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[000:00:00;00] oh, how does your select experience in south mm. revealing eco friendly solutions to combat threats to our planet on al jazeera. ah, russia says some of its troops are withdrawing from drills ne ukraine. but nature says it hasn't seen signs of de escalation yet. and president putin says russia does not want war in europe, as he holds talks with the german chancellor. ah, i'm learning this is al jazeera live from london, also coming up,
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britons prince. andrew reaches an out of court settlement with virginia jeffrey, who says he sexually abused her when she was 17 and less than 3 weeks ago he was the president of honduras. now well under hernandez is trapped in his house, facing extradition to the us. ah. the sight of some russian troops appearing to pull away from the border with ukraine has been met with some skepticism. as diplomatic efforts to avoid war continued, the russian president and jem charles le opened the latest line of dialogue with both saying conflict can be avoided. but it also jabbar imports from moscow. more conversations are needed before the chance of war retreats. russia's defense ministry says, these are some of its troops, which had been positioned on the border with ukraine. they're returning to base
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after finishing training exercises, and journeyman or video to were as the training comes to an end, the troops as usual, marched back to their home stations, units from the southern and western military districts that completed the tasks already have started loading on trains and motto vehicles, they will start moving through their home bases, individual units will march on their own in military column. we're still little. while this raises hopes that tensions could ease between russia and ukraine, there are still large scale military exercise is taking place. and it's not clear how many units are being pulled back. use of the troops draw down came just as the german chestler olaf sholtes arrived in russia for talks with president vladimir putin. who said war was the last thing he wanted me ish linear. even though by it, do we want war or not? of course we don't. and it's for that reason that we have submitted a proposal as to a negotiation process. as a result of which there should be
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a guarantee for security, for everybody, including our country chests or all of salt set, some aspects of russia's demands on ukraine were worth considering, the squad, stressing the need for diplomacy to succeed. did your mother looked at cousins and provide to me today? i fully agree that diplomatic efforts have yet to be exhausted, and that we have to find a peaceful resolution to this crisis. several troops of a pullback, which is a good sign. and we hope that this will continue in the belgian capital nato secretary general. yes, sultan burg, expressed cautious optimism at the news of the russian draw down. now there are signs from moscow. dr. diplomacy should continue. this gives grounds for courses, optimism. but so far, we have not seen any sign of the escalation on the ground. despite these intense diplomatic efforts,
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there are still many outstanding issues at the heart of the crisis. let me put and says he's ready to talk to us leaders about ukraine request to join the 30 member nato alliance. and he says that is a conversation which cannot be put off any longer. something both nato and us leaders have refused to discuss so far. and until that issue is resolved, it is now clear that this crisis could continue for months to come. door safari, al jazeera, moscow, ukraine and western leaders say they haven't seen enough evidence that russian troops withdrawing the circles where russia is thought of deployed. more than 130000 troops surrounding ukraine on 3 sides. russian soldiers also deployed in the next region of crime in and back thousands of fighters in to rebel held eastern provinces hours before russia's withdrawal announcement. the u. s. defense officials said ground units were moving closer to the ukranian border. a satellite company said there was increased military activity and better bruce crimea, and western russia, including
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a rival of helicopters and fighter jets. the u. k. says rushers building field hospitals near ukraine in bella, bruce, which could mean an invasion is being planned. it also says a battalion tactical groups of being taken closer to the border. stevenson is in luni, that's in the southern by the route, one of the places russia has been building up troops to give us this update earlier . i have to say there's quite so much skepticism here. also in the south of beller was about this statement that the russian troops are leaving or about to leave. it's also very hard to verify the statement here on the ground because there has been some footage released by the russian ministry of defense. a showing a tangs and troops are leaving, but there wasn't any mention of a day or time or location. we're here at luna and yet air base, which is one of the location where report at lee high and equipment from russia was
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brought in as far as 10000 kilometers away from the far east. the eastern command, apparently as $400.00 missile defense systems are here and also so guy is, are you a fighter jets? well, we know now that this exercise or whatever is happening here hasn't ended because just a 20 minutes ago. we heard of hi to chat statement to the air, presumably on a training mission. so definitely activity here still in the learning yet. and it's also interesting to note that the, the russian ministry said that the western and southern command was going to be withdrawn back to their basis in russia. but i didn't mention anything about the eastern and central command. and what we've known so far is that they have many tropes brought in from the far east, ukrainian governments as the websites of its defense, foreign and culture ministries, as well as the 2 largest state banks have been taken offline by a cyber attack. inside ukraine, anxieties building as resident consider what to do if russia launches around
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evasion and talk about reports from care. silva says his son yvonne brings him joy in what he says is a world of hysteria. he doesn't want to leave his home in keys. besides it considered doing so to protect his family. if russia were to invade ukraine. every day i'm thinking about what to do with my family or to go to leave, for example, to was part of your grain or go to village where my parents of my wife leave. they have small house, but at the service, for example, they have for electric generator, they have 4 solar panels. so at least we will have a tricity, for example, which will be working most people in the city attire, to thinking about what russia might do next. for 8 years they've lived with conflict to me, east of the country between ukrainian forces and russian pac separatists. but the recent crisis is fueling a renewed sense of anxiety. things seem very normal in the city. people are still
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going to work or to school themselves. restaurants are busy, but as the situation continues, some people that we may tell us that they are worried and making contingency plans . if there is an invasion, we'll go to western ukraine, but if there is any to fight my entire family will continue to provide russians or just showing off, making noise play acting russians on totally influencing ukrainian opinion, but every one else, but russia will destroy itself. if it invades diplomatic efforts to avert a new war, have seemed at times to go round in circles with little sign of a breakthrough. moscow now says it's pulling some troops from the border. b, u cranes. government is skeptical and all the rest is go for that. i say post, you know, we continuously hear different statements from the russian federation. so we have a rule, we believe not what we hear, but we believe what we see. if we see the blout, we will believe in the day escalation 40 years ago,
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this huge arch was built on the hill in the city to celebrate russia and ukraine friendship. since then, someone has painted a large crack in the monument. no one here wants a new conflict, but history has taught them to be prepared. natasha butler, al jazeera, kiva in the next couple of hours. you as president joe biden is due to speak about ukraine and get more from our white house correspondent, kimberly how kit and kevin, what we expect to hear from him. l. according to the white house press secretary and soc is u. s. president is expected to address the american public in the world from the east room of the white house at about 2030 g m t. he is expected to talk about the situation on the ground in ukraine, as well as the steps that have been taken thus far to avert war. and the actions that the west is prepared to take should russia invade ukraine? now, a, in addition to this,
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we expect that the u. s. president will talk about what is at stake for the united states and the world if this conflict is not averted and how americans could potentially face repercussions here in the united states. something that many americans really have not thought much about of, and this is certainly going to be a bit of a wake up call for some who are watching or thinking about this for the 1st time. now, in the interim the president, prior to making the speech has been speaking to world leaders, at least he did speak to the french president emanuel mack crawl. we don't have a read out of that call yet, but we do know that his secretary of state entity, blank and was speaking with his counterpart, his russian counterpart survey. laugh rob, the foreign minister. and we now have a read out of that telephone call. we understand that the united states once again reiterating that they are pushing for a diplomatic solution to resolve the security differences. the emphasized the need
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for a verifiable, credible and meaningful de escalation of what they called russian aggression that build up of russian troops along ukraine's borders. further, the united states said that should russia choose the path of invading ukraine, there would be swift, severe as a united transatlantic response. the united states at this hour, believing that there is still a window to resolve this crisis peacefully. but we expect when we hear from the president, he will say that that window is soon going to be closing. kimberly, how can thank you very much indeed. ah, you case prince andrew has reached an out of court financial settlement with virginia. you fray. she had filed a lawsuit accusing him of sexually abusing her 20 years ago when she was 17 years old. the prince, who is queen elizabeth son,
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denied the allegations. jeffrey said she was being traffic. are the billionaire peter fall? jeffrey epstein, who died in jail while awaiting trial in 2019 a letter filed to the judge said the settlement would include a substantial donation. did you phrase charity in support? a victim's rights statement also said prince andrew regrets his association with epstein and commends the bravery of mister frey and other survivors in standing up for themselves and others. he pledges to demonstrate his regret for his association with epstein by supporting the fight against the evils of sex trafficking, and by supporting its victims. charlie angela has more from london with this development is unexpected to say the least in recent weeks. the language between the 2 sides has been nothing but adversarial with the prince's lawyers saying that they wanted this to go to civil trials. the print saying he wanted to have his day in court, a chance to give evidence on the oath, while virginia you fray said that she did not want to settle,
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she wanted to go to trial to prove that no one was too powerful to be above scrutiny in fact, the prince was due to give a witness statement on march 10th, and a trial date had been penciled in for between september to december this year. but this development will no doubt be received with relief by the royal family. they reportedly were very anxious that this could overshadow the queen platinum, jubilee celebration. planned for later this year. this scandal has been hanging over the royal family since 2015. prince andrew lost his title, his royal highness, stripped of his military duties and his charity obligations as the royal family tried to distance himself publicly from the scandal. but just going back to that statement. it's interesting. the word he uses, he regret his association with jeffrey epstein. that's something that he refused to renounce before. surprising considering at the scene was a convicted p default. so definitely
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a change in tone the from the prince. the question now is whether or not he will ever be able to return to any form of public life, but also who will be paying for this settlement. still come the sofa, come in, critic, alex, a nevada. he goes on trial again in a new fruit case could extend his jail time by moving the decade, plus these families, they would pay everything, give it all back, was for one minute. families of the victims of one of america's worst school shootings reach a multi $1000000.00 settlement with a gun maker. ah hey, they're great to see you 1st things 1st. let's get you the latest on storm dudley as it plagues the islands of ireland and britain. we're going to get into some pretty good rounds of rain across northern ireland, northern england, scotland,
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some snow over that scottish hills is wall and we do have an amber when warning in play. so it's very likely we're going to see some damage as a result of this storm. we see that what whether move further toward the east also some snow for the alpine region. and a batch of rain is sliding from montenegro into albania, and further toward the south. so we'll pick up the story there because this means rain for western areas of greece. turkeys in the clear though. no stay in, it's them ball. the suns out with the high of 11 degrees of 2 iberia right now. thing settled here is safer. northern portions and northwest of spain will see some showers. zip across their top end of africa, largely dry. but we do have some showers across the gulf of guinea, that's going to impact abidjan with the high of 29 degrees. as we go further toward the south. the 3rd storm in 3 weeks may combine, fall in madagascar north of the capital antenna. riva is going to produce some flooding brains for northern portions of the country. also a lot of what, whether for flood stricken areas,
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eastern areas of south africa on wednesday that you're up, they will see you soon. take care. ah, a join the debate, a ratio of like people from the american and global story was very powerful on an online, at your voice. the comment section is right here. join our conversation. we had all protected when everyone is protected. it is not by being nationalistic about this. you just look at it in a very different way, said that perspective med and mid meeting. you try that and they don't have any solution. let me put it clear for you this dream. on al jazeera lou.
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ah, remind the top stories you're down to 0, you case prince andrew has reached an out of court financial settlement with his sex abuse. accuser, virginia, you fray. the prince denies the allegations. russia's defense ministry says some troops have finished exercises near ukraine's border and are returning to their faces. the head of nato says there are no signs of d escalation on the ground. meanwhile, the russian and germany does have met with that it may be which in insisting he does not want war. on a shows says courageous and responsible action is needed to avoid conflict. russia's parliament is calling on president putin to recognize, to break away regions in eastern ukraine as independent states. earlier, putin described the situation in those regions as genocide. fish on that unit versus thrown. yeah. these completely areas that the overwhelming majority of people in our country sympathize, we don't boss resident,
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but you taught them. i'm hope for the situation. they had to dress me, improve for them to do it fit them, could have them cut me off cuz allow me to add that in our assessment. what's happening now in that dumbass constitutes genocide? cha, stratford is in khaki, near the russian border in easton, ukraine with more frozen lawmakers to day voting on a resolution to potentially recognize those break away states. now we've subsequently heard others self declared breakaway states, we should say. and interestingly, during about putin speech, he said that sir, he hoped that the french and the german leaders could put pressure on the ukrainian government to work to resolve the crisis in the dorm bass peacefully. we've also heard from the foreign minister to be choke or labor here, who say the say, any recognition of those self declared breakaway republics would be a violation of international law and would destroy the minced agreement. but there
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are concerns that if this kind of language that is coming out of russia to recognize these self declare states that that could well instigate or push some sort of according to analysts military action from the ukrainians, which these analysts say would. i would push a counter reaction by, for example, the russian back separatists with the help of russia because of what is believed to be hundreds of thousands of ukrainians that are now got russian passports inside those areas. russian president vladimir putin biggest political opponent, is back on trial and could have his jail time extended by more than a decade. alexander vonny is accused of stealing more than $4700000.00 of donations to his political organizations. in what human rights groups have branded a sham trial, a closed door hearings are being held inside
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a maximum security prison. 100 kilometers outside moscow is my union of al nay. i was up to date tuesdays hearing after demanding access to the proceedings. lavonne is already serving a tune, a half year jail term for a previous fraud case. he originally got a suspended sentence, but prosecutors accused him of violating its terms. when he was treated in germany for a poison attack, he blames on putin and he was arrested as soon as he returned to russia in january 2021. he also faces up to 6 months in prison for contempt of court during one of his hearings last year. about these particular organizations across russia have been declared extremist and banned, forcing many of his allies to flee the country. gregory, for all of his vice president of the free russia foundation, he joins us now from levine in ukraine. thanks for being with us. what you make of the timing of this latest trial against nevada. me. hi, everyone at shanker is couple of issues. one issue of course,
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is that at the moment you know, all the media focusing on the, on the possible war. so it's kind of easier to, or at the same time, single tenuously couple of years in the one sentence. on the other side. you know the current oh dear, we seem to be losing the line to that. i guess there, let me just try and get you back and said if you can still hear us, what we just lost you for a few minutes to do, do carry on. i think we have you back. yeah, i can hear you. well, do you hear me? yes. we can. you thank you. so you was you were you were telling us about the, the timing of this. yeah, sorry for that. as i said, couple of which is the one of them is of course kerman is doing that because simile tenuously, with,
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with operation possible operation and ukraine. so all the media is currently focusing on the possible we're in ukraine. so graham in is also working on the line the. the 2nd thing is that the current and the line in the sentence is just a few years in prison. when i'm saying just the meaning is that for position or number one in the country when terminus, which in the search for and in jail, i expect about that as the storm could be quite longer than 3 years. and his cur firm is finished next year. so it was a, you know, it's time for the crammed in to start adding new sentences. the sentence that current case of fraud itself, it's looking you. it was put together in $120.00. so a couple of years ago. and now they just, you know, and that's, can they, it's on, on to as a years when they send them, i washington said, doesn't have me still haven't given it
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a lot of his supporters of have either left the country or, or, or have been under pressure themselves oh, that's a big question. i think the best answer would be the fact that the current court hearings been conducted inside the jail. so they basically brought the jail into nevada nice cage toward, you know, to started the hearing. so you always nevada and taken in jail for more than a year. and now there's so much afraid of bringing him to, you know, to the, some live and, you know, to give him a possibility to speak more publicly. that they actually brought their the course in, you know, these special resume establishment like the present where, you know, they only allow in the future on the lease to cover that not allowing anyone to come to attend the public hearing. some basically making the, you know,
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the fraud case closed trial. and some of the supporters of, of express concern that his life is, will be more risk with the attention of the world on, on ukraine. would you agree with that? you know what, i would say that it's when we talking about such issues as ukraine and general security risk in the region, we should count the world should watch both the regional security situation and situation of the few of the fact human rights by russia, particularly such cases as nevada and the case because it's all linked. as you know, as more attention to the inter and human rights iteration. russia and there's more solid battery t, the west taking to fetch people in alarm. they end up additional right groups as last graham and got a possibility of you know, shifting the agenda and, you know, start to throw in the waste because one of the issues why when
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crime has have so much 3 time to actually start to move $1500.00 troops, the ukrainian or other is that for the last year there was focusing on complete credit down on civil society and additional groups inside of the country literally burning away the whole field of the suicide activity inside the country. so no one could. now, you know, oppose to them when they bring in troops to the ukrainian border. so yes, then yeah, good referral. thank you very much indeed for your thoughts. appreciate your time. thank you. or if you're, if you're in parliament has voted for an early end to 6 months state of emergency. it was declared in november when rebels from the northern region threatened to march on the capital, i just have a sense, retreated and security has improved state of emergency was supposed to last until
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may the world health organization says it's been able to deliver medical supplies. if he has trouble ticket region for the 1st time since july, but the lack of fuel means items are being held in storage and can be distributed dry is under a defacto blockade. according to the un. the u. s. is blaming the ethiopian government, which in turn claims the rebels for obstructions. the police chief in canada's capital has resigned a day after the prime minister brought in emergency powers to stop the massive anti vaccine purchase. peter slowly has been accused of not doing enough to break up rallies by truckers, which are blocked roads in ottawa for 2 weeks. and the truck as i wait a requirement to have a job to cross the border with us. guns and ammunition were found one protest earlier this week. the families of 9 victims of the sandy hook school shooting in 2012 and reached a $73000000.00. settlement with the u. s. gun make
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a remington. 20 children and 6 teachers were shot dead at the elementary school in newtown, connecticut, by a 20 year old gunman, remington with pseudo, but how it marketed the a 15 star rifle. the gunman used with a lawsuit legend the company targeted younger at risk males. a charge denied the case has been watched closely by gun control, advocates, gun rights, supporters and manufacturers. this case was never about damages in the sense of compensation. it was about damages in the sense of forcing change. it was about damages in the sense of realizing the goals of these families to do what remember to do whatever they can to help prevent the next sandy hook. when you experience something like somebody being told they're getting a certain amount of money, a lot of money and having hurt,
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having hurt these families, they would pay every, give it all back just for one minute. that would be true justice the u. s. has also on europe to arrest and extradite the man who was the country's president until just last month. when orlando and unders is accused of helping to traffic tons of cocaine for much of the past 20 years, he's pledged to corporate with a police and arapahoe as well. ah, security forces were called in on monday night to surround the wealthy neighbourhood where the former president of honduras lives less than 3 weeks ago. one of the landlord had done this was in charge of the country. now the u. s. is calling for his arrest and extradition. oh, prosecutors in new york have repeatedly accused the former president of involvement in drug trafficking, and alleging his political rise was fueled by drug profit. i'm not gonna think of anymore. we've been calling for the rest since 2015. when we denounced that the
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former president was a drug trafficker corrupt and associated with criminal joe, and that was amended was president of honduras. from 8 years us, prosecutors have accused him of receiving millions of dollars in exchange for protecting drug shipments through the country. the money was reportedly also used to bribe politicians and held his political career. now then up here, the former president has repeatedly denied the allegations in an audio recording on tuesday. he said he's willing to voluntarily turn himself in this story. as though he knew, i'm ready to collaborate and voluntarily go to the authorities at the moment the supreme court judge is assigned to this case so that i can face the situation and defend myself accordingly. if not, this is legal team argues it will take its direction from the supreme court of honduras and not from foreign countries. isn't the view in life. it's up to the executive power of the nation. we must white for an independent body of the state
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to make the corresponding decision with the letter it. amanda is left office on january 27th. when the new president, seo, marta castro was sworn in on that same day he became honduras. his representative to the central american parliament, which overseas political and commercial treaties across the region. and as a member of that group, his lawyers argue the former president has immunity from criminal prosecution. manuel apollo al jazeera. and a quick reminder, you can catch up any time with our website at the address that is al jazeera dot com. ah, top stories are al jazeera. russia's defense ministry says some troops have finished exercises near ukraine's border and returning to their bases. but there been few details and the announcement was greeted with skepticism by ukraine and
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