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on forces were obliged to the friends that come to family, regular groups that added that human rights needed to be respected and that the events at the border would be investigated ah. devastation in car cave, the aftermath of intense russian bombardment in ukraine, 2nd largest city. it is an absolutely shocking scene of destruction and misery. ah, i'm hasn't. think of this is agitated. i live from the hall. so coming up, russia makes a new offer to open humanitarian car doors for people to escape from bombed ukrainian cities. a plant subject to keeps approval. as western governments look at
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ways of cutting in ports of russian, oil and gas, moscow warns it could shut off supplies to europe in retaliation. ukraine's 2nd largest city lies in ruins, called cave home to 1400000 people has been devastated by russian air attacks buildings flattened and the streets filled with rubble. charles strafford reports from the heart of the historic city from which many people have been forced to fleet. 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 has ripped through cars,
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masonry thrown in, the blast has crushed. others with 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 it's 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 called kiff. teresa is in shock. she walks around in a days looking at the destroyed businesses and homes. are you finish the process of
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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 of 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 wellness? it's dotted 12 days ago. our house was destroyed and she is not good. we don't know where to live any more. 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 shit of their belongings and neatly arranged where they sleep. there are family pets here to if she or she would have 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 book dawn. he was born in hospital 2 days after the russian army invaded it almost so difficult.
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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. russia's ambassador to the un has told the security council that russia will observe a sci fi, an open humanitarian court on tuesday morning at 700 gmc little luggage was after it was moved, the russian side is announcing tomorrow, the 8th of march, starting at 10 in the morning moscow time we cardio to cease fire, an open humanitarian corridor to evacuate citizens from kiev, czerny golf sumi harcourt and mario poll, ukrainian colleague said that ukraine is ready to work in this direction. but let's
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see what answer we got from the russian authorities to this proposal. grain incidentally, this proposal makes no demands that citizens be sent necessarily to russia to russia and territories. there are also of accusations 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. here's the look at the roots. russia has proposed for humanitarian chord, those the latest announcement is from shinny golf to bellies and other one leaves from the capital cave to go mill in russian allied bella race and one from ukraine, 2nd largest city here goes to belgrade in russia. and they were 2 from sumi one to belgrade, and the other 2 ukranian controlled poll tava and 2 out of the besieged city of murray. you pull one to the parisha and the other 2 are of the one dawn in russia. russian to go tear in negotiators say their expectations were not met in the 3rd
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round of talks with ukraine, but a 4th round will be held in bella, re soon dosage a body in moscow has more on the criminal remarks. one of the most official statements that we heard from russian officials was from the criminal spokesperson, dmitri prescott, who laid out for the 1st time what russia 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 ukraine in government, and 1st that is for them to cease military operations. and to that they make constitutional amendments where they rule out any joining of any block in the future, including nieto 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,
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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 there needs to be an immediate cease fire. and a withdrawal of all russian troops from ukrainian soil before they can talk about anything else. on natasha butler is in live with law on ukraine's response to the latest round of talks. well, a pretty low key reaction from a ukrainian negotiate. as i said, there had been a some positive point. so those are the words are used to describe our discussions over the implementation of any future monitoring corridors, but it doesn't sound as if there's been any agreement in terms of the humanitarian corridors in terms of the real details. when if and where are some humanitarian corridors could actually be set up and that's going to be an enormous at worry to so many people. most notably, of course,
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all the many civilians that continue to be trapped in towns was fighting a continues who are surviving in the most terrible conditions, often without food or water. medicines running out those humanitarian corridors are absolutely vital. and going into these talks, a ukrainian negotiators had said that they would be a priority because what they didn't really expect was any other major breakthrough . i mean, nobody expected here in ukraine that a solution would be found to the end of the war. because you have a situation in which a russia has more than evaded the country, but of course continues to push forward into different parts of the country and for the ukrainians. it is unacceptable to think that there could be any form of real high level negotiations whilst brushes military is still in the country for laudermill. zalinski has already said that it would be like trying to negotiate with a gun to your head that until russian forces had to pull out of the country. it's
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gonna be very difficult indeed to talk some of russia's red lines. things like a ukraine agreeing to crimea becoming officially part of russia. well, that's certainly not going to happen from ukraine's point of view for the time being. so, going into those talks, expectations would. lo, coming out to them, they remain the same. ukrainian president. what demons zalinski is urging his people not to put down their weapons and not to believe fake announcements that his army has surrendered. caught him. when you today is monday, the false. now devout struggle and i'm in kia. 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, not today, and tomorrow we will protest the occupiers. we are not afraid when they are shooting at us. we are not retreating. those people in russia who say we all retreating, they did not expect our reaction. they forgot that we are not afraid of the tanks
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and machine guns. a russian president vladimir putin says he will not use conscripts or reserve troops during the military operation in ukraine. putin made the comments in a televised message to mark international women's day room 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 secure p for all the people russia. a still ahead on edge a 0 with 1700000 refugees, please find the un humanitarian. he demands safe passage for civilians and access
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to 8 supplies. and in other news cracks in the coalition, why thailand's prime minister is looking increasingly isolated 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 part, but up in the rockies. it is and temperatures really are dropping the out to get is coming back again. so as 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 of mars 8 might stand out. it probably should. the average is time, the gay for the year for wyoming. this par,
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wyoming is plus 5 by day minus 7, but we got minus 8 by the dental minus 13. and then minus 20 overnight. this is really, really cold weather rogers, early march, that cold spread south through colorado into the plane states. eventually, you might imagine we get a meeting of minds, 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 and the whole juris nicaragua, you are the heavy right. is still good for sorry, for that. more or less along the equator, ecuador towards north brazil. these orange trashes suggest pretty heavy showers. ah, an app that sees for the blind and a robotic arm for the disabled. a young australian engineer is inventing tools to
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help people gain independence or side of that will put the ability to recognize objects on the firm so that people with limited vision would be able to recognize every day of jack women make science, robo girls, episode full on al jazeera ah ah, but again, you're watching, i just need a reminder of our top stories. russian air attacks of devastated cod kit, forcing many of its people to flee more than a 100 people have been killed in ukraine. second largest city rushes announced
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a temporary cease fire to allow the evacuation of ukrainians from several major cities, including the capital key of most of the routes for the proposed humanitarian coin owes lead to russian territory or bela bruce. earlier ukraine called the escape was completely immoral. gina, how as more from live is 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, is there fighting for money for the idea of some crazy people there to moralize. we are at home defending our homes, our children, our parents. we have no place to escape too slow. okay. and in these defensive positions on the outskirts of the capital cave, they have something else to support for the underdog, the sympathy of foreigners who have travelled here to ukraine to become comrades.
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i'm broken in your thought, i eng for democracy or heroes. remarkably, as prussia. i'm while mom for decide on of a conference 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 kia 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
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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 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 been 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 uni latrell 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
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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 philip, i'm afraid both of us. wagner was what i heard about the model. 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 mounted ground assault on the capital of us, 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
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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 of the un humanitarian affairs, she says civilians must be allowed out. an aid must be allowed in goodness, toby un security council, 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 leave areas of active hostilities on a voluntary basis in the direction they choose. all civilians,
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whether they stay or leave must be respected and protected. second, we need safe passage for humanitarian supplies into areas of activity. active hostilities or the u. s. has more than one point. 7000000 people have crossed from ukraine into neighboring countries. more than a 1000000 have gone to poland, polish government and set up a $1700000000.00 fund to pay for food, shelter and medical care. about 200000 people have fled to neighboring romania. the hamid has more from 10. bless 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, 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,
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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 problems 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 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,
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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 here a us president joe bud the says he is still deciding on whether to impose oil sanctions on russia. there's broad bipartisan support in congress for the move, but disagreement over how and where the u. s. would get alternative supplies. my can reports from washington dc. the u. s. motorist is already feeling the pain. the price of gas is now at its highest level since the economic crash in 2008. and this could rise even further. should the us decide to impose sanctions on russian oil? no decision has been made at this point by the president about an been an import,
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a ban on importing oil from russia. and those discussions are ongoing internally and also with our counterparts and partners in europe and around the world. i would know that what the president is most focused on is ensuring we are continuing to take steps to deliver punishing economic consequences on certain well taking all action necessary to limit the impact to prices at the gas time. the u. s. is the world's largest oil producer, but is also the largest consumer and remains dependent. unimportant, foreign oil. 8 percent of oil imported into the u. s. comes from russia. and the by did administration is seeking ways to make up the shortfall. should it impose sanctions? the white house confirmed to high level team visited venezuela this weekend to discuss, among other issues, energy matters. there's also been speculation about importing oil from iran. i,
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while this broad bipartisan support for oil sanctions against russia in congress. this fear re, among republicans about any suggestion that countries like venezuela or iran could make up the shortfall. we should be drilling for oil and gas that we own to replace what we bought from potent and the idea of getting gas from iran to make up for the loss we received from russia is insane. you'd be taking the gas revenue away from a dictator, a war criminal in increasing revenue for a religious nazi, the ayatollah of iran. that is the dumbest idea i've ever heard. we are producing over a 1000000 bowers less today than we were just a couple years ago. we have the capability to do it. i think that's a much better strategy that begging saudi arabia to produce more, or cutting a deal with a narco terrorist and the bureau and venezuela, which wouldn't even lead to enough oil anyways. or some, you know,
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crazy iran deal that almost guaranteed to be a nuclear weapons underlying the bite and administration's deliberations about oil sanctions against russia. are domestic political concerns. prices at the pump and electric rail in us politics and looming ahead, late to the mid term elections in which high gas prices could have severe consequences for the administration in charge. regardless of the reason my kind of out, sierra washington in other news is ready. police have shot a palestinian man and occupied east jerusalem after an alleged knife attack. lisa, the man stabbed an officer before he was shot. his condition is not yet known and follows the killing of a palestinian teenager in dc on sunday. so as to say he was shut off this morning, petrol bombs, the police force it has more from west jerusalem was really police say
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a palestinian man. approached security forces close to one of the gates to the lock . so most compound, one of the entrances, the most compound in occupied east jerusalem in the old city and that the man attacked tried to stab, and indeed did stab 2 of those security forces. members injuring the moderately, he was shot. and there is video that has emerged what seems to be the moments just after that. with the man lying prone on the ground on his side, on the ground at the base of a flight of steps with an israeli security forces member standing very close to him on those steps above him, pointing his gun at him and shouting in a very animated agitated way, the translation from hebrew isn't precise, but essentially shouting about, shooting him in the head. a shot does then ring out. the man continues to move for some time after that shot and more ready security forces arrive on the scene is where the police say that the palestinian man is from the occupied west bank from
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a village close to ramallah. it is the 2nd such incident in the space of just 2 days on sunday and 19 year old man was shot and killed after he stabbed an injured 2 other is ready. security forces, members and tensions are running somewhat higher than usual at the moment in the run up to the, to the ramadan period which begins in april. and there's also been a warning from hamas in gaza about a new and fodder starting in the west bank. and east jerusalem. it's not the 1st time they've issued such warnings without them necessarily coming true, but certainly it is a 10th period. the moment injuries them a tile as prime minister is looking increasingly isolated after recent affections from the ruling party and snobs from coalition partners. general prayers channel jazz been empower, says 2014 after military coup. but the ruling coalition now appears shaky. tony
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chang reports from banker the traditional chinese line dancers of the political protest in bangkok to bring good luck. the dancing line is matched by the dragon's roar. the speakers line up to denounce amnesty international and other organizations. they say threatened thailand sovereignty. but the royalist protested, who supported the military coup in 2014. and the generals that have been in control since, and now feeling a little less secure. i mean, even i got there is still a sense of unity among the routing parties to continue supporting general cry channel char, i to keep them as prime minister until the end of his 4 year term. this year major cracks of emerged in the coalition terminate from pow, had risen to the top of the ruling party despite serving for years for haron smuggling and australia defected, suggesting a major leadership split,
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and prime minister prayer, channel cher with snob, did a recent cabinet meeting by members of the other coalition party who refused to turn up starting to look lonely at the top under ground, they're losing boats losing support. i think the royalist military regime ah, is feeling re threatened. this is a says central a substantial, a threat against them from the electoral forces of the opposition. the big question is whether those electoral forces are strong enough to take power. the current constitution written by the military, after the coo allowed the ruling generals to maintain control. despite losing at the ballot box, the party that has won every election in the last 20 years in various guises knows it would take a massive landslide to get the generals out. law you this or that i got, we're living in the worst situation. we can imagine since the last election back in 2019 of political parties were forced to race with biased rules. the checks and
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balances are in the favor of the government at a, i believe the tie. people agreed that this is not a normal time. thailand's due to have elections in the next 12 months to see who controls this building the new parliament. but at this stage, despite the political wrangling, it doesn't feel like the ruling coalition of business deletes and generals quite ready to give up power. tony chain al jazeera banker. ah, this is added here. let's get around. now at the top stories, hardship has been devastated by russian air attacks, forcing many of its people to leave more than 100 have been killed in ukraine's 2nd largest city. it's home to 1400000 people rushes and asked the temporary ceasefire to allow the evacuation of ukrainians from several major cities including the cat.
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