leading by chemist determined to use his scientific knowledge to serve africa. women make science from the lab to the field are now to sierra. ah. ready residents, joe biden, and vladimir putin agree in principle, to hold a summit on the crane crisis after a diplomatic push by france. meanwhile, the ukrainian president is appealing for sci fi in the east following days, and sustained shunning on the front. ah, hello, i'm geron, jordan, this is al jazeera, nice from dough are also coming up, australia opens up to vaccinated tourism business travelers for the 1st time at almost 2 years. and now the rivalry between the us and china is playing out in the

pool as protest as march against an american funded project. ah, a diplomatic path out of the crisis and ukraine appears to remain open despite an increase in fighting in the east and further reports of russian troop movements along the border. presidents joe biden and vladimir putin have accepted in principle to hold a summit over ukraine. the format will be prepared by their foreign ministers on thursday. she returns the reports from washington dc. we have reasonably, the russian forces are planned into an intend to attack ukraine. on friday, joe biden stumped. many of the u. s. s. allies by categorically stating the lobby, mo brewton had made up his mind to invade ukraine. in the coming days. and on sunday, the president convened a meeting of his national security council to discuss the situation i had about meeting the u. s. secretary of state reaffirmed that despite the president's

announcement diplomacy was still an option. wait until it settled until we know that the tanks rolling. the planes are flying and of the aggression has, has fully begun. we're going to do everything we can to prevented. but we're prepared either way, and we're prepared with a response. it will have massive consequences for russia if it actually carries the through. lincoln said he hoped, are forthcoming. meeting this week with russian counterpart would address both preventing war and addressing mutual security concerns for the us, europe and russia in dollars. the russian and ukrainian. i'm back to this to the u . s. were also on the sunday talk to a circuit. i'm totally, anton, of denied any invasion of ukraine was planned. he said moscow's priority was the implementation of the minster agreements, which was designed permanently to stop the war and ukraine east. by among other things, given the region some autonomy, united states, easy to stop such crisis, you have to dissuade a key to who you need agreement that phone,

ukrainian ambassador said whether russia invaded or not. the country was already at war, but still held out the possibility of a diplomatic solution. we call in, not only on the grass, which is russia, but also, and all of our friends and allies to get together and use every opportunity to still deter russia from invasion over the discussion as always, the u. s. as passed declarations in the run up to war. how confident are you given what's happened in the past with afghanistan with iraq? are you absolutely confident in the intelligence you're seeing now? we have high confidence and in, in the things that we're looking at, of course, you know, in terms of being able to predict exactly what's going to happen going for jay, you know, you never came a friend to say that the summit agreed to in principle by the us and russia won't just be about ukraine, but about security and strategic stability in europe as

a whole. the white house, as it was always committed to diplomacy, as long as there was no invasion but added as far as it was concerned, it was still seeing preparations for a russian assault very soon, but it's less specific when the president was on friday. she advertised the al jazeera washington. meanwhile, the ukranian president, his appealing proceed fi and the east following days of sustained shilling on the front lines to the north, an estimated 30000 russian soldiers about their mission in better, whose extended indefinitely famous rodney has no 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 their western allies describe as russian provocation, who regular and august would produce. the testing of reaction forces would 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 outline. the strategic advantage of having russian troops in belarus is just one more reason. analysts say president vladimir putin has the upper head. this invasion force has been mast 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 liberty, 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 weight an estimated 100. 90000 russian troops at a heightened state of alert. are now to ukraine, north, south and east. their extended mission in bella, luce, only the latest warning side in western liter say points to an imminent full scale russian invasion of ukraine. zane basra, v o g 0 valence on the streets of care. the still fresh in the memory of ukrainians this weekend is the 8th anniversary of the crackdown on demonstrations in the city center. the protests had led to the fall of the pro russian government that was in power at the time. as andro, simmons reports from give ordinary people say that just like in 2014, that 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 part of regime a young cor, each and just a wall. it's a russian federation. and of course, putting on the morning of february, the 20th 2014, a truce was broken as please 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 is 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 her. ah, all asa ukrainian, people are ready for this and it's most important. protect our country, our families and, ah, for this, we did everything. what we, we can, more than 14000 lives already lost in conflict. vladimir and many others know only too well. the human costs so far could be dwarfed by all out war. andrew simmons al jazeera kiff. what does pine high level trilateral talks plan for monday, russian ships are already moving into see of as of which sits between ukraine and russia. russian military has declared the region of limits with naval drill, set to begin in the coming out with a strain is opening its borders. after nearly 2 years to fully vaccinated tourists,

visitors will not need to survive. isolate those not double job will require a travel exemption. to enter and will be subject to quantity. government close the country after the rest of the world in march 2020. to control the spread of coven 19 since then, australia had been barred from leaving sarah clark as the latest from brisbin. ethel. we've seen some emotional jubilant, same's we've seen reunions within a tourist, returning to a strategy for the 1st time and around $704.00 days. you might recall those borders but close back in march at 2020. now it's still on a small scale, a number of people coming in. there are only 50 overseas or international flights arriving in australia on monday. so that's tiny or microscopic in comparison to the numbers we were saying pre pandemic. but we do know that around 1000000 tourists bases have been issued this month and i should not also, this is the last phase of those borders. reopening we had the skilled and migrant workers. they are allowed to return to

a study as well as the international students, mid december. and of course, as you mentioned astronomy and even had to seek exemptions to travel and that was lifted in the last couple of months. so we've had some of the toughest border restrictions in place in australia for almost 2 years. and on monday, today we've seen fantastic st. emotional things with people are the reuniting or tourist simply returning to australia for the 1st time in a couple of years. but i should know that the tourism estrella has noted the day to have a very big job on their hands to try and convince the stallions and as well as tourist to return to a struggle after these tough board restrictions. because there are concerns, of course, that the borders may be slammed shut once again. pretty lives, but the 2nd tested positive covered 19 that is reported to have miles symptoms. fucking a pallet says she will continue carrying out light duties. the 95 year old, but his monarch recently met her son, prince charles, just days before he tested positive. because 19,

at least 7 children have been killed in an asteroid carried out by nigeria as military in new year. it's believe the attack talk to the armed men hiding in a school in the village. in my room for district an agency operating in the region confirm several people were killed. a number of incidents of the military accidentally killing civilians have taken place in recent years. what's more, so to come here and i'll just say including ethiopia starts generating paula from renaissance, dumb, dumb. so don't say the project threatens and, and hope of greener pastures. farmers in indonesia tell us why them again tourism, for stability or that ah, ah, look forward to skies with sponsored point cutoff at ways. hello there. let's got in southern africa and madagascar is once again bracing for

another sy clone. it's expected to make land for on tuesday. it's a pretty powerful storm, gaining intensity as it move north away from maricia and re union island. if we look at the stats, it is going to be pretty powerful. we're expecting, flooding, rains, damaging winds, and of course storm surge. now further west of this, if we take a closer look at southern africa, it's pretty dry for much of south africa and botswana for the west to whether we have to look to eastern areas tanza near and northern areas of mozambique, expecting to see some other dramatic storms kicking in by tuesday for the north. this is the much dry a picture. we've got the hamilton. * winds blowing those hot conditions to places like togo and became faso, where we've seen nearly record highs over the past few days. it's going to be wet and windier as we go into tuesday, across coastal areas of libya and egypt and for the middle east, there's another weather system that's pulling its way across iran, bringing some heavy snow to higher ground rain as well. it's trickling down into q

weight and we are going to see a shamar wind that kicks in across the gulf, bringing temperatures down by tuesday. that should weather update. oh, the weather sponsored by cataract ways, dictatorships to democracies. activists to corporations, control of the message is crucial. oil companies have become very good at recognizing ways to phrase what they want into here. we care about the environment you do to issued by our oil plea for public opinion or profit. once you make people afraid, you can use that to justify stripping away basic civil liberties. listening post examined the vested interest behind the content you consume on al jazeera. ah

ah, welcome back. i could come out of the top stories here. they saw the white house as president biden as accepted in principle, a french brokerage summit with russian president vladimir putin. if russia doesn't invade ukraine, early, other ukrainian presidents appeal for a cease fire in the east. well, a roost of announce russia has extended its military deployment. they're citing growing tensions near the border with ukraine around 30000 russian soldiers. i've been cutting out tex sizes in bella, roofs, and australia is opening its borders up only 2 years to fully vaccinated tourists. visitors not double job, require a travel exemption to enter and will be subject to quarantine. performance talks to revive the iran nuclear deal are reportedly nearing a final agreement in vienna, but in terror on $250.00 m p's of demanded. 6 conditions are met before any deal is signed. they include

a guarantee from the u. s. and european signatories. they will not call out of any new deal as president donald trump did. 4 years ago. wrestle said has more now few terror. there is ab statement that has been released by the running parliament today is not a mandatory one. it's not binding for the negotiators and for the government. rather, the statement is a recommendation. very statement emphasizing some of the white issues that have been the main, the main, the cock confrontations between the 2 parties. you run your site and the, the other negotiating countries. so the, the parliament statement is focusing on the all new, but we'll of all the sanctions, not only those which are related to the nuclear file, but the parliament thing that the americans and the other western powers must give assurance to the iranian side that they are going to also remove the sanctions that are related to the human rights violations. you run the science program. so what

they're asking for that as well. so all the sections to be removed. and 2nd one, they're asking about the what if occasion, late revocation. that means that's not the guarantees on the, on the papers, but we need to see them practically on the ground that there's this part is this companies are removing the sanctions and you see the practical implication of them or the implementation of that on the ground as well, and the 3rd one is the guarantees, when they say guarantee, they mean that particularly the u. s. a. to give the guarantee to iranian, that in case of a deal, this deal is going to go beyond by the administration. and it is going to give the guarantee running that the next administration is not going to come and cancel. a passenger has been found a lie. yvonne bought a ferry that's been on fire near the green garland of cool food since friday. another man was found dead. 10 others remained missing corrugated ruffles. a greek coast guard boat arrives in coffee harbor on board is

a passenger rescued from the euro ferry olympia, which caught fire on friday. the 21 year old truck driver from better roofs told rescue as he'd heard the voices of all the passengers as he escaped from his cabin to the upper deck of the ferry. he's now recovering in hospital with us in my room and i have my credit on now this morning we had very good news. and a 21 year old bel ruffian citizen came to our hospital. he was in very good shape. you thought he underwent medical examinations that he was re hydrated and went through additional tests. his rescue has renewed hopes that other missing passages may still be alive. this woman's come to the port hoping to hear news about her husband is on time now. he's alive. he's a professional, he's very experienced and capable, and he's alive. i'm telling you with certainty, every action has to be taken immediately. how much longer can all those people in that barret? these passages with some of the 1st,

to be rescued from the burning ferry, arriving home in italy, they said they were traumatized by what they'd experienced, then ran on his uncle hudgens for somebody. this little was, it wasn't easy. i'm a strong person used to fighting, but this time the fear was great. when you start to see the smoke, when you can't breathe, any more people are falling to the ground. small children in a situation like that, you can't understand unless you've lived that firefighters boarded the fairy for the 1st time on sunday morning. they been delayed by temperatures of up to 600 degrees celsius. tugboats have now secured the vessel, but the authorities of worried weather conditions may deteriorate for the hampering the rescue operation. victoria gate and b al jazeera, the grandees, he up in renaissance dam has begun generating electricity for the 1st time aged amsterdam oppose. the big switch on for years, fearing reduced water flow. sarah high right reports 11 years and $5000000000.00

in the making. your pins are finally able to switch on electricity produced by their own giant dan. 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 soup. his neighbors. you thought, 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 will 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 sudan fear the damning of the blue now will

cause severe water shortages for them. egypt responded on sunday, saying a therapy is persisting in its violations of a declaration signed in 2015 leaders in cairo. say the dam is an exist then sure threat to the 106000000 egyptians who are almost entirely reliance on the north river for irrigation and drinking water. while sedan 1st welcomed the dam projects it later voice similar concerns about its 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 created the one that happened today begin to where to emerge. the more it becomes d, my, a duma, that we're going to actually sit as friends and as fellow africans and resolve this has a purely african problem. yep. he says the hydro power generation is essential to can amik development in africa, 2nd most populous country, both egypt since to dana,

still pushing for legally binding deal on both the filling of the giant reservoir. and it's operation certified at altos, air, police, and the pool of fire tear gas to disperse, protest as running against a u. s. funded infrastructure program. official say some demonstrates were injured during the march and the capital cat man. do a u. s. corporation providing $500000000.00 in grants to help pay for power lines and road improvements in the bull critic se the deal undermines the countries laws and sovereignty will cost. raj corolla is the associate editor of republican and english language newspaper explained why protests are concerned about the multi $1000000.00 project. there are few concerns like a section of political parties. staff goes to this deal. and there is some reservation over some of the problems of their agreement. and one of the reservation to have is some of the pros and in the agreement actually tried to undermine nipples constitution. it did just, you know, em,

sissy provisions prevail over near past constitution. that's what they, she and 2nd concern they have is it could be a part of a u. s. in the pacific strategy, which in near bol, consider that there. so military strategy aimed it containing china and this political parties are section of left his political party. they 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 laid protesting over the sum of the provisions. and we could see a protest outside the parliament building and they were classes when police, personal and educating educators. u. s. government has already clarified that it's not part of any military, you know, seeing, and this em says he does not include any military components. and in fact, the rules that govern m. c. c. private ido,

finding any gains have been in military activities. so it has been clarified, diamond again, but then left his political parties that had been insisting that government should not ratify the sag remain to parliament without making some amendments in the, in the provident, that are deemed construct controversial. indonesia is working to revive its pandemic hip tourism industry. regular direct flights to the popular definition of barley resume this month. while many on the island have eagerly awaited the return of foreign travellers. some question, the stability of the tourism industry just got washington reports. the highlands of barley have long attracted tourists visit has come here for the cool climate and to see barley's famous rice fields. but these fields and farms are more than just a tourist attraction. they provided a lifeline for the thousands who lost their jobs when the travellers stopped coming because of covert 19. kodak used to be a tool guide. now he farms cabbages,

head of the man. i don't want to go back to tourism. i want to continue to be a farmer. he says he is happier than before, and prefers the independence of his new life. pandemic restrictions, broad financial hardship to many here and valley. now as the island reopens for international travelers, some say they want more than just a return to the way things were before the community groups have helped form a tourism work is learn how to far, many things can destroy the threesome. but for the cutter is very strong. so we focus carter and some disciplines today. so dita used to work in a nightclub as a bartender. he says he's using his hospitality experience to set up an agro tourism venture, offering farm tours and camping. he wants to be an entrepreneur,

not an employee. me good bye. let's look at it. i won't go back to tourism full time. we can have tours here and do it in our own way. when we by li tourism authority, say the pandemic has brought hard lessons that needed to be learned. none put in one basket. this is the 1st land. and then 2nd land is we have to be. so 5, newman ariano sales close to foreign tourists near barley's could have beach though these days. she hardly has any customers. she hopes her children won't be as reliant on tourism dollars as she years. yeah. once i'm among, i depend on tourism because that's all i can do. if something happens to tourism again, my children have the skills to do something else and young as the island prepares to welcome visitors again, many say the pandemic has taught them valuable lessons. they will never forget

jessica washington, out to 0 barley the blazing winter olympics have wrapped up in spectacular style. organizers say the gains ran smoothly, but a doping scandal that's yet to be resolved, may have tarnish china's big occasion. katrina, you reports from beijing ah, dancing snowflakes and a technicolor like show flooded bathing 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 olympia is 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. may 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 would harm with 12 and horse nation china. 19. it's highest gold middle count at any went to games. 17 year old snowboard assuming 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 that goes and the challenges i set for myself, the winter lumpy, so feel 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. it had a similar kind of money at the meadows or money for the figure skating team competition that has been suspended. therefore, our athletes are not able to bring the matters 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 and didn't stumbles tears and a cold reception by her coaches. for many the camilla value of the doping scandal has tarnished the image and credibility of the olympics. many athletes have criticized the organizes for 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 corbett 19 infections. thousands of foreign participants were kept separate from the chinese public inside the bubble around $450.00 positive tests. but the virus, including athletes who were forced to withdraw from competition. many will be relieved to end their time under strict pandemic controls. who from here to winter olympics had to milan cortinez in italy in 4 years time clearly told katrina you al,

jazeera, updating, well 50000 blooms are on show in southern frauds, the annual battle of the flowers parade in nice states back a 150 years the highly decorated for floats are part of a 2 week carnival that runs until next weekend. ah, i have a quick check of the top stories here. this are the white house as president biden as accepted in principal, a french broker summit with russian president vladimir putin. if russia does not invade ukraine earlier, the ukranian president appealed for a cease fire in the east following days of sustained shelling on the front lines. job returns he has more now from washington, dc. it's the agreement in principle to osama, but florida to formidable.