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a no fly zone. desperate to need their shaft and cities, the people have ukraine. take every route they can to safety. power is cut to the noble nuclear plant, raising questions over its immediate safety. on poll recent helsinki, why the finish authorities are prepared to take an asylum seekers, but it's russians, not ukrainians, even arriving here since the start of the war. in spore, the top teams in france and spain are taken each other on and the champions league by samar aiming to hold on to their advantage in the 2nd leg of their tie with re out madrid. ah, it's de 14 of the war and ukraine and a maternity hospital in the besieged town of murray. a pole has been destroyed, raised by a russian air strike ukrainian president. florida may zalinski says children of

buried in the rubble zelinski shad video from inside the building labeling the at an atrocity. how much longer will the world be an accomplice? ignoring tara, he asked, urging western force and no fly zone over his country. the white house described the strike as barbaric neetha begins coverage. ah, a colossal bloss echoes across the besieged city of mary opal. but this isn't a military target. it's a maternity ward and children's hospital with over here. and these are the victims. a heavily pregnant woman with serious injuries he stretched through a shattered building. whereas with

the elderly of the young lady, he still scan i. marsha, this is the indifference of war an explosion so powerful the crater has several meet his deep so ordinary. but i says, gives us ardwick a score to day. russian invaders committed a grave crime. said this official got women and children were wounded. somebody was a war crime without any justification. he said to me after days without supplies, heating or electricity ukrainians were already calling. marry off all the nearest thing to hell on earth. now look at it. i said they are the defining images of vladimir putin's war, and there's a new urgency to the ukrainian leaderships, desperate plea. for more help. leave barker al jazeera. i oppose

mer condemned the attack saying it was beyond explanation. monsieur sir, she wouldn't hear my hot to day is full of anger. it's very difficult to choose the words to describe what has happened to day in my beloved city. today, something so evil happened that has no explanation and no name. to day, the russian federation led by putin launched an aerial assault on a peaceful city, striking a children's hospital destroying the thing we value most in mary paul. they wanted to take away the lives of our women and children, and our doctors who have been fighting for 14 days now for the lives of each child who suffered through the shelling and shooting by our enemies. my heart is bleeding . the most unbearable casualties of the children, children are dying by the dozens now at home in their houses or in the rolls to

exile. look at these images. there are the concrete in real resolved of putting special operations, so to speak. when he does not take the lives of his angel's, he killed their parents, grandparents and destroys their homes and schools. to attack children is to attack life civilization itself. if you don't want to see these images anymore, you must not look away. you must stop, put his war now. responding to a question about their tank and how it would affect president dylan's he's playing for no fly zone, u. k. foreign texture list truss called the strike a polling. the best way to help protect the skies is true anthea weaponry which the u. k. is now going to be supplying to ukraine. that's what the defense secretary announced earlier today. and of course, the attack on the hospital is absolutely important,

reckless and appalling. and the u. k is at the forefront of supplying humanitarian aid into ukraine. streams and buses and cars have been taking families out of mario poll cave and several other ukrainian cities. despite the decoration of humanitarian corridors, several explosions have been heard around the capital journal reports from levine in western ukraine a day of relative calm along temporary avenues of escape. war came suddenly to the people of ukraine. getting away from it is much harder. from cities like sumi in the north where residential buildings were struck over night, and from godaddy in the east. for many civilians still trapped in the ruins of their cities. there is no rest spite nor for medical teams in hospitals where the

injured arrived daily was up. how are you little volva? the doctor asks. i am fine, replies the boy, following surgery to remove a bullet from the base of his skull message as below proper. we have operated on 4 children inside the one little girl has died. in an arc of smaller towns close to the capital, key of the great escape continues on foot. much of it here, from places like butcher and a pin. this public can't bear to let go. father stay behind the defend the town. oh. and from hoster mouth and my courage with 13 people died on sunday, queuing for bread was those you? those are was interested in the friends. these are a very difficult times for your brain, so i will sit on. but if you then see it, a pin holds to defend us in the they've managed to get not to safety,

so much as the comfort of the capital, the still standing symbol of what it once meant to live in his sovereign country. ah, and what they're determined, it will mean again as the keys symphony orchestra plays a concert for peace. not far away is too noble a symbol of something much darker nuclear catastrophe. now, in russian hands, a power cut to the plants, defunct reactors, and radioactive waste facilities, signaled ukrainian alarm. the humans, atomic agency though says there's no critical impact on safety. satellite images show the concentration of russian forces on the outskirts of the capital. they can be little doubt that at some point, fortified and resupplied, they may try to overrun these outer suburbs. this is a moment as president zelinski described it, of maximum strength of the job,

nebulous, and getting ready to counter it. are these training fighters who, what seems like only yesterday, we're film students or i t workers there old lives now on hold? russia may have superiority in terms of numbers, but ukraine has the reserves men between the ages of 18 and 60 who have been told they must remain in the country in case they needed to fight. but 1st, they must be taught how me, max is 20, a musician and music journalist, whose band echoes british prog, rock legends like meridian and king crimson. i was born here and i protect this. so i hope all of my friends will be safe and in there and after the aunt of the war, we will meet again. have a beer, just have fun and relax. daniel,

over the cinema philosophy takes a special kind of optimism to believe those carefree days will soon be back. jonah whole al jazeera, sylvia, as julia reported to the russian forces, closing in only ukrainian capital. keith. heavy fighting is taking place in the north, west and east. explosions will have been heard in the south. the only remaining gateway in and out of the capital. steadfast reports from keith the looking for cover in a city virtually under siege. with attacks coming from the sky and on the ground, a population on the run. leaving the streets empty and airy. barricades made up everything large enough to stop russian troops entering the countries capital city. key if the main prize in flood him put into war. but not everybody has left deep below the city. people have settled in for the long haul.

hiding from bombardments and shelly diarrhea obey schafer, has been sleeping in the subway with her 2 young son since the war started. her husband is fighting on the front line. no by our house such as offline, some ratio, the song you for nervous about it and or yeah, i don't hear any sound the safest shoulder and in the darkness of the underground someone to bring a smile to her children's faces. larissa clim cheek normally works with cancer patients. they have all been evacuated. yeah, yeah, lose your but i'm very worried because my own children and grandchildren have been evacuated, but i have an older mother who's 86 and i'm very concerned about her. but the children i visit don't care about my worries. i have to support them. i have to support their mothers. that's why i'm a smile. be inspired, be energetic. jump within the train company is allowing people to sleep inside the

carriages to stay warm until they need to use them again. for those who remain and key of life has moved deep on the ground here, they hope to be safe from rush and bombs and missiles. but they're all holding their breath for what's coming next. and if they will be able to go back home at all. but some are taking their chances this family left the apartment after a strike nearby. now they are going home. we are coming back. i feel safe. i don't know. i feel optimistic. why are you optimistic? we have any. so why not? you don't feel the russian forces are approach to city right? oh, they approach and by the realty where their depth nearby, we find a family finally reunited after nerve wracking escapes from commuter down the keys right now, one of the front lines of this wire could move. could you please call me with the

printer? we were leaving on foot from up in on march 8th. we were leaving on foot. would you let the school could you leave? we were leaving on foot to subway station, which is nearly 2 and a half hours and there was a lot of shelling and shooting. there was no lights, no water and out. and despite their fear, the family wants to stay together. they have to take care of the 909 year old grandmother. she is too frail to move. i really trust ukrainian army. i probably never believed in something so strong as i now believe in the army. but i'm very worried about my children. i can't tell you where i will go. it's very hard. if i take my children to safety, i will have to leave my parents and my husband behind my heart is breaking and i don't know what is the right thing to do. for now, she is staying with her mother and brother in fear, but at least there to get a cleaning on to hope. the barricaded capitol will be able to hold off

a full scale russian attack that could come at any time. step fast and al jazeera keith, she had returned ga slime now from washington d. c. and she had what reaction we had from the white house to the attack on the hospital. invariable. we've had the briefing from the white house spokesperson just a couple of hours ago. she, john sanky said she'd seen the reports and said that it was that it was, it was heartbreaking to see the barbaric use of force against innocent civilians. we just had the pentagon briefing actually by the public and was also asked about this. and again, it was rather a measured a measured response from the pentagon. we've seen the report, we can either confirm nor deny whether it was intentional or not. john kirby said, the pentagon spokesperson, it's terrific heretic whether it's intentional or not. and is there any indication that the smartly to any change in the us response?

no, i mean the one thing we keep on hearing is the main principal underlining the biden ministrations. response is the goal is to end this war not to create an even larger war. in fact, that was one of the main issues at the pentagon briefing just now we've been covering this rather interesting proposal from poland, which blindsided the us dagger that they were prepared to send the old mega aircraft to germany for the us, them to somehow get to ukraine and the u. s. and we just had the most emphatic rejection of that. for example, this is 11 example of how the policy is not changing as residents, and they don't want to escalate any further. may i have to get? they say that we just don't agree that the ukrainians should need even further aircraft out this moment what they need. as far as that concerned, as the tank and anti aircraft missiles, they feel that ukraine is have enough aircraft, as it is anyway,

the matter in which polio was suggesting that these aircraft get to ukraine by going through germany and having us being in charge of getting those them to ukraine, it was just too risky. it was true. it was to what there was georgia risk that but legally and indeed the vitamin shooting them. so they simply feel that this is a direct intervention in the war. and that is something that the u. s. is trying to avoid at all costs. not, not to this interesting back and forth of the pentagon briefing. so how come supplying stinger missiles and travel in the cells that isn't a direct intervention, but supplying omega craft isn't. it's clear there from what john kirby was saying is that has been the determination now that but legally and as far as the intelligence is concerned, this is this fall perhaps as the u. s. can go at the moment or prepared to go. they feel that this, this, this prevents any accusations of the us being directly involved in the war, and certainly the megs, the transfer and indeed the matter in which the mix,

what being proposed to transfer would be a direct intervention. all these would be seen as a direct intervention. why the polls blindsided the us? i guess that's another question she ever comes you. thank you very much indeed. was look at to where things stand in ukraine area is shaded in red or controlled by russia and allied separatists. and moscow has concentrated more forces on the outskirts of cave. in the south, russia has taken control of the area surrounding these upper region nuclear power plant. it still being operated by a team of ukrainians, or she's also taking control of her son, a port city on the black sea. and mario pole where the hospital was just struck has been under siege and its people are shorter food, water, and electricity. martin griffiths is the united nations humanitarian affairs chief joins us live from the u. n. thank you very much. indeed, for joining us on al jazeera, i wanted to ask you, 1st of all about that sir attack on the, the maternity hospital in mario, poland, and your thoughts on that one. it's deeply,

deeply shocking. and i know my colleague, kathy russell for unicef, has also said, as much publicly it's, it's shocking in all kinds of different ways. it's shocking because it's a medical facility which under international humanitarian lores is protected. it's shocking because it kills children, babies, newborns, women, and labor. and it's shocking, because perhaps it'll perhaps less shocking because this is the kind of thing that happens appallingly in a war like the one we're seeing in ukraine. and i hope we will find out in due course, who did this and hold them to account on the matter of very humanitarian assistance . how difficult is it at the member to, to, to get the aid this required into ukraine? well we've been bringing in supplies from the west, from poland and romania,

w h. i was brought in us medical supplies, the wealthy programs brought and food into the west of ukraine, and some of that is now beginning to reach kia. for example. we are w p as take the cent wheat flour in to keep by train. but what we're doing in the u . n. and our partners local and jose international and jose is beginning to deploy our staff around the whole country. indeed. well, we're doing is we're moving east towards the war of course, but towards where the needs are. ah, we will hope to move our supplies to warehouses in different hubs around the country, preparatory to serving the people in those encircled cities and separate from that in our, our efforts to try to get these corridors working on that. yes, you, you, i understand you've had directed enters in moscow talking to the russians about

this kind of access, what and what, what, what results that have been from these talks? well yes, we have people from my office as well as from the security side of the you and in moscow. and as you know, i see i see has been talking to the russian ministry defense for some days. and now we ought to at last, which is absolute standard practice in a conflict where you need to d. conflict with the assistance of the 2 parties. in this case, the 2 militaries safe passage a civilians out of those areas. safe passage of human trend supplies in and all movements of staff and measured assistance. now the con, the, that the meetings to date in moscow, they begin this last 2 days for the u. n. a been very useful. we've exchanged a lot of details about the standard operating procedures for those movements and, and, and i think that's part of the problem that there hasn't been sufficient attention

so far to the details of what is needed to agree in advance of a convoy, for example. you need to know when it's going to move precisely who is going to move. do you have the contact of the person in charge of it? do you have a hot line? in case there is movement of forces. these a standard procedures, but we are trying with the help of the russian military and certainly with the help of the ukrainian government to get that as part of the process of agreeing those car doors. and i think that i hope in the coming days will ease the suffering in those places that you have been describing. how concerned are you there that so far it hasn't been the path appearance anyway of much respectful, international humanitarian. all it's a grave concern. and my, my sector general spoken out on that and so have i, i was in the security council the other day speaking about the requirements of

international measure, which are very clear and of historic and reply in ukraine just as they do in syria or anywhere else. and our obligations on, on the parties in a conflict like that, peter madera, the president of the international red cross is we making the same you know, points to the parties. and i, and i hope that we will see improved adherence. but this is the kind of conflict which is viral it's, it's spreading so fast with so many different forces involved that it's very difficult, like that strike that you referred to earlier on that hospital in mary a poll. who did it, who's accountable for that appalling breach of international metro law? who can we talk to is the command control. so there's a lot to do. but the humanitarians globally, the u. n. i c r c,

especially the red cross volunteers over 4000 of them throughout the country are moving back in to the areas of need. and i hope that every supplies today and onwards. no, no, this is not technically your area, but you are a diplomat. so i wanted to ask you about the kind of potential for it, you know, diplomatic progress on this. and we've got the talks starting between russia and ukraine in turkey on thursday. what can that, what did you expect come out from that also show you, is anyone trying to put pressure on china, for example, to, to, to put pressure on, on russia, to try and stop, stop the war. is there any kind of an attempt to, to single out china and get them to be on board with, with the, the movement against the wall? well, i've had conversations with the, the ambassador here in new york from the people's republic of china. and his foreign minister issued a statement, as you know, was couple of days ago, ah,

putting forward 6 points of chinese action and support of humanitarian work. and i think the chinese are seeing that as the 1st step towards engaging all on resolving the conflict itself. my security general has made it clear at time and time again that he's available to go anywhere that is needed. that is useful to speak to whoever it would be prepared to talk to him about resolving the conflict. i hope those talks in turkey produce something. i think it's very important to watch exactly what is said and what, what comes out of those talks. we have had that perhaps small in terms of resolving the conflict, but enormously important for us agreement between the parties and the talks ah, between the ukrainian government and the russian federation on humanitarian. a access still in process still in progress. it shows they can agree things and i, i think, and i'm a former mediator of conflicts,

you have to make sure all the parties are talking and talking and talking and, and put some hope that that talk will lead to a breakthrough. nothing but had thank you very much in the title as an engineer. thank you. of the i. e. a says it's concerned about a sudden interruption of data from the channel and upper region nuclear plants. ukraine is called for a ceasefire to repair the damage to the noble nuclear plant, where the plant reserve diesel generators only able to provide power for 48 hours. it hasn't had any active nuclear reactors for more than 20 years, but large amount so spent, few and radioactive waste remain on the side of the wells. worse usually it is. austin. a huge sarcophagus covers react number 4, which exploded in 1986, sending clouds of radiation blowing across much of europe. but the u. n. u k watchdog says a lot of power does not have

a critical impact on safety. and that backup systems are working effectively for now. timothy missouri is the director of each novel and fukushima research initiative. he says, there's still time to vote a major crisis at the plant. well, certainly in the long term, into the extremely dangerous situation, and i'm sure everyone's working very hard store the power. luckily, the travel plant has been largely d decommissioned for more than 20 years. so the spent fuel is, has cooled down considerably. so it'll take was quite some time for the, for the pools to, to start to evaporate and to lose their cooling potential. hopefully things will be restored by then. there's also other sources of electricity coming in, besides potentially coming in, besides the one connection to the, to the grant, the national grid that, that was cut. there is actually a source coming from bell or if that was cut off today before the invasion, that could be re energized to help us. you know that the truth is where we're assuming that the large invading force brought to diesel with that could be

utilized to re energize the diesel generators on site. i'm presuming that there are some diesel stores there. at this point in time. russia has accused the us of supporting a military biological lab and ukraine evolving deadly pathogens including plague and anthrax, both keys and the pentagon have denied the allegations. but there's the, i am the group. we are confirming the facts that were unveiled during the special military operation in ukraine, which indicates an emergency clean up of military biological programs by the key regime. they were carried out by keys and financed by the united states of america . and our leven is a senior research at the quincy institute of responsible state croft. he says there may be some truth in the accusation. well that it's hard to verify both sides are engaging in war propaganda. it always happens in war about 2 atrocities by the

other side. and it's very, very difficult to tell in the circumstances what is true and what is. and i was a war correspondent myself for, for a number of years for the london times. and i, i know just how, you know, how the store is generated, and i've always treated the with great skepticism. i mean that, that said the fact that the americans have announced that they are helping the ukrainians to dismantle biological labs suggest that there is something there to be worried about. but whether it is what the russians are alleging why, really could not say to lead disuse as some of the news russians save their final meal at mcdonalds. as the american fast food giant says, shutting its doors because of the war and ukraine will take you inside the command base of new jazz army, at tops, it's next fight against iso and all kinds of sports will hear from the russian

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a storage unit 0, a children's hospital has been struck in the ukrainian city of mario poll president for them is lensky says, children, you know, under the rebels actually attack forces streams of buses and cars have been taking families out of medical keys and several other ukrainian cities about 48000 people have left through the military and current, or so far, according to ukraine's into facts news agency. despite those corridors, several explosions have been heard around the capital. and ukranian 40 said each noble nuclear plant has been knocked off the power grid, claiming the actions of russian troops who sees the facility 2 weeks ago as concern an outage could affect the plants cooling system or joined by ukrainian. m p las yes, i see lincoln. thank you very much. indeed for being with us. can you give us your

reaction festival to the, to the bombing of of the hospital? i don't know what reaction should give actually. i don't know why. i didn't think that anyone can find any any. why don't you want to describe that is just the last. i mean, what did children did and what did mother expecting was about to why, why don't you watch to scare us? no, not scaring us. was they are enraging us with this and making us fight even stronger . and perhaps you could only you for safety reasons. we're not saying where you are, but can you give us an assessment or your assessment of what the situation is now across ukraine in terms of the russian advances? well, at this point in time, we feel that the russian advances are intensifying on where they already have

a whole new grade and they are, they are not being in any further, at least we think that they are regrouping. but we hope that they are actually going on on the and what do you expect from the peace talks? we know that turkey is hosting another round of peace talks, tomorrow would love ralph and the ukranian counterpart. can you tell us what you, what, what hope you have of that to bring any kind of progress? we hired to have a car car doors for basically all of you we home side is not going to be just the several cities which we manage to negotiate already. but all of us will be able to save time. we are well aware that

in fact, exclusion on his, whoever he's just waiting to negotiate or not to be trusted when they think these days in the rule, what they say they will protect us. so they're trying to find this, want to protect the brain. mean they're finding just want to to lead cranium is there some glimmer of hope perhaps with the fact that the humanitarian car doors appear to be at the moment anyway, working we've had to this news that perhaps 48000 ukrainians have been evacuated through mentor and corridor was that was on the that ukrainian news agency just a few minutes ago is that your impression of what's happening today are you was. ringback the 1st day when we had a successful evacuation mission, i'm extremely grateful for that because before all the humanitarian cargoes will be shot had and that was done deliberately to send the creation of the brain in fear. so hopefully hopefully we will be seeing more of her cargoes and more people

getting out how difficult is it for people who are staying to get hold of the basics, like food and medicines? and so it depends on the city that you're talking about. if you was on august 15th, which was recently recently under siege, it's impossible to get food or water. people are actually drinking contaminated water from sewage system or children not for to take snow or what remains of the snow just to stay hydrated. we already had victims. you'll dehydration. the 1st one was tiny, the nature old girl whose mother was killed for days of the war. and she, she stayed alone in the basement. and eventually this child died of gratian. this is how and humane they are using the brain population. these are the less that should not be even in the mind of any other things being let alone implemented in

real life. tell us about the is the kind of equipment and humanitarian aid to you think is a priority and we was talking earlier too much english said he's saying there's some progress on trying to get that access. see what you think is that is the, the main thing you need right now, we need secure, humanitarian or endorsed all across the cities which are, which are be, are battle ground. this is the priority and those cities we need humanitarian, which would be crude as a basic and then also things to, to, to keep will because the middle of winter and hope that he's not caught up wrong, wrong tricity from heeds because of the damage of the critical infrastructure, power lines or, or heating bags. these are, these are the basic necessities that need to be coverage. medical supplies,

we are in dire need. all the 1st day pips. but that is something that must be today in every person emergency bag, but it is still not getting harder and harder to get to the basic 1st aid medicine that might be needing. also if there are efforts or humanitarian assistance being gathered in different countries than i would suggest to cater for the basic needs, hospitals of children's hospital got maternity because all the, all the hospitals haven't, haven't disappeared. they haven't gone anywhere. it's just that their patients are hiding in the basement of having to live in the basement. it's important to turn the basement into proper shelters. so whatever, whatever things such as blankets such as maps, heating devices, anything that can be placed there to make life more comfortable in the,

in the underground grain. that would be a major. how thank you very much indeed. unless you have only bustling a. thank you very much. are you printing and p, they're giving have use of what's happening on the ground and ukraine? american fast food giant mcdonalds is preparing to close. it's 850 restaurants in russia. dr. berry has been speaking to locals in moscow. rushing to grab a final meal. this is the 1st mcdonalds that opens in russia in the heart of moscow in pushkin square on january 31st, $990.00. on that day, people came from all over the country and waited in line truck to 8 hours to get their 1st taste of this american brand. now, on that date this, mcdonald's served 30000 people. now the company has decided that as a result of the ongoing russian operation is that cover me and calls it in ukraine . they can no longer continue. they have decided to close all 850 branches of the

restaurant across russia until further notice, and they will continue to pay the 62000 employees that have been working for them over the past 32 years. now. we've been asking the employees here when they will stop serving customers. they say they don't know. so we managed to get the last few hours or days of this restaurant serving customers here in moscow. and this is what they have to say will come out because they didn't pick, which is how can i not be? sorry, i'm very sorry. i came here on purpose just to have a look. i remember when i opened, i was here with my sister. everyone was standing and waiting in line with our flags on that 1st day. it was great. i have such a great memory. i don't wanted to close down honestly, we paid money for it and it belongs to a new dentist. today i wanted a taste of my childhood for the last time, but generally this is better for our kids. so we will have healthy children, a health generation. it was just,

we'd love mcdonalds since we were kids. we will remember it, but we understand the reasons we understand that there are various controversies. i hope some changes will be made, but maybe not. then it will just remain in our memory. it was tasty. thank you. the opening of this restaurant in multiple wasn't just about another restaurant opening . it was symbolic, it was about the end of an era in the relationship between then soviet union, the united states and its temporary closure is not just about another restaurant closing down in the city. it's about the relationship between this country and western businesses which has suffered tremendously over the past 2 weeks. whether or not bell re open in the near future remains to be seen. but what is clear is that this country's economic future is very much at stake. trains at russia, a filled with people leaving home with many international flights,

suspended one of the few roots out as the train to finland. thousands of russians have made the journey in the last week. and as paul reese reports from helsinki, some don't know if they'll be able to return this is journeys, and one of the few remaining roots out of russia to trains a day run from st. petersburg to the finished capital, helsinki. it's a service that has seen like 5 fold spike and bookings since the start of the war and ukraine. i'm not sure we're coming back in like one or 2 mom. afraid of seeing most of her right now with the borders. mike knows, we're afraid that the economy might not recover. manual friends, left russia, they went in georgia, they went to buy a space closures have created bottlenecks for russians. with the means to leave hundreds of cute at the border with latvia, a seat on the helsinki train, it can mean an onward flight to anywhere in the world. but tickets are hard to come

by. these trains were running that's 20 percent of capacity before the start of the war. now they're fully booked with around 500 russians arriving in finland every day. some all returning to russia to. but the numbers coming into finland, a set to rise. so now we're just in a want to add one more thread that day, starting from the next week. so at just negotiates and about that. we want to keep the thread traffic open that people can travel from russia and the force also next to russia. if they had some reason to travel on the platform, few of those we spoke to were actively emigrating some work in finland. others are seeing family while i can. oh, getting back to homes abroad. that's normally a people to go to rare with cerebral situation like somebody's dead in your house time, who's to post them ukrainian fear to go sound threatening. so for us it's a, it's

a huge threat. while that's tragedy continues. it's ukrainians who need a safe haven here and elsewhere in europe. as the number of refugees passes. 2000000 paul reese, i'll his era, helsinki. it is from different religions have come together in new york to hold a service calling for peace in ukraine. and also helping to raise money for refugees. everyone is under was there. here's the ukranian orthodox cathedral and new york city. it was a time for prayer and reflection and calling for peace. this was an inter faith mass and there were religious leaders from the jewish faith, catholic faith, greek orthodox church, as well just to name a few. and everyone had words of support and really words of prayer. the pews were filled as people listened to the words. there were times that people were hugging each other at times, even clapping in a sign of support as people were making comments,

calling for peace. they accepted donations where the money would be sent back to help ukrainian refugees help with the humanitarian situation as well. and there are even some religious leaders that said they would be going back to the region needed a poll indoor to ukraine to try to help in the coming days or weeks. the bottom line though, is that this was automatically a message of prayer and a message of peace trying to in this war and stop the suffering. ah. the other news now and south korea's main opposition candidate unit shook. you has one these countries presidential election. the conservative politician successfully defeated the ruling party candidate, lead a known lee as conceited his loss and congratulating his opponent exit polls from wednesday's vote had the pen, neck and neck with the country deeply divided over economic policies and trouble

relations with north korea. you took, you will now serve a single 5 year term in office is as army is under mounting pressure to secure its borders with molly and book in a faso, after surgeon attacks, mile kinder and i still affiliate in the sal region. army units have been working to prevent on groups from crossing into the country. out there is hash mar bar i gained exclusive access to their military base, and has this report sooner than i did. it showed me the captain, abdullah zak basha, is briefing his soldiers on their mission. there will escort civilians to bunny bongo as a town near the chairs border with molly. a delicate mission armed groups have attacked the town many times in the last few years. as the command center left and colonel seminole money and his team and allies, the latest intelligence from the region,

look around what can offer 1st. seminole shows me the 330 kilometer long border area where these like state in the greater sahara is active. the i, sil, linked, armed group is seen as the biggest security threat in the region. it's leader, up already the salary was killed in a drone strike. in august, last year, general mohammed tomba and the 2000 soldiers under his command have been in the battlefield for years. but the fight is far from over. put la difficult, deirdre agree going with the biggest challenge we're facing is that there is no maryan or berkeley narbey army on the other side of the borders so he can talk and plan attacks. within the last 5 years, the maryan army retreated from the area and were acting on our own of a jam, mama and outgunned. the army relies heavily on intelligence from foreign troops. this has become a forward bass fernandez army fighting against iceland,

al qaeda affiliates in the south region. they're backed by american and european special forces, but a few kilometers north towards the border with molly armed groups and expanding the continued to control a vast territory. now they're threatening to take the fight south towards guinea, ivory coast and synagogue for years. major marley and booking a fossil have been trying to stop arise in attacks by armed groups. here in this camp, the displaced have been waiting for security to improve in the border area, but many traumatized by the conflict are afraid to return. well, let gwinnett kimani know we're. i was looking after my sheep when fighters on motorbike stopped me. they saw a pen in my pocket and thought i was an informant. they blindfolded me and beat me . i lost my sheep and ever since i've been here in this camp for the time being the army base on alert after suffering. major setbacks in philosophy is on groups are

now for g. new alliances, finding new recruits, and hoping to establish a state of their own across west africa and the style house by butler. i lisita the town of while of in south west nija. politicians in peru launched an impeachment process against president pedro castillo. it's the 2nd formal attempt by members of the countries congress to remove, lead it, take us to you is morally unfit for office of tea. changed the cabinet for the 4th time in 7 months to see you as presidency, has been beset with scoundrels. since he took office in july, australia has declared a national emergency of large parts of the east coast were devastated by floods. at least 22 people have died because of the extreme weather. tens of thousands of being forced from their homes and flood waters of cut off entire communities. it's

the 1st time a national emergency has been declared in the country since the black summer bush was in 20192020. i minister scott morrison has linked the flooding to climate change. there was no thought of in that is occurred in this part of a stride you like this in any one's living or recorded memory. and that is a profound statement. you know, mike, those things like, but i'm advised you to one and 500 year flood. santa hannah was fought for thank very much. lar norman to have produced a stunning times. his li, come back against that poly sounds, alma. yes, you strike a, kill him back, a look to have won the tie for his team and back the scoring for p s t just before half time and madrid that put his team to up on aggregate. that after the great could in burnsy my, his a hot trick on approaching 3, i'll look to be heading into the call to final. yeah, the tie was little more than

a formality for my just a city, the premier league leaders that took a 5 no lead from the 1st leg into the game against 14. this one. it's still and they'll know that game was city on their way into the last 8. so there's really no nic candy is the latest individual to show an official interest in buying chelsea, the teams russian, the owner romano, rome of it has put the club up for sale, dead line of march. the 15th has been set for interested parties to register their offers. team are getting ready to play in norwich and the premier week on thursday to have clarity is always better than to uncertainty. but i have to say we produced performances and we produced results and, and times of global uncertainty and those in club life uncertainties that makes us proud and shows us more, maybe more important to be proud. it shows that we can trust in ourselves

or some formula, dr. any key to my opinion has hated the team who dismissed him on the eve of the new season. he's been replaced by the returning kevin musk newson, the sports governing body had given the all clear for marketing to compete as a neutral driver. but the american own has team up to, to fire him and a sponsorship deal with his father's of russian company. wise, opin says, many drivers have sent him messages of support. they supported me in, in, in feeling for me, for losing that opportunity to, to compete in the sport. it was nothing political, it was just a personal level keep your head up because we've seen many cases. ready where athletes have been broken and destroyed their lives off the decisions like that

in regards to the support from the team. i do feel like i should have had more because there. busy has been no legal reason that could enable the team, disseminate my contract on legal times. i have explained that i have been very relieved to see but f i a has allowed athletes to compete on a neutral status. and i was hoping to get on it the hope was feeling close. busy that i will be able to compete. but obviously, 5th of march at 1145, most time things really changed and i lost my dream, which i was working towards for 18 years of my life. now that brokovich buy space and at this year's indian wells tournament is in doubt, $320.00 time grand slam champion has been included in the drawer with his 1st match

set on for saturday. he has refused to be vaccinated against colbert 19, which means he'll, he'll be barred from entering the country without special approval on how good woods is set to be inducted into the world. the gulf hall of fame. and the ceremony will take place in florida and a few hours time, which has $115.00 made to titles, but is yet to set a date for his return to the pga tour before the 6 year old is still recovering from injuries he suffered in a car crash last year. you know, even when i was in high school, golf are still kinda not really considered a call sport to play or it wasn't really, you know, maybe not that many people played it. you know, especially in high school. you kind of were a dork if you play golf. no, but tiger made it actually a cause for to play west indies are aiming to maintain their home dominance over

england since 968th england that have trans the end just to serious one tour in the caribbean on day 2. on the 1st test, the west indies made steady progress. there are $200.00 to $44.00 slides to england, 1st in total of $311.00. how much and melbourne cricket ground will host a memorial service source training. next pin. a shane warne on march. the 30th won died of the suspect to the heart attack and tylenol, friday at the age of $52.00. he was born and raised in melbourne, and the ground has become a focal point for tributes to the legendary bowler. and that's it for me back to lauren in london. and i thank you very much. ukrainian ballet dancers stranded in paris have been often accommodation by city thirties and fed altis. the keys city. ballet company began its french tour one day before the war, broke out. shannon wolf report for

a standing ovation in paris for the final performance by dampers of the key of the ballet alongside just opposite the ukrainian company started a tour a front day before rushes indeed. and for the 1st 30 or so members, the opportunity to dance throughout the devastation has been a lifeline. we're exhausted. we're both physically and emotionally exhausted. everyone in valleys worried about their families about loved ones. friends, colleagues at home is been very difficult. being able to poke some work is kind of a bright point in our day when we get focus on ballet steps and focus on music and something other than the conflict. anyway. taking the say to the theatre de shall lay the dancers, performed a medley of ballet classics, including excerpts from swan leg and the nutcracker. by russia's prize composer tchaikovsky, ah,

but they were few in number than most of our artists are stuck in your grain. they expect to come to join us after the 1st performance, but the equipment unfortunately for glenda, the dancers having given accommodation by authorities in paris and fellow artists. ticket sales from this performance going to various and yos, including the red cross in support of ukrainian civilians. and despite the war raging back home, these dancers are determined their shows will go chilly, move out of here. and just a reminder, you can catch up with all of our latest on the war in ukraine and other news on our website. it just that is out 0 dot com and you can watch us live on there by clicking on the black live icon as ed from me, nor antenna for this news up. i'll be back in a couple minutes with more news. thanks for watching. i forget.

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