u. s. those were the headlines. more news and half now with iran do say would say amount of their ah ah whole sh good jack go boreal it's a tropical region covering the whole of the western half of part of why there can be droughts, but old so heavy rainfall causing the rivers to swell and flood. the rainy season is the best time to swim because the piranhas keep a low profile. but they are still there. this man faces danger every day, so it takes more than per on us to stop is the exercise. last lasted untimely, for a few things coming in ah, keeping faith is important in this region. some say that the chuckle is one of the only remaining wine to west parts of the world. i don't wanna say that we've been in a everyone know can be knows this truck driver by his nickname michelin after the well known brand of tire. they also know that he's the only driver prepared to go out in the rainy season. big of a delegate, a 2 year dummy, jimmy galle. yeah. want them, we'll do a demo. meet me there girl. i mission. 67. but sti

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u. s. those, the headlines this 6 their moscow time, this sunday, feel free to head over to r t dot com for more of those stories. my name's peter scott, and i'll be back with another look in about an hour. good match kaiser. this is the kaiser a poor boy. i love the smell of burning central banks in the morning station. right . you are referring to this headline, which is a great metaphor for the entire economy as it burns down money printing factory and france is on fire, says russian market. a bank of france factory is on fire in the city of shawnee. a 24 people have reportedly been injured, it's not clear whether any cache has gone up in flames. hat tip r t that com sky is the limit between fix s and dade, but claim that you don't have the problem of your money printer going up in flames . but you know, this is a great metaphor for what's happening in the money world around the world. it's all going up in flames, either actually in reality or figuratively as big coin becomes a global standard

u. markets. now you chief, joseph beretta has said these sanctions have been drawn up and designed to hurt russia a little bit hard to hitting those promise by the u. s. and the u. k. is targeting pretty much anyone who has a material connection to the support of the independence and the vote for independence of the 2 regions. we can expect more of the same, especially after president putin's announcements of this special military operation in the dumbass to finance ministers of the you are expected to meet on friday and saturday. we can only guess what they would be thinking up in terms of more sanctions to be moved out. so russia, what he's actually on the table, of course, would be the nor stream to gas pipeline that runs from russia on the ukraine and into germany. joe biden, who has already signed a decrease to bring in sanctions against russia, said that that is something he will put a stop to. if russia went ahead with anything you would like a military operation in ukraine. at the u. k. his said they will act decisively as we've heard, parish johnson would say, said say he would act decisively against any russian movement. said the people on

u. s. is even evacuating soldiers that are here in ukraine to teach ukrainian soldiers to use u. s. weapons. so those are decisions. seeing people pack up seeing the embassies draw down staff at that really has got people thinking then there was a decision in the last 2 days by various airlines too, or so stop their flights ukraine over security fears. so i think those got more practical things. people seeing their holidays are made impossible by flights cancelled that kind of thing. seeing those institutions close that really has got people thinking should they be leaving to lots people here? you can have suitcases packed anyway with cash, with clothes, with documents in case they need to go. i think most people here keep thinking about whether they're going to need them. the next few days, journals president frank volta style maya has been re elected for a 2nd 10. he received more than 2 thirds of the vote from the largely ceremonial position in a parliamentary assembly. find my vow to fight for democracy. he also appealed to russia to ease tensions with ukraine. is still a fish. i declare thus let

speaking of those civilians, i mean we're talking about really a host of sanctions here. first, it started out with the u. s. targeting those 2 republic republics and eastern ukraine and now it's gone on to now target russia. and now we know that when it comes distinctions they typically hit civilians the hardest. so what kind of an impact are these measures likely to have your well, if we're talking about, i mean, i think ben said it really well in terms of just, you know, this has been an ongoing crisis and energy prices have risen in the united states gas prices got up and places have gone up, and of course that ends up hitting the, the people of lesser means the most and of course exceed a tumble in the dow jones industrial average for the case. if the question is more about, how much does it hit the distance of russia? you know, i think they've been brave for this for a long time. i mean, i think these sanctions look like they're going to be much more serious than the sanctions that were put in place in 2014. but you know, like what we're putting who has endured himself from these issues. and so he's,

u. s. and they want those dominance, but surely they are sensible voices in the u. s. c. that's gone to where you are heading, gone through gore. war is not the way there is another way it could be would it wouldn't fall on everyone. and i certainly believe that the corporation between china and the united states, anyone for that by to russia, would benefit man guiding much more than a contract. lou photo national other this my budget area. this is a similar to the story and with us cuz the more are all supposed showing me. ah, the absolutely sustain increases. second bullying with c f crucial a machine? yes. yes. we shall see. it. british commander was to watching her with a complaint, a initials, a dash of all of those for a little bit more because i.

u. s. those lead in fanning up flames and then shifting the blame onto others are truly irresponsible as the culprit. the person who started the fire should think about how to put it out as soon as possible. earlier this month, china and russia announced a no limits partnership focused on helping each other's strategic interests . russia and ukraine and china in taiwan, raising hackles among diplomats deeply concerned about the risk of cascading crises. yesterday taiwan scrambled its air force in response to nine chinese aircraft entering its air defense zone. another development here at the state department officials have been ordered to seize all contacts with russian officials, except without explicit approval, focusing on the current crisis in ukraine in washington, gillian turner fox news. and be sure to use our website and app to stay up to date on the latest developments in ukraine. some of what you'll find online includes a breakdown of sanctions against russia. firefighters in oakland fo

u. s. team. those were simply re tasks, the guys were negative, they were back with a team. jake sanderson, he's going to be a big piece. the u. s. team, he just joined the team. expect them to play, to morrow against canada. these are great tv shows as we watch him here in the usa, iran's only a male olympian and alpine skier became the 1st confirmed doping case in beijing after testing positive for an anabolic steroids. so he's out, what would have been is 3rd games and a russian figure skater tested positive for a heart medication that is on the ban substances list, they're appealing. germany has been rocking, they'll lose competition. and team usa is 1st gold. what the 36 year old snow border lindsey jacob bellis. 16 years after a mistake cost or the title fellow snowboarder. chloe. tim went gold. 2 again. she had left the sport after going gold at the 2018 winter games when media attention and social media snark got to where. and there's a come back. gold for usa skate or nathan shann after 2018 d

u. s. as well as other attack victims. but as a girl come up at it up the $3500000000.00 belongs to afghanistan and the people. and if the u. s. is paying this amount to those who lost their lives in the 911 attacks then the u. s. should pay compensation for the 20 year war. and the people who died in afghanistan to thou, or kabul, is a city under pressure. many can barely afford to eat was but other more than i. so i was good. most of us sleep with empty stomachs because we don't have jobs to find money and feed our families like before in shot. and now some one was distributing bread to the poor, and there were hundreds of poor and starving people, fighting over one piece of bread. and i was thinking, it's better to die than being disrespected this much. xtreme hunger is nationwide. it's estimated more than half the $39000000.00 afghans are suffering the human fat. the afghan economy is in free fall. and so, or it's people in the u. s. says it will use the release funds to buy much needed aid, but not by the taliban, which it doesn't recognize as the legitimate governments. taliban leaders say it's not america's money to give away that when it's tom. hell

u. s. president was getting some criticism for this operation and those civilian casualties. so you heard there the u. s. president giving his version of events saying that it wasn't the result of the us special forces that these as civilians were killed. but instead he said it was an act of cowardice, cowardice this, this ice a leader instead chose in the final moments of his life to blow himself up, taking some of his family members with him. and so the u. s. president saying that there was also an effort by the us special forces to clear the house where the ice a leader was staying in advance. and they were successful in doing that. we understand, according to the white house of what we know is that there was a successful evacuation of some of the members of the house, but that that was not entirely evacuated. those that remained behind, we are told, were used as human shields. and that is what resulted in those casualties. so the u . s. president giving his account of the events, of course, as we often hear in these cases, they will differ from those witnesses on the groun

u. s. uh those countries include turkey now into their so called eastern mediterranean gas forum. and uh and and so so it is, it is you have things of imprint of uh non predictable, unpredictable, unpredictable actions of erdogan. for example. suddenly he uses his drones and merchant aires in the caucasus that is against western interests when he supported azerbaijan or he is disturbing situations in libya when he is sending merchant aires and and and drones to the western part of of uh of libya. and thirdly with with syria you know, it's it's it's it's a very risky policy there, you know, and and and to what degree does the west does nato does europe need for erdogan to stay in power simply because he keeps turkey stable. you know that old, that old quote that is often said about a u. s. president who referred to a certain latin american dictator as he may be. and then he used a swear word, but he's our know melinda know melinda, i think europe and the us are looking beyond the era of erdogan. they look into turkey, turkey in its geo strategic and geo economic position and they a

u. s. waiving some of the restrictions on its civilian nuclear program, the country says it has a legal right to continue research. and that this can't be restricted by any agreement. the u. s. way those sanctions says part of reviving the 2015 nuclear deal. and more than half members of the un security council, the condemning north korea for its latest series of ballistic missile tests, britain, france, and the u. s. are among 8 countries describing the tests launches as a significant escalation, expulsion of the french ambassador from molly has been celebrated on the streets of amaco sh coincided with the european union announcing travel bands and asset freezes for molly's military leaders. lexia bryan as well. oh, wait a 1000000 slides, susan's gathered and molly's kept obamacare to protest against the former corny poor things it was. even herbert comes out of french president emmanuel macklin, which was later set on fire. ah, the crowd was celebrating the expulsion of the french ambassador. he was given 72 hours to leave after the french foreign minister described molly's military leaders as illegitimate and anxious control media, media and media media. there are thousands of thou

u. s. responding to those new sanctions from the u, the u. k, the u. s. and germany. he said it is hard to imagine that there is a person in washington who expects russia to revise its foreign policy under threat of restrictions. and kristin, bessie, i one to have economic sanctions ever managed to stop an eminent military offensive . the economic sanctions are going to put a cost on russia and will try to dissuade it to understand that it is about to embark on an irreversible course of action. i am skeptical about whether that is going to be enough. if you listen to put and speech on monday, the kind of civilization all time turning the language, he used to try to revert the world to the way that it was under the soviet union. and frankly, earlier, until the russian empire, that kind of desire is not going to be dissuaded by small economic or even significant economic sanctions. the la own, the question is, what is russia feature? and if russia wants to survive, for now, it has economic capital. but what is the long game and how does that and is russia willing to rea

u. s. insists those plans won't move forward if russia invades ukraine. washington sees the pipeline as away from moscow to increase its leverage in europe like gas prices have been soaring. ukraine and poland to voice their opposition to gnawed stream to it's also put washington in a difficult position with some of the european allies. and there have been some divisions within germany's new coalition government, roughly a loss, as the coordinator for the pan european data projects of the european council on foreign relations. he explains now why the project is creating wider security concerns of a long time german government and the medical not want to have come to the washington where the purity private sector project after political or geopolitical dimension of the project. whereas at the same time, a call from the criminal point of view, this was very much a committee on it was supposed to circumvent ukraine as a transit can country. am in order to gain leverage a lucky f. and to develop a pressure point in the center of europe in germany, men as we s

u. s. are those countries include turkey now into their so called eastern mediterranean, a gas form and to it. and so it, so it is, it is you have things of imprint of more predictable and critic, unpredictable actions of ad one for some. suddenly he uses his drones and merchant reese in the caucasus, that is against western interest. when you support it as a by john or he is disturbing situations in libya when you're sending a merchant res and drones to the western part of, of, of libya. and thirdly, with, with syria, you know, it's, it's, it's a very risky policy there, you know, and, and, and it was degree, does the west does nato, does europe need for everyone to stay in power simply because he keeps turkey stable. you know that old, that old quote. it is often said about a u. s. president who referred to a certain a latin american dictator as he may be. and then he used to swear bird, but he's our own. no, no belinda. i don't know midnight. i think europe and the u. s. are looking beyond the era of l one, they look into turkey, turkey, and it's geo strategic and geo economic position.

u. s. reject those allegations saying if there had been a chance of a near miss, it would have notified chinese officials well in advance. but space is getting crowded by the end of last year. there were 5000 active satellites in space as twice as many since as 2010. some space analysts are saying there's a new space race as private companies enter space tourism. to have as estimate, there will be 30000 new satellites orbiting earth 10 years from now. what are the most important festivals for buddhist has been celebrated by lighting 1000000 lanterns in thailand? the commemorations for the mark of pu jaday were put on by the dumb mikaya would effect the movement is considered somewhat controversial due to its unorthodox interpretation of buddhism. its wealth in its links to a former prime minister. ah, this is out there. these are the top stories and the russian defense minister has published new video, but it says tanks returning to their bases. but the us and nato say russia is adding more troops now ukraine and there is no evidence of a pull back. the training military in russia back

u. s. and those are the headlines. the news is going to continue here on al jazeera. after inside story, i'll see them. good by aah . muslim and hindu students in india face off on the right to where head scarves in class. so is this a religious issue or a broader debate on minority rights and identity in india? this is inside story. ah. hello and welcome to the program. i'm hammer, jim jim, in the constitution guarantees a secular state and religious freedom. but minority muslims say they face increasing harassment and discrimination from the hindu majority. the latest controversy revolves around a ban on head scarves in school. it started last month when 6 muslim female students in karnataka state protested against being barred from class. hindu students held counter demonstrations wearing scarves in saffron, a color associated with hindu nationalism. right wing groups have been accused of fueling the dispute. the state has shut down schools until friday, while it's high court considers the issue. will bring in our guests in a moment, but 1st this report from povert

u. s. has crossed another one of those thresholds and back the u. s. national that has exceeded 30 trillion dollars for the 1st time ever. then that's co host an investigative journalist benson is looking into this story and has the latest for us guys in 2020 right. before the pandemic hit, the u. s. national debt sat around $23.00 trillion dollars, which means that in just the past 2 years, the u. s. has added 7 trillion dollars to its national debt. when we talk about the u. s. national debt, we're talking about debt held by the public as well as intra governmental debt. those numbers together comprised the total debt and that number outstanding is $30.00 trillion dollars as of january 31st. so how do we get here? what's probably not surprising that the speed with which the u. s. raised to 30 trillion dollars. surround fiscal and economic policy from the corona virus pandemic. 5 trillion dollars for instance, funded, expanded job was benefits, financial support for small businesses and stimulus payments. and all of it was financed with borrowed mon

u. s. is cross another one of those thresholds and back the u. s. national. that has exceeded 30 trillion dollars for the 1st time ever. then that's co host, an investigative journalist benson is looking into this story and has the latest for us guys in 2020 right. before the pandemic hit, the u. s. national debt sat around $23.00 trillion dollars, which means that in just the past 2 years, the u. s. has added 7 trillion dollars to its national debt. when we talk about the u. s. national debt, we're talking about debt held by the public as well as intra governmental debt. those numbers together comprised the total debt and that number outstanding is $30.00 trillion dollars as of january 31st. so how do we get here? what's probably not surprising that the speed with which the u. s. raised to 30 trillion dollars surrounds fiscal and economic policy from the corona virus pandemic. 5 trillion dollars for instance, funded, expanded job has benefits, financial support for small businesses and stimulus payments. and all of it was financed with borrowed money. well,

u. s. by the u. k. recently supplying those 1st lethal weapons from the u. k. recently. but there is no commitment by nato to defend ukraine. and as i said before, ukraine is well and truly on its own if russia were to lead. now this of course all comes in context of the russian troop build up next to the ukranian border on the other side. how the the numbers compare. i think this is a really important point because yet there has been lord kristen from moscow of these u. s. troop movements, but they are tiny compared to what russia is doing in the same region. so these are essentially 2000 new troops being transferred across atlanta from the u. s. 1000 being moved from germany to romania. this is pretty poultry. if you accept the claim from nato, joseph, 3 or stilton burg recently that russia sending 30000 fresh troops to bellows alone . these are excise is being held between pillars of russia in that country that also lies on ukraine's borders on top of the $100000.00 russian troops or more along russia's border with ukraine. so these really aren't comparable in terms o

u. s. person's investing in companies in the don bass region. so in those separatist areas. so u. s. companies and persons are not allowed to invest there anymore. you know, essentially the why it tells us saying this is, this comes as they have anticipated, as president biden anticipated. and putin was looking for a pretext for war, and that he's now essentially moving in and the concern is, of course, not only the situation in ukraine, but also those numerous troops that are currently stationed in bella. rows are country that she has borders with 392 allies. so this is not only about ukraine, this is about the broader security architecture of europe. it's a bold escalation from bruton, but one moscow had seemingly been planning for what does u. s. intelligence expect? now, will happen next. well, the big question certainly is, how far are russian troops and how far russia will go? so as are we going to see the russians occupying the capital key or are we just going to see troops going into these separatist areas and present by and one of his press conferences, a little while ago

and those are the questions that the u. s. military is likely to be asked and whether they have a sufficient answer, i will be met with some skepticism in the eyes of not only americans, but around the world. you're kimberly, thank you very much overseas you mentioned we're going to be waiting for president barton to make those comments in about an hour's time or less than that on or off to release that national prayer breakfast. but for nar, kimberly, thank you very much. indeed. the tony's only 2 winter olympics open in beijing on friday, organizers say use of preparations are complete, but the lead up to the games as being far from straight forward corona virus infections are increasing both inside and outside olympic venues that as katrina, you reports from the capital, china's facing diplomatic boycotts because of human rights abuses and restrictions on freedom. ah theme song, welcoming the world to watch the 2022 winter games, while the olympic torch makes its way through bay jake. china has promised to deliver a safe a

u. s. president approached that particular issue, i heard him say that he would try to of offer assistance to some of those baltic states lithuania, estonia, latvia. but he made it very clear that they were the u. s. is not intending to be aggressive and they will, they will defend nato countries. he stressed that word, nato. and if you believe that the russian president, an ease, in fact, trying to make a land grab here. it certainly looks like an opening. what did you make of that? well, we certainly have to differentiate. here, there are 2 layers basically of the problem. and one number one is ukraine, and the russian military activities that might turn into a full blown invasion. we don't know that yet. that certainly is a situation where nato is off limits. ukraine is not part of nato, and the u. s. and their partners have made clear that there will be no military intervention, no boots on the ground, if you will, rather than weapons deliveries, financial and political support. now of course we have those russian troops stationed in belarus and a lot of experts are now saying that perhaps in the near

u. s. banning trade with those regions. finally, germany has halted certification.

republics in the dom bass, which was supposed to allow for free elections in those 2 republics. but the u. s. and ukraine have never abided by those agreements, even though again the, you un security council, which the u. s. is a permanent member of approve that, but they never wanted to allow this. so in that is one of many big problems that is leading to this crisis. so it seems logical when biden points the finger at done yet scan logan sk as they are directly involved in the conflict, as you mentioned, since 2014. but why is the west so focused on dragging russia into all of this? i think, honest, see, because of the western economies are collapsing, the u. s. has failed to deal with this pandemic. it has the worse numbers in terms of cases, fatalities. i mean, honestly, you are seeing an empire in collapse right now u. s. empire. and so they are trying to divert attention domestic attention here towards europe. but i also think there are some people in the ruling class who think a war. busy may be a way to re shuffle the deck on the titanic and salvage the economy. and that is quite fri

u. s. banning trade with those regions. finally, germany has halted certification of the multi 1000000000 euro north stream to gas pipeline. this is a significant move for the german government, which has resisted pulling the plug on the project despite pressure from its allies . when now we can speak a little bit further about this. we can speak to michael critique in his co founder and a leading analyst at russ energy. moscow, thank you very much for joining us on the to be business. these measures that have just been announced by the u. s. and europe only going to have any effect. well, i believe that a very important part of possible sanctions is still missing. and i mean the energy industry, specifically oil and gas exports over us. i think that the russian president is under the impression that due west is too weak to impose such sanctions on the russian energy experts because many countries are very much dependent on the supply over oil and gas program. so for example, when we look at the russian oil exports, we see that $3500000.00 tons of per day, $3500000.00 barrels for a day. g

u. s. room. so those are a couple things that i really like spencer food, that pop, by the way, it's already in the hockey hall of fame in downtown toronto. all right, pretty cool stuff. a big usa, canada matchups for men's and women's hockey. this time. yeah. you know, the canadian women and the american women there, they're the criminal a crime when it comes to women's hockey. and another classic battle, another one goal game that canada got out in front early and that's kind of been a theme. even on the men's side, holland with teams. now you're seeing everything, so razor tight and sharp. and you've got to be sharpen your details. they got out to an early lead to nothing lee, they ended up skating the wind, so great wind for canada and great showing again by the u. s. women. i was really hoping the u. s. men would have gotten through and one that quarter final game. but they come up, sure, but nevertheless they had a good run in the tournament. so i look at it as you know, not a success, but i, i thin

u. s. is very concerned about bats part of the geopolitical consequences and what's been going on or to chaperone county life as they're watching those statements or at the emergency meeting of the u. s. secret gases she ab at. thank so much indeed. let's bring in telescope. john is a senior fellow council on foreign relations and previously served a senior director of european affairs for the national security council joins us live from washington. d. c. a child, thanks so much for bearing with us at how much of a major escalation is this move by the russian president. and by recognizing these breakaway regions, has putin effects to be torn up the minsk agreements? do you think? well, it is a big deal. and yes, i think he has torn up the minutes the agreements because in those agreements were really the main framework for trying to find it negotiated settlement. he really said, forget it. i'm recognizing these 2 regions is independent. that haven't been said, the facts on the ground really didn't change that much. russia was already in control of these territories. they are now sending troops in over at lee before they were sending

u. s. has crossed another one of those thresholds and back the u. s. national debt has exceeded 30 trillion dollars for the 1st time ever though most co host, an investigative journalist, benz vaughn is looking into this story and has the latest for us guys in 2020 right .

u. s. department spokes person that, that those are words that the us find positive. however, the us expects for their to be visible signs of de escalation from russia as a follow up. and so far that has not come to fruition and i do the meantime. there's also been a, a cool between president barton and u. k. from mr. johnson. tell us about that. that's right. this is among the flory of diplomatic activity that continues to unfold. and according to a white house read out of the conversation, the 2 men reaffirm their support for ukraine sovereignty and the territorial integrity. and they discussed reinforcing nato's defensive posture in eastern europe. how does your culture? thank you very much. indeed. america xena is the how much mit fellow at the german marshall fundy joins us live from berlin. thanks very much for being with us. so ticket to go back to some of the diplomatic moves today. we had the german shots in kid. what do you think he achieved during that visit? well, he made clear. there's a lot of color there between germany and ukraine. and i think there wa

u. s. is among those struggling to keep up stuff on siemens investigates. welcome to cargo may welcome to the los angeles and long beach ports in california, and both are battling the supply chain crisis. hundreds of thousands of containers need to be processed many millions. during the course of a year, tanner's containers containers unloaded, registered stack, then transporting these tre tops of the world largest economy operating in override mode. they're working on a 24 seventh's schedule. now. however, it's too little too late for the hungry american market. the make this clear is this not an issue here in southern california. is that every major container gateway in this globalized world. here the aftermath of the 202021 cove with 19 pandemic, looks like this. at any given day, an average of almost 100 chips. most of them from asia, are forced to line up and weight anchoring off shore 4 weeks. wasting time until they can finally dock and offload their cargo on to american soil. as you are aware of the epicenter, manufacturing of the world is asia. mor