are they buying what mr. johnson is selling people in the u. k. are really furious when they heard about the many parties. so they started breaking in late december, there was a fast admission of parties having taken place and downing street and, and, and people really couldn't believe it. or many have come forward, specifically to say that on this day they couldn't, for example, sit or with her family member that was dying. and they, they can't believe that there seems to have been one rule for them. a very, very strict rule of lockdown. but that those people who made the rules were not adhering to their own rule. so it is really all over the paper. that's all over social media. and his approval ratings have already gone. gone down, broke johnson at the prove a rating since they're the 1st talk of these parties in december. so they were already rock bought. and now i don't have a another poll that has been conducted since our last night since this new story broke. but i believe that they are going down further and further at the moment. in a few

and while places in the u. k, are now they're up to 30 percent of their population boosted. other countries have yet to get up to 10 percent of their country, even with the 1st doses. and that includes healthcare workers were one and for health care workers in africa are currently unvaccinated. and these are the people who are at highest risk. so we really need to start to think about things more creatively than we have been to ensure that we can get a quicker resolution to the end of the pandemic. if this does not mean the end of coven 19 any of the end of the acute phase, and where we can manage it without the same pressure that we're experiencing here, i with hospitalizations, and in the u. k, there are massive workforce shortages as result of our micron and the steep incline of not only cases, but we're starting to see those 1st signals of a creaking and a chest. right. ok. i had, they are saying, how do as a virology, i wonder if you can explain to us how do inequities actually prolong the pandemic? so as, as was mentioned by the other colleagues, so if you, if you have

and the u. k. are sending military aid to ukraine with baltic nations set to follow. germany's hands off approach is attracting criticism. but the u. s. secretary of state denied the divisions. i've been on the phone and saw might my own a german counterpart. ah, for mr. a burbock and i can tell you that the germans very much, i'm sure our concerns and our resolute endangered, are determined to respond to respond swiftly effectively. and in the united way. up to a $100000.00 russian troops have amassed that ukraine's boulders over recent months . with moscow demanding that ukraine will never be allowed to join nato. putin is also denied. he is planning to talk. but those living on ukraine's frontier with russia are far from reassured with life on the edge of something very terrible is caring. so yes, i can say i'm of scale for now daily life continues, but as a political temperatures plummet, people here all to away how quickly that could all change. now as ukraine gets more military aid in respons

and the u. k. has done the same, but still a lot. there are 2 important questions that are key to answer. the big question is we are going to see military invasion and sanctions in the next days or weeks. the 1st question would be, what if russia acts in a so cult gray zone, meaning a space between war and peace, like, for example, election meddling or cyber attacks? would this be enough to make the united states and its allies to impose sanctions? m, russia could definitely also shape the face of ukraine with these kind of strategies and without the cost of a war. and secondly, with the west, meaning the united states and its allies in europe, the united on the sanctions. they would impose on russia, europe, and specially germany as you know, gets almost a 70 percent of its gas from russia and at the end of the sanctions. might be even worse for germany and other countries in europe. county that she more in washington dc for us. thank you very much. in well, military 8 is arriving in cuba. as we s

because 95 percent of all goods, of course, are shipped into the u. k. but a few things you mentioned earlier are maybe rachel, that mentioned that make you k on survey that at one of them actually was conducted with p w. c. and that found that 73 percent of senior executives are actually saying that the opportunities in the u. k outweigh the risks. one of the things that's very interesting from all these sundays is that on the shoring is much more likely to occur in the u. k. so actually i will likely a lot of these global supply chain issues are going to be very beneficial for your question. you can manufacture which will help wages and help you fame manufacturing in what ways? well, obviously there needs to be more resilience because of the supply chain disruptions that we've seen and a few things on friday, the u. s. senate who began to force us contract as a pastor of a board to the for a bill that would make us the for defense contractors, wine down all of that purchasing of ran minerals from china by 2026. what does this mean? this means that ther

the u. s. and the u. k. are sending military aid to ukraine with baltic nations set to follow the u. s. secretary of state and you foreign ministers, are meeting the a video link monday to discuss a unified response to russia or more on that meeting of joy now by our brussels beer chief alexander phenomena. alexander, what can we expect from this meeting of u foreign ministers and their u. s. counterpart today will, of course ukraine is front and center on the agenda and the foreign ministers are very eager to hear what you are. you as secretary blinking has to say, and what is his assessment of his meeting with the russian foreign minister lever off last week. and then they will talk about the situation about potential next step sir. they are expected to issue a statement at the aunt of to day a statement that is certainly aiming to stressor the use unity and also to send once again, a strong signal to moscow that to you is ready to impose massey 3rd sanctions. if a russia is going to use force against the

the u. s. and the u. k. are sending military aid to ukraine with baltic nations set to follow the u. s. secretary of state and e u foreign ministers are meeting via video link monday to discuss a unified response to russia. from were on the store, i am joined now by d. w. brussels bureau chief, alexandra phenomena, alexandro and the foreign minister is meet to day. they'll be joined virtually by secretary of state from the united states. anthony blanket. ukraine is expected, of course, to be front and center. what are you expecting to hear today throughout this meeting? well i think that you foreign ministers are very eager to hear from you as secretary of state blink. and what is his assessment of for he's meeting with his the russian counterpart in geneva last friday. whether he thinks that there is still a chance for a diplomatic solution to the crisis. and as you know, some within the block of feel quite site lions aligned in the current crisis with russia focusing on talks with the you as and to need to

a lot of the doctors in the u. k are saying this is not based on data. so it seems like it's a political decision when we have just like thing, we have a fantastic health system in the u. okay. however, it is rarely under huge stress because of the number of people who are because of it and the implication of school. but on the long list of people that have delays tests or 3 other treatments, no, to maintain chris would increase was the move restrict ok. chris, when we say that starting from the next of infection, and it's about time to treat covey, not as an emergency, but as an illness that we have to deal with because it's going to stay for longer. it sounds easy on paper than impractical terms. i think it's very important to see the situation through the lens of the hair and now and not the lens of last year. because this time last year, taking the u. k. as an example, the number of people who were dying every day was about 1501 point, and the number of people in the hospital accounts for nearly half of all of the beds that we have in our national he

i think we are moving in that direction in the u. k. but that's thanks to that seems like i say and playing the chrome. but i think if we do get other variants in the future, and he did highlight this, then that could shift the dial and could mean that we have to reassess how we do things. but we know that until it turns up. but what do you make of the numbers that we're seeing in the u. k. are in england specifically right now. i mean, the radio, the trajectory is downwards, but would you say that it's reassuring enough to lift the restrictions? i'm not sure it is. i mean is clearly heading in the right direction, but um, if the restrictions that we've had did anything and i'm sure the government would claim they did, then removing the means that the decline is not going to be as fast as it would otherwise of beads. logically, so they obviously looked at the situation and decided that it is manageable than the health services not coming on the on the strain. and they're prepared to take their foot off the break. and it's actually inter

k or the u. s. sake. but across europe, as well as the last 7 years, are you confident lessons have been learned as to what happened over the weekend? or are we going to see further instance other crimes happening if there is what seems to be on the i'd said such a weak communication between the u. k. and us authority. i am sure they will say the lessons. and what that will mean in reality is that they will probably scoop up and share even more and increasingly invasive communication technologically. and they will say to protect all of us against terrorism. whereas in fact, if they did the job properly preemptively to target and stop potential terrorists rather than waiting all on privacy and take away all our civil liberties and countries that would be much more effective. and that would be the channel. i would suggest that they start looking into, rather than just aggressively breaking whale human rights and civil liberties on line, which is not helping them if not helping them to protect us. and it's n

k, are very interested possibly, and seeing something, at least approaching a conflict. and in order to a justify a role of rolling the ukrainian, a state into the nato alliance set up, but also breathing new life and purpose, into nato as an organization, which is a declining in it's sort of purpose really for many years now. and it's, it's gone so far away from its original treaty in history seems to have passed it by and now it seems to be desperate to justify its existence. so that's an incredibly dangerous situation that we find ourselves in a palestinian health ministry has announced the death of solomon al haflin, who isn't known as an icon of the resistance movement against israeli occupation. 75, he well died of injuries after being struck by an israeli army vehicle with one story . his artes poise here. he died defending his village. that's how the palestinian prime minister has paid tribute to 75 year old bed when protested. who was won over by tow truck earlier this month. solomon our half an m. was a well known shepherd and resistor of the israeli occupation

on the u. k. the countries that are responsible for the current situation. but this is exactly the problem with this case when even the standard cutter is the states that have, you know, considered themselves even as being committed to human rights to free expression to press freedom. when these states aren't getting it right, it stops some very worried process of that and undermines the moral authority of the us government, the u. k. government to raise these sorts of cases abroad. as long as 1000000000 launch continues to be targeted in this way. this will be a thorn in the side of the binding ministration or any subsequent administration and any other efforts to promote media freedom around the world. so that is why our single most important advocacy call. now that report is about boarded is on the biden administration to drop these charges to close this case, to stop this more than a decade long persecution of julianna's launch put this to bed once and for all, for all that is in their power at no point is this inevitable? they could, they could stop thi

s. government and in the u. k. government, these are the countries at the, at the center of this. but we have to look at why, what is really at stake here is, is a broader question. it should state to be able to hold information as classified. the leak in question was the biggest in history, hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables and military documents were leaked. we believe at recorders about what does that this was in the public interest. we believe that julian found was targeted for this contribution to journalism because these leaks documents inform scores of public interest reporting around the world. we all know more about war crimes about human rights abuses, other illegal acts that were committed. none of these acts have ever been persecuted, it's only the publisher being pursued here. this, this is a very dangerous process again. and the u. s. espionage act locked the public interest. so if he is actually going to be prosecuted, they're doing the flash cannot adequately defend himself. because again, this was because he acted at the public interest. but this too coul

k and london says they are a strictly for defensive purposes. let's take a listen to what they said. i can today confirmed to the house that in light of the increasingly threatening behavior from russia. and in addition to our current support, the u. k. is providing a new security assistance package to increase ukraine's defensive capabilities. we have taken the decision to supply ukraine with light anti armor defensive weapon systems. now, 1 may say that it's purely for defensive purposes, but it can't exactly control what he does with these weapons. once it's in their hands, of course, and we're actually seeing ukraine become increasingly dependent on the west, both for weapons and military training. as of late back in 2021. the u. s. also supplied kia with a large number of anti tank missile systems called job lynn anti tank weapon systems. the pentagon recently confirmed that u. s. military advisors are going to be staying in ukraine. and there are also even been reports that ukrainian special forces are being trained to fight the russian mi

k. are feeling the heat from storing inflation. we'll take a look at how those rising prices are impacting the post bracket era blog as the crypto space continue to expand. the 1st european nathan is taking step to curb the influx of advertisement. we'll look into what's going on in spain with a lot to get to. let's go and we lead the program with the latest economic data out of china, where growth slowed in the 4th quarter to 4 percent bringing the total growth for 2021 to 8 point one percent. now, while it was less than expected, it comes after a year in which beijing launch crackdowns on both the tech and real estate sectors, as it continued to recover from the pandemic. now addressing the world economic forum virtually on monday chinese president sheeting tang pointed to plans to promote common prosperity in the year to come. we have realized a moderately prosperous society in all respects and won the battle against poverty . both according to plan and found a historic solution to ending absolute poverty. now, china is marching

k are on prime minister boris johnson in a dramatic development british police are now investigating allegations that parties were held at downing street that breached cove at 19 lockdown restrictions . it's the latest in a string of allegations that british media are calling the party gates scandal in reference to multiple parties held at downing street while the rest of the country was in lockdown. mister johnson now faces perhaps the biggest political crisis of his prime minister ship as calls for his resignation, grow louder while speaking in parliament just moments ago. right before we came on air. prime minister johnson address the police investigation. let's take a listen to what he said. joy roku, the mit decision to conducted investigation. but to go, i believe this will help to give the public with clarity it needs and helped to draw a line on the masses. the prime minister speaking literally moments ago debbie is one of course on a big it must is the on the story for you. a bare get to obviously moments ago we heard from the prime minister. i don't know, he, if he still is

and some of them do not want to get on board among them are those behind the u. k. based twitter account sex, not gender, nurses and midwives, which provides a platform for those frustrated with the new terminology to be heard. although the reality is that many health professionals uncomfortable with the language are now working in fear of being ostracized or even worse. losing their jobs, isabel amal, been podcast her and home birth attendant says. the biggest problem in the debate surrounding the use of such terminology is the material consequences. so the 1st time i came across the needs requirements was i do a training in 2016 in brooklyn, new york. and my initial reaction was to go along with it. i couldn't imagine how it would be hurtful to anyone because i was told that it was modern language. it was inclusive language. and we wouldn't want to make anyone feel bad. i think the biggest problem is that there is a material consequence. so pronouns, for example, do not exist in a vacuum. it unfortunately leads to a lifetime of part of pharmaceutical dependence. k

the u. s. and the u. k. are sending military aid to ukraine with baltic nations set to follow the u. s. secretary of state, and e u foreign ministers are meeting dia, video link, monday to discuss a unified response to russia. or joining me now is the w brussels bureau chief, alexander, fun, nomine. oh chandra, you for ministers are meeting today. they're in brussels, their u. s. counterpart entering, blinking, we'll join them by video link. what can we expect from that gathering regarding the crisis in ukraine while this crisis is of course, front and center on the agenda here. and i, i think that we can assume that the foreign minister is very eager to listen to secretary blinking, and to get more information about his meeting with the russian foreign minister. love, rough day. we'll talk about the crisis. what steps had to be have to be take next and they will be a statement at the end of the day, a statement that is an aiming to 50 you unity. and of course, to, to send a strong warning towards russia. an

k. are feeling the heat from storing in place. and we'll take a look at how those rising prices are impacting the post bracket. era was as the crypto space continue to expand, the 1st european nathan is taking steps to curb the influx of advertisement. we'll look into what's going on in spain with lot to get to. let's go and we lead the program with the latest economic data out of china where growth slowed in the 4th quarter to 4 percent bringing the total gr.

and in the u. s. u k. and france and this conflict or anything even approaching a conflict, even the threat of a conflict would dominate the headlines for months of perhaps, and it would be the ultimate distraction. i think these governments would benefit from the, on the west led by the u. s in the u. k. are very interested possibly in seeing something, it least approaching a conflict. and in order to a justify a roll of rolling the ukranian, a state into the nato alliance set up, but also breathing new life and purpose, into nato as an organization. which is declining in its sort of purpose really for many years now. and it's, it's gone so far away from its original treaty and history seems to have passed it by and now it seems to be desperate to justify its existence. so that's an incredibly dangerous situation. that we find ourselves him many thanks for joining us here in asi international, the back in about 30 minutes. with all the latest. ah, well, the pandemic, no, certainly no borders line to natio

k are very interested, ah, possibly and seeing something, at least approaching a conflict. and in order to a justify a roll. a rolling the ukranian, a state into the nato alliance set up, but also breathing new life and purpose, into nato as an organization, which is a declining in its sort of purpose, really for many years now. and it's, it's gone so far away from its original treaty in history seems to have passed it by and now it seems to be desperate to justify its existence. so that's an incredibly dangerous situation that we find ourselves in. french environmentalist saw sounding the alarm at a time to extend the paris metro system a fair, a project to relieve me to a congestion. and i, the crowd of public transport endangers the local ecosystem. and, and establish 1st cholenski takes up a sty this forest on the eastern edge of paris is a breath of fresh air. but according to environmentalists, it soon could be the site of a massacre. so hob jenny, be done. what will the consequences of this destruction be? why? because we're talking a lot about the trees, but there a

k. are considering could lead to even more infections. very concerned about this. i think it's not based on scientific evidence at all. i think the main driver, the concerns that we have so many people now having to isolate because of these very high levels of infection that we have in the u. k. that people have to isolate and wait for 7 days is causing all sorts of problems with essential services in this country. with supermarket with delivery chains, with all sorts of different aspects of workforce school teachers having to have time off and a chest of and what they want to do is try to shorten that period to make sure people get back to work sooner. but we must do that at the risk of more people getting infected. that has to be bad, doesn't it? because if you got a positive test result that particularly val select will flow test results, then you're going to be infectious. so you're sending people back into work back into schools with an infection and that will just spread more. busy infection, it won't help you in keeping the levels of infection down. it would

well, this, this are the, the u. k. has released the list of 5 names that russia considers her to install somehow here in key of as a proxy government, but it has provided no additional information. so this communication raises more questions than it does answer and a we, we do absolutely not. know what the scenario is that the, that the ukraine u. k. services have intercepted here. are these people who are in line for a possible government? if russia would invade ukraine? are they planning to do something here behind the lines? what is clear, however, is that a popular uprising is probably not going to bring these people into positions. they are form officials from a government that has been housed it in 2014 by the people. 4 of them have fled to russia and they're mostly very unpopular here in ukraine. and meanwhile, in germany there's also been controversy about comments made by the countries now for my navy chief, our s k. every act into that well, o one could say that these remarks by the navy chief has some are ti

you're watching al jazeera live from doe are also coming up the u. k. prime minister boris johnson and hot water again. as media reports on official e mail was sent to his office, wanting him not to hold a party during lockdown last year. the aftermath of toner's volcanic eruption laid bare as the 1st flights carrying aid from new zealand and australia. arrived. plus tahitian treasures and under c discovery reveals a rare coral reef providing a boon for biodiversity. ah, okay, there we are. here we go to germany, where diplomatic efforts are underway to ease tensions between russia and ukraine. the u. s. secretary of state's antony blinkin is in berlin to discuss the crisis in easton ukraine. mister lincoln is speaking to foreign ministers from france, the u. k. and germany, the meeting comes as the president of the european commission is saying, the e u is prepared if russia attacks ukraine. now, new satellite imagery, showing rushes military build up along the border with ukraine, racing fears of an invasion. the kremlin previously said those conce

k are raising rates, china, on the other hand, is cutting q lending rate slightly. now, given that china lead the initial pandemic recovery is their cause for concern when we see them know cutting rates once again what the chinese in a very, very different stage and the economic side colon than other countries. so. so in the west, japan, they are in a very, very different stage of role. and bear in mind that got into bank lending rate or prime lending rate of the peoples bank are trying to a 3.8 percent. that would be unthinkably high in the u. s or in europe in the states that just so far beyond what we've seen those markets. so the chinese have been far, far and less aggressive in terms expanding the monetary supply. and so they've got maybe more wiggle room there to, to test that. and also having a big problem right now with the housing market and the housing bubble bursting. so the basically trying to re inflate that the time to use punish policy to drive money into the housing market. would using bank reserve requirements in the hopes the banks will lend more i

k. delroy and p w. say see their surveys are saying increased investment in the u. k. what happened in 2022, but yes, remain wages right now remains stagnant because there's a lack of those wages behind or that investment. and certainly we've seen how those disruptions have continue to play a role. now also last week make you case that its members expect things to be better in 2022. but that breck, that still remains a concern as it creates challenges to the industry. now, as negotiators work to resolve all of the post breakfast tensions between the e u and the u. k, do you believe that they are keeping their interest in mind? i think, yes, i mean, this is balance that a business and industry always keeps their interests in mind. i mean, hey, beth employees, not necessarily. i think what's interesting to see though is you look along the stock exchange and they just read them down for the proposal last week that was proposed that was reported in the city. i am. and that wants to erase the normal lines between public and private companies. in terms investment and access

but the papers in the u. k. are a, perhaps a good indication of how the discourse may be heading certainly on sunday. absolutely . and the focus really has been on how far is johnson trying to get out of this mess on the television a few hours ago, the party chairman all of a doubt and would say, boys, johnson needs to change the culture, take a grasp of the culture at number 10 downing street, but gave him his full backing, saying that he will bring in changes. will the presser reporting 2 lines of attack? one is what they call a goal. what boys johnson apparently has called himself operation, said big dog. that's hayton meaning changes in the staffing at 10 downing street sacking. some official is probably people, but the public haven't actually heard of. so it's questionable how much that will do to assuage anger. and then something that puts a very loyal, usually to boys johnson reporting like the day mail, talking about the bbc license fee, the culture sector. nadine doris. it's now saying that she wants to

k. government are willing to impose sanctions on u. k. companies and on russian companies and on russian businessmen. so all eyes will be on boris johnson's, a trip to the ukraine, to moran. of course, that key phone call with vladimir putin to see whether actually the prime minister's more concerned dialogue or with ratcheting attention. yes, i want to have that phone call the receiver. mr. po, to wait with baited breath. no. get, i guess shudder his dusty eastern alley finance. thank very much. we smote a former london medicaid livingston elliot telling us that this has nothing to do with russia. supposed invasion of you credit everything to do with scandals piling up around johnson at the moment used to being lied to the politics all my life. and i don't believe a word that the british government or the american government is saying about the intentions of putin. if you do, the lead of ukraine is telling the west to sort of wind all this down. i don't feel under stress at all. if we get into sanctions with russia, we will be in a po