ah, russian forces joined hands with a mastery group to step up a tax on this strategic ukrainian town of sola dot in the east. ah, hello my money inside this valve is there alive from doha. was that coming up for is attorney general launch is a genocide and bud investigation against the president over handling of deadly political violence. migration, trade and climate change dominate the summit to 3 north american leaders in mexico . i'm terrorism charges against an austrian professor at the junction argent dropped falling and al jazeera investigation. had a welcome russian forces have stepped up. the assaults on a small salt mining town in the east of the country with the help of a group of mass and race. the wagner groups chief says they have surrounded sala dolls, city center, ukraine's president says the area has been flattened. it's near the city of buck moose, where troops on both sides have suffered heavy losses. ukraine says his forces have been holding on in back mood despite months of attacks. meanwhile, rush has been conducting naval drills in the norwegian. c. it says its frigates is armed with a hypersonic missile capable of evading western air defenses. charles traffic, the very latest from keith present zalinski last night. acknowledging that the battle for solid awe was indeed intensifying. he saying that the ukrainians had in his words, one time in order to get more men and supplies inside that town now solid is around 20 kilometers north, east of the town of buck, mood, of course, buck mood is seen. some of the most intensive fighting over recent weeks and months . a town that is often nicknamed a meat grinder because of the sheer amount of men that have been killed in it on both sides. solely dog is a salt mining town. it is the largest salt mine in ukraine and it has a vast network of underground tunnels, around 200 kilometers, in fact have underground tunnels, some as high as 30 meters. i mean, a football match, for example, is being held under ground in soley dog in the past. so one can only imagine this is a huge strategic importance. we can only speculate that certainly according to the russians, they are saying that the ukrainians are using those tunnels as defensive positions to store ammunition and so on. so we can only speculate that the fighting there is particularly intense because it is of such as strategic and military importance. whether we're going to start seeing such a thing as a seizure, such as what we saw around the agile style plant in mariel pool was months ago, remains to be seen. let's take a closer look, aren't russia's wagner group. the private paramilitary force was established in 2014. i'll to moscow amex crimea. the group is founded by the russian businessman. yes, going to have pretty good of zene who is close to the president vladimir putin. he also has occasion business and was once called putin's chef. the wagner group recruited russian prisoners to fight in ukraine, promising them that they would be free men when they were 10, if they survived, the war. alexander to 12 is a russia analyst and lecture at queens university. belfast explains how the wagner group has managed to strengthen its presence in ukraine. there is a lot of tensions and competition when russian army and security forces between java and bri. gordon has established himself as a person who is distinct by the fact that he is group. when you say group, we're talking about tens of thousands of men equipped with most modern weapons, including $900.00 tanks, aircraft dealer and so forth. i actually don't want way bill to continue to advance against the green army and bach with them sort of the area where everywhere else carousel new cargo of russia was this way in retreat. and now here haven't been at the, it's for many weeks and month i'll find it there on the costs, seemingly, or overrunning very important strategic, strategic down. so it's a big winnable pre gotten himself as a source for russia. more generally. they always been very closely linked with russian armed forces and with russian security forces. usually that we used will things which of the official russian porters didn't want to be going to seem to be doing. for example, in syria, i mean other parts of africa where the way of the raking, but essentially they are going to joins the heap with the, with the russian security forces in russian army in general. and if you look at the level of the equipment and military things to have with them, as i said, including planes and so forth. and it's not just here, it was all saying them in libya and so forth. you know, you see the basic is an official army, but basically they are very much more part of the ah, put in also know more generally, but it is that progressions obisky in charge of it. and for him, it is extremely important to show that he is the one capable of winning when everybody else is losing on the russian side. russia is, again accusing the us of participating in the ukraine war about a 100 ukrainian soldiers heading to the states to begin trading on the patriot missile defense system. the russian ambassador in washington, d. c says, america is trying to inflict as much damage as it can on russia. my county has more from the white house. they wouldn't be drawn on the timeline, how long the training is going to take on when exactly it is going to start. however, it is understood that a group suffering cranium soldiers are already on their way. now. it must be understood as well that a hatred massage battery and. 5 requires some 90 soldiers to man. so although the figure of $100.00 is being pushed around, it's likely to be higher than this for the battery to be continually operational. in other words, you would need to achieve the from 180 soldiers rather than one team of 90. so this training we now understand is going to be happening. as i said, the duration we don't know when exactly it's going to start. we don't know what it does appear to be is that the training will take place in oklahoma, in the fort. so army base, this is the home of the american field off hillary school. so that will be on the u . s. base in oklahoma. we understand we will hopefully get more details from the pentagon. armenia is refusing to host military drills involving a russian lead alliance of former soviet countries. relations between the 2 sides have sowed are many wants rushes peacekeepers to open a corridor linking his country to the dispute terraces, nagondo quarterback, both armenia, an azerbaijan lay claim over its as airy activists had been blocking the corridors since last month did little to little. she, she should problem is not just that the organization has refused to condemn asa, perchance, actions, though not all of its members state. so i would have liked just to focus more on our perception of the problem than the vision of others. or on our view of others. perez, attorney general is launching investigation against president dina boulevard. say an members of her government on genocide and murder charges, and follows the most violent day since unrest began in december following the rest of former president pedro castillo. 17 people died in processing southern region of who know on monday arianna sanchez has more from lima. a lawmaker just told me a little while ago that he's very sure that is the prime minister. will give the vote of confidence from lawmakers here, but it wasn't. you see from the start because the left when makers, when when la walked into the chambers, they shouted at him, murderer, then they did not allow him to speak. they took the floor and presented the pictures. the photos of many of the of the victims died yesterday in flashes with security forces in the city of pool. and also he confirmed that the 18th person died yesterday. he is a police officer who was attacked by a mob and burns a car. well, the prime minister spoke during his presentation about what is going on in the country. he announced a curfew of from a pm to 4 am in to know for 3 days, ozell supreme court has ordered the arrest of the man who was in charge of public security in the cap to when government buildings was stormed on sunday. all the officials could also face action support as a former president gyal sanara targeted the congress, the presidential palace and the supreme court. a latin american editor, the senior reports i, brazil's capital brazilian looked calm just 3 days after the assault on the presidential palace. supreme court and congress, but as often happens, looks can be deceiving. here in the presidential palace, the cleanup of sundays, attacked by self proclaimed patriots calling for military intervention to unseat newly inaugurated left. when president lula, the silva continues, and the rest of the now dismissed head of brazilian military police signals that the clean up of culprits is far from over. the government concedes the armed forces and police have been quote contaminated by what it calls a culture of institutional hatred, promoted by former president jade bull sonata kelley. we asked institutional affairs minister alexander padea if security forces remain a threat. demos, his youth interview. we have clear evidence of individuals, military police, or members of the army who collaborated on sunday with the terrorists, or when negligible, they will be investigated and held accountable for their actions before the law. ah, it's not a secret that lulu the silver was not the candidate favored by brazil's police and army. under former president bull so narrow the armed forces occupied more cabinet positions than during brazil's former military dictatorship and received handsome salaries. the army refused to dismantle camps of thousands of brazilians calling for military intervention, even as lula was being sworn in just a few kalama is away. but an overhaul or purge of hostile members of the army is also risky. at the end of the day, if the government wants to the soap or the government could blame individuals instead of the whole institution's. and i think that's pretty much what's gonna happen in order to not create another crisis for the government to deal with. president lula may indeed be forced to show more leniency toward security voices than he and his left wing constituency would like in the country still in shock. the symbolism of what happened here is whilst on no one the shattered glass windows, for example, represent transparently empower and the mobs that invaded this palace used. these opens fair cases that were designed by brazil's famous architect, oscar niemeyer, to symbolize openness and connection with the people. yet, what happened on sunday is not what they were designed for. and even as these military intervention activists are being bused to back to where they came from, they vowed to continue fighting. lucy newman, al jazeera brazilian has a safe in the us, canada, mexico of held wide ranging talks at the north american latest summit. you as president joe biden, canada as justin trudeau on the mexican present on the emanuel lopez open door, met in mexico city, common valley. they discussed cooperation on trade, immigration unto rug trafficking on your policy, and following the summit from mexico city being of sources. what we've heard from the 3 world leaders of, from canadian minister justin trudeau, president biden, and president lopez over the board of mexico has lacked a lot of specificity that we were hoping to hear. there was quite a bit of mutual praise between the 3 world leaders, their tone, certainly on a number of topics ranging from border security multilateral security strategy to curb weapons trafficking to curve human trafficking, to the curb. the trafficking of drugs moving back and forth between the us, mexico border, all of that seem positive. all of that seemed very optimistic at one point. president lopez over the board of mexico actually praise president biden for being quote, the 1st president in a long time to not build a single meter of border wall. so certainly the question of migration this unprecedented search of migrants, particularly from countries like but it's when he got haiti and cuba making their way to the u. s. southern border was front and center had this international comment, but we should mention that this is a massively important regional, some in every country, mexico, canada, united states. this is north america is one of the most important trading blocks in the world. so the battery, strengthening, economic tied, a building on promoting trade was certainly also a big pillar of the talks that took place here in mexico city. we should also mentioned that there was a little point of attention ahead of the summit. this more or less based off of the accusations that mexico is skirting its obligations under the us, canada, mexico, free trade agreement, or u. s. m. ca. but as many of us expected, other leaders focused more on areas where there is common ground. still ahead on al jazeera confrontation as a co will have the laces on a sitting by climax miss joint and long the spanish gem mine and the vd festival in been in the place. why do you consider it to be the best place? ah, with cold snap warnings and fog warnings are beginning to be lifted across. northern india heather hears those details right now on wednesday, right across india. it is a fairly quiet pitcher. so on take you to pakistan. got some what, whether leaking in to baluchistan province. no, for k p k, the mountains. this will be rain in islamabad as well, but for the kept old territory round the mountains. this of course will fall as snow as one side of his throat wanted sack about. but look at this waking up on friday morning. bitter cold, locked into the bitter cold tear. cobble minus 19 degrees. so this is some dangerous cold. as we head toward asia pacific, it's looking like this. it has just been relentless, rain, and sabu city, extreme flood advisories in play here. and for southern vietnam and cambodia. rain still falling, but it's cutting across a areas of thailand on wednesday has been some deadly landslides, across indonesia, as jabber province. just a few showers in the mix on wednesday. i think the bigger down port though, will be across sumatra. island, china temperature is a run and well above average, for example in whoo, hon. at 18 degrees. it's 10 above where you should be. winds have shifted warmer air here as well. so that means we just don't have the ingredients for that. see effect, snow in northern and western japan. that's it. susan ah, the other protectors or profiteers of free speech of lago. you mentioned facts on the ground or a purveyor of the state line unchecked, the media can distort narratives and reshape realities. the listening post keeps watch on al jazeera. why did one of toilets most decorated hobbs lee, the country in fear of his long fraud investigation? one on 18th review exploded allegation of police corruption on out to 0. lou. oh, you're watching out. is there a mind if our top stories this, our russian forces have stepped up, their souls on the salt mining town of solid, on the east of ukraine? case as it appears, russia's taking control of much of the town blocking a key ukrainian supply line per is. attorney general is launching investigation against president dina latte on genocide and mad charges. mondays. von incident. 17 protestors were killed. leaders of the us, canada, and mexico. how wide ranging talks at the north american leaders summit, j bought and just some pseudo and andre ammonia. lopez open the door, met in mexico, city, immigration, climate change and trade. we're the agenda now, officers supreme court has dropped a terrorism case against a well known professor egyptian origin. following an al jazeera documentary fried have 1st was charged along with thousands of activists november 2020. in january last year, the program, the hidden, is more immense. and on al jazeera, revealing that the charges were based on false evidence and fabricated accusations of hers is best known for an annual report into european islam of phobia. and is one of the founders of the austrian muslim youth association with the other lady. i spoke to for ease affairs. he says it's a relief to finally be free of the burden the case. i feel much better. you know, it has been more than 2 years now. were i lived in a, in a kind of limbo in a situation where i never knew would, would the judges go ahead and, and really filed charges which i did not believe at any time at any point of time. but you know, i could also not believe that such a rate could happen on that. these allegations would even have been raised by any kind of a prosecutor, the 1st place. so you never know in such a situation where an incredible amount of, of investigation has been made and baseless allegations were made to even allow for such a huge rate in the 1st place me alongside a 69 faster suspects. the how's the private houses and homes were rated at 5 o'clock in the morning. our kids were traumatized. special. busy courses broke through my window through my front door and my bank account was frozen. my assets are frozen. i was became basically as one of the most well known person that was affected. i became kind of the picture the, the public image of this operation. and, and i was standing there, you know, in the title, time of the pen damage we're social networks did not play out any way like a normal times and people were intimidated. and that was a very troublesome situation where it was even difficult for a lot of those people who were affected to so wise since our bank accounts were frozen, you cannot even like, continue your normal life. some people lost their jobs. i. after one year, i left the austria and went to the united states where i'm now a professor international studies. and there were people whose, whose economic basis were like destroyed as a boy to god's forts, where the grave of palestinians had gathered to protest against the demolition of a house in the occupied west. bank zoning forces used tear gas to dispatch the crowd in a village west earth. sol feeds a house was demolished as rounds. government says it was built without a permit. a pacific storm continues to pound california day on to flooding and months. slide risks force evacuation of thousands of people . a 16 people have been killed since last week. more than 34000000 not under flood warnings. reynolds reports from santa cruz in northern california. the latest in a relentless series of storms battered the california coast on tuesday with waves in some places 7 meters tall. the storms have caused wide spread flooding. as 90 percent of the state's population was placed under a flash flood warning, in many places, water saturated hillsides have collapsed in dangerous mud slides. tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from communities all over the state. we were watching, other people are being evacuated and we just had no idea. it was just a shocker. and where we, it was just unbelievable. you know, seeing a water come in and then it just gushing just like a river. he sacramento, the state capital utility cruise worked to restore power. high winds have toppled trees and power lines, leaving more than 200000 people without electricity on tuesday. in santa cruz, the san lorenzo river. normally just a trickle of water became a muddy brown torrent beaches were piled high with debris. nearby enormous waves crashed against rocky cliffs in one spot, tearing away part of a residential street. the storms have proved costly and deadly. people have been swept away in flood waters and killed by trees knocked over in high winds. california's emergency agency estimates the damage may exceed $1000000000.00, and it's not over the fact that we're not out of the woods. we expect these storms to continue, at least through the 18th of this month. we expect a minimum 3. busy more these atmospheric rivers and different shapes and forms depending on different parts of the state. nearly half a meter of rain has fallen in some areas, forecasters say. downpours will continue on wednesday. rob reynolds al jazeera santa cruz, california police have started removing barricades around the village of lit, set out in germany, which is become an international process, signed for climate activists. the government wants the village to be demolished, they were coal. mine can be expanded. the fastened reports from lit up there's no justice, they shall be locked climate ac because it's from across europe gathered in the small village of little german to prevent the neighboring coal mine from expanding that all legal means exhausted. police start removing activists from blocking the road. the initial operation to clear access to the site begins relatively peaceful . what has brought you to live? wherever she cries us, we have little warming, so i think it's worth the but then police start to move forward more forcefully. the move turns grim with bullies and activists now clashing the there's a real fight now between the activists and the police. here at the village of trying to push forward toward the village. but now activists are really right away and you can see it as a scuffle. going on here behind me. working from the energy company, r w e, who operate the golf while open cost mine immediately start to clear the barricades . the climate ministry did not want to speak on camera. a spokesman explained that more coal is needed to ensure security of supply. but the government will face out call completely in 8 years from now. this can go any further. we know that we don't need the coal under. let's allows for energy safety and it needs to stay in the ground for climate justice. police are calling and reinforcements from all over germany for the main eviction operation. one day described as complex and dangerous . we am, it's an ex balmore. 3 houses of 10 meters high and even higher. we need specialties to remove this, occupy us without endangering any one. we are science to legally and consequently prosecute any offenders and we have been ordered to clear this location and we shall do that map. the police say they will aim to avoid using violence, but only if the activists remain peaceful. protests us have build a system of observation, post around the site. i'm afraid i'm scared all the time a little bit, sometimes more, sometimes less when the cups are coming. i'm super scared of and i know how they act and holiday force people to do what they want. bullies say the main operation to clear to protest camp itself is expected to take several weeks step. fasten al jazeera inlets wrap. my senior figure in the roman catholic church to face allegations of sexual abuse has died. of asking news agency says that australian cardinal george pell was suffering from complications falling hip replacement surgery. he died at the hospital in rome. he was ac one. hell was convicted in 2018 for sexually assaulting t choir boys. in the 19 ninety's, he spent 13 months in jail before the conviction is quashed in 2020 celebrations marking the annual leader festival have been held and been in alo as from around the well attended. the event. the practice continues to be sigma ties as an interest reports from the cows, coastal town, a vida, ah, for wood worshippers is a ceremony like no other with the music and dance, the color and the mysticism with a touch of my dear susan middleton, an american road of priestess ranch high in the hierarchy, i feel those spirits, many of them are associated with natural forces like the elements water byers burst through the air and lots of on the thing. i mean is fascinating. she says, i really do need widely, but deliberately miss understood it is associated with diabolical forces. it's a cliche, largely driven by hollywood fit on, but it's a very deep spiritual tradition. that's ancient. all of our cars volley geez, originated in africa. so make so marvelously on. so ammonia, paul cher, what many, many divinity the who has its roots in west africa, with beneath considered its origin for where it's exported to the rest of the world by sleeves deacon from africa to work on plantations. and it's back in west africa that worship us from all over the world gather to celebrate every year. when you recognize religion in the night, just become a now cuz it has, it has a lot of the countries how to do an identity. this festival husband celebrated on oppression as religion. engine, religion, followed by millions in been a republican on millions abroad, especially in the county. i'm not reaches go into the food festival days of sacrifice and rituals that many find disturbing but voodoo supreme need. i called the pontiff, disagrees shaky news, oakland easy colonizers macos as fetish, but voodoo is not all about worshipping dolls or blood letting it's not about magic . we do is a complete belief system that does