When Ukraine was promised NATO membership in 2008, Georgia received the same guarantee. But Russian forces occupy nearly a quarter of Georgian territory and its hope of entering NATO remains distant. Al Jazeera’s @Robin Forestier-Walker reports from the line of control between Georgia and its breakaway region of South Ossetia. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #AlJazeeraEnglish #Georgia #Ukraine #Russia
Belarus is ready to host nuclear weapons if threatened from the West. That is the warning from President Alexander Lukashenko, as he visited a training ground where joint military drills with Russia are said to be wrapping up. Lukashenko is due to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin shortly. Al Jazeera’s @Step Vaessen reports from Luninets, near the border with Ukraine. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #AlJazeeraEnglish #Russia #Ukraine #Belarus
The Dutch Prime Minister has apologised to Indonesia for what is described as ‘systematic and widespread extreme violence’ used by the Dutch army during Indonesia’s War of Independence. Mark Rutte says the government takes responsibility for the war crimes committed in the former colony. Al Jazeera’s @Victoria Gatenby reports. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #AlJazeeraEnglish #Netherlands #Indonesia
France and its allies in a European force have announced they will begin withdrawing troops from Mali after nearly 10 years fighting an armed unrest. A statement signed by France and its African and European allies and published on Thursday said that “multiple obstructions” by the ruling military government meant that the conditions were no longer in place to operate in Mali. The decision applies to both France’s Barkhane force in the Sahel and the Takuba European force that Paris had been trying to forge along with its allies. Al Jazeera’s Assed Baig reports from Daka, Senegal. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – […]
Landslides and flash floods have killed dozens of people in Brazil. This is the scene of the disaster in the Petropolis region just north of Rio de Janeiro, where the search for survivors continues. The area north of Rio de Janeiro was hardest hit – and the death toll is expected to rise. Al Jazeera’s Katia Lopez-Hodoyan reports. – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/ – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera/ – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #Brazil
Argentina is grappling with stubbornly high annual inflation, now running at 50 percent. Some analysts are forecasting it will climb even more this year, despite promises by the government to rein prices in. Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo reports from Buenos Aires on how people are trying to adapt. – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/ – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera/ – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #Argentina
Soaring inflation is hitting living standards across the developed world. And it is largely being driven by a rise in energy prices. In Greece, electricity prices alone trebled last year, and the government is spending more than $2bn subsidising energy costs for households, businesses and farmers. But some people still have to choose between eating and paying their power bills. Greek incomes were battered by an eight-year depression following the 2008 global financial crisis and they still have not recovered. Al Jazeera’s John Psaropoulos reports from Athens. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ […]
Police in Honduras have detained former President Juan Orlando Hernandez, after a judge ordered his arrest amid an extradition request from the United States on accusations of drug trafficking. An arrest warrant for Hernandez “has been issued”, court spokesman Melvin Duarte told reporters on Tuesday afternoon, as the ex-president’s home in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, was surrounded by hundreds of police pending a decision on the US bid. Al Jazeera’s Manuel Rapalo reports. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #Honduras #JuanOrlandoHernandez #JOH
The United States has asked Honduras to arrest and hand over its former president. Juan Orlando Hernandez has been accused in a federal court in New York of receiving money from drug cartels. Hernandez’s legal team has said it will take its direction from the Supreme Court of Honduras, not from foreign countries. Al Jazeera’s Katia Lopez Hoda-Yan has more. #Honduras #US
Some troops in Russia’s military districts adjacent to Ukraine are returning to their bases after completing drills, Russia’s defence ministry was quoted as saying, a move that could de-escalate frictions between Moscow and the West. Russia’s Interfax news agency cited the ministry as saying that while large-scale drills across the country continued, some units of the Southern and Western military districts have completed their exercises and started returning to base. Al Jazeera has reporters standing by in Moscow and Belarus to cover the story: we are joined by Dorsa Jabbari in Moscow and Step Vaessen is in western Belarus for the latest updates. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – […]
