[000:00:00;00] ah, now g 0 with every oh hey, this is al jazeera ah, hello, i'm rob matheson and this is the news are live from doha, coming up for the next 60 minutes. russia says it's resumed an offensive and crowning city of mario pulp after a temporary cease fire failed with allegations of violations by both sides against president asked the us for more planes and a no fly zone. but rationally to vladimir putin warns any such zone would be

regarded as an act of war. agencies feel a humanitarian disaster with a number of refugees expected to reach 1500000 in the next 24 hours. and how the water ukraine could affect the iran nuclear deal as talks didn't end in vienna. and on pita theme it with only sports news, american women's basketball olympic gold medalist brittany griner faces charges of drug smuggling off to being detained at moscow. a port is just past 1800 g m t, that's 8 p. m in ukraine and what looked like a potential breakthrough in the 10 stay of rushes water ukraine has fallen apart. in a matter of hours fighting was meant to pause in 2 cities. mario paul and villanova to allow civilians to move out of harm's way. but both sides are accusing each

other of violating the deal and the evacuation has been suspended. russia says it's resumed, it's offensive along the coast. crowds of ukrainians have marched past russian soldiers in carson in protest against their takeover of the city. it's the largest urban center mosque was captured since it's invasion of ukraine began, and the number of people fleeing the war is expected to reach 1500000 in the coming 24 hours. that's according to the u. n. 's refugee agency. it says that it's the fastest moving refugee crisis in europe since the 2nd world war. now we're going to get more on all of that short a 1st. we're going to take a closer look at the humanitarian corridor that had been set up. now the route had been established from mario paul, which is home about $400000.00 people to the city of zeppelin shya, and would have allowed civilians to drive along that corridor. they could have travelled by bus. charles stratford has more from near zap, alicia. we traveled south of the city of supper is you're the road behind me as the

road that it was expected, perhaps optimistically to see buses of civilians being transported out of mary opal taking them north to separate her that it happened because the ceasefire failed road is be very quiet. we've seen the occasional car carrying children. no. we've also seen a lot of military. interestingly. checkpoints that we seen earlier in the day now abandoned and ukrainians. hanks heading towards russian positions. we really hold our only around 20 kilometers south of here will be speaking to villages in this area. they tell us that the situation has deteriorated dramatically today. i know this group of people said they had never heard shilling as intense as little girls. young. our parents always said we were born during the war. we cannot season,

we will die during the war. i hope this'll reject putting dead body. how is it possible there are next of kin? how can they do this? my relatives are in russia. we have their blood and they have ours very well. we are, are really did not with you the right you wanna, but the right you are. yes, there's no electricity. we have no idea what's going on around us. my son is fighting and don bass. i haven't heard from him for 4 days. i don't even know if he's still alive. he also was a little boy. with the owner of this call is a shell, destroyed its wheel. is he trying to drive his family to safety? with it hit here and mostly the wheel, the rush and the shelling, even though they saw cars with science. seeing children inside driving back north to die parisha the roads, quiet ukrainian tanks itself, shall strafford al jazeera nears upper risha,

easton ukraine. and as we were talking about earlier, fighting is continuing in several cities across ukraine. john hall as more from the viv. she's the supervisor. this is blogger, nikita dim and tough. he lives in the eastern city of her keys, and he's explaining to his followers how their donations are being spent to help civilians on the front line. across ukraine, along shifting front lines from the north to the east and to the south. civilians are under attack when they emerge from basements and shelters. as here in the town of pin close to keep, it is often to a landscape they can neither recognise nor comprehend homes destroyed, hospitals overwhelmed, heating, water,

and electricity cut off and with limited avenues of escape. that's why safe passage is so important. now. humanitarian corridors out of vall, nevada and the port city of mario pole in the south failed on saturday because of continued russian attacks. negotiations are said to be ongoing. ukraine's resistance has done much to slow russia's ground advance so heavy a fire power is being unleashed from the air. yet the ukrainian government urgent calls for a no fly zone have gone. an onset which explains this angry warning by president floaty mizzi lensky to the nato alliance that he energy kill all the people who die from this day forward will die because of you. because of your weakness. because of your lack of unity, nato is not willing to shoot down russian aircraft and risk being drawn into a wider war with russia. so ukraine must act alone,

for as long as it's defense is lost. this is copied video from a russian helicopter gunship. and this is the sort of response ukraine's army is able to deliver. one helicopter gunship down. oh, and in the north, a russian warplane is down, wreckage smouldering among suburban homes. for those who do make it out of the besieged and bombarded parts of the country. it is to leave that many come for now a place of safety behind the lines irina and her boys have fled to keep leaving husband ruthless behind to fight. it is a feature of war that some are inspired to act with. great courage. in this case, a 7 year old demur, comforting his mum, i will you, melissa, recently, which you, when, when we us gets them as

a children are terrified and they don't know why they need to leave their home. so anyway, i don't understand why i need to run away and leave my husband behind when she left him alone to protect our c. tim moscow says it is not attacking civilian targets. the claims to the contrary of fake news that the destruction in city centers and residential areas across the country is the work instead of ukrainian forces and saboteurs. try telling that to the people here. ah, yes. so i saying it to the people under occupation in the south of the country, in places like her song and bird, the answer, and on the root of rushes advance in zapora asia. all 3 places saw large protests on saturday,

against the presence of russian troops. and try telling irina and her children that russian forces are liberating ukraine's they claim from nuts, isn't nationalists as they make their way into a bomb shelter even here where they'd hoped to escape the war. jonah hall al jazeera, who live was john and just mentioned ukraine's president accused nato of giving russia the green light to continue to bombard and kill ukrainians. that's after the airlines refused to establish a no fly zone over ukraine. but russia's president, as warned any attempt to was created no flies on, would be considered nato's entry into the conflict. just must lucian storm and looseness do it now. we are here in the no fly zone must be established over the territory of ukraine. it is impossible to do so over the territory of ukraine itself. it is possible only from the territory of some neighboring country,

but any move in this direction will be viewed bath as the participation in the arm conflict will of whichever side whose territory will pull the trigger to our service mammoth. that very 2nd, we will view them as participants of the military conflict. and if not matter what members they are, we would several correspondents across the story had it cast was stunning by in washington dc after ukraine's president repeated his request for a nor flies on when he was addressing a group of us congressional leaders, bernard smith is in done yet can eastern ukraine 1st. that's cost natasha butler in western ukraine. natasha, let's talk about this. no fly zone. the president demanding a no fly zone. but nato has ruled it out. what's been going on? yes, and you heard the russian president vladimir putin there say that any in possession of a no fly zone? ukrainian, whichever countries decided that, well, they would be part of this conflict. they'd be joining with we had the same from

the russian foreign minister. but earlier that a, a lateral say called for a no fly zone from ukraine was basically a provocation. both for them condemning this yet. but neither of them have very much to be worried about. you might say, because nato has made it very clear that they have no intention of imposing a no fly zone ukraine, nevada, mit lensky, ukraine's president. he has off the military alliance to put a no fly zone in place. he say that when he says that would be a way of stopping a russian bombardments. he put out the very impassioned address in which he effectively said that they said would have blood on his hands. if it fails to take this action. he said that every life in ukraine was lost from here, forward would be the responsibility of nato. now they have made it clear to them. they don't want to put boots on the ground. they don't want to get involved in any action in ukrainian as faith installed. by the head of nathan,

making it clear on friday that that would effectively pull that, pull them into this conflict with white and the conflicts that already has. now, a nuclear threat looming over that, and nato simply doesn't want to be part of it. they don't want to be fighting russia. ukraine, of course, is not a member of nato poison. ukraine said he was to be a member of nato. that was another red line for russia. polanski. he is on day 10 of the russian invasion, as all the people of ukraine. people are suffering people are in desperate need. people are being killed. and that is why he is asking nathan with an allies to do more. and natasha, we're getting reports that there is going to be a 3rd round of negotiations between ukraine and rush. it's going to happen on monday, but already expectations of anything coming out of that a pretty low well as you say, that is because there have been already 2 rounds of talks between ukrainian and

washing. negotiate says add really no major breakthrough. now the last rounds of thought was on thursday, and during those to 770 know, move it to find a solution to end this conflict. but the 2 sides did agreed to implement humanitarian corridors. here we all, on saturday, those humanitarian cordova least, the 1st of them we were supposed to see those around the town of mario, poland, and other neighboring town in order to re villians. get 8 in that was supposed to be a temporary si, fi were russian troops have continued to shell, a fi and that area, which means that those units are encouraged or have not been able to be put in place. so that really leaves hopes pretty low for whatever can come out to what we understand will be another assessor talks on monday. now it is one of the ukraine negotiators that actually said that they will be there around the top not whether not that can move anything forward. who knows, but i have to say, as you say,

hope all very high at the moment attack. so thank you very much indeed. this natasha about talking to us from the viv and western ukraine or president landscape ramped up kohls for the west to do more and a meeting with congressional leaders in the u. s. as we were mentioned just a few minutes ago today, he addressed more than 300 officials over video link to post for the no fly zone in ukraine and more lethal aid, or for more than this. let's bring in hydro castro in washington, d. c. what did the presidency landscape tell the congress or rob? he made an impassioned and emotional plea for a no fly zone to be established, but he already knew what the answer would be in that hasn't changed. the u. s. with its nato allies are in lockstep on this, they do not want to engage russia in it, in combat, and they see that enforcement of any no fly zones would only require that. and that still remains

a red line that the u. s. congress and the white house are both unwilling to cross . as for the appearance of president zalinski today, in this video conference call, he reportedly was not angry in his tone, but he was clearly exhausted from people who attended the meeting. they say he asked for the no fly zone. he also asked for other forms of military assistance on that front. the u. s. congress is more than willing to oblige. in fact, there is a $10000000000.00 aid package that is pending. now it has bipartisan support, the majority that money is for military assistance to ukraine, and that will likely pass congress and be signed into law by early next week. president zalinski, also asking for the us to help ukraine secure fighter jets from nato countries. these are just, they are ironically, are russian made, but that zalinski says he needs to continue defending his country. and from that meeting,

we have commitments from at least 2 us senators who heard that plea from zalinski and have said that they will work to try to facilitate the transfer of those fighter jets from nato countries into ukraine. but i understand that to their kohls within the u. s. growing kohls to, to block russian imports, or should say, imports of russian oil. but this is coming at a time when gas prices of the pumps in the us are beginning to rise. that's right. and that is another topic that president zalinski asked us senators and house members saying that banning russian oil imports would also be crucial in the way that the u. s. can assist. and there is a, there appears to be a listening ear on that front. in fact, there is a bipartisan bill that's been introduced in congress that would do just that ban the i, the 8 percent of a american oil imports liquid gas import that comes from russia. a per cent is not

a huge number, but certainly it would be felt by the average u. s. consumer at the gas pumps. and that has been a large reason why the bite administration has so far, not taken that step, but they are considering it. in fact, that's what the white house said on friday, and there is a growing number of congressional leaders who say that is the right move to make. and in fact, polls shout, show that 80 percent of americans who are very much engaged in tune in to see what's happening in ukraine. they support banning russian oil imports into the country. but they are also in agreement with the u. s. policy. they do not want to see us soldiers on the ground and ukraine or engaging with russia and anyway, how do thank you very much. hi to jo castro in washington dc. want to go to bernard smith, he's joining us live from don't. yes, in eastern ukraine, bernard, of course, don't you ask the center of the pro russian separatist movement to within the country? you've been speaking to dennis bushland,

who's the leader of the dentist people's republic. tell us about what the situation is like them. what he's been saying while he was talking about this humanitarian car adore. that was a stablished say the russians on the saturday between 10 am and 4 pm and the russian say they established this to allow civilians in mario full, vulnerable, vulnerable to leave those 2 cities. now the russians blame the ukrainians, the continuing to shall along this car door, and that is why it was impossible to, for any civilians to leave. now dennis proceeding who's a leader of the people's republic here. he says that nobody in fact left through along one of the humanitarian cargoes because it was continually being shelled by

the russians. but he also says, the reason why they called russian forces in to, if you like, help them in the fight against ukrainian forces was because the us in the united kingdom, particularly had in the weeks a month proceeding. but i may put in decision to invade ukraine, he says the russian, the americans and the brits had been arming the ukrainians had been training ukrainians and he feared that they were about to be invaded, which is why they called for russian help. but bold sheila spool concert. what happened is that at the end of last year, the west started active support of armed forces of ukraine. they started supplying lethal weapons, a lot of aircraft from the us and britain and hundreds and hundreds of units of armaments. they also supply the government of ukraine with instructions over a long period of time. and our intelligence was reporting that manpower, armaments,

and ammunitions were being moved towards the demarcation line. now it's important to port out point out that mario fall under nova makeup part of this historic region of don bass. the force is in their nets and wagons, only control at the start of the invasion about a 3rd of the territory that they historically claim to the fighting that we're talking about here in the fighting that they're involved in for these 2 strategic cities, is in areas that they historically lay claim to the fighting in the rest of ukraine . they will say they're not involved in their fights with the ukrainians is in the don bass region phone. and thank you very much indeed. that's bernard smith, bringing us up to date from don't yet ski in eastern ukraine. not the tension simmering between russia and the west. vladimir putin has met israel's premise enough to li bennett. in moscow he forces journeyman o' from west to loosen. with more on those talks, we've seen a succession of international leaders go to moscow in order to be able to eat

vladimir putin to try to persuade him to change his mind. what do we make of the significance of this particular meeting? well, it's happening obviously in the middle of the very bloody fighting that we've just been hearing about. it's happened on the jewish sabbath the time when you wouldn't expect religiously observing prime minister, such as natalie bennett to travel. but there is a provision in the religion to do so. if human life is at stake, which is clearly the case here, what we're hearing from the prime minister's office in israel is that the 2 men spoke for 3 hours in the kremlin that they of course spoke about the conflict in ukraine that they spoke about, the israeli and jewish citizens in that country at risk. but also that they spoke about the situation in syria where of course, russia is heavily involved and where israel often carries out as strikes against

iranian targets. and also about the iran nuclear deal to so fairly wide range of subjects over the course of 3 hours, the prime minister's office also telling us that this was done in coordination with the united states and also with germany and france, we understand that prime minister bennett is not his next stop will be berlin for talks when the german chancellor shows now. bennett has come under considerable criticism both here at home and also from the united states for what has been an extremely softly softly approach on this issue. not even naming russia when he's been talking about the situation and ukraine. not going very far at all in terms of sanctions, not voting in favor of essentially the un security council louis did vote against russia in the general assembly vote that followed. so there's been some considerable criticism, his defense throughout all this has been that he wants to keep channels open to both sides of the conflict and be

a mediator. so this presumably will back up something of that argument. the question though is, if you have a channel to mediation, that's one thing. do you have substance mediation between these 2 sides? who was so far away away from each other on all the most important, substantial issues and 3 hours of talks. i will have to see exactly whether any progress was made as more details come out. i wasn't talking to us from west to slim hurry. thank you very much indeed. but as those efforts go on around the world to end the fighting, here's a look out who controls what on the ground in ukraine, russia and its allied separatist forces now hold all of the areas shaded in red on this map. they've besieged the coastal city of mario paul, which is seen intense shelling for days. russian troops have entered the black could see port of makalya for the 1st time, but they are facing a lot of resistance. in grains is 2nd city of cock heave was one of russia's 1st targets. but despite heavy shelling, it's still under ukrainian control. for the north,

russian forces are expanding that offensive on the outskirts of keep. the capital itself is still in ukrainian. hands are, does it as much as her son has been to a children's hospital in cave, which has been handling an influx of casualties from the war? i will come home, especially the medical crews are working at the maximum capacity. many of them have not been home for days. all wards are prepared to accommodate for more casualties. whether from the fighting front or victims of shelling, ambulances were reported coming our way. now, this is the city's pediatric hospital where we see mainly child patients of cancer . children from all other ukrainian cities are coming here. it's now treating both child and adult casualties are like the areas around the hospital had been bombarded over the past few days. the hospital building itself was hit by a shell on friday. 1.3000000 people have now managed to escape the fighting in ukraine. the u. n. is wanting,

it could lead to the worst refugee crisis this century. thousands have been leaving from tonnes and the outskirts of the cranium. capital. many cars of science in the window saying children and evacuation to avoid being targeted by russian troops, residential areas and centers such as boucher and urban have been targeted by intense shelling. of many of those leaving ukraine are heading to poland. you are secretary of state antony, blinking is their needs met the polish foreign minister to discuss the conflict is also mad refugees from ukraine at a shopping mall that is now serving as a reception center. $3000.00 refugees are taking shelter there. poland is doing vital work to respond to this crisis is hosted and increased nato presence. it supported the robust you sanctions against russia, and it is done a great deal to facilitate security assistance to ukraine. poland will never recognize territorial transfer is brought about by unprovoked

unlawful aggressive v way in which russia conducts hostilities based on his desire to break the will of ukrainian the resistance by means of attacks. the 3rd or a civilian population. shirley inc. residential hurry, us, nuclear power plants, and non military vehicles or war crimes under international law, which are not subjected to start you off limitation zebra south is that a crossing on the ukraine? poland border? mr. really can visit here clearly for 2 very specific reasons to reinforce the u. s . relationship with poland. the u. s. support for poland as well as restore and keep faith with a nato allies making clear in his statements that the united states will not allow

russia or anyone to encroach on an inch of territory an inch of nato territory. but even though he was echoing very strong comments from us president fight in the problem here is that us help us military support that ukrainian say they desperately need any help from the you and nato. it stops at the polish border. and we put some of the comments by the us secretary of state to ukrainian refugees arriving from the wars on fresh arrivals across the border here at medica, into poland. we told them these are some of the comments from the secretary of state. the world leaders don't want to trigger a global war with russia, which is what a direct confrontation with the united states and russia would lead to. and they said, well, that sounds reasonable. what many of them said to us was that they desperately need help. now that they are at war with russia right now, and their point that several people told us is that the u. s. may be playing by the

normal rules of global diplomacy. but the kremlin is not a secretary, andrew blinking, awesome that ukrainian foreign minister to meet. so caliber and they briefly addressed the media earlier. let's take a listen and precedent. it swift reaction to the russian aggression. but it has to be, continues. pressure has to be stepped up and ukraine has to be provided with all weapons necessary to fight in this. as tony said, war of choice for them to think of well, we are satisfied with the already arranged supplies of anti weapons and ammunition. this is one of the most badly needed and we destroy a lot of fresh tanks and armored vehicles using the weapons that came from france,

including the united states. it's no secret that the highest, the, the, the highest demand that we have is in fighting just to attack aircraft and air defense systems. we're thank all those countries, including united states who provided us with the, with fingers. we effectively use them. and just today we shut down 3 russian attack across which were bumping our c. this was the use of the fingers, but we need to say big defense systems to ensure the safety of false guys. if we lose disguise, there will be much, much more blood on the ground and that will be the blood of civil. and i don't want anyone to share responsibility for their blood. anyone in the world to share responsibility for their death and suffering? yes, yes, and will continue to call. i understand. i hear i hear the messages i heard was

made, the secretary general said yesterday, after the meeting of the allies, i regret, i think it's a sign of weakness by off nato. we've been saying many things for the last 8 years and about russia about intentions. we were never heard. everyone was saying, you mean you were saying, you exaggerating, this is not going to happen. people were then a certain point. some countries were saying, no, we can never supply you with weapons. but in the last 8 days, the world politics were shattered by the, by the russian aggression against ukraine. and those countries who had never supplied us with weapons are now doing so. so i'm used to, we are now in the face where nature is saying, no, we're going to not, we're not going to do that. the time will come. it's again the issue price we do not ukrainians is the people of ukraine who will pay the price for the relax times

of nature to act. you agree? will go back to the country to a large extent destroyed by russian barbers and artillery and rockets. but then we will roll our sleeves up and we will build them even more beautiful country. we are committed to that we will all take part in them. when it comes to the talks with russians, i cannot say that there is any progress in it. we all hope that we can meet better and corridors which are agreed upon during the last round of sanctions. talks

would work. unfortunately, at least as we speak they, when you get in court, there are not available because of the russian, the fire showings. but every war ends with diplomacy and with stocks. so we have to continue talking but we are not. we're not going through this talks to accept rush and go to make them again trust me, thousands of people in your great sacrifice. they are like, man, women, all young to defend the country when we prevail. and i have no doubt that we will build a new ukraine. and that country will be even better than the one that russia destroy the client

we are talking about and working on everything. we're doing that secretary defense, austin, discount for us. and mr. paul, are doing that. we are again looking at everything. and as i said before, the support for ukraine not only has been unprecedented, not only is it going, not only is going to continue, it's going to increase. and what we've seen, i think, as i said, is, is a see change and see change that's being shown around the world in terms of its support. there's a very, very strong tied support of ukraine and against the forensic aggression committed by, by russia who's made a terrible, terrible, terrible mistake in many ways. but it starts with the proposition that somehow

ukraine doesn't exist as an independent country. what you is showing every single day is of course exactly the opposite and ultimately the restraint. they are resolved, their determination backed by, by the united states and backed by the world is going to prevail. it's as simple as frame for that, but to be draws right at, at what price. ah, we want to do everything we can to make sure that, that, that price is as low as possible. or, and that this happens as quickly as possible. but we're, we're in it with ukraine. one way or another are short run, the medium run, the long run. we're in this together, we will succeed together. ukraine is going to prevail with that was an earlier press conference that was being held by u. s. secretary of state antony blinkin and the ukranian foreign master denise

caliber on the border between poland and ukraine. u. s. secretary of state saying there was unprecedented pressure on russia which will grow until the war with ukraine is brought to an end. i'm paraphrasing here, the ukrainian foreign minister was saying that the position of nato on the no fly zones was frustrating and it would lead to only lead to more civilians being killed . he said that have later didn't establish a no fly zone. it's because it's not strong enough. and he also said that the international community must ensure a security of nuclear power plants in ukraine that followed the alleged attack and fire at a power plant in a nuclear power plant in ukraine just within the last 24 hours or so. he did also say that he could not see progress in peace talks with russia, but says they have to continue talking. well, let's take a closer look at the conflict in ukraine now with care. giles from the conflict studies research center in london is also the author of the research paper. what deters russia is?

joining us from northamptonshire in the u. k. very good to have you with a sir and al jazeera. thank you very much. i want to talk to you about this search cease fire with regards to the humanitarian corridors that had been set up to cease fire appears to have collapsed. why do you think it collapse so quickly and should we be surprised given the circumstances? well, absolutely, we should not be surprised because anybody who has been watching russia at war in ukraine and in serial over the course of the last 8 years, will immediately have been suspicious when they are the words, humanitarian corridor and sci fi. because russia has repeated a very familiar script, it has set these up and enticed people into leaving the city into evacuating through what was supposed to be a safe corridor. and then tried to shell them in order to bottleneck as many people as possible into an area that was going to come under attack. the fees fire was a fiction. fortunately, it appears the ukrainian or doroty. so all ready, let's not forget, have been at war with russia for 8 years and probably knew what was coming held

back from actually launching all of this civilian evacuees down this humanitarian corridor. and as soon as it became clear that the sci fi was a trick, was a fiction, they actually ordered people to return back. now, of course, russia is in a position to exploit that for its own propaganda, saying that it is the ukrainians that preventing people from making their escape. but it's entirely possible that this was set up from the very beginning as a means for russia to actually school that propaganda victory at the expense of ordinary ukrainian civilians. let's talk about the no fly zone. nato says no, the u. s. is saying no. if it doesn't get no fly zone, even over certain areas of the country, what happens to you train? well, i am frankly quite surprised. the people are still asking for a no fly zone because the position on that has been absolutely the same since the beginning of the russian invasion. there was a time when a no fly zone would have helped, and that was before the actual fighting started because the aircraft from partner

nations to ukraine would have been able to arrive from neighboring countries in peaceful air space. and possibly even the invasion from taking place in the 1st place. but now if they attempt the same thing, they are effectively declaring war on russia. they're fighting their way into contest it as base. they are in immediate conflict with russian aircraft. so it is a much bigger decision than just trying to control their space. it is actually whether all of those countries actually are willing to be in the war with russia and joining the conflict with you kind of the moment. i want to talk about rushes stance and all of this, my colleague, w navigator, interviewed onto a federal, the former deputy foreign minister of russia. in the last few hours, he said, one of the fears for the russian side was that this conflict would actually turn into as he put in something like afghanistan, where the ends up with partisan fighting along side the main battle. do you think that that's a realistic um potential and what do you think the outcome of that would be? well, certainly it is exactly that scenario that ukraine is preparing for. if the major

areas are overrun, if the cities are taken, then actually waging guerilla warfare and a resistance movement against the russian occupation to make it as costly as possible. as to be said, we are quite a long way off that situation at the moment. and when we look at these red areas, shade on the map that are supposedly under russian control, there's a plausible argument that actually those are misleading. and russia is only controlling the roads, and they, they the main axis of advance that they are following to in circle. lisa encircled the cities and in fact, the countryside in between is still under ukrainian control. and that is why we're seeing so many casualties. and so much of the interference with russian logistics chains of strong out along those roads. so it will come some, it will be some time before we are faced with that situation where most of the country or even part of the country is under proper russian control. and we brain is waging guerrilla warfare, but certainly they are preparing for that. i've read over the last couple of days.

there's a lot of speculation about the, the motivation of both sides. they, the cleanings, obviously fighting for their own country. they motivation of the russian troops on the ground. one would imagine would be slightly different. what, what's your analysis of that? well, it is a mixed picture. of course, we shouldn't be misled by the videos that we've seen on social media of bewildered, confused, young russian constructs who didn't know where they were going and what they were doing. that's not necessarily representative of the whole force. you have very different units of very different quality pushing into ukraine from different directions. and there's also footage, for example, of very well disciplined and confident russian troops in other areas. but what it does show is that the russian advance does not seem to have been as coordinated as everybody was expecting those green conscripts, those units which should not have been in the front line, appear to have been thrust out in advance of the main russian attack and have paid the price accordingly. so some of the slow downs in the russian advance around

ukraine. some people are saying is russia taking a logistical pause, russia, pausing to regroup, reorganize itself, trying to set up for a more coordinated and organized assault over the next few days. care, giles, we appreciated care jesus from the conflict studies research center in london. thank you very much indeed for joining us and our da 00. thank you. thousands of people have gathered in several cities across europe in support of ukraine in rome . people took to the streets to denounce russia's invasion. they'd be marching with flags and slogans. calling for peace and that had been similar scenes in france. protesters in paris during the chorus of condemnation in o's, an end to the bloodshed. and that sentiment was shared by protesters in munich. around 2000 people formed the human shame and called for a cease fire. others smeared the russian consulate with red paint. the support of ukraine that i should offensive in ukraine could become

a stumbling block in efforts to restore the 2015 iran nuclear deal. the russian follow mr. so he love rob is demanding a u. s. guarantee. but sanctions imposed on russia over the war won't affect his trade with iran. love says under the 2015 deal, russia and china, what a load to help or run with civilian nuclear programs. he said russian investments shouldn't be obstructed, but got our launch. i got a few in the sung feet, the avalanche of aggressive sanctions that started to erupt from the west and hasn't finished yet in my understanding. requires reflection 1st of all, by the lawyers. and we want to receive a very precise response. guarantees that these sanctions won't by any means affect that mode of trade, economic and investment corporation with a ran on their nuclear program. but the reason we've requested the american colleagues as they rule here, to give us written guarantees at least at the level of the secretary of state. so that the current process launched by the united states will not by any means affect

our rights for a free and full fledged trade, or you're economic, military and investment cooperation with iran or diplomatic editor james base is in via that was more talks have been going on now for 11 months, the idea to re establish the raw nuclear deal. it was president trump that pulled out of it in 2016. he put tough sanctions on iran. iran then responded by pushing ahead with their nuclear program, getting much more sophisticated centrifuges and increasing greatly that knowledge of how potentially to build a nuclear bomb. but in recent weeks, there has been progress. the talks have been continuing here in the last few days. they've gone on late into the night. the european envoys left vienna in the last 24 hours to go and consult with their capitals, with many believing a deal was very close. and that's why the comments of the russian foreign minister

are worrying for all involved in this process. he's now asking for guarantees that the sanctions have been put on russia are not going to affect rushes, trade, and relations with iran. it's a real spanner in the works. at the 11th hour in these negotiations, international monetary funds wanting the global economies facing very serious consequences from the war and ukraine. countries with close economic ties to ukraine and russia are at particular risk of shortages and supply destruction. the 2 countries supply a 3rd of the world's wheat and their major exporters of barley, corn, and sunflower, oil, but fighting restructured exports, leading to record prices on international markets. me while china has caught its target growth for economic growth to its lowest level in decades. and other on your meeting in beijing, leaders of said economic stability is the government's top priority to the u boats

. from there. about 3000 of china's most powerful officials have gathered in dating to begin its weeklong national people's congress. the chinese premier, outline the direction for the your head, the top priority, stabilizing economic, who wins the bundle. we must make economic stability, our top priority, and pursue progress, well, insurance disabilities. and in the face of new downward pressure. the task of ensuring stable growth needs to occupy an even more prominent position with a g d. p. target. around 5.5 percent were set, the lowest figures since 1991. but in, on the in line with forecasts, the premier says, china's economy faces risks at home and abroad to warn ukraine climate change. and the ongoing current of iris pandemic are major concerns. there's obviously a tremendous amount of activity in the world that is going to affect china. ah, we're on the verge, literally of

a one of them. the largest economic downturns that we've ever seen. unemployment is another key focus paging aimed to create 11000000 new urban jobs and keep unemployment in cities to 5.5 percent. unemployment will be the biggest concern this year and because we'll have a new crop of fresh graduates coming out of more than 10000000 of them. and if we look at that unemployment rate by age group, the young people under 24 years old or have the highest unemployment rate. china struggling to revive slowing consumption and many small to medium sized businesses . a fighting to survive. a downturn in the housing sector is also hurting the, on me. there is no sign of any big economic stimulus package that analysts say more spending will be needed to meet the 5.5 percent worth target. china's central bank has already cut interest rates and vowed to keep monetary policy flexible,

but it's 0 curve. 19 strategy continues to drive on growth. beijing has also announced a 7 point one percent boost in defense spending. it's nervous about growing security threats in the south china sea and around taiwan. a self ruled island. it claims is chinese officials a looking head to the 20th communist party congress in october, where a leadership shuffle will take place. and president shooting ping will begin and unprecedented the term and power before then ensuring china's security and a healthy economy are the government's main tasks. katrina in al jazeera beijing still had an al jazeera australia pays tribute to one of its icons. shane warne following his death at the age of 50 to peters. here with the details and support. ah, an app that sees for the blind and

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blue. ah, some of the world's top sports always have been caught up in russia's invasion of ukraine, including one of us hazed best basketball players. peter's here to tell us some more. thanks rob her russia phase. it has a women's basketball olympic gold medalist brittany griner in custody facing charges of drug smuggling. according to customs officials, the w n. b, a star was detained at a moscow a port in february. they've released this video reportedly showing greiner having her carry on luggage, examined russian officials say they found vapor cartridges containing hashish, oil grown as agents, her team, the phoenix, mercury, and usa basketball. all released statements of support for the player. on saturday,

the u. s. state department advised american citizens to leave russia immediately. n h l team. the washington capitals of beefed up security around they stopped and captain alex obeyed. skin and his family. russian has faced death threats, as well as sponsors pulling out of lucrative deals with him. the teams general manager says he is under pressure from all sides. formula one seem hoss have terminated the contract of russian driver. nikita mother pin, he would have been allowed to compete under a neutral flag about the team has chosen to cut ties with him. hoss is also into their partnership with their biggest sponsor, a russian chemical company owned by mas happens father in a statement. the team say they are shocked and saddened by the invasion of ukraine and wishes for a swift and peaceful end to the conflict. and just over 2 weeks ago, alexander abdomen code celebrated winning a silver medal for ukraine at the winter olympics. but on friday, this photo of the freestyle skier emerged showing him hiding in the parking garage

of his apartment, building in kiva with his wife and 2 year old son. ukraine has stopped the middle table after the opening day of competition at the winter, paralympics in beijing with 3 golds gregory of, of chin sky one. the 1st of them in the men's sprint standing by a front, a dedicated is trying to his country and called for an end to the wall. it was more success in the men's sprint of vision impaired by athens. with a vitale lookin n co leading a ukrainian 123 said the wind was for those in ukraine who are protecting the cities. and oksana shish cover took victory in the women's events, but said afterwards, that metals mean nothing. when compared to the lives of relatives and people teams across the english premium to continue to show their support for ukraine on saturday. although chelsea fans interrupted a minutes applause held in solidarity with ukrainians by chance from the name of the russian own, a roman abram,

of which earlier this week the russian billionaire said he would be sending the club up to 19 years. chelsea was coming to call, his friend picked the wrong moment. chauncey's name australian prime minister scott morrison says he's countries bewildered by the sudden loss of craig shane warne who he is described as one of the nation's greatest characters. marvin says, warn family has been offered a state funeral fans to be laying tributes, including at the melbourne cricket ground, which already has a statue of warn he thought of a suspected heart attack while on holiday in thailand. australia women's team held a moment's silence. they had, if they will match against england, they will black on bands and tribute to both strain war and follow straight and fair rod marsh, who also died on friday. this was how much he meant to former straight men's captain ricky, panting. it's the ultimate recognition. i guess of, of them you want, well,

it's great sportsmen and set off i through my career when we turn up to coach in clinics and whatever else, every young kid in the straw, they want to be shy more than one of the baltics been so earlier we spoke with cricket legend alan border, who says warn was the 1st captain or the buddha was 1st catherine in his national t. just the pouring of grief jested in modern small neck of the woods, just been palpable. it's you know, he is a great player. one of the great ball is, was home. that is also very generous man. a lot better than of the public profiles would have you think. and i think that so showed today there was so much more support for his family and friends and, and just the fact that last year i want to be true characters,

true icons. a genius is a civil way to describe, shine more and yeah, i was just really hard to comprehend. i did, i must have it. i shouldn't be tis late last night when i was pacing around the house, trying to sort of work out what had just happened. and we've lost one of the best ever. star indian batsmen, that curly has also reacted to. the news of warns death. cody says warn, was the greatest spinner to play the game. fussing at the age of 50 do is something which is totally unexpected. went went far too early. and i stand here with this believe in shock because i got to know him off the field as well. and i understood the persona, and the good is my. he brought to every conversation that he was a part of. and i from, from that i could understand what he brought on the field as well. india is bidding

to host the some his chest. and then p ed, which was been held in russia. india tons more than 70 grand masters, many of them hailing from the southern city of chen. i have any method has more just cleaning on the cliff edge. yeah. but one with that move a teenage prodigies turn the reigning king and cause are pregnant and check mated was champion magnus cauldron. in an ethan moscow's online match. he started playing when he gets 3 and is one of the youngest grand masters in the world. and i was, and i was, i was just, i was just happy to blame and it was fun and challenging to play the waiting room and do anything with it is that i was just hoping for a game. india is one of the top just playing nations and both $73.00 grandmaster. it's the highest title given by the world chess federation. many of them are from the southern city of janai, which is home to india. the only one chest champion,

fishermen, often on and their success has fueled a rapid increase in club making it the country's chest capital one r b ro me. she's a grandmaster who started chesko recall a decade ago since then the center has coached more than a 100000 students from around the world. some like pregnant and i have one medals at international championships before the union broke up till 991. they had it with the indian government on their tablet to for just club for major cities in india wanted bombay to leave. and generally on the chair may i just want to just give me enough telephone level champion and that is all that's putting just play and play with other players. 7 darma swami is a, china was one post by remish, a woman grandmaster. she's the 1st engine females to win an international title. i think the competition has increased substantially from those days. but those have also had the challenge of not having a good 3, not having material, not having access to worked on them and,

and so on. venus that went up because she enrolled her sons as an after school activity. her oldest on our june is already a grandma. so and she expects a younger one to follow the lenses winning don't amends. and when they, when we saw the passion they had for them on the time they were putting into, it says, then the phone that they were actually really wanting to send. and also said he's is automatically coming and make me need the name on saturdays. but they were able to score with my says technology have a critical role in making the game more accessible while challenges like high fees for training and tournaments remain. he believes the growing number of engine grandmaster will help bring more talent to the game. but in the middle, i'll just iraq new delhi, that's all the sports. it's an arab. thank you very much indeed. just before we go,

maria miles is up. next we've got time to show you these pictures. ah, this woman's playing what a wonderful world outside live train station as thousands of people attempt to escape ukraine to buy? ah, the latest news as it breaks authorities tell us the brutal violence like this one in the honduran capital, or just the tip of the iceberg in a far more complex security situation with detailed coverage. this coastal village in white is one of the worst areas here in the province of ball from around the world. things seem very normal in the city. people are still going to work or to school the restaurant pick take to ships, to democracies, activists to corporations, control of the message is crucial. oil companies have become very good at recognizing ways to phrase what they want to hear. we care about the environment.

you do to, you should buy our oil period for public opinion or profit. once you make people afraid, you can use that to justify stripping away basic civil liberties. listening post examines the vested interest behind the content. you can see you on al jazeera and talk to al jessie romeo. do you believe that the threat of an invasion of ukraine is currently the biggest threat to international peace and security? we listen, we are focusing so much on the humanitarian crisis that we forget the long term development we meet with global news makers. i'm talk about the stories that matter on al jazeera. for did remy, they simply molina families to pain is unbearable. 4 of their relatives were killed last week, doing a military operation ordered by the venezuelan government. security forces accused him of being part of a colombian rebel group and said they died in combat with neighbors and family members insist they were innocent,

taken from their homes and executed under pressure venezuela's defense minister, bloody made by the re, you know, said the armed forces were applied to the friends that come through from irregular groups, but added that human rights needed to be respected and that the events at the border would be investigated. ah, despair in murray, all pull russia resumes attacking the city after a temporary cease. fire fails. ah, hello, i'm sorry, i'm no mozy in london. you're watching al jazeera also coming up on the program. large crowds protest against occupation in carson, the biggest city on the russian control. ukraine's president asked the us the more