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is an in depth report, this is norma. this is tyler. al jazeera, has teens on the ground tip when you more award winning documentaries and lied nice ah devastation and how keep the aftermath of intense russian bombardment in ukraine's 2nd largest. it is a absolutely shocking scene of destruction and misery. ah, hello nick loud. this is out 0 life and are also coming up. russian ukrainian delegations meet for talks on the belly routine border, but there's no sign of progress in halting the wall. with 1700000 refugees fleeing
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ukraine. un humanitarian chief demands safe passage for civilians and access for 8 supplies. as western governments look at ways of causing imports of russian, oil and gas, moscow warns it could shut off supplies to europe. retaliation. so ukraine's 2nd largest city lies in ruins or keep home to 1400000 people has been devastated by russian air attacks. building to flattened in the streets filled with rubble. charles stratford reports now from the heart of the historic city, which many residents have been forced to flee. a man walks carefully down the street totally destroyed. russian bombs have ripped through these buildings in central car, give the area is silent and brutally scarred. shrapnel
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has ripped, through cars, masonry thrown in, the blasts has crushed others, one flames still rise from buildings nearby on craters and twisted steel. this st in central cock, if shows you just how devastating the effects of russian bombing of the city has been. and it's higher, st totally destroyed. where do these buildings have people's homes in the private residences, flats, some of them still smoking. one of the main things that many people here tell you is that they can in no way understand how the leader of a country like russia could do something like this. to a city like color give theresa is in shock. she walks around
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in a days looking at the destroyed businesses and homes. oh, when you finish the brush up here, i cannot think straight. i can't find the words. spray cutover. it's barbaric, terrible. the world is shaking. no. can you hear you? i just don't understand. shrapnel has ripped through the golden spires and an orthodox church. every windows smashed wonder ground metro stations is where many people hide. young and old stand patiently in line for food served by volunteers. bowl soup, solid bread elona and her 12 year old daughter. nastier show us the train carriage where
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they've sheltered since their home was destroyed to us. did you know the name of it started 12 days ago. our house was destroyed and she is night. we don't know where to live anymore. it's. i don't know where to go with my child. honestly help us. it is no. there are many here like us who have lost everything. them should have their belongings and legally arranged where they sleep. there are family pets here to feel she or she would just because i thought we would live peacefully and happiness united, but i was wrong in the carriage. we find 19 old violetta and her baby son bogged on. he was born in hospital 2 days after
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the russian army invaded. it almost so difficult. every day we washed him upstairs. i'm so worried about him getting cold. vladimir putin told the world repeatedly, russia would never invade ukraine. car cave is a terrified testimony to his lie. john stratford al jazeera called cave. well, let's take a look at the roots that russia has proposed for humanitarian turtles. one, these from the capital city, keep to come out in russian allied bella, luce, another from ukraine, 2nd largest g, hockey goes to belgrade in russia. and there are 2 from sumi one to belgrade. and the other 2 you creating controlled poll tarver and 2 out of the besieged city of merrier pole, and one to r p j. and the other 2 rust on dawn in russia. well,
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the 3rd round of talks between ukrainian or russian negotiators has wrapped up with the crate and saying small progress has been made on humanitarian corridors, where they're describing suggested routes that lead to russia or better routes is completely immoral. john hall has more in the days events from an of if 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. but warren, is there fighting for money for the ideas of some crazy people there demoralized we are at home defending our homes, our children, our parents. we have no place to escape to a 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 to become comrades. i'm working in your that i ng for democracy or heroes. luckily,
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it's prussia. i'm one mind from decide that of the content of it. at a checkpoint in the capital tiles filled with old soviet era tomes and textbooks, the reservists on duty se they'll use the books to set the barricades a light if they have to solve it. history has not been kind to ukraine, but here it has its uses, the mayor of ki, if is here to italy college sco. not a man who needs reminding how to fight without us. would you, would it be there is fighting in butcher it been hostile mil at this moment the one thing i can say that we won't go anywhere from key is every house, every street, every checkpoint work we'll 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
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towards the capital in recent days. russia does have a significant air force capable of causing serious hom, over large areas, but still functioning, ukrainian air defense systems. a surprise to many continued to contain it. 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
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a pin on the outskirts of cave. heavy shelling killed 8 civilians here on sunday. but monday saw many people making their escape. my philip, i'm afraid both. wagner wasn't what i heard about. what we re next was the next day . what's our future here? no one knows what the future will bring. if russian forces do mount ground assault on the capital, it will likely be through these western outskirts for the cities defenders. the new 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, cutting stitching notting, turning strips of cloth into camouflaged netting. you hear a great deal about the unexpected strength of ukrainian resistance,
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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. jonah, how al jazeera, who vive, well, russian negotiators say their expectations were not met in the 3rd round of talks of the crane, but a full throne will be held in battery. soon. baris and moscow has more on the criminal demands. one of the most official statements that we heard from russian officials, was from the criminal spokesperson, dmitri pest cause who laid out for the 1st time what russia is looking for in order for this so called military operation. in ukraine to end, and there are 4 points that the russians want from ukraine in government, and 1st that is for them to cease military operations. and to that they make
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constitutional amendments where they rule out any joining of any block in the future, including nato and 3rd, they want crimea, which russia antics in 2014, to be officially recognized as part of russia. they also want to recognize the separatist regions of done yes and the guns in the eastern part of your brain. as independent republics, these are the main points. now, according to russian officials that will, once this, these things are done by the government and the fighting will stop immediately. and of course, the ukrainian officials have said that their conditions are that they need to be an immediate cease fire and a withdrawal of all russian troops from ukrainian soil before they can talk about anything else. while the russian president vladimir putin says he will not use conscripts or reserve troops during the miniature operation in ukraine, a putin made the comments during a televised message to mark international women's day. yeah, june hughes,
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media. but i'd like to also address the mothers sisters and brides of our officers who are currently fighting to protect russia in our special operation. i understand that you worry about your loved ones. you can be proud of them, just like you. the whole country is proud of them in the same way together with you . the whole country is proud of them and worries about them. i'd like to highlight that in the military action, no conscripted soldiers will be taking part. i guess you and we will not call for reserves, only professional military personnel will take part in the factions and we will secure p for all the people russia of you and humanitarian affairs. she said civilians must be allowed out and aid must be allowed in mountain griffin told the un security council that he sent a team to moscow to work on better humanitarian coordination. the parties 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
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leave areas of active hostilities on a voluntary basis in the direction they choose. all civilians, whether they stay or leave must be respected, unprotected 2nd. we need safe passage for humanitarian supplies into areas of activity. active hostilities mother u. n says more than 1700000 people across from ukraine into neighboring countries. more than a 1000000 have gone to poland by this government to set up a 1700000000 dollar fund to pay for food, shelter, and medical care. and around childrens with people of fled to neary romania with many families boarding a fairy to cross the danube river romanian volunteers, helping the refugees find accommodation and transportation. what abra hammett has more now from taylor bridge along the border between ukraine and romania actually under ukrainian side of the board. and we've been here for the last few
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hours and the amount of people arriving is increasing a lot. if you just on this side, you have the queue of cars that we've off, the 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 heart wrenching goodbye at the end of the queue once they manage to cross. because men men cannot leave from, from the country, especially if they're below 60, that these people are actually coming from the east of the country by and large people who have a device back of the queue. that is a group of 50 indian students who just made it out by bus. they made
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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 poland, they're preferred to come are still ahead here. now the 0 failing to show up in court, russia didn't attend the case, brought against it by ukraine. at the international court of justice. a funeral is held in the net for a separatist commander killed while trying to help civilians escape
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ah a very warm spell is being swept away from the east coast of the u. s. and the extreme cold doesn't look extreme for most pop up in the rockies. it is, and temperatures really are dropping the out to get is coming back again. so i was to say was, this is rather more normal and we got more shout developing with the gulf feet in for example, texas eastwards you've got snow showers over the rockies and some parts of the high mountains, the west as well. so caspar maximum temperature, mars 8 might stand out, it probably should. the average is time the gave the year for wyoming, this by wyoming is plus 5 by day minus 7. but we got minus 8 by dana minus 13. and then minus 20 or over not, this is really, really cold weather rogers early march,
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that cold spread south through colorado into the plane states. eventually, you might imagine we get a meeting of minds and we get these violent thunderstorms. but it's not immediate. get through wednesday probably to thursday before we think about that. ok, the trade winds are bringing frequent showers as you might expect in the lesser, in the greater antilles. and lightly schwann's in honduras. and nick, right, you are the heavy right, is still gets for sorry for that. more or less along the equator, ecuador towards northern brazil. these orange trashes suggest pretty heavy showers . ah frank assessments for china? well, bannister from the 0 call it strategy. if the rest of the world are not informed opinions at all costs luckiest on needs. and on fridays on that scale critical debate, like with claims that need to come, it's an interesting chill threat to russia, but it's precisely his actions that's rated this insecurity in the region. in depth
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analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera lou. the me again, you want to remind about top stories is our hockey has been devastated by russian air attack, forcing many of its residents to flee ukraine's 2nd largest city with a population of around 1400000 people. a 3rd run, a choice between russia and ukrainian delegations has ended with no major breakthroughs. russia says several proposals were presented to ukraine, but none accepted, more talks to sets to take place. the un says more than 1700000 people have fled.
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ukraine 1000000 have gone to poland, the government to set up a $1700000000.00 fund to pay for shelter. and medical ukraine president just calling on the international community to boycott russian oil, florida means lensky said the world should stop importing from russia effectively calling for a trade in bulger. the announcements and crude oil prices to a 14 year high on monday morning. russia's deputy prime minister says it crude oil prices could climb to over $300.00 per barrel if the united states and the european ban imports oil from russia. yes, extra state entity plan can announce on sunday that washington and its allies, a considering an embargo on russian oil. the price per barrel piqued it a 13 year high of nearly a $140.00 as president biden considers an embargo. an oil prices headset a record high of $147.00 per barrel, a back in july of 2008. alright, let's take this on that speak to chris reefer in london. he's the chief executive
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officer of macro advisory, which is a strategic consultancy focus on russia and your asia. chris, welcome to the program at just more on the consequences of a band to the rest of the world. and 2nd, but what would the implications be to rusher itself if the u. s. and possibly europe band, the oil and gas products. well, if, if the 1st was cut off from the old market, that certainly would go to the saying, you would put a dent in russia's cash flow. the, you know, the government is relying now on the current account surplus of about $25000000000.00 a month, which comes from exporting oil and gas and other industrial materials and coal, most of which goes to the west europe, into the u. s. but also the significant amount goes to asia, so it's kind of hard to break it down as to what the impact of oil oil export ban to europe and to the u. s. would be because of course, oil would,
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would also continue flow to asia, presumably would be paid for. and then the question is whether or not, or there could a major export gas, for example, is a much more valuable export to russia. what would happen to district materials call, who eat another other products. so if it was just oil only, it would have put the dent in rushes cash flow, but it wouldn't be financially catastrophic. ok for the united states for the united states. if they turned off the russian oil supply, what implications would it have there and how easy would it be or not? well, i guess the thing that you know, we're not hearing our politicians on perfecting on is that russian oil is different to the oil coming out of the gulf. it's a heavier oil. the reason the us imports about 700000 barrels a day of russian crude is because it's needed for the refineries in the gulf coast . these are refineries used to pro processor refined venezuela oil,
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which is similar to, to russian oil. then they had to switch to russian know when venezuela, with sanctions and rushes and sanctions, then there really is nowhere else for them to get the oil. they cannot just import oil from the goals and replace russia because the refineries are not built for that . it would, it would take a long time and would be very expensive to kind of re engineer the refineries to, to process laser oil or different oil. in the meantime, you're going to have a shortage of refined products of the southern states, and the price would rise. so it's not just a case of, you know, turning on fresh noise and getting it elsewhere. it's the quality of the oil or the, or discuss the of the or, and it's very different to, to oil. it's studies more readily available, for example, from go for other opec producers. and that's the problem to your faces as well. and again, it's not just the case, can we replace the oil? it's where we get similar oil touch. the refineries in poland and germany are
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now engineered to refine the cannot put saudi oil in as a replacement. right? a strange thing is a good place, isn't it? because kind of depends on who does it 1st, because russia also being pushed towards turning off the gas supply to europe. yeah, we've heard the threat from indigent. it's not like saying that russia would consider that as an option as a response. frankie, i think that's just kind of more, you know, putting on the table kind of worst case scenarios. i really can see russia turning off gas exports on less of europe. puts all russian banks onto the swift band, which means that russia could not be pay for those exports, in which case then they will turn off the exports. but in the meantime, you know, it's to do so would be very much a case of cutting off your nose just to spite your face is where the, the bulk of rushes export earnings come from gas exports. if russia would cut that off, it would start the economy of cash flow would greatly take the budget in which hasten
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the financial and economic crisis in russia. so i really can see russia doing that voluntarily. they would only do that in response to say the inability to get paid. and it's, we've heard from germany and other major european economies. they don't want to do that either because they're simply not going to be able to replace that gas anywhere else for years. and for without a very significant investment, another energies, but you have several years of energy can shortage, which clarity would then lead to industrial problems and probably recession in europe. so it's very much a case of kind of mutual destruction show is about gas. it's is finally everything and so on predictable in this war, that even something that seems around lightly could happen and that could happen. could net, they got supply could be turned off. and if that did happen, what would it mean for europe's economy, for energy supplies and so forth? yeah, right now we have
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a case of kind of political emotion versus economic reality. if the gas works be cut off, and as you say 2 weeks ago, we didn't think we were talking about this at all. but even worse to be cut off than i think you would be looking at a severe energy shortage in europe probably over next winter. certainly coming in next spring. and probably you can make recession in europe probably by the middle of next year. that's the harsh reality and aid. all right, chris, we'll leave it the thanks very much indeed for your analysis and expertise. appreciate that, christopher. speak your microphone. when you're writing this, taken russia to the international court of justice, saying that moscow falsely accused of genocide to justify its military actions. russia chose not to send a delegation to the hearing at the hague. ukraine is seeking an emergency order from the court to stop the invasion. the crating representative called a russia to respect international law. charlie angela has been following developments from london. what ukraine is essentially asking for is for the court to put in place provisional measures against russia, that would mean c thing,
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all military operations in ukrainian territory and re withdrawing any kind of russian a militia. and ukraine says its case is very straightforward and its centers on a treaty signed by russia and ukraine in 1948 on the prevention of genocide, russia, they say his accused ukraine of committing genocide in easton ukraine in 2014 and use that as that pretext for this invasion, ukraine says this, this accusation of genocide is baseless and we will prove it. and that full russia's invasion on this pretext is illegal. as you mentioned, russia has a not attended the hearing that front row in the court lay empty seats that were reserved for their lawyers. and possibly one of the reasons for this no show is because one of that top lawyers alarm pele of france resigned last week. and in an
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open letter said enough is enough. i can no longer represent a country that so cynically despises the law. so that would have been a blow for the russian side. so what we're seeing now is that ukraine has wrapped up that argument. russia has boycotted by not attending and we can expect to see a judgement in record time usually takes about 3 years, but we could see something out of the i. c j in the next week. or her son is one of the few largest cities in ukraine that russian soldiers holding earlier they fought with you. credit protested with demonstrating against mafia taker on is the largest urban center. russia has captured since invasion began. the united nations says a trucks have been unable to enter the city because of ongoing fighting or alice turned to dynette skin, easton ukraine, which is held by russia backed rebels. a funeral has been held for the commander of the ship to sponsor battalion. his unit says he was killed on saturday while
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attempting to help civilians leave a nearby ukrainian city. bernard smith reports now from the nets. vladimir 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 terrible. firstly, they are defenders of our land. they are for truth. they are for the fatherland. this is like the greats, patchy or sick war. stir that when we do, i think this is my duty. this man gave his life for freedom and independence of our great republic. i had to camp, he fights for us for all the value and peace. 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 nova, during what was supposed to be
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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 weights, 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. lots for me. the militants and neo nazis who practically control ukraine now are the same as i saw terrorism, which are that is the the morn 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
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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. ah, all right, let's have a quick check on the headlines here and al jazeera and hockey has been devastated by russian air attacks, forcing many of its residents to flee. it is ukraine's 2nd largest city with the population of around 1400000 people. ukrainian president vladimir lensky is once again urging his people to fight on godaddy when they deal. today is monday, the 12th night of our struggle and i'm in care for my team is with me or heroes. our doctors, our diplomats journalists, everybody.

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