not she, me, d, no garage zation on the korean peninsula. it will make nuclear asia and nuclear weapons and a potential conflict on the korean peninsula. more likely, using nuclear weapons and strategic farmers to join an exercise involving on can on the korean peninsula should be condemned. because otherwise, it may actually contribute to completely the stabilizing the situation on the korean peninsula. this is the last state that countries in that part of the world want to see yeah, tensions on the korean peninsula. wrapping up a 1000 program from moscow, you can read more about that in the ad section of our teeth. of the mean time we were ton at the top of the ah, with ah, it's a shipment with rich yet dickie. he wore yesterday. the joke, it almost seems like good it was more than what i want with 3rd. so the mean, you know, which one is this vehicle so to speak, to with, to some way more to chill to some we trust the spiritual owner who manhattan actual good visit kashi. we need you to have our issues. so you were trained to walk with me

now, he says the military exercises will only escalate the already heightened tensions on the korean peninsula. and just like united states and our okay, also need to really think about why the p r k had to develop its nuclear weapons. i think the p r k concluded that it needed the nuclear weapon to prevent the color revolution that the united states has been doing to many other countries to prevent a kind of military assault on dpr k aimed at over throughly the d p r. k. government and therefore i think it really takes the 2 to tango, the united states, in particular m t p r k need to negotiate with each other, resulting diplomacy to solve the nuclear weapon program on the korean peninsula. but now if the united states wants to join the military exercise with the r o k forces using nuclear weapons, in addition to strategic bombers, this is not helpful to me. notarize ation on the korean peninsula. it will make nuclear arise, asia and nuclear weapons, and potential conflict on the korean peninsula. more likely use the nuclear weapons and strategic farmers to join the exercise evolving on can,

to join ada exercise involving a can on the korean peninsula should be condemned. because otherwise, it may actually contribute to completely the stabilizing the situation on the korean peninsula. this is the last day that countries in that part of the world want to see. i just about wrapping up this, i was programmed with that story there on north korea. thank you so much for joining us there for the program announcing international about a 1825 pm, monday evening. the 2nd day of the new year. thanks to your company of the seniors . ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah, for the 1st time in history, an entire country's culture has been canceled to the very modern weapon cancelled culture nearly desert wonderful log lucille mala. so we thought it was william frog yet, just misleading the one who put put glue. the phrase now particularly refers to counseling russian culture. yet them know what to create the few orders. because if you went to my for cure, which of over your thirty's chill, i will fill out that go with them with the separate yolanda m e them we what rushes cr

to join ada exercise involving our own can on the korean peninsula should be condemned. because otherwise, it may actually contribute to completely the stabilizing the situation on the korean peninsula. this is the last day that countries in that part of the world want to see some more news coming in now from don bass, where reports are emerging that are ukrainian military base has come on the fire. there are some of the latest unconfirmed images we have from the scene, and you can see an enormous blaze. fire fighters are they working to extinguish the flames? explosion in the area was reportedly captured live by a french tv cru. filming at the time ah no more updates on that story and the rest of all stories for you would r t dot com for the meantime. this is archie international. thank you for joining us. ah.

confrontation in ukraine, both in essence and in size of territory, is such that nothing like the korean peninsulae reproduced. even if they want, yes, no one wants inter-korean relations, by the way, no radiant, the dprk treats fortels almost for granted, but meanwhile the conservative president has lost the habit of toughening south korea, and he juice yule promises a decisive rebuff, up to the possibility of deploying someone else's nuclear weapons, or even developing their own why is the korean peninsula in a fever again, let's talk with our an old friend and a wonderful specialist in the regions andrey andrey what is the reason for the current escalation of tension on the peninsula since the autumn of last year , the constant growth, this is somehow connected with the general world situation. i would say that it is not very connected with the general, what is happening in the world, because the south korean leadership, by and large, wants to stay away from the russian american conflict as well. given that sympathy is generally on the side of ukraine and the united states, it is actively invol

possibility of deploying someone else's nuclear weapons, and then develop your own why is the korean peninsulaa fever again ? i would say that this is not very related to what is happening in the world, because the south korean leadership, by and large, wants to stay away from the russian american conflict as well. despite the fact that sympathies are generally on the side of ukraine and the united states but active participation. in general, they prefer to avoid money, so to speak, they earn money on it. yes, but no more than that, and from participation in the american chinese conflict there. it is rather the result of old beliefs that have long been nurtured by south korean conservatives. they believe that dealing with north korea is not necessary at all is not necessary, but because any contacts are any exchange. they are always subsidized by south korea, and this is if they thought so in the end, they are always converted, but somehow it turns out that the result of these contacts leads to an increase military-political north, therefore, their position now is an unequivocal rejection of a

you know, she may need no garage zation on the korean peninsula. u. s. house speaker nancy pelosi is leaving her role as speaker this year. the official made waves in 2022 with her controversial visit to taiwan, described by many in media as almost leading to direct conflict between the us and china. our teeth. caleb martin has more now the by the administration says that it wants to get along with china. but as the old saying goes, actions speak louder than words. and this year we saw nancy pelosi, the u. s. speaker, the house visit taiwan. nancy pelosi is the highest ranking u. s. official to visit that island in 25 years. and her example was followed in december by a few british m. p. 's. needless to say, china is not thrilled. women, you do have repeatedly made clear alpha opposition to speak, a pitiless visit to taiwan. if you ask, insist on challenge and china's red line, it will, the met with resolute contra measures swimming the u. s. mosque and show full responsibility for any serious consequence arising their health. these young, the world brac

to negotiate with each other resort to diplomacy, to solve the nuclear weapon program on the korean peninsula. but now if the united states wants to join the military exercise with the r o k forces using nuclear weapons, in addition to strategic bombers, this is not helpful in our tv, no garage zation on the korean peninsula. u. s. how speaker nancy pelosi is stepping down from her role as speaker this year, but stays in congress. the official made waves in 2022 with her controversial visit to taiwan, described by many and media as almost leading to direct conflict between the u. s. and china r t is caleb martin has more now the by the administration says that it wants to get along with china. but as the old saying goes, actions speak louder than words in this year. we saw nancy pelosi, the u. s. speaker the house visit taiwan. nancy pelosi is the highest ranking u. s. official to visit that island in 25 years. and her example was followed in december by a few british m. p. 's. needless to say, china is not thrilled. women, you do have repeatedly made clear alpha opposition to speak, a pitile

this will not benefit e at all, normalizing the situation around the korean peninsula in a word is just eh, just another reckless step without miscalculating it. well, at least in the medium term. here, i would say so, thank you, and you heard ruslan another reckless move. that's what i want to talk to you about, right after the first one. your ticket here is your car everything is in its best form alone you are given a dream in a colorful paradise three centuries of continuous cinema, as surgery with sterile linen comes true everything that is prophesied leaves the train to heaven a happy path. oh, how we want, how we all want not to die, namely. the earth hero did not lose heart and does not cry out for our cries. he is deaf. one of us went to heaven. he will meet god there, probably god you passed him hello, and they will call nothing will survive. we have a few years left. we have lived, and as expected , everything that is prophesied comes true, the train goes to heaven happy. as we want, as everyone. we want not to die, namely, on the eighty-fifth birthday of vladimir vysotsky, th

that joint military exercises only served to escalate the already heights intentions and the korean peninsula. and just like united states and our okay. also need to really think about why dpr j had to develop its nuclear weapons. i think dpr k concluded that it needed the nuclear weapon to prevent the color revolution that the united states as being doing to many other countries to prevent a kind of military assault on dpr k aimed at over throughly the dpr k government. and therefore, i think it really takes the 2 to tango, the united states, in particular empty p r k. need to negotiate with each other resort to diplomacy, to solve the nuclear weapon program on the korean peninsula. but now if the united states wants to join the military exercise with the r o k forces using nuclear weapons, in addition to strategic bombers, this is not helpful in our she, me, d, no garage zation on the korean peninsula. in other news, us how speak and nancy pelosi stepping down from her role as speaker this year. but staying in congress, as you remember, the official made waves back in 2022 with her controve

after all , there is a korean peninsula.re are contradictions connected with korea, there are, uh, the situation around taiwan, aggravated due to the fault of the initiative from the americans, and there are a number of other points. well, maybe, uh, a little further away from this particular area. i mean the situation in relations between india and pakistan. and where is between china and india? unfortunately, there is also calm at the border, while it is far away, but so on. in a word, this region, which is still recently. it was so quite to itself. hmm, relatively calm, as far as, in principle, a large region can be calmer than the modern world. now it has turned into another hot spot against this background. uh, blinkin's hanging. it's uh, well, how to say? this is a continuation of this development. contacts that were between the top leaders of the united states and china at the end of last year, then uh citipin and biden, agreed that there would be a visit from blinkin and uh, the thing is that the statement of

you know, she, me d, no garage zation on the korean peninsula. as we wrap up the top headlines of 2022, the conflict in ukraine was the top story dominating both the news and global political agenda ortiz. donal quarter, looks through the main landmarks of the conflicts. the prelude to russia's special military operations saw a massive intensification of ukrainian shelling of civilian areas in don boss and plans for a renewed assault against the region. the leaders of the van self proclaimed done yet scan. lugens people's republics declared mass evacuations of civilians. they had only one place to run russia this way. would you have wanted this for your child? would you? i also do on this for neither of my grandchildren and her than a year person. i wouldn't have let him know. it's just that i had a stroke. i always stayed here. now i've left everything every one hind days. after the evacuations began, vladimir putin made what he called a long overdue decision to recognize the independence of the people's republic and sign treaties of military co

, well, a little more about the korean peninsula.ent of an attack on south korea, the united states of america will be ready to even use nuclear weapons , eventually the full arsenal of weapons with which they the head of the pentagon, lloyd austin, said during a joint press conference with the south korean minister of national defense, led john sop , according to the head of the american of the department of defense, washington will act in accordance with its commitments in the field of extended deterrence, and at the same time added that both countries need to be constantly on the alert because north korea has recently created an unprecedented number of provocations that destabilize the situation on the korean peninsula. yesterday's terrible terrorist attack in the city in the pakistani city of peshawar today increased to 100 people , unfortunately more than 200 people received injuries of varying degrees of severity at least 100 still remain in hospital treatment, the local police reported today that the search and rescue operatio

uh, the south korean armed forces have practically taken over the entire korean peninsula. and the south korean troops, the americans, they convulsively clung only to. well, here's the last one, so to speak, for somewhere along the coastal territories and only a landing, here the americans into the south koreans in winchon, when they landed in winchon, went to the rear of the north korean army. he turned the tide combat operations, the northerners had to retreat after, consolidation of efforts, and above all thanks to the help of the united states and allies, but managed to repel the offensive of the north and completely, changing the strategic picture by september october, the fiftieth year. already south. he had every opportunity to capture the north and achieve unification. korea on its own terms, the bottom line is that when the north was thrown back almost to the very chinese border , the chinese entered into action. here is a huge expeditionary force of the people to liberate on chinese army crossed to the korean border and hit the americans. and the chinese should be

a bit more and it could be a bigger problem if you've ever seen a satellite image of, of the korean peninsula or the region at night. you know that electricity out of the capital pyongyang is, is somewhat rare. so there are concerns that we're going to see some, some problems there, especially considering north korea also has trouble in terms of, of food security and had some reports last year of people going missing and, and freezing in the cold weather there. sir. frank smith, freelance journalist reporting from sol are on this extreme weather that we are seeing where you are. thank you so much for joining us. some sports news now, and in the bonus like a dormant paid a visit to mines on wednesday. the hosts have struggled to make games this season, but they had dorman deadlocked until the very last minute. that's when american geo ran out scored another winner to give them a to one victory. ah, don't them lined up in mind snowing. they had to attack the men in red without their best known defender. woke up when i met tumult was dropped. heading to the bench, wondering how his side would co

that soft a siberian cold air blew across the north of china and the korean peninsula. bringing some exceptionally low temperatures. it's now japan's time to deal with that brutal cold. we've already had some new record set in a condo. we had an old time temperature low. we also had all time record for wind gusts. and in hon shoe, we had $51.00 centimeters of snow fall over 12 hours. we are expecting more of those as the winter weather continues. that is going to ease however, up in the very north. but we will see the rain, sleet and snow pick up in the south. certainly by friday. now behind that, we've got on the blast of that cold air dropping temperatures once again on the korean peninsula. but for beijing, will it stand steady at one degrees celsius. thursday into friday now was moved to south asia were expecting the cold to sweep back into rochester in the north west of india. the wintry on where to where the dust ought to ease across the north. it's going to drip down, however, into my roster. and some heavy rain is set to sweep back into sri lanka, suddenly by friday to inculc

and we also so many of the short range ballistic missile type from random places on the korean peninsula. on the northern side of course, indicating apparently that north korea is aiming for the capability to be able to attack from any place from any time. and this morning, north korea is saying that it is a pursuing these capabilities because it must wage a struggle against washington and sold unparalleled efforts to stifle and isolate it. and what it cause and new asian form of nato. you know, came that for us in so thank he o canada becomes the latest country to impose cove 19 checks on travellers from china, where infections all soaring and found. sell us. why palais meant so much to them? miss santos proposed for huge funeral procession. ah ah, how i well, what a difference a week makes we are looking at some very mall. they're feeding up across much of north america now, just to the east of this co front here with drawer in the air, from the gulf of mexico pushing right up into that east side of canada. still some colder in place, just around the central area, sir. of the u. s. a p

own calls for an exponential increase of its nuclear arsenal as tensions rise on the chronic korean peninsula. plus i'm positive that on the outskirts of new delhi authorities have bags go in this region to equality. but many companies say this would impact live ah, a new year and a new beginning for croatia. the bulk of nation has adopted the euro as its official currency and enter the world's biggest passport, re shang, and travels on the full integration t. the european union comes in the 10 years after it joined the block. but there's anees about the changes. a stephanie tucker reports from saw gram. it's not just a new year. it's also a whole new currency. and here crecia feelings are mixed. seems every, every country who took on the euro, you less than the stuff leaving the went down you i think is going to be the same and ration me. so i'm not happy because i think everything will be more expensive. to be honest. i don't really care about that much. i think it's probably a natural transition, and that's why it's me, when it comes to business imports, exports and the tourism crecia is h

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and he says the military exercises will only escalate the already heightened tensions on the korean peninsula. and just like united states and our okay, also need to really think about why dpr k had to develop its nuclear weapons. i think dpr k concluded that it needed the nuclear weapon to prevent the color revolution that the united states as be doing to many other countries to prevent a kind of military assault on dpr k aimed at over throughly the dpr k government. and therefore, i think it really takes the 2 to tango, the united states, in particular empty p r k, need to negotiate with each other, resulting diplomacy to solve the nuclear weapon program on the korean peninsula. but now if the united states wants to join the military exercise with the.

term solution to de escalate attention that is currently really reaching appalling point in the korean peninsula. and you mentioned china before, how worried do we have to be about it's ambitions abroad? i think we should pay very close attention to the people's liberation army activities in and around asia. it's not only just in south china sea where they have long been conducting these very provocative moves and try to expand their territorial claims. but at the same time, in the over the last year, they have been conducting regular military exercises with russia near japan. and that is exactly one of the points that was highlighted in japan's, a national security and national defense plans that china is now the greatest security challenge to japan and also to the international community. and we have and are continuing to see the close relationship with between russia and china, being highlighted by the 2 leaders. most recently, just a few days ago, she didn't p. m, the russian president vladimir putin met it via video conference. and they highlighted this importance of the bilateral relations

would deploy more advanced weaponry to the korean peninsula. i'm a rising concern over north korea's weapons testing program. nato chief against oldenburg and japanese prime minister for mucous shita have promised to boost their ties. the pair said they were concerned by the growing threat to global security, imposed by russia and china as they met in tokyo. japan is not a nato member. bud cooperates closely with the alliance. at least a 100 people are now known to have died and focused on following a suicide bomb attack and a mosque inside a security compound funerals are taking place for some of the victims of monday's glasses and many of them police officers. the pakistani talbot initially claimed responsibility for the explosion and the north western city of per shower, but later denied any involvement authorities are investigating how the bomber managed to get inside the compound without being stopped. well, d, w spoke to officials impish, our for more, let's listen it. the security that there is no denying that this has been a security la

his counterpart in sol, austin also promised the us would deploy more advanced weaponry to the korean peninsula. there is rising concern over north korea's weapons testing program. nato chief, you installed in bergen, japanese prime minister for mio casita. have promised to booth ties, meeting in tokyo, the pair said they were concerned, find the growing threat to global security posed by russia and china. japan is not a nato member, but cooperates closely with the alliance. at least 100 people are now known to have died in pakistan following a suicide bomber tag and a mosque inside a security compound funerals have been taking place for some of the victims of mondays. the last many of them police officers, the pakistani taliban initially claim responsibility for the explosion in the northwestern city of pasha, while but later denied any involvement authorities are now investigating how the bonds managed to get inside the compound. without being stops. d w, spoke to officials impish, our for more let's listen in that there is no denying that this has been a security lapse. if someone could ente

would deploy more advanced weaponry to the korean peninsula. i mid rising concern over north korea's weapons testing program. nato chief un st oldenburg and japanese prime minister from york shita have promised to boost ties. the pair said they were concerned by the growing threat to global security, posed by russia and china. they met in tokyo, japan is not a nato member, but cooperates close the with the alliance. u. s. president joe biden has ruled out sending f 16 fighter jets to ukraine. is growing debates among west and allies about delivering warplanes to to keith green has been seeking modern jets to replace it. soviet build air force is the war, began. brazilian president lewis in last year, a new lead, a silver says his country. it will not send weapons to ukraine for its fight against russia during a press conference with german chancellor of schultz in the all priscilla south. american leader said brazil does not want any involvement in the war. charles, who has pledged more than $200000000.00 for environmental projects in brazil, w

would deploy more advanced weaponry to the korean peninsula amid rising concern of north korea's weapons testing program. nato chief yen salton berg and japanese prime minister for mucous shita. i've promised to boost a ties the pair said they were concerned by the growing threat to global security posed by russia and china, as they met in tokyo. japan is not a natal member, but corporates, closely with the alliance. u. s. president joe biden has ruled out sending f 16 fighter jets to ukraine. there's going debates among western allies about delivering war plays to q. ukraine has been seeking modern jets to replace it's soviet build air force since the war began. william president lewis in that's your letter. silver says his country will not send weapons to ukraine for its fight against russia during a press conference with german chancellor left sholtes in the capital overseer. the south american leaders in brazil does not want any involvement in the war. suggested china could play a role in peace negotiations, schoultz who was pledged more than $200000000.00 for environmental project i

personality is not presented on e, the tokyo rostrum and his traces were found during the war on the korean peninsula in the use of bacteriological weapons in the united states there in many samples that the koreans and chinese found, just felt the vc 731 of the detachment. these were standard designs. well , of course, significantly improved, then the americans. all in the world there are about 200 white laboratories located in the usa and 25 countries. our team is always aimed beyond the horizon. we are ready to conquer the unknown because we know that our current efforts. ultimately , the threat prevention agency will change the game from tomorrow. and the united states of america is one of the few countries that has postponed this destruction to 23, and they say that we do not have enough funding. today, a whole network of such biolaboratories has been deployed, ukraine georgia azerbaijan moldova uzbekistan to kazakhstan armenia is a biohazard case around our russian borders. some of the labs that funded absolutely it was more like uh. well, this theater that is, the americans work for you? and w

the korean peninsula getting a break from subzero temperatures.apan sees the windy weather pickup coming up from the far east of russia. that will bring some snow flurries stretching down towards the western areas. still some warmth in tokyo, double digits there. in particular, and india we have had fog issues, very cold conditions thanks to the calls way. -- called waves. it is set to ease as we go into the week ahead of that they are still there, much drier toward the south. heavy rain coming into sri lanka but we will see that slow and eased by the time we get to wednesday. ♪ >> we are a generation of scared people but very ambitious. very united. very persistent and very good at action. your beds might become turbo now but not for long. you will soon -- your beds might be comfortable for now but not for long. >> three women grapple with the impact of their frontline activists. >> a reminder of our top stories this hour. >> despite the near full evacuation of the city, the battle for bock moved rages on. -- bakhmut rages on. ukrainian authoriti

we can say , the average new yorker is better informed than the factory workers in the north korean peninsula likely, they are by no means better blinded by both of them. information monopoly if you doubt it. ask your neighbors. who wins in ukraine of course they celebrate what? ukraine, is it really so of course, because today they see it on tv, as every day before for all 11 months, all the american media trumpeted about this, except perhaps colonel mcgregor, who was on this show, after which he received the stigma of putin's agent but he is rather an exception, it is obvious that ukraine is winning, he tells us, a retired general. barry mccaffrey. ukraine wins in toilet michael mcfull of stanford university. ukraine wins exclaims hillary clinton ukraine wins vying with each other. screams, the entire media establishment. after all, anyone. whoever thinks otherwise, most likely works for russia, that's what they tell you, trying to convince the population that we play in the winners team and the americans believe them. how will we know the opposite. after all, they do not have their own sou

present his personality on e, the tokyo rostrum and his traces were found during the war on the korean peninsula in the use of bacteriological weapons in the united states there in many samples that the koreans and chinese found, the hand of detachment 731 was just felt. these were standard designs. well , of course, significantly improved, then the americans. about 200 us white labs hosted and 25 countries noe because we know our efforts today. ultimately will change the game from tomorrow prevention agency threats department. and the united states of america is one of the few countries that has postponed this destruction to 23, and they say that we do not have enough funding. today a whole network of such white laboratories has been deployed, ukraine georgia azerbaijan moldova uzbekistan kazakhstan armenia dangers around our russian borders, which laboratories that finance absolutely, it was more like, well, such a theater. so, do you have americans working with the names of american military personnel? we are invited to lab, but nothing happens in the lab. you understand, well, we grow a viru

to have a bigger role in managing the nuclear assets on the korean peninsula.id while the nuclear arsenal kit belongs to the u.s., the planning, intel sharing and exercise has to be done together. biden has said there is still no discussion about -- so we will find out what happens next. haidi: let's take a look at some of the stocks we are watching when trade opens in korea shortly. president biden says the u.s. is not discussing a joint exercise with south korea following exercises -- following calls from south korea. we'll be watching some of these defense stocks. coming up in the next hour, ubp equities research explains why asian earnings may not regain their ability to get back on track until 2024 but china's reopening could bring this forward. china beige book international talking about china's likely economic contraction the last quarter and what they see as an increasing unrealistic outlook on a first quarter recovery. the market opens in seoul. this is bloomberg. ♪ yvonne: this is "bloomberg daybreak: asia," we are counting down to asia's major marke

south korea says the north has fired three ballistic missiles toward the sea east of the korean peninsula. it is the latest in an unprecedented level of missile test by north korea this year. this after north korean drones cross into south korean airspace. brazil has declared three days of morning after the death of football legend palais p --ele, who died thursday at 82. thank you for watching. ♪ ♪ >> benjamin netanyahu back to power in israel. some may have a sense of dÉjÀ vu, but this time he will lead the most hardline government to date. what are the intentions of this new government and what does it mean for the so-called peace process with the palestinians? this is "inside story." ♪ welcome to the program. after two months of political wrangling, israel's most right wing and religiously conservative government in the country's history has been sworn in. the coalition is led by benjamin netanyahu, returns as prime minister for a sixth term. his appointment comes 18 months after he was ousted from power, and while he is facing corruption charges. netanyahu says national security will

now that cold air continue to push its way further south and to the east, across the korean peninsula, knocking temperatures down dramatically in both pyongyang and sold to the minus mid teens. by choose day. and that wasn't only here that we saw heavy snow and blizzard conditions disrupt traffic. but also in japan, we also had records here, the snow for wind gusts. and of course those exceptionally low it's hand pitches 3 of the 4 main islands in japan. so temperatures dropped below freezing. we are expecting those wintery conditions to continue, but in terms of temperatures, there has been a pause for the korean peninsula. we are expecting another blast to blow in. however, on friday or thirties in north korea have warned that extreme cold. but the bigger issue here, rob is that we are like to see to see more of these extreme weather events, hot and cold because of climate change. tara, thank you very much indeed. what i want to bring in the sung work from. i'm some south korea, his climate professor at the high young university, very good to have his. we're the sir on al jazeera. i

north atlantic alliance regularly meets with partners from asia discusses the situation on the korean peninsulalimate change cyber defense and maritime security to combat piracy as part of operation cigarte and ocean shield australia and new zealand have repeatedly provided nato with their ships, and naval patrols yu. hey alliance managed to secure tens of thousands of ships in the gulf of aden in 2014 countries joined the partnership initiative for operational interoperability, this program brings nato allied armies together to participate in joint operations since then, its participants have been exchanging military personnel, technologies and conducting joint combat exercises last june. japan has brought military manners with nato countries near russia's far eastern borders, with the participation of a strike force led by the nuclear aircraft carrier ronald reagan and the german air force, it is curious that before this strange hotels that are not full members. the alliance took part in the meeting of the military committee of the commanders-in-chief of the defense forces. well an alliance o

it says people from the korean peninsula were forced to work there.eoul says it will continue to work with unesco and the international community to bring attention to the history of forced labor. >>> train stations and bus terminals across china's major cities are packed ahead of sunday's lunar new year. millions are traveling to spend time with relatives after last year's covid lockdowns. nhk world's nakamura genta tagged along for a beijing factory worker's homecoming. >> reporter: it's been two years since zhang bo has been able to visit his family in shanxi province. high-speed rail makes the more than 800-kilometer journey easy, but covid has kept them apart. zhang gets a warm welcome and sits down for his first family meal in a long time. >> translator: i'm feeling good and happy to be back. >> reporter: it's not just zhang who is in good spirits. for his mother, it's the kind of get-together that was unthinkable only a few months ago. >> translator: it's great to have my family around, my son and daughter back. of course i'm happy. it's totall

temperatures are coming up a bit through the korean peninsula.s one in pyongyang thursday. ♪ >> a decade of change. the 1970's in the middle east of north africa. in the first of a two part series, al jazeera world charts some of the decade's pivotal events. the arab-israeli war. peace talks. military coups. oil embargoes. the 1970's in the arab world. politics on al jazeera. ♪ >> you're watching al jazeera. a reminder of top stories. ukraine has received a boost from allies. the u.s. announced it will be sending 31 battle tanks for defense against russia. earlier, germany said it would provide 14. krugman dismissed the plan as absurd. a spokesman said kyiv's allies were overestimating the benefit of sending tanks and says the vehicles will burn like others have before. meta will reinstate former president trump's accounts. trump was suspended from facebook and instagram after the january 6 attack on the capitol. he says the ban should never again happen to an american president. australia is marking its national day. it is a proud occasion for m

washington will deploy strategic weapons near the korean peninsula more frequently. in novp, u.s.ense secretary lloyd austin said his country recently deployed defense fighter jets. he added an aircraft carrier had visited the south. the table top exercise is a way for seoul to extend its deterrent, including nuclear capabilities. >>> south korea is considering have a foundation offer to korean war time laborers, instead of japanese firms that have been ordered to do so by a court. south korea's foreign ministry explained the plan thursday at a forum in seoul. director general for asia and pacific affairs, said views were raised in a consulttive body, it may be difficult to expect the japanese side to pay or offer apologies. damages could be paid by a third party instead. in light of the age of the plaintiffs, the south korean government may see this as the final stage in settling the wartime labor dispute with japan. but there's opposition to the idea. more than 50 people protested near the venue. they included opposition lawmakers and supporters of the plaintiffs. south korea su

not just japan, the korean peninsula seeing some really cold temperatures and the cold air also filteringo portions of china as well. here's a look at video coming out from there, and that's really interesting here. yeah, that's a bike covered in snow as we see a major cold front bringing record breaking low temperatures to parts of china, and we are also seeing railway workers working extra shifts to clear snow from train tracks and also off those platforms. authorities are saying the residents should still watch out for dangerously cold conditions going through the rest of the week. when it comes to precipitation, things are going to be on the dryer side across china but the cold air still a big part of the story as we go through the day on friday, facing a high of only 2. quick note over into madagascar, keeping an eye on the tropical system, continue to move to the south, bringing flooding rain into the area with strong winds and we are looking at the possibility of seeing heavier rainfall with some locationis seeing 150 millimeters of rain as we go forward throughout the next few day

that trend continues across the korean peninsula.emperatures have tumbled, rain, sleet and snow caused problems with traffic and canceled some flights. temperatures remain exceptionally low for places like so. there will be some improvement as that winter storm blasts into japan. it is going to bring very heavy snow to western areas. we could see some disruption there. behind it a much improved picture for places like beijing. a similar story in shanghai with the change in the wind. as we have a look at the three-day, at least the sunshine will be coming back in. in south asia, things looking wet and wintry, some snow coming in, trickling into parts of pakistan. there has been some unusual warmth across parts of india. kathmandu continuing to see the temperature push into the early 20's. the wetter weather does improve, slipping further south. heaviest showers coming into sri lanka on thursday. that is your weather update. ♪ >> who's there? the answer was in arabic. i was abducted by the cia. >> in two thousand four, a german citizen