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a 3rd round of talks with ukraine. ukraine takes russia to the international court of justice at once, judges to order moscow to stop its military invasion. we also report from the front line in the east where russian back separatists are pushing further into ukrainian health territory. and i'm given us with sports or russian gymnast is facing disciplinary action from the sports while governing body, after wearing and national war symbol during a while cup events. hello we start this news hour in the eastern ukrainian city of car cave which has come under heavy russian bombardment. it's one of the cities that was announced as part of a russian lead humanitarian corridor or correspondence. charles stratford is there right now. charles, tell us what you are seeing. scenes of utter

devastation here in the center of car cave. you crane 2nd city. second largest city . absolutely shocked by water. we've seen, i'm just going to turn the camera around and, and show you for example, this street. this is what the power of russian bombing can do to civilian areas of this city. this seat, this a street completely and utterly devastated. some of the buildings still on fire. am i pan round here? you can see one of cock his main churches, the staples, the couple is on the top of that church. very, very damage. all the windows blown out of that church. as i say, this is central car cave money. the buildings on the other side are government buildings. it's the scene of where we saw that huge shell drop. what 3 or 4 days ago on the city,

the people here that you speak to cannot in any way get their head round. how the leader of a civilized country like russia, how black may putin could do this to a city like called a cave. i mean, some of the people that we spoke to literally walking around in a daze, unable to comprehend what has just happened. certainly in the last few days, we've heard a little bit of sharing in the last hour. also the on the saying that there was shutting here this morning. we know that they're all styles of people in some of the underground stations sheltering from the expectation of increasing shelling. but yeah, i mean, just just look up the street behind me. for example. there isn't a single building that is not totally destroyed. it was about 3 weeks ago that popped into a shop, just round the corner to buy chocolate and food. we went in, there is a team supply provisions. and at the time speaking to people in khaki,

they had no way of any way believing that this kind of thing could happen to the beloved city. they just did not believe that it would ever happen and now look at it. it has, it is an absolutely shocking scene of destruction and misery. and we're going to be speaking to some of the people in the shelters that we, that we understand the railway stations where people are hiding. the concern now is that it is getting dark that the curfew is starting. there's very few people on the street, but yeah, on a personal level, having visited the city so much, i'm struggling to find the words. and if it's bad for me, then imagine what it's like for the what we understood was 1400000 people that lived here on the way in. we saw people trying to leave in that cause with the families. no word really that we've heard in terms of the humanitarian cordele that

we understood was going to be north of the city, leading to russia. we can't confirm whether in fact that has happened. but yeah, a city here that feels very much on the sage, and a people struggling to deal with the level of devastation and destruction that they are witnessing, astonishing scenes out of khaki. charles will let you go for now. thank you so much . stratford is reporting for us from car keys while completely immoral. that's how ukraine is describing a proposal from russia to provide humanitarian corridors for ukrainian citizens that would lead to russia and bella. ruth. so that comes after moscow said that its opening 6 routes to allow civilians to leave, and it said it was acting at the request of the french president to manual my chrome. well, keith says civilian suffering is being used to manipulate them and world leaders, if calling for citizens to be allowed to leave ukraine through the city of levine

in the west of the country. while all that's happening talks between the 2 sides are due to take place a little bit later for the 3rd time in bella roost. ukraine's deputy prime minister is also calling on moscow to clarify immediately if it content a consent to cease fire with. were you looking now she lou, this yvonne cause the moraz. this is an unacceptable way of opening humanitarian corridors. our people will not be going to battle roofs in order to fly to russia. i hope president micron understands that his name and desire to help ukrainians and foreign nationals of other countries is in reality being used and manipulated by the russian federation. we demand the russian federation opens the possibility of humanitarian corridors, which would be used for humanitarian aid and have to be provided to all ukrainian cities. we will bring in our correspondence. dorsen jabbar is joining us from moscow. she'll have more on the expected negotiations to end the conflict,

but natasha butler is joining us for a she's a, joining us from live even the west of ukraine to 1st discuss the humanitarian corridors. we heard the ukrainian speak out strongly against them, where to think stands right now. yes, strong words manipulative, completely immoral. those the words ukrainian authorities a using to describe rushes offer of putting in place humanitarian corridors, most of which would lead to people trying to flee areas that have been nearly completely destroyed into paris or into russia. well, ukraine's deputy prime minister said that is just not acceptable or she has called for a cease fire, which would allow the establishment of our humanitarian corey doors. but allowing people to leave cities in the areas are crossing ukrainian territory. and onwards you'd imagine west to border neighboring border countries, including poland,

romania hungry places where are hundreds of thousands of people have been fleeing since the invasion began. so a very strong words from ukrainian or sorties. it's also worth noting, we have also heard comments by a director of operations for the internet. so committee, the red cross who described how a humanitarian corey door that was supposed to be put in place over the weekend, saturday, sunday, out of the a positive mario pole. on the sea of as off, well, he described how some red cross workers had tried to take that route. but in fact, there were mines all along it so not to sore safe for the many, many people who need to flee. as i said over the past 2 days, to cease fires of failed attempts to put humanitarian corridors in place, they were agreed by a ukrainian and russian all thirties. but both sides blaming each other, saying that their troops are continuing to fight and is simply has not been safe

enough to get people out and speaking off the troops fighting natasha. what are you hearing about the latest on the grounds, in parts of the country? well i think you just heard, you know, so to him, so very powerful. oh testimony there from charles stratford, who is in the hall cock eve center of the city. they're totally destroyed. russian shelling has done the same to so many different areas in the north, east, and south all via crane russian forces making against bart ukrainian forces. also continuing to put up a fis resistance. and one of the main fresh points has been this southern city of nikolai eve. that's a city on the a black sea, russian forces we understand. i haven't circled the city that's been very intense fighting there. but according to the mer,

ukrainian forces are still in charge. they are still resisting. but so many of these places that are getting showed up by russian troops are of course, running out of things like food, water, vital age. i'm. that is why, what we are expecting in what we can imagine might be a point of discussion during some upcoming talks that are expected to take place between ukrainian or russian negotiators in a couple of hours here. ukraine time. this is a 3rd set of talk since this invasion began. we are expecting a least ukranian site to be pushing very hard for humanitarian corridors to allow people to come out of some of these areas that have been so devastated. because as i said until now, that's just not happens and i should add that the red cross of war. so said the one of the problems is that there hasn't really ever been a plan in place that although the ukrainians and the russians have agreed in theory to implement a corridors, they've never been detailed plans. so we'll have to see what comes out of those

negotiations in a few hours. okay, thank you so much. natasha butler is reporting from the west of ukraine, and let's get more on these talks with dorsey jabari. she's joining us from moscow . so they're due to starts soon door. so what do we expect, and what will the russians be pushing for? well, we've just been hearing from the kremlin spokesperson, dmitri pasco, of who laid out what the russian delegation will be asking for from the ukranian side. according to the russians, they will be asking that ukraine sees their military actions as well as they wants the ukrainian government to change its constitution to enshrine their neutrality. that means they want to make sure it is written in a new constitution in ukraine that they do not seek to join nato. and the russians are also going to be asking that crimea and be recognized as a russian territory. of course,

that is the area that is russia annex in 2014. and also they want to make sure that the ukrainians recognize thee as separate as republics of dun yeske and val ganske as independent. they also will be discussing these attempts at a temporary cease fire along these humanitarian corridors that have not happened over the past 3 days. we understand the ukrainian delegation will also be asking for an immediate cease fire, as well as the withdrawal of all russian troops from ukrainian territory. now whether or not the 2 sides can come to any kind of an agreement bill, even if it's temporary, it remains to be seen. but we understand that the russian delegation is now currently waiting for the ukrainians to arrive in belarus. alongside the border with poland in the breast region where they met each other last thursday on march. 3rd, this will be of course, a 3rd time the 2 sides will be sitting across from one another to discuss the

ongoing situation in ukraine. whether or not they will be able to agree to anything remains to be seen, but the 2 sides are adamant that the line of communication needs to remain open. and if there's any chance of reaching any kind of an agreement, these dialogues need to continue to try and reach some kind of a ceasefire in ukraine. okay, thank you so much for sandra mario reporting from moscow. while ukraine's president has accused russia of murder saying it's deliberately targeting civilians in its efforts to push further into the country. me never watched. mostly we will not forgive the shooting of on our people, destruction of our infrastructure. we won't forgive hundreds and hundreds of victims, thousands and thousands of sufferings, and god forgives that not today, not to morrow, never meeting me of tens of thousands of people have heard the fighting in ukraine and they've sought refuge in neighboring romania. that is where dr. hamid is

joining us from she's on the border between ukraine and romania to tell us what you're seeing, where you are actually under ukrainian side of the board. and we've been here for the last few hours and the amount of people arriving is increasing a lot. if you does, on this side, you have the queue of cars and we've asked these people here at the top of the queue, how long have they been here? and they said about 24 hours. now on this side, you have those that are making their way by foot. it's also a long wait several hours, 56 hours and you'll see there's a lot of women traveling alone does a lot of children. you see some men in your pictures, but there's gonna be some really heart wrenching. good buys at the end of the queue once they manage to cross because men men cannot leave from, from the country, especially if they're below 60. now these people are actually coming from the east of the country by and large people who have fed high to keep. and i was listening

to charles stratford reporting there. well, i so them showing us videos of them stuck in the shelters for days and not able to come out them telling us how difficult it was to leave this city at the back of the queue. there is a group of 50 indian students who just made it out by bus. they made it all the way here. it took them several days because that road is basically your piercing crust tree. it's a very long road. they are checkpoint. after checkpoint, after checkpoint is very little fuel along the road, 20 liters. if you manage to get into federal station know accommodation, very little food. so it is really a very complicated way and now do more people will plead the use of the country do more. they will try to come to this border because regardless of all of i've been

telling you, it is the closest point and with all that backlog at the border with prone and they're preferred to come here now. and if indeed, these humanitarian corey doors do happen. well, yes, you will expect a lot of the people fleeing where you put the last kind of keep the need for all coming to this area. it is a very difficult situation. it is a very heart wrenching situation. the very few human italian organizations at the moment helping out i think from what i've seen throughout the day more will be arriving. and this is really the last moments of these people being this place. and they're just in a few meter, they're going to cross the border and they will become refugees. and many of them told me they don't know what they will do. they didn't know what school they're going to put their children in. they don't know when they're going to see their father. they sounds or their husband again and to what country they will return.

okay, thank you so much. what i do have is reporting from the ukraine a romania border. let's bring in a honda chela who's the director of security programs at the foreign policy council, ukrainian president. she's joining us live from odessa. welcome to al jazeera. can you tell us what the situation is like in odessa and, and what you're seeing there? thank you for the invitation. the situation in odessa definitely. as for now, calmer, comparing to key of or harkey, or even the week alive. what is the max region to desa where we're each day we hear a why to number all shelling the sirens finished in odessa just few minutes ago when i've been waiting for these show as the we new ukrainian navy and the seal ria are fighting quite a have these to protect from the he's the latest, the nicer one of the russian rocket boards be in charge of that been at the correctional to possibly tutorial what are some of the ukraine also?

yes, to the, with quite a significant incidents that russians from day across, targeted through the separate the region of trump. nice and so nice to to that so that it just, you pick along the jurors drive. what about people in odessa, are they, are they preparing to leave or they, are they trying to leave? there were some people who are living the town, predominantly. those were the small kids, really with the small children. because the sort of a difficult to teach and other regions, and they was like most inciting to leave it a little bit earlier. but at the same time, we see that the cd is preparing for the territorial defense. it's extremely difficult to find to be listed with the territorial defense. there are so many young man and old man wanted to, to join it. we knew that to a, most of the services, the restaurant, everybody who can, how the church royal defense are doing it right now. and the cds trying to leave the life more or less with the regular things like the markets are trying to be open. at least 412 hours per day,

or 2 people will have the supply. but at the same time, you definitely feel the nervous and the preparation and following what is happening and we call life because we understand that you can't sound while the nikolai was standing. and i wonder if you can just give us a little bit of context about a desa because of course it is a critical ukrainian port on the black. see how strategic is it to for you to understand when we think of the supports, we mean 3 be for so so hold be those assets of them and more of the 70 percent of ukrainian experts is happening through the sports. and you creating an expert that is, 1st of all, a grain and mythology or so ukraine, even the top 3 of the world exporters of grains. and now the 4th full of containers with the different type of the grains that should be exported. because last year we had the records, the harvest of wheat and other grants in ukraine, who actually now we're just 2 weeks old,

the war we all want to see the destruction of supply of food. but very soon, you can understand that if can we improve the food security of many countries in asia and middle is and what have you with us, let me just ask you about your thoughts on the coming 3rd round of talks between ukrainian or russian officials to take place in bella rues, shortly. are you expecting? or are you hopeful of any sort of agreements. now, you know that that's very difficult to be helpful, considering co difference of requests from 2 sides. ukraine, each of 3 rounds being asking for the humanitarian corridors. you have equate people from such sounds as mighty well, for example. and as we've seen, the none of these times russia managed to confirm the fire and of accretion didn't happen. at the same time, russia is asking the changes to this institution and trying to change the governments in ukraine. so that clearly demonstrating together with the challenge of the city and objects in ukraine's that russian military institution doesn't

matter with such difficult and different position. it's very like i'm look very optimistic, it's faxing that suddenly some compromise can be. all right, we'll leave it there. thank you so much for speaking to us from justin. now ukraine has taken russia to a court over the war, but moscow is a no show. so keith wants the international court of justice to order an end to the military action. russia did not send a delegation to the hearing. the presiding judge said the court regrets moscow's decision not to attend russia claims that in order to stop and non existent genocide, it can invade a sovereign state ukraine. ukraine rejects this baseless crime glaze. my message, the russia, is this. let a federal our dispute, like civilized nations, lay down your arms and boots for what your evidence ukraine respects as escort and

follows. it's old us. russia must as well. but if russia will not return to international law on its own. but the court has their power to act with respect. the court has responsibility to act and re from on this hearing loss bring in charlie angela join as from london. so what, what are we hearing out of that hearing, charlie? well, what ukraine is essentially asking for is for the court to put in place provisional measures against russia, that would mean ceasing or military operations in ukrainian territory and red red during any kind of russian. a militia. and ukraine says its case is very straightforward, and it centers on a treaty signed by russia and ukraine in 1948 on the prevention of genocide, russia, they say his accused ukraine of committing genocide in easton ukraine and 2014 and use that as that pretext for this invasion, ukraine says this,

this accusation of genocide is baseless and we will prove it. and that full russia's invasion on this pretext is illegal. as you mentioned, russia has not attended the hearing that front row in the court lay empty seats that were reserved for their lawyers. and possibly one of the reasons for this no show is because one of that talked lawyers alarm pele of france resigned last week . and in an open letter said enough is enough. i can no longer represent a country that so cynically despises the law. so that would have been a blow for the russian side, but a law is at stake for the international court of justice here. its reputation is really on the line with the ukrainian representative, noting that after world war 2, the world said never again to genocide and yet genocide is what we are clearly

seeing in ukraine. he said that if the court cannot decisively or to russia to stop, then why should any un member see international law as an obstacle to war? you heard the police there directly to the russian side to lay down their weapons and the plea to the court to uphold international law. so what we're seeing now is that ukraine has wrapped up that arguments. russia has boycotted by not attending and we can expect to see a judgement in record time usually takes about 3 years, but we could see something out of the i c j in the next week. oh ok. thank you so much. charlie angela reporting from london. let's continue this conversation with eric with you. he's a senior policy officer at the open society justice initiative. he's joining us from london as well. eric with the welcome to i'll just say we're how significant is it that the i c j is taking on this case and the war in ukraine? it's really a huge significance when launched as aggression against ukraine. it was also an

aggression against norms and institutions of international law that are in the interest of the entire world community. the norm that you do not invade your neighboring state, the norms around of international criminal justice that you do not break the laws of war. commit war crimes and crimes against humanity during a conflict. and so this is a matter of interest to us all. it's important that the law be asserted here, and that the institutions of accountability and justice are fully supported by the diplomatic measures fully supported financially by states. here's the thing. there's also a 2nd trial at the international criminal court that's currently underway. the prosecutor. they're saying that it's begun to investigations into whether the russian president or other figure is in the kremlin, are responsible, as you know, for war crimes and crimes against humanity. how do you see that one playing out? that's also vital importance. so the i c. c is separate from the international

court of justice that deals with individual criminal responsibility. and so it will be looking at these issues of war crimes and crimes against humanity. it needs for support of the international community in order to do that. and i think the signs are good that it has that support. it will need to show evidence of, of these crimes on the ground. and we're seeing day by day and hour by hour that there is more and more evidence of russian forces committing or crimes. and crimes against humanity and ukraine. one challenge for the i c c prosecutor will be to link the commission of these crimes on the ground to leadership. bang though. what are the challenges, right. so what are the challenges in sort of conducting an s and an investigation from a distance during a war that's ongoing? right, it's

a huge challenge for the investigators to have access to witnesses to have access to evidence. but we're seeing in this conflict, really unprecedented documentation happening in real time digital evidence being collected and preserved evidence, photographic evidence and video evidence of artillery shells slamming into civilian infrastructure. photographs of serial numbers on artillery shells that are spent there are intercepts of russian communications that are being gathered there. there's all manner of evidence being gathered. and so i think the prosecutor will have a lot to work with. does the fact that russia did not ratify the treaty? that is the room statutes for the international criminal court which, which the court has based on in fact, does that pose a problem? it doesn't. the court still has jurisdiction in this matter because ukraine has

accepted the jurisdiction of the international criminal court over events since february 2014, the initial russian invasions of crimea, and done by us. and in fact the i see he has already been looking into crimes in those areas of the past 8 years. and so it will be a challenge when it comes to enforcement. if the core issues arrest orders for arrest, it will be a challenge, of course, to obtain cooperation from the russian state unless there is political change that make such cooperation possible. okay, thank you so much, eric, waiting for speaking to us from london. thank you. tom for the weather has rob. the sand is up, has been whipping through is are the light, sand, or dust. this is a picturing cairo that was that line of dusty stuff coming alongside. what is

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hello again. the top stories on the al jazeera news, our scenes of devastation in ukraine, 2nd largest city residential areas in government. buildings have been hit by russian airstrikes. ukraine has taken russia to court over the war, but moscow was not attending the hearing key once the international court of justice to order an end to the military action key has called rest of your military and corridors in ukraine, completely immoral civilians being evacuated from several cities and only go to russia or bella rufe, keith says they are suffering as we used to manipulate them our world leaders. i'll to zeros correspondent hotline. i photo as in key with more on the evacuations. we are in may dining square. this is the most symbolic place in the whole of ukraine, known for all the political demonstrations, the most famous of which were demonstrations against russian allies during the

orange revolution. but now as the city of paris itself for a possible russian invasion, what's the respect and call here an all out assault on the capital? things are relatively calm. they've been come relatively come to pass to any 4 hours. there are checkpoints, obviously everywhere. and you really see people walking out in the street just to go and get to petro, gets to the, essentially like food medicine from the very few open shops and pharmacies. however, there's been fears for i think, in areas near kia and like ghost butcher and especially happen, which is only 25 kilometers away from the center of give, as the russian troops have been trying to advance, that was the capital. this happened to science when russia announced its open 6 human, it's area inquiry, those from different cities as so me money,

paul carter called and the capital city here. but these unitarian, cory, those lead to go towards russia, and which is why it has been called by officials immoral, because obviously it's been, there is an ally of russia international atomic energy agency says it's extremely concerned over reports that ukrainian authorities have been unable to reach staff at 2 nuclear plants that after fighting broke out and just reaching on friday. the facility is now under russian control. that's according to the us nuclear energy body. access to mobile networks on the internet have reportedly been cut at the plant communication with staff and a poll, and a plant that handles radioactive material has also been lost. well, the head of the us nuclear energy bodies says the priority for the i. e. a is insuring concrete, concrete arrangements are in place to guarantee access, transportation, and other safety measures. i need to sit down with it with our russian politics

with your grade, because you show that you have to decide what they want in terms of these practical aspects. so this is the say, the idea of more than that we are exchanging already we then we will try to build on the we don't have much time. so i hope to be able to move as fast as possible before another episode. or the fanatic editor james mason's journey is not from vienna. so how much concern is there about nuclear safety in ukraine? james? i think there is a great deal of concern direct to general, attending the board of governors meeting of the international atomic energy agency today. as you heard, he says he's having discussions with his ukranian counterpart, the head of the agency,

that of ukraine's national agency. and also having discussions with the russians, he said in the past that he is prepared to travel to ukraine. he's also prepared to send a team of inspectors to the, to the ground, to try and help the ukrainian staff who are there that concerned about the lack of communications that concerned about potential undue pressure on those that are operating the nuclear plants. at this stage, he said he's particularly concerned because of what he described as the ball size of ukraine's civil nuclear power program. they've got 15 different reactors in 4 different sites and they produce more than half the electricity for ukraine. that's why it's such a big problem. and already, as you've said, we've had a situation where one of the biggest nuclear plant in the country has come under attack. and there were artillery shells landing and damaging some of the buildings

. no radiation, extra radiation has been released. but there is concern of what happens next, and that's why he says he needs to have constructive talks with all sides to protect those, those services, and how the war in ukraine affecting the ongoing iranian nuclear talks. well those talks have been going on for 11 months now trying to get back to the 2015 iran nuclear deal. of course that was in itself a very difficult thing because since president trump pulled out of the iran nuclear deal, he put many more sanctions on iraq. that complicates it on one side on the, and on the other. iran then decided to further put efforts to expand its nuclear program and to enrich more uranium. so you have to do something about those 2 things about the sanctions and about the radiant nuclear activities. talks have been going on and got to quite an advanced stage at the end of last week. in fact,

the preparations being made for a signing ceremony for a new deal, but the spine was put in the works by the russian, the russian foreign minister. so gala ralph, he's now asking for guarantees for his country its trade because of the sanction being put on russia with iran. russia not just a signatory as a permanent member of the un security council that has a part in the nuclear deal. that extra uranium, the enriched uranium, is supposed to be taken away and dealt with by russia. so this is a problem and it's certainly stalled the process at what seemed to be the 11th hour . all right, thank you so much. our diplomatic editor, james, may, is reporting from vienna, while china has reaffirmed its friendship with russia, describing it as rock, solid speaking on monday, the foreign ministry did not condemn moscow's invasion of ukraine, but its added hopes progress will be made during the next round of talks to resolve the conflict, she find dodge in june, you towards what's needed to solve complex issues is a cool head in

a rational mind, not adding fuel to the fire, which only intensifies the situation. china believes that to resolve the crisis, we must uphold the principles of the un charter and protect the sovereign and territorial integrity of all countries. still saying as director of the china institute, so as university of london, he explains why beijing is refraining from condemning russia's aggression. china's positioned is basically laid down by she jumping, which is to support proteins and russia. she, she jumping, cannot afford to c, putin fail. so even though the foreign ministry in china has hesitations and reservations about the russians in relation, ultimately, they can not the park from the directions issued by she, jim ping, so unnecessary jumping to get his mind. we will be hearing rhetoric. so what i'm seeing real effective actions for letting behind the scenes probably be

a lot of activities going on between china and russia. dealing with practical issues that the russians will be making demand of a request on the chinese government. and the chinese committee will be making conditions in terms of how and why they should be helping the russians to deal with some of those western sanctions. i don't think we're dealing with a lot of chinese pressure on russia to cease fire or the back to the military. that's what we really need to be seeing happening. but that is not at the moment. happening. australia as prime minister, as urging china to join the efforts to stop the war. scott morrison offered more support to ukraine, describing rushes invasion as a wakeup call to the west, heels a war. and that a new era of i'll talk or see was resetting world order with implications stretching as far as the endo pacific sarah clark reports from brisbin. you,

you mean i see oscillation due to coven astrology, as prime minister made his foreign policy address via social media. scott morrison confirmed that $70000000.00 worth of humanitarian aid, ammunition and resolve, had touched down in europe, destined few crime during a phone conversation on saturday. he also offered president lensky more support if needed. if there is further effective support, we can provide to assist you cry difference. we will every die you cry and resist is a further die of humiliation. the president and imposes a heavy for us on he's a legal, reckless. he tell us acts of aggression his try and prime minister the noun. what he described as russia's attempt to reset will order. haste is the strategic invitations of this attack by president stretch from europe, the civic, and warns that it could involved and another authoritarian,

later in the region. i think china is rapidly expanding. militarization in the south china sea will as a china woods about its commitment to global place and respect to sovereignty and territorial integrity, implying a policy brought me international community for a very long time now. so it's now john is and the latest at this point of history, to demonstrate that he's more than just worse. i see in the early signs, i'm not good. china has embarked on one of the biggest military spends in history growing its air force and navy. yes, united states and the united kingdom have boosted they defiant in the region under trilateral pac trust to ward off basically be further expand in the areas. i just thought it's long habit ambition to things taiwan. one thing we know certain is that the military balance has shifted dramatically over the last 20 years,

much more in favor of china. so the, the risk of china taking that kind of action as i think grinding. and we know that this is core business for the communist party. a strategy has announced it will set up a 2nd submarine base to both its regional defense capabilities. british american and astrology, and nuclear power subs purchased under the orchestra. lateral pact will be based here to counter china's moves in the indo pacific. construction of the spice will begin next year. sarah clark, i'll just 0 brisbin, australia. a protest against russia invasion have been held in several countries with calls for western powers to do more to the violence to end the violence series of bows at a demonstration in argentina was here in the center of when a side is where hundreds of people have gathered to denounce the war ukraine. people here are calling of latimer walking, a war criminal, and they're demanding russia leave the ukraine even the most,

accomplish it at all. i've been thinking that like we have come here to support all of those who are suffering in ukraine. i have family and friends over there, and this is very up to session. after 2 years of the pandemic. and now this is, it is unacceptable that element, a metric that will hold just like this one are happening all across america, in mexico and other countries in the region. in the past years, russia has expanded its influence in latin america to investment through the distribution of the sputnik v vaccine doing the corona virus pandemic. among other things that leaders in the region have their own agendas, and they have used it as the leverage of what the united states, the war in ukrainian devices issue america and why they're called ever i've been running like new car up when it's when i'm to buy them out of countries like mexico . what trying to remain under other countries like argent, tina that are demanding an end to the war. the ukraine war is pushing up the price

of oil. the u. s. benchmark brent crude has soar to almost a $140.00 a barrel. that's it's higher since 2008. and that's because the u. s. and european allies are also considering a ban on russian oil. russia as the world's 3rd biggest oil exporter. if it supply is caught, then analysts predict the spot price could reach $200.00 a barrel. that's far above a record $147.00 more than a decade ago. the international monetary fund has warned. the war on sanctions imposed on russia was severely impact the global economy. josh young as chief investment officer at orland gas equity investment for bees on entrusts. he believes russia could benefit from the rise in prices. ironically, it 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 dependency. you could actually see oil 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, let's say, 7 years. and there were very harsh government policies in the us, 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 in other news. police in south korea are investigating, investigating an attack on the leader of the ruling party. song young girl was hit on the head while campaigning. and so he's being treated in hospice. all the elections are set for wednesday and has rob mcbride 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 yoon suck. ya'll want you to remember? his number 2 went filling out the ballot paper. while the candidate of the ruling

liberal party, li jame young wants 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 dr. 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 performance is become. but presidential hopefuls also rely increasingly upon technology to connect with voters, supported by some of the worlds fastest internet speeds. online 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 lifelike avatars of themselves, or pamela 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 korea, he quips, his creators seem to admit their yoon is a sassy version of the real person. to whom am i be tied to what 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 minute. elation 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 still ahead on al jazeera will be live in moscow for reaction after this gymnast war and national war. some bull during a world events. ah . with

with mm. pool lou. ah ah no, we're in time for the sportsman's with jemma. thank you. during a russian gymnast is being investigated off to wearing a national war symbol during a well cup event of the weekend. if i'm cardiac is facing a discipline reaction from the international gymnastics federation for having the

letter said on his chest during the competition out of metal ceremony. where he stood next to the gold medalist from ukraine. that is, that has become a symbolic with russia's invasion of ukraine from today, russian and better russian athletes officials and judges are no longer allowed to take part and events sanctioned by wild gymnastics. let's get some reaction now to the story from russian sports on this alexia. you're a chef ski and moscow alexi. do you think this gymnast it should be punished? like matters little what i think about whether she should be punished or not. of course, we are very divided here in russia itself, about what's going on in ukraine. there are those who are strongly opposing, what's going on there, of course, those who are supporting what's going on i, and in this case, of course, even express his own opinion as his train has said, he's train also hinted that this might have happened because of the bullying he has sustained from ukraine in athletes. although of course, this is something that is yet to be verified, but i make no mistake about it. he probably will be punished just as many other

athletes are expressing their political views on the world sports arenas. and i'm expecting a full expecting m announcement from the world gymnastics on a band or a certain disciplinary action in regards to these athlete. speaking of bands and punishments, missing rationale, and eats and teams across many sports being banned. nice, nate, play you'll football team at being expelled from wild cow. quantify, how are people in your country reacting to these various bands? well, obviously the agenda is right now is not dominated by sports at all. of course, there's a lot of hard break and grief about athletes being banned here and there with people, irrespective of what their views are on what's going on in ukraine, saying that athletes had nothing to do with it. what's going on there? they've never supported it. they would never, and you know, vote for such an action against a neighboring country. and yet they are being and you know, punished collectively by the associations by these sporting authorities across the

planet. but speaking off the russian national football team, it's not over yet. we've heard from the manager of the polish national team that fee for has not yet a handed, an official, a paper suggesting that the match will not take place besides, the russian football union already filed an appeal to the court of arbitration for sports. so there is still a chance that this match might be moved to june when things calm down. although of course we understand that from now on a game like that will not be a calm of any nerves. and obviously this to be a heated battle if it to even if it takes place. but on the club level, of course we've already. busy seen the likes of spots on moscow who was due to play our delight sick in the euroleague. they will no longer play that game and they are not looking to appeal against that decision by way far. so this is happening pretty much universally. athletes are being punished are being sanctioned, are being banned, and kicked out simply for being russian and the international paralympic committee

. they went back on their decision. it's allow russian athletes, annabella, rush, ne, compete is neutrals. was that too harsh? i believe it is because if sir any one ever spoke to any bar olympian, i have a few friends, paralympic athletes of the present and the blast. and if you understand what these people are going through in their everyday lives, how much they have to overcome to actually be able to compete. this wouldn't be a question to you whether they should have been banned or not, of the bazaar, etc. of this decision is particularly striking, that 1st they allowed the russian national team to compete under a neutral flag without an anthem. but this is something, of course many russian athletes have already gotten used to in a way because of the doping scandals, because of the bands by water and other organizations. but in this case, this was quite humiliating. just 1st tell them you have to compete. you can compete and then send them home and the next day, which is really heartbreaking. of course, this is nothing compared to what people are going through in ukraine right now,

but if we isolate sports as, as an entity, as what's going on there, this is one of the most painful pages in the recent history, when it comes to russian athletes, a saying a lot of support for ukraine within european football been in the past governing by you 8th as punished teams as is showing as solidarity with other countries in conflict. so it is this double standards. of course it does look like double stand . that is, especially if you look at the situation, for instance, with the glass we gym football club, celtic, which flew the banners of palestine. there to have been many other cases where athletes supported a certain party in a military conflict openly on the field of flight and worse sanctioned for that in the case of ukraine. that doesn't apply agile. of course, people are not supporting, you know, any kind of wall pots here. they are asking for peace, essentially, but that is going completely, okay. at the same time, you know, other athletes are being punished for their show off for any political. i'm

political force or political decisions, like the story with the russian gymnast who is most certainly will be punished for that. so it is a bizarre case of double standards, but it definitely is not the worst thing that's happening to us right now, of course. and is very quickly and many high profile russian and athletes of publicly shane opposition to the invasion. what you think the russian government makes this i don't believe russian government will punish those athletes in any way where i've seen the likes of alexander. i've each can one of the biggest and best ice hockey players in the world. openly saying his disapproval of what's going on in ukraine, we've seen the olympic champions and i think is stating in the boss saying the same . there has been no reaction from the russian government. i don't think there will be that he's coming out of the game to happy to look like he showed the mind. thank you so much for joining us. thank you for your time. that's the least for now. it's

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