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

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

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

the u. s. and russian presidents have spoken for the 2nd time this month, and a bed to de escalate tensions over ukraine. joe biden told vladimir pierson the u. s. would respond decisively if russia invited 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 current of ours cases of hit a record high in the past 7 days. with almost a 1000000 detected on average each day, the u. s. is the worst effected accounting for nearly one in 3 cases in the world. south africa has announced

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

so the u . s. a sorta, sorta by choice withdrawn from the south caucuses, not entirely, but it seated diplomatic territory to turkey to russia, as well 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 to has to do with another 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 away l at offense system on turkey . the enter perspective towards the goals are in line with the work in the work and us and must be anytime if there are normalization, we want to get peace in the region and we're more than that. it is again, can just change the wider it's served. the american way, but right. you know, right that it's on the field isn't active, but you know, they just scroll again. they're working on

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

and lincoln said the u. s. would work with its partners and its allies in the region to defend the rules based order. florence, all of those political visits you mentioned in addition to antony blank and now i guess this constitutes the u. s. have it to asia as they talk about, aside from political visits, are we seeing any concrete action on that? so the u. s. strategy is about term ensuring that the indoor pacific remains free and open. and it's going to do that. it says by strengthening deepening. it's ties militarily and also economically. so militarily, we've seen the u. s. conduct freedom of operation, freedom of navigation operations quite regularly in the south china sea, much to china's annoyance, and lincoln says the u. s. now wants to deepen or strengthen connections with existing treaty partners. i'm including japan and korea. now earlier this year we saw the u. s. reach a new cic trilateral security pipe with australia and the u. k, which will give us trailer access to nuclear pilots, submarines. n

the u. s . l. its allies are worried russia plans to invade its neighbor after massing tens of thousands of troops near the border. russia denies any such plans and describes the accusations as hysteria creams as it supports biden's call for britain to return to the purple embassy and ensure a de escalation on the border. u. s. national security advisor jake sullivans, as president biden, was clear and direct with vladimir putin outlining the response washington that its allies, if russia attacks ukraine. he reiterated america's support for ukraine sovereignty and territorial integrity. he told president putin directly that if russia further invades ukraine, the united states and our european allies would respond with strong economic measures. we would provide additional defensive material to the ukrainians above and beyond that, which we are already providing. and we would fortify our nato allies on the eastern flank with additional capabilities in response to such an escalation. he also told pres

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. so when they 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's one thing missing. we haven't discuss 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 journa

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

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 get to 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? president biden will also speak with ukraine's president lensky on thursday. kimberly, how can al jazeera, the white house will steal? clemens is the host around, there is the bottom line and that large for the hill. he says moscow wants to undermine the u. s. president's credibility. and this is going

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. 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

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

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. once a sanction face trial over the release in 2010 of thousands of classified military documents relating to the u. s. wars 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. we colleagues was a organization of whistleblowers that made it absolutely safe and secure for whistleblowers to her to bring the truest to the public. all he has done as tell the truth and on his gen, adonis. albright is upset daily. it's 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 the points. 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 sound his legal team, so they'll try to

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

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 you and so that for his president, has again, criticized sweeping travel bands imposed on his country because of the army kron variant. so we're on the poser also accused western governments of failing to deliver. promised coven 19 vaccines. police and the gambia fired tear gas to disperse opposition. supporters on monday, protest her saying who seine dubbo should have one that president adama barrow was declared the winner with 53 percent of the bows. leaders of nato allies, the u. s. u. k. france, germany and italy have held a joined phone call about ukraine. a build up of russian forces on the ukrainian border will likely dominate virtual tools between vladimir putin and joe biden. on tuesday. memorial has been held to month. the 80th anniversary of the japanese attac

the u. s. is the worst affected 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 deescalate.

the u. s. and voice, iran tells al jazeera it's the other side that's rejected face to face nuclear talks. but in vienna, the iranian delegation say they're at a new round of negotiations to get results. also had you, as president offers his support and a telephone call with ukraine's leda. but russia insist, it's not to blame for the military, build up global health experts recommending 3rd jobs for the most vulnerable people . at the same time, many a struggling to get f 1st cove at vaccine. there is risk that the global supply is again, going to revert to high income countries hoarding vaccine. and will tell you about easy lens plan to bought out smoking for good with a lifetime bond for the teenagers of tamara. i'm devin ash, with sport as spanish side a very alice to kill the final spot in the last 16 of the european champions league . and formula one officials have warned against unsportsmanlike, driving in sundays at championship poseida between maxes dauphin and louis hamilton . ah, hel

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. government will restart the trump era board of presidente forces asylum seekers to wait in mexico. so us immigration hearings, the biden administration, had originally scrapped the controversial remain in mexico program. but a court order in august forced them to reinstated, migrants are expected to be sent back as early as next week. mike, hannah has moved from washington. well, that texas court ruling was upheld by the supreme court, which agreed that the biden had ministration had not investigated fully enough before removing this particular law. biden had described the lo, entered use by president trump as in humane and his administration. got rid of it immediately. however, now in the light of the supreme court judgment, the administration is we introducing this remain in mexico protocol. it has spent the last few months at discussing with the mexican government ways in which this could be imposed in a far more humane manner than it was in the past. this includes, for example, pr

as long as the u. s. want, wants that i think it's very easy to imagine you're building up more capabilities and making them useful within, within nato, by carrying more of its own way. in terms of deterring russian aggression and not just relying on on the u. s. for this. so as long as nato is viable and as long as the u. s. is able and willing to underwrite the european security more capabilities will also make on the european part will make nato stronger. so that's not at all. busy the contradiction and at the same time as a hedge against the possible future in which the us no longer the underwrite european security. and to a very clear future in which the u. s. is much more, much more focused on the in the pacific theater. so that europe needs to take care of relations in its neighborhood, especially also with russia by itself. when glen has a very funny reading of history and the relations with russia, where europe and the u. s. are the only culprits were a shiny, happy future with the kremlin would

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 works. police and the gambia have fired tear gas to disperse opposition supporters. president adama barrow is declared the winner of saturday's election, 53 percent of the vote. the protesters say who say me double should of one concerns around a new escalation, and ukraine has said to dominate talks between us and russian leaders. later on tuesday, vladimir putin has denied that an invasion is planned, blaming nato, rather for the need to position his military as a buffer against its expansion eastwards. so laugh against president has again, criticized sweeping travel bands imposed on his country because of the army con variant, sir, or i'm opposed, also accused western governments of failing to deliver, promised coven 19 vaccines. meanwhile, france is closing nigh

u. s. a. to these countries, is this any different from the programs we've heard in the past in the past? that's exactly the central point of follow up on what marco is saying, because unfortunately, it's not. and nobody like joe biden should know better than the fact that those kinds of proposals have failed in the past. because he was in charge of this really in charge of central american development and stabilization, during the obama administration. and what he didn't impose the war on drugs model of putting the armed forces in the streets for public security tasks. impose kind of the ican nomic model based on for an investment and the construction of these big mega projects that actually displace indigenous especially indigenous and rural communities. and these are the being the people who migrate. and so to have a new 4 year for $1000000000.00 program, that repeats those in the same errors is somewhat inconceivable. marco, how does security factor into dealing with the root causes of mig

the u. s. government has ordered enough fires is covered 1900 pills to treat 10000000 americans find the says it's almost 90 percent effective in preventing death or hospital admissions. in high risk people, the drug called packs loaded was tested on unvaccinated people. it must be given within 3 days of symptoms appearing 5 says the drug also works well against the on the chrome variance staff at a candle factory in the us state of kentucky. se bosses threatened to fire them if they left work as a toll p as a tornado approached, management denied this, at least 8 people were killed when the factory was hit by the storm. the state governor says ill investigate the allegations. agidir's heidi joe casto reports with christmas approaching worker as of the mayfield consumer products handle factory were rushing to fill holiday orders, despite fridays, ominous skies. 20 year old elijah johnson says he felt nervous when he clocked in for his shift. and worse, after a tornado alarm sounded an early war

s. stage of colorado and u. s. troops and they combat mission in iraq. but this still opposition to the few remaining on the grounds. to years ago, china told the world health organization about a new and mysterious case of pneumonia in wu and cd. now the pandemic has killed almost 5 and a half 1000000 people in the army. kron and delta variance of coven 19 a shattering daily infection records. in the us and across europe, china's been battling to cape covert cases at 0, but now 30000000 residents in the city of shyanne have been locked down as it struggles within new outbreak. and in india, daily infections have more than doubled over the past week. experts claim the country is entering a 3rd wave, but it's a different story in south africa where restrictions are being lifted after infections dropped by almost 30 percent last week. the government believes it's past the peak, fueled by the only con variant. for more on this story, we're joined by for me to mila who is live for us in it came down. hello there for me to. thanks for joining us. tell us abou

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

a u. s. gulf states things looking good. say for a few showers of brown, texas, we could get a spurts of rain for houston with the high of 25 degrees. wow. temperature is coming down in kansas city in denver, but still well above where he should be for this time of the year, off to central africa right now. and rein being steered in to nicaragua, costa rica, and panama, also some showers around the yucatan peninsula. our usual burst of rain through the top end of south america and you know that stormy weather we had in the southeast of brazil must. that action has pulled out toward the south atlantic, but still a few lingering showers. rio de janeiro coming in with a high of 26 on friday. that's it. that's all see again soon. ah, with this they just said it's time for a different approach. one that is going to challenge the way you thing. where did you the sound bites, and we're digging into the issues from international politics to the global pandemic. and everything in between. join me as i take on the la, dismantled misco

the u. s. has warned russia of tough economic measures of it invades ukraine. president joe bought in vladimir putin held a 2 hour virtual call that ended with no breakthrough. but the kremlin says the 2 leaders would keep engaging on practical insensitive masses. on white house correspondent kennedy hall, kept reports with a massive build up of russian troops, new ukraine, shared border, and us intelligence indicating an invasion of ukraine could happen early next year . us president biden met virtually with russian president vladimir putin. good to see you again. the pair spoke for 2 hours, who denies russia and tends to invade ukraine, calling it fear mongering. 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 russian annexation of crimea from ukrain

now last week, u. s. and european participants accused to her on not being serious about salvaging the deal. what guys both dish morgan was from poles allegations with only the ring in one full delegations, lorine essential for push home. the need to war, come to return agreement from bringing the spirit back to life. this is, this is my my information from from this morning. it's difficult, it's a very difficult devil to say that are still different positions that we have to marie. this is the gist of the negotiation or we will see how we can, how we can proceed, or how we come across all dosage of all he chose. we now live from vienna and it does sound like there is some optimism around this round of told, perhaps a little bit of urgency as well to get some sort of conclusion. certainly, and the sentiments that were shared by the reigning deputy foreign minister at the very connie who's leading the rating delegation was the same as that of the you foreign policy cheese that we just heard from. connie sa

the negotiations are aimed at bringing the u. s. back into the pact and ensuring that iran is once again complying with it. the u. s. is again, water that is prepared to take action against russia. if it invades ukraine. number of russian troops has been rising along the border, but the criminal says it's nothing to worry about. ukraine though, believes that russia could mountain offensive. the sooners next month, libya's foreign minister has accused europe of pushing its migrant crisis on to the north african country. national english says that european leaders offer only superficial solutions. a decade of instability is made libya crossing points for people trying to reach europe on those bad lines. won't you fear on i was era after today's inside story coming up next. ah. a deal within reach if the west shows good will that is the message from iran authors submitted proposals to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement. but is good will enough and can you deal cold this time? this is inside ah lobo to program on can vanelle. iran has su

while the u. s. is not directly talking to raining officials here in vienna, there seems to be renewed optimism about the 7th round of talks. and now that the main issue between or on the i e seems to be resolved. it will be up to the americans to put forth what they're willing to do to convince ron to return to for compliance door search avari al jazeera vienna. ahead on al jazeera ukraine's president, wrote me landscape, need you, leaders as concerns go about russian troops. that is countries border and bangladesh. mont, 50 years of independence from pakistan. we'll look at the progress it's made and some of the challenges in the ah, look forward to parameters, guys with sponsored by capital airways or can see your world's weather update. we're going to begin in the sub continent. hello everyone and no major weather alerts across city except for the potential to see some fog through punjab state rate toward the northeast of india in a san otherwise just a few scattered showers for tamela. do really

and then we switched to the reports, we got it from the u. s. at least these, these missionaries came from all over the over the u. s. will that they were organized by an ohio based mission regroup, and their report stay that. those who knew the missionaries and who were part of the congregation of the missionaries for michigan received a call from someone or a text message rather early this morning from quite someone connected to the situation. telling them that all the, all the missionaries were now free. and we have this interesting quote from michigan congressional member, remember congress saying i want to thank the members of the hostage negotiation team for the diligence and securing the safe release of all the hostages. so this was apparently then a negotiated release. we don't know whether, whether that $17000001.00 for each $1000000.00 for each hostage was actually paid. but this was a release that was negotiated. apparently we knew that the f b i was helping and facilitating in negotiations as well. head on out of the u. s. ramps up t

that's because health officials here in the u. s. say that the army kron variant, probably won't peak in the u. s. until after the new year. maybe the 1st 2nd, even 3rd week of january. that's just a rough estimate. because the variant is certainly surging in many parts of the world, but particularly here in the us, we're now going into date 3 of flight cancellations and delays because of staffing shortages at airlines all over the world. but particularly here in the u. s it's looking like on sunday, globally, according to flight aware, a tracking site. there are more than 2000 flight cancellations. many of them coming out of out of china, but about 30 to 40 percent out of the us. just on sunday it's looking like about 650 cancellations of flights in the u. s. so far, but the debt could increase as the day goes on. airlines are saying that this is because of staff shortages due to coven cases. not only pilots and flight attendants and ramp agents, and check in agents calling in sick. but even if they were exposed or think they were e

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,

ah, the u. s. has warned russia consequences if it invades ukraine, the, to our virtual call between j bought and vladimir putin ended with no break through the talks follow a massive russian troop build up out of the border. the house western nations worried that moscow will invade its neighbor. i white house correspondent, chimney hawk. it begins our coverage 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 mongering. 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

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