belfast you wrote a new episode of war, hotels on algebra? ah . seeking a see saw in easton ukraine, president volunteer. mr. lansky calls on vladimir putin to choose a place for talks to resolve the crisis. but valerie says, russian troops running joint military drills will stay indefinitely because of rising tension on ukraine border. ah, hello i'm. this is i just live from the house that coming up ruins. queen elizabeth test positive for cobra. 19. buckingham palace says the 95 year old monic is experiencing mild symptoms. ah,

and how the rivalry between the us and china is playing out in the poll. protest as march against that infrastructure grant from washington. ah, a diplomatic pass out of the crisis in ukraine appears to remain open despite an increase in fighting in the east and further reports of russian troop movements along the border. the ukrainian president is appealing for a sci fi in the east and calling on russian president vladimir putin to choose a place where the 2 leaders could meet us. president joe biden has met his national security council secretary of state antony blank in saying the u. s. was doing everything it could to deter russia from invading ukraine. french president, emmanuel macross, spoke to biden, and the leaders of russia and ukraine on sunday. it's been agreed senior officials from russia, ukraine, and european allies will meet on monday. those talks,

commas around $30000.00 russian troops, had their mission in bella extended indefinitely. and russian naval ships had been seen entering the sea of as off between russia and ukraine. they must, robbie begins our coverage now. war in ukraine remains an open question, but military posturing on ukraine's borders continues to intensify. russian troops were meant to leave bella roost on sunday when military exercises with their allies ended. but their stay has been extended indefinitely. the bill of russian defense minister cited increased military activity in the region as well as unrest inside ukraine, but no mention of what ukrainian leaders and they're western allies described as russian provocation to regular and august would puddle the testing of reaction forces which continue. they are directed to as a prevention of floor and are presidents who have met repeatedly say,

we don't want war, but we are not being hurt. and therefore recreated and appropriate grouping of troops if need be. we'll bring an appropriate response within the presidents of bella. ruth and russia met in moscow 2 days ago. president alexander lucas shackle is a close russian ally. the strategic advantage of having russian troops in billers is just one more reason. analysts say president vladimir putin has the upper head. this invasion force has been mass on the ukrainian border has already achieved some of its objectives because he's already got the conversation going with the united states about limiting the sovereignty and liberating the security choices of the countries neighboring russia about rolling back the glock. so natal protections are taken away from them, and russia can habits wait. an estimated 190000 russian troops at a heightened state of alert. are now to ukraine, north, south and east. there extended mission in bella, luce, only the latest warning sign that western leader,

se points to an imminent full scale russian invasion of ukraine zane basra. v o g 0 . she had her times to join us live now from washington. as she had, we know the ambassadors of russia and ukraine to the u. s. spoke today. what, what did they have to say? what they were saying, some of these questions that we've been hearing, why do you have a 190000 troops and ukraine? you know, are you going to invade and answer the russian or just that was a question to the russian of after the rush. i said though there. busy is no plans for invasion and then, you know, gave him the opportunity to say what they often do. the russians say, we don't threaten anyone. these russian troops on our sovereign, russian territory. we can to play our troops wherever we went. could you imagine that russia will impose all the united states not to deploy your forces in florida or san francisco? but then there was actually a lot of focus from city the russians on, on eastern ukraine. there was a lot of focus on the minister agreements which we hearing about now,

which was supposed to end of fighting in easton ukraine, and the russia about the capital. the saying that this is the way out of the crisis staff. if you persuade, washington persuades kim to sit at the table of negotiations with regards to the don about people. so there will be no more fighting. there will be peace that's. that's the main concern. uminski agreement, which the russians feel has been dragging their feet of all that would give someone told me to eastern eastern ukraine. the u. s. which has already signed on to the mens agreement by the way itself. not have been pushing for it perhaps because it doesn't want, you know, lack of like a power lewis. i'm going to influence perhaps the region. so the best thing that you do that there will be peace in eastern grain as for the ukraine bass to, she was very much like where whether the invite or not, we are at war. but she really did say, look what we all main concern right now. is try get everyone from the us to do se to the you to data, to try and get these negotiations going. and of course in the future will be get,

we'll get going later in the week, the radically between as of the blink of the secretary of state and the washington about alright, she had thanks for that. she had a chance he live 1st there in washington. are violence on the streets of kiev is still fresh in the memory of ukrainians. this weekend is the 8th anniversary of the crack down on euro, my damn. the mass protest had led to the fall of the pro russia government that was in power in the time. as andrew simmons reports from kiev, ordinary people say that just like in 2014, they'll protect their country. one man in more than a 100, dead in one day, their memorials, among the bricks they used to defend themselves. one son with one aim, now, not only to avenge his father's death 8 years ago, but ready to defend his homeland from the might of russia's military. father try help. a lot of me, a bon darechuk points to where snipers were posted. he's an i t engineer and

a military reservist and expects to be called up very soon. like so many who died here, valard him. his father sergey didn't look like a revolutionary. he was a school teacher. survey was alive when his fellow protest has rushed him to a makeshift clinic in a hotel reception area. he'd been shot in the back and died later. i know are who are guilty in this situation and be part of regime a young core rich and foster wall. it's a russian federation, and of course, putting on the morning of february, the 20th 2014, a truce was broken. as police suddenly retreated, then came a barrage of bricks from the protest, as answered with gunfire. in hindsight, they call it the revolution of dignity on that day, as i witnessed, it was anything but dignified. once again, the square is

a battle zone. the truce had seemed tenuous from the outset here. now the frontline has moved everywhere. you look there are casualties. my dan euro, my dan freedom square, the angel monument words name symbols that for many years have made vladimir putin sees. he's fanatical about ukrainians, being part of russia. yet this country now has more than 30 years of independence behind it. it may be a democracy that is imperfect, but the vast majority of ukraine's people turned their back on soviet autocracy and want to be part of europe with membership of nato for protection. but at what cost, there's conflict in the east of the country with russian back separatists and the annexation of crimea by russia. are you prepared to die for this? cause? yes, i already and all as a ukrainian people ready for this and it's most important. protect

our country, our families, and for this we did everything. what we, we can more than 14000 lives already lost in conflicts. lot of mia and many others know only to well the human cost so far could be dwarfed by all out war. andrew simmons al jazeera kiff, australia is opening is borders again after nearly 2 years to fully vaccinated tourists. this is will not need to self isolate, but those not double jack will require a travel exemption to enter and will be subject to quarantine requirements of the government. close the country off to the rest of the world. in march of 2020 in a bit, to control the spread of coven 1900. since then, australians have been barred from leaving a sara clock is life worse from brisbin airport. so sarah port is reopened. to tours on monday we expecting a massive influx then of arrivals. well,

we've had some really lovely emotional reunions here, not just tourist arriving, but of course families reconnecting. some who haven't seen each other for 2 to 2 and a half years because of all these very tough border restrictions that been put in place. some of the toughest in the world. now, when it comes to the number of people of flights arriving, we only had 50 international flights arriving on monday as these borders. reordered, a tourist took a minuscule amount. when you compare it to the numbers that we had prepared them, it had the travel group suggest that we could have around $1000000.00 riders this month. but this is the last phase of those borders. reopening we had migrant workers, he'll work his needs, national students, they are allowed to travel back to australia in mid december. and of course, as you mentioned is trying to apply for exemptions to travel until not long ago. so the boat is really were shot for about $700.00 for days. and as you mentioned almost 2 years, but i should say also that not all states are open at western australia still has

its board is closed until march. they have quite a tough restrictions in place, including 2 ex quarantine. so it's certainly stress, it has that reputation as fortress australia and the tourism group certainly have a big job now to try and fix that brand to international at tourists. yeah. as you say, some of the toughest restrictions in the world. so what sort of damage perhaps might, might have been done to all straight his reputation as a, as a tourist destination is the, is there some work to do? there was some of the people we've spoken to arriving here this morning. some tourists basically saying it was just too hard to travel to australia . and it might take some time to convince people at to make the effort and not knowing where the border restrictions might come into play again, but certainly at tourism group started to note some negative sentiments in a market research at people simply didn't understand why the borders were closed to

years ago and i yeah, could reconnect with their family. so certainly the battle is now on internationally, but certainly for strategy at to compete with other countries to try and boost their tourism, share domestic to as my should night. there's been a number of when enjoyed a boon, simply because the stallions have been reluctant to travel because of these border restriction. so the strain tourism groups have been struggling and i have a lot of work to do to try and get the number of international arrivals and tourists back to where they were prepared. demick. all right, sir. sarah clark, lifers. they're in prison. thanks. there are queen elizabeth the 2nd has tested positive for coven 19 bucking. palace, says she is experiencing mild sentence and will continue her duties to 95. your british monarch recently met her son prince charles days before he tested positive . and where we challenged has more from outside, buckingham palace on her condition. throw a brief statement from buckingham palace certainly gives the impression that the queen is not especially ill, that he's only got mild, cold, like symptoms,

cern's that she will carry on performing like duties at windsor castle over the coming week. as you would expect for a woman of her wealth and stature, she has a very good medical team around her and we'll be getting expert medical care professor. so hugh thomas is the head of the medical household and physician to the queen. he has a team of people as well. so it is they who will be most likely looking after the queen. but you have to realize that this is a 95 year old woman. and as we all know from the last 2 years or so, the older you get, the more risk you are of serious complications from covered 90 and her health has not been particularly good in recent months. she was forced to step back from many duties in october or with a bit of a health scare. then. it has also been a very, very bad here for the queen and for the royal family. she lost her husband's prince,

fitted back in april of last year. and there are, of course, the numerous scandals swelling around the royal family at the moment. prince andrew might in the jeffrey epstein sex scandal. he has reached a financial settlement with an american woman virginia to frey who to keep him sexual assault. and this prince charles, whose charity the princess foundation, is currently being investigated by police for perhaps financial impropriety, so not a good year for queen and the role family. most people, of course, will be wishing her a speedy recovery. all i still had on al jazeera is yolk year begins generating electricity from its grand renaissance down the trigger. the dispute with egypt ensued. the indian states of quin job boats for a new government. it was the hub of pharma protest that challenged prime minister in remote his popularity. ah

hello, there will start in north america and it remains bitterly cold across much of canada, edging down to northern areas of the us. and we are going to see that arctic cold plunged down further south, and that's going to knock temperatures down and bring wintery conditions to the northwest pacific. some of that snow edging down into california. and we'll see those temperatures deep down in that southwest corner. we've also got a weather system bringing more snow across the great lakes and into eastern parts of canada. now if we look at the temperature chart, we can see that arctic air coming down matching up with the warms coming up from the gulf of mexico. and when those 2 and masses collide, well, it is a recipe for some severe storms. we're expecting them to break out on, choose a, rumbling all the way towards the east coast know ahead of that will have some sunshine in places like new york city. if we have a look at the 3 day,

the temperatures well above the average here, there will be some rain coming in pay on tuesday as we move to central america. however, it's a much quieter. settled picture here. lots of sunshine for southern parts of mexico . scattered showers here and scattered showers for much of the caribbean with 30 degrees in havana and santo domingo on tuesday. that's the weather update. ah, ah, inculcate a culture of knowledge, openness, imperialism, world wide. i've to reward merit and excellence and encourage creativity. the shake ahmad award for translation and international understanding was found to promote translation and honor translators, and acknowledged that road and strengthening the bonds of friendship and co operation between arab islamic and wild coaches.

lou lou, the me again, you're watching, i just need a reminder of our top stories this out. the claim president is appealing for a c spy in the following 2 days of sustain shelling on the front line. one of the malesky is calling on russia's president to choose a place where the 2 leaders could meet bella ruth, has announced that russia has extended its military deployment. they're fighting, growing tension near the ukraine border around 30000 russian soldiers have been carrying out exercises in bellenger's britons. queen elizabeth has tested positive

cobra 19 fucking pallet has a 95 year old monitor is experiencing mild symptoms and will continue with her duties. i talked to revive the iran and nuclear deal are reported. lead nearing a final agreement in vienna, but into iran. 250 members of parliament had demanded 6 conditions are met before any deal is signed. they include a guarantee from the united states and european signatories, that they will not pull out of any new deal as president donald trump did. 4 years ago. the grand ethiopian renaissance damn has begun generating electricity for the 1st time. egypt and sudan know have opposed the big switch on for years. fearing reduced water flood saw to hide at reports 11 years and $5000000.00 in the making. dns a find the able to switch on electricity produced by their own giant dam. welcome distraction for prime minister abbe. i've made that war with rebel to gray and

forces in the north. a 145 meter high dam on and all rivers, main tributary. the blue now is designed to hold 74000000000 cubic meters of water . but africa's largest hydro electric power project is controversial and it's fiercely opposed by a few of his neighbors. is that you know, the officers, i got out the downstream countries, the brothers, the people of egypt and stood on the water will flow and the world must know that the dam was not affect them. all that was said about ethiopia seeking to prevent the flow of water was untrue, and we will not allow the people to starve or thirst. we seek integration between the 3 countries and a real partnership. both egypt and sedan say the damning of the blue, nor will cause severe water shortages for them. egypt responded on sunday, saying if there is persisting and violations over declaration, find in 2015 leaders inquiry. say the dam is an exist sensual threat to the

106000000 egyptians who are almost entirely reliance on the north river for irrigation and drinking water. while sedan 1st welcomed projects, it later voice similar concerns about that threat to national security. over the years talk sponsored by the african union, failed and construction still went ahead. the more that we see events like the one to tap into day begin to way too much. the more it becomes duma duma, that we can actually sit as friends and as fellow africans. and re solve this as a purely african problem. to says the hydro power generation is essential to the normal development in africa, the 2nd most populous country, both egypt and to dan are still pushing for legally binding deal, both the filling of the joint reservoir and it's operation. the height of al jazeera, at least 7 children have been killed in an air strike carry doubts in neesha by the

nie gerry and military. it's believe the attack was targeting all men who are hiding in a school in a village. in madeline for a district, an agency operating in the region confirmed several people were killed in the attack. there been several incidents of the nigerian military accidentally killing civilians in recent years. a families of those who died in the bay rude port blast nearly 2 years ago have been protesting against plans to rebuild the area. they shut down a major road in lebanon's capital, demanding a criminal investigation be completed. legal challenges filed by defendants had delayed investigators for month police in the pool of fatigue as to disburse protest as rallying against a u. s. funded infrastructure program. official say some demonstrators were injured in the march in the capital camp and do in us cooperation is providing $500000000.00 in grants to help pay for power lines and wrote improvements in the

pool critic say to deal undermines the countries laws and sovereignty. akash raj, quite allah is the editor, the associate editor, rather a republican english language daily newspaper. he explains why protest is concerned about the multi $1000000.00 project. there are few concerns. lego section of political parties opposed to this deal. and they have raised some reservation over some of the problems of the agreement. and one of the reservation that have some of the problems and in the meant actually trying to undermine the constitution. it just, you know, entity provisions prevail over in the constitution. that's what they say. and 2nd concern they have is it could be a part of us in the face of the strategy, which in the bible consider that that's a military strategy and it continues china and the political parties section of left is political parties. do not want this to happen. of course

u. s. government has already refuted that it is not part of any military strategy or any, any kind of military alliance. but then again, they have been protesting over some of the problems and we could see protest outside the parliament building and they were classes, police, personal and educating educators. u. s. government has already clarified that it's not part of any military, you know, thing, and this message does not include any military component. and in fact, the rules that govern mc c. friday morning. any going to be the military activities . so it has been clarified, time and again, but then leftist political parties, they have been insisting that governments non $35.00 to say we went to parliament without making some amendments in the, in the problems that are deemed construct controversial of voters in punjab, in northern india the latest to go to the polls in state assembly elections,

their farmers make up the states biggest voting block and their mass protest had forced the government to withdraw agricultural forms. it had pushed through parliament. and there's a foreign reports. it's the 1st election and pun jobs and farmers lead year long demonstrations against legislation. they feared would lead them at the mercy of large corporations. the once we were farmers is always a big issue in the state known as india breadbasket. but it's just one of many facing voters, hot of the division of inflation has hit us hard prices of cooking gas and food grains have been rising for some time earning isn't enough. what's kind of family that owns only $100.00 a month and on mason guys. so we want the next government to ensure better education for all our studies have suffered for the past 2 years. and we expect the next government to ensure our study don't suffer anymore,

despite forcing the government to withdraw its controversial changes to agriculture laws far as leaders say, they haven't been able to raise others serious challenges facing the state prices, the prices and the gradient, along with the issues of ecology, environment, depleting, water table and hell have all gone missing in this election. no one raised these issues and the unity of farmers wasn't strong enough to make it happen. political analysts say that might benefit from ministers in de modi's hindu nationalist by the jump, the party, the b j. p is campaigning on security issues in the state which borders park of thumb summer that the guard off the water state guard of drawn god, god of insecurity for a particular community has played a role. and in the last and days there have been able to communicate and gather a particular community what, what should in the common or the fortune the battle in punjab is between the

incumbent congress party. a regional organisation court should owe money alcholay dull, which might partner with the b j, p. and am od me or common man party. if any is main opposition party the congress, lose power here in punjab? it would be a devastating blow for india's oldest political party, if only holds power and 3 of the countries $28.00 states. india's largest state author probation is also holding elections. staying in power, there would give the b, j p, a major boost in his bid for a 3rd successive victory in the next national election and 2024, defeat an author, probation, or an any of the other 3 states which also vote this month would increase pressure on the b, j. p. it's leaders are already face and criticism for high unemployment and their response to the co. the 19 pandemic elizabeth koran m al jazeera battiata up and

job of the beijing winter game winter olympics, have wrapped up in spectacular style. organizers say the games ran smoothly, but a doping scandal that's yet to be resolved is said to have tarnished china's big occasion. katrina, you reports from beijing ah, dancing snowflakes and a technicolor light show flooded beijing's birds nest stadium. as the city said, good bye to the 2022 winter olympics. china's president, she didn't ping, presided over sunday evenings closing ceremony, while olympians paraded to the stadium to the tune of beethoven's ode to joy. the head of the international olympic committee commended the athletes for displaying a spirit of unity. re the political leaders around the world be inspired by your example of solidarity and peace. after 2 weeks of intense competition, norway topped the metal tally with 16 golds german athletes, wood,

horbeth, 12 and horse nation china, 19. it's highest gold middle count at any went to games. 17 year old snow border screaming catapulted to fame by winning both gold and silver. it could be, it could be casing. i was so happy that i was able to accomplish the goals and the challenges i set for myself. the winter lumpy, so fill it with the best athletes in the world. but not all metal winners went home with their prize. figure skating teams from russia. the united states and japan must wait for the results of a doping investigation into camilla valley ava. an inquiry which could take months and other similar kind of money at the meadows or money for the figure skating team, competition has been suspended. therefore, our athletes are not able to bring the meadows back to japan, which i think is a shame. the 15 year old russian gold medal favorite was allowed to continue

competing despite testing positive for a bad substance. her final performance ended and stumbles tears and a cold reception by her coaches. for many, the camilla valley ever doping scandal has tarnished the image and credibility of the olympics. many athletes have criticized the organizes to failing to catch the russians positive test before the games and the subsequent decision to allow her to compete. organizes have down play the scandal hailing the event a success, especially in controlling corvette 19 infections. thousands of foreign participants were kept separate from the chinese public. inside the bubble, around $450.00 positive tests for the virus. including athletes who were forced to withdraw from competition. many will be relieved to end their time under strict tammy controls, who from here to winter olympics had to mon cortinez in italy, howard for his time clearly told katrina you out is irritating.

ah. all right, let's get her out of the top stories on al jazeera, the cranium president is appealing for a cease fire in the east following 2 days of sustained shelling on the front lines . walla jimmie zalinski is calling on russia's president to choose a place where the 2 leaders could meet. belarus has announced russia has extended its military deployment. they're citing growing tension near the cranium border around 30000 russian soldiers been carrying out exercises embellish andrew simmons has more. we're hearing the goods putin was so very much pointing the issue of the ukraine.