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we made our 1st key will those birds will join 14 other key. we released key in the last few mom. it's a vital step in fading wild k, which were almost walked out across the region 2 decades ago. ah . the white house warns at russia could invade ukraine at any time which moscow denies, but all sides agree that diplomatic avenues remain open. ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. this is al jazeera la you from doha. also coming up canada in boats emergency powers for the 1st time and protests against vaccine mondays. oh, the funeral of me occupied westbank for a 17 year old palestinian shot dead by israeli forces during protests against home
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demolitions. and looking in the shadows, how an exhibition in belgium is exposing men to the sexual harassment experiences of women. ah, ukraine's president says he's been told that wednesday would be the day that russia invades moscow, has denied it. has any such plans? a defined, a lot of me as the lensky has declared wednesday, a day of national unity urging ukrainians to show their patriotism. but ours off that statement rattled markets. so lensky is office clarified. the president was only referring to media reports from kim natasha. butler reports have to be read off the days of calling for call me ukraine and downplayed wes warnings of an imminent invasion. a change of toiling some precedent for lot amazed lensky in an address to very nice young will. you know,
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little thought. 7 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 contingent has increased around our borders. allison on the diplomatic front, they are trying to deprive us of the right to decide foreign policy on our own. it came after a visit by the german chancellor ukraine, the latest western holder on a diplomatic mission to decrease tensions with russia. and to 13 you were in 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 tiff, the i'ma ukraine sovereignty and territorial integrity on the non negotiable for germany. we therefore expect russia to take their steps to de escalate the current sanctions, as one was land for germany. it is clear that further military aggression against
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ukraine would have serious political, economic, and jr, strategic consequences. russia shackles, john king. so lensky said, ukraine must join nato because the country security was inseparable from europe's my would your earliest, as for our future alliances are 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 zalinski was forced to clarify your cranes position on nato after cummins. earlier in the day, made by ukraine's ambassador to london, the suggested di ukraine could be flexible when he comes to his ambitions to join the military alliance. comments ambassador later retracted. we are not a member of nato right now and to reward war, we are ready for many concessions. and that's what we're doing in our conversations was rations, but it has nothing to do with nato, which, which us in trying to make
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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 the dialogue. but usually, it was easy at possibilities and exhausted. of course, security talks can continue endlessly. but at this stage, i would propose to continue and increase them precious. all rights. a move that will be welcomed by shawl. so we'll need the kremlin leader on tuesday in what some say could be a last chance for diplomacy. natasha butler al jazeera keith had offered to barry, has mona on those diplomatic signals from moscow? we've seen a slightly different tone from the kremlin as this is it because the meeting that we saw take place between sergey la prov and vladimir putin broadcast on state tv,
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showed a very direct exchange between the 2 men vladimir putin asked survey lover of what are your proposals in response to the united states government and their rebuttal about the security guarantees this country is looking for as serbia lover of said. that although the united states and nato have responded negatively to the as security guarantees, the russians are looking for. there is still some merit to what they've proposed. lopper offset that there has been some ideas put forth by the americans that warrant further dialogue. i think this is the 1st time we're hearing of any concrete answers from the russians about how they see the upcoming weeks unfolding . the russian foreign minister saying that they do have some proposals that are worth looking at. and vladimir putin asked a survey. laugh rob, do you think there's a chance to have an agreement about our security concerns and survey lover? i've responded by saying there's always a chance. i think this is lab. rob's
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a moment to really as signal to the world that there is still very much a window for diplomacy and that all hope is not loss. vladimir putin also asked about their russian response, and the circle of rob said that the russian officials have prepared a 10 page response to the americans. and we are yet to find out when they will respond officially and a hand that response over to the u. s. and the u. s. is offering ukraine a sovereign loan guarantee of up to a $1000000000.00. secretary of state, anthony blinkin says the money would help ukraine's economy, which is under increased pressure because of tensions with russia. the german chancellor announced a loan of a $170000000.00 for kids on monday. ukraine is one of europe's poorest countries. in all the u. s. is temporarily closing its embassy in care of and notating it for the west. napoleon because of fears of a russian invasion for the white house, says a diplomatic resolution is still possible. audio, castro reports from washington dc. the u. s. says it decided to close its embassy
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in here, due to russia's military escalation on the ukrainian border. an invasion, as we have said, could begin at any time, shouldn't decide to 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 lu eve, further west from the border with russia, despite the embassies closure, the white house, as 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 to send us troops to defend ukraine in the event of an invasion. but american soldiers are standing by across the border in poland,
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a member of the nato alliance. real lives will be at risk of 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 u. s. 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 you, kay's prime minister and discussed reinforcing nato's eastern defences. and the u. s. defense secretary is now headed to belgium, or he will meet with military allies. hydro castro al jazeera washington went away from international diplomacy. communities living on the front lines are growing increasingly worried. charles stratford as mono from bras, ships good eastern ukraine. a couple of 100 meters down that hill is russia. now,
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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 that all changed. in 20000000 t rolls 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 mummy tova runs the village shop. he 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
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friends were married each other spent 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 ms. ed server sits in the sun with her friends club, michelle, them. my parents are buried in the cemetery and i can't visit their graves anymore . our 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 hate or the endless blaming the other for the killing in these conflicts. for the longer this crisis goes on. the more concerns grow amongst people here that the community they have lived in for generations may never be the
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same child stratford al jazeera. but as if go east of ukraine, canada's prime ministers invoking emergency powers to en, protest that of paralyzed life in the capital ottawa unblocked some border crossings with the u. s. the so called freedom convoy began as a demonstration against vaccine mandates. alan fisher reports the main bridge. lincoln, 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 cover 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 i said candidates parliament in ottawa, protesters are refusing to leave, even as the local government eases covered restrictions. prime minister just intruder has had enough invoking special emergency measures to confront the protesters. this is not
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a peaceful protest at the borders. busy in different parts of the country, the blockades are harming our economy and endangering public safety. $988.00 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 to the government. and now it spawned copycat protest globally. in belgium, demonstrators, there were joined by others from france, holland in germany, to demand a hold,
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to cover restrictions by europe's governments. the messages leave us alone. we are peaceful. we will leave you alone. we are not accepting any japs, any man. and israel, a convoy of trucks drove the main highway from tel aviv to jerusalem, heading for the parliament building. we all support canada and support the truckers con v that went up to 2 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 protests can cause and like canada, i know examining what actions that are available to keep roads, bridges, and supply lines open. alan fisher algae 0 washington. you know, canadian police said of arrested 11 people and confiscated us cas dash of guns at the side of a protest against corona virus. mandates. elisa the group in the province of
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alberta was ready to use violence against officers. canadian truckers have for weeks been protesting against measures. authorities have been moving to clear blockades that imposed on several border crossings with us. lost ourselves company and our desire including campaigning begins and what's expected of the south korea's titus presidential race and 2 decades modern steamers. ah hello once again, the weather slightly set fair across much of the middle east as per usual. but we have seen some wet weather recently. this area cloud is pushing across iran, stretched down to that east side of a man, and we saw some big downpours here. and you can see the kind of problems that that led to huge amounts of rainfall. and there has been some localized flooding things
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quieting down now. but just towards the southeast of a man, you might just catch a shout early on tuesday it will brighten up. it'll cheer up. as we go on through the day, much of the middle east will be dry and settle a chance of a shower or 2 up towards the caspian sea, but nothing too much to speak of temperatures into the mid teens there around the levant, is the mid twenties across much of the middle east, dry and settled dry and settled to across sir, the northern half of africa. generally speaking. you shall shower sir, just around the equator, and south with some big downpours. coming through here, anywhere from around angola isn't crosses ambia pushing i, which was more than parts of mozambique noticed the northern parts of madagascar a tropical cyclone that now spilling its way through. as we go on into tuesday. it will grassy punches, way out toward northern parts of the mozambique channel commerce, ireland, for example, we'll see some heavy damsels. it will weaken as it does so, and continued further west. ah,
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you own in 2 different worlds, but creatively and philosophically aligned to see real world explored the surprisingly between the egyptian islamic scholar mohammed abdul and russia noblest leo tolstoy. and the french a dejection surrealists all the way bread and jewels. leach, really, i think his answer released on al jazeera. ah ah, welcome back or comment about top stories here. this are you crimes,
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president has told the nation that a russian invasion may happen this week. going to be as lensky as cold for a day of unity on wednesday. what hours later his office clarify that the president was referring to media with russia's foreign minister. so gay natural of his calling for additional talks with the u. s. on its allies to address moscow security demarcus, the white house says a pop for diplomacy remains open and the u. s. is offering ukraine, a sovereign loan guarantee of up to a $1000000000.00. secretary state on to me, blink, and says, the money would help ukraine's economy, which is on the increase pressure of tensions with russia. campaigning has officially kicked off in south korea's presidential election under the constitution . the winner gets to serve just 15 year term. and as rob mcbride reports from so it's a position that has often been mod by scandal. this like most elections before, it is likely to be a straight to horse race between
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a conservative unit. so y'all and his liberal opponent, the jame young, with both of them fighting against their own unpopularity. a fact they seem to accept, oh, oh, they're young via the gun don't over to party politics with vested interest, offer limited choices. as a result, people live to bite the bullet and choose the less only to evil. neither has international standing, but they are vying for a job that now has global reach. there's south korea's importance in the world economy, especially and high tech manufacturing. it's cultural clout is growing through movies, drama, and k pop, and it's key geopolitical role in sign o u. s. relations as well as it's fraught dealings with north korea, the outgoing liberal president, moon j in, has made it his mission to improve inter korean ties. but his term is ending with the north increasing it's miss al, testing with the threat of launching longer range,
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ballistic missiles that have brought the peninsula to the brink of conflict in the past. no, i mean there's a high possibility there. various missile tests you will be conducted intensively after the presidential election on march 9th. and if he wins units, zekiel has promised a tougher line with the north, including the possibility of preemptive strikes against its newly developed hypersonic missiles. oh yeah, man, i got her captor power if it's carrying a nuclear weapon to time it will take to reach to capital area and come in a massacre is under a minute. it's practically impossible to intercept whether or not this election will result in worsening into korean relations. what's almost guaranteed is its fair share of controversy. both candidates come into this race marred by domestic scandal, and that's before the campaign. mudslinging really gets underway. this is a country where the job of president has often ended in the disgrace of coups
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resignations or imprisonment. as this campaign starts, park yon hay returns to life as an ordinary citizen, following her, pardon, and release from a 22 year sentence. one of 4 former presidents to have spent time behind bars. rob mcbride al jazeera, so the u. s. has asked honduras to arrest and hand over its former president wine orlando, hernandez to face some specified charges. years prosecutors believe he engaged in the acts of corruption and drug trafficking to fund political campaigns. allegations is always denied and, and has left office last month. he was president for 8 years. a funeral has been held for a palestinian teenagers, shot dead by israeli security forces during unrest in the oxide westbank 11 others were injured on sunday. stephanie deca report. oh gosh. oh,
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allies cut short. the body of 17 year old from a double solid is taken to be buried. was killed by israeli forces during confrontations. new janine in the occupied west bank. the stand off started when these really army arrive to demolish the homes, palestinian prisoner mohammed, java dot, who's accused the fatal shooting and his really subtler in december. that also led to norm standoff between policy and gunman and israeli army. the army said, quote, it identified what had called a number of armed rioters and fire toward them to neutralize the threat. hundreds of harvesting ins. it turned out to protest against demolition the message here. and that's, you know, 0 tolerance. in others we, the israelis will not tolerate any kind of what you call resistance, what israel cause, of course, darren. so what it's trying to do then is to say your criminals and any time you do
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a violent act, israel will never consider it a resistance act. we are going to come after you and the idea is to try to intimidate the palestinians and try to give them a feeling that there is no space whatsoever for any kind of resistance to what israel is. israel continues to apply it's policy of home demolitions, the palestinians and human rights group say accounts to collective punishment against the palestinian people. stephanie decker, ultra 0, and tension remains high and the flashpoint suburb of ship gerard and occupied eastern selim israeli police cleared protest. as on sunday, injuring dozens of people, demonstrations broke out when a far right is really m p trying to reopen a political office. how to zeros, how you force that has more now from shakira. so low in numbers in this part of shape you're out and we saw on sunday night, but still considerable tension around this fire, members of the supporters of the solemn family who faced eviction from their home.
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here in march, that's next month. and here in the street outside, considerable numbers of israeli security forces. they've been here throughout the day afternoon and into the evening. they've been clearing out periodically, both jews and palestinians. there was a recent move on some of the people around that fire and some quite unpleasant scuffles just over this barrier that they've erected halfway down. that street is where a very divisive figure the far right is ready, politician to my been via has set up an open, a make shift office. he says, to ensure or try to ensure security for jewish settlers in this area. he says it's in response to an austin attack, which the police say was responsible for the fire in a jewish home. on friday nights. no one was in that home, but 2 people have been arrested during the course of the day on suspicion of austin
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. this is something that been via tried to do last year. in may, he set up a temporary office. he was persuaded to leave by the n prime minister benjamin netanyahu in the run up to the flare up of violence that we saw both in gaza and in israel. and he's trying to do it again now. and there is a prime minister in charge. you is also of the, when he right, but something of an enemy have been via the been vcs as a traitor to the right. natalie bennett, so potentially less leverage to get him out. so he could be here for some considerable time. he has parliamentary immunity and his presence here is exceedingly provocative for palestinians who live here combined with all that we have the 2 very important jewish, jewish and islamic religious periods coming up passover and ramadan. and also as i say, the potential for this family to be evicted next month. so it's not the sorts of scenes yet that we saw last april in may, but certainly tension is building not 3 thinks and india are holding their local
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connections. the country's most populous state or are pradesh is among them. up natal is that it's the biggest state election in india, author probation. the note is home to more than 200000000 people and is voting in 7 phases. aren't gonna hold you. they can hang, it needs to be daddy. and what if you can see how prizes are rising more? the said he'd bring good days and prosperity. yes, best days are here with prices of vegetables touching the sky. i have voted, thinking about inflation with our petro hit on pamela, with the probation and the highest number of members to parliament, and is seen as reflecting the national political mood, prime minister there, intermodal is half way through his character. these balls are regarded as a test of his party. john the parties policies with shook in feels like these cover large areas of western look, release. millions of lives and votes,
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depend on it. i'm it, commerce family has owned land here for several generations. it was one to lucrative business. now god had searched and farmers have been waiting months for sugar mills to pay them guy, gardener on earnings have been badly hitting. what can we do? we have to pay our children school fees. you see those labels working. if we don't get paid on time, we either have to delay their payments or pay them. bless. ah, many farmers had to part in a year long protest against 3 agriculture laws. they said favorite big corporations law september the host to the largest of those protesting state, targeting the bgp ahead of the polls in 2017 the b. j. b one, a landslide victory luther publish. but growing economic distress among farmers as diluted. some of that euphoria last year, the mo, the government revoked the 3 agricultural laws. but many farmers have continued to protest, saying that demands have not been met. export save this has bolstered opposition
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parties making the b j. p seemed less formidable. in the last 2, twenties has 17 election, the west and you be mid of them when term in favor of the b, b. but this i'm, it seems at the so, you know, in the forty's i'm going to smile in the opposition more. and if they continue to build up the same kind of momentum that we saw in the 1st on awarding, then we can say that will be anybody's game. ringback polls are also being held in for more states. results will be declared on march 10 and will indicate how the b g o. p may perform in the next national elections. part the methyl al jazeera with the predation northern india. an exhibition is underway in belgium to explain to men what it's like for women to be harassed. and as julian wolf reports, it's not only opening eyes but hearts and minds as well. drawing back the curtains on what some women experience every day. she shop titled masculine poetry,
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this our project aims to explain to men what it is like for women to be subjected to sexual harassment. this husband and wife and 2 of the artists behind the exhibition say it's inspired. 8 by experiences their daughter had growing up in the south of france noon, if you suppose you put a zoom. we made this project for men, and we realized that it had an enormous impact on women too. for mentors realization for women, the fields are allowed to talk. i think what we interesting would be to have teenagers go through it as well today. because at that age they learn this behavior . it enabled them to understand, and afterwards we need to beats between men and women so that the world changes so that there is a change of behavior along visitors are led through a dark and tunnel lined with sounds and images of leering men, 3rd fiddle for it. was hell, but also there are no surprises. it feels like what we're used to. and i think it's interesting to put that in an exhibition. like i think it's interesting to see what men think about it to sat open next month. the project will have psychological
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experts on hand to accompany viewers, but before it's launched, there has been interest from politicians and human rights campaigners who have come to this preview in a hangar in brussels. local authorities across belgium have expressed their interest in a version of the show going on tour. priscilla is a police officer who works with victims of domestic abuse, and she says it will help see what i'm going cumulatively. so my 1st reaction is that there are very few victims, he dare to file a complaint. as a police woman, i am putting myself in the role of my colleagues out on patrol in police vehicles or on the street. i don't think for us it's possible to witness this sort of thing as obviously to catch people in the act have evidence of this sort of phenomenon. so i think there is a lot of work to be done. and it begins with building awareness, though is behind this project, say they hope it will encourage a greater awareness of how harassment affects women. and that those who suffer it could be any one's partner, mother, daughter, sister,
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or for awe showing wolf al jazeera. now asia's biggest air show is taking off in singapore, the asian sectors, hoping to make this year a turning point. it took a big hit during the pandemic as international travel stole event allows hundreds of airlines and plane manufacturers to showcase their products. technology ah, target check on the top stories here and al jazeera ukraine's president has told the nation that a russian invasion may happen this week. he's called for a day of unity on wednesday. russia has consistently denied any plans to attack its neighbor last leg legally. we knew we are being threatened by a big war that ended date of a military invasion was scheduled. once again. it is not for the 1st time with a war is being condo.

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