additional door, keith, this is an appointment inside story on al jazeera, our coverage of africa is what i'm most proud of. every time i travel bay, whether it's east or west africa, people stop me and tell me how much we appreciate coverage. and our focus is not just on their suffering, but also on the more publicity and inspiring story. people trust algebra to tell them what's happening in their community in a clear and unbiased. and that's an african, i couldn't be more proud to be part of you know, ah, this yeah. but we initially picked today by jerry a has a new president elect or that to new who has been declared the winner of an

election that the opposition describes as a sham ah, i'm carried on to mrs. i'll just hear a lot from do i also coming up us politicians hold a hearing to consider giving president biden the power to band that chinese and tick tock and other ups used by millions of americans. passenger train collides with a freight train in greece. 26. people are killed and dozens injured and fears the cutter outbreak and syria following the recent earthquakes, which is worse than the humanitarian crisis. ah, nigeria has a new president elect, anything apc party candidates by that to me, but has been declared the winner of a disputed vote. declaration came just after 4 am local time. debit received

8800000 votes about 2000000 more than his closest rivals. opposite parties earlier calls to se paul to be cancelled describing a process as a sham or matessa has latest from a future. supporters from the governing a p. c. policy, i static the candidates will actually who is non nigeria as president elect? he is a former governor, he's a wealthy businessman and he's been in politics for many, many years here in nigeria. during the campaign trail, he told me that jerry said, once it gets into office, he's going to tackle the caught in media unemployment rate. here is more than 30 percent, but he has a whole lot of other challenges to deal with as well after he saw. and in for example, this country is dealing with a lot of insecurity in some parts of nigeria is the high cost of living. these cash solutions is fuel shortages, and people want something done about that as soon as possible. the election was plagued by a lot of irregularities, some pointing stations,

there were delays in some areas, there was violence. so people were not able to vote, some voting machines did not work and that was lot of frustration and suspicion, especially among opposition parties and support is the key thing to watch now is how oppositional support is going to react. so people will be watching the opposition strongholds like a lagos of commercial capital. the south and the south east is how those people are going to react. so far we've not heard any open statement from the opposition leaders. all they've been saying is that they feel the selection process has been flawed. people expect any, some of the opposition. needless to go to court and challenge the election result. he was politicians have been debating a bill that would give the president authority to ban apps, including tick tock, us intelligence agencies. believe the video sharing platform is a national security risk, because the chinese government could have access to use of data to talk has around a 100000000 uses in the u. s. alone. the app has already been banned from

a government issued phones in america, canada, and the european parliament. how to jo, castro has more of this now from washington, dc. the regulations, the protections that this bill is designed to strip from tick tock are, frankly, the only thing that stand between the social media app and the previous attempts to ban it across the united states. of course, by the trump administration. what this bill does is it would allow the current presidential ministration joe biden to ban ticked off across the nation if it is determined that the app is sharing private user data with anyone who is involved or controlled by china or the chinese government. this is a republican sponsored bill, it sponsor called a tick tock, a trojan horse saying that it can be turned to spy on americans. and there have been a few democrats on this committee though, who have voiced that this proposal is too broad. and for that reason,

they are opposed to it, tick tock and it's spokesperson is trying to defend itself. they point to measures taken within the last 2 years to try to make safeguards for a sick. for example, storing all americans, user data and servers in the united states, not when then china. and in fact, there has been an ongoing lobbying effort from tick tock here in capitol hill and, and at the white house i to work out a deal. and that still might be the case where the social media app is allowed to continue its operations in the u. s. or meanwhile, china says the band by the u. s. is an abuse of state power. magwoods alecia tor hug al gore. as the roles thought to superpower how unsure of itself can the u. s. b to fear a young people's fear it up to such at the greek when the u. s. has been over stretching the concept of national security in abusing state power to suppress other countries companies to we firmly opposed this wrong action issue with the u.

s. government should respect the principles of market economy and fair competition . on another, u. s. congressional committee has held hearings on what it calls the chinese communist parties, threat to america. the 1st session witnesses testified on china's influence on technology, aggression towards taiwan, and human rights abuses. i see a committee chair said that china's ruling party was laser focused on a totalitarian future. very i, we may call this a strategic competition, but it's not a polite tennis match. this is an existential struggle over what life will look like in the 21st century. and the most fundamental freedoms are at stake. let's speak to joseph mahoney now he's a professor of politics and international relations at east china normal university . he joins us from shanghai, welcome to the program. so. ringback towards extent are u. s. fears overtake talk justified in, in your view?

well, you know, the fact the matter is there's no evidence that tick tock or previously other chinese tech companies like while way have ever post real security threats to the u . s. or any one else, rather, what we've seen is that the u. s. as advanced this anti china narrative step by step in global media. that china needs to be feared, encountered even falsely accusing china of genocide or deliberately unleashing covey 19 of a communist pot through the world. and this is induced fear. the chinese tech companies might, in the future be weaponized against the u. s. and others. but, you know, given this logic, what firm is safe with chinese company, or indeed any other company around the world to say. and in fact, what chinese industry can't be weaponized if we really want to get creative about it. if we really want to go down the historical path, consequently, this is the tip of a much bigger cold war iceberg. second, and this is part of america's broader efforts to foster tech decoupling, which in

a tech and information driven global economy is really about subdividing the world and to read a respective spheres of influence and trying to ensure that china's fear is very small and contain. so we can see this fits with in a broader containment strategy that includes selling nuclear submarines to australia, stationing nuclear, capable bombers. they're putting us military personnel in taiwan, upgrading weapon systems in south korea. fine to advance the endo pacific in august concepts and, and still trying to extend nato to counter china. now. why now? right. ah, because biden is very good at sequencing. not he induced hysteria over a weather balloon to create fear and a talking point where his state of the union speech, where he mentioned china by name more than any other country, including more than he mentioned the u. s. and he did so ahead of nato meetings and brussels. and now he faces a divided congress where the only bipartisanship taking place is on the new anti china committee in the house. in short,

china has been making incredible progress development. while the us has for decades been victimized by its own poor governance and growing polarization. now u. s. remains an able to muster bipartisan support for addressing much needed self reforms and read it element instead. the one thing they can agree on escape quoting china for america. okay? so given what you say then how is the chinese leadership lucky to react to, to these kinds of issues then for example, take talk. well, i think what we've heard very clearly from the chinese leadership is precisely how they are reacting that the us is abusing state power to over extend its security concepts. and doing so in ways that very explicitly, very deliberately try to knock down chinese technological development and all in order to promote and play an unfair playing field which has existed for decades.

and china has struggled to overcome. and we see this not just with, with this effort, but with the ships legislation last year and before that the us instigated trade organs, china. ok, we leave it there. joseph mahoney, very much appreciate your time here on understand. thank you. oh, a cargo and passenger train. have collided in central greece, killing at least 26 people. mentioned the teams at the scene just outside the city of the rissa, searching for passengers who may still be trapped in the wreckage. where camida is reporting the accident happened the engine to tempe tunnel. several cars, derails and some court for ah, in or says other color outbreak in syria even if it struggles to recover from the aftermath of the massive earthquakes that struck more than 3 weeks ago. un

humanitarian chiefs that the situation on the ground is dire, and more international aid is needed. growing demands and density therefore, of critical items tend to be the obvious example. rising prices, australian supply chains, into the, into the region. to beginning to fly and suppliers to detection border and also cross into damascus and aleppo. this is essential and most welcome of the markets no longer readily supplied cross border operations. the son of these poor items had some need such costly but necessary critical infrastructures about a damage of christmas. new me has more in this now from the united nations. the united nation says more 8 is getting into northwest syria, but it still is not nearly enough. thousands of buildings have been destroyed or

are at risk of collapse. and because of that, it's estimated 5000000 syrians are in need of shelter and non food humanitarian assistance of u. m says that as many as 5 syrian families are cramming into one tent to stay warm at night. heavy equipment is in short supply to clear debris and begin rebuilding. the un says the humanitarian response remains hindered by restricted access, a lack of funding, and what they describe as the unintended consequences of western sanctions. un has been working with the u. s. and the e u to reassure businesses with resources to help that sanctions do not apply to humana tarion assistance. they're also working to get more access from within syria for deliveries to get through damascus. and then there's the need for funding. a pledging conference in the coming days will ask countries to contribute nearly

$400000000.00 to respond to the crisis caused by the earthquake. that's on top of some 4800000000 dollars that the un was already requesting to address needs that were brought on by 12 years of civil war. that campaign is so far, severely underfunded. a color outbreak has the latest struggle for syrians in the city of italy who tried to rebuild their lives. i said beg ripples piles of rubble with homes. once good of ali hardly recognizes his neighborhood. he is recovering what he can of his former life. hi, the vehicle at little wafa or none of this homes are rock. it's part of our life. it's now cracked as a result of the earthquake on collecting up positions and will look for shelter. i can afford to restore the building, the below all the cracks cause fear. many have left their homes, us off shocks continued in the market place, businesses having closed with many,

badly damaged da da da shelter. i managed to solve some of the goods. the rest was damaged when i keep them at home, i'll try to fix part of the shop and resume business on possible them, or that is my story. buildings that remain standing, need to be inspected. the engineers syndicate examined the damage, or the crack is 6 millimeters white. the other was all of the building must be demolished. he says. unlike neighboring turkey rebel held it live, doesn't have the resources or finances of a fully functioning state. madison, we now live to keep it. we try our best to avoid demolition. taking into account be extremely high cost of reconstruction. the financial situation in general has already deteriorated. we are trying to strike a balance overall residence fair decision to demolish many don't have the money to rebuild and there's no financial aid available. ah, for abo ali, living in a tent is safer than his house. he does what he can to keep his children happy.

come baby, see what i've bought. you. he says why? why the syrian response coordinators organization says more than 50000 displaced people are now living shelters. here. this 10 city. now the homes for the foreseeable future. i said, bake, i'll deserve us. and media is reporting that an unmanned drone is crashed in the moscow region of governor. this says the drone was targeting facility belonging to gas problem. russian media says the drone was made in ukraine, if no casualties or damage to property will. meanwhile, russian president, vladimir putin, has told us security service to step up its activity accounts, or what he called growing espionage operations against russia. if you get back to me that would really, but i, he, we must strengthen our counter intelligence. as western special services have always traditionally worked against russia in an active way. and they have now

thrown additional personnel, technical, and other resources against us. we must respond to it accordingly. russian defense ministry has accused us so for planning a so called provocation in ukraine using toxic chemicals. follow the traffic reports from oscar. the ministry of defense for the 1st time has actually detailed a plan of how allegedly chemical weapons have been brought into ukraine in near the done yes, the region. this is where intense fighting has been taking place for the last few months. the minister defense has actually identified the number of bo gave the type of chemicals it says could be used and which will be a violation off the organization of the prohibition of chemical weapons treaties. so it is all happening this morning in russia. this seems to be more alarm bells ringing the actual fighting ukrainian president william as lensky is warning that the situation in the eastern front line a city of buckman is getting worse. regional separatist leaders say nearly all the

roads in the city are under russian control. but which cannot be oxidized in both the situation is constantly becoming more difficult. the enemy is constantly destroying everything that can be used to protect our positions for fortification and defense of our soldiers defending in the back of that region are real heroes. and so it had her now to sierra, the british prime minister travels to belfast to promote the post regs training. he struck you he knew thus we look at my scenes like these are the coming rare along one of the wells longest migration. muse. ah, well we've heard thunder and cut out, in fact, has been thunderstorms around the gulf in the last 24 hours. and they haven't gone away entirely yet. but the normal sauce region,

which is up in turkey and the methane, it doesn't look at least bit stormy at a talk that's quite warm. temperatures are in the house, i think probably will get higher and that we look at winds as well. look at this brown here. the winds are picking up in i have to admit an uninhabited part of saudi arabia, but it does indicate high temperatures. coming to mecca and medina, for example, they're only going to rise the next day or so. the showers last around. you a and east inside of a mile. and then here's the storm developing, which means sandstorms quite likely in egypt. help you to lift the temperatures of course, but blotting out the sun to some degree as an increase in shares, also in passive kenya. tanza near uganda. little unusually for this tom. yeah. maybe it's welcome, but it's there all the same. and you know, in southern africa, this is still the remains of tropical cyclone freddy. it still looks like a circulation is produced almost a year's worth of rain in some parts of mozambique. there's got to be widespread flooding here. and now look at the forecast for wednesday and for thursday,

has it gone away? no, it has not been for showing signs of wanting itself up once again. ah, the join the debate. you know that the surgeon was empowered by wednesday, the government and they end by the day they go home and today they are the government africans count. security is also global health security on an online at your voice, there is no right to defense. there is no right to protest, we can't just keep relying on aid. there has to be some work towards a sustainable economy. at the end of the day, it is ordinary objects that are paying the price. this green anal dedira. ah

ah, you're watching, i'll just hear a reminder about top stores this out bow that to new has been declared. the winner of nigeria is presidential elections. routing parties, candidates beat 17 others vying for the top job opposition. parties called for saturday spoke to be counsel describing the process as beacham us politicians are debating a bill that will allow the president to band the chinese fiduciary capital tick tock as well as other apps. intelligence agencies say take talk is at national security risk because beijing couldn't have access to use of data. but these 26 people have been killed after cargo train. the parson to trade collided in central grease. emergency teams are searching for passengers who may still be trapped in the wreckage. several cause have derailed. some iranian government says it's investigating the poisoning of at least $650.00 school girls by toxic gas

. local media say the attacks have been occurring since november. and i've been reported in over 30 schools. none of the girls have died, but many have suffered from spiritual problems. a government official says the attacks are believed to be a deliberate attempt to force the closure of girls schools. the french presidency, beginning a tour of central africa, france, his military presence there is being scale back. so manual the chrome is trying to find a new way to maintain french interest in the face of competition from russia and china, who brennan has more now from paris. after decades of colonialism and neo colonialism, it was francis withdrawal from molly last year and back you know, from so this year which is practically confirm the shifting geo politics in central africa, french troops of forster leaf and the military gentle in each of those countries uttered for a new alliance with russia, in the form of a messenger walked group president macro openly admit that mistakes were made in

molly. and his formation tour of central africa will sell a more co operative vision with house nations. cultural, scientific, and educational partnerships and military bases, where the french troops operate as partners rather than commanders. now how can you get somebody to get to tailor the reorganization is not meant to be a retreat or disengagement. it will materials through an african division or mutual operation of these big basis general dominate chunk. com is the former head of the french military mission. at the united nations. he agrees the importance of france dank militarily engaged in the region. we have to have small teams, a part, for example, to help this african country. it is his exactly to a case in jail, for example, where the parliament arcs, the french forces to stay and to fight in support of noun, jo enforcers. that's probably the case also in chad where we put a big elvis in central africa itself. some see the rejection of french influences

understandable, but nonetheless, alarming and irrational. yes, there is anger about european neo colonialism. however, the alliance is being offered by china and russia, bring their own issues. the western world world has it, views is position is it was a tional don't, don't be nation is very difficult, very yohina in our history because ah, when people are not rationally the war, like now it just has 11 goal. we want to get rid of france, want to keep, get rid of the old system actually and, and not realizing that there are in what, what is the head is not probably better that one be at running away from president micron and box on this. so admitting that for too long frances regarded africa with what he described as the logic of rent. his new vision is to offer a more mutually beneficial partnership,

but he faces an uphill task to turn around that wave of anti french sentiment, pull brennan, i'll jazeera paris. the british prime minister was in northern ireland on tuesday to so his at new deal with the european union to ease post for exit trade. she says, hoping the windsor framework has its cold will finally break the political deadlock in the province where a challenge has more now from belfast. like around the world until the business boys, by the success of getting a difficult deal with the e. u. done. richie soon act visited northern ireland on tuesday to sell it. i'm really pleased fact i'm, i'm over the moon that yesterday. we managed to have a decisive break through with all negotiations with the e. you reached agreement. the new winds of framework that i think is an extraordinary positive, sat for northern ireland position. the u. k. prime minister met local business leaders of the coca cola factory in lisbon and his pitch was as fizzy as the drinks he stood in front of. but see if you can spot what's caught the attention of romanus,

across the land back. northern ireland is in the unbelievably special position unique position in the entire world. you are paying continent in having privilege access. not just to the u. k. home market, which is enormous. 5th biggest in the world, but also the european union single market. nobody else has that. no one. only you guys only here and that is the price. of course, it was a very similar price that the rest of the u. k. gave up with breaks it the winds framework changes the problematic northern ireland protocol and early a deal with the e u, which established trade barriers between northern ireland and mainland u. k. and so angered northern islands unionists that they collapse the power sharing governments a year ago. they'll need to be happy with a new deal to come back to the store want assembly. we listen very carefully to what the prime minister said and, but we need to translate that into what the legal text actually says. what does it

mean for business? what does it mean for consumers? unfun demantzy, what does it mean for norman's place within the united kingdom and our ability to trade was in the internal market of the u. k. over they're not going to be bounced into a quick decision. the d. p will be feeling the pressure, particularly if the deal continues to receive widespread approval. the longer that the d, u. p. a seen as a block on functioning government here at store. once the less happy voters are going to feel about them, you can feel a frustration at all a smith's chain of cafes. the business woman wants to see the back of sectarian politics here for health services get more so education, alder, achievement, has gotten worse, or poverty has gotten worse. the class divide between those that have in those i have not, is getting bigger. so, you know, a storm into something on in tomorrow will not change that, only they put that was a, she's at the top of their political agenda, the winds of framework, the northern on and protocol unionist nationalist. such matters are less important

in many people in northern ireland these days, the just getting things to work properly. rory talents al jazeera belfast u. s. supreme court is set to decide on the legality of proposal to cancel billions of dollars in student debt, or hundreds of people gathered outside the court ahead of the hearing. present. joe biden proposed the plan last year, but it was blocked by the locals. when we have this dead, it's hard to think through all the bills that are in front of us and so we need to make that in debt indebtedness go away. it is a form of economic enslavement that does not need to be in a country that say that there are about democracy and free people if we truly want to get free. let's get debt free right now. low income people. people of color are being burdened at with student debt at a rate so much higher than white borrowers. and that is just completely unfair. and it's also something about

a generational equity because young people are not able to get ahead in the way that our parents were. because in a large heart because of student that there every year, the gray, well im box, one of the longest migrations of any mammal. the 16000 kilometer round trip sees the whales head to the arctic to feed and back down to lagoons of northern mexico to breed. but the numbers have been dropping in 2016. there were 27000 gray whales, but in 2022 researches counted almost 10000 fewer decrease of almost 40 percent. for holman, has the story now from of mexico's west coast. say listen times pause. could this the devil fish as little sign of that now, was playful as a 15 meter 40 tom puppy, the gray whale and its coff. one of the great site to the pacific coast, from mexico to alaska. but in the last 4 years,

the great wells numbers have gone down by almost 40 percent. according to the national oceanic and atmospheric research administration, the u. s. agency that the number of carves is decreased to, to the lowest point since scientists started counting them in the ninety's. got to sir. he'll martinez is in son ignacio laguna mexico together with his team where wales breed. he's been coming here for the last 15 years to monitor them as part of the laguna son ignacio ecosystem science program. i asked him why the drop. i am phenomenal. they are my and syndrome at atlanta felucca. but there's a phenomenon called skinny well in which you start seeing that their body condition is getting worse and they're getting thinner. and because they're not getting enough food. and from the middle of 2018, the phenomenon started happening, though it peaked in 2020, when 30 percent of the whales were in that condition and all the whales feed in the ot take on shrimp like creatures could empty poets that they dig for in the mud,

the indications are the supplies running log climate change could be involved. but there's also precedent to this in the late 19 eighties. and again in 999, there was a big drop in whale numbers. scientists believe that there is a natural tough point in the number of great, well, so very close system can support when they reached that point, the number goes down and then it starts climbing again back in the lab. so he says he's cautiously confident it will happen again. this time, the new numbers his team are coming up with back up. but of course it is a cyclical process. no, that's our hope. we've seen it happen before and you know, it won't keep going down. but there isn't a known fact to hear from them. i only thing is that it's going down and then you factor in global warming. and you don't know if it will go up again or not. that's the uncertainty here. every time the number's dip for the researches i'm for the curious for.