ah, ah ah, a fire europe's largest nuclear power plant are invading russian forces are accused of attacking the facility in ukraine. ah, milan down, jordan, you're watching out zeroes, comprehensive coverage of the russia ukraine war leaving plenty of destruction in their wake russian troops around major cities as the war enters a 9th day. scars of battle, we hear from civilians caught in

a heavy shelling of homes around the eastern city of khaki and a hint to progress. russia and ukraine talk about getting civilians out of the war them through humanitarian colonies. people in ukraine are waking up to the news of a fire. europe's largest nuclear power plot is just past 5 in the morning the and in the past few hours, they've been dramatic developments at the separate g, a plant, ukraine's foreign minister, as well as an official at the facility say it came under attack by russian forces and firefighters have been shot at authority, say the situation has now been brought on the control. they also say background radiation levels have not increased. well, the plant is near the town of n. a go dog area is shaded red near by are controlled by russia and it's separatist allies. what to give you a sense of the danger earlier you cranes, foreign minister tweeted the russian army is firing from all sides upon sappers, yet nuclear power plant. the largest nuclear facility in europe. fire has already

broken out. if it blows up, it will be 10 times larger than chernobyl. russia must immediately cease fire, allow fire fighters in and establish a security. so we have to correspondence on this story. john henderson's in washington dc where the incident was discussed during a phone call between president biden and the landscape at 1st 2 step. fasten any live in western you can step so what, what we've been hearing now about this fire outside the z, a nuclear power and how worrying is this? well, an extremely dangerous situation, of course, had to suffer asia planned into south of ukraine. it's one of the 50 nuclear power power plants ukraine has. so of course, and the atomic international atomic energy agency had already warned about the potential dangers of these nuclear plants in a war zone. and then just a day later, we know that there has been a fire and one of the 6 reactors of the plan, it was

a react and it was still under renovation. but there was nuclear fuel inside. so potentially could have been radiation, not levels increase, but what we know now in the last hour or so, the ukrainian, the government has said that the radiation levels are still a normal. so and it was a great to relieve of course, it was quite an intense situation in the last couple of hours. there was fire shelling at the at the plant shelves were falling on the plan. we could see images of the fire and the foreign minister as you sat cold on the russians to stop firing, because firefighters couldn't extinguish the fires. and this, of course, could have a potential really catastrophic effect. he said 10 times larger even than the channel explosion at the plant in 1986, which basically blew radiation all over europe. yeah, stuff as we're talking to missing some of the only pictures of events apparition

plant. i'm so away from that. just bring us up to date with the latest now on the broader military situation across the country. well yeah, as you have been saying in the east and in the south and there is a lot of shelling at the moment. the car keep of course, has been under fire for the last couple of days and this is still undergoing my you pool is completely under siege as well. so you can see that the russian forces. i'm really now concentrating on these large cities here in the south and in the east of ukraine, but also moving from the south further to the west. so this, this curry dorm, that the crimea, which is already added, of course, as we know by russia in 2014, that is a land carried are being created. it seems by russia at the moment. but of course, a lot of civilian casualties. we've seen in the last couple of days,

but also overnight discontinuing, shelling of glass people. there have been in norfolk situation again for another night, and we only know that it's still dark here, but we will only know when the sun comes out. how difficult the situation has been and how many more casualties we've had overnight. i step fastened their life away from the live in west new french that thanks for that. well, as we mentioned, presidents biden and zalinski discussed what happened at the nuclear plant and a phone call and speak to john henderson in washington, dc. john, so the u. s. kinney worried and very concerned about what happened at the separation plant in ukraine. what's been the response there in the us? well, we've heard very little specific emotional response to this, but it clearly has alarm the us administration, because we know that president biden took a call with the loading. there's a lensky of ukraine, also had a call with the under secretary for nuclear security of the united states

department of energy. clearly there is great concern that something might happen there. you've had a video from below to merit zelinski saying in his words that russian tanks attacked that signed. we've heard his step of us and said just a moment ago that the international atomic energy agency has said that there doesn't appear to be a leakage of radiation from that site at this time. also, that workers have responded to that scene, but we clearly have an interest from the us administration here in a statement read out by the white house. it says that president biden joined the landscape in urging russia to see its military activities in the area and allow firefighters and emergency responders to access the site. now, the concern here would be from the us administration, that this might have been

a deliberate attack. this might be some kind of tactic by russia. it appears in the video that we have seen online. there seems to be fire aimed at that facility. now, if that were a tactic of the russians, that would definitely concern the biden administration. they want to find out clearly what happened, why and whether that's going to happen at any other nuclear facilities in ukraine, the, by the ministration as express concern about a number of the russian tactics. but this raises that to an entirely new level. the administration has been very careful about what they're saying, sparse wording so far, we expect to hear more in the coming days and hours. all right, john, a 100 percent in washington dc. john, thank you. well, henry sikowski is executive director of the nonproliferation education center. he spoke to us earlier about the consequences of nuclear reactors getting hit in was that machines are not meant to be exposed to missiles

and high explosives, but they're not designed for this. and you know, the idea that there is much you can do after one of these things is a little fanciful. if you're in a war, the power plant is itself. if it was here, would not generate the kind of radioactivity or in all likelihood that turnover hole did. but if the fuel pon, which is where they put the used fuel was here, it could easily be a multiple of the effect of turn. so you know, it depends on what you and what, what happens to what you hear. this actually is that the, the fuel used or new in the reactor outside of the reactors and fuel is deprived of cooling water. if it goes on fire and it releases radiation,

if the building containment is breach, and you can do that with high explosives in a war zone that can happen. we've seen exercises, you e, worrying about their reactors, me and a major exercise. just this in the last 6 months, international one. this is a problem in asia. they worry about now it's a problem for europe to worry about russia and ukraine made their 1st tense of progress in talks, agreeing on the need for humanitarian car doors. but there's no indication of when they'd be established to help civilians escape the war. and even as the negotiate has met, russian forces continued to surround and bombard cities and towns like this one just outside the capital. keep thousands i thought, have been killed or wounded since russia invited just over a week ago. more than a 1000000 people had become refugee from him, john hall takes us through other major developments. major ukrainian

cities are surrounded and under constant attack. this is sharon eve, a city of textile factories, churches and monasteries. its greatest misfortune to lie on the root of rushes advance from the north. eastern city of han keith to people wake daily to scenes of terrible destruction and a fast rising civilian death. toll lose what food it is doing. this is a war crime committed. again. this is the clarity of this city of one and a half 1000000 people. most ethnic russians is being torn apart by russian forces for no reason. other than that, it exists just across the border from russia. in ukraine was a good day for you,

and in the far south ukraine's biggest port, odessa, he's under threat to here. frantic efforts have been underway for days to build defences against a possible leech landing multiple vessels belonging to russia's black sea fleet. hover on the horizon, including landing ships and support craft, were ukraine's military is very much still in this fight. reinforced by supplies of weapons from abroad, they've been able to apply real pressure to the russian advance, slowing the progress of a vast column of armor, artillery and soldiers heading for the capital cave. along its route, once sleepy commuter towns lie in ruins, a foretaste of what may be in store for cave. the apparent aim to encircled the city and besieged it. from his bunker under heavy guard president followed me at zelinski wages, a relentless communications campaign, rallying resistance,

and calling in foreign support. yeah, please press it. never use for it. we have been seen this for a long time that ukraine is seeking for protections for our home soil and our own people. best protections have not been provided. european countries assist us with the wage of migration. however, we should discuss the guarantees that are required to protect our country, our home soil, and our people. a 2nd round of talks on thursday between russia and ukraine at a location on the border with bell roof came with low expectations of a breakthrough, but a slim glimmer of hope that their taking place at all. the ukrainian government, meanwhile, has called for humanitarian corridors to be set up. and here in the western city of the leave, volunteers are hard at work processing a donations medicines, clothes,

food, and other essentials for distribution across the country. there is a humanitarian crisis erupting on multiple fronts, not just the internally displaced, who've left everything behind in a scramble for safety across the country's borders as more than a 1000000 have done since the invasion began, but also huge populations in urban centers trap. terrified and desperate for health . civilian morale will vary now in a population increasingly terrorized. there'll be desperation in some places, determination, in others, o, a spontaneous rendition of the national anthem at that age station in vive. it is becoming ever clearer that the struggle is not just for personal survival, but for the survival of the nation as a whole, joan a whole al jazeera movie will have much more later on the war in ukraine is still

to come. are interested in maintaining the strongest unified economic impact campaign on food and all history. while the u. s. it's more of futons in a circle and will the allies with asset freeze some the other sanctions. and another news will have reaction from the us off to the only police officer to face charges over the death of brown. a tailor is acquitted, wanted studies. ah, the hello, the weather. sloshy set fire, warm sunshine across sir central and southern parts of the us at the moment with the north. there is a fair amounts of cloud and to the north of that, we have some cold air in place, cobra, for some snow, just around the prairies,

sir canadian prairies, and that's no actually stretching its way down across that southwestern quarter of the u. s. you could even see a little bit of a winfrey mixed into a california central part. so that's where it's lottie. warm and sunny. 22 celsius there for kansas city. warm southerly wind stocking in 6 celsius for chicago on friday, near a 15 a by saturday. but you notice by saturday is that colder asked martha tuck its way through. it will bring some snow into the northern plain, some wet weather for chicago, which is picking up hamlet temperature. and i shall, was there across the great plains, head of that generally try and fight with a fair amounts of sunshine, fair amount of sunshine to across sir the caribbean, adding to our central america, mexico. and we set that all the way down to was your competence, or maybe one or 2 showers, heavier showers will be across sir, southern parts of the region. so some where to weather there for costa rica may be also into panama. little bit of work, whether to just around the greater antilles. further east is mighty fine, dry and sunny. ah.

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we'll get back to them out of our top stories here at this hour. there's been a fire ukraine's apparition nuclear power plot, which is europe's largest ukranian foreign minister, as well as an official up the soon as he said, it came under attack from russian forces. officials had the situation has now been brought under control. not long before that, the international atomic energy agency, the aka said it's aware reports of shelling at supper. she a nuclear plant, and it's in contact with ukrainian or russian ukraine made their 1st hints of progress and talked, agreeing on the need for humanitarian corridors. but there's no indication yet when that the establish russian bombardment of the caribbean cities continued talked, went on now ukrainian officials and maria pull our warning of a humanitarian catastrophe as the besieged city and yours heavy bombardment warning that some viewers may find these images distressing. a 16 year old boy playing football was among those killed by russian shelling when a heavy fighting on the outskirts of the encircled city. the governor says power

has been cut and water and food supplies are running out. the eastern ukrainian city of khaki was one of russia's 1st targets, despite heavy shelling and its proximity to the russian border. it still under ukrainian control. many of the cities, 1500000 i fled. charl stratford is in the village of yucca live cut. not far from khaki eve, a warning his report contains graphic images. maxine was at home with his girlfriend when the shells started crashing into his village, shrapnel ripped through his arm and face yolk. it happened so quickly the explosions. i heard something flying over us. i was covered up to my waist and rubble and something started burning. i tried to free myself, then i tried to get my girlfriend. i was so weak. i couldn't pull her out. emergency services rescued, maxim's girlfriend, she's suffering heavy concussion and is too weak to talk. the bodies of 3 civilians lie in the morgue. a woman died in the operating theatre as doctors tried to save

her life. this woman who was afraid to talk on camera, says russian soldiers let her family escape, but as they drove away a bullet ripped through her husband's hand, oh, well, why did they tell us everything would be okay. why wasn't there an evacuation? she says we drive to the village is the sound of shelling and machine gun fire in the distance. the shells it slammed into houses on the side of this hill. piles of rubble lined the street. at least 30 homes were destroyed. heavy rushing, shelling of this village last night, at least 3 people were killed. a number of others injured. we understand that there are people still in the village. or we've just heard shilling in the distance and machine gun far in the forest on the way. thousands of cars, many of them filled with terrified families. fleece south from clark give many of

the cars of assigned reading children on the windscreen. desperate attempt to protect those inside or with we are leaving everything behind us. we have been trying for 5 days to get out met. couldn't because of the shell him when it simply hell we are going to new pro. and after that, we don't know. lexi shows us his car that was damaged when a russian rocket landing close to his home. michael had just spoken to friends in khaki. if they tell me it's worse than yesterday, they are shelling civilian areas. so many buildings are on fire for the for people who painted over road signs with angry insults directed towards russian president vladimir putin in expectation of a russian army advance. this one reads, welcome to hell. charles drive an al jazeera yackel live co ukraine. had abdul hamid as more for us from the outskirts of denise pro in eastern ukraine . she's at a school that's now been turned into

a shelter. i am actually in this school which has been set up now 2 o 22 to host old. these people fleeing not only car cave, but also from the south from are you polo even from the dumbass region. now there are a lot of people here. they all disappeared. once the camera showed up with all our gear children, they just actually locked the door. did a lot of children in there, they come from all these areas i told you about. now i spoke to many people, asked them what happened to them, and those who are fleeing clarkie, for example, to me, how they spend days and days in the shelter with no food, with no into cold or with not a been able to go at any point out to get some food from the supermarket. i spoke to this young girl. she's 7 months pregnant. she was stuck in a basement, but she called the shelter, but it was basically the basement of her building. and she just managed to get out

yesterday. and you can imagine all the worries she had being 7 months pregnant. now she's here, she doesn't know which is going to give birth. the maternity ward and clarity where she was supposed to give birth is now destroyed. her house is destroyed. so she doesn't know where she is going next. then i spoke to some people who left the dumbass region. villanova had that's one area that actually where there has been a lot of shelling in both direction. and for the past few days, the people who fled there said they don't know if they will ever returned it. the cranes president vladimir zalinski has repeated his call for no fly zone over his country. he made the comment that a news briefing and cave lensky also says ukrainians will continue to fight for their country. my hold on was provided the victory done them, but we want to introduce no fly zone because our people are being killed. it is exactly what is happening. shelling comes from the territory of bill, arose and from the territory of russia. rockets bombs, missile launchers, planes,

bumpers, nobody counts people in the russian army. how many of them are dying under the shelling during this war? do you know that they brought crematorium? it means that they did not plan to show body suit of family to the mothers. they do not plan to show that their children have died here. if they have been killed, they came here to kill us and we are defending ourselves, our freedom, our homes. and this is why russian soldiers are dying here, but we do not want to kill them possibly. the men on in moscow, president putin hailed russian soldiers as heroes met, televised address seals, and moved to dismiss some western military assessments that parts of his offensive slowed or even stool was unity, which hitches good, dear comrades. i want to say that the special military operation is preceding strictly in line with a time table according to plan. see all the tasks that have been set or been successfully resolved. she's done yet because you see its way, oh you said you knew i will never give up. my conviction that russians and

ukrainians are one people's mother. even though some people in ukraine have been intimidated. many have been duped by nazi and nationalists propaganda. but some have deliberately gone the way of the nationalists and other nazi hence more often dosage vari in moscow. this was another emergency session with a his security council which is made up of a high levels of ministers and officials that he trusts. and he said that basically that the military operation in ukraine was going according to plan and that so they were achieving alder objectives. and he also announced for the 1st time that there would be financial compensation to the families of the soldiers that have died in the line of duty and also those that have been injured. we understand that that's the, from the defense ministry for the 1st sunday announced some numbers about the number of fatalities and a injured of russian troops in ukraine. according to the russian defense ministry, about 500 soldiers have died and about 1600 are injured. those are their numbers,

of course, the ukrainian officials have very different figures is saying that a nearly 5000 their russian soldiers have been killed. the president said that he was really grateful for the service of the military personnel and they were fighting for a cause. and 2 to protect their country. now he also spoke with the french president, among whom across the hall was apparently at the request of the russian president. and it lasts at 90 minutes during which the 2 men discussed the ongoing situation in ukraine. and the elliot palace released the statement saying that the french president was very concerned. and he believed that things are going to get much worse. were germany says it remains opposed to banning energy imports from russia, but as pushing for swifter action against oligarchy coming to the kremlin. but you guys also working to expand its blacklist. we are obscene to sanity sanction. rationale got ready sanctioned abraham 100 individuals and organizations out

with alexis. we are walking tray, we have pets in place. the toughest package of sanctions in british history on russia, drinking bags freezes, including freezes on the central bank, including export controls. and we will, the more and more names have been added to the us sanctions, less than many from vladimir putin in a circle and wealthy allies. allen fish a report from washington, d. c. and severe economic sanctions. it's another term of the screw from the american side, again targeting vladimir putin and those closest to him. goal was to maximize the impact on prudent and russia and minimize the harm on us and our allies and friends around the world are interested in maintaining the strongest unified economic impact campaign that on food and all history. and i think we're wrong, we're doing that. among those on the list,

i'll assure is one of one of russia's richest man, and dmitri pess. gov, the kremlin spokesman, i'm one of put ins, closest advisors, 19 oligarchs, and total sanctioned $47.00 of their family members. all will be cut out of the u. s. financial system that assets here, frozen and property blocked from use. the also fees are travel, but joe biden hopes putting the squeeze on the kremlin will make it harder to wage war. but he's aware the conflict is already driving up prices in the us. for the moment, there are no plans to put sanctions on russian oil imports, but the leader of the democrats in the house of representatives says that could change and offer that ban fans a well dandy love come from ash. yep. joe biden used the state of the union to announce a new task force to target russian oligarchs. in the u. s. he's asked congress for $59000000.00 to fund it and appointed a top new york prosecutor to head it. it indicates this could be a long campaign,

both militarily and financially. alan fisher al jazeera at the white house and the bells of knotted arm rang out in the french capital, paris at midday, on thursday. for it was a show of solidarity with ukrainian people. there was similar scenes across europe, in cathedrals and churches in vienna, rome and cologne as get some other world news now in a former u. s. police officer has been cleared of charge is connected to a butch drug raid black women burnett. taylor was killed in the raid in early 2020 . read to me, hawkinson was found not guilty of wanton endangerment, for opening fire blindly entails apartment. it was one of several incidents in recent years to spot protest against racial injustice and to demand police reform. robbins as mona, from washington dc. but to recap, what happened that night in march of 2020 a, to brianna taylor,

3 police officers who were looking for a possible drug dealing activity, used a battering ram to smash down the door to her apartment where she was sleeping with her boyfriend, kenneth walker, the. busy accounts very as to whether the police actually announced themselves had said that they were law enforcement officers, but in any event, kenneth walker, thinking that the, the commotion that was going on at the front door of the apartment and the door being smashed down was evidence that he and brianna taylor were in danger. he discharged his legally owned firearm. the police responded with 32 rounds ah wounding a tailor killing taylor and wounding kenneth walker. one police officer was also char, also wounded in the fuselage. now, the officer who was eventually put on trial, brett hankinson was charged with 3 kinds of wanton endangerment. he took the stand

in his own defense, became emotional on the stand. his lawyer, after the acquittal, said that that emotional display probably helped convince the jury to acquit him. ah, top of the headlines here, this out. there was a fire, right? ukraine's opera z a nuclear power plant, which is europe's largest ukrainian foreign minister, as well as an official at the plant said the facility came under attack by russian forces. and at 5 fighters are being shot at official se background radiation levels have not increased. and the situation has now been brought under control. earlier we spoke to henry sykowski, executive director of the nonproliferation education center, a do other military operations there, and other reactors.