ah ah ah with broken hard since people escaped their broken cities, the ukraine exodus passes 2000000. but it is a long and dangerous road to safety, renewed shelling force buses to make a new turn. again the laying evacuations. ah . hello barbara sarah, are you watching? al jazeera life from london also coming up with

a city under siege. no electricity, food or water fear, turns the desperation for those trapped in marino and poland offers the hand over its entire fleet of m. i g 29 fighter jets to the us after a plea for aircraft by ukraine. the war and ukraine started only 13 days ago and already it's caused 2000000 people to leave the country to 1000000 women and children, an elderly people, but not men between the ages of 18 to 60. they must stay and fight. while the refugees have driven cross country to border posts or they've taken trains or buses, whatever transport was available, a lifetime of memories packed into a suitcase. they're heading to poland and hungary slovakian fact any neighboring

country that can offer safety. and the number of people leaving would be even greater were not for those trapped. unable to leave their homes. caught in cities such as mary or paul were russia is again accused of breaking humanitarian cease fires, and firing on civilians trying to escape the kremlin and turn blames ukrainian forces for violating the truces. cha, stratford begins our coverage from audi his in eastern ukraine. the buses, it's south towards mary awful. the latest attempt to evacuate thousands of people trapped in the besieged port city on the as or c. marell paul has suffered some of the worst fighting in recent days. the russian army and russian back separatists fighters have reportedly surrounded the city with dead bodies lying in the streets. well, we don't have electricity,

we don't have anything to eat. we don't have medicine, we got nothing on that one of them. i mean, you everything is mind the route south of town or being sheldon's as the policeman . at the moment negotiations about leave in which security have failed to trust norman, make it. unfortunately, the best security for his old was to be inside the city on the ground. what shall trees are gone? oh, approximately 200 kilometers north. in the town of old cave, the buses meant to rescue the people of mariel and stopped. russian army positions are only 10 kilometers from head drivers, some with family and merry opal sawdust. they'd heard reports of fighting on the route is lindsay of, of the has been no connection with the city for days. and i haven't been able to get in touch with my wife and sister for 5 days. we've tried to get to mary up or twice already. this is our 3rd attempt to me. i don't know if it will happen. ah!

after more than 2 hour, wait. a convoy coordinator ordered the drivers to get on the buses and leave till the buses are now turning round this after, according to the coordinator of the cold boy, there are reports of heavy fighting on the initially planned route to murray opal. a group of drivers struggled to start one of the vehicles. one told us he didn't want to die. let's move on to this way because it's been shelling they won't let us go through our demo is the checkpoint light. let us go further because at the showing we don't know where we're going. now. the convoy headed out to border keep moving north east, and other attempted evacuating. thousands of terrified people in murray or pool and failed. charles driver al jazeera or a q u student crane. or one way for people to escape the fighting is to travel east

through murray or fall into territory controlled by russian back separatists. not many have dared to make that journey. has bernard smith reports now from nazarov ask region these ukrainians, laughed mary apple with just the few belongings they could pack in a hurry, which wasn't much. what was weighing these people down was the memories of what they've seen and what they've left behind. they black, the city of half a 1000000 people surrounded by forces from russia and don. yes, people who are now their hosts. nik describes living under shelling for 10 days as he made his way out of the city with his wife, child and mother in law. got them virtually in the old. we got into our car on the constant shell, him riley. there was no corridor. we had not help. we just drove when we went from one village to another, spent 4 days in a cellar less than 5 days in the shed, with no water, no guests, no electricity, no internet. that journey from mary apple east to this village would have taken

just 45 minutes in peace time. my brother was a while ago mike, we survived as best we couldn't. we was only now that we are safe. i'm going to walk out what we are going to do next month. so few people seem to have made it out of mary up all because according to the done yet separatists, the as of battalion that holds the city is not letting civilians leave. as of, as a far right para military, neo nazi group, now integrated into ukraine's national guard. the group in return accuses the russians, are violating the humanitarian c spies. the considering the size of mary off all just really a handful of people have made it here an indication that despite the promise of a secure humanitarian corridor, many people are still too scared to leave. bernard smith, al jazeera navaros, off region ukrainian officials say 3 and a half 1000 ukrainian residence and foreign students were able to leave the city of

simeon tuesday through a humanitarian corridor. and that after an air strike killed at least 20 people there. evacuations were also made from the city of ear pin on the outskirts of the capital. keith natasha butler reports now from liveth. his little comfort in war, but some people are doing all they can for 3rd day ukrainian forces evacuate people from air pin on the outskirts of ukraine's capital keith. it's a precarious journey. russian shelling is never very far away. european of st. louis, the king of st. burping has been constantly, shall we are. plains bombing russian soldiers are called. it's at home. there's no electricity, like water, no heating, and the temperatures going down. we had to go to the chill it my versus we hate, i couldn't, and russia so much. i hope the war will be over soon. one of the conservative people are also fleeing sumi, east of cave, off to russia, and ukraine agreed on

a temporary cease fire in the area. days of russian shelling have flattened parts of the city. this is what is left after an overnight attack, killed more than 20 people, including children in their homes. moscow is offered once again to evacuate people from a number of other cities, but only if they go to russia or belarus for ukraine's president. it is a proposition steeped in cynicism, but they ensure that a small corridor to the occupied territory is open for a few dozen people who not so much to russia, but to the propagandist directly to the television cameras. so they can say this is will saves people. just cynicism just propaganda. nothing more. rushes military says this video shows is tanks. ne keys in the city, people are scared, daily life has moved underground. intense times. the vulnerable often suffered almost every day more children arrive at this orphanage from different parts of

ukraine. svetlana tells me the invasion, adds another painful layer to already difficult childhood on the pickup patch of the 1st script that arrived her is from less to chance. there were many, yet very young kids and them all. they were traumatized anxious when the sirens sounded, they would got really scared. lister was in the children have been brought here to escape the russians shelling and the fighting. but some of them were ready. victims of war. these children are from easton ukraine, where a war against russian back separatist started 8 years ago. young lives that have never known a world without conflict. nastier is from keep a typical teenager living in on typical times. my last is thrown, my sister and i couldn't sleep at night, relieved in an apartment as i was born, been all the time. so we took integration train to here. wow. solidarity seems

to be everywhere. ukraine, as does defiance. protest is in the southern city of chaplain co till russian soldiers to go away. oh, people want the conflict and they want the killing to stop. families are being shattered futures last ukrainians. wonder how many soldiers will sacrifice their lives for no one here wanted. natasha butler al jazeera, the viv ukraine, or fighting norse of the capital cave is intensifying as russian forces pushed further towards the city. steadfast and travel to keep on tuesday and says there are huge traffic jams as more and more people are trying to get out. while traveling to key a few see this whole continuous so stream of refugees leaving the capital going the opposite direction. there is a non stop row of cars, a huge traffic jam,

basically from the whole of the west of ukraine to the capital right now, people trying to flee the violence, the bombing to continuous shelling here in the capital also around the capital. but the people are not going very far and not very fast because they're really simply stuck. the infrastructure doesn't let them flee quickly enough. so people are really spending denied in cars next to fuel stations. the fuel stations have enormous long queues as well because people are viewing for fuel. that is very hard to get. there's not enough fuel in these battle station. so there's a quiet tom chaos. a lot of those checkpoints that people are very nervous. the security services are very nervous that there might be advance forces that might be what they call suffered to us. russians who are ready here who might commit attacks and when you get to the capital, the 1st thing that you notice is this eerie silence. people have left, it's

a city of normally $4000000.00 people, but it's equally quiet. the only thing we hear here is church bells ringing. holland meanwhile says it's ready to deploy all late, make 29 fighter jet jets to ramstein air base and put them at the disposal of the u . s. government essentially offering to donate the fleet to ukraine. well, my can joins us live now from washington. d. c. so has there been any actual confirmation of the software? what has the you, i said well what we do know is that in recent weeks, the secretary of state antony blinkin has been saying that the question of back filling polish aircraft has been discussed that the u. s was discussing providing aircraft to the polls, so they give their aircraft to ukrainian forces. however, the news that poland is now saying that it will sell the air craft to the u. s. and

pry them into ramstein on condition that the u. s. replaced them with f sixteens. this appears to have come as something of a shock to us administration officials. there's been no confirmation whatsoever. we did hear from the under secretary of state, victoria newland, who said that this matter had not been discussed of the polls prior to the announcement out of warsaw as so she is now discussing with the department of defense with their own team. exactly what the situation is, and the pentagon has says it has nothing to add. so while poland has expressed its willingness to transfer these aircraft, it doesn't appear to be much information among a us administration about this fact. yeah, i mean, obviously not much consultation, certainly about the decision. so i guess in light of that, do we know exactly how this would work well, from what the polish administration has being saying they would fly at their make

to add their big 20 mines to the ramstein air base in germany. the u. s. would then replace them with f sixteens in poland, but then it would be up to the us to make the transfer of the air craft to ukraine, bringing the u. s. into a much closer contact to this ongoing conflict that had been so far. so that is a complicated situation. the reason why the poland is doing it this way is essentially it's sharing responsibility with us. should this plan go ahead, add the u. s. and poland would face whatever retaliation russia may exert, which it is threatened to do. so if any other nation lends its ed croft to ukraine, i'm also just add why it's necessary for this to happen. and polish eyes is that ukranian pilots are trained on the mig 29. they are not trained on the f sixteens, so they need to get big 20 nines. the polish solution to this is to involve the us in a kind of swap and the transfer. but at the same time,

it threatens to bring the u. s. into russian crosshairs, along with poland. it does my cannon with the latest on that from washington d. c. mike, thank you right still to come here and al jazeera american people will deal another powerful blow to punch war machine. the west's sanctions are stepped up as russian oil is left out in the cold class. 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 crossing borders to join the fight brains. military bolstered by volunteers from the old ah a very wet couple of weeks is slowly coming to an end in east australia hasn't

finished yet. that curling area of low pressure, surrounded by thunderstorms, is still there off the coast of new south wales. it will during tuesday that wednesday head slowly south, the winds left behind her, whipped up the sick, so still warnings of dangerous conditions in the ensure waters but over land. despite the flooding on the ground, fuel shout, they are reproduced themselves though in tropical queensland or just the sasa brisbin north was, is mostly a dry picture in australia still warm in the west attempts a few degrees above the average. take you to thursday. little changes in the general picture. the rain had sass towards new zealand, in fact, induces a bit of warm, so temperatures would probably rise. we've got 23 rising i think in washington and christ church while trying to get to the end the week in most beautiful or tunnel sunny picture in indonesia and blaze. he was in areas of flooding recently discreetly because of the thunderstorms that these, some of them are coming back to put in malaysia, the shaking cells in palo one and they are dotted around java as well. this is all

usual for this time of the year. there's no rain of any significance left in india, austria, lanka, but the on the there is some right in the animal and nick about islands. ah, the important thing if you are walking around in beirut was not to be in the line of fire from the holiday. paula, we heard gunshots. i was the 1st one to flee the hotel. the battle lasted 3 days and 3 nights and there were no prisoners at the inn, controlled a holiday in and you controllers the region around. and that's why it is such a bloody battle. an icon of conflict at the heart of the lebanese civil war, bay route holiday in war. how tales on al jazeera, lou.

ah, reminder now of the top stories on al jazeera, 2000000 people have fled ukraine since the start of the russian invasion, that's according to the u and refugee agency. it's described the exodus as the fastest in modern times and warned millions more people are still become the civilian evacuation of the besieged port, city of murder, your whole has been cancelled for the 3rd time. empty buses trying to reach the city were seen turning around. falling reports of rush and shelling along the humanitarian corridor. the city has been cut off from water and power for days now . and poland that says it's ready to deploy all it's make 29 fighter jets to ramstein air base and put them at the disposal of the u. s. government essentially offering to donate the fleet to ukraine. a u. s. president joe biden

has announced a ban on russian oil and gas in ports to move follows, please, by ukranian president followed amuse lensky to cut off moscow's energy exports white house correspondent, kimberly out how kit reports. it's a major escalation of u. s. economic sanctions against russia. for its invasion of ukraine. on tuesday, u. s. president joe biden went after president vladimir putin's most lucrative industry. we're banning all in ports of russian oil and gas in energy and means russian oil will no longer be acceptable us porch and american people will deal another powerful blow to prudence warmish. the decision by president biden to bad russian energy imports into the united states, follows pressure by the us congress, and pleased by ukrainian president vladimir zalinski biden acknowledged. the latest

sanctions could cause a spike in us gas praises consumers are already paying on average more than $4.00 a gallon up from $2.77 just a year ago, due to high inflation. as the economy recovers from, the coven pandemic says, proven, began, is military build up and ukrainian borders just since then. the price of the gas, the pump, an american up $0.75. and with this actually was going to go up further. the white house is directing the release of some of the u. s. strategic petroleum reserves to contain prices and compensate for loss supply. but the white house maintains high gas prices might also encourage u. s. consumers to switch to green energy and electric vehicles. but this analyst says the united states is nowhere near ready. the biggest user of oil in any country is transportation and transportation depends on having things like

electric vehicles and hybrids vehicles. those vehicles represent a roughly small part of the fleet. the fleet turned over slowly. so between our 2 by years, that's why these latest u. s. economic sanctions against russia may be symbolic, designed to hurt potent financially. but mostly politically, president biden is sending his vice president carmella harris to poland and romania this week to reinforce support for ukraine. but also to reassure nervous allies, fearful that russia could turn its aggression on them next. kimberly held it al jazeera, the white house was speaking in the past half hour. ukrainian president followed amused. lensky praised america's decision to boycott russian oil foolishness by them. letter gives little bullet crook america completely bind the import of russian oil and ban citizen of usa,

of making any investments into russian oil and gas and energy systems. i'm grateful to present barden for this decision leadership for such a powerful signal to the whole world. while the u. k is also planning to phase out russian oil imports by the end of the year, while the e u, which is more exposed, says it will reduce its dependence by 2 thirds of the announcement has seen oil prices surge even higher with some analysts predicting it could push europe towards recession. charlie angela has more now from central london. already struggling with rising living costs. ordinary europeans now face another blow to their finances. with the conflict and ukraine, pushing fuel and food prices even higher as a plan to phase out oil imports, russia takes shape the economic cost of the war is hitting home. i'm going to record another kind of absurd. 15 days ago. nobody can think about it. the problem

is not the price, it will be to morrow, but how much it will cost in $15.00 days. i think there's times are coming, but we will have to deal with it. here in london, people are seeing a ripple effect of the russian invasion of the pachel pump. prices have been rising steadily since january. i have now reached a new record high, and this could have enough on effect the cost of transported goods and the cost of living. russia is the world's 2nd largest exporter of oil. the u imports. 27 percent of its all from russia, the u. k. a little less than 10 percent and the u. s. just 8 percent, which is why europe po, feel the effect of the bad far more acutely than the u. s. the e. u also plans to cut his dependency on russian gas by 2 thirds this year. that's 26 percent of its supply. this will end our over dependency and give us much needed room to maneuver 2 thirds by the end of this year. todd. bloody odd. but it's possible if we're willing to go further and faster than we've

done before. but experts say this decision will mean difficult compromises hitting that target. the very challenging, if they do that, are going to be aware of the consequences. they'll have to be additional use of nuclear, which is supposed to be phased out in certain countries. the lab be more coal use, which won't help climate goals, that there was even a point said turn your thermostat down one degree. and that has a major impact on potential gas use. the payoff of this eventual band that european consumers will no longer be inadvertently funding the warn you. craig is e oil purchases alone, but $285000000.00 a day in russian pockets. and the move towards kena green energy will be accelerated. but the timing means the risk of inflation and recession looms larger than ever. charlie angela out there, london, the oil john shell is stopping all purchases of russian crude and has apologized

for buying its oil. last week. it released the statement saying that decision to buy russian oil after the kremlin invasion of ukraine wasn't right. the company says it will change its supply chain as quickly as it can. it's also closing petrol stations across russia. shell is cutting its involvement with the north stream to pipeline, which it helped pay for. and it's not just the oil, coca cola and starbucks have become the latest consumer brands to suspend business in russia. this follows a statement by mcdonald's saying can't ignore the needless human suffering unfolding in ukraine was 30000 people turns out when the fast food giants branch opened in moscow 1st opened back in 1990. it's arrival at the time was seen as a signal of change for the soviet union as it opened up to the west. we're mcdonald's now has 850 restaurants, all of which will lock their doors. the fast food chain says it will keep paying

it's 62000 employees and ukraine's president has received a standing ovation from the u. k. parliament speaking by video link from cleveland amusedly smith, thank you. okay for its support. throughout the conflict, he told parliamentarians that ukrainians would fight to the end against the russian invasion. but he appealed for more help to punish russia and stress the need for a no fly zone order. no foreign fighter is, are heading to the front lines in ukraine after the government established an international legion for those coming from abroad. zane bizarre v spoke the some of the new recruits crossing into ukraine at the poland ukraine border. ah, as people continue to flee the war in ukraine, some rush to get to its front lines shall be lights, bravery, or bravado mormon,

like this one are coming to ukraine's aid every day. inspired perhaps by a social media campaign. i'm in college right now or a call to arms for volunteers by ukrainian leaders under siege in their own capital . from her home near keith leslie vaseline 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. that, of course, our 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 span and keep standing as an independent free country. this is the struggle and the wide that we invite the, the worlds to join 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 $22.00 and says he served in the dutch military and was deployed to have gone to stun. i'm not looking for violence per se. it's more that i'm looking for to give the people their 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 to one. 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 does no. 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 forrest johnson was begging for help. highly experience soldiers are sent to the front line. less experienced recruits are kept back to help territorial 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 0 at the ukraine border in eastern poland. ah, that reminder now of the top stories on al jazeera, 2000000 people have fled ukraine since the start of the russian invasion, that's according to the un refugee agency. it's described the exodus as the fastest in modern times and warned at millions more. people are still to come. the civilian evacuation of the besieged fort city of murray or paul has been cancelled for the 3rd time empty buses trying to reach the city were seen turning around following reports of russian shelling along the so called humanitarian corridor. the city has been.