this is the result of russian shelling on the region of done yet. homes have been destroyed. all. it's freezing. nothing makes sense. but you will not nucleus fossa, much more dusky. why is nobody saving us is but why is it like he have city district is cursed. everything has been abandoned here. they were firing at us, but we didn't hear a single shot in that direction. who is protecting us yet? because we do vladimir poo jones war has entered homes and turned lives upside down. this maternity ward has been moved to a bomb shelter in the city of khaki, but has come under heavy attack. for these new mothers, these are uncertain and terrifying times above ground. people have been documenting the damage on their mobile phones, west of the capital cave. what was once an ordinary part of daily life is no more.

life has come to a standstill in many parts of the country. many years big russian have ties to russia, but this war has now become deeply personal. remember crazy worker, you know, green of what it was. it. i do want to speak russian simply because putin speaks russian. i live here and my mother is russian. were you and we used to speak in russian all the time we studied here. and after this, after putin attacked us, i deliberately switched to ukrainian. i will speak only ukrainian, whatever it takes, roku or when the deep though this war is now almost into a full week with most people here wondering what is it all for? stephanie decker, i'll g 0. tens of thousands of foreign students have been tramped in ukraine following russia's invasion, many have been told by their governments to flee the country theming to accuse and train stations. the largest group of foreign students is from india, around $18000.00 were studying in ukraine. some of them have now made it back home

. pat name ital has more from new delhi. how will the families in the country have been struggling? trying to get in touch with their children and other members of family talking ukraine, relying on news reports to get a sense of what's happening in the country and waiting for a call that brings them here at the jelly board the arrivals terminal. but now there was 3 hours have come through because one student from india has been killed in shelling in park eve. now this news comes as evacuation passed, picked up, hundreds of students have come back. in fact, just a couple of hours ago. hundreds of them walk to that gate. now the move here is it's a mix of relief and exhaustion. students. we spoke to said the hardest part of that journey. 1 was crossing the border, these flights are coming from neighboring countries for poland and hungary and romania. the students say they have been taking long journeys to these border crossings,

waiting hours and even days. in freezing temperature were dwindling supplies patchy for network. they also say that they have been manhandled by border forces over there. and once they cross over, that's how basically they're coming home. the government is now considering sending larger airlines, larger defense carriers to get back more students. they've also deployed, talk minutes to us to go to the border crossing and sort of manage the chaos there to try and get as many of the students back to india. just want to come here on al jazeera rallying support for ukraine. b u. s. president to set to make his state of the union speech. ah hello the weather, sloshy set fare across northern parts of china through the korean peninsula,

southern parts of japan, i'm afraid northern japan. that will be some more snow as we go on through the next couple of days. little larry fly pressure just around the sea of japan. one or 2 wintry flowers rolling in on wednesday, but it's more we got wanting to thursday, those showers becoming a little more widespread across. so western western parts of honshu pushing up into her carter could cause further disruption than south of that. generally try, try to warm up in tokyo, getting up into the mid teens. not too bad here, sheltered by the mountains for the west. there we go. hasn't spring sunshine there for soul. and for beijing, sprinkling a showers cross central and southern parts of china into ty, why one or 2 showers to into indo china, but not too much to speak of here. pretty a showers. meanwhile, across southeast asia, a habeas to gonna be across central park, around the equator, whether should be that's where the seasonal rains. look at the moment, and plenty of showers, say a little further south into indonesia. meanwhile, we got some very heavy re making its way towards a small anchor over the next day or so. big bulge of cloud in the southern sections

of the bye have been goal, is making its way towards for lanka. for the north of that is lottery drive for india, some snow there from north pakistan. ah, julian, the debate they erased, of like people from the american and global story was very powerful on online, at your voice. the comment section is right here, killing our conversation. we had on when everyone is protected, it is not being nationalistic about this. you just look at it in a very different way, not perspective. men and men meeting each other and they don't have any solution. let me put it clear for you this dream on. now just era, oh the

i was going to say not the us extra fate and the blinking the addresses, the un human rights council in geneva, violating international law, floating the core principles international peace and security, and creating a human rights and humanitarian crisis. reports of russia's human rights abuses and violations of internationally mandatory law are mounting by the hour. brushing strikes are hitting schools, hospitals, residential buildings. there is growing critical infrastructure, which provides millions of people across ukraine with drinking water, gas to keep them from freezing to death. and electricity trillion buses, cars, even ambulances have been shelled. russia is doing this every day across ukraine. thy commissioner said yesterday that russia's attacks had killed at least $100.00 civilians, including children,

and wounded hundreds more. and said she expects the real figures are much higher. and the casually keep mounting, including the many civilians killed and wounded in rushes, monstrous rockets, race that had an apartment complex and marquee yesterday. rushes violence has driven over half a 1000000 ukrainians from the country in just a few days. children, the elderly, people with disabilities who are making howling journeys through conflict sounds. the president potent succeeds in his stated goal of toppling ukraine's democratically elected government. the human rights and monitoring crises will only get worse. look at crimea, where russians, occupation has come with extra additional killings enforced disappearances, torture arbitrary detention the persecution of ethnic and religious minorities, the brutal repression of descent. the criminal is also wrapping up its repression within russia, where even before the invasion,

it was shuddering human rights organizations and harassing poisoning and imprisoning anti corruption activists and political opponents. authorities reportedly detained thousands of russians peacefully protesting the invasions as well as journalists covering the demonstrations. russian officials issued a warning to the countries press that any reporting refers to the assault as quote, an attack, an invasion, or a declaration of war and quote. in other words, that tells the truth will result in media outlets being blocked and find and rushers, prosecutor's office said that any russian who assists a foreign country, foreign organization, or international organization, during its so called operation, may be imprisoned for up to 20 years. these are the human rights abuses. this council was created to stop if we cannot come together now. when will we come

together? we must send a resolute and unified message. the president should unconditionally stop this unproved attack. as the secretary general, the high commissioner had done and immediately withdraw a russian forces from ukraine. we must condemn firmly and unequivocally rushes attempt to topple a democratically elected government and its gross human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law. and we must take steps to hold the perpetrators accountable. this council's decision to hold an urgent debate on the crisis and ukraine is an important step toward ensuring documentation and accountability. i think the many members who supported it. we must underscore russians obligation even in its unlawful invasion to respect international humanitarian law, including as it relates to the protection of civilians in the conflict council, members should stop using language implying that all sides bear equal responsibility for the unprovoked attack of one side. this isn't even handed,

it's wrong and fails to place accountability where it belongs. the same goes for members who argue falsely that denouncing human rights abuses is politicizing the situation. it is failing to speak up about human rights abuses that politicize and situation. we must reject russia's attempts to falsely justify this attack as a defense of human rights misappropriating terms that we reserve for the worst atrocities and disrespecting every victim of those crimes. finally, we must press the crime and to respect the human rights of all russians, including the right of citizens to peacefully express dissent, and journalists to report the news and provide information to the families of russian soldiers who deserve to know the fate of love, once killed and present hooton's war of choice. one can reasonably ask whether the un member state that tries to take over another you and member state while

committing horrific human rights abuses and causing massive humanitarian suffering, should be allowed to remain on this council. even as we focus on the crisis and ukraine is far from the only part of the world where the councils attention is needed. and generous. de luca shanker regime is brutally repressing civil society and the countries pro democracy movement using trans national repression to silence critics abroad, and enabling rushes invasion of ukraine. in recent days, delegation authorities have detained hundreds of people demonstrating peacefully against russia attack. in china, the government continues to commit genocide and crimes against humanity in chin john against predominantly muslim leaders and other minority groups. we are the high commissioner to release without delay her report on the situation there. we must redouble our efforts to address the growing humanitarian crisis in afghanistan and pressed the taliban to respect the rights of all afghans. including by stopping

the unjust attentions of wonder protesters and journalists ending reprisals. allowing all afghans to be educated and to work in every sector. the human rights crises in burma, cuba, the, the v r, k, iran, nicaragua, south sudan, syria, then as well, and yemen among others also demand this counsels ongoing attention. in each of these places, we must not only denounce abuses but work to stop them and hold perpetrators accountable. yet, and a moment when the world needs both moral clarity and unity from this council. some governments are arguing that sovereignty gives countries the right to do whatever they want within their borders. it's no coincidence that many of the governments making this argument are systematically using human rights and have been eerily silent in the face of russia's flagrant assault on ukraine. sovereignty. the universal declaration on human rights begins with the word universal. because

nations decided that there are certain rights that every person everywhere is entitled to enjoy. members of this council have a special responsibility to strengthen, not weaken those rights. one way to do that is by welcoming scrutiny of our own records. in september, the united states issued a formal standing invitation to all you and experts who reported advise automatic human rights issues. we urge every counsel member to take the step. we know we have work to do to advance human rights at home. every member does. what matters is that we all hold ourselves to the same standards and work to address our shortcomings as we are doing. here's what else you can expect in the united states on this council . first, we're committed to working with other countries, including those. we don't always agree with to advance human rights as members as seen in their engagements with our permanent representatives, deonna, geneva, investor shiva. crocker and our new investor to the human rights council. michelle

taylor. second, we've heard repeatedly that the united states has often focus more on strengthening civil and political rights. then we have strengthening economic, social, and cultural rights. people around the world are looking to us to do both, and we hear that call. 3rd, will continue to counter anti israel bias and the unfair and disproportionate focus on israel, on the council. the commission of inquiry and standing agenda. item 7 are a stain on the councils credibility. we strongly reject the 4th. we'll keep fighting for the human rights of l. g. b, joy plus people. people with disabilities, members of racial, ethnic and religious minorities, women and girls, and all marginalized populations and people invulnerable situations. in recent days, people on every continent have come out to demonstrate against russia's invasion and for the rights of ukrainians. they understand that if we allow the rules of the

international order to be flagrantly trampled anywhere, we weaken them everywhere. as a stony and student protest or put it, if you crane is not a country, then president potent can say a stony is not a country either. we stand for these rules, not in opposition to any government, but rather because we see our shared interest in striving for a world where all people of all nations enjoy human rights and peace and security. and because history has shown us the darkness and suffering, the counsel in these rules are abandoned. people in ukraine and around the world are looking to us to stand up and stand together. we must not let them down. right, that was the u. s. secretary of state and nibbling can they're speaking to the human rights council off the us of course rejoined the human aroused rights council

. he spoke about the way russia was trying to control the narrative about its invasion of ukraine, saying that we must send a resolute message that president fusion must stop this attack. adding that russia must adhere to international law, including avoiding civilian casualties. sled calls to alan fisher, who's live for us at the white house. alan, what stood out to you from what the u. s. secretary of state had say, well, we expect very much to go in the attack against russia, and that's exactly what he did. claiming that they were guilty of several humanitarian right. some humanitarian law breaches including attacking schools and hospitals and ambulances. and seeing that the people responsible for this must be held to account. also pointed out the fact that russia was keeping a grip of descent inside russia itself. and we've seen the pictures of numerous protests both in moscow in saint petersburg. and apparently they are being repeated

across the country. so it's clear that antony blinkin believes that even if this war and soon then vladimir putin and others in the kremlin, should be held responsible for the actions that have happened. not least the bombing of civilian areas that we've seen quite graphically in the last 48 hours. but it would be a mess of me to stand here and point out all the human rights allegations that onto the blink can lead, including in other countries, such as yemen in the d, p r k. and places like that without pointing out that the united states still operates the guantanamo be prison camp in cuba. that despite the by the ministration saying, during the election campaign and when it came into office, it intended to close down. guantanamo alan and the us present. joe biden is going to deliver his 1st state of the union speech. later on tuesday, ukraine of course, is going to be on the agenda. what should we expect?

well, a huge speech, obviously very important as well for joe biden. what is really the start of an election year with the mate tens coming up in november and the power in the house and possibly even the senate up for grabs it. i suspect that there's been a lot of frantic rewriting going on with the speech writers in the last 7 days. now ukraine will get mentioned probably right at the top, and joe biden will make the point that sometimes there are costs in fighting for democracy. he will condemn russia unreservedly for what it is done, but remind people that they may suffer at the gas tank when they go to fill up the cars with petrol. they might suffer in the supermarket because food prices might become more expensive because supply chains are going to be disrupted. but he won't spend a huge amount of time on ukraine. he will move on to more for him, important domestic matters. he will talk about elder kid and improving child

poverty. he will talk about how they need to lower prescription charges. he will talk about the climate and how that is so important to him and how he want election in the 1st place and particularly to future generation. so ukraine well, loom large, it will be there, i suspect, right at the top of the speech, because you simply can't ignore such an international crisis. but it's going to be the domestic audience, the job by movie speaking to, because that's where the votes are, and that's who will determine the power balance in the house and in the senate. right, alan fisher, their life for us in washington. thanks very much. that was going to 7 out to james bass, who is standing by for us in brussels. james, a flurry of activity today for europe and its allies to vote for to show of unity run us through it all. we had the parliament, the, the human rights council and meetings in poland and the stony

yeah. lot going on in various parts of europe right now. yes. the human rights council. you just hearing the recorded message from the secretary state entity blinkin that proceedings of the human rights council. what we've already seen, the russian number of the russian department is to so get lab roth addressing it again by video, because he couldn't get that because he couldn't get through the space, couldn't get permission from the you can travel to geneva that continues for some time and in fact, the human rights council love a special session starting on thursday on ukraine and sex dribbling can refer to as in his speech that they're seeking a probe into what's going on on the ground. now ukraine has proposed this, a commission of inquiry would mean 3 independent experts examining human rights abuses carried out in ukraine since 2014 in dumbass and in crimea, but also across the rest of the ukraine. in the last,

since the last 6 days on the start of the invasion, put on top of that, the fact that there are now war crimes investigations in the have the international criminal court. and the accountability part of this from the international community is coming together, as you say, all the activity around europe, nato, the secretary general, is visiting the nato forces nato, not sending any forces to ukraine. individual native countries ascending weapons, but nato's reinforcing his own states for the close to the russian border yet installed in poland and is then now joining the british prime minister barak johnson going to see troops, nato forces, additional forces have gone there in recent weeks in estonia, here in brussels, i'm inside europe in parliament, and that has been the center of attention for the last couple of hours. we've had presence and keep been didn't here with a speech, he got a standing ovation. he's calling for europe to fast track membership for ukraine to

become an e. u member. you had very positive words about that from the senior european leaders. but the reality is it's a long process. the european parliament is voting and that we're expecting realtor in about an hour, quite likely they'll vote to say that the membership should be false drive. that's not something the parliament can actually decide themselves though. it's a long process. european commission has to come up with an opinion. it's then put to the leaders of $27.00 countries. the european council that 1st meeting in the near future is in just over weeks time in paris. they would have to vote on it. and if they did say yes, then you would become a candidate country that's not the end of it. they then have to meet all the criteria. and normally that's a long process that often take several years change phase in brussel. thank you very much for that update. turkey has designated rushes assault

on ukraine as a war, and he said it would execute an international pact restricting the use of the turkish strength. it's the 9361 tro convention, and it gives turkey control of the 2 important waterways, the don know, and the both for a strength. and i thank you from the black sea to the mediterranean, reveal mom, or see you see of mom or the base for rushes black safely. that's being used to target ukraine's southern coast. among tro, pac allows talking to close the straits to all foreign war ships and times of war, or when threatened. but there is an exception. if a warship is returning to its own port and its passage cannot be prevented, took a foreign minister as childish all who has said this right shouldn't be abused. so ships that are allowed to pass to day basis should not then join the war. demolish child is on for us and it's tumble jamal. how is perky going to implement or enforce this was he mentioned the according

to the montero agreement declaration, turkey has the right to close up. there is no real contention to it from any parts, including russia. what's more significant here is what this signifies in terms of turkey's role with v this war in ukraine, turkey is playing a very delicate balancing act, both because it has strong ties with more score and obviously because it has strong ties with a key of as well what it's done by describing the situation as a war is that you mentioned this triggers the implementation of this agreement. this agreement, as you mentioned, there were here overlooking the bus for us to the right side that leads towards the mercy. and then after that, the da da nelson to the left side, it is towards the black sea. and what it means is that the only vessels that will be going through the straits, these waterways will be commercial ones,

not military ones. that is, unless they are ones coming back to their bases and therefore will not be participating in any armed conflict in any war. turkey, obviously, as the 2nd largest military member of nato, it also has a strong economic and military relationship with russia. this, despite the fact that the 2 countries find themselves on opposite ends of other proxy conflicts or venturing godly syria, libya as well as obviously we saw between as over john and armenia. recently, what tech is trying to do is position itself as a possible mediator between the 2 already rep turbo on the president said that his country would be willing to try and negotiate, but that still hasn't been received by all the countries jamal a shell. thank you. in east and ukraine, volunteers have converted associate built cinema into a shelter. it's become

a hub for distributing essentials like food and medicine chance trap and visited the cinema in april the i tell you that i might have but i did a lot because i need 5 people quickly. any volunteers, the man says, the former line to unload, donated food, water baiting with clothes. it's taken into what i think decades has been a sense of culture and arts and has now become a vital and potential life saving a distribution to point which is an incredible sense of purpose and energy in this sense. what these people are doing is they're taking in donations of food, clothing, bedding medicine. they're boxing them up, watching the materials up. and then they're going to be distributing them too many of the hundreds of thousands of people that have fled to fighting across this region. this question used to give them though mom is much better than sitting at

home. we are as depressed as every one in the country. but we come here to live, tell us periods will feel proud and the unified here. oh yes, yes. in full, in tears duct tape on the windows, in an effort to stop shands of glass being blown into the building shelves. land near by a piece of history is being offered as a place where people can hide. so it's been 20 years since this soviet built cinema was used. and now volunteers are offering it as a place where people can come and shelter from the shelling you fall, record some goals explosions. oh, we'll give to people instructions to open mouth and to hold cam and put lake maiden. there's a basement where people can also take shelter upstairs. the salting the

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