welcome to the program, secretary of state antony blanca, russian foreign minister, us again. ralph of ended, today's high state talks over you cried. the meeting in geneva was held in the hope of reducing tensions and growing concerns at russia's preparing to invade. your great. russia has mastered tens of thousands of troops and near ukraine's board the u. s. as an evasions. likely, russia denies this, and the 2 men played down hopes of finding an immediate resolution. we'll hear 1st from the u. s. secretary of state and then from the russian foreign minister, that's the choice that russia faces. now, you can choose the path of diplomacy that can lead to peace and security, or the path that will lead only to conflict. severe consequences and international condemnation. the united states and our allies and partners in europe stand ready to meet russia on either path. and we will continue to stand with you christ to i spoke frankly about this with tony lincoln's uses and he agreed that we need to have a more reasonable dialog boudreau. so i hope that emotions will decrease, although th

he was secretary of state antony, blanca has been beating russia's foreign minister. so gay, love, roff. based on our discussion, i believe we can carry forward this work of developing understanding agreements together that ensure arnett are mutual security. but that's contingent on russia stopping its aggression towards ukraine. so that's the choice, the grocer faces. now, it can choose the path to diplomacy that can lead to peace and security, or the path that will lead only to conflict. severe consequences and international condemnation in year, but at least 76 people were killed in an air strike that hit a temporary detention center. who's the rebel say that the saudi led coalition struck the facility and saw the province. the area is a hootie stronghold. 11 iraqi soldiers have been killed in an attack by isolate faces. it happened at night at an army barracks in the o as in district north of baghdad. it's one of the worst assaults on the iraqi military in recent months. i saw has attacked a detention center in syria, briefly freeing some of its fighters. kurdish

s. secretary of state antony blanca. around a $100000.00 russian troops have mast at ukraine's borders over recent months. the kremlin denies plans of an invasion. brussels correspond jack paris could join us now. he is covering the foreign ministers meeting. jack, our diplomats in brussels, where you are still talking up diplomacy as the solution to this ongoing crisis. well, that's certainly what they want. as the solution layla, nobody in brussels or in any of the nato member allies really wants open conflict, obviously. but what they're becoming increasingly aware of is that it's becoming even more of a tense situation. we've heard from a number of the foreign ministers of the european union today saying that they're preparing never seen before sanctions. that was the quote from the danish foreign minister on, on the way into this meeting. the question is, what will those sanctions include? how far will they be willing to go really to hit the russian economy. there's a lot of people suggesting potentially, that they

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s. secretary of state antony blanca was trying to build a united front of nato allies and it fizz of a russian invasion of ukraine. lincoln met with foreign affairs officials from france. the u. k. am germany ahead of talks with russia's foreign minister on friday. the u. k. media is reporting the private as the forest. johnson's private secretary was advised not to go ahead with the gathering during corona virus lockdown. johnston admitted attending, but said that he thought it was a work event. and planes from australia, new zealand took delivered the 1st shipments of aid to toner. the islands been cut off since saturdays volcanic eruption and soon army, but he homes were destroyed and water supplies contaminated with england is scrapping all corona virus measures meant to combat the omicron variant vaccine certificates mandatory where a mosque wearing and shops and guidance to work from home will all be removed as of next week. the use you case health doctor 3 says the country needs to learn to live with cove at 19. some hospitals in england continued to be overwhelmed with patien

s. secretary of state antony blanca and had a conversation with the you. hi, representative for foreign affairs, joseph burrell, and which they essentially reiterated what has been said all week that the u. s. the un nato are opposed to any, a russian intention of invading a ukraine. and that all are agreed that there will be immediate, severe economic sanctions if that were to happen. and of course, an agreement to continue consultations in the days ahead. but there hasn't been any other real movement. the u. s. had been hoping that after 4 days of meetings and negotiations as it were, with russian officials, that there could be a an announcement of more conversations, more talks in order to try to diffuse this crisis. but as of right now, no meetings have been established. thank you very much for that update. rosalyn jordan live for us in washington dc. still head on al jazeera will tell you which african country is leading the way when you will energy and is on track to be completely self sufficient in other needs. and in sports at the end of an era, th

lead america, secretary of state to pledge is relentless diplomatic efforts to prevent russian aggression in the ukraine. following talks with the ukranian president, antony blanca, declasse, unwavering us to fought for care and promises additional aid if russia invites also on the program. jackie hales, a new home grown cobit 19 vaccine. but does it work? i mean, international community steps up efforts to help tonga as new images reveal the devastation caused by last weekend or catholic interruption and sooner ah, i'm from gail. welcome to the program. you are secretary of state is urged western countries to remain united in the face of what he called relentless russian aggression. to revisit a careful talks with ukrainian president vladimir savanski and to be blank. and also accused moscow of trying to weaken ukraine's democratic institutions. and of attempting to divide ukrainian society, he said washington was committed to protecting ukraine and preventing any escalation with moscow means to blink an issue to hold talks with russia's foreign minister on friday. after meeting with president zalinski, a secretary, lincoln warrant, russia, it would pay a heavy