table a brother, i have a dream. my dream is that people lay my daughter. the young people just have a full voice and don't feel targeted because of their race or ethnicity. ah, diesel with maternity hospital destroyed in a rush, an air strike. ukrainian president declares the attack and atrocities are saying children of buried in the rubble. he wants to get no g as the west implement a no fly zone. ah,

norton taylor, this is andrew 0, live from london, also coming up. desperate to leave the shattered cities, the people have ukraine. take every route they can to safety. power is caught to the, to novel nuclear plant, raising questions over to mediate safety. on poll recent helsinki, where the finish authorities are preparing to take an asylum seekers. but it's, russian is not ukrainian, so you've been arriving here since the start of the war. hello, it's de 14 of a war and ukraine and a maternity hospital and the besieged town of mario pole has been destroyed, raised by a russian air strike. the ukrainian president of november zalinski says children a buried in the rubble cholenski shared video from inside the building label in the at an atrocity. how much longer will the world be an accomplice?

ignoring tara, he asked, urging the west to enforce a no fly zone over his country. the white house described a strike as barbaric trinna. how begins are coverage from the beasts. the presidency. lensky has called it an atrocity. the ruins of a maternity hospital in the black sea port of merrier poll. perhaps the most embattled city in the war. and this the horror at its heart. mothers and babies were in these buildings, new lives given. and then brutally taken away. another inexplicable tragedy in conditions the red cross described as apocalyptic throng. even before the latest missiles struck, it is scenes like these that people have been fleeing along temporary avenues of escape from cities like sumi in the north where

residential buildings were struck over night. and from an godaddy in the east, even from mary paul itself, 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, such 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 destroyed toddler can't bear to let go farther in the stay behind the defend

the town. oh, and from hoster mouth and mockery of where 13 people died on sunday, queuing for bread was those you those are was interested in the friends. these are very difficult times for ukraine. so our city, but it pins then it appears, holds the defenders 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 u. n's. 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. there 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 zalinski 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 and musician and music journalist, whose band echoes british prog, rock legends like maria and king crimson. i was born here and i need to protect this. so i hope all of my friends will be safe, and in the end, after the end of the war, we will meet again, have a beer, just have fun and relax daniel over the cinema process. it takes a special kind of optimism to believe those carefree days. will soon be back, jonah, how al jazeera sylvia marian paul mare condemned the attack on the maternity hospital saying it was beyond explanation. my sister, wouldn't. my heart today 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. today the russian federation, led by putin launched in the 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 doctors who had been fighting for 14 days now. so the lives of each child who suffered through the shelling and shooting by our enemies. what in ritz is the united nations humanitarian affairs chief. he told me earlier that those who carried out the attack on the hospital should be identified and held to account. it's shocking in all kinds of different ways. it's shocking because it's a medical facility, which under international who matter 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,

i hope we will find out in due course, who did this and hold them to account. russian forces are closing in on the ukrainian capital. keith. heavy fighting is taking place in the north, west and east. explosions have also been heard in the south. the only remaining gateway in and out of the capitol steadfast reports from keith looking for cover in a city virtually under seat, with a tax coming from the sky and on the ground, a population on the run. leaving the streets empty and eerie barricades made of everything large enough to stop russian troops entering the country's capital city. key. if the main price in flooding may put into war, but not every body has left deep. below the city people have settled in for the long haul, hiding from bombardments and shelly. daria. oh,

blush shave. he 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, she's very nervous about it and don't hear any sound the safest shoulder and in the darkness of the underground as someone to bring a smile to her children's faces. larissa clim cheak 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, put them on the train company is allowing people to sleep inside the carriages to

stay warm until they need to use them again. for those who are main and key, if 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 the s drive near by. 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 but the realty, where the nearby, we find a family finally reunited after nerve wracking escapes from a pin commuter down the keys, right? now one of the front lines of this water could move. could you please call me with the printer? we were leaving on foot from up in on march 8. we were leaving on foot where,

you know the school could you live? we were leaving on foot to a subway station, which is nearly 2 and a half hours and there was a lot of shelling and shooting. there was no lights, with 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 the 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, together, clinging onto 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 ever turns he joins us live from washington, d. c. now, and she had told us about the reaction we've had from the white house to the attack on the hospital invariable. well, the white house spokesman said that she'd seen the reports of the white house. it seemed the reports and then added it's horrifying to see bob, the barbaric use of military force against innocent civilians. some of the pentagon spokesperson was asked about the response about the reports and he was very measured. and what he said, he said again, the pentagon had seen the reports, not in a position to independently verify, but it was horrific whether it was intentional or not. and in the meantime, the one has responded to russian allegations of u. s. a biological weapon labs and ukraine. we can just this is with a story that's been in the for, for several years and has particularly become louder since the invasion is one of

the purported reasons for the, the russian invasion, according to those who support the invasion that the u. s. and ukraine had been developing some sort of biological lab that was, was experimenting with biological weaponry. the chinese foreign ministry has, as i'll say about this and tweeted about this one. so the u. s. needs to tell us what was going on. and this really got into high gear on, on wednesday way to on tuesday, rather when, when victoria newland, the, the chief state department, advisor to the white house on russia said at a senate foreign relations committee that, that were there all biological research facilities in your current this is exactly what you said. ukraine has biological research facilities, which had fact when are quite concerned russian troops, russian forces may be seeking to gain control of. so we're working with the ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling

into the hands of russian forces should they approach again, this is got as peak a lot of interest once again, because up until this point it was we were told that it was absurd to talk about any kind of biological research labs in ukraine. now on wednesday, the russians say they have, they found direct evidence off orders to destroy the samples of anthrax and plague and color of from the labs, which the russians allege were us ukrainian joined operation to study biological weapons. and then in the last, really the last hour or so now, because it is becoming an issue and the white house was all about this directly, and they kind of dodge the question. so now we have a string of tweets from gen saki. we took note of russia's false claims about alleged u. s. biological weapons labs, and chemical weapons development and ukraine. we've also seen chinese officials eco, these conspiracy theory. this is preposterous, is the kind of disinformation operation we've seen repeatedly from the russians over the years. and ukraine and other countries which have been debunked and an

example of the types of false pretext morning, the russians would invent several, several tweets them saying that the u. s. is in full compliance with its obligations, its legal obligations, but that it adds now that russia has made these false claims in china seemingly endorses propaganda. we should all be on the lookout for russia to possibly use chemical or biological weapons in ukraine to create a false flag operation using them. it's a clear path. so rejecting the claims will then give us no evidence. then as to what victoria knew and was talking about in congress about these biological research research laboratories where there are concerns about russia seizing whatever materials they might find. but she ever tell you. thank you the i. e, a says it's concerned about a sudden interruption of data from the channel and separation nuclear plants. ukraine is called, foresees far to repair the damage to the new turnover nuclear plant, with the reserve diesel generators that only able to provide power for 48 hours.

the plant hasn't had any active nuclear reactors for more than 20 years, but large amounts of spent, few and radioactive waste remain on the side of the world's worst nuclear disaster . a huge sarcophagus covers react and before which exploded in 1986, sending clouds of radiation bellowing across much of europe. the us nuclear watchdog says the loss of power does not have a critical impact on safety. and the backup systems are working effectively for now . timothy missouri, the director of h, annabelle, and fukushima research initiative. he says there's still time to avert a major crisis of the plant. well, certainly in the long term, it to extremely dangerous situation and, and i'm sure everyone's working very hard store the power. luckily, the turnover plant has been largely due to the commission for more than 20 years. so the spent fuel is, has cooled down considerably. so it'll take with quite some time for the, for the pools to, to start to evaporate and to lose their calling 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 was actually a source coming from bell, or if that was cut off the day before the invasion, that could be re energized to help with. you know that, that, that the truth is where we're assuming that the large invading force brought to diesel with it. but 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. still to come on, i just 0 russians saver, their final meal that mcdonald says the to fast food draw. it says it's shutting its doors because of the worn ukraine. and after going down to the watt, south korea announces a new president. ah

hallo there please say we have got sizes some dry weather coming into that east side of australia over the next couple of days for the here and now we're on the verge of the government issuing the state of emergency regarding the flooding that we have into southeast and parts of queensland. both east and part of new south. well, thanks a little peppering a showers as we go through. we're thursday. elsewhere. not too bad. further. south lousy, dr. fine melbourne at 21 celsius. pleasant sunshine. warm sunshine. in fact, over toward the southwest corner, perth, at around 37 degrees, might just catch your shower a little further north for a time. but the real showers that we are concerned with they do linger around at east inside of us as we go on. 3 fridays, you can see, we will see further shares anywhere from around byron by pushing out through the gulf coast sunshine coast. heavier ones tend to just push little further north, which as we go through saturday. so there we go, sizes and dry, bright weather,

grassy coming in behind. at long last me. well not too bad from daisy. let's do some walk around and walk on. 26 hours. just gorgeous weather. they're just around the bay of plenty. better weather coming into japan. over the next day or 2 here it is lossy dry and settle some pleasant spring sunshine. 15 celsius for turkey, which also wanted to showers here on friday. elsewhere is lottie settled. aah! with some of the world largest reserves. najia provides much of the uranium that fuels your it's nuclear power plant. but it won't cost people empower, follows the uranium trail from the 0 to the source of the mediterranean and investigates the devastating effects on the planets and all those healing habit. the industries ha,

the case if you am on al jazeera lou . ah, top stories are 0. a children's hospital has been struck in the ukrainian city of mario po for president or a little. miss lensky says children are under the rubble of the attack 5 or should 4. c streams of buses and calls have been taking families out of mario po, keith and several other ukrainian cities. despite the declaration of humanitarian corridors, several explosions have been heard around the capitol, ukrainian, or 40 say the turnover nuclear plant has been knocked off the power grid. blaming the actions of russian troops, you see the facility 2 weeks ago was concerned,

the outage could affect the plants cooling systems. american fast food joint mcdonalds is preparing to close its $850.00 restaurants in russia. dose jibari 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 and pushkin square on january 31st, $990.00 on that day. people came from all over the country and waited in line for up to 8 hours to get their 1st taste of this american brand. now, on that date, this mcdonald served 30000 people. now the company has decided that as a result of the ongoing russian operation is the cover me and calls it in ukraine, they can no longer continue. they have decided to close all 850 branches of their restaurant across russia until further notice, and they will continue to pay the 62000 employees that i've been working for them

over the past 33 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. who cannot do? 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 and it belongs to a crash. often again. 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 was just, we've loved 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 moscow. it wasn't just about another restaurant opening. it was symbolic, it was about the end of an era in the relationship between then. so and 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 out to russia filled with people, leaving home many international flight suspended. one of the few roots out is the trying to finland. thousands of russians have made the journey in the last week and is pull race 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 finish capital helsinki. it's a service that has seen a 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. are afraid of seeing most of her right now . i have one rephrase that the borders my clothes were afraid by the economy and might not recover. manual french lessons, russia, the ones 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 lot fear 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 up to 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. though. now where justin i want to add one more thread that day, starting from the next week. so adds us negotiates and about that. we want to keep the thread traffic open that people can travel are from russia, and of course, also back 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 or getting back to homes abroad. this for people to go to rare with several more situations. it's like somebody is there in your house time to post them ukrainian here to go south rosalyn. 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 poll reese al jazeera helsinki.

ah. tell the news now south korea's main opposition candidate unit, shook yo as one his country's presidential election. a conservative politician successfully defeated the ruling party, candidate jameel, and he has conceded his loss and congratulating one opponent exit polls. wednesday's vote had the pen, makin neg, with a country deeply divided over economic policies and trouble relations with north korea. units, you will now serve a single 5 year term in office. ride joyce's life from the south korean capital. so how much was surprised mostly than rob this has been neck and neck throughout ever since they began the campaigning. and indeed, when the polling stations closed, wednesday evening,

the exit polls put the 2 candidates still within one percentage point of each other . and thus started a sleepless night for many people here in south korea as they followed this back and forth as the results with highly on their devices and their screens going back and forth between the 2 candidates. but by early thursday morning, it did appear that sick y'all had pushed it across the line just with a concession speech from his liberal opponent. but it has been a bruising encounter. this campaign has been noted for its mud, slinging its negative campaigning from both camps. but it does seem as though the liberal li, j mung, was hampered by the record of this liberal administration. a lot of dissatisfaction here about domestic bread and butter issues such as the economy, wealth inequality, the cost of housing for young people and so on. and the conservatives have benefited. and so when the current president, the liberal mon jane finishes his term in bay, we will see

a change in the presidential blue house, the end of a liberal administration, and the start of a conservative one. and what do we know about the union? what kind of differences will make in the south korean politics? a he is an extremely interesting carrier to you and he is a former prosecutor general. he was best known before. this for being the main prosecutor park in have the form, a conservative president who's, who's a presidency ended in a massive corruption scandal. she was impeached force from office 5 years ago. he's unashamedly populist, he is inexperienced, has no experience of national politics. but he says that is all to the good because he has a new face. it is time for a change vote for me. and it does seem as though he has one on an awful lot of popular support. he has seen a socially is very conservative, something of a reactionary many people here would say. it's when it comes to things like gender equality, he's called for the closure of the gender equality ministry here,

so that he's a very controversial character when it comes to international politics. possibly more can prophecy on the horizon because he's very hawkish when it comes to north korea. he says that the current administration, with all of it's considered 3 gestures to the north, just hasn't worked. he wants to take a much tougher stand with the north is even cold and full possibility, possibly preemptive strikes. if it was suspected that north korea was about to launch missiles at the south. so we can expect to see in the coming years, a new episode in the often troubled into korean relations. robert bride. thank you very much indeed. and talked to the explorer and his shackleton's last ship has been found more than a 100 years after it sank. the wreck of the endurance has been discovered 3 kilometers below the surface of the weddell sea off antarctic, or it was found by a team left by the fulton's maritime heritage trust using underwater search drones

. the wooden ship was crushed in pack ice in 1915 with shackleton, and his crew later escaping to south georgia island. and because the antarctic doesn't have any wood eating microorganisms and wreckage was entirely preserved. ah, reminder, the top stories are now to 0. a maternity hospital in the besieged town of marrow pole has been destroyed by a russian air strike. ah. the hernia president vladimir zalinski says children are buried in the rubble rescue shad video from inside the building. labeling the act and atrocity and urging the west.