so does this debate as i say, the idea of from the child. so that being that mr. maps had broken upside booth in working, even if it wasn't willingly with the f day that far right policy, i missed them out saying the point is here. the majority of germans want change and he said he was the man to bring change and down like what did we hear about the other issues in this election campaign? well, the economy was one that really stood out. the idea from the social democrats against the ideas from the conservatives of christie and democrats. the idea of more states helping, as it was for societies was stuff versus less state help and more investment. and the idea of what can germany do to try to as it were squared the circle to deal with. it's very good. it's had in place now for many years, which prevents governments from borrowing to invest except in emergency situations

. we also heard some debates about foreign policy of our goals. the question was put to both men, what they sold off president donald trump, suggestion of recycling the people of gauze. the chancellor said it was a scandal. what the president had suggested, i'm from his arrival that came no disagreement. he said yes, we agree. so the question is, who came at best from it? early? suggestive polls say maybe maps came out best, so we'll have to see how it plays out over the next few weeks. all right, that's how does yours dominic cane? joining us live from berlin. thanks so much. dominick, still a head on al jazeera sedans and mega forming project at once and millions of people . how it's now going to waste. and liverpool have been knocked out of the fa cup, find out how it happens and support the

february. northern europe is often the coldest in scenario this month. started certainly got cold. and diamond dakota, sitting in western russia, is being fed constant to trust the north german plain towards the british owls and it's cold anyway across much the plain if you're and then if you bring in atlanta, can, you can produce a huge amount of smoking at the moment that encroaching atlanta care is particularly active. as you can see, there's are breaks of light to train through farms is no significant wind blowing. it will in on the shelves and the central met have disappeared. about time we get to the end of monday. so it's just a persistent code that breaks up. so i'm gonna start with mrs. lee in both are going to be overcast skies. brussels is a case in point 4 or 5 degrees over costs for next 2 or 3 days, some snow, but most of these just gray. and this one that's typical. take it down to the

mediterranean or i barrier where things are rather better. but the shower, is it all around the central bank? would it be affecting libya and possibly over sydney? no. in egypt? no, i'm sure will breeze. the rest of north africa is dr. calls, the seasonal windows from the desk. the shot was a trying to make their way into gonna ivory coats, southern nigeria now making much progress to be honest. but the summer range for the science, particularly in zimbabwe, mozambique. well, that's showing up what is the effect of the conflict on the environment? the impact is so much more than just emissions from tanks ships and will fight more than say it has a devastating effect on people. and the department of defense is emissions is as large as many countries. and every time ministry spending increases military emissions increase. and this war and this climate, christ, all hail the planner on

a jersey to the latest news as it breaks prison. zalinski has guides the international carrying fee to step up on this deliveries to ukraine safety and defensive with details coverage. people with must department of government efficiency showed up here at the us headquarters demanding access to the building. from around the world for the people are flooding that any annual page has to be 10 . it's the end of a painful chapter of displacement. the, the, the, [000:00:00;00] the,

you're watching on the 0. the reminder of our top story is this. our israeli forces are expanding their military rates across the occupied west bank, where the north shunts refugee camp is the latest to come under siege 3 palestinians, including a pregnant women were killed there and a child has been injured while in gaza. these really military has completed its withdrawal from its so called net setting cord, or the move was agreed as part of last month cease fire deal with how much the withdrawal allows for palestinians and a trucks to move through the crossing with some checks along the way the voters in ecuador are picking their next president. the election is being held against the backdrop of rise in gain violence and the nation's worst economic crisis. in half a century, 16 candidates are vying for the top job. the front runners include the incumbent, daniel boy, and the lawyer, louisa gonzales, a close ally, a former left his president of a ok, or just there was all the time to run p a. t has more

the flank by heavy security, the new born rise. that is probably new rallying. why a q just 18 months after becoming ek weathers. the youngest president at the end of a campaign short term policy. but the beacon virus funds, including thousands of cardboard cut outs of this 40 president in henry's outfits from a presidential sash to tank tops and gym shorts. before the vote, no boss of victory was assured, but just supporters to go into gaines fraud will no longer a promise with a reality the countries already made up its mind. now let's protect the votes. let's protect the will of the people doing a short term in office. the hard right here of a banana. fortune has face candles and accusations of abuse of power. declaring any

journal on conflict against gangs triggering human rights violations and overseeing an energy crisis. the plunged equivalent to darkness. yet many voters don't blame him in are willing to give him more time. what annoys set out before the country is improving? why not let him continue? if he stays in charge, ecuador will move forward with the challenger. as long as he can reset gonzales. we lost to him 18 months ago. protege, i've left these ex president of the phase korea. she's hoping they'll still hold you up for his economic boom and lower crime rates will help her prevail this time . the campaign promises meet in 2023 were to be fulfilled in a year and a half, not into not in 3, but in a year and a half. did he deliver? wow. in a lease,

a newborn the judge is rising. curtail violence and record high on the side rates continues to feel support for a strong men leadership in this once peaceful nation. when we have course indicted, we're located, our research shows that the majority of voters want to sort of dictatorship. they want that iron fist, whatever the ideology behind it is, i mean, they still want a strong man that shows no weaknesses or sensibilities even if these measures have mostly failed so far. no. so because this january ecuador reached a world record of $700.00 killings in a single month live surpassing even mexico, i usually go to the bank will most polls confirm that no boys leading bundle is likely to be not right. he needs more than 50 percent of the vote or 40 percent with a 10 point lead does. it's in a country on the edge. less than that, i did the just the less under i'm p a to join us live from bogota in neighboring columbia. alejandro. is this election largely being seen as

a referendum on the boys? controversial security policies? and indeed, my m hi made the and noble has been a president for the short term. i'm just 18 months of 31. that's nap election in 2023. yes, this is been a short term with a lot of controllers. see a lot of it, quite dorians, like what you've done. others have been quite critical, especially when it comes on his crack down on a gang c, sent the military at through the streets of the main cities and ask whether off in critics they at the expense of the constitutional and human rights of the ecuadorian citizens. the especially minorities in a poor ecuadorian and said there have been accusation of extra judicial killings. i'm part of the military. so a lot of controllers the they are on the other side that bill many, whether it's point to the fact that he has been able to reduce violence,

for example inside prisons, which was a major issue. and he's also being able to reduce the overall of violence, the crime in the country by roughly 15 percent according to some studies, yet the numbers remain extremely high. so the issue of security remains the central now its main, his main rival recent gonzales is saying that she would maintain some of his policies, but getting rid of the most radical ones and definitely have to be present the more holistic approach that she's fed, the searching also, and social justice in the neighborhood most affected, we're gonna have to see what equip if it quite organ set up. and if instead, besides to give more time to noble and extra officially from there, we're hearing many rumors that in the the seems to be had in this elections. this is fail. and obviously it's not official because the polls have been closed. so all

of us under, obviously, still a lot of questions for ecuador range right now, including, who will prevail? but when will we have an idea of whether there will or won't be run off? well, both, both close at uh, 5 pm local. so roughly, 20 minutes from now are very close to the closing of the falls now, and both thing is mandatory, and i called there's a lot of ecuador in our all of the weather. and so i must vote. we understand that there wasn't a lot of excitement in these particular elections, not only because they're coming in just 18 months after the previous one. there were also early elections previously, but just because people are, are quite fat by the situation of the weather right now. and not only in terms of crime, but also due to a severe economic crisis,

and many voters feel that they've the own button. none of the voters of the, of the candidates have a clear solutions. but we can expect the results to come in roughly 2 hours or 3 and the most likely outcome. it's probably a run off between these 2 candidates. all right, that sounds as here as all this under around p, a t joining us live from bogota. thanks so much. hello, sandra. 3 baltic nations, estonia at lafayette, and listen when you have successfully connected to the european power grid. at a ceremony held in the lithuanian capital, 3 leaders along with the commission president arsenal of underlying celebrated baltic energy independence day. the move severed soviet era links with the rushes network which is controlled by moscow and has long been seen as a vulnerability for the 3 baltic states, the synchronization of the baltic states electricity system. the continental

european system has been successfully complete. this is historic moment markings the and i'll fedloan charlie 4 lives the lot, fia and the sonya for all not home. the shop to achieve full energy independence. the pdf of political pressure and black males is finally over. history is made. we connect the baltic states to our continental european electricity, great electricity lines with russians that are roost at being dismantled. these chains of power lines linking you to how style neighbors will be a thing of the past. this is freedom, freedom from stress to freedom from black males that sedans 0 state is home to a large agricultural project that was once crucial to food production to 0 lies

between the banks of the blue and the white. now rivers in southeastern. so that, according to those involved in the project, decades of that policy. and the recent conflict has stripped farmers and the benefits of irrigation scheme of zeros mohammed vol. travel through georgia state and has this report from was by the name of john system of canals blinking life to an otherwise bantam area. the disease came used as a good opportunity to educate nearly a 1000000 heck tales of exceptionally felt, to soil, in se, i'm so then the also used to be the backbone of 2 times economy. almost all of the major projects and sit down with funded permits, waving you when hardships into certification struck the region. this project was a safe refuge from hunger for all students. and before it benefited more than the day, so then the project was a main stay for one of the largest colonial economies of the previous century. but just yet, a project was built by the british

a 100 years ago. this facility is alex, from that time, used to separate the cotton fibers from the seats for the better part of a sent you this project to the main. one of the main sources of raw material for the lancaster textile industries in great britain. but the memories of that, you know, on know, covered with dust, as well as tax mismanagement on the funding and conflict. so, so that's independence. and the 1950s have led to the total disintegration of the project. for the, at a certain stage, this project ceased to be at the top of the states list of priorities. that's when students started to produce oil. now the project is extensively destroyed, especially it's education systems and the canals, a choked with settlement. i estimate the amount needed to restore it to full capacity to be from 15 bottom between $10000000000.00 because i need to come out of it. when the state abandoned the project,

individual farmers and local private investors continue to exploit parts of it. cuts and, and other stapled crops continued to be produced and exported, but connected to the previous levels. we charges it, or there was a child working with my father who was a farmer here. the g 0 project used to provide the farmers with all the requirements from $0.82. then upon the harvest, it with the duct, the costs and hand over the balance to them as profits. so they were extremely happy, but that has ended since of discovery of oil. the government no longer funded the farmers. since the kind of conflict began in april 2023, the project has suffered even more upon me to turn it off. it's both forces occupied the headquarters in what they need. they confiscate to practice the stripe pumps and got the safest looking for cash. well told us says as many as 18000000, so then these people are living on the brink of famines. as of this vast tract

effect demand more than enough to feed them all flies follow how much fun to 0 to 0 state. so that still a header analogy 0. i'm john 100 new orleans side of the 50 united super bowl where security is a party is on the to economic meltdowns, administrative disasters, political divisions, and now is rails integration 11 and for survived on the toilet. the civil society, as citizens, it stepped in to provide with the state is found, thinking halter is included by us. electricity is secured by us. many cases, it's cooling, everything is secure and what type of initiative people impala frontline is k o l g 0. examining the headline, do you think the ceasefire we're home?

we have to make it worth checking. the discussion. obviously you cannot last deportations of millions of people on day one, exploring abundance of wealth cloth programming. if you, once an image of it comes from using a tradition, then here it is designed to inform motivates and into 5. we are the ones that are actually shaping the future that we want to live in on algae 0. the, the writer's time for sports. here's peter, and thank you very much. we're just hours away from one of the biggest sporting events in the world. the super bowl, the kansas city chiefs hope to become the 1st team to win the nfl is the biggest prize 3 times in

a row. they faced the philadelphia eagles in new orleans around 120000000 people are expected to watch the game on tv in the usa, and 125000 funds inside the soup with john henry and joins me now from new orleans . don't get to talk to you. this is a historic game, but she's hoping to win a 3rd super bowl in a row, eagles hope to avenge. they lost the kansas city in this game 2 years ago. how's the atmosphere they were in a word, peter electric, and this is the city that is on fire. all let the gm they can prevent, show you around a little bit while i explain what's going on. yes, it is really historic because you say when the kansas city chiefs will be the 1st team ever to win 3 super bowls in a row, and it's being held in a city that's known for hosting the super bowl. new orleans is hosted 11 of the 59 games that have happened. this is the 59th season of this gave it to match up

between the 2 quarterbacks. patrick, my home, the kansas city chiefs, there's the crowd given us a little noise and there is jalen herds of the philadelphia eagles. sports writers will tell you about how to do the best quarterback and football dealing hurts upload 2nd. but they will also tell you that the eagles probably have the best lineup of any t b, just the events that last 2 years ago. when those same do quarterbacks matched up down to put it back to the the stars on the field with the popular person in the stadium. almost certainly, taylor swift seems to be a good friend. travis, tied in for the cheese, that's a unit. that includes a sitting president, donald trump, and the former 1st lady, widening and had a cast of stars in hollywood, the world of sports. and they're there because the ticket started 5000 an average 10000 and they go up from there. peter. no doubt who to talk about that in a moment. john as well. uh but the thing was uh,

did. lee knew his day truck ramming into the tool, 13 people just a few weeks ago. how has that affected secuity around the game? 2 certainly ramped up security, this is bourbon street. that truck ramming a tech ended up out of block away on the block proceeding the one where we are right now. and i asked a number of people on this street. if they were concerned about security, they said no, in part because there is in the past, it ended level of super low security. here there are about 3000 military federal, state, and local officers on the street. there are new dollars or barriers setup in every block here on bourbon street and the french border here that attack occurred to be the deal is they're not concerned about, of course he chose to come here who that is not unexpected. but this isn't very

high level of security event, tier one, that means all kinds of levels of security are on the ground making this kind of an invalid duration level security event. we put together a story on exactly what's going on security here. we single the threat of a security breach looms around the super bowl. it's the most watched sporting of and in america, in the most secure patrol by air, see in glare truck still block. the entrance to bourbon street in the french quarter were a man and a white pickup mode down celebrates in the early hours of new year's day before being gunned down by deletes. there's high security here. does that bother? now i like that. i like safety now. whatever it takes us that makes me feel the memorial pays tribute to those killed with the french quarter is once again packed

with diehard fans or d as in lined with soldiers and police. you can swing a bit without hitting the top or national guard guy with a gun holding the shoulder. russell honor a lid the u. s. government effort to recover from hurricane katrina in 2005. he points out there are some threats that are almost impossible to protect against. the enemy is the thinking enemy. we focus on cars and become with drones or they come with a private airplay in then there's louisiana law. you can bring a gun to the french quarter, but not a drink cooler yet. that wasn't foremost on everyone's mind. despite the intent security, the party is on, on bourbon street, is hurricane katrina. new orleans has been known as a resilience city. and people here say they're not going to let security threats

foil the celebration of states. bod, cnn. new orleans, synonymous with celebration, has a way of moving on from tragedy. now you can't stop. if you stop one, the economy, things really bad. and the great city like this, so that would be bad for everybody and to allow the world to know that to willing to live and see you for it. with all the soldiers and officers on the street, law enforcement officials say right now, this might just be the safest city in america. john, you mentioned a little bit earlier, taylor swift and the super bowl halftime show. it's a mess of cultural events in the united states. many people tuning just to watch it, explain to us why it is such a big deal. the well, there's always a huge store in this case. it's hendrick lamar. a lot of people are interested in

whether he has an ongoing cute or whether he carries out is ongoing feud with the canadian rapper drake. or whether maybe he buries the hatch in here. says this thing or will also be here, but there are always surprised. yes. a lot of names have been mentioned is not clear. who exactly will be there for. there are always surprises at the super bowl . as for when, well, it'll definitely be one of these teams. vegas hodge. say it's very cheap. i gotta tell you. i married someone from philadelphia, so i'm legally obligated to say the eagles are looking pretty good. of course you are. john enjoyed c, football, 59. english premium, the leaders level pool had been dumped out of the fa cup by little known plymouth. ongoing little pool in whites here withdrew and away against the club. boston with the sick and c a championship. but a 2nd offer. ryan hardy penalty was enough for a famous one know when the meaning green now head to the 5th round, the world's best female tennis plans of gathering doha for the console open. it's the 1st w 2,

a $1002.00 elements of the year. some sites and triples the top 2 in the world doing the media on this ahead of the event arena sutherland and 3 time defending champion, eager to be on ticket, back in the hall. i'm playing for the 1st time since you a straining open last month. we've been through, you know, a grand slam already, so i feel like we're all in the them already and we've been so it's kind of the highest pressure you can have on a grandson. so thing a 1000 wouldn't be a problem. i think at this point, every year is different. i rear, there's a different story. so we'll see how this has been real quick. many would have expected one of them to have walked away from melvin with the 1st grand slam of 2025. but they'll both be looking for the 1st time to look again here in doha, in an event. so it is attracted some of the world's best. and for good reason. there are $101000.00 events on the w t, a tool, and almost $600000.00 is available for the win each time. it also plays

a huge part in deciding who reaches the year ending va finals and re at 3 and took hasn't won a tournament since last year. is french open, but she'll be looking for a full straight title in the mean. i know how things works. you know, it's not always, doesn't always depend on you. if you and titles are not, you know, you just have to put a 100 percent effort and commitment and you'll get your chances. you know, if you pay low and if you work hard for sure, you know, it will be nice to run some tournaments, but it's never helpful to like, think about it. you know, before you have to focus on every much specifically and do it step by step. so i'm gonna try to do that again. this whole page seats progress straight to the ground of searching to should be on take will begin who defense against marissa, corey. tom size, and i'll just here. and that is a rep from the spots this for tonight moment. all right, thanks peter. all right, that's it for me. i'm how many i'm doing for this news hour and but i'll be back in a moment with more of

a day's news. thanks for watching the the impact told by internal conflicts. disease and um then um on dumbness, this is of cruise had made the country's economy on stable living with christie. if any, do the can't put democracy out there. it examines how struggling nation 6 to build new alliances and its quest for stability, which may come to a very high cost for cause new directions. money. turning the tide on al jazeera, an increasing power in africa, josh and most and that is killed. so did use violence in the country that he's rushes presence in the central african republic, a stabilizing force, or calculated strategy for dillman is across the continent. they provide security and they take uranium,

they provide security and we take diamond rushes shadow and africa on out to 0 on the streets of ivory coast. there is rising unto french sentiments at our local market. just land so cool echoes. the feeling of many i 40 is about the presence of french forces in their country. we know there behind many problems in africa. we africans don't want to live in constant conflict pressed. and what that up says, this country want to a site itself, and that it's military has come of age, like in other countries in the us. how french business been 1st? i said, yeah, in ivory coast, at least for now. i know there's also believe that the country will continue to rely on french expertise, english all the time to keep that means the hardware operation. much of the dispute between friends that need for my calling is in africa is it can all be confronted. failure to help in more than a decade of attacks by close by somebody you ivory coast asking french forces to leave,

could be strategic with elections due in october and then to french sentiments on the rise. yeah. their presence on i board as well may lead to disruptions or even chaos. the israel step step operations in the occupied westbank, displacing thousands of palestinians already struggling to survive. the, i'm how much in room this is out to your life and also coming up a challenging return home traffic files up after is really forces withdraw from