on your ceremony has been launched the hall christianson individuals pay $5000.00 to name and if in the ame this year is to raise $1000000.00, much of it for conservation initiatives. ah, a fire at europe's largest nuclear power plant. alta invading russian forces are accused of attacking the facility in ukraine. ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. you're watching all zero's extensive 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. is cause of battle we hear from civilians caught up and heavy shelling

of homes around the eastern city of khaki and a hint of progress. russia and ukraine talk about getting civilians out of the williams from humanitarian curriculums. ukraine's president is appealing for help to the catastrophe. after his government accused russian forces of firing at europe's largest nuclear power plot. lensky says an explosion would spell quote, the end of europe. ukraine and officials say a fire started at the zap regime facility in the southeast after it was attacked by russian forces. the blaze is now under control. international atomic energy agency says essentially equipment at the plant hasn't been affected. your way booking, lifestyle or europeans, please wake up to tell you politicians, russian troops shooting out a nuclear power plant in ukraine as upper regia, a nuclear power plant. and then see if you have in a honda, there are 6 nuclear reactors there. the 6 will blow into noble. it was one reactor

which exploded only one way or the nuclear facility is near the town of the n. a godaddy area is shaded. red nearby are controlled by russia and it's separatist allies. but the incident was discussed during a phone call between the ukrainian and american presidents. we'll have more on that shortly from john hendrick in washington, d. c, but 1st steadfast and in the vivian western ukraine, describes the 10th situation that unfolded throughout the night. an extremely dangerous situation, of course, that this operation planned in the south of ukraine. it's one of the 50 nuclear power power plants ukraine has. so of course, 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 in 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 potential you could have been radiation

levels increased, but the ukrainian, the government has said that the radiation levels are still normal. so it was a great to relieve of course, it was quite an intense situation in the last couple of hours. there was fire and 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 said, 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 that you're noble. explosion at the plant in 1986, which basically blew radiation all over europe. 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 a load of mirrors. 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 volota merit zelinski saying in his words that russian tanks attacked that signed. we clearly have an interest from the us administration here. and in his statement read out by the white house. it says that president biden joined zelinski in urging russia to cease 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 in any other nuclear facilities in ukraine, the by did ministration, has expressed concern about a number of the russian tactics. but this raises that to an entirely new level. well, henry sikowski is executive director of the nonproliferation policy education center . he spoke to us earlier about the consequences of nuclear reactors getting hit in was if they do other military operations, either there are other reactors, something relating to the main power core or the spent fuel fund would release an enormous amount of radioactivity on par and conceivably with something worse than channel. so you know, i don't think we're there yet, but nobody should be reaching into their pockets and thinking, oh let's,

let's build and buy more of these for the moment. we've got a problem in ukraine and i think anyone now has to look at these power plants differently. if they say they're going to be in a war zone. these plans were never designed to be in a war zone and they are not capable of dealing with the vulnerabilities that are inherent with being in a fire zone where no wife, no shells and missiles can shatter the concrete protection of the buildings. i mentioned the main containment building and the, the, the spent fuel ponds. you know, you have to keep all of those items cool. and therefore all the power equipment that moves the pumps and moves the water. if you hit those, you have a problem and even the electricity goes in. these plants has to be constant because that electricity off,

you have problems. and so these plants are not ever designed to be on a front of military action. and now they are. and you know, this is food for thought for putting reactors anywhere where you think there's going to be a warrant future. earlier russia and ukraine made the 1st hints of progressing talks agreeing on the need for humanitarian car doors. but there's no indication yet of when they'd be established to help civilians escape the war. and even as the negotiators met, russian forces continued to surround the bombard cities and towns like this one. just outside the capital cave, thousands of thought have been killed or wounded. since russia invaded just over a week ago, more than a 1000000 people become refugee from they've done a whole takes us through other major developments. the major ukrainian cities are surrounded and under constant attack.

this is chair, need 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 hunt, keith, to people wake daily to scenes of terrible destruction and a fast rising civilian death toll lou, what pudding is doing? this is a war crime for me to 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 you guys saw you and in the far south ukraine's biggest port odessa, he's under threat to hear frantic efforts have been underway for days to build

defenses against a possible beach landing multiple vessels belonging to russia's black sea fleet. hover on the horizon, including landing ships and support craft. 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 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 keep the apparent aim to encircle the city and besiege it. from his bunker under heavy guard, president followed him at zelinski wages, a relentless communications campaign, rallying resistance, and calling in foreign support robberies, process,

wi fi. we have been seen this for a long time that ukraine is seeking for protections for our home soil and our own people by such protections have not been provided for 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 roofs 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 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. oh, the 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 and will have much more on your credit coming up later. our interest is to maintain the strongest unified economic impact on all

history, the u. s. it's more of letting me of hooton's in a circle and wealthy allies with asset freezes and other sanctions. and the international criminal court investigates with russia is committing more crimes. morning status. ah hello, we've got a little bit of everything going on across the middle east at the moment. hot sunshine for southern parts, but we have got cloud, rain, sleet, and snow across northern parts of the region. there's some snow there, just spilling out a turkey into syria. making its way into iran, cool weather, just tucking in here for that line of cloud and ran up a little bit of weather wet weather around northern parts of the gulf. but a warm o suddenly wind just coming in here we go. hot temperature getting up to 30 celsius

on friday afternoon, a tad cooler than that as we go one through west stats day got a brisk wind for a time as well. temperatures here at around 26 degrees, that when she makes further north, making its way out into afghanistan and quietly down just around that eastern side of the mediterranean. so tele dryer and brighter here wanted to shower. it costs more than parts of libya over the next day or so. quite a bit of wet weather, actually pushing to northern areas of algeria, easing across north parcel of morocco as well, and the seasonal res now started to show the hand across a good part of west africa. joining up with the heavy showers that we have across the tropical belts and where to where the coming through here. sliding across tanza, near mozambique madagascar, still seeing some wet weather and noticed some very heavy rain coming into south africa over the next couple of days with the viscous flooding. ah, i'm making my own space that i live in forever out ran away from not all,

but i ran away from the country. markson is my good outing. just got to with whitney award winning documentary on al jazeera, with off caps melting in the north pole juice, climate change shorter is ramping up research and investment in the region one at one aisd explorer charges rise is the optic on al jazeera. ah ah, welcome back. a quick reminder. the top stories here at this hour ukraine's president has asked the world for help to avert catastrophe after accusing russian forces of firing at ukraine. zapper is g, a nuclear power plant,

which is europe's largest. a fire broke out of the facility, which was later, brought under control, were not long before that. the international atomic energy agency said it was a way of reports of shelling at the zappa z, a nuclear plant, and was in contact with ukrainian authorities and russia. ukraine had made their 1st hints of progress and talk said, bring on the need for humanitarian commodores. there's no indication of when that v established russian bombardment of tiny in cities continue as the tools went on. ukrainian officials in mary a poll, a warning of a humanitarian catastrophe. as the besieged city and yours heavy bombardment. a warning that some viewers may find these images distressing. a 16 year old boy playing football was among those killed by russian. shelling isn't a heavy fighting on the outskirts of the city. governor says power has been cut and water and food supplies are running out. the eastern ukrainian city of hark, he was the $11.00 of russia's 1st targets, despite heavy shelling at its proximity to the russian border. it still under

ukrainian. control many the cities, 1500000 people have fled. al 0 is child stratford is in the village of jak of live car, not far from car. keep a warning. his report contains graphic images. maxime was at home with his girlfriend when the shells started crushing into his village, shrapnel ripped through his all and face shall yoke. it happened so quickly, the explosions, i heard something flying over us. i was covered up to my waist and robert and something started burning. i tried to free myself. then i tried to cut my girlfriend. i was so weak. i couldn't pour 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, why did they tell us everything would be okay. why wasn't there an evacuation? she says we drive to the village was 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 russian 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 shelling 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, if many of the cause of a sign reading children on the windscreen. desperate attempts to protect those inside we are leaving everything behind us. we have been trying for 5 days to

get out, but couldn't because of the shell him when it's simply hell. we are going to nipple after that. he 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. an expectation of a russian army advance. this one reads, welcome to hell. charles stratford al jazeera, yackel lyrica ukraine. and it's not just humans who are suffering staff at the keys to have found themselves with a unique challenge. the silly director, his colleagues and their families, i've lived on site since the invasion began. they look after the $4000.00 animals during the day and hide in the shelter at night of the zoo. we'll be safe. when our

president, putin has hailed russian soldiers as heroes, no televised address. he dismissed some western military assessments. but parts of the offensive of slowed or storm was unity, british hytcher skills, which good spirits, 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 had been set or been successfully resolved, shows it done yet goofy, its way old use genius. 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 for many have been duped by nazi and nationalist propaganda. but some have deliberately gone the way of the nationalists and other nazi henchey with mo, from dawson jabari. now 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, 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 the from the defense ministry for the 1st sunday announced some numbers about the number of f 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 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 alleys. a palace released the statement saying that the french president was very concerned, and he believed that things are going to get much worse when in the hague, the international criminal court has norms investigation and to with russia is comforting war crimes. natasha denies report ukrainians huddled inside a kindergarten last week, thinking they'd be safe. instead a child and 2 civilians were killed. this is drone footage of the kindergarten showing a man lying on the ground, blood pooling around him, and damage to the school in multiple locations. this weapon from cartesian lying, a top ashy snow. this week, the international criminal court, or i, c. c, announced it would investigate if war crimes have been committed in ukraine. this is a reminder to all affections to all parties, to the conflict that they must conduct themselves in compliance with the laws of

war. the drilling down of course, implication is to conduct credit, but investigations, which means has no, ma'am, no destination, that is pre determined. we have to get to the truth. amnesty international says this is just a sampling of the evidence. it is collected of russia suspected use of cluster munitions since it invaded ukraine. last week, we had investigated 7 cases are in death, where cluster munitions and other ballistic missiles that have prohibited under international law have struck schools. hospitals. medical center is places that are not supposed to be hit by weapons because they're protected a civilian objects under international law. in 2014 human rights watch accused, the ukrainian military of wide spread use of cluster munitions,

while fighting pro russian rebels in donetta political analysts. dmitri babbage says, russia demanded an investigation, but it went nowhere out, meet the national digital voice. yes, arnold, independent, not only from our all down, but also room of public opinion. you know right now, is they march against for our sand? it sees this tragedy that has one on your brand in black and white terms. i think the story is not where and when fired, cluster munitions create a kind of fireworks of small bombs scattering indiscriminately across several 100 meters. those that don't explode, leave land mines. often killing children who pick up the small balls left behind. more than $100.00 countries have agreed to be on their use. russia and ukraine have not. natasha name al jazeera. germany says it remains opposed to banning

energy imports from russia, but as pushing full swift action against oligarchy linked to the kremlin, the u. k. is also working to expand its blacklist. we absi to sanity sanction rationale gotten correctly sanctioned a bra 100 individuals and organizations out with families. we are wanting to weigh, we have pets in place. the toughest package is actions in british history on russia . encouraging batteries is increasing, freezes on the central back, including export controls. we will see more and more name's been added to the us sanctions list them mainly from vladimir putin in a circle and wealthy allies. allen fisher reports from washington dc. severe economic sanctions, and it's another ton of the screw from the american site, 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 on food and all history. and i think we're wrong, we're doing that. among those on the list, alisha is one of one of russia's richest men and dmitri passcode the kremlin spokesman, and would have put ins, closest advisers, 19 oligarchs, in 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 u. s. 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 ben van the wild, and it will come from russia. yes,

joe biden used the state of the union to announce the 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, the bells of knotted arm rang out in the french capital, paris at midday on thursday. ah, it was a show solidarity with the ukrainian people. there was similar scenes across europe, in cathedrals and churches in vienna, rome and color get some other world news now. a former u. s. police officer has been cleared of charges connected to a botched drugs raid. a black one brown, a taylor was killed in the raid in early 2020 brit hankerson was found not guilty of wanton endangerment. for opening fire blindly. taylor's apartment was one of

several incidents in recent years, spot protests against racial injustice and to demand police reform. rob reynolds as mona, from washington dc. with a 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 recounts very as to whether the police actually announced themselves had said that they were a 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 bread 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. argentina government has reached an agreement with the international monetary fund to refinance, is $45000000000.00 debt, with re payments to start in 2026. but as theresa bo reports in the capital, when, as iris, the deal is yet to be approved by congress. after very long and tough negotiations between argentina and the international monetary fund with announced an agreement on how to restructure over $45000000000.00 in depth of the agreement. we'll focus

on how to tackle double digit inflation, argentina has and how to strengthen our didn't tina's research, how to organize this country's public accounts. but tough part of the patient, according to government forces was on how to increase the prices of energy that are kept very, very low because of subsidies that cost this country around $11000000000.00. the agreement will have to be approved in congress. argentina is currently in a rush because the big payment to the come to fund is coming up on march 22nd. but it's not clear whether the agreement will be approved because it faces the strong opposition. not totally from within the ruling coalition, but also from the opposition. some sectors in argentina oppose the agreement with a fund, mostly because they say that it could affect this country's motive. but about however large parts and large sectors of argentina support agreeing with the

international monetary fund, mostly because the fear, the consequences that another default could have in this country's economy. precedent. america for amanda said to congress this thursday, that if the agreement is approved, payments will begin in 4 years. that's in 2026, something that will give argentina some time to recover from the economy crisis. it's currently and ah, type of checking headlines here on era ukraine's president is off the will for help to avert a catastrophe after he accused russian forces of fire and ukraine. zapper z, a nuclear power plant, which is europe's largest fire, broke out of the facility, which is later brought under control the base. but i would like to go over your opinions. please wake up and tell you politician, russian troops shooting at a nuclear power plant in ukraine.