and with several opposition candidates locked concerns over the integrity of the electoral process. are ready to be raised. you must, if possible, show document trees. a new series of africa direct showcases applicant stories from applicants to make his millions of most vince from across the globe has too much to perform the stomach pilgrimage. june on al jazeera, the ukraine's president prizes whose forces as they advance on the city of buffalo. while russia insist, it's repels, a ukrainian offensive antoniette. the you're watching all the 0 light from headquarters and del fine getting number gauge also ahead. the us sectors state urges saudi arabia and israel to normalize relations, calling it a real national security interest. the former us vice president,

my tense announces funds to run for the top job, setting up a challenge with his former boss, donald trump, cost of those prime minister meets us and the representatives to try and ease tensions in serbian majority areas. the hello ukraine's president followed him, or zalinski was hailed his troops, fighting and buckets keeps ground. forces say, his troops are advancing on the eastern city, controlled by russia. let america lensky said they've defended their positions and continue to move forward, slash judging, of course, and whatnot. some of william, i'm grateful to every one of our soldiers. all our defenders who during this day have provided the news we have been waiting for. we see how russia reacts historically to every step. we take there about all positions we have taken. the

enemy knows that ukraine will when they see in us, they feel it thanks to your strikes, warriors, especially in the domestic region life. i want to particularly highlight the 5th separate assaults brigade and the $57.00 to separate motorized, infantry brigade of which skilfully decisively and effectively defended our positions destroyed the occupiers. okay, and most importantly, move forward. well as the landscape commons come on a day of claim and counter claim and what could be the start? a few cranes long awaited counter offensive. troll stratford has the latest from keith. the russian army says this video shows ukrainian military vehicles being forced to withdrawal officer of failed attempts to push into a russian occupied territory. in the southern donate, screeching the eastern new grain to the on june the full for you had to be launched . an unsuccessful attempt at a large scale offensive in the south, the next direction, 6 back and i liked him to talk battalions to via email activated. the goal was to

break to our defense, these in the most vulnerable and very of opinion, sectors of the front. the enemy did not to treatments tasks, it has no success is the statement which is difficult to independently verify comes . a few days of ukraine's president to load them is zalinski said he's all force. he's well now ready for a long awaited ukrainian counter offensive. his foreign minister implied the same. we received enough weapons to begin the counter offensive, but i will say again, my answer is always the same to this. i will say that we received enough of weapons. often we wind because until we have a good one and there is, there will be never enough of weapons. ukrainian military says this video shows russian positions coming on the heavy fall to the south of the town of buff mode, which russia claimed full control over the last month. was late to the leader of

the russian motion. we group, wagner released an audio message saying ukrainian forces were making small games in the village of best cute little town. get a game blamed russian defense minister said again, shall i go? i'm chief of general stuff for larry. could i see him off? just part of the cuba has already been lost. the troops are quietly running away. what a disgrace should i go get us the most. i heard you go to the front line, pick up a gun and make the trip. stand up and move forward. come on, you can do it, and if not, you will die. he rose, ukrainian military and recent days as little as what can be described as a campaign of silence. it released this video aimed at the public. the media and ukrainian soldiers appealing for silence on the counter offensive in order to preserve some element of surprise. me the claim and counsel claims there is increasing evidence of an intensification of fighting at various locations along

the front line. whether this represents the beginning of the long awaited ukrainian counter offensive and efforts, while i ukraine in full seas, to find weak spots in russian defense or indeed these of small probing attracts. i hated the launch of full scale operation. last will become clear in the coming days . it's all stuff without your 0. keith. meanwhile, further north fighting continues along the russia ukraine border pro ukrainian or i'm groups of launched raids on the region of builder roads and claim to have captured several russian soldiers. the shop of alova is in moscow with more. the citizens of the bold original val girl report about the work of ad defense systems that they say they've had the sounds of loud explosions in the ad right now. no casualties have been reported to cause have been damaged by the missile fragments

that earlier last week. they were obviously flying to groups who allegedly consist of ethnic russian soldiers. they were entering the belgrade region, but that tax was repelled by the russian army. and those kinds of groups called themselves the liberty of russia legion on the russian voluntary. cool. um, they consisted, they raw them, they considered by russia to be extreme as groups and they called into the russian territory, sending that back. they were to liberate russia and read it of its current political system. also, the belgrade region now is a place where a humanitarian catastrophe is on folding virus districts of the region. they show back in the district in particular, have colson clay been on the. 1 line open 1100 apartments and a 370 private houses has been damaged or destroyed that in the sure back in a district during the past week. that's according to the head of the district in the morning, the ukrainian on

a find more than 70 shells from the ground multiple loan truck, it systems at the village of nova trouble junk. which board is the town of should be connected to belgrade region a actually at the moment, no volta, no electricity own mobiles, phone service in the town of sure back. you know, people need to add you into the queue ation. the west texas state antony blinking says, washington will not let their ron develop nuclear weapons speaking if the american israel public affairs committee blinking, also urge the normalization of relations between saudi arabia and israel. who made the comments just hours before leaving for talks and re owned. the united states has a real national security interest in promoting normalization between is real and saudi arabia. we believe that we can and indeed we must play an integral role in advancing it.

now, you know there's just that this can be done quickly or easily, but we remain committed to working towards that outcome, including on the trip. i'm about to take this week to jetta in riyadh for engagements with our savvy and goals counterparts. our white house correspondent, kimberly how kit has more the normalization of relations between is real and saudi arabia is a top priority for the united states because the us sees it as. * tied to its own national security interest, and as a result, the us secretary of state antony blinking will be traveling to the region. he'll be traveling to re it as well as jetta. to have conversations about how that can continue to expand. already there has been commercial air traffic between israel as well as saudi arabia. but the united states feels that there can be much more in terms of economic development, advancement in terms of stability,

prosperity and integration. so this is what those conversations will be about. it's a building upon the abraham accords hatched under the trump administration. but the obstacle in all of this is the acquiring of a nuclear weapon or the attempts to do so by iran. some things of the white house says is not an option in the eyes of the united states. and as a result, all options are on the table for preventing that should are on the side to ignore the path to diplomacy for resolving this issue. the national security council spokesperson john kirby. it's making it a white house briefing on monday, said though, however, if a ron schuster opened up an embassy and re odd. and this would certainly help transparency. it would also help the stopping and intercepting of ships then that would be very good in the you're not as, as the united states. what is not good in the eyes of the united states or ron, having a nuclear weapons, something that the united states will do all it can to prevent. kimberly help him

out to 0. the white house to have the seasonal question, who's an independent? so the foreign policy researchers joining us from rewards welcome to alj a 0. so the us calling for a saudi israel normalization is really nothing new. but here's what's new with the context of the region, the ongoing rapprochement between saudi arabia and iran. we are the big driver of change in the middle east right now. so who do you think we're yod will be interpreting the statements made by the us sector of state ahead of his trip. well 1st a good evening. our good morning. thank you very much for having me. i think when it comes to the context of the region, i personally won't hold my breath if i was someone trying to hold for a normal as ation between sided raven is real. i wouldn't be holding my breath because in fact the context in itself assigned to radiate has clearly illustrated that it's still stands with the error piece initiative. and also it's reproach

meant with iran and i think it's tacit leadership now for a trying to be an air leader and are particularly the crown prince trying to be this new emerging air leader. i, you know, i, i just don't see the notion of saudi is really a normalization taking place. any time soon. right. however, yes, please go ahead. what i wanted to say was that, that in fact is something that you, are you doing a piece back in 2022 where you said the saudi. israel normalization is unlikely. so it sounds like you still stand by that statement today. but tell us whether you think that we could see any sort of a saudi israel developments after this trip by this x ray state. i don't see that too. um the only thing that i that may happen that may happen our flights from the tel aviv to, to get to regarding the pilgrims. that is even in itself at best,

very doubtful. but that could happen. i don't anticipate anything else materializing. and the reason being is that many people are, are kind of jumping on this bandwagon of speculation because i think that is really government as well as the united states administration are really putting in a lot of effort in the speculation for different reasons. first thing is really government requires this and is building the strategy. uh, i would call a strategic speculation because it wants to give the notion or the impression that normalization would subdue ravia is very much on the horizon. and it's very close in order to alleviate any kind of pressure domestically, any political pressure domestically. so he wants to give the illusion that it's really trying to reach an incredible milestone. and it's more a policy. well, that's a lot more further than we could expect in the reality, right?

when it comes to the united states blinking and others like dig sullivan, like even lindsay grounds. anybody that tries to deal with saudi arabia given the, the very demonizing rhetoric that they have recently, they will require something to legitimize their approach to saturday radio. and that is the normalization and the abraham, of course. now, when they come here, i can guarantee you that they won't even mention it, and we can see that in the re read out subject, sullivan. we've seen that before. you know, we've seen this play before. okay. that ever, you know, the 2022 last during the did the something that they called for the expansion of the abraham accords us but nothing really happens. so this is very much hot. there are for their domestic politics and we need not forget who blinking set this in front of because now it's becoming a blog part of the issue is trying to, legitimize this trip, decided to radiate. and i think the main important file that they're working on is

the city sit in these file, not expansion. the abrahamic words. okay, well have to leave it there. thank you so much for speaking to us from re on my pleasure to leave for me was vice president mike, penn says officially entered the 2024 race for the white house. so pence has bid. will pit him against his former boss. donald trump, who served 4 years in the white house from 2017 to 2021. allen fisher reports in washington, dc. we gave america a new beginning for life. he said we can, everyone knew he would be no, its official. after spending months laying the groundwork, former vice president mike pens has filed the paperwork to take on his old boss to the republican presidential nomination. pence went against donald trump once before . he refused to block 2 bygone selection as president as trump wanted a, and ended up running for his life, from his supporters. because he's going to have to address january 6 with donald

trump presumably right next to him. and that's going to be really interesting to see in terms of how he's going to answer that, how trop is going to respond. it's going to be really intriguing. i don't think he has any chance of winning pens, joins a growing field. nicky, he leaves a former us ambassador to the u. n. as in instead of tim scott of south carolina. we knew if we worked once a trump advisor, former new jersey governor chris christy's field, and the 2016 nomination fight, is expected to a nice and choose the north dakota governor. doug bergman will join this week to with is a hutchinson from arkansas who's already declared both our names hardly knowing it's of their home states and at least favorites to draw posts under slaughter the governor run desantis expect it to be comes biggest challenger. but most pools have him hardly make, get dent in from sleep that's given to others hot. no,

they believe they could be the person to be trump. i think a lot of these people are running because they want to be president. honestly, i think a lot of them are running because they either want a cabinet position or they to be the running me. and they refuse to attack donald trump because they're afraid of him. and they're afraid of his banks and they want to have that support to further their political ambition. the field is already crowded and more unexpected to join, but they're all still a long way behind donald trump. mike pence hope so. you can create his own little bit of history and become the latest vice president when the top don't dislike the mind. he would ultimately have to beat job. i always for sure, i'll just say to washington, still ahead on al jazeera hopes for political and economic reforms into wastes as the goals they prepares for its 7th parliamentary election in 10 years. the

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a the the on the top stones on which is 0. the cranes presidents has hail vis troops, fighting and backwards. the notary says it's conducting offensive action along the front line. it has inside, if it's part of along the way to counter offensive or us sector. so down to the blanket says, washington won't let it wrong. develop nuclear weapons, the earth, saudi arabia and israel, to normalize relations saying it's a national security interest. lincoln's commons come a day before it used to travel to read. the form of us vice president mike pensa is

officially entered the 2024 race for the white house and suspense will pick him against his former boss. donald trump, who served from 2017 to 2021 cost of those prime minister, who has held talks with you and us representatives after days of unrest. you envoy presented proposals to de escalate tensions and holes. the elections, violence broke out last month after the election of ethnic albanian mayers and served majority areas. many serbs, boy called at the poll. dozens of nato. peacekeepers were injured last week, and a turkish commander battalion has since arrived to support the forces. as a bank has more from christina, it hasn't been an agreement reached, but the e u and the us department. so the key distressed that the l friends of cost of on the what the rest full cost of all but they have 3 demands. they want to de escalation of the situation. they want fresh elections. and they also want to dialog choosing between christina and valid. great. that probably mr. i've been

good. the has suggested that he's open to the idea of fresh elections, but there's no guarantee that the ethnic says in those full municipalities won't boy cut those elections again, and if they do comfortable will find itself in the very same position as it does now. now there are discussions taking place over the next few days between those different months and politicians here in pristina. we also understand that they will be meeting with esick said represents the representative in the north of cost of ok. now they haven't been any further attacks against nato troops, although we have heard from comfortable police. the vehicles and offices have been targeted in those full municipalities. we also heard that in north mitchell, if it's in there, it's dominated by ethnic, says, 2 ethnic albanians. what talk to by what christina calls a fascist relation of that happened earlier on in the week. so the tensions remain, although it has been calm and peaceful over the last 2 days. but those tensions

still remain. and there's an understanding by diplomats that the solution, at least the d escalation, will come from christina and valid great. but in north costs of all those ethics that's consider themselves a part of serbia. and no matter what agreement is reached, convincing those ethnic says that they are part of comfortable and not serbia is the biggest challenge for student faces. i said vague. i just data christina, comfortable, a preliminary investigation into india is deadly, is trained, crash and decades points to a signaling system error or a criminal code pro has been opened. at least 270 people have died. let me consume sharif reports from the eastern city of behind us where our but the justice, when people become numbers and most a place for family, for unions. system castiano made his way from because ruben h would in the should state to find his missing some. but he says he wasn't

expecting his search to bring him here. that that say 7 legs that wasn't related. i told my wife we would not find a sound in life. i told him my youngest son too. what did you want me to go look for him? there was a problem in the re line. it was the fault of the station master of the something, it's a closure for some and an anxious wait for others. grief has turned into anger. mamma chocolate that his family have travelled across states and cities to find the relative the game at the bottom. and i haven't seen such a big accident in my life. this is a case of negligence. who is responsible for this? doesn't matter if it's a junior or senior employee, the point is that they have killed so many people on to trains. there's just chaos across the country. the government statements cannot bring back the debt. since friday, nearly 200 bodies have been moved to 2 monks at this medical building in population

. but more than 40 have been put down to families, but the majority remain here. so the procedure is that the, when the body comes here, they are doing the collecting the dna day and then be doing or whatever documentation has to be done. basic documentation. there are some embalming processes also going on. and then uh, the person who identifies is handed over the one where they're going to kind of a separate bodies to remain on identifying an adult. this whole, most families can make every here many of the victims go from neighboring westland goal. and because they would probably of the cities in the south looking for work for families here this week. and as i said, the mounting on says on accountability, let me close. i'm sure i'll just see the info of an age. he's sending voters in kuwait are going back to the polls for the 2nd time in less than

a year there hoping for parliament that would last for more than a few months still made between politicians and the ruling of somebody finally has caused politics to grind to a halt brought mathis and reports from kuwait city for the 2nd time, and 11 mazda supposing to weight hoping to break the deadlock, which has power lies their government for more than 2 years. analysts say one of the challenges is that there are no political parties and candidates run as independence. coins almost had its official constitution for 70 years. women had the right to vote almost 18 years. but we still don't have any political parties. we are relying heavily on individuals who we think are good enough to to present us. there is not enough focus on teamwork. voters choose 50 to 65 seats in parliament. the mirror points up to 16

cabinet members. 15 from have seats in the national assembly since 2020, the assembly has been increasingly dominated by members opposed to the government, to trying to break down pests in 2022. the crime prints issued a royal decree to dissolve pond on it and go wages went back to the ballot box in september. but 6 months later, the constitutional court ruled that decree invalid saying it went against the 1962 constitution, which gives significant power to parliament. the court ordered the national assembly be dissolved and replaced by the one elected in 2022. then in april conference, initial law sapa, another column. it would be desponding for a 2nd time sending to await ease back to the polls. there is this feeling of lack of interest. even many politicians running for elections decided not to have permanent a campaign headquarters. we have to also realize what

saves our democracy is for us to practice our democracy on the streets. there's little sign of active campaigning troy days have told us that they're no longer interested in politics or that they just don't feel that it's going to be relevant for them anymore. but some of them saying that they're very concerned that unless the national assembly can get some sort of consensus and can waits, politics will continue to be deadlocks. and parliament could be dissolved once again. to id, say, politicians need to start talking about the future of their country. but they're not holding out much hope. rob matheson, i'll just say to a city. the ruling party of mexico's president underestimated while lopez over door has won the governorship of the countries most popular states. the moreno party defeated the institutional revolutionary party,

or p. r. i in the state of mexico for the 1st time and 94 years. the last is a heavy blow to the p. r. i had a presidential elections next year. my new, well, regular reports from the mexican capital celebrations and mexico's most populous state. after the candidate for governor, from the boat and a party seized victory on sunday. it's a historic moment, as this region of mexico has been governed by a single party for almost a century. this is a victory for all, for every citizen from the state of mexico, it has been a 100 years of corruption and abandonment. the time changes, people organized and one didn't feel room is not only made history by becoming mexico states, 1st female governor, but many believe her victory represents a death blow for the institutional revolutionary party, or p. r. i, which ruled over the entire country uninterrupted from 1929 to 2000 famously

referred to as the perfect dict leadership. for many, the p r i has become synonymous with abuse. after sunday's election, the p r i has become the political party with the most lawsuits in the last 3 election cycles and been relegated to the 4 most powerful political party in mexico . the pure rise losing ground very fast. and actually, i would say it's at risk of becoming irrelevant or disappearing in the near future . political analysts view the state of mexico as a miniature representation of the entire country region hold significant economic importance. it also faces some of the nation's most pressing issues, like any quality violence and corruption. i've lived with the corrupt governments, so i don't want the next generation, like my grandchildren to go through that elections. and the state of mexico came just one year before the 2024 presidential elections. this latest electoral victory

is giving many of the sense that morning, the party founded by mexican president under this one way little piece of metal will be an unstoppable force in the upcoming presidential elections. just like not even existing a decade ago, moodiness has risen to become mexico's per dominant political since 2018 moreno has one elections. in 21. out of mexico's $32.00 states, it's a trend that's come to represent the ultimate blow to mexico's former rulers. ceiling their faith indefinitely. mentalism up a little al jazeera mexico city, the color again. the headlines on al jazeera, ukraine's presidents has hailed his troops fighting and back moved the ministry. so as it's conducting offensive action along the front line. but it hasn't confirmed if it's part of a long awaited count or if.