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ah, hello, i'm sorry, i'm noisy. welcome to the news. our lie from london coming up, america's secretary of state, hold talks with china's top diplomat weeks of detention sword over an alleged chinese spine balloon in u. s. s. base. and there is no doubt. these are crimes against humanity. the u. s. levels, it's most serious accusation yet against russia. nearly a year since the invasion of ukraine. tens of thousands of dead millions homeless turkish of quite survivors bury their loved ones after last week's disaster. authorities in serious loss, rebels stronghold are accused of blocking aid access. in sport

also gone back to the top of the english premier league and own go by will cut when goalkeeper. emmy morrison is the turning point in a fall to win against austin the ah welcome to the program. talk. american and chinese diplomats have been holding direct talks, weeks after tension, sort of a chinese balloon that entered us as space. the secretary of state anthony blinkin has been meeting with the chinese state counselor, one ye on the sidelines of the munich security conference. u. s. president joe biden eventually ordered the balloon to be shot down after accusing china of using it to spy on america. the chinese government insists it was just an unmanned whether device that had been blown off course. mike, hannah is falling developments for as he joins us live now from washington. and 1st

of all, mike, do we know what they spoke about? well, certainly they spoke about that balloon issue. us shooting down the balloon that it insisted was a spy vehicle for the chinese. the chinese continued to insist that it was a weather research balloon. however, the state department spokesman says that the matter was discussed, that secretary lincoln made very clear to wang lee. that the u. s. would not accept any future in violation offered sovereignty as a put it saying that those flight should never happen again. blinking also made very clear the u. s. position that its policy on china remains unchanged. that is the one china policy. now indications are that wang lead did not offer any apology for the balloon incident. he earlier had said that the u. s. and acted historically as he put it in terms of shooting down what he continued to insist was a whether research

a balloon. so the meeting went ahead and certainly this is something of a step forward to the content ministration. the the by didn't administration has made very clear that it wants to reset its relations with china. that a being that an all time low. and that was one of the reasons why secretary entity blinking was going to travel to china 2 weeks ago. but that trip was postponed following the incident with the balloon. but perhaps the conversation itself suggests that there is a willingness on both sides attention to escalate any further. while it does appear, that is the case. certainly it is from the us side. as i said, the you are seeking to recalibrate this relationship with china. president biden, having made clear on a number of occasions that his greatest cause was concern is some kind of misunderstanding between the us and china and misunderstanding in terms of communications which could result in something more critical. the secretary of

state, reassured wang lee, we understand that the u. s. does not want a nother diplomatic cold war. so perhaps just perhaps this meeting on the sidelines of the meaning security conference could be the beginning of a process to try and repair the relationship of china, which has been at an all time low, particularly after the diplomatic spat over that the chinese balloon. thanks very much from washington. mike. hannah, also in munich, the united states has made its most serious condemnation, yet of russia's invasion of ukraine, officially accusing moscow of crimes against humanity, demanding justice, be served. you as a vice president, carmella harris made the statement at a security conference where wild leaders gathered at the 1st anniversary of the conflict. the west had already accused russia of war crimes, but crimes against humanity are considered more serious under international law. in the case of russia's actions in ukraine,

we have examined the evidence. we know the legal standards, and there is no doubt these are crimes against humanity. meanwhile, ukraine's foreign minister also took to the stage there in munich to reaffirm their call for more military support. but soldiers in the eastern city of batman saying they are still waiting for the promised weapons to arrive a say they're needed for a plan counter attack that was currently on the front line and surrounded by russian troops and diplomatic editor james bay's is at munich, security conference again, strong messages of support for ukraine from the western leaders who have spoken here many saying they now believe this will be a long war. and the problem with

a war of attrition is re supplying the ukrainian forces. there's already a problem with ammunition, and particularly with artillery shells. the number of artillery shells being produced by western factories is not matching the number that are currently being used by ukraine, particularly in the eastern part of the country. and that's an issue that i raised with the president of the european commission. ursula on the line what ukraine is concerned, i think very important is nothing about your queen without your pain. it's a sovereign country. ukraine itself has to decide when the time has come for them to make the next move. this is very important. we support fully and back fully as a piece plan of presidential landscape. and at the moment being 100 percent support focused on the survival of ukraine, military wise, that they are strong and economically wise. and again,

nothing about your brain without your there's a problem though, isn't there about what ukraine needs. ukraine keeps saying it needs more. and one of the key things right now is ammunition. i'm told in terms of artillery shells they're using more than western factories are producing. how are you going to deal with that? yes. what we're going to do on the european level is that we are convening the european defense industry. basically ask them, what is it, what you need to scale up to speed up. that's important. we have these infrastructure for that, the european piece facility, and they are used to do the procurement and to have the funding and important it's like we did with the vaccine to be very clear. this is a standardized production of ammunition. what is it, what you need to scale up and to speed up? we're going to give it to you. the latest discussion is, you know, is about fighter jets. and throughout the school there have been a series of phases. ukraine is asked for something. europe is then spent quite

a bit of time delaying, and finally gives it presents lens. he says it's all too slow. a much of the delays come from the country that you come from originally, which is germany, doesn't europe need to speed up as president lensky is. very clear, i'm standing here for the european commission. i'm the president of the european commission. so it's a european voice. you're here in viet and your pin commission does not have any military capabilities. this is a sovereign decision of the member states, where i feel responsible is that we make sure that there is an economic survival of ukraine. so budget support we have given so far, 67000000000 of support to ukraine, and we will give more as long as it takes that's important. energy survival of ukraine is absolutely important. linked to the european level, where we make sure that they have the electricity and the energy they need were taken care of for 1000000 refugees from ukraine to all. these are my, my responsibilities. the delivery of military capabilities is

a sovereign decision of the member states with regards to the war and ukraine, there seems to be a growing consensus on one point. people here believe it's going to be a long war. when isolation investigators have been visiting ukraine and this has happened several times over the last year, they say that there is evidence that war crimes have been committed, says ukrainian forces have also been responsible for rights violations, but significantly more crimes were committed by russian troops. algae, there is a tasha butler visited, the city of chimney, have, which shows the scene of one of the most notorious incidents which took place in the early weeks of the war. the aftermath of a russian attack in the northern ukrainian city of chandler heave, last year on the ground bodies of civilians that been queuing outside a shop for bread. when they were hit by shells and rockets, 15 people were killed,

dozens injured. so you are standing around here and i was always. natasha narrowly escaped death that day by taking cover by this wool. she was in the queue with her son and mother in law. she plays me recording she made on her phone. if you said this, lord knows a booth, i believe we heard explosions near us. it was very close and then we saw lots of people running everywhere at the time of the attack journey. he was a city under siege. russian forces were surrounding it and shelled it almost daily . they destroyed power and water supplies. evidence of what happened is still visible nearly everywhere. this is where people were lining up for bread that day. it is right in the middle of a residential area. i'm a prosecutor though that he says the what happened on that day is a war crime, an indiscriminate attack on civilians or on the property of coverage. law

enforcement agencies consider this a war crying because the main victims were civilians. also a pre trial investigation found no evidence of ukrainian military hardware that could be a legitimate target weapons, were used indiscriminately through school repair it all. all this sir. marg thiel. marks are the places of work. it's hid the buildings in may. the marina slobbered yoke works with the rights organization called truth hounds. that's helping prosecutors to build a case. it's collated, evidence amused, open source material, satellite imagery, and social media to reconstruct what happened. her team says it's traced the killings to a russian unit that was positioned on the outskirts of the city. we identified also the commando, this is sir kate ala. quicken, who might be liable and responsible for this very kind of attack.

whether o leg creek in or another officer was responsible for the attack on the bread, you might never be proved. some investigators say he's back in russia. it's clear that building legal cases and prosecuting alleged war crimes is a challenge. but for some ukrainians, pursuing justice is at least one way of honoring the was many victims. natasha butler al jazeera kenny heave ukraine. we're now joined by jeffrey nice and merced escalation, professor of law and formerly prosecutor of salva milosevic shit, the international criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia. so you listening to us vice president common higher says remarks at immune security conference in the biden administration, making the formal conclusion that russia has committed crimes against humanity in ukraine. why is this important, and what is the difference between crime against humanity and war crimes?

is important because it announces a clear statement via formidable part of the alliance. so helping ukraine, that crimes had been committed. it says by the federation of russia, while he should be saying, and i think what it means is putin. what surprising is it? it hasn't been said a great deal earlier. it was clear as could be after a week or so. was this terrible law that there were crimes being committed to both kinds war crimes and crimes against humanity will crimes be in crimes as a large scale nature committee. as part of a panel policy, which ob, breaches of various parts of the geneva conventions. and it was clear that that has happened because the tax killings of people were tax on civilian property and saw

it was also clear that there was a widespread in systematic attack which brings you within the provisions of all school crimes against humanity. providing one of 11 different types of actions are communities as part of the widespread was systematic attack. and so far as i'm concerned, and indeed i ventured to suggest is early last year and ever since, it was perfectly clear that these crimes were being committed and all that might sometimes be difficult to prove the commission of a crime against, for example, an individual soldier committing a crime against an individual civilian or against a particular block of flats. there's no difficulty improving the commission of these crimes against putin. why? because these were his soldiers doing what he wanted. and if people are silly un office to say, oh, you've got to prove that chain of command will is blinding the obvious because

putins go to television. he could see exactly what we could see. and if he, these people weren't doing what he wanted them to do, he would have said, of nash brought them up, prosecuted them for committing crimes. he didn't, he didn't because they were doing what he wanted. and just to be just to be clear about this with, with crimes against humanity, this is something that is much more systematic. it's much more widespread and its effects multiple civilians or very large parts of the population. because we know that america, previously, the accusation of war crimes has been that, but it seems to be an escalation or quite a significant remark to say that there are crimes against humanity because the united nations commission of inquire, i think is not yet concluded. the war crimes amount to crimes against humanity. i dare say it pleases these organizations and governments regularly to be

slow in saying will. the citizen, the regular citizen, you are me, can see as being obvious from very early stage. and one of the problems with the pronouncement now by america, which is of course, stream the welcome. is it, it doesn't the process by which it's achieved. it's pronouncement doesn't tell us the evidence upon which it was based. he just says, we've got the evidence. it doesn't show the reason lean by which is reached the conclusion that he has and it would obviously and ultimately be preferable, have in some form or another, a public hearing of evidence, a public explanation. may i ask you mister night? why then make such a strong accusation about having they saying that they have identified crimes against humanity in this war without then producing the evidence or is putting something in the public domain to support it?

i don't know if the stock then that but it's not on president id in the beginning of the year before last. i think they announced that china hood committee genocide, in respect to the weavers, they never explain the precise basis of genocide which is which you neither are only 5 ways in which you commit genocide and they didn't provide the evidence then either. and it's better than nothing but we the public would like to know more. and we, the public, i suspect, would like to have had these things said there is, commentators were saying, which is a couple of weeks out the war started going back to your original question. why is this important? people like who chin and any others who act in this way need to know that they will be called out for their crimes. as soon as this crimes revealed not to be into some

long process. and the countries such as the alliance assisting ukraine, now will be motivated, properly motivated to support the action they're doing by knowing that acting against a criminal. and the answer, one of the other things is slightly disappointing. is that the international criminal court, which don't have jurisdiction over what's happening in ukraine, from 70 for crimes against humanity and war crimes has still said nothing of substance about whether crimes being committed. that's very disciplined. as indeed is anyone by technician inquiry is not yet concluded that those will crimes amount to crimes against humanity. but thank you very much, jeffrey. nice, do appreciate you sharing your thoughts on this story with us. most were the secretary se ancy blinking is saying this government is, has information that china might now be providing lethal war system to russia, including weapons. now these comments are made just in the last few minutes in an

interview with and b, c. that russia, justification for its invasion of ukraine, has always been about national security since the collapse of the soviet union. in the early 900 ninety's, nato has been expanding eastwards and russia sees us as a threat. and monroe has the story now. ah, washing insists the decision to invade ukraine was a defensive one and not taken just because keith was becoming closer to europe instead of labor in russia. moscow was also against european military advisors, training, cleaning forces, since 2014. i'm opening it that issue here. i made a decision to carry out a special military operation to protect people who for 8 years now have been facing humiliation and genocide perpetrated by the cave regime will seek to demilitarize and did not so far ukraine as well as bring to trial. those who perpetrated numerous bloody crimes against civilians, including against citizens of the russian federation,

although ukraine's leadership has denied dash and claims that massey's weight involved in fighting for the country. it's a fact the hard line as of militia founded by a right wing extremist group was integrated into forces of the interior ministry. russia has held referendums in territories. it's taken from ukraine, including don yeske, the husk hassan, and support his. yeah. wild western nations labeled them sam, moscow has effectively and next these regions, just as it did with climate, yet there was a merger reason to prevent their western mer for miss isles, the fury in ukraine for a direct strike on moscow. there was a kind of geopolitical reason to reunite the russian people with const assuming that the premiums are russian hill. oh, the last you under mine or western unit, he but it didn't flood him. put in a quick special military operation has become a grueling conflict with an estimated tens of thousands of casualties on both sides

. russian military analysts say the initial plan to fight the operation without a central command was military verse. lagging a group contract as seen as miss synergies by ukraine and its allies have been prominent on the front lines, but the longer the war dogs on the great to the strain on russia economy. but for moscow, keith is a military threat. and the deployment of western air defenses in ukraine remains unacceptable. how much fun or disease will hon. gary present with all band is warning against more weapons being sent to ukraine. he says that europe is already in directly at war with russia. hungary board is quiet and is also heavily reliant on russian energy and poets despite being a member of the european union better. so that all should i see the danger of drifting into the war has become permanent. he started with helmets. it continued

with sending equipment unsuitable to kill people. but now we're sending tanks and fighter jets they have on the agenda. soon we'll have about so called peacekeeping troops. the overpaying union alike sleep walk is on the roof. help hallmarks on hold on and we will be exploring how the war is affecting global energy markets in a special program that says 0 and 1130 g m t on sunday, february 19th. there is much more phil to bring you on this news now from london. it's killed millions of but now the avian flu is spreading to mammals with just one week left until the election in nigeria. we look at why people are calling for one group of leaders have their influence over the vote. would choose and in sport england, cricket as close as victory in the 1st test against museum and ah,

on no numbers of people are still on, accounted for when 12 days of to the devastating of quakes. aftershocks continued to hit the area in the past 2 hours, a $5.00 magnitude quake hit central take here at a depth of 10 kilometers, which was felt in the already devastated region of gauzy and tap over 46000 people have been killed. but that number is expected to keep on rising. though neither the turkish nor the syrian governments have said how many people a missing, vast majority of deaths more than 40000, have been in tokyo. another 5800 are in neighboring syria. most of them in the rebel held north west of the country. that's where the world food program is pleading with authorities to give them more access, saying time and money is running out to help hundreds of thousands of people that the area is controlled by force as opposed to syrian president bashar aside.

meanwhile, the touch authorities estimate more than a 1000000 people have been left homeless and that's at least 345000 apartments have been destroyed. we have a team of correspondents following the story closely. we want to start now with stephanie decker. she is in the turkish town of albus, done where not a single building was left standing. elvis done the exact epicenter of that 2nd earthquake. the city resembles a ghost town. we've been driving around it streets. we haven't seen a single building. left standing, either collapsed, partially collapsed, destroyed, nothing remains livable here. a lot of its residents have left. there are not many tents here, and many residents also complained that help didn't come fast enough. el boston is nestled between snow covered mountains. it takes a long time to drive here. when you see nothing but mountains, it's also freezing below 20 centigrade at night. we've also seen the turkish john

dynamo. oh, with a cadaver dog. the rescue operation ended a long time ago here. now, it is only about recovering bodies, some of the buildings have already been marked, zoning on it saying things like empty saying damage noted. it seems that the work to rebuild this area has already begun, but at the moment, the devastation and we've been to many cities across the south east remains beyond comprehension. stephanie decker, al jazeera albus done in southeastern, took care or even his rescue operations. a winding down emergency crews are still finding survivors. one couple and their son were extracted from under an apartment building in the turkish city of hattie, on saturday. 12 days after the earthquakes, the 3 were transferred to ambulances. after spending 296 hours buried in the rubble,

the child late had died in hospital. many survivors in are returning to what's left of their homes are desert aside bag has been reporting from chrome on marsh, which is one of the worst hit areas. they survived the earthquakes, but now the eager to save what's left of the day. oh, they will have to rebuild their lives and everything matters. what can be called you to take out your belongings? the municipality worker says yeah, brother. his phone was under the rubble. how you going to reach them? it took a lifetime to accumulate what people had it was taken away in a matter of minutes. oh, what will we be upset about our belongings? i wish all of this was gone, so i didn't have to care about it. from one of the shops they salvage what they can normally we're not looters,

we're not looters that are own goods. they say i have to say, i found myself just. we will try to survive. all we have is last day. let me let me of it is every offer what the state or people will give us in aid will only last a week and there will be hungry. we have children, we must survive. and what we built in the last 30 years is gone. we had 3 houses, and now we're in a tent, south of government mirage. the search continues even at this stage, some klingon to hope as every one for silent. rescuers used their equipment to search for any sign of life. the earthquakes took away lives and homes. but some things can't be taken. we lost everything. i took some pages of the koran out only memories, lyft, nothing else was left. it's all gone behind. this was my shop. all the families had gone. a page of the corps on lies in the box in front of a tent. the mutual rivalry of this world diverts you until you visit the graves.

the verses say to many, this city is now a graveyard. i said bake. i just got home and my rush 7th, kia meanwhile, across the border in syria, more age is being delivered to over 5000000 people have been affected by what's happened as omar herani reports from offering this is in the elbow countryside. there are many families that are really struggling and difficult conditions. no, no. if you fall out of the machines are free and we are inside this gym hall in the middle of a free in the leper countryside. this is where dozens of syrian families have taken shelter. after their homes were partially or totally destroyed by the earthquake, what we've seen here can only be described as devastating, especially to children and the elderly cook. i have the let's hear now from one of the survivors. i'm not sure your maneuvers desert, but we have been sheltered in this hall for 12 days, but we don't have any services. we have not received any assistance. i suffer from

colon cancer and back pain. i'm sleeping on this hard surface in his fiercely cold weather. it is really tough, though we survived the earthquake, we find ourselves faced with another type of disaster. the walls of our house fell on my wife and she has been in hospital for 10 days. she doesn't have anything, not even a mattress to sleep on. we have not received any medical, 800, but i'm a father to fall. all of them are suffering from a constant. cough some health organizations came over but could not even provide a cough medication to sit on it and he, a little garcia has a gun. it's nothing but harsh living conditions, but these families are left battle. the tragic stories can be heard wherever we go . the survivors are in need of food, shelter, and medical supplies. we've heard similar complaints in every area. we've been to have people in desperate need of help, although dozens of trucks have passed the northern border, more relief,

aid is needed, so the lack of services and shortages of supplies is all we hear and see here on the ground in northwestern, syria, him out a lot of pseudo, i'm a hold on just omar herani, 0 a freen aleppo, countryside want to bring you another story from syria. now, a baby who is born just after the 1st quake struck, has been reunited with her uncle and auntie. the girl was found alive last week with her umbilical cords still connected to her mother. she apparently gave birth while buried under the rubble of a 5 story building in the rebel hel, town of gender. as the new born was later identified as the child of an affront and lay hung. they both died in the earthquake along with them on the children. with al jazeera life from london was still to bring you on the program. at the head of the, please, the block african solutions of your problems lies

a believe enough to cancel. you got it. in here, if you need a r b, i am, it takes to the stage at the african union summit where conflict in free trade and domains in the talks that and i transpose the 1st title of the if the wells number one tennis player and he is here with all the action from the final of the cattle open. ah hello, the weather is looking fine in troy across southern europe at the moment. more pleasant sunshine coming through. not quite a pleasant further north. still some brisk winds piling in from the atlantic or wet and windy weather stream through here. this is the remnants of storm auto still bringing some wet and wintry weather into that eastern side of europe. those wind starting to east down and please to stay brisk when follows on behind,

across germany, through denmark, into the north sea. we'll see this where the system just thinking in some way, whether to spilling out of the low countries coming across germany, check republic down towards some parts of ukraine, but when areas of a remainder with some snow in places here brought us guys try to come back in behind, but yet more where well it comes in across a scotland. it'll push his way towards sir norway. chances, when she, whether i, which was at eastern side over europe as we go on through sunday on into monday. cooler mascara minus 5 celsius, some snow hitting that cooler s i become a little more widespread. as the rain turns, the snow pushing its way across the bolt, its face protest guys come back in behind temperatures, around 18 celsius. their immediate madrid. chatter wanted to shout into spain might still see, want to shout into the north west of africa, but for most is fine and dry. ah,

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lou. ah, welcome back to with the news our live from london. these are the top stories. united states is made is most serious condemnation, yet of russia's invasion of ukraine, accusing moscow of crimes against humanity. the u. s. vice president comalla harris made these remarks at the munich security conference, demanding justice, be served. more than 46000 people have been confirmed dead as after 12 days following 12 days after the earthquakes in tokyo, in syria touch authority, say more than a 1000000 people in the country. a homeless, more than 364000 apartments have also been destroyed. while food program is

pleading with authorities in series, rebel held northwest to give them more access the groups as time and money of running out help. hundreds of thousands of survivors. well as well as those now intense cities, another 200000 people displaced a sheltering guest houses, university dormitories and sports holes. some coffee or glue brings us more on this now. she's reporting from ankara. o, a brief moment of joy for these children outside a dormitory campus in ankara. but inside there is an anxious wait by their gods. there said terrified and still shocked after experiencing last. monday's powerful earthquakes that hit to kiss 10 southern cities. cannon and his family are among the hundreds of thousands who left their city behind. his says he arrived

here 5 days ago after burying family members you should be sort of sold to versa. so we, on the, we woke up to huge shaking a noise. it was flashing everywhere. we had no electricity, but we were able to see each other as if it was daytime shaquanna. my wife was in shock and she hugged me tight. almost. i was trying to gather the kids at the same time. it was like a nightmare in our own home. we were panicking. it shook for a long time. we prayed a lot by the cannon had the death of his in laws from his wife as she was just for weeks far from giving birth. thank god, he could have been already a good when i saw the ruins, i started crying and calling my mom and brother. i couldn't get any sound from them . i couldn't do anything. i was distraught. they took me away from there because i'm pregnant. just in this dormitory, into turkish capital, there are nearly 2500 citizens who have been displaced from their homes without any

clothes or shoes. still, they're thankful they have a roof over their heads, hot water and a warm place to sleep. but it is still not home return on the let him vacation. unfortunately, we left all our memories, youth, childhood future and hopes. everything behind and came here and talk here is totally destroyed. but we returned to our city while we were revived, this city of civilization gated energy. even though most of these people lost their everything, they haven't lost their hope to see another day, at least for their children to rebuild one day. they're not sure when that they will come, but they're aware they have a long way to go in africa. solo pal, 0. unfair scientists, farmers and governments around the world are increasingly worried about a bud outbreak that spread across the oceans and become largest ever recorded. it's now also infecting mammals,

and that searching fear is that it could eventually spread to humans. since october 2021 at 50000000 domesticated buds have died of the avian flu. while another 193000000 have had to be cold. and it's not just affecting buds in the us alone. it's been found in a 121. mammals. this includes grizzly bears skunks, and raccoons. according to research, as this is the 1st outbreak that's included mammals, mammal transmission. the virus has only been detected in 868 humans between 232022. so a very small number and equitorial exhausting girl became the 1st person in latin america to contract it just last month. but there are no confirmed cases of human to human transmission. the virus does have a very high mortality rate. 457 people who have been infected of died. he's

quicken is a professor of comparison pathology at the erasmus medical center in rotterdam. he is also an expert in avian flu. he joins me now from who the, in the netherlands. what is the likelihood then of a mutation eventually affecting human beings? the likelihood is still very small. nevertheless, because this virus is spreading so much across the world are concerned about the virus is increasing and it seems to be affecting many more animals. now how worrying a development is that obviously it's not just but we were just mentioning some of the species that have been infected, grizzly bears, and skunks, and raccoons and how wiring is it that it's being transmitted between them. it's particularly that last aspect that is worrying. so indeed, as the virus is spreading across the world in the past year to north american south

america is also going from birds to mammals that prey on these infected birds. and in 2 cases, in particular, in spanish mink farm and on the coast of peru in south american sea lions, there's been mass mortality of mammals. and we can't exclude that this virus is going from mammal to mammals. and if it can do that in those mammals, it perhaps could also do it in humans. so it's spreading to mammals and among mammals, the trans transmission point is very important. here. could any steps be taken now to prevent human pandemic though? the possibility of that happening is still quite small. what is very important is to take a good bye security measures with regards to poultry farms. and also to

improve our surveillance both of poultry, but also of wild birds and of mammals. and also of people who might be at risk of contracting the infection. so those are important steps to take. how is this going to affect the chicken or poultry industry at large offices? there's going to be an massive economic effect on farmers if, if we think animals having to be called yes, this differs from country to country. so some countries indeed have had many birds killed as a result of this virus. on the other hand, the number of poultry in many countries is also very high. so in some cases, it's only a small percentage of the total number of poultry that are present, for example, in the netherlands. although over $6000000.00 birds were killed,

the netherlands raises over $600000000.00 chickens per year. now you've been working on this for a long time since 1999 on, on this particular variant. and actually, the virus originated in poultry, in china, in 1996. what are your observations? what does your son shown about it? well, it's potency in that time as it changed his, it become more severe because we were speaking about very high mortality rate. yes, so this particular variance a the h 5 high pass a i is unusual in that it's broken about nearly every rule in the book. it was supposed to go to wild birds, but it has, it wasn't supposed to cause disease in cats and other mammals. but it does, it wasn't supposed to go directly to humans,

but it does. so we have to be very careful with this variance, and we don't really know what the future will bring, but it's better to take the precautionary principle. thank you very much. tease coy can professor comparison pathology and the erasmus medical center in rotterdam. joining us from huda we want to go to development. now on the korean peninsula, south korea's military is accused north career of firing, a ballistic missile towards the sea, off its east coast japan. the defense ministry says the miss i landed in its territorial waters and that it was an intercontinental ballistic missile. lodge comes a day off to pyongyang frightens strong action against south korea and the united states. the allies recently announced joint military drills in response to a rise in north korean missile launches over the past year. or protests have been held against israel's coalition government for a 7th successive saturday. now tens of thousands gathered again in tel aviv to

demonstrate against prime minister benjamin netanyahu. proposals to make changes to the judicial system leader wants to limit the supreme court's powers, and give more authority to the government. critic se netanyahu was seeking to undermine the country's justice. system and get rid of his legal woes as he stands trial for corruption. conflicts and free trade have dominated talks on the 1st day of the annual african union summit. this is happening in the ethiopian capital . more than 30 leaders from across the continent are in addis ababa for the 2 day meeting. they've been discussing ways to tackle violence in the south region in the democratic republic of congo. and they're hoping to speed up the implementation of a deal aimed at further boosting. trade between african countries, ethiopian prime minister abbey am at stress the importance of their being african lead solutions to issues in the region. some it comes just months after much government signed a peace agreement with the tech guy, people's liberation front to end their 2 year war each time we are

a 3rd and real served the principal of african solutions to overcome problems. we are only applying the populace wisdom of all for one of those. for those solution, of course, employee jobs at the head of the principle of african solution to africa. problems lies a believe in africans, validity african agency, and the equals digney york or human being out there is malcolm lab has more in this now he's reporting from addis ababa. israel delegation was escorted from the meeting room by security. israel's been seeking observe a status here with the african union for about 20 years. the member states is still divided on whether or not it should be granted south africa in particular objects. many people in south africa like israel,

occupation of palestine who white minority rule under apartheid. molly guinea kina faster, been lobbying to be allowed back in the african union for 3 countries with suspended following military coups in the last 3 years. waiting to find out what the african union pieces curious account will decide. president told me ever wonder president felix just the kitty of democratic republic of congo met together with president joe lorenzo of i'm going to discuss the escalating conflict in eastern congo. goes on forces. say they're fighting rwandan soldiers under the guise of the n 23 on group. widely understood to be a proxy over wonder or they ran the denies it. that meeting resulted in yet another communicate, calling previous agreements to be held and for the withdraw in the previous agreements and communicate haven't led to any change on the ground as 23 has

continued to see ways of territory from the commonly government. and then $23.00 is increasingly accused of massacres and atrocities committed against civilian on the agenda. in further discussion of the african free trade area agreement, which has been talked about here for years, was written on paper is a far cry from the reality. economists say that trade between african countries has been declined in 2012 proponents of the free trade agreement, se if only trade between african countries can be increased, and it would make the continent more resilient economic shock, such as the one caused by russian invasion of ukraine well, my cheerier sal this general election next week to critics have raised concerns about state governors having too much influence on the votes. i am address reports now for my degree in nigeria is ne ah elections. i only days away

nigeria, the presidency and seats in parliament are being contested. but critics, a one group is having too much influence on the boat state governors. i think a lot of anger about governance in my da actually goes to these governors because impunity of this governors the i, me, so all the about governance is part of the pain that my insurance i go into. it says 9 years return to democracy, night to night to night. we are state governors of invoice or becomes president with full access to state funds and resources. they can choose tended it for political office. anybody as planning to be president, of course you will have to take roots to do go from us because of the a connectivity of the governors antique rascals. but critics an activist say such power weiss harming democracy and governors in nigeria,

and they wanted reduced limiting their powers to require amendment to the constitution. and the electron law one was increasing number of governors getting elected into a parliament that supposed to make strangers. neither is we'll have to wait longer for that to happen. summer hoping these elections will mark a turn around with a woman. now the front runner for state governor posed a big step in a male dominated society. but until then, little it's expected to change pa to politics and governors in africa's most populous country. how many degrees al jazeera, why degree? so had for you on the program, going to bring it all the way to sport. and you will be here for that. in a close, cool for great britain sale g p team at this rice in australia. ah, each year european fishing vessels source at least half

a 1000000 tons of fish from west africa. this is just to feed livestock in europe and asia. what the going by? what a serene and by is a former senegalese fisherman and migrant rights activist in madrid. he runs in the regional elections in spain, a din, seattle, stock where the prescott key in those places philadelphia didn't. it couldn't prices go more synagogue rewarded with a mild i here called to you, but there was a minute looking at it as a newly elected m. p serene confronts policy makers at the heart of the european union with his findings. lou

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in search of an equalizer of bass allowed arsenals. deborah martin l. it's a breakouts and school a 4th well says he could have retaken phelps, but, but they dropped point, so we're not seeing them 1st, chris, chris would, would be equalized if a forest in a $11.00 draw city. it's 2 points behind all 4 and that they played a game more liverpool look, see playing themselves into a bit of form ahead of the champions league time with round madrid. you can call the same with to know what is going to cancel goals from nunez and cody down deciding this gang. you cancel still full in the table despite the loss with lou full in a new council, keeping nick pope with sense of it means he will miss next week's leak final against manchester, united of british berlin at g. ratcliffe has confirmed in the rowing to buy united sit castles. shake just him been how funny is the other better to have gone public united current owners have been looking to sell a club since last november. ratcliffe in yas group already own football clubs in france and switzerland and last year failed in an attempt sir by chelsea. this is

their statement where ambitious and highly competitive and would once invest in manchester, united to make them the number one club in the world. once again, we would make the club a beacon from modern progressive fan centered approach to ownership and garner international chrissy. nancy has been found that in turkey are following the earthquakes which hit the country at sea, who is 31 years old, had been playing in the turkish top division, also starred for ever since chelsea and newcastle during his career gone and sports broadcasting. carol smith says they'll be remembered for much more than just his footballing achievements. oh, can i see 1st of all, beyond be in the foot of christiano, remembered humanitarian. he built a brand for himself and actually he did not want this brand to come out. and there was there, there must prison program for prisoners, could not pay for the remand feet and helping them as well. and cope with the prism

conditions we thought was just an ordinary humanitarian efforts. we got to know later all that money square by christie and i choose foundation, a bill to reputation as it is, i think kept helping other football as who and not position to help them like he was. so that is all he will be remembered very, very fondly tennis. well, number one, i guess sean sec has successfully defended her cancer open title. the polish pie dropped just 3 games in the final against jessica pergola of the united states. is she on sex 1st tournament? when of the year she lost only 5 games all week on route to the title. at the beginning of the season, it wasn't easy for me to kind of for everything to quick mentally, physically and thomas wise. but in this tournament, i really felt like i'm in a good shape and i just, i felt like i have more freedom. of course,

i'm pretty happy that i was discipline. england put themselves in a good position, speak new zealand and the 1st test of their series. after setting the home sort of victory target of $394.00 england really dominated with the ball and was that man. stewart brought the wickets he took for his victims, included the key name of kane williamson, zealand at $63.00 for 5. at the close. a student that is a face full of delight, tight game unfolding in india, not much to choose between the teams of the day. 2 of the test era between indian australia india bowl down for 262 in delhi. nathan lion taking 5 wickets australia and reached $61.00 for one in a 2nd and his lead of $62.00, travis had he was beaten at the close. he was moved to the top of the order after david warner was ruled out of the rest of the test with concussion india, one up in this forty's series, $51.00 indians were instructor,

an 11 run defeat against england at the t 20 walk up in south africa or a 3rd straight winfrey on this one, that top of that group if they qualify. first, they're likely to avoid a semi final against reigning champions and title favorites australia. and take a look at this for close. cool for member of great britain sale g p team, my godchild falling off the boats while it was moving around 50 kilometers an hour during a race in australia. thankfully one of his teammates was able to pull him back on board and see what else to finish in 6, vice was pretty in same situation where we were in good shape and erase. and we went into a job and we had to take some evasive action on canada. i think just a little bit of what the on the helm for all my daughter was correct line for the front bearing. and he was like a rag doll on the end of his drawn to foil up quite high. and i was just watching him shake around. and it was, it was pretty full on the water. thankfully,

we just bought the boat. usually we get it back on board and he's pretty tough guy . you know, you should keep going. keep going. so i think we salvage to 6th place and what could be the last place? ok, that is high school is looking for. now let's get back to my room in london. quite the come back and amazing that he managed to get back on board. i. so that's, that's it. and these are actually, but we will be back in a couple of minutes. so the full bulletin for you around on the days talk stories coming up very shortly. ah, me. ah, along with

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