This is al jazeera and these are the top stories. The sour rushes president vladimir persian has signed into law, the annexation of 4 ukrainian regions a week off the separatist referendums that keep and its allies cold, a sham. But the kremlin now controls less of those regions than it did when the votes were held till noon us. Yet, the Ukrainian Army is carrying out a pretty fast and powerful advance in the south of our country as part of the current offensive operation. Thus dozens of settlements have already been liberated from the russian sham referendum. This week alone is in the course onregional, the car key region. 2, hans and domestic regions altogether says that our warriors do not stallnicker. And its only a matter of time before we oust the occupier from our land. The us south korea and japan conducting military drills in response to north korea. Massage launch on tuesday, the u. S. Navy flagship aircraft carrier, heated to the sea of japan. The training with the south kor