al jazeera, we're bringing the needs and current to fast cut meta t counties era. ah, a told to me tension spiraling over ukraine, u. s. and russian officials but you to meet in the coming out. ah, i'm wrong on this out. is there a life and death also coming up? this is a horrific rip. big, painful moment. at least 19 people including 9 children have died in new york after a fire broke out in an apartment building. and will he play the australian open at

melbourne? caught his tennis start, novak jock, which is appeal against deportation, and no red carpet, no stalls. and no audience. golden globes announces this is when is on social media . i'm will tell you why a senior us and russian officials will meet in geneva in the coming out in the 1st leg of high stakes talks in 3 european cities. the diplomats met an informal dinner before discussions began relations between the 2 countries or at the lowest since the cold war ended 3 decades ago. president joe biden and vladimir putin exchange warnings over the crisis in ukraine and a phone call. last month. we're going to listen to their concerns. they'll listen to our concerns and we'll see if there grounds for progress,

but to make actual progress. it's very hard to see that happening when there's an ongoing escalation. when russia has a gun to the head of ukraine, with a 100000 troops near its borders, the possibility of doubling that on very short order. so if we're seeing aah, de escalation, if we're seeing a reduction tensions that is the kind of environment in which we could make real progress and again, address concerns, reasonable concerns on both sides. i'm use them both not got the same unique of it's the americans should get ready to reach a compromise. the russian side came here with a clear position containing a number of elements that to my mind are understandable and had been so clearly formulated, including at a high level that deviating from out approach is simply not possible. at the tone, protested marsden, ukraine's capital. here there's growing alarm over rushes. deployments of troops to the border and speculation of a president. putin's next move, they also voice. the anger against moscow. support to the catholic government in

crushing massive protests demonstrates is appealed for strong support. from the u. s. and of the allies. even the world leaders will not be exact and drawn in their response to a russian aggression and the army on the border. even threatened our lives and our dream. she have retinas, he has moved from washington. the russian, deputy foreign minister said that the prisoners per preliminary talks is very wide ranging talks that they had over dinner were complex. but this is like the ad is that this is reported in the russian, russian media, se my translation. i mean, you know, i'm not entirely sure, but it says he does the russian stuff. the foreman said, he doesn't like think they will be a waste of time in vain. hopefully a waste of time in vain or something better about in translation. so that's quite interesting. and actually blinking, despite that sort of rhetoric that we hear from him all the time. and, you know, saying that the survey costs are russia and so on. he did give some sort of

understanding of a parameters of the talk. so least aware. initially the u. s. seems to sound because they have said that we have these russian red lines, get us miss 1000. and i was out of the area around the russian borders and reduce the military footprint of nature close to in, in eastern europe. now the us is that it is willing to talk about future deployments of itself, and it has been talking about liberating nature, military side of the valley. i'm thinking was quite relatively specific about what do you mean by that? in some of the interviews you're giving on sunday, so he was talking about reviving the intermediate nuclear forces tree. so this is the treaty, the bound, the deployment in europe, or in russia of medium range nuclear missiles. and that was scrapped on the trump. and so when he was talking about revising that treaty, and he's also talking about revising an agreement on the deployment of conventional forces in europe to keep military exercises from, from,

from russia's border. so that's some, some leeway there. the interest in kazakhstan is also expected to be on the table a during the talks, the u. s. is question, the presence of russian peacekeeping troops helping the government to quell a massive protest, more than 5000 people have been detained since the unrest began. robin forest walker has more money. this is the narrative on cassock state television, around the clock operation to catch or kill up the $20000.00 so called terrorists, responsible for the recent unrest with seizures of weapons and hard liquor, regretfully, peaceful demonstrations in almighty in some other regions were hi jag, by perpetrators and boss, local and external terrorist groups, speaking foreign languages there which slow new. so missiles, willingness to back those claims, state media, broadcast of foreign nationals, public confession. he says he's unemployed and from kyrgyzstan who accepted from

unknown persons. the equivalent of $200.00 and a plane ticket to fly to l. marty and take part in the violence. but it's fiction. the man is victrum rosa horn of a celebrated jazz pianist with $27000.00 fans on instagram. ah, finally governor. we are expressing our outraged at the cataract special services in government are manipulating the cast people and showing key gets people as enemies with to know if this really bad them to say we're shocked about didn't that we graham is well known will work. what about the people who are not so well known, officially, more than 5000 people have been detained. to worry that could be torture used

against them, but also they should be immediately given access to lawyers. relatives should be able to visit them. they should be able to more well they are who is in detention where this is vital because it's fun to have some sort of shred. i'm at here words with this human rights commitments. friends with the kids. so 30 say they're working to get the chrome released. they say he traveled to l. matty with his mother for music performance. oh, there may well be evidence. criminal groups were involved in the violence. the casual thirties appear to have chosen the wrong man to build that case from in the 1st year walker. ouch is 0. neos fire commission has a blaze that killed 19 people, including children, was caused by a faulty electric heater. dozens were taken to hospital after a fire spread through a high rise building in the bronx, but barrow, sorry, barbara, and go reports. oh, my god,

this michael j's if live in this affordable housing block for 6 years, it took him 35 minutes to escape the fire as the smell, cuz i think i've never seen it like this. i don't know what causes their fire tag broken up like this is maybe try to get 9. children died in the fire, and many families have lost everything. the new york marys preparing to support a community in grief. many of these young children went to schools. we will have a social and emotional support at their schools to help the classmate are we here as well with the red cross. and oh yeah. am. i was going to coordinate together to get housing. and also some of the emergency needs, ah, most of the people who lived in the town block when muslim and some of them and moved here from gambia. they're being asked not to fear asking for help, even if they don't have the correct immigration status. know that if you need

assistance, oh you, your name would not be turned over to eyes or any other institution or we want people to be comfortable and come in for it. oh, got a medium compensation fund is being prepared for those affected by the fire, but this cause may take longer to heal barbara anger. pat al, jazeera and strokes hymir law believe to be carried out by the military or ongoing the target of the attacks in the capital of kaya state like high, is unclear the air strikes resumed on friday, and they've displaced thousands of people in that region. tony chang's been following the story from bangkok attorney. what more do we know about these asteroids? what we heard, they continued over the weekend that attack helicopters, jet fighters and heavy artillery were employed. we know that on

a friday for civilian casualties. faith fe, talent is lead, were reported, we don't know any updated figures from the fighting that's happened over the weekend. but so according to current sources, at more than 30000 people have been displaced from the area because of the recent fighting. and it seems very consistent with what we've seen in the last couple of weeks. further down in karen controlled areas where the military jointer has clashed violently with the ethnic arm groups fighting in these areas. it also happened as cambodian prime minister hansen was up in the capital nippy door. speaking to me and marcia general's it was a very controversial trip. he said he needed to go to speak to the generals about implementing peace plans. he was told there by the generals, that there was a ceasefire in place, which was going to continue through till february, with the level of fighting we've seen. and the type of arms being used, particularly those are airborne,

a jet fighters and fight her attack. helicopters seems very clear that sir, what he was hearing was just hotter, not only a caught him ye on mars, delivering verdicts and to delayed cases against the ang santa issue g. r. what we expect there? well that case is still ongoing, but it includes one of the most controversial charges against her that she illegally imported a number of walkie talkies and these are walkie talkies that were being used in her security detail which was provided by mere mas home or ministry that the soldiers of whom work under the control of the armies. it's quite a ridiculous charge. none the less, like many of the charges that have been brought against her, it's expected that she will be found guilty again with this. these charges there could be decades of jail sentences involved the last time she was charged over a month ago. we saw her detain for 3 years. it's lightly that will be

a similar kind of sentence. but she still facing more charges on top of this, and i think the intention here is for the military just to keep her out of the spotlight. she's been given the opportunity to stand against them in election. she's won every single time the last time in 2019 and a massive landslide. that was of course, what caused the military coup in 2020 as the one year anniversary of that crew rolls around. it's very unlikely that she's going to get any sense of leniency from a judiciary. the very much controlled by the military. tony checking their reports for us live from bangkok, cilla head on out 0. the africa cup of nations football tournament gets underway in cameroon. overshadowed by concerns about coven 19 ah! look forward to brighter skies. the weather sponsored my cattle airways.

the seasonal shamal wind that's been going down the gulf has stopped blowing. the forecast monday is really a quiet one. temperature recovery little bit in for example. but it's changed because the source region that wind is no longer driving it. it's now going to likely rain iraq northern saturday because those possible, the higher ground thunderstorms around other medina or mecca. and this whole system kills around is it source is in the central eastern mediterranean. the place is going to get batted by strong winds and heavy rain cypress sudden turkey, lebanon power. the serial will be snow in land, and this circulation is at its worst just west. so this behind, if you like the onshore breezes affecting libya, bengal you get really nasty, wasn't a circulation, slow to move. snow will fall in southern turkey at height. rain, of course, down on the coast coast tends to bring it away from an event. pretty nasty weather,

all the same, big picture. that's where it all it was quite quite the shower diet, raving peninsula throughout iran and pakistan. the weather has quietened down, as you can see. whereas in southern africa, the temperatures rise. so to the clouds, there are widespread thunderstorms in southern africa. oh, the weather sponsored by casara, always. the listening post cuts through the noise like full peanut competing. now they seeing monday schools being used to perpetuate there's competes, imperative, separating, spin from fact, all 3 versions of the story and some element of the truth. but the full story remains and contain unpacking the stories you're being told. it's not a science story at all. it's a story about politics, the listening post, your guide to the media on a jesse hero. ah,

ah, the orgy out is there a reminder of all top stories? senior us and russian officials the said to meet in geneva to discuss russia troop or build up on the border with ukraine. washington has threatened sanctions if moscow invades its neighbour. russia says peacekeeping troops deployed to quote unrest and cause exxon will stay until the situation stabilizes completely. authorities that have arrested thousands for taking part in anti government protests. and at least 19 people, including children, died after a fire told for a high rise building in new york. dozens. while we're taken to hospital off the suffering smoke, inhalation. a faulty electric heater is thought to have been behind the blaze.

a lawyers for novak jokers which have told in australian court they believe his recent recovery from coven 19 exempted him from vaccination for entry into the country. the deportation hearing was delayed off a huge surgeon, people trying to watch the live stream caused it to crush the world on one tennis player he wants to defend his australian open title was denied entry and detained when he landed in melbourne last week. sir catherine, following the case from brisbin, australia, sarah the comeback. but the arguments that are being put forward by both parties. a still unvil as so ongoing. right. it's underway at the moment. it's just a resumed after an hour or so at lunch break at that lunch break was delight because as it delight, as you mentioned, are there been a number of technical glitches? tens of thousands of people have hit this link this morning to listen to this case

. and of course that particular site i crashed in and the link i was up and it was, it was down again within the next half an hour. so as a result, we had a 45 minute delay out to the start of his hearing. and this morning on monday, and we had jock of itches, lawyers put together their case, they're lying at the arguments that he met all the criteria for temporary exemption . nicholas wood is their legal council. he stating that any conclusion, the joke of each breached the determination, is simply incorrect. and now they've also presented evidence showing correspondence that was received on january the 1st from the home of phase department, stating that he had met the requirements for quarantine at free arrival into australia so that they have a keys to the stride and government in their case this morning in the federal court in melbourne, the accused the government of having a lack of evidence to cancel his visa a chris tron who's representing the state and federal government in the home affairs department. he is just about to start or resume his case in the court this afternoon or monday, the defense this it is saying that to the

e mail that was see some high masses. it didn't to wasn't an assurance that jock of it could enter australia and at the end of the day it's the home affairs minister. it's her cool. and i had the cancellation policy to revoke that visa. so the casey's ongoing, we've had, they joked, vicious ties this morning and our chris trane is presenting the government's case on monday afternoon. no, sir, i'm no gambling man. uh, we're not gonna even try and predict where this is going to go up. but what happens if his appeal does actually fail? we'll certainly it's a, it's a saga that has a lot of confusion surrounding it with regards to what options or the outcomes could come out of this federal court hearing the appeal or by jock of it. or if he does when his case, he should be able to play in the tournament this dry and open, which starts next week. if he loses the suggestion or the government says he must leave australia. this is what they pushing for the immediate deportation. and the

revocation of his visa, the 3rd scenario could be that the case is drawn out and a joke of which has given special permission to play in the australian i. but while the case has been reviewed, and the final option, which is also could be on the cards and again, i'm not a bidding betting woman, but to this case it if it is drawn out, jock of it, could be sent out of australia if the case is taking a long time. so as i mentioned earlier, a christian who's presenting the governments case. he's on this afternoon and we're yet to see whether or not we'll get a decision from judge kelly or in the federal court in melbourne. florida. okay, bring us up to date. sarah clark, the in brisbane, australia now after 22 years at the helm, venezuela socialist party is conceded defeat and a rerun of the election for bona state governor. you aspect opposition? candidates. sergio greta will take over the position candidate. jorge elisa acknowledged the vote in a tweet saying his party didn't meet his objective. now barnett has been ruled by the family of the late president hugo chavez since 1998 sundays re run as

a result of embers disputed poles. and after 3 months of political unrest, iraq's newly elected parliament has held its 1st session. married al hall. lucy was re elected. the speaker for the day was marked with tension and scuffles. my mood of the law had as more from baghdad. the 1st session of iraq's newly elected parliament began with the ceremony, but quickly turned it angry. its 1st job was picking a speaker. her mother had to competing. she r blocks, the sadness to movement. and an iranian bagged coalition. each claimed to have a parliamentary majority. at one point, the debate became so heated that this simple is temporary leader. memorial much had annie, had to leave the chamber to seek medical attention. eventually the former speaker mohammed al hel bossy was re elected along with deputy speakers from the

southernmost movement and the kurdistan democratic party. but the day's events showed that little has changed since last october's elections. for we are the hold adequacy of the way political blocks and the parliament with an old rivalries. and ideologies and practices in mind indicates a lack of harmony and reflects a hostile message conveyed across under iraq's post saddam hussein constitution. the parliament now has 30 days to elect the country's new president who will then ask the assemblies largest to block to form a government. the speaker says he wants to do all this in just to have that time. but choosing a prime minister, it will be difficult because she, i cleric moved to the solder. and the iranians bagged parties have such different agendas and sundays drama points toward an even more difficult time when it comes to picking a cabinet. theater will not committed to hardy. the losing parties are expected to

take legal actions at the supreme court. again shot and deprived the supporters to the threats that but that will not change anything. what does it? iraqis have waited for long to see the new house of representatives in session, but some feel that real change may once again be derailed by cic. terry and differences, some iraq is it see the newly elected parliament as a chance to ent corruption and begin a new era. but in a landscape market by uncertainty and political rivalry, it is not clear whether this new legislature is able or willing to address those concerns with abdougla had algebra, but that gunman, nigeria being blamed for killing at least 200 people in the north, west. people returning to their damage. villages say the attacks were retaliation after ash strikes on the attack as high dulls materials when held in some forest

state. after hundreds, a gunman on motorbike reportedly attacked 8 villages on tuesday. that followed ash strikes on monday, which the military said to kill the 100 bandits. they words including 2 of their leaders and dozens of hostages that were rescued on tuesday after being abducted by on groups 2 months ago. your divorce in sudan if i tear gas into crowds protesting against the military rulers, one man was killed when he was struck by a tear gas canister. at least a dozen more were injured. the main pro democracy group has rejected un efforts to get students transition to civilian rule back on track. and cameron beach, bettina faso, in the opening match the football africa world cup as her get a cup of nations taking place in cameroon. the central african nation is facing attacks long groups and the spread of the crone of ours, with several plays testing positive. nicholas hack reports. ah cameroon,

indomitable line score, again, bringing victory to the national football team in the african cup of nations, opening game against bertina fossil here. hoover mullin, it's really reassuring. we're happy this proves that we live up to our name, the lion. we are really happy and emotional with this victory. while burkina faso put up a fight, some of their best players were not on the pitch put in their hotel rooms in isolation. after testing positive for coven health workers worked them up, protest on saturday night hours before the game. much to the dismay of brick enough us his team. jamika could so ball on it, but then according to the african health protocols, if i'm not mistaken, the test must be carried out for 48 hours before a match. that if we did the tests yesterday at 11 p. m class, if my calculations are correct, we will not be within the 48 hours for tomorrow's match, as you just went on a killer players from several african nations, including the favorites,

senegal have tested positive hours after the opening ceremony. it seems alma crohn is already overshadowing the event. the government spent almost a $1000000000.00 to host the african cup of nations, while fans are being tested before entering the stadiums containing the virus in a country where most are unvaccinated. and the health system is under funded will be a challenge. security is also concerned english speaking separatists were responsible for bomb blast last week in limby, where several games are expected to take place. there are also threats of attacks from book a harem in the countries north. additional forces, including the military, have been deployed to both regions. ponder some a controversy, ensure the measures that are being put in place, but you should know that of conroy or to take place under very good conditions. there are no worries. there is nothing to worry about. despite the spread of coven and the threat of attacks, of arm groups, organizers say,

issue must go on. cameroon, sees in the event an opportunity to unite camera unions and for brief, 9 minutes. forget about the worries at home and enjoy the game. nicholas hawk al jazeera hollywood, prestigious golden globe awards are being held at no audience media with celebrities. the one is being announced on social media platforms. the group behind the ceremony is being boycotted by the film industry over its lack of diversity and allegations of corruption. several major studios and stars who refused to take part and tv rights holder and b. c. canceled it's broadcast to share. now norma. well there is a senior film writer for now toronto and joins us live. no, i'm one of the key words over the last few years. a few years is the word cancelled . has the golden globes been cancelled from now? no, we covered them. if you me now magazine, my newspaper. we covered the golden globes. although we don't take them terribly

seriously. i as a member of a film critics association myself and the former vice president of the trauma from collect association is currently just a standing member. ah, the golden globes have always been kind of needy. it's. it's a big party and they throw at a great number of invitation. stay nominate as many people as they can. they find reasons to nominate as many people as they can. they classified the martian as a comedy, so it could be nominated for a bunch of things a few years back and they're just, they're just sort of. i mean, i think it's reasonable to call them a joke. they, they're just, they, there. the reason there being a reason that there are central controversy now as the people to finally notice that they're kind of ridiculous. and last year it was revealed that there are they didn't have a single black member and their diversity wasn't great. there were some really

unpleasant. i think it was email exchanges that were revealed brought to light. they've had some corruption allegations thrown at them every now and then it used to be a running joke that if you wanted to win a golden globe, you just invited the members to a junket and have lunch with them. or you give them an expensive price for senior movie. this was decades ago, but they never really shook the director of being just kind of 2nd grade or almost that the other thing they do is they don't disclose their membership. so although they claim to have improved their diversity numbers and reached out to people of color and black critics, in particular, we have no idea whether they have because they won't tell us who they're membership . but no, it would be easy to dismiss them as a joke if this was in a multi brand new banking system. but it would be easier than if it was a multi $1000000000.00 industry. and though allegations of corruption against them, i mean this is, this is what it's always like that too important to completely dismiss as

a joke. you have to kind of figure out how to change them. surely. no, there's really no point the the, the point of the organization is that they will not change. and i'm sure they've, i'm sure they've reached out to people. i do believe that. but until they're completely transparent, they'll never shake the allegations of corruption. they'll never shake the allegations of a lack of diversity and their prizes, which are really the only reason anyone pays attention to them. because decades ago, they managed to convince the media that they were the 4 runners, the predictors of the oscars and the emmys too, because they give out television awards. those are the things that people still want. i mean, nobody takes the golden globes seriously within the industry, but they still want one. and that i think is the issue if you're will smith than you want to golden globe tonight. you're probably pretty happy. and that is actually the downside because a surprising number when not a surprising number, but it's an excellent number of people of color one this year smith and mckayla rodriguez, who's the 1st trans winner of a globe,

proposed rachel ziegler and ariana dubose from west side story a young sue from squid game and the underground railroad as, as best sellers, ministers, those are all worthy projects and good performances and great work that is now going to be tarnished by its association with the golden globes and the diversity here. you know, the people who are inherently racist will be able to say, oh, those don't count because they gave them that so they wouldn't look graced the fact that it's great work that's. i think that's where the oscars come in. where other, the emmys come in, where other validation is required. the golden globes are always sort of an asterisk no milner there. thank you very much. from toronto. thanks, family ah, is out there and these are the top stories senior us and russian officials a set to meet in geneva to discuss with russia true build up on the border with ukraine to washington.