from syria maritime parts of the country internationally yes the un security council they went with the ukrainian agenda for the meeting rather than the russian agenda there was condemnation of russia's activity except for that will be a boost for petro poroshenko but there was also comments from the united states that. crane had a role to play in reducing tensions and i think you know ukrainians looking acts what's coming out of the white house at the moment will certainly get the impression that donald trump isn't really that interested in this whole affair he hasn't commented much on it when he spoke yesterday he said we don't like what's happening either way we don't like what's happening i hope it will get straightened out so not much commitment there from the u.s. presidents and is this a reminder laurie that tensions between these two countries never really go away. well i mean these were brotherly nations until two thousand and fourteen supposedly

then of course we have the my down revolution the annexation of crimea the war in donbass and that put in place this vast fracture between russia and ukraine which you know they've had their issues before but never to this extent so you know since then it has been very sour indeed and you know these are now seemingly strategic foes and particularly when it comes down to crimea and the curt straits which russia now says are effectively a russian maritime border that means that ukraine has to request permission from the russian coastguard from the f.s.b. to use the straits to access the sea of as of from the black sea now by treaty signed in two thousand and three ratified the year later between russia

and ukraine the as of sea is a shared body of water so ukraine has the right to use it but since the annexation of crimea russia has said the straits are our maritime border and to get into the hours of sea ukraine has to request permission i don't stop of this the fact that we've got these russian so ukrainian sailors which are now in russian custody along with the three boats and russia has you know numerous points of pressure that it can use to apply against ukraine at the moment rory thanks very much. the us president's former campaign chief pullman a ford has been accused of breaching a plea bargain with federal prosecutors special counsel robert muller's investigation into suspected russian meddling in the twenty six thousand election says manifold lied to f.b.i. offices he'd expected to receive a lighter punishment for cooperating with the investigation when

a fourth faces at least a decade in prison on ten charges ranging from financial fraud to conspiracy to obstruct justice. still to come here on al-jazeera after facing tear gas and resistance central american asylum seekers rethink their quest to reach the united states. under a chance to a tiny p.c.'s over the moon for one million dollars. nice pink skies by the time my heart. or is the sun sets in the city of angels. there's still no letup in the stormy weather across central parts of europe lots of cloud lots of violent storms around blowing away i mean had the auto nato recoded in southern italy the stormy weather will ease a little further east which is bigger through the the next few days and see how the

cloud is making its way from central pass over towards the eastern side of the med it's right about lines of low pressure evers of low pressure just ganging up here further heavy downpours further gusty winds and also some stormy weather then the onset of weather then several conditions will continue to drive their way through albania greece boss of turkey up towards the black sea snow still there on the leading edge minus four in moscow just minus one left for he has the moderate over towards the west but again it's looking a little lively here as well so some rather windy weather coming in across that western side of a europe as you go on through the next couple of days said the british isles holland and the u.k. saying it's a very wet and windy weather as we go on into the middle part of the way but look at the temperatures fourteen celsius in london very much on the mild side here it is double figures there into ankara as well as we go on through wednesday still some snow into the southeast and kona wet a mild threatens. the weather sponsored by cattle and race.

over one hundred years ago britain and france made a secret deal to divide the middle east between them now we can draw in the second episode we explore the lasting effects of this agreement if there is a original set to six because it's at those borders were drawn without consulting the people who have to live with the. psychs people lines in the sand on on just the. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera live from doha these are the headlines so

far saudi arabia's crown prince is facing legal challenges unprocessed as he continues his first tour abroad since the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi activist in sion is you are asking the courts to stop him from visiting human rights watch wants him investigated over the death of jamal khashoggi and the war in yemen to. the ukrainian parliament has approved thirty days of martial law in response to russia opening fire on its navy the military will take over daily functions as a weapon state in ten regions which are on the coast or border russia. the u.s. president's former campaign chief has been accused of breaching a plea bargain with federal prosecutors the investigation into suspected russian meddling in the twenty sixth elections says paul manifold lied to the f.b.i. . some central american asylum seekers have decided to return home after facing tear gas and wire on the u.s. border while the number of giving up on their dreams others are just arriving further stretching resources at makeshift camps john holeman has that story now

from the border. after protests on sunday that breached the u.s. border fence almost one hundred central americans with the pool to it from mexico but the disturbances also spoke to russia others in the caravan who decided to go to their own accord government trucks with those who had enough alex was among those waiting for the next ride home. if we jumped the war they sailed the kick us out they don't want us here things get dangerous after everything that happened yesterday so it's decided to go home but. for many sundays tear gas and police lines were reality check they know now just how hard it's going to be to get across and how much this u.s. administration wants to stop the few are equipped to wait for that loot change winter's coming but most have tents at best in this makeshift camp in. the cemetery conditions of rudimentary worsening local authorities worried about the threat of

disease. when we offered this temporary shelter it was kind of three thousand five hundred people maximum and now we have more than five and a half thousand people and obviously deaths generating a risk of in fiction we could have problems with sickness and also security. they can't wait for the caravan to go along with many others who want this time to sit through a border crossing point is the busiest in the western hemisphere but the u.s. authorities have already shut it down a couple of times since the caravan arrived and locals worry that if i keep happening it's going to really hit the economy head. but even if some members of the caravan leave to others it just. getting here the new arrivals have to sleep outside on the pavement the camps now completely full but you know it was cold and really uncomfortable for the children especially with the g. get wet in the morning it's enough to make anyone give up but many of these people

are fleeing from poverty or violence they still aren't ready to go back to one home and how does it or. a british economic a ph d. academic jailed for spying in the united arab emirates this thing to the u.k. government for getting him home safely matthew hedges landed in london on tuesday after flying in from dubai he was sentenced to life in prison last week but was pardoned by the u.a.e. on monday. the future of afghanistan will be debated over the next two days at an international conference in geneva led by the afghan president. the u.n. the u.s. and international partners will discuss how they can help bring stability to the country as peace talks with the taliban move forward it's all about us. as president ashraf ghani and chief executive of dealer abdullah deposit kabul for geneva they lift behind this violent protests across the west of the city over the wrist of a local shia commander the disparate to prove they are in control and in geneva

they will lay down what they have achieved with international money what afghanistan has to show the billions spent on security and i have a seventeen year is the sad news is that the afghan government will not have a stellar achievement the prison to do that and that's the thing we did on wednesday to engage in afghanistan i'm sure that could be a very difficult time for the afghan government to show a tangible outcome for the law for the past two years. while not tangible there is optimism around the prospect of peace talks between the taliban and the us became public six months ago and have gained momentum in recent weeks of. foreign troops in your country what will be your demand of course going to be to go out and you. live in a free country that's starting to manage to need to go on a u.s. special envoy to afghanistan was announced in september to broker

a deal. that met with all parties earlier this month were in very strong negotiations in afghanistan right now which a lot of people don't know about this may be the first but we are in very very strong negotiation in afghanistan we'll see what happens if something happens that would be a great thing. president danny has largely been sidelined the taliban says they will only talk with the government after reaching an agreement with the us. i warm up in afghanistan how come the holiday get all the afghans even militant groups are tired of fighting it is clear that these gatherings are pushing towards peace all afghans are supportive of this conference it will be better for the future of one side and i hope so it would be better for the peace starts with taliban is. far away from the streets of kabul in geneva they will take stock of this reality they will debate how to give afghans a better life they will talk about peace and solidarity accountability and

commitment woods that meanness will hear that they carry on aware it's a moment to miss them charlotte dallas. stay with us doing that in barber joins us live from a conference in geneva are they going to taking be taking any real decisions there over the coming two days. well peter they'll be lots of ground announcements you are hearing from charlotte there a moment of optimism for many people in afghanistan no doubt the afghan government represented here will be talking optimistically about what they've achieved in recent years this is not a donor conference although later on tuesday the european union is expected to announce new financing worth more than five hundred million dollars to afghanistan it's a chance for afghanistan to tell the international community which has put in so much money tens of billions of dollars over the last eighteen years or seventeen years a chance for them to say where they are in terms of their pledges in terms of things

like reforming the security system in terms of elections they can say yes we had elections in october in terms of trying to boost the economy so these are these are all things that the afghan government are going to to announce some progress on for perhaps sixty percent in their words of their international pledges but of course the background to this is we were seeing was the continuing violence around the country and notable in their absence here are the taliban they've been telling reporters in the last day or so that they want to see from this conference a message to the united states that they need to get their troops out of the country faith that's been their message all along and of course it's only the u.s. talking to the taliban not the taliban and the afghan government so the background about perhaps still very very challenging peter beyond ministers beyond you know officials who are meant to be there because they're involved with the government of

the voices of afghans being heard there as well. they are i mean we've seen lots and lots of young afghans already in geneva in the last few hours lots of people who've hoover traveled here there are of course high level delegates this morning the first lady of afghanistan is talking at her side event one of many side events today on a professional training for women the president himself ashraf ghani is talking in the next few hours at a side event on the private sector getting businesses going and also the chief executive of the country is going to be talking in the next few hours but there are lots and lots of side events involving n.g.o.s charities and aid workers talking about things like women's rights and also food security there's a session called food security and livelihoods in times of drought for that read climate change reportedly the words climate change were left out at the request of

the u.s. but that has hit many people millions of people in afghanistan this year through drought leaving them facing facing famine or facing food insecurity these are all things that matter greatly to the population not in geneva and i didn't get to talk to thanks very much the leader of the former fart rebels in colombia is promising the group will never take up arms again roderigo along danio spoke at an event to mark two years since funk signed a peace deal with the government to end more than fifty years of conflict and as ations become a political party however long as the peace process has been slow because some former fighters have been killed and hundreds are still in jail. three tiny rock from the moon are going up for auction this week it's estimated they could sell for more than a million dollars the stones were retrieved by a soviet space mission in one nine hundred seventy this is the second time these lunar samples are going on to the market the on a bought them in one nine hundred ninety three for more than four hundred thousand

dollars. what's so exciting about these is they are the only documented lunar samples they can legally beyond by a private person the samples collected by the americans all belong to the united states they have gifted rocks to governments but never to an individual so we have a lot of interest from around the world and in all age brackets for this type of sale and moon rocks in particular have their own mythology associated with them well the first of a spacecraft designed to study the in the depths of the planet mars has successfully touched down on the red planet scientists are hoping insight will help shed light on how the planet was formed billions of years ago. in fact should now be experiencing the peak heating rate after ten years of dreaming and designing and testing. my heart was basically i think to stop beating for seven minutes i don't know if that's healthy or not but. but then when we got the indication of parachute

deployment which was absolutely terrifying thing to think about we got that positive and then listening to christine still a call out as we got closer and closer to the surface every time she made a call out you know the hairs on the back of my neck would start rising a little bit higher a little bit higher touchdown for the mars insight lander a monday as suggested by the santa mation touchdown compared to. that insight first photo from its new home the elysium planet sierra using a two meter robotic arm a seismometer and other instruments in sight will dig a hole five meters deep so it can record so-called mars quakes and calculate just how hot the red planet's inner layers get they want to understand why mars which once may have been habitable by life is no longer wonderful nasa scientists say this data will help them understand more about mars origins and perhaps about the

earth as well and boost u.s. efforts to get humans on mars by the twenty thirty s when we can actually begin to estimate you know which ones might be happy to pull and which ones maybe not habitable based on some of the geophysical understanding that will get just by looking at mars. this to see. if sending insight to mars was the hard part one nasa scientist says it's only going to get harder but that first photo will be a big help everyone gathered around the very front and was immediately deciding where to replace instruments and this is a great indication we were all certain that that first image would help us determine how difficult of a job we would have in placing the instruments and i'm very happy that it looks like we'll be able to add to it quite easily we hope the payoff is already coming in a second photo taken by. one of two many communication satellites that flew within sight. this and the prospect of future discoveries have these scientists celebrate

before they get back to work. al jazeera washington. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories saudi arabia's crown prince is facing legal challenges and protests as he continues his first tour abroad since the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi human rights watch has filed a legal complaint in argentina while activist and asking the courts to stop him from entering the country meanwhile u.s. media are reporting that donald trump's son in law pushed department of defense officials to inflate the value of arms deals with saudi arabia to boost their perceived importance a.b.c. news says jarrett successfully had a fifteen billion dollars deal recategorized as being worth one hundred ten billion dollars after a presidential visit to riyadh in may of twenty seventeen that order has not yet been fulfilled the ukrainian parliament has approved thirty days of martial law in

response to russia opening fire on its navy the military will take over daily functions from weapons stay in ten regions which border russia or are on the coast . russian's foreign minister says ukraine violated international law by sending its naval vessels through the strait without permission he says the crisis is a move by president petro poroshenko to shore up his declining popularity and bring more sanctions against moscow and now you have the it may be that while ukraine was planning the provocation and no one has any doubt this was done with the goodwill and probably a direct order from the highest leaderships they were counting on additional benefits they wanted to get out of this situation first of all they were counting on the fact that the u.s. and europe as many ways will recklessly take the side of the provocative words the u.s. president's former campaign chief has been accused of breaching a plea bargain with federal prosecutors the investigation into alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen election says poor men afford lied to the f.b.i. and now he had expected to receive

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online. stream or join our you tube chop. in the director of the american. university of colorado new york. indigenous representation in mainstream popular culture usually relegated to subplots mistakes or shamans making a brief appearance to impart some wisdom indigenous community is often used to represent backwardness and complex histories a rich culture and romanticize but have a look in at studio we have black stories and characters for indigenous and first nation communities all conceived and brought to us by indigenous artists and storytellers make all superhero stories and more are now being written by and for indigenous communities not tone down not furthering stereotypes they are instead building representation have a look at aragon star

a kickapoo singer and writer and creator of the super indian comic series this is what you have to say. the reason i created super indian was because i was tired of seeing negative stereotypes about native americans in mainstream comics i wanted to create a character that had native american authenticity and also you know within the artwork and also within the rating as for the future of our indigenous superheroes i predict that there are going to be way more than there are now they're going to be more complex mar shades of grey they'll have access to a lot of high tech they'll be futurism so it's going to be great stick around you're going to want to see what we do. our again stuff if i have a day some time off you can come see thank you for that great start to rush oh there's so much to talk about joining us from albuquerque new mexico we have lee francis he's the c.e.o. publisher of native reality he also founded the indigenous comic called that's how

the new mexico in the united states in silverdale washington state jeffrey very edgy is a native american comic artist and designer and in winnipeg canada sonja ballantine is a writer and filmmaker welcome to the stream all of you so i love this what does that . get so yeah that is the wrong way to start with conversation doing it right back to you so when it comes to comic influences our community has a lot to say and we asked them which character stand out for them erin in there's a gateway from the x.-men series and for our audience that isn't familiar with gateway this is him from the marble fandom universe he's an indigenous australian and this is a closer look at gateway li is this character stand out for you when it comes to a good indigenous superhero. i think there's

a bunch of things that i've seen where that where i really appreciate the ways in which. you know a lot of stuff that came out of marvel and folks because we weren't writing or drawing this stuff but. you know i think even to my you know my business relations there's still some trophy mystery around the character you know the idea of of you know sort of that aboriginal you know that the things that we've seen throughout their history being used to sort of power base i think it's a double edged sword and i think that that's you know what we've really been trying to just be keen about placing really intentional about in in our representations not only through what we publish but also when we're trying to. you know copper everybody like we actually it's that these positions. so now i want to show you a cow it took from your childhood it's the green power ranger i have him here on my laptop when i show you well the green power ranger how on earth is he connected talk conversation that we're having right now tell us well what i found out

recently that. tommy oliver was supposed to be worse is an indigenous character and i i didn't know that when i was a child i no i don't either. i know if i knew that as a kid because i was like he was the most popular ranger and still is one of the most popular power injures and i'm like he was in a bit like that so who looked. like i think that's one of my one of my clever introduces bait is. secretly native when i have a credit talk about how i consider spock from star trek a native person ok yeah and it's really interesting to me to have that aspect this because like who else could deal with being both vulcan and human being and having so i was like of course he will never found out what his mom was what background is so mike ok she's great i decided it i always like i'm like you i've always

associated spark just being because my my father's non-native and my mom's do so coming from two worlds you are. yeah. that's a great compliment. but yeah i feel the same way i've always felt like spock was a kindred spirit yeah that's one of the big things for me with spock is that he's both feeling with not being balkan and not them not being human enough and i've always felt that one aspect of native the native experience not being native enough because you can't speak your own language but not being white enough because you're so different everybody else so it's like i don't know anderson why there aren't more nicci people like native people into star trek like i felt like the only one for a long time when i was a kid. but why not us the two. like i did i felt that way with like you know my dad was just like a super cycle i think and and so it was i think it was this wonderful precedent

that was set in our also dislike being native nurture being native tear was not something that was foreign to me and especially like reading comics my dad was a huge reader so didn't matter if you know i was going out reading comics he was like you know you got something you're going to read and it's awesome you know i mean this stuff it was like cool there's now i like over the past couple years like a look at all these native nerds will be there around right now. or i met currently reading an article about. visiting cons and the most of the con in my city did not have very many native people going to let until very recently and it's and felt like that again when i was a little kid being the only star trek nerd in northern manitoba itself like oh my god like i'm the only one wire there anymore but just like and so it's very cool to see that it's becoming more acceptable to be a nerd because where some of the nerdiest people in the world so i don't know why i had this well i would have it out is that all right guys let's let's let's get some

juice out of here what makes an indigenous superhero fantasy what are the ingredients that you need to have to make them native fascination indigenous. well our one of the first ones i think is like a lot of a lot of superheroes in general suffer loss and that always made such a big impact on me because i'm like well why. as indigenous people we have suffered so much loss and asked so why aren't we indigenous why aren't we superheroes yet like asking for a man who has lost this planet wonder woman lost her home because she had to leave it's quite a man lost his family and it's like why i like this is still it's so easily transferred to us so i don't understand why we aren't heroes yet in that universe. so i don't know what you're saying there sonja about what you see a superhero having in their background but unfortunately our audience says too

often they look like this this is a lean on twitter saying often they're limiting depictions of natives to old mystical indian or noble savage stereotypes and that's incredibly harmful and leads people to believe that we're stuck in the past and capable of adapting to modern times and alina goes on to say there are certain spiritual and ceremonial aspects that are also seen as a private thing and many native cultures so they can't be accurately depicted in comics which leads to bad and or append indian depictions of spirituality even when this is a part of the characters and background so jeffrey i wonder if you can pick up on that the hard characterization and i think lee touched on that a little bit earlier when he talks about it's a double edged sword we have some fantastic things fantastic symbolism fantastic spirituality in our culture when it's misrepresented the way it has been it becomes either a really bad cliche or a bad negative stereotype so when you have a native creator coming in there and he's in fusing his or her culture into his

characters people might see that is oh that's just adding the stereotype with the reality is you know this is how it's properly done jeffrey. you know i was. it's going to add to i think that partly it's it's about the lived experience when it's a non-native writer what they're looking at is the binge fringe bettors and and food right so they're going to add the tropes because it looks cool and i like cool characters i think they're really i mean you know there's there's really amazing things that can come out of that from the imagination but when i write and i write characters in the people that we try to engage each. oh yeah. i hear what you're saying. to me today so i'm just going to jump over to something for a moment because you talk about creating characters so new this is exactly what you've been doing have a look here this is kerry barry lynn it's

a children's book. they want how does that fit into what we're talking about right now because you're creating characters that work for other people like you and youngsters growing up right now i think a lot of my work is autobiography autobiographical in terms of. write and i write with the plan of what did i want to see when i was a little kid and so i write with that intention always and sometimes it. i'm really surprised by how non-stereotypical things could come out for me or sometimes so your typical things could come about and so like i'm creating a superhero right now called thunderbird who was in my first film and there's a whole section where they create her costume and the entity that is her coffee decides that it likes a mole so it makes her costume look like a. design and there's a whole scene where maggie who is the thunderbird she says like what i'm creating i

can't have a height across the land like her or her sentience symbol symbiont cos there was like no no it's fine well we'll deal with this later and i'm like oh crap so it's like coming up with stuff that got me angry q as a kid like well i hated seeing fathers i hated being seen as lake shy and or apache when i am a creep person so it's like i really want to eliminate that pan indian idea sure jeffrey you are people who know some of your stories and know some of your art how do you approach knowing that you come with you come to the table with some real integrity and then what do you do with your art. you walk gingerly and boldly at the same time. i want people to see that the native voice is behind and but i also want to see the characters he said their characters just as much as they're mine they're part of our pop culture history and so that recognition is there.