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>> at least 18 people are missing after a massive land slide outside of seattle. they are trying to dig out the survivors that are heard under the debris. we are downstream with more on all of this, have the res kies reached the trapped people? >> no, they have not. that is the bad news here today. complete devastation to the east, upstream on the north fork of the river, jonathan, what we are hearing from the first responders if they have not heard the voices of the people they were hearing last night. so far today they are not hearing the voices crying for help. take a look at what happened, this is a square mile of what

came down aross the hills and on to the highway, a state highway, blocked a half mile, a quarter mile, half mile of it and at least six homes were destroyed and the building debris mixd with the trees and the mud and rock, a complete mess. a square mile of mud coming down the hill. the governor was here and viewing the area from the air and here is what he had to say at the briefing. >> there is not a vertical stick standing within a square mile or a million cubic yards of slurry at the moment. it is just that fact that everything within that path has been levelled and that is something i have never seen before. >> so the rescue efforts are continuing and nobody is brought out to safety today and the

crews are continuing to do what they can from the land and from the air at this point. >> allen, how concerned are the rescuers about the victims? >> well, very concerned. with every hour, of course, the urgency gets greater. they are not able to get in there physically to the heart of the slide area and hearing the voices, and what the governor and what local responders say it is fluid and shifting and it is dangerous for those going on foot. >> is this xhorn in this part of the country, those landslides? >> we have had a lot of rain, just two inches shy of what we get for the entire month of march and the rainfall to the

steep slopes. there have been a couple similar to this in the past ten or 15 years here. very dangerous and they are worried about sending the human resources into the area. >> the number one priority is responder safety. we have a huge square mile of mud flow and it is like quick sand and extremely fluid and it is moving. we suspect there's people out there, but it is far too dangerous to get responders out there on that mud flow. >> there's not a vertical stick standing within a square mile and perhaps a million cubic yards of slurry at the moment and just that fact that everything within that path is levelled and that is something i have certainly never seen before. >> there's also concern right

now about minor flooding upstream from the blockage of the river and the possibility of flooding downstream when that thing breaks lose. upstream of the blockage and downstream people are told to be weary of where they are and where the river is. >> allen, live for us in washington, thank you. >> and now turning with more on the weather, as mentioned a lot of rain out there in the pa sich civic northwest. >> yes, it is over a month's worth of rain in the last couple weeks alone. they certainly don't need more rainfall right now. today is dry, on into monday it is dry and tuesday cloudy and bringing in a storm and 2-3 inches of rainfall. this was a gradual event that

occurred. the rain certainly contributed to the landslide. we have to deal with the rain throughout this month and next month as well. now elsewhere across the country heavy rainfall across the southeast, most of that rain is pushing across the i-10 corridor to eastern georgia and it is pushing off a shore and ushering in the chilly air to the north and portions of the midwest into the northeast and temperatures are going to fall as well. 15-20 degrees below normal and cold across the midwest today and east coast tomorrow. >> thank you. texas is trying to maintain the oil spill, a barge carrying nearly a million gallons of oil collided with a ship. 160,000 gallons of oil could have leaked into the bay. now to brandon who is in texas and watching the story there,

and brandon, what is the latest? >> people responsible for cleaning up the oil is calling it a true mess. it is 50 miles from houston, outside toward the gulf of mexico. 90,000 feet of booms are deployed into the water to protect the coastline. at this time, you have state, federal, and nonprofits working together to clean up spilled oil and protect the wild life. this area is a popular bird habitat and fearing the impact on the birds nesting in the area. u.s. coast guard is monitoring the area. at this time, the coast guard is saying that concentrations are dete detected. we are working on getting more information. >> this particular oil is a thick gooey marine fuel and how

is that complicating the efforts to clean up the mess. >> well, the fuel leaked were gas, i am told in that situation it evaporates on the water, in this instance it needed to be cleaned up and further complicating the clean up of the mess. o thank you. >> states along the gulf of mexico seeing a number of oil spills and this is just the latest. in 1990 in the bay the energy room of a tanker caught on fire and leaked $4 million of light crude and taking 8 days to put out the fire. 6 million gallons spill during hurricane katrina and the explosion that killed 11 workers and created the worst oil spill

in history and oil continued to leak from the sunken rig for two months and 4 million barrels of oil. >> now to crisis in ukraine, the russian's ambitions may be extending beyond the borders. there is a near that putin may try to take over the entire country, that is something that russia is denying. phil, a lot of speculations on what rush is what to, and what is left for ukraine to do but to respond? >> well, jonathan, there's not much they can do when it comes to crimea but veering up on the mainland ukraine and there is a growing concern that russian has designs beyond the crimea

peninsula and following the meetings with the ukrainian government here, they held the press conference in which strong language was used, including from republican senator from ne hampshire and the armed services committee and when returning to washington she's carrying the recommendation that u.s. beef up the support for the ukrainian armed forces. >> the ukrainian people will be the ones to decide their future but we can provide million taxpayer assistance, not only humanitarian assistance but assistance that can involve small arms, communications equipment, basic fuel, issues that we need uniform issues,

things that the ukrainian military needs as it is rebuilding the damage that was done by president viktor yanukovich. >> now, also adding no intention or desire to be boots on the ground by the u.s. but language is coming on the very same day that a u.s. four star general with nato command in europe saying that they are deeply concerned and are monitoring a massing of russian troops along the ukrainian border and saying that the readiness and the scale and the size of the russian troops is so significant if they wanted to they could roll through this country all the way out of the western border and reconnect with a pro russian sliver of land where there is a russian territory and that is causing a great concern around

the continent and back in the states, now the russians are saying they don't want to do that and they have no intentions to come to the mainland ukraine but tonight here in kiev they are monitoring the situation on the border and are beefing up the military and they have put their armed forces on high alert and right now, there is a sense within the government here that this is getting more and more serious and that this is an escalating situation and that crimea might be only the start of the crisis. >> a lot unfolding there. thank you, phil. >> going back to the oil spill in texas, we have on the phone with us right now first class petty officer randy kendrik from the coast guard and thank you for being with us. how far have you gotten on the clean up? >> we are making progress and

today we removed all of the product that was on the damaged barge so the barge that was carrying 924,000 gallons of product, you know, we had one of the holes in the barge that was compromised and responding that the entire contents leaked. we have been able to remove all of the remaining product off that of that barge. >> so how much oil though actually leaked into the bay? >> it would be, we are responding as if it is the entire hold, 168,000 gallons and we were able to pump some of the oil out of the hold, and so lesdz than that amount, but the response is focussed as if the entire thing. that's the focus, as if the entire thing spilled and that is how we are responding and bringing in the assets to clean it up. >> o how long do you think it

takes to clean up the oil that actually spilled into the water? >> well, it is definitely a significant spill. it's significant amount of oil in the water and we have tides coming in and out so as it moves around the focus is on finding that recoverable oil, oil as it is getting into the water there are different amounts of it and some is thicker and some a little sheen and unable to recover it. we are looking at the recoverable oil and protecting the environmental areas and areas nearby and trying to make sure everybody is staying safe. >> have you actually contained the oil that spilled into the water or still posing a threat to some of the wild life areas nearby? >> right, we have put boom, kind of a barrier around sensitive areas because it has not been

contained. once it is that large of a spill and in the water, it is about recovering. >> if you can clarify for us how this even happened how did the ship and the barge collide with each other? >> that is a good question. it is under investigation. the coast guard and the national transportation safety board is investigating that. the unified command is protecting the environment and keeping the people safe, keeping the public safe and recovering this oil. >> okay, first class petty officer with the u.s. coast guard and thank you for your time today. >> no problem, thank you. >> now to the missing jet liner from malaysia, 8 planes flying over the indian ocean and covering ten thousand nautical miles and satellite photos, including new ones show objects

floating in the water and an approaching storm could interrupt the search this week. we are going to a pilot and expert on airplane security and todd, nice to see you. first to the thoughts on the new photo released by france and showing possible debris in the water, is this hopeful news for searchers? >> it is hopeful news for two reasons, first, the most thing you have another set of satellites out there and looking for this and other satellites that could chime in later and having a number of satellites is good. they are all in differentorbits and the hopeful sign it is finding something. not as good as having a ship looking at this. it is more likely this the ships and planes will actually get a sample of this or in the case of the aircraft a close photograph

of it and that's going to be absolutely necessary to determine whether or not this is indeed part of the aircraft of sea trash. >> yesterday when we spoke about this you expressed concern that the chinese satellite picked up debris from the plane and there is a concern still now with another photo showing this? >> i have a concern, but again, this is why it is important to get more close up photographs or actual ships going up to next to it. it could be a variety of debris in close proximity. as i stated before, the individual object, or rather if the object is the entire object, it is too large to be from the aircraft, even an entire wing is not as large as the object

sighted. should they get better data and detailed data it will resolve the issue. >> what happens if we don't get the answers, the crews cannot find more items in the water, what happens next with the efforts? >> well, we have to make the people involve going back to the drawing board and more efficient ways to search. the satellites are picking up things but as was pointed out earlier the satellites have a couple of days or in the case of the first photograph a four day lag between the time that the photograph is taken and released to the searchers, if they canlessen that time period, much better chance that the aircraft or the ships could find these objects. >> it is a huge search area and so far no firm clear signs of the missing airliner. todd curtis, thank you for the time. >> thank you for having me. >> we have more on the

developing story coming up. we look at complaints on how a number of nations is not sharing enough information about the search. >> as always, we bring you the latest developments on ukraine throughout the day and more information at al jazeera.com. >> new developments in syria, a neighboring country makes a bold move. >> also, e boli outbreak. a first for paris, a leader like it has never seen before.

>> turkey shot down a syrian fighter jet today and they are saying that is jet violated the air space and then warned about a heavy response if the air space is breached again. we have the latest. >> the battle inside of syria

for the strategic border crossing between syria and turkey now involves turkey's military and as the rebels are cheering a remain of a syrian fighter jet is burning, shot down by the turkey f-16's after saying it invaded the air space. leading up to the elections, the turkish prime minister said that the syrian plane violated our air space, and if you violate the air space, our slap after this will be hard. they are saying that the plane was in syrian air space when attacked. fighting in the area remains fierce. the crossing matters because it is a last northern border post captured by the opposition

fighters and potential opening up a passage to the immedia mediterranean. the sect, president home village is only 30 kilometers a way. syrian army and defense forces are fighting back and reenforced and syrian fighter jets are bombing the area for the past two days. >> that plane was shot done in an area where syria is fighting for the control of the border crossings and hundreds of thousands have fled to turkey and 130,000 people killed since three years ago, six and a half mill displaced and a third of those have left the country. >> 59 people died from the outbreak of ebola virus in new

guinea. >> for weeks the fever is grippi gripping guinea. >> they are going from village to village to find the source of this. >> it is causing diarrhea and vomiting and bleeding internally. it is transmitted through contact with body fluids or tissues of a person infected and spread at funerals and the virus kills up to 90% its victims.

it usually happens near a tropical rain forrest and the last outbreak in uganda. >> i'm scared because it affects me. >> i appeal to the government to come to the aid of the people. >> medical officials are saying they are overwhelmed. the charity doctors without borders is assisting the government. >> the outbreak is contained by being able to follow up on the cases and if the cases are cropping in different locations that makes running down all of the contacts and looking at their well being very challenging. >> ebola has no known vaccine or cure. they are working as quickly as possible and concerned that the virus spread to neighbors.

>> the first lady and her daughters visited the great wall of china today and she's on a visit to promote the exchanges in education between u.s. and china. >> hillary clinton is still not saying whether she's going to run for the president in 2016. she's not decided if she's throwing her hat in the ring. clinton said she's concerned about the direction of our country. >> a warning from nato for ukraine, the new fear that putin is building the army along the border. new satellite images that could help the searchers looking for the missing malaysia jet.

>> welcome back to al jazeera america. we have a look at the top stories. 18 people are still missing following a landslide in washington state and the crews hearted cries for help under the debris and three confirmed deaths. >> crews in texas are cleaning the oil spill after a barge collided with a ship in gallon veston bay. >> white house is expecting a surge of people enrolling in the affordable care act, anyone that has technical problems can complete the application beyond the deadline. >> russian troops could be preparing to move deeper into ukraine and europe. it is moving missiles and taking

over the military bases in ukraine. it is calling a violation of sovereignty and threatening the world. the u.s. promised to protect the ukraine 20 years ago. president obama is discussing that tomorrow with the leaders in europe. >> with russia and the united states at odds over ukraine, the efforts of ridding the nuclear stock piles could be in danger. >> it is a troubling situation, we have deep national interests in working with russia to make sure nuclear material is secure and accounted for. there are warning signs. the cooperation is breaking down because of the ukraine crisis and the program, expired.

now as the ukraine stand off escalates russians are halting the inspections on their soil. pushing the ukraine to finish the job of ridding itself of nuclear weapons. >> it is baugs of the first summit in 2010 # and ukraine committed to remove that remaining material and it is actually because of u.s. and russian cooperation that that happened. >> at this summit, no ukraine and no russia, its president putin is taking a pass. in the wake of the soviet union collapse it was a wash, then 52 countries possessed nuclear materials and down to 25 now. russia and the u.s. worked together to reduce the stock piles and ukraine left with 1900 weapons. in 1 9d 94 they agreed to send them to russia and agreed to

pledge to honor the borders. since the russian invasion, the ukrainian officials made it clear they expect more from the west to defend their country. it is a concern and a question of trust. >> it is setting a terrible precedent, russia and united states and britain pledged to support the territory and help to protect if that territory is threatened and that is obviously been breached. >> the united states has its own challenges with nuclear security. >> commitment to a safer more secure tomorrow. >> a new facility in north carolina, already way over projected costs, work is halted. that says the wrong messages to russia. >> they want to make sure russia

is not getting the signal of stopping on their side because they have a similar commitment. >> and that upcoming summit is a topic tonight at 8:30 p.m. tonight and we look at how to crisis in ukraine could over shadow the topic of nuclear proliferation. >> as russia is taking control of crimea, the soldiers of the ukraine are in a difficult position. >> the young cadets are lowing loyalty to ukraine. the drills are held under the ukrainian flag. they have not altered the daily routine and including the ukrainian national anthem. ♪ >> inside of the school too nothing is removed.

here it is saying glory to ukraine. these are no ordinary times. and there's room among the compassion between the military men and there are big choices to make and fast. join with the russian forces or stay with ukraine forces and leave. he startd with the navy at 15. >> we are staying with ukraine. not everybody of course but the half of us still are going to ukraine and want to serve it. >> it is a wrenching choice, most of the cadets are from crimea and if he moves to ukraine the russians might not let him come back. >> i want to come back to my parents but if they won't let me then that is my destiny. >> a big price to pay? >> yes, a big price to pay.

but what can i do. i'm a military person. i should go this way. >> he's worried there won't a navy to serve in, the russians have taken most of it. >> we don't want them to take our ships. this is all we have. >> these are the ships from our country. they can't do this. >> but they have, taking the final vessel on saturday night and the only sub captured and moved between the russian subs and the two navies used to work together and there is optimism at the academy. >> we hope to work together and we want it the same way now. >> the gate is bearing the ukrainian emblem and saying this is the academy of the ukrainian fleet and soon that is going to change. so they pose for the photos by the gate before this becomes russian too. they expect the commander to be

replaced perhaps tomorrow. for now they are without ships or bases in crimea, not much of a ukrainian navy to serve here and the future is uncertain. >> now to the missing jet out of malaysia, the crews wrapped up a full day of searching and the growing number of airplanes flying over the indian ocean and covering ten thousand nautical miles and several new photos are showing objects floating in the water. we are live in washington with more, randall, what is the wlatest on the investigation and searchers are making progress and zeroing in on possible low case of this plane? >> well, they are eliminating the locations and still a lot of ocean to cover. this is the third sighting of possible debris from mh 370 and we had a sighting from australia and then china and now france.

as though planes returned from the search zone, malaysia officials announced a sighting debris of potential interest in the vicinity of a southern search corridor and relaid to australia which is coordinating the search. two leading republican congressmen are blaming malaysia for a series of bad decisions. >> the reports i am getting are frustration, we are invited in only a little bit, so i think across the board people are looking for more in the way of openness from their government in terms of sharing the information they have in a timely manner. >> i think that the malaysia government spent too much time on the route to the north and i know satellite imagery guinea to

the malaysians established that, and we wasted a week of precious time up in that region. >> that is congressman michael mccall from texas. we should point out 8 planes go aloft today and the most in the search zone over the southern indian ocean and more planes would have been out if the weather wasn't to bad. >> other countries are involved and how serous is the malaysia government taking concerns? >> we are hearing that they are relying on the assistance of the international partners and pointing out what they have received from the partners and what materials they have passed on. for example, the government did indeed forward some of the early radar sightings to the u.s. and

ntsb before making them public. and the criticism is publicizing them earlier. they wanted to vet the images and handed over the compute from the flight simulator taken from the home of the pilot and trying to restore some of the deleted files and today the deputy national surt advisor for the obama administration credited them for the cooperation. we have china, new zealand, australia, japan, france, u.s., and others all trying to find the plane that vanished without a trace. jonathan? >> yes, it is worth noting, thank you. >> as always, follow this story further on al jazeera.com.

>> pers shans are going to the polls today. >> at stake is the chance to run all of this, the world's most di tinth cities and whoever wins the election in paris is going to make history. ♪ on the left the front runner, socialist, on the right unp. >> both campaigning hard to make their marks and doing it differently. one is a rising star on the right and former ecology minister. >> because i want to change paris for the better. because i love paris.

>> while the other taking a low key approach. the current deputy mayor. i hope that we choose progress and humanism. >> whoever gains the keys to paris needs to keep in mind the interests of its more than 2 million people. this is the first real test since the one struggleed in the polls became the president. this is the election dominated by discussions about better housing, the economy, and security. and two women are leading the race. politics here is still dominated by men. at times during this campaign the two main candidates are krut scrutinized in a way they wouldn't have been if they were men. and compared about the politics. >> the interest in the fact that the candidates are women are

seen in the media, talked about the color of the hair and how they dressed, in fact, they have to play on the double level. be able to represent the image of the mayor. >> both of the candidates want to revitalize paris. if gender is not the main issue in the ballot booth, just maybe it could lead to greater equality in politics here. >> big change there. jessica is here with sports and inspiring story. an amaszing story. soccer is the number one sport around the world and the kids on the continent of africa basketball is a key for the better wormed for them. jeffrey has the story.

>> it is a september 25, 2013, and 16-year-old kobe is preparing to go to american embassy and prying that basketball opens the door for a new world and a better future. >> i have been waiting for this opportunity all my life, yeah. better vacation, better facilities, better, hard work, the sky's the limit. yeah. >> this is his american dream. he's one of the latest in a pipeline of african basketball players that left their country for placement in american high schools and they are leaving their homes and loved ones to create lives they would never have in their homelands. >> so many opportunities here, the coaches come and watch you

play and you know to help you out and training you, and ghana it is not like that there. >> africa long been an attractive recruiting site for the american basketball programs. minnesota timberwolves and kansas city has examples. but kobe's dreams are just to the nba, he game here for the education too. >> my mom would say work and take care of me too was her priority, and i'm the only one she's got and just me and her, no father. she always made sure everything the right. i told her i want to play basketball and firstly i would like to be a physical therapist.

yeah, yeah. a physical therapist. >> in countries like ghana few basketball courts and no leagues. largely because soccer is the dominant sport. this is why men, his coach, on the national team, have become invaluable to american scouts. >> it is passion for me to help the under privileged kids to get out there and make the best of their lives. >> 30% of the population lives below the poverty level. he reached out to the scouting service based in philadelphia and white is helping the players transition to american high schools six years ago pro bono and understanding the important qualities in such moves. >> i have got a kid here, you have to get there.

so he's tough. he's not giving me a lot of kids and when i get one, you know, he's normally a good ballplayer, pretty good person. >> in the spring of 2013, after considering a number of schools around the country, he called the head master and coach at capital christian school in maryland. >> in his case we knew immediately he was our type of young man, he's humble, honest and forthright and had confidence and an interesting glow and everyone kind of knew, okay, this is a guy to offer the opportunity to be part of our program and more than that, part of our school family. >> the 6-7 freshman forward is becoming a very important of the jv squad. >> his job is coming here and earning a living and help his family out and so the stakes in that sense are very large.

>> welcome to the first visit. >> my mother worked hard to bring me up this way, and my coach spent a lot of time and money to help me and making sure i'm doing everything right and if i don't what is expected of me i wasted everybody's time and money. >> he wants to be a physical therapiest before an nba player and the basketball player is helping himself and his family to a better life. >> yes. >> these guys get tabbed so a late and they have played just a couple of years and what they are able to do so fast and being able to play basketball and getting up to speed is unbelievable. >> it is a long way from home and they are not exposed to

american sports like we are. >> yes, they are coming for five years. so many things to deal with, a few culture and a lot of things and your family is back home. tough thank skype and a lot of things. >> he's got a bright fie chur ahead of him. absolutely. >> art style once popular in the 60s goes on display, next. >> another arctic invasion is on the way for millions of americans, the temperatures are rivalling those seen in january. we tell you all about it after the break. this

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>> that is awkward. that is newly released communication between the pilot and the airport and landing after the wrong airport. the southwest airlines flight supposed to land in missouri but the pilot touched down at a smaller airport nearby and nobody was hurt and the passengers recordported that th plane almost went off a the runway. >> truly one of a kind, the collection of art you are not going to find in just any gallery. >> if the creep by clowns are the stuff that night mares are

made of, this is not for you. it is dedicated to paintings on black velvet and glow in the dark satin. the co-owner has 3,000 paintings on velvet. >> these are people, not intimidating for them. >> not to say that nothing here is sacred. this is the hall of elvis. elvis neefr leaves the building. this is the elvis tiki and elvis is one of the greatest figures ever. the king of rock and roll and king of velvet painting. >> and then there are the clowns. >> we are in the black light

room, which is the resistance of the museum. clowns are part of the velvet painting and always crying and sad. >> finding velvet art is not easy. they are not in good condition, always in junk and in back of a closet or shed and covered in cat hair. >> this stuff has a rock bottom sincerity that is lacking in the hipster art culture. >> crying clowns and big eyed kids and you know nudes, they are kind of cheesy, but i tell you when they come in they can't stop looking, maybe it is like a train wreck. they come in and go oh. >> it is open four days a week in l.a.'s china town and the

clowns are waiting for you. >> well, i know it is spring, i tell you it is cold across portions of the midwest and into the northeast tracking into tonight and tomorrow, the temperatures 20, 30 degrees below where they should be for this time of the year. temperatures in minneapolis only 24 degrees. typically at this time of the year 47, back to billings, cold air as well, 28 degrees. over the next several days this cold air is continuing to travel to south and towards the east coast, new york, roughly 20 degrees cooler than we were this time yesterday. across the southeast, a little bit of rain across portions of the i-10 corridor and now looking at the northern tier of the front and pushing across the mid atlantic and virginia and north carolina. be careful out there along i-95,

the temperatures are policemenetting and tomorrow you are going to feel the difference. currently, you are feeling the chill in charlotte. now, as i said, the cold arctic air is continuing to work, the temperatures roughly 15-20 degrees, some areas even 30 degrees factoring in the windchill cooler than it should be for this time of the year. as i said, the temperatures, the bulk of the cold air is concentrated across the north central plains and potential snowstorm early next week. 32 for the highs on monday in minneapolis. hef snow could be droving across new england on tuesday night and wednesday and 3-6 inches and portions of canada blizzard like

conditions with winds 30, 40, 50 miles per hour at some of the places. we are looking at the mod el es right now and the tracks are pushing the storm across the sea and strengthening and developing and impacting atlantic portions of canada. to the coast, we could be seeing snow. in the nation's capitol and philadelphia and up to new york city also boston. it is going to be cold and certainly we are watching this system developing. >> that can't be correct, haven't you seen the calendar. it is supposed to be spring. >> it is supposed to be. >> that is the show. thank you for watching al jazeera america.

is welcome to al jazeera america. i am jonathan betz with a quick look at today's top stories. three people are dead and 18 others are still missing after a massive landslide at washington state emergency workers tried to reach an areas where crew

bulletin crews heard cries for help but the mud was so thick, workers were forced to turn back. >> crew bulletin crews in texas are trying to hit bulletin clean up an oil spill. around 160,000 gallons could have spilled from a cracked tank. the united states bulletin u.s. department of health and shoe bulletin human services says they are expecting a search bulletin search bulletin certainj in march 31st deadline. anyone who encounters technical difficulties to complete their applications past the deadline. warnings from nato and the united states saying russian troops could be readying to move westward into the ukraine mainland and deeper into europe, although russia denies those claims president obama leaves tonight for a summit in the netherlands on monday. he has called for a g7 meeting on the site bulletin sidelines and has asked countries to step up sanctions on moscow.

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