u. s. australia, japan, norway, canada, and the u. k. american officials even released a video urging nigerians to vote received negative feedback on social media. your whole matter is selection matter, not only to nigerians, but to the rest of the world. we're invested in your success or shared democratic futures depend on it than i do. people have a friend and partner in the united states of america, home a m. o. from on this, we're joined to live now by doctor law. my for political analyst. i got to look for thanks very much for joining us this afternoon. i know you asked me to proceed me. i saw pleasure yours, mr. nigeria. i don't have you heard the clip just at least that video with us officials calling on nigerians to go to the polls. what do you think they're so interested in the elections in nigeria? yeah, well they, you are, i said, i interest in my generic eyes that were bright they and almost and nigeria, of course, you know, is the most populous. they're black, constrained to work in a so they, they want to power naturally in

u. s. canada, australia, france, belgium. they are re patching bare families from not the syria. so shima begum is not being treated differently to a number of the other british families out there. they are all being cast out, rejected. none of them are getting to process. this is unlikely to be the end of shima begum fight to get her british citizenship back. but even if this court had ruled in her favor, that wouldn't have necessarily seen her coming back to britain anytime soon. the u . k. government is welcome the decision for now. sure. beemer begum remains effectively stateless. far from her family and far from the justice. she says she's ready to face in britain. nadine barbara al jazeera london now the death tolan, madagascar from tropical site. and freddy, as reason to at least for friday, made landfall in southeast, in madagascar on tuesday with wind gusts of up to a 180 kilometers per hour. ruse were ripped off houses in many areas flooded. more than 11000 people have been displaced. storm system is now moving westwards. mainland africa. it could impact more than 30000

u. s. germany in australia that are demanding russian. another rush enough leads to be banned from the outcome against the move has stepped a pressure on the international olympic committee, but so far the i o. c is resisting, and in fact has sent a letter to ukraine, urging authorities to cease asking countries to stage a boy called up the event reminding key of it would be a violation of the organizations charter. ukraine is said that allowing the athletes to compete would give more school quote, platform to promote genocide, a charge the i o. c. i've rightly rejected, and in fact called defamatory on the murder of paris in favor. just a month ago of letting the sportsman and women take part, no, it seems to be on board with the potential, but my wishes that they will not be here for as long as this war goes on. it's not possible to parade as if nothing was happening to have a delegation arriving in paris, while bombs are raining on ukraine. earlier we discussed the proposed amount of russian on beller snowflake with sports columnist, c

u. s. germany in australia demanding that russian on beller, russian athletes be banned from the games. that move has stepped off pressure on the international olympic committee. but so far it's resisting and in fact has sent a letter to you train, urging authorities to cease asking other countries to stage a boy called of the event reminding key of it would be a violation of the organizations charter ukraine. a said that allowing the athletes to compete what give moscow are quote, lot form to promote genocide. i charge the i o. c. i to rightly rejected on coal defamatory while the murder of paris in favor. just a month ago of letting the sportsman and women take part no seems to be on board with the potential, but my wishes that they will not be here for as long as this war goes on. it's not possible to parade is nothing was happening to have a delegation arriving in paris, while bombs are raining on ukraine. of these as an earlier we discussed the proposed amount of russian and belarus snuff. lates with sports columnist alan moore. the ideal binding athletes because of weather, from t

u. s. germany and australia are all demanding a ban on russian and bell russian athletes from the upcoming games. the move cranks of the pressure on the international olympic committee were just trying to avoid a total boy call from participating countries. the mayor of paris, who at 1st was in favor just a month ago now wants to completely band russian athletes because of the conflict in ukraine. my wishes that they will not be here for as long as this war goes on. it's not possible to parade as if nothing was happening to have a delegation arriving in paris, while bombs are raining on ukraine for its calling. miss allen morris says it would be disgraceful for the international committee to ban russian and bell russian athletes deal signing athletes. because whether it's the exact same as binding athletes because of the color of their skin or the shorter the mosque or whoever de, whichever god they pray to it, it goes against everything that good sports goes against the principles of the o. c. and i really saw him believe the end of the day. i see said by tom, we'll get their way out of t

u. s. germany in australia that are demanding russian. another rush enough leads to be banned from the upcoming games. the move has stepped up pressure on the international olympic committee, but so far the i o. c is resisting and in fact has sent a letter to ukraine urging authorities to cease off.

u. s. germany and australia are demanding and ban on russian and bel russian athletes from the upcoming games. the move ranks of the pressure on the international olympic committee were just trying to avoid a total boycott for participating countries. the mayor of paris, who at 1st was in favor just a month ago now wants to completely ban russian athletes because of the conflict in ukraine. so funny my wishes that they will not be here for as long as this war goes on. it's not possible to parade as if nothing was happening to have a delegation arriving in paris, while bombs are raining on ukraine. we heard from former russia, russian power lifting world champion, marianna and i love who says that no athlete should have to compete under such terms. spoke a little breath with needle. ringback situation that is happening in the world is absolutely clear to everyone. it seems to me that there is no place for russia and international competitions now. or if there is with shame with a white flag, glo, scores and so on. in my understanding, an athlete is a person who has high moral and volitio

u. s. germany and australia are also demanding a ban on russian and bel russian athletes from the upcoming games. the move cranks up the pressure on the international olympic committee. we're just trying to avoid a total boycott from participating countries. the mayor of paris, who at 1st was in favor just a month ago now wants to completely ban russian athletes because of the conflict and ukraine soon. further in depth on this list, cross live now to alan more sports columnist and co host of capital sports. 3 point oh i'll and it's great to have you on the program today. now, what is your take on the statement by the polish sports minister? i mean, why do you think that he thinks that athletes should go against their governments and essentially become dissidence? good morning, rachel, thank you for having me on look. i think we have to take a step back last week when you was being up himself and saying that he had an alliance. so good that will make a statement on the 10th of february. and he has 40 countries or more than 40 countries. we're backing him to ban russian companies. you can e

u. s. canada, australia, france, belgium. they are we patrick beth, families from ne area. so show me my begum is not treated differently to a number of the other british families out, that they are all being cast out, rejected. none of them are getting due process. this is unlikely to be the end of shoot me, me a bagel fight to get her british citizenship. but. but even if the court had ruled in her favor, that wouldn't have necessarily seen her coming back to britain anytime soon. the u . k. government is welcome. the decision for now should be ma begum remains effectively stateless. far from her family and far from the justice. she says she's ready to face in britain. miti baba al jazeera london was still hid on al jazeera, popular trading route is disrupted after tensions between pakistan and afghanistan . inaction from the champions league as natalie take control of the last 16 tie against frankfort. that's coming up with peter in schools. ah, the still a bit, a winter left coming out of europe in the black sea and catching the northeast of turkey. no more that temps i

u. s. and the u. k. canada and australia as well. so we would really see more alignment. they also hold on country, it's like the roofs and iran to cease their act and support or these, these new things and focus on preventing russia from importing for in technology to boost their weaponry, especially when it comes to drones. now that you mentioned iran is that approach smart as you it's, it's an inevitable approach because that is the response here, but we're seeing on the ground and for that reason predictable to but i think that again, sections foreign parts of a much broader package. so nice lation measures will look in a search, but it is the impact as a whole that needs to be considered as well. is incredibly difficult, of course to make sure not just the sanctions that are smarts, in the sense of targeting the right types of experts and imports, but also that they're complied with in practice. and that is the real challenge because of course, sanctions have to be and forest and they have to be properly understood on the ground. so the businesses and the services in

u. s. now has presence in japan and south korea in the philippines in australia. it is very clearly being led now by, by the u. s. and we don't have any reaction yet from china, but we will wait for a reaction from china. usually there is a negative reaction from china when it comes to these issues. but for the philippines, it strengthens the philippines claims in the south china sea. the philippines will want these freedom of navigation operations. there are also talks of joint naval patrols between the u. s. and the philippines in the south china sea. nothing is confirmed, but that's on the table for that's what's in it for the philippines. but the ration here has been divided. a lot of filipinos do support the strong military alliance between the u. s. and the philippines. but there have been protests to day protest her say that they don't want the philippines to get dragged into an unnecessary conflict into a conflict that the philippines doesn't have anything to do with. and of course, they're referring to a possible conflict over in the taiwan strait if, if a

all of the american military assets installed in australia, under the oc, his deal can be used as punitive australian forces against china. while the u. s stands aside and maintains the same pretense of no engagement as it is doing in ukraine. linked to gala vice president of the sense of china and globalization say that the move by australia's defense ministry will watson relations between the 2 countries. and there will be hot the cambra to find a good replacement for chinese made secure to cameras to remove such a neutral technologist and equipment, actually damages the reputation as well as hearts that economic budget. because these chinese made the product high quality, very affordable and very easy to maintain. and therefore the consumers will actually meet such products from china to put a label on chinese made the products is the wrong thing politically incorrect. and then eventually, where can they find the replacement for these chinese made high type products very, very difficult, or a huge cost to their consumers. therefore, it doesn't make any says political china, rather than getting along with china in good spirit, this is

the global south that those are actually the catholic church and anglo saxon countries like australia and the u. s . particularly were there the right wing, the political right wing has kind of huge impact on the catholic church of those countries. by and large i think that what we have seen during this purpose across the board is that a church that had lost years or enormous territory enormous grounds to other joe, you know, political and religious. and i mean nations has actually gained them again under spoke precisely because he's a very current medic leader. and because he has gone out of his way to try to bring these people back into the fold. so i think that yesterday sion but i think that it also has been a very successful re, a personal digital your religious affairs correspond in latin. got thank you. rosa . ah, thailand is one of the world's most popular tourist destinations. and now there's another reason to visit for some people, at least last year, tylen removed cannabis from an narcotics list. and since then, sales have been flourishing, and bank are going around the country legaliza

those are actually the catholic church and anglo saxon countries like australia and the u. s. particularly were there the right wing, the political right wing has had a huge impact on the catholic church of those countries by and large i think that what we have seen during this focus across the board is that a church that had last year enormous territory. enormous grounds to other, you know, political and religious nations has actually gained them again under spoke precisely because he's a very current magic leader. and because he has gone out of his way to try to bring these people back into the fold. so i think that yesterday sion but i think that it also has been a very successful real push. mon did a lawyer, religious affairs correspondent lighting act. thank you. rosa. ah, thailand is one of the world's most popular tourist destinations and now there is another reason to visit for some people. at least last year, thailand removed cannabis from inst narcotics lists. and since then, sales have been flourishing and bangkok and around the country legalization was originally

u. s. is now essentially consolidated and arc around the seas of china from south korea to australia. what's your force in the reaction the united states is definitely a cause of instability. and also for the co, in this part of the world to focus to any particular region in the world, you tend to see tensions all crisis one after another are therefore china views the increase the military presence of the united states in this part of the world with great suspicion and with great alarm, and china is urging all countries in this region to be vigilant about the stakes created by the united states. because eventually, if we do not guard against such expansionist and war mongering adventures by the that states, our region, late lose peace and stability and plunge into chaos. this is exactly the danger that all of us need to be guarding against. not just to play devil's advocate have a to the us presence in the philippines is expected to be considerably less than it was in the 1980s, when around, $15000.00 troops were stationed there. do you think this goes some way towards the limits in t

around china, arranging that from japan and south korea in the north, right down to australia in the south. while the u. s. secretary of defense announced that moved during a visit to the philippines. from manila vanderbilt has been what the u. s. defense chief lloyd austin emphasized a few times during the presser, is that this is not a permanent basing arrangement. a secretary austin said that there will be will patient presence of us troops in these 9 locations now, on the part of the philippines, the philippines defense chief carlita galvis junior said that this would improve the the philippines capability to, to respond to natural disasters, to humanitarian crisis, which is very often here in the philippines. so of course, the 2 countries also again renewed their commitment to its military alliance, long standing military alliance. and they said that the overall relationship is a deterrence to the continuing aggression of china in the south china sea. right now, po process is addressing tens of thousands of young people in democratic republic of congo. he's a live pictures from the capital kinshasa w

u. s. s. thought and russia says that washington is preparing australia to wage war against china. american service personnel are now embedded in australian defense policy, making institutions and in command and control positions within the australian defense forces. all of the american military assets installed in australia, under the arcus deal can be used as putative australian forces against china, while the us stands aside and maintains the same pretense of no engagement as it is doing in ukraine. while they've got the vice president of the center for china and globalization, say that the move by austria defense ministry. well worse than relations between the 2 countries, as it will be hard for counselor to find a good replacement for chinese made security cameras. to remove such a neutral technologist and equipment, actually damages their reputation as well as hurts that you can make bugs in life. because these chinese made the problems high quality, very affordable and very easy to maintain. and therefore, the consumers will actually meet such products from china to put a la

u. k. canada and australia as well. so we would hopefully see more alignment. they also hold on countries like bell roofs, and iran to cease their active support for russia. a u. s. secretary of state antony lincoln has postponed a planned visit to china following the discovery of an alleged chinese spy balloon flying over the united states. the balloon was 1st to take that over the state of montana which houses some 150 intercontinental ballistic missile solid fitting pentagon officials have described the ship as an intelligence gathering balloon. china claims the balloon is for civilian purposes and says it regrets the balloon accidentally sailed into usa a spice. you are a secretary of state anthony blank and spoke earlier about this decision not to go any planned visit to china. yesterday the department of defense announced that we had detected and we're tracking a high altitude surveillance balloon that remains over the continental united states. we continue to track and monitor the balloon closely. we're confident this is a chinese surveillance balloon. once we detected the balloon, the u. s. government acted immediately to protect against the collection o

u. s. has been ongoing its own way, china will take resolute and strong measures to safeguard china, sovereignty and security interest in the orca security part fine. with britain and australia aimed at containing china, military power is accused of undermining regional stability. so as the u. s. continues it hotel over the weather balloon incidence, it is clear that washington has china in the crosshairs of its actual weapons. i live now to him one son, c g t correspondent, us, good morning and thank you. b. jing has criticized washington's take of it picked out of a weather balloon and has asked them to act in a calm, professional, and restrained man. or do you think china's request will be heard at this point? the morning beings message was loud and clear and trying to has repeatedly inform united states. the entry of the chinese civilian airship into american. the airspace was unintended. earlier. the weather balloon, which the us suspects as a conducting surveillance, was being used for immediate, logical research and happened blown off course by westerly winds and high level communications. follow the statement. senior chinese, my one, he held a phone call with us secr

australia and the south on me by as the latest. now, from the joint statement, we know that the u. s. has already invested some $82000000.00 in these old sites that they haven't had access to. they have committed to investing more in the new sites. of course, the philippine military will have access to more u. s. military equipment all sold there is there's going to be obviously more inter operability inter operability trainings between the 2 forces and possibly joint patrols in the south china sea. athena has been held in memphis for tyree nichols who died after being beaten by police officers 3 weeks ago. his family was joined by the u. s. vice president and civil rights activists. nicholas his mother called on congress to pass police reform legislation in the wake of his sons kidding. at his me. whatever dead george lloyd b u. we needed past? yeah. because there should be no other jo, this is subway. the way mother and all the other peer it see here have lost their children. we need to get their bill pay is that below the next bill dies. their blood is going to be a mere, he is isr

warmth, for example, in his outreach to australia and also to, to brazil saying, please help us, you know, come to us. we heard professions of gratitude not only to the u. s, which you might expect, but also to countries that had been, as he said, hesitant, but now had come around and there he named germany by name not always in the easy relationship, but a lot of gratitude there as well. and we saw some very careful diplomatic skills at work as well. for example, when he said to the us, you know, if you, if you start backing down from supporting us, think about what you're going to be losing. you will lose your leadership position in the world, or most, especially when he talked about china, where he was very, very cautious in his wording. he tried to be positive. he said, you know, they have put this out on the table and it's important that they're part of the discussion. and at the same time, he indicated his very strong awareness that should shine and move to deliver weapons to russia. it could be a game changer for this war. he referred to world war 3 in that context. and he said, i am doing everything i can to prevent that. so an enormous range in h

australia has produced. and one of our country's greatest sons. i want to take you back to a story from the philippines were u. s. troops now have access to an additional 4 basis. that's after a deal done between defense secretary lloyd austin and he's been holding talks with president fat and barcode junior in manila aide. james du alif is professor of strategic security studies i to marshall center. he's joining us from darmesh parking kitchen in germany. very good to have you with us. i want to ask you about the strategic element to this because the implication to somebody like me who doesn't really understand these things, is that the, using these bases would indicate a potential threat of a significant military strategy from china. but what we've seen from china and the last year or so has been a gradual eroding of philippines. what, what the philippines regard as their rights, like fishing rights, and land rights and so on. i, the americans dealing with this in the wrong way. know they're dealing with it in one of the ways i can do this is a multi faceted photo we use or strategic we're looking at the larg

way from south korea and japan in the north to australia in south on a be low, has moved from manila. now from the joint statement, we know that the u. s. has already invested some $82000000.00 in these old sites that they haven't had access to. they have committed through investing more in the new sites. of course, the philippine military will have access to more u. s. military equipment. also there is going to be obviously more inter operability inter operability trainings between the 2 forces and possibly joint patrols in the south china sea. a funeral has been held in memphis for tyrene nichols who died also being beaten by police officers 3 weeks ago. his family was joined by the u. s. vice president and civil rights activists. israel's conducted air strikes and the gaza strip. 2 sides were targeted. the military wing of hammer said they fired missiles at this railey aircraft, conducting the strikes as their israel military says, they carried out the strikes off to rock. it was fired from garza, the f. b. i has found no classified documents on a beach house owned by u. s. president joe biden. such was part of a special council inv

u. s. liquefied natural gas, or l n. g industry. us only began producing l n g 6 years ago, but it's already a leading export alongside giants cut, an australia environmental say that comes at a price to the environment. while ellen g has been promoted as a bridge fuel that burns cleaner than oil, they insist the amounts of methane produce during the fracking process pose as great a threat as the production and use of fossil fuels. l n g exports will swell the already handsome profits of u. s. energy companies. these can and will be quantified. but the human cost of the war that contributed to the profits is beyond measure. as its impact on what the us administration called its green policy to combat climate change. my kind of era, washington more now on how western sanctions are affecting what russia gets from exporting oil. like from the south end of the studio, prime out change in russian crude now sells at a discount compared to global benchmarks. but that also means that moscow is selling more oil. so he's now buying is before russia's invasion of ukraine, nearly half of all of its oil exports went to the e. u. as western nations and san

u. s. access to for new bases and an increased presence at several others. it completes a chain of american military positions around china, ranging from japan and south korea in the north to australia in the south. on below reports says president ferdinand marcus junior took off his 7 months ago. he has been a succession of high level us visits to manila. on thursday, it was defense secretary lloyd austin's turn. i have always said that it seems to me that the future old, the philippines and for that matter, the asia pacific will always have to involve the united states. walking to talk to marcus administration has granted the u. s. military access to for more sites, meaning american troops will now be able to operate in 9 locations. but austin has clarified there will be no permanent us basis. it also provides us the ability to respond effectively to humana terean's issues. and it also. ready disaster relief and other types of crisis. one of the bigger and longstanding crisis is the territorial dispute between manila and b. j in the south china sea. although an international ruling in 2016 invalidated china's vast claims . the asia giant has built artificial islands and continues

u. s. is being given access to for additional military bases in the philippines . the jail means the american military now has an on broken presence, south korea and japan in the north to australia and a funeral has been held in memphis for terry nichols who died after being beaten by police officers. 3 weeks ago. family was joined by us, vice president and civil rights activists. israel has conducted as strikes and the gaza strip. 2 sides were targeted military wing of hamas said they 5 missiles at these righty aircraft conducting the choice. they say they carried out the strikes off to rock. it was fide from casa hey, francis has slammed brutal atrocities in eastern democratic republic of congo on to missing victims of war. in kinshasa, he also celebrated mass with a crowd of hundreds of thousands of people in the capitol. web reports from kinshasa, the thousands of people gathered in a field in kinshasa to celebrate mass. pope frances seem to visiting the democratic republic of congo with a message of peace in the world. just heartened by violence and war, christians must be like jesus as if to insist on the point. jesus told the disciples once more paced be with you. about h

u. s. has continue to say, oh, battle ships down the south china sea and is accused itself of undermining regional stability with the signing of the o. because packed with the security packed with britain, australia, when 2021, which is containing china's military power. but of course, this latest incident is a new blow to the already tense us china relations. earlier we spoke with nelson wong, vice chairman of the shanghai center for rem path and international studies. he's those china has no need to use such balloons as surveillance devices they say is apparently not a pleasant incident, but i don't believe it is. why is for anybody to make a big fuss up there because the chinese government has confirmed in the 1st place that this below all this ship or exactly what you call it, is from china. and china feels regret for its intended entry into u. s. s. space china has enough satellites already in china, wants to do any surveillance. why should they use the balloons, which are so big and so obvious? no, i don't think this connection makes any sense. so let's see. i mean, we're all have to watch and see. but whatever the case, i think the wisdom of both countries, leaders and i've all depressed a

u. s. has continued to sail battle ships down the south. china sea is accused itself of undermining regional stability with the signing of the orders packed with the security packed with brittany, australia in 2021 which is aimed at containing china's military power. but of course, this latest incident is a new blow to the already tense us china relations forma is wally prime minister natalie bennett, has ds, how his role in attempting to broker a peace still in the 1st weeks of the ukraine conflict last year in an interview which moscow has yet to respond to. and bennett said his efforts well to motley, sought down by washington and its allies. and he was soccer and i was just a mediator. i turned to america for guidance. i didn't do as i pleased anything i did was coordinated down to the last detail with the u. s. germany and france vein block to the west. wanted to keep the pressure on putin rather than negotiating money. there were several rounds and negotiations between moscow and kevin, the 1st weeks of the conflict. in late march after a summit, in a stumble, russia agreed to de escalate and pull this trip south of north and ukraine. how havoc he has and as western bacchus of sinc

u. s. has continue to say, oh, battle ships down the south china sea and is accuse itself of undermining regional stability with the signing of the o. because packed with the security packed with britain, australia in 2021, which is containing china's military power. but of course, this latest incident is a new blow to the already tense us china relations. the head of chinese national weather service, responsible for the balloon has not been fired. earlier we spoke with no phone won't vice chairman of the shanghai center for impact and international studies. he said, basing doesn't need balloons to spy on america. this is apparently not a pleasant incident, but i don't believe it is wise for anybody to make a big fuss of it because the chinese government has confirmed in the 1st place that they see below august ship or exactly what you call it is from china and china fails, regret for its intended entry into us space. china has enough satellites already in china wants to do any surveillance. why should they use the pollutants? which are so big and so obvious. now, i don't think this connection makes any sense. so let's see. i mean, we're all have to watch and see, but whatever the case, i think

u. s. has continue to say, oh, battle ships down the south china sea and is accused itself of undermining regional stability with the signing of the o. because packed with security, packed with britain on australia when 2021 which is containing china's military power. but of course, this latest incident is a new blow to the already tense us china relations for my israeli prime minister, natalie bennett, has the town, his role was attempting to broker a peace still in the 1st weeks of the ukraine conflict last year and an interview which moscow have yet to respond to bennett, said his f as well to me, at least down by washington and its allies. and i was just a mediator. i turned to america for guidance. i didn't do as i pleased anything i did was coordinated down to the last detail with the u. s. germany and france. they blocked the west, wanted to keep the pressure on putin rather than negotiating money. there were several round the negotiations between moscow and k of in the 1st weeks of the conflict in late march off to a summit. and if some bull russia agreed to deescalate and pulled its troops sounds of north in ukraine. however, he has on this western back of since refused to talk peace an