[000:00:00;00] ah cool with this is al jazeera ah lo, i'm sammy's a dan. this is the news our live from. go, how coming up, your grain, the russia layout, demands and potential compromises ahead of another round of talks in turkey. mario pulls, man, describes and unfolding humanitarian catastrophe. in a city bombarded and besieged for weeks,

israel house the us and for arab countries closing ranks on iran and calling for talks with palestinians plus i wanna apologize to the academy when apologize to all my fellow nominees. wells smith overshadows his back stack. so when and the entire oscar ceremony by hitting comedian chris wrong on stage, on his full canada have ended a $36.00 shay white's qualified to the men's football world cup. they beat you, make a phone ill, qualify for that 1st, the final since 1986 now ukraine's president has laid out what he could be willing to offer. russia is a cure and immediate peace still by the lot of me as the landscape is insisting on a face to face meeting with president vladimir putin. russia has its own conditions before that can happen. for now,

representatives of both countries are preparing to negotiate in turkey, where talks failed earlier this month. our coverage team looks like this. this will be live in eastern ukraine as well as in moscow, assemble and polish, and ukrainian border. but 1st from live rub, mcbride brings us up to date with developments across the ukraine. russia is continuing its attacks on defense facilities across ukraine, including fuel depos with this site in the western city of luke getting hit over night. with torps expected to start between the 2 warring sides ukraine's president flooded. miss lensky has struck a conciliatory tone. he seems to accept russia's military presence in some parts of ukraine in some form as part of any deal. yup. when you must, would you foolish? i understand it's impossible to make russia give up territory completely that will

lead to world war 3. i understand completely what i'm aware. he's also confirmed, he is willing to consider ukrainian neutrality in the future. provided president putin pulls back his forces on ukraine's western border with poland. there's relative order after the chaotic exit this of refugees in recent weeks, in the early days of the conflict with tens of thousands of people leaving ukraine every day. this was one of the busiest crossings with people lining up for a whole day just to get across into poland. the numbers of people leaving has declined significantly. and there's also now been an increase in people coming the other way. maria is coming back from the czech republic after leaving her home town in easton, ukraine. that's now occupied by the russians. yeah, i would love to have both those me. i decided to come back because my husband is

here and it's very hard to be away. i was said much emotionally. lou both left the eastern city of denise pro daily 2 weeks ago, but he's now returning also in the morning. but a short mind me wisdom. so i'm coming back to check on my mother and see what the situation is like. my daughter is 14 and i've left it with my older daughter in poland. any peace talks are likely to include the future of the bitterly contested coastal strip from russian controlled crimea, to the break away eastern regions in the dumbass presidency. lensky has revealed. he is in regular contact with troops in the proceed city of mary paul and seems to accept they face overwhelming odds used to be true to just the one those that we. i tell them if you fail, you need to live and feel it the right thing to do than sir it. but he also says so far, his soldiers have refused to given robert bride al jazeera,

the vive. all right, now i said bag is in the need in easton, ukraine joined us from that. so i said how much hope of pinning our people pinning rather on those talks, it depends who you speak to and where they are. we have to remember the over 4000000 ukrainians have left this country and right, 6500000 have been displaced because of the fighting. now if you speak to some people who have been displaced, will they just want to go back to their homes? i want to go back to the cities, they want to be reunited to families and go back to their lives. many people want that cease fire, but it all depends on what that will look like. what piece looks like a will russia give up territory that they've taken really, those people be able to go back and those are the underlying questions around this . but in for the reality, for many people is such as the city of hockey, the 2nd largest city is that bayard daily bombardment,

daily shelling and their lives are now revolves around this war. many people in this country. now it is just me talking about mary o pearl group you talk about her, gave another eastern parts of the country at this constant battle is taking place. so the politicians are talking about these negotiations. but the reality for the people is that they are air raid sirens, as constant noise of shedding. many places are closed and many people have left their cities for safe, a part of the country. all right and take us through now aside, the military situation in the east where you are, how is that looking well, currently the ukrainian or military are saying that they've made some advances, have taken some territory back from the russians. but they also said in the south, east of the hockey, hockey region that there's some intensive battle is taking place in the north of hell. so they've taken back some towns. but what the ukranian as a ukrainians are saying is that there's been a change in military tactics by the russians. in some places they feel the russians are retreating,

but other places they're digging in that the head of military intelligence here, the ukrainian military had intelligence has said that the russians now want to divide the country almost like a north and south korea. they want to unite a territory, the east and south, and put, potentially used as political leverage. so the front line here very much is still the east. that's where the most intensive fighting seems to be taking place. or i thanks so much as her bag there. now rushes foreign minister, so gay lavern suggested the talk of a one on one meeting between the russian and ukrainian presidents is premature was also you can learn your guzzles. president putin has not refused a meeting with president zalinski. he just wants the meeting to be concrete. do you greening crisis is proving for so long that it's counter productive to just meet an exchange opinion squeezes the offer to have negotiations which are continuing with the resume and stumble. and we are interested in the results to either spring in

hash mahar borrow corresponding. he joins us now live from moscow. so hash him. what is them? russian messaging ahead of those is stumble talks sammy, thee a missile fine affair, sir? gay love took the opportunity to day to set once again the or the stage for was washer says is the way out to the conflict in your cray. they have a set of demands and that one the ukrainians to agree on thursday and as, as the insist these are the key elements for the, the toss with the ukrainians. they say that the way they see the what, what is happening on the ground as a part of a plan that has started many, many years ago by nature and the u. s. to further expand that even once east swears and build what the russians have been describing as a hostile belt around russia. they say that by providing significant advance military weapons to the ukrainian,

the west nature. and the us are trying to undermine russia. therefore, they would like to see ukraine demilitarized and the, and by extension, when you say that they would like it to not join nature, therefore, become a neutral country. the other issue is denazi's vacation by that the me that they would like to see ukrainian constitution change a clamp down on what russia says, our nationalists clamping down bullying and committing atrocities against the russian speaking population in the, in the ukraine. and particularly in many parts of the, in the region, those demands are critical key for the rushes ukrainians. agree on that. they will be seized by and there will be a way out of this little of this military confrontation for the time being the how to say sammy, the russians, believe that the ukrainians, when they come out and they say yes, we agree in principle,

therefore we have to go through a referendum and after the referendum was set into motion and your constitutional change, they say that say, starting tactic and the americas are not putting enough leverage to convince the ukrainians on the need to move forward with those demands. all right, let's talk about the military situation yesterday. the russian mercury said it was going to focus on the east of the country. what are official saying today about that merch re transition and that military posture? what basically is sammie? the military continues to say that it is, it continues to target military facilities and what they have been doing over the last few weeks. basically, this is according to the statement that we've been getting from the ministry of defense is, is, is striking ammunition deposed fuel to pose rocket commercial systems. and to aircraft systems severely under buying the,

the acceptability of the ukranian army. and cutting off many, many cities in ukraine for them to be able to focus in the stage 2 of their military campaign, which is basically expanding the territorial gains in the dom bus. this is why you have the 2 self proclaimed republics of done. yes. and, and law has today, earlier ago, earlier today, the secretary of the security council, nikolai patricia said that russia has no intention whatsoever to, to change the regime in your grade is, is goal is solely on the protection of the population based in the bathroom. and this is a theme that has been recurred in again and again on the, in russia, which is the, one of the world to understand that this military operation is about protecting the people who are closer to them in, in the, in the, some parts of the crate, not as well the russians fear is a western narrative for to depict this as more of an overall aggression,

i guess ukraine. all right, good stuff there from hash mahala bar. let's keep this going though and go with out of school salary joins us from. is stumbles and russell. what does the agenda look like? going into this round of talks? are the hopes stronger for a more successful around this time? while it depends on their negotiate and parties are flexibility. so the russian delegation has just arrived in istanbul and ukrainian delegation is also about 3 arrived, and we are expected to talk to start tomorrow in the morning. however, the turkish officials are they have full to, they told me that russians have some tough conditions, such as the neutrality of ukraine, demilitarization, denot vacation. and also you're going to recognize crimea officially as a part of russia and also recognize the separatist republics. don't, yes, and that will house, namely, so the officials here say that you bring aside so far has shown some of the

willingness to make some conscious concessions regarding the neutrality or of the state. and in return, ukraine is asking security guarantees from some major nature members like turkey and france. and he got into the middle demilitarization also, they say that they have shown that they did at to a certain extent, some signs of the concessions. however, when it comes to denotes vacation up, it's not clear because ambiguous term is very much uncertain at what russian means by that. and at that the main issue is who's going to be defined as nazis and who now. so, but the last item, particularly the, for the that the final condition from the russian side is directly related to the ukranian territorial integrity of the recognizing company as a part of russia or vertical nice in the, in eastern european, in a separate the state as independent states is directly regarding to the company's territorial integrity and the tourist official says that ukrainians also are not making any compromise when it comes to that as well. as i said,

the officials here say the successful of their, their, that the towards that they're going to start to maureen. the stumble mostly depends on how much of russia is going to show a retreat from its max analysis bands and how much ukraine will be flexible. all right, thanks so much for so sorry to bother. now muddy opal is on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe. according to its narr, who is calling for a complete evacuation by the 160000 civilians remain trapped in the besieged port city. the ukrainian deputy prime minister says no new humanitarian color. those are open after reports of possible provocations along the routes. russia has denied targeting civilians. close to 4000000 refugees are estimated to fled to ukraine since the war began. late last month, volunteers from around the world are flooding into neighboring countries like

poland to help care for them. but this is creating its own problems. kimberly hallett isn't just shoes. one of poland main refugee reception points, joins us live from that. kimberly, for what you can see on the ground, how much coordination is going on between 8 all the organizations semi. we've visited one of the border crossings that until very recently was the only pedestrian pathway over the border from ukraine into poland. and that's why it was so popular and remains popular. and what we found was a surprising situation. as people fled violence, what they quickly discovered is that they encountered or traded one problem for another many were so focused on leaving ukraine. that once they got into poland, they realized they didn't have a plan of where to go next. and that's what so many of them vulnerable what they've

encountered the minute or the 2nd they step into poland. in this border crossing was kind of a half hazard. tents city made up of a collection of people from all over the world. the problem is none of these people have been vetted. so what you have are people that have decided to buy a plane ticket and come and help or an end g o that nobody knows the background about that is suddenly set up a tent or even a private company that is promising to help people with at the same time is trying to push or sell their latest product. this is an overwhelming situation for so many of the refugees that we spoke to. and so many of them are so vulnerable, it's majority women and children who are exhausted, who are stressed or overwhelmed. and really don't know who to turn to. and the problem is there really isn't one person they can count on that's in charge. and kimberly, who as you go through the situation that the people who are most at risk, who we talk about, what kind of help of

a guessing if any yeah, it really comes down to as women, children, and also the elderly. there were people crossing this pedestrian bridge being pushed in wheelchairs and there simply aren't the services there for the disabled. add to that you have this problem that the authorities, the local police, are not even investigating. in fact, when we interviewed them earlier, they said there isn't a problem. there's, this is fake news, this is misinformation, and this really isn't an issue at all yet. we're hearing this from so many of the refugees and some of the people that have come to help. and we should point out the police themselves while they deny this is happening or handing out flyers at the border to warn people of the dangers that they are walking into. what we've seen really is again, refugees trading one, danger in ukraine for

a new danger that they're being preyed upon by people that they really don't know. in other words the, the ada, this is there for them, is overwhelming, but no one is vetting them. and what we've discovered and what will be profiling profiling on tuesday and al jazeera is that this is really led to a human trafficking industry that nobody seems to know how to deal with. much less wants to admit is occurring. all right, we'll leave it then. thanks so much. kimberly hallett. blue. more from ukraine lights from the news hour after a look now at other world news them. israel has hosted its 1st summit with 4 arab nations and the u. s. and its message afterwards was clear that the ties between them will deter iran, cold and i have summited brought together the top diplomats from israel, the u. s, the u e. bahrain, egypt,

and morocco. what we're doing here is making history building in your original architecture based on progress technology, religious tolerance, security, and intelligence bull cooperation. this new architecture, the shared capabilities we are building, intimidates, and deters our common enemies 1st and foremost, iran and its proxies. they certainly have something to fear. what will stop them is not hesitation or being conciliatory, but rather than the nation and strength the around the courts are making the lives of people across your country's more peaceful, more, prosperous, more vibrant, more integrated. they're allowing governments to focus their energies and attentions on the issues that are actually affecting the lives of our citizens and

making them better the united states has and will continue to strongly support a process that is transforming this region and beyond. we will also work together to confront common security challenges and threats, including those from iran, and as proxies or how i force it has been following the summit. hello question that israel sees this as an extremely important significant moment. the arrival of for foreign ministers of arab states to have a, a summit here in the southern mega does it accumulates where the 1st prime minister of israel david been gurian was laid to rest off his retirement here. and indeed, the ministers went to his grave side, so there is real symbolism in all of that. but there is also, as far as he is ready, is concerned. policy to be achieved as well, both in terms of a cementing the ties made in the so called abraham records. the,

the recent normalization deals struck with arab states and also an opportunity to talk to and potentially try to persuade the americans of the israeli case on iran, all of the, the countries represented. here we're talking about common threats to security in the region about iranian proxies. in the region about the need for a new security approach. but there is a very different means as far as the israelis and the united states, especially concerned in terms of the iranian nuclear program. united states wants to see a revival of the iran nuclear deal. israel is utterly opposed to that and indeed to the d listing from the u. s. terror list of the iranian revolutionary god corps, the issue of the palestinians was brought up certainly by the v is really foreign minister and the u. s. secretary of state, more so by the representatives of the arab states. but there has been considerable criticism coming from palestinian figures. senior politicians saying that

essentially this is a repudiation of the our peace initiative, which should have guaranteed a solution to be israeli palestinian conflict before any such normalization could take place. now the palestinian prime ministers described the thomas and any similar meetings as an illusion. why he won't be there like that. there's your helicopter shop. israel is ignoring the causes of our people, half of whom are under occupation, and the other half in refugee camps in exile and in the diaspora. our normalization meetings without ending the israeli occupation of palestine or just an illusion. mirage and a free reward for israel. despite israel tends to ignore or right now expand its colonial settlements. checkpoint hill and arrest us in the story. any chance of peace with us. we have never been more determined to confront this is rarely machine destroying our land or people sanctity. on joining me now in the studio sound, is there a senior political analyst model on the chart that was good to have you here. so

let's talk about a new architecture for the middle east and for the region. really, what we're talking about is prioritizing the divide over iran, as, as really the basis for political alliances in the region. right? absolutely. it's basically taking the so called abram accords into their explicit strategic as i mentioned under trump when this whole push bomb between our states and israel took place. it was done under the prefix that trump was going to abandon the iran nuclear deal. he's going to bring up some israel together in one front, under american auspices against iran. so here you had the symbolism of, on the one hand, directly against the iran, but on the other hand, then it gets back on unoccupied people, which are the palestinians. now is going to say, this is going to be seen by the palestinians by those sympathetic to them in this part of the world is quite

a slap in the face of palestinians writes from arab countries which are attending this meeting. i would say many slaps on the face, and the symbolism of it is, is one insult. after another to the palestinian, the location, the date, the anniversary of the arab her summit and bear with 20 years later to be to be had next to the house. and the grave of israel's 1st prime minister that was responsible for the ethnic cleansing of the palestinians. most of the palestinians from what are these israel? he was responsible for the palestinian catastrophe and napa and yet or at 4 out of ministers who by passed the palestinian state of their back on the palestinians, come in to israel. celebrate the smuggler and smiles. with these railey, our foreign ministers in this presumed font against the one it, it is a bit of a shock for much of the arab psyche to see this now,

but let's be honest. this was in the making for years, right? this is only putting out in the spotlight what's been happening behind the scenes and everyone knew about for very long time, right. what, what was secret is not public. what was implicit is now it listen, right. what was supposed to be more by piece and we want to take care of the palestinians is now play that's ready. more about running around. i got sirano was the illusion, right? the how lucia. this sit with the bind administration. the policy of wanting to make a deal with iran though, because as he said, this started under a different era in a different president. absolutely. and here where there is something totally new since obama, in 2013 when he and 205315 when he signed the iran, a nuclear, the israel and the united arab emirates, and others decided they could no longer thrust the united states because it actually signed a nuclear deal that protects them more than protects the united states. and yet

they felt that the united states was backing away, turning its back on it's allies the in the gulf and, and israel. and hence, they were going to mount their own effort regionally. and hence when trump came about, it was very easy. it was already ready in terms of a strategic vision for the israelis and others to come together. now, when biting came, as you said, and he wanted to move on from the trump era and sign or go back to the nuclear, the arabs and israelis. these guys that are here decided that, well, we can out ticket our way whether you like it or not. so anthony blinking, coming into the region saying, we want your support to condemn russia. these guys were saying, wait a minute, we want your support condemning you on. if you want our support in terms of russia and ukraine, you'll need to support us unconditionally v. iran. so we have what we have now is

a very strange dynamic where america clients are almost acting on their own, creating their own middle east moron. sorry to jump in, but apparently wiggle antonio hotel is talking with ease talking about ukraine. let's listen. the ladies and gentlemen of the media. good morning. it's a great pleasure to be with all of you again. today i'm announcing that in the exercise of mike with offices, i've asked the martin griffiths, the coordinator of all what you meant italian work wolfe wides immediately to explore with the parties involved the possible agreements and arrangements for humanitarian ceasefire in ukraine. since the beginning of the russian evasion when months ago, the war as lads to the senseless loss of thousands of lives, the displacements of 10000000 people, mainly women and children, the systematic destruction of essential infrastructures, and skyrocketing food and energy prices,

wild wife. these must stop. united nation is doing everything in its power to support people's lives have been overturned by the world. in the past months beyond their support, the refugee austin countries already meditated agencies and that partners have reached nearly 900000 people, mainly in east that ukraine with food shelter, blankets, madison, bottled water and i. genes supplies that are now more than 1000. the united nations personnel in the country working via 8 you many teddy and hops in the ne portal ve needs caea live also at odds chairman event c mc got shavel, lou hancock and don ask, don't food program and partners reached the 8th and that a 1000 people in the past months and that skating gap to reach 1200000 people by mid april. the old organization and thoughtfulness every, it's more than a half

a 1000000 people in the most vulnerable areas. we the emergency house, salma and surgery kids just to they. a convoy of trucks brought foods, medical and other relief supplies from dublin, b, w t, show you and hcr unicef. to cut a keith, to be delivered by our national, bought up nuts to thousands of people in out of heats areas. our agencies and partners are procuring vital supplies and setting up pipelines for the leave it is through alt ukraine in the coming weeks. but let's be clear, the solution to these humanitarian thrasher, thee is not humanitarian. it is political. i am therefore appealing for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire to allow for progress seems serious political negotiations. a mean gets reaching get disagreement based on the principles of united nations shot the a cessation of hostilities will allow essentially, many that innate,

to be delivered and the naval civilian stew hood on safely. it will save lives but event suffering and protect civilians. i hope, as his fire also helped with rest the global consequences of these war. which risks compounding that the penguin rises in many developing countries that already lack fiscal space to invest in the recovery from the pandemic. and now faced sorting foods and energy costs. i strongly appeal to the parties to this conflict and to the international community as a whole, to work with us for peace in solidarity with the people of ukraine and across the world. thank you. letters, chris. thank you very much, miss the secretary general. can you expand a bit on what on mr. griffith is being asked to do,

and is he going to go to the region? is he going to try and meet with our senior leaders, both in, ah, moscow and in ukraine and how quickly on the is he going to basically start this at piece effort? well, you will immediately start. it is in kabul to lay and we will be coming back and the you already made her some contacts. and of course, i hope that you will be able to go to both moscow and give me as soon as a data becomes possible, it's very important to establish a city as dialogue with both parties in relation to the possibility of these amended that in says fire healed to the rest of the world. ah. are you asking? are your opinion?

yeah. other regional organizations i've been in close contact with several gunter, is that a, as in talking to the party's at the highest level in order to explore the of different forms of mediation leading to a political solution. or i've been vehicles contact with our turkish friends, sir. with the katara, with israel, with the india china, but also the france, germany. and it is my belief that all these efforts are essential in order to create the conditions to allow for finally this war to come to an end or in your virtue. i hope so. i've got the vietnam. thank very much mr. secretary general. or you mentioned your quote, you are calling for the immediate cease filing your intervention as far as you

remember. the draft resolution are considered last week by the security council, contained the provisions about the negotiation negotiated ceasefire, but the security council failed to adopt it. do consider it as a mistake. and the 2nd question, please. what are your expectations of tomorrow's humanitarian? are meeting by the security council ukraine. well, 1st of all, the school council decides whatever this was the council decides, but that doesn't mean that any one in the school to be gone, sillies against the negotiated says fire, as you mentioned. so i strongly hope that there will be a good wheel from all sides in other for this is his fire to take to take place and her. i believe the briefing tomorrow will be a man that in briefing about humanitarian situation. as far as i know, am there will be elements of our humanitarian agencies that will be briefing the security calls. during prostate surgery, general russian leaders at the highest levels continued to assert their right to

use nuclear weapons if and when a scenario is required for such a move at. we are also seeing reports of nuclear facilities in ukraine being targeted by strikes. are you concerned that we are now on the cusp of either a biological conflict year or a nuclear war? well, i was there this morning in contact with alex, the general of international agency of international atomic energy agency. and her there will be a number of very important initiatives by e, i. e, a, in the next few days in order to guarantee the security of the nuclear facility is inside ukraine. and i know that her, that there is a very close contact her fail glossy to both the russian and the ukrainian, or thought it is on this. and he has my full support in the initiatives that we'll take in the next few days. or on the other hand,

i can't imagine the possibility of having a nuclear or biological or a chemical war or in this scenario. that would be that in the 1st place that it would be or something to that, sir. i, i believe her will be avoided. it must be avoided. murph. okay, thank you. it's pamela far from cbs news. secretary general, is there any reason you have to believe that a ceasefire is actually being agreed to by the 2 sides by russia in particular? and is there any way the u. n. can enforce that if a cease fire comes into play. thank. well, as a matter of fact, her i've been eating her in different her positions taken by both the ukrainians and the russian federation in the motion that was presented, the security guards who reference was his fire. so i see this is the moment in

which i believe it makes sense for the when to assume the initiative and of course, or it depends on the will of the parties, are awareness is fired, is established to define the arrangements necessary to make the ceasefire persist. thank you very much. thank you very much. i am appealing for an immediate humanitarian sees fire the words there of the un secretary general antonia good cherish saying i strongly appeal to warring parties to work with us for peace. we can go over now to kristen salumi. she was listening there to a garage. is that the un headquarters? so i guess an attempt there by the secretary general to really highlight the humanitarian suffering that's going on as this war grinds on. to highlight the humanitarian suffering, but also to move peace talks forward while he's calling for

a humanitarian ceasefire on the heels. i should add of a resolution passed by the un general assembly calling for just that russia to immediately implemented cessation of hostilities for humanitarian purposes. this is the secretary general, i think, attempting to move things forward, starting with something that everyone can agree on that the situation for civilians in ukraine is getting increasingly dire. and russia while not supporting that general assembly resolutions had expressed some interest and some concern for addressing those humanitarian situation. so the un appointing martin griffiths, its chief humanitarian official, a veteran diplomat who's experienced in dealing with countries that have been very difficult situations politically and humanitarian wise to lead those efforts

to start the talks on the basis of humanitarian needs. but also acknowledging the secretary general that any solution is going to have to be political. so saying at the same time, if we can get this space for humanitarian work to happen, then we can also begin to work on the political dialogue and move things forward as well. or i will leave that thanks so much. kristen salumi now displaying the leather zed to show support for russia's war and ukraine could be a criminal act in germany. the interior ministry says a person can be prosecuted for it. the letter has been used as a mocking on russian military vehicles in the conflict. and russians supporting the invasion of in displaying the sign on flags up pro kremlin rallies. joining us live from berlin is older, it broke. now he's a professor for european studies at stanford university in berlin. good to have you with us. so, 1st of all, all the,

a lot of groups. so any groups in germany right now that are displaying the left is that as a sign of support for russia, where, what's going on there? well, in a pluralistic society, if you say a, you always find someone who says be, we've seen this and the damage and we've seen this and the so called migration crisis, 2015. when a vast majority in germany is supported one thing and they're a short, while another group popped up and said, we really can be in this particular case, i personally cannot think of anyone who would ultimately demonstrate in the creeds germany, to. ready support pollutants, intervention, world war crimes in ukraine. so i think it's a very theoretical discussion that we are facing. so once prompted it to the forefront with discussions on criminalizing it. if, as you said,

no really large amounts of groups that you can see which are adopting the symbol that well, on the one hand, germany is very committed to west and type of principles and human rights. first and foremost, the freedom of expression. so from an american point of view, it must sound that there are certain expressions like symbols that are banned in public. and this seems to be a clear violation of the freedom of expression. but imagine where we come from that shoes who live in germany would see in the streets of germany, something like a spot that was considered to be impossible. ready to handle, and that's why certain expression of ashes are bent and our criminal law. and i think based on the same rationale, if you give shelter to people in need who had to leave from their country and they

come to germany. and, but he said that they faced demonstrations in the speed that show a symbol that is used in the invasion of their country. this would be traumatizing . and i think that's the reason why it was meant as an attempt to fight russian propaganda in another 1. 1 does so, i mean if, again, if we're not seeing the sort of displays of that as a sign of support for the russian narrative at the same time, then you know why this sensitivity, when we, we have seen other displays in political and public life in germany might remember the and t is slam rallies some years ago where there were all kinds of slogans held with signs band, the band time and, and the slam and it stop it slam if occasion and so on. it didn't generate that level of sensitivity about how that might upset some religious groups as,

as you mentioned, ve, the jews well, i think in this particular case, we don't see the war in ukraine as the territorial and conflict of one country invading another. and it's all about who can occupy what space this is an attack on what we stand on. busy and i'll use in principles and an open society that is open to the freedom of speech or whatever alternative perspective should also be able to defend its values and its principles. and these attack on ukraine is an attack on what we stand for in the world. i think that's why. ready we see a much stronger sensitivity, but even go with as far as criminalizing the symbol. okay, thank you very much for sharing of perspective with us. thanks for having me. now russia is leading independent newspaper, a suspended publication off to violating

a new media law. no viagas that had previously removed material from its website to comply with guidelines which forbid calling the invasion of war the paper size. it received another warning from the government on monday about his reporting opposition groups and focused on calling on protest is to come out and demand the resignation of prime minister iran con. emotion of no confidence in con, has been presented to parliament. it kicks off a series of debates and the vote on the prime minister's future sunday. huge crowds came out in the capital to support him. run con, i've been debated, has moved from a slab of item by the so much political pressure on iran comp. there was a huge list of promises that iran con, made hundreds of thousands of jobs, millions of homes, making sure that there was equality on the street said there was rule of law and all of that seemed to not being fulfilled according to his critics. they say that iran con, over promised and so far,

has under delivered the jobs have not been created. the economy isn't doldrums, he's changed 3 finance ministers. and also, most importantly, the, the military establishment, the very strong, powerful lobbying that we see from the military seems to be absent from iran funds back now. and that is something which is void. this no confidence motion against him. this is something that the opposition has been calling for for the last 3 and a half years. but now they say, in quotes that the empire is going to be neutral. and iran hahn is on his own. and when he's on his own, the opposition can join rank and bring him down. now in the u. s. f o county is underway in alabama where amazon workers are deciding whether they should form a union. their colleagues in new york began costing the balance in a separate union election on friday. those in favor one better working conditions long the brakes and high wages and spring and john henry and his live ross

investment in the state of alabama in the us. so john, 1st of all, any indication where this vote might be going well, the voting has just begun to be counted. and of course, this is the 2nd boat that's happened here. there was a vote last year and the national labor relations board decided to have another vote because they said that was unfair because the company interfered with workers' rights. treating workers a little bit like will smith treated chris rock at the oscars last night? according to the n l r b, they said that the company delivered a smack down to union rights in part because they put a ballot box on the company premises behind me. and that made workers feel like they were being surveilled, like people were looking at how they were voting. and there were other intimidation tactics that allegedly, that company had committed. one of the things it is allowed to do and it has been doing,

has been holding these mandatory sessions in which the company brings workers into a room and tells them why they should not vote for a union. the company's perspective is we work better together when we work directly and not through a 3rd party workers here are paid about $15.80 an hour. it's pretty good in alabama. it's about a buck an hour, more than other workers on average get and it's more than twice the local minimum wage. but the workers here say they want better benefits. among other things, the company, as intimated, the benefits might actually suffer if the union were to come in did that money has to go somewhere. but this is an anti union state, alabama has what, what they call a workers rank law. and that means that if you're in a union, you cannot be required to pay that union to do its job. so workers can join the union voluntarily be they don't even have to pay for it. and as for your original question, how will the vote go? we don't know which way it's going to go. it could be tight,

but some of the workers that we and others have spoken to have said that some workers who voted know last time are likely to vote yes this time, but it's still up in the air. we don't really know. i guess time will tell him we'll come back to in good time. thanks so much john. 100, that chinese tact giants y way has announced record profits. but us sanctions are starting to bite profit search by more than 75 percent last year. nearly $18000000000.00, but overall revenue fell for the 1st time in part because of the u. s. measures. afghanistan is the world's top opium producer. up until recently, the town of barnes said it would punish farmers to curb production. but now facing a dire economic crisis, the group appears to have changed its stance. got yellow, has already an has more it's nearly time to collect the harvests in afghanistan, hillman province,

where poppy fields are considered both beautiful and dangerous. the crop is widely used to make hair, when farmers like gulls say selling it is the only way to make ends meet. but actually, farming wheat doesn't earnest enough money. it's not as profitable as puppy economically. we've been badly hit and that's why we've no other option. but to plant poppies, afghanistan is the world's top opium producer. it accounts for about 10 percent of its economy. a kilo of wheat is sold for about $0.50. whereas a kilo of opium poppies can go for more than a $100.00. but cuts were, i'll, if there was no tentative way to feed our families, wouldn't have to cultivate his crop. but if we don't find another way, we would defend us with guns and our lives. otherwise we have to flee to pakistan, iran or even touching st on for work. and even that's not possible because they

were send us back. the taliban has long been accused of taxing drug traffickers. some estimates predict the group may 20 1000000 dollars and 2020 from the alyssa trade after taking control of the country last year, a pledge to cramped down on poppy farmers. but now it says there will be left alone, at least for now, leave her name so we won't take any action against the farmers until we find them proper alternatives. but they already have so many problems and we don't want to create more. so we working to find an appropriate solution with the help of the international community. afghanistan's economy is on the verge of collapse. sanctions and the tele bounced lack of international recognition or making an already dire humanitarian crisis. worse, more thought at the house where you would have replied to cultivate poppy book if you don't have any other option. do you have farms plant poppy in their farms and the ones who don't work for landowners? the alyssa trade is intertwined with afghanistan economy. now it continues to grow

despite attempts of resistance at home and abroad. can't see a little bit of the young al jazeera. now, the day after the academy awards is normally dominated by discussions of who took home the most coveted oscars. but this here, it's all about a shocking moment which saw agatha will smith physically hit one of the presenters . hi de jo, castro in los angeles, takes us through it's monstrous night. are you excited to announce best i askar goes to ok coda the independent film. buddha was the underdog winter of the best picture. oscar breaking new ground as the 1st film produced by a streaming service to win best picture, and with its mostly death cast, including troy cut sir, who made history as the 1st deaf man to win an oscar for best supporting actor.

i just wanted to say that this is dedicated to the death community, the kodak community and the disabled community. this is our moment dune one the most awards with 6 g i jane to can't wait to see it. but the talk of the night was when after will smith punched comedian chris rock over a joke about smith's wife's hair. wow. we'll snip the snack out of it. g to think it smith has alopecia, a medical condition that causes hearing loss, then of visibly shaken smith, one best actor for his work in king richard. i want to apologize to the academy when apologize to my all my fellow nominees. in this business, you got to be able to have people disrespecting you and you got a smile and you pretend like that's okay. it was awkward, it was sensational,

it was dramatic. and though it was unplanned, it may have been just the thing that the oscars producers needed to make this show buzz worthy. once again, this was the 1st year that the oscars have returned to the historic adobe theaters since the pandemic and the producers have been desperate trying to find a way to get back those last viewers. thank you, kevin. that was very dramatic. other notable wins, jane campion became the 3rd woman in film history to win the best director prize in arianna dubose became the 1st openly queer woman of color to win best supporting actress, even in his weary world that we live in. dreams do come true. the oscars attempted to recognize the suffering in ukraine with a moment of silence and ukrainian born actress, me lacuna who's helped raise $35000000.00 for ukrainian refugees. briefly addressed

what she called recent global events. one cannot help but be in all of those who find strength to keep fighting for unimaginable darkness. people in florida, we're going to have a day light. the shoe was overall fun and light as the producers had promised, with 3 funny women moving things along. it was a night hollywood shines once more and where drama was in spades. heidi jo, castro, al jazeera los angeles. ah or as catch up on something maybe a little less dramatic than the old school sports news with the no less dramatic. some a kind of canada have ended a 36 year wait to qualify for the men's football. well, they beat you make a fool to qualify for the 1st final since 1986 lawrence smith reports. the canadians have waited 36 years to see that men's football team reach the world cup finals and expectations for high in toronto. the players had failed to put

their ticket to cattle with defeat in costa rica on friday, but any nerves about another slip up will come early on when kyle lauren slotted in the opening on canada with 2 up before him. when tito buchanan scrambled in the 2nd and the party could get going when to like go wrapped up a convincing when junior jolla stepped home the 3rd before and i will go round it for no victory. big celebrations at the foreign whistle for the team and their english coach john herdman. only one of the canadian squad had been born when the country lost reached the well cut in 1986. i think once we see that we've got drawn, we can see we're going up against the perspective when you realize ok, you know what know in november i could be going up against harry jane for example or, or someone like that. so it's stuff like that. i think once those kind of moments and i really, really help whatever perspective at the moment. we're still kind of just in

dreamland. so many disappointments through the through the years and this is in canada, new brotherhood, new family. you everything, you know and to the fans, you've waited so long to see that scene play in the finals a moment to savor and time to plan that trip ha, to mega ticket tour. now into the research. now here is building solver and fireworks are going on. are going o. kennedy were ranked 90 forth in the world when coach herman took charge of the team 4 years ago. and now they'll be mixed up with the best world footloose biggest stage. lawrence smith. i was just 0. let us say also look set to take one of the automatic qualifying spots from that region. they were 51 when as i've a panama in florida, captain christian pillar, speech score, and trick us a superior goal difference in the group needs to ensure the finishing in the top 3

the on a matches in that great. she played on thursday. we made a big step towards our goal of qualifying for the world cup. we know we're not there yet. despite with that banner might have said, we know we still have a game to go and it's a difficult game. and costa rica, mexico want one mill in honduras, thanks to a 2nd call from over a mexico. i need a job in there on a qualified home found little basically sure, qualifying the 3 points ahead of costa rica going into the final round of matches. now after a race weekend of drama on and off the truck, it was the raining f one will champion max to stop. and he took a picture of the saudi arabian grown pre is read book female surgery. her f had started on pole but a crush. the williams dr. nicholas a t p that resulted in a flurry of pit stop some press last the lead to for i sharla class the staff and

got past the frenchman in the funnel up. the claim is 1st picture of the things and built to finish the rice and bar right now to we got before the australian growing pre, the 1st on racing is being possible in melbourne to 3 years due to the pendant. yeah, that's all i really enjoyed with the with charles because boston, but in the end we did it and we can be very proud of lucky but check today with with the press the safety car, but i'm sure we have plenty of room to make up and in tennis, the new women's world, number one a gets thrown, sex showed no sign of nerves in her 1st match in quenching tough spot in the rankings. the polish play dropped just 3 games in a straight for when he over madison bangle 3. the last 16 of the miami open, strong factors. so in the previous, the indian wells is replacing the retired ash policy as world number one. ok, plenty more support from a through the night,

but that is how we are looking for now. thanks so much handy. hi, that brings us to the end of this show, but we're back in a moment with another full bulletin. so to stay with us here on out there. ah, ah, with city has become a major global issue. the demand is going straight up and the supply is going straight down, turning an essential natural resource into a commodity traded for profit. just because it's life doesn't mean it cannot be priced. what about the guy that can't afford it? that guy still needs water?

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a major part of our human success story. studio be unscripted on al jazeera. we don't simply focus on the politics of the conflict. if the human suffering that we report, we brave bullets and bomb and we always include the views from our o. the un secretary general appeals for a seas foreign ukraine sang, rushes invasion has cost thousands of lives and displaced. 10000000 people in just over a month ago . i'm sammy's. hey, dan, this is al jazeera alive from dell hall. so coming up ukraine and russia layout demands and potential compromises that had of another round of face to face talked