i was still rolling, lisa, making it very difficult for people to try and protest. the russian army has positioned itself in the next town. stay with al jazeera, for the latest developments. ah, a the russian and strike destroys a maternity hospital in the besieged, ukrainian city of mario po, provoking global outrage. ah, darn jordan, you're watching out the coverage of the ukraine war. both sides are accusing each other of threatening, fragile car doors, which have been set up to get to the world. nuclear watchdog talks down immediate dangers off. the power is cut off from the entombed reactor. also add us president

joe biden takes a step towards regulating crypto currency. the russian air strike has destroyed a maternity hospital in the besieged, ukrainian city of mario pole. no deaths have been reported yet, but survivors are feared buried under the rubble. the attack a spot uproar is a 2 countries pay for their highest level talks. since the invasion began 2 weeks ago, russia says ukraine was using the hospital to set up firing positions. new bark begins our coverage. the close to block echoes across the city of mary awful. but this isn't a military target. it's a maternity ward and children's hospital one

of the other victim heavily pregnant women with serious injuries stretching through a shattered building with the elderly. c the young lady to the this is the indifference of war. the, an explosion so powerful the crater will be to sleep. so hoarding you. well, this is given when it gets to day rush invaders committed a grave crime, said this official women and children were wounded. somebody is a war crime without any justification. he said. after days without supplies, heating or electricity ukrainians will or the calling very often the nearest thing

to hell on earth. now look at it. what are the they are? the defining image is a flat image hooton's war, and there's a new urgency to the ukranian leadership desperate plea. for more help. the focus, i'll just say we're a satellite image company maxwell has released before and after pictures of mario pole, they show extensive damage to homes, apartment buildings, grocery stores, and shopping centers. the imagery was taken before the attack on the hospitals with you in chief antonio, but that is among leaders condemning the strike tweeting today's attack on a hospital in mario poll ukraine. when maternity and children's was allocated is horrific. civilians are paying the highest price for a war that has nothing to do with them. the senseless violence must stop and the bloodshed. now. when you cranes, president says the attack is further proof that in no flies there must be imposed by nato or hasty mobile ball. in ellicott new russian bombs landed on

a children's and maternity hospital. the building is destroyed. actually, we're still going through the rubble. what sort of threat did i posed to the russian federation? what's happening in ukraine is a genocide. people of europe, you can see what's happening with you. you must put pressure on russia. so they stop this one, stress city, and the war one, nato is refusing to budge on a no fly zone faring, direct confrontation with russia will lead to a much bigger wall. 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 abort, reckless and pulling. and the u. k is at the forefront of supplying humanitarian aid into ukraine. will up to 14 days of war, russian forces make gains in the air as shown on the map. in red se fruits agreed for the evacuation of civilians are only partially successful. residents of dire

are evacuating says up or is yet people in money. a poll, we're also expected to go there, but so far, evacuation attempts failed elsewhere. an escape route has been established between above not and grubs, but in the car, key region residents from him are expected to go to las over and evacuation efforts have continued from su me to paul tava, colorado some towns around keith have also been agreed. people are trying to get into a capital as russian forces clothes in general report some live in western ukraine . the 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 respite, 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 eligible approach. we have operated on 4 children inside the one little girl who 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 her pin can't bear to let go. father. stay behind the descend, the towns oh and from hoster mouth and my courage. where 13 people died on sunday, queuing for bread was lose in. those are,

was just the, in the friends. these are a very difficult times for your brain. so i was on, but if you then see it, a pin 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 key symphony orchestra play, the concept of 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. yeah, i was of the john vince nearby ball and getting ready to counter it. of these trainee 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 are 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 need to protect this. so i hope all of my friends will be safe. and in the end,

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 hol, al jazeera sylvia. the pentagon has rejected a surprise offer from nato member poland to provide fighter jets to ukraine. it sees it as a high risk to venture. the intelligence community has assess transfer. mig $29.00 to ukraine may be mistaken as escal atory and could result in significant russian reaction that might increase the prospects of a military escalation would nato. therefore, we also assess the transfer of the may 29th ukraine to be high risk. sure, have time to join us live now from washington d. c. shop. so the pentagon says it would oppose any nato plan to provide fighter jets to ukraine. what more could you tell us to interesting, what is it?

because this blindsided depends again on the u. s. when the polar subs on tuesday that they were prepared to hand over those megs to the us, fly them to a u. s. a base in germany for the us take responsibility off them and then transfer them to ukraine. and i think it's that methods, but poland was suggesting out of the blue, apparently, to, to, to the u. s. which has got the us so concerned because if you think about it, what does that mean? that means and potentially these megs would fly from ramstein base and germany us at a base in germany and other nature i remember. and they would fly by pops about ukrainian pilots, perhaps into a theatre of conflict contested as space over ukraine and pops immediately, get into a firefight with russian jets. what. what does that make? rubbish? i database that makes it a staging ground for the conflict for, for the, for the ukrainian tackled on russian on russian, russian jets. that means it's

a direct participant in the one thing we keep hearing. the one thing you've already mention of the u. s. as it doesn't want to be a direct participant, nature says it doesn't want to be a direct participant in a shooting with russia that could and, and, and nuclear annihilation and mutually assured destruction. i mean, the question is, i suppose, why did poland just spring this on the us when over the weekend last in the blink and others were saying that isn't something we can think about. this isn't what they were thinking about making some interesting conversations when the vice president, kamala harris, has meetings with, punish a part of the leaders in the company. and she just landed and president like, yes, you have in the white house, says the us should be on the lookout for russia to possibly use chemical or biological weapons in ukraine. what's behind this morning? then this takes a lot of context here because for some time, russia, i'm trying to write others, i've expressed some disquiet about the network of the bar trees, of the department of defense, the u. s. department of defense funds around the world. they're d says it's simply about global surveillance of potential pathogens. it's part of

the, the biological threat reduction program. but then the china and russia, the others of culture said, well, why do you need so many of these are missing some items. why is there absolutely no transparency about what goes on, and in fact, in these labs and what will be pretext? russia is as increasingly been using for the invasion and saying we have this lab which the dia, dan deity and the ukrainians are running together. and they are experimenting and biological warfare. the u. s. denies that just says it's all about all about surveillance, but then china, again, this week is a foreign ministry said, what about, sorry, that give us b, accounting, show us what's going on there. these are very serious allegations and but again got some new life because victoria newland, the state department main advisor on russia for the white house 7 congressional testimony on tuesday. ukraine has biological research facilities which in fact we are now quite concerned russian troops. russian forces may be seeking to gain control off, so we're working with the equations and how they can prevent any of those research

materials for falling into the hands of russian forces should they approach. and then we have the russians announce on wednesday, but they have now got evidence of communications with ukraine. official say they need to get rid of samples of anthrax of plague of cholera as quickly as possible before the russians come. and they say that's more evidence them, that these are biological weapons labs, as the white house in the day. i've been asked about this throughout the day. we didn't really get much from the just the usual. it's just absurd. it's just been finally last year we got the string of tweets from john fact even the white us, we took note of rushes false claims about and let us biological weapons labs and chemical weapons to relevant in ukraine. we've also seen chinese officials eco, these conspiracy theories. this is preposterous if the kinds of disinformation operation we've seen repeatedly from the russians over the years and ukraine and other countries which have been debunked. as examples of false pretext, we've been warning the russians would invent them guys all to say the u. s. and

folk implants where the chemical weapons convention, biological weapons convention, and then goes on to make this, this remark. now that russia has made these false claims, and china has seemingly endorse this propaganda, we should all be on the lookout for russia to possibly use chemical or biological weapons in ukraine or to create a false flag operation using them. it's a clear path and still addressing what try was asking for which is getting show us what these liberties were doing. so it's kind of the usual thing where we're just about rel, where you just accept whatever you feel is more credible. i guess in the was as was tend to be all right, as you have a chance to live or stay in washington dc should have thank you more coverage on the war shortly on coal recent health. think he why they finish all 4 of these are preparing, taken asylum seekers, but it's russians not ukrainians. they've been arriving here since the start the war. ah,

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must have agents 88 on al jazeera. oh ah, welcome back to promote of the top stories here this our russian air strike has destroyed a maternity hospital in the besieged, ukrainian city of mario po, leaving several injured president. vladimir zalinski described it as an atrocity and reared reiterated a coal for no fly zone. over you crate humanitarian corridor was set up around ukraine to get civilians away from fighting hot. i've had limited success, both sides are accusing each other of breaching the corridor agreements, streams of buses and cause. i've been carrying families out of key whenever we spoke to martin griffin, the united nations human, a chairman of fans, chief,

he said, the hospital attack cannot go unpunished. it's shocking in all kinds of different ways. it's shocking because it's a medical facility, which under international matter and lores is protected. it's shocking because it kills children, babies, newborn's women in 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 where the crane of called for the fire to reconnect beach and build nuclear power plant to electricity officials. a diesel generator can only provide a back up to 48 hours. the plant hasn't had any active reactors for more than 20 years. but large amounts of radioactive waste remain react to 4, blew up in 1986, creating the world's worst atomic disaster. the defunct site is sealed under

a giant structure and the you nuclear watchdog says it doesn't see any immediate danger from the power outage ukrainians. living in lebanon's capital, a protest about the front of the russian embassy demonstrators in beirut, waived the cranium flags and sang the national anthem rush, cause its actions in ukraine, a special operation and has the backing of lebanon's neighbour, syria, a storage ally of moscow in damascus. university students rallied in support of russia and president putin who they say stood by syria during years of conflict. now in the middle of the financial uncertainty, many russians are trying to escape that country, but ation sanctions have left them with very few options. but flights to europe suspended, one of the new routes available is a train ride to finland, and a poor rece reports from helsinki. some people don't know if they'll ever return home. this is journey's end. 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 in brookings since the start of the war and ukraine. i'm not sure we are coming back in like one or 2 months where afraid of afraid that the board us might. we afraid that economy might not recover. menu left russia, they went to georgia and they went to new by s base closures have created bottlenecks for russians with the means to leave hundreds of cute at the border with lot via 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 at 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 are returning to russia to but the numbers coming into finland, a set to rise. so now where i just want to add one more day from the next week.

so we're just negotiate and about that i want to keep the traffic open that people can travel from russia and of course, also next to russia. and if they have some reason to travel on the platform, few of those we spoke to were actively emigrating. some work in finland. others are seeing family wall. i can are getting back to homes abroad. that's the only way for people to go to relative cerebral situations. it's like somebody in your house time, 50 percent, ukrainian, 50 percent rational. so for us, it's a, it's a huge stretch. while that's tragedy continues. it's ukrainians who need a safe haven here and elsewhere in europe. as a number of refugees passes to 1000000 poll reese argues era, helsinki ah,

the for some other world news, now gunman killed 19 security personnel in an attack in the northwest nigeria and state of cabbie. it happened late on tuesday and the village of kenya, the attack came a day after at least 57 members of a self defense group are killed by circle bandits in the same area. the conservative candidate unit, so kill has one south korea's election by a type margin unit from the people party, one about 48 and a half percent of the vote, barely appoint ahead of the governing parties. candidate, you take 7 from current liberal president, moon j in south korea has single non renewable presidential term of 5 years. now the us president has signed an executive order that could restate the dollar. as we know it, president biden has told federal agencies to examine the risks and rewards posed by crypt currencies and consider creating a digital us dollar. the goal is to support innovation and digital assets and clamped down on elicit finance. the value of bit going jump 9 percent after the

order was sun. let's bring in henry allen. she's a professor of law at the american university, washington college of law. she joins us live via zoom from new york history. so how significant then is this executive order on crypt signed by biden? and why is it ministration doing this now? do you think? i think the, the crypto industry is growing to the point where the multi faceted risks posed by crypto. i have gotten to the point where the government can't ignore the fact that we need a whole government approach to dealing with crypto. yeah, and the administration is also looking at whether or not the fed could create its own digital currency. so what would a new us digital dollar look like, hillary, and what could that mean for existing crypto currencies? well, it's a difficult question to answer because there's a lot of design choices that have to be made when adopting any petro bank, digital currency. and so we really don't have any idea of what the specific

features of a us cbc would look like. i think if it were launched, it would potentially compete with a certain type of crypto asset known as a stable coin. and i know that the industry has advocated that the federal reserve move away from adopting a central bank digital currency and let the let the table coins provided by the private sector of fulfill that role. yeah, and this comes against the backdrop. does not have an explosion of crypto counts to use around the world. how much concern is that the fed could be looking at bringing regulation by step, because biden has already talked about how crypto could affect financial stability and national security. that's right. crypto poses a lot of different wrist is very multifaceted, their environmental risks, national security risks, and i think financial stability, the risks are very strong. i think, to the extent that the executive order is multifaceted, in that sense, that's a strength. but i do worry that the executive order is premised on the assumption

that crypto has benefits that make these risks worthwhile, without interrogating whether the crypto actually is delivering financial services that people need. and on the timing of this and significant because russia invasion, if a crane is also a factor, hey, i mean, us know, make us already voicing concern that russia may be using crypto to avoid the impact of western sanctions. so how could the u. s. limit crypto currency use functions of asian. do you think that's a difficult question. i mean, i think one of the stories about crypto is that it's unregulated and that's not actually the case. there's crypto is not the centralized as people often think it is there actually a lot of intermediaries rating ranging from wallets to exchanges there. you know, there are core developers developing steps. so there definitely are people that could be targeted with regulation. so there are options available to the government

and hopefully this executive order is the 1st step in exploring what those options are en route and wanting to get your thoughts. thank you for talking to us. thank you. thank you. conservationists and indian administered kashmir are working to keep critically in danger. dear alive, during winter heavy snow fall in the himalayas has made it difficult for the animals to find food and many a traveling to lower ground, but that exposes them to poaching. this is the parent reports, kashmir. dear ron, the snowy slopes of the that gum national park on the outskirts of street. i go in search of food. there are only $260.00 of the animals left in the world, locally known as hunger. the males stag, for characterized by the impressive antlers, hunger travel to lower ground in search of food in the winter, given their lower numbers. conservationists say they are taking any chances, wildlife work as scatter vegetables for the animals. although there are some uninvited guests at the feast,

these spots basically which are being was lifted by the animal on the regular basis . so then that actually these spots are being already. i didn't fight in advance and every time there's a heavy snow fall, the feel stop, just go and do and show that. at the right places the supplement defeat is being scattered on the ground. they will up to 5000 hungry oil in india, administers cush made in the 1990 s that that number had fallen to less than 200 by 2015 followed brought us to mcdonald's. when the old days, the angles used to roam in the area in orchards, everywhere. but over the years i've witnessed a sharp decline in their numbers. maybe because of poaching or other reasons. now we had to go out which was conservationists, blame, poaching, and habitat. last for the decline, teams of wildlife volunteers patrol for poachers. when the hungary come down from the mountains because this is the real time during which we can maybe during the poaching, there is a john supporting in the,

in an around the doctor on national park. so our team, the petro, around, the doctor got national park in these conservation areas in these tough times. but experts say the big challenge now is the loss of habitat. nobody who had been called about a 100. the landscape has changed, industries have come up. probably. people are living near the bottom of the box. they're also lose increasing grounds as no matter codes migrate here for just for the gallon. while the small increase in hungary numbers over the past 7 years as being celebrated conservation as say, the real measure of success will be if they can, once again survive in the wild. and without help. elizabeth per item al jazeera australia has declared a national emergency due to unprecedented flooding on the east coast. the 1st time the measures been implemented since the bush by a crisis back in 2019, at least 22 people have died in the states of queensland and new south wales. tens of thousands have been forced to evacuate. there was no father been that has

occurred in this part of the strider 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, it's a 1500 year flood. now the russian space chief recently made a job at the us space program saying a band on russian exports of rocket engines would force us to rely on brooms to get to space. that comment was then turned into a joke during a space x launch on wednesday time to let the american broomstick fly and hear the sounds afraid m l d is go for launch. well i just heard during the count down the controller called the rocket. the american broomstick launch with success if the basics falcon 9 is carrying $48.00 falling satellites with bottom assistance to bring internet access to understand areas around the world meet along ukrainian flag has been unfilled in washington dc, across the street from russia embassy. the symbolic gesture was draped along the

side of a hotel in the us capitol. within clear view of moscow diplomats ukrainians and other community members stood in the rain to watch the flags i'm feeling well when i say it's a powerful statement in the face of an aggressor. a tough, a quick check of the headlines here and i'll just say are russian strike has destroyed in maternity hospital in the seas. ukrainian city of mario paul leaving several injured president of me as the landscape described it as an atrocity and rear reiterated a call for a no fly zone of a ukraine or hickey mobil ball. in the car, new russian bombs landed on a children's and maternity hospital. you the building is destroyed. actually, we're still going through the rubble. what sort of threat did i posed to the russian federation? what's happening in ukraine is a genocide. people of europe, you can see what's happening again, you must put pressure on russia so they stop.