foreign policy is a key issue for the 2 front running candidates from opposing policies that will this presidential race to be determined by younger voters. more concerned with inequalities at home, south korea votes, special coverage on al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera ah hello, i'm barbara sarah. this is the al jazeera news, our lives from london. thank you for joining us. coming up in the next 60 minutes. a city in ruins, the terrible told of russia's brutal bombing campaign on ukraine's 2nd biggest city had a key to it is an absolutely shocking scene of destruction and misery . moscow offers besieged ukrainians escape routes to russia and bella. ru set

proposal that keith branded immoral, and oil prices rise to a 14 year high is the u. s. in europe. consider banning imports of brush and crude and i'm assuming dough with your sport. a russian gymnast is facing disciplinary action from the schools will governing body of to wearing a national war symbol during a world cup event. ukraine's that 2nd largest city lies in ruins, hacky home to around 1400000 people has been devastated by russian air power forcing many of its residents to fleet buildings are flatten than the streets filled with rubble, with the skeletons of cars flung round. char stratford sent this update from the heart of the historic city where many are struggling to comprehend the destruction

scenes of utter devastation here in the center of car give 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 st completely and utterly devastated. some of the buildings still on fire. am i paying 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 i 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 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 army saying that they were 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, 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 than 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 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 the people struggling to deal with the level of devastation and destruction that they are witnessing. just as reporting there, while a 3rd round of talks between ukrainian and russian negotiators has wrapped up with ukraine, saying a little progress has been made over humanitarian corridors. the meeting was held in bella rue says, outrage grew over the corridors proposed by russia, which would allow ukrainian safe passage from several key cities. but this

suggested routes mostly led to russia or its allied bella, bruce, ukraine had called the proposal completely immoral. well, there are 6 proposed humanitarian corridors to help you. craniums flee cities under fire in one goes from the capital, keep to bela bruce. another would allow civilians to flee ukraine's 2nd largest city had heave for russia. there are 2 corridors from su me again one to russia. the other 2 pl cover in ukraine and 2 out of the besieged city of murray upon which has no power and little food or water. and once every judge and the other 2 russia attempts to evacuate civilians for mary paul already failed twice over the weekend . where ukraine wants moscow to open, say fruits towards the western city of lee. vive jona hull has more now on the day's events from leave in western 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. sport warren is port warren. they're fighting for money for the idea of some crazy people. they're demoralized. we are home defending our homes, our children, our parents. we have no place to escape to slogan and in these defensive positions on the outskirts of the capital cleave. they have something else to support for the underdog, the sympathy of foreigners who have travelled here to ukraine to become comrades unbroken in you're dying for democracy or heroes. remarkably project. i'm for man, from the side of the contents of it. at a check point in the capital tiles are 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. would you repeat? there is fighting in boucher what 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 its ground forces in apparently robust form. though western intelligence reports say they've made little progress towards the capital in recent days. russia does have a significant air force capable of causing fuse harm 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. 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 so many people making their escape. my feelings, the i'm afraid of both of us now wasn't what i heard about the moral. what 100. great. 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 a sold on the capital, it will likely be through these western outskirts for the city's defenders. the certainty is that the battle for ukraine is happening now behind the lines. another army is hard at work all and tis contributing in every way they can to the war effort, cutting stitching notting, turning strips of cloth into camouflage 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 jona whole al jazeera movies were russian negotiators say

that their expectations weren't met in the 3rd round of talks with ukraine. but a 4th round of negotiations will be held in belive, roof soon, or such a barrier. moscow has more now on the kremlin demands. one of the most m. o. official statements that we've heard from russian officials was from the kremlin spokesperson dmitri pascall, who laid out for the 1st time what russia's looking for in order for this so called military operation in ukraine to end. and there are 4 points that the russians want from the ukranian government, and 1st that is for them to cease military operations. and to that they make constitutional amendments where they a rule out any a joining of any block in the future, including nato and 3rd, they want crimea, which russia annexed in 2014, to be officially recognized as part of russia. they also want key f 2 recognize the

separatist regions up done yeske and the guns in the eastern part of ukraine. as independent republics, these are the main points now, according to russian officials that will at once this, these things are done by the government, key of the fighting will stop immediately. and of course, the ukrainian officials have said that their conditions are that the needs to be an immediate cease fire and a withdrawal of all russian troops from ukrainian soil before they can talk about anything else. well, her son is the largest urban centre in ukraine that russian soldiers are actually holding. earlier. they fought with ukrainian professors who were demonstrating against russia's takeover of the region. the un says a, the trucks have been unable to enter the city because of the fighting. and to the north west though, care, sol, name vanessia, and the airport was the target of russian strikes on sunday that fasten has more on that attack. lot of nervousness here in of in it's yeah. which is a city south of

a key of this is basically on the route for people trying to leave for the capital of your grade. and there 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 the, the clear a signal on the streets are now getting fuller again. but yesterday there was his sir, a bombardment at the civilian airport near the city. 8 rockets were fired and it has completely flattened the airport. 9 people have died, deer and 6 people got injured. the authorities here say they were all of there were partially civilian, 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, in airport as a very strategic location,

as reference lansky has also condemned to the attacker 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. will ukraine's president has called for new sanctions on russia, proposing that the international community boycott, russian oil and other exports. vladimir zalinski said the world should also stop exporting to russia effectively calling for a trade embargo on moscow. the u. s. a said a boycott of russian energy is being considered which sent the u. s. benchmark brent crude oil to its highest level since 2008 on monday morning. it briefly had a $139.00 per barrel a little earlier. it was $92.00 a barrel. the day before russia invaded russia is the world's largest exporter of crude and oil products, providing around $7000000.00 barrels per day, or 7 percent of the global supply analysts predict the $5000000.00 barrel today

shortfall, live rush and supplies are cut off, and that could push prices as high as $200.00 per barrel severely impacting the global economy. whether euclid prime minister says european nations need to consider how to move away from russian energy supplies as soon as possible. or as johnson made the comments after meeting the canadian and dutch prime ministers that's just included and marketing for talks on the ukraine war. 3 leaders agreed on the need to reduce reliance on russian oil and gas. for warned that a total boycott could pose a risk to europe's energy supplies. johnson says he will outline a new energy supply strategy soon. or we have to consider how we can all move away as fast as possible, or from dependence reliance on russian hydrocarbons or russian oil and gas. and everybody's doing that. everybody's on the same journey at some countries will find it faster and easier than others. that's all,

but we're going to do it. i wanted to do it together, but his, i'm going to work together on making sure that we all have the substitutes and the supplies that we are that we need. or we can now talk to britain's ambassador to the united states named karen pierce, who was previously the u. k. is united nations ambassador. she joins us now from washington. d. c. madam, thank you so much for joining us here on al jazeera. obviously, a lot of negotiations are still going on in diplomacy. i want to ask you a little later about what's actually going on in the security council right now. but let's focus on sanctions. we are seeing the your efforts by the west strong efforts by the u. s the u. k. european nations. but it really has shown how exposed the west is a to russian oil gas and russia money. yes, i think it would show not the dependency that particularly europe pass on russian hydrocarbons. and as you had the crime minutes to say, one of our toss over the coming weeks, months is to reduce that, that dependency. she get

a better energy transition. as far as the u. k goes actually only about 3 percent of our energy requirements come from russia, but we want to work with allies and partners to work out how we can do that. reduce dependency in a way that makes sense. absolutely. i mean the energy dependency is an issue. a lot of the russian money in a lot of european and cities, and of course the united kingdom is another. the u. k. has been criticized for perhaps not sanctioning as many oligarchs as other countries are. and not acting quickly enough. there are moves going on in parliament right now. do you expect the situation to change their? but we were one of the 1st country is to introduce sanctions against russian banks and russian oligarchy. we did that as soon as president putin recognized the hands in the hands of breakaway republics. but we are accelerating. as you say, we're accelerating our legislation, our economic kind,

beau. and that will give the authorities more investigative powers and more punitive powers. you are, as we mentioned, the u. k. and basset, or to the u. s. for many years. you were the u. k. some vassar to the you when there is an open meeting of the security council going on right now in just a few minutes ago. we heard the russian ambassador to the un effectively saying that it's ukrainians, attacking their owner is civilians. what do you make of that? and what do you make of the situation that the u. n. is now when, when the aggressor is a permanent member of the security council with a veto and willing to take the 1st point of view. it's bad to know it's all for the owner that the russian and dish rep europeans security to the point where they in bay, a sovereign an independent country and they signed up to ukraine's independence. i want to stress that they are signatories to something called the british press. memorandum from 994 along with u. k,

a u. s. that makes clear ukraine will be independent, though, as i say bad enough, that they go in the salt ukraine in european security in this way. and then they lie about it. and really, you know, that this is already a terrible situation. is made worse by russian dis, information, and russian lies. but the majority of the u. n. c. that you'll know that there was a vote in the general assembly where a 141 countries condemned russia's aggression against ukraine. and only 4 countries voted with russia. so i think that gives you a very good insight into what the international community thinks. it's far as the security council goes. it is disappointing, but it's not unexpected that the russians be towed to be honest. the price of the existence of the b tow has been the continuation of the united nations. in my view . throughout the decade since 945,

it was one of those conditions built in to the founding of the u. n. it obviously has its limits, as we've seen over ukraine and the russians featuring that, that resolution. but it is, if you like, baked into the way the un we're showing, i mean, you know, it's not the fault of anybody working there is you say it's just the way the system was set out. but there is a risk that is the sort of international community ends up looking a bit impotent because the un can't really act because a security council has a chance tied nato has made it clear. it's not going to impose a no fly zone, because that would effectively declare war on rush over a country that isn't a member of nato. so again, how damaging a do you think that what, you know, what may well happen as in the international when he sits by, as a, as ukraine keeps on being bombarded? how damaging is that to the image of the international community, and especially the west. and it's always very hiring to see such scenes as we've

seen in ukraine, but i would take heart and i would say that the international community is doing things even if the security council route is blocked. there's a big humanitarian effort underway to which we have a 1000 soldiers on stand by and have given over a $150000000.00. that is all the economic sanctions and way as we were just saying that our time in the screw on preaching war machine and degrading his ability to wage war. there is a war crimes investigation launched by the international criminal court. at the end of last week. britain was instrumental in getting that investigation. there's a commission of inquiry set up for another part of the u. n. the human rights council that will also look into what's happening on the ground. and i want to stress if i may, that if the walk election will come to investigated and found to be proven,

then individuals will be individually accountable for them. not just president putin, but individual russian generals in ukraine now who are authorizing strikes on civilians . so i would not say that the international community is standing by. we are trying very hard to find a way forward on all these issues. nature is reinforcing its members on the south and east native territory. and that's very important. but at the same time, nature is consciously deliberately not threatening russia. nature is a defensive alliance. and the last thing i'd say, in terms of effect, and if i such in moscow and i were an adviser to president pigeon, i. a would be interested in the fact that because of this invasion of ukraine, more and more countries, one to relationship with nato, nato members have been got closer together. the u. s. in europe have being united

in their economic pro, we approach, and they pay both this. although only on they say territory have been grow closer to the borders of russia. crocker and ukrainians have really found their identity, whereas president pigeon thought he would be welcome. so if i say my back in the kremlin, i don't know from a russian perspective, that this is turning out the way they want. and in addition, the post is not doing as well as they can in ukraine. so they then karen peers, person's ambassador to the u. s. and previously the u. k. united nations and bassett. madam, thank you so much for having joined us. thank you. well, the un humanitarian affairs chief says civilians must be allowed out and aid must be allowed in briefing the un security council and just the last our bargain.

griffith said he'd sent a team to moscow to work on better humanitarian coordination. the policies need to take constant care to spare civilians and civilian homes and infrastructure in their military operations. this includes allowing safe passage for civilians to leave areas of active hostilities on a voluntary basis in the direction they choose. all civilians, whether they stay or leave must be respected and protected. second, we need safe passage for humanitarian supplies into areas of activity active hostilities. salumi as lie for said the united nations and kristen, you've been my monitoring that open meeting there of the security council. we heard from martin griffith and then from unicef, but then we also heard from the russian ambassador, didn't we? absolutely. the united nations security council is getting an update on the situation on the ground, even as it deliberates over the wording of

a resolution to guarantee humanitarian axis for the united nations to those in need on the ground in ukraine. certainly the situation has gotten worse day by day, and we heard from martin griffiths as well as the director of unicef, the child agency of the united nations. and they point to 1700000 people who've left ukraine. now the number rising by the day they estimate that about half of those refugees are children and of course millions more are displaced with in ukraine and suffering from ariel bombardments that have struck schools, hospitals, and, and stopped essential services like water and medical care. and so on. so we're hearing the united nations demand safe passage, not only for aid, but for people. and that is some of what's being debated in this

resolution that the french and the mexicans are working on with the backing of western nations. but of course, for anything to pass through the security council and i should remind our viewers that protection of civilians is required of parties in a conflict under international law. while there would seem to be agreement on protecting civilians, they have to get russia on board with any resolution that would pass. and russia spoke at this meeting as well, accusing the west of basically politicizing humanitarian assistance and accusing ukrainians of actually stopping civilians from leaving listen to what he had to say was brick. the permanent representative of the united states today accused us of not complying with all commitments, is open to create a safe she monetary corridors. so let's go down into this. look. we once again wish to emphasize that safety for civilians and ukraine is not a problem for,

for russian route because we're not bombarding them, but rather ukrainian radicals and neo nazis who are holding hostage whole towns and cities and are making use of citizens as a, as a human shield not allowing them to leave cities despite the fact that they're all humanitarian corridors, and that russian units have declared of ceasefire. the rule that the united nations has not been waiting for the security council to begin its humanitarian operations in the ukraine. members of the u. n. a humanitarian organization have already met with our russian defense officials in moscow to work on access for humanitarians. and they are attempting to bring him supplies. they've already begun bringing supplies to ukraine. on the west, however, is taking a stronger tone in the counsel against russia, whether it's the united states or the united kingdom accusing pu, and

a violating the territorial sovereignty of this country, which is against humanitarian law. they say it's russia now that has to come to the table and guarantee that humanitarian access for the u. n. and others in that country. kristen salumi with the latest there from the un. kristen, thank you. and there's lots more still to come in the sour, including as bella ruth allies itself with russia. we speak to the countries exiled opposition. leader who says president lucas shanker has seated control of his country to the kremlin, plus, ah, k, bob cartoons, artificial intelligence, and the letter verse 21st century electioneering in south korea. anti police reveal details of our failing cricket legend, shane warne died. ah,

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fleet. it's ukraine's 2nd largest city with a population of about 1400000 people, many of whom have now left or left and shocked at the scale of the damage. there's been outrage of moscow's proposed humanitarian corridors, which would mostly give ukrainian safe passage the either russia or to its ally, bella roofs. ukraine has called the proposal completely immoral, but some progress was made on the issue of corridor. as of the 3rd round of talks between russia and ukraine and bella, bruce ukrainian advisers said there was some movement on logistics. although russia said its expectations had not been met. not the leaders, the bella, lucinda mechanic movement, svetlana, chuck and sky has been in germany for talks with the foreign minister and other western diplomats about the war in ukraine. she is a self imposed exile following the results of the disputed 2020 election and spoke

to us earlier from the airport in warsaw. you know, we all discard our song senior reality in the war situation where builders became a country krista towards ukraine. but the, i always underlying that, it's not, there are some people who want that this one is a regime who allowed our rhetoric to be used for invasion, the or ukraine, and it's extra miserable to divide regime. and there are some people i talked about, assistance to society at the moment because we have the a fight and the regime in our country and be build a lot of initiative sort of compensation that have been helping to those have to fight against resume. but now be using this conversation and initiative to help to

premium people, but we need these support homes and critics site at the moment. also, the, i told that it should share responsibility for allowing our country to become a oppressor towards ukraine and all the necessary assumptions it has to be important and was presumed for them to feel for the actions. and of course we underlined in assisted to food, the recognition of cause presume, endures. in what reaction did you receive from either the german foreign minister or the diplomats in general? really precedes or no foreign policy that the german a leads to at the moment and i hope that they will be consistent in this policy. the decisions will be unprincipled and tough for towards regime in burrows. and i was assured that germany is staying with bill,

or some people in they fight it against the regime. and at the moment in anti war movement of burrows, you make the distinction, of course, between the regime of alexander lucas shanker and the people of bella. ruth, how are you getting your message to the people, to the many soldiers in bella? ruth, right now, people in barrows understand the situation that it's not us who wanted to participate in this aggression and more sense who had to flee the country because of repressions in our country. it was a question, some girls face hatred as a crisis against a crane and it's unclear are sense, fearlessly vital question, cuz regime for years and, you know, it's hard to protest when you live in gluck because we understand that a country is de facto pied at the moment and people are taken as hostages,

and we ask people all over the world not to look at a sense the same as are now on the regime. we are 2 different issues. we've spoken to many ukrainian politicians who blame the west, especially european countries for not acting strongly enough in defense of ukraine before the invasion. do you feel the same when it comes to a bela reuss and you are, of course, in, in exile. right now you can't go back. so do you feel that in general western powers, european powers, perhaps close their eyes to what was really happening in eastern europe, the quarter to 4 percent of all my christian prizes was minimal, so he felt impunity. and we always said that half measures only hom, the situation, is dictated, can not be a piece dictated, can not be re educated. so difficult moment. it's natural to impose the toughest

functions on one hand, and to give maximum assistance to civil society for them to be more sustainable. what is your fear? when it comes to ukraine, the west has made it clear. there isn't going to be a no fly zone. what, so, what is your fear both for ukraine, of course, voluminous as well? no, i understand that the fatal for ukraine and the fatal spillers deeply into connected with our true friend there will be no free girls and vice versa. and i call for the critic world to help you train to mean mis 5, because i understand that independence or skills is also on the threat. and the fact that the so called referendum in change the, our institution and the paragraph about neutral and no nuclear status

was deleted from institution. it's very, it became threat to hold europe and the have to pay attention to this right now. and to finish this procedure of former cognition, or for shamika and or his deals, or his new constitutions and whatever else he, he will. but you have mentioned the since the invasion the, you don't think i'll exam lucas. shank a is actually in charge at all, especially when it comes to the military. i doubt that. oh gosh, younger is control in military on the territorial bill. a rule still the think he's controlling is repression against it is will people. but it said this is the price he has to pay for our support. he bought from a criminal artist on collection in 2020 and then now he has to make what he is asked to make. now in the

last hour of letting me put in his, given a televised message in which he said, russia will not use any conscript conscript soldiers in ukraine, only professional soldiers. meanwhile, indonesia sco one of the breakaway regions that russia recognized as independent 2 weeks ago. a funeral has been held for the commander of the separatist that sparta battalion. his unit says that he was killed on saturday, well, tried to help civilians leave a nearby ukrainian city from than yet skinny stone ukraine. burnett. smith reports blood image 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 sick war stir. if the only do i think this is my duty. this man gave his life for freedom and independence of our great republic. i had to count. he fights for us for all the that's a, it's a piece. jogger was the commander of the d. p. r's, elite a spart, a battalion. his soldiers say he'd gone to rescue civilians from an apartment building in vol, nevada, during what was supposed to be a humanitarian ceasefire on saturday. but his unit got trapped in a fire fight with what they called ukrainian nationalists. jogger was shot, one of the people who will report this story across social media to the russian public is a well known and influential war reporter sammy on peg off took the way it's middle mas, eliminate, hilarious to both of those who fight civilians are terrorists. so for me, it's not a military operation, but a counter terrorist operation for me. the militants and neo nazis who practically

control ukraine now are the same as i saw terrorism, which of the the more as a chanting we will not forgive. we will not forget vladimir putin has awarded vladimir yaga posthumously, the title hero of russia. if the countries 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 bass, 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 craning control. bernard smith, al jazeera desk, was a united nation says more than 1700000 ukrainians have now fled the country with thousands more. crossing the border each day, most have gone to poland, which has received more than a 1000000 people since the conflict began just 12 days ago. the u has warned that

as many as 5000000 ukrainians could become refugees. if russia's bombardment continues, most of them are women and children with men between the ages of $18.60 required to stay and fight, silica for device and another shore, every ukrainian just hopes that nato will close the sky for us because we are ready to fight and we are ready to protect ukraine from tanks from artillery. but we are not able to protect our sky. we only beg god to protect the sky, because nato is just watching and doesn't do anything for us. we beg for protection or the refugee crisis, sparked by the invasion, is growing by the day or the dilemma is on the border with romania i'm 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 that we've all 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 5 foot is also a long wait. several hours, 56 hours and you'll see there's a lot of women traveling alone. there's a lot of children. you see some men in the pictures, but there's going to be some really hot wrenching, goodbye at the end of the queue once they manage to cross. because men men cannot leave problems 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 are both at the back of the queue. that 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 cross country. it's a very long road. they are checkpoint after checkpoint, after checkpoint,

is very little fuel along the road. 20 liters. if you managed to get into a federal station, no accommodation, very little food. so it is really a very complicated way and now do more people will leave the east 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 prefer to come or ukraine has taken russia to court over the war. but russia was a no show. ukraine is seeking an emergency order from the international court of justice to stop the invasion. russia chose not to send a delegation to the hearing at the hague, ukraine's representative called on russia to respect international law. russia claims that in order to stop and non existent genocide, it can invade a sovereign state ukraine. ukraine rejects as its baseless crime,

glaze. my message to russia is this. let us settle our dispute. like a civilized nations laid down your arms and put forward your evidence. ukraine respects as escort and follows. it's called us. russia must as well. but if russia will not return to international law on its own, the court has a power to act with respect, the court has a responsibility to act. okay, we're going to take a look now at some of the other stories from around the world making the news. and israeli police have shot a palestinian man and occupied east jerusalem after an alleged knife attack. police say the man stepped an officer before he was shot. his condition is not yet known as follows. the killing of a palestinian teenager in abu dese on sunday, the authorities say that he was shot after throwing petra bones at police in the

united nations. it says that 397 civilians have been killed in attacks in afghanistan since the taliban seized control. 6 months ago. the taliban has been responsible for security since over throwing the us back to government in august. more than 80 percent of the deaths have been attributed to attacks by the armed group. i. so k. and the official best whole world wide from coven 19 has now passed that 6000000 as the pandemic enters its 3rd year. the last 1000000 deaths, as compiled by johns hopkins university, were recorded over the past 4 months, slightly slower than the previous 1000000. but the true number of people who have died because of coven 19 is believed to be far higher than the official count. the leader of south korea's governing party has been pack that an election campaign event, a man wielding a small hammer approached at song yang jig from behind and hit him several times in

the head. the democratic party leader was campaigning for his part. his candid and wednesdays presidential election song was taken to hospital and is in a stable condition. the attacker was arrested. now the pandemic rising house prices and corruption scandals have dominated the election campaign and his rock mcbride. now reports candidates have been using innovative ways to get their messages across hulu. having given the world k pop south koreans like to make a song and dance about their elections. the 2 presidential front runners, especially supporters of conservative hopeful units took. y'all want you to remember his number 2 when filling out the ballot paper. while the candidate of the ruling liberal party, lee j mm young. once his number one to get stuck in their heads,

carefully composed and choreographed, there's a real art to creating the right political ditty organism. 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 wound up. routines like these are a vital component of any campaign. and the more prominent the candidate, the more elaborate the performance is become my 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 lifelike avatars of themselves. upon liberal candidate lees image promotes messages tailored for particular air is 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 their 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 out his era,

so still head in the sneeze. our. the international gymnastics federation is investigating this. russian athlete for wearing a national war symbol in competition. ah.

ah o. a. and now here's peter with this point. barbara, thank you so much football's governing body fi phase opening a special transfer window for foreign players stranded in russia because of the invasion of ukraine. foreign players and coaches will be allowed to temporarily suspend the employment contracts with the brush and clubs for the end of the season

to allow them to leave. teams in other countries will be allowed to sign up to 2 players who have dealer club in russia. ukraine, a pay is union fee pro says it will be hard for them to find employment for such a short time. a rush and gymnast is being investigated after wearing a national war symbol during a woke up event of the weekend. even coolie ac is facing disciplinary action from the international gymnastics federation for having related their don't the stress to doing the competition and middle ceremony where he stood next to the gold medalist from ukraine. the late evade has become symbolic with russia, the invasion of ukraine. earlier, my colleague, jim and nash, spoke to rush and spoke to unless the lexia to ship ski and moscow, and began by asking him if the gymnast should be punished. that 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 train has said he's. trina 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 world gymnastics on a band or a certain disciplinary action in regards to these athlete. speaking of bands and punishments, missing rationale, and eights and teams across many sports, being band nice natively, your football team that 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 is a lot. busy 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 bible as 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 the simply a heated back to live. it to even if takes place but on the club level,

of course we've already. busy seen the likes of spots on moscow and 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 you a fight. 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 any one ever spoke to any part 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 and 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 a 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. the world's oldest tennis player says he's living through his worst nightmares. russian forces, balmy's, home, city of hockey, victoria gate and b has more. i'd normally done. he cranium, tennis player. leonid stanislavsky says he's too frightened to leave his house and 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. i say people on both sides should not be dying or others are standard lien. 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 car keith and wait for the fighting to stop. i would do bitterly. nicole 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 star, roger federer. but now he only has one wish to supply victory gate and be al jazeera tie. police al straining cricketer shane warne died of natural causes. the filthy 2 year old passed away on friday while on holiday one's body will be flown back to australia on tuesday. just as before, the world indo championships begin in belgrade, ill mpic champion, mondor de planters, has broken his own pole, the old record, a 22 year old sweetie at 6 point one. my niece is on the 3rd attempt at a meeting in the serbian capital. the planters has now said 3 world wrinkles in the po, vault since february 2020. that's all the sports is barbara. it's back to you in london . peter, thank you, and that is it from me for this news hour. do stay with us though. i'm going to be back in just a few minutes. we're more of the days news. and of course,

the latest developments from ukraine. thanks for being with us. ah. from the london broadcast center to special guests in conversation, christina, all about trying to get a superior reputation, unprompted uninterrupted, where we find the most profound similarities.