$340000000000.00 scheme to rival china's belt and wrote initiative european commission president ursula vaughan delay and cause it a true alternative. involves investment in digital technology transport and energy . uganda sending troops across the border into democratic republic of congo as the battles and on group itself. the air strikes on tuesday against the allied democratic forces, part of a joint operation with the congo lee's army, nato's threatening russia with economic sanctions. if a uses force against ukraine concerns over the military build up of the board of dominate to discussions in latvia as cap to reagan, at least 3 tal mom band members have been killed at iran's border with afghanistan . several iranian border guards were also injured. iranian media reporting the violence escalated after the taliban. open fire on iranian farmers. those are the headlines with back with more after witness the listening post cuts through the noise. we're talking about competing now. but seeing monday, tools being used to perpetuate those competing narrative separating spin from fuck all 3 versio

340000000000 dollar scheme to rival china belts and road initiative. european commission president ursula vaughan de leon cause it a true alternative. involves investment in digital technology, transport and energy. at least 3 members of the taliban have been killed at ron's border with afghanistan. several iranian border guards were also injured during the confrontation. iranian media is reporting the violence escalated after the taliban opened fire on iranian farms. the pony parliament on wednesday began debating a new build that would ban all abortions. a prompted protest by women's rights activists earlier in the week currently in poland. terminations are only allowed in cases of rape incest. or if the woman's life or health is in danger, those all the headlines were back in half an hour right now on al jazeera. it's inside story. ah. hunting down rebels, uganda and troops launch an operation in eastern democratic republic of congo. there target, the allied democratic forces claimed for years of violence, but will and military solution resolve the conflict. and can the adf be defeated? this i

e u commission president ursula vaughan delay and had also highlighted the need for the block to step up its military capabilities in order to be able to confront security threats and global crisis or european union is a unique security provider. there will be missions where nato, all the united nations will not be present. but where you are should be. you can have the most advanced forces in the world. but if you never prepared to use them of what use are they? what has helped us back until now is not just a shortfall of capacity. it is the lack of political will. and let's take a closer look at how much you government spend on defense. a recent european defense agency report showed the block spent a record 225000000000 dollars last year, a 5 percent increase on 2019. but there was a full in joint investment. the continent spent just 11 percent of that total equipment purchases in cooperation with other u government. despite the lack of cooperation, the block still plans a joint military force of up to 5000 troops by 2025 to deploy during emergencies. the less bringing our guest now

allow me to say travel upper tight a european commission president ursula vaughan delane is calling on the you to consider mandatory vaccinations to help fight the rise in cases. several you nations announced booster shots and plans to vaccinate children. the arm across varian has now been reported in at least 24 countries. the united states has accorded its 1st case. that's where we're going to go right now. alan fischer is life for us in a washington. so alan, what more we hearing about this patient that's man arrived in the united states in california on the 22nd of november from south africa. that of course, before the travel bands were put in place, didn't feel terribly well tested on the 29th of november. it was then he was positive, it was sent for further testing on the 30th by 3 pm. public health experts had the sample by 8 pm, the confirmed it was the new variant at you. remember that when corporate was found in the united states, it was also fast on the west coast. now this man is an isolation, has caused contacts have tested negative, but of course track in trace his underw