on line or it's playing the role, bring in our differences together with exclusive interviews and in depth reports. this is mia. this is tyler. 0 has teeth on the ground to bring you more reward. will you? documentaries, and lied knees. ah . the russian military claims. it's taking control of the strategically important city of harrison in the south of ukraine and russian power trip is of landed on the outskirts outskirts of khaki as they intensify their push to capture ukraine's 2nd biggest city. ah, hello again. uncommon, santa maria here in doha, continuing coverage on al jazeera of the russia ukraine. in his state of the union address, the u. s. president has vowed russia will pay dearly for its invasion of ukraine.

and we will join our allies, closing off american aerospace to all russian flies. for i am a look at the mountain cost of war as at least 660000 people flee the fighting so far . ah, russia's military is claiming to have taken full control of a major ukrainian port city on the black sea chefs on it is north of crimea, which of course russia annex back in 2014 pictures from a kind of san shy russian forces and tanks in the city sent up unchallenged. they've also reported they installed checkpoints surrounding the city. let's put it on the map for you. all these areas which are shaded in red, controlled by russia and allied separatists, fierce fighting income,

heave. and matthew polt, north of ki, if you've got russian armor and artillery building up as well. john hall begins coverage with this report from the vs. russia has widened the scope of its war on ukraine. a suspected cruise missile hit the local administration building in freedom square, no less in the center of the eastern city of her cave homes regularly come under fire. now to this is an apartment building in the black sea port, city of san. and this hockey again, who's guess nobody's really briefly? the russian liberators have come. the man shouts. in the aftermath of tuesday's missile strike, president followed him in zelinski, addressing the european union called it the price of freedom this morning to peruse may hit this freedom square, dozens of killed ones. this is the price of freedom. the translators struggles to

contain his emotion. what we're fighting versus us will use it just for our land and for our freedom. 70 ukrainian soldiers died when a military base was targeted by heavy artillery in october. but the veil has fallen from russia's claims that it's carrying out a special operation aimed purely at military targets. civilians are increasingly fer, gave me, and as night fell, her keys came on to a heavy attack. again, a change of tactics, a possible consequence of russia's slow moving advance on the ground. satellite imagery shows a column of artillery and armour, logistics, and support units more than 60 kilometers long bearing down on the capital key of from the north. another is advancing from the south. the aim to encircle the

capital, intimidate the civilian population, and force the surrender of ukraine's government. western intelligence points to poor communications and frequent mechanical breakdowns. there's a dog in ukrainian resistance as well captured russian soldiers are said to have been told that they'd be welcomed here as liberators. this is how people actually feel at the heart of it all in the capital key. if attacks have resumed, including on the main television transmitter, cutting public broadcasts, people already eking out an existence in conditions of unimaginable stress. know that worse is to come. and the scramble to leave the city on the few exit roots still available, is growing more desperate by the our little bit deposed to fighting has not yet

come to the western city of believe, but they'll be ready for it. if it does civil defense units have formed all over the country and basic training and weapons handling is available for anyone that wants it. they know the time may come when they'll have to fight the russians themselves for control of their streets. the government, as it believes russia is deliberately shelling cities, including residential areas and civilian infrastructure, the goal it says to create mass panic and civilian casualties. but one thing you don't sense here is panic. instead, the steely determination of ukrainian civilians to resist and fight back the we want to study. we don't want to be afraid of the word. the young in ukraine students multicultural, multilingual, joined the chorus for people who don't bright minds who's ideals until

a week ago was still intact and whose hopes and hearts now broken or who are stuck . jonah, how al jazeera louise and andrew simmons is leih from levine. this our i, andrew, have son and can keep to places we're learning a lot about at the moment. tell us more hook, heave has suffered such colossal damage, such colossal human loss. and it all the latest wave started on tuesday night when there was a colossal explosion at a military air field. and just outside the city. that shook with military air filter's, it's known an orange, a total fireball there in the sky. it was a stove, a secondary explosion within that that, that blaze which was from, of bombs rock. it's miss isles. are all we've expect for war planes?

nothing left of it. now. this was followed a few hours later by paratroopers landing and the outskirts of the city immediately coming into contact with ukrainian forces. small arms, fire grenades, chaos and a military hospital was a tats, according to ukrainian officials by those power troopers. it's unclear what's happening in that fighting right now. but hark eve, well, if you look at it, what remains of that city it's been bombarded by shells by miss isles, by a whole host of other weaponry. russia is upping the forces in of, of its armory every step of the way, 7 days now and look at those images. there were opportunities, apparently at late on tuesday to get international students out of the city.

but so many residents of this is city that has a population of well and a half 1000000 are stuck completely unable to get out. that's a safety. and furthermore, than in other scenes in other cities, this is the sort of thing that we're witnessing over time. that the civilians are under attack civilians being hit by this one was this. what you're seeing here now was an attempt at hitting a military base where a, there was a either, there was either targeted or, or which was just caught in the crossfire, or at least 10 houses, at least 2 people dead back in. hark, he's the latest figures we have ah 21 dead. but there is no confirmation of the latest figure that sir within the last 24 hours. and what's more, we were hearing from the strategic coastal town of her song,

which is a black c port that has fallen so that to the russians and russians have taken it. the soldiers seen on the streets of the local mer saying, it's an absolute tragedy. they fought to the last the ukrainians couldn't overcome the russian forces. this is a strategic city because it links the crimean peninsula to the mainland of ukraine . and the forces are also now trying to take mary, a poll, a much bigger city, a port city of c, of as of that is a colossal fight going on there as well. what we're seeing is a what you heard general allude to this in his report. more and more civilian targets, sir, seem to be coming into the scopes of russian forces. thank you. andrew simmons, the update from levine for us there. we've heard from ukraine's president low to mid zalinski. he says russia is now trying to erase his country. only june is neg

bro necessarily. for many people in russia, cave is totally foreign and alien. they don't know anything about our culture about history here, but they only have one task to erase history, a race, our country, and a race us when a proposal, a bootable lesson was that last night they keeps hitting our towns bombs, rockets, artillery civilians were targeted houses were targeted, it cannot be explained by any human cause by any godly cause. if bobbin yarber come to target, what other military facilities are threatening russia was st. sophia cathedral st. andrews church. god help them because god is with us. yes, replace to welcome catherine notion caught up to al jazeera senior lecturer in international relations at the national university of keep my la academy. she is with us now from tommy on nets, but he'll sky in ukraine. catherine, i hope i got some of those pronunciations, even remotely close. look before we go into a,

anything to do with international relations. i want to hear your story. i believe you managed to get out of keep yesterday. yes i, i, i, i was hesitating whether ah, whether i should leave when the, when i should leave. but yesterday it was her. ah, the understanding came that i need to take my family out in safety because there is a crystal clear plan to put, take it in caea in c h c ash. and that basically a do the old school or, ah, exhaust exhaust dinner technique. oh, it uses us exhaust air and taking hostage civilians. so this is a, tell me about the, tell me about the journey because we saw we saw, you know, people trying to cram themselves get on to trains in the early days of the invasion . what was it like, were you able to get on a train easily? what was the journey like as well?

yes. a exactly. you isn't. it's nothing. is there any longer normal? any. there is not, not a single element of life in ukraine is that is normal and it's just a dramatic change of every scene in 5 days. and so the tickets that we who changed, of course, there were irrelevant. it did just who whoever gets squeezed into the train, i can move and everybody was actually squeezed into to make space for, for other people. if people were interns change in seats to, to provide each other opportunity to have some rest during that 10 hour journey. and it, so it's, it's just, you know, mark marshall low and mark marshall circumstances. and do you feel safe now where you've managed to get to have had a look on the map. it's obviously heading west, but not even as far west as as the v, for example. a yes sir. it said it's kind of midway to leave

trenda. a if they do do receive my air aid the alerts here, but obviously nothing a near to what to is happening in harkey pouring here. yeah. although the locals that as a, as it's been that rightly mentioned a, every single a region in ukraine is ready. and you know, the locals are also do not dismiss sir the scenario where they will have to defend themselves. catherine. yeah, of you are, as i said athena electra in international relations. what are your feelings? i mean, particularly off to what we saw yesterday the extraordinary solidarity from the european union parliament. i how do you feel about the support that ukraine is getting? no, i think that's it. to some extent, it's a very dramatic sir. these are very dramatic circumstances to reveal the truth

about to you prince potential, about whether you are a p and union, actually. he's ukraine as part of europe or part of asia. ah, oh, so it's the moment of truth about what kind of russia, it's, what kind of state russia is. and where the, all those are our suspicions about the nature of these regimes a, just to it came out now without any single doubt to any one that this is a terrorist state. but to i think all this circumstance is now look kind of revealed and brought to light. ah, thinks that where debated for decades about whether you create belongs in europe or not. and they saying that to her should this moment of solidarity had to come in back in 2014 when ukraine actually was

a signing the association agreement with the european union. should there be courage to actually, just not in such a special procedure ended urgently in today's accept your call. what location. but just, you know, ukraine's european membership perspective back in 201415. i don't think we would have been here where we are. the thing i wonder is that with ukraine moving so much more towards europe. ah, that will. i mean, russia will see that as antagonistic. obviously, i just wonder if is any room for discussion with russia. and i know that sounds odd given, just invited your country, but you know, even amanew micron before the started was saying, we need to think about russia's position in europe as well. i'm, i'm not sure if this is something he would repeat as of today, because these were all diplomatic at them before russia actually revealed

the absolutely aggressive inventions he own the february 26th by mistake rush and state media published an article that was supposed to come out to celebrate russia's their week, terry, in the special military operation in your brain, it was stifled new russia and new world. and this article was published by mistake and then removed about of course, you can bring that in november. and it was suggesting that russia had united men below and ukraine and couldn't have taken a historical role of taking you create of resolving ukrainian chords to me. so the final resolution of ukrainian question is exactly the language was used for the final resolution of jewish question by now as the

german. so i don't think this kind of framework if i recall it, so because it's just horrid, those gives us a new space for diplomatic negotiations. here the russia has clearly mob on the stage as a force fry catherine at chicago. it's been so interesting talking to you. thank you for your time and i hope you and your family stay safe as well. thank you. really interesting, isn't it right? the crisis unfolding in ukraine featured heavily in the us presidents state of the union address. i white house correspondent, kimberly how kit has more on that. us president joe biden began his 1st state of the union address. they strongly denounce the russian president and his invasion of ukraine. russia's latin recruitment sought to shake the very foundations of the free world. thinking again, make it ben to his managing ways,

but he badly miscalculated, and now the us will make to pay biden, has directed the department of justice to assemble a task force, targeting the crimes of russian oligarchy. and we will join our allies and close enough american aerospace to all russian flights. further, i said in russia, a majority of americans do not believe the u. s. should play a major role in working with allies to support ukraine. but biden argued, if not confronted russia aggression would spread throughout our history. we've learned this lesson. when dictators do not pay a price for their aggression, they cause more chaos. they keep moving. in the cost, the threats to the america and america through the world keeps rising. given the focus on the ukranian crisis in bided speech in the audience was the ukranian,

a bastard, who the u. s. oksana barava a guest of the 1st lady, doctor jill bided. the russian invasion has increase already record high energy prices and inflation, and the u. s. ad is threatening biden's promise to economic recovery. one way to fight in places to drive down wages to make americans poor. i think i have a better idea to fight inflation. lawyer cost natur wages like but republicans in their response, argued biden, has said the country back to the early $19.00 eighties when runaway inflation was hammering families, a violent crime wave was crashing our cities and the soviet army was trying to redraw the world map. on wednesday, president vibe and travels to the u. s. state of wisconsin to sell his domestic agenda. but foreign policy challenges in ukraine are almost certain to overshadow

that efforts to really help him al jazeera capitol hill. in the news ahead will tell you why sanctions on iran are the only thing crushing v economy there that in most account ah ah, look forward to brighter skies the weather sponsored my cattle at ways. hello. we've got some wet weather now pushed against the western part. so here, malaria cloud here, just pushing into the bath is gay. quite an active area of light pressure here actually help phase some cloud and right into western northern parts of france pushing up across england and wales, the french t easing into scotland. then this next system as pushing in from the atlantic these 2 will actually merge. bring some wet weather into ireland and eventually sliding

all the way down into spain and portugal must needed rain for here. high pressure does dominate for central part. so quiet here marcy, dry and settled. we have seen their clear skies recently across you. cray, little more cloud coming through here, got this area of low pressure and that will bring some wet weather and will also bring some wintry weather. there will be some snow coming in temperatures and keep struggling to get to around 2 degrees celsius says those clear skies across central parts of europe as that wet weather over towards the west. and it'll continue to tremble its way. a little further east is bumping into our hi tending to fizzle out . meanwhile, that snow down towards the southeast corner will be quite disruptive at times from heavy snowfall to come across turkey. some of that weather weather will also affect northern parts of algeria pushing across into northern areas of egypt. meanwhile, we got plenty of showers pushing towards west africa, blue weather sponsored by catera, always chilling the debate. the eraser of like people from the american and global

story was very powerful on an online ad. your voice, the comment section is right here. join our conversation. we had unprotected when everyone is protected. it is not by being nationalistic about us. you just look at it in a very different way. so that perspective men and men meeting each other and you don't have any pollution. let me get it clear for you. this analogy 0 ah aah! on al jazeera, these are the top stories from the russia ukraine war, russian forces, claiming control of the city of her son, and are also bump, excuse me, bombarding matter. you called surrounding that strategic port city. russian

paratroopers, meanwhile, have landed around ukraine's 2nd largest city. how to keep that cities endure the worst spawning since russia began its invasion. 6 days ago, officials, i 21 people have been killed in the past day. in current capital, keith was bracing for a russian assault. hundreds of military vehicles are advancing on the city. miss allan artillery strikes are intensifying. one of the latest targets was a tv broadcast town in belarus, the president, alexander lucas shanker, says his troops will not join russia in the fight against you. crime. speaking in a meeting of his security council, he said the southern border is being reinforced box. that is close ally. russia does not need more resources. if you shanker also accused ukraine of planning an attack against belarus last week, as were seen, ukrainian refugees have received outpourings of help. we're going to focus on poland. many of the hundreds of thousands across the border have now found shelter

with polish families, and volunteers taking essentials to those still stranded in ukraine. step. fasten with the support from buddha mia's on the poland ukraine border. wish it's rush hour at the local community center in lou batch of 15 kilometers from the border lake ukraine. that note that that black is a retired russian language teacher and is collecting good donated by people from all over europe. saudi and who is michelle? we are helping people on the other side of the border. the ones who stayed behind who can't leave yesterday were witness an incident when a disabled boy was not allowed to leave the ukraine because he was over 18, he and his family were forced to turn back. i could not bear to watch it, but we have to help many of the goods amend for the ukranian army

thought a pulse of queer monotony. i of, we are packing plastic plates for the army on the other side of the border because they have a lack of everything. we are sending food bread, everything that is easy to prepare. since russia invaded ukraine, danita has been driving across the border every day. tuckers are numbered not our driver, took a family of 9 people to his house. we are old crying with them when we saw the tragedy. the children were so weak and the mothers were passing out, crossing the borders always tricky, but the women said that her to day they have a lucky day because the border guard is some one they know and its going to be hopefully much easier to bring their the goods in for them, so i am going to cray, they handle just cross the border most refugees came from the region near the ukrainian capital key. if that came on the heavier attack in the past days when

with i can also go through. but then also though that was a real thing. my husband drove us to the border. we left on february 26th and we travelled for 2 days and we stayed at the border for 2 days. my husband then went back to fight and i am extremely worried about him. the situation was very unpleasant. we heard very loud explosions. that is why i am here despite the continuous stream of people trying to leave border guard, jack every car thoroughly. people eagerly waiting until the gate to safety will open in front of them. only a few more meters and there outside of ukraine, traveling for 4 days, some of them and are mixed emotions. they're grateful that they finally get to safety, but very, very worried about what they're leaving behind. oh, don't notice as we leave to find a less chaotic situation and in the past few days for the though is there another

giving up? it's heart. this woman has travelled for 4 days, but she does not need to stay long on the border because the queue is shorter done before. people seem less exhausted this time, i'm not crank, as you can see. the new dos mission has been accomplished for now, but she will return with more goods as long as rushes. missiles and rockets forced people out of ukraine, steadfast and at the bottom, each border in eastern poland. little bit of other world news to tell you about sunday police in new zealand have moved in on an anti vaccine mandate protests that disrupted the country's capital of the past 3 weeks. taking inspiration from the truck as demonstrations and canada. hundreds of protesters have been blocking streets around the parliament with trucks, cars and motorcycles, arising poverty, unemployment and international sanctions are forcing large numbers of iranian professionals to leave the country. students and academics,

including top professors, are looking for opportunities abroad. which means it's affecting iran's home based talent, poll wrestle soda, as the support and tear on engineers, mathematicians, medical workers with limited opportunities at home. iranians are sick in better lives elsewhere. urines brain drain is not in new. what's new is the sheer number of experts heading off. the outflow of talent has now created a problem for many industries, and perhaps none more so than iran's medical sector, hulu. as nurses, we work long hours and get paid low wages. it's not nearly enough for a livelihood, it's so difficult that i want to go to a foreign country because at least i would be able to get by. i have no idea what kind of problems i'll face when i integrate. yet i would rather go than stake, get him paid on time is also an issue which has led to a sharp increase in the migration of nurses. during the 1st 10 months of pandemic,

nearly 3000 health care workers reportedly left iran and the number of nurses applying to leave to repulse, as the company's economic prospects believe credit because of international sanctions, including numbers of iranians, are looking to start new lives abroad during past 4 years, immigration has reason to re fold, according to an official report, about 150000 people the year on leaving more than a 100000 of those image rate in annually have university degrees, including peers. and around 3000 of them alone are doctors like me, lot mohammed the he is a newer scientist now living in germany. he left the wrong to pursue education. but when it came to returning, he says it didn't seem wise. i couldn't recall situation back then that i left the country was not such a disaster. it was much, much, much better than what is today. but what we were thinking was that the country is

in the wrong way, and the situation will guts will, will become worse and worse. one of the most important reasons that we were thinking that it's getting worse was the sanctions and it was i and it proved itself that the sanctions are the most important factor in my eyes. a torture iranian people in a report last year, iran's minister of foreign affairs concluded that around 4000000 iranians leave abroad, while many here still hold out hope for a better life. the number of outward looking iranians is rapidly increasing. restroom said that al jazeera terran ah, on al jazeera, these are the headlines. russian forces are claiming control of the city of her son . they're also bombarding matter you paul, and surrounded the strategic ukrainian.