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she's very from running the presidency of corruption claims and it's the super bowl show down. a 100000000 american for all fans all set to tune in for the ally rams versus the cincinnati bengals. ah yes. present job i hadn't spoken to ukraine's the president vellum is that on ski, as western leaders warned, the region could be on the brink of wall biden's conversation with silence. he comes a day off for a call with the russian president vladimir putin one which failed to make any sort of break through the german chancellor areas. all schultz is wanting of immediate sanctions. if russia invades ukraine, he's off to moscow and keith in the coming days that the kremlin still denies it's planning any sort of offensive. even so you as staff at the os, c, e, the organization for security and cooperation in europe have begun with drawing. they are leaving the region of done netscape in easton, ukraine. let's go to washington,

now talk to mike hanner about list of elements this phone call between the 2 ladies . does anything come out from that yet? well, as he had not to began about 45 minutes ago, sorry one or 15 minutes ago. but as you get, we have not been told what transpired or in fact, even whether the call has ended. certainly they would have been a lot of the to lead is to talk about the view of the current crisis, not belief. the degrees of difference in terms of how each of the leaders sees what's happening. that bite and administration has been absolutely adamant that an invasion is imminent, saying that all the signs of their, that russia is going to put its troops across the ukraine border. however, sources and ukraine have expressed the degree of confusion about this. they don't appear to be receiving the same intelligence that the u. s. is receiving. and certainly in the course of the morning on the sunday, new shows, bite and administration, spokespeople continue to press and up the rhetoric in terms of imminent action. we

heard from both the national security advisor and the pentagon spokesman saying once again, that invasion may be imminent. ordering americans to leave the country saying that they should do so as long as they are commercial flights available. so certainly the level of rhetoric continues to rise, although at the same time by didn't administration, supposed people are saying that they would far prefer a diplomatic initiative. and the door to that remains open and all the spokespeople people represented by the ministration. mike, they're all singing from broadly the same time sheet. if i can put it that way is make no doubt at all. this is a coordinated response. on this particular day, we've got the national security advisor, the spokesman for the pentagon, appearing on the news channels saying exactly the same thing. now one of the questions that was put to the pentagon spokesman is

a report that had appeared in several media outlets. that the us had invasion plans, detailed invasion plans, which was going to happen on wednesday, and i was very specific. and the pentagon spokesman was us directly about this. this is his reply. we want to be careful about about publicly talking about intelligence and sources and methods and i kind of thing what i can tell you and i point back to what jake said on fridays. absolutely right. we believe that a major military action could happen any day. now and again, these assessments are coming from a variety of sources and not, not exclusively just inside intelligence, but also what we're seeing in plain sight. these more than $100000.00 troops now continue to be arrayed against the ukraine board. but we've repeatedly put that question to administration officials about what are they source advantage and so on. the onset generally is that they cannot diverse sources because that would be not in the interests of national security. so you have

a situation where administration officials are stating point blank, but something is going to happen, but declined to provide the information that they are basing those assumptions on. that is something that confuses the ukrainian precedent, and that is something that was likely the subject. one of the subjects of conversation between the 2 leaders within the last hour. that's mike hannah. in washington, d. c. thank you. mike. ukrainian government is often accused of ignoring what a described of neo nazi paramilitary groups fighting russia back separatists. many se such groups have been an effective fighting force in the near 8 years of conflict in east in ukraine. charles of stratford has more on that. he's in khaki if the look these men training on the football pitch in easton, ukraine say they want to defend their country from russian aggression cry. coal has its origin in german, national groups of the 18th and 19th century. and the leaders of the group say it

has thousands of members who are not but only 60, have bought their own license weapons and regularly serve alongside ukrainian army soldiers. on the 420 kilometer front line, 24 year old glib, studied homeland security and crisis management university. he says one day he wants to open a gun shop. why did you choose like? because or more logically, closer to me. so i decided to join the when you said a more ideological closer to can you tell me what you mean by that? how. what do you believe in idea what you can pause that. why cool is not the only group accused of being neo nazis that has appeared in ukraine since the conflict with russian bank separatists started in 2014. the others, like these men, with the powerful as of the battalion,

been incorporated into the ukrainian security services under the ministry of interior. for i co and many groups like them have been praised by ukrainians for their willingness to take up arms and defend the country against what they describe as russian aggression. but that does not mean that they are popular amongst the voters at the ballot box. the coalition of right wing groups only managed to win leslie suite. the sent the vote in the last parliamentary elections in 2019 with some of its leaders. such is dimitra, yara sh will be made, advises to the head of the ukrainian military. when this happens in this torch rally resembling nazi gatherings in 1930 germany hold a banner honoring stefan bandera, ukrainian nazi collaborator, widely recognized as organizing. the massacre of tens of thousands of ethnic poles

and ukraine towards the end were to heard of montera is the nickname, fellow fry co volunteers, gave this man 24 year old. barden says the group has its origin and what he calls slow, visible, connecting similar minded people across slavic regions of eastern europe, including russia, but not change when the conflict started off and it's moved them. if the west respects democracy and pluralism views, they have to respect our views. but to get the political future, we would need to show people we can be competent leaders. we need to gather light minded thinkers, qualified and educated people. if we manage that and we will have a political future and political strength experts say the far writing ukraine has its origins in football, hooliganism, poverty, and a country that, along with many other post, soviet states has struggled with political corruption. the russian ukrainian border

didn't really exist for these movements. the russian far right and the ukrainian far right moved in the same circles. and then when the war came, some of them chose one side and some of them chose the other. and the fact is that the connections are still very much there in some parts, and it's almost certain that there are russian agents of some sort within these movements. for i co leaders say they've been overwhelmed by people wanting to join since the crises between ukraine and russia has escalated that as nato countries through their weight behind ukraine. they should have to be aware of what this conflict is creating on both sides. stratford al jazeera car kid, eastern ukraine on to other news and is ready, police have cleared protest as in the flash point suburb of check in occupied east jerusalem. demonstrated demonstrations broke out as a fall rights. israeli m. p opened parliamentary office in the neighborhood, checked, it has emerged as a symbol of palestinian resistance against israel. hundreds of palestinians there

have been evicted or are facing eviction from their homes. opposition parties in tennessee or say they will unite against president guy said after he announced sweeping changes to the judiciary. ah, as you see more protests of happened in the capital tennis off the side gave himself the power to dismiss judges. the supreme judicial council was replaced under a new decree. it was one of the last institutions, independent of the presidency sides made several moves to consolidate, past and settling the government and suspending palm and back in july or from an easy vulcan. she's in tunis. this decree by the time prejudicial council was initially a sort of a to paid like a rollback by case side. because the international response, when he dissolved the supreme judicial council, was very, very firm that the g 7 un and european union have have said strong words, demanding kaiser tend to the democratic path. but what we've seen with the decree

today is that he's gambling on their support and that he's more interested in gathering the 3 main powers of state of legislative executive. and finally, now the judicial power within chin asia. so this is another step forward to what's the protesters are saying is a complete dictatorship. an authoritarian rule by chi side to day citizens against the crew who are an independent, quiet little, broad church event. she joined together with the largest political party tunisia and nasa, which is the muslim democratic party, which has its opponents a and ease of democratic and sort of a socialist wing and all say the dist, dorian wing of politics. and a lot of the, the opponents of a not to say that they're to blame. so this isn't she quite a controversial alliance between the 2. but as we're seeing,

there are thousands of people gathering and she a, despite a chi psi and cream bits protests at bands. yet, under the rules of caveat and sanitary laws, they are out in force saying we want the supreme judicial counsel reinstated. iraq's supreme court has ruled that form of foreign minister hush is a barry is not eligible to run for president. it follows a complaint filed against him by m p's over corruption charges, which he denies. the kurdish politician was chosen by parliament is the favored for the largely ceremonial post mo, from man made up the law hid in bagdad. he has just refuted, denied, and rejected the court's decision. considered and get in his words, put it to sized. he also said that since he was acquitted by the court in 2016 when he was accused of corruption and mismanagement, when he then was a finance minister. then in his view,

there is no point. there is no point in banning him from running for prison. now, the question now is whether or not his party, the didn't the could this 10 democratic party will be able to push for another nominee, especially with the fact that today is considered the deadline. the last day in the constitutional period allocated for presidential candidates to submit their files to the parliament, a presidency. the world web is coming up next and then fight his role into tripoli in libya to support the interim prime minister after a push to replace him. i'm out of money in southern italy, police are on the lookout for a members of the mafia. after a string of bombings in the city of fog upset people on edge ah

hello there. we'll start with the middle east, and it is a rather quiet picture for much of the region with plenty of sunshine, just a few showers, grazing, pottsville events, in particular for syria and lebanon, and a few showers popping off around coastal areas of oman in the days to come, but it's really the wind that stealing the show. we've had a small wind blowing down the gulf that wind chill has knocked temperatures down in places like doha. and do by, by the time we get to choose day, we will see them start to pick up. now the when remains an issue across the red sea and we are seeing the windy weather sweep across northern parts of africa. we could see some sandstorms in algeria, libya, antonia, and some coastal showers creeping in from the mediterranean. by the time we get to choose a for the wet weather, we have to head further south. we got the seasonal rains, of course,

flooding in the south, east of the democratic republic of congo. this was the scene in lubin bashi, and those shop of thunderstorms could cause flooding problems raging all the way from angola up to tanzania. you can see the heavy rain, their heavy rain as well for interior areas of south africa, but sunshine and warmth for cape town and is more wet and windy weather pulling into madagascar in the days to come. we'll keep an eye on that. ah, for one of the fastest growing nations in the event development international to become a middle east. trade learning skillfully myself free of 2, both filling up from the world wanted gatos

gateway to whoa trade. ah, ah, it without 0 and these are the top stories this our u. s. president joe biden is speaking to ukraine's president of ultimate zalinski. western nations have been warning of an increased threat of a russian invasion in ukraine, which moscow still denies. germany's chancellor schultz is warned of immediate sanctions if russia attacks ukraine. he's announced a visit to moscow and killed in the coming days and russian. i'm sorry, opposition parties. this is to nicea a promising to unite against. a president said up to he announced changes to the

judiciary. protests are taking place in the capital of decide gave himself the power to dismiss judges. now russian troops have been conducting drills in belarus . the largest deployment of russian forces there since the end of the cold war. and nature believes it's a potential starting point for an invasion into ukraine. step boston reports from the the approved sca air field and belarus near the ukraine border. at the subaru of career field ration helicopter gunship, stake to the ear near by dozens of russian trucks. the training grounds armored personnel carriers are transported to watch the border with ukraine. the south of barrows looks like a russian military zone, is abandoned airfield in sabbath guy. near the city of homo is one of the 12 areas where russia and barrows are conducting join drills known as allowed to resolve visitors and not allowed in the local people. tell us the ear slip is in bad shape and has recently been used for sports competitions. put that we leased by the

russian ministry of blue france show state of the art military equipment in action near the border between bellows and ukraine and natal. several divisions of as 400 missile defense systems and dozens of stuco fighter jet, taking part in the exercises in response to questions from the baltic states bella . ruth has confirmed that russian forces are also active outside the scope of these drills. so military units and sub units from the eastern military district of the armed forces of the russian federation of performing task outside the framework of the exercise. they have been deployed and performing practical measures to god the southern stay border lead are no opportunities to enforce it using border patrol units of the republic of barrows. there are a lot of questions about the exact size and real purpose of these exercises happening around 20 kilometers from the border, which ukraine, for sure russian forces are a lot more active this close to the ukrainian capital key as

a lot more active than they've had been since the end of the cold war, but for many here, it's hard to believe that war is imminent. after a government crackdown on port passes in 2020 independent media will shut down in dallas, and it's in battle leader, alexander lucas shanker, to russian president vladimir put in for help. now, he won't happen. we were told it won't have 1st, they said there will be work. but i wish the news and lucretia, because if there won't be a war, they brought some tanks and trucks. we thought there was a war. but to now, it was that the military readiness vladimir cuts off the lead, often opposition party and home is not that optimistic. he says many people in battles would like to demonstrate against possible war, but are too scared to do so. when you don't know that that's, i'm personally very worried. i have family, i don't want war. like most fella russians. but as i see the developments going on so far under the disguise of military exercises. it naturally makes me very worried

on this main road to ukraine's capital. kia buses and trucks are still crossing the border. but here is only 200 kilometers away. and russia show of military force nearby is making people in ukraine and western powers. very nervous stuff fastened else's era into blood sugar levels. 5, you and staff members have been abducted in southern yemen that were taken on saturday. well traveling in the abbey and reach into the city of aidan, 4 of them. you have any nationals of the internationally recognized government in southern yemen says it's working to free them more humans, military says dozens of who defied has had been killed near the city of hot out in the countries north west for as strikes were carried out in that area that while the hootie rebels were meeting a number of their leaders are also believed to have been killed. a been a number of confrontations around the city with the saudi led coalition saying it's on 21 rates on who to positions to libya, where fighters,

who back the interim prime minister, the hamid the baby have entered the capitol, triply in convoys the on group says i, they want to show up the baby's position after the parliament in east and libya moved to replace him. the babies as he went hand of power until long delayed elections are hells. more from malik traina in tripoli. we saw yesterday husband misery. he's the speaker of the high council of state. that's a legislative house based here in tripoli that shares power with the parliament. and he said that that he received enough recommendations from its members for him to move forward. a sort of like a nod of approval from the high council of state. does this mean that, that he will coming to power? what we're going to have to wait and see, but still needs to form a government. he's going to give that list through the parliament if they give him a vote of confidence. i mean, really it's, it's on a political level, it's going to be a done deal for me today,

but he's going to be forced to hand over power on a political level. what he's trying to do, what the baby is now trying to do, is trying to change the general view, the, the, the view among people. here. he's saying that he's going to announce a roadmap for elections to happen in june. and this comes after elections were postponed in december. we need to remember that the baby came into power in march, and he was passed with leading libya to election. and more than 2800000 libyans are registered to vote, and that's more than any other election and looked at history. so there's a huge appetite. libyans are sick and tired of these legislative houses that have remained in power for year upon year, right. they want to vote who they want, they want, they want to control them. they want to vote for who they think can leave the country towards stability. police have cleared, the remaining protest is blocking a vital bridge on the u. s. canada border had been demonstrating against pandemic

restrictions for almost a week. many of them truck drivers who blocked both entrances to the ambassador bridge with their vehicles. excuse me, they were upset over a government order which require them to be vaccinated against coven 19 to cross the border. hundreds of down in mexico to remember a journalist killed in his home in the sunset of walker. herbert lopez is the 5th reporter to be murdered so far this year in mexico, making it one of the deadliest years for journalists that in decades, the u. s. south korea and japan of held high level talks to discuss the threat posed by north korea. you are secretary state antony blinking, met his japanese and soft green counterparts in hawaii. the talks follow a series of missile tests by pyongyang, china's growing military and economic dominance in the, in the pacific region was also on the agenda. now switzerland's voted to ban virtually all tobacco advertising in the referendum,

57 percent of people backed tightening. those regulations, switzerland has some of the most relaxed rules on tobacco in all of europe. a series of bombings and often attacks has been carried out in southern states, puleo julio region. since the start of the year, it is seen as a sign of the local massey as presence in a region where the governments trying to reach out to organized crime. community itself has been trying to rid itself of the mafia for years. but as adam rainy reports from the city of fuzzier, that is proving a big challenge. the aftermath of a string of recent bombings in arson attacks and for just a small city and southern italy, no injuries were reported. the message was clear, the local mafia was pushing back. over the past 2 years, police have seized millions of dollars and assets and made several arrests. some businesses are now refusing to pay protection money to the mafia. alessandra veto ran a construction firm here until his business was burned down by the mob facing death

threats. he relocated his family and now had the new launch to local anti racketeering association. he bought us because of attorney by some estimates 70 percent of businesses here pay protection to the mafia. a figure we con, confirm with the association. we are trying to show people, they are not alone. the only way to route out this problem is to stand up together . in the wake of the bombings police have increased patrols and investigations and set up routing checkpoints, poor and underdeveloped. like much of the south fortune has been the base for the so called forth mafia. for decades, unknown to many outside italy, the collection of clans in the area make most of their money of extortion, drug trafficking and prostitution. the bombing warrant, jeff directed at people not paying protection. the owner of this flower shop that was bombed, wouldn't speak on camera, but she said, no one ever came here asking her for money. and that's what scares her. most

investigator said these attacks were meant to spread fear. prosecutor antonia longer showed us the mafia's reach here and have a good role. this area on the south east coast of italy, we're getting that typically the organization clearly feels the need for marketing attacks. i meant to send a clear message desired. we are here and she's young despite recent gains, let on get isn't convinced. they'll take the local mafia down soon. i'll san a multi me state but i'm not optimistic. the path to justice is going to be a long one said yeah, there are some hopeful signs. riddle if the situation is still uncertain. there are lots of powerful clans on the culture of crime. here will defeat she. les look of vigilante in his family run a chain of health clinics in the area, treating thousands of patients. the mafia came calling despite the risks, his family said no, no, manny medina, even if he showed us in the future. if my children follow in my footsteps in this work, no book it, but after teaching him their whole life about morality, ethics,

christian values are a tough to say, look, your see if you want to continue this work at all, you'll have to give money to criminals. better it would be hypocritical people and absurd love a really awful thing for them getting going to quit of it that it not all here feel they can stand up to the mob. they know when the police aren't there to protect them, the mafia could come calling again. adarine al jazeera fudge, a italy funny, but a sport. and after a season full of upsets and nail biting close coals, american footballs super bowl kicks off. later on sunday, the showdown between the los angeles rams and cincinnati bengals will be played in a brand new stadium near to los angeles. more from rob rentals, final preparations underway for what promises to be an epic clash between the cincinnati bengals and the los angeles rams. in the national football league super bowl, ah, to say that excitement is running high would be an understatement. just look at

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bowl 56 on t, v and online rob reynolds, al, jazeera inglewood, california ah, off the, our on al jazeera, these, your headlines. you as president, jo biden's spoken to ukraine's president volney zalinski. the u. s. has been warning of an increased threat of a russian invasion in ukraine claim which moscow denies. we want to be careful about publicly talking about intelligence and sources and methods. and i kind of thing what i can tell you and i point back to what jake said on friday's. absolutely right. that we believe that a major military action could happen any day now. and, and again, these assessments are coming from a variety of sources and not, not exclusively just inside intelligence, but also what we're seeing in plain sight. these more than a $100000.00 troops now continued to be arrayed.