repair for their job, i try to do the same then minutes later, once the earth is just a blur below, it's time to free fall. ah president joe biden. and that a man who can agree in principle to a summit on the ukraine crisis. soft, a diplomatic push by france. meanwhile, the cranium president is appealing for sci fi on the east following days of sustain shelly on the front lines. ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. this is al jazeera live from to also coming up australia opens up to vaccinated tourism business travelers for the 1st time in the 2 years. and how

the rivalry between the u. s. and china is playing out in the pool as protest as march against an american funded project. ah, a diplomatic pop 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. presidents joe biden, and vladimir putin accept it in principle, to hold a summit over ukraine. the format will be prepared by their foreign ministers on thursday. jab baton si, 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 that 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 ahead of that

meeting. the us secretary of state reaffirmed that despite the president's announcement diplomacy was still an option until it settled until we know that the, the tanks rolling, the planes are flying and the aggression has, has fully begun. we're going to do everything we kind of prevented, but we're prepared either way and we're prepared with a responsive will have massive consequences for russia. it actually carries the through. lincoln said he hoped a forthcoming meeting this week with his russian counterpart would address both preventing war and addressing mutual security concerns for the us, europe and russia in dollars. the russian and ukrainian basset 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 agreement, which was designed permanently to stop the war and ukraine east. by among other things, given the region some autonomy, the united states, easy to stop such crisis. you have to dissuade a key to who you means. 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 invade to 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 not specific when the president was on friday, she advertised the al jazeera washington, the cranium president is appealing for sci fi on the east following days of sustain shilling on the front lines to the north, an estimated 30000 russian soldiers have had their mission in bella. rufe extended indefinitely. saying basra, the admiral 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 bella, 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 described as russian provocation. and august would provoke from the testing of reaction forces will 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 heard, therefore, recreated and appropriate grouping of troops if need be. we'll bring an appropriate response to the presidents of bella. ruth and russia met in moscow 2 days ago. president alexander lucas shinkel is a close russian allies. 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 in 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's north south and east. there extended mission in bella, luce only the latest warning sign that western leader, se points to an eminent full scale russian invasion of ukraine vein basra. b o. d 0 pita crowley, the former us assistant secretary of state. he says a diplomatic solution is still possible. i think what, what everyone's trying to do here is not only to help put and understand that would be a cost. should he invade ukraine, but also trying to put on the table. you know, something that might be important to him. you know, the dilemma here is that he's what he's demanded, which is ukraine. make

a commitment never to joy data or do you and have some sway in the positioning of forces on nato a territory. those are non starters, from a lion standpoint. so i think it is useful for western leaders to continue to try to say ok, if not this, what else can we help you with, you know, to try to convince you that or what's happening in ukraine and west of ukraine does not pose a threat to russia, there have been constructive discussions about resurrecting treaties that have lapsed other confidence, building measures transparency in terms of, of operations on data territory. you know, those i think have value. but at the end of the day, this is a crisis that vladimir putin has created. he has assembled

a formidable military force surrounding ukraine, and it will be his decision as to whether he carries out the invasion or not. australia is opening its borders up to the 2 years to fully vaccinated tourists, visitors will not need to sell. isolate bo was not double jammed, require a travel exemption to enter and would be subject to quarantine. a government closed the country off to the rest of the world in march 2020, to control the spread of kobe 19. since then, the australians have been bogged from leaving. sarah clark has moved from president airport. we've seen some emotional jubilant sayings. we've seen reunions within a tourist returning to australia 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 and 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 $1000000.00 tourist 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 australia as well as the international students, mid december. and of course, as you mentioned, the strains even had to seek exemptions to travel and that was lifted in the last a 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 feigns emotional things with people or the reuniting or tourist simply returning to australia for the 1st time in a couple of years. but i should know that the tourism australia has noted the day to have a very big job in the hands to try and convince the stallions and as well as tourist to returned with struggle after these tough border restrictions. because there are concerns, of course, that those borders may be slam shut once again. queen elizabeth the 2nd this tested

positive because 199 is reported to have miles symptoms fucking a pallet, so she will continue carrying out light duties. the 95 year old british monarch recently met her son, prince charles, just days before he tested positive recovered 19, where we challenged as more for outside buckingham palace. throw a brief statement from buckingham palace, suddenly gives the impression that the queen is not especially ill, that she's only got miles cold like symptoms and 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 randa, and will be getting expert medical care. professor s a. hugh thomas is the head of the medical house, alden, physician to the queen. he has a team of people as well, so it is day he 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 a serious complications from coven 19 and her health has not been particularly good . in recent months, she was forced to step back from many g t's in october 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, fit it 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 fray who to keep him sexual assault. and this prince charles, whose charity the prince is foundation, is currently being investigated by police for perhaps financial impropriety. so not a good year for the queen and the royal family. most people, of course,

will be wishing her a speedy recovery talks to revive the iran nuclear deal. reportedly nearing a final agreement in vienna, but in terror on 250 m. p. 's of demanded 6 conditions be met before any deal is signed. thank you to guarantee from the us and european signatories, that they will not pull out of any new deal as president donald trump did. 4 years ago, rachel said, has more now from tara. there's ab statement that has been released by the rent parliament to day is not a mandatory one. it's not binding for the negotiators and for the government. rather, the statement is a recommend dietrie statement emphasizing some of the white issues that have been the main, the main, the cock computations between the 2 parties. you run your site and the, the other negotiating countries. so the, the parliament statement is focusing on the all the numbers in the will of all the sanctions,

not only those where which are related to the nuclear file. but the parliament think that the americans and the other western powers must give assurance to the iranian side. that they are going to also remove the functions that are related to the human rights violations iran, nissan program. so one, 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 verification. that means that 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 the 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 particular the u. s. a. to give to guarantee to your ronnie and that in case of a deal, this deal is going to go beyond by then administration. and it is going to give the guarantee running that the next administration is not going to come and cancel

official break out 0. when we come back, a survivors found a lawyer on board agreed ferry that's been on fire for days on ethiopia. starts generating pilot. the grand renaissance, but egypt on saddam say the projects with supply more than ah hello there. let's got in southern africa and madagascar is once again bracing for another flight clone. it's expected to make land full 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 are expecting, flooding, rains, damaging winds, and of course, a 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,

or 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 much dry. a picture we've got the hamilton winds blowing those hot conditions to places like toto and bikini fossa, where we've seen nearly record highs of the past few days. it's gonna 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 grounds. rain as well. it's trickling down into q weight and we are going to see a small wind that kicks in across the gulf, bringing temperatures down by tuesday, that should weather update. ah,

the day you decide to do something for the 1st time. and make day anything bigger. when a day or ah ah, welcome back, a quick reminder that top stories here, this are the white house as president biden has accepted in principle, a french brokerage summit, russian president vladimir putin. if russia does not invade ukraine earlier,

the ukrainian president of p for cease fire in the east bed roosters announced russia has extended its military deployment. they're citing growing tensions near the border with ukraine. around 30000 russian soldiers have been carrying out exercises in the roofs. and australia is opening its borders up to me 2 years to fully vaccinated tourists. visitors not double job, will require a travel exemption to enter. and lead to quarantine. no violence on the streets of care is still fresh in the memory of many ukrainians this weekend is the 8 anniversary of the crackdown on demonstrations in the city that led to what became known as naep. my dan revolution that caused the fall of the pro russian government in power at the time. as andro, simmons reports from care. all right, 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 the 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 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 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 for, 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 keith. but his prime minister boris johnson, is threatening moscow with sanctions if it invades ukraine. and he says he could reveal the ownership of companies and properties in the u. k. according to anti corruption, watchdog transparency international u. k. london has become a global hub for money laundering. new figures reveal that $2000000000.00 worth of russian done property in the u. k. as links to the kremlin or to corruption. and in

48 cases of russian, money laundering more than 2000 companies are registered to the u. k. or it's offshore tax havens like the british virgin islands. these cases involve more than a $111000000000.00 worth of funds were been judah is from the atlantic councils. europe center. he says, sanctions will be a blow to russia, but they wouldn't be crippling in a london global financial sense. unfortunately, the united kingdom and its overseas territories have become a center of money laundering over the last few decades. this principally takes place for anonymous shell companies and especially through money laundering for residential property, which has been a really widely seen phenomenon in london. a would be a significant hit to the russian economy. if russia's leading companies were unable to access debt or financing in the city of london or the western financial censors

bart's it would be less of a hit than if this met, kind of measure had been undertaken when russian aggression on ukraine began in 2014. because over the past few years, russia has tried to sanction prove its finances and its economy. it would be a serious blow, but it would not by any means be crippling long. i think that the decision that pertain will take will be influenced by many faxes of which this will be a small but not in consequential talk. every ally right now is trying to play a different role. france is trying to lead negotiations of peach in the united states is trying to kind of rally the nato blog person's been trying to boost ukrainian morale and complain. important role on finances. but none of the major european countries are in any put any utterly decisive position. to change the

politics of this, of course. a passenger has been found alive on board a fairy that's been on fire near the greek island of co food since friday. another man was found dead. 10 others remained missing. mitchell, regaining the reports. 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 been a ruth 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 him a bradshaw now this morning we had very good news. and a 21 year old bell ruffian citizen came to our hospital. he was in very good shape you. it's all he underwent medical examination stuff, he was re hydrated and went through additional tests. his rescue has renewed hopes that all the missing passages may still be alive. this woman's come to the port

hoping to hear news about her husband, is i, he's a life. he's a professional, he's very experienced and capable, and he's alive. i'm telling you with certainty, every not 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. they know, on a subtle hudgens, was somebody just always, 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, only 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. tug boats 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 police in the pool of fire tear gas to disperse protest as running against a u. s. funded infrastructure program. official say some demonstrators were injured during the march in the capitol cap. man, do a u. s. corporations providing $500000000.00 in grants to help pay for power lines and road improvements in the pool? critic say the deal undermines the countries laws and sovereignty or cos. raj corolla is the associate editor, a republican, that's an english language, daily newspaper. he explained why protest is concerned about the 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 us in the pacific strategy, which enabled consider that their so military strategy and it containing china and this political ideas are fictional, left, his political type. if 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 or protest outside the parliament building and they were classes when police. ready 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. drive, eat, eat, or funding any games have been in military activities. so it has been clarified,

diamond again, but then left his political parties that had been insisting that government so not ratify the segment to parliament without making some amendments in the, in the provident that are deemed construct. controversial clearly has stepped up military patrols on its border with been the via as part of a clamp down a migration. last week, the government declared a state of emergency after an increase in migrants entering the country. hundreds of undocumented people have since been sent back. some people living in chinese border areas of protested against the migrants and blame them for rising crime. the dominican republic has started building a new wall that will cover nearly half its border with haiti. president louis sonata hopes the construction would stop a legal migration, as well as drugs and weapons smuggling, about half a 1000000 people from haiti, or in the dominican republic. many more often crossed the border to look for work. a bernard estimates the 1st phase of the wall should be completed within 9 months.

the ground ethiopian renaissance, bam has begun generating electricity for the very 1st time. egypt and sudan, the have opposed the big switch on for you saying it'll reduce their water supplies . sarah purple's 11 years and $5000000000.00 in the making a few 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 is that you know, the officers, i got outs, 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, as therapy is persisting in its violations of a declaration signed in 2015 leaders in cairo, say the dam is in 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 create the one that happened today begin to where to emerge. the more it becomes d, my, a duma, that we can actually sit as friends and as fellow africans and pre solve these as

a purely african problem. here to says the hydro power generation is essential to ethanol, mc development in africa, 2nd most populous country. both egypt and sudan are still pushing for a legally binding deal on both the filling of the giant reservoir. and it's operation certified at altos air ah, direct, which are the headlines here in our 0, the white house as president biden as accepted in principal, a french brokerage summit with russian president vladimir putin. if russia doesn't grade ukraine? earlier the ukranian president appealed for sci fi and the east falling days of sustained shelling on the front lines shall be tansy as more from washington dc. it's the agreement in principle to a summit, but florida to summit about ukraine. the elisa palo says this is a summit.