sharing personal stories with a global audience. here i am meeting with people sharing the same struggles. sharon seemed. stories explore in abundance of well talk programming on al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera ah, hello, i'm rob matheson i'm. this is the news are live from doha, coming up with like 60 minutes an escape from the war in ukraine that moscow propose as humanitarian corridors to bella luce on russia. keith calls it completely immoral. a city in ruins. we report from coffee, even northeastern ukraine, which has come under intense bombardment from russian forces to these an absolutely

shocking scene of destruction and misery. delegations from both sides meet on the battle rush and board of negotiations on the 12th day of russia's invasion. it's clear that we're gonna have to do more and the leaders of the u. k. netherlands and canada announced plans to reduce their dependence on russian oil and gas about he dissimilar to the school who russian gymnast is facing discipline reaction from sports will governing body of the wearing the national war symbol during a world cup event. moscow says opening 6 routes to allow civilians to leave parts of ukraine, but most of them would lead fleeting civilians. so russia or bella ross, ukraine is called the proposal is completely immoral. russia says it's acting at the request of french president, but emmanuel mccaul has called moscow's proposals,

cynical and hypocritical. key says civilian suffering is being used to manipulate world leaders, nipple, you know, she knew this article is the model. this is an unacceptable way of opening humanitarian car doors. our people will not be going to better ruth, in order to fly to russia. i hope president micron understands the his name and desire to help you craniums 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 will be used for humanitarian aid, and have to be provided to all ukrainian cities where the manufacturing corridors have been discussed at the 3rd round of talks between russia and ukraine. they've just wrapped up on your cranes border with bella. luce, well, let's take a look at the rushes proposed for this humanitarian. colorado is one, at least from the capital key to go mouth in russian allied, bella luce,

another from ukraine, 2nd largest city hockey goes to belgrade in russia, but a 2 from sumi, one to belgrade, and the other 2 ukranian controlled power and 2 out of the deceased city of money, a pole one to his appreciate. and to the other, to ross of undone in russia. now we mention car keys, there were russian bombings, destroy the central city and neighborhoods, forcing many of its 1400000 residents to flee. obviously it is, charles stratford says many in the city, a struggling to comprehend the destruction scenes of utter 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 is st completely and utterly devastated. some of the buildings still

on fire. i am 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 flooded may 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. certainly 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 there are thousands 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, sir, 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 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 their cars with their 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 siege and a people struggling to deal with the level of devastation and destruction that they are witnessing. well, let's take

a look at where things stand on the 12th day of this war. the areas and right on this mob show what russian forces control, including separatist, how the areas in the east and annex crimea. the port city of mario paul, surrounded and under bombardment, ukraine says thousands of civilians are trapped. russia captures has from last week its forces and i'm trying to take the nearby city of nicole live in the north rushes, continuing its bombardment of khaki and sumi. shuttling here that's not far from cave has been heavily shelled on dosage of bodies in moscow with the latest in negotiations between ukraine and russia. first, let's go to the national butler in eve in western ukraine. all focus of course, on these humanitarian color doors. the both sides seem to be trying to find some sort of elusive solution, but it's not really getting there. yes, as humanitarian corridors. so we understand the word,

the main focus elise for the craney. inside your ring. negotiations are with russian officials and a 3rd round of talks that have just wrapped up on the but of russian ukrainian border. we still don't know what has come out of those talks. but as i said, going in ukrainian officials said that they were looking to try and see if they could try and implement a humanitarian corridors to come to some agreement with russians on that. the thing is though, a ukrainian and russian officials had already agreed to try and put in place, cease fire, and humanitarian corridors twice. they have failed to do so on saturday and sunday in a number of places. because the fighting continued, it was simply too dangerous to evacuate civilians both sides accusing each other of continuing to fight and not holding fire to allow some of that. a dinner. as i said, a people to leave. and then earlier in the day to day, we heard from russia that it was offering

a number of humanitarian corridors from some major cities in ukraine include including at the capital keith to evacuate people. but it turns out that the majority of those corridors were actually evacuating people to paris and to russia . well, that was something that ukrainian authority said was simply unacceptable, completely immoral, manipulative, manipulative. those were some of the words used by ukranian officials, the ukrainian deputy prime minister said that it was essential the term some form of aid comes into people and the people are allowed to evacuate safely across ukrainian territory across ukrainian soil to the borders of the e you, you'd imagine to countries including poland, hungary, romania that have already received hundreds of thousands of people because so many people have been caught up in his file. and so many people have wanted to try and escape to safety. a we've seen women and children packed into the train station

here in the fi, people sleeping on the ground, desperate to try and get a and gets a train of calls of families being a, separated as the most of the men have to stay behind on all of this work was happening with his backdrop or fighting that's going on. we touched on just a few moments ago. just bring us up to date with what the, the picture is like across the country. another day fighting, you know, it's a night time here now and that is a very difficult time for so many people have a frightening time across a number of cities or including keys can hockey, where you saw charl charles stratford report a bit earlier and some cities including mario pole in the south. people will be huddled in basements in in shelters because they know that the night often brings more rounds of shelling more and more fighting, incredibly, a difficult, intense times. for so many people we have seen

a real flash point at to day in the southern sea of the southern city of mich alive . now, that is on the black sea. we understand from the mayor of that town that ukrainian forces all resisting. they've ha, could they are still in control of the town, but a russian forces have encircled it. um, it is the key city because what russian forces are doing is pushing along the southern coast. if they capture that city, they would be expected to go on to odessa, at least the ukrainian president of a lot of miss zalinski has suggested as much. he said that he, that in his mind, it is clear that the russians would like to shell and bomb odessa, if, if the russian forces were to take a hose that southern coast, it would basically cut off ukraine of from the sea, but also a violence. and shelling in other areas around the capital key. for example, they've been dozens of civilians are killed in the town of chinese not far from the capital. and we've seen so many people evacuating of the past couple of days from

the town of a pin where civilians also lost their lives there. including children, vice natasha, sasha bottle. talking to us from la reeves. let's bring an doses of body joining us live now. from moscow, natasha was talking about those talks between russia and ukraine at the bell russian border. how is russia viewing these jobs doors? well, we've just been hearing from the as men who's leading the russian delegation of latter movement in ski. he's an aide to president vladimir putin. he says that the russians said they didn't get what they wanted out of this meeting. their expectations did not come true. they were hoping to sign some kind of an agreement with their ukrainian a counterparts, but the ukranian, the delegation apparently took this series of documents that were put forth before them back to key f. that is the latest that we've heard from the russians. of course, going into this, the i, russian, a spokesperson ed for it from the kremlin,

had said that the russian delegation has 4 specific demands from the ukrainians and one that is for the ukraine to seize their military operations. and also to make amendments to their constitution. as saying that they will not join any other any memberships to any blocks, including nato. and they also want crimea to be recognized as part of russia, as well as i, they wanted the ukranian government to recognize as the separatist regions of done yet. and the dance as a republic has independent republics. these are the main things that the russians were looking for as well as talking about, of course, those humanitarian corridors that have been unsuccessful until now. and we also understand from the ukrainian delegation after the meeting wrapped up today, and that they made slights positive steps towards a figure not logistics that they need to work on as to make these corridors

actually work. and they are going to try again tomorrow. and they are have agreed to continue talking, so a possibly more discussions to come and then with their rushes, we'll wait to see what at key of will respond to in terms of the documents that they sent back with the ukranian delegation. this is the 3rd round of talks and mondays talks were held in a bell roofs alongside the border with poland in the grass region. and both sides were going in to this round as more a slightly more optimistic but as a result of the humanitarian situation on the ground. all sides were adamant that they need to be more coordination between the 2 sides to trying and implement a ceasefire alongside those routes. so the civilian population can get out. it appears that they have made a slight progress on that fronts, whether or not the other points will be addressed or where they will that will goal

remains to be seen dar. so thank you very much indeed dasa, but your body talking to us from moscow. don't care. let's turn to eastern ukraine now than done yet. squish has held by russia backed rebels. a funeral has been held for the commander of the separatist spotter battalion. his unit says he was killed on saturday while attempting to help civilians leave a nearby ukrainian city bounded smith reports from dun yeske. ah, blood him is yoga, has become one of the 1st heroes of the new russian recognized the nets, people's republic, the dpr. to much of the rest of the world, he was a separatist fighting ukraine for control of its sovereign territory. for the several 1000 mourners here he was fighting for peace. what beautiful. firstly, they are defenders of our land. they are for truth. they are for the fatherland. this is like the greatest patriot sic wool. so that when we do, i think this is my duty. this man gave his life for freedom and independence of our

great republic spoke. i had to come, he fights for us for all of us. i had some heath jogger was the commander of the d . p. r's, elite spart, a battalion. his soldiers say he'd gone to rescue civilians from an apartment building and vol, nevada, during what was supposed to be a humanitarian cease fire on saturday. but his unit got trapped in a fire fight with what they called ukrainian nationalists. yoga was shot. one of the people who will report the story across social media to the russian public is a well known and influential war reporter, semi on peg, took the weights on the slaves remitted to by those who fight civilians are terrorist. that's so for me, it's not a military operation, but a counter terrorist operation, not for me. the militants in new nasties who practically control ukraine, now are the same as ice or terror. if the, the mourners chanting we will not forgive,

we will not forget flooding the food has awarded vladimir yaga posthumously the title hero of russia. if the country's highest honor given for service to the russian state and nation before the invasion of ukraine, more than 14000 people had died in the fighting to try and bring this region closer to russia. russian don't bus that sign reads. now, most men have been drafted to the military. there's more death. it's hard to imagine how this region would be allowed to return to ukrainian control. bernard smith, i'll just era dance. crescent is one of the few largest cities in ukraine. the russian soldiers are holding valia, they fought with ukrainian protesters who were demonstrating against the rushes. takeover of the region press on is the largest urban center moscow's captured since the invasion began. the un says a drugs have been unable to enter the city because of ongoing fighting to the north west of south san in when its yeah. and the airport was the target of russian

strikes on sunday. so boston has more another time, a lot of nervousness here in the affinity i, which is a city south of a key of this is basically on the route for people are trying to leave the capital of you grade. and they have been the air right to siren. so for the last 2, a 2 hours sir, a sounding and it's just we have been given that the clear signal on the streets are now getting fuller again. but yesterday there was sir, a bombardment at the civilian airport near the city. 8 rockets were fired and it has completely flattened to the airport. and 9 people have died. deer and 6 people got injured. and the authorities here say they were all loved. they were partially civilian a partially military military, but there were no military operations or military installations in that airport. we have been trying to get in touch with the injured people to day going from one

hospital to the other. but we haven't got any clear answers on their conditions or where they are. and so it's a very sensitive issue. of course, an airport is a very strategic location as president lansky has also condemned to the attack. because he said it is a peaceful city. it's still peaceful here, and why was this airport bombarded? it was just a civilian airport. britain's pie ministers trying to galvanize western support around his plan for a unified approach to the war in ukraine. boris johnson's been hosting the leaders of canada and the netherlands. and he says, more has to be done to target russian president vladimir putin and his inner circle to force them to end the war. we are making sure that we have new powers to add to strain, to take people's, to take people's assets. and we think that that will have a we think the whole package of measures that we're putting forward today. i will

have ra, a sent in just in just a few days time. so i will movie very, very fast on that, but floor i hope that you know, our views and all of you will recognize that that is in addition to the huge work that the u. k has done together with ah, with mark and with justin on the big package of international sanctions. and i'm, if you look at what we did on together on, on swift what we did on the, on the, the, the russian central bank. it's a, it's already had a, a profound effect as we move forward. this is of course, about ukrainians and ukraine. but it's also about more than that is what standing up for the rules based order that has led to unprecedented peace and stability and growth around the world over the past many decades. and the pushback that one like russia, like put in specifically cannot over throw no 75 plus years of peace and

stability. and still benefit from the economic largest and growth that comes with that. the dutch prime minister spoke about the impact of sanctions and ordinary russians. they have a huge effect on russia. they are not against the russians, i, but against russian leadership, but of course, it will have an effect unavoidably. and ultimately, also into the progressions doctor that we cannot have a present. ah, and i think the longer term it will have a big impact on russia also have an impact on how they will move forward. but you're absolutely right at a moment and a shorter it has not left the results that a stops the efficient. nothing bothers been coming. a conference force in london. they were there any particular surprises in this conference? well i think what stood out was that all 3 prime ministers pushed back on

a suggestion from the us secretary of state and city blinking in the last 24 hours . the the u. s. and european allies were in discussions, ongoing discussions about a possible bio on importing russian oil and gas. so 3 of them said that that wouldn't really be a good idea given that europe lies on russian imports for 39 percent of its gas supplies and 30 percent of its oil supplies. boris johnson was the most. he went further than the others in suggesting that things could change in the short term. he's going to be outlining and you elegy policy for the u. k. in the coming days. but the u. k. does not source much of its oil and gas in russia. so there was an echo from a router of what jobs are short of germany had said about the risk of an of compromising europe's energy security. if there were to be anything like

a band stressing the need for continued involvement in the sector in russia on sanctions and economic punishments, again, it was individual government saying what they're doing and what they will do. and boris johnson, outlining this new economic crime bill that's going through the u. k. parliament. and it's designed to try to force companies to reveal who which investors are behind them. notably russian oligarchy, linked to my opinion. but critics, a brit johnson say that whether it be given 6 months, so they will just ship that assets somewhere else. and on refugees again, the chaos really amongst the u. k. cabinets on what's going on was revealed on monday when boris johnson suggested that the u. k would not be following the e u in offering visa the ukrainians, who were fleeing and don't family links. it or he don't have a sponsorship offer from somebody here along the lines of what the used doing. his

for his home secretary had suggested that that might happen. she also suggested that term there were officials in cali where hundreds, many hundreds of ukrainian refugees have turned up, suggesting that there were officials, they're ready to process asylum applications. but we've seen a documentation, or which people in carrier being given and telling them to go to paris or to brussels. and still the figure of 50 visas are, is the, the only indication we have of how many people britain has told, or can come in and fleeing from ukraine. so i think the pub, the, the government here playing catch up with public opinion in terms of how far it needs to go in terms of solidarity to civilians in ukraine. thanks. and in this to the barber low for us in london or the british pound minutes is also in speaking to the u. s. president joe biden, who's seeking support for a ban on imports of russian oil. the proposals are very pushing of oil prices. the benchmark brent crude, his sword to almost a $140.00

a barrel at his highest in more than a decade when our white house correspondent, kimberly hawkins johnny his live no from washington dc. as nadine was just explaining to us, the european leaders less than enthusiastic about a complete ban on russian energy supplies and will buy houses affecting the way the white house is approaching this. well, the white house is in a difficult position, and that's one of the reasons why we know the u. s. president joe biden held a secure video conference call in the last couple of hours with the u. k leader boris johnson, as well as german chancellor. o off shoulder and the french leader emanuel mac craw as well as nope, that's the that's, that's the for them. started herbalists. so that just wrapped up in we know that call lasted about an hour and 20 minutes and we haven't had an official read out yet. but what we know from some of the reporting that has been coming out at least

some of the german side. no mentioned about our oil imports, but certainly some of the early indications as we await the official read out is that they have been underscoring the importance of resolving the russian invasion of ukraine through any sort of diplomatic initiative and underscoring the concern about humanitarian support and the concern about civilians as being a top priority now to get to the issue of the oil in part ports, which is a top priority for this by the administration. they are in a difficult position, given the fact that the united states relies heavily on the import of russian oil. and that's why it has not yet sanctioned or band those russian oil imports, because it really does in terms of supply, helped to reduce the cost here in the united states and because of the volatility of the invasion of ukraine by russia already. we've seen those prices rising,

and if that were to be banned, as the price would rise even higher. now this is something that a is being considered by the white house, but separately we've also got the u. s. congress considering it as well. but the reason the white house is reluctant hasn't done it so far is because there's already a high gauss price in the west, and there's already high inflation in the u. s. at a 40 year high in fact. so if that were to go, even higher, americans would have a lot of trouble getting to work. they'd have a lot of trouble paying for food. and just to give you an idea of what these prices are like, it's about $4.00 a gallon, which by us standards is pretty high. that's the national average. in california, it's almost $7.00 a gallon, which is, is virtually unheard of. so what we know is that the white house is concerned about this, but they're also concerned that politically, this could be devastating for the buying administration. so this was part of the

call that was taking place with these world leaders, as well as coordination that, that something that's been going on for quite some time. as they have been consulting the concerns about what they call russian aggression and how to combat it. but certainly the discussion about the oil imports and what to do with regard to supply has been a major factor. i should quickly point out. one other consideration that is being discussed is whether or not to ease venezuelan sanctions in order to trying get some additional supplies in to mitigate the price increases here in the united states as well. all of this will be coming up to the upcoming white house press briefing. that is due in about an hour's time, so we'll be able to ask the white house press secretary about this is our white house correspondent. kimberly hall. good. kimberly is always thank you very much. still hadn't al jazeera, a group of mexican families with missing relatives conduct their own searches as the country sees as spike and disappearances. anti police were real details of how australian cricket legends shane warm dyed.

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you watching or does it a reminder what top stories this are ukrainian and russian officials and wrapped up a 3rd round of talks in belarus. a ukrainian negotiator says there are small positive development since humanitarian carnivores, but added that the meetings did not significantly improve the situation between the 2 sides. most of the corridors tabled by moscow would only allow the vacuum used to go to russia or bella roost. keep previously said the proposed routes out completely immoral. u. k prime minister abbas johnson says, more has to be done to move away from dependence on russian energy is been speaking with western allies, including the u. s. president and seeking support for an embargo on russian oil. well, jeffrey edmonds is a research scientist focusing on washing military policy at the non profit research and analysis organization c and a is joining us from washington dc. very good to have you with a so thank you very much. indeed, i want to ask you, 1st of all, that can be of

a slightly non military, which is talk of more sanctions being put on maybe particularly a president, putin and his inner circle. this is an idea put forward by prime minister barak johnson at the meeting we were talking about earlier. how much of an instance do you think that might have i don't actually think sanctions against northern circle actually will change the dynamic. they're basically using russia zone bank. it's not actually uses cash where the money that he has. and so i just don't think that's going to be a strong to turn in many and actually in his inner circle, consider personal sanctions to kind of be a badge of honor. we're getting. we just had a department of defense u. s. department of defense briefing from the senior defense official being quoted as saying that they now assess that perkins committed nearly a 100 percent combat power in ukraine of pre stage forces. can you kind of give us a comparison of what that means now, as opposed to the situation that the russians were facing, say a week ago,

ryan sicily shows me the ground offensive install. i'm in recent days in the russian military, it's hard over said outwardly they perform so are and so it's not surprising that they commit most of that force. i mean, you're talking now, you know, well over a 100000 soldiers essentially be deploy into ukraine to try think to try to get the momentum moving forward. unfortunately. well, unfortunately, you know, unfortunately they haven't made progress. but enforcing what i think that means is that russian wilkerson use much more heavy handed tactics when it comes to trying to take over the cities. we were reporting the story just a few moments ago about an incident in custom, one of the training cities that's been taken over by the russian forces, where there were people from cosen who work actively taking on the russian forces and trying to, to stop that of demonstrators and in front of them, can you give me some idea? do you think of how the russian forces are feeling now given that they had such a, an awkward start to this?

i think morality is pretty low. i think it, you know, one of the reasons the russian military did so well in this is that they expected to just try that. and that, you know, they just took even a couple, the couple days rest of the resistance, which would fall away. and as clearly not the case, new were seen increasing accounts of multiple vehicles lined up their fuel and ready to go with no soldiers in them, especially around parking. and so i think morales is pretty low, and i think it's only going to get worse over the coming weeks, because this is, this conflict is nowhere near over. nato has said repeatedly, it's determined not to bring its own forces into direct contact with russian troops because of course, that could escalate the situation. is there anything else in your estimation but could encourage vladimir putin to escalate the situation? yes sir, is actually, i think there's actually a fairly significant chance that if, if he feels he losing control of the russian stain. so the soviet economic sanctions of the next week or 2 have

a real impact. and you have people in the streets or run on a bangs, general chaos if he feels he's losing control this day. i'm willing to bet he would actually intentionally instigate an article 5 with nato. and basically, the single there would be if you know, or who the sanctions and stop destroying the russian economy. this is going to be in, in a rush, a war with all the nuclear trappings. and rudder goes along with that and want to come back to the department of defense report that i was talking about earlier. it's, it's saying this official is being quoted as saying that they believed reports are accurate, that the russians are trying to recruit mercenaries in syria, that they don't give a great deal more information. they don't have an estimate on the numbers, but they can corroborate reports. they say now there's no way that of course, that we can verify that. but in your estimation, is that something that russia is capable of doing in order to boost its forces in this conflict? i actually think they're capable of doing that. i don't think that they would be rude enough to really strategically change the situation on the ground. i have seen

report, for example, that the to point in additional units from the eastern military district, out and in asia to do the fight. so it is, it is clear that, that they're wanting to put as much manpower as they can in the ukraine to try to get the momentum movie. but i don't know that serial dramatically changes the situation. ok, jeffrey admins, we appreciate your time. so thank you very much. indeed for joining us. john hall has more now from living on the situation on the ground across ukraine. they may not have the numbers or the fire power to match, but soldiers on ukraine's front lines feel they have something the enemy can't muster. but warren is but warren, who they are fighting for money for the idea of some crazy people. there demoralized. we are home defending our homes, our children, our parents. we have no place to escape too slow. okay. and in these defensive positions on the outskirts of the capital cave,

they have something else to support for the underdog, the sympathy of foreigners who have travelled here to ukraine, funding to become comrades. i'm working in your thought. i ng for democracy or heroes. family is project i'm while mom can decide on the contents of it at a check point in the capital tiles of filled with old soviet era thompson textbooks, the reservists on duty se they'll use the books to set the barricades alight if they have to solve it. history has not been kind to ukraine, but here it has its uses. the mayor of keith is here to vitale. clips sco, not a man who needs reminding how to fight or serve woochie or feel there is fighting in butcher it. opin hoster mil at this moment, the one think i can say that we won't go anywhere from keith has every house room, every street. every checkpoint horse will fight to death if necessary. russian

forces are less than 30 kilometers to the west of cave. video released by the russian ministry of defense shows it's ground forces in apparently robust form. though western intelligence report say they've made little progress towards the capital in recent days. russia does have a significant air force capable of causing fuse hom over large areas, but still functioning ukrainian air defense systems. a surprise to many continued to contain ah, as the war grinds on mercilessly, it is punctuated with occasional bouts of diplomacy. a 3rd round of talks has been held by ukrainian or russian negotiators on the bed, a russian border, but with neither side, willing to give ground, it's unclear what there is to discuss. besides cease fires that don't seem to hold time. so a short survey we'll try to discuss is the ukrainian side breaking mode of humanitarian

card from his cities. a unilateral offer by russia to open humanitarian corridors, out of some of the worst areas of bombardment and to ferry people to safety in belarus. and russia itself was denounced by the ukrainian government as unacceptable and immoral. but it did, harold, a period of relative calm in a pin on the outskirts of cave. heavy shelling killed 8 civilians here on sunday. but monday saw many people making their escape. my feeling on both sides of all now was what i heard about the moral. what we agreed next was the next day. what's our future here? no one knows what the future will bring. if russian forces do mount a ground assault on the capital, it will likely be through these western outskirts for the cities defenders. the certainty is that the battle for ukraine is happening now behind the lines. another

army is hard at work, volunteers contributing in every way they can to the war effort. contractors stitching notting, turning strips of cloth into camouflaged netting. you hear a great deal about the unexpected strength of ukrainian resistance, about the bravery of its soldiers, the example set by its leaders. the civilians have taken up arms and joined the front line. well this, this is no less a part of it. civilians, soldiers, fighters and survivors. the finally woven fabric of a nation under attack. joe, the whole al jazeera, who vive donation says, nearly 2000000 people from ukraine of crossed into neighboring countries to escape the war. more than half of entered poland, the polish government is set of a $1700000000.00 fund to pay for food, shelter, and medical care. each day around 10000 people escaping the fighting in ukraine.

i've been arriving in berlin with many coming by train from poland. those numbers are expected to continue over the days to come. dozens of volunteers at the city's main railway station to help out as dominant came reports. the train arriving on this platform is from poland, but many of the people on board of fleeing the war in ukraine, reaching berlin by rail, has taken many hours. some are tired and disorientated by the journey all are grateful to have reached safety. maria was a student in hoc, if, when the russians invaded the bomb to my university that they did, we live. so it's like very said, i think we're really like it that we have friends here and we have like home where we can leave for now, vincent was at college and been at sack far when the war began. now safe in germany . he's hoping to resume his studies if i can be admitted into school. i cannot cool

down my head and continue my studies and make the best type of myself. yes, i'm confident i can now because her one good thing is that people here, they are friendly and it's all give me an age to add that to the environment as quick as possible. the welcome being provided to the refugees is by volunteers. as is the food and drink, those are all donation but they're all donations. 2 from people, this is not from, from, from the republic or from the government log. private people. the city's mer has appealed for help processing. so many refugees on monday afternoon, she and the federal interior minister came to see the situation for themselves. not everybody here is leaving the was own. this woman is travelling to it with bullet proof vests for those on the front line. although the vast majority of people

fleeing ukraine have not tried to reach germany, it's estimated that tens of thousands of refugees have got here since the war began . many more they arrived here in the coming days. dominic came out to 0. berlin. when i'm coming i was the un security council is going to hold a briefing on the humanitarian crisis. and ukraine. diplomats are still negotiating a draft resolution calling for a sensation of facilities and unlimited access for aid workers. let's cross to kristin salumi at the united nations. what's the un assessment of the negotiations that are going on between russia and ukraine and what role can the un play? yes, so the security council is going to have this meeting this afternoon where it takes a look at the latest humanitarian situation. and there is work going on behind the scenes on this resolution to guarantee access for humanitarian workers. but the united nations hasn't been waiting for the security council to act. in fact,

we just learned today that a team from the office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs was given access to russian defense officials and had a 1st meeting at a technical level. we understand to try to work out access for humanitarian officials in the ukraine. and they're saying that this was the beginning of talks at a, an agreement was reached on how to coordinate and how to move forward. far short of the humanitarian corridors that we've been hearing ukrainians call for in the region, but a 1st step that we're likely to hear more about in this meeting in the coming hours . both security council will be briefed by the high commissioner for the humanitarian chief martin griffith. so also here from unicef, and the names of people in the ukraine are growing exponentially by the day. now over $1700000.00 refugees have left the country millions more within the country

are expected to be displaced as a result of the fighting. and so we're hearing the united nations calling for secure and unimpeded access to the people in need. you would think that the security council would be able to agree on something, at least guaranteeing humanitarian access to, especially for the women and children who are fleeing the country. now it's an estimate that hundreds of millions of these refugees are in fact children will hear more about that from unicef. odd the security council will have to agree on the wording for that and. and while getting aid to people is one thing allowing them free access to come and is another. and not only does the security council want to ensure aid gets to people it wants to ensure that the resolution actually gets passed. so they have to make sure russia is on board with this. so the negotiations are, are very delicate in continuing at this moment, but certainly the needs are not stopping. and so we're seeing the un moving forward

as the hard work of the resolution also continues as kristen suddenly denoted nations. kristen, thank you. in other news is really police have shot a palestinian non unoccupied east jerusalem after an alleged knife attack police. the man stabbed an officer before she was shot. his condition is not yet known. it follows the killing of a palestinian teenager and albert dease on sunday. i thought he said he was shot after 3 petrol bombs at police. still ahead on al jazeera, the international gymnastics federation is investigating base russian athletes for wearing a national war. simple in competition. ah

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ah, ah, it says that a sport hears peter from thank you so much. a russian jim nest is being investigated off to wearing a national war symbol during a world cup event at the weekend. even coolie ac is facing discipline reaction from the national gymnastics federation for having the laces. they donnie's chase during the competition and middle ceremony where he stood next to the gold medalist from ukraine. the let his aide has become symbolic with russia's invasion of ukraine. earlier my conic geminus spoke to russian sports journalist alexi ya to ship ski in moscow and began by asking him if the gymnast should be punished. but matters little what i think about whether he 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 trainer said, he's train also hinted that this might have happened because of the bullying he has sustained from ukrainian 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 wall gymnastics on a band or a certain disciplinary action in regards to these athlete. speaking of bands and punishments, the same russian athletes and teams across many sports, being band nice natively, your football team at being expelled from wild cow quantifying. 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 is 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 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,

mom 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 athlete sanibel rash. 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 past. 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 on 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 at what's going on there, this is one of the most painful pages in the recent history when it comes to russian athletes. when the world's oldest tennis player took on ref, and the dow he cities, dreams had come true. now the 97 year old ukrainian athlete says he's living through his worst nightmare as russian forces balmy's home city of hockey, eve for tory gate and b has more. i'd normally done, he cranium, tennis player. leonid stanislavsky says he's too frightened to leave his house in cock give. in ne ukraine. russian bombs have landed close to his home, like millions of ukrainians. his life has been turned upside down by the war. or he

just a few months ago. the 97 year old was celebrating after the guinness world records named him the oldest competitive tennis play in the world. when leon, it was in spain competing in the super seniors well championship. he played a friendly match against tennis champion. ruffin. a dow that made headlines around the world and i will ever do see that it was outstanding to meet him. no one could have imagined that so soon after they will be war. and what has happened now is simply horrible to world to do everything had kind to stop the war. people on both sides should not be dying while others are standing. lean, it has survived one world war. he worked as an engineer building war plains to fight the nazis. his daughter is in poland, but he says it's too difficult for him to get there. so he'll stay in call keith and wait for the fighting to stop her work. gabriel nigger daniel domo for i never thought that i would have to live to another frightening war where people on both

sides are dying. mothers are losing their children. wives are losing their husbands . it needs to be stopped. before the russian invasion, leon had dreamed of playing against tennis doll, roger federer, but now he only has one wish july go victory gate and be al jazeera. not about an autopsy of australia, cricketing spinning legend. shane warne has revealed. the legendary cricketer died of natural causes, a fussy 2 year old passed away on friday while on holiday in thailand. local police have been investigating the death and confirmed there were no signs of foul play. want body will be flown back to australia on tuesday. ahead of his state funeral. well, the 1st test between australia and pakistan in robbie bindy is headed for a drool. smith was another good day for the batsman in the pakistani city. mont, slobber, shane was eventually on for 90. well former captain steve smith, 78th,

with only 4 wickets falling on the day for australia or 27 runs behind the pakistan with the match still in its 1st innings. that stamped on day for matthew these days is the team's vice captain says it has been a difficult week with the passing of ruin and fellow australian cricket legend, roddy marsh, disappointment. now the guys are in, in decent spirits and, and focusing on now a job over here. but yeah, obviously it's been a sad wake and am you know, we feel for the both the martian and warm family and yeah, thoughts with them that social worker will leave it there for now. i'll be your again a little bit later with more sports news. rob peter, thank you very much indeed. now, just before we go, we've got an update on russia's invasion of ukraine. officials from both sides have wrapped up a 3rd round of talks in bella roost that have been no major breakthroughs. but ukraine's chief negotiator says consultations will continue on ways to negotiate

and enter hostilities explained how the for our meeting unfolded, treated on political will do. the 3rd round of negotiations has ended. the us small positive subduction in improving the logistics and humanitarian corridors. intensive consultations have continued on the basic political block of the regulations, along with a cease fire and security guarantees which google and we've also heard from moscow's chief negotiator, who says his side table a number of proposals to ukraine. the ukranian party took all the documents with them to take them home and study. they failed to sign anything on the sport, and i'm hoping that we will come back to those questions, sir. during the next round of the negotiations, our hopes are empty, and i hope that the next time they will be able to achieve more substantial progress. bob lazar is going to be here in

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