the phone saturday, a call that may provide a clear picture of the likely path forward. patty colleen al jazeera washington. now rob in troops carrying out large scale military drills and better. ruth, as well as naval drills in the black sea, near the border with ukraine. g f says the war games make navigation critical waterways virtually impossible. charles transferred reports from cognitive and east and ukraine. joint russian embellish and military exercises neither ukrainian border up to 30000 russian soldiers. and most of the better rouge an army taking part in the 10 days of drills including missile defense systems, tanks, and fighter jets. moscow has around a $100000.00 troops station close to you grains borders. ukraine invoked a clause from the so called 2011 vienna document, which is an international agreements on military transparency and which russia is a signatory of demanding moscow provide detailed information timeframes. the military maneuvers, several western countries including france, launched fresh diplomatic efforts this week to persuade russia to back down. so far, those ef

a call that may provide a clear picture of the likely path forward. patty colleen al jazeera washington and mark kim in tis a retired military general, and former assistant secretary for political military affairs under president george w bush. he says violence along the border is more likely to be caused by a train miscalculation than by an intentional. intentional invention sending those troops into poland. ready during the romania of fundamentally, to show our willingness to support our nato allies. the president has already said that we're not going to be putting troops into ukraine. but at the same time, those who border ukraine have reason to be worried. and this is simply a statement to vladimir putin that if he wants to go. ready into romania wants to go into poland. he's going to be doing that over the bodies of american soldiers. i wouldn't be announcing when i was going to attack where i was going to attack what washington is saying is that there's legitimate reasons to be concerned. and you need to take the proper defensive responses, but i find that the silence of the rushi

a call that may provide a clear picture of the likely path forward. patty colleen al jazeera washington. now yes, president joe biden has signed an executive order to unfreeze $7000000000.00 enough gun funds. now the money was deposited by the african central bank in new york and was frozen prior to the taliban. take it for august, half of the funds will go towards humanitarian efforts in afghanistan to the half to relatives of victims of $911.00. and the tax by armed groups were kristin salumi as in new york and explains why the relatives of the victims are being allocated. some of us got some money. they have already won. lawsuits that were filed years ago here in new york against the taliban and al qaeda against the taliban for its role in those attacks. and so they are suing to get access to that money as a result of those judgments. at the same time, the biden administration is dealing with increasing calls to do something about the dire humanitarian situation in afghanistan from the united nations. and domestically here as well, people are concerned about what's happening there be

a call that may provide a clear picture of the likely path forward. patty colleen al jazeera washington and the u. s. secretary of state is wanting russia is ramping up the military movements and for launch an attack. at any moment, we continue to see very troubling signs of russian escalation, including new forces arriving around ukraine borders. as i said yesterday, were in the window when a russian invasion could start at any time if president putin so decides that includes, in the coming days, we don't know whether present brewton has made that decision. but we do know that he is put in place the capacity to act on very short notice when it's going to our correspondent natasha butler. she is joining us live from kiev, and those very strong warnings being followed by americans pulling out staff from ukraine. natasha the reports of any other countries following suit. yes sir, the u. s. embassy, pulling out its diplomatic star from here for the ukrainian or capital, or as the u. s. c. the situation here as ever more critical were also, i hearing reports that the russian embassy may be

a call that may provide a clear picture of the likely path forward. patty colleen al jazeera washington. news of that change on call between presidents binding and potent kansas russian troops carry out military exercises in ballard. worse stat rassen has more from the barrows re crane fordham. this is the am a, ty, way running from the city of whole mile in the south, east of values all the way to key f, ukrainian capital, which is around 200 kilometers away. and this is seen as the fastest route in case russia would invade into ukraine, going to the capital p f. meanwhile, russian and bellow roshan a military drills are ongoing in this area in several places. there are several air fields and also other training ground that are currently being used for air defense exercises. all kinds of infantry exercises are happening right now. also near go, milder is an air field being used for air defense by russian troops. right now, there is around 30000 troops according to nato present here, although nobody can confirm this number on the way in here we saw some military con, voice armored perso

this is patty colleen al jazeera washington. patasha butler has more from kiev usa diplomat sir, leaving ukraine. washington has ordered them to go. we've also heard off to say conflicting reports about whether or not russian diplomats are being evacuated. there been some report saying they all they've been others saying that's not true. i mean, well, though other countries are advising their citizens to leave ukraine, if they can, among them, australia, canada, some european nations, israel, a japan. now russia says that he has no intention of invading ukraine. it says lattice, just propaganda coming up from washington. but western powers, though the white are so suddenly knows how they all seeing the situation. they are calling it a critical situation. a pivotal situation, they all are saying that perhaps russia could attack ukraine in the coming days. oh, when whoa. the diplomacy does continue. even though i have to say that hopes of some poor move a diplomatic solution do seem to be a fading. in other news, truck drivers in canada are ignoring a judge's order to start blocking the la

a call that may provide a clear picture of the likely path forward. patty colleen al jazeera washington protest is continuing to block a bridge, connecting canada to the us. despite an order from john jean ontario to lays the injunction gives police a power to end the demonstrations which are again covered 19 vaccine mandates with and off on the ambassador bridge has disrupted operations for several us automakers . and my is mocking the 75th anniversary of union day with a grand parade in the military rule. busy is have also announced an amnesty for hundreds of prison. us president joe biden has signed an executive order to sleep and a lot, $7000000000.00 in afghan funds held in the us line and said, half of the funds will go towards humanitarian. if it's in afghanistan, the other half will go to relatives of victims of 911 and other attacks by group mexican president andre manuel lopez abra door has promised. there will be no impunity for anyone who kills journalists. it follows the murder of a reporter in the southern stage of what haka on thursday, herbert lopez who ran a news websit

a call that may provide a clear picture of the likely path forward. patty colleen al jazeera washington author, weeks of diplomatic talks to deescalate the crisis. us secretary of state antony blank and has described this as a pivotal moment. we continue to see very troubling signs of russian escalation, including new forces arriving around ukraine borders. as i said yesterday, were in the window when a russian invasion could start at any time if president putin so decides that includes in the coming days, we don't know whether present student has made that decision. but we do know that he has put in place the capacity to act on very short notice or services. joining us live from zebra k airfield near home l. it's close to the bellows. ukraine border. first, we're going to go to natasha bato. she's talking to us from kiev, so the americans are pulling out more stuff from kiev. any more countries seeing that they're going to take their stuff out as well. yes, you at u. s. a. diplomats being a pulled out of the embassy, a kia in kiev. we also hearing some conflicting ripples as to whether