for the table, a brother, i have a dream. my dream is that people nay. my daughter, the young people, just have a full voice and don't feel targeted because of their race or ethnicity. ah, turkey hawes, another round of negotiations between ukraine and russia, president tuan says the time has come said talks to you. concrete results. among those at the table is russian. billionaire roman abramoff, which he reportedly started symptoms of poisoning after earlier negotiations. ah, hello, i'm emily and gwen. this is al jazeera alive from job ha. also coming up,

gunman attack a passenger plane or train rather in northwest nigeria, opening fire up to detonating explosives on the track. a chinese city government apologizes for food shortages to to cause good 19 restrictions. chung shown has more than 8000000 residents and the prime minister of the solomon islands says he's ready to sign a security treaty with badging. astronomy was concerned, the deal could lead to a chinese military base in the pacific. negotiations between ukrainian or russian officials are under way in the sample phase, little expectation. it will bring an end to the month long conflict that took he's president is optimistic. artic goodish reloads, then we believed that it's a period where concrete results must be achieved in these negotiations. at the stage, you, as the was of the delegations have assumed

a historic responsibility. entire world is looking forward for a positive outcome from these talks. you are the ones are linked foundation of peace under the guidance of your leaders, and we are ready to make in contribution which will ease this process has been regular contacts between the 2 sides, but no blank through at 3 previous rounds of face to face talks moscow is taking guarantees, ukraine warranty joint. nicer. keep one's a ceasefire. at the very least. to present greenly, the president of ukraine gave clear instructions to delegation. we did not treat people, land or sovereignty does not object for negotiation. here a position reinforced concrete supplied by international law and claims armed forces, international sanctions that have been applying russia and weapons that have been handed over to us today. douglas. on the ground, ukraine president says his forces have recaptured the town of earth in it's on the

west and outskirts of the capital cave. but it's still a dire situation. in the 8th, the mayor of mary poll says, 5000 civilians have been killed since the war began. and 160000 remained trapped. however, some may get out on tuesday with ukraine opening 3 cargoes in the dawn yet region. a russian strike meanwhile, has hit the regional government building in the southern port city of mich alive. hopefully we'll have those pictures a little later. the city has been under heavy assaults for weeks. let's bring in. it's stephanie deca who joins me live now from that city of mc alive. stephanie, there's been that attack on the building. what have city officials said there has been a video message posted on social media by the regional government. vitale, kim, this is his office confirming that confirming that striker, once you do pull up those pictures, you'll see it's a massive building and there is severe damage. a hole in the middle of the building . he saying that to his office was hit in that, but saying that

a lot of that the casualties are actually very low. there is still a rescue operation undergoing we arrived at the city just her soon after that attack we had planned to come here before it was incredibly chance we arrived just stir close to that building, going to interview a military commander and we saw rescue workers run away from the building, we had to go into shelter. we went into a car park, there was a rumors of a rush and plain overhead. so just gives you a sense or of the panic. here we spoke to one lady in the shelter, burst into tears. she said, i'm terrified, we've been living this for ages. the forces here have managed to repel, pushed back a russian at advance for weeks. now rush and ground forces, of course, as you're seeing now, also consecutive attacks from the sky. it is hugely significant. why? because this is part of the south, this is the south western font line. and it's, it's, it's on the way to odessa, which is the biggest port city in ukraine. hugely strategically important. and of

course, if the russians miles should take this entire southern funded would cut off potentially ukraine to it's access to the black sea into the as of c. so it had been relatively quiet. i think we can say relatively over the last couple of days, of course shelling, et cetera. but certainly this is something that is again, causing a huge concern here. a massive strike against the heart of administration or of the government. hell or i thank you for bringing us up to speed as stephanie deca live for us in mich alive as head to istanbul now, where wrestles sadder is standing by and following those pace talks between russia and ukraine. where sol, how likely is it that this round will yield to any results? well, have the, their officials here are not that much optimistic about any breakthrough. they said at mostly it depends on the negotiated party is an flexibility. so our russia has

some tough conditions are and as such as a neutrality of ukraine, demilitarization domestication, and also ukraine to accept crania as a officially part of russia and also to recognize the eastern a ukraine separate this republics bone. yes. can la hans? so do, turkish official says that a ukrainian side is a showing willingness to make some of the concessions when it comes to the neutrality, which means that you can not pushing the girl off being a member of nato. but in return, ukraine is asking for security guarantees. form some major nato countries such as turkey and, and, and france. and in terms of the demilitarization or so do you bring aside, is also showing some signs of making some of the compromises. how the lens comes to the d modification. it's not clear what russian mean by denotes vacation and it is quite uncertain who is going to be defined as nazis and was not so. but the most

delicate issue here in the negotiations in the territorial integrity of ukraine. because russia is asking ukraine to accept crimea, which has been an x by russia in 2014 as a part of russia officially. and also it's force in a kia to, to, to, to recognise, done yes, can last course as independent states. so the officials are very much cautious if there can be a model developed to, to, to, to, to find a solution regarding the eastern ukraine. a saw turkey has been a favorable destination for the mediation because it has been able to manage a good delicious board with give and moscow. and the leaders between a in, in moscow and kia have vividly said that the officiate turkeys balanced their positions regarding the ongoing war turkish, i do, state is keeping good relations with moscow that turkish air space is open to their russian airplanes. the trade is stealing place, the gas export is in place,

and also the russian. all the cars are welcomed in turkey, and even today, the russian already got a roman of ramo. it is in a stumble. and in the morning, just before the negotiations started between the delegations, he met president edwin ingle much a palace in a stumble where the talks are being held. and as the said be, the officials here said that they have some, some certain orb, however, it, at the success of the tours very much depends on how much rushing is going to make a retreat from his max malice, demands and the limits of the ukrainian flexibility as well, these, these 2 issues are going to be the main determinative factors. what does this tolts are going to korea to result? any concrete threat? any concrete and tangible result or not? thank you very much wrestle, said i, with those updates from a sample and join holly's following developments from london on the suspected

poisoning of roman abramoff, which has been mentioned at the top of the show at talks in give belin cat has developed a pretty sturdy reputation for it's 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 3, individuals, 2 of them senior ukrainian negotiators, one of them, roman abram, of which experienced 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, all the galks ought to have contacts on some level, at least was let me put in the criminal symptoms, reportedly. according to belin belin cath 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 of the hands. for the wall street journal. adding that the health condition of all 3 has since improved and that their lives were not in danger, are not in danger. and these chemical weapons experts going further 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 he believes the suspected attack was orchestrated by hard

liners in russia who wanted to sabotage the talks to the world news now and gunmen have attacked a passenger train in north west in nigeria. it happened on a could do about the train from a boucher local media say almost $1000.00 people were on board. passengers have been evacuated and those who've been injured taken to hospital, i went, this is say a number of people were killed and kidnapped. but security services have not yet confirmed close figures and interests is following developments for us in a bridge. hello. the one of the details of the hearing about this, the task was basically like you said in the introduction, the plane carried about 970 passages from a butcher left. at 6 o'clock, and 2 hours later, the truck was bombed and derailed the. try the train on the track, and that too, when the gunman opened fire on the,

on the coaches as well as damage the engine. i, what does it say? they at least forced the way into some of the coaches and abducted people the government of community state said they have demanded the manifest for the trains to be looked at so that they can a know exactly what happened, who is missing and who is not. but so far, the one that i've been taken to hospital in kaduna and they're being treated for that warns we've spoken to at least i relation one relation who said some of these relations who went on the train was safe, but at least one person was shot and they were also user generated content on the web sofa showing how this attack happened with people with bullet wounds and what have you. some of that, some part of the way into the engine of the train. and some coaches have been damaged because of the blast. ahmed,

these types of attacks are happening more all semi nigeria, what's the gun been doing about him? while the vendor tree in nigeria has been there for a very long time, which started of course like a conflict between palmers and cuddled hunters snowballed into a wider conflict. that was, that is that a lot of our groups are catching. you know, now we also understand the book, water is all security for us in the book, or i'm is also part of the rising balance in the north west of the country. now that into that, that crisis that started in some for a state about 10 years ago has been, has trusted for a long time. what i will talk to is turning a blind eye to the situation. now they're desperate trying to control the situation when it, it's looking increasingly like it was getting completely out of hand. this is not the 1st attack on a train a few months ago that was a similar type. i rode along the same route when a train was demobilized,

but there were no abductions and no kidding spare. and then we are hot when you see how daily people are being abducted on the coming up with your road. and that's why a lot of people are taking to the train as a safe, a means of getting to come tonight. but before this time call, so we saw a daring time just 2 or 3 days ago when the same bandits embedded in the airport in the state and prevented an acura from taking off before they were finally chased away by security agencies. so it's like a desperate situation for many years. now you cannot travel with a piece of mind that was that before between cardona and boucher, which is just a distance of 160 kilometers without the fear of being abducted on that was so a lot of people are cutting off are going off that road and taken to the drains. now the trains are being attacked flies to cartoon. a state are not regular, so it compounds a problem that highway sort of links the rest of the north of the country to the

capital region. all right, thank you for bringing us up to speed and interest live for us in a butcher. still ahead on al jazeera hers president, pedro castillo survives a 2nd attempt to, ah, were dealing with life threatening flooding in eastern australia. hey, everyone, here's the details. so most of the action pushes out over the sea, but still we could get berths of about $300.00 millimeters of rain over 6 hours. that's more than a months worth of rain over a short span. and for that nerves coast of new south wales, those winds will be whipping up to 90 kilometers per hour. this weather pattern eerily similar to the one we saw a few weeks ago that brought historic flooding to places like liz more up to the west and it's a wet pitcher also for perth were seen puddles for the 1st time in

a while across western australia. this is much neat at re many areas of this state have been parched for new zealand, much dryer pitcher, but still some showers hanging around for the escape has been $21.00 degrees will be the high for you. and that slug of rain that was plaguing southern parts of the philippines while it's down starting to drift further west, it's going to run into vietnam. let's remember the philippines. we had severe, a flood advisory in play. so i think we could see a similar threat for vietnam. the southeast corner of china continues to have a what pitcher, but i suspect a dry day for hong kong on wednesday with the high 24 degrees, cherry blossoms and peak right now for tokyo. so enjoy it. you've got a high of 18 degrees in the sunshine on wednesday. so you said, ah, the witness fe, witness bravery, witness, reader, witness, slavery, witness. people, witness, power, witness,

lifetime witness and our witness. witness. witness prejudice, witness. peace, witness. love witness. paul: witness to world witness. next door. witness life witness. thera: oh the hell are you watching out here? i'm emily. i'm reminded of our top stories this our negotiations between ukrainian and russian officials had begun in a sample 3 previous rounds, failed to make any progress key once russia to withdraw. while moscow was thinking

guarantees. ukraine weren't joined nature sanction to russian believe roman abramoff, which is also taking part in those told the war 3 journalists reporting he and 2 ukrainians had been poisoned. during an earlier around negotiations, and gunman have attacked a passenger train in northwest in nigeria. it happened on a could do about the train from a boucher or maybe it is almost a 1000 people were on board. the injured have been taken to hospital the death ho isn't clear at this stage. astrology and new zealand are among countries alarmed by negotiations for security. pat between china and the solomon islands. a lake documents said china's military and police will be allowed to protect the chinese projects that y'all and prime minister says the backlash is very insulting men a say the gulf or a is denying opposition, reports that any deal it will lead to an autocratic government. joining us from

camera is michael, she bridge, he's the director of the stranding strategic policy institute, defense strategy and national security program. michael, thanks for being on the program. the prime minister says its utter nonsense that china's presence in the region is a security threat. is that true or does china have an agenda here? well, emily, china not only has an agenda, but they have a track record where the p m. i, people's liberation army. turns out whether it's in the south china sea, the taiwan straits, so close to japan. they bring aggression and military tension and the prospects of the chinese armed police and military working inside the small, solomon islands and using the solomon islands to operate its navy from brings military tension right into the heart of a peaceful south pacific. it's in nobody's interest. so do you think it's quite

likely that beijing will eventually build a military base in the solomon islands and what impact if that happens with that have on the region? i think the playbook quiz saying is a bit like the booty bind switch started as just a place that the pay of my navy was, would turn up to and get logistical support. take that link draft agreement privacy to soak. avari in the solomons is negotiating the pricing. it talks about logistics support to the pay ally, navy operating out of the solomon islands. so you'll hear the prime minister stock of rice, i. it's not a base what nonsense. but a place where the navy can be supported to operate from looks quite like a duck like that, your booty base it will become a base if it's america, per se, the prime. what other region is, what about a name for the region? is military tension, an aggressive military power, cold china operating more frequently in the south pacific and bumping into other

power? they're just like we say in the south trying to say, yes, sorry to interrupt you there michael. the prime minister says the prime minister of the solomon islands says he can manage the sovereign affairs of his own country. does he have appoint specific neighbors to stay out of it? not really because this decision is about the hall of the south pacific. right now . he knows that his internal security has been supported by his neighbors pop and kelly and j. along with his trailer and new zealand answered his request for support just recently. and what he's now doing is just about the solomon islands security. it's about the broader region. these other countries should have a voice and a should be listening. he's embarrass that this agreement late because he's already fighting opposition in his own country as he should be. so what's china's end game here? what does it stand to gain by expanding its security relationship with the solomon islands? well, they want access to sullivan islands resources,

and it once leverage over its government. the solomon is another vote in the united nations, another vote for china. and also as a place to protect military power from and a project, it's more aggressive military across our region to achieve its own security ends. and that is old, bad news for us in australia and in pay and j st. j and the broader sales pacific. okay, well we'll be watching this space closely. thank you for joining us, michael. she bridge the director of australian strategic policy institutes defense strategy and national security program. officials in the chinese city of chan shown the have apologized for 3 shortages caused by lockdown measures. operations of 2 major wholesale food markets have been

closed. the local government says its organized the delivery of food and basic needs to its residence. parts of china had been battling a surgeon colona virus infection since the middle of this month. and now the eastern side of shanghai has entered the 2nd day of its 2 phased coven 19 locked down. katrina, you has more from badge in the streets of the eastern part of shanghai, eerily quiet. china's most populous city has begun. it's true. stage. corona virus looked down. the 1st since the pandemic began for monday morning, about half of the cities 25000000 strong population has been told to stay. home. authorities are conducting mass testing desperately trying to curb the number of infections which have spiraled out of control in recent weeks. so far more than $8000000.00 people have been tested now on the western part of the city, people killing up the course re stores and supermarket collecting supplies that

turn at the severe lockdown which will begin on friday. earlier this month, shanghai authority said that the city, which is china's main financial hub, they said that it would not be shut down. but china is 0. tolerance approach to the pandemic is being severely tested by the highly infectious alma, chronic variance. each day there have been about 5000 cases, reported mostly a symptomatic, but still china continues to respond with its playbook of mass testing, heavy quarantine and heavy restrictions, despite increasing sense of frustration among china's population. as well as continual drag on china's economic growth. police in the u. k, will issue fines to at least 20 staff from the prime minister's office for attending parties. the breached lockdown rules. the names of individuals have not yet been disclosed. the police pro related to 12 events last year and the year before, where coven restrictions may have been flattered. prime minister barak johnson has

come on the heavy criticism, taking part in at least 2 of those gatherings. near miles military later has older the creation of new public security teams and villages and towns across the country . the new units will be given weapons and assist in the army in fighting rebel groups. florence louis has more from political the use of paramilitary forces in myanmar is not new. the man, my military had in the past provided weapons to civilians in ethnic controlled areas to help it fight civil wars. and 5 years ago it gave weapons to non ringo villages in northern reclaimed state. after it launched a brutal crank down against they, mainly muslim rang and minority there. now this time, the creation of power, military forces, india, is thought to be, to help the june, to crack down against the resistance movement, especially in central niana, where security forces have been engaged in fierce battles with resistance fighters,

known as the people defend force. now, armed resistance against the june has increased, many people have attended jungle training camps with they've learned how to handle weapons to make explosives. and they've launched attacks against security forces in rural and urban areas. junior achievement on lang has recently vowed to quote annihilate, unquote, antique who opponents blaming them for the violence in the country. local media report say, the june test has given about 2000 weapons to around 77 paramilitary groups. now what's interesting and perhaps also unsurprising, is that these paramilitary groups will also include outright nationalist buddhist, most known as marble top. and this group in the past they had been responsible for stoking and team was in rhetoric. they had also in the past, align themselves with the military. but what the latest development means is that

the fighting in young man is unlikely to stop and vote, in fact, most likely, worse than, especially with the june turn now not only encouraging, but also arming its supporters to fight against antique who protest this former honduran president wan orlando hernandez is closer to being extradited to the us supreme court and on doris has authorized his transfer. he's wanted by us, prosecutors on drugs and firearms charges. mendez denies the accusations, the conservative politician held office from 2014 until early this year. the worst president petro castillo has survived a 2nd attempt to impeach him. congress fell to reach enough votes to remove the president from our office. earlier, he presented his defense against allegations of corruption, which he called baseless the stairs. 8 month old government has faced several crises as mariana sanchez reports from the capital. im huh.

for the 2nd time in 4 months, an attempt to remove pinto castillo from office ends in failure. the precedent seen the impeachment trial was baseless, thought, showing. gonna continue. everyone knows that it does not contain a single element that sustains it. we only find words in the motion to have no corroboration. there is speculation, imaginary connections that don't support fox and the law is people who i gotcha. in his brief defense, the person who denied involvement and graft allocations that his opponent say otherwise, oh, the corruption that many defend grant his accomplices millionaire bits. the prosecution says he has been involved in influence. peddling, analysts say the 20 part impeachment motion was weak. the corruption allegations are still under investigation by prosecutors. oh, it has yet to be proven. there has been no evidence. we deserve respect. the

session was marked by interruptions and insults and was briefly suspended ah, outside hundreds of re police stooped protesters from getting close to su. supporter said he must be a note to govern. what got you a little you was democratically elected and must be respected. it's a legitimate government. those delinquents are trying to oust her budget. ha, but this is short. 8 months long government has been mired in controversy. a pull found 50 percent of peruvians want him gone in the in the mid residents in the last . oh yes, no wonder, are fed up to finish political clause. because you said he helped me with estimated weight. i guess the you direct his mistake. he's the delinquent. cassie, you has no morals. he has lied. he doesn't run

a good government. he is a shame. he'll session last that more than 8 hours, but the impeachment had lost him before it started. opponents were unable to get gusty use allies to flip their votes. now castillo says it's time to turn the beach, but if not, no opponent see, they will find a way to remove him from office. medina, such as i just see that lee might be to ah, and are you watching al jazeera, these are the top stories this our negotiations between ukrainian and russian officials had begun in a sample. 3 previous rounds failed to make any progress. moscow is seeking guarantees, ukraine wont join nato, while keith, once russia to withdrawal a grant agreement, the president of ukraine give clear instructions to our delegation. we do not trade people, land or sol. warranty does not subject for negotiation.