we have also seen a change in the buyer behavior in north america.are a market that wanted yesterday. when you make a decision to buy something, you wanted in your garage. people have learned that that is not the way that you can buy now, whether it is a luxury good, premium good, whatever the case is. we are seeing people are placing deposits down which is helping us prioritize the way those bites are sold. if you walk into a dealership these days, you may not see the volume of product that you may have seen in the past, but we are prioritizing those deliveries that we have two those customers that are presold . we are satisfying them, it is lower cost along the supply chain, lower floor costs, and the customer is satisfied quicker. matt: this place looks amazing. i have been coming here for years. i know they were smart enough to preorder a lot of product. is it tough for the other dealers, are they selling out as soon as they get things in? >> they are selling out pretty quickly. of course, we are in the off-season for most of the country with the

with the latest from washington, here's our north america editor sarah smith.re the russians are not trying to camouflage these military exercises their troops are conducting in belarus near the ukrainian border — these pictures were provided by the russian defence ministry. has vladimir putin decided to order these troops into ukraine? the us say they simply don't know, but they believe he is in a position to do so, so they are escalating warnings military action could be imminent, possibly within days. now, we can't pinpoint the day at this point, and we can't pinpoint the hour, but what we can say is that there is a credible prospect that a russian military action would take place even before the end of the olympics. borisjohnson and other european leaders joined a call convened by president biden this evening, along with nato chiefjens stoltenberg, johnson urging allies to have ready punishing economic sanctions against russia. with fears that aerial bombing and missile attacks against kyiv could precede any ground invasion, brits in ukraine are being urged

north america commodity producers are tops to do well in this. u.s. net agriculture exporter and one of the major energy exporter. the technology is picking up. there is so much supply. i will leave you with this. natural gas price now is about the same as it was in 2000. why is that? massive supply out of the u.s. matt: i want to ask you about bitcoin which you cover deeply. we are looking at 44,213. it's been a pretty bullish couple of sessions here. what is driving the bitcoin price higher even as we see stocks lagging? mike: i think that's what is finally happening, matt. i have been looking for bitcoin to gain that global collateral store value status every day and the stock market is losing to the fed. it's starting to transmogrify. the nasdaq is down 10%. there will be more pressure on risk assets. bitcoin is transitioning. still very small portions of most portfolios. people think i need this for the risk. matt: the inelasticity is fascinating. thank you for being with us. coming up, shares of peloton soar amid reports it's exploring takeover

this is the most important crossing in north america.third of it goes along this bridge. it has been closed for days now. this has never happened before. that is so tremendously difficult for businesses, auto manufacturing on both sides of the border, the parts, businesses, for the people that work there, it's just tremendously difficult, and so this is the area that they've blocked. so they had to close the bridge because there'd have been no way for people to get off the bridge. and as i said, they control this area, and have done so for several days, in spite of the fact that police are off to my left and off to my right basically doing crowd control at this point. but we know from our sources that there are, as i said, hundreds of police officers waiting to be able to be deployed here, knowing that it may take force to remove the people who've been asked to leave should they decide not to. meanwhile, in france, president macron has appealed for calm after so—called freedom convoy supporters landed in paris, inspired by the canadian t

sarah smith, a north america - yes. sarah, many thanks. sarah smith, a north america editor. yes.ca editor at yes. sarah, many thanks. sarah - smith, a north america editor at the white house. —— sarah smith, our north america editor at the white house. borisjohnson says the nhs will be set what he calls "tough new targets" to tackle the record waiting lists in england. ministers had been due to announce plans today to deal with the backlog, but that's been delayed until later this week. more than six million patients are currently waiting for non—urgent operations and procedures, as our health editor hugh pym reports. politics and health, a difficult mix. the nhs has the daunting task of tackling the backlog of reparations which built up during the pandemic. a plan for england was to be published today, but it was delayed because of a reported intervention by the treasury. it's depressing news for annie. she's already been waiting more than two years for a knee operation, and she's desperate for any action which might help her local hospital make inroads into the waiting list. i'

are published here in europe and in north america. what's the situation in nigeria? well, i will see that you shouldn't really want to see your medical students in our area . are you going to be the euro very rich white illustration on the i'd be the medical i was with you in on a level 2 doesn't like rock because it doesn't get through it. be ready on the he showing which raj, whereas on, on the african department he tries represent different and so that, that, that shit that because medical in white there's somewhat of communication up there. and do you think that the publishing houses in nigeria in south africa, for example, do you think they've got the message from you and they're going to begin publishing more anatomy books that actually fit not only the medical students, but the patience of the people where you are yes, i strongly believe the message has gone out of this. whiting old old people and the publishers are working a hideous into black la fissions in the army portez and all. none of that also gone whiteness send that i

are published here in europe and in north america. what's the situation in nigeria? well, i will see that you shouldn't really want to see because for medical students that are going to be the euro, which wipe illustration on the i b medical i was able to rock because it doesn't get through it. be ready on the he showing which raj, whereas on, on the ball african he tries represent different and so that, that, that, that should be critical in wiping the system and there's somewhat of a common chunk up there. and do you think that the publishing houses in nigeria in south africa, for example, do you think they've got the message from you and they're going to begin publishing more anatomy books that actually fit not only the medical students, but the patience of the people where you are yes, i saw me got the message has gone out this widen. old old people in the publishers are working a cd into butler fusion in the army portez and all, none of that also gone whiteness send that is going to sort of more each other a little bit more of bl

are published here in europe and in north america. what's the situation in nigeria? well, i will see that you shouldn't really want to see because for medical students in our area, are you the sense that i be the euro? which wipe illustration on on the i b medical i was unable to reach ross because it doesn't get through it. be ready on the he showing which raj, whereas on, on the ball african he tries represent different. and so that, that, that, that shit, africa because you got it in the system and there's somewhat of communication up there. and do you think that the publishing houses in niger area in south africa, for example, do you think they've got the message from you and they're going to begin publishing more anatomy books that actually fit not only the medical students, but the patients of the people where you are yes, i got the message, one of widen old old people and the publishers are walking a video to black locations in the network. and i'm not awful that the also gone why you spend that? she's going to of more insuranc

... latte some about it, and particularly in north america. . ._ north america...r some thing happening it even more closely! it is no i longer some thing happening in it even more closely! it is no - longer some thing happening in the us and canada, right? what is remarkable about it is how the because of the rise of social media, instant access to news and what is happening, this is really something that has been spreading around the world, this kind of idea that, through protest by truckers and blocking key infrastructure, this could really bring governments to their knees, so you had this happening in australia, new zealand, where the parliament in wellington was being besieged by a lot of truckers, and attempts at this in france, and is even talk that perhaps in the end of this is happening, so i find really tricky, dissent in a democracy needs to be tolerated. it is important that people who have opposing views can express those views. sometimes even ways that inconvenience others. you have now, though, a state of emergency in the state of ontario, the provin

having cut off most truck traffic, the largest land frontier in north america on thursday, they shut down another bridge. canadian prime and justin trudeau will hold a virtual meeting with opposition leaders to discuss ways out of the crisis. so 100 has the story from port huron in michigan. along the us canadian border, the truckers blockade is slowly taking its toll. this paddle border is moving faster than traffic and is rebels in 18 wheelers demanding an end to covered 19 restrictions continue using their freedom convoy to block the border on the canadian side, the pain is being felt on both sides. ford has stopped its auto assembly line in windsor, toyota. his close 3 plans across ontario and general motors is cutting shifts in michigan. and those closures threatened to reverberate throughout the auto supply chain. despite the added time and traffic, this truckers as the demonstrators have a point. everybody right? go whatever you want, you know, i want, i want a guy, i don't support him, you know, but i think it kind of sucks. you know all the traffic here, you know, on thursda

the bbc�*s north america reporter, samira hussain, can tell us more.s that began here in ottawa, ontario, have spread to several canadian cities, but the one area that has really a cause for concern is the one that's happening along the us canada border. the ambassador bridge for several days has been blocked, and while these protesters have allowed for one lane of traffic it to open up as a gesture of goodwill, it is still hampering trade going across that border freely. hampering trade going across that borderfreely. that hampering trade going across that border freely. that is why there is an increasing amount of pressure on both the federal and provincial government to try and get an end to these protests, because it is impacting the ever important auto industry in canada and the us. so, we are hearing that there is now a state of emergency in the province of ontario. it does allow police a lot more powers and they have a lot of support. we've also heard from prime ministerjustin trudeau, who has also made it very clear that these protests will end

, north america still in the grips of winter temperature wise for many places in fact, looked at houston only 9 degrees. but the sun is there, starting to get quite strong, is playing its part. the forecast for houston is the battle between that cold winter, the sunshine on sunday, the sunshine winds in europe 18 by the time we get to monday. however, there is very obviously winter coming in for the pacific still is affecting western canada quite a lot, but it's also coming across the border, other wet, or snowy weather, for the weather sponsored by cataract ways. ah, this is al jazeera ah hello has i'm seeking this is the news out live from dark coming up in the next 60 minutes. fighting reaches the streets of the ukrainian capital, kia as russia continues its military advice.

let's speak to our north america correspondent, peter bowes.alling on americans to leave and saying things could go crazy quickly. is this an escalation in rhetoric from the president?— president? well, the white house has _ president? well, the white house has been _ president? well, the white house has been telling - house has been telling americans to get out of ukraine for several weeks so this is really the president reinforcing that message and the wide—ranging interview that she gave which coincided with the latest warning not to travel to ukraine and those americans leaving immediately and also suggesting that if there were a russian invasion there were a russian invasion there would be severe reduced and would not be able to help americans get out of the country and it was put to the president of the country that there could be a scenario and they could send americans in there to help them get out and he gave this explanation as to why he didn't want to see us forces or soldiers in new crop. dancer world war when americans have _ dance

obviously north america includes america.border as well? is there coordination among other areas? obviously a lot of americans may look at this and mistakenly think it's a canadian problem, but really it's a north american issue at this point in time. what kind of coordination is there? >> i've had conversation with the governor of michigan's office. i've had conversations with the mayor of detroit. everyone i've spoken with is willing to provide whatever assistance we need. from a u.s. perspective, we appreciate all that is happening and all that is being offered. right now the situation is under control. tomorrow we go to court at noon to seek an injunction to help the police, you know, have documentation in their back pocket that they can present to this group of protesters and say, time to move on. and if they're unwilling to move on, we will bring in the tow trucks and the equipment to move the vehicles out of the way to reopen this border crossing because it is too essential to both of our national economies and the liv

north america's busiest border crossing reopened after police arrest protesters and clear trucks taking part in a week long demonstration against coby 19 restrictions. the canadian capitalist business district remains gridlocked. and in germany's bond as legal doctrine, the audio and burned to reignite a title race to champions by munich suffer a shock defeat the hands of tiny polk. ah, i'm fil gail. welcome to the progress. a german chancellor ola sholtes heads to the ukrainian capital key. if today i made growing fears of an imminent russian invasion meeting with president vladimir savanski, he is expected to offer more economic support, but no weapons. on tuesday, he travels to moscow for talks with vladimir putin of the presence of more than 100000 russian troops. on its border with ukraine, and what's being seen as a serious threat to peace in europe. ah, downtown kia, finite residence, seem relaxed despite the rumors of a possible invasion. yet it's you. i said, i feel com, you should always be ready for everything. and then you'll have nothing to be afraid of but not every one in

the bridge is described as the most important land crossing in north america. it is a vital trade route between canada and the u. s. hundreds of millions of dollars in goods, especially older parts are driven across this bridge. every day. business leaders are accusing the protesters of damaging canadas economy. they are demanding that the truckers be forced out of the way well, more now joined by evan dyer. he is a senior reporter with the cbc. he's in ottawa evidence. good to see you again. maybe you can update is what is the status of of traffic along this important ambassador bridge? i mean, are any trucks moving at all? well, it actually changes almost hour to hour, but it's changed. that's the latest development is that the police on the winter side of the bridge, this is basically a bridge that goes from the canadian side to the us side of the detroit windsor metropolitan area, which is really sort of one urban area and the police on the winter side have been able to open one lane, heading towards detroit, so traffic is moving slowly in that direction. w

there are a string of tournaments in north america — a string of tournaments in north america in— a stringin the build—up to the final grand slam — america in the build—up to the final grand slam of the year and the us open _ grand slam of the year and the us open in— grand slam of the year and the us open in new york which starts at the end of— open in new york which starts at the end of august. if the rules do not change. — end of august. if the rules do not change. he — end of august. if the rules do not change, he could find himself in the us open— change, he could find himself in the us open as — change, he could find himself in the us open as he did in the australian open _ us open as he did in the australian open at _ us open as he did in the australian open at the — us open as he did in the australian open at the start of the year. england's women will play a test against south africa for the first time in 20 years this summer. it will be played at taunton and will be followed by three one—day internationals and three t20s before a limited overs series against india. england's last

north america's busiest border crossing reopened police rest protestors and clear trucks taking part in a week long demonstration against cope with 19 restrictions. but the canadian capitals business district remains gridlocked and the high court in india is expected to be ruled on a ban on the wearing of his shots in schools and cannot because state muslim students say the band is infringement of their religious rights. ah, i'm so gale. welcome to the program. 7, chancellor, olaf shoulds is on route to the crime capital care for mid growing fears of an imminent russian invasion. meeting with president vladimir lensky. mister schultz is expected to offer ukraine war. echo nomic support, but no weapons. the visit comes of staff from the organization for security and economic cooperation are pulled out of the eastern rebel health city of dan yeske and been monitoring the conflict there. western intelligence sources say russia now has more than a 100000 troops on ukraine's borders tomorrow. the chancellor travels to moscow to urge the russian president to deescalate the crisis. the w co

our north america reporter anthony zurcher explains the importance of this ruling.w by our north america correspondent peter bowes. this is a very significant ruling. it this is a very significant rulina. . , this is a very significant rulina. ., , ., , , ruling. it remains to be seen what happens _ ruling. it remains to be seen what happens over— ruling. it remains to be seen what happens over the - ruling. it remains to be seen what happens over the nextl ruling. it remains to be seen i what happens over the next few weeks. it looks very likely that the trump lawyers will appeal this ruling but it goes to the heart of a long—running investigation, as you say, into the financial affairs of the trump organisation and specifically those allegations outlined by the attorney general in new york that there is evidence of misleading statements relating to the valuation of the trump brand but also certain trump properties as well and they did the inflated to make it easy for the organisation to get bank loans and, in some cases, deflated to lower their tax burden. the tru

now that bridge connects detroit and windsor and is the busiest international crossing in north americawo-week-long siege of the capital city's downtown core and a blockade shutting down a crossing between manitoba and north dakota. now look, it's not accurate to call what's happening in places like windsor simply a trucker protest. cnn reporters on the scene tell us there are many more nontruckers that are there than are actually truckers. closing those bridges actually cut canadians off from food. you know, the u.s. exports $21 billion in food to canada every single year. and meanwhile, american automakers are sending home some workers because their plants are now cut off from the part they actually need to keep the assembly lines moving. one economic group estimates lost wages from michigan auto workers just this week alone, mind you, could top $51 million. and this might actually spread. the dhs is preparing for a similar scene here in washington, d.c. next month. and they also issued a warning about similar plans to try to disrupt traffic even around the super bowl in l.a. windsor

but as covid-19 cases begin to recede here, as is across north america, some of the restrictions thats here despisere disappearing anyway. the western province of alberta is ending vaccination requirements to dine indoors, and mask mandates for schools. other canadian provinces have indicated that they will follow suit in the coming weeks. canada's attempts to control one local threat seems to have started another -- an angry populism that rejects government control. and ashe threat of covid starts to wane, the question for political leaders is how much of that angerill remain. samir hussein, bbc news, ottawa. laura: the main defendant in the trial lated to the 2015 paris attacks took the stand for the first time on wednesday. 130 people died in those attacks. an to learn how he becameamilies radicalized. salah abdeslam is charged with murders committed as part of a terrorist organization, but he claimed he did not kill or hurt anyone. not an important breakthrough in the world of clean power. a u.k. laboratory has smashed the record for generating energy from a nuclear fusion reactio

it's a north america problem by the way, and it's impacting american jobs. it's impacting american trade and could actually worsen the already difficult u.s. inflation. you know, access to three major border crossings have been cut off by the truckers, and those who are -- i guess you call them the like-minded demonstrators. and they started out protesting covid mandates and restrictions in canada, but that list of the grievances, it's been growing and growing, and it's grown in the two weeks since all of this started. and now there are concerns that that list of grievances and that convoy could actually form here. in fact, the dhs has warned now in a bulletin that super bowl sunday could be disrupted along with transportation in major u.s. cities. it actually believes that the convoy will potentially begin in california as early as mid-february and arrive in washington, d.c. as late as mid-march. translation, that could even impact president biden's state of the union address on march 1st. another convoy to the capitol area? i don't know that america's read

and the largest land border crossing in north america. and a judge has now granted an injunction to give the police more power to end the blockade. power to clear the bridge and even tow vehicles if needed. and of course logistically able to do so. and by the way, it went into effect just a short while ago. so we're going to watch what happens there and keep you posted about why this really matters. and by the way, around 10,000, around 10,000 commercial vehicles crossed the bridge you're looking at each and every day, with about $325 million worth of goods. some of the world's biggest car companies have been shutting down or even reducing production lines because of this here in the u.s. i'm talking about ford and gm and chrysler and other automakers. they're having to cut back production. which means that factory workers are losing their shifts and losing their paychecks. and it's only further threatening our supply chain if it's allowed to continue. that according to the ceo of the national association of manufacturers. meanwhile, in s

. >> i hate to use that slogan, but make north america great again. >> make north america great again. i don't mean to use that guy's word. >> maga tactics at the heart of a confrontation that has fox news cheering on demonstrations hurting the u.s. economy, begging the so-called freedom convoy to come to a neighborhood near you. more on that. >>> we want to begin with breaking new information on biden'sassertion that -- biden's comments came after intelligence showed russian military was given the go ahead on invasion. it is coming as president biden wraps up a rare sunday meeting with his security council moments ago in the situation room. discussing the latest buildup of russian troops along the ukrainian border. let's go to josh lederman at the white house. a couple things to tick through. you and i spoke in the last hour. a lot has changed since then, especially the president's tiktok over the next 24 hours. we're getting a short, a brief, but a readout on the national security meeting. talk us through it. >> reporter: let's start with the president's schedule. the last time i sp

and us aligned the north america economy to get the best of both worlds. and deb our trade frances, what the irish republic has double or trebled is. and since that opened up but equally we still have a good access to the u. k. markets. so we have both with accessible to you and you came arkansas and it's doing pretty well in our economy is doing very well. so you would basically agree with paul monahan, for example, the chief executive of the chamber of commerce. not allowed who, who says exactly that we're doing well, we've got preferential access to the u cable, the total access to the e u. that's why the nor nice economy is a land of opportunity. and yet, individual businesses quoted by jim shannon, for example, say look at, you know, we're finding, you know, we've got to felon 20 forms to, to, to export era or stuff to our own country. he can see the point of view. there is, nope, no doubt that there are issues there and on basically that in order to maintain the bipartisan, if you'd like, or the double benefits, there will be some losers. but though

this is a sad day for north america. we've had many sad days in north america. we are not subjects.'t relist by force. trudeau was doing the right thing until this point, in terms of action, not language. he was letting us play out peacefully, and that was going someplace, i think, until biden got on the horn and pressured him to throw down against his own citizens. congrats, dustin: you are the first congrats, justin: you are the first world leader to listen to biden. [laughter] can you imagine you are a client of a bank and they freeze your assets because you are participating in civil disobedience? i would not be surprised if i saw a run on some of these banks, would not be surprised of people look at date their assets and put it into another depository. imagine as a bank president how nauseous you would feel, taking in order politician from your own clientele, your neighbors. you are supposed to treat them like terrorists? they are your countrymen. it's horrible arid this isn't, this is what this is an jihad, this this is what we want people to do when they have a beef with the

our north america correspondent, david willis, has been giving me the reaction to mr pence�*s commentsof course, was one of the most loyal vice presidents you could ever find. he was renowned for his almost filial loyalty to donald trump, defending mr trump even in some of his most controversial moments, so these remarks are being seen — being granted with some astonishment here. they are the most outspoken criticism of his former boss to have come from mike pence. but in the last few days, donald trump has basically ground down on the narrative that mike pence could have done more to basically prevent the election from going tojoe biden. he said he could have "overturned" the results of the electoral college. now, that is, of course, false. and today, mike pence decided to call donald trump out on that, saying that mr trump was wrong in that assertion and also saying that such a move by a vice—president would be, as he put it, "un—american". this comes, though, at the same time — as i alluded to there, david — the republican party censuring two of its top lawmakers for investigating t

the ambassador bridge between ontario and detroit is one of the busiest border crossings in north americas disuption too at coutts in the province of alberta, and emerson in manitoba. the economic cost is likely to be considerable. samira hussain has the latest. horns blare. for yet another day, lorry drivers furious at vaccine mandates and covid restrictions have blocked the busiest land border crossing in north america. itjust keeps going on and on. the economic impact could be serious. a quarter of all trade between canada and the united states happens here, or it did until angry truckers decided to intervene. we want freedom. there should be a choice in this country whether... they can't force something on you. many people have lostjobs with these lockdowns, and now with these mandates. the protests have forced two of the world's largest car makers to suspend operations, a financial burden that has caught the attention of the white house. i think it's important for everyone in canada and the united states to understand what the impact of this blockage is — potential impact on workers,

our north america, editor sarah smith, reporting from washington.mine the destiny of ukraine. under soviet communism, as many as four million died of hunger, when moscow forced people from small holdings, to disastrously inefficient collective farms. the bitterness remains to this day, and in a special report, fergal keane has been to herrkiv, close to the russian border, to meet some of the last survivors of the famine. as the kremlin�*s choirs praised stalin, the world was told of a happy land. archive: and today it is, above all, the granary of| eastern europe with the black earth bringing forth millions of acres of peat. but this 95—year—old knows what a lie that was. forced collectivisation of farms brought starvation and terror to his family. translation: it was very scary. there was a brigade with pitchforks who came to every house searching for bread. i was five at that time. you locked the doors and all the windows, but they used crowbars to come inside, and then they went to all the barns to try and find any buried bread. food was seized t

and we do need to be thinking about the bird because in the past half century north america has lost more than one 4th of its birds. and if you like me, your 1st thought is, well, why don't we send david copperfield out to look for them? he's not doing anything important. and we know he's good and finding things because he found the statue of liberty after that went missing the. the amazing and after his magic career, dried up, he found a new line of work making, mustard stains disappear off people's dry cleaning. kinda odd cordell when he's waiting for the standing ovation. you know, could, could i just get my shirts, david, know, david, i don't need the all to do. don't bring out the cape. no, i don't need to see the cape. but now when we say north america has lost a quarter of all birds, it turns out they mean they've died and considering the fact that we humans use the natural environment to stay alive. because just by the law must efforts, we can survive purely on bio feedback and don't coin. you would think we would all view the destruction of the natural world as an emergency.

also on the program, north america's busiest border crossing reopens police arrest protesters and clear trucks taking part in a week long demonstration against coven 19 restrictions. the canadian capitals business district remains grid locked. and brushing figure skater community a back can compete in the, in the olympic womens singles event after she's cleared by sports quarter by arbitration, to resist the last word. in this case, we'll hear from a correspondence with a turkish mother taking on the u. s. government and the clandestine network, providing abortions in 1960. so america, the international film festival gets political, putting women's rights, and fights front and center. ah, i'm fil gail. welcome to the program. german chancellor, olaf sholtes had to the crimea capital gift. today i made growing fears of an imminent russian invasion and meeting with president vladimir savanski is expected to offer a ukraine more economic support, but no weapons. the visit comes overseas staff full out of the eastern rebel held in the city of dun yeske, western intelligence sources say russ

in the last weeks, allies from north america and europe have deployed thousands or more troops to the east and part of the lines. and placed more on standby. we have over hung the jets at high lurch, protecting our air space. i'm more than a 120 allowed ships at sea from the high north to the mediterranean. all this shows that are collected the fence commitment. article 5 is item count. we will continue to do whatever is necessary to shield alliance from aggression. i have a called a virtual summit of natalee. there's to morrow to address the way forward. russia is now facing severe costs and consequences imposed by the whole and national community. the communists aim is to re establish its there of influence. repub the global rules that have kept those all safe for decades and subvert the values that we hold dear. this is the new normal for our security piece cannot be taken for granted. freedom and democracy are contested by alteration gm's. as a t g, competition is on the rise, we must respond within you'd resolve an even stronger unity, north america and europe to get there in nat

north america is the busiest border crossing reopened. police arrest protest doesn't clear trucks taking part in a week long demonstration against co b. 19 restrictions. the canadian capitals business district remains great lot and turkish mother taking on the u. s. government and the clandestine network providing a fortunes in 1960. so america, with an international film festival gets political, putting women's rights and fights front unset ah, i'm show, go welcome to the program. 7 chance of olaf sholtes had to the ukrainian capital gift. today i made growing can concerns about an imminent russian invasion is expected to offer ukraine more economic support, but no weapons is visit comes as our see staff fall out of the east and revel health, city of the net western intelligence sources. same rationale has more than a 100000 troops on ukraine's borders. on tuesday, mister schultz will travel to moscow to urge vladimir putin to deescalate the crisis and t w's at nick connelly takes a look at the challenges facing the german chancellor. on today's visit. germany's new chancellor is going

but as covid—i9 cases begin to reseed here, as it is across north america, some of the restrictions thatyway. the western province of alberta is ending vaccination requirements to dine indoors and mask mandates for schools. other canadian provinces have indicated they will follow suit in the coming weeks. canada's attempts to control one global threat, covid, seems to have stirred another — and angry populism that rejects government control. and, as the threat of covid starts to wane, the question for political leaders is, how much of that anger will remain? samira hussein, bbc news, ottawa. you're watching newsday on the bbc. tilson home. the not so modern man, the discoveries that shows homo sapiens may have arrived in europe a lot earlier than we thought. there's mr mandela, mr nelson mandela, a free man taking his first steps into a new south africa. iran's spiritual leader, ayatollah khamenei, has said he's passed a death sentence on salman rushdie, the british author of a book which many muslims say is blasphemous. the people of haiti have flocked to church to give thanks for the o

but now when we say north america has lost a quarter of all birds, it turns out they mean they've died and considering the fact that we humans use the natural environment to stay alive. because just by the law must efforts, we can survive purely on bio feedback and don't coin. you would think we would all view the destruction of the natural world as an emergency. it's an emergency even greater than the pandemic that have killed one out of every 260 adults in the us. because once the animals and the in sags got you, all of our guy except stephen hawking. her rumour has it has been downloaded into a talking latte machine at the large hadron collider facility. of all the species that have ever existed on planet earth, more than 99 percent are now gone most having winked away during 5 major extinction events. the last caused by an asteroid, the struck, or some 66000000 years ago today, given global habitat loss and widespread persistent toxins. we modern humans are the asteroid. we're the asteroid arm again in deep impact. right. but there's no bruce willis to save us this time. so bruce w

of all, we have higher inflation and northern ireland because the cost of bringing goods and to north america has gone up fabric, 25 percent. secondly, many goods which used to be available tis are no longer available. companies are struggling with supply chines, because companies in england have refused to supply to, nor mom to, to the increase pipper worked on the delays with customs check. and of course, that has meant to be either foods available has been reduced and end of individuals across northern ireland found it difficult to obtain goods without having customs to these, imposed on them. even though it was good, you're coming from other parts of the united kingdom. yet we have customs to these imposing goods which are coming in to another part of the united kingdom. where something can find that more onerous than the public. because at the end of last october, the regular pole from queens university, belfast showed a slim majority of voters, 52 percent agreeing or strongly agreeing that the protocol is on balance. a good thing for more than up from 43 percent into pose earlier in the

our north america editor sarah smith reporting from washington.e of the day's other news. the united nations is warning that south sudan is in danger of returning to civil war due to delays in implementing the 2018 peace deal. a visiting un team said key elements of the agreement were behind schedule, including setting up a court to try perpetrators of atrocities. president biden has ordered half of the afghan government's assets frozen in the us to be used for humanitarian aid in the country. the other half of the funds is being held for settling the claims filed against the taliban over their role in the 9/11 attacks. for more on all our stories, go to the bbc news website. you'll find plenty of background and analysis. go to bbc.com/news, or you can download the app. stay with us here on bbc news. still to come — a royal goodnight from the duchess of cambridge: a bedtime story marking children's mental health week. we can all feel scared sometimes, just like our little friend plop. let's get more now on that story that president biden has order

i just traveled to south america, which is a higher vaccination rate in north america. everyone's always massed. you have to show that seem hard to get in a grocery store. there's no political divisions driving it. we need to get to that can attitude. hong kong is reporting another record number of corona, virus infections with more than a $1300.00 new cases on friday, infections have increased tenfold since the sound of the month despite an aggressive isolation policy. mainland chinese officials who have been enforcing a 0 coven. 1900 strategy will meet today at hong kong colleagues on saturday to discuss how to stop the spread of the virus. japan's infection rate is showing signs it's about to pate compared to last week. infections fell for the 1st time in almost 2 months, despite that, the government's extending restrictions for 3 weeks to ease the pressure on hospitals. the us is urging canada to use federal powers to end a 4 day blockade along the shade border. thousands of truck drivers protesting against pandemic restrictions and disrupting the flow of goods. as a result, john hen

but as covid—i9 cases begin to recede here, as it is across north america, some of the restrictions thate western province of alberta is ending vaccination requirements to dine indoors and mask mandates for schools. other canadian provinces have indicated they will follow suit in the coming weeks. canada's attempts to control one global threat, covid, seems to have stirred another, an angry populism that rejects government control. and as the threat of covid starts to wane, the question for political leaders is — how much of that anger will remain? samira hussain, bbc news, ottawa. let's get some of the day's other news. the american singer, betty davis, whose music has influenced generations of artists, has died at the age of 77. davis enjoyed little commercial success during her career, but her raw, sexually candid songs from the �*60s and early �*70s won a cult following and paved the way for later artists such as prince and madonna. the main suspect in the 2015 paris attacks, salah abdeslam, has told a french court he has not killed or injured anyone. 130 people died and many more we

in the last weeks, allies from north america and europe have deployed thousands or more troops to the east. and part of the lines and placed more on standby. we have over hung the jets at high a lurch, protecting our air space. and more than a 120 allowed ships at sea, from the high north to the mediterranean. all this shows that are collected the fence commitment. article 5 is i'd and count will continue to do whatever is necessary it to shield alliance from aggression. i have called a virtual summits of natalee this to morrow to address the way forward. russia is now facing severe costs and consequences imposed by the whole and national community. the communists aim is to re establish it's there of influence. repub, the global rules that have kept those all safe for decades. and so verge, the values that we hold dear. this is the new normal for our security piece. cannot be taken for granted. freedom and democracy are contested by alteration gm's as a t g. competition is on the rise. we must respond with renewed resolve and even stronger unity, north america and europe to get there

let's have a look at the weather in north america. and it's all about the contrasting temperatures this weekend in the u. s. and the west coast and the east coast, we are seeing the heat continue to build in that southwest corner with the temperature record for february broken in san francisco. well, there's more of that to come. if we have a look at the 3 day for los angeles, while we're going to be touching nearly 30 degrees by sunday, so nearly 10 degrees above average with plenty of sunshine. now in contrast to this, we've got that arctic cold continue across eastern parts of canada, and that's going to affect the east coast of the us. look at that dramatic drop in temperature for new york city. if we have a look, we've got a wintry mix moving in by sunday with some snow. it clears up on monday, but it is going to be rather bitterly cold. so wrap up warm. now we have a look. we've got snow moving across central parts of canada into parts of those mid western states up in the north in particular. but much of the weather is edging o

our north america editor, sarah smith, is in washington. there is a pessimistic mood in washington tonight, as a senior administration official says there has been no fundamental change in the dynamic after that call between presidents biden and putin. the us says it is unclear whether russia is interested in pursuing its goals through a diplomatic solution rather than through the use of force. so president biden was blunt about his intention to impose punishing economic sanctions — "swift and severe costs", he called them — if russia does further invade ukraine. and after the call, the kremlin�*s top foreign policy adviser said, "hysteria has reached its peak." now, as america believe that president putin is in a position to order an invasion any day now, they're warning about the possibility of a manufactured attack on russian forces that could be blamed on ukrainians and then used as a trigger for military action. new details about what the us calls a false flag operation were discussed in an emergency meeting in the white house situatio

north america and europe together in nato. we are an alliance of 30 democracies standing as one. we will protect our people and our values. democracy will always prevail over autocracy. freedom will always prevail over oppression. and then i am ready to take your questions. >> thank you. secretary-general, we all know that nato will not fight for ukraine. but don't you think it's time for nato to build onto putin's coalition? thank you. >> nato stands in solitary with ukraine and nato allies are enforcing severe costs on russia for their reckless invasion of ukraine. nato allies come in nation with european union partners all over the world, are now imposing severe economic sanctions on russia to demonstrate that we -- follow-up on what we said and it will be a high price for russia to pay. nato allies for a very long period of time have also provided support, military support, to ukraine and help ed them to build russia stronger and much better trained armed force today than ukraine had in 2014. and i'd like to recognize the bravery of the ukrainian men and women in uniform that