the international monetary fund cut since growth forecasts for the global economy this year is blaming the omicron variant higher energy prices and inflation. ah, a u. s. plane carrying military equipment and munitions has just landed in kia. these are pictures from british federal, airport, dest, outside care of that delivery, is coming, as russia has launched, new military drills, new ukraine, and in annexed crimea. moscow is blaming the u. s. for increasing tensions in the region of to putting its forces in europe on high alert, rushes to build up around ukraine as prompt and fears of an invasion. on tuesday, britain's prime minister called on european allies to be ready to deploy sanctions . if diplomacy fails, on the 13th of december, i spoke to president putin and i stressed that nato had no thought of in circling or otherwise threatening his country. and that russia enjoyed as much right as any other state to live in peace and security. but as i said to him, russia, ukraine also enjoys an equal and symmetrical right to that russia. and i said that any attack on his neighbor would be followed by tougher sanctions against russia. further steps to help you crane defend herself and bind increased nato presence to protect our allies on they tos. eastern plaid. and let's bring in our white house correspondent, kimberly hall. could these pictures were seeing from the airport just outside key? have evidence obviously of the way that the u. s. is at least finally to manage the situation at the moment. yeah, this is something that was promised by the secretary of state antony blank. and what we know is that there are about 90 tons of military equipment services to the tune of about $650000000.00. and this is in addition to what we know could be even more should the u. s. president decide to move ahead with what he's calling an additional deployment. we expect some sort of decision by the end of the week, potentially in coordination with nato allies. the u. s. president readying for possible deployment. not just airship or warships, but also aircraft. and up to 8500 military personnel, and there is the possibility of that number increasing should number one, vladimir putin decided to invade ukraine and are 2 things deteriorate. now, it is important to know that none of this is going directly into ukraine, but instead would be going to nato allies. the point is, is this would be to strengthen the nato alliance is something that the united states says it intends to do is as an says, this is a result of. 6 what it sees as russian aggression, namely, the 10s of thousands of military troops that are, have amassed themselves, a long rushes border near ukraine. understandable administration has been talking to some journalists about the actions. it's going to take, if russia should move towards or in to ukraine, would have been saying yeah, we have known for some time that to in addition to potentially sort of the military aspect of this conflict, should vladimir putin decide to invade ukraine? there is also the punishing financial sanctions that the united states and the european allies are promising. but now we're getting a better idea of what that might look like. and according to u. s. officials, we're hearing that the united states would put in place export controls and a number of key sectors, namely a artificial intelligence, as well as aerospace. in other words, companies that currently are selling products to russia. in order for these industries to exist would no longer be able to do so in turn, crippling rushes ability to conduct operations in those areas. now the other thing we know is that there has been some concern from european allies about the future. should russia decide to potentially cut off energy supplies, the areas of oil and gas, and that could be a problem given the fact that we're in the winter and it could be a very cold future ahead. so we also know that there are explorations and conversations going on right now between the united states and other countries, including we're hearing cut our, to explore alternate tubs, forms, or even sources of energy. should russia decide to pull that trigger in terms of leverage. so the united states having a number of conversations right now, but in terms of the picture of those punishing financial sanctions that joe biden has promised in coordination with the, the united states allies. it's clear that when they say they are looking to inflict very painful financial damage, this is how they intend to do it. so why does corresponding to many hoggard kimberly thank you. the grains conflict with separatists has been concentrated in the east, but villagers near the border with russian and his crimea say they're worried about the threat of an attack. char stratford is in sharona in southern ukraine. russian onyx crimea is a few kilometers in that direction. now, despite moscow saying that it has no intention of launching and offensive, we be speaking to people in villages like this one and they tell us they are increasingly afraid. darkness, manteca, we ask here it will, it through the hardships of 2014 when russia to crimea, and perhaps the threat is the same. now since we have small children in the family, we have already packed our emergency belongings close and documents. so if we need to, we can hide somewhere in sellers, for example, was they somewhere safe? a few people are traveling in or out of crimea or in recent weeks, but we met someone who had just returned and thought of a story. little also scary. i have just arrived to day from sebastopol. the atmosphere is calm. people are out with their children, playing in the snow through the mood is relaxed in comparison to 2014 to 2015. when people discuss the conflicts and what to do, some people aren't really talking about war now because so accounts like that saying that the situation remains calm in crimea, but that comes on a day. when the russian defense ministry has announced that it has started new tank drills, military exercises on the peninsula, which means hundreds of thousands of people in this region can only hope that the intense diplomatic efforts don't fail. char stratford al jazeera, cheer vonner, some new grain. rising, the thought is of added jailed kremlin critic alexi no volley and some of his allies to its list of terrorists and extremists. moscow ban of arnie's political network as extremist last year during the sweeping crackdown allies including the above sobel, but also added to the list in volkoff and yvonne's dunk of what added earlier this month. all 3 are outside russia at the moment. the military current burkina faso has triggered international condemnation with the u. n. and the u. s. calling for the deposed president's immediate release. roscoe body is said to have resigned under threat and intimidation from the military. according to west africa's regional block echo was guardsmen gathering in the capital. why the double 2 shoulder support for the military. the soldiers behind the crusades they took power because the government failed to contain on groups that have killed thousands. don't regular. thank you. we are saying no to sanctions, the army took office to sort things out in the keno fair, so that's what we care about, you know, but eco was in stay where you are. will you did get them? is in a border, i resigned to join people who are fighting and indeed the fight was launched in officers, especially the young, responsible officers have taken power. time has proven us all right. some med nickos more from the capital. why? good ago? there's been a lot of public support as of yesterday when they made the announcement. and then today there were several 100 potential up to a 1000 people gathering downtown in the square carrying, champing, supporting the military. so there's a lot of support right now for, for the military. and then people are aware that there's also potential sanctions coming from the regional block. and they, they say down with hacker watson, regional, but they, they're not the care right now. they think that the military takeover is worth whatever that they might have to face down the line. if there's a lot of questions about how and what is going to change now that the military is taken over and is the people that have spoken to who are part of the cues, say that there's going to be more of a focus on the military on getting them equipment on training on putting younger people at the head who know what it's like out there in the field to have been there. his colleagues have died, they're very frustrated. they're angry at the government handling of the situation so far and say that they think that they can put together a better military strategy according to military. yesterday there. a was running the country and there was a man who signed the signed the communique name is henry and he's in charge. a right now he's a young man, he's about his forty's, he was recently i given a promotion, ironically by president cowboy. and so, and people who know him say that he's always. a they like him, so he seems to be at the head of this military hotel, the taken over as of yesterday evening. but he's in london, opened an investigation into government events. how doing corona virus locked on? this is separate from an inquiry led by senior civil service su gray, which is also looking into more than a dozen gatherings. the most recent revelations accuse the u. k. prime minister of attending a birthday party, organized by his wife during the 1st lockdown in june 2020 as a result of the information provided by the cabinet office inquiry team. and secondly, my officers own assessment. i can confirm that the mat is now investigating a number of events that took place at downing street and watch hole in the last 2 years in relation to potential breaches of covet 19 regulations under sentences in london. and he says, the prime minister is increasingly being seen as a liability to his party. it is pretty extraordinary that you have a police investigation into criminal offenses here in the heart of government downing street. and also whitehall, that amounts to 8 events. we understand crescent a dick, the metropolitan police commissioner outlining there that the investigation is taking place and it's cooperating with the cabinet office inquiry called by the downing street staff and the prime minister of forest johnson at now, those criminal inquiries are separate. it would seem to the grey inquiry, and now we have a situation where part of the situation went by all the promises of an imminent result. to the inquiry. internal inquiry effectively have gone away because the police inquiry will look at prosecution as the potential for prosecutions. how long that will take is unknown. it could be weeks, it could be months potentially. so what we're going to find is that the will be highlights from the gray inquiry very likely will not be enough to satisfy the public demand for answers was boris johnson guilty of offences already his popularity ratings of dived. the political situation facing him is that the conservative party is now feeling that he's a liability, and that is increasing with a drip feed of toxic information about these parties. and the apparent hypocrisy involved with government ministers in the prime minister himself in breaching lockdown rules still had on al jazeera, buried in ash, no water, and still no electricity. why much needed 8 supplies meant for taller cannot be delivered. it 20 years since the end of the civil war in sierra leone. has there been any peace dividend? ah, ah, look forward to brighter sky's the weather. sponsored by cattle airways. bur yet can feel the chill india hello. everyone had for talking about northwestern portions of india, temperatures below average here in new delhi, just 16 degrees, and we do have cold wave alerts in play for the indian states of rochester. and also what's 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condemnation with the u. s. e. u and regional blog echo was calling for the immediately. so president ross cavalry. a group of soldiers deposed the body on monday. it's not publicly known what he is but he's in london, have opened an investigation into government events held during the corona virus locked on. this is separate from an inquiry led by senior civil servant suit great . the most recent revelations accused the prime minister paula johnson of attending a birthday party organized by his wife during the 1st locked on. the global economy is expected to grow by 4.4 percent this year. that's half a percentage point less than previously. previously estimated, the international monetary fund says the recovery from the pandemic has lost momentum because of a resurgence in cases. inflation is also partly to blame for the i m, f's, latest downgrade prices, and the world's richest economies are at a 25 year high. other concerns include the growing crisis between ukraine and russia and china as a slowing economy. beijing has maintained a 0 tolerance approach to the pandemic. but experts, one, it's unsustainable, montana. bob is the head of the international monetary funds, world economic studies research division. and he thinks higher inflation is set to last a longer than was previously thought. and it's gonna hit developing economies harder . there's been a difference in the amount of policy support that economies have been able to provide based on the amount of policy space that they have going into. this is the spandex and we've seen that balance economy is able to deliver much larger fiscal support on average than the emerging market and developing economies that help with the rebounds. also a nice economies on average of also been able to, to vaccinate their populations at the base and merging market in developing countries. and that's allowed a resumption activity. so we are seeing foster assumption and activity in advance economies as a result on average. this divergence is expected to assist going forward. ready and it's, it's also a concern for us now with the prospects of advance economy and central banks, shifting their monetary policy stance. and as that happens, there's a risk that interest rates increase and boring costs go up. and this puts pressure on vulnerable emerging market in developing economies. in particular, the risk intensified if, for instance, inflation one to supply and even more on the upside, which would require a faster response from a bank, the comedy central banks. for example, the federal reserve in the united states, and then what the current events coming to our forecast is not what happened. that would also an additional pressure to situation for the next developing economies that are on the borrowing. the rolled football body fever has expressed his condolences after 8 people were killed in this time. pete in cameroon, dozens more. were injured in the cross during africa, top football tournament, a couple of nations that happened outside the stadium and north of the capital young day. alex, your brian reports for greece outside. what should have been found the family evening at a football match? instead, this woman is crying out for her father and asking god why the people were killed when crowd surged at the entrance to the africa cup of nations match between hosts. cameroon and camaros. the people behind you said push. i was among the one i saw that i left to enter from the northwest. they stayed there, and that's when someone left to open the burial. someone pulled it by push locked. some fell on top of all. those were even babies. from a poorly cellphone meadow. as the police closed the gate, a crowd of people came from behind and i was stuck in it, so i couldn't go back. i was below and god spared me to knock on. yes, i was seen lying motionless near an entrance to the stadium. one person mount next to one of the victim and appeared to be trying to assassinate the. just now they were 50 people. i saw nearly 50 people on the ground. the african football confederation say that's investigating the incident crisis talks and reported to have been cooled over why the security issues and then the stadium can hold 60000 people. that capacity been limited to just 60 percent because of cobra. 19 that capacity increased to 80 percent when the home team cameron's and donors of a lion. i think that tonight there was absolutely more than 80 percent that the stadium that was nearly full. i'm assuming that's because of the barriers that hold up sort of preston. but from what i can tell you is that going into the stadium, there's a very serpentine corridor that's not very wide. it's maybe 2 or 3 meters in width . and that people were increasingly frustrated even about how it was meant to host african biggest football tournaments in 2019. but the event was taken away from them and handed to egypt after consent. stadiums. well, not ready for the games that were question marks of about construction and security . i lim day is the main stadium for the escal tournament. its a to stage 3 more games, including the final on february 6, alex here brian al jazeera, 2000000 people in beijing be in order to get tested for covered 19. the decision came after a series of outbreaks ahead of the winter olympics next week. those invasion neighborhoods considered high risk for infection have been told not to leave the city. hundreds of business owners in south korea have shaved their heads to protest against corona virus restrictions damaging trade. most businesses have to close at 9 pm and only takeaways allowed for restaurants. leaving shop owners frustrated. the infection rate there has risen to a record high with cases topping more than 8000 a day for the 1st time. an outbreak of covered 19 is the latest thread facing tongue australian sailors of tested positive or shipping age to the islands. devastated by the volcanic eruption answered army 11 days ago when he has more from new zealand. the hmh adelaide left australia on friday carrying much needed aid supplies to tong up. but as the ship neared its destination, the australian government confirmed there had been a covert 19 outbreak on board. i can report to you the 223 personnel on hi to myers allied, which departed brisbin. a matter of days ago, i have been, have tested positive for with cove 190. those people obviously, and others on board who are in oil. why should the moment, tongue it desperately needs outside assistance after the volcanic eruption and soon army more than a week ago. but doesn't want to risk an outbreak of coven 19 brought by 8 workers. it's insisting that all supplies must be delivered contactless. at this stage, the adelaide will complete its mission. as some communication is restored and toner, more images are coming out showing how devastating the disaster was. these are from the island of no mac, up one of the closest to the volcano. and one of the most effective, the red cross estimates waves as high as 15 meters smashed into mikka and near by islands. really nobody knew that there was a wave coming. i'm so we are in every household that was on the road, like we just shouted out soon, army soon, army, you know, get to higher ground. most people here have been moved to the main island of tongue, a top oo there, a long, clean up as underway and power has been restored. but livelihoods in this tiny island nation will take a long time to rebuild my other bakery. but i can't even opens now because of the ash in the bakery. my whole tongue is economy was already in trouble before the disaster. now the outlook is even more grim and basics up wise may become hard to get when we're talking about crops. and it was severely damaged due to the dust covering the arms. yeah. and no ross, you managed to survive the you with our, our food. what we're talking about t ada coin beef at 2. in the short term assistance will continue to arrive at the time you will need long term help to rebuild and recover. wayne, hey, al jazeera, towed on museums. the head of the world health organization has a free run to a 2nd term after a secret ballot by the executive board headers are thrown go places is the sole nominee for the leadership vote in may. the former ethiopian government minister says his 1st 5 year term has been challenging. and it's a great honor to be given the opportunity to continue the battle against coven 197 . my rooms have died after their boat got caught in rough weather off the coast of italy, italian coast guard rescued about $280.00 people from the packed vessel which was heading from libya to the island of lumper to sir. it says most of those on board were from egypt and bangladesh. flash floods in madagascar have killed at least 34 people. abby rain caused landslides, which destroyed homes in the capital and other evil around $55000.00 islanders would be made homeless in the past week. it was a war infamous for its cruelty in its mutilations, as well as child soldiers paid for by exports of so called blood diamonds, mind by slave labor. it's 20 years since the end of the civil war in sierra leone. but recovery has seen some progress and reconciliation, but as amended or supports from the capital free town. despite its vast mineral riches, 8000000 people remains some of the poorest in africa. this factory on the outskirts of frito is one of dozens of small and medium industries that rose from the ashes of saroyan civil war. it refines and exports, palm, oil and byproduct. and in the past 2 years has been able to expand its reach to markets in west africa and asia. what he 5 percent goes in the local market and the balance we are exporting to countries like gun on synagogue liberia. and it might explode more and more countries. the government says focusing on the country strengths is key to industrial growth. and one of the areas which we have tried to focus on is our call to because our culture is one area where we can have a whole lot of raw materials for industry development. but recovery stall on many fronts, from rescuing the economy to tackling corruption and reconciling it's one the word on the juice's. jessica has his hand chopped off by rebels. children the war because of the truth. recklessly uncle michel, natalie will forget that we will forgive, but we will never forget because we are tearing. did they did, did it? did they off house all day activities, which was not dos, 11 years of civil war killed at least 50000 people enforced half a 1000000 from their homes. one of the bloodiest conflicts started on rebels attempted to overthrow the government as well as rape mutilations enforced used of charged soldiers. fighting was often funded by so called blood diamonds. mind with slave labor. one of the covers bottles of the federal civil war was $41.00, west african 1st battle global forces. we had, we have been in control of that. you stop result. i tend to push wife this moment and the bridge over there, which is now called the piece bridge stand is reminders of some of the doctors, doctors, instead of you rebels so forth in the war. i also still struggling to decades own most of my colleagues, some of them are not calling again to legally such as societies because why they have wanted to be a little they did to the assets, new angels. i don't think them more like me. i just, i said diesel sites in and all the government admits the reconciliation process is slow to want more speed. but under this administration, i think we have addressed more throughout the recommendations. not any od admins to show before before president bew several years has been stable politically for the past 20 years. but divisions remain. for now, the biggest concern for the government of citizens alike is competing corruption. improving infrastructure and reducing unemployment. all require a huge amount of money. something several young doesn't have, despite it's vast mineral wealth. edris al jazeera free town steadily on in the bar 2 of our series of life sincere de leon. we look at the diversity a border outbreak. our victims faring now and what lessons have been learned if there's another outbreak that's on wednesday here at al jazeera animal rescue. as in south africa, have returned by naso as to the wild following years of remarkable surgery is called sal were kelly. these had 30 face repair operations after poachers hacked off his horn, the charity saving the survivors says the 10 year old has healed remarkably well. and they say the hope he can make ah, this is our designer. these are the top stories, the u. s. plane carrying military equipment and ammunitions has landed in kiev earlier, russia launched more military drills here ukraine and in annex crimea. moscow blames the us for increasing tensions in the region after putting its forces in europe on high alert or white.