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and i don't want to go back to tourism, i want to continue to be a farmer as the island prepares to welcome visitors again, many say the pandemic has taught them valuable lessons. never forget, ah, devastation and concave, the altamont of intense russian bombardments, ukraine's 2nd largest city. it is absolutely shocking scene of destruction and misery. ah, hello nick loud. this is out 0 live from the also coming up. russia makes a new offer to open humanitarian corridors. for people to escape from bombed ukrainian cities, a plan subject to keeps approval. with 1700000 refugees fleeing ukraine,
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the you and she monitoring chief demand safe passage for civilians and access for 8 supplies. as western governments look at ways of cutting in ports of russian, oil and gas must be warned. it could shots off supplies to europe, retaliation so ukraine's 2nd largest city lies in ruins, cock give em to $1400000.00 people has been devastated by russian era tax buildings flattened in the streets, filled with rubble. charles stratford reports from the heart of the historic city from 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 cave. the area is silent and brutally scarred.
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shrapnel has ripped, through cars, masonry, thrown in, the blasts has crushed others when flames still rise from buildings nearby on craters and twisted steel. this st in central cock, if shows you just how devastating the effect of russian bombing of the city has been. and its higher st totally destroyed. where do these buildings have people's homes in of 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 concave. teresa is in shock. she walks around
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in the days, looking at the destroyed businesses and homes. when you finish the process of up here, i cannot think straight. i can't find the words spray cutover. it's barbaric, terrible. the world is shaking the can you hear you? i just don't understand shrapnel has ripped through the golden spires 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 salad. bread
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elona and her 12 year old daughter, nastier show us the train carriage where they've sheltered since their home was destroyed to us. did you know the name of it dotted 12 days ago? a house was destroyed and which is nice when we don't know where to live anymore. 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 neatly arranged where they sleep. there are family pets here too. if she dos over this book or, and i thought we would live peacefully and happiness united, but i was wrong. cause now the carriage, we find 19 year old violetta and her baby son booked on. he was born in
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hospital 2 days after the russian army invaded it all most. it's so difficult because every day we wash him upstairs. i'm so worried about him getting cold. vladimir putin till the world repeatedly. russia would never invade ukraine. car cave is a terrified testimony to his lie. john stratford al jazeera, called cave, where your current president brought him his zalinski is urging his people not to put down their weapons and not to believe fake announcements that his army has surrendered because i'm doing well. thank you. today is monday, the night of our struggle and i'm in care for my team is with me. all heroes doctors are diplomats journalists and everybody. when i we are all fighting. now we are all contributing to our victory today and tomorrow we will protest the
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occupiers. we are not afraid when they are shooting at us. we are not retreating. those people in russia who say we are retreating. they did not expect our reaction . they forgot that we are not afraid of the tanks and machine guns. what russian president vladimir putin says he will not use conscripts or reserve troops during the military operation in ukraine. putin made the comments during a televised message to mart international women's day june hughes media. 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 these actions and we will
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secure p for all the people. russia or rushes ambassador to the un has told the security council that russia will observe a sci fi and open humanitarian corridors on tuesday morning at 7 gmc luggage 0 after it was small. the russian side is announcing that tomorrow the 8th of march, starting a 10 in the morning. moscow time we cardio to see swire, an open humanitarian corridor to evacuate citizens from kiev, churney gulf sumi harcourt and mario poll. ukrainian colleague said that ukraine is ready to work in this direction, but let's see what answer we got from the russian authorities to this proposal. incidentally, this proposal makes no demands that citizens be sent necessarily to russia to russian territories. there are also of occupations offered to populations in ukrainian cities to the west of kia and ultimately it will be the choice of the people about where they want to be evacuated to. well, let's take a look at the latest routes that russians propose for humanitarian carville's and
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the let's. the management is a, from a trying to go to better use and another one lease from the capital keith, to go. mel in russian libraries and one from ukraine's 2nd largest city. a cock give goes to belgrade in russia. there are 2 from sumi one to belgrade and the other 2, the ukranian controlled po tarver. and there are 2 out of the besieged city of merrier pole. one is a pretty ger, and the other 2 rust of on dawn. that's in russia. earlier ukraine described suggested escape routes that lead to russia, berries as completely immoral. john hall has more in the days events from the 5th in western ukraine. they may not have the numbers or the file power to match, but soldiers on ukraine's front lines feel they have something the enemy can't muster, but warren is bordering. they're fighting for money for the days of some crazy people. demoralized we are at home defending our homes, our children,
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our parents. we have no place to escape to slow 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 so i ng mocker. say it's process. is one mind decide to know the completion 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, go not a man who needs reminding how to fight that a would you, would it be there is fighting in butcher it a pin. pasta mill at this moment,
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the one thing i can say that we won't go anywhere from kia every house. every street, every checkpoint, for 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. the 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 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 battle russian border, but with neither side willing to give ground,
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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 saw many people making their escape. my feelings on both sides of all now was what i heard about the moral. what do you agree 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
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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, 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 or russian negotiated, say that expert patients were not met in the 3rd round of talks with the crane, but at the forefront will be held in valerie soon. towards jabari and moscow has more on the criminal demands. one of the most m. o. official statements that we've
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heard from the russian officials was from the kremlin spokesperson dmitri pest. gov, who laid out for the 1st time what rushes looking for in order for this. so called military operation in ukraine to end, and that 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 are 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 he of to recognize the separatist regions of don 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 there needs to be
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an immediate cease fire and a withdrawal of all russian troops from ukrainian soil before they can talk about anything else. stella had heron al jazeera, a funeral is held in the nest for several just amanda killed well trying to help civilians escape and the world's oldest tennis player says he's living through his worst nightmare is washing forces from his home city. ah look forward to brighter skies. the weather sponsored my cattle a ways. i was still snow on the ground and accardo nor the mountains of northern haunches lost the season is no more falling. and it's not that cold, foreign support, or 8 in tokyo could do better in italy. and if you come back here, you'll notice it is doing better. the sun in march is strengthening rapidly in
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temperatures are rising. there's no rain, there's not much cloud in the sky. either so there's nothing to stop these longer days. really getting warmer and warmer and they are $6.00 to $11.00 degrees above average, anywhere from shanghai north isn't particularly noticeable in northern china, mongolia. hobbin should be about 0 minus 2 this time the year and is plus. neither are rapid rise in temperature. ok, not quite so rapid elsewhere. it still wet season and temperatures. pretty steady in indonesia, we've had flooding recently and barley and java. we could see a bit more these orange fresh tops of funded storms and the suggestive some heavy range northern foss body. old central philippines. and once again and olden sumatran ha, for example. got a few residual shouts. and what was the trough called depression? in carola and in sri lanka and the heat which is rising in normal buying them at about 5 to these were average is suggesting shares here to an a significant rain and snow in northern afghanistan, heading towards the north of pakistan. oh,
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has been devastated by russian air attacks, forcing many of its residents to flee. it is ukraine, 2nd largest city, for the population of around 1400000 people. russia has announced a temporary cease fire to allow the evacuation of ukrainians from several major cities, including the capitol, keith, most of the routes for the proposed humanitarian cra, corridors, need to russian territory or into better bruce or the u. s. is calling for safe passage for civilians who are trapped in ukraine. the security council metal monday to discuss the need to deliver a to ukraine. this kristen salumi the united nations security council heard about the impact of conflict as having on civilians in an open meeting. well, at the same time, they're working behind the scenes to try to get a resolution pass that would ensure humanitarian access to the conflict. the united nations is calling for unimpeded access for humanitarian workers and also for
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civilian to leave the country. should they so desire that something that none of the council members disagree with in principle, but they can't seem to agree on the wording for a resolution. it was very welcome to hear of the agreement between the ukrainian authorities and the russian federation about the need for humanitarian corridors. that was welcome. but as you know, it's yet to be to be realized. we believe there are things that need to be clearly understood as a basis for safe passage. you need to have clarity on the route. it needs to be a route which is safe. you need to have timing for movements. you need to have contact numbers. so those running the convoys in and out, you need to know what the purposes of each movement. you need to have a hotline in case it doesn't work. we need all these, all these aspects which we've all learned from bitter experience elsewhere,
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to get the safe passages to work. russia accused ukraine of blocking civilians from leaving the country and using them as human shields. ukraine accused russia of hypocrisy and france, which is attempting to draft a resolution guaranteeing humanitarian access, says a cessation of hostilities will be necessary in order to achieve that. well, the united nations is not waiting for the security council before the head with its plans to bring relief to the people of ukraine. they've already met with a defense officials in moscow and are moving forward with or without a resolution. meanwhile, the un says more than 1700000 people have cross from ukraine into neighboring countries. more than a 1000000 have gone to poland parish governments to set up a $1700000000.00 fund to pay for food, shelter, and medical care. about 220000 people are fed to neighboring romania with many
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families boarding a fairy to cross the river w romanian volunteers to help refugees find accommodation and transport. or abdul hammond has more enough from terabytes in the border along the border between ukraine and romania 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 this side, you have the queue of cars, and 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,
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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 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 federal station know 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 pearl,
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and they prefer to come here well, every day around 10000 people escaping the funds in ukraine had been arriving in berlin. those numbers are expected to continue over the days to come. dozens of volunteers are at the city's main railway station to try to help out. so medicaid has his report. 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 day that we left. so it's like for 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, who's at college in been at sac far when the war began, now safe in germany, he's hoping to resume his studies. me. fire can be admitted into school. i cannot
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call them my head on consumer, my studies and 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, so they're all donation. so they're all donations. 2 from people, this is not from, from, from the republic or from the government log. hi, private people. the city's mer has appealed to 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 war zone. 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,
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it's estimated that tens of thousands of refugees have got here since the war began . many more may arrive here in the coming days. dominant came al jazeera berlin, ukraine's president is calling on the international community to boycott russian oil flood m, as zalinski said, the world should stop importing from russia. effectively calling for trade embargo, russia's deputy prime minister says crude oil prices could climb to over $300.00 per barrel. if the united states and european union been in ports of oil from russia, where you are secretary of state entity, blink, and announced on sunday that washington and his allies are considering an embargo on russian oil at the price per barrel peaked at a 14 year high of nearly a $140.00 as president biden considers an embargo. oil prices had set a record high of a $147.00 per barrel back in july 2008. well, it's
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a natural chris swafer who's chief executive officer of macro advisory, which is a at strategic consultancy focused on russia and eurasia. and he says, if europe stops importing russian oil replacing, it will be simple. the thing that you know, we're not hearing are 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 to go call us the refinery. see used to pro processor refine venezuela oil, which is similar to, to russian oil. then they had to switch the russian when venezuela, with sanctions, and rushes and sanctions. and there really is nowhere else for them to get that oil . they cannot just import oil from the goals and replace rush. no 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,
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to process like your oil or different oil. in the meantime, you're going to have a shortage to refine products of the southern states, and the price would rise. so it's not just a case of, you know, turning off fresh noise and getting it elsewhere. it's the quality of the oil or discuss the of your and it's very different to, to oil studies more readily available. for example, from go for other producers. and that's the problem that you're facing as well. again, it's not just the case. can we replace the oil? it's where we get similar oil touch or the refineries in poland and germany are now engineered to refine the can not just put saudi oil in as a replacement. but let's turn to the netscape in easton and east in ukraine now to a funeral has been held for the commander of the separate just sparta battalion. his unit says he was killed on saturday while attempting to help civilians live nearby ukrainian city. from bennett smith fields reporting from jeanette blood image
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yoga has become one of the 1st heroes of the new russian recognized the netscape 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 0 fastly they are defenders of our land. they are for truth, they are for the fatherland. this is like the greats, patchy or sick war story that 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 von or vodka, 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.
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one of the people who will report this story across social media to the russian public is a well known and influential war reporter, semi on peg off, took the weights, middle resume utilities 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 new nazis who practically control ukraine, now are the same as i saw terrorism to which 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 to russia. russian don boss, that sign reads. now,
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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 dance. when the world's oldest tennis player took on ruffled and al, he said his dreams had come true. now that 97 year old ukrainian athlete says he's living through his worst nightmare as russian forces bomb his home city of khaki. rhetoric game. because his report, an army of gun ukrainian 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 wall. okay, 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
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a friendly match against tennis champion ref, and a dow that made headlines around the world and i will over this is after you. 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 it can to stop the war. i think 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 planes to fight the nazis. his daughter is in poland, but he says it's too difficult for him to get there. so he'll staying car keith and wait for the fighting to stop her work. gabriel, nicole daniel domo sure. 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 lynette dreamed of playing against tennis star, roger federer. but now he only has one wish me to supply victoria gate and be al
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