if russia were to invade ukraine, the u. s. would send more defensive material and the u. s. would fortify nato allies on the eastern flank. it also looks like the u. s. will joined the minsk agreements. these are the stalled peace accords. the u. s. has not been party to these agreements, and i think russia hadn't really wants the u. s. to join in. it would be an opportunity to revitalize these discussions. but when you read the statements, but moscow and the united states want very different things that the point that jumps out me to me the most is that moscow is, is saying they're, they're engaging in what about is them? they're blaming nato, and they're blaming key of for the aggression. they're not taking responsibility. this crisis is far from being result. victor, a leverage in belgrade. i'm sure you want to respond to some of that, but i want to ask you as well. russia has said that these fears about a russian invasion are unfounded. if that's the case, what a president puts his intentions over ukraine and what's behind the, the troop build up near its border with ukr

the u. s. has warn russia of consequences if it invades ukraine. the, to our virtual call between joe biden and vladimir putin ended with no break through the talks follow a massive russian troop build up at the border. that has western nations worried that moscow will invade its neighbor. i white house correspondent, kimberly hawk. it has the story with a massive build up of russian troops, new ukraine, shared border, and u. s. intelligence indicating an invasion of ukraine could happen early next year. u. s. president biden met virtually with russian president vladimir poo. good to see you again. the pair spoke for 2 hours potent denies russia intends to invade ukraine, calling it fear monitoring. but the u. s. president made clear today that if russia did tough economic sanctions would follow. i will look in the eye and tell you as president biden looked, president putin in the eye and told him today that things we did not do in 2014. we are prepared to do now. that reference is to the russi

the u. s. national security advisor reiterated ukraine can associate with whoever it wants. when analyst believes joining nato is unrealistic, it ought to be clear to them that we're not coming to the rescue. so you'd have to live in nest russia without a u. s. security guarantee. there were also questions about the controversial nord stream to pipeline which runs from germany to russia and whether it could be used as leverage and discussions over ukraine. the white house says it will pressure the german government to stop it. if russia invades the biden administration, will continue to work with it's european partners, promising a coordinated response. should russia ignore their warnings? precedent by then, we'll also speak with ukraine's president lensky on thursday. kimberly, how can al jazeera the white house? let's get some more analysis. now from steve clemens, he's the host of al jazeera is the bottom line and editor at large for the hill. he joins us live from washington via skype. hell

u. s. president and his ukranian counterpart vladimir zalinski. any information about that? well, what we're hearing is that the call took place about an hour later than originally scheduled, getting started really in about the last 40 minutes or so. so we're watching very carefully to see a read out of that call and. and what it's clear is if it's still ongoing, or if it has, in fact wrapped up, the white house hasn't said, but what it has said is what the u. s. president intends to convey in that conversation. it is a message that he will also be delivering to the what's known as the bucharest 9. that is the sort of the countries that make up the eastern flag of the nato alliance. the us president, we have a call with those officials as well. and the message that the u. s. president was to send the united states is committed to transatlantic security. even as we know, the latimer potent is still deliberating over whether not an invasion of ukraine is something that russia might do. there

so the u. s. has joined with you and other countries, pushback multilaterally on the kinds of practices that we see in russia and china. it's a scary world where tyranny and slave labor become routine. it's important that the west suppose that we can do that diplomatically. we can do that through dialogue and essentially building with russia and china if they will. but if they don't, and they persist in their ways, then there's clearly going to be a cost to pay for them. the us and the west off. okay. and what does that cost the saying is china worried about the cost? no, i don't mean china is really to worry about what the americans are pushing at the moment, driving in china. it has a liza who is incredibly confident in so and in the direction of travel which that china is going when can question that and they are good grounds to question whether the direction of trouble. she picks china is the white one is the good want, but he is very concrete and he is right. so he is not so worry about the a

the u. s. as the worst effect, that accounting for nearly one in 3 cases in the world. the u. s. and russian presidents have spoken for the 2nd time this month and a bit to de escalate tensions of ukraine. joe biden repeated the threat of sanctions at moscow invades ukraine. vladimir putin responded that such a move could lead to a complete breakdown of ties in the us state of colorado. hundreds of homes have been destroyed after wildfires driven by high winds in gulf to cities near denver being described as a life threatening situation. tens of thousands of people have been told to evacuate immediately. a group of refugees who spent days at sea at a damaged boat have been rescued by indonesian authorities. the boat was towed by a navy ship off the coast of archie, province, $100.00. 5 people, mainly women and children in box, and the port city is claimed. ok, but they've been given temporary accommodation. they have been trying to reach malaysian or human rights group as accusing government forces in northwest min, mom of killing civilians and destroying their homes. john video

s. cultural agency unit score, it entered the u. s. in 2007. graco authorities say they're happy to have it back. now. i've been lo, this tablet is laden with deep symbolism and 2 respects its own intrinsic value and then, and what it means to retrieve it with all the efforts that have been deployed by the government in this regard. it's a message to all those who smuggled our artifacts and auctioned them. they should know that will end up retrieving what they had stolen. the rockies may appreciate the u. s. initiative to help return their last artifacts. but they also say america's invasion of iraq in 19912003, led to the biggest disasters for them. nations ancient headed to an estimated $15000.00 artifacts were looted from the baghdad museum and smuggled out of the country. iraqis save the u. s. bears full responsibility for what happened and needs to do more to help them retrieve what they lost ramadan or da 0. now, a japanese billionaire and his assistant are the latest tourists heading to the international space station. you circl

ah, the u. s. and russian presidents hold virtual talks to diffuse tensions amid fears at moscow plans to attack ukraine. ah, lauren taylor says al jazeera live from london, also coming up at least 38 dead after a fire breaks out the main prison in burgundy capital, while many were asleep. indonesia, as president visits villages blanketed by ash from the mount, samira volcano was the death toll rises to 34 and ancient artifacts smuggled out of iraq in the last 30 years. go display in baghdad, including one of the world's oldest surviving works of literature. ah, hello, the leaders of the u. s. and russia have held a high stakes virtual meeting as tensions rise over russia's activities on the ukrainian border. the city again president joe biden invited me fujen spoke 5 video link for more than 2 hours. attention to hi with the u. s. and its allies concerned. russia may be planning to invade its neighbor after massing tens of thousands of troops near the border. russia denies any such plans and descr

the u. s. position is that that is a decision between ukraine and nato. and it can't be decided in bilateral talks between the us and russia. ship the u. s. is also threatened economic sanctions against russia if it were to invade ukraine with all of those troops amassed on the border, president putin says that would cause a rupture in relations. in the us, state of colorado, hundreds of homes have been destroyed off to wild fires, driven by high winds, engulfed to cities need. denver is being described as a life threatening situation. tens of thousands of people have been told to leave the affected areas immediately. the strong winds are reported to have brought down power lines leading to several grass fires in the area. gusto, hunger bridge had miles an hour in this liar. oh, the older than ours. very little time to get out. very little time. you been just the motion? way and yes, go process with rebuild was still ahead on al jazeera u. s. troops had ended their combat mission. a new rug of

the u. s. says it won't attend the event because of what it calls, human rights atrocities and genocide. usually yvonne, diesel yonder, ga d u. s. standing opposed to athletes and sports lovers across the world. china deplores this and rejects this and has large, solemn representations and will take resolute counter measures. the u. s. should stop politicizing sports and stop disrupting the beijing winter olympics with words . otherwise, it might harm bilateral dialogue and cooperation in a series of important areas and international regional issues. she would all continue has more now on china's reaction from beijing. china's clearly furious. it says that the u. s. will pay, but it hasn't detailed what those counts measures might be. an earlier in his statement. jolly jen, the foreign ministry, spokes person accused the us of political prejudice. ideological bias, political manipulation and having sinister intentions. as we heard, beijing says that the limpid should be yours as a tool for inte

the u. s. left the deal in 2018 under then president trump, under president biden, washington wants back in, but only if tehran upholds its commitments mixed were convinced that if iran pro approaches talks in vienna, with urgency and good faith, we can quickly reach and implement an understanding on mutual return, we cannot, however, allow iran to accelerate its nuclear program and slow walk. it's nucular diplomacy, ron's ambassador blame the us. vienna talks can succeed, auntie, threw genuine political, real and good faith negotiations. engaging in blame game or flying artificial impatience is not constructive. the rhetoric in the council chamber was strong. both iran and the united states say they want to return to the deal. and the un says that's encouraging. but clearly, members of the international community are concerned that iran is closer than ever to a nuclear weapon. and time may be running out. kristin salumi al jazeera, the united nations, the u. s. sector state antony blinkin says

as corona var, as cases rise sharply around the world, a start in the u. s. where u. s. president joe biden has promised to rapidly increase the level of karone of ours testing. he spoken to state governors and admitted the previous level of testing wasn't good enough for 3rd day in a row this holiday season, u. s. allen's was forced to counsel more than 700 flights, leaving hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded in the u. k. the government has ruled out new coven 19 restrictions for england before the new year. instead, people have been edge to remain cautious. despite that more than 98000 cases have been reported that in the past 24 hours, public health authorities in the u. s. have announced in the last few hours that they've shortened isolation, a positive, asymptomatic people from $10.00 to $5.00 days. it comes as an average of a $100000.00 cases reported daily. but the u. s. president says the health system is prepared can be health reports. in the u. s. cases of coven caused by the arm across very, and our soaring had expected to get worse in the coming w

the u. s. also applauded the woman's tennis association for suspending all tournaments and china over concerns for the safety of chinese ton of star peng. why? with the olympics coming to the u. s. in 2028. there are now questions about how china may respond both in the short and long term. katya low priscilla young al jazeera, while more now on the asian reaction with katrina, you who's in the chinese capital. they have been repeating the same kind of sentiments over the past few weeks when these 1st rumors came out that the u. s. was mulling over this move. china has accused washington of political grandstanding, political, political, manipulation of distorting the spirit of the games. and we've had chinese states media similarly express the same sentiment saying that this is the us trying to contain china and reflect a cold war mentality. so this will no doubt escalate tensions just weeks after president jor biden. and present, she didn't think, sat down to a video colon at the time the busi

ah, this is al jazeera, these top stories, the u. s. and russian presidents have spoken for the 2nd time this month in a bid to deescalate tensions of a ukraine. joe biden toll vladimir pierson, the u. s. would respond decisively if russia invaded ukraine. john hendrick has the latest from washington. jen, saki, the press secretary for president. joseph biden has put out a statement in that. she says, president biden urged russia to deescalate tensions with ukraine. he made clear that the united states and its allies and partners will respond decisively if russia further invades ukraine. president biden also expressed support for diplomacy, and it goes on to say, the president reiterated that substantial progress. and these dialogues can occur only in an environment of de escalation rather than escalation. global corona, virus cases of head record high of the past 7 days with almost a 1000000 detected on average each day. the u. s. is the worst effected accounting finale one in 3 cases in the world. south africa has announced that its m

s. remember, the u. s. is not invited to china to the democracy summit that they're holding or russia. and at this time, both china and russia are in, in the same boat in terms of us pressing them, seemingly on all fronts. so at this juncture, china is just trying to figure out exactly what all of this stuff means. is it just political posturing ahead of the mid terms next year by president who was unpopular? or does this reflect the long term, a systematic and structural differences between the countries? so what do you think it means for ongoing us, china relations? i think that the base of the problem is that china's success has brought it to the forefront us is not used to having any rival whatsoever. and they're acting particularly as a hedge who is going to be king of the hill. they do not want anybody challenging us dominance and militarily, politically and economically. ironically, if you look at the u. s. politics and the u. s. itself, it's, it's ribbon by all sorts of factions, lyrical stalemate,

a change of mission for the remaining u. s. forces in iraq. instead of being on frontline combat missions, 2 and a half 1000 u. s. personnel and a 1000 troops from the international coalition forces have switch to training and advising their iraqi, our lies. the transition deal and i sit there earlier this month was sealed in july by iraqis, prime minister most of al cartler me, and he asked the president joe biden to huddle. it stimulates that you as troops would stick to only training iraqi forces and exchanging intelligence while the heavy duel and battle of seattle rock. both iran and the united states supported us in the war against terrorism, but they mustn't use our soil to settle scores. we can't let any of these parties target our people. we've addressed that message to all through diplomacy and the strategic dialogue which stressed maintaining iraq's sovereignty saralitos with a gradual downsizing view as troops was already happening on the orders of former president donald trump. but a proxy war in the region has been fermented by c

and lincoln says, the u. s. will work with its allies and its partners in the region to maintain or defend 8th, the rules based order. and for us, where we have heard lots of talk from the, by the administration about it's pivots to asia. but has there been any concrete action to date? that's why it's so by don't administration has made no secret of the fact that it wants to deepen engagement with this region. and the u. s. strategy really does have several problems. one is military. now the u. s. has regularly been conducting freedom of navigation operations even under the previous administrations, much to china's annoyance and in a blink and noun, says that the u. s. wants to strengthen connections with existing tree t partners. we've already seen how earlier this year the u. s. entered into a trilateral security packed with australia and the u. k, which we'll see is trailer gain access to nuclear power at the submarines. now in terms of trade, the hasn't been anything really as concrete as such. but blink and

people in the u. s. can now send money to family members in afghanistan involving financial institutions, controlled by the taliban. and connie and that work, both groups are otherwise subject to us sanctions. the money is a lifeline for many afghans with global remittances making up 4 percent of g d. p. last year. it comes as the world bank says donors have agreed to transfer $280000000.00 to unicef from the world food program to provide nutrition and health services. in afghanistan, the un has warned nearly 9000000 afghans of facing famine this winter, much more heavy is the founder of rise to piece a piece building policy organization. he's also a former us counterterrorism adviser enough. got this done. he says there's still a lot more work for the taliban to do before it's recognized by the us. there are options in terms of the us of discussing and i think from our realistic perspective we're looking into the us, his interest at the end and the actions of the tall and not the front awards. but it's

the u. s. and russian presidents have spoken for the 2nd time this month in a bid to de escalate tensions over ukraine. the white house says the cold between joe biden and vladimir putin lost at 50 minutes. they held a virtual summit back in december on the 7th, and vowed to stay in contact on the issue. russia has repeatedly denied its planning to invade its neighbor, despite massing tens of thousands of troops along the border. as to correspond, john, hindrance who is live for us in washington dc. john, give us the details of this conversation between putin invited well, last time this call happened on december 7th. it was the russians who came out 1st with their read out of that called owning the narrative of it. this time it was the white house jen. saki, the press. secretary issued a statement saying, president biden urged russia to de escalate tensions with ukraine. he made clear of the united states and its allies and partners will respond decisively if russia further invade ukraine. pre

and that can last about 20 years in the u. s. and it still is also conditional on the austrian agreement to actually reach for the transfer men that have not excluded anything. okay, so there's a lot still on the table for them. chris and cops and for a lot of support. this is all about the fundamentals of democracy, of freedom. what impact do you think this may have in the future on would be whistleblowers? well, before i get to that, i just want to add to the so called assurances so that there was one thing missing . we haven't discussed that actually in those assurances are so called assurances there is the a clause that says that the government maintain the right to change their mind at any given moment after semester then transported united states. so it's absolutely a hollow and meaningless. an empty organization to take a look at it, including instance, national, has come to that conclusion. you ask about the implication of this? the implication is already here. we see that it has had a chilling effect, especially on journ

ah, the u. s. has also applauded to women's tennis association for suspending all tournaments in china for concerns about the well being of chinese tennis star punctual i. who has not spoken publicly. after accusing a senior official of sexual assault, the chinese government says it will respond with firm counter measures, but it hasn't released details as to what those might be. in recent weeks, the 2 countries announced these concessions help the exchange of business people and industry leaders are now worried that those would be at risk. katrina, you al jazeera aging. jewel vocal is a professor at pacific university in oregon and the author on the lympics. he says the us diplomatic boycott is not a surprise. the olympics have been political since they were founded in the 890 s by a plucky french aristocrat named baron peer to cooper time. and they have remained political ever since, after all, in 1936, hitler hosted the olympics in berlin to great political fact for him and his regime every sing

but the u. s. one of heavy sanctions in russia invades ukraine by dish, guess not what the support of nato countries ukraine is being pumped full of weapons and cave is building up its contingent on the line of contact. and on back the number of these 5 violations which have happened since it was signed in july 2020. it's coming close 290-0000. the spatial monitoring mission to ukraine has registered the redeployment of heavy weapons, including high caliber tillery and vehicles to the east of the country with that account being disputed by the white house at places the blame, squarely on russia. the russians are known for their rhetorical escalations as they are also known for their ways of providing misinformation around the world and within eastern flank countries. so i think we have to take their own efforts to communicate to their public with a grain of salt. what we know is that, oh, the aggression here is on the russian side. the military buildup is on the russian side. there is a path, a dip

u. s. navy exercises in the black sea turkey providing arm drones to ukraine on the u. s. also arming ukraine's military. now, i might not be in jo biden's gift to give assurances that nato won't expand. but vladimir putin does have this bargaining chip now, which is this large troop build up along the borders with ukraine. and according to us, estimates that could be enough troops there by the end of january, the earliest to launch an invasion showed vladimir putin want to go down that route . we talk about this issue of historically the baltic states, for example, of join nato. and ukraine has got an application in that to join nato. how much of a threat this is felt by russia and by moscow that you know, what was once bears is not, there's any more well, when ukraine declared independence, not lock up long after the collapse of the soviet union, vladimir putin described it as a great common calamity now that might not be view shared by many ukrainians, but an indication of the centuries of connections that have been between ukraine and russia. russia did not want those

the u. s. once assange to face trial over the release in 2010 of thousands of classified military documents relating to the u. s . was in afghanistan and iraq. but amnesty international has denounced the decision saying the u. s. charges represent a serious threat to press freedom. something echoed by his supporters. ricki lake was a organization of whistleblowers. it made it absolutely sim, safe and secure for whistleblowers to her to bring the truth to the public. all he has done as tell the truth and on his general dentist top right is upset their leads, but he has done his job to tell us what's going on. this decision is clearly a big setback for the campaign to free julian a science. but it's already taken years to get to this point and it could be a long time before we know definitively whether he'll be sent to the united states . the case has been sent back to the lower court, so a judge can refer the extradition to home secretary, pretty patel. but julian assigned his legal team so they

the u. s. has not been able to tackle those challenges itself. so when the u. s. president says it that he wants to lead by example, i think that many of the audience may be listening to that and wondering whether the u. s. president should cast his eyes on his own country 1st before offering advice to others. quickly, some of those examples, the u. s. president saying this is a, a defining challenge of our time in terms of all of the world, but that democracy is capable of self correction. and that, that can be done when parties sit down and work together. but we've seen division in this country that has only been exacerbated with each election. notably, of course, january 6th, when many conservatives in the united states attempted to overturn the results of the last u. s. presidential election when it comes to justice and rule of law that the u. s . president says needs to be upheld around the world. we see gross racial and equality, socio economic inequality and a widening wealth cap in this country. and when it comes to freedom of speech, the u. s. presiden

the u. s. also applauded the woman's tennis association for suspending all tournaments and china over concerns for the safety of chinese ton of star peng. why? with the olympics coming to the u. s. in 2028. there are now questions about how china may respond both in the short and long term. katya low priscilla young al jazeera while it's close to beijing, now we can speak to chris one that katrina you and katrina will be hearing from the foreign ministry gayden coming us. what do we expect? how that's right. they're expected to give a briefing sometime this afternoon, paging time, and really were expecting similar comments. they have been repeating the same kind of sentiments over the past few weeks when these 1st rumors came out that the u. s . was mulling over this move. china has acute washington, a political grandstanding, political, political, manipulation of distorting the spirit of the games. and we've had chinese states media similarly expressed the same sentiment, saying that this is t

the u. s. and russia's top diplomats meet for the 1st time while tensions flare rushes military build up near the border with you quite. u. s. reinstates a trump iraq policy requiring asylum seekers to remain in mexico. ah. arising corona, virus infections and the arrival of the new variant are pushing several nations to look at stricter measures to contain the spread in germany, unvaccinated people will be banned from much of public life. outgoing chance. langler merkel calling the restrictions an act of national solidarity. germany's parliament duels or owes also considering imposing a vaccine mandate. andrew simmons reports on the situation across europe in less than a week. the abi chrome variant has swept the globe with more uncertainty about covert in many countries, especially in europe. new restrictions were being introduced anyway, with the winter surgeon delta variant infections. germany is the latest to announce new measures. signs like these vaccinate immunized is the way this count

as the u. s. may well have seated influence from the south caucuses, but actually it's still a pretty big player in turkey, still has the intellect airbase, that the turks, however, did by russian air defense systems, which angered the u. s. is this is one. got it has to do with another the is this normalization of relations with armenia, a gift to the u. s. and saying that we are doing some of the things you want us to do. just don't take a well advanced system on turkey. the men of perspective towards the goal are in line with the work and the work and the us and must be anytime if there are the normalization piece in the region. and we're more than that. and this is again, can just change the wider it, serve the american and what was right, you know, right, that is on the field isn't active, but you know, they just fro again working on the line, normalized or regional issues, but any kind of armenian or my or normal vision to get an army we changed the and was gonna be a game changer. i don't t

the u. s. and russian presidents have spoken for the 2nd time this month in a bed to deescalate tensions over ukraine. the white house says the call between joe biden and vladimir putin last at 50 minutes. they held a virtual summit on december the 7th, and vowed to stay in contact and the issue. russia has repeatedly denied its planning to invade its neighbor, despite massing tens of thousands of troops along the border. john engineers live 1st in washington, d. c. john, give us the details of this conversation that took place between putin and biden. well, it was a 50 minute talk. it was the 2nd one this month after a previous conversation on december 7th, and each side laid out their diplomatic positions ahead of lower level talks in europe. next month. that white house put out a statement in which jen, saki, the press, secretary said, president biden urged russia to deescalate tensions with ukraine. he made clear that the united states and its allies and partners will respond decisively of

ah, the u. s. has also applauded to women's tennis association for suspending all tournaments in china for concerns about the well being of chinese tennis star punctual i. who has not spoken publicly. after accusing a senior official of sexual assault, the chinese government says it will respond with firm counter measures, but it hasn't released details as to what those might be. in recent weeks, the 2 countries announced a visa concessions to help the exchange of business people and journalists. industry leaders are now worried that those could be katrina, you al jazeera aging. international limbic committee says it respects americans decision not to send diplomats to beijing. but the ios is coordination, chief for the 2022 winter games urged other countries not to let critical issues interfere with the event. we always ask for as much space as possible from the political world and the least in possibly this year. and on our sports in a big world, an ideal. so we have to be reciprocal on the we un

ah, the u. s. has also applauded to women's tennis association for suspending all tournaments in china for concerns about the well being of chinese tennis star punctual i. who has not spoken publicly. after accusing a senior official of sexual assault, the chinese government says it will respond with firm counter measures, but it hasn't released details as to what those might be. in recent weeks, the 2 countries announced these concessions to help the exchange of business people and industry leaders are now worried that those would be at risk. katrina, you al jazeera, aging consulting turkey sign several cooperation deals in a feather, things to the bilateral ties the agreements, cover, trade, investment, health and media, and was signed by the cause. hari, amir and turkeys president george to day visit to the gulf country jamal a shell has more on the meeting from doha. a total of $1111.00 bilateral agreements between turkey and katara were assigned in different fields, economic, foreign policy, s

what is going to do in the u. s. basically it has destiny is becoming the dominant new strength throughout the world, unless it doesn't compete fully with delta. so it's really the south africans that know within days instead of months that took this. i'm a crime variant and gave us awareness that gave us a head start. so getting back to what you mentioned earlier, steve, you're going to do contact tracy. we got on this in the us, even though there was some delay in getting the 1st sequence is the u. s. now it's, you know, everywhere, but we got to those cases very shortly after they arrived very shortly after community transmission was started and we owe that debt to the south african sciences. let me ask you to talk about, you know, cutting off travel. and there seems to be, you know, in this drama, this major health pandemic drama, a desire in some places to blame a country to blame a place as opposed to saying, hey, you did the right thing by stepping forward because of the consequences. it would come out and as

but of course, it's not just the u. s. that disagrees with this is also a growing number of western countries as well as human rights groups that have compared the treat middle described it as amounting to genocide. now in regards to this move, china says that the u. s. is stretching the concept of national security and using it to suppress chinese companies. it says that it's not only having chinese businesses, but it also underlines international trade rules. in response to this, beijing has vowed to implement it or in measures to protect chinese companies. but we still don't have any details yet as to what those might be. chili's next president will be elected on sunday him. what's being billed is the most unpredictable vote in a long time. the runoff is being f is between rather a far right. conservative and a progressive social democrat and latin america editor lucy, a newman hans. the latest from santiago. after 2 years of constant protests that too often end in violence, especially on fridays, got little cd is closi

even as the u. s. influence wayne's? yeah, i think by agreeing to this trade a deal, i think it's a mess. those outside the tent, namely the u. s. that east asia and south east asia are willing to move on trade with or without the support of the u. s. and i think it's very important for you to reflect upon itself and figure out what its policy is going for on economics and on trade. more generally speaking, jan, how is this our step deal different from the trans pacific partnership deal or t p. p. as it's knowing which involved the u. s. in which they tried to get off the ground, but then they pulled out of right. so i think that's a good starting point. the t p p is no longer what it was. it's now the c p t, v p, which is se significantly watered down version of what the u. s. had initially proposed now after it pulled out. and so, but still, even in this watered down form, it is a much more ambitious agreement than that. we have with us the, the membership of asset is so diverse. you have very rich countries like singa

and the u. s. has warned russia of severe sanctions if it invades ukraine. president joe biden and baton rouge and held a to our virtual call that ended with no breakthrough. putin ones guarantees that ukraine wont join later. now the funeral of a sri lankan man biesen to death and pakistan on friday is about to begin in his home country. a crowd attacked brianne to deal with donna before dragging him into the streets and setting him on fire staff at the factory wade. he'd worked at accused him of destroying a religious poster. pakistan's prime minister says more than a 100 people have now been arrested. well, let's speak to michelle fernandez. she is outside victims, home in tampa, in sri lanka, manella. i understand that mr. dia donna had a wife and 2 children. how is everyone doing that? her? that's right. no sir. the entire family is very much in a state of shock. i spoke to his wife, ah, who is? i still trying to take it all in the fact that her husband is no more and then he came to such a br

the u. s. is forced to resume a controversial trump era immigration policy that makes migrants weights in mexico while their cases are hard. and where we wanted vaccines, they just kept, you know, you bring us the crumbs from the table. so africa as president hits out at governments over their failure to deliver on promises of coven, 19 vaccines for africa. ah, now china is threatening firm counter measures against the u. s. after an announced a diplomatic boycott of next year's winter olympics, and beijing, american government officials will not be attending the event because of what they call human rights atrocities. and genocide, chinese embassy in washington has called that decision, a grave distortion of the olympic charter, who will have more reaction from beijing in a moment. but 1st, this report from catalogue has had a young political tension between the us and china, now playing out and next year's winter olympics and beijing, you as president joe biden said for weeks he was consideri

and so the u. s. the prices chinese enterprises and companies by every means such as severely violating the market principle and international trading roles is seriously homes. the interests of chinese institutions and companies we deplore and firmly opposed that we urge the u. s. to correct it's wrong doing and we will take all necessary measures to uphold the rights and interests of chinese institutions and companies. north korea has come to a standstill for 3 minutes of silence memory, formerly to kim jong il is the 10th anniversary of his death state media called for national unity during the hardships of the pandemic. last year, north korea faced its worst economic contraction since 1997. now 3, a trailer and children remained critically injured after a gust of wind blew away the bouncy castle they were playing on. 5 of their playmates were killed when they fell around 10 meters. as the inflatable was hurled into the air, the 11 year olds was calibrating the last week of primary school before chr

the u. s. and european participants of accused are on of not being serious about salvaging the deal. they weren't hereon to come back with realistic proposals. let's bring endorse a jabari. she is in vienna for the talks and joins us now. dos. i see they've arrived back at the negotiating table this morning to we actually expect any more progress this week. why, what we expect there to be some decisions made on all sides. the iranian a deputy for mr. who's leading the negotiating team. arrived in vienna on thursday morning i. he's been meeting with the chinese and the russian delegations here and they are all due to meet at a joint commission session in the next few minutes. and we also know that we, we in foreign minister has held a phone conversation with the foreign policy. should joseph morales, i'm saying i'm you're up to like young said that it is very crucial that these talks move forward in a positive way. he said that the comments that have come out from the europeans about these negot