum may threaten their rights as bringing out of sandra and patsy, joining us live from a polling station in the capital c. so,

so how important is this folk? well they're in, it's definitely very important for a president get more less and it's very unpopular administration. he is hoping that a political win today and the particular on the constitutional reforms that he has proposed to offer him at the break a true he's been looking for that. regaining some of the political capital that he has lost the stains, coming into office in 2021 in security. the growing crime here. and there is been a major issue in his political fortunes and that's why there are. 3 2 of the questions here deal with security directly, one of them allowing eventually for the additional ecuadorian that are accused of international crimes. those,

those questions and other ones like the reduction of where the number of assembly members paper are popular among the ecuadorian. but a lot of people here are angry at the president and this government is so they're deciding to vote know even if at times they agree with some of the questions that they're being asked to just to punish, they get more last. so if you talk to the people here, they'll tell you that many of them would, like you said to have early elections because they feel that the situation in the country is extremely critical. there have been back in june major process led by indigenous groups here that have brought the country to a hold. lasso has already faced an impeachment vote that he barely survived. so this is an opportunity for his administration to find some oxygen,

some breathing space for an administration in crisis. so is there a sense that then the proposed reforms will solve ecuador most urgent problems? that's the way for the last has been trying to to sell dis a referendum. but if you talk to the people here, they will tell you look, extradition, that's probably a necessary tool to deal with crime right now along the the ecuadorian coast. there has been ongoing fights between drug trafficking groups. that's because the weather has become now the main hub for cocaine being produced in columbia and in peru on its way to the you to mexico in the united states. so that's definitely a tool that can be helpful to deal with this writing crime, but will it solve the issue of nobody here really thinks that that will be an ass

allowing the military as well. they would like in the government to address some of the main issues that a lot of people are feeling that are at the core of the problem to neck weather which has to do with the rise of poverty with the higher unemployment. so that as a favor, gangs along the ecuadorian coasts, finding a lot of young people that are willing to be recruited by these gangs because they don't have any other opportunities back when the protest happened in june. the protesters reached a number of agreements with the government, yet more less of a professor said that none of those agreements have been implemented so far. right . so probably the vote will be quite close at the end of the day. thank you so much on a sandra and patsy reporting from quito autonomy us state of ohio has declared

a state of emergency after a train accident sparked a large fire. a freight train with more than a 100 cars, derailed in the village of east palestine on friday. with the hammer reports, it's been burning since friday, sparked by did the rail mint of a train 2 days later, and fire fighters are still trying to put it out. the train was carrying hazardous materials across the northeast in ohio, concerns as smoke blowing over to nearby village of east palestine may contain toxins prompted and evacuation order for tank cars, carrion, vinyl. chloride were involved in the derailment and have been exposed to fire at least one vinyl. chloride car is intermittently releasing the contents of the car through a pressure relief device. as design. the fixed smoke could be seen on this whether rada fire fighters were also forced to leave the area. it's still very volatile situation. some of the cars were carrying vine. i'm chloride. a highly flammable

gas is exposure is associated with increased risk of brain, liver, and lung cancer is not clear whether those cars are in flames. 2 so far, no trace of the chemicals into. ready fumes we have 0 readings of any health risks, as far as anything airborne. coming from the chemicals that they're looking for. the cause of the crash is still unknown and the fire could take a few more days to put out. but at that hamid al jazeera 9 people are still missing . after a fishing boat capsized off the south, west coast of south korea, the boat overturn just before midnight on saturday, 3 crew members were rescued. coast guard vessels are searching for other survivors and lay january. at least 8 people were reported dead after a cargo ship sank between south korea and japan. syrian refugees and garza had been protesting in france for un agency. they want officials to resume aid that was cut

in 2017. most of them fled from syria when the revolution started in 2011 and found refuge in gaza. sarah highroad has more. now these are just some of the syrian refugees that fled the serial war and ended up here in garza. now they protesting against the lack of a that they're receiving from the un refugee agency for palestinians. they say that it was caught a few years ago, and now the situation for them is absolutely dial. this isn't a place which is garza where there are 2000000 people under israeli brocade. life is tough as it is, but it was hard for palestinians living here is even haws up. some of those refugees that have come from syria. some of them have been displayed 3 times palestinians that were forced to leave because of the israelis ended up in syria. and have returned again here. now they are all skiing for the most basic funding

funding for accommodation, for foods and for basics where unemployment is about 70 percent. the situation they say is really difficult. metallic, nervous, beside our demand for the $170.00 families, the flight syria, or that owner must carry out its responsibilities towards us. refugees who lost everything. we left all our belongings and our homes were destroyed. we were forced to leave, we need the refugee agency to either provide us with a place to live or pay the high rental costs or help us find a job. now some of the people protesting here, all women say that their children are missing out on a good education. there are people that are reliant that needs health care and then not able to receive it. and not they need that assistance. they heavily rely on not that assistance. when ross has appealed for $1600000000.00, which it relies on from international donations,

it's saying that it desperately needs it. as it started the already was $70000000.00 in or is it's very much accepting the fact that they need that help. and they say they can't really do much until the donors put the money forward. has placed families in northern syria, were already living in dire conditions, auster the destruction of their homes. they've been worse and by severe snowstorm that had the area. homicide has details. they are left in the cold. these displaced families in northern syria are facing a new ordeal brought on by a severe snowstorm. and they are not equipped for the challenge. choose your building up, as you can see for your own eyes. only this night. 5 tenths have collapsed children left on the rain and snow without any shelton. this situation is the same across all the displacement. camps in ali, post northern countryside and italy,

low temperatures, along with heavy rain, have taken a heavy tongue on the people here. most of the tents are not water resistant. there was a visible absence of essential sanitary facilities, foul water ponds fill the streets and surround the tents. sick, mud restricts movement and makes it difficult to deliver clean drinking water to the camps. children in particular are suffering the most that i call them of ronald, although children in the camp are sick. if you want to take a child to a hospital, we have no alternative but to carry it through the mud and walk a long distance to the main road. my dad and water every way. we are left without anything to keep us warm. serious estimate, eternity and response coordinators. a warning of a further deterioration of the situation in the caps. more snow form is predicted in the coming days and they are calling on international relief agencies for help.

in addition to food and clothes, there is a desperate need for heating equipment and there are warnings of possible death because of the severe cold. there are nearly 2000000 displaced people in north and syria, living in camps along the turkish border. and many of them need urgent help to get them through a tough winter. mohammed von, or jesse or to the children have died in a fire at a refugee camp in iraq's curtis region. the 2 children, aged $1.00 and $4.00 were brothers. they were living at the jo, michigan, refugee camp in the city of ho with other internally displaced people. authorities are investigating the cause of the fire and protest are being held in iraq after a young you to blogger, was killed by her father. he admitted to strangling 3, but only on wednesday in a so called honor killing advocate say not enough is being done to protect young women in iraq without the law head reports from baghdad. yeah,

these protestors in the iraqi capital, demanding justice for the killing of a young, iraqi youtube tower lebell alley. she was strangled by her father in the southern city of the one year on tuesday. the attack is being described as a so called owner killing lieber. allie had reportedly left her home in iraq and was living into kia against her family's wishes. we die and we want laws to criminalize domestic violence. the state must guarantee our safety. when we report domestic violence, we submitted many proposals, the government, but they're all gone on heated please return it to her hometown after her mother reportedly asked her to come back. activists have launched a campaign on social media with the hash tag p, buzz riot that demanding a change to iraq's laws, which should they say,

give light sentences to defendants charged with similar crimes. much why we had gentlemen all the parliament is to blame for this because it's the legislative body that issues laws to criminalize violence against women. but the parliament itself is a male dominated body, partly based on tribal consideration. that's part of the problem. according to activists, the victim when to the interior ministry for help. but it is not clear if she received any assistance at all in a conservative and patriarchal society like iraq activists to say, there are no effective laws to protect women from domestic violence. there is also no clear mechanism to provide shelter for women trying to escape a views. so many cases like sleep but alley go unreported. my hold up, do i have that? fill ahead on the al jazeera news,

our the head of the roman catholic church wraps up his visit to sell to don, renewing his call for peace. will tell you how scientists and the u. k. have created a new type of ice using metal drama on the truck as this leaf missed calculate or race distance nearly costing or the wind not coming off with gemma. and for a the big storm is bring, arguably, has brewed in eastern mediterranean, this cold air over the wall. most of the g and east and that produces rot. quite a big potential for rain and snow has been realized in turkey. in northern syria, it's going to be released in the heights in lebanon as well. now this is the forecast monday. clearly if you don't get snow, you get rate,

and that's significant down the coast all way down to north in egypt. and it's not just on monday, although much of the snow will spread across. and that's why john and northern parts of india leaving iraq fine and dry. the wind and rain is coming further down the coast through israel, pa, territories, north. in egypt, the temperatures would drop with its looking rather unpleasant during tuesday, an incomplete contrast, a southerly breeze briefly brought the warmth back to gotta the hospital for carter 30 degrees on tuesday, which is pretty high. this time of year. bow off equitorial left because they're laughed quiet. lotanza near is getting particularly coastal rain. we seem to have you re recently in botswana, cavaloni had a day's worth or a month's worth in one day, but that's dying down there. and the range for the west. look at this from libya and usually dry country ah, the,

from the al jazeera london, rural car center to people in thoughtful conversation, people use the lowest category and they describe the outsider with no host and no limitation. the difference between a migrant and refugee is purely a choice. when you are a refugee, you are forced to flee part one of asthma khan and hasn't had what has happened. a lot in the west is that culture and food is separated studio b unscripted on out his era examining the impact of today's headlines. this is what is the one about ensuring that learning center can continue and count on that and setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussions. i don't believe that, i think in a society that is willing to kill international filmmakers and world class journalists, bring programs to inform. and inspire you, we need to have a media ensuring that voices are heard on al jazeera.

ah ah. hello again. the top stories on the algae 0 news, our ukraine says that expect a major russian offensive this month. peeve is awaiting more military supplies from western allies, but the defense minister says they have enough reserves to fight russian advances. china has accused us of overreacting after its shot town its balloon off the coast of south carolina. pentagon accused beijing of using the surveillance craft to spy, but china said it was a weather balloon. the former president perv as massaro, has died after a prolonged illness at a hospital in dubai. shut it off with charge in connection with the assassination

of the former prime minister. but as our bhutto and sentence to death in 2020 a court and pocket on overturned will get more on this. michael cool, man, who's the director of the south asia institute. the wilson center in washington. welcome to the als. is there a news hour? so michelle was really known as to be quite a controversial figure, as well as the charges he faced over the death of ben as their boots. so there were allegations of abuse in the surrounded him and reports of him rounding up his opponents. how do you think that you are going to remember him? well, he's a very complex figure for sure. and i'll remember him in the way that you described him and he was a military dictator. he tracked down heavily on descent. he trampled on the constitution. but there was more to him in that he was also someone who brought some degree of economic stabilization to pakistan. he also managed to liberalize the media environment. when he 1st took office,

there was one major tv channel in pakistan. i was a public broadcaster, he passed reforms that allowed dozens of new tv channels to emerge, which people forget about. and he also came very close to reaching a peace agreement with india. he came further than any other pakistani leader has in that regard. so clearly, you know, he's, he's a very complex and seemingly contradictory figure as well. right? i want it comes to foreign policy, him and you mentioned some of the domestic issues that he kind of dealt with. but when it comes to foreign policy, he was an ally, of course, of the united states, particularly the bush administration. but to what extent that his decision at the time to back the us in it's an invasion of afghanistan, to what extent does that reverberate today and pockets on well, many pakistani still remember that and feel that the main reason why they don't care for among other things is anti democratic policies for sure, but indeed, according to many impact on his decision to back the us in that war,

doom into pakistan in the sense that, you know, this us led war on terror became directly relevant for, for pakistan as well. and many in pakistan, note that the, the surgeon terrorist attacks in pakistan increased after mis shara had reached that new alliance with the u. s. and one reason for that is that the pack, if any taliban, which is the main terror group in pakistan, staging attacks from a period of 2007 last thing really to the present day. one of the major incentives or motivations of that group for it's a sauce in pakistan was to blame. the fact is money state and was sharp specifically for backing the us in the war. and i understand when you think back at his time in power, what in particular stands out for you and what can be learned from that time period? well, i mean, i think it's, it's very notable that his then came after

a period of pro democracy protest in pakistan and pakistan as a country that in recent years has seen a major backlash back sliding with democracy. even though you've had an honor interrupted period of civilian rule, going back to the moment that moose, our 1st step down in 2008. but i think it is important to remember that, you know, michelle was a military dictator and he was forced out, essentially by the democratic movement which is easy to forget given how things are now. but at the end of the day for me, i go back to that word i used before complex and also contradictory. he did some terrible thing, but he also then a number of things that people don't remember. and i'm not trying to give him too much credit, but this is someone who had such a major impact on so many different areas of pakistan domestically and also had major impacts on the, on pakistan's foreign policy. how do you explain that? at one point he was such a central figure, of course, but then

a really failed to make a political come back. despite his attempts for made, he lost the support of everyone that mattered in pakistan. and certainly those in power at the time when he wanted to make a return stage of political come back, they didn't want anything to do is important to remember that you know, the man that was sharp over through is prime minister when he stages qu, window washer you know, he would come back to power and he was prime minister again during that period when shar was thinking about some type of come back and there was no way that was going to happen. so i would describe them a sharp is really a side show to or during the latter years his life he did, he was thinking about coming back and certainly there was some pocket to support that he retains in pakistan. exactly those mr. object for how things had been before a period, a very messy civilian rule. but at the end of the day, he just wasn't getting the support from the people in high places. and that's why he wasn't able to come back and again, public sentiment had moved against them in

a big way after he was removed after he stepped down after those pro democracy marches. thank you so much, michael. superman, for joining us from washington. thank you. we'll stay in pakistan and police and the shower are stepping up efforts to prevent more attacks. that's after monday suicide to talk on a mos killed. more than a 100 people all zeros as a big got exclusive access to a police units searching for armed criminals. they arrive at the outskirts of town at a small village, police are acting on information provided to them by local. they want to move quickly. open up, he says women to one side. and in the goal, that all is accompanied by a female officer. police are looking for anything on toward in some cases, people don't have id cards and no registration papers. her lot going within a directory home. considering the circumstances,

we are carrying out orders of our superiors by conducting search and strike operations for the sake of peace and safety. in hakim abad. we've carried out house to health searches and arrested 8 to 10 suspects. people who are not registered, we investigate. i'm at the police station. people here are poor and there's a transient population. was some of his homes. others stand god at sight. authorities here tell us, since there's been an increase of attacks against police, they're not taking any chances. these offices every time they leave their base, have to be armed, move in a convoy, and be ready for any potential attack against them. or some police come across a group of brothers without papers or ideas. they're taken away for further questioning on the police or should we have that? could you tell them regularly pony lucky? we appreciate the efforts made by policemen in conducting such operations to find out if any militants or criminals are hiding in our area. keeping in view the new surge of violence in the country back at their base,

please show us their equipment. many of it is old. some of us by our own bullet proof vests this officer walk us. this is my personal vest, the bucket on his daddy. bon say. they've carried out all the 40th tactical security personnel in january alone. these been say, it's only a matter of time and took their time. i said vague, i guess era machine for buckets on the head of the roman catholic church has wrapped up his historic visits herself to dawn with a large open air mass o francis called for peace urging people to put down their weapons and work towards reconciliation after years of conflict, hermit also has this update from the capital juba. ah, pope frances told the people of south sit on the church has not forgotten thousands of people attended and open a mass in the capitol, juba to see the head of the catholic church. one last time,

before he left for the vatican, the pope once again called for peace forgiveness and reconciliation in a country we many had been killed or displaced by conflict. number good, there, my lesbian answer. never lose hope now and lose no opportunity to build peace. my hope and peace, dwell among you, my hope and peace, dwell in south sudan, according to the united nations. they are more than 2000000 internally displaced people. insults are done. and another 2300000 hefley the country as refugees. those who attended the mass hope the visit by the catholic pope, along with leaders of the anglican and scottish presbyterian churches who make a difference in this predominantly christian country with

the message that the pope is delivering is quite important. he's coming to remind christy or locked themselves based on the rise. the only friends of south to don's president saw the kia promised to resume talks with arms groups who did not sign the 2018 piece deal not to die broadway from 9 to 11. then there was a civil war in training in training on this find a peace deal signing 2018. they still violated because of the country. people here before coming to south to don. pope francis was in the democratic republic of congo . a country also struggling with conflict and corruption, his trip to africa was maintained courage, politicians, to resolve a differences and work towards peace. all people can do here is hope and pray that happens harder. matessa al jazeera juba security forces and

burkina faso say at least 12 people have been killed in an attack in the north of the country. the incident took place in bonnie, that's a town in the south region. where can a faso has been battling are in groups linked to al qaeda and i, sol, since 2015 exit polls show that the presidential election in cyprus will go through or run off on february, the 12 that's after and none of the leading contenders secured a majority and sundays vote. harry faucet reports nickos christopher lee days remains in po, position to become cypress. his next president, exit polls have him securing around a 3rd of the vote in sunday's election is to close his rivals and neck and neck as a battle to 2nd and a place in next week's run off. simon, new york, the similar name today is a celebration today's day for democracy. every cypriot can with their votes, determine the future of our country. the melons, but turn out was substantially up on the previous presidential election. in 2018

voters have much on their minds. soaring inflation, irregular migration deadlocked unification talks with the turkish north of the island and long running corruption scandals in europe. the main issue that concerns me is corruption, which i want to change with my vote. i loaded on and i called everyone to get off the couch and come to vote. that most important thing for me. selection is where the country is going to follow to be worse than anything than crystal lee days who's largely been untainted in the public eye by corruption is standing as an independent dis exceed his boss, the outgoing to turn president nickos anastasio bodies in the run off your face either the right wing party leader ever off. no fee to or the diplomat, andreas mavargannis, who's being backed by the main leftist opposition party. quimby storage unit in

griffin, do low must have confidence in the judgment of the people. i have confidence that with their vote and participation, they will lead our country towards better days and that the exit polls have both men about 4 percentage points behind the leader. one of them will take on krista, the leaders next sunday. hurry, full sit al jazeera, the fame and vanish carnival as back in its full form for the 1st time and for years, thousands of people gathered in the italian city to witness the canal parade, which kicks off the celebrations for 2 weeks. then, as will be filled with tourists from around the world, the carnival was scale down in the last 2 years due to corona virus restrictions. let's bring a nicola cup to and from venice. he's the event manager for the venice carnival. welcome to l, just 0. tell us what the mood is like this year. thank you. thank you for inviting me. so i can see or hear anybody to think good. as far as we can observe people exactly together in the street, into the square after the restriction connected to the monday mc period. and it's

nice to see how the people and mostly local families with children attending to the carnival, st show, which is one of our mainly the answer around the town. and also the opening parade that it was how that last night. and the tradition i wrote both parade this morning, had an interesting participation along the sides of the main waterway environment, which is the grand canal. right. and how big do you expect attendance to be this year? well, we have good science. actually. we have a good participation of the 1st weekend. this is called the prologue because he's not really the peer or the carnival. we have the science from reservation and good feedback from public transport. so we are pretty sure that is whether allows the we can reach brief danny period levels. right. and of course, as we've been reporting the carnival was scaled down during the pandemic,

but did get back to normal this year. so is it back to business as usual? or are there certain restrictions are still being put in place? you have to say that the carnival never really stopped. even during the damage we have to find new language of communication. doing an online version. of course, this year we're back 100 percent live and there are no more formal restriction against obese. but we tend to advise people to be who have caution in mostly when they are in a situation of massive gathering. but we noted that they tend to have be able, as they are, their own who to avoid that this massive density of people. ok, we'll leave it there. thank you so much. we'll let you enjoy the carnival. thanks for joining us from venice. welcome. ty, ones,

night sky lit up with hundreds of floating paper lanterns, such as the country marked the end of the lunar new year celebrations. 1000 flocked to the northern ping g district near ty pay to attend this annual sky lands or in festival they wrote, wishes for the coming year on lanterns and release them into the sky. the event is want to taiwan, most popular festivals. chile is extended, an emergency alert is hundreds of wildfire spreads, at least 22 people have died and nearly a 1000 have been injured. a heat wave of complicating efforts to control the flames which are burning across the central southern regions and consume, sharif has more ha, spreading flyers, boom. everything in their park. forest farms and homes are 2300 fire fighters have been deployed to control hundreds of wild fires,

nearly half of them a burning out of control if the water under the media, if you're working on multiple sources of forest fires, that other to the vega high temperatures and a lot of rooms give caused great destruction bought in vegetation and buildings. the fires began on wednesday, destroying nearly 100000 acres of land. helicopters have been deployed too late to save some dozens of homes. more than 1000 people are staying in shelters. you'll seliger with dummy was, i left my house with only the clothes i was wearing. there was no time to set up a firebreak of nothing, but i think everyone here went through the same situation. the wind speed changed very fast and everything suddenly started to burn. it was all very fast. chili's government is now seeking international support j toto. they like and see eddie out . we have spoken to several governments to reinforce the efforts there were

previously being made with the companies that provide the services. these request include to search for equipment to bolster to fleet of brigades that can reinforce the work on the ground. we are in contact with several countries in the region such as brazil, argentina, and uruguay present, gabrielle burridge cut short, his summer vacation, his government extending a state of disaster. it allows the military to mobilize to help battle defies as the number of dead on continues to rise when they consume should leave under sierra researchers over in the u. k. have discovered a new type of ice that may help us better understand water and it anomalies so it's called medium density, amorphous ice or m d a. and it's believe to be found in space. scientists over u. c l, l and cambridge university. say that this ice initially looks like a fine white powder when it's shaken at extremely low temperatures,

with steel balls and then transforms into something like ordinary ice. but its density is the same as water. that means that the substance moves like water, but its molecules are arranged in an untidy pattern. unlike water, andreas hello was on the team that created this ice. i spoke to him earlier, and he explains how it may be formed an outer space. we know that the outer planets of the cell system, particularly jupiter, saturn, and uranus actually have moons around them. moons are often covered with, with ice. and because those moons are so close to the massive planets, the vast glaciers on the surface are actually subject to tidal forces. and so they get pulled back and forth and rotated in. and basically they grind against their edges. they grind on the rocks below. they grind in the cracks and,

and we think it's possible that there might be some of this m da, i see lurking within these plants. and so one of the things that we really want to understand more about is properties and mechanical behavior. because this might shed light on the behavior of these exotic glaciers. still ahead on the al jazeera news hour will tell you, was this man is doing stories coming up with jama in just a moment and the rest of the sports ah, african story from african perspective. i'm a marine biologist, a business when short documentary from african feel. i'm going to do that from south africa, ethiopia, and nigeria. we been over from stuff in this class who she saw this as

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lou ah, for the sports is with jello. thank you during we start with a landmark night for how he came. he became taught limbs all time top score and damage. manchester city is premier league title hopes and the process cities. us sloppy play at the back was punished as kane at pittsburgh as a heads off to 50 minutes. that was that the strike is a 200 and 67th. go for the club, surpassing jimmy griefs. told them had christie romero a center for late on, but they held on for a one mill when city stay 5 points behind. lead is awesome and they play the game more where i'm a dread lost ground in the league, it's high, so a software shock defeats around wilka home side went ahead off to 13 minutes through nachos and go ray, i will give it

a penalty. and the 2nd half when vinicius junior was brought down mako assent series steps up that so his fault kick saved as it finished one mill. it means lead as barcelona can go 8 points clear of rail if they win against severe later in italy and napoli extended delhi to the top of syria to a massive 16 points, offer a 3, no one ever spent. sia the legs a top score, a victor awesome hen school. twice to take his tommy to 16 for the season. as natalie made it 18 winds from 21 matches as they go in search of their fest screwed up. so in 33 years from spect see a to rhyme where it's leaves, a rugby union team almost food off a shock in the 6 stations against defending champions. france, italians were looking for a 1st high wind and the competition since march 2013. they led it 2422, but a late try and showed a bonus point victory for the french on that one. a 14 matches beat and run to the m b a and the denver nuggets continued to fly high at the top of the western conference,

jamal murray racks up 41 points in that latest. when over the atlanta hawks denver winning this 1128 to 108 that that victory in iraq. and in new york the brooklyn thats rallied from 23 points down to beach. the washington wizards cam thomas stats up with a korea high, 44 points, and that's winning 125 to 123. now just a few miles out the road from where i am cut our plate host around one of the freestyle kite wild cup. it took place in the north of the country for at quite kite beach resorts. there were some impressive moves out on the water as brazil's athletes. i'm while champion, rena kezia came out on top in the women's category at it's lisa raining while champion that john maria capaluto at the when in the men's events. now to something that you might not know much about the indian rural olympics at the 3 day competition sees hundreds of athletes competes in traditional at all sight bazaars, sporting events, peter st dammit, reports it's

a saturday morning in india's northern punjab. oh boy, and with sports like hockey and athletics on the itinerary, it looks like any other local sporting get together. oh, with one or 2 rather unique events like this tyrone contest? well, you ain't seen nothing yet. the indian rural olympics features events that are part of the traditional olympic movement, but also traditional punjabi martial arts and games. this baby able strong man successfully break some iron train with the body. oh, my god, what triggered my passion was the thought that what's the point of living if one does not do anything remarkable in life, one should do something for what she's remembered even after death. i wanted to make a name for myself so that even after my death, people remember that there lived such a person, bonham. and how about this man?

oh yes, he is actually pulling 3 men sitting on a motorbike with a rope tied to ease tea. and this fellow is about to lift 92 kilograms of weights with he's yeah, with his middle of several ability to get the 1st and foremost dangerous to the spinal cord and also to the bone at the back of the neck on even that can get damaged and as far as the air is concerned, you can see that it's bleeding the games last 3 days, and organizers say anyone who can turn any kind of skill into a sport is welcome to come and demonstrate pito stem it al jazeera. speaking of things, you don't often see how about this, that draw, sat a golf course watched by the animals india's the ada t. i shook and took victory at the kenya. ladies opened by 9 shots. and as you are about to see a very appropriate trophy as well. and finally, a mistake could almost cost this ethiopian run a victory, an indoor race in france at dbi bay while he was leading the 3000 meters. when she

seemed to miscalculate her race distance, ah, what is wilma to julie? she sat down on the track thinking she'd finished, but was actually one lap or 200 meters shorts. a feller run has told her to get going again and she sprinted to the finish to when it's in 8 minutes. 33 point full, full seconds cliche. that is always what for now more later during. thank you so much drama. thanks for watching the news. our on al jazeera, more news coming up in just the minutes. bye bye, for now. ah ah it ah,

ah, under silent stalls, they once prosperous fishing village sinks beneath the mud, parliamentary elections ignite, few survival, re that will determine the future of this defeated and politically divided community. a microcosm reflecting the plight of a nation. witness venezuela. a sinking resolution on a jessina, the wind blows the fishing boats home as it has for the countless centuries people have lived here. these are malagasy migrants they move from the drought written south in such a means to survive. and as story is the interface between climate change and biodiversity laws, the arrival of the migrants is adding to the precious on fish, dogs and marine by diversity, already stretched by over fishing. and this is going to happen all over the world is impacts like sea level rise goals,

people to move further and further in learn pretty normal pressure on environmental exhausted. for people fleeing the impacts of global warming, it's survival at all costs. this is one of the most astounding that in a logical revolution in all of this route make our planner great. the day we have to meet the c o 2 emission targets lecture casa meeting message. i'm in motion. they need to be mind to where people are just talking about wind and solar sake that can solve the problem. it won't. the world of distance in commerce is driving the energy transition is the promise of clean energy and illusion. the dark side of green energy on al jazeera, ah, the battle for back much intensifies ukraine's presidents as russia is throwing more of its troops into the fight. while

a you price caps on russian oil products come into effect to reduce moscow's