think and stressed that the u. s. is not trying to make countries choose between the us and china and for many countries in the region. there is a balancing act involved. china is a very important trade partner. but many of also traditionally looked to the us to provide security in the region. some analysts say that for the us to deepen its ties in the region, it has to have been effective economic strategy. and bring can seem to acknowledge this in his speech, things the us will identify opportunities for us companies to operate here. as well as for more foreign direct investment to flow into the region. in south korea has had his worst day of the pandemic recording. 94 deaths on tuesday. the korea, disease control and prevention agencies at a record 906 people were also in a serious or critical condition. a medical system is reaching its limits with the filter driven spread, leaving some people dying on waiting for hospital beds. the 1st case of omicron has been the taxes in mainland china, authorities in the city o

u. s. after dozens of tornadoes tear through sick states and international observers. sound the alarm about the record levels of violence against women in kyrgyzstan around the world, countries are seen call that 19 infections and deaths. wising again to record numbers governments. we're also trying to tackle the new omicron variance. but delta remains dominant in most places. for now, let's take a look at some of the latest news lines coming in. this are, so korea has had its worst day of the pandemic recording. 94 deaths on tuesday. the career disease control and prevention agencies set a record 906 people were also in a serious or critical condition. the medical system is reaching its limits with the delta driven spread, leaving some people dying while waiting for a hospital beds petitions in the u. k of questioning sciences about the owner, con variance of coven. 19 i minister at boris johnson announced towards believe to be the world's 1st confirmed death over patience with the new var

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

the u. s. is one of the worst effected regions. gabriel, alexander has more from newark airport in new jersey. delta. one of the major carriers here in the u. s. is announced her over a 125 cancellations on friday. united airlines. so another major airline here in the u. s. over a $160.00 cancellations. they say this is all due to a pilot, a flight attendant and other staff shortages staff that have been hit by the new armory cron barian that is hitting the north east of the united states from jersey, washington dc. new york particularly hard new york city address is the u. s. epicenter of the henri cron variant u. k prime minister boss johnson has urging the public to get a boost of vaccine shot over the christmas holiday. he's resistant calls for tighter restrictions as combine a virus case is search to record highs though the time for buying presence is theoretically running out. there is still a wonderful thing. you can give your family and the whole country that is to get that job, whether

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. south korea and china are pumping money into their own industries to become more self reliant in march beijing wave taxes on imported semiconductor materials. but china's main ship maker is under us sanctions for alleged ties to its military. the u. s. senate recently approved $52000000000.00 for america semiconductor industry. as part of a tech innovation bill. as a percentage of g d p, we spend less than half as much as the chinese communist party. on basic research. we rely on foreign nations to surprise credit supply critical technologies that we invented like semiconductors, that sunny american optimism has flickered as well. the world is more competitive now than in any time since the end of the 2nd world war. if we do nothing, our days is the dominant super power may be ending. ah. all right, let's bring our guests in, sol, june park, a political economist, and an east asia voice, his initiative fellow at george washington university. in new york city. jim anderson's ceo of soc

now in his speech outlining the u. s. as in the pacific plans, secretary of state, antony lincoln that the u. s. will work with its allies and partners to descend the rules based order. he was forthright in his remarks saying countries are concerned about china's actions. and he listed some of these, which include china using his, its economic strength to punish countries as policies. it disagrees with, and china laying claims to large parts of the south china sea countries across the region. want this behavior to change. we do to that's why we're determined to ensure freedom navigation in the south china sea, where beijing's aggressive actions there threatened the movement of more than 3 trillion dollars worth of commerce. every year, lincoln stressed that the u. s. is not trying to make countries choose between the us and china and for many countries in the region. there is a balancing act involved. china is a very important trade partner. but many of also traditionally looked to the us to provide security in the region

there's no official u. s embassy, anti pay for example. but on the other hand, they sort of want china to leave taiwan alone, and the u. s. has suggested they would defend taiwan militarily in certain circumstances. are reported. united states is may clear, did china did it, would defend taiwan on its own chinese attack as unprovoked. and on the flip side is made clear to taiwan that it will not come to taiwan. deed only if the chinese a type is provoked. so that's the big picture. if things spin out of control, we could potentially be talking about a war between the us and china. it means that when things are tense around taiwan, it's a big deal and things have been getting tons under president donald trump, the you got a lot cozier with taiwan than previous presidents and biden's administration has effectively continued in the same direction over in taiwan. the political climate shifted in 2016 when president sign went to go over from the prob, aging president. she's been pretty outspoken against basing. and the question of taiwan status

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. 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

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

still ahead on al jazeera while the u. s. house of representatives has banned imports from china's shin jang region. i've allegations to force labor and ester line command, beaten to death by his own colleagues, and pock storm is funny, lay to rest his ah look forward to brighter skies with sponsored play cattle airways. hello, good to see. here's your weather report for the middle east. we do have some activity moving across northern areas of syria, it rock into western portions of iran, but by and large things looking good. plenty of sun in the mix here. same goes for bucket st on at for the south in the north karachi, $29.00 degrees that the hor, $22.00. so the mornings and the nights bit fresh here. off to turkey in this situation here. fairly calm after that act of weather rolled across the la van, still a few scattered showers hanging about. but as the day progresses on thursday, you will see an improvement in conditions central africa. right now we got to talk temperatures because these hope well above average, juba of

in beijing, china's accused the u. s. of grandstanding the u. s. as it will warn russia of severe economic consequences if it invades ukraine. it's had to be the main subject and a virtual summit between president joe biden and vladimir putin. a security forces, as you dont have find to tear gas at protest is denouncing a move by the prime minister to sign a deal with the military demonstrators. more allies of former leader omar bashir removed from power accorded me and mark has given the countries deposed civilian nita unsung sushi a 4 year prison sentence later reduced to 2 with a partial pardon. she had already spent a great deal of a 21 year period in detention or under restrictions for her efforts to bring democracy to the country. her election 6 years ago was seen as the dawn of a peaceful future. but she rejected allegations of the militaries ethnic cleansing overhang and muslims leading to criticism a new term one a little over a year ago ended in february's coo, she's been detained ever since, while more than a 1000 people have been killed

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

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

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

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

the u. s. left the deal in 2018 under then president trump thing 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 only through 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. i'd still ahead on al jazeera, the u. s

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. 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. n u n. have condemned the killing of at least 4 protest is by security forces in sudan. they was shot during a crackdown on nationwide protests. in some city security forces used t gas to disperse crowns more than 2 for more than 2 months, rather pro democracy activists in sudan have been matching against the military, which seized power in october. mohammed val has more from the capital, cuts him earlier in the day, or the impression was that to this day sir, protest was a, a less violent. and the numbers are for testers, less than during the, the, the previous occasions. but, you know, as the day progressed, it became clear that because security forces prevented the protest as an on demand to reach cartoon to cross the bridges into thing, central cartoon or the mate. the major consultation took place in on doorman itself, particularly in their street called shara allow by in, at, thus, where a goals are processed as were killed, 4 of them, according to medical sources, and also sources from the side of the year of the revolutionaries. the resistance committees, it, it'

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

and obviously the u. s. s. as a state that it's intention of dragging ukraine into nato, even when only a small minority wanted to be part of nato. and furthermore, didn't simply sign an agreement with you. there were, there was a qu, backed by balsa, united states, and that you. and because of this, the russians reacted as a status quo. a route built by, by claimed, by holding on to its naval base in crimea. so again, if nato had not had the worst on the back, the crew in ukraine and nato hadn't threatened to expand into ukraine. russia would never have taken, but colonel or so yeah, i want, i want to give what's probably going to be lost. what on this to that theresa fallon? go ahead. well, i think it's always important to try to understand how the russians see the world. it's very different from most other people. i think that status quo, i mean seizing crimea, and over 14000 people have died in the dunbar. so the idea that nato is changing the status quo. i think the evidence is there on the ground. 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

people in the u. s. can now send money to i've got to start using financial institutions which are controlled by the taliban and the how county network groups are otherwise subject to us. sanctions. this money though, a lifeline for many afghans, the u. n. his warning, nearly 9000000 of them are facing famines. this wind protest is in australia, marching against corona, virus restrictions and compulsory vaccination live pictures from vienna, here with a lockdown n for the vaccinated on sunday, but continues for people who are unvaccinated. vaccines will be mandatory for every austria and older than 14, from february. that is for people have been killed and several others injured after a tornado ripped through eastern parts of the united states. in illinois, the extreme weather caused a roof to collapse at an amazon warehouse emergency crews trying to rescue dozens of people still trapped inside. let's find out for the day peter w will take you through the next few hours of news inside story. the next. ah

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. is the worst effected comes for nearly one in 3 cases in the world. europe's also seeing a massive rise in cases with italy, france, spain, and the u. k. all reporting records daily infections in the past week, rory challenge reports from london, dedicated, skyrocketing hand coded hospitalisation in england, or event flyer. since the alarm bells ringing, there's an ami kron serge. it's about to crash over the already struggling national health service. so we keep them increasing, especially it of course the pressures are again, my thing week on week when you've got workforce, as i've said, that's already up to 550 for nurses on many more. and so i feel as saying, then of course, the pressures are building and building and building. so what will it be like? and johnny re contingency plans being put in place to co existing hospital capacity becomes overwhelmed with new temporary boards built the house patients. 8 temporary hub, being built at hospitals around the country, each one with

u. s. says is diplomats will not be attending the beijing winter olympics. china has promised the firm response. ah, don't o'clock. that is, how does your a life know also come and where we wanted vaccines? they just kept, you know, giving us the crumbs from the, our table and south africa's president head south, the government's over, their failure to deliver on promises of coven, 19 vaccines for africa. gambia and police via gas or protest as he refused to accept president the dumb of barrows re election and the by the ministration revives a policy that will keep migrants in mexico while that asylum cases are reviewed. ah, so us diplomats will not be attending next year's winter olympics and china, the white house confirmed the diplomatic boycott on monday, citing human rights atrocities and genocide and relating to the treatment of wisdom weakens and should jag, us athletes will still compete out the olympics. whitehouse cross one can be helicopters more from washington dc under pressure

and the u. s. as announced a diplomatic boy caught a b james winter olympics. china calls it publication, and that is all your sport for now. it's now back to lauren in london. thanks very much. dean foreign quit monday you and catch up any time with our website address that his al jazeera dot com. i'll be back in a couple minutes with another full run of today's news. thanks for watching annisa . ah ah. december hollow, jessia, cattle hose, the fever, arab cut, a momentous event for the region and a glimpse of what's in store for the 2022 wild cup people in power investigates the use and abuse of power across the globe. a world exclusive interview with joint nobel peace, lori, if recognized by safeguarding freedom of expression as a pre condition for democracy, and lasting peace from shore documentary too in depth, explain it. portal showcase is the best. the vouchers, iraq digital content as the year draws to a close. we look back at the events that have shaped the news and look ahead to next yea

but critics say the u. s. lacks the moral authority to hold such as summit. we directly arm and finance some of the most authoritarian an inch democratic governments around the world. the case that comes to mind over and over again is saudi arabia, where we continue to sell arms in the millions, billions of dollars to a government that who stated goal. he's not to support that democratic re foundation. the guest list for the summit has also raised eyebrows. countries like india and israel has been invited to attend. they've been criticized internationally for their authoritarian responses, kashmir and the palestinian territories. meanwhile, turkey and hungry, both nato allies are excluded. it does not mean that we are invite that every one we're inviting were giving a stamp of approval on every democracy is a work in progress. divisions over the 2020 u. s. election. continue led by former president trump, who has still not accepted the results or his defeat. democrats say that sentiment has motivated republicans to change voting laws in some states to restric

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

think and stressed that the u. s. is not trying to make countries choose between the us and china and for many countries in the region. there is a balancing act involved. china is a very important trade partner. but many of also traditionally looked to the us to provide security in the region. some analysts say that for the us to deepen it's ties in the region, it has to have an effect his economic strategy and lincoln seemed to acknowledge this. in his speech, things the us will identify opportunities for u. s. companies to operate here, as well as for more foreign direct investment to flow into the region. the washington d. c. c. government is suing too far, right groups involved in the storming of the u. s. capital on january 6th. it's filed a civil lawsuit against the organizations known as proud boys and the old keepers. they want to recover the cost of the police deployment on the day, as well as medical and paid leave expenses and at damages for assault and emotional distress. it is of the 6 golf corp counsel s

the u. s. is the worst affected economy 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 deescalate tensions over ukraine. joe biden repeated the threat of sanctions of moscow invades ukraine. vladimir putin responded with such a move could lead to a complete breakdown of ties and he was stay to colorado. hundreds of homes have been destroyed after wildfires, driven by high winds, engulfed to cities near denver has been described as a life threatening situation. tens of thousands of people i've been told to leave their homes immediately. the u. s. has condemned the killing of at least 4 protesters by security forces in sudan. there was shot in on demand where thousands of people have rallied against the recent military takeover demonstrators in the capital costume had been proved, approaching the presidential palace. and they want the military to stay out of government affairs during the transition to free elections. muhammad vol has more from or to earlier in the day, or the impression was that

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

it's also an opportunity to discuss a range of topics in the u. s. and russia relationship including strategic stability, cyber and regional issues. uh, but you can certainly expect that ah, the are our concerns about the military activities on the border will be a prominent part of the discussion. vladimir putin is denied that an invasion is planned, blaming nato, for the need to position his military as a boa against its expansion eastwards. he is likely to demand security guarantees from biden on 2 men lost, met face to face in geneva in june. when the disgust improving it diplomatic relations, but pushing the spokesmen admits relations is still pull her merger look good to them. we would need to discuss the agreements made in geneva and have a brief look at those implemented and ones which require further attention. of course, the bilateral relations will be discussed, which is still in the mental state cleaning, and ukraine's not all the european migrant crisis blamed on russia's ally banners. cyber attacks on companies and government agencies i

we got from the u. s. at least these, these missionaries came from all over the over the u. s. they were organized by an ohio based mission regroup. and their report stay that those who knew the missionaries and 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 or a member of 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 facilitating in negotiations as well. fill ahead on 0 polarized, like rarely before she leaves, presidential election campaign comes down to a battle between

she started by asking him why the u. s. is still moving to tighten sanctions as the talks are ongoing. this is helpful to be pushing for that as you're trying to get a deal. we are prepared to get back into the deal as soon as possible soon as are on it and we would lift all of the sanctions are inconsistent with adjacent to it. but in the meantime, we can stand by and not be prepared for world in which iran may be choosing to delay build its program, try to build more leverage, we honestly have to respond. and so that's what we're doing. we're preparing ourselves for that, that outcome. how concerned are you or how concerned is the united states that israel could potentially drag the united states into an armed conflict with iran? we are privileging the path of diplomacy. we think it's the best way. it's best for us. we suspect it's best we're wrong, but iran will have to decide that as president biden secretary, blinking has both said, if iran chooses regard despite our diplomatic offer to take a different path, then we'l

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,

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. 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

the u. s. has 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 bid to deescalate tensions over ukraine. the white house, as the call between joe biden and vladimir putin lost at 50 minutes by them repeated the threat of sanctions of moscow invades ukraine flooding. a put and responded that such a move currently to a complete breakdown of ties between the countries. john hendern has the latest from washington, d. c. gen saki, a press secretary for president. joseph biden has put out a statement in that. she says, president biden urged russia to de escalate 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 in these dialogues can occur only in an environment of de escalation rat

the u. s. warrens, russia, of serious consequences if it invades ukraine. but moscow denies allegations is planning on attack, the bike, the ministration reinstates a trump. here a policy requiring asylum seekers to remain in mexico and the sky is the limit. china is impressive, tall buildings are expected to dominate the world architecture. ah, rising corona, virus infections and the arrival of a new variant job pushing several countries to look at strict measures to contain the spread in germany, unvaccinated people be banned from much of public life. the outgoing chance langler merkle calls restrictions, an act of national solidarity. germany's parliaments also considering imposing a vaccine mandate al jazeera was andrew simmons reports on the situation right across europe. in less than a week, the army chrome variant has swept the globe with more uncertainty about cove. it in many countries, especially in europe, new restrictions were being introduced anyway with the winter surgeon delta va