said oh i efforts to evacuate people from the besieged, ukrainian city of maria pole, fell off to reports of shelling along the escape corridor. ah, nicholas, this is out 0 life and they're also coming up. united nation say 2000000 people have now fled to 15. ukraine, most of them women, children, and the elderly. the u. s. rejects an offer from poland to dna toll it. soviet era make 29 fighter jets and allow that transferred to ukraine. u. s. fancy import of russian oil. as western nations move to reduce their reliance on moscow's energy sources

so a desperate attempt to evacuate besieged areas in ukraine is underway. as russian forces continued their advance, the northeast and city of sumi fighting has mostly stopped in buses, leaving the mario pole. people remain in limbo after russian forces were accused of once again, shelling humanitarian corridors. 2000000 people have fled ukraine since russia's invasion began. almost 2 weeks ago. charles stratford begins i coverage from order . keith in easton, ukraine. the buses, it's south towards mariel, pull the latest attempt to evacuate thousands of people trapped in the besieged port city on the adult sea. murray, opal has suffered some of the worst fighting and recent days the russian army and russian back separatists fighters have reportedly surrounded the city where the dead bodies lie in the streets without this, right?

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 know, it was in his mind. the route south of town being shelled, says the policeman at the moment ago. creations about leaving with security have failed. trust me. i have family at home and i am also worried about them. he says order. unfortunately, the best security for his all is to be inside the city on the ground. one had in shelters already, approximately 200 kilometers north, in the town of or keep the buses meant to rescue the people of marable and stopped . russian army positions are only 10 kilometers from head drivers. some was family and mariel told us they'd heard reports of fighting on the route is lime c as any of the has been no connection was to city for days. 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 we don't know if it will happen. but ah, after a more than 2 hour wait, a convoy cooled nature ordered the drivers to get on the buses and leave. so the buses are now turning round this after, according to the cold nature of the cowboy, there are reports of heavy fighting on the initially planned route to murray opal. a group of drivers struggle to start one of the vehicles. one told us he didn't want to die. that's what we don't get this way because he's been shelling, they won't let us go through all this with the checkpoint light. let us go further because of the shelling. we don't know way we're going now. the convoy headed out of order keep moving north east. another attempted evacuating thousands of traps and terrified people in mary. opal had failed. charles strafford al jazeera or

a cave, easton ukraine. but one way for people to escape the fight, he has to travel, ease 3 marrow pill into turkey, controlled by russian like separatist. not many have dare to make the jenny as ben smith reports now from nevada sauce in that region, these ukrainians left merry awful with just a few belongings they could pack in a hurry, which wasn't much. what was weighing these people down with the memories of what they've seen and what they've left behind. they've left a city of half a 1000000 people surrounded by forces from russia and don. yet, people who are now their hosts. nick describes living under shelling for 10 days as he made his way out of the city with his wife, child, and mother in law. that the movie bushland old we got into our car under constant shalon valley. there was no corridor. we had no help. we just drove, we went from one village to another, spent 4 days in the cellar, less than 5 days in the shed, with no water, no guests, nor 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. we survived as best we could. we was only now that we are safe. i will go in to work out what we are going to do next. 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 is a far right para military, neo nazi group, now integrated into ukraine's national guard. the group in return accuses the russians a violating the humanitarian c. spies. 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,

the u. s. government says persons offered to transfer several fighter jets to u. s. air base or they can be used by ukraine is not tenable. the offer made by poland proposes make $29.00 jets to be deployed to ramstein basin germany free of charge. washington says the move raises serious concerns for the entire day to alliance and needs. consultation. ukrainian officials have treated with western governments to provide war paint to fight against russian invasion. and let's get the letter from mike conner is in washington d. c. my. where are we with this offer of post makes it seems now to be rejected by united states within the last pentagon spokesman cleared after a great degree of confusion that had happened throughout the day following the polish governments nonsense that it was willing to transfer, fight to red cross to the us to us base in germany at ramstein, and the us in turn would provide it with 15 fighters, but very importantly, the us would get the fight cropped into poland. well,

there was an absolute surprise among us administration officials in the course of the day. now it's all been cleared up, the pentagon spokesman, making very clear that there had been no discussions about actually transferring crop to us control by poland. in recent weeks, the secretary of state and to be blinking has confirmed that there weren't discussions on the way to find some way in which to backfill polish croft should it provide its croft to ukraine. but clearly, at no stage, according to us officials was the question of the u. s. actually taking control physical control of transferring the aircraft. the discuss between the 2 countries . as the pentagon spokesman said, this idea is completely untenable the ramifications to the u. s. and it's nato allies would be considerable. so certainly this is an idea that has been fairly put to bed by the us administration. there is also this top mike, the placing of missile patriot missile batteries and potent

well, certainly the u. s. has said that it will do whatever it can to assist it's nato allies. there's already a large number of us forces who been deployed to nato's eastern flag to shore up the nato forces there. and certainly with terms of equipment missile, batteries would not be unusual in terms of the situation where us troops are being deployed into the nato flank. although there's been no confirmation as to the exact particulars of what equipment is going with those us troops or has been supplied to the nato allies. that certainly would not be out of the question. or i might, thanks about my kind of reporting that from washington d. c, were fighting north of cave is intensifying, his russian forces pushed towards the city, vass and travel to the capital and reports. huge traffic gems is growing numbers of

residents lea. 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 erg row of car. so huge traffic jam, basically from the whole of the west of ukraine to the capital right now, people trying to flee to violence. the bombing, the continuous shelling here in the capital also around a 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 the night in cars next to fuel station. so fuel stations have enormous long queues as well because people are viewing for fuel. that is very hard to get. there is not enough fuel in these battle station, so there are quite some chaos. a lot of 1st checkpoint, so people are very nervous. the security services are very nervous that there might

be advance or forces that it might be what they called saba, taurus russians who are already here, who might oh, commit attacks. and when you get to the capitol, the 1st thing that you notice is this eerie silence. and 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. reoccurrence president vladimir zalinski has received a standing ovation from the british parliament during an address by video link from kiva. zalinski told parliamentarians that ukrainians would fight to the end against the russian invasion, appealed for more help against moscow's forces. with that and that means to more separate than is shamal law. the question for us now is to be or not to be this expedient question to wait for 13 days. the question was asked, but now i can even definitive answer is definite. yes. to be possible,

i'd like to remind you of the words that the u. k. has already heard, which are important shaheed again, we will not give up. we will not lose what we will fight till an end at sea and in the air. we will continue to fight for our land, whatever the castle will fight in the forests in the fields on the shores in the streets. but is the britain and our allies are determined to press or to press on with supplying our ukrainian friends with the weapons they need to defend their homeland as they deserve death to press on with type in the economic vice around vladimir putin. and we will stop importing russian oil. mister speaker, my right on my friend, the bid the secretary rob date the house on that to morrow. and we will employ every method that we can, diplomatic, humanitarian and economic. mister speaker until vladimir putin has failed in this disastrous venture. and ukraine is free once more. that still ahead here in our

desert, mcdonalds arrived in moscow 3 months after the fall of the berlin wall. now the golden arches are closing for russians. a picking in you presidents can, softer is next lead us steer the country hound of an economic doubt. ah look forward to pearly to skies the winter sponsored my cattle airways. that might be forgiven for thinking that the northern china, the current balance of a lesser japan's going straight from which to summer temperature was so the sun is predominant as a form of weather. very few shout left of rain in home, shoot. none of snow with temperature only slowly rising twin took his at 12. but suppose an 5 log stone around still in hawkeye there. but let's come back to china from the yanks he north, which is really warm. there is

a bit of cloud and inducing want to showers along the valley itself. but if you're in will and you should be expecting 14, not 24, like us in beijing, 10, not 20. and this extends right up to mongolia. this is a huge area, very warm weather at the moment. we're still in the wet season throughout malaysia and indonesia. it's the last month of it. so it means you get fresh. but anyway, and jarvis favorite, i think on thursday, 12 areas might join in but nothing to persistent. these are moving showers. notice rain coming up into the small items in the bay of bangor, there's nothing much now on the mainland. there are a few developing. you'll notice and the upstream are astra. beyond because the temperatures are rising here too. they're a bit above where you might expect them to be knowles in plain though, stays fine. warm occasionally windy but was still with poor air quality. oh, the weather sponsored by cats are always serious, darkest days with one man leading the country through uh,

a loss of legitimacy. he needs to step down. how is he retained control through over a decade we examine the global power games of president alissa. we believe assad simply carrying out iranian orders. what keeps you awake at night? when you reason that could effect in human, aside master of chaos on all the 0. 0 ah. say watching out 0, remind about top stories as our and the civilian evacuation of the besieged port city of mary. apple has been cancelled for 3rd time empty buses trying to reach the

city was seen turning around falling reports of russians shelling along the humanitarian corridor. poland says it's ready to deploy all its mig $29.00 fighter jets to the ramstein base in germany, putting them at the dispos with us. but the move has been described as untenable by wasn't fighting, not of keep is intensifying as russian forces pushed towards the city. credit soldiers are helping evacuation efforts around the capital industry. experts say russia could attack the capital within days. the u. s. congress is nearing a deal to allocate billions of dollars in emergency aids. ukraine is likely to pass legislation for the budget by the end of the week. practical haine is in the capitol hill where senior officials have been giving a bleak assessment of the war. this was a hearing that was supposed to focus on general threats, the united states. but of course, what's happening? ukraine really dominated the questions. and it was the 1st time we've heard from senior us intelligence officials. they've echoed much of what we've heard from

analyst, but they say they believe that russian president vladimir putin miscalculated exactly was going to happen that he thought he'd be able to go and ukraine quickly with very low cost that his war chest would be safe from sanctions obviously, it has not been that the ukraine military was much weaker than he thought and that his forces would you better than they have been doing? still they say they believe that this is a war that president prudent does not believe he can afford to lose. so the question is, what happens next or answer? pretty bleak assessment meeting probably still remains confident that russia can militarily defeat ukraine and wants to prevent western support from tipping the balance and forcing a conflict with nato by frail to see. and our analysts drill to see how he could sustain a puppet regime or a pro russian leadership that he tries to install in the face of what is a massive opposition from the ukrainian people. in many ways, it's been putin's aggression gone back to 2014 and crimea. that's created the

strong sense of ukrainian nationhood and sovereignty that traces today. so i failed to see how he can produce that kind of an end game. and where that leads, i think, is, is for an ugly next few weeks in which he doubles down, as i said before, with scant regard for civilian casualties. since the start of the conflict, the pentagon has been going out of its white and not talk about casualty numbers. busy but a general was asked what the estimate is. we said with low confidence, we believe between $24000.00 russian soldiers have been killed to next step. now, capitol hill, they're working on an aide package to you trade. we think it's going to be around $12000000000.00, not sure how much of that would be for military miss versus monitoring assistance are, but there is a sense of urgency. the president clear joe biden recently allowed $350000000.00 and military sales to go into ukraine. the pentagon says the final bits of those

shipments are just now going in. so again, congress is expected to act in a bipartisan fashion to pass that legislation, possibly by the end of this week. a mcdonald is temporarily closed against restaurants, across russia, and a stand against what it describes as a human suffering in ukraine. 30000 people turned up when the 1st restaurant opened in moscow in 1990. the arrival of the u. s. fast food chain signal change for the soviet union that opened up to the west. donald says it will continue to pay at $62000.00 employees in russia, while the restaurants are closed, rushes central bankers tightened foreign currency restrictions capping withdrawals at $10000.00. people will receive roubles above that amount of banks have been told to stop selling hot currency people queued into the early hours in moscow with locals reporting all atm. we're busy. yes, president joe biden has announced a ban on russian energy in ports. you k little so phase out the import of russian

oil and gas by the end of 2022. at a move follows please, by ukrainian president footed mans lensky to cut off moscow's energy exports. our white house correspondent company, how could reports know from washington, dc. 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 no longer be accessible us porch in the american people will deal another powerful blow to put in for machines. the decision by president biden to bad russian energy imports into the united states, follows pressure by the u. s. 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 prune began as military build up ukrainian borders just since then. the price of the gas, the pump, an american up to $0.75. and with this action is going to go up further. the white house is directing the release of some of the us 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 countries, transportation and transportation depends on having things like electric vehicles

and hybrids vehicles. those vehicles represent a relatively small part of the fleet. the fleet turns over slowly. so what's the period of time working by year? that's why these latest u. s. economic sanctions against russia may be symbolic, designed to hurt putin financially. but mostly politically, president biden is sending his vice president comalla 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 hell kit al jazeera, the white house with you and human rights off. it says it has recorded more than 400 civilian deaths and 800 injuries since the war in ukraine begun. but it believes the actual figures are much higher. most of the civilian casualties, awesome as strikes and explosive weapons used by russian forces with why their effects, including heavy artillery on multiple launch bucket systems. as a result,

hundreds of residential buildings in many cities and treating chaney of card. you have some money on campus housing, damage and destroy well the national committee, the red cross says the urgent need for humanitarian aid in ukraine. as a matter of life and death. this situation is really apocalyptic. for people it is getting worse. they are running out of essential supplies and am. so our call today is really for life saving aide to reach these people. we've depleted our stocks, as i said, it stands to reason that people are coming to the end of whatever supplies they had . so when you ask if this is a, if this is a matter of life or death, or if it's, if it's, is it life saving? yes for us. it is essential that her humanitarian aid gets into a city like marry a poll, and i am to other cities that are in the midst of conflict in ukraine today. but

while many people are trying to leave ukraine, some foreign fighters at the polish border, heading back into the country, that's after the government and keep established an international legion for those coming from abroad. same bus robbie has spoken to some of them as people continue to flee the war in ukraine. some rush to get to its front lines. don't realize, 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, less jo, 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 stand as an independent free country. this is the struggle and the wide that we invite the bully, 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 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 far as johnson was begging for help, highly experience soldiers are sent to the front line. less experience 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, a 0 at the ukraine border in eastern poland. let's move on to south korean. our voters are going to the polls to choose the country's next president, moon j ins term is coming to an end that a time when the country is facing a housing crisis. bleak job opportunities and an increase in miss el testing from neighboring north korea. let's me talk horse when it robert bride,

who's standing by for us in. so and rob, so what's happening so far? while the above voting stations here have been open now for a little over 3 hours, they stay open until as 6 pm, wednesday local time. and then interestingly, they then stay open for an extra hour and a half to allow co rid patients to both those of people with cobit 19, who are either still testing positive or who are in isolation. they can then come along and test a cast their vote. let me just stand back a little bit and show you what's going on here. witterd as polling station in downtown as sole, and has been fairly steady here for the 1st few hours. we know other polling stations are very busy and as often happens in south korean elections, this is come down to a 2 horse race between the liberal candidates, lee j mung of the democratic party and his conservative rival units of gulf from the people power party. now interestingly,

these 2 candidates have been running neck and neck in all of the polling. and going through this campaign, really nobody is predicting who might become the winner at the end. what we do know is it is going to be one of the most hotly contested elections in south korean history in 2 days of early voting as something like a little more than a 3rd, that's a record of a voters have already cast their votes and by the end of this whole process, we are expecting a total turn out of something like 80 percent plus, which is very high by any democratic standards. and the interesting thing is neither of these 2 candidates is particularly popular with their own bases. they both bring with them a certain amount of baggage, certain scandals, her which and there's been an awful lot of mudslinging between the 2. it seems that people here are more driven, less by personalities. but some of the issues that we've got going on in south korea and whoever wins rob, plenty of challenges face the country, tell us about some of the issues. that's right. a lot of people here are concerned

about domestic issues. the state of the economy, a special, especially younger voters, here people who are concerned about inequality, wealth inequality, the difficulty of actually owning your own home. so that is going to play against the democrats, because they've been in power for at 5 years. the liberals of that done a seemingly very little against that. but the liberal candidate lee will be pointing to the, the impact of the pandemic and how his party has done encountering the effects of the pandemic. for his part, the conservative you will be looking to appeal to some of the older voters here and also pointed to north korea, saying that this policy of engagement of the liberals of the past few years with north korea simply has a word. and that we, what we should be doing here in north korea, as far as he is concerned, is taking a much tougher line with north korea. even mentioning the possibility of having a preemptive strike against north korea. if they thought that north korea was about

to launch missiles against the south or iraq, thanks that to robert, right there in. so ah, so this is al jazeera, these are the top stories and that the civilian evacuation of the besieged port city of morrow pole has been cancelled for 3rd time empty buses trying to reach the city were seen turning around falling reports of russian shelling along the humanitarian corridor fighting north of cave is intensifying as russian forces pushed towards the city. ukrainian soldiers are helping evacuation efforts around the capitol. military expert say russia could attack keep within days. poland says it's ready to deploy all it's make 20.