the mayor of the city, and now sidney is doing away with the curfew. that was supposed to get everybody. it's international perspective with the human types dooming way in and then pulling back out again with no breakthrough between the usaa russia during a phone conversation. president biden wars vladimir putin of severe costs if he invades ukraine. ah, pugs already watching of 0 life my headquarters here in doha, also coming up. police in canada, begin clearing a key bridge to the u. s. demonstrate as an angry about the coven, 19 vaccine mandates civil a protest, the french capital police fire tear gas to disperse crowds of people calling for an

end to crow virus restrictions. and how years of drought have brought a want submerged spanish city back to the surface? ah, what was the program you as president joe biden has spoken to? russia's president vladimir putin over the phone about moscow's military built upon ukraine's border. but the white house says it didn't result in any fundamental change the kremlin, called the discussion, businesslike and ballads, but criticized war hysteria in the west. our white house correspondent, kimberly hallett begins our coverage. according to a senior administration official, the telephone call between the us and russian president last a just over an hour. the call was apparently professional and substantive in nature, but there was apparently no change in the dynamic. in other words,

the united states reportedly put forward a number of ideas that it believe were in the best interests of the west of the alliance and addressed the key security concerns of russia. however, it is still unclear in the eyes of the united states, whether or not russia has made a decision to take the diplomatic path to resolve the security differences. or go with the use of force and war in for the united states is what they're seeing on the ground, the continued build up of military troops. and the united states saying, according to this administration official, that is the belief of the united states. if russia is to pursue that military option, that the result would be nothing short of catastrophic. now, earlier in the day on saturday, we do know that the secretary of state antony blinking, did also communicate to his counterpart that the diplomatic path remains open. that

b, there is this chance to engage in good faith discussions, but that russia needs to de escalate immediately. this is something that was underscored by the u. s. president. otherwise there would be a reaction by the west. in other words, there would be a resolute, massive united transit land tick response and the u. s. president underscoring as well to vladimir putin that this trans atlantic relationship is more aligned than ever before. jabar is falling developments from the russian capital moscow. apparently vladimir putin told us president joe biden does the information the united states has is false, and that's the hysteria that is created is at an all time high, the russian president reiterated that he does not have any interest in invading ukraine. but once some guarantees from the americans about nato's expansion, now,

the russian president also said that ad nato's expansion could lead to direct russia nato confrontation. this is that the core of the disputes that we're seeing unfolds and increase tensions. that is, that russia does not want to see nato increase its memberships and, and further expand eastwards, something that the russians say is very much a security concern for them. now, the russian president, vladimir putin also spoke with emanuel micron earlier that they had an hour and 40 minute conversation. and according to the elisa palace read out of that call, the french president did not get any indications from the russian president that a russia is looking to invade ukraine. the french president also has been speaking to the ukranian president, as well as i will be speaking to the u. s. president. later on. so a very much reassurances from vladimir putin to the world leaders that russia has

no entrusts in invading ukraine, but it's very much concerned about his own security at the moment. apparently, according to the russians, us submarine and church, the russian territorial waters and ignored the 1st sign that was sent to them to leave the area. but the submarine eventually did. now a following dies, we heard of a very rare phone conversation that took place between the russian defense minister sergey chicago, and his american counterpart part lloyd austin. where all we heard from that conversation was that they discussed mutual security measures. soon after that, the death russian defense ministry summoned the u. s. military a. here in moscow to answer some questions. and then the russian defense ministry issued a few statements saying that the united states has to be more careful to avoid these kinds of aggressive actions. and that they should understand russia will do whatever is it is in its best interest to insure its own security. that's just

expand on what dos just mentioned that russia's military says it used appropriate means to force a u. s. submarine to leave its territorial waters. the moscow claimed the u. s. vessel was chased away by a russian naval ship near the pacific curial islands. but the u. s. has rejected claims that one of its breeds, of operating in rushing waters, now ukraine's president and said warnings over a possible invasion of provoking panic. and in the capital, careful and saturday war veterans. amongst thousands, he marched in a civilian show of strength, and sasha butler has more clear message from t as to moscow at a rally with thousands of people urge ukraine government to stand up to russia. so i'm here for, for ukraine, veterans of the countries war with russian back separatist in the east. and they say they'll fight again. we are ready, we are ready why you would happen. we don't want to,

but it will happen. we are here to say about your brand new people to get together together because we are not separated over content, and we also can protect it if it needed any time. so that's why we hear some demonstrators gathered beneath the statue of cutoff chef can co 19th century poet, an artist, a symbol of ukrainian national pride. as moscow continues to build up its military hardware and forces on ukraine's border from western intelligence, official se kiev could be a target. washington says that russia could attack ukraine at any moment. the kremlin says it has no plans to invade, but some countries are taking no chances and advising their citizens to leave. the u. s. is evacuating its diplomats, a difficult situation for ukraine's president who called for com the truth that we

have different information. and now, the best friend for an image that hispanic in our country, and all this information details only for bernie doesn't help us with so much conflicting information. most people here don't know what to believe. some say they've heard it all before. others anxious, but no one wants another generation growing up with another war. latasha butler al jazeera keith lewis of ora is the erasure program fellow, the foreign policy research institute. he previously served as a chief of staff for president by during his presidential campaign join me now from washington dc. good. have you ever missed an of our on the program. the kremlin has called the discussion between the 2 presidents, businesslike and balanced, but criticize the war hysteria. the word that we've been reporting for most of the evening without seeing the intelligence. no one really knows what the u. s. is

talking about really doing i think that is incorrect during this entire crisis was precipitated by the movement of russian forces to the borders of ukraine, from 3 sides, premier eastern, your grain, and bella, luce and russia has ext crimea in the last 8 years, and they have precipitated the invasion of the don bus region of eastern ukraine. and so the irony of all this is that russia claims that its security is being threatened while every single instance thus far of tangible, military threat rig road relative to ukraine has been initiated by the russian. so what, how do you that interpret if the us continue to send troops to various nato countries to boost their numbers that does not create a sort of tensor situation that doesn't really help the overall situation?

well, let's put this in context. again. these actions have been initiated by russia, so you have a situation in which the west is being asked to stand out in the countries that are part of the nato alliance. already to give it an indication of how to what length the united states is going to in order to assure that they are not taking any initiative actions. but he was driving the $150.00 us trainers to the ukraine, an army from ukraine, in order to avoid any sort of pretence. providing any sort of pretense for the russians to claim a provocation as it relates to moving forward units to poland, the baltics, romania. this is an understandable response. given the fact that eastern european countries joined nato at the end of the ninety's and beginning of 2000 precisely because of russian aggression. we've been asking several commentators 120 over the

past few days. this question, which is about the talk of accidentally falling into a conflict. if there is a misfiring of some sort. i mean what you're reading about how close we are to that sort of position. well, here again, you know, the, the irony here is that at russia having initiated the crisis, having perpetrated the crisis by it, you know, mobilizing increasingly, mobilizing medical support for their front line troops engaging in unplanned military exercises in belarus. ah, they are the ones who are sort of creating all these provocations and then in a, in an interesting example of disinformation somehow projecting that onto the west. the claims in particular, with regards to nato. as i say, you know, the country's

a fair asking nato withdrawal from the same members of me been out for going on 20 years. so this is, this is not a situation in which russia is acting as a, a rational player. they have the clear intent here by vladimir putin used to press his claims to have a veto over ukrainian, the foreign policy number one. number 2, there is every reason to believe that if he is willing to threaten a military intervention, that he is willing to engage in overt regime change. and 3rd, yeah, that, that his biggest challenge at the moment, given the fact that the u. s. and nato have a solidified very united front in the face of his threats. how is he going to save face? and unfortunately, there variety of ways in which he could pursue. so do just briefly then i mr.

navarro find me. i mean, it seems that while relations are quite frosty pups combative between the us and russia, there were still avenues for conversations and mosque was willing to have those conversations. the german chancellor heads to moscow and kiev, this coming week. it seems that toll kids the way forward for now with other nato leaders apart from the u. s. as a popular falsity relations. sure there is an avenue in which they could pursue and that is one in regards to the mens corps. but the important thing to remember care about that proposed layout is that today russia has not fulfilled any of their a commitments under the courts even as they currently exist. and if we are going to build forward on any effort to engage in a minute, to process that, it is imperative that russia take the 1st concrete steps in order to make good on

those agreements as opposed to what they have done thus far, which is continued to occupy the down boss and a willingness to withdraw their forces. so you know, until those things are achieved at a minimum. you know, diplomacy is only going to be able to go so far or see what happens the coming days . i for the by been luis of our thanks so much for joining us from washington. d. c . thank you. still had here on al jazeera, these palestinians are being forced out of their homes because these were community wants to train on their lands, on the, the, everything from the okay, read like bank. and i'll bring you the story. ah, ah, look forward to poorly to scully's,

the with sponsored by counsel at ways. hello there. let's have a look at the weather across east asia. and we've seen scenes of snow from northern areas of japan in recent days, but it's not china's turn to get in on the wintry mix. we had snow fall in northern china at to be a limb pick hub there. the 1st snow of the season. now it continues to fall in beijing on sunday, the temperature dipping down to minus 2. but by the time we get to monday, you'll see it's scooted off across the korean peninsula, leaving behind lots of sunshine and the temperature picking up in beijing. it's going to dry up as well along the southern and eastern areas of china. by the time we get into the new week and that snow that we see iran, southern areas of japan on sunday, will clear on monday there will be some sunshine coming back in. now, even tokyo, we'll see some of that snow on monday. by the time you get to choose they, it clears out the temperature will pick up closer to the average that it will

remain rather cloudy. now as we move across to south asia, there's lots of clear and fine weather to be found, particularly in northern areas of india and pakistan was just a few showers pulling into the west. some showers as well for southern parts of india and for sri lanka that to weather update for the weather sponsored by katara always, americans are increasingly saying authoritarianism might not be so bad. there were several stuff along the way where the chain of command it's you like tried to cover what's your take on why they've gotten so raw? that means political mouth, the bottom line on us politics and policies, and the impact on the world on al jazeera, britton's beloved curry houses are in crisis to you. don is shocked at every we use a bricks. financial straw of the one. 0, one east investigates on algebra. oh,

a talk about what's going on with me to her rom. the reminder of our top story is the white house. that's a phone call between the us and russian leaders of ukraine did not result in any fundamental change. russia has been sending trips to friends, bought a face of the nation. the kremlin, said the coal with businesslike, but criticized the war hysteria in the west and ukrainian president lots of incidents. he says, warnings every possible evasion of only provoking panic war veterans. what a months down the street that a civilian show of strength. no, nathan is canadian police have begun dispersing truck has blocking traffic at a vital bridge to the u. s. demonstrate to the angry about cave at $900.00 vaccine

mandate and restrictions. when the police say the standoff has been peaceful, the 5 day blockade of the ambassador bridge has disrupted the flow of goods between canada and the us. it's also for the auto industry on both sides to roll back production independent journalist down the compared chuck says that police moved in to disperse the blockade, but many demonstrators began leaving without resistance. a lot of the protesters did leave. they got in there in their vehicles and left. now as fully slowly advanced they, there was a hard core of protesters that were still left about $100.00 and police have have sort of moved slowly in on them, placing them into a corner of the, of the area. and that is now was at a standstill. however, there is another problem and that is a growing number of protests. protestors have gathered nearby and there's a fear that they may try to get on the bridge as well. these protest began about 3 weeks ago and they came in response to the federal requirement that all long haul

truckers who bring goods back and forth across the canadian us border must be fully vaccinated. canadian truckers who weren't or who, who refused would have to go into quarantine. foreign truckers like us truckers were barred entry. that was the catalyst that started this. so what you had then was it was an organization of, of groups that then brought convoys of truckers from the east and west coast over a period of a week. 2 o 2 ottawa, they were joined by others along the way. and that's where the, the, the 1st protest started was in ottawa, economically there are, there are now shortages. the, the supply chain is being choked off. and a lot of pressure is, is coming on prime minister trudeau to, to do something about this. he said that everything is on the, on the table as far as dealing with the protesters. what he meant by that is not clear. he did, he did refer to not wanting to say more because of fears of violence. he's been in

contact with us. i mean, washington is taking notice, so he's been in contact with president biden off the u. s. has offered help, but what kind of help we don't know. there had been similar protests in paris, french police broke up a convoy vehicles that tried to block traffic in protest against pandemic restrictions. the so called freedom called voice rally against vaccine passes, which are required to add to restaurants, and many other public venues. the antique government, yellow vest movement is also involved at least $500.00 vehicles that intercepted that police check point. peter, hear me, is a professor and freelance journalist, he says, protest as are motivated by more than just pandemic restrictions. i think it's a mixture of the reasons and various causes of course we have the anti vax is taking part in this and those that one, some of the restrictions that have been in place for so many months, if not years in france and elsewhere in the world to restrict access without the

green pass the vaccine past the fact that you have to wear masks from the age of 6 at school. ironically, all of these restrictions are eventually going to be lifted according to french authorities, probably by towards the end of this month. the end of february, and then we have those that are complaining about the state of the economy are rising energy costs, which is it countries across, across the world, certainly being felt quite strongly here in weston western europe and in france. and also the cost of living in general. incidentally, these last 2 economic factors, so reasons for the protests are likely to dominate the upcoming french presidential elections in about 2 months time. sir lang because president has declared that health and electricity workers provide essential services, which means it's illegal for them to strike. c public health care workers walked out earlier this week to the bad, higher pay and better working conditions. under the central services act,

people could face up to 5 years in jail or have the assets confiscated for refusing to work. that taliban leaders that has got to start speaking out against the u. s. decision to return any half of these $7000000000.00 holes and vol reserves present . joe biden, set aside the other half a 911 victims. many afghans are demanding the money back as a country free falls at economic disaster and starvation. laura burton, bradley hussle, shar anew in downtown cargo is usually crowded with shoppers. but as the economy is tanking, crowds are thinning and businesses and the major commercial district. a shutting down or closing early the foreign reserves the could rescue afghanistan is sitting in a bank 11000 kilometers away in the u. s. but president joe biden is only releasing half of the funds to afghanistan. the rest is to be shared out among victims of

$911.00 in the u. s. as well as other attack victims. but as a girl come up that he got the $3500000000.00 belongs to afghanistan and the people . and if the u. s. is paying this amount to those who lost their lives in the 911 attacks than the u. s. should pay compensation for the 20 year war, and the people who died in afghanistan without war carpool is a city on depression. many can barely afford to eat much better than more than as though i was gay. most of us sleep with empty stomachs because we don't have jobs to find money and feed our families like before in shot. and now some one was distributing bread to the poor, and there were hundreds of poor and starving people, fighting over one piece of bread. and i was thinking, it's better to die than being disrespected this much. extreme hunger is nationwide. it's estimated more than half the $39000000.00 afghans are suffering

the human fat. the afghan economy is in free fall. and so or it's people to us says it will use to release funds to buy much needed aid, but not by the taliban, which it doesn't recognize as the legitimate governments. taliban leaders say it's not america's money to give away that when it's done, hello, hello. who the people of afghanistan want their rights, the funds that are blocked and the u. s. belong to the of guns, and it's the right to take them. the decisions made about these fonts should be made by us. that islamic camera tricky. oh, this of displayed the anger biden's decision on the streets of the capital. but however, they express themselves moved here. say the money belongs to afghanistan and they desperately need it. oh lord, budget money. i'm to thir israeli military drills and the occupied west banker

forcing some palestinian families from their homes many times a year. as knitter ibrahim reports see temporary housing and constant disruptions to their lives is causing many families to move out permanently. in the early hours of the morning, these palestinian families are being forced to leave their homes and belongings. these really military sometimes uses this area in the north of the occupied west bank as a training ground. this means that people who have lived here for decades have to stay away for as long as the army decides is necessary. israeli military jeeps move between homes to ensure every one has left palestinians. hearsay. it's not their 1st order to leave their home this year. and fear it won't be the last or then while the frontier, they'll stay here until each one of us leave their home. they'll say, why aren't you old yet? it's a day and you have to leave explosions like these often break the peace here

. go, no, you must. i fear for the children. they get scared of the bombing. i tried to calm them down, but we're scared to. i am and then not to touch anything the army leaves behind because it might explode with the mad people here say they have nowhere else to go . so they have to stay out until they're allowed to return to their homes. after midnight, the military drill will continue for 3 days, which means they'll have to go through this again. twice this week. the israeli army told al jazeera that it takes measures to protect civilians during the exercises. but is really officers previously said that trainings are used to push palestinians out 7 families left their homes on tuesday, but many more people used to live here. 48 families once lived in this village called bleak. now there are only 22 kids command says he had to relocate his home 5 years ago because he was tired of these displacements. still,

he says his land is under threat oxide when the storm i've lost half of my crops because the thanks went over them. i've had a piece of land landed with barley and they're completely ruined. these videos are from his really through his in january. people here say eat structures were demolished, then farmers we spoke to said they're not leaving their land. some even snuck back before the end of the drill. they wanted to take care of the cattle and you lamb was born. while some took the risk to return home. others remain without a roof over their heads until they are allowed to go back home. neither abraham elijah's eda, the occupied west. thank an ancient village in spain, which dissipated 30 years ago to create a reservoir is back above dry land. now years of drought of uncovered the submerged und erie ruins which are a new tourist attraction. we call soon as more an abandoned

village reappears. it was submerged in 1992 when as he re the one spain's not best and galicia region was flooded to create a reservoir. but a major drought has revealed the coast village beneath is indian thursday in australian oil feeling is the soldier. as i see the home of a family member, their own, or of some one they know re emerge in younger people or those who are not from here . it triggers curiosity and their mother. the ruins make for great viewing visitors, walk down muddy parts to see partially clapped roofs, bricks and wooden debris that once formed holmes. it's like a shock, a boy with his well, much of it's impressive to see it like this. it is rare to be able to enjoy this scene and this is why we came to take pictures into at least have the picture of what this was like. no lessons, ideal gas, total glover, my feeling is that what will happen over the years to drought and all that with climate change, what your lot of them for months now. spain has suffered from low rainfall and

plato from the environment minister shows reservoirs of their below capacity for taurus and nas tanti trip round a. coast village is also a reminder, the region is facing a tough reality. michelson agency. phyllis is world famous. carnival has returned though on a smaller scale than before. the pandemic. the festival is a huge taurus straw. but last year it had to be held on line lisha level as a welcome with local media reporting around $50000.00 visitors. many who don the traditional masks. but the may braids, don't play, don't take place to tear people from gathering in large crowds. mm hm. and the carnival is also went away and the french city of nice festivities were cancelled in 2021. but the sure the king of the animals themes, celebrations, have been able to go ahead with some minor crone of iris restrictions in place.

around 200000 spectators are expected for its parades and traditional battle of the flowers. ah, your child is there with me, so robbed a reminder of our top stories. the white house, as a phone call between the us and russian leaders to discuss tensions with ukraine, did not result in any fundamental change. moscow has been sending troops to ukraine's border raising phase of an invasion. now, the covenant said the phone call was businesslike, but criticize the war. hysteria in the west. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski says he's analyzed intelligence, information of possible evasion. it's our borders, it's our territory. you, you know, i have to speak with our people like even the, you know, like like president and said people.