to somebody here and getting this pick up to collect the segregate, to say the reasoning. this is extremely important service as it relates to the city . we need to take america to try to bring people together trying to deal with people who've been left behind me. ah, me, russia and ukraine are set to meet again for talk to both sides, disagree on implementation of humanitarian corridors. ah, what else is there a lie for my headquarters in the also ahead. it is an absolutely shocking

scene of destruction and misery report from the eastern ukrainian city of cartoon which has come under heavy shelling from russian forces. ukraine takes russia to the international court of justice, one judges to order moscow to stop its military invasion. oil prices sergent the west, consider as banning crude from russia hello, ukrainian officials have arrived and by the ruse for talks with their russian counterparts. there. 3rd, such meetings moscow's invasion began. they're discussing how to open humanitarian corridors out of several ukrainian cities to get civilians to safety. it comes in both sides, accused the other a scuffling the efforts. ukraine says rushes efforts are manipulative and immoral. heave once moscow to agree to an immediate cease fire. and to open a safe route via the city of leave. natasha butler as in the ve,

she'll have more on the expected negotiations to end the conflict. the 1st will bring endorsing jibari to tell us what the russians are saying about these talks that have now kicked off. i believed or so. yes, according to the russian delegation, which is led by a presidential aid, the russians are looking for 4 main things from the ukrainians. one, they want the craniums to cease military action. and they also want official recognition of crimea, which russia annexed in 2014. as part of russia, and they also want a constitutional amendments in which it would state that said ukraine would not join any block and that would include nato. and finally, the russians are looking for the ukranian officials to recognize the air separatist regents of gun yeske and the guns in the eastern region as independent states. of

course, that is something that the russian president vladimir putin did on february 21st. the russian delegation will also be looking to discuss the issue of the humanitarian corridors which have failed to work over the past 3 days. that according to the russian defense ministries, because the ukrainian a military is not abiding by the rules that they had agreed upon. but of course, the ukrainian side is saying that the russians are the ones violating it. so accusations from both sides a. so why these much needed humanitarian corridors are not at working and haven't so far been able to get the civilian population out from the areas that are under attack, the ukrainian delegation. we understand what we're looking for a very specifically 1st an immediate cease fire across the country as well as the withdrawal of all russian troops from ukrainian soil before they will talk about anything else. so the 3rd round, eh,

we understand that will take place in the same location as the previous round. the 2nd round, which was on march 3rd. and that is, and near the feller russia and poland border in the breast region in belarus. and at the 2 sides, we'll be looking to find a solution to forward it, but it's a very, very difficult task ahead of them. whether or not they will be able to achieve anything remains to be seen. but the 2 sides are continuing dialogue and that is something that the international community has been pushing for over the past few days. okay, thank you. your sons, ortho is reporting for moscow. let's find out what the ukrainians are saying. if anything at all about the talks that have now started, and by the ru sons will bring in natasha butler. she's joining us from the ve natasha. well ukrainian hopes of these talks are pretty low as to be said, or we heard as much from ukraine's foreign minister a couple of days ago said that he didn't have much hope of any. a major breakthrough. and we've also heard of from the president of an ottoman zalinski

crating present to all. so this week has said, look, you know, you can't go into major negotiations when you have a gun or your head. in other words, until russian troops withdraw from ukraine. it's going to be very hard to have any form of a civil discussion about what should be done, or that said, of course, ukraine, once this war to end, they want to rush, intrigues go home, but that's unlikely to happen in these negotiations. they are relatively low level negotiations between ukranian and russian officials. so i think what we're gonna really expect ukrainian officials to do is to try and come out of these talks with at least some a form of a proper commitment to putting in place humanitarian corridors. we've talked a lot about those humanitarian corridors today, because russia earlier said that it was putting in place a several of them leading from a number of cities across ukraine, but they would evacuate people mostly to russia. and ben ross with that is

something that ukraine has said is absolutely unacceptable, completely immoral, manipulative. those are some of the words that have been used by ukranian officials to describe a russia's offer, but we are hearing as well from independent sources. so international and g o, the, one of the main problems here is not only that both sides or cues in each other continue to fight, which means for a hall to put any form of humanitarian corridors into place. but also they need to be more of a commitment in terms of what the details are in terms of a ceasefire, in terms of where these humanitarian corridors will actually be. it sounds as if both sides are saying that they will do something, but at the end of the day, perhaps they are not able to actually map out any real details. or maybe there is no commitment to these corridors from some quarters. i the way they all desperately need it by people who are suffering more and more as the days pass. okay, thank you so much. natasha butler reporting from the viv. we have charles stratford

and car heave. he says that people there are struggling to comprehend the devastation. they're experiencing scenes of devastation here in the center of car cave, ukraine's 2nd city, 2nd largest city. absolutely shocked by what 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. the seat this st completely and utterly devastated. some of the buildings still on fire for pan round here you can see one of cock his main churches, the steeples, the couple is on the top of that church. very, very damage. all the windows blown out of that church. as a say, this is central car cave. many 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 vladimir putin could do this to a city like car cave. i mean, some of the people that we spoke to literally walking around in a daze, unable to comprehend what has just happened. suddenly in the last few days, we've heard a little bit of shelling in the last hour. also the on the saying that they were shutting here this morning. we know that they're all styles and of people in some of the underground stations sheltering from the expectation of increasing shelling . but yeah, i mean, just, just look at 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. we went in, there is a team. so by 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 their 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, just on a personal level, having visited the city so much, i'm struggling to find the words. and if it's fair 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 their cars with their families. no word really that we've heard in terms of a humanitarian court. all that we understood was going to be north of the city, leading to russia. we can't confirm whether in fact died has happened, but yeah, a city here that feels very much under siege. and people struggling to deal with the level of devastation and destruction that sir, that they are witnessing while ukraine has taken russia to quarrel over the war. but moscow is a no show cave, once 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 grime, claim. my message, teresa is this letter. settle our dispute like civilized nations laid down your arms and put forward your evidence. ukraine respects as his court and follows its hold us. russia must as well. but if russia will not return to international law on its own, that the court has the power to act with respect that the court has responsibility to act. charlie angela has been following developments from london. what ukraine is essentially asking for is for the court to put in place provisional measures against russia, that would mean c thing, all military operations in ukrainian territory and were withdrawing any kind of russian militia. and ukraine says its case is very straightforward and its 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 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 top 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. so what we're seeing now is that ukraine has wrapped

up that argument. 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. still ahead on al jazeera while more in the global reaction after this gymnast war and national war symbol during a world cup event. and why south korea's presidential hopefuls are taking their snappy slogans from the streets to the internet. ah. this is recent flooding from pretty big downpours in barley, the st could be repeated in java and east timor, west, papua and the southern philippines, pretty wide spread potential. they're also, i think, in su marshall's foss after thailand peninsula lazy,

the showers are going to be picking up the next day or so. they're coming in goggan me and mar thailand on tuesday's war. more of a going thing north of all this. so it's a complete change of character. no, no more snow, very little rightness grants the western pacific. the whole picture that has dominated through the korean peninsula, japan, all of china, with sudden the scar. now it's only early march without sunny's doing its work. have it looked a few temperatures if they submitted light landing to you, they may well do that on the high side, typically 7 to 12 beverage anywhere from the yank seat right way north to mongolia . temps is really quite high and they've come up fairly quickly as well. the come get rather more slowly in india, but even in mom by and i met about, they should be about 4 or 5 degrees below where they are now. that high temperature regimes prompting a few shares. the same is true down in carola showers, and it is for lanka, but significant re as possible for afghanistan and snow. and the far north of

pakistan that the air was churning up a bit. ah, i'm counting the cost to can energy reserves and china help rockhill blunt. the impact of massive western sanctions with grain export from ukraine. disrupted, worries, mouth about global food security and will e u. energy sanctions put pressure on me in math, military counting the cost of al jazeera, unprompted, and uninterrupted discussions from our london broadcast center on al jazeera. ah ah.

hello again. the top stories on al jazeera, the sour ukrainian officials have arrived in belgrade for talks with their russian counterparts. their 3rd such meeting since moscow's invasion began. they're discussing how to open humanitarian corridors out of several ukrainian cities to get civilians to safety scenes of devastation and ukraine. second largest city harkins, residential areas and 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 florida just as to order an end to the middle to reaction al jazeera correspondence are small. i, faro is in cave, would 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 would have passed itself for a possible russian invasion, what's the spect and call here an all out assault on the capital? things are relatively calm. they've been come relatively come to pass 24 hours. there are checkpoints over me everywhere. and you really see people walking out in the street just to go and get petro get 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 go several butcher and especially up and 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

humanitarian korean, those from different cities. and so me, money will call and the capital city give. but these human italian cory, those need to go towards russia, and which is why it has been called by officials immoral because obviously there is an ally of russia. well, the ukraine wars pushing up the price of oil. the u. s. benchmark brent crude has soar to almost $140.00 a barrel. that's the highest since 2008. and that's because the us and european allies are considering a band on russian oil. russia, the world's 3rd biggest oil exporter. if its supply is cut and analysts predict the spot price could reach $200.00 a barrel far above a record $147.00 more than a decade ago. well, the international monetary fund has warned, the war and sanctions imposed on russia was severely impact the global economy or white house correspondent, kimberly how could is joining us now with more on the pressures facing the u. s.

president. because of that rising price of crude oil can release a, how likely is it that the u. s. will cut oil supplies from russia? well, certainly is under a lot of pressure to sanction and band those russian imports into the united states . and as you mentioned, this is a. d major supplier russia to the united states and so this is going to be a focus of a video conference call set to take place at 1530 g m t in the situation room of the white house. the u. s. president will be holding it. he'll be speaking with the french leader emmanuel mack crawl as well as the leader of the united kingdom boys, johnson, and also the german chancellor. all of sholtes that we talking not just about these all prices, but also about the ongoing russian invasion of ukraine. but certainly, this is a major concern for the u. s. president. this is something that was talked about

extensively over the weekend here in the united states. because again, the united states relies heavily on those foreign imports. and russia is a major factor in all of that. we should also point out that the u. s. congress is separately considering its own sanctions to ban russian oil supplies. and so this is really a problem for the by did ministration. given the fact that when the buying of ministration came in, it promised that it would be sort of doing away with a lot of these foreign suppliers getting rid of kind of the energy independence of the united states and turning to green energy. the problem is, is that there is a lot of that green infrastructure in place just get. so for example, getting rid of some of the drilling that has taken place in the united states. some of those leases, or even having the keystone pipeline that was allowing for some of that supply to come from canada, has really boxed in this administration and made it less resilient to responding to

this crisis. so this is something that's going to be talked about in the coming hours, but it certainly is some pressure for this white house. and how else is this crisis in the warren ukraine affecting americans? well, you really talked about the headlines there and it's the high gas prices, and they could go higher if this administration ultimately yields to the pressure and decides to ban these russian oil imports into the united states. but here's the other factor in all of this. the united states is already dealing with a 40 year high when it comes to inflation as a result of trying to bounce back from the pandemic. so it's kind of like one problem stacked on top of another problem and american consumers are really frightened about this. they're seeing some of the highest gas prices they've seen for young people ever are in a generation. and so they're worried about all of this. the white house is acutely

aware that not only are americans hurting, but politically, this could be bad for them as well. so this is a white house that's in a little bit of trouble right now and try to figure out what to do and for the american consumer that still trying to bounce back from the pandemic. this is a real problem. thank you so much. kimberly how can reporting from the white house while the international atomic energy agency says that it's extremely concerned over reports that ukraine and authorities have been unable to reach staff at 2 nuclear plants. that's after fighting broke out in the upper ritual on friday. the facility is now under russian control. according to the u. n's, nuclear energy body access to mobile networks on the internet have reportedly been caught at the plant communication with staff and maria pull at a plant that handles radioactive material has also been lost. meanwhile, the head of the u. n's, nuclear energy body says the priority for the i. e is ensuring concrete arrangements are in place to guarantee access, transportation,

and other safety measures. i hate to sit down with, with our russian quakes with your grade. this is the new grade shoulder ukrainians have inside and tell them what the one in terms of these practical aspects. so this is the say, the idea of more than idea, we have some elements that we are exchanging already with them. and we will try to build on the we don't have much time for a call to be able to move as fast as possible before another a be so basically our diplomatic editor james mays has the latest on the nuclear talks in vienna. 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 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. well, china has reaffirmed the friendship with russia, describing it as rock solid freaky. on monday, the foreign ministry did not condemn off because invasion of ukraine, but a set of hopes progress will be made during the next round of talks to resolve the conflict. she's fighting into 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. steve tangles, director of the china institute. so as universe city of london, he explains why beijing is refraining from condemning fresh aggression. china's position is basically laid down by she jumping,

which is to support putin and russia. he should have been, cannot afford to see 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 campaign. so an estrogen being changed his mind, we will be hearing rhetoric, se watered and seeing real effective actions for letting behind the scenes. there probably be a lot of activities going on between china and russia, dealing with practical issues that the russians will be making demand or a request or 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 to pull back to

the military. that's what we really need to be seeing happening. but that is not at the moment happening. a rush engine. this is being investigated after wearing a national war symbol during a world cup event at the weekend. i've been cool. york is facing discipline reaction from the international gymnastics federation for having the letter jack on his chest during the competition and metal ceremony where he stood next to the gold medalist from ukraine. the letters ad has become symbolic with russia's invasion. a few crane from today, russia and bella, russian athletes, officials, i'm judges, are no longer allowed to take part in advance sanctioned by worlds gymnastics. in other news, police in south korea are investigating an attack on the leader of the ruling party song. young girl was hit on the hands while campaigning and sol. she's being treated in hospital. the elections are set for wednesday. and as 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 units took ya'll want you to remember his number 2 when 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 organism. by the time, the candid it 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 a 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 child, su 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 avatars of themselves upon 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. 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 ah, hello again. the headlines and al jazeera, ukrainian officials of a ride in belarus, fritz hawks with their russian counterparts. their 3rd such meetings since moscow's invasion began. they're discussing how to open humanitarian corridors out of several ukrainian cities to get civilians to safety. it comes as both sides accused

the other of scampering the efforts. natasha butler has more from the vive, in western ukraine. manipulative, completely immoral. the words been used by ukraine.