verses in the power to sticks this where a global audience becomes a global community. the comment section is right here. be part of today's proven this dream on out is the era ah, to. ready efforts to evacuate people from the besieged, ukrainian city of mattie paul had failed. after reports of shelling along the escape cargo. ah, i'm come all santa maria here in doubt. how with continuing coverage on al jazeera of the ukraine war as pull it off as to the night, it's of it iraq make 29 fight jets to the u. s. for transport to ukraine. washington dose, as the proposal is untenable, was the united nations of 2000000 people of now fled to fighting in ukraine. most

of them, women, children, and the elderly. and the u. s. spans the input of russian oil. as western nations move to reduce their reliance on moscow's sources of energy however, on a desperate attempt to evacuate besieged areas of ukraine is underway. but russian forces are continuing their advance in the northeastern city of sunni fighting is mostly stopped and buses the leaving. but in mario paul, people remain in limbo after russian forces were accused of once again, shelling humanitarian corridors. 2000000 people have now fled ukraine. since russia's invasion began almost 2 weeks ago, charles drafted with his report now from keith. in easton, you grant the buses, it's south towards mariel called the latest attempt to evacuate thousands of people trapped in the besieged port city on the as or c murray. opal has suffered some of the worst fights 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've got nothing on the horrible new. i mean you, it was in his mind. the route south of town are being shelled, says the policeman. at the moment, negotiations about leaving which 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 us all is to be inside the city on the ground floor and in shelters. already. approximately 200 kilometers north, in the town of all a cave, the buses meant to rescue the people of marable and stopped. russian army positions are only 10 kilometers from here. drivers, some which family and marable told us they'd heard reports of fighting on the route

. is lindsay of the has been no connection with the 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 get. we don't know if it will happen. after a more than 2 hour wait, a convoy, coordinator ordered the drivers to get on the buses and leave. so the buses are now turning round this after, according to the coordinator of the cowboy. 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 without going this way because has been shelling there were let us go through. all right, isn't it up with the check point? let, 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 attempt evacuating thousands of traps and terrified people in murray or pope, had failed. charles strafford al jazeera or a cave east in ukraine. one way for people to escape, the fighting is traveling to remarry, a pol into territory, which is of course, controlled by the russian back separatists. not many daring to make that journey though, as bernard smith reports from the novels offs 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 was 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 on yet. so 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. got them virtually in the old. we got into our car under

constant sharon riley. there was no corridor. we've had not help. we just drove, we went from one village to another, spent 4 days in the cellar, then 5 days in the shed, with no water, no guess, no electricity, no internet yet. that journey from mary apple east to this village would have taken just 45 minutes. in peacetime, my brother was a while ago mister wife as best we could, we will 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 don yet separatists, the as of battalion that holds the city, is not letting civilians leave as av 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 nova, as oscar region, one of ukraine's representatives did united nations meanwhile, has made an emotional appeal to the security council. simply asking the international community to stop russia from killing ukrainians, civilians. mostly women and children have been effectively taken hostage. they are not allowed to leave and be humanitarian aid is not let in. if they tried to leave rations open, fire and kills them. they are running out of food out of food and water and they died. the u. s. government says poland offered to transfer several fine to jets to be as they are by so they can be used by ukraine is not tenable. that was made by poland. it proposes to make $29.00 jets be deployed to the ramstein air base and germany free of charge. the u. s. is that move raises serious concerns for

the entire night. her alliance and needs consultation? ukrainian officials have been pleading with western governments to provide will planes to fight against the russian invasion mo, from might hannah in washington. there were hours of confusion here in washington among members of the biden administration when poland made that announcement that it was going to send its fight a crop to a u. s. space in ram steen and the u. s. was then going to move them into the ukranian theatre of combat. well, that was poland, expressing its willingness to do so. the administration members making very clear that they had not discussed this matter with poland. and it took me into early evening when the spokesman for the pentagon, brian, kirby issued a written statement at denying that this was going to happen saying in fact, it was a move that was completely untenable. now to put this into a context in recent days, the secretary of state antony blinking, made several references to discussions with poland about backfilling polish croft

with us crop. should poland move the cross into ukraine? but that's where the conversation was centered on. there was no discussion that would appear about this type of deal that poland expressed a willingness to indulge in, to move its claims to a u. s. air force base. and us then moves out of planes and to ukraine war areas. so certainly it was a confusing few hours, but very clearly now the us administration has made absolutely adamantly clear that this is simply a tenable, it's not a deal that would be on the table as we've shown you earlier. so many people are trying to get out of ukraine, but some foreign fight is that the polish border are actually heading back into the country as opposed to the government and give established an international legion for those coming from abroad. same bus raphi has been speaking to some of them as people continue to flee the war in ukraine. some rush to get to its front lines,

relaxed, 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 solomon right now, or a call 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, a thought to force on 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. i'm keep standing as an independent free country. this is the struggle and the wide that we invite the bully, the world 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 and says he served in the dutch military and was deployed to have gone this time. i'm not looking for violence, but i say 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 estallion 5 by a 3 month. you can go home to see your families and come back into one joe. or even one year, but we know in one year we going we got home 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 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. it's concentrated on keith, now fighting north of the cities intensifying as russian forces push towards the capital. step boston has travelled there. she reports, huge traffic jams is growing. number of residents try to get out well 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. ugh, 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 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 the night in cars next to fuel stations. the fuel stations have enormous long q as, as well, because people are viewing for fuel. that is very hard to get. there's not enough fuel in these battle station so days are quite tom chaos, a lot offer checkpoint. so people are very nervous. the security services are very nervous that there might be advance of forces that it might be what they called saba, taurus, russians who already here, who might whoa commit attacks. and when you get to the capitol, the, the 1st thing that you know it is, is this e re silence. and people have laughed at the city of normally 4000000 people. but it's equally quiet. the only thing we hear here is church bells ringing. our coverage continues in

a moment. big back to go. and donald announces the golden arches closing for russians. and in other news, picking a new president in south korea, can the next lead astir the country out of an economic downturn? ah, ah, look forward to really, to scully's, the with sponsored my cattle at ways well as being quite turbulent, recently, warming places. in fact, when the nurses attempt to do bind her a bit above where they should be, there's a wind coming out of that warmth and dry area and that's full of sand dust. and it's been particularly nurse for egypt. it will be again during wednesday. and in north and saudi arabia and in iraq. but then it contrasts with what's coming from further north. kodak here has still wintry and turkey, rain showers, running across lebanon,

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this bill seemed have been says notes. so big is of the table. we were taught to see abortion as a one way ticket street to help all of the companies. they deny any responsibility, even though they have the resources in the power to fix it, where a global audience becomes a global community. the comment section is right here. the part of today's proven this dream are now to sierra, ah ah, these are the latest developments out of ukraine for you. the civilian evacuation of the besieged port city of mario pulse been cancelled for 3rd time empty buses trying to reach the city butts. as in turning around, following reports of rush and shelling along the humanitarian corridor,

poland says it's ready to deploy your let's make 29 fighter jets to the rom, shania base germany, putting them at the disposal of the u. s. box that moves been described as untenable by washington and fighting north of cave is intensifying as russian forces pushed towards the city, ukrainian soldiers, a helping the evacuation efforts, his military expert say russia could attack a capital within days. let's look further abroad. the chinese president, huge and pang, is issued his strongest comments yet on the russian invasion of ukraine. katrina you is in beijing. what he said hi. well, what kind of would have wanted to see was a quick end to this war and ukraine, but as things escalate, it's clear that beijing is under increasing pressure to express its view as a known friend of russia, as well as to be seen as playing some sort of active role in all of this, we had president, she didn't paying hold of video conference with the leaders of france and germany.

and according to the chinese readout, he expressed his deep concerns about the escalation, escalation of the fighting. he said that the sovereignty of all countries must be respected, but the purity concerned of all parties should also be taken into account. and he said that everything must be done to prevent expanded a humanitarian crisis and criticized western sanctions. a repeating china's lines at these will only effect ordinary people as well as worse than problems in the global economy. he then said that he supported france and germany and creating a balanced security framework for europe and called again for, for more dialogue between all parties as well as come. now according to that readout, the really was nothing new here. china is walking a very tight and tricky diplomatic type of it wants to be seen as taking no slides at all. every time that there's some sort of chinese spoke to us and asked about this. it keeps saying, when, on any side we're only on the side of peace. but what we do know from this call is

that china seems to be getting increasingly anxious that its closeness with russia will affect negatively its ties with europe in other western countries. and for aging, it simply cannot afford to do that. trade with these countries is too important. so it cannot have any doors close on it from the west as they have to russia. so i think she didn't being is at pains to emphasize he's friendship with these countries. he wants to keep talking to them. but the same time aging is not backing away at all from its relationship with russia. just on monday we had china, foreign minister, one you asked about this. and he said that the china russian friendship was rock solid. beijing continues to do trade with russia normally. president, she didn't ping and vitamin fusion have had a call since the beginning of the conflict. and putin was just in beijing a few weeks before the invasion started. but on the other hand,

have yet to see president, she didn't pay me, reach out to ukraine. leader voted me as landscape. thank you. katrina you for with that update from beijing. yes, president j biden's announced a ban on russian oil and gas imports. that follows please from the ukranian president low to mid zalinski to cut off moscow's energy expos. small from our white house correspondent, kimberly hawkins. 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 these russian oil will no longer be acceptable. u. s. port to 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 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: prune began is 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 last supply. but the white house maintains high gas prices might also encourage you as 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 susie, electro vehicles and hybrids vehicles. those vehicles represent a roughly small part of the fleet. the fleet turns over slowly sorts of the green co worker by years. 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 held it al jazeera, the white house. the u. k is also planning to phase our russian oil imports by the end of the year. while the e u says it will reduce its dependence for 2 thirds. but the announcement is

sunny's in oil prices. surgery, even higher. charlie angela reports from london already struggling with rising living costs. ordinary europeans now face another blow to their finances. with the conflict in 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 prefer another co figure 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 $50.00 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 that have now reached a new record high. 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 it all from russia. the u. k. little less than 10 percent.

and the u. s. just 8 percent, which is why europe, who feel the effect of the bad, far more acutely than the u. s. the e. u also plans to cut its 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 heading that are going to be very challenging. if they do that, are they 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. a lot more coal use, which won't help climate goals, that there was even a point and said, turn your thermostat down one degree and that has

a major impact on potential gas use. the payoff of this eventual band european consumers will no longer be inadvertently funding the warn you crate is e oil purchases alone put $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 al jazeera london, the world health organization says attacks on healthcare facilities in ukraine, a depleting medical supplies. and since hospitals are running low on oxygen, insulin, p. p 8 blood products. like 9 health care workers have been killed as well since the war started. it should not meet seen that havoc us hospitals and older medical facilities must never be a target at any time, including during crisis and conflicts. to date,

we have 16 confirmed reports of attacks on health in a crate and more are being very fight, doubly chal strongly condemns these attacks on health care services. brush central bank as tight and foreign currency restrictions camping withdrawals now to $10000.00. people will receive roubles above that amount, but the banks have been told to stop selling hard currency. people were queueing into the early hours in moscow. with all the teams reported as extremely busy. now mcdonalds is one of several big u. s. companies to pull out of russia come, says those as there is this huge pressure for western firms to sever ties because of the invasion of ukraine. gabriel elizondo reports from new york. ah, macdonald sold its 1st big mac in what was then the soviet union. 32 years ago was yes enough to hold in the home. oh my god. since then the iconic american fast food

chain has opened around $350.00 stores in russia. but on tuesday, the company announced it would temporarily close. it's russian operations. and it was followed just hours later by other us giants, starbucks, coca cola and pepsi all in response to vladimir putin's decision to invade ukraine limbs, caraway. it's a domino effect that has already seen a raft of companies like young brands, which owns the fast food stores. kfc, taco bell, and pizza hut and apple make similar moves in russia. on tuesday, the firms actions got the backing of you as president joe biden. over the weekend visa, mastercard, american express. they all suspended their services and rush off. joining the growing list of american global companies, companies are having to play a balancing act on one side, there's an economic calculus of doing business in russia. on the other side, there's consumers that are increasingly demanding that companies take

a stand against the war. sometimes like in this case, the pressure becomes overwhelming. a research team at yale university has been keeping track of the hundreds of western companies that have pulled out of rushes since the invasion and also highlights those that remain. the man behind the list explained its importance. those that don't like the category therein. it's um, it helps put the c e o 's show that to their boards. look how we're being classified and this is not good for the reputation of the company. most analysts say american brands leaving russia won't have a major impact on putin's calculations regarding the war and ukraine. but it's a statement they hope will resonate. gabriel's ando al jazeera new york. just a bit of other world news for you, voters in south korea are going to the polls to choose the next president moon jillions term is coming to an end at a time when the country's facing a housing crisis, oblique, a job market increase in missile testing as well from neighboring north korea from

mcbride is following developments insult. here in south korea, a lot of the, a people are being driven by a domestic concerns about the state of the economy, the state of the society, especially younger voters. and there are a lot of 1st time younger voters this time around. so it is things like wealth inequality and just the problems in trying to be able to afford your own home here in south korea with the housing market. now this plays against the incumbents that liberal party because they have been in power for 5 years. these problems are still exist or but the liberal candidate lee is pointing to the fact that he is promising stimulus packages. and also the fact that a lot of this was due to the pandemic and the incumbent liberals have done by all stand many, most standards pretty well when it comes to handling that pandemic. the conservative candidate yoon is pointing to the fact that he is more of a populist, it's time for a change. he is as a former prosecutor, as something of

a graft buster against corruption, which is also a big issue here a but more importantly, perhaps he's appealing to the older voters because he's gonna take a lot tougher stand with north career, which he says has been a failing of the liberals that after several years of engagement with the north, there is nothing to show for that. and it is time to get the lot tougher with north korea, which really does strike a chord with some of the old of auto say. ah, this is al jazeera, these are the headlines, the civilian evacuation of the besieged port city of mario pause been canceled for a 3rd time. empty buses were trying to reach the capital, but turned around. fallen reports of russians. shelling along the humanitarian corridor, fighting north keys intensifying his russian forces pushed towards the city. a ukrainian sold as a helping the evacuation efforts around the capital with military.