the knowledge is here with donald trump says he has agreed with the russian president vladimir putin to begin negotiations on ending ukraine. the i'm how much i'm doing this is on 0. live from bill. also coming up. trump is also held a phone call with ukraine's president for loading their zalinski. on the day, his defense secretary said it's unrealistic for ukraine to return to its pre war borders. also had a concerted push to keep the gauze cease, fire alive, mediators covered, and egypt intensify. efforts to find solutions after pressure from the us and

israel to resume to and syria's new president forms a committee for a national dialogue that will discuss the country's political future. the nearly 3 years after russian troops invaded ukraine, us president donald trump says vladimir putin has agreed to immediately start negotiating an into the war and a 90 minute phone call between the 2 leaders. trump says his russian counterpart agreed to a long term settlement could be reached through peaceful means. trump is also spoken to ukrainian president, followed him as a landscape earlier trumps defense secretary, p techs have laid out americas proposal to end the war during a needle meeting in brussels. he says, joining the organization is unrealistic for ukraine. and keith should have banned in hopes of returning to pre 2014 borders. and we want like you,

a sovereign and prosperous ukraine. but we must start by recognizing that returning to ukraine's pre 2014 borders is an unrealistic objective. chasing this, illusionary goal will only prolong the war and cause more suffering. a durable piece for ukraine must include robust security guarantees to ensure that the war will not begin. again. this must not be mintz 3 point oh. and cranes president posted on social media platform x, that he had a meaningful phone conversation with donald trump. below them is lensky says. they talked about opportunities to achieve peace and a readiness to work together. and they will prepare a new document on security and economic cooperation. you mentioned ukraine's technological capabilities, including drones. he finished by saying together with the u. s. they're charging

steps to stop rushing aggression and ensure a lasting piece. all right, let's go now to alan fisher. was joining us from washington dc life. so i, when we're starting to see what president trump's plan for peace in the war and ukraine means, what more can we expect going forward as well. the 1st steps will be taking place in munich in germany on friday. that's where the whole, the annual security conference and the us delegation will be led by the vice president duty binds and michael reveal is the secretary of state. also, there will be the national security advisor and the head of the c. i, a, it's the, the intention to meet me is the lensky at munich, and stopped the process. but this could take some time because let them use the landscape in an interview just in the last few hours. a said he would consider lunchbox with territory that they have seized in the dorm bus, something that russia is unlikely to agree to. so there's a great deal of negotiation. but certainly from the podium in the white house press

briefing room, the press secretary seemed to suggest there was some quotes for optimism. the president just recently got off the phone with president zalinski of ukraine. his truth is as follows. i just spoke to president zalinski of ukraine. the conversation went very well. he liked present it, proving wants to make peace. we discussed a variety of topics having to do with the war, but mostly the meeting that is being set up on friday and unix were vice president j events and secretary of secretary of state, marco rubio, will leave the delegation. i am hopeful that the results of that meeting will be positive. it is time to stop this ridiculous work, where there has been massive and totally unnecessary death and destruction. god bless the people of russia and ukraine. i myself just spoke to the president about these calls and he told me to tell all of you. they were very good calls. they were

very positive and the administration is wholeheartedly committed to a peace deal to and once and for all the russia, ukraine, war and allen in his 1st term. trump was very big on the idea of nato spending more, and he certainly doubling down on that. now, right, see the certainly of know we have that from pete hex that saying that the donald trump believes that natural country should be spending 5 percent of the cost domestic product of g. d, p on defense. know a lot of countries in europe. the canadians, they might struggle to reach that number. it would mean a massive increase, particularly when the demands on the economy for so many other sectors. just here in the united states. the defense budget in 2023 took $880000000000.00 by far and away the largest item in the us economy. that the onset of course is if they wanted to increase the spending that we go up to 1.3 trillion. how do you pay for that?

well, there's a number of suggestions from economist one is you caught social programs like medicare and medicaid don't from said he doesn't want to do that. you make cuts elsewhere. but trying to do that through this dodge idea of your muscle savings from wasted, an increasing efficiency in the government, or you raise taxes, something donald trump also doesn't want to do. it would mean a massive increase in defense spending. why donald trump pick the bigger a 5 percent? no one is entirely sure how quickly they can get there. no one is entirely sure, but it's clearly something that donald trump has decided he's going to talk about not just know, but until he believes that the europeans and others a need to take him seriously. all right, that sounds as here as alan fisher live for us in washington d. c. thanks so much alan bill. your shop of all of it has more on rushes reaction from moscow. the fast comments from russian politicians on

the conversation between priests and in front of hearing right now and move to kind of schools many agreed that dialogue is best. so then it's not since, and there is still, but there's still a long way to go before break threes and relations between russia and the united states. because according to many here, trump predisposes. i've been hearing dream programs for too long, and some people say that's a e u and you frame will not be happy. a tool about the contents between the leaders of russia and the united states. and the you will try to disrupt the magic dialogue. earlier on wednesday, the us defense secretary pete hex, of told european members of nato that they could no longer rely on us support. regarding ukraine hash in mind about of the reports from brussels. well now they've got a strong message from the americans that the you and that nature members have to stop

relying on themselves. which means that they have to now think about ways to gather more cash, to send to team and also produce more weapons. they would have to send to keep, they were hoping to be able to convince trump to change some of those ideas, to the point that they were offering to buy more. what this of the americas more natural liquefied natural gas from the americans as, as, as a, as a sign of graphs you choose to was the, a security um, brenda, the americans have been providing you for many decades. but today i think they are going to definitely start talking about the 2nd option, which is basically europe is designing their own defense strategy away from the united states of america and exit made it clear when he said that the stock and do the spot to political realities which dictates that the americans with ship the focus from europe to contain china is growing influence. a marie is always united as the head of regional security and conflict studies at the democratic initiatives

foundation, one of your cranes oldest the think tanks you joins us now from warsaw. maria, thanks so much for being with us here on al jazeera. let me ask you 1st. there been so many new developments when it comes to the warren ukraine. these past few hours . what from your vantage point? does this all mean? do you believe that the war is now and it's in stages? i mean, i don't believe we are very close to the final resolution of the cold. they come wherever the process of finding the solution for a temporary cease fire or kind of for full was for actor was fair is the what do we have a witness in right now? so it was very much expected. so no surprise here. everyone was expecting trumpets travel to find some kind of further start to afford negotiations to policies via as soon as possible off the he started hughes real true, but however, the real phrase was full. what is on the table and what does negotiation go for both sides? it's still unclear, maria,

it's ukrainian present for letting me zalinski has said that he had a meaningful conversation with us president donald trump and that he discussed preparations of a document on security and economic cooperation between the 2 countries. how much pressure is zalinski under right now? and what kind of reaction can we expect from other members of ukraine's government and a wider public and ukraine? the brothers, the wednesday is not on the definitely political pressure. however, he understands very well that in case the drum has its full position about the deck to welfare should be stopped. as soon as possible us can simply reduce the minimum . it's miller, i'm sorry, a to ukraine, and europe unfortunately didn't get the chance within the last 3 years to prepare themselves to step in, in case us is not the leader for military 8 if you creating anymore. and that's why the presence of lensky is trying to be very diplomatic and very creative. that was huge because id and the drums one back in september 20, 242. 04 uh,

american companies, american business to be of shareholders, owners of some very valuable natural resources back in ukraine because from this point of view you've, american business isn't both here on the ground. they will be interested in security and stability and no war any more about the at the same time present, the west is under the pressure domestically because over 80 percent of ukrainians on their food year of the large scale invasion are a game for me to go and legal recognition of occupation lucky praying instead of just a little never, he will never be able to sell this out domestically despite of the some kind of of fatigue from the world. maria, we've heard about a lot of different calls that's been going on the last few hours. i want to get your thoughts on the sequence of events because we, before we heard the trump spoke with zalinski, the reports where the trump had held a phone call with russian president vladimir putin. is there

a sense emerging here that putting was rather sorry that the landscape wasn't really put into the equation and all this until after the u. s. and russian presidents had spoken your grade was comfortably informed about the ongoing secondary channels of communication between us and moscow. but the 1st school to put in i wouldn't over situated significance because this is roster who must be either confused or post actually to be constructive. and to stop negotiations, your grading here has declared already that they are ready. i mean you creating and the storage is there ready to, to talk about some temporary decisions like just use fire but the rest. so he's not interested literally in that, that's why i wasn't the was to generate the defective from cold 14, but uh, the, the, the sense of this for the confidence of this conversation is the more challenging, override it to me because the drum is not full when she's the prep is brad

presidential electoral campaign promises, when he said that she will be making pressure on both sides, ukraine and russia. and we don't see any pressure on russia now. but throughout the loyal sympathising and very sole truth, worried about finding the common ground to his present, put him personally, which doesn't make any arguments, any reasons for russia to be really interested in final resolution, even in the ceasefire. all right, resulting at the head of regional security and conflict studies that the democratic initiatives foundation, thanks so much for joining us on elders here a great to get your perspective of the egypt and caught that are stepping up efforts to salvage the gaza cease fire deal mediators are urging israel and how much to commit to the agreement with reports,

a high level how much allegation is in cairo, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has threatened to resume the war if, how much does not release more captives on saturday. at the same time, us president donald trump is standing by his plan to take control of gaza and forcibly relocate its entire population. but the egyptian president and jordan's king say the strip should be rebuilt without displacing policy. and it's, it's real defensive minister. israel caps is now saying the war should resume to fulfill trump's plan to take over. gosh, he says it's how much does not release the as really hostages by saturday, then the gates of hell will open on them. just as the us president promised. he adds the, the new gods of war will be different in intensity from the one before the ceasefire and will not end without the defeat of how much and the release of all the hostages . and it will also make it possible to realize the vision of us president trump on johnson. how does that hurt isn't jordan's capital?

i'm on because the israeli government and the palestinian authority have banned al jazeera from reporting and israel and the occupied westbank hemmed up. so these new comments from israel caps, there are certainly more incendiaries in other comments in the past. can you elaborate on what we're now hearing and tell us more about what he said and how were to understand and interpret them of the will be, is really defense ministers, comments. com nearly 24 hours after prime minister benjamin netanyahu is remark, saying that israel is going to restart the war if the captives are not released saturday at noon local time, as emphasized in the deal that was signed by both parties. but israel kansas comments are a little bit more severe, is saying that the war would be different in intensity and scale different than what we saw in the 15 months of war, which is a little bit difficult to believe given how many palestinians were killed. and just how much damage and destruction ensued in the balance of strip as a result of continuous is really bombardment. but nonetheless,

mediators are scrambling behind the scenes to try and get both sides to adhere to the deal, and try to make sure that it's implemented by saturday. but it's important to mention that how mess has accused israel a violating the deal, which is why all of this began. they say that israel has not allowed vital and critical humanitarian aid in the form of tens, caravans and other sort of temporary structure ins for palestinians to have in the interim until their homes are rebuilt. and officials, we've spoken autonomously, of course, to one american media outlets said that it's true, israel did not, in fact allow those structures to go in and rights groups and age groups are saying the same thing. so mediators are trying now behind the scenes to work with both parties to get that implemented, to solve all of the issues by saturday. but both him, us and israel have said that they would respect the deal if the other side upheld it's the end of the bargain. and him,

the leaders of jordan and egypt have have held these this phone call. and they're saying that the gaza strip should be rebuilt without displacing palestinians. just briefly please, what more we hearing on that and a little jordan and egypt are re affirming. there stands the palestinians should not be expelled from the gaza strip. that there should be no sort of american oars really occupation of the palestinian territory and that it needs to be rebuilt quickly and swiftly, but with the palestinians there without them leaving. but us president donald trump, that's not in his plan. he says that there will be a sliver of land from jordan and a sliver of land from egypt that will house palestinians with no regard. the palestinians do not want to leave the gaza strip to begin with. so we defend jordan or reiterating this position that has been held firm by most of the countries, if not all in the region. all right, that's up to here is have this in who joining us from jordan's capital on mine.

thanks so much. come to honey, my mode has more from what if i hadn't southern gaza on the latest developments. were still reporting from rough i city and just minutes after the sunset, the area started to become more of a desert. here with the lot of people who were here during the daytime, inspecting their homes just within this area. not going far away because they're still 60 percent of the area according to run by municipality under these really military control and within the range of fire are departing. the area and making their way back to their 10 site. this is part of the growing fear as statements and news about the possibility of a ceasefire to collapse at any time. giving the stand up in the past 48 hours as these really military repeatedly failed to meet its obligations and honor the terms of the ceasefire. and the chief among them is the do i have the permission to allow the many of them much needed aid and basic necessities to enter the gods strip. among them beats the fuel trucks,

as well as the tents and the mobile homes that have not made there. we have not been allowed to enter their overhead crossing for a much needed population. the northern parts of the strip and gaza city. all of this, coupled with the mounting fear of the ruler route to resume. there is almost a unanimous agreement among people here that as soon as these really military return the, the captives or the cap is, are being released. they're going to resume the war. and that has post once many of the people, the plans here to go back to their homes in northern part of districts and goes to the and many of the area that being control and devastated by these really military . we're still in rough. i city, we're seeing much of the devastation that is causing this not only causing fear, but also much of them on the 3rd tendency of the future of this city, similar to other parts of the gaza strip. honey, my mother was just data from rough. i city, palestine still

a head on alger 0. these really army forces, palestinians to evacuate, a refugee camp in the occupied west by, as the military operation intensifies the had a lot of there, it's a very to whether story across europe at the moment. things are going to change over the next few days. we have got those unsettled weather conditions, clinging it to the mediterranean, with wintery weather, affecting the south east. but for the south west has been some improvement for portugal and spain. we saw some flooding in lisbon. well, things have cleared up, it is looking more settled. yes, it will be some rain event to northern parts of spain. do you see that band? well, that's set to scott, it's way further east. we'll see that starting to move across the island and bruce

and bringing some wet weather as well to western parts of france. things turn more wintery out east. you can see those conditions moving in across the balkans. we have with warnings out for some intense snow as well as ice and hungry. and in sylvia with temperatures coming down, have a look at bell. great. if we have a look at the 3 day the, well, we will get a lot called you cold up by sunday. and things have turned cold or close to knows that asked of places like algeria thanks to that unsettled weather, working its way across the mediterranean. you can see that rain starts into k, a. l g is coming back to 18 degrees celsius. give me a logic dry picture friday at you whether the shaker model was for translation and international understanding is inviting nominations for its 11th edition starting january the fast and ending march the

31st 2025. for more information. please visit the awards official website at w w, w dot h t a dot q a the, [000:00:00;00] the you're watching, i'll just hear a reminder of our top stories this out. the us president donald trump says flattery put, and it has agreed to immediately started negotiating and into the war new frame and a 90 minute phone call. trump says the russian leader agreed to

a long term settlement that could be reached through peaceful means. trump has also spoken to ukraine's president about his conversation with flooding recruitment. but what it means, lensky says he and trump discuss opportunities to achieve peace and ukraine's readiness to work, but the us egypt. and because that are stepping up efforts to salvage, to god, the cease fire deal mediators are urging israel and come us to commit to the agreement with reports. a high level from us that location is in cairo. israel's prime minister has threatened to resume the war if, how much does not release more captives on saturday. the armed weighing a v as long as john has released the video showing is really captive to engage them before their release. the group says it's to remind is real the only way to recover the remaining captives is through negotiations. and sticking to the terms of the ceasefire deal. it says it's committed to the agreement and one is the fate of the captains is linked to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has actions a prominent guards or hospital director is being subjected to various forms of torture and inhumane treatment in and is really present. that's according to a lawyer who is visit

a doctor or some of us are for you in of our prison in the occupied westbank for the 1st time is really forces detained that will sophia during a raid on come on. i had one hospital in northern gauze in december. his lawyer says the doctor has been 47 days in arbitrary detention. he was refused access to legal counsel and to a doctor. so me and my mama is a lawyer and part of the legal team representing dr. salbal, sophia, in an interview with al jazeera, he described, i will see a situation and the torture he was subjected to. or i saw somebody who just levels call despite denying all the charges against him. he was beaten with stick. an electric stick enhanced by these really are multiple to get a confession from them talking. after that he was transferred to these really said a team on prison where you was held in solitary confinement for 25 days. they investigated him continuously over 10 days in very difficult situation. one inside

the prison, ourselves where he fainted, due to feeling suffocated the small me a lot. in the office of dr. hassan denied all the charges against him, and no evidence was proven against him. that could convict him $47.00 days of investigations having proven any charge against the doctor. and therefore, there is no indictment from the is really general prosecution against him. until this moment. when that the u. n. is warning the number of palestinians being forced from their homes in the occupied west bank is increasing at an alarming rate. israel launched a large scale military operation there 3 weeks ago. dozens of people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced. stephanie decker reports filled secretly from the window is riley soldiers arresting palestinians from their homes in the comp, in hebron. neighbors captured these moments in the dark of night. late night attentions are common here, but have increased since these really minutes re launched a large scale offensive in the occupied westbank in january,

storming and reading several refugee camps, including janine to cut them and no chance. the in between the sound of explosions is really forces order, palestinians to leave notions. the one says the on sort has displaced at least 40000 people in just over 3 weeks. israel cools the military operation, iron rule and says it's aimed at routing out armed resistance fighters and preventing what it calls terrorist infrastructure from being established. but entire neighborhoods are being destroyed. israel is also carrying out air and drilling strikes in these densely populated areas. homes have been demolished, infrastructure destroyed, and there is a shortage of food, water, and medication. the latest is ready operation and the occupied westbank started

just a few days after the ceasefire and goals all took effect. stephanie decker, or g 0, is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu was back in court on wednesday as part of his ongoing corruption trial that yahoo took the stand again to answer to charges of fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes. he has denied any wrong doing, calling the charges of which unc syria's interim president has announced the creation of a preparatory committee to shape the country's political future. syria has been under the control of a transitional government led by i meant to shut off. since the fall of a shot or a said in december, several armed factions have agreed to this band with their members being integrated into a future national force. it's not clear if general elections will be held for a new government. a solid binge of 8 is following developments from damascus. the interim government has announced a 7 member committee, which comprises of members from the ruling portion of the shop group,

which has been disbanded by the intern president. it also includes members of the civil society and 2 women. one of home is a christian, so all of them on the tv, the hearing from the international community and the city and people of inclusive at the and diversity being reflected in the actions of this government seems to have been taken on board. although this is a long way away from national dialogue where we're heading that more than a 1000 people, the citizens from all walks of life are expected to take part to try and charge all it future strategy for sylvia. but this is going to be your 1st step, which is already being broken by. some analysts who see this as a positive step towards bringing alternatives to the table to assuring them to discuss government the under i'm of the shut off means what it says and it will be reflected in actions as well. it is a long charge ahead because a but it, remembering that of the shot as soon as he took the office and said that he has the support of all of the attractions and civil society,

he disbanded the military. he disbanded of the parliament. the constitution has been, has in advance and there is no more room or for the fever, for human, anything affiliated with the previous regime, which is underway. so this committee is going to try and bring all of those fractions together, work on the rules of engagement. how these people will come together and then work on the bigger aspects of a city of societies moving forward on how electrons are going to be held. who will form the constitution? what would it look like and what the role of the city and president of which was under 50 years of your thoughts on that? who essentially figured we used to control everything. will it be the same? all those provinces and other institutions have more power and comfortable. so far, this is going to be the 1st step stores some of the jobs as of the semester. a delegation of catholic bishops has met rebel leaders in the congo, the city of goma, in

a bid to resolve the conflict. fighting between the army and him, 23 rebels resumed on tuesday. after a 2 day pause for you in says more than 110000 people are on the move from displacement camps and the east. after a london bank rebels told them to leave m $23.00 and its allies deny, forcing them out. saying that this place people are going voluntarily, people sheltering their insist they've been told to leave. an african union meeting of foreign ministers is taking place and if you'll be as capital, the ongoing fighting in the democratic republic of congo is on the agenda. part of renewed diplomatic, pushed in the conflict leaders from east and southern africa. i have been calling for an unconditional ceasefire. the us senate has voted in favor of tulsa gabbert, as the new director of national intelligence gathered was president donald trump nominated for the role she faced tough questioning from politicians that her