former cafe pope admits he gave false testimony to a child sexual abuse inquiry. ah, nato is expanding its military presence in eastern europe with more ships and fighter jets and pushing forces on standby as russia accuses their line. so escalating tensions or we ukraine? european foreign ministers meeting in brussels, say they're ready to impose never before seen sanctions. if russia attacks ukraine, russia has mast an estimate of 100000 troops near ukraine, but rejects western allegations that have plans an invasion. we are considering to further enhance our presence in the eastern part of the lions. this could include the deployment of additional nato battle groups. these deployments are proportionate on in line with our national commitments and they reinforce european security for all of us. at the same time, nate remains ready to continue dialogue with russia. ok, let's bring in a white house correspondent, kimberly hall. good. what is the view of the white house about how this is old developing? kimberly well the u. s. president has been weighing his options in terms of moving forward. he worked through the weekend at camp david, as he mulled over plans that were presented to him for potential troop deployment to the area around ukraine. that would be to nato allies, not just in terms of the number of soldiers which could be in the range of $1.00 to $5000.00 and then potentially more should things deteriorate, but also aircraft and warships. and again, this is not to ukraine proper, but to nato allies and as well, we know that this is a major policy pivot. if the president decides to go ahead with this plan, given the fact that up until now, there has been reluctance on the part of the by did ministration. and for, for a long time, it really has been the view that they wanted to not be seen in any way provoking the russian president vladimir putin in any way. so that he would have an excuse if you will, to invade you crane. but it appears that that calculation is changing. it's not clear the president has made a decision yet, but we are told that it is likely he will make one by the end of the week. and to that end, we know that as a precaution, the state department is now notifying it's members of its embassy and cave to begin moving out of the area. this is mostly the family members of embassy personnel, but there are some embassy staff members that are be asked to leave as well. this is not uncommon, this is actually pretty standard as a precaution, when there's concerned about a crisis or potential conflict. but yet, it's just another signal that in fact, there is concern, the things are escalating. in fact, we heard from joe biden himself to you as president last week. he does believe that vladimir putin, the russian president, intends to test the wes, the question becomes to what scale and how this might happen. but he does believe that there will be an invasion of ukraine. the question is when that might happen was or what i was calmer correspondence. kimberly hawker, kimberly. thank you very much. indeed. this is your bars caught the reaction from moscow which heard from the kremlin who has reacted very strongly to the meeting. this been ongoing and brussels, the russian government says that there believe that's a risk of key of actually starting a conflict in eastern ukraine is at an all time high. and they believe the tensions are soaring as a result of nato and u. s. actions. and that their information is just creating hysteria and they say that information is laced with lies. that's the official reaction. so far we've just been hearing from officials from the duma. that is the a house of parliament here who say that to add the nato dispatching further troops and forces to eastern europe is going to create a severe crisis. this is, of course, exactly with this country. wanted to avoid that. the russians that were concerned with nato further expanding eastwards and that they were trying to prevent that from happening. but it appears all the diplomatic efforts have failed and now that will continue to move forward. and the russians are very much concerned and believe that this is a security concern, and they wanted to make sure that nato was not expanding any further. they didn't want the ukraine a to join the 30 member alliance. they said they wanted to go back to 1997 levels. and after that point, 14 new countries joined this alliance. and that is why we're in this position now, according to the russians, they believed that their security is at risk because they are now very much surrounded by countries as that are part of this alliance. and they believe this alliance has its own agenda led by washington. those confusion and conflicting information about the latest attempted coup, burkina, faso. the government denies any army takeover, but other reports from the capital y. good to go. say president ross cavalry is detained at a military base. the soldiers taking control of the main t. v station, the ruling part. he says, the president survived an assassination attempt. a curfew was declared after a mutiny by soldiers, some civilian protests as support the military intervention. but a points of unrest send from frustration in the battle against armed groups affiliated with iso and al qaeda soldiers demanding better resources. combat them attacks of killed around 2000 people, unforced one and a half 1000000 from their homes. o'malley's a consulting fellow from the africa program at chatham house, and he explains the conditions in burkina faso that led to this point up to very recently burkina faso has tended to rely mostly on its own forces. and there was a growing frustration over recent months that the military machine just wasn't able to cope and let the president and his government weren't coming up with a strategy that was really effective at fighting. then these reports were soldiers found themselves under resource under fed, feeling neglected as it were in these exposed outta line garrisons. that's really produced a lot of resentment and anger and the other kids that have taken place in west africa, in molly and in guinea. i've also had a bit of a political component of frustration over the manipulation of electron result. so that sort of thing. but in the case of we're kind of fast. so it really does seem to be driven by the security crisis itself and campbell, he was re elected only just over year ago. i have very comfortable margin and he's been holding reconciliation talks to the opposition. his political, conventional political situation seemed comfortable, but this collapse in the security situation, which is seem close to half the country slide into a position where people can't move around freely and in safety means that that sort of base it public confidence in him was just slumped. but you are, he has launched airstrikes in yemen after intercepting ballistic missiles fired by who the rebels is. the 2nd recent attack targeting our darby. last week 3 people were killed in a hoodie drone strike. the spokesman's warning of further attacks and the u. e. o r telling was a lie in response to the belligerent escalation by saudi arabia and the u. e. and their crimes against our beloved people. the missiles and drone units of our armed forces carried out to successful large military operations. shopping at our armed forces, stress, its full preparedness to widen the scope of its operation in the coming period of time and to meet escalations with further escalations, our armed forces renewed warning to the foreign companies. investors within the u. e to leave as the u. e. is declared an unsafe country and the target of our future operations, so long as it's deliverance and siege against him and is not halted or below the center is chairman of the gulf research center p says the u. a had been expecting a tax like this for months. us a data, but it is will prepare for the with the criminal act been done by the c to a target civilian and send this ballistic massage. i think it was expected to couple of months because he did indicate that you either target for them and you will be prepared for that. i don't think one or 2 attacks should be a good concern to didn't. naturally, i did a said the what is that people may have and particularly the gcc state members living can you eat? but i'm sure you have demonstrated that capability of responding to such an incident. i think we need to make sure you know, to show the international responsibility and international act that should take place immediately. because this is not a threat to, to the u. s. e. it's is a threat to the regional security and stability. when you threaten the gulf, anyone you threaten the maritime issues and the major supplier that he could should be an international what it's not really. so this is why we need to have a good international act together not only showing a motor solidity and you know, collaboration, would you eat lunch? competence met for the 1st time in 3 months or this year's budget? the main item on the agenda it's suffering is worse economic crisis in history and talks to the international monetary fund. a such a resume soon has bhalla has refused to attend cabinet meeting since toby over the investigation into the 2020 port explosion in beirut. the markets effectively paralyzed the government. meanwhile, former levies primus aside. he says he's suspending his wall in political life and will not run in the upcoming parliamentary elections. how did he has his political party to not participate either in a hot or has more from beirut? the former prime minister, a subtle, how do you, these political position, has been weakened in recent years. in the past 2 weeks, he was away from the country. the man really even looked defeated. he acknowledge that he made mistakes and that he angered his allies, even angered members of his family because of his policies and really at the expense of that he lost the loss of support. i mean, man, at the end of the day, his traditional backers, saudi arabia. they have been angry about his attitude, his conciliatory and compromising attitude with has the law impacts subtle. how do you, the said, i don't see the possibility of any good opportunities for 11 on as long as there is iranian influence in the country. iranian influence, by extension, of course, has been law, it has been law. this allies now controlled a political power in lebanon. so he's withdrawing from political life, his future movement is withdrawing from political life. they won't be shielding candidates in the upcoming elections. and so what is the next? well, there are a lot of questions. this really is a political vacuum because he has been the leader since 2005 who is going to replace him. a short while ago we spoke to the vice president of the future movement was loose and we asked them that question. what he told us is that there will be attempts to form some sort of a coalition across the carry and coalition, and iran outside has vala, coalition to field, come to this in the upcoming elections. still ahead and i'll just say to the latest developments on the extradition battle facing, we can fund gillian r songs and empty supermarket shelves in the united states. we're going to find out who is the glade. ah hey there, good to see it. we've got some high temperatures across the middle east. so right off the bat, let me show you above average, really in the zone here or beale, bach dead into tater on and sure. as i look at that block that 20 degrees, we may even hit 30 in mecca. now the complete opposite for pakistan are this is what you woke up to on monday morning. the dark of the blue, the dark, the purple, the lower the temperature, karachi, 6 degrees that was your lowest temperature of the season. so far you bounced back on tuesday up to 24. now we're seeing snow where we don't usually get it and that's for the c resort city of antalya at 8 degrees. i think on the low end, i will look for about 2 centimeters and on the high end about 7 and look this here . temperature is plunged to sub zeros. we head toward thursday and friday, so well below average for this have the year. get you to southern africa right now and we do have a tropical cyclone, just spilling tons of rain over mozambique will press play. see where it goes. i'd slammed into zimbabwe on tuesday. this is not good news because we have seen a some flooding ins and bob boy, so this is only going to worse in this situation. and capetown, over the weekend, you said a record tap trip $45.00, and now you're down to $25.00 on tuesday. that's a snapshot of your weather see later. ah, the corona virus has been indiscriminate in selecting this victims. it's devastating effects of plague. every corner of the globe, transcending class creed and color, put in britain, a disproportionately high percentage of the fallen have been black or brown skinned . the big picture traces the economic disparities and institutional racism could have seen united kingdom playlists citizens. britain's true colors. part one on al jazeera hulu. ah, ah, he watching old, is it a reminder of our top stole? is this our nato's put its forces on stand by and sent plains and ships to eastern europe? this tensions grow between ukraine and russia. you foreign ministers who promised to 1300000000 dollar loan to help kiev. the united arab emirates has intercepted ballistic missiles, fired by who the rebels retaliated by launching airstrikes in yemen, who the spokesman is threatening further attacks on the u. e. a military coup attempt is underway in burkina faso, president wash mark kimberly's party says he was the victim of an assassination attempt, and supposedly been detained as a military base soldier. so taking control of the country was main television station. the up can taliban and western diplomats have begun. their 1st official talks in europe since the group took control of of canister. last august. the closed door meetings with u. s. and e. u. officials of taking place in norway earlier on sunday. the taliban met civil society groups diplomats are asking them to uphold basic freedoms. in return for humanitarian aid. di one says china flu, 39 warplanes near its air space and what's being described as the largest operation for 3 months. a taiwan air force issued radio warnings and activated air defense missiles. systems has been no immediate comment from china, which considers the island break away province. a former roman catholic, pope benedict has admitted giving a false statement to a child, sex abuse inquiry. he says he mistakenly told investigators in germany that he wasn't at a meeting in 1980. when he was archbishop of munich inquiry, found the benedict knew about peter file priest, but failed to report their crimes on a canes in berlin. and he explains the allegations against the former pope the central fact that emerges from pages and pages and pages of evidence given by the former pope. just less than 6 weeks ago to this inquiry is he says repeatedly that if he can't remember a meeting take taking place and it didn't take place well to day through a spokesman. he said, actually what he did was mislead the inquiry, not through bad faith, but by bad editing of this particular document. but what essentially happened here is the inquiry was investigating historical accusations of clerical sex abuse of children in the late 19 seventy's and 19 eighties. it had a remit for the last 75 years, but specifically that period late seventies, early eighties, and specifically in the archbishop rick of munich advising. that's where the former pope was archbishop, and he has now admitted that on one particular occasion, he was present when the case of a specific priest who would go on to be convicted of child sex abuse. he was present at the time. and the allegation is that he did not do enough to act against this specific priest. man. the former pope has said in his, in the, in the, in regional evidence. he said, well, if i didn't remember it, i wasn't there because i wasn't there. i couldn't have known what happened. well, now these specific investigators have said you were there. it follows therefore, that it is likely that you knew what happened. judges in britain have given the go ahead for julian a sorry to challenge his extradition to the united states. supporters of that we could expound it, were outside the all courts of justice in london as permission was granted to take his case to britain supreme court. the u. s. was assigned to stan trial and 18 charges, including espionage for publishing military secrets about the wars in afghanistan and iraq. that in barbara has more from london. was julian a sons, his fiance, stella morris, told his supporters outside the high court the while she welcome this decision. he continued to suffer. she reminded people he'd been inside bel much prison for nearly 3 years. similarly, a representative for reporters without borders said the group had serious concerns for his physical and mental well being. and it was his mental state. there was at the heart of the decision around a year ago by a lower court to refuse extradition to the u. s. saying that if he was sent there, he'd be a credible suicide risk. now last year, lawyers for the u. s. government gave assurances to the high court that he wouldn't be held in a high security prison. he wouldn't be in solitary confinement, but now the high court has said that assange can seek permission to appeal to the supreme court of the u. k. it's not a direct appeal, so that court will have to decide whether or not to take on his case, but at least for now, julian assange is not going to be extradited to the u. s. his legal team say they will continue to fight a political crisis is bring in honduras, martyr rival politicians elected to competing presidents of congress as part of a dispute between party members of president elect cecile mara, castro just days beforehand or, nor gratian alexia bryan, reports ah, solutions infinity in re foundation policy, celebrating in honduran capital technical back. at the swearing in of daniel, president of congress, louise redondo, fully prepared to wagner from athena to day the deputies of the national congress affected opportunity to protect an action that was intended to be consummated. to date, to take control by the criminal structures that have governed this country. they intended to take control of this legislative power. i stickers, nearby arrival, congressional president was being concerned jorge to leaks oil lemma. earlier today, a majority of 80 out of a 128 members elected a new board of directors and we are respectful of the outcome you rely on explaining that. i mean, the competing ceremonies deepen a split in the posse, if c m. r. castro, who said to become honduran, president on thursday to leaks as a member of her party, her body supported by a dissident faction. we disagreed with her promise to give the leadership of the new congress to louis redondo. he's a member of the honduras, salvation party, who helped castro claim victory in november's election. casters called on her supporters to rally against the split throwing the dissidence out of her party and branded colleagues, a treasure. he knows that if we is honduran paypal continue to accept these practices than what would be happening in the legislature would be to hand to control of a state power back to the dictatorship. the dispute caused pianos and congress on friday in cliques, was chosen by the wiggles. he's been backed by members of the national policy which is laid on juris for the past while he is the punch up. so the u. s. cool for all sides to remain calm and started. endless against the division will make castro's presidency far more challenging. g one last november's election, promising to end the corruption and violence that hamper economic growth. more than half of home durance live below the poverty line. forcing many to leave the country in search of new opportunities abroad, castro's victory led to hopes of change in honduras. his supporters say that change is now in jeopardy. elixir brian al jazeera scientists and israel say a 4th shot of wise as coven 19 vaccine. triples protection for the over sixty's from severe illness, and it says it makes them twice as resistant to infection, but an additional booster doesn't provide complete immunity. they say is really started receiving a 4th dorms earlier this month. that the world health organization says it's dangerous to assume that the pandemic is ending to does at home go. places says the way out of covered 19 will come by vaccinating at least 70 percent of the population of every country. there are different scenarios for how the pandemic could play out and how the acute phase could end. but it's dangerous to assume that army kron will be the last variant order that we are in the end. again. on the contrary, globally, the conditions are ideal for more variance to emerge. $30000000.00 citizens and northern china are free to leave their homes after the lifting of a month long covered 19 locked on. the city of chia, ann was shut down as the government imposed a 0 tolerance policy before the start of the beijing winter olympics. next month. the international council of nurses is calling for urgent action to stop what it calls and avoidable healthcare disaster. there are 28000000 nurses globally, but there's a severe shortage of the pandemic began 2 years ago. there was already a shortfall of 6000000 nurses. the report one's a lack of funding, funds, burnout, and high levels of resignations are contributing to the crisis and is being made worse by an uneven distribution of the workforce as rich countries recruit nurses from developing nations. international council of nurses predicts nearly 13000000 nurses would be needed in the next 10 years. well, how cotton is chief executive officer, the international council of nurses. he says rich countries should invest in training more of their own nurses. so what we have seen is absolutely an uptake in the last few months in international recruitment. predominately it's high income countries. europe, germany, the u. k. at north america, canada, at the u. s. australia is always recruited large numbers across the middle east, have been recruiting as well. and recruiting from lower lower middle income countries, the nurse to population ratio in those lower income countries. each usually significantly lower than in the high income countries, which means when you take those nurses out, the impact on the sending country, the source country might mean that it's unable to continue to provide health care to its own people. there are strict regulations in terms of nurses who then move in to other countries. there are a regulatory procedures that are required for nurses to go to, to ensure as you say, that the safety and patient safety bar isn't compromised. but that doesn't take us away from this really significant ethical issue about whether it is right for rich countries to basically off load the costs of their education, the education of nurses where they haven't done it and knocked themselves by going to other countries who can least afford it residential biden's being blamed for empty shelves in the u. s. supermarkets, winter weather, and the surgeon, or mac on cases are adding to the destruction. the shower tensor reports from maryland. the pandemic is exposed problems with deregulation for truck drivers and how their pay has been cut across the us. supermarkets are again experiencing supply shortages of such basic goods as milk, eggs, and other household items. a wave of on the chrome cases, global supply chain issues, labor shortages and extreme weather being blamed for the lack of goods and other contributing factor, the trucking industry, some 70 percent of goods delivered in the u. s. o. by road. the main lobby in group for the trucking company says it needs an extra 80000 new drivers to get goods where they need to be and tell meet the demand for drivers. people as young as 18 could soon be allowed to drive trucks into state after completing a federal apprenticeship program for decades ago. in 1980 deregulation turns much of the trucking industry into what we now call the gig economy drivers are not paid for the time on the job. but for miles travels, they basically give the company that you're going to deliver to pick up from day give on 2 hours free the sit there and do whatever they need to do. the driver doesn't get paid. many truck as a classified as independent contract is not employees. so companies don't pay for the upkeep of that trucks or invest in truck stops warehouses. a truck drives the allotted legal time and then stops wherever they are. you get after 56 o'clock, especially here on the east coast 5 o'clock a your might be on the road somewhere, trying to find a spot. if there is a shortage husband, steve declined in wages for truckers between 1977 and 987 truck compensation fell. but i'm 35 percent the average truck. her salary is now around $50000.00 a year. but there is another stock. sophistic trucking has an overall job turnover rate of between 74 and 92 percent. that is between 7 and 9 out of 10 drivers leave their jobs. after a year, we reached out to the american truck association, but they declined to speak to us. but the u. s. census, in fact shows a record number of qualified truck drivers in the us. that's why others say the problem lies elsewhere. is no shortage of truck drivers in the united states, and in fact we have a surplus of drivers. we have millions of people in the us who trained to become a truck driver and then decided not do the job. dr. shirley says the trucking industry has used the same tactic since deregulation in 1980 to insist on further deregulation. so you can have as many workers to choose from as possible. that way he can offer the least wages and benefits while maximizing its profits. simply lowering the driving age is, is not going to make things better. burns them out. most people won't last won't last 6 months. something we've heard throughout the supply chain crisis is that it's decades of deregulation that focused on corporate profits instead of building infrastructure like truck depots, for example, and taking care of workers that got us her. she amber tansy al jazeera maryland. ah. this is al jazeera, these are the top stories. nato has put his forces on standby and sent ships and aircraft to eastern europe as tensions grow between ukraine and russia. you foreign ministers have promised to 1300000000 dollar loan to help kiev. kimberly hawkins has the latest from washington dc on the white house reaction the president worked right through the weekend and.