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will show the seat with family. and it's terribly painful. and oil prices, such as the west considers banning crude from russia it is 7 g m t night am and key if where at this hour russian military forces are reportedly set to hold fire. it is one of several ukrainian cities where humanitarian corridors are being opened to allow people to leave safely. russia says the move comes at the request of the french president, a manual con. let's speak to jonah hall, who is live for us from live. he of jonah, what do we know about these reporter plans to allow civilians to evacuate?

i think we've got to be quite careful with these reports to be frank. this is information emerging in the last hour or so from the russian military defense quoted by the russian into fax news agency. suggesting that as of now 9 am local time here in ukraine, humanitarian corridors will be opened out of the cities of kiev. marriott pulled down in the south, how keeping the east and sumi in between our keys and key of to allow for silly civilians to escape heavy fighting in those 4 places. the reason i suggest caution is as follows: twofold, the 1st we've heard nothing from the ukrainian side to support this initiative to suggest that they are in coordination or on sides. it looks very much like a unilateral russian initiative at this point. and secondly, the russian ministry of defense is spelled out the routes that people would take out of these places. that's convoys on the safe passage would be provided under

russian guard and under the observation of russian drones as well. they say to god against any intervention from the ukrainian side and those roots, almost all of them head out to buy the roofs across the border. and to barrows, across the border into russia and in the east, across the border into occupied breakaway regions of east run by rushing back separatist begging the question. of course, how many ukrainians would want to avail themselves of these alleged se fruits, even if they do in fact become available. so caution, i think until we see and hear more. ok. meanwhile, jonah shelling is continued over night and several cities just bring us up to speed in terms of what's happening on the ground. well, a number of flash points that worth mentioning, the ukraine continued to put up stiff resistance around the eastern city of her keys, where shelling continued over night. the ukrainian military reports that they've

managed to take territory back around the town of to guy if that's on the sort of northeastern outskirts of the city alleging that they've managed to raise the flag again, they're so stiff resistance, according to ukrainians, continues to be put up renewed attacks happening down in the south in a place called nikolai, that's just north of has so it's a big ship building city. it's close to the black sea. nikolai of is where ukrainian forces allegedly pushed russians foresees back from the city outskirts on sunday, renewed shelling their witnesses describing shells landing in residential areas, including the mayor on his facebook post. the important thing about nikolai of is that it would be on a route that would allow russian forces to muster for an attack on a desa that huge and very important economic archery for ukraine on the black sea and operational reports coming out of the ukranian military suggest that the russians continue to violate the rules of humanitarian law by selling civilian

areas and posting equipment and resources, ammunition in civilian areas with specific reference to the town of 13 to the west of the capital, key of where the civilians were heavily shelled on sunday 8 people are known to have died. ukrainian command suggesting that the russians outside your pin to the west of the capital about 25 kilometers through the capital, regrouping, reassessing re supplying in anticipation of a possible advance, possibly eminent advance on the capital itself. okay, meanwhile, a 3rd round of talks or negotiations is so was expected today. what's the latest on that front? we don't have details to confirm that these talks are going to happen where they're going to happen. that's not in itself unusual. the previous 2 rounds of talks have only produced those details close to the hour as it were. so we may hear more later on. but yes should do talks due to take place on monday,

a 3rd round between ukrainian or russian delegations, looking to make ground to build on what they've discussed before. frankly, very little has come out of those talks. the previous round produced word of humanitarian corridors out of mary paul involved of aka 2 days. those have tried been tried and simply failed. and we know, of course, from russia from president putin himself, in talks with reggie type one on sunday. russia has not changed any of its red lines. it once the neutrality of the crew crane guaranteed at once, the independence of crimea recognised the independence of those east and break way regions recognised fundamentally at once. ukraine to surrender and its military forces to lay down their arms that we know something, something the credit government is not willing to negotiate or accede to. so, once again, a 3rd round of talks has taught to see where they have to go to right. thanks about their joint a whole lot for us in leave. your current president has accused russia of murder

saying it's deliberately and conscious, the targeting civilians miss efforts to push further into the country. russia's defense ministry has warned of more strikes on ukraine security facilities that asked about le, has more from levine, a civilian volunteer in the northern ukrainian city of her pin on the outskirts of the capitol. finally, journalists are caught up in the moment. someone shouts for a doctor, but it's too late for a family. had been trying to get away living elsewhere in the city. russian shells destroy homes, frightened, people run for their lives. families and children caught up in confusion and chaos. i don't believe that one of the russian troops have not yet entered keith, but they aren't far away. the convoy has encircled the city for several days. goods depot in a suburb is destroyed by shelling, but ukraine's forces in the capital

r undeterred and say they are ready for the worst was, is a hotel you, my, our positions are prepared, we're fitted them out. we're simply waiting to meet them here tools and then we'll change them out, as well as any other units. victory is going to be ours. moscow's forces in ukraine are advancing from the north, east and south by land sea and in the air. the kremlin continues to deny targeting residential areas, but the grim reality on the ground tells a very different story. hundreds of civilians have been killed. apartment blocks, schools, and hospitals hit ukrainian present, says the black sea resort of odessa could be next. who's urged western power to send ukraine more weapons when they were due to bombard duarte or this. they are planning to bombard odessa and the russians always used to come to a dis a. and they felt only warmth, only sincerity in odessa, and now bombs are coming against odessa, artillery, marseilles,

this is going to be a war crime, a historic crime, william his lot. this man who doesn't want to be identified also talks about alleged russian crimes. he was working on a cruise ship in the caribbean sea when russia evaded his country. he's come home to fight. to be honest, i'm scared. i was scared when i made the decision. i mean, this is the world like people are buying and, and there is, i mean there is a chance that they're going to get shot. i don't know injured whatever. but as i said now, we are united and on the same everybody on the same risk lives are being turned upside down in ukraine, people having to make whole braking decisions on whether to leave behind their homes and loved ones or risk their safety by staying put one where you realize that the things are getting but we decided to go

even with studying and working as a software engineer, the eastern city of how keys, when the russian shilling began. he showed me pictures of what's left of his office building and describe lead during the violence from my neighborhood, the attorney station, a approximately 10 kilometers, were walking for 2 hours or something. and it was the most karen experience in my life. but amid the fear and destruction, moments of resilience and joy, or phone defiance. thousands of people protested in the southern city of high thorn, despite it being taken by russian troops last week. spirits are being tested in ukraine. but this is proof that they aren't yet broken. natasha butler al jazeera, the ukraine has all ukraine's president had to say about russia offensive.

we never watch mar also. really. we will not forgive the shooting of unknown people, the destruction of our infrastructure. we won't forgive hundreds and hundreds of victims, thousands and thousands of sufferings. and god won't forgive you not to day, not to morrow, and that never rushes defense ministry said that we'll continue to target ukraine's military. but we'll avoid civilian hotspots. rockers, we're going of the russian armed forces, target ukrainian defense industry enterprises with high precision weapons in order to avoid endangering the lives of employees of ukrainian defense industry enterprises. we give advance warning of planned strikes again one such facility the merit. the city of mario paul has accused the kremlin of lying to ukrainians about a proposed evacuation. official say, russian forces have continued shutting the spot attempts to establish

a temporary cease fire. intense bombardment has hit the southern port city this week with many civilians killed german year, a book or the mac, gmc world war card, the they've been working methodically to make sure the city is blockaded. working methodically to create humanitarian crisis. so the people are left without food, water, light heating means of communication. and you record him with, well, we do not leave the shelter. the best we can get is maybe 3 hours sleep if you can call it label. sure, it's not possible to sleep during continuous shilling when planes flying over your head and missiles explode next. so head on al jazeera, ah, and other news, why south korea's presidential hopefuls are taking their snappy slogans from the street to the intellects. ah!

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ah ah. your charges there are reminder of our top stories. this. our russian military forces will reported the hold fire to allow civilians to leave safely. humanitarian corridors, arby opened in several ukrainian cities at the request of the french president, a manual con, fall as to previous attempts which failed. and these are live pictures are from a check point just outside of the ukrainian capital key of the city. as of course, preparing for a potential imminent advance with a huge rush and convoy some 65 kilometers long,

still just outside of the city. crane and president of lot of ms. lewinsky has condemned the deliberate targeting of civilians calling and murder fighting around the capital key of has intensified with russian forces pushed further into the country. the international atomic energy agency says it's extremely concerned of reports that ukrainian authorities are having trouble reaching staff at 2 nuclear plants. it's after fighting broke out in separation on friday. the facility is now under russian control. according to the un nuclear energy body access to mobile networks on the internet, a report of even cast at the part communications with staff replant using radioactive material. and mario paul have also been lost or been at ramberg as an expert on nuclear proliferation. he says, russian bosses could be targeting nuclear plants to gain control of ukraine's energy grid. you can, they can take on a nuclear plant,

could release its redirect to golden environments and you'd have a, a worst case it should over once on steroids. i would imagine one of the reasons they might be targeting want to take these plans offline. the, they can take the place of life, is to cut the electricity to municipalities. and so with, without electricity flowing to homes, batteries, to any, any entity in the new spell, which of course you great that these plants service by cutting them off, you're going to cut off the ability of these, of these community to function effectively. so these plans are key plants out here . yes. and is that the provide for 40 to 50 percent of the country's energy, the nuclear plants, and that may be one reason or something detect it's a place again, was not a major when i called connecticut tech and the plan. so radioactive elements were not compromised, least based on the information we have good looking forward matter with your expectations or of the russians. but these plans should be avoided, or cos,

australia's prime minister says his country has sent $70000000.00 worth of military assistance and medical supplies to ukraine. scott morrison says that russia invasion shows there is a global threat from autocratic governance. amazon are on the ground now. if there is further effective support, we can provide to assist you cry difference. we will every die, he cried. resist is a further dive. humiliation to president and imposes a heavy press on. he's a legal, reckless. he callous acts of aggression. so yes, we have offered our prayers that a strike. we have also seen our ammunition protests against russia's invasion, have been held in several cities with calls the western powers to do more to broker a peaceful end to the violence in russia. thousands were detained at anti war demonstrations. the bulk of reports from london, with a crisis in ukraine,

deepening on a daily basis, concerns are growing here in london and in other european capitals about the direction of travel, of this incredibly unpredictable war. as you can see, the campaign for nuclear disarmament is asking for saw the placards calling for a stop to the war. i come from lithuania, i feel like nato is doing everything they can. i do not necessarily think they should send they troops to ukraine, at least just yet. i hope we can help with i'm ignition support my me. i intelligence i'm from west computer. it's terry believe painful. with crying every day, my sister there, my nephew in key. if you need basement, mom showed the sitting with family and it's terribly painful. it's unbelievable. but people of ukraine are very strong. you know, if you think you think that western powers could go further than they have done,

oh, definitely definitely in what way. but firstly, to stop the gas coaches, the gas in oil, from russia, because this is the most important, i think, i believe there is global disdain for russia's war in ukraine. this is catholic storm, a former soviet states, still heavily under the influence of russia. oh, this is the chilean capital santiago, where people are calling for an end to the violence. yet in russia they have been courageous acts of defiance and multiple cities. this is saint petersburg and this is moscow where police out imposed that the end of the kremlin threatened to jail demonstrators for 15 years. and it's illegal to call the invasion of ukraine. but a special operation, ah, on the edge of red square,

to protest to sing the ukrainian national anthem before being dragged away. large numbers of russians opposed to the war. now fleeing back country squeeze by western sanctions and persecuted by the russian state. yet, many of these anti war demonstrators were the children that we might be able to pull ourselves back from time. now say many of these demonstrators for western leaders to help grow good, almost impossible political solution to help bring us all back from the bring me faulkner al jazeera london, us brent crude oil prices have sort again, the now almost $140.00 a barrel as the highest since 2008, the latest spike comes as the us and its allies, a considering an embargo on russian oil. russia is the 3rd biggest oil export in the world supplying around 7000000 barrels

a day. analyst predicting that if most of its exports to cut off the price could reach $200.00 a barrel. far above the record of $147.00 more than a decade ago. and the international monetary fund has warned the war and sanctions imposed on russia or severely impact the global economy. josh young is chief investment officer, it oil and gas equity investment firm by some interests. he believes russia could still benefit from the rise and prices. ironically, a might not hurt russia that much. so if russia gets to export, let's say a 3rd less of their oil. and if they have to take a discount on it. but if well, prices are much higher, they might actually net positive on the oil side. and similar on other commodities . one thing that we lose track of is how much inflation there's been since the last time oil prices were anywhere close to this. hi. and so if you look at it on an inflation adjusted basis, you'd be looking at oil close to $200.00

a barrel to be equivalent to the price that i got $2.00 in 2008. and frankly, the world economy is a lot stronger and a lot bigger since then. and it's a lot less oil dependence. so you could actually see, well, prices go a lot higher before causing recession. and before you see demand destruction, i think there's a good chance that this is not short term. there's always the possibility of a short term pullback after prices rise as much as they have as quickly as they have. but there were these dynamics going on. there was a long downturn for oil, and we too much under investment in oil over the last 7 years. and there were very harsh government policies in the u. s. canada and elsewhere that were diminishing oil investment and oil production. and so this is kind of the result of that. obviously the russian invasion of ukraine was a, it was a catalyst and brought this forward. but this was something that was going to happen anyway. oil is going to go all time highs kind of regardless. and the other you, serious government says and israeli air attack has killed at least 2 people in damascus

. there are reports of several explosions of the capital city. state medias reporting series, military responded to what's being called israeli or aggression. the leader of south korea's holding party is a hospital after being attacked and a campaign event song. young girl was campaigning ahead of an election. on wednesday, the pandemic rising house prices and corruption scandals are among foot. his top concerns and the trumpet bry reports candidates are using innovative ways to get their message across. having given the world k pop south koreans like to make a song and dance about their elections. the to presidential front runners, especially supporters of conservative hopeful units. look, ya'll want you to remember his number 2 went filling out the ballot paper while the candidate of the ruling liberal party, li, jamie young. once his number one to get stuck in their heads,

carefully composed and choreographed, there's a real art to creating the right political ditty forwarded by the time the candidate appears. we've already injected a certain energy we prepare. so instead half catchy lyrics that people know will. and death moves that everyone can do together at this drive in event for the democratic party, those moves are socially distanced but intended to get the audience warmed up. routines like these are a vital component of any campaign and the more prominent the candidate, the more elaborate the performances become. but presidential hopefuls also rely increasingly upon technology to connect with voters supported by some of the worlds fastest internet speeds on line campaigning is reaching new levels of ingenuity and another candidate to since dropped out on charl sue held a news conference in the so called met averse of the interactive internet with real

life journalists, appearing as computer generated figures. the 2 leading candidates have gone further with artificial intelligence or a i, by creating life like avatars of themselves. upon milan, liberal candidate lees image promotes messages tailored for particular areas of the country. a conservative yoon is able to answer questions. who's our enemy? he's asked. i'll tell you straight it's north career. he quips. his creators seem to admit their yoon is a sassy version of the real person to whom i be tied to a tenant, happened, and some of those answers are not always very politically correct. but if we try to be overcautious, we get less feedback from the public into the such a i. manipulation has led to claims of foul play from his rivals. but in this contest with the 2 leading contenders, running neck and neck just won catchy online appearance or snappy slogan might

prove the difference between success and failure. rob mcbride, al jazeera, so a convoy of 100 vehicles is as in, closer to the heart of the u. s. capital, it travelled around washington, dcs beltway highway, which circles the city, and is threatening to enter and bring traffic to a standstill. the so called people's convoy is mainly protesting pandemic restrictions. those taking part are angry about a range of issues. the inflation is out of control. you know, i've lived here my whole life. last time we saw anything back this like this, i was a teenager. and on your back then i grew numb of saying all the inflation, it won't last. it's going to go away. it never went away. hundreds of people in sri lanka, having protesting against shortages of basic essentials, caused by a foreign currency crisis. the government has dead payments to make and is refused to seek international bailouts. it says it can handle the process on its own when al fernandez with this report, spending owns in queues has become the norm,

a crush lanka, starting with food, rice, sugar and mid powder. now it's cooking gas and diesel that are in short supply. that of, i'll do that at all a similar day. i haven't eaten from the morning and i can't even go drink some water on, i would lose my place. otherwise made that avoiding me. not a bad thing after spending so many hours in cues, we can only run about 2 and a half days. we can't keep doing this. so we appeal for this problem to be solved. the shortages are a result of the government, not having enough dollars to pay for inputs. this is because it's for in earnings and reserves have been rapidly declining since 2019 huge debt repayment of ethan into a big chunk of available resources. the crisis has affected all sectors, including public transport. operator said they're struggling to survive from day to day. pick up the dining mariama on the one hand, there's no electricity. they cut power for 7 and a half hours. the diesel stocks i come up with half is given for power generation

and it's only half the stock that's used for everything else. after months of coping, people protesting yet and chill out note of colombo fishermen complain they don't have fuel for their boats. mid afternoon, my husband can't garcia, there is no diesel. i hope those responsible is struck by lightning in colombo, silent protests. enough is enough. is one banner stop ruining my country, reads another month of skyrocketing prices and shortages of food medicine, cooking gas and fuel have made sri lankan, frustrated and angry. to make matters worse, they have suffered through the worse pol got to be impose in more than 25 years. 7 and a half hour interruptions a day, a causing chaos among all segments of the population. she lungs as public utilities regulated says it has been pushing to solve that. how a crisis this is, has become

a national issue to necessity, year the attention has not been paid by the political hierarchy didn't, than now, and the authorities. so we have been fighting in all of it, almost everyone to sort out this issue. increasing prices and shortages are not unique to shanker but people here say they're leaders of aggravated the situation through years of corruption and mismanagement. minute fernandez, algebra, colombo ah . as al jazeera, these, the top stories russian military forces are set to reportedly hold fire in several ukrainian cities and all civilians to leave safely. these are the latest pictures from the checkpoints are cited. keith be commanded hearing corridors are being opened at the request of the french president. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski has condemned what he.