active when everyone is protected, it is not by being nationalistic about us. you just look at it in a very different way. said that perspective magnet and men meeting each other and they don't have any pollution. let me get put it clear for you. this analogy 0 ah, the white house warns the russian invasion of ukraine could start at any time, but all sides agree, the crucial window for diplomacy is still open. ah, hello, welcome. i'm heated over. you're watching al jazeera alive from our headquarters here in doha. also coming up canada invokes emergency powers for the 1st time to and protest against vaccine mandates. anger in mexico is the u. s. the spans avocado enforce after an american safety inspector received

a threat on his telephone or forcing people from their homes in honduras. ah, ah, top story, the ukrainian president says he's been told weapons day will be the day russia in bates a defined laudermill. zalinski has declared it a day of national unity urging ukrainians to show their pride, but hours after that statement rattled the money markets. so lensky is office clarified. the president was only referring to media reports from p. f. here is natasha butler. we have to be right off the days of calling for carmen ukraine and downplayed west warnings of an imminent invasion. a change of tone from president fellow to make the lensky in an address to very nice young. were you in the law of

thought. samson bless us, we are being threatened by a big law and a day of military invasion has been scheduled once again. it is not for the 1st time, a war is being conducted systematically against us on all fronts. on the military front, the military contingency was increased around our borders. allison on the diplomatic front, there trying to deprive us of the right to decide foreign policy on our own. it came after a visit by the german chancellor to ukraine, the latest western leader on a diplomatic mission to decrease tensions with russia and to 30 war europe. after more than 2 hours of talks with zalinski, schultz promised keith more german financial aid and issued a warning to moscow. is my hand here. the i'mma ukraine sovereignty and territorial integrity on the non negotiable for germany. we therefore expect russia to take their steps to de escalate the current ventures as one was planned for germany. it

is clear that further military aggression against ukraine would have serious political, economic, and geostrategic consequences. russia shall soon gig. zalinski said ukraine must join nato because the country security was inseparable from europe's. my would know ali, us, as for our future alliances, our ambitions, you know very well that this is our wish. but apart from that, there is a war in the east. we believe that nato membership will ensure our security zelinski was forced to clarify your crane's position on nato after cummins. earlier in the day, made by ukraine's ambassador to london for suggested that ukraine could be flexible when it comes to its ambitions to join the military alliance commentary ambassador late to retracted. we are not a member of nato right now and to reward war. we are ready for many concessions and lots of what we are doing in our conversations with rations. but it has nothing to do with nato, which, which is in trying to make

a situation at digital is moscow. doesn't want ukraine in nato and says that the west has ignored it. security demands, but in a possible sign of hope. russia's foreign minister has advised president vladimir putin to continue with dialogue. but as usual, this was our possibilities and exhausted. of course, security talks can't continue endlessly, but at this stage, i would propose to continue and increase them pressure. all right, a move that will be welcomed by shawl, so we'll meet the kremlin leader on tuesday. when would some say could be an last chance for diplomacy? natasha butler al jazeera keith. well, the u. s. is temporarily closing its embassy and kia found relocating and further west near poland. the state department is now asking americans to leave bella roofs immediately because of the russian build up along its border with ukraine. hydra

castro reports from washington. the u. s. says decided to close its embassy in here, due to russia's military escalation on a plane and border. an invasion, as we have said, could began at any time, should put aside order it. there would be widespread human suffering. americans and ukraine had been told to leave the country, but a core group of us diplomats will remain. they'll work from the city of leave, further west from the border with russia. despite the embassies closure, the white house says it remains actively engaged in finding a diplomatic solution to the crisis. the path for diplomacy remains available. if russia chooses to engage constructively. however, we are clear eyed about the prospects of that given the steps russia is taking on the ground in plain sight, president biden says he will not send us troops to defend ukraine in the event of an invasion. but american soldiers are standing by a cross. the border in poland,

a member of the nato alliance, real lives will be at risk. ukrainian lives to be sure, but also russian lives. this. this will not be bloodless. this will not be easy. a pentagon spokesman says the us has not concluded that russia's president has decided to invade ukraine, but that an invasion could come with little or no warning. president biden spoke with the case prime minister and discussed reinforcing nato's eastern defences. and the u. s. defense secretary is now headed to belgium, where he will meet with military allies, heidi joe castro algae 0 washington. joining us now on the program, steven nick, sees the regional director for eurasia of the international republican institute. he's in washington. steven nicks, welcome back 3 to 0. if there is to be a diplomatic breakthrough, what form might it take?

well, it's very clear that mr. brewton has signaled his willingness to continue to engage in negotiations. now that could be a positive sign. it could be that he's engaging in negotiations. salami slicing, continuing to try to negotiate, to try to gain further concessions from the west. so he remains to be seen whether these are real negotiations or are designed to merely of delay the invasion that he has said he might undertake. while he continues to slice away at the west physician was your reading of how the biden administration specifically has been framing this, particularly over the past 36 hours because there was this awkward conversation this time yesterday between mr biden and mr. zelinski, the ukrainian premier and mr. biden seemed to have based that conversation on intelligence that was slightly wide of the mark saying things like in the

conversation when kia falls, when ukraine becomes part of russia, to paraphrase what we think went on during that conversation. it's almost as if he's basing that his stance and his reaction to what may happen on intelligence that's not quite accurate. and it is a clumsy listen. if you're in key of well 1st i would say it's not a foregone conclusion. the kiya would fall readily to russian forces. i have been to the eastern front that bend of the southern fraud. i've talked to the soldiers, they will stand and they will fight, and many of them are willing to give their lives for their country. the main concern is massive russian superiority in the air and, and in the see, ah, that's really the decisive factor if there is an invasion, but a ukraine is ready to defend itself. and so i think we have to give great

credibility to the lansky and his generals and his armed forces for the preparations they've made. but they need to thanks 3 things from the united states . they need more troop deployments to neighboring nato countries. and they needed additional arms, including stinger al surface to air missiles, and they need sanctions that are applied now not after russia might invade. it must be coming 4 or 5 weeks ago now that saga oliver off said his goodbyes to antony blink and the u. s. secretary of state mister blinking went back to the states from their discussions in geneva, and he said, i will send you a letter telling you what we think we can do next to keep the diplomacy alive. why have we not had a response to that letter from the russian foreign minister, the letter we assume that had something positive in it composed by mister blinkin? well, i, we can only assume that this is a tactic and negotiating tactic to draw out the negotiations. and again,

see what concessions might be, jane on the russian side. so it's very important for the west to remain united, united and purpose united in their position, that they're not going to bother these demands. that somehow russia has a veto over ukraine's membership, the nato, and the deployment of nato forces and nato countries. ah, nato simply cannot about these demands. they are unattainable, unreasonable and unacceptable in today's world order. that's the elephant in the room, isn't it mr. nicks? i mean, the elephant in the room is russia wants to chime with an ongoing argument that it's had with nate, so which is nato must, must not expand to the east. the nato leadership wants to reserve the right to expand to the east. that's a nonstarter, as far as the kremlin is concerned, so they can't just get around that with a different form of words. not at this point. surely not. well,

my take is where we're discussing about what russia once and desires about nato. talking about what nato wants and desires about nato, the missing factors. what are ukrainian people want and expect? my organization does. a lot of survey research in ukraine. and our polling data shows that overwhelmingly ukrainian citizens when their country to be part of the e u. n. nato, the vast majority of ukrainians want their country to be members of these institutions. ah, that's their decision and nato's decision, and certainly not good, dear prudence decision. steven next, thank you so much for joining us from washington. thank you very much for having the un secretary general antonio terrace, spoke to the ukranian and the russian foreign ministers. he has our diplomatic editor james bayes on those talks until now the united nations has been pretty much

on the side lines of this crisis. the un secretary general knows that russia is a permanent member of the un security council with veto power, bought. the secretary general has now had a phone conversation with the russian foreign minister and with ukrainian foreign minister, and has issued this strong statement. you'll have no stone unturned in the search for a peaceful solution. abandoning diplomacy for confrontation is not the step over the line. it is a dive over a cliff. in short, my appeal is these. do not fail the cause of peace. the secretary general was speaking after having lunch with the security council. secretary general can conflict be avoided? i believe so. the lunch meeting was hosted in the russian mission to the united nations. russia just happens this month to be the president of the council. other ambassadors who were there, were reluctant to say much about what was discussed. again discussion. it really

was recent days here in the corridors of the united nations have been very strange . you'll find some diplomats who tell you they believed that war is imminent. they'll be an invasion within days, and yet there are others who say that i think that will be a conflict. they think that president putin, who's always use the element of surprise, is going to surprise the world this time by doing nothing away from international diplomacy. communities living on the front line aren't growing increasingly concerned. alger 0 is charles stratford has more now from briscoe in eastern ukraine. a couple of 100 meters down that hill is russia. now this area has remained quiet over the last 8 years of this conflict. there's been no shilling . there's been no fighting. there's been no destruction of people's homes and businesses, but that does not mean that the lives of people in this village has not been deeply

affected by the conflict. they used to be able to go and visit friends and family in russia freely. they used to be able to go to the cemetery, which is in russia. they used to be able to trade and go shopping was 3 years ago. the whole changed in 20000000 teen roles of barbed wire were laid along the border . it took almost 30 years after the collapse of the soviet union and a war before a boundary between the 2 states appeared. elaina, mommy, tova runs the village shop, describes life before the war as a golden time. well, that's what your longer should. we have relatives leave him there, right behind the streams. there is a village and their children used to come to school here, visited each other as friends. we married each other, spend our holidays together, and now every scene is close to us. outside the half empty school is the statue of a historian who wrote about the importance of unity among cossacks who populated

this region for centuries. the village is quiet, like antonia missouri server sits in the sun with her friends. what club, monsieur, them? my parents are buried in the cemetery and i can visit their graves anymore. or friends on the other side can't come here to visit us. we miss them. everyone is full of regret and we know they think the same were far away from politics, but now our freedoms enjoys, are gone. there are many villages like this one along the crane russian border where there is no sense of fate or the endless blaming the other for the killing in this conflict. for the longer this crisis goes on, the more concerns grow amongst people here. but the community they have lived in for generations may never be the same child stratford al jazeera body. see if girl easton ukraine. still to come here. all miss program, the face of american football attribute to the multi talented john madden.

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was found to promote translation and honor translators, and acknowledged the road and strengthening the bonds of friendship and co operation between arab islamic and wild coaches. lou, lou, lou, 218, g m t. you're watching al jazeera alive from doha, your top stories. the ukranian president has told the country a russian invasion may happen this week, loaded me as the lensky as cold for a day of unity on wednesday. i was late at his office, clarified the president, was referring an actual fight to media reports,

russia's foreign minister. so gay leverage was calling for additional talks with the us and its allies to address moscow security to mom's. the white house, as a path for diplomacy remains open. the canadian prime minister is invoking never used before. emergency powers to end protests that a paralyzed life in the capitol. ottawa unblocked some border crossings to the us, the so called freedom convoy began as a demonstration against vaccine mandates. his alan fisher, the main bridge linking canada to the u. s. is open again, police enforcing a court order ended the 60 blockade by protest. there's demanding an end to quoted restrictions. they made several arrests and set up barricades to stop it happening again. the protest hit supply chains on both sides of the border. but outside candidates, parliament and ottawa, protesters are refusing to leave, even as the local government eases covered restrictions. prime minister justin trudeau has had enough invoking special emergency measures to confront the

protectors. this is not a peaceful protest at the borders. busy busy in different parts of the country, the blockades are harming our economy and endangering public safety. $1088.00 emergencies act allows the federal government to insure security during national emergencies. this has never been used. a similar move was last employed in 1970. the prime minister then to those father pierre, the scope of these measures will be time limited, geographically targeted, as well as reasonable and proportioned. the so called freedom convoy protests began because canadian truckers opposed a vaccine or quarantine mandate for cross border drivers. but it soon became a rallying point for people opposing the trudeau government. and now it's spawned copycat through test, globally. in belgium, demonstrators,

there were joined by others from france, holland in germany, to demand a hold to cover restrictions by europe's governments. the message is, leave us alone. we are peaceful. we will leave you alone. we are not accepting any japs any more. and it israel, a convoy of trucks drove the main highway from tel aviv to jerusalem, heading for the parliament building. we are support canada and support the truckers corn v that went up to our to our and we do hear the same critics of accused the so called freedom convoys of having little popular support. but authorities are aware of the disruption. even small protest can cause and like canada, i know examining what actions are available to keep roads, bridges, and supply lines open. alan fisher al jazeera washington and similar process, also in new zealand, where rallies outside the parliament there against anti vaccine mandates. have

entered a 7th day hundreds of demonstrators ignored repeated calls by the police to leave the area. hong kong is to convert some public housing into isolation. sensors is hospitals, any capacity because of a surgeon cove at 19 infractions, the territory recorded more than 2000 new cases on monday, at least 10000 people awaiting to be admitted to hospital paging. ascending 100000000 testing kits to the region, natalie bennett is in bahrain on the 1st official visit by an israeli prime minister there the gulf state normalized relations with israel in 2020 through a u. s. pro could agreement the abraham a court, israel and buck rein signed a security cooperation agreement earlier this month. partly out of shared concerns to do with iran. turkeys president is in the united arab emirates for the 1st time and nearly a decade, precedent, wretched type. or tuan is being hosted by the crown prince of abu dhabi mohammed

bins. i eat turkey and the u. e. were it all for years after the arab spring, as they supported supposing sites in regional conflicts. the other one says he believes the 2 countries can contribute to regional stability and prosperity. high murder rates are driving people out of their homes in honduras, some of being forced to leave the country saying they're trying to protect their children from being recruited into criminal gangs. as manuel report reports from the capital corruption makes tackling the violence more difficult. oh, had a late night crime scene in the goosey galvan, a shoed outraged between gang members and police in the villanueva neighbourhood, leaving at least 7 dead. i fell on the sofa from m. okay. there is insecurity for every one. we can't live here any longer, but we've no place else to go because other places are dangerous to we're in dire need. i don't know what to do, stay here or leave the country. many here say blood soaked streets littered with

bullet casings. have become in all too common sight authorities tell us that scenes of brutal violets like this one in the honduran capital, or just the tip of the iceberg in a far more complex security situation that affects nearly every corner of the country. in honduras, his pores neighborhoods gangs, particularly m. s 13, and the 18th street gang are notorious for crimes like extortion. and for the recruitment of young children, those who resist often pay with their lives. i this young mother who has asked us to hide her identity, says she was tortured by gang members and forced to flee her home after refusing to pay extortion money. i'm up as only as your net. we faced humiliation we've lost our house because of the gangs my children cry and say it's me mamma, be good for us to go someplace else where they won't want to kill us. imagine a 7 year old boy saying that he, you are

a lack of confidence in hunter and authorities, means victims of violence, seldom report crimes, to police and security experts say collusion between criminal groups and government officials permeates across all levels of society. last was i'm a bit, a bam us it. unfortunately, we see that different politicians and government leaders have been linked to drug trafficking. we see that there are high rates of community corruption, annoying us in the rule of law, the applesauce ebbed ordonez. a deputy police commissioner tells al jazeera that despite modest had been says and reducing the national homicide rate. raining in. the violence often feels like a losing battle on you, on video, in comparison to previous years, the incidence of crime has actually decreased. but perhaps in some communities, it's risen due to factors like local culture or in communities where gangs exist in great numbers. where ponderous has a rate of $38.00 homicides per 100000 residents,

making it one of the most dangerous countries in latin america. international observers predict that thousands of hundreds will be displaced from their homes in 2022, a challenge that cannot be addressed without a drastic reduction in the violence plaguing the country. monroe rappel al jazeera big lucy gaga. now thousands of people have been honoring the face and the voice of american football. they've gathered in oakland, california to pay tribute to john madden, who died at the age of $85.00. in december al jazeera is gabriel alexander reports on his unique legacy that stretched across decades where the book starts. now. one man, an icon to 3 generations of american football fans in 3 different areas, coaching, broadcasting and gaming. that man, john madden, who embodied everything football. he started as a player before his career was cut short due to injury. but older american football

fans likely remember john madden when he coached the oakland raiders in the 1970 s, his no nonsense attitude. gaining him the loyalty of his players. he super bowl when and when he retired, the winning, his coaching nfl history, a coaching career that was capped by an induction into the pro football hall of fame would have satisfied most people. but not john man. most middle aged football fans likely only no. john madden from his 2nd act and what an act it was after coaching, madden spent the next 3 decades in the broadcast booth as a flamboyant analyst. but you can't make yourself one dimensional with over 15 sports emmy awards. he's widely considered the greatest football analyst ever for his ability to explain the game in simple, yet entertaining terms. john madden was one of the most famous and recognizable people in all of american football. during the season would seem like he would

appear everywhere. but one place you would never find, john mann was at an airport. john madden did not like to fly at all. he was claustrophobic. so he took a bus everywhere around the country and had said, madden cruiser hole on the side of the bus. so everybody knew who was inside and he stopped all the time at small little cafes in order to eat and talk to people and learn what their life was like. he loved it. he loves getting to know people. he was the ultimate man of the people. ha, younger football fans, those under 30 years old. probably only know mad in by the video game that bears his name. madden nfl. one of the most popular sports video games of all time has sold over a $130000000.00 copies and generated nearly $4000000000.00. john, earl madden, a man who stature is unmatched in a uniquely american sport. gabriel's hondo al jazeera new york,

asia's biggest air show takes off and singapore in a few hours. the aviation sector is hoping this year marks a turning point. it took a huge hit during the global pandemic because international travel stalled. is leah harding? a display of the world's finest aircraft, a look into what's on the market and how these machines are impacting global travel . the seal poor air show takes place every 2 years. but this is the 1st time it's being held during the pandemic. we all know in this current environment. yes it is the attendance sheet, it surely be lower test her best day. i think that's all of us. we expect that. but as far as a quality is concerned and not worry about that are because yo, we have assemble a high quality set of exhibitors,

a modern 70 percent of the top 20 global aerospace companies. i hear key players such as boeing, airbus and engine makers. rolls royce will still be attending and the show will be a rare opportunity to hold in person meetings with customers to drum up new business. but with asia pacific battling a fierce wave of the armor con variant, the 4 day air show will still be relatively muted. a parallel to the reality of the travel sector in this part of the world. while the united states in europe have eased restrictions and demand has rebounded, asia lags far behind. foreign tourists are barred from entering, and mandatory quarantines are still in place in many countries, we are starting to see green shoots in industry by passenger travel numbers are up . a flight frequencies are up, i think we can all sense the pent up demand for travel. we also can see and sense optimism.