my dog is all the way i have a good role, the vanity with which takes an unexpected turn. very difficult to search for her grave. yeah, these are very straight on al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera. ah, you're watching the news, our life from headquarters in del. how with extensive coverage of the war in ukraine, i'm getting obligated coming up in the next 60 minutes, a cease fire has been declared in the besieged city of mario pole for a 2nd attempt to move civilians from south eastern ukraine. president volunteers, lensky appeals to the us for more military equipment, warplanes and financial support. the un says more than one and

a half 1000000 people have now fled to fighting in ukraine. will report from the border with poland. visa and mastercard, suspend operations in russia, becoming the latest corporations to stop business in the country. plus y b iran nuclear talks, could face new challenges in the wake of russia's war on ukraine will be live in vienna. and i'm, we're harding with sports olympic gold medalist brittany greiner faces charges of drug smuggling, in russia and in thailand. an autopsy is expected. frustrating and sporting icon. shane warne who died on friday while on holiday. ah, it's just after 10 g m t, that's 12 pm and mario pole where there has been a 2nd attempt to move civilians from the besieged ukrainian city. so a corridor was set up on saturday to allow civilians to leave the city,

but it quickly fell apart. after both sides accused each other of violating the temporary cease fire. the humanitarian quarter will now allow people to leave from mary pole to this city off is up a reach um, and they'll be able to drive in their own cars or take a bus earlier russia war and that people will not be allowed to deviate from this particular route john hall is joining us not from live in ukraine, so see fire just gone into effect. joe, now how do we expect that to play out? well, we've only got saturday to go and haven't we? and saturday didn't work out very well when they tried this yesterday. the attempt failed pretty quickly with both sides, blaming the other ukrainian saying the russians continued chatting. the russians saying that the ukrainians deliberately stopped people from leaving these cities, mario hall and vulnerable. come now, what we don't know for 100 percent certain on sunday is whether this humanitarian,

colorado repeat attempt includes the city of nevada just to the northeast of mario paul, or mario, paul. only at the moment. we have information that has been put on telegram the social media messaging up by the don't ask regional administration on the ukrainian side, confirming that mario poll humanitarian corridors will open a so called green colorado as they describe it from about now. although some pictures we have seen might potentially be showing buses leaving about half an hour ago and verified picture. so around about now, humanitarian cardoso said to be opening out of matthew polt on a journey, heading towards the upper easier about a 150 miles, 226 or so kilometers to the northwest. a jody. that could take a very long time. indeed, if that heavy traffic is allowed to leave by the pole and civilians being told, use your cause as well as the buses do not stray from that route to fill your cars up with as many people as possible. the hope of course, is that in the next 8 to 10 hours,

if it holds that they can get as many people as possible out of the awful conditions of siege that they've existed in today's inside mario paul. and we understand those convoys will be under red cross protection. and just an hour or so ago on al jazeera, the i c r. c, reminding us of the guarantee on the international law that civilians be allowed safe passage out of water areas. journal. while all this is happening, the u. s. sector state entity, lincoln is an moldova right now and he's in fact holding a press conference with them. although the president just tell us why he's in the country and what's on his agenda. he's on a so the lightning whistle stop, tour of the number of ukraine's western neighbors trying to shore up support shore up assistance for fleeing refugees and assure them of continued u. s. assistance. there's understandable jitters across the border from ukraine about the potential for over spill in mold over

a tiny countries. 2.6000000 people. it was a former soviet republic has unique through the presence of russian troops in contest to territory inside its borders called trans nice. so a delicate situation to watch their antony blinking in the country, offering his assurance to them. here's what he said a little while ago. last time. anyone or anyone? was a world, especially one that is totally unnecessary, totally unprovoked and i'm afraid, meditated. and so the consequences as you point out. go beyond euphrates, they go beyond even your neighbors. they are the fact that global because this is having an impact on everything that we actually need to be doing and should be doing. and like you, we want to see brought to this work as possible, concluded just update us as well. jonah, what you're hearing about fighting and other parts of the country.

well, it does appear, according to western intelligence reports that a combination of the just to call and supply problems, mechanical breakdown, problems with troop morale, force, morale in the russian army. a lot of it made up a very young conscript. some of them not told they were coming to war. all of that combined has been frustrating, slowing its bonds on the ground, as well as ukrainian resistance, particularly hitting supply lines. this, the assessment of western intelligence agencies, particularly a report out on sunday by british military intelligence that notes that russia in these circumstances, has tended to respond by switching ever more to targeting heavily populated urban centers with increasingly heavy artillery and asked strikes an effort they say to break down civilian morale and we've been seeing this kind of thing on going in big population centers like germany to the north cave in the east. of course mario paul

down on the black sea coast. and also they sort of dormitory towns, the suburban centers to the north, north west of the capital kia. and i think the general assessment is that they sort of thing is likely. now we need to get worse. as rushes forces continue to be frustrated in places on the ground. all right, thank you so much. john hall is reporting from live eve or as you've been hearing, the red cross is supporting the evacuation from my poll and it describes conditions there as catastrophic. listen. you may need to ration across the country including menu, good, very dire. we see a big move movement displacement of people leading to stay for areas. some of them are stuck in shelters, back without electricity, without water, without any food. when we go and distribute and some of the sheltered in multiplan and fair, i mean people are still happy to see someone who helping them. so i mean, i could describe the situation as catastrophic this. this message for civilians is

again t and then to national humanitarian law. the jesse welcome. any initiative to offer respite to, to civilian fleeing. the conflict are wanting to leave areas where the hope that it is a very big for your friends. presidents have called on has people to fight back and resist the russian invasion. it comes after the temporary fees, fire failed on saturday nights meeting. you know that these that if we will not give our country to the invaders, ukrainian, people in every occupied place. go on, attack counter attack, you have to struggle, you have to fight like and curse on for dancing. you have to go out and taste the mouth clear this evil from our land. president, vote him as a landscape also spoke to us president joe biden by phone and they discussed security financial support and sanctions on moscow. gabriel, alexander has more on that from washington

d. c. while the call apparently happened in the evening, saturday night here, washington time the call lasted a little over 30 minutes, according to read out from the white house. to read out is essentially a summary of the call that the white house releases after president talks to another foreign leader according to that read out and he was short. it was only about a paragraph or so the 2 leaders talked about security for ukraine and continued security support. on behalf of us talk to ukraine. i also talked about sanctions continuing ramping up of sanctions. by an apparently told zelinski you said this would continue to go on and continue to be a point of that. the white house would continue to focus on what was not discussed, or at least what was not mentioned in the read out from the white house, or 2 things, any sort of calls for bite and talking about transferring of military

aircraft to ukraine. that's something that's been talked about a bit, but there was no discussion of that between the 2 leaders, according to the readout, and also the no fly zone. it's lensky and others have been pushing for that. both nato and the white house have been reluctant to and flat out said they would not participate in. there was no indication that this call that that was discussed either bottom line. now this is one of several calls that have happened over the past week or so between president biden angel and ski. so it just shows how important the white house is taking this and how closely the president of the united states is watching events on the ground there. uh, visa and mastercard. say there suspending all operations in russia effective immediately? it means any credit card issued in the country can no longer be used on card issued elsewhere, won't work in russia. they're the latest companies to whole business in russia since it's invasion of ukraine. let's bring an allister mel who's a professor financial economy and left for university. he's joining us from lester

. sure. that's over in the u. k. welcome to al jazeera sir. so this is a widely used method of payment. it accounted for 74 percent of payment transactions in the, in russia, in 2020. so what are the implications of the suspension? but it was fascinating that development it, it actually shows the private companies, banks, in this case, the cars, the asians of they're actually taking their own action without waiting for government to say, you can do this. you can't do that. they're just drawing back from russia completely. so i think this is one of many examples of the private sector sanctioning russia, what sectors will be most effective by this visa, mastercard that primarily used for personal spending, senior shops and restaurants and travel that kind of thing. so it's, it's going to further impact on the hospitality in the restaurant industry and travel industries in russia. and it's gonna have a big effect on the middle classes who use those services were employed by those

services. that i don't see a very direct effect on the military machine. so is this a good step because it sounds like a lot of citizens in fact and people are going to be affected by this? i think that's probably the nature of our sanctions. i'm in the military machine and in russia is not very externally dependent. doesn't need external financing in the long run. it needs technology from the west, but they've been planning this invasion of 10 years. they've got, they've become food secure, they grow more grain and they need they eat, they can keep this will going for months if not. yeah. as, without, without sanction, directly affecting it. yeah. that's the thing. i mean, russia has been taking steps for many years to increase that sort of independence because of ongoing western sanctions. and in effect making its economy somewhat even describe it a sanctions proof. so could they take any other steps to get around this?

gosh, i would have a different take, it's the, the russian, people in charge in russia, in the people close to him. they have no concern to the russian people any more than they do the cranial people. they just want to win a fight and the russian economy is going to be crippled at the end of this. it won't be as bad as ukrainian economy, but the russian economy is going to be very badly damaged. but they don't care. what about the damage on the financial institutions themselves? because one of the latest statistics that, that i thought least was the visa mastercard, amount of exposure to russia is roughly around $1200000000.00. so want it back fine. i, you know, that we have to dig into that mean these are mastercard themselves don't do lending that they, they facilitate the credit card and the debit card payments. so it doesn't be the banks that are standing, you know, who,

who issued the cards and conduct transactions were losing business. i'm a bit more optimistic on that side because i'm at rusher is still a relatively small economy. even if russia was to disappear completely drop out of the global economy, this would be a smaller financial shop than happened in 2008, for example. so, yes, financial regulators will be quite concerned about knock on effects on institutions around the world. but i'm not sure that's the the biggest concern at the moment. all right, we'll leave it there. thank you so much for joining us from the u. k. thank you. not more than a 1000000 ukrainians reflect the neighboring countries to escape the fighting, but others have decided to stay behind to join local units to protect their country . i'll just 0 for the coming, had visited a village and didn't for a region in eastern ukraine, and spoke to one of those units under rows of eastern ukraine, their dose taking their children to safety. an endless lug of car is trying to

reach to close his border. it will take days in their dose, staying behind to defend their country. like these men, we met near the village of men. they know the forest well. they usually go hunting here, but now it's time to dig trenches. philip sand bags and build bunkers in case the russian soldiers come their way. ah, they're part of the locally formed territorial defense units. they include, sees him men like any k, not his real name, who 1st joined in 2016 to fight the pro russian separatists in the east of the country, eurozone for so the pipe of that you're asking about our mood. if we really to defend ourselves after this treacherous invasion of ukraine, women, children, and the ugly, a suffering homes are bombed at night. of course, the army is very angry about that. if we didn't provoke and we didn't want the score, they came to us and we ready to answer. he hopes that the russians could be slowed

down. but these handmade spikes with similar positions are being built a bit all over the ne pro region and has become even more urgent now to have them completed. because the region has become the 1st stop for those fleeing the russian advance from either the south or the north east of the country to honda. at the village, ludmilla is busy cooking 200 meals and the menu to day rest sonic a hearty soup that will be put in jars and taken to the checkpoints, and trenches where her husband is also on duty. for some of these women, this war is hitting close to home. acela's son in law, is in the regular army on a front line. she can't reveal which in the room did i get? my daughter is keeping busy like me, just to not go crazy. it's our country, we have to protect it. we will leave by thought. what can i do?

we all in the same boat. and what can i see about the soldiers who came to our country to kill us and pretend they didn't know that they have been here for more than 7 days. and i still don't my, back in the forest, the territorial defense gets ready for the cold night ahead. the russians are still far away. but this is a war of missiles and rockets that are devastating cities and villages. and here, there are no signs of modern weaponry that could repel the onslaught the most ukrainians. the only safe way is to go west and get as far as possible. but up there meet al jazeera in eastern ukraine. the russian president vladimir putin has warranted any attempt by nature to establish a no fly zone over ukraine will be seen as an act of war. mamma, val has more on what preacher had to say was russia's warmer, she rages across ukraine,

the verbal of fuss. if coming from moscow is no less powerful, president put in, issued a clear warning to western powers, saying any attempt to create a no fly zone over ukraine would be considered a direct military involvement in the conflict against russia. just muslim storm looseness, george, 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 a participation in the arm conflict with human footing made it clear he once you claim to have a neutral status in the polar ballast between nato and russia look where this he says requires. if demilitarised you craig a little because it's western bacchus, are intending to supply it with nuclear weapons. if not stopped, they will arm though. first i'm just going from that thick. anon, from the very thick and rushes faith would be very different, because then our strategic enemy won't even need intercontinental ballistic missile

further. they will have us at gunpoint righteous. how can we overlooked? asking me notice when we put, put and said everything is going according to plan in ukraine, and his army will achieve all of its objectives. his foreign minister said gay laugh rove, had some harsh words for the ukrainian president pearson across the royal. still not the. it's zalinski, so unhappy with nato not interfering than that means he's hoping to resolve this conflict by involving nato. it means he's not hearing statements from european capitals, saying they won't get involved. it means he wants to provoke a conflict between nato and russia. perhaps the most challenging issue for russia right now is the economy commissioner. the west is imposing in this city. god, president, put him, says western sanctions are akin to a declaration of war on his country. for a minister leverage has warned of consequences and single doubt the u. k. in particular, he says moscow's response to the factions, when without doubt hurt british interests and russia. because in his words,

the u. k. has chosen to move to words that direct consultation with his country mohammed, what additional occur? volker is a former us ambassador to nato. he says it's possible to have a no fly zone and avoid making the situation worse. i think it is essential. i think it can be done in a way that does not risking a major escalation between russia and the west for a variety of reasons. one, it's a humanitarian gesture, humanitarian mission. we're protecting civilian populations. to we make it clear that we are not intending to attack russian ground forces or russian aircraft. only return fire is fired upon escort russian aircraft out of the zone if they come in and only fire if they refused to leave. so we are deliberately trying to limit since 3. no,

it is limited in scope. we're not doing this over the entire idea of ukraine only given was in your grains. you create a secure space for the population. i think on those terms a no fly zone can be effective, can make a difference for saving lives and does not necessarily need to military escalation . who will never affirmatively accept you? oh, i think it finds i'm just fine. that'll never happen, but couldn't reach. next is force, if we show that we are present and determined and clear about our rules. he and more importantly, his military one understand that one of the things definitely does not want is to draw the west into the war on the side of ukraine. he desperately wants to avoid that, as do me. so i think this is something we can do to support saving a great lives without escalating the war. protests have been held across europe in

support of ukraine. thousands of people turned out in major cities to rally against the russian assault. sonia again has more from london side by side holding hands a show of solidarity in munich, a human chain across the city, protesting against russia's invasion of ukraine. near by the russian consulate, its entrance vandalized with red paint, a show of anger against vladimir putin. the man who protest her say must face justice for his actions are greek for after reading. i despise war, any kind of war, and i really want to set an example. i think peter has been courted for far too long. for 20 years. the west has been trying to keep him quiet so that he doesn't get upset. and that simply has to stop now. ah, in rome, the mood may have been more festive, but the message to put in just as critical, italy may have been one of russia's closest allies in europe,

with many politicians having previously boasted of strong ties. now, many are seeking to distance themselves across europe. cities that have welcome to russian money are having to reflect on the effect that it had on their businesses and politics. oh, among them, london, a major beneficiary of russian cash is the end of the soviet union. but that has not calmed any criticism of putin or his allies here. the more missiles raining down on ukraine, the more solidarity people here are showing towards ukrainians. more people, hey, want us for the west to step up and take decisive action against wootton. and his assault on ukraine, there's going to be a genocide. why do we wait? they will go in. but only after this agenda sighed, how righteous we need to do it now. in the hague,

home of the international criminal court, many called for an end to the invasion and blamed, put in himself, not russians for the conflict. all the while ukraine continues to come under attack . yet many europeans are determined to signal less support for the country. and to show ukrainians they are not alone. sonya yeah, go, i'll just sarah london or the russia offensive in ukraine could pose a challenge for efforts to restore the 2015 iran nuclear yield russian foreign minister circuit lab. rob is demanding a guarantee that sanctions imposed on russia won't affect its trade with iran. libre says under the 2015 deal, russia and china were allowed to help iraq with a civilian nuclear program. and he says, russian investments shouldn't be obstructed, lunch or that issue in the sun seek the avalon 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 the sanctions won't by any means effect mode of trade, economic and investment corporation with iran on the 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. economic, military and investment cooperation with iran get reaction. and harmon mirandi is an advisor to the iran delegation in vienna. that is where he's joining us from thanks for your time with us on al jazeera. how do you view the latest comments by the russian foreign minister? well, the iranians are waiting for verification from the russians because there were some comments made by the russian representatives. and it's not by clear

exactly what the russians mean if it is linked to the actual implementation of the j. c. p. always, especially with regards to the iranian nuclear program itself that is relevant because the russians play a role in resolving issue, they will be dealing with enriched uranium and other elements of the nuclear program. so we're, we're still waiting for clarification. but on the same time, the. ready negotiations on to over anyway, we are still waiting also for the americans to respond to a number of issues that need to be resolved in order for the j. c. p. o, a, to be revised because the ryans expect a full implementation of the j. c. p. o, in over the last few months that we've had negotiations, they've been dragging their feet. and finally, we are getting there,

but we're still not there. ok, well that was all right. we'll get on to where the j. c. p, o is right now in just a moment, but 1st on, again, on the russian demands. i mean, can you give us official iranian reaction to these demands and, and, or tell us, perhaps when the iranians will give an official statement to this? well, the iranians are waiting for clarification, so they don't know exactly what the russian delegation has from moscow yet. so whenever that comes, the iranians will be able to assess that, and it's relevant to what is going on right now. all right, do you think that it will impact their thoughts in any way? how much morality? because the state department, the state department is saying that the, the new russia related sanctions because of the war in ukraine are unrelated to the j. c, p. o, a. and should not have any impact on its potential implementation. do you agree

with the u. s. state department? well, again, it depends on what the russian response is, what their response is to declare vacation americans obviously the antagonistic towards russia because of ukraine and because of a host of other issues, we'd see the americans being very one sided in ukraine, the running position on ukraine has been, it sees nato as provoking expanding nato, supporting nazis and he's running to what he runs against the war. ready as well so iran position on the warren. ready crane is as well as moral and balance, but we don't trust statements that come out of washington, obviously for a host of different reasons in as and as we see in the ukraine itself. so we're still waiting to see what the russian response is. and we will continue after we get back, but also we're waiting for the american response as well. okay, that is that's what i'd like to get on to next. i mean, just a few days ago you tweeted this that it's only natural to be close to the final

agreement. after 11 months of long and difficult talks. you go on to say nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. so, oh, where are you now with the talks after 11 months? we are, it's pretty close to an agreement, but obviously when negotiation is take place, it is normal for the most difficult issues to be resolved last because obviously that the most difficult issues. so we do still have those issues remaining, some of them, some of them have been resolved. there also parallel talks that have been taking place which have had progress such as with the i e. but we're still, we're still not there. the issue of sanctions, the sanctions that the americans have imposed for iran. iran still expects united states to remove certain sanctions and the americans are dragging their feet. the

iranians believe that the americans have to they have to comply because this is completely linked to the j c p. away. the problem is that during this whole 11 months, this is what the americans have been doing. and if 11 months ago, the americans were where we are now, we'd have had this agreement a very, very long time ago. so as we speak, the rhine, inter, waiting for the american response to certain issues that the iranians have race and they're not. none of the issues on you. iran has a contrary to what some in the western media say or constantly say that you run is raising you demand everything that the right has been saying during these 3 months in vienna have been consistent. they've repeated them time after time and all of them are within the framework of the j. c. p. o, a. but of course because of the on site it media battle. it iranian iran's voice. ready doesn't go very far, usually in the international community. ok,

thank you so much. i'm hama, mirandi for speaking to us from vienna. we're going to stick with vienna and bring in our diplomatic editor james base for more on this topic. so james, the iranians are saying that they're still waiting for more clarity from russia when it comes to the statements made by survey live rob, he's demanding a guarantee that sanctions imposed on russia won't affect its trade with iran. just tell us what you're hearing from your and being on the ground in vienna and perhaps from other diploma. i think that everyone is waiting for more information of what mister oliver off actually wants. he wants, with written guarantees coming from a level at least as high as the u. s. secretary of state that the sanctions that an out imposed on iran are not going to get her in the way of this deal. but exactly what those guarantees are exactly what the words are, is once occupying the minds of the diplomat, they felt they were very close to

a deal. in fact, the european members of the negotiating team, the u. k. france and germany went back to that capitalist because they thought they got the basis of a deal and they were going to get the final ok from that capitals. and at one point that was going to be a signing ceremony. here in vienna, on this day sunday, the comments by mister lab, rob really do put a spanner in the works. russia has been part of these negotiations since the very beginning. since the deal that was done here in 2015 rusher as a, as one of the countries negotiating because it's a permanent member of the un security council. but under the 2015 deal, russia had a very special role which is relevant. now if they're going to get a new version of the rom deal through and that's to take the extra enriched uranium, take it from iran, and also one of the reactors, the photo reactor, turning that to research center. these were specific things that russia is supposed

to do under the deal. so you can't just bypass russia. russia is pretty central to this process. everyone i think, had breathed a sigh of relief. and in, over the last couple of weeks that the, the situation in ukraine hadn't, in any way affected what was going on here. and everyone felt it was quite remarkable. the diplomacy was continuing here, unaffected in vienna, but in the last 20 for perhaps a little bit more than that. ours rushes position seems to have changed, its putting real doubt on whether they can get a deal through. probably worth telling you that as are here in the place where all the nuclear diplomacy is done in the world, we end up. this is also the place where energy diplomacy done opec and it might be worth remembering that one of the few things russia got what he's got, the very heavy sections on the right now is a very high oil price. that's very good news for russia. what it doesn't really

have many other sources of income. well, if you were going to get the wrong deal, then iran oil would go back on the world market. iran would be able to produce more oil, and that potentially would reduce that price a bit. so that may be part of the calculations from the government may put in. okay, james, thank you so much. james bays is our diplomatic editor reporting for us from vienna . while the united nations is saying more than one and a half 1000000 refugees have fled ukraine in the past 10 days since the conflict begun. will bring in bas robbie. he's joining us from the crossing that's on the ukraine. poland border where as in thousands of people have been arriving. tell us what you're seeing. that's right, we're here at the court of a border crossing between ukraine and poland. the united nations confirming today that 1500000 people have fled to fighting in ukraine. and into europe in poland. the country has been taking the bulk of the burden so far we are joined by you and high commissioner for refugees,

sleep abroad. let's get right to it. mr. grundy. thank you very much for your time . if you could please give me a sense of what you've been discussing with people you've been here. you've been briefed. what is people been talking about? what can you tell us it's, it's very difficult to even listen to their stories. days and days us travelled in the cold from their bomb cities to seek safety here in poland. i saw the same 2 days ago in moldova, in romania it's all over. but borland, this is taking the brunt of this set. enormous avalanche of people. 1.5000000, as you said, just today we reach this terrible i figure. and the what we also hear is that hundreds of thousands are on the move. so, and this is the prediction of the border guards here, who by the way, are doing a very good job. and they predict that the floor will increase not decrease in the

next few days and perhaps beyond. now as you said, 1500000 people have already crossed. it hasn't even been 2 weeks. your prediction of 4000000 you were saying earlier might be too small in estimation. and it is a country of more than $40000000.00 people, a country that is currently under siege. what are your long term predictions for what might happen, or how much worse do you think it's going to get? is there any way to plan for it? it really depends on the conflict. if bombs continue to rain on cities, people will leave the yesterday or the day before i can't even remember in moldova . many people told me that they were leaving or their cell door. this is not under a pack because the sirens started, the a reason sounding and they're so afraid that they leave. so it really depends on that. that's why it's so important. yes, there's a lot of talk about humanitarian corridors. that's very important. we are in my

organization like others are in ukraine, will participate in any such operation to bring any relief to anybody who's trapped in the cities. but we need more than that. we need is his fire. we need a cessation of hostilities so that people can stop moving and even go back to their homes, perhaps. but under the circumstances, they are all telling me they're too much afraid. and is there any coordination or even cooperation possible with russia at this point? of course, especially around the issue of humanitarian corithers at the united nations and direct cross in particular are discussing to we're older, all concerned to obtain safe passage. these corridors can only happen if there is no hostile it, but we need them desperately because we have people in mario, paul, in other places that really needs humanitarian assistance. we need to be able to

help people that are very vulnerable, get out of those cities. so this is vital, urgent, but like i said, then we got need to go beyond that. this war has to ends. otherwise, we will not have seen the end of this, a catastrophic refugee crisis. now, as you say, we, the most vulnerable are still inside the country. we've seen the refugees that have fled, they are here in safety, but the internally displaced people. do we have any figures them? do we know anything about how bad the situation is for people that are still inside? it's difficult. we have teams inside. we have teams even just across the war there near here we are in constant touch with them. they do what they can beat you and hcr uni serve world food program, the red cross and yos. we try to use any available safe space to bring assistance to people and to try to estimate what the needs are and how many

people are in need. at least 1000000 are under more. but in my opinion, this is a conservative figure. more people are moving westward, and this is also the information that i got here at this border point between poland and ukraine. so it's very difficult to have firm estimates without being able to move freely because of the insecurity. nestor, poland has really stepped up in its effort to help the refugees of the stream across the border into their country. this is not the 1st time that poland has dealt with the refugee crisis. it's been what many of called a heroic effort. but we can't forget that there are still are several 100 people trapped on the border between bell roofs and poland. have you had any conversations with people about them? it is a small number in comparison, but certainly still also people that need help when we have conversations in the past. but in the last few days, of course we have to concentrate on this massive influx and so had the polish authorities. but we continue those conversations. mr. grady, thank you so much for your time and best of luck. thank you very much. i really

appreciate it. so as the refugee crisis continues here, you and hcr the c r c other n jose continue to bolstered their efforts and continue to expand their efforts here on the ground to cope with the ongoing crisis. all right, then, thank you so much again as reporting from the ukraine polish border. let's get you some comments that the ukranian president of all other mirrors. lensky just made. he has posted a new video and he says that russian forces and are planning to show the black sea port, city of desa, or death, or dis, they are planning to bombard odessa. the russians always used to come to a diss, and they felt only warmth, only sincerely disa, now bombs coming against odessa. hillary missile. this is going to be a war crime historic crime. we've also been telling you about the humanitarian court or that has now come into effect, and that will allow people to leave for mario, paul, to the city of as i repeat, that is where charles stratford is now. joining us from his close to the ukrainian

city of that opiates yet, charles, tell us the significance of your location, what you're seeing. yeah, we're about saudi color, which is south of the city of zach parisha. that is where this united terry and co boy is hoping to bring. what we understand could be tens of thousands of people that have full days, been trapped in the besieged port city of mariel pal. they will be traveling along this road traveling from the south in that direction. now interestingly, when we were here this time or in this area, this time yesterday, there was a lot of heavy, heavy shutting the seats fire had collapsed. we hearings and worrying reports, certainly according to the spokes person for the self declared. and it's people's republics militia, but missouri. and he's saying that the ukranian side are not sticking to the agreement of the ceasefire. so that is a worrying sign. what we do know though,

is that at least 20 bosses, we understand at least have arrived in mary awful, and the evacuation is being attempted to to least get started. we've seen a number of buses in the city of bridget as we came through. they were getting ready to go south as well. they were waiting for instructions, carrying humanitarian aid. food and water. we've been speaking to people inside. is he they describing a city of a rifka. i reflect situation. they're saying that there is a very little water, a large areas without electricity. people have had to shelter in bunkers throughout the day and overnight. and we spoke to a member of one of the powerful power military groups, ukrainian power, miniature groups in the city. a similar kind of testimony from him saying that the

city was coming on, the shelling and tank fire full for a number of days. now we know that the russian full, she's moved in from the west. we know that sir, rushing back separatists. we're moving in from the east and we know how strategically important this city is, because it would basically make a land corridor from the separatist controlled areas in the east to northern crimea . and we know the crimea is an attached now to mainland russia via a bridge. so it is a huge strategic importance. also, in the last few minutes of statement has been made by the advisor to the president's office, which is consistent with what we've just heard. zalinski say about what he believes could be a bombardment by the russians of the town of odessa. an adviser to the president's office is saying that the russians are now making a move on the town of nikolai f, which is south west from here in the direction of odessa. there seems to be an

effort to buy it russian fools. he's now to push up from the south west, basically in the die direction of denise pro and zappa risha. we hear that russian forces are around about 40 kilometers south from here. but as i say this time yesterday, this area was very loud indeed. and despite those worrying statements made by a soaring the spokesperson for the dpr militia sang the ukrainians are not abiding by disagreement. it is quiet here and we understand that this evacuation has just started. ok, thank you so much. charles stratford reporting from the original ukraine, also weighing in on the crew to the crisis is the israeli prime minister and after the bennet and he's spoken to ukraine's president for the 3rd time in 2 days. on saturday, bennet made a surprise visit to moscow to discuss the ukraine crisis with the russian president vladimir putin, ukraine's behest israel has offered mediation to resolve the crisis.

let's look at some other news now in north korea saying it's conducted another important test in its development of spy satellites. south korea had reported the launch is a ballistic missile test. the 2nd in a week soul is bracing for appealing gangs of time to launch its reconnaissance satellite system into orbit in the near future. a prominent author from uganda has been explaining why he fled his home country last month. cut one's rooker bus shot says he was tortured after being arrested in december. he's known as an outspoken critic of your gun does government malcolm web report. books. printed material shy, ger says this is the price he paid for. criticizing uganda the ruling family. he says it ordeal began in december when soldiers broke into his house beat him, tied him and blindfolded him for driving him to a military barracks it. oh no. what do i use him to beat me in the back

a the put i must keep or away or something that really gets into the skin was very pain for excruciating pain. he was detained for 4 weeks. he says he saw and heard several other prisoners being tortured to including one man whose skin was repeatedly burned with an iron. he says the interrogations with brutal getting black. they start blocking flesh from my phase of this. he believes he was arrested because of the 2 books he's published. the 1st was a satirical critique, if you can, the president uri mas 70, and he says he was detained and tortured for 2 years ago. he described what happened in the 2nd book, the ugandan government denies running torture chambers. this mother is being gifted by dormant within the for to this. but the last rule,

william says that the people who are deemed in new vendor, i put it is a truth. as it is offered him a speech in your vanda credited him, the 70 has ruled uganda for 36 years. his regime is faced growing accusations of rights abuses. it's his son, general ma hose. he kind of re gabber that cleanser blames for his detention and torture. mercy denies it and says he's never met cleanser. the cleanser says mozy saw him 3 times during his detention forced him to apologize, made threats, and offered him money to take his books offline and stop writing. not his when i met general morris before that time. and he was like, he wanted to be sure whether if i am ready today, i'm going to write another book about my daughter to cleanser was taken to court last month and charged with insulting the ruling family. the court kept his

passport, but he fled to germany, where he says he plans to write another book documenting what happened to him. they of the money they of the guns, but they thus the room. but the joke we let bold up in the window that says he's so traumatized, he can barely sleep for more than an hour before being woken by nightmares. he says he'll seek medical treatments in germany, but plans to return to uganda and continue writing. malcolm web al jazeera. we have the sports news coming up right after the break, including football fans and mexico storm the field and cause chaos will have more last story in just a moment. the latest news as it breaks, authorities tell us the brutal violence like this one in b honduran capital or just the tip of the iceberg in

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a nearby hospital on sunday. ty police said initial investigations showed no indication of foul play, but an autopsy will still be performed in thailand. it's believe that weren't suffered from a heart attack. will russia says it has women's basketball olympic gold medalist brittany griner in custody facing charges of drug smuggling. according to customs officials, the w and b, a star was detained at moscow airport in february, be released this video reportedly showing greiner having her carry on luggage, examined russian officials say they found vape cartridges containing hashish, oil grinders agent, her team, the phoenix, mercury, and usa basketball, all release statements of support for the player. on saturday, the u. s. state department advised american citizens to leave russia immediately of football teams all across europe have continued to show their support for the people of ukraine amid the war with russia. although chelsea fans interrupted

a minute's applause by chanting the name of their russian owner, roman of rome of it's the billionaire last week announced that he was selling the club after 19 years in charge. chelsea boss thomas to gal says fans picked the wrong moment to do that. and chant his name, we shall respect us a club. and we need our fence tu, tu, tu, tu commits to this to this minute of applause. in the moment we do it for ukraine and there is no, there's no 2nd opinion about about, about the situation there and that, that they have for our thoughts and our support. and we should stand together as a club. it's not the moment for other messages in spain, real madrid and real socio that showed their support by standing behind a banner reading. we're all with ukraine. both teams also were shirts with the same message, real madrid reserve goalkeeper. andrea luna is ukranian himself. in

h l team, the washington capitals have beefed up security around their captain. alex are back again and his family. the russian has faced death threats as well as sponsors pulling out of lucrative deals with him. the teams general manager says he's under pressure from all sides. ukrainian tennis player, diana? yes, from scott continued her remarkable run. and leon, reaching the final, the 21 year old will play for the trophy a week after flane ukraine with her 15 year old sister. yes, from scott beat, a sorana kind of stay in the semis and faces china's zang chalet and sundays decider. but it's a very different future facing. those who stayed behind this is ukraine's only medalist from the recent beijing winter olympics, alexander abraham ankle sheltering and a parking garage and keith with his wife and 2 year old son just over 2 weeks ago. the freestyle skier was celebrating winning a silver metal and beijing. well,

more than 20 people have been injured and abroad during a 1st division football match in mexico. the chaos started in a grandstand during the game between defending champions, atlas and home teams guided sato fans then stormed the field. people were beaten, kicked, and dragged, while others were left lying on the ground covered in blood. the league says the violence is unacceptable, and those responsible for the lack of security in the stadium will be especially punished. the match was suspended after 62 minutes. will over in singapore world number one, a genuine co claim, the women's world championship. her final round of 6 under gave her a to shot victory, claiming her 13th lpga tour, a title co also set a new record with her 15th consecutive round with a score below 70. and finally, we end with a tongue in cheek. sorry, this is slap fighting championships in ohio. the rules are pretty straight forward . oh yeah, well there's also a women's event, believe it or not,

with a pair of polish reality, stars going slap for a slap. basically whoever slaps the hardest winds while that is brutal to watch, that's it for me and you back over to during. yeah, it sir, is leah? thank you so much for that. well, before we go, let's tell you about nepal, because its largest or a festival the catman do try now. has started after being postponed several times because of the pandemic. organizers say it's focused on inclusive and diverse narratives and the growth of vibrant arts community where we are tell him who has more from the fall, sawdust, and one is a young nepali artist based in cut. my do. her work is part of a show by 5 artists entitled poems from home that explores ideas of identity, culture, and space. the exhibition as part of the customer, dupree and ali, 2077 nipples biggest odds festival that ran throughout the month of march. but the more well made some liquid when you weren't. i like to explore how the mobile phone

and digital technology impact traditional cultures and our daily lives, which then create a new culture. this 4th edition kicked off in gut bandu on the 1st of the month after being postponed several times. due to the pandemic spread across 3 historic areas in the city and 5 exhibition venues. it features 300 works by local and international artists. it includes diverse art forms like multimedia, photography, paintings, and installations, and office, guided to us and online viewing. sherry budget idea is a festival organizer. she says her team intends to show how the art community in nepal has grown. the characters of this edition have warped is about trying to read very complex narrative about issues around gender or career

bodies, or, you know, indigenous expressions and in mapping and gardens. and what are these narratives around the way we see colonization work and how we see power work and how do we sort of dismantle some of the ways we perceive these things through artist works. it's very powerful. the works are in contrast to the mountain landscapes and religious paintings. visitors often associate with nepal. shooting sherpa used to create tibetan buddhist paintings called tankers. today he gives the art form a contemporary take one a few nepali artists to feature in prestigious international platforms. like the venice be an ali sharper, looks forward to the cut under finale. it's a wonderful experience and let's see. let's hope that we can introduce the park in a different light than what we have been understood so far to our works. whereas the

thought don't museum a venue for the furniture knowledge the works displayed here, celebrate the diversity and explore the connections between local and global communities. while they reject the exhausted size ation of the himalaya as a mythical utopia, as their pulse vibrant art community grows, are to say it's important to continue conversations between traditional and contemporary art forms to present a realistic portrait of nepal to day remy at the liberal, al jazeera cut, and thanks for watching the news. our more news coming up, put him on the news in just under a year's time, capital us out a stadium will host the opening match of the 2022 world cup. the official opening of the stadium came on day one of the arab cup, but many friends were already counting down to the big kick off next november 10th,

22. as this tournament falls over the coming days, it will play a key role, but organize is getting ready to host the middle east. the biggest ever supporting event next year. for the castle national team, they get used to playing in front of expected home crowds. they'll be hoping to convince both the fan and themselves so they really are ready to take on the world . frank assessments for china will benefit from their college strategy if the rest of the world to get informed opinions at all on sundays and friday, from the critical debate wide report claims that need to come to sensual threat to russia. but it's precisely his actions that created the insecurity in the region. in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera ah al jazeera

i, which is a little i another attempt to move civilians from southeast in ukraine, a ceasefire has been declared in the besieged city of mary pope. oh, hello, i'm emily anglin. this is al jazeera alive from dough house are coming up. brushes president warn sanctions could amount to a declaration of war, and raises questions about the future of ukraine statehood. while visa, mastercard, suspend operations.