as his commanders to step up their military muscle taking you straight to parliament, the british prime minister bars johnson. as a friend mister speaker, i want to apologize. i know that millions of people across the country have made extraordinary sacrifices over the last 18 months. i know the anguish that they have been through unable to mourn their relatives unable to live their lives as they want or to do the things they love. and i know the rage, they feel with me. i, with the government i lead. when they think that in dawning street itself, the rules are not being properly followed by the people who make the rules. and though i cannot anticipate the conclusions of the current inquiry, i have learned enough to know that that were the things we simply did not get right . and i must take responsibility. number 10 is a big department. with the gardener's extent, as an extension of the office, which has been in constant use because of the run of fresh air and stopping the virus. and when i went into that garden, just after 6 on the 20th of may, 2020, to find groups of stock before going back into my office 25 minutes later to continue working. i believed implicitly that this was a work event. ah, but mister speaker with hindsight, i should have sent every one back inside. i should have found some other way to fight them. and i should have recognised that even if it could be said technically to full within the guidance, there would be millions and millions of people who simply would not see it that way . people who suffered terribly, people who are forbidden from meeting loved ones at all inside or outside. and to then and to this house i offer my hot vote. apologies. and all i ask is it's sue graveyards, complete her inquiry into that day and several others. so that the full facts should be established. i would of course, come back to this house and make a statement mister speaker this morning i had meetings with mister recordings and others. in addition to my duties in this house, i shall have other such meetings later today. yep. my constituent carol ridgeway thinks is 8 weeks of stress and worry as she waits for an urgent appointment at the local breast clinic in north wales. yet despite the pandemic, 85 percent of patients in england, wait only 2 weeks that urgent suspected cancer referrals. welcome my rights animal friend, do to ensure a quality of health care across britain or private ester. i won't befriend for his question, i'm sorry about the page that he raises, whose health is a devolved matter. but i, i find covering a chest coatings across the whole of the u. k. and i point out that the welsh cub would benefit from an additional $3800000000.00 of funding this year of other $270000000.00, to support the response to kobe. mister speaker will not come to live with y'all position, gustavo? yes, thank you, mr. speaking can join with a, a comments about jack, throw me out. we will, i think meeting trip. it's a do course in relation to jot well there we have it. after months of deceit and deception, the pathetic spectacle of a man whose run out of road. okay, his defense, his defense, that he didn't realize he was at a party. ah, it is so ridiculous that is actually offensive to the prayer. he's finally been forced to be what everyone you that with the whole country was locked down. he was hosting booty parties in town express. he now go to to, to decent thing and resign yerra . beacon is not when i think somebody will be going to know the cup of tea as well. but i just say the questions being asked, i want to know the answer, your constituents want to know the out and only done extra held by them. so please prime minister. well mister speaker, i appreciate the, the, the point that he's making about the event that i attended. i want to, i want to repeat that. i thought it was a work event. and i regret, i regret very much. i written very much that we did not do things differently or that evening. i was just because i said, and i take responsibility and i apologize, i missed the speaker. but as far as when his his political point, i didn't think that he should preempt the outcome of inquiry. he will have it. he will have a further opportunity. mister speaker had a question, me as soon as possible. get saba. well, that apology was pretty worthless. will snap, let me tell him why this max's yesterday in this chamber, honorable members told heart wrenching stories about the sacrifices people across the country were making. this house and the whole country were moved by the honorable member for trust franklin, as he talked about his mother in law dying alone. he was following the rules. plus the prime minister was parts again, downing street, is a prime as to really so contemptuous of the purchase public. but he thinks he could just write this out yet. it was because i heard the testimony of the goal. remember, opposite, i eco, his, his sentiments, it was, it was deep, he moving nobody who heard that could fail to have been moved. and i know that people up and down the country. i made huge sacrifices, thrive this pandemic, mrs. speaker and i understand the anger, the rage, they feel at the thought that the people in dining street were not following those rules. i regret, i regret the way the event i have described was humble by bitterly. i regretted the wish that we could have done things differently on i have. i will continue to apologize for what we did. but mister speaker, he must wait for the inquiry which report as soon as possible. his elbow. mister speaker, when the promised his former health section broke rules he resigned and the prime minister said he was right to do so. when the prime minister spokesperson laughed about the rules being broken, she resign the premise to accepted that resignation. why just the primes to still think that the rules don't apply to whomever, mrs. because that's not what i said. and i, i understand. i understand the point that he, that he makes, as i've said mister speaker, i a regret the way things happened on the evening in question. and i apologize, but i may say to him, i do think it would be better if he waited until the full conclusion. all the inquiry until the colfax we're brought up before this house, mister speaker, and he will then have an opportunity to put his points again. his father, this just isn't working. prime minister, everyone could see what happens is that it started with reports of boozy parts is in downing street during locked down. the prime minister pretended that had been assured there were no parties about it for this defense. i do not know said the video landed blowing, the promised his 1st defence out of the water. so then he pretended he pretended he was sick and am furious about parties. by now, it turns out he was at the parties all along cause the problem is to see why the british public think he's lying through his teeth, yet primarily it was, was the public thing, not will the membership hold. oh, good. and i certainly don't need any help group around here. if somebody wants to help me, they can help someone else. prime minister, like mister speaker, it's i talked to the right honorable gentleman to choose, conducts himself, i will say to him, i see him in his room. he is wrong in what he said in in i he said what is wrong and in set what he said is wrong in several key respects. but mister speaker, that does not detract from the the, the basic point that i want to make today, which is which is an i accept that we should have done things differently on that evening. i as i, as i said to the house, i believe that the events in question were within the guidance and were within the reason that was certainly the assumption on which i operated. but can i say to, to him is because that he should wait. you should wait a minute before he jumps to conclusions, which is speaking to a lawyer should respect. i hope that he will wait to establish a rule to lose his job. mister speaker. so we've got the prime minister, attending dining straight part is a clear break from the rules. we call the promise of putting forth a series of ridiculous denials, which he knows rom through a clear breach of the ministerial tone. and that code says ministers who knowingly mislead parliament will be expected to offer that resignation of the parties over prime minister. the only question is, will the british public kick him out polish party kick him out, or will it is a decent thing and resign? yes, mrs. because i just want to repeat them. i think that the rudder will gentlemen i and i know that is it is ease of objective in these paid to try to remove me from off his visit because i appreciate that. and i accept that from now. i humbly suggest to him that he should, he should wait until the inquiry has concluded, and he should study it for himself. and i will certainly respond as appropriate. i hope that he does, but in the meantime, yes, mister speaker, i certainly wish that things had happened differently on the evening of may the 20th. because beka and i apologize for all the misjudgments that have been made for which i take this vehicle. responsibility. gustavo, the prime is to demand without shame in the public law offices to the questions con, upgrade his father sold was just 55 when he lost his life to kobe. he was a fit and healthy key worker. i spoke to hannah last night, prime minister, her father died just days before the drinks truly was being wailed through downing street. and last year had a met the prime minister in the founding street garden. she looked at the prime minister in the eye and told him of her loss, the prime as told hammer it done everything he could to protect had that looking by what kind of told me last night was this. she realizes that the prime minister had parted in that same garden. the very day hud day had dad's death certificate was signed or hannah wants to know, is this just a prime minister understand why it makes her feel sick? to think about the way that his behavior stare of is speak, i supervise deeply with, with hannah, with people who have suffered up a don this country during the pandemic. and i repeat that. i wish things had been done differently on that evening. mrs. pico and i, i repeat my apologies for all the misjudgments that a may have been made that were made on my watch in number 10 and across government . but i want to to reassure the people of this country including hannah and, and her family. but mister speaker, we have been working to do everything we can to protect her and her family. and it is thanks to the efforts of this governments that we have the most tested population in europe is 1250000 test been conducted every day. we been working to ensure that this population, our country has the most anti barrels of any country in, in europe. i, mrs. pico, it's because of the efforts of the government officials of stop up and on. why told them we driven the pos, just vaccine roll out in euro one of the fastest in the world? and that is, the reason is to speak of that. we now have one of the most open economies. it not be most open economy in europe and one of the fastest growing economy with the g 7. mister speaker, whatever the mistakes that have been made on my watch, which i, i apologize, which i fully acknowledge. that is the work mister speaker that has been going on in number $10.00. hello. thank you mister speaker. education is one of the biggest factors when it comes to loving up is what ensures that people right across the country have access to the same opportunities. and it's a key part of my mission to transform lives in burly and putting in mind with the premise to work with me to ensure that certainly becomes the best place to stay with you in primary and secondary school. looking for an extraordinarily uncomfortable prime minister's questions ongoing in the houses of parliament in westminster right now. that man, horace johnson, the prime minister of taking other questions from his own m, pays at the moment after a barrage, really from the leader of the opposition secchia stammer, who said, quite simply, the party is over, you need to resign. boris johnson did apologize. he started with those words mister speaker, i want to apologize for the party that was held in downing street during the locked downs of 2020 but then went on to defend his position and continually said that we must wait for an inquiry before any decisions are made nadine baba, our correspondent today outside the houses of parliament in westminster, nadeem. it was as the se so uncomfortable to listen to because bars. busy johnson didn't have anything other than i'm sorry, and you'll have to wait until as an inquiry that's right, came out to use a boxing analogy. i think very you really did see the prime minister on the ropes like never before. because towards the end of that segment that we were watching, he went back to his default position over him, saying how well he had done his government had done over the roll out of the cupboard 19 vaccines and testing program. well, the testing program has been questioned the vaccines. yes, it has gone fairly well. but this is why it matters because people are saying that the prime minister's actions and the way he's handle these accusations, has undermined the public's trust in his ability to guide them through and out of the pandemic setting the rules and being seen to follow them. so that's why now he said that he is sorry, because he realizes that there is such fury among the public and among many of his own conservative m. p. 's. he has not said he is sorry for any actions which has been the case all along. it sorry for the hurt and the perception of rule breaking boris johnson again and again told care stormer when the leader of the opposition called for him to resign, that he would be better to wait for this inquiry. this investigation by senior civil servants. su grey. well, i haven't started yet. it could take quite a while and just to remind viewers that the metropolitan police are also in touch with the cabinets office over that garden party on may. the 20th of 2020 not far is johnson very adamant that, that he believe that, that gathering where there were tables laid out with various alcoholic drinks around 40 members of staff from 10 downing street attending with him there. and his now wife carrie. he is adamant that he thought it was a work meeting and he said he went back to work afterwards. but he regrets what he did will that wash it's hard to save some of his own a party or saying will if he was very they said before prime minister questions, if he was there and he attended, he'll have to go. he's now admitted he was there, he has got to get out clothes for some people, but he didn't know voter. it was a party thought it was a, a work gathering. a lot of people will say, well, that's the best. a very unconvincing argument. but he's certainly not on his way out. now. the opposition is saying that it's clear he broke the ministerial code, which says that if a minister including a prime minister, misleads parliament then they should resign. and they're saying it's clear that all along he has been saying, there were no parties and rules were not broken. he said that in parliament, that's another thing which will have to be explored so unclear. now, how much damage has been done, boris johnson knows his standing amongst the british public as it had all time low . but for now, we'll have to wait and see what his own party say. certainly, that's the point i wanted to make. you say popularity with the public as an all time low, and i can't see how it helped. when he said things like, well, the garden is an extension of the office and i thought it was a work event. i mean, that won't watch for the people. i'm interested to know about the amount of pressure in a day there is from within the conservative party because if anything that is what would put actual pressure on the prime minister. absolutely, and i think it will take a little time to, to, to play out. but clearly, his m p 's are hearing the message from their own constituents. let's not forget here in the u. k, the official death toll from coffee 19 has just gone past a 150000. all of those m p 's will be hearing from constituents who lost loved ones in the spring of 2020. many of them are distraught that they had to follow the rules. they couldn't go to care homes where elderly relatives were dying. they couldn't attend funerals and so on. and we just heard from kim star from one of his constituents who met the prime minister at downing street saying, howled it. she was disgusted to think that in that garden, around the same time he had been partying as one of her relatives or was dying. so this message is getting through loud and clear and that the more and more pressure is brought to bear on those conservator impedes. the more of them were, the more conservative m p 's will actually say his position is untenable, but it's unclear right now whether there is a push, whether they're a machinations going all to try to replace him. of course, it's on many people's minds. i actually spoke to a former senior cabinet member or a few hours ago in westminster, who said that he didn't think there was anything boris johnson could say, or do today's which would sure up his position, which would actually gain him support within the party. nadine barber outside the house of parliament in london. thank you. inside and on the right hand side of your screen. the debate continues. it's a weekly thing. prime minister's questions every wednesday at mid day in london. when em pays from both sides of the house, get to question the prime minister, the bulk of them to day being fired towards the prime minister, who has apologize for those parties when ticking a one party held in downing street in may of 2020. so that not good enough though, for the opposition and as nadine was saying, probably for a lot of people in the british public, we will keep an eye on that more back with correspondence and analysis to come later. right now, we'll move on to some other news and you as president joe biden has defended his administration's response to a surge in omicron cases. more people are now in hospital with coven 19 than ever before. and infections are hitting an average of 3 quarters of a 1000000 every day. and so you a senate committee as question federal officials on their handling of the pandemic . supporters from patty calling with a call in another new coven record in the us. more than 145000 people hospitalized with the virus. still u. s. president joe biden is sounding optimistic on top of we're on the right track . banking polls show much of the country disagree. one problem casting. this is boston and here in missouri long lines to get a test and results are taking longer to come back very where we've been. it's been a lot like this is we're testing it looks like in most of the country, the other option at home tests. but they are expensive and really hard to find. same with masks, the government says i'm a crohn means everyone needs better masks if you can find and afford them. so some local government, you have begun giving en route. i was just calling to get the mask. i can't find anyone and was like, ok, rightly bye. just so expensive. i take 2 or 3 weeks to get on at this senate hearing the focus was supposed to be on how to make it all better. but it often got contentious with republicans launching personal attacks on the nation's chief cobit adviser, who says he is receiving death threats because of it. so i ask myself, why would sen want to do this? so go to ran poll website, and you see fire doc, the voucher with a little box that says contribute here. you can do 5 dollars, 10 dollars, 20 dollars, a $100.00. so you are making a catastrophic epidemic for your political again. so here's the problem, case numbers are extremely high, but hospitalisation usually follow those by about 3 weeks. and hospitals are already stretched. this one several times he said simply tele ambulance drivers, don't come here. we are just quite out of bed. the by ministration says they are ramping up to production of medicine, math test, but those are maybe months away. and the situation is getting worse by the day. and after saying it wouldn't be needed. authorities admit they are working on a vaccine for the amazon variant. and working on others that could work on the next very, and that comes after that, or i'm a proud of likely not to be the last curveball. this virus throws us nearly 2 years on and once again, hospitals are stretched, lives are being lost, and every day new signs that life is far from returning to normal. paddock lane al jazeera maryland. while high stakes secures he talks are on the way in brussels as tension persist over the russian troops build up on ukraine's border. the nato, russia council meeting for the 1st time in 3 years. if it's to desk elate, the situation are ongoing with fears. russia could invade ukraine. moscow once guarantees, nato would not accept its day, but as a member. and we are expecting to hear from the nato secretary general, again stopped in the very same, probably about 5 minutes from now. hopefully, with some news of what came out of that meeting, we will be live in brussels when that happens. now in explosions, rob somali as a capital mortgage issue, killing to people, according to ambulance services. authority say a comp on targeted convoy, you've bulletproof cause. it's not been reported yet, who was actually in the con boy or who carried out the attack on a road leading to the airports as a search on the way in nigeria for more bodies in the state of them far where at least 200 people were killed by gunman last week, about 10000 others have not been driven from their homes by the violence. the rates on villages is said to be reprisal attacks off to government strikes, targeted the hide out of criminal gangs. his head addressed with more from the town of gazelle, in some far state to update us about the situation here in for a state is the commission of for information. it brian mug i do. can you talk to us, can you update us about the situation in hearing some for a state, the victims? what is their condition now? what is being done to help them? because it's been 5 days is the latest cycle of violence happen, and thousands of people have been displaced from more than 10 villages in some for us it's what's being done to help them. what the situation here is be managed by the government of the states. when the incident happened, the governor went himself with a team of hades of security, and also members of his executive council to visit the theme of the incident and also con door with the people. he ordered for the assessment of the damages done to them. and also order for the pierre of houses that bond in the now, how bad is the situation in terms of security? how bad? how exposed these villages are? honestly, it is a terrible thing. our people in the rural area is on that for it. and also living in and pay attention because of the activities of the abundance. and one particular problem we're facing is the teach of manpower in terms of security, as well as the caution or rather the infiltration of the community into the activities of the abundance in terms of informants, people who supply them with their needs. and people who supply them would say, food stuff, and other necessities like that. we punch. yeah. now that's you, but my get you to the commissioner for information in for a state. now we expect the military chiefs to be here anytime from now. but what people i expecting is action more action and the ground to stop discounted from continuing more news to come. we are waiting on that news conference calls from the nato secretary general, again stole from burke hospice. this is the mob to decide to defend our lectures, to defend gartner barker. that's the u. s. president pushing to change senate rules as the rally support for voting reform. future food security concerns and the u. k . is the government tries to solve the delicate balancing act between environment and family. ah, if you have to choose between your site and feeding your family, what do you do? yeah, i mean, that happens because we don't keep ourselves healthy. when your son could face death from a dog bio, what do you do? every new comes across the index, where can you afford them? films about inspiring solutions to global help. challenges. ha. select on al jazeera. with blue. ah, a recent study shows it is preventable disease or cancer 15 percent of death, children under the age production last time i agree to receive early childhood education with lou ah you without. is there a developing use this are with the u. k. prime minister apologizing after attending what he says, he understood was a work event. this was the height of a cove at 90 lockdown in 2020. kohls, continue to grow for bars. johnson to resign. you as president joe biden's defended his administration's response to a surgeon, omicron cases. more people are now in hospital with coven, 19 and ever before. and infections hitting an average of 3 quarters of an in a day. and cd at nato and russian of russian officials are meeting in brussels in an attempt to deescalate months of rising tension. russia wants to guarantee you. k, ukraine, i'm sorry, will not join nato. nato is concerned about a bill of russian tricks on ukraine's border. now north korea is claiming the successful launch of another hypersonic miss. i'll state media released images of later kim junglin observing the 2nd launch in less than a week. hypersonic missiles can be more easily or can more easily avoid detection and interception than ballistic ones. kim said his new year aim was to improve north korea's defenses. little more now on or what exactly makes hypersonic weapons different speed is a big factor. hypersonic missiles flight towards targets at low altitudes and can travel more than 5 times the speed of sound, which is 6000 kilometers plus an hour. the main difference though is they can be rapidly maneuvered after they've launched, unlike a ballistic missile, a hypersonic one doesn't follow a pre determined path. the trajectory can be altered, which means it's difficult to stop. all of these things together, the speed, the agility, the low altitude, it makes it difficult for any ground based radar systems to detect them. china, russia, the u. s. they are leaders in hypersonic weapons. several other countries, including japan, germany, france, and india, our report, li, investing in them, or the u. s. as north korea weapons program is a threat to the international community and that dialogue is the only way forward. the launch clearly does highlight the dc life destabilizing impact of the dpi case, illicit weapons programs. it violates multiple un security council resolutions. it poses a threat to the d, p r k. as neighbors into the broader international community. we continue to call on the p r. k, to refrain from further further provocations and importantly, to engage in sustained and sustained in substance dialogue what we have been open to and in fact calling for for some time now we spoke to bung shook about this, the research fellow at the institute for north korean studies at the university, he says it's time to take north korea's improvements in weapons of technology. seriously. the world has consistently underestimate the ingenuity of the korean scientist and weapon development. and that lady is the true test. fighting amidst, prove that the north koreans are really determined to strengthen its national defense capability. as he was announced in the 8th party congress last january, january, 2021. so all of these are parts of the grant plan to strengthen it's capable of a with a long term plan. so the bad news is that this is not going to be the last time that we're going to witness the north koreans testing their weapons. the north koreans are moving ahead on its own schedule until it reaches the goal set by the midterm military capability. development of this pony is a great threat to the national security of staff because the type of hyper sony mythos by north korea can reach from capital city of north re upped, hung out to a saw the capital city of south korea within 1000000. so either be increasingly difficult or they can just think of them deployed in south korea to have a complete and reliable b cell defense. and the try for $25.00 men accused of organizing. the easter bombings in sri lanka has been adjourned until march. then the tune of 70 people were killed in that series of attacks on churches and luxury hotels. back in 2019. the defendant's face $23000.00 charges. but the government is still facing criticism for the investigation. as mental fernandez reports. delicia, fernando, her husband, anton, and their 3 children were attending easter sunday mass at st. anthony's church. when a suicide bomber struck apple in the end of it was no longer caballo napoleon. then in a moment, there was a loud noise and fire started raining down from the roof. i told my girls to head out, my son was thrown by the impact. he's the one who found my husband, dad. a total of 7 suicide bombers struck 3 churches and 3 hotels, all within an hour. 270 people were killed and more than 500 injured. the government blamed an obscure local group, the national towel he demand. but many people don't accept that explanation. opposition in b r in fernando is one of them. biggest suppression for me or who benefited out of these. and why con the goldman when we are as christians on sir philander says vital information uncovered by both the parliamentary committee and presidential commission has not been investigated. the catholic church has been scathing about the investigation cardinal malcolm runjun, the archbishop of colombo. as frequently criticize the slow place of the investigation and implied that people now in government may have been involved in the attacks. government representatives and the police denied those allegations. they point out that hundreds of suspects have been detained. an indictment issued in a dozen cases, lawyers for some of them have told al jazeera that their clients had no involvement with the bombing. meanwhile elisha and dozens laker season only suggested la been on the balcony, declared that can only panic that only i think i've told god only you can show me the way to secure a justice because people keep exchanging allegations about and did us while the years go by we can't live with peace of mind when they're stating allegheny can, and they can only hope that brands are answered. bonaire fernandez, al jazeera colombo at, let's go to the u. s. for president joe biden says the nation is at a turning point on voting rights. he's urge the senate to pass key legislation and to make a stand against vote suppression. alan fisher with his report from atlanta, georgia before this important speech to bite and took time to pay tribute to civil rights. i caught, he stopped at martin luther king's grave site. a man who fought for rights. the president no believes are at risk since the election that carried him to the white house. 19 states have changed the rules of voting. an attack on the people says joe, by an attack on democracy for the right to vote. and that that vote count. it is democracy's threshold liberty. without it, nothing is possible, but with it. anything is possible. while a denial of fair and fair elections is on democratic, it is not on fretted in it. he made the speech in georgia, one of the places where the laws have changed. it cut the number of drop boxes, made it harder to ask for a meal and vote even made it illegal to hand water to people waiting in line to vote. joe biden wants to change the rules in the senate to push legislation through against republican opposition, but he knows 2 senators from his own party. are dead set against that idea. he threw down this challenge. well, you stand against rotor suppression? yes or no, that's the question. oh, answer. what? instead the layer gets selections aversion. yes or no. we stand for democracy. yes or no. there is one thing, every senator, every american should remember. history has never been kind to those of sided with voters oppression over voters. right. joe biden. rude to election. victory with the overwhelming support of black voters in many experts believe that's who would be most disadvantaged by the change in the legislation. advocates who support a national law didn't attend. we believe joe biden should be in washington getting things done. not here, talking about getting things done. this is york hardy, mister president. these are your soldiers. you need to find a way to get them in line because we deliver or you to lee is party and now you need to lead this party. so help me. god, congratulations mister ha. you biden like every president had an ambitious agenda when he took office. he hasn't spent a lot of time on voting rights. this speech signals, it's no a priority. supporters of heard the words? no, they want results. alan fisher al jazeera atlanta, georgia. right. so i mentioned this little bit earlier, a press briefing that we're waiting at for from the nato secretary general yen stilton burge in brussels. this is because you've got the nato russia council meeting for the 1st time in 3 years to discuss all these escalating at tensions. we have heard the meetings running long, which means that news conference will probably fall in the next hour. in our 1300 gm teen usa. so we're bringing that when it happens in the meantime, dosage of ari as she is in moscow and has been following events from there. we talked about this before dos from saying that the expectations from this was so low . maybe it's a good sign that the talks are running a little bit longer. you were saying earlier that if they keep talking, then that's good. certainly. and one can hope that that is the case here, but have, we have heard from the russians? there is a, a series of high ranking officials from the russian defense and foreign ministry in brussels. for this meeting is the 1st in 3 years. the last one they had was in 2019 and their russians are led by the deputy officials from the foreign ministry. and they said that a, that these talks are really a important point in the relationship between russia and nato. and that their position is very clear, they want to make it very clear to nato that they cannot accept an expansion of this 30 member state. and that they are concerned about ukraine's possible intentions to join this block. or the russians have said that the issues the international community has had with russian troops and getting a building up near the ukrainian border is really a matter of sovereignty. for them, there are a, there should be able to move their troops anywhere in their own country. when they want to and that they should have to answer russians to any one of it, to the nato. officials said that it's certainly a cause for concern and that this is something they'll be discussing. and this is of course, one of the most significant meetings that are being held this week. there was another meeting in geneva and with russian and u. s. officials. and it became very clear after a 7 hour hour meeting at that they very at very different points. the u. s. deputy secretary of state, wendy sherman's, that that's what the russians are proposing is certainly in a non starter for the americans. that they cannot have a country dictating who can and cannot join nato. the russians have said that they have to look out for their own best interests. and that this is something that is certainly not going to go away. but for the time being all parties involved. so have said that they are, they agree that i log is the most important path forward in trying to de escalate tensions dosage. a bar is in moscow more with door. so later on we'll just check in with the tasha butler in paris as well. the last meeting natasha between russia and the u. s. fail to bring any results. is this meeting between russia and nato? any different really? well exactly. the last meeting between russia and the u. s. on monday or ending without any breakthrough, and if you listen to most or unless sand watches, it seems as if this meeting between nato members and russian senior negotiators will probably end with the same result. they're all very low hopes for any major breakthrough in these talks, and that is mainly because the 2 sides are so deeply entrenched in their positions . on one side, you have russia saying that it was nato to end 8 south eastern wood expansion at once nato, to promise that ukraine will never become a member of the allies alliance. and on the other side, you have nato, of course, say, well, that's just not possible. it is for nato members to decide and dictate a who would be a member of nato. it's certainly not from moscow to do that. so to very different opinions and they don't seem to be coming any closer. in fact, before this meeting, the nato secretary general really struck a bit of a song. but i really because he said that the a good result at the end of this meeting would be to agree on more talk. so he certainly not expecting any major breakthroughs. he is saying the possibility of more talks in the future as at least to step forward a step perhaps to deescalate in the situation. but i don't think we can hope for much more than that at this stage. ok, thanks, natasha. we'll talk to you again later. on, once we've heard from jim stoke book humor, the stories for you, unemployment on the rise in india, nighttime curfews, and we can lock downs or imposed because of an increasing current of ours cases. now the government says the economy will grow and grow more than 9 percent this year. that financial experts say most people won't see any benefits. elizabeth per annum reports from you, debbie. the village of oak, who in indian administered kush me to supplies 90 percent of the wood, houston indian pencils, the moisture levels and regions poplar trees make them perfect to right wed. but the schools being closed for most of the past 2 years, demand for stationary is down, and many workers in across factories have lost their jobs on i got here, i am a university graduate, but there are no jobs available. thank god that we were hired to work here. so many have been fired in other factors. and it's impossible to get a job in these tough times. unemployment in india was to a form on pi of nearly 8 percent in december. that's after most states and post restrictions to slow down the spread of the corona virus, fueled by the army. kron variant latanaya for english me, the situation is always 10, so called at the last 2 years, is the 1st time schools have been shocked in india. and other countries to why, which has impacted us bad one, hitler, the business has started to recover in december. but with this new coverage radiant, we are back to square one. it's a sentiment being shared by business owners across india. jim own it should arg seti says, jims have been forced to shot for 9 of the past 22 months, all the dom order that already doubled in a big, okay. but now with this logged down, it is actually breaking not back because not even had more money lip. no bank is giving us any loan b of sore that julie will. our vice on mother's people are for julie. people are for the cars. people have begged the board or whatever they could do to just sort of i have the last one. he, despite the downturn, the government says the economy will grow by nearly 10 percent this year. but a conversation too early for optimism. i don't think that these estimates have factored in, will mcclung echo, and saw what you're likely to see is black. there will be a provision in the 2nd advance as to what, which will come out at the end of february, which will be done and quite, maybe, quite seriously downwards, depending upon what happens when next couple of months. as the government prepares to release its budget next month, the cues and the capital of daily wage laborers waiting with their tools halting to be selected for work. keep growing longer. elizabeth cohen and al jazeera, you deli, some other covey news. indonesia has begun its campaign to administer booster shots of the vaccine to the elderly and people with weak immune systems. the jams will be offered free after initial plans to charge people sparked controversy and teenagers seeing a 3 month high in new cases. cases largely driven by our micron. during the peak of the 3rd wave last year, hospitals were overwhelmed, running out of beds and supplies her and 14000000 people in a chinese city will undergo covert tests for the 2nd time this week. mass testing began in change in on sunday. after 2 cases of the all the converts were detected, the city is next to the capital, beijing and authorities concerned and outbreak could pose a risk to next month's winter. olympic games could, bec, could soon become the 1st canadian province to tax adults who are on back sedated. premier francois legos says they are placing a financial burden on the health care system. on tuesday, he announced plans for those without a medical exemption to pay a health care contribution. coven, 19 hospital admissions, and canada, searched with the spread of army cron. but while some are still resisting vaccinations, one south american nation is leading the world. she lands a lining up this week for their 4th dose. a president told al jazeera a 5th dose, could even be on the way with our latin america editor at the senior min reports chillies. vaccination program is even extending to the animal world. susannah fuentes arrived early for her 1st dose or her 2nd booster shot. she's a recovering cancer patient, so like others here with underlying health conditions. she's more vulnerable to coven 19, or for the other devices that i've had breast cancer 3 times. so obviously i have to be even more worried about protecting myself. although everyone in fact has to worry about it. when year after chile began a massive vaccination campaign against coven 19 it's begun rolling out it's fort dos. even her from the age of free and older being vaccinated here in this country . unlike in most, in the region, there is no shortage of vaccines. and the secret, according to presidents of us, young fietta is at chilly, began purchasing them even before they existed. we were inviting, a small group of correspondents for coffee. benito told us that he bet on 3 laboratories that seemed more likely to cross the finish line 1st, including pfizer and seen evac and bobby anointed. the government began taking measures at a very early stage and with strong decisions to buy vaccines and to begin vaccinating very early, even with the 3rd dose. and he says, arrangements have already been made to guarantee a 5th dose if necessary. sunday, although in chile they've been no reported cases of animals being infected, the health ministry is taking no chances this weeks, and i became the 1st step to be a knock elated at the blin zoo that emma has. and i will have that on a sunday is a unique specimen in south america, only pure born leon rang a tongue with such an important reproductive potential for the species, which is why we focused on immunizing him 1st and also immunizing the big cats which are known to be naturally prone to this problem, be the 4 or 2 legged patients, health authorities, say hospitalizations and deaths from covered 19 have dropped significantly since the aggressive vaccination campaign began. but this also an awareness that until everyone can be equally immunized on every continent, chileans will likely have to prepare for many more jobs. before this pandemic is over. lucy and human al jazeera santiago still in latin america. the 30 people have been killed since the start of this year in fighting on the border between columbia and venezuela and the columbia government says rebel e l n. fight as a baffling a dissident group perform a font rebels. alessandra run pietro reports from boca time for the 2nd time in less than a year, colombian store owner height organ missed, and his family had to flee, escalating violence between norm groups. last march, they left venezuela for columbia alco region. they're now here in the capitol. we're searching for help and shelter. got any idea. and then it's got a small sewing venezuela and at times we sold things dissident that was enough to be targeted as supporters. when the killing started last week, the brother of a commander arrived and told us, you have 2 options. you can come with the meaning become part of the guerrilla forces, or you're going to have to leave because the e l n, u. d lane is columbia, the largest remaining rebel group, after the fight made peace with the government in 2016. but this is the factions of the fire code since appeared, and in recent weeks, the violence in the lawless region along the border with venezuela's been growing. some 30 people have been killed since the beginning of the year, while others have been kidnapped or forcibly recruited or displaced the fighting that create the not so beer in the population. many people fear that the region is going back to the, the code that they live in. and then between the l n and the fire that then and the human impact has the really, really to be the violence has reached new levels since the long standing truth between the arm groups broke down the last word between the den 5 gravels in the last less than a 1000 people that and displaced almost 60000, the colombian government and now blames have been a swell for the current violence. accusing the venezuelan government of sheltering the on groups in their territory. something the government in kodak has denied people from towns along the border of peak into the streets, demanding peace. colombian president, divan duke as deploying 2 battalions to regain control of the region. but some experts believe more troops won't solve the problem. and then i'll get you an order make awfully, a rica still has a huge unresolved conflict, and people have no confidence in the state. it already has the highest amount of soldiers per square meter in columbia. sending $600.00 more trips will not make a difference. what's needed is to restart patient negotiations with the l in that ok. and until the troubling that can be contained, the unitarian crisis will only continue to grow spreading here to the capitol and beyond. allison impurity al jesse gotta and became also 8 soldiers, including a high ranking commander have been arrested on suspicion of conspiring against the government. military prosecutor say they would tipped off by an insider about a plot to destabilize institutions of struggles to contain a 60 a conflict with deep and political instability in the country. submit a sports use tennis stone of joke of which has admitted breaking isolation roles in his native serbia last month in a social media post the world number 110, aspire accepted. he had made quite an error of judgement, joke of which said he met up with a journalist 2 days after the positive test. he went on to blame his agent for making mistake on his visa application ahead of his arrival in australia. sarah clark is covering this case from australia and says, really, the story is far from over. no joke which released the stipend in a bid to explain a timeline of covered 19 tests in december and put to rest what he describes as misinformation. on his instagram account, he said he did attend a children's awards event in serbia on december 17th after testing positive. but he says he only received the p. c. r test results. after the event at the time job which says he was asymptomatic and felt good. but he did acknowledge an error of judgement when he did a place to place, interviewed the following day when he knew he was positive on reflection, he says this should have been rescheduled. junk of its also admitted that a member of his team took the wrong box on his astride and travelled declaration document. when he arrived in australia last week, the declaration stated he had not travelled 14 days prior to his arrival when he had in fact flown from serbia despite the world's number one tennis player conceded . this was a human error and not deliberate jock of it could still be deported from australia and have a 2nd visa cancelled. that decision lies in the hands of the immigration minister alex hawk. he says he still considering the australian government's position. okay, coming up. $1300.00, as jim t on our to 0. that means the news are, is in a couple of moments time, the latest. as we wait to hear from you and still some book they had of nato and the full from boris johnson's prime ministers questions and the calls for him to resign in the british parliament seen a couple moments ah, look forward to brighter skies the winter sponsored my cattle ways, well it's newsworthy, say you know that argentina is in the grip or heat wave at the moment. not necessarily in the capital, those hot enough here, but in land and a bit further south, that's not just to date. probably going to last for about the whole week. tim, just i've been steadily rising. the forecasts or by the blankets, $43.00, that's just less than degree off the record, not just for january, for the whole year. so this is real heat. it stretches into uruguay just a bit, but not much beyond that. now the story beyond that and is in brazil mainly has been flooding and there's more of the same in minutes. jeris is really river flooding the lot of rains. the rivers are rising and you get as a result, it inundating the local area and has more to camp rid of the lies, fresh from rio, up through the state than to the middle off, brazil, north of the continent, back to trade winds, they're fairly light. i think be a concentration of showers in the bahamas. otherwise it's where you might expect it may be heavier ones in honduras, in the us, extreme cold, recently in the northeast corner has gone. this is a forecast later on wednesday. there be a lot more snow to come for eastern canada and eventually i think newfoundland. but otherwise the u. s. in canada is quite quiet. oh, the weather sponsored by cats are, i always really understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the round sentimental hagi take. it will be, you've amuse, and current falls that mattel to you, intelligence and playful authors are in high demand is packed in japan, but concerns are going over the illegal smuggling and irresponsible breeding of these wild animals. 11 east investigates on all to 0. ah, this is al jazeera ah, it's 1300 hours gmc for pm here in doha, on come all santa maria. welcome to the news ally. mr. speaker, i want to apologize. the u. k prime minister bars johnson takes responsibility for attending a garden party during the height of locked down, as the opposition calls for his resignation. also in the news top, russian officials meet nato represented.

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