and reconciliation commission for this former warlord, liberia has become the frontline of a drug war. it cannot afford to lose. he says it's a battle he will fight out of responsibility and killed for his past crimes. and for his country, ah, as ukrainian and russia negotiate as prepare a face to face talks, ukraine's president spells out one area of possible compromise. ah, hello, i mary, i'm to mozy in london. you're watching al jazeera also coming up on the program. civilians in the firing line, the un secretary general says that must be an immediate humanitarian sci fi and ukraine. sign of the times displaying the letters said in support of roches

invasion could soon become a crime in germany. oh, and the o, because moment that'll go down in hollywood history. will smith apologizes for striking canadian chris rog? it didn't go too far. ah. welcome to the program. will ukraine's president has laid out what he would be willing to offer russia, in order to secure an immediate peace steal of law. to me is lensky is insisting on a face to face meeting with president vladimir putin in while inside the country. russia's advance appears to have ground to a halt on several fronts. that's led to some refugees who fled to think it's safe to return from the city of la viv. rob mcbride begins our coverage now.

russia is continuing its attacks on defense facilities across ukraine, including fuel depos with this site in the western city of looks. getting hit overnight with torps expected to start between the 2 warring sides ukraine's president blood. mister 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. yep. when you must, would he bullshit it too? i understand it's impossible like russia give up completely when 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 as 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. the rear is coming back from the czech republic after leaving her home town in east, in ukraine, that's now occupied by the russians. yeah, which is supposed to let me show you. 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 it's such mommy with him. 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

a 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 u paul. and seems to accept they face overwhelming odds used to rituals. could you still on those? no, we t if we, i tell them if you feel you need to lie, he feel it's the right thing to do them through it. but he also says so far his soldiers have refused to give in. rob mcbride, al jazeera, levine, and ron conjoined us now for new canning capital. kevin, how is the ukrainian counter offensive going im, ron? well, the cancer center has been marked on 2 different fronts. let me tell you about the 1st one that sumi air that was a town that was almost completely taken by russian troops now according to u. s. sauces the ukrainians are taken that back. now my colleagues was there arabic,

i've been close to that town and they certainly can confirm that the checkpoints going into the town are now under full ukrainian control. the other town that we're now talking about where accounts are offensive has been he taken places of pain or pain as you may know, has been in ukrainian hands now for a few days. what the ukrainians are doing now is going into the city itself and are looking for surrounds contin ramos are there's a lot of shelling, other we can hear in the background about a 30 or a local time. we did her. we did see trace of fire as well gone likely to be a strike against a russian missile. we've seen that kind of thing in the past before, but let me get back to her and pin. now her pin is now like i say, under full control of ukrainian forces, they're going and what they're really worried about now, are these russian saboteurs, small cells of russian units are that are actually in

a pin that they're worried about may be, may be able to mount attacks in the north of kia, we've been hearing from vitaly glitch go at the mer of cave, who's told us that at least 82 buildings in the north of keith had been destroyed. now, we've been down to a lot of those attacks over the past 3 weeks, and oftentimes you go there and the entire facade of the building has been blown away and those flats are uninhabitable. what we're also hearing now is residents can register for on an app, so their, their buildings can, and so they can register their buildings and they can be rebuilt. sorry, this on a very loud shelley going on there. i'm gonna have to leave them. all right, thanks very much among covering us all the latest from ukrainian capital care. as there is sheylan shelling taking place as, as been of course, throughout this time. but also the latest round of peace negotiations are expected to kick off tomorrow. this is likely to happen in istanbul. this is the plan.

meanwhile, moscow has dismissed president lansky call for a one on one meeting with president putin. as part of that process. marcia's foreign minister, sergey lover of, says that at any suggestion between a meeting between the you quite in russia, presidents is right now. premier chair was also newcomers in york. guzzles, president putin has not refused a meeting with president zelinski. he just wants the meeting to be concrete. the agreement crisis is proving for so long that it's counterproductive to just meet an exchange opinions. we use the offer to have negotiations which are continuing to resume and stumbled and we are interested in the results. oh, we're so sorry, is following developments in istanbul. weather's talks are expected to take place. russia has quite tossed demands regarding the material that you of who grade the militarization of the country and the midday lots vacation and also ukraine to

recognize crimea as officially as part of russia. and also recognizing the 2 separate as republic, julius, and grounds laws as the independent states. so the turkish official says regarding neutrality and the dim, lots of the militarization ukrainian side is a shogun, some willingness or make some compromises. however, when it comes to the other 2 demands, the notification is not clear what the russian means by the las vegas because of very much all sorts him a ambiguous term and when it comes to crimea and the adorn bus region, they said, is the regular related to the ukrainian territorial integrity and so far you grin inside didn't show any a sign of the willingness of recognizing crimea as opposed to russia or recognize him when yes and launched as independent states. meanwhile, in the city of mary, i'll pull the mayor is saying

a complete evacuation is what's needed is the city is on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe. about 160000 civilians remain trapped in the besieged, poor city, ukrainian deputy prime minister says no need for monitoring cardoso open because of reports of possible provocations along the routes. russia has deny targeting civilians. now the developments un secretary general is again called for an immediate cease fire in ukraine. antonio good terry says it will help both russia and ukraine. find a political solution the solution to these humanitarian thrasher, the is not, you met italian? it is political. i am therefore appealing for an immediate you many darian ceasefire to allow for progress seems serious political negotiations. a mean gets reaching a disagreement based on the principles of united nations chart. the. a cessation of hostilities will allow his central humanitarian aid to be delivered. and the naval

civilians to move it on safely or close to 4000000 refugees are estimated to have left ukraine since the war began. volunteers from around the world of travel to neighboring countries, places like poland to help care for them. that is, kimberly how get reports from the medical border crossing. this is creating its own sets of problems. safety is what on a police show is searching for. she's just stepped into poland after fleeing the city of potomac. 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 to us and they, we will stay in their houses and hopefully we'll get to these us and be saved there . on a story is like thousands who also fled from ukraine,

is border crossing and modica poland. it's in chaos. it's a 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 has listened to you as president joe, by who speaking now in washington bridge, i felt toward the way prudent is daily the actions of this man, which is just brutality in half the children in the ukraine. i just come from being with those families and her and so on. but i want to make it clear. i wasn't then nora, my now articulated a policy change as expressing more outrage that i feel and i make no apologies for personal my personal food. secondly, you asked me about a what was the 2nd part of the case? the diplomacy of this moment? no, i don't think it does, you know, the and the fact is that we're in

a situation where i complicates the situation as moment as the the asco tory efforts are prudent to continue and engaging incarnate, the kind of behavior that, that makes the whole world say, my god, what is this man doing? that's of complicates things. a great deal and on. but i, i don't think it complicates it isn't. let me go to steve han reuters mister president. thank you. when you say that you're not walking anything back, you do feel that vladimir putin should be remain from removed from powers avager saying, and not what i was. i was expressing just what i said i was expressing the more outrage i felt towards this man, i wasn't articulating a policy change. and i think that, you know, he continues on this course that he's on. he is going to become a pariah worldwide. and who knows when he come, becomes at home in terms of support? are you concerned this remark might escalate the conflict?

no, i'm not. i'm not at all. look, look here thing is that a couple people have asked me as well. my role speak to unless you want to ask the question whether you know that other governments have suggested that this is a problem on mesquite and things. no. and we can nato not, hadn't. nato has never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever been a stronger than just a day. never. you know, with these, i would hope you just, it was refreshing my outrage. she shouldn't remain in power. just like, you know, bad people shouldn't continue to do bad things. but it does mean we have a fundamental policy to do anything to take putin down in any way. what may be you add that because that wasn't in your prepared remarks. we were told to what made you add that at the end, mr. president and help ukraine where we can um,

cleave you had a question. where's? thanks mr. president. i'm on your on your budget. ah, you, you've said repeatedly the, the at the say the union that you're not for the funding, the police. i do wonder how much emphasis you, thanks as they need extra rifles. they need people who are in the department who can deal with the crisis that the police are going through as well. so he just been listening to you as president joe biden is speaking at the white house, answering questions on a number of issues from the economy to of course, the war and ukraine and her. and she is providing his response to recent criticism . following his remark, at present patient cannot remain in power, controversial comments that she bought a fair bit of international outrage and concerned that it could escalate the conflict with russia even further followings,

that he made this comment which was added to his speech. he ad libbed it, basically, at the end of that protect the speech. due to his moral outrage, he denied that this type of statement would inflame the situation. saying that what inflamed the situation in his opinion, was the absolutely unexpected unacceptable behavior by vladimir putin. so president biden walking, a very fine line here, standing by that statement saying that president putin should not blame. he was leaking directly to the russian people an interesting slight of hand in a way. president biden though, standing by that very controversial statement, but at the same time, insisting that this was a result of his moral outrage with what he says president putin is doing not any significant shift in us policy. now what do we learn about defense spending and the budget

a because he's asked congress in his budget request to boost military funding by 4 percent. hasn't he knew what has been a general reaction to this the course? this will be more important in light of recent developments, rushes invasion of ukraine or yes, you correctly say that had an increase in military spending or national security spending of some 4 percent. this is a highly significant increase. once again, this is a suggestion to congress. congress will have to decide whether it's going to accept this budget in its entirety or parts of it, but it's significant that precedent biden specifically allocated patterns connected to what is happening in ukraine. some $6900000000.00, sorry, light to kind of i'm not my apologies. sorry about this mike, just at 18 my retake congress with biden. again, we're talking about helping train the troops in that are the ukranian troops that

are in poland. that's with the contacts. i sat there with those guys for a couple hours that we talked about. so when you said you're going to see when you're there, you were not in 10 hours referring to with beady, with and talking with. the ukrainian troops are in poland and when you said a chemical weapon use by russia would trigger a response in time, it will trigger a significant response. whatever. i'm not going to tell you why don't i tell you, you gotta be showing. the world wants to know, i want to know a lot of things. i'm not telling them what the response would be than russia knows the response. i read, i'm gonna take 2 more question 12. and i still want to get back to your original words that he cannot remain in power. can you help us understand? you have more foreign policy experience than any president who has ever held this office. whether those are your personal feelings or your feelings as president, you understand why people would believe you,

as someone commanding one of the largest nuclear arsenals in the world, saying someone cannot remain in power, is a statement of u. s. policy. and also, are you concerned about propaganda use of those remarks by the russians? no one, no. tell me what you have so much experience. you are the leader of this country, as is ridiculous. nobody believes we're going to take down. i was going to, i was talking about taking down put nobody would believe that summer one, number 2, what have i been talking about all since this all began the only war this were some one attended as one that's on attendance. the last thing i want to go is engage in a land war, a nuclear war with russia as not part of it. i was expressing my outrages to behavior this man. it's outrageous, it's outrageous. and it's more an aspiration and then he shouldn't be in power. there's no, i mean that people like this shouldn't be rural and countries, but they do the fact they do,

but doesn't mean i can't express my outrage about it. last question. thank you. you've said that you're confident that your comment won't undermine diplomatic efforts, but just to be clear or you're confident that bottom, your putin sees it that way that he will not use this as an escalator, eat. i don't care where he thinks or cares whether he's gonna do what he's gonna do, put look, but you're not concerned that he may see your language and view that as, as a sign of a reason for escalation, use that as an excuse to escalate given reason behavior given his recent behavior, you should excuse me, i shouldn't say that you given his real behavior, people should understand that he is gonna do what he thinks he should do period. he's not affected by anybody else, including unfortunately apparently his own advisors. this is a guy who goes to the beat of his own drummer and the idea that he is going to do something outrageous because i called him for what he was and what he's doing. i think it's, it's just not rational. what was it over again?

it depends. no, it's not a question other. the question is, is there something to meet on that would, would justify him being able to end this war and be able to rebuild ukraine? that's it. i was to president whether or not it would be willing to meet with president. it depends on what he wants to talk about. thank you. i what if he wanted to talk about negotiate patient so what does he owe you said supreme court. oh, well, can we vent hannah just real quick um, to matters on the record while you were away. there were reports about the wife of justice, thomas, and text that she had with former. so we've just been listening to as president joe biden re, being pressed by report is in the room about remarks he made earlier, which sparked a great deal of criticism, a fair bit of international outrage. when he said that president vladimir putin cannot remain in power. now,

if there had been concerns that may be this would undermine diplomatic efforts, it would escalate tensions with russia, but president biden, they're saying that he was simply expressing his outrage at the invasion of ukraine by russia. he said he didn't care if the remarks he used against him. in any case, he doesn't believe that it will effect president putin's calculations. this comes as the 1st face to face talks with seen ukraine and russia are likely to start in turkey on tuesday. negotiate is arriving in istanbul for the 1st talks in more than 2 weeks. and that's where the focus is right now though, the prospects of any sort of diplomatic breakthrough remain pretty slim. i want to bring you some other stories now and in germany displaying the letters zed to show support for russia's warn ukraine could soon become a criminal act. the interior minister says a person might be prosecuted for this letter has been used as a symbol on russian military vehicles in the conflict and russians and know,

supporting the invasion of been displaying the sign on flags and, and it pro, crammed in rallies as well. dominic cane has more from berlin. the point is being made by the officials who were speaking both today and then other officials in particular, states of germany over the course of the last few days is that they believe that the letter concerned is being used in a way to promote the aggressive war and the use of aggressive war, in this case, in the view of these officials that people doing that here in this country will be doing it to, as it were, glorify what is being done by russian forces in ukraine. the historical precedent here is that there is legislation in germany since the 2nd world war. the end of the 2nd world war, which outlaws such acts, specifically where it concerns symbols such as the swastika, the symbol of the nazi party. but also other particular groups of letters. so s s

for the should stuff or the protection squad of the nazi party. that was the group that was in charge of the concentration and extermination camps of nazi germany. well that constellation of that is, is outlaws as our other one. so for example, h j, which and germans stands for hitler, you going to the hitler youth will that is also banned. so what's being done here by particular states, and then it's been referred to also by interior ministry officials that are federal level is a reference to the fact that there is the perception that the war in ukraine is being glorified by certain individuals. and that there is legislation to protect people against that sort of display. now israel's foreign minister says, improving ties of arab nations will help counter threats from iran in the region. he was speaking in the landmarks on that in, i guess, southern israel, alongside ministers from, for our country's and the united states. hi force. it has more israel as it put

this summit together in a few days. nonetheless, it clearly wanted to convey maximum symbolism and significance in the desert. kibbutz once home to israel's 1st prime minister that had been korean, the foreign ministers of egypt, bahrain morocco, and the u. e. along with the u. s. 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 af, working together, and of changing the narrative. that many generations of his, rabies and arabs had been living, curio 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 to real. 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 during these discussions. so we did to highlight the importance of the

israeli palestinian peace process. the importance of maintaining the credibility of the viability of the 2 state solution that are for israel add up at the city and state to live side by side in peace with the recognized borders for a postilion state. in accordance with the 67 lines with the east jerusalem as its capital, the palestinian leadership. however, such words are just that words they see this entire summit in this place as an undermining of their cause as to the president. meanwhile, had his own diplomacy to conduct welcoming jordan's king abdullah to ramallah on a mission to con, tensions ahead of ramadan. or faucet al, jazeera southern israel, the academy of motion, picture arts and sciences as condemned actor will smith slap of present a chris rock at the oscar ceremony. comedian had made a joke about smith's wife academy says it started a formal review. jaida oliver j jane too can't wait to

see it. ah no, that was a nice one. okay. i got it. oh ricka. oh wow. we'll snip this. wow, do yeah, it was a g i jane. just keep mark one. 0 no, i'm going to. okay. so i can oh okay. well, smith would later when the best actor award for his film king richard in his acceptance speech, he apologized the academy in his fellow nominees. but the moment left some of those in the room stand.