she looks back, let me know necessarily have the last word. since the court ruling does leave room for exceptions in the name of overriding natural interests. ah this is al jazeera ah. hello, i'm rob matheson, this is the news our life from coming up in the next 60 minutes vacuum ration from the besieged training is if your money poll is put on hold after reports of selling in the area. ready for combat? we meet the volunteers signing up to the auto fighters in ukraine. it's more that i'm looking for to get the people that hope to see they're not alone. despite

exhaustion and heartache, the un says $2000000.00 people now fled to fighting at a push to independence on russian oil looking to be alive in washington, where president biden was expected to announce a ban on import and famous with all the de sports news means olympic tennis champion, alexander, vetted as for season 8, we spend the band full violent out of the crater attempting to evacuate, besieged areas that have felt the force of rushes invasion, but russian forces are, again, being accused violating a temporary sci fi that began about 8 hours ago. the convoy of buses and humanitarian aid destined for mario pole, has been forced to turn around because of reports of russian shelling cities surrounded by russian forces. occupant, if you don't get charged or they are consciously blocking food supplies and water,

and switching off electricity in mary apple for the 1st time in dozens of years for the 1st time. probably since the nazi envision a child has died from dehydration. listen here, media partners. a child has died in 2022 of dehydration, which we have seen a lot of promises and agreements on, namely about the creation of humanitarian corridors. but they haven't worked so far, and i have no more time to wait in mary. awful. people have no time to wait the occupying forces want our people to die. wasn't in the northeastern city of so me fighting has mostly stopped buses and leaving the city after an overnight air strike killed at least 20 people including 2 children. now in addition to those evacuation efforts in the cities of so me a mario, paul, civilians are also being moved out of a pin. it's on the outskirts of keys and ukrainian officials say people there are being moved into the capitol. cha, stratford has this update from the zap alicia region, which is part of the corridor from multiple so after being stationary for at least

2 hours. oh boy has now turned round and he's taking will be on the stand. we're trying to take a different route to variable the decision to turn around according to the cold nature of the cold boy that we spoke to was because of reports of heavy fighting. a lonely initially plan route to variable. as we know, this is another attempt of the of brookfield attempts last few days to try and get vital humanitarian aid into the beauty besieged port city to try and pull. what we understand could be up to 200000 people from out of by reopen the fact that this po boy at that to troy. now to take a different route does not bode well without endeavour. it's all stratford al jazeera south of supple rissa gray

o residence in mario all are waiting to get out. an agreement between russia and ukraine has helped people leave the city of so me. mohammed jumped june reports in the light of day. the scale of the devastation becomes clearer with them. this is the ukrainian city of sumi, in the aftermath of an overnight russian air strike. for people here, fear has been ever present. they now potentially have some hope a temporary cease fire between moscow and key if that's lead to the creation of this humanitarian corridor. for his part, ukrainian president vladimir zelinski condemned the repeated violation of sci fi or deals with russia. while adding civilians urgently need to be evacuated from the siege. cities might open in the my dish yaki pants,

want our people to die. we have sent columns of caravans and humanitarian aid. me to marry the are brave people and they understand that the russian military can destroy this convoy on its way to day. the number of people fleeing rushes advance has now reached 2000000. that's according to the us refugee agency, as the humanitarian impact of the war worse and the un high commissioner for human rights says everyone escaping violence should be allowed safe passage and deeply concerned about sitting there strapped inactive hostility in numerous areas. and i urge all parties to take effect to action to enable all civilians, including those situation vulnerability to safely leave areas effective by conflict . the questions now, how long will the fighting stopped and how many people will be able to get to safety? how may jim jerome 0 or any officials are reporting more bombing in cities in the

east and the center of the country. residential buildings came under fire overnight and the city of oct here come communications lines and essential services like water and electricity supplies have also been damaged. the city's mayor says a power plant been destroyed along with much of the city center reachable. are you on a lot of new stuff? there were 2 air raids on the town. there were 2 bombardments. the bombardments were with heavy bombs. ariel bombs, lea crated up to 20 meters or more in diameter and light ariel bombs. the center of the city is completely destroyed. many had been injured. as of today, we can't find several people. heavy bonds also fell on the thermal power station. it's destroyed, the substation is destroyed and we will be cleaning up. we will prepare for more bombing raids. take care. the enemy is turning it into a state of agony. are he john hows joining us now from live? and let's talk about the monetary corridors and the situation in the rest of the

country. we heard child's talk for talking earlier about the the car doors that have a setting up set up around multiple yeah, i mean, it would be good to be able to answer those 2 questions raised by my jim jim and his report that how long is the fighting, going to cease, and how many people are going to be taken to safety? we simply don't know. we haven't heard of plans. that may be a foot for humanitarian corridors to try again on wednesday. remember, this is day 4 of attempts to open humanitarian corridors out of mary. you pull out of volt novak are on the weekend, failing on both a case on both saturday and sunday. russia came up with a bunch of unilateral suggestions on monday that didn't fly on tuesday. they did so again, and only this one route sue me has emerged about which both sides seem to be able to agree to cease fire and allow people to escape. well, the sci fi has held out of sue me, this town in the north between hockey,

i beg your, pardon, the northeast, between hoc even give and people have been able to leave along a safe corridor or south to paul toddler. it's about a 180 kilometers convoys of cars 20 to 30 at a time leading the latest we here is that 3000 people have managed to make their escape. but just a few minutes ago, we heard that another convoy was departing. the city. now that's a city of a quarter of a 1000000 people. we don't know how many people want to get out. we certainly are looking at a fraction of the people who are likely to want to make that journey. some good news among them foreign students and awful lot of foreign students study universities all over ukraine. foreign students were in su me. the indian high commission confirms that 576 indian students have left. that's their entire contingent in sumi. so some good news there and that corridor will close at 730 local time i beg button at 9 o'clock. local type of the last convoy will leave at 730 local time. that's 530 gmc, and john, of course,

this is all happening as the fighting is continuing. just give us the latest. if you can. i'm on the state of the fighting around the country. we heard from you creating officials in the last couple of hours who have suggested adviser, one advisor to the president. mr. zalinski that rushes ground advances all but stall time, certainly in places it has. but that is not to suggest that it isn't still able to recap. so the extraordinary damage across the country. yes, that enormous convoy coming down to key of has not moved for 6 days. they're up supply line problem support problems, mechanical problems, morale problems and also very heavy losses being reported on the russian side also in the ukrainian side of course. but the russians have changed that tactics in recent days, resorting much more to remote attacks, cruise missile attacks, heavy artillery and multiple, multiple large rocket systems. and they've been able to do a great deal of damage,

particularly around the western outskirts of the say, the capital key of that convoy may not be moving. but there's a lot of hardware, a lot of troops there. and there is talk of a possible move on the capital in the next 2 to 3 days. big cities journey, even the north, hockey in the east. mario paul, of course, surrounded in the south. all undertaking big damage. big attacks by long range rockets and missiles, but smaller groups of russian ground forces are still able to move, are still able to activate supply lines from areas they control across the border with russia and from those eastern breakaway regions. so there is a move on a place called is ume, between khaki and the russian borders to try and open up a corridor there. and there is a move on a place called me clive in the south near crimea to try and open up a route. and they've been trying for a couple of days now. a route that would take them all the way to them potentially next big target. the russians the port city of odessa. jonah, thank you very much. john hall, bring us up to date from live. well, let's take

a closer look at the humanitarian crisis unfolding in ukraine. now with a b or a tip, she's a senior spokeswoman or the world food program. she's joining us from crackles in poland. very good to have you with us, ma'am. how hard is it for agencies like yours to get information about what the situation is in ukraine? good morning, would a very concerned about the impact of this conflict on the clean food security and the waning ability of families in the embattled areas to feed themselves. we're building an operation from the ground up skiing to address the, the fractions that we need to ukraine. commercial supply chain. repeat positioning, a viper food for civilian trap in the fighting. and especially in the major cities . what if i think it's happening and what we're working on, assisting others impacted by the conflict in the country. the plan is up to 3000000

people. it is difficult, it is challenging. and, you know, reports coming from the conflict that he has, you know, contradictory. and of course, it's very much related to the supply chain. and some days the show that the child in the supermarket empty other days, once that is a possibility for the commercial supply chain to dip in, then it gets re stock. but the shortage of food report that in many of these conflict, that is an information is difficult because of the act. the fighting in many of these rooms president william is lensky is reported. his saying that the russians were constantly blocking food supplies and water. he said, quote, a child has died in 2022 of dehydration. can you give us an indication of how bad you think the situation could get if the agencies like yours are not able to

get supplies into ukraine? it could be very difficult and catastrophic for millions of people who not been able to lead some of the fighting to be flat and severed a supply chain within the country, keeping leading to food and fuel shortages in many areas, especially both where the conflict is happening so the product is to get supplies to cities inside ukraine would buy food with bread, with food ration, and we have to find that the food assistance, i think by be our inside the country. so again, it's fine to position food so that when 5 think is happening, at least we have the supply and it's going to be a very difficult time. and we hope we don't get to this point and, and there will be humanitarian access to the people who are in the world for program is one of the agencies that is invariably involved in when the crises like

this around the world. how does this situation in ukraine compare to situations that the wi fi has faced pope before being, you know, we have experience many years in working in conflict and has inferior in yemen in major areas where we've seem confident. i think that the difference here is that is that we, we didn't have presence in ukraine for the last 4 years. we left you clean 2018. so this is a challenge and trying building an operation from the ground up. but i think again, time to get food supplies inside the country. but you know, the basics of this week is happening now. and, you know, we will learn from our wake and many other conflict that is around the world. we hope that we don't get to the point where we need to, you know, negotiate access and we hope the access is given and but you know,

a bit of conservation of human life and humanitarian needs. so this will be this, this is the base i had when we hope that the situation will improve quickly safer from the world's food program. thank you very much indeed for being with us and i'll just see and i'm thank you and says to 1000000 people have no fled the fighting in ukraine and crossed into neighboring countries more than 20900000 of them have arrived in romania on monday, the remaining and government approved legislation allowing ukrainian children to enroll in local schools called the hum in reports from the border between romania and ukraine. in the bitter cold waiting. an acute can feel longer than it already is. there is a story of people fleeing award. they didn't expect mothers taking their children across the border. families being torn apart as men between the age of 18 to 60.

i'm not allowed to leave ukraine under marshal marina. i'd ever see who's traveling alone with her 12 year old son stayed in cave for as long as she could a little. we stayed because we thought the wood and attorney moment. it was relatively quiet in our way we heard the bombing, but we didn't think it would get to us until the very last moment. we'll re last we had to escape when we heard miss house flying over our head. despite the warnings, few believed award breakout until it actually happened detail about how they were caught off guard not expecting to become refugees. and in the mid a group of indian students who arrived in holl keep only 3 weeks ago to start medical school. it was around 16 days. we were like, we don't know, will we know war and they were there are just argue and all. but suddenly this happened and viva of you all went to the bunker and we had to, you know, we had

a really hard time. there were no facility to which we, oh, we could skip from there. so we decided to go buy food. we traveled, i guess 20 kilometers by foot, and finally raised boyd of i and then we managed to move from there with the buzz a little further down the line. yeah, my husband is trying to cheer up. these are the last moments they will be together as a family, until who knows when she is afraid for me says, but i think she would be bored without me. she will have nobody to neg. they have travelled for 3 days from zeppelin in the east where the russian army is advancing . yep, awesome. most of the de la. i woke up at 5 am because i heard a huge, loud bang. i thought something fell down from the shelf for the room next door, but the airport being bombed her slona made the same journey, leaving behind her husband,

sister nieces and nephews. she's begging them to move funds before they get caught up and fighting. she's upset that your life has been up ended, it was a good, simple one. and she had plans for the future. and she rejects russian president vladimir proteins, claims that civilians are not being targeted yet that, that you probably let's do both. but yes, this is not true, it's full scale. we're being annihilated. people are dying, children, elderly, everybody, we have to run by foot as soon as there was an opportunity. it's not true, they're killing us for school. many of the people here are russian speakers, those booting claim this war is aiming to protect their became victims of a conflict that started in their name. what does that mean? algebra alone do ukraine romania border. but under 50 children, from orphanages in the cave region have arrived at the polish border. volunteers

and police officers gave the children toys as they were carried from the train station and loaded on to bosses. poland has taken in more than half of the 2000000 refugees fleeing ukraine. charity workers who have helped the evacuation say they're trying not to separate the children once they arrive in poland. just 2 days ago we had a transport of 700 kids. ange, it's not easy to find a place for anybody, but it's even tougher to find a place for $700.00 kids in the same one place. but some people of the polish border are heading back into ukraine, and that includes fallen fighters to the government, established on international legion for those coming from abroad. as amber savvy has spoken to some of them as the number of people fleeing the war and ukraine approaches to 1000000 some rush to get to its front lines. job related bravery or bravado mormon, like this one, are coming to ukraine's aid every day. inspired perhaps by

a social media campaign i've been calling from oracle to arms for volunteers by ukrainian leaders under siege in their own capital . from her home near keith leslie. bustling, co says there is something to do for everyone coming to ukraine's defense. you are fighting the 2nd biggest on the and the world and the nuclear power at that to force all military resources are not enough. so we need more people here on the ground. we need more weapons here on the ground. we need more sophisticated weapons here on the ground to be able to stand. i'm keep stand as an independent free country. this is the struggle and the wide that we invite the, the world to join them. volunteers who contact ukrainian embassies are directed to the website for the international legion of the defense of ukraine. this is one of the locations recruits can find themselves signing up and boarding buses to cross

the border. we met a ukrainian coordinator who declined to speak on camera or give his full name or even his rank. but he said he was there to help volunteers find their way to the fight. this roadside motel near the border has become a kind of unofficial recruitment point for volunteers wanting to fight in ukraine. we've been here a few hours and we've met people from europe, the united states, great britain, many more have already crossed over many more are expected to. julian is 22 and says he served in the dutch military and was deployed to have gone this time. i'm not looking for violence per se, it's more that i'm looking for to give the people that hope that they see, they're not alone in this fight. he's still undecided unwilling to sign a contract to serve until the end of the war. whenever that might be. the open ended contract has also put our volunteers at the medical border crossing. if they say all you, you can stay in 5 by a 3 months. you can go home to see your families and come back if you want. jo,

mom or even one year, but we know in one year we going we got home but and it's going truck. does no dag dies know when we could go home, you know, so yeah, that was the point for me to change. mind others remain undeterred. jay is from portugal lives in london and says his motivation comes from his young daughters that he is fighting to defend their future, their freedoms, the lack of action by the west. i just personally don't think sanctions are enough and i understand the fear of world war 3. but as you can see, this is the beginning of world war 3. personally, i don't think i'm being brave. i'm just doing what i'd like people to do. if the u . k was under attack and far as johnson was begging for help, highly experienced soldiers are sent to the front line. less experienced recruits are kept back to help territory defense units and treat the wounded. j says he

trusts ukraine will let him go home if he has family and is unafraid. as he commits himself to a war that could go on for years. zane basra, the old jazeera at the ukraine border in eastern poland, draining present as long as the landscape to address british m. p. 's in the coming hours. it comes as prime minister ballast johnson continues his diplomatic effort to encourage western leaders to punish russia for the invasion is been hosting leaders of the czech republic, hungary, poland, and slovak. here to discuss the conflict on a voc as johnny his lie from london. what is doris johnson and the other leaders? what are they hoping to achieve with these meetings? was the crisis deepens in ukraine. all the or need to reaffirm old alliance is that's what underpins this meeting. of course, united kingdom is no longer a member of the european union, but it is playing a key role in partnership with e member states when it comes to providing

a political support. economic support and military support to the government of law, demy zalinski. but these countries on his guard group you mention them there, the czech republic or poland, slovakia, and hungry have a very, very important role to play. that will undoubtedly a grow even further in the coming days and potentially longer than that. not only as a place where millions of refugees are fleeing to, but also potentially as a staging post for both lethal and non lethal aid to ukraine. and that raises some extremely pressing security concerns. we've heard the former victor or been the prime minister of hungry, who's deeply worried about their being any sort of retaliatory action from russia. as a result of condemning this conflict, he has said that nato forces would be allowed to shift military hardware across hungarian territory, providing the hardware was only going to other nato countries. big questions to for likes, the czech republic and poland. a, just to remind you back in 2014,

there were a series of mysterious attacks on ammunitions depos in the czech republic. that, of course, around the annexation of crimea. it's not beyond the conceivable that if these countries are being used to ship arms into ukraine than they could well see some kind of covert or more overt activity from russia on their so on. and then of course, without reminding you too much, brings us into a big existential question about whether nato's article 5 would essentially kick in whether a red line would be crossed and whether european countries nato alliance members will be drawn into a protracted conflict directly with russia and they were mentioning before that, so ukraine's president is going to be talking to british m p. 's in the next few hours. any idea what he's likely to be say well, we know, given his important address is to the european parliament since the u. s. senate what he's likely to say, and that is of a seat, a thank western powers for showing solidarity,

but also to urge western power to do more beyond the political and the economic pressure that's being piled on russia at the moment. you know, there's no shortage of will and political support, very visible here on the streets of london with ukrainian flags flying high over many government buildings. but i think there is an awful lot of soul searching politically as to whether or not that can be more direct, practical action, as well without risking drawing the united kingdom and other nato alliance members into a direct conflict with russia. that is the greatest concern. this will be a historic moment. the 1st time, a foreign head of state will speak directly to lawmakers in the actual chamber and the house of commons. a big screen is being erected are all of these law makers, of course, representatives of british people across the country. and i think it's absolutely fair to say that the u. k. along with other r e u. member states are standing very, very firmly with the president of zalinski in his hour of need yet need. thank you

very much. have coffee say we're going to be checking in with you when they are ukrainian president makes that sir speech, but for now, for london. thank you very much indeed. so ahead and i'll just get plenty more coverage of the war in ukraine and in sports follows autumn players and ukraine and russia is spend their contracts and joined other team. ah that much the middle east africa. it's regarding the weather moment. it's been very dusty recently in libya as a storm system generating tried streaming in this direction. so fascinate all that wind, which is a warm one is full of the register are there is going to be dust or light sand and drop visibility away through, nor puts a saudi to iraq. now in conjunction with that, that normally breeze or europe means is still a winter storm,

overtook him to come together, provide some pretty big contrasts in temperature, which is where you tend to generate significant weather for the sas, where it's quieter, temperature of the thing because they are rising in dubai, and this also goes the rest of the emirates and cut out to some degree the attempt to the weatherbug where they should be by about 910 degrees. and it's like to be either misty or murky. but sandy, for many, in fact some of that sand be listed in the atmosphere over iran took menace down as well. his the wind to division higher ground and some right across the source to the north that the south walked. is the thing though, hong dubai, at 35 and rising still by 13 could touching 42. i see that in northern madagascar, that's the remains of a tropical cycle that may well reform in the channel on his way to madame beak. ah,

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ah, ah, you're watching or is it a reminder of our top stories? this are ukraine's attempting to evacuate people from besieged areas that have felt the force of the russian bombardment, but a convoy of buses and humanitarian. a vehicles having to mateo, paul turned around after reports of russian shelling buses filled with civilians are leaving. the ne in city of sumi for fighting appears to have stopped an overnight air strike bare killed at least 20 people including 2 children. the u. m says the number of refugees fleeing crane has reached 2000000 people. about half have gone to poland. it's europe's worst refugee crisis since the 2nd world war.

or rushes. airstrikes have left ukraine, 2nd largest city in ruins, buildings and hockey the flattened and the streets have been filled with rubble. earlier in the program, we heard from charles stratford near parisha. but yesterday, it was in the heart of khaki, where many people have been forced to flee other say they have no place to go. 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, masonry, thrown in the blasts has crushed others with flames still rise from buildings nearby on craters and twisted steel. this

st in central car cave shows you just how devastating the effect of russian bombing of the city has been on its 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 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 up here? i cannot think straight. i can't find the words. sprague, you to hold them. it's barbaric, terrible. the world is shaking the can you give them communion?

i just don't understand. shrapnel has ripped through the golden spires. i'm an orthodox church. every windows smashed one. the 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 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 she is like

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 to should do this 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 because every day we watched 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 strafford al jazeera caught a cave and joshua talk as a professor of politics and director of new york university jordan center for the advance study of russia. he's joining us now from new york. thank you very much indeed for being with us so on. i'll just hear, we understand that president joe biden is expected to speak in about 10 minutes time, i think like he's going to be talking about a possible band on russian oil imports. what kind of impact do you think that would actually have in russia? i mean, i think it's part of the 1st off. thanks for having me, rob. i think it's part and parcel of this growing i level of sanctions that the western world, which is so far state out of direct fighting, has shown that they can bring to bear against russia against those close to putin and against the russian economy. more generally, when the sanctions were 1st them and posed, they were much more, you know,

in the 1st few days, they became much more dramatic than most outside birds had expected. but the one thing that was left out was oil. however, now we're seeing that due to popular pressure and pressure from both parties in the united states, that seems like that's going to come to the table too. so i think it's just, you know, oil is such a crucial source of revenue for the russian regime and choking off revenue from oil, even if it's just some of the revenue from mile is going to be felt in russia. we've seen a growing list of private companies over certain international companies like michelle and general electric, for example, have announced that they're going to be pulling out of russia again. how do you think that is going to be taken in russia? do you think russia would have anticipated that happening? no, i don't think russia anticipated that happening, and i think it joins a long list of things that the russian planners of this war didn't anticipate happening. but partially, you know, this is because i think we were at a moment now we're, we're seeing a kind of see change in the effect of these economic sanctions. what's happening

here is that as sanctions are being leveled by the west companies are realizing that there are potential cost to doing business in russia. so even companies who aren't affected by these sanctions are open to being affected by public pressure. and the reality is we live in a kind of different world today in the world of digital media and in social media. so on the one hand, images that are coming out of ukraine, of the brew tat wanted brutality of the russian military over the course of this over the course of this invasion of ukraine. not to mention the successes of the ukrainian military has had in holding off the russians. those are spread instantaneously throughout the world. this is a sign that takes now, you know, days or weeks to sort of trickle out. at the same time, i companies know that consumers that are dissatisfied with them because of social or political stance. they're taking have options and can organize, you know, dramatically on. so she can organize quickly. i and in large numbers on social media. so i think what we're seeing here is kind of an outgrowth of what we saw in the united states in particular, in the summer of 2020,

around social justice movements and even going back to things like the need to movement in the united states. i think companies realize they're living in a different world in a different environment than they were previously. and this makes the sanctions into kind of a force multiplier where even companies not affected by them begin to pull out of the russian economy. there's a lot of speculation, of course, a lot of analysis going on about who could actually influence vladimir putin directly and perhaps change his mind as far as the conflict is concerned. a lot of attention is, or a growing amount of attention, at least is being placed on china and it's leaders, she ging paying talk us through what you think the influence could be from she june paying and where his interests would lie. it's a great question. i think undoubtedly if she were to turn, you know, decisively against russia, that would leave bruton much more isolated on the international sphere than he has right now. and much more than he ever expected. i believe again in the long litany of mistakes that were made by the russian planners around this invasion,

that counting on sort of the on constrained support of china was one of them. china finds itself in a difficult position here on the one hand, it likes the narrative of nato over stretching itself to the extent that china sees itself in a long term sort of competition with the united states, where it is a rising power in the united states. is trying to suppress the rising power, at least slow its growth. anything that kind of pushes back against the u. s. and the u. s. is influenced international is seen as potentially beneficial to china. and that seems to be the stance that g and the chinese took before the invasion. however, the, as the invasion drags on, as it becomes more and more of a humanitarian disaster, as it is, become more and more of a global phenomenon. just so much of a humanitarian disaster, it is. and as we see this sort of unprecedented anxious actions around the sanctions, china now has to wonder about the economic consequences for its own growth. and at the end of the day, autocrats cans are concerned about staying in power. and g is going to be concerned about what did, what is, you know,

the most important for stability in china. so this leaves, you know, putting in the russians in a potentially, you know, let more tenuous situation than they would have thought before. as we're seeing these changes in geo politics. we're seeing changes in trade with russia, whatever the outcome of this war. what do you think the future holds for russia? right now, the future for russia is really bleak, on multiple levels, right? if there was to be a quick resolution of the war, you would imagine that there would be some sort of off ramp. and that off ramp would have to have some sort of face saving measures for the russians. those measures, if they made russia less isolated internationally, would be the best hope for russia to avoid a sort of long withdraw from the sort of global system. but i think rushes in it very difficult situation right now. when you think about all that, you know, kicked out of you a fuss, you know, all the companies that have pulled out of here the longer this war goes on, the harder it is for those companies going to are going to be to be able to re

enter russia, the harder it is for these sanctions going to be able to be lifted. and meanwhile, rushes vaunted military doesn't look as powerful as people thought it was 2 weeks ago. so on a lot of levels, russia is, you know, it's isolated internationally. it is, it's military has been proven to be weaker than people thought. and the west has proven much stronger in terms of unity of around the sanctions. and then as we talked about earlier, the sort of multiplier effect of all these other companies that have jumped on board with pulling out of russia it's, it's a bleak future, and again, it's going to get bleaker. the longer this conflict goes on, and we can only hope that there are people inside of russia who realize that and that the russian leadership begins to change course to try to avoid that kind of a future. really good to get your thoughts on this, joshua tucker, we appreciate it. so thank you very much. indeed. thanks rob. it's been a pleasure whether your opinions plan is to cut his dependence and russian gas by 2 thirds this year. nubian commission has published wide ranging plans, which it says will end reliance on russian energy. well before 2030. the strategy

includes expanding wind and solar energy plans to replace 20000000000 cubic meters of gas. by december lets me to donate came, he's talking to us from berlin. this is, seems to be on the face of it, at least quite a significant move. very significant indeed. it's actually not 20000000000 cubic meters of gas is a 100000000000 cubic meters of gas that france demands, the e u commissioner. irrelevant commissioner and so far as this fear of geo politics is concerned that he was speaking in brussels at a news conference in the course of the last hour or so. outlining exactly what this change of plans is going to involve. so a great deal more use of hydrogen and renewable hydrogen and renewable is the key words here, not just in terms of hydrogen, but in other forms of energy creation renewable, the real watch word there. the interesting thing is that the

e u commission's perspective and indeed the german government's perspective here in berlin is very much this idea of let's reduce our reliance on russian oil and gas as quickly as possible. but there is a reluctance or perhaps a greater reluctance in brussels, and certainly here in berlin to the idea of all encompassing embargoes on oil and gas. the question was put specifically to the vice chancellor here robert harbor of the green party, who is also the economy minister and climate change minister. question put to him was that people are going on the working impression that the united states government is going to impose an embargo on those 2 energy sources. oil and gas, would the german government follow suit. and he said effectively that they're prepared to discuss this sort of idea. but if such a thing was gonna happen and be endorsed by the german government, there would have to be a total guarantee of the availability of alternative sources of energy to fill the

gap that would be caused by a sudden denial of russian oil and gas. here and the view that mr. hardback said was that because germany and deeds at a micro level, the e u. r. net importers of an oil and gas, it is far harder for the e. u in germany to do without gas and oil in the short term than it might be for the united states or for the near united kingdom. so that's the way things are playing out right now. they're committed in the e e. u level to do away with 2 thirds a 100000000000 cubic meters of russian national natural gas in the course of this year. they're not quite yet ready to entertain the concept of total unambiguous embargoes. dominic, thank you very much. indeed, that's dominic cane bringing this up to date from berlin. well, the white house is facing pushback and its willingness to cut deals with venezuela,

iran and saudi arabia, as it looks to cub, skyrocketing fuel prices in the us, venezuela and president nichols. my daughter signals an interest in improving relations with washington. our latin america editor, c and human is life for us in santiago, the c one has the president been saying? but the president has said after a meeting that was initially secret, but that has now been recognized by both the white house and president mcgruder himself. is that there have been talks between very high ranking delegation from the white house who discuss precisely the possibility of renewing sales on freezing the the nomic embargo that has been placed on venezuelan oil. and this fits very much into what dominic was saying that the united states is looking and so with europe for that matter, for oil that can fill the gap. if the production or the or the purchase of russian

oil and oil and gas is stopped suddenly. but as well as you know is the, has the world's largest oil reserves in the world. its production has been very, very low. but mr. my buddha said that if things were to change, if there were 2 is a normalization of relations with the united states. he would be willing to produce $12.00 to $3.00. he said 1000000 barrels more a day to quote, help stabilize the world situation. this does not mean that he is less of a friend of president fulton, and he also said that he hoped for peace in the ukraine, but that the ukrainian leadership had to quote, given to all of russia's demands. but for the 1st time, we're seeing the united states and been his wayllace sitting down together over what is now become a very pragmatic mutual interest. and that is the purchase of venezuela oil. it has been totally off the table now for years since the united states place some very,

very crippling economic sanction to i'm been as whaler to try to bring about regime change in that country. so i'm not in america editor lucio newman, talking to us from santiago this year. thank you very much, allude canadian mares, an economist, and oil and gas specialist. and she says, are you or soil on is unlikely to make a big difference to russia. the impact to and to russia will be minimal for the us banning because only one percent of russian oil exports go to to, to, to, to the us. and for the us it's easy to say that because only 3 percent of their import and the majority of what they consume to produce themselves largest oil producer am come from russia for europe. it's a very, very different ball game for the u. s. the implications is if, if oil, if, if firm, if it manages to convince the europeans to join and i, and, and there's less oil,

i'm going towards europe and the u. s, it will price the all prices, it will bring the global oil prices up. and the consumer will feel that the pump all bets are off. if europe also bands oil, if it's just in the u. s, i don't think anything will happen. but mind you, you know, if russian oil russian oil, they had a hard time finding a home last week and it did the chinese and indians just waited until the discount was high enough and then bought. so russian oil, we'll find the home. it's not the same for gas, but russian oil, we'll find a home, even if the europeans choose not to buy it. as i said, we're waiting for to to hear from you as president. sergio biden is expected to speak round about no, but he has appeared yet. he's likely he's going to be talking about that possible ban on russian oil imports. of course, as soon as that press conference begins, or we're going to bring it to you,

but for now we're gonna move on to some other news, a south korean naval ship as far warning shots at a north korean patrol boat. the briefly crossed the country's disputed western sea boundary. the north korean boat was chasing an unarmed vessel, but it retreated after warning shots were fine south korean military officials seized the vessel and questioned its 7 crew members. robert bride has more from sole. this incident apparently took place near bank young island. this is the west and most island of south career. it's out in the yellow sea that separates the korean peninsula from china. and it's right on the de facto maritime border between north and south. it is an area that has seen clashes and incidents before between north and south, according to the south korean military. this all happened tuesday morning. local time, when they detected a north korean vessel had strayed into south korea waters, they say that it was apparently being given a tow to being young island. when

a 2nd north korean vessel appeared and also crossed over into the south, possibly giving chase. it was at that point that the south koreans fired warning shots and the 2nd north korean patrol vessel disappeared back north. an investigation is now underway into who was on board. this 1st north korean vessel, according to media reports here in south korea, there was 7 people on board, 6 of them wearing military uniform. now the question is whether this was some sort of mass defection by military personnel from the old it doesn't happen very often, but military per personnel have been known to defect, to the south all weather as some other media here and reporting that the people on board the vessel, if told authorities that it was some sort of mistake, possibly a navigational error and that they somehow ended up in south korea waters. those new prime ministers presenting his government's policies to congress on tuesday and

seeking a vote of confidence. support is far from a given many politicians and under investigation, not as money on a sanchez reports. lima, the prime minister, is already under pressure to make changes to his cabinet. oh, go with, oh, well it, it's the 4th cabinet. in 7 months. the government awaits congressional approval on tuesday, but it won't be easy. some lawmakers say they will not give the new ministers a vote of confidence unless prime minister any well thought is makes changes. starting with firing the new health minister and then going duty, a doctor accused of corruption and lack of experience that has doctors and nurses demanding his resignation and some of precedent. baracus theory, ministers, and closer circle of advisors are been investigated for corruption, legal, urine, law, isla, given the accumulation of allegations for the moral health of the republic, the president should come to congress to answer our questions about all this. why

castiel himself has been investigated since january for corruption and illegal influence? the president denies any wrong doing? no, no error. they lie in the media saying he's already going to resign. he's corrupt, i'm not going to run away because a tiny group of people wants to disregard the will of the people who put me in office today. i know that is ours. before tuesday session, his allies had been unable to secure enough votes for the new cabinet. i am afraid that peruvian politics rather than seeking consensus, is dominated by short term calculations linked to immediate interests. o, any say the opposition's most pressing interest now is paving the way for a new ballgame. whether congress approved in a cabinet or not critic say, the real en game for opposition lawmakers is to oust precedent castillo, a motion to unseat the precedent is in the works. it's the 2nd time political force try to impeach castillo,

but analysts say they still don't have enough boats to begin the process of getting a z u. that doesn't mean this is the end. we will surely see discussions on how to eventually push for the president's removal from office. a recent opinion pulse suggests more than 60 percent disapproval. gusty you and 77 percent disapprove of congress. from crisis to crisis, the spiraling political chaos have left the country with 5 precedents. in 6 years, nearly 30 ministers replaced since last august. disenchanted with produce political class for most peruvians, tuesdays vote may not make much of a difference by dana sanchez. i just see that lima be to talk with the sport. here's peter rob. thank you so much. world number 3. tennis bags on a very has been given an 8 week suspended ban from the atp to following its violent outburst at a tournament in mexico last month. the olympic champion struck the empire chair multiple times of losing

a double match the gym. the furious software controversial mind call, that have also received an additional fine of $25000.00. we are joined by a tennis channel commentator john were time to further discuss this matter. john, 50 your response to the punishment. i would barely use the word punishment. it's awfully soft. me the key word and what you just read was suspended, which is basically, this is what's pen name, but if you're a good boy for the next 12 months, don't worry to law, go away. what we just saw, i mean that back to violence was just extraordinary. for tennis that was inches away from the empire and bear my to this is a players bear up who is currently under investigation or alleged domestic violence . so for him to act like that, while this other investigation from violent act is pending. if it's just inexplicable that he is not being suspended properly, the logical next question then is should better even be playing amid this ongoing

investigation? well, i mean the issue here is the and a structure in, in a conventional lee good primarily be an adult or there's lawyers on one side management on the other. there's a bargaining agreement and players up in our suspended while the investigation is underway. that kind of policy doesn't exist in tennis, so by, you know, by, by the letter of the lot he should be playing. he's an independent contractor. however, the, the optic here are just terrible. and i wonder why they're of himself doesn't just say, listen, this is bad. for the sport, nobody wins here. i'm going to duck out until the investigation is complete, but for him to go on playing is really early. extraordinary. john, why do you think the atp didn't take a harsh view of that is actions? i think it's the structure. i mean this is a partnership. 5050 players in turn of so the players don't want to sanction their own and the tournaments. remember? no back joker, bitch on vaccinate. just playing a lot. roger federer is injured. serina williams isn't playing. they need star,

so i think the target does not much incentive to suspend their of the players. don't want to suspend one of their colleagues and what you're left with is this unfortunate situation. we have, you mentioned serena williams. she said that she would probably have been in jail had she acted the way. is that if they would you go along with that that might be that might be overstating the point but, but i think our larger issue is well taken that given some of the, the controversy, the chief courted and some of the bad publicity in the fines or what she's, she's, she's never whacked it on pyre chair 3 time, but the doubles back with a potential felony investigation hanging over. so for her point is well taken. there does seem to be a double standard. i'm not sure if she'd be in jail, but i don't disagree that it does seem like there are 2 very different standards at play here. john with i'm thank you so much for your time. really appreciate it. you got it. english per 1000000 clubs have just agreed to remove their games from

russian television screens. the legal counsel or rights deal with a states owned broadcast, the following, the invasion of ukraine. although they haven't made a decision yet on next season's rights. still, the premier league has used matches over the last 2 weekends to show solidarity with ukraine. fif. i've also agreed to ukraine's request to postpone. they woke up playoff game against scotland. the teams with the play at hamden park in glasgow on march 24th discussions are underway for a new dates with june. the most likely option and the russian football union is preparing to face the court of arbitration for support to get they will cabana returned fence. russia cannot face poland in a play for concert, 2022 of the fee for and you a for expelled them from international competitions. that's what we're going to leave it for now. i'll be here again in a couple of hours. tom with more sports. nice rob peter, thank you very much. indeed. that's it for me, rob madison, for this news are,

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