he polluting the habitats of endangered native animals. let holes activists unloading hard to keep them arguing that their communities, lifestyle, and cultural identity is under threat. ah, ukraine's president says his military is taken back another time from the russians . this time it's ever been north of keith. ah, robinson. this is al jazeera alive from dough ha. also coming up more talks in turkey, aimed at ending the fighting in ukraine. oprah sir known image off off his nail. nazis was created by russians. he claims controversial as a tale and denies accusations that it's neo nazi. the taliban may not punish

afghanistan's open, and farmers as the economy continues to collapse. he claims president says his forces of re captured the tongue of a pin on the western outskirts of cave. has been heavy shelling and fighting since russian troops began advancing towards the capital. around 60000 people lived in our pin before the invasion. many of them of left since russia began shelling the town. the mayor has the situation still dangerous and the president agrees. oh, good point. if you stall who is your opinion, the occupiers are pushed away from air pin and key, but it's still too early to talk about safety in this part of our region fighting continues, russian troops hold the north of the key region and they have resources and manpower they are trying to rebuild destroyed units. the level of 90 percent of losses is none. argument for them to stop presidency landscape laid out what he

could be willing to offer russia to secure an immediate p steel. but the main problems are likely to be what's gonna happen to disputed separatist regions and crime man rob bry begins, are coverage from live in 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 bullshit it? i understand it's impossible to make russia give off territory completely yet that will lead to world war 3. i understand completely unaware. 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. the rear is coming back from the czech republic after leaving her home town in easton, ukraine. that's now occupied by the russians. yeah. which was those 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 monday when i'm coming back to check my mother and see what the situation is like. my daughter is 14 and i've left her 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 not we. i tell them if you feel you need to lee, but i feel the right thing to do and do it. but he also says so far, his soldiers have refused to give in. rub, mcbride al jazeera, the wave metro monte poll, says 5000 civilians have been killed there since the war began. nearly 200000 people are still trapped. ukrainian defenders still. most of the city,

even though it's been bombarded by russian forces for a month, turkeys president, richard ty, about one says there's been progress in negotiations between ukraine and russia. both sides have teams in a stumble for direct talks. each other a teaches, hopefully russian and ukrainian delegates who are leading talks on c spy and piece talks. we'll meet again tomorrow in a stand bowl. we will get together with delegates and make them briefly ahead of the meeting. i can say that the telephone traffic we're carrying out with mister putin and mister zalinski as advancing on a positive direction, 30 or so sad as in the turkish capital with more russia has, are quite tough demands regarding the neutrality of ukraine demilitarization of the country. and the new denotes vacation and also ukraine to recognise crimea as officially as part of russia. and also recognizing the 2 separate is republic don't . yes, and lance lance, as the independent

a states. so turkish official says regarding neutrality and the dim lights with the militarization ukrainian side is showing some willingness or making some compromises. however, when it comes to the other 2 demands, the notification is not clear what russian means by the dealers. because because a very much on certain ambiguous term and when it comes to crimea and the a don't bus region, they said it's directly related to the ukrainian territorial integrity. and for far, new green inside didn't show any a sign of the willingness off recognizing crimea, as opposed to russia or recognizing donia as n a lo hunter. as independent states, william cord is a former us ambassador to georgia and he thinks prospects of a sci fi r slim. russia, for example, is word that there is not a perception of sufficient russian bargaining strength. you know,

the international media portray ukrainian forces as holding off russian forces say that russia has actually begun to lose the war. so russia seems to be now wanting to concentrate, it forces in eastern ukraine where it has a greater relative advantage. and probably in order to try to get a victory somewhere. but eventually there to certain has had an ocean. we see no sign on the battlefield that russia was beginning to pull out troops, which might sigma far, that it would be willing to negotiate an agreement. you kind of battalions been the main force defending the city of mario pole. the group has a reputation for fighting fiercely, but they're also said to hold the far right fuse him on con, as in keith. and he's been speaking to one of its leaders about what people think of them. yes. oh, oh, before yes, some call them near nazis. others say they one of ukraine's toughest fighting

forces. b, as of 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 organization. during this war, they become the main fighting force and the besieged, sudden city of very awful usa. we began by asking them if there were a neo nazi organization in the blue liquors oller. o bra, sir, no one thought it to say this by the image of af is now nazareth was created by russians in 2016 after as liberated mario paul from russia. o woolen to fighters, and became part of the ukrainian army. jose is a video on the ah,

you national god of ukraine twister. crown was clearly so some of your fighters, a greasing bullet with peg fat, with a message, the muslim 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 within prostate fogged, we held muslims from as there was ran, fighting for us. let me give you one example. in my unit becoming a muslim from azerbaijan, he is fighting like us. but when people think of the adult battalion basically internationally, they do think of me and as you guys have an image problem, how you dealing with that role. ok, so low because russian propaganda a 5th column on that spread all over the world. it's not a surprise that they created these now noisy image for us. so navea speaking publicly come talk to us and you see we are not the as all 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 far right links. russian forces are just a few kilometers from here, 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 big fight, though is within their members internally and how that will go down. in wrong con al jazeera keith, you as president joe biden submitted a budget plan worth more than 5 trillion dollars to congress. he also wants to boost piece time military spending to record levels, as well as giving further aid to to ukraine. is also revisited comments he made earlier this week about the russian president. he says, the statement of vladimir putin cannot remain in power, reflected his own moral outrage and not a policy shift. are you worried that other leaders in the world are going to start

to doubt that america is back? if some of these big things that you say on the world stage keep getting walked back through what's getting walked back, it made it sound like just in the last couple days it sounded like you told us troops, they were going to ukraine. it sounded like you said it was possible, the u. s. would use a chemical weapon and it sounded like you were calling for regime change in russia and we know none of the 3 occur. none of the 3 learned the 3, mr. preston, you interpret the language that were i was talking to the troops were talking about helping train the troops in that are the ukrainian troops that are in poland. that's for the context. i sat there with those guys for a couple hours. that's what 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 and hind it will trigger

a significant response. what does that burner? i'm not going to tell you. why would i tell you you got to be showing? the world wants to know. i want to know lot of things. i'm not telling them what the response would be then. then russia knows the response i read are under take 2 more question one to me because 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's 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 us policy. and also, are you concerned about propaganda? use of those remarks by the russians? no, and no. tell me why you have so much experience. you are the leader of this country . it's ridiculous. nobody believes we're going to take down. i was going to,

i was talking about taking down, put, and nobody believes that. number one, number 2, what have i been talking about off says this all began the only war this where some one intended as one is on attendance. the last thing i want to use engage in a land war or nuclear war with russia, that's not part of it. i was expressing my outrage to behavior this man outrages. it's outrageous and it's more an aspiration and that he shouldn't be in power. there is no, i mean the people like this shouldn't be wrong countries, but they do the fact they do, but i mean, i can't express my outrage about it. the wall street journal's reporting that 3 people who would have talks between the ukraine and russia in key value. this month may have been poisoned. an oligarchy, roman rom of h to ukrainian negotiators reportedly suffered symptoms consistent with chemical chain agents. investigated website building. cat says it's confirmed that the 3

delegates were ill if not recovered. so i had analogies either a landmark meeting in the desert, israel host to foreign ministers of 4 arab nations. amazon workers vote on whether to unionize, hoping it delivers better pay and conditions. ah hey there, thanks for joining in. here's your headlines for the americas beginning toward the bottom end of south america. we've got some disturbed weather roland across the river plate region that's going to plague montevideo with the high of 26 degrees. ok for the northern slice of the continent right now. this wave of rain really for that northern coast of brazil. and we've got our usual storms coming and going through the amazon basin right across the andes, as wall of her central america still is whether front dragon,

some rain through hispaniola. we can trace it back into believes and honduras, some downpours to be expected here, almost like a conveyor belt of warmth off the gulf of mexico popping up the temperature in new orleans to 26 and houston at 27. both of those are above average temperatures. are well below average is this eastern slice of north america, toronto, 3 new york 5. that's certainly an improvement from what you saw just about 24 hours ago after the wes. some sunny spells for vancouver, 13 degrees and a big drop in the temperature and billions by about 20 and all of that. what weather that we had through california, it's transitioned over the other side of the rockies. so snow over the higher ground rained for places like phoenix with a hive $21.00, but this is much needed. rain for the desert southwest. that's it. see soon, ah casa, one of the fastest growing nations in lou aniko needed to open and

development international shipping company to become a team, middle east, and tough will trade and money skilfully mcdonald, 3 key areas of develop, oh, filling up from it. so connecting the world connecting the future, won the cato catalyst gateway to whoa trade. lou ah, you want to go to see at our reminder of our top stories, this are ukrainian military officials say they've reclaimed airplane from russian forces. the city north west of keeps the scene heavy fighting since russia began.

it's pushed towards the gallon to last month. early, 5000 civilians are being killed and mario pulse is russia's invasion began. that's according to the city's mayor, who also says a 160000 people remain chopped into the sea city. a fresh round of talks between russia and ukraine are due to begin in turkey. both sides will meet face to face and is stumble on tuesday. displaying. busy better zed to show support for russia's wall in ukraine could become a criminal act in germany. the interior ministry says individuals could be prosecuted for using this system. dominic came reports from berlin for many in russia. this letter has become symbolic of what their government calls a special military operation in ukraine seen on many of their armored vehicles. it's used as an identifying mark to differentiate it from others another because the many in the rest of the world, the letter has become a symbol of aggression. and in some e u countries, for example, lithuania,

there is growing concern about how the symbol could be used or misused in germany to their calls, to outlaw those who display the lesser with the intent to glorify aggressive war laws that banned such behavior do already exists with nazi era symbols like the foster care and the letters s. s prohibited. now several germans states are saying they intend to prosecute any one who displays the letter said, in the same way. dominant cane al jazeera berlin, as well as a landmark summit involving the us and for arab countries, has sent a strong message to iran. reviving peace talks with the palestinians has also been discussed by the palestinians. i've described the event as an illusion. i re, faucet reports from southern israel. israel says it, but the 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 shared 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 curie. 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 shirt capabilities we are building, intimidates, and the 3rd as i'll common enemies, 1st and foremost, iran and its proxy. oh,

there was shed condemnation of an attack on sunday by suspected i soon 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 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 relationship 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 or during these discussions. we did highlight the importance of the israeli palestinian peace process, the importance of maintaining the credibility on the viability of the 2 state solution that for israel,

a city and state to the side by side in peace with the recognized borders for the city and 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 that cause for sovereignty and independence. the palestinian prime minister focused on what was happening inside israel and why he had to be that that is your helicopter shop are normalization meetings without ending the israeli occupation of palestine or 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 a head of ramadan said, i'll just euro southern israel need abraham in the occupied was buying has been finding out more about what palestinians think of this on it. very few people we

spoke to, he had and i'm a lot even know that there is a some, it's ongoing in the negative. some of them heard the top for his off king abdullah . the 2nd, the riving here and i'm a law, but there is a sense of despair. they don't believe that this diplomacy is working unless they see tangible resolve on the ground. palestinian authority wants a peace process that's and these really occupation is also disappointments in the 3 many palestinians say that they feel that the world is sympathizing with ukraine. 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. of janice tom produces more opium than anywhere else in the world. it's the base of at least one of the world's hardest drugs. the taliban had said it would try to cut back an opium cultivation by punishing farmers. but the economies in free fall and

afghanistan needs cache. now the on group seems to be changing its mind. katya lopez, elder young reports, it's nearly time to collect the harvest in afghanistan's hillman province, where poppy fields are considered both beautiful and dangerous. the crop is widely used to make hair, when farmers like gull, say, selling it is the only way to make ends meet. but act little farming wheat doesn't earnest enough money. it's not as profitable as poppy. 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 that's what i'll do 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 will send us back. the taliban has long been accused of taxing drug traffickers. some estimates predict the group made $20000000.00 in 2020, from the alyssa trade after taking control of the country last year. it pledged to cramped down on poppy farmers. but now it says they will be left alone, at least for now, the names. 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. ganna sans economy is on the verge of collapse sanctions and the taliban lack of international recognition or making an already diag humanitarian crisis. worse look at the husband would have replied and cultivate poppy book if you don't

have any other option. so if you have farms plant poppy indefinite and the once you don't work for landowners, the eliza trade is intertwined with a canister economy. now it continues to grow despite a terms of resistance at home and abroad. cards he a little bit of the young al jazeera government of mexico have killed at least 20 people in the west instead of michel con. please say the attack histone the cockfighting venue on sunday nights. the number of killings in the state is at a record high as cartels of fighting for control of drug trafficking routes. so hold on reports from esco city. we made can president under his manuel lopez over the door came out this morning about incident you mentioned in the fight pit and he said it's a, it was a massacre. basically, members of one criminal group went there to try and shoot up members of another criminal group. and as you said, there are at least $20.00 and $3.00 of them. women,

not even the 1st time this year that this is happened in the state of mich. we kind of met kerry southwest about a month ago, after awake 17 people were basically lined up against the wall and then shot. and then the bodies wished away. and most of that was captured on video. and again, it shocked people. but this is a state in which really violent, i couldn't even say spiraled out of control. it's been there for quite some time there. it's a state that we spent a lot of time there and i've gone past checkpoints openly in main roads. the manned by gunman to actually have the call to uniform and cultural insignia on the uniforms. quite close to mexican army checkpoints. that's where it's got through in the state of mich recon, when we were there a point last year, there were policemen killed by a drone that dropped explosives. mines have been investigated, they're against the army and used by criminal groups. so this is turned into in that state basically low level guerrilla warfare perpetrated by these different cartels with the government, british trying and scrambling to get ahold of it. brazil's president john bo sonata

was reportedly undergoing tests at a health center in the capital brasilia. the 67 year old launched his re election campaign on sunday. it was stopped in the abdomen during the 2018 presidential campaign, leaving him with ongoing health problems. he said, for surgeries since then, pharma and yours president han, orlando's commander says closer to be extradited to the united states. the supreme court and condo. this has authorized this transfer. hernandez is wanted by the u. s . prosecutors on drugs and firearms charges. he denies the accusations, the conservative politician held office from 2014 until early this year. workers at an amazon plant in the us state of alabama are voting on whether or not to join the union. the site will become the 1st and the u. s. to be unionized, john 100 reports from bessemer, alabama. the amazon workers votes now being tallied, we'll decide whether organized labor can make

a comeback in the heart of the anti union south. the vote counting that began on monday marks a 2nd battle between a corporate behemoth and pro union activists in bessemer, alabama. employees rejected joining the retail wholesale in department store union last year, but the national labor relations board rule that amazon unfairly influence the outcome and called for a do over election. that's in part because the company set up a mailbox, it looked like a voting booth, giving some workers the impression amazon itself was running the election. we've turned a lot of nose into yes. is once they got the information, ah, that was more impactful to their lives. so. yeah, the on boards with the union's leaders, as the company's tactics have continued. they are conducting a ferocious anti union can pay, union bust, state, bring again outside union busters. hundreds of them in a statement, amazon smoked person killing and tell said we look forward to having our employees

voices heard. our focus remains on working directly with our team to continue making amazon a great place to work. the move in alabama follows a recent vote still being counted at to amazon sites on new york, staten island, where workers projected their critiques of the company under its iconic logo unions . on the decline for decades, if seen a resurgence in the past year, signing up workers at starbucks doors in buffalo, new york, seattle in mesa, arizona, google fiber contractors in missouri and in new york city, ari i, sporting goods store workers seem empowered by the great resignation the wave of workers leaving their jobs during the pandemic. the company has been calling workers in for mandatory meetings to explain to them why they should not unionize. the company's perspective is that it works better with employees when it does so directly. not through a 3rd party, but many pro union workers say when that happens, it's the company that sets the rules. one alabama worker was confident enough to

take aim at amazon's billionaire owner, who also owns the blue origin space company. it's not really worth it to stay with the company who doesn't care about me as much as they care about. just be those going to the moon. you could take weeks to count up to 6100 ballots before it's clear. if workers here have opted to unionize, and whether organize, labor can gain ground deep in the heart of dixie. john henderson, al jazeera bessemer, alabama. ah, this is all, these are the top stories, ukrainian military officials say the reclaimed opin from russian forces. the city northwest of ki has seen heavy fighting since russia began its pushed towards the capital. last month of we'll find gifts which stole hood your opinion. the occupiers pushed away from her pin and key but it's still too early to.