jazeera what happens the in the yard. 1 has implications all around the world. it's international perspective with the human touch zooming way in and then pulling back out again. ah. ready the russian president vladimir putin says he'll decide in the coming hours on the demand to recognize rebel held eastern regions of ukraine as independent republics. a dangerous escalation. moscow says it's killed 5 people from ukraine who tried to breech its border. kia calls it faith needs. i hello and welcome. i and peter w. watching else are alive from also coming up on his 1st trip to capture the

iranian presidents as talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal will not succeed unless the us proves its will by lifting sanctions. and after nearly 2 years, fortress, australia fully reopens its borders to vaccinated international businesses. ah, the russian president vladimir putin says a decision on whether to recognize the independence of rebel held areas of eastern ukraine will be made within hours. mister putin said that at an extraordinary meeting of the russian security council, the areas in question landscape and nets have been held by pro russian separatist forces for almost 8 years. nationally to the goal of this meeting is to lay out our future plans. and then we will have in mind the fact that the governments of the

done yes can do, has republics have asked to do matt, to accept their requests, to have their independence recognized. and the assembly will respond to that request. all these matters are closely related to global problems of security in the world and europe in particular. because using ukraine as a tool of confrontation is a big threat. that's exactly why in recent months we've asked good work with washington and nato to come to an agreement unsecured matter. well, that's a nice one, came barely an hour after moscow said it killed 5 people from ukraine who had breaching its border in the rust off region. ukrainian military saying, but russian assertions were fake news. allan fisher, his life in washington were president biden's expected to meet his national security team. not in barbara is live in london with all the you reaction or to come eat is on the ukrainian side of the region of the next 1st life to moscow and corresponded there. bernard smith, if recognition comes bernard and we think it will, or it probably will, what does it mean? was

a very significant step, the most significant step, really, since this or conflict. since vladimir putin started building up troops along the border with ukraine, it means that if he recognizes or donates can le ganske as independent states, essentially, then that gives him the ability to send his troops in because vladimir putin, the leaders of those 2 independent publics, might request help from what they would see as ukrainian aggression. remember, this is ukrainian sovereign territory. there are $800000.00 russian passport holders in these 2 areas, which are want to be clare, which want the kremlin to declare them as independent. putin could. justifiably, he would say, go in to protect those people from ukraine in aggression. it has to be said that while vladimir putin has said he will reach a decision to day monday on whether to recognize those 2 areas, le ganske,

under that sc as independent. he might not necessarily tell us the rest of the world. what that decision is. he might be keeping that hit those cards close to his chest. there is a potential summit meeting with vladimir that with joe biden further down the line and a meeting with sir gay, love rob, and answer the blink and the u. s. sexual state on thursday. so the russians might want to just keep that information back for now. and once you're reading of these russian claims, bernard talking about this military encroachment either near or across the border, which ended reportedly with 5 deaths. yeah, the russian say they seized a intercepted or some sort of reconnaissance mission by the ukrainians to vehicles armored vehicles of ukrainians or, or the russian se crossed into russ stove, yet, russian territory on the other side of the border. the russians also say they captured a ukrainian soldier, ukraine's dismiss this as fake news. we have no way ourselves of independently

verifying what the russians are saying. but it again, answer to this build up are, these are this build up of what the russians say are threats at to then from ukraine and another opportunity for the russian to say we have to defend our territory. bernard, thank you very much. bernard smith there i corresponded in moscow hood i bill hamid is in constant in his car in easton, ukraine. difficult to know for sure. i know harder, but what do we think is going on on the front line there? well certainly there are several reports of her shelling ongoing in several points along that contact lines, especially in the areas that the border between the 2 sides into denette region. now the internet is, has been intensifying over the past few days that been moments of love,

but then they also have been moments of intense challenge. we are also hearing that there's a several loud explosions that were heard in don yes, itself, that's the capital of the self proclaimed republic of done yet. so she's about 90 kilometers away from here. now we have no way of finding out where, who is behind those 2 exposures, or what exactly happened. the separate as leaders say that this is coming from the ukranian side. but ukraine keeps on denying that it's firing in that direction. as you do have these 2 narratives that have been, has been ongoing for quite a while now, and it's very difficult to figure out exactly what's happening. ukraine saying that is actually, those are all false flags that russia has been carrying out enders, self proclaimed republics to increase attention and to maybe provoke ukraine in to

carry out something that would then turn into a full military escalation to get the sense, the harder that the separatists who hold these 2 regions whilst they hold less than the we're holding. if we look back over the past 8 years, i guess also that they have been waiting for kremlin recognition all along. oh they have been waiting for that ever since they made that push back in 2014. i mean at the time i was in that side and they were saying that a, you know, a vladimir putin will be coming. where do these booty will be supporting them and will be also recognizing them? so that is something they have been waiting for a long time. and it's not as a surprise that today, both of the leaders of the, you know, the to sell play republics have done yes. and against came out more or less ad the same time, asking russia to recognize them. they do coordinate really on every thing. they

do now, i did die back in 2014 and is actually on the charges still. they won the entire region of done yet and look as at the moment that only hold about a 3rd of those ridges. well, they, according to what they called the historical borders. they would want a much more than that included where i'm standing now and constantine if at some point it had fallen under their control. and then the ukraine enforcers pushed them back in july, 2014. so you do have a lot of fear now among ukrainians. if that indeed happens, and if there is that official recognition, how far would it go? what would happen next? would that embolden to separate as to try to push further to get to those historical borders a day? talk about this doesn't come as a surprise to ukraine,

is they say that russia has been, you know, planning this all along and carefully moving the pools on the chessboard for the past 8 years. but there's certainly infuriating them and is certainly going to scare a lot of people who live in those regions. because you have those divisions. they still exist even if people are living under ukraine inside. you do have a lot of people who do appoint russia. so certainly this escalation in referee, if it's going to turn into facts, is going to cause a lot of people here to wonder what happens next and what will happen today, towns and cities. oh, thank you very much. sort of a bell commute that walk into life from easton ukraine. joining us from the white house correspondent that this our alan fish allen as we are having this conversation with just letting this to bite and has a pull the plug on a trip to delaware. i guess he has to stay focused in stay in town, given what we think the kremlin may be just about to announce

or the look over my shoulder. i can see the marine in the dress uniform standing outside the oval office, which means that the president as they are also here on the campus, arriving in the last couple of hours or so and to the blink in the secretary of state. mark milly, who is the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and lloyd or austin, who is the defense secretary. so large part of the national security team. are you on the campus? presumably, at some point, joe biden will be speaking to them about what exactly is going on, what play they can make, what they would do if flattened me or put in where to recognize these 2 core, these 2 brick away republics as part of sovereign russian territory we know the anti blinkin is going to be meeting with sergei. loved off on thursday. that, of course, on condition that no russian tanks crossed the border. that may be a new condition. if the, the russians do recognize these republics, will that meeting still go ahead and the intention is, according to what president mccrory told as late on sunday night from the elysium

and liter confirmed by the white house. that in principle, there is a meeting agreed between vladimir putin and joe biden. the agenda will be set by their secretaries of state at their foreign secretary's i and then that would go ahead again if there is no russian invasion of ukraine. but clearly this situation is very fluid, which suggests why here on a public holiday in the united states. this monday at joe biden is behind the old, resolute desk in the oval office, talking to senior members of his cabinet and his security team. in amongst all that fluidity that you're talking about there alan g. get the feeling there that the state department could have or maybe should have anticipated kremlin recognition for these breakaway republics. cuz that clearly changes the, the power play within the diplomacy, the leverage aspects of who brings what to the table in geneva, towards the end of this week. swell. inevitably,

in situations like this, at the white house, the state department, the ministry of defense, they all do the same thing, which is if we do that and then they do this, what do we do in response? or if they do that, what so next step after this, and clearly joe biden would like to see a diplomatic way. out of this, things may become complicated if there is recognition of the 2 republics. certainly during that national security meeting in moscow or one of the senior figures there said we shouldn't bother with any interlocutors except the united states because every one will do what the united states tells them to do. and clearly, that's the position that joe biden is ego. as he's put together this coalition in nature coalition with the european union in western nations and coalition in the g 7 that intends to punish vladimir putin very heavily. if he decides to cross the

borders into ukraine, you remember on friday here at the white house, when we had surprisingly from joe biden, in a, in a news conference that wasn't planned, that he thinks that vladimir putin has made the decision to invade. now, joe biden has no public events on his schedule for this holiday monday here in the united states that me well change if he feels he wants to bring the american public up to date with his thinking. and perhaps if he wants to issue a public warning to vladimir putin, alam fisher in washington. good to talk to as over ellen, thank you very much. that in barbara, following some of the european aspect of this story. this makes my head scramble a little bit nadeem. we're talking about e u sanctions on some members of the russian parliament, the duma, but the u. k saying no, we will not unilaterally. sanction people unpack that for us, not him. how will this work? or peter, this is all in answer to the question,

how will the west respond if it's judge that russia is going ahead with an invasion basically, which is what they have set, the trigger would be for, for tough measures or, or monday, the united states is a representative envoy to the organization for security and cooperation in europe said that if those are a separatist regions in the east of ukraine were to be recognized by the russian government that would be deplorable. and he said it should be condemned. or certainly we know that that war that's already been said that it's deplorable will be condemned and so on. what will they do though, these western countries? well, on monday, the european union agreed to apply sanctions on 5 individuals. as you are saying now, they include members of the russian duma who represent a parts of a crimea, which was annex caused by russia and the city of sebastopol are now it's almost $200.00 individuals and who were under

a travel band and an asset freeze to do with the takeover of crimea. but and just at beryl, the european union's foreign policy chief directly made clear to ukraine's foreign minister at a meeting of the e u. foreign ministers that immediate sanctions, financial sanctions that have already been drawn up for the us invasion scenario. and not going to be brought forward that something that the key of government wanted to see. so m no immediate change in time tables, but certainly a toughening up of rhetoric. sure. and ben wallace search the u. k. defense secretary sounding quite hard, quite hard nosed in the house of commons. what 90 minutes ago? now? that's right. alan was just referring to a president by didn't statement that he believed that president putin had firmly decided to launch an invasion just a few days ago. that was, and it's clear that the british government believes so to, that's what they're saying, that they,

they have seen intelligence shared with the us, which suggests that what they call the russian playbook has started to be implemented. foreign secretary lives trust saying votes of the u. k. in the allies, a stepping up measures for the worst case scenario on monday. and then a few hours later, the defense actually been wallace in parliament saying that it looked more and more likely that in fact, russia had taken the decision and giving a bit of context for that. complimenting this trip build up, has been a prolific proliferation. a full flag operations propaganda, stunt, and russian news outlets carrying fictitious allegations. these are not the actions of the russian government fulfilling its repeated declarations that it has no intention of invading ukraine. in fact, we've seen over the last few weeks, the russian playbook being implemented in a way that gives a strong cause for concern that president putin is still committed to an invasion. while wallace did say that president putin risk setting himself on

a tragic course of events leading to a human italian crisis, not just for ukraine, but for russia. he also, they said that the u. k. government was keeping lines of contact open with her. it's russian counterparts. and saying that you must never cut off the exit route as it were for the other side to step back from the brink. not him. thank you very much that he, bob, they're talking to us from london. still to come here on out to 0 hearing and a talk you in court on allegations of genocide against the rangers is overshadowed by whom should represent me and mom and learning to live with. the corona virus, england is lifting all remaining restrictions including the need to so hopefully ah hello. they will start in southern africa and this was the scene in re union island

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ah, welcome back. let's update your top stories for you so far this half hour rushes defense ministry says ukrainian forces of tried to infiltrate the border, 5 ukrainians. a said to being killed, 2 vehicles were destroyed in the region of roast off. here dismissed the claim as fake needs. the russian president vladimir putin is considering recognizing 2 breakaway regions in east and ukraine, readily just from the nets. and la hans had appealed to support mister putin spoke of to holding the meeting of the russian security council. diplomatic efforts to result the crisis fall continuing. ukraine has called for an urgent un security council meeting. rushes foreign minister says he meets his us counterpart in geneva on thursday. iran and casso have announced new cooperation in several areas.

president abraham bracy has signed agreements with the me a shake to mean bit hum at all fanny. on his 1st official visit to a gulf states rang, sees in doha to attend a regional guest conference, jamal l sheil reports from castle the. it was the 1st visit's by an rainy and president cutter. in a decade, ibrahim arrival to the hot and monday was also his 1st trip to a golf country since becoming president. whilst the hand to her, i have strengthened there, bilateral relations in recent years, iran has found itself diplomatically and even militarily, at odds with other golf countries, particularly saudi arabia and the united arab emirates. but in a sign of a possible shift in regional diplomacy, president by easy stressed his keenness to improve ties with other gulf corporation council members. him because he had a quarter of the united states to prove its bill to lift sanctions in order to

achieve an agreement for donations benefit guarantees and closing down of old political dose. years are of wide on importance. our region has entered a new era after decades of the presence of occupying forces. the region is going back to its original owners. a number of bilateral deals and agreements were signed during the visit if the most significant was the messaging from both leaders, cutters, amuse shift. i mean, been hammered and funny. see too clearly his country's interest in the restoration of the reign in nuclear deal was at the bottom as he might have been brief regarding the vienna talks and the agreements between iran and the west. and this matter is quite important and has a lot of impact on the fib lydia of the region. tide is following the negotiations with lot of interest. and we hope that very soon an agreement could be reached to could benefit all parties by guaranteeing rights of all countries use nuclear power . according to the national laws and agreements. among the other topics discussed

by the 2 leaders was the development of ghana span with both men highlighting the need for an inclusive governments. there are palestine true is where iran and cutter find a shared interest. was that not a coffee itself for the 2015 and cause was also discussed in the central issue of our region. you stressed on the immediate need of ending is aly, attacked on the policy people we've talked about starting out the matter according to international law. and so that by the unions to treated fairly and they can live in stability. pottery diplomacy has witnessed a number of major successes in recent months further in the countries brown as a mediator and key force in conflict resolution. whilst iran county finds itself embroiled in a number of diplomatic and military conflict, so its own from the war in yemen to the stand off over its nuclear program. the hope is that stronger pottery iranian relations will help resolve. at least one of those conflicts dramatically show you. i'll just, you know,

the and iran's foreign ministry says quotes significant progress has been made, talks to revive the 2015 iran nuclear deal tier on one sanctions relief and exchange for limits on its nuclear program. the associations between european and iranian delegations have been held in vienna since april, while the us is involved indirectly mean mars military government is contesting a genocide case against hunger muslims at a top us courts. it was filed by the gambia. after more than 700000 dra hang fled into neighboring bangladesh during the military crackdown in 2017. the proceedings were complicated by the crew that took place in me and ma, a little more than a year ago. security forces in sudan fight against the crowds marching to denounced military rule. their thousands have been staging weekly rallies since the military takeover in october or an 80 people have been killed as demonstrates a space. a crackdown on descent in

england is lifting all remaining corona virus restrictions. the legal requirements to self isolate will be removed as of thursday. the u. k. prime minister boris johnson, said the country must now learn to live with the virus below suddenly disappeared so. so those who would wait for a total end to this war before lifting the remaining regulations would be restricting the liberties of the british people. for a long time there, this government does not believe that that is right or necessary. restrictions pose a heavy toe on our economy. our society are meant to well being and on the life chances of our children. and we do not need to pay that cost any long. johnnie's life is our correspondent tracking that story out to london forest. jonah hall, jonah, so freedom day is a go on thursday. is this just england,

or is it the entire u. k? no, this is just england. it's far as johnson keeping days word before they have term parliamentary recess at the moment they got back. he would set out the government's plan for learning to live with cove it. and so he has done, of course, you heard the loud rules from his own back benches. they're the opposition, slightly more skeptical and scientists. it should be noted as well, believing that this is really just a little bit too soon to be lowering our god in this country altogether that but as far as johnson saying, it's time to move from government restrictions towards a situation of personal responsibility. so we can protect ourselves without losing our liberty. he set up the sort of context if you like, for the situation that we're in, that makes this possible cases, falling fast hospitalizations at less than $10000.00 and falling death levels at around what they would be at this time of year in a normal year. and the majority,

2 thirds of all adults boosted so as you heard that he will start lifting. now all legal measures in place to control cove it from thursday, the 24th no further legal requirement to self isolate. if you test positive contact tracing is going to end from april, the 1st there'll be no more free testing for adults, they'll be guidance to, to look after oneself himself, or isolate until the beginning of april. after that, it's all about personal responsibility. he did note mr. johnson, that scientific advisors are certain that they will be variance in the future that pandemic is not miraculously over. but he went through a point by point domestic defense strategy based on surveillance through the office for national statistics surveys. the readiness to ramp up testing if required in future and maintaining vaccines and therapy takes at sufficient levels. he said to anticipate a range of scenarios and he summed up,

thus cobra will not suddenly disappear, but it's time to end restrictions on our liberties that opposed a heavy toll of society. we don't need to pay that cost any longer. it is time we got our confidence back. thanks, jona, jonah halder, reporting live on that developing story out of london, australian tourism operators. so they're looking forward to rebuilding after the relaxation of cope with 19 board rules there. sarah clark explains from brisbin jubilance and excitement as tourists and international passages touch down in australia. after almost 2 years of boarded closures. bringing out my best friend, i haven't seen him since 2018 and he made it back just in time for my wedding in on a red x had actually yes i'm, i'm going to see my friends for the 1st time in the since 5 here. that a loss was here. yeah, serial. it doesn't feel quite real like it feel that it wasn't just

tourists arriving, but families reuniting over the last 2 years. a strategy has pursued a tough 0 covered 19 strategy. quarantine restrictions have also been in place. posing a major hurdle for australian citizens wanting to return, i didn't know flotsap potentially be delayed because of what's going on overseas, but, and have very few repatriation plots. really. if even for london, it was like 55000 strange one to come home and it's very flat to not say, you know, with pretty green. this is good to see my sister again and i come, i to go see mom and dad now because of him worrying about them for 2 years. astrology has one of the highest immunization rights in the world with more than 90 percent of people. over 16 fully vaccinated tourists coming here must be double vaccinated or have a medical exemption. more than 1000000 tourist visas had been issued for arrival this month. tourism was one of the fastest growing sectors and astrology economy

before the pandemic in 2019 it contributed around $30000000000.00, but the board of closures and the nation, the reputation as fortress of strata and tourism group know they've got a big job on their hands to convince tourists to return, there's a huge drove ahead of us. we have had an incredible disruption to our industry. no international might disruption to market as well. but a spaniard that we lost about $80000000000.00 worth of international revenue and on and to put it back together. it's a complex machine or industry. you have to back in the ready but not every state in australia is welcoming arrival. wish to destroy has been close to both international travelers and had quarantine restrictions in place for vaccinated astrology systems for most of the pandemic. it will eventually open its borders in my chair a clock out to 0 prison australia.