telling him of funding coming soon on all just ah, al jazeera with ah, this is al jazeera. ah. hello, i am sammy's a dan. this is the news out live from dol coming up in the next 60 minutes. ukraine in russia, layout, demons am potential compromises. i had of another round of face to face told plans in turkey. the un chief says they're talking with all sides about getting a humanitarian sees 5 israel host, the us and for arab countries closing the ranks on iran and calling the talks with

palestinian suit, dismissed the summit as an illusion. plus i want to apologize to the academy. i want to apologize to my all my fellow nominees. wells may service shadows is the best factor when and the entire oscar ceremony by hitting comedian chris rock on stage. on his for canada and the 36 whites qualifies the men's football wells cup. they beat you make a phone out of the 1st final, since 1980 the ukraine's president has laid out what he could be willing to offer russia to secure an immediate peace. still, but the volume is, and sky is insisting on a face to face meeting with president. let me put in russia has its own conditions before that can happen, though, for now, representatives of both countries are preparing to negotiate in turkey. where,

of course, you remember the talk failed earlier this month. more on diplomacy shortly after rob mcbride's report from live about development on the ground. russia is continuing its attacks on defense facilities across ukraine, including fuel dep, owes 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 vladimir 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. 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 board with poland. there's relative order, after the chaotic exodus 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 hometown in easton, ukraine. that's now occupied by the russians of both. both me. i decided to come back because my husband is here and it's very hard to be away. i was said much emotion, said lou both left the eastern city if denise pro daily 2 weeks ago. but he's

now returning also in the morning when such monday wisdom says, 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 besieged 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 feel you need to feel it the right thing to do to it. but he also says so far, his soldiers have refused to given rob mcbride al jazeera, the wave russian foreign minister. so gay lateral says suggestions of a one on one meeting between the russian and ukrainian presidents is premature. was

that also you can learn? yes, guzzles, president putin has not refused a meeting with presidency landscape. he just wants the meeting to be concrete. ukrainian crisis is proving for so long that it's counterproductive to just meet an exchange, a premium screen. they offered to have negotiations which are continuing to resume in a stumble and we are interested in the results. see, hash math, nevada is a moscow. he tells us more about what russia once they say that by providing significant advance military weapons to the grainy as the west nature. and the us are trying to undermine russia. therefore, they would like to see your grain demilitarized and do, 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 case. by that they mean that they would like to see ukrainian constitution change a clamp down on what russia says are 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 that on bus, reaching those demands a critical key for the rushes f ukrainians agree on that. they will be seen by and there will be a way out of this military confrontation for the time being though, how to say 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 the constitutional change, they say that say, stalling tactic and the americas are not putting enough leverage to convince the ukrainians on the need to move forward with those demands. ukrainian forces say they've pushed back invading russian troops in 2 areas. one of which is near the capital m on con, joint us now live from key if so, how significant is this reported pushback then iran?

well, it's a counter offensive by the ukranian forces. let's just take you through to the key areas. firstly, i'll start with sumi, now the americans have said that the ukrainians have managed to save a significant chunk of that city and they're pushing further in and they say the ukrainians actually haven't commented yet on the area. but we know from our colleagues, allergies are arabic, that they are in control of at least a checkpoint now going in to that city. so this is very significant because it was one of the cities that was under threat of russian occupation. the russians certainly had 4 with ukrainian troops managed to push them back. but a lot of this changes every hour, in some cases, every day in some cases of the russians or mount their offensives and the recreations about the counter offenses and vice versa. in our p now our pain has been interesting because it's been a few days now are that the ukrainians have say they've taken that area back from

the russian forces. they say that they're now going into the city itself, street to street, or to try and secure it completely. they are worried about russians arbiters that may well li stay behind in that city and be able to mount a surprise attacks against ukrainian forces. but they are, they say the ukrainian forces, say they're in control at a pin is near north cave. north cave is where vitale please go. the mayor of key says 82 buildings had been destroyed in russian bombing now. indeed, about $830.00 local time. we saw trace of fire coming from that direction likely to be against a russian missile flying overhead. now we don't know whether the rotten the ukrainians managed to shoot that down or whether it hit its target or were air raid sirens earlier as well. so that's the situation here in keith are all parcel of this offensive counter events of that the russians and the ukrainians bound against

each other. and you've been talking to a rather controversial unit or brigade of the ukrainian military. tell us what came out of your sit down with the as of brigade with yourself battalion, there's only between 91500 fighters, but they're incredibly central to this entire conflict. remember that one of the reasons vladimir putin launched his social special operation was denounced vacation . what he meant by that was the as oh battalion they've been accused in the past of being and for having near nazi links. indeed, there are original founder was very publicly linked to far right groups here in ukraine, however, ukrainians, particularly herb, some ukrainians in powerful positions like the former president, petro petra cinco says they're the key fighting force. indeed they are actually in mary opal right now. and they're the key fighting force in mary awful. we went to

speak to them and we decided that we wanted to find out if they didn't want loop trying to change the image. or if they were very proud of those neo nazi roots, let's take a look. for from here are all before, yes, some call them neo nazis. others say they one of ukraine's toughest fighting forces . b, as off battalion was found in 2014, during the russian annexation of crimea, it began life as a volunteer force, which then became part of ukraine's armed forces with public links to far right groups. in 2016, the united nations accused it of violating international humanitarian law. in 201940 u. s. congress members, unsuccessfully tried to designate the as of as a foreign terrorist organisation. during this war, they become the main fighting force and the besieged sudden city of very apo usa. we began by asking them if there were

a neo nazi organisation and approval occurs oller abra, sir? no 132 said this by the image of earth is now nazareth was created by russians in 2016 after as all will liberated mario paul from russia. oh warranty fighters and became part of the ukrainian army. jose is a video on the ah, you national god of ukraine, twitter crown was clearly so some of your fighters are greasing bullets with pig fat with a message. there must be brothers in our country. you will not go to heaven, go home, please. you will not be allowed into heaven here. you encounter trouble. go home please. that kind of thing makes you look like neo nazis the way to wooden frosty fog. we shall muslims from, as there was ran, fighting for us. let me give you one example. in my unit, for how many muslim from azerbaijan he is fighting like us. but when people think of the as of battalion, basically internationally, they do think of me and as, as you guys have an image problem, how you dealing with that role occurs?

i look, we have a rush and propaganda i, 5th column on that spread all over the world. it's not a surprise that they created these now nuzzy image for us. so now we are speaking publicly come talk to us and you'll see we are not the as old battalion understands . it has a neo nazi image problem, but to change it will require support from the rank and file, many of whom are suspected of having fall right links. russian forces are just a few kilometers from hair, but the as off battalion have another fight on their hands if they want to change their image from being a neo nazi organization to being a nationalist fighting force. perhaps the bigger fight, though, is within their members internally and how that will go down. enron. khan al jazeera keith on mario paul is on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe. according to its mayor, whose calling for a complete evacuation about a 160000 civilians remain trapped in the besieged port city,

the ukrainian deputy prime minister says no new humanitarian corridors are open after reports of possible provocations along the routes. russia has denied targeting civilians. the un secretary general says the world body is trying to get a nationwide humanitarian sees fire. antonia good terrorist says he hopes his aid chief can get to moscow and keith as soon as possible. the solution to this humanitarian treasure, thee is not humanitarian. it is political. i am therefore appealing for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire to allow for progress scenes, serious political negotiations aiming at reaching it. disagreement based on the principles of united nations charter. a cessation of hostilities will allow his central humanitarian aid to be delivered and enable civilians to move it on safely . our kristen salome joins us now from the un headquarters in new york and kristen

. we had the appeal there of antonio vitality for immediate sci fi. how much traction is that getting from secure from members of un all his comments come on the heels of a general assembly resolution calling for just that. a humanitarian cessation of hostilities and increasing concern from member states about civilians trapped by the fighting and their state of affairs. united nations announced today also that it was able to get another convoy another aid delivery to car keys. but it's efforts to help people have been stymied by ongoing fighting and violence. and so we heard from the secretary general calling for that cessation of hostilities that cease fire so that humanitarian work can be done, but also to pave the way for more lasting political talks. and ups pave away forward for that. the un does currently have about

a 1000 staff workers in ukraine on the humanitarian front as well as members of it's a security department in moscow dealing with the department of defense in russia to try to improve access. they are so the secretary general hoping to capitalize on all of those developments and move the talks forward. and kristin, what are the 2nd general have to say off to that press conference when he was talking about the russian president? yeah, he received a question from the press corps about recent remarks by u. s. president joe biden and saying that basically it was time for president poo and to go that he should not remain in power. the u. s. of course walked those comments back after they were made, but the secretary john was asked about that. he said it was time to de escalate.

not only the fighting but also the rhetoric. this is a secretary general of course, who is forced to walk a fine line on between diplomacy and not taking sides in a conflict and calling out bad behavior. he has called out vladimir pu and for being the aggressor in this war called on him to stop what he's described as an absurd war in the name of humanity. but also calling on all the parties to do what's expected under international law. and that's protecting civilians, but also respecting national sovereignty as well. all right, thanks so much, kristen salumi there. now you as president joe biden is proposing to allocate the $87000000000.00 from next year's budget to help you crime and support nato members . the money would be washington's largest allocation of 8th since russia's invasion . mike, hannah is at the white house for us. so mike, $7000000000.00 us dollars. that's a lot of money is no small amounts,

at least. where would it go? indeed, yes, world that is going to the european to terrance initiative vessel called to nato, along with its allies as well as to wards ukraine, efforts encountering the russian invasion. now there's also $1000000000.00 set aside specifically for ukraine. this is likely to take the form of military and humanitarian aid in coming weeks. this is an addition to some of some $1000000000.00 that has already been allocated to ukraine over the past month. so it's a significant amount of money. it's part of a 4 percent increase in the national security budget. a huge increase in terms of the budget itself. now one must remember as well that this is a suggestion to congress. it's congress said essentially. busy holes the nation's per strings, but on this issue are that her money allocated to ukraine. that is certainly

something that given the bipartisan support in congress for ukraine, that is an element that is going to be passed. but most of this money likely to go . busy towards humanitarian assistance, as well as military hardware, as it has gone in the past. items such as javelins, even items like body armor and machine guns. as a long list that the pentagon has issued concerning what these funds are being used for are being sent to ukraine. all right, thanks so much mike hannah, there now a spokesman for rama a prime of which says the russian bidding there suffered symptoms of suspected poisoning and ki, earlier this month along with 2 other people. or they were there as part of peace negotiations between ukraine and russia. reports about the incident have been carried by the wall street journal and belling, cat and investigative journalism organization. has talked to joe hall,

he's in london. so jonah, that's 1st was start with what kind of evidence. there's been in cat say they're coming across. well, most of what we're hearing about this is coming from belling cat in a series of tweets released this afternoon. and remember, belling cat has developed a pretty sturdy reputation for its open source forensic investigations and reporting online the organization. as you said, they're reporting alongside the wall street journal on this saying that it had been in touch with potentially even commissioning it that's implied, but not entirely clear from what they wrote, commissioning chemical weapons experts to conduct both remote and on site investigations at presumably at the location where these meetings might have taken place and that these experts have led belding cats to be able to confirm that on the night of the 3rd of march of 3 individuals, 2 of them senior ukrainian negotiate is one of them. roman abram,

of which experience symptoms consistent with poisoning. with chemical weapons. mr. brockovich is described by belin cat. as an entrepreneur, of course we know him better. as the owner of chelsea football club, the russian billionaire oligarchs ought to have contacts on some level, at least with the may put in the credit the symptoms reportedly, according to billing, but in cat included, piercing pain in the eyes. one suggestion was that mr. brockovich may have lost his sight for a period of time that's not confirmed, but also peeling skin on the faces on the hands. for the wall street journal saying the dosage and type of substance likely was insufficient to cause life threatening damage and was most likely intended to scare the victims with the wall street journal. adding that it believes the suspected attack was orchestrated by hard liners in russia who wanted to sabotage the talks. interesting, what,

what do we know about this meeting that allegedly took place then at this moment we don't know an awful lot about this meeting. it doesn't appear to have been a meeting between russian negotiators and ukrainian negotiators been kept suggests that mister abramoff brockovich was in the company of another russian entrepreneur for which re, potentially another russian oligarchy, with connections to the kremlin. they were meeting on ukrainian soil with ukrainian negotiators prior to those guys. goetia is heading off to a stumble to continue informal talks with russian counterparts that now this was happening at exactly the same time that a series of meetings were taking place on the border between russia and bella. luce between face to face meetings between negotiators from russia and ukraine. those meetings at that time were largely to do with humanitarian corridors. the suggestion here is that these meetings were also about trying to bring other

countries on board to act as mediators. and what we do know is that it exactly that time robin abram, of which, apart from being on ukrainian sol, attending this meeting, we understand was also conducting what appeared to be shuttle diplomacy between tel aviv and moscow. and just 2 days later on the 5th of march, the israeli prime minister enough, but it made an unannounced and shed your visit to moscow and spend 3 hours with let me put in there. and of course, we know from mr. brockovich his own team who confirmed that he is involved and has been involved in discussions between moscow and cable, though we don't know the extent of his involvement or in the, the reports from the medical border crossing. this is creating problems of its own safety is what on a police show is searching for. she's just stepped into poland after fleeing the city of potato. she's travelled by train, bus and foot for days with her 8 and 11 year old son and daughter. they're out of

danger for now. still, she has little idea where they'll go from here. i hope to england. hope we have friends from church and they invited us and they, we will stay in their houses and hopefully we'll get these us and be saved there. i'm a story is like thousands who also fled from ukraine, is border crossing and modica poland. it's in chaos. it's a happ hazard. 10th city made up of the patchwork of international non profit groups, aid workers, and private individuals who've arrived in poland from all over the globe. yeah. then are you presenting the country? they're reading the humidity, the audio human. that's why the, her, what greats these exhausted refugees is a cluttered and confused group of mostly well meaning individuals. their donated aid is practical and sometimes indulgent. but there's little coordination. one of

the big reasons that poland has absorbed the majority of refugees coming from ukraine isn't just because of its proximity. it's also because of the refugees necessity. many are coming by foot. and up until now, this has been the only pedestrian crossing from the border, trusting refugees pile into buses that take them 5 kilometers away to an abandoned distribution warehouse. children are often alone as their confused parents search for help. but even the volunteers aren't sure who's running the relief operation looks like people may want to help, but we don't know how to help me. they'll know what to do. it's like a note that nick's no plan was like a little bit chaotic. chaotic, a lot, local authorities admit, no one is checking to see those showing up are who they say they are. and they say, it's not their responsibility to check it suddenly she darling,

but what caught up on this is just the reception center. this region is only temporary, only a few people stay here and they are leaving. that leaves refugees to wander, assembling a plan most have given little thought to their next chapter, and soon discover they fled an immediate threaten ukraine, only to encounter a new one. kimberly how kit al jazeera modica, poland a mo, from ukraine, shortly how russia's invasion of the pregnancy flaming tensions in the balkans. our interview with casa those president. also i had a report from mexico where a tough war between drug cartels is leading to a record number of killings. and it's for all time greats of european football aiming for one last shot at the world cup. andes here. but like ron ah

ah, you're locked into your weather update for the middle east stand africa. hello everyone. great to see there is plenty of sun right across the middle east, but also a lot of sand and dust being kicked out this because we've had powerful winds blast through the gulf that continues on to say, see all the brown there? that's a lift. it does impacting visibility, especially when you consider those winds. we've been up to about 65 kilometers per hour. things will improve late tuesday into wednesday. those winds will die down. so there's a forecast on wednesday. the temperature comes up in doha to 30 degrees and there's winds just about 25 kilometers per hour. been dealing with a heat wave sweltering for pakistan, temperatures. 4243, karachi has been around 40 degrees and we've got some instability rolling through northern parts of afghanistan for turkey. some clouds over western areas looks like

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this is a region that is rapidly developing, but it's one also that is afflicted by conflict, political upheavals. some of those we talk to elsewhere is saying that they fled after hearing that other villages had been attacked. what we do in al jazeera is try to balance the stories, the good, the bad, the ugly, tell it as it was, and leave the people who allow us into their lives, dignity, and humanity. ask you to tell their story. ah ah,

pucker back watching al jazeera time to recap our headlines now. president follow them is the answer. he says he's willing to disgust ukraine's neutral status with moscow as part of an immediate p. steel, ukrainian. and russian negotiators will sit down for talks. in the stumble on tuesday, the mayor of the ukrainian city of mario paul says, the city is on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe. is calling for a complete evacuation. it's about 160000 civilians, main trapped without power, food, all water. the un secretary general is appealing for an immediate cease foreign ukraine. at least 10000000 people have been displaced by the fighting in just over a month. now, displaying the letters said to show support for russia's war and ukraine could soon become a criminal act in germany. the nicer has been used as a marking on russian military vehicles. in the conflict. dominic came reports from berlin for many in russia. this letter has become symbolic of what the government

calls a special military operation in ukraine seen on many of the armored vehicles. it's used as an identifying mark to differentiate it from others. but it's also a statement of intent. it stands for zach abuto, which translates as for victory. fisher know what you're saying. yeah. the symbolism is not lost on vladimir putin who was happy for the letter. and it's longer for me to be widely on showed his recent rally in moscow. because so many in the rest of the world, the letter has become a symbol of aggression and in some e u countries. for example, if the lenient there is growing concern about how the civil could be used or misused in germany to the recalls, to outlaw those who display the lesser with the intent to glorify aggressive war laws. that ban such behavior do already exists with nazi era symbols like the foster and the letters s. s. prohibited. now,

several germans states as saying they intend to prosecute anyone who displays the letter that in the same way, dominant cane al jazeera berlin. russia's leading independent newspaper has suspended publication after violating a new media law. no via guess that had previously removed material from its website to comply with guidelines which forbid calling the invasion. a war of the papers says it received another warning from the government on monday about his reporting . russia's invasion of ukraine is inflamed tensions in the balkans. there are divisions emerging about moscow's role earlier. my colleague kim vanelle, supposed to call supposed president vo source money. she began by asking her how the conflict is being seen in the region. we have been warning for quite some time that appeasement of watercraft and thus spastic regimes is not going to bring long

lasting peace in any region in any part of the world. so obviously, while it is devastating to, to see the crimes, the russia has been committing against innocent civilians in ukraine and the full scale invasion that they have been committing for quite some time. now, at the same time, i do hope the world will learn a clear lesson that with autocrats appeasement, never works quite the opposite. it does bring the kind of destruction and the pain and suffering that is now being seen among the people of ukraine, a sovereign nation and independent nation, a democratic nation. ready but simply wanted to decide its own hate. so unfortunately, it seems that what russia wants to push through to push forward is an approach according to which a country can decide on the faith of its neighbors just because it has the military might. and obviously that is the approach that all of us should reject because it

is against the democratic way of life and against the piece that has been so hard earned, especially in our part of the world. they believe that if we would simply allow, put in to get what he wants, it is the end of democracy as we know, it is the end of the principles of international law as we know them. we should therefore countries big and small work hand in hand to make sure that we stop what russia is doing now. and we make sure that this regime collapses. speaking of russia getting what it wants, ukraine presidents landscape has indicated that ukraine could take a neutral status. that, that is, that is up for discussion as the president of a nation, which has firmly chosen a pro european path. what's your take on that? we obviously see the massive destruction and the pain of the people of ukraine right now. and i do understand that the decisions of presidents lansky are

aiming to protect the interest of the people if ukraine and most importantly, what is more important right now is that he is trying to bring peace and stop the war. that is ongoing. as the president of the most pro nato and most pro european country on earth, i have to say that russia is absolutely going to continue with the same approach of threatening countries. that if they choose a euro atlantic path, they will act as they did in ukraine. because for example, a couple of days ago, the russian ambassador to both you and have federal vina, said that if boss galena would want to join nato, what awaits them is exactly what is going on in ukraine right now. that was a direct threat not only against both, you have faculty enough, but a direct threat from all the countries in our region or outside our region that would aim to join a the i think the strip don't stop us from working towards membership. i'll tell

the news now in israel says a strong message has been sent to iran by landmarks submitted hosted involving the u. s. and for our countries was also discussion of reviving peace talks with palestinians. they've described the event is an illusion. harry faucet reports from the give, does it? israel says it put this summit together in a few days. nonetheless, it clearly wanted to convey maximum symbolism and significance in the doesn't kibbutz once home to israel's 1st prime minister. he'd been gurian the foreign ministers of egypt, bahrain morocco, and the e along with the us secretary of state espoused friendship, and shed goals 43 years ago when egypt and israel made peace. unfortunately, we lost those 43 years of knowing each other better of walking together and of changing the narrative that many generations of his rabies and arabs had

been living curious. israel's foreign minister said this 1st meeting would become a permanent for him, but he also advanced goals for the here and now this new architecture, the shared capabilities we are building, intimidates, and deters. i'll common enemies 1st and foremost, iran and its proxies. oh, there was shed condemnation of an attack on sunday by suspected i so linked gunman that killed 2 is ready security forces personnel on the widest security picture. the u. s. secretary of state stuck to his script. not bending to israel's opposition to a revived iran nuclear deal, or he did though, raised the palestinian aspiration for statehood. really, these regional disagreements are not a substitute for progress between palestinians and israelis. one of the issues we discussed today was how countries involved in the abraham accords and normalization,

as well as those that have a long standing diplomatic relationships with israel can support the palestinian authority in the palestinian people in concrete ways. that was echoed by the arab foreign ministers most explicitly by egypt. united are during these discussions. we did highlight the importance of the israeli palestinian peace process, the importance of maintaining the credibility and the viability of the 2 state solution that for israel out of the city and state to live side by side in peace with the recognized borders for the city and state in accordance with the 67 lions with east jerusalem as its capital for the palestinian leadership. however, such words are just that words. they see this entire summit in this place as an undermining of the cause for sovereignty and independence. the palestinian prime minister focused on what was happening inside israel and why he won't be there like that. there's your helicopter shop are normalization meetings without ending the

israeli occupation of palestine are just an illusion of mirage. and a free reward for israel ah palestinian president. meanwhile, had his own diplomacy to conduct welcoming jordan's king abdullah to ramallah on a mission to con tensions ahead of ramadan. hurry for it, i'll just hear a southern israel on abraham in the occupied west bank tells us more about what palestinians thought about that summit. very few people we spoke to, he had end on the lot even know that there's a some, it's ongoing in the negative. some of them heard the top for his off king the love, the 2nd, the arriving here and gama law. but there is a sense of despair. they don't believe that this diplomacy is working on this. they see tangible resolve on the ground. palestinian authority wants a peace process that's. and these really occupation is also this appointments in the 3 many palestinians say that they feel that the world is sympathizing with the

brain. but they're not showing the same sympathy with the palestinian people who have been under occupation for decades. they say that they want to see the world world israel accountable when it comes to its crime against the palestinians. now gotten the mexico of killed at least 20 people in the western states have mitchell con. police say the attack has stormed a conch fighting venue on sunday night. the number of killings in the state is at a record high. cartels fight for control of drug trafficking roots on correspondent john holman, is live in mexico city with more before we get into what happened to metro con john, we're getting lines dropping here about a shooting. it can coon, apple. can you tell us about that? first of all yeah, the information just been coming for even as we've been, it just waiting to go live and the latest that we've got it from the state attorney

of the state that can coon is in which is this international resort. obviously that tourist flopped through from all over the world and he said that it actually wasn't a shootout in the international airport that it was a scanner, one of the security scan. it's in the filters of security that exploded and that there aren't any signs of a shootout. this is off the images of people running out of the airport. quite a lot of tool called the met can channels about this. so, so far, we think that it wasn't actually a shootout in the area. the context of that is that conclusion has become increasingly violent. that have been internationals, kilbourne canadians, as well as quite a lot of mexicans not just over the last few months, but over the last few years. so the alarm over this is understandable. but for the moment it seems, and state authorities are saying that it was a scanner no issue out in the international airport. i spoke to somebody, now let's get on to what happened in mid to come in the south west of the country where there was, as you say,

a massacre. the country's president called it yeah. you spend quite a bit if there is a committee and it does seem to be the at the center of violence. so you can tell us what's going on, what can we make of that? so 1st of all, i suppose going to the event that happened on sunday night around 10 30 in the evening. apparently, according to the country's president, one group erupt it into this class, this time cockfighting pit and killed 19 or 20 members. the president says that it was between 2 different groups of with 3 women, the rule so killed that. now this state mitchell is one that's been ghost in violence for some years. we have, as you say, somebody spent quite a lot of time that it's something that i haven't seen over more than a decade of covering this country in any other part of mexico. when we went through the, there were checkpoints openly between different cartels and very close to checkpoints,

from the mexican army on main roads leading to groups actually wearing the uniform with the insignia of the various different cartels there with drones being used with explosives since then there are also been mines, discovered and investigated, apparently used against the army. so this is the closest i think the, i've seen a met scope to an actual low level. a low level was so, and that seems to be spreading out not just in the west of the country where at least are new generation or invading and trying to take that state over. but also where this happened, which is in the east of the state, the north east, where it's actually butting up against other states which a violent as well, like 1 o'clock to and the estoppel and mexico. now what does this mean for the countries president under this man will lopez over the door? the open violence opened low level warfare so far and his approval po's not that much. he's still over 60 percent and he's just coming up to

a referendum that he's called over whether he should stay on as president this in the middle of his term. so for he isn't bearing the brunt but, but that stay image, we're kind of worth keeping an eye on because it's been getting close to out of control for some time now. all right for stuff and thanks so much i'll the day also the academy awards wise normally dominated by discussions of who took home the most coveted oscars. but this year, a little different. it's all about a shocking moment which saw actor will smith physically hit one of the presenters. hi, the joe castro's in los angeles. she takes us through a tumultuous night. are you excited to announce bester again, oscar goes to ok. coda the independent film huda was the underdog winter of the best picture. oscar breaking new ground as the 1st film produced by a streaming service to wind,

best pitcher in with its mostly deaf 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 deaf community, the coda community and the disabled community. this is our moment. external dune one the most awards with 6 g i, j in 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, a bell? smith's wife's hair wow. will snap the snap element 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 and richard, i want to apologize to the academy when apologize to my former fellow nominees. in

this business, you got to be able to have people disrespecting you and you got a smile. you pretend like that's ok. 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 that was 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 de bowes 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 is who's helped raised $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 over. oh, fun in 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. all right. joining us live from harlem in new york is mike sergeant. he is the chief film critic with w. b. a. i radio am co president of the black film critic circle. quite an interesting, i think we can say at the very least oscar ceremony last night. what did you make

of that? well, i think there's, there's a lot of context here. i think that, you know, it was clearly an unplanned moment. but i also think part of the context here is what's going on with will smith. what's going on with the will smith marriage? that's what people have been calling in question for a while. and when you have such a public life are you then have to deal with people talking about people having a perception of you and you want to control their perception. i don't know what's going on in their marriage, but it seems to me that for a moment he decided to go old school and defend his woman. but what is the over compensating for what was the trigger when i see that? ah, he started to laugh. but then she rolled her eyes and that clearly triggered something in him and what to wake of the way the oscars handle that situation. you know,

we didn't see security rash on the stage and trying to assist a comedian who is standing there being physically assaulted. right. who was at a moment of confusion that people think this is just part of the act. so i think that that's i think it, that's exactly what it was. i think it was a moment of confusion. i think people weren't sure if it was part of the act. there have been stance. there been moments that seemed like wait a minute. what's going on? as you noticed, the audience was still laughing, they didn't quite get what was going on. it took a minute because it seemed so real. so i think no, i don't. i don't think that. i think they muted it. but i don't think they really knew what to do. all right, talk about surreal. you know, there's been a lot of talk about diversity in the u. s. entertainment circle hasn't there over the last couple of years or so. we've got this incident going on at the same time

we, we did see some 1st in the oscars evening. how do we for that altogether? well, you know, that's the interesting thing. i mean, a few minutes after this happens, he wins the oscar and you could look, there's a lot of ways to on the lot on pack here. you know, you know, we've been, you know, the ariana to bows. when is for the same role from 60 years ago, so it's a win win. you know there's this, is this something to that and for will smith to win an oscar for playing pretty much someone who is the opposite of toxic masculinity to do something that could be seen. is toxic masculinity in real life does more damage. i think to the image of, let's just say folks of color in the spaces and what we will do and how we will act . i also think that, you know, it does overshadow some of the great wins and some of the achievements and samuel

jackson winning an honorary oscar and some of the great moments for people of color that you know gossip always trumps. good. yeah. good. the same people are going to be so fixated on that incident and they thanks for coming. thanks for you . thank you. coming up in sports and he will tell us about the goals that ended canada's 36 year wait to reach the world cup finals. ah.

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it's sports fans. let's find out what's going on on the green thing. call it the green right and i guess we can we just have canada have ended on it for decade. white to qualify for the mens football world cup the beach mike a for now to qualify for their 1st final since 1986 lawrence smith's reports. ah, ah canadians that waited 36 years to see the immense football team reach the world cup finals and expectations for high in toronto. the players had failed to put their ticket to cattle with the feet in costa rica on friday. but any nerves about another slip up were combed early on when kyle lauren slotted in the opening ah, canada with 2 up before half time. when t john buchanan scrambled in the 2nd and the party could get going went to lake gold wrapped up a convincing. when junior, while it stepped home, the 3rd before oh, go round it off a foreigner, victory. ah big celebrations at the find

a whistle for the team and their english coach john herdman. only one of the canadian squad had been born when the country lost reached, woke up in 1986 i think was b c. that was cut drawn. we can see we're going up against our really perspective when you realize, okay, you know what? now in, 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 tom and really, really help prevent perspective at the moment, we're still kind of just in dream. why so many disappointments to the, to the, to the ursula. this is a new canada new brotherhood. new family. you everything in r. o and for the fans, you've waited so long to see that scene play in the finals. a moment to savor and time to plan their trip, ah, to make it to contort now into the research design. now here is a whole building. smells like solver to fireworks are going on. we're gonna get oh

canada. we're ranked 94th in the world. when coach herdman took charge of the team 4 years ago, and now they'll be mixing with the best on well footballs, picky stage. lord smith al jazeera, the usa also looked set to take one of the automatic qualifying spots from that region. they were 51 winters panama, in florida. captain christian service, which is going on us a superior goal defense. and the group means that virtually showed a finishing in the top 3 that the final round of matches to be 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 in costa rica. mexico. 1100. thanks to a 2nd, i'll go from allora mexico anita, draw in their final qualify him to el,

found little sure. qualifying 3 points out of costa rica going into those final matches. now, 2 of the 3 european play places we decided on tuesday counts and chris donor on elder, hoping to lead portugal to the world cup finals for the sick strike time. they have home advantage over north methadone if you're a member pulled up a shot quinn over. it's really the other european player finally sees poland at home to sweden to great straw. because going ahead ahead in this one with all the poland, rob 11 dusky or latin abraham, a bit of sweet and set to myself for year old abraham, of which came out of international retirement last year with the name of playing at the european championship, which is ultimately missed because of injury. and then she is world cup korea things played in his 1st home game of the season. irving finished with 16 points

for the broken shell. i think he's not max. my city is covered 19 hasn't been the last claims. looked in because new york city monday, unvaccinated athlete, those rules that were listed on 1st thing of his present. and that went on to lose one thing to 110 the form it now times with the for the right. the clinch you are the letting the i don't take it for granted where i've been tonight, it was historic. i'm grateful that i got a chance to be out there, my brothers and me, i'll just leave it all out there. not the result we wanted. and then shoot as well as i wanted. basically none of the things i had hope for going well tonight. just didn't happen in this just flow. basketball in tennessee, new women's world born a guest room set showed no sign of nerves in her 1st matches, quenching top sport in the rankings. the polish plaid dropping just 3 games in a straight to win over madison bramble street the last 16 of them on the open sun.

second, also on the previous form of indian wells is replacing the rhetoric, ash, bossy as well. men's 2nd said i was on deserve also through to the 3rd round. he serv, american, mackenzie macdonald, in straight sets to reach the last 60 okay. that his high school is looking for now . so me, thanks so much handy. all right, that brings us to the end of this news. our. the good news is not even a massey is back in a moment. couple minutes from london with a shout. ah ah. and

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