that celebrate the human spirit. oh against the arts. oh. 1 1 al jazeera selects hunted ah separatist leaders in the east in ukraine ask for rush and help repel what they call aggression from keir ah, marianne mozy in london watching al jazeera, also coming up on the program. ukraine's government imposes the state of emergency as shelling intensifies on the order with russia. and diplomacy. falters. prefers wave of european sanctions against russia. members of the lower house of parliament,

a targeted president madame a person is left alone for now. also coming up this hour, we will bring you the latest on a salvation crisis ensued on food warehouses of being attacked and displaced. children are going hungry. ah, begin with the latest of elements on the crisis in east and ukraine were the leaders of 2 separatist regions of danielle can the hands of asked russian president vladimir putin for help in repelling what they call aggression from ukrainian army, a nation wide state of emergency has been imposed as shelling intensifies at that line of contact between ukraine and russia. have been further reports of convoys heading to the breakaway ukrainian regions officially recognized by russia this week. and with hope of diplomacy, fading, europe and the us of started rolling out economic sanctions to pressure moscow to

back down. but russia says it security demands is still being ignored. harder. abdul, hamid begins our coverage now come a tourist in eastern ukraine's. danny, at screech in it's only in terms of deep crisis that the country imposes a 30 day state of emergency. and that's what president vladimir zelinski asked parliament for wednesday. after sharing a meeting of his security council. zelinski, also whole cities, polish, and these new indian counterparts, the 3 signing a joint declaration of support and solidarity ponies, president andres, do that described russia's actions as a threat, not just to ukraine, but did the whole you. zelinski said it is russia, it should be providing security guarantees, not the other way round. in fact, shown asherwood me to bishop, this is the fact is that today there are 150000 russian soldiers at our border. those territories are temporarily occupied. i believe could russia should be among

those countries when the provide clear security guarantees is not a secret that i have many times suggested that the president of russia sit down at the machine table and speak already in the west. intense shuttle diplomacy. continues. frances foreign minister has been in berlin for talks and tougher sanctions are looking inevitable. who i know for you varina. we accept economic consequences for free sovereign and democratic ukraine in peace and freedom in europe. have no price tag. ukraine welcomed the long awaited sanctions even though it's foreign minister. the me throw caliber asked for more, posting on social media action. so if you hit more and hit hardly 3 and hip now in the dumbass. the situation along the demarkation line is becoming more tense by day. shelling is reported by both sides in easton, ukraine,

the leader of one of the rebel regions now recognized by russia, said he wants to peacefully settle its borders. however, den is put. chillin added that he may need russia's help offered for prospect at the moment. there is no presence of any russian troops on our soil, as for the future presents that is likely when it's needed. if we are not able to do with our own resources, then we may seek support from the russians. oh, his words were received as a warning to people living in the nets and new hands, regions taken by the separate is at the beginning of the war. but now under ukrainian control, i did with her that below that is the worry among people living even far away from the context, lied that fighting will return to their hometown or that,

that i me as you see my doors in your brain, villagers any snoo, craner again, finding themselves on the front line of conflict. algiers child traffic reports from east and ukraine's daniel screeching across the river is an area the ukrainian army called the grey zone. neither ukrainian soldiers nor the russian back separatists controlled area. the army say separatists showed the bridge a few days ago. ukrainian soldiers on guard the river bank. we'll fill all below nakedly jolla. they shelled it using roughly $122.00 caliber weapons. we were luckily sheltering under cover at the time. in the distance i can hear what sounds like heavy artillery and machine gun fire. ukrainian government has in the last hour or so declared a state of emergency. now i remember being here in april. there was

a man fishing exactly this ball. the bridge was a vital connection point for people living in the grey zone, who used to come to this village to shop, to buy medicine. and some of the children used to go to school here. but that's simply not possible anymore. you can you move close by 46 year old katya, unload the delivery of wood. a brother and sister lives across the front line in separatist control on ask paloton rocha numbers that albert does with them. a family should that should them of a should me them and i being conscripted there and thou being conscripted here what nonsense, fishes the 21st century and look at us running around with guns while we are tottering each other despite the risk 27 year old michael still goes to the river to fish. he was injured in a car accident in 2013. the war started

a year later and he hasn't been able to get the physiotherapy he needs since then. hooper barbara near her brother were in for london. we have shelling every day. you can hear it now. i've just come down to check that it hasn't scared the fish away. this is one of the number of destroyed homes in the village. 70 year old spec lana, whose home was damaged by shelling in december describes what some nights a like. if you miss out the quote, not sure sort of new to fireballs, this big fly over houses and they pass our windows lighting the room with the explosions are so loud. on the drive home. sudden and terrifying glass hidden ukrainian artillery, 5 shells towards separatist hill territory.

what do you crane an army say is defensive action against the russian back threat. just over the hills. char stratford, al jazeera gr, anything, easton ukraine. bart barrington, the director of europe anyway here, programs at freedom house and as the invitation from sat purchase leaders house legitimize russian troop presence down to russian law, but not international law. this is part of the plan to play or to redeploy russian forces and did on that's territory on the, to these to now recognize entity respiration. basically, what it does is it house, lot of it put in, legalize the presence, the russian ships in the territory. this from, from the perspective of russian law, because suddenly now they are the indication of a sovereign country, etc, etc. wow, wow. i'm at the same time, you know, basically throwing away your national awesome of course, because of actually everybody else a chart of the country. ready and it's,

it's a senior, ukrainian minister is saying his nation has come under a massive cyber attack deputy prime minister, my killer feodor offset the attack started in the late afternoon and affected several banks as well as website you would not say where had come from the u. s. intelligence, as there is no indication ukraine's military was affected by the attacks. meanwhile, the european union is announced further sanctions targeting roches economy with the defense minister and other prominent individuals expected to be on that list. so anticipated survey sugar will be joined by the commander in chief of the russian air force and black safely in the sanctions package. block is also targeting 351 members of russia's low house of parliament, the state duma. the package includes asset freezes and travel bands on $23.00 people and 3 banks. and in the last president, joe biden has announced that the us will follow germany and imposing sanctions on

the russian or the stream to natural gas pipeline project. which on bahati, jo, castro in washington, and actually they've also been some remarks from a pentagon official in the past couple of hours. again wanting of a full scale invasion thing. all the troops are in place though. they don't need to be any detail on specific troop movements recently to the dumbass. that's right, marianne, the pentagon spokesperson would not share specific intelligence, but his words were they are ready. the assessment from us intelligent being that now those troops, those russian troops gathered at the ukrainian border, are just waiting for the order to come from a foreign invasion to begin for, to continue as the president of the u. s. joe biden said yesterday that this is already an invasion that has begun and reacting to that today, the president imposed another set of sanctions. this again is, as you said,

on the north stream to pipeline which connects russia and germany. this is a pipeline that has already been built that had not been in operation, and the u. s. was looking to it's ally germany to take that 1st step which it did yesterday in stopping the certification of that pipeline halting the project. and today, those new sanctions against the company building the pipeline in its corporate officers only further punishes that aspect of the russian economy. this pipeline having been seeing that once operational would have been a cash cow for the energy sector for russia. this is of course, coming one day after the white house impose this 1st trench of, of sanctions against 2 russian banks at the white house today described as being controlled by the kremlin, as glorified piggy banks and against russia's sovereign debt. and there are promises that if russia does not de escalate, there will be further financial penalties with quote,

no financial institutions save from these potential sanctions. thank you. hi de jo, cancer, the latest from washington. in moscow, on the de rashana, its armed forces, president vladimir putin is criticized the west, refusing to respond their security demands under his dosage of mary spoke to some of those attending a reef lying ceremony. ah, a solemn reminder of their dark days of rushes past. the commander in chief of the armed forces commemorating defender of the fatherland day, which honors war, veterans, and all russians who lost her lives defending their country. prior to the reef playing ceremony by the tomb of the unknown soldiers near the kremlin president vladimir putin released the video message to the nation. but with a clear warning for the world. number 30, i want to repeat russia's interests and the security of our people are an indisputable priority. so we will continue to strengthen and modernize our i'm in

the navy, striving to increase their effectiveness for their faded out with the most cotton h equipment. ah, an independent poland group says the majority of russians believe their president over 50 percent of people surveyed at the start of the ukraine crisis back in december. believe the united states and nato countries are responsible for increasing tensions. events like this to honor fallen soldiers are taking place across the country. but this year's events are particularly poignant as the threat of war and ukraine overshadows a day that's dedicated to remembering the human cost of war. most your say the thought of war is simply unimaginable for through i wouldn't like the war to start . i'd like all political powers to make efforts to avoid war even. and we really hope there will be no war. and it looks like at the end of the day, there will be no war. why not? when you go, i think there will be no war. nobody needs war. neither ukraine nor russia, as

a rule is, are politicians who start wars. they are the only ones who need wars. i think that we are all slavic people, ukrainians and russians. do you need war? i don't need it. why would young guys die? people, children, parents, mothers, fathers, i think that common sense will prevail. says russia is always open for direct and on the dialogue that has full confidence in the military and military that would likely include a new generation of russians who have never ventured far from home, but must now prepare themselves for the possibility that they could one day be back here, just not as visitors, paying their respects to unknown soldiers. at dark and sobering thought on a day meant to remind the country of the senselessness of war. doors to jabari al jazeera moscow. we'll be looking at the rest of the day use as well now, which is era, including

a desperate search for justice in one of america's most controversial police killing and another latin american country. tricky criminalizes, abortion, and activists across the region. ah. okay. you guessed it, more snowfall records for western japan. hello everyone. this time it's western ho kado snow cover. so that's the amount of snow on the ground. more than 200 centimeters. no surprise when you consider we had a bomb cycle roll through. that's an area of low pressure, the deepens within a certain period of time. take the deeper the low, the more intense it is. it's still snow showers for support on thursday, top to bottom across japan. temperatures are running below average. share it out. things had been below average in hong kong, but the winds have shifted around. we're back into that sunshine. so 15 degrees on

thursday, we'll keep it going. over the weekend, we'll get your back up to 20 degrees, which is more line with where you should be for the sub the year. okay, we're gonna get dowse with rain across the malay peninsulas. this includes for cale as well. so we got to be on the lookout for flooding solid bands of rain, java, bali loan, bog, some of the eastern islands of indonesia. and toward either side of the top end of australia, we could see some tropical activity cook up in the days to come. there's been flooding brains for the southeast of queensland coastal sections of new south wales . and that continues on thursday. while on this weather report in new zealand fair, the calm few clouds and we've got some showers for the escape, has been a hive 20 degrees for you on thursday. better update. we'll see you soon. ah. romania is ancient florists, some of europe's most christie. there crucial for society, a crucial fall battle against the climate crisis, but illegal logging by

a roof with tim, the mafia is destroying both the landscape and people's lives. logging in romania is our drug guns violence dealing with roles amidst plains of corruption and the role of powerful multinationals. people in power investigates romania rank of the forest on al jazeera. ah ah ah, welcome back. i'll made story this out. the leaders of danielle and the hands of the 2 separate regions in east and ukraine of aust, russian president vladimir putin to help in repelling what they call aggression from the ukrainian army. this is shelling has intensified along the eastern

ukrainian line of contact marcia's defense minister, as well as the commander in chief of its air force and black, safely to expect it to be included in an e. u. sanctions packaged targeting brushes economy. a block is also targeting 351 members of russia's lower house of parliament. and the general assembly is hud warnings. the conflict and ukraine is the most serious threat to well security in recent years. and ukraine's foreign minister has requested an urgent meeting of the un security council in response that request from a russian back set protest for assistance from moscow. but we do want to cover other stories this hour as well. and i've been a tax on food aid warehouses institute on that, it disrupting efforts to help starving people displaced by years of fighting severe food shortages and cams for those fleeing the violence. mean an estimated 200000 children in the dark for region don't have enough to eat, had been morgan reports or are foster in north star for by several word food,

while food program warehouses have been looted. i shop the law has never had to come to a nutrition center before he's been living in a bushel camp for displaced. 2 denise in north dar for for nearly 16 years now. she comes regularly as she struggled to nurse her 8 month old son. like i've been with me and i have little milk, it's almost not there. i don't have a complete diet, only one mail a day and it doesn't have all the nutrients. i need my child nurses 10 times a day or more. so i can't provide enough milk for him unless you don't mind. malnutrition has recently increased both in the camp and elsewhere in the dark for region. many have relied on seasonal farming to feed and support themselves. but reduced drain for last year meant for harvests, which caused food prices to become unaffordable. for many families, especially mothers and young children are especially hard head. aidan ization see

around 40 percent of all children in north star 4 are facing malnutrition this year . that's more than 200000 kids. is that that i've come here to get this kid for my child. he's been sick and has lost a bit of weight. he was weed and found malnourished and given biscuits. i've come to get him checked and pick food for him every 2 weeks with the dar for conflicts like the ended in 2020. when a peace agreement was signed between the government and rebel groups, the fighting killed at least 300000 displaced 2000000. while some moved to neighbor and chad, many sought refuge in displacement camps in dar for hundreds of thousands of displays. people remain in camps in the state and the door for region. many have relied on 84 years, but that has been cut back due to lack of money. now aid workers are focusing on the most vulnerable, but many more need help. but attacks are hampering a delivery on groups recently. so 5000 tons of aid from warehouses for think the

world food program to temporarily halt operations. we deplore the sad looting incidence of p and the humanitarian community have requested a swift action by the authorities on to take more appropriate measures to protect humanitarian operations after death and their personnel. as well as guaranteeing the safe delivery of life saving assistance to the people in meet here in the state on everywhere in this, in the for assistance that is helping mothers such as i should keep the children healthy and alive as the endure. the harsh conditions of displacement camps. he but morgan, alt 0 and fashion north dar for the quick update on nuclear talks taking place in vienna. ron's foreign minister says that western need is need to take a more realistic approach to restore the 2015 deal is, has ongoing negotiations in vienna and now a sensitive and important juncture deal exchange the relief of economic sanctions

on iran for restrictions on its nuclear program. us mom and we have not received any assurances from the u. s. officials. we have been receiving early empty words. they have not taken any tangible measures in order to prove the good will. the total sum of our talks in vienna, we are still very positive and constructive as well. many points are still pending to international media outlets could be blocked in turkey. after a watchdog revised broadcasting rules on monday gave john and broadcasted deutsche of olive voice of america and europe news 3, a short period of time to apply for online licenses. deutsche veteran voice america refused to do so, saying that this is an attempt at censorship. it could mean that websites will be taken offline. most taxes, media outlets often favor present ado on and the government trial for one of the police officers involved in the death of brianna. taylor is underway in the united

states. the young black woman was at home in bed when she was shot dead by police during a botched rage 2 years ago. but his gabriel is under reports from our home city. the trolley is not for any actions directly relating to her death. she became a tragic symbol of police killings of innocent people in america. brianna taylor's death at the hands of police and louisville sparked widespread protests. taylor and aspiring nurse was asleep in her apartment in the middle of the night on march, 13th, 2020. when several plain clothes police officers used a battering ram to knock down her front door as they attempted to execute a search warrant for drugs. officers fired 32 rounds. taylor was struck 6 times and died. no drugs were found. bred higginson is the only police officer charged with a crime in the case, but he is not standing trial for anything directly related to the killing of taylor

. instead, he's charged with recklessly firing his weapon into an adjacent apartment during the raid. putting taylor's neighbors at risk, there's just no justice out here for black body profess chanel helm is part of the black lives matter movement in louisville. after 2 years of a global uprising and unrest that took place in lowville. now we're looking at an officer who is not being held responsible for the crime that he committed. he's being held for bullet that didn't kill somebody if brianna taylor hadn't been shot and killed on that night. nearly 2 years ago, she would have celebrated her 28th birthday next month. nobody has ever been charged with their death. kentucky, grand jury brought no charges against any of the officers who shot taylor during the raid. prosecutors saying they were justified in using force to protect themselves. many in louisville are skeptical taylor will ever get justice out. you

can do with hope you can do it. hope it just hope that you know, whatever they decide to do to these offices that, you know, not saying that, you know, you don't have to contain them or anything like that, but just hold them accountable for what they want to have justice because law force me you know, harm people form citizens kill services a lot more frequently in this country they may do in other countries. there's also skepticism that this trial will hold police truly accountable. this is not justice . rhianna taylor is still there and no one is being held accountable for her murder and most people here seem resigned that nobody ever will be gabriel's hondo al jazeera, louisville kentucky. on the 2nd anniversary of religious violence in india's capital, new delhi residents are still living in fear of further unrest. they say the divine between hindu and muslim communities is deepened after 2 more years under the

international government of primary, under andrew moody, probably mental reports from where it was to the violence took place on the streets of new delhi. the shops in you, jenny, was some of the casualties in a deadly riot that broke out between hindus and muslims in the northeast neighborhoods in the nation's capital. 2 years ago, nearly 53 people died 100 and this entire market was gone in that violence. the rights rope out during protest against the citizenship law that many criticized for b, anti muslim, i did the law. maybe we're still living in fear here because there are 2 police stations nearby, but on the night of february, the 23rd. no one came to help us on it. now the investigation has been mod, with accusations of delays and biases against muslims. the court has find the deli police are not complying with orders. rights activists have blame the police have

been complicit in the right. they've also pointed out that accused members of prime minister in the reigns, remove these b, j. b have not been charged, including those who speeches have been blamed for instigating the violence of the deli police. has denied these accusations and a talk minister in the b. j b recently praised the police for the investigation into these riots. madagascar stealing with its 4th major storm in a month intense winds from sight con, am naughty, a. tearing through the st. mary's battered by another sigh, conscious. 2 weeks ago, some 30000 people were evacuated before it made land full. more than a 100 people have died in storms on the island this month. columbia has become the latest dp catholic country to relax its abortion laws. a landmark court ruling means women will be able to terminate pregnancies without facing prosecution. want to pay on a key of reports. campaigners are celebrating the decision women's rights activists

shed tears of joy. for years they've been fighting for the right to legal abortion . now, columbus constitutional court has made it possible that we could achieve meant for all women. we want a greater recognition of our full citizenship, more security over our bodies, and over our sexual and reproductive rights. oh, i can do that every year. colombian prosecutors open 400 cases against women, accused of having illegal abortions, or those would lie gently helped them. more than 340 women have been convicted since 2006. until now, colombian women were only allowed to terminate pregnancies, in cases of rape fetal deformity, or if the mother's life was in danger. but even those exceptions weren't always respected. in eleanor both middle bank just and 202-4000 girls between 10 and 14 years gave birth pregnancies and children that young can only be the result of ripe

. the only explanation for such high numbers is that women needed more protection. that's what we fought for. so 4 out of 5 judges voted in favor of extending abortion rights. despite opposition from the catholic church and pro life activists have prayed in front of the court. and i mean the feminist believe this is a step forward for women. whenever yellow, the, it's a step backwards because the fight for women's rights doesn't include murdering others. it's amazon denazi's young, president of undock. it was opposed his wealth. he sang, the decision is too big to be made by 5 judges and the name on that coy, allowing abortions until 24 weeks. columbia's court has raised the bar even compared to countries which have taken giant steps to defend women's reproductive rights on what most countries the time limit for having an abortion is for shorter . in the meantime, women activists say it's not enough to have their rights on paper. they say they'll

keep fighting to make sure the law is implemented. monica, you're not give al jazeera on our website al jazeera, don't call me at the latest on that state of emergency in ukraine and russia says vac separatist needs and ukraine of us with our assistance on that in a couple of seconds. ah, main developments in the crisis in ukraine now in the eastern part of the country. leaders of those 2 separate regions of danielle in the hands of aust, russian, president, putin for help in what a call in what they're saying is rush aggression from the ukranian army. a nation wide state of emergency has also been imposed of shelling intensifies along the eastern ukrainian line of contact in response to the separatist leaders call for assistance.