control through over a decade of war, we examine the global power games of president bush on either side. we believe aside the simply carrying out iranian orders. what keeps you awake at night when the reason that could effect any human side master of chaos on al jazeera? ah, the russian has tried to destroy the maternity hospital in the besieged, ukrainian city of mario, paul, of it's provoked lobel outrage. ah, i don't want him. i'll santa maria, continuing coverage on al jazeera of the ukraine war, where both sides are accusing each other of threatening,

fragile humanitarian corridors, which been set up to get civilians to safety. russia meanwhile, claims the us is supporting bio weapons labs in ukraine, washington ones that deploy by moscow for a chemical attack of their own and having shut off oil imports from russia. we'll look at how the united states is now reaching out to venezuela. the hell over a russian, a strike has destroyed a maternity hospital in the besieged, ukrainian city of mario, paul. no deaths have been officially reported, but survivors are feared buried under the rubble an attack which has sparked uproar as the 2 countries prepare for the highest level talk since the invasion began. 2 weeks ago. russia is saying ukraine was using that hospital to set up its own firing positions. we'll start with the supports from the baka, the

colossal block echoes across the city of mary awful. but this isn't a military target. it's a maternity ward and children's hospital i guess one of the other victim heavily pregnant women, he was with serious injuries stretching through a shattered building. the elderly the young the, the mom. this is the indifference of war. the, an explosion so powerful the crater. several me to sleep. so hoarding you. well, i says give a hug when it gets school today, russian invaders committed

a grave crime, said this official, women and children were wounded. somebody with a war crime without any justification. he said, after days without supplies, heating or electricity ukrainians will or the calling mary often the nearest thing to hello nor now look at it. what are they all the defining images of flattery may putin's war and there's a new urgency to the ukrainian leadership, desperate plea for more help. the bulk of, i'll just say we're, let's have a mountain griffiths now. united nations humanitarian, achieve humanitarian affairs. chief who we spoke to earlier and he said this 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 ensures is protected. it's shocking because it kills children, babies, newborns, 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. let's take you around your cry now on the map, at least to show you up to 14 days of war where russian forces have made their gains at those red areas. around the periphery say fruits agreed for the evacuation of civilians. they have only been partially successful, got residence of a honda are evacuating to japanese people and mario paul were also expected to go there. but so far those attempts have failed. then you've got the escape route established between these 2 areas vulnerable and poker us post. i'm sorry, one of the khaki region residents from is you are expected to go through 2 lives over the west. and so we had little further north evacuation if it's continued from

sumi to paula tarver as well. then you look at keith itself, ricardo's from towns around the capital have been agreed in all your current president says 35000 people reevaluated from cities on wednesday. let's not forget to 1000000 people have already left joe hall with this report. now he's in the, even the west, 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 sue me in the north, where residential buildings were struck overnight. 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. well, it's because you love 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. nathan shall bulletproof. 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 can't bear to let go. father. stay behind the defend the town. oh. and from hoster mouth and my courage, where 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 was on, but if into then the aeroplane 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 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 alum 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 lensky described it, of maximum strength of the job,

nearby ball, and getting ready to counter it. 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 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 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 there and after the aunt of the war, we will meet again. have a beer, just have fun and relax. daniel over the cinema process takes

a special kind of optimism to believe those carefree days will soon be back. jonah, how al jazeera sylvia. now the united states is dismiss russian allegations that is operating bio warfare labs inside ukraine. this is a series of tweets from the white house press. secretary gen sanky described the claims as preposterous. she suggested russia is, in fact laying the groundwork for false flag operation so it can potentially use that weapons against ukraine. saki also accused china of endorsing what she labeled russian propaganda shepherd tansy with more from washington. one of the prefects, flattery approved and has used for the invasion of ukraine, is the allegation that the u. s. and ukraine have a network of the bar trees on the country working on biological warfare. the u. s. has long said, this isn't true that it has a network funded by the department of defense of biological threat reduction programs. that is looking for surveillance for preventing contagion spreading

around the world. now russia says it has found the evidence, it was looking for to prove the existence of bio wolf labs. these tweets are refutation of that. but as you can tell from the tweets, china is also asking for on says it has not also been concerned about the network of labs. the u. s. is set up. it's often also why there's so many and why is there no transparency or trying to, to say, all right, then prove that these are simply about pandemic surveillance, for example, and not for creating pathogens. we look forward now and on this thursday, the ukraine and foreign russian foreign ministers planned to meet in turkey. if it goes ahead is a little highest level talk since the will began when you to be honest, i'm reserved with my optimism. i do not have high expectations, but of course we will be pressing for the maximum. i will demand a ceasefire to liberate our territories and of course, to resolve the humanitarian issues or other catastrophes created by the russian

military. owing to the actions of the ukrainian armed forces, as well as the coordinated actions with partners regarding sanctions, i am going to these negotiations in a strong position. nato though, continues to stand firm in its decision not to fully intervene either in your current skies or the battlefields. as rosalyn. jordan reports the u. s. and the u. k. a talking up the impact of the sanctions they've imposed on russia. a show of support for ukrainian resistance from the us state department. it's impossible to see the images of people seeking refuge and keys metro in 2022 and not think of those who sheltered in the london underground. $942.00 and a vote of confidence in the west respond to russia's invasion tech. we have surprise peterson with all unity and the toughness of all sanctions. those sanction including us and u. k. oil import, bam,

cutting russian banks off from international transactions. and the freezing of assets belonging to officials, including president louder, mere potent have rocked the russian economy. the kremlin is crying foul with which unconditionally the united states to canada can on the chord and russia that's waging this or western officials are unapologetic. they call their economic strategy an extremely effective way of holding moscow accountable for attacking ukrainian civilian economically. the measures that we've taken have a race 30 years of progress integrating russia into the world. so i think what we're looking at is whether or not president putin will decide to try to finally cut the losses that he's inflicted on himself and inflicted on the russian people. we are very clear that our objective is a peach and to fail in ukraine. this unwarranted act of aggression must

not succeed, and there will be terrible consequences if it did succeed for european and global security. even though the u. s. and the u. k. agree that vladimir putin will not succeed in conquering ukraine. there wasn't any offering from either the foreign minister or the secretary of state on what exactly the end of the war will look like or whether any relationship with moscow can continue. if he remains in power. rosalyn jordan al jazeera at the state department. the rest of the days news is coming up as us president joe biden takes a step towards regulating crypto currency and the conservative unit secure when in no, sorry, health korea, very tight presidential election with a margin of just one i

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this to him on now to sierra me the me without you here and these are our top story. the russian air strike is destroyed in maternity hospital in the besieged, ukrainian city of medical. no debts officially reported, but survivors are buried under that rebel. russia says ukraine was using the hospital to set up firing position grants. presidents has 35000 people reevaluated from cities on wednesday. humanitarian cargo set up around the country had had limited success with both sides, accusing each other or reaching the cargo agreement. in the u. s. is dismissing russian allegations that it's operating bio bio warfare labs inside ukraine. this

is a series of tweets in white house press secretary gen saki, describing the claims as preposterous. more on the bombardment of cities and towns around keith now from algebra or arabic. here as the oma hod, she's in the city of fossil give for general, been had to be the last the mad or near creve vessel keyvi, south of chief. now we are here in the cities flying school. it was recently targeted by what has been described as ballistic missiles, and then they also hit the civil aviation college and many houses in the area. 3 of the school students were killed and dozens were wounded. this school was recently emptied of all its students, except a few of them who stayed behind to guard the school. the city of the vessel chief also has an important military airport, as well as one of the biggest air defense spaces in the country. there are massive

tanks for liquid fuel and gas from refineries located in the center of the country . the city is a top target for russian forces that could explain why russian forces have recently bombarded the city and why they are planning along with reinforcements from better research, to put the city on to see in order to tighten the siege on the capital, keep from all 4 sides, especially the northeast in sideway fear, battles have been taking place and the western side. now it's a vessel keeps turner. many of those who haven't fled, keep itself and hiding beneath its streets in subway stations, and tunnels. but even there, there is no guarantee of safety. step boston reports the looking for cover in a city virtually under seat 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 country's capital city. key if the main prize in flood him put into war. but not everybody has left the below the city people have settled in for the long haul. hiding from bombardments and shelly, diarrhea, or blush, if he has been sleeping in the subway with her 2 young son since the war started. her husband is fighting on the front line. our house such as offline, some ratio, the song, she's very nervous about it and or she don't she 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 yard yard, lucia, 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. 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 and be inspired. be energetic. jump 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 rushing 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 so up to mystic. 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 real to where the nearby we find a family finally reunited after nerve wracking escape from your pin, a commuter down. your key right now, one of the front lines of this was cut off. could you please call me with that opinion? we were leaving on foot from up in on march 8. we were leaving on foot. when you go to school. could you live? we were leaving on foot to a subway station, which is nearly 2 and a half hours and walking. there was a lot of shelling and shooting. there was no lights, no gas, no water enough, and despite their fear, the family wants to stay together. they have to take care of the 99 year old grandmother. she is too frail to move. i really trust the ukranian 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. 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 they are to gather clinging on to hope. the barricaded capitol will be able to hold off a full scale russian attack that could come at any time. stop fasten al jazeera kiff. now venezuela's government released to us prisoners, washington said had been held like hostages. perhaps a small, but potentially important step of the u. s. government looks to fill a void of russian oil. this from our latin america added to the scene human who stutter got enough. second from the left is one of 6 executives of cit, go the u. s. based affiliate of venezuela state on oil company sentence 2 between 9 and 15 years in prison in caracas, his release and that of cuban american horse albert fernandez, accused of terrorism for flying a drone in venezuela. the 1st tangible results of

a secret meeting last weekend between venezuela, president nichol, asthma doodle, and 3 white house on boys. the us applause, the men release and hopes another southern american prisoners will soon follow. but it concedes the meeting had another key objective. and it's also true that we have an interest globally in maintaining a steady, steady supply of energy, including through our diplomatic effort. so all of these things come to bear when it comes to to venezuela. finish. layla has the world's largest oil reserves, but its industry and its economy had been crippled by horseshoe, a sanctions aimed at forcing our president, my rudo, whom washington labels a dictator. my buddha is also russian president vladimir putin staunchest regional allied. he thought y'all didn't feel yet, he told top military and political leaders that talks with the u. s. would continue

adding the spoken to fellow opec members are increasing been as well in oil production that would require the us to ease or eliminate oil sanctions. de la, hanging with the southern medical petro later, we have always lead initiative to stabilize the market, the gas market, and the energy market. once we have recovered moderately, we are prepared to produce up to 3000000 barrels for the stability of the world for peace. 5 or thank you for the last 3 years, washington has recognized opposition leader one why law as been his wayllace transition president. but the ukraine crisis and the sky rocketing price of fuel seemed to be setting the stage for a more preg magic approach to us venezuela. relations turner came, but if you remember, there's an extraordinary correlation between major oil producing countries and autocratic rules. the u. s. doesn't want to buy russian or running or venezuela oil . the saudis don't answer the phone. so if you button, you don't have the luxury right now to choose who you buy from the capital prices

down. you have to pick the lesser evil one. that doesn't mean that washington is close to recognizing mabood up. one thing is business and another politics. there is, after all, along history of commercial ties between countries that don't have diplomatic relations to see and human al jazeera, the russian space chief recent, he made a jump at the us space program saying a ban on russian exports of rocket engines would force the us to rely on brooms to get to space flying on the mike if 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 of freedom. l d is go for launch to go during the count down the controller called the rocket and list the american burn thick. the launch was a success space $6009.00 carrying $48.00, stalling satellite,

and part of the system to bring internet access to underserved parts of the world are running through some other world news. now government have killed 19 security personnel in an attack in the north with nigerian state of care be. it was late on tuesday in the village of canyon, an attack which was just a day after at least $57.00 members of a self defense group with kills by so called bandits in the same area. conservative candidates unit. so y'all has one south korea's election and tight right units in the people power, part one, about $48.00 and a half percent of the votes, which is belly, appoint ahead of the governing party. candidate unit will take over from the current liberal president moon j in south korea has singled non renewable presidential terms of 5 years from sol. here is roughly bright with more on the president elect. he is an interesting character. he sorta presents himself as something of a populist, he is a former prosecutor general. he came to 1st came to prominence as the lead

prosecutor in the prosecution of pocky. and hey, she was the disgraced former president who was asked from office 5 years ago and made a corruption scandal. she was impeached and imprisoned. but you has absolutely no political experience. he has never held political office, but he seems to present himself as a face of change. he is going to shake things up, bringing the pill that sort of people, and needed to bring about real change. here he is viewed with a lot of skepticism by many liberals. here is something of a social conservative. some would say almost reactionary. he is suggested for example, and as proposed the scrapping of the ministry of gender equality also when it comes to diplomacy and relations with neighbors. he is very whole case on north korea. now this is going be important, not only here in the korean peninsula, but way beyond the korean peninsula. he wants to take a far, tough, a stand with north korea. he believes as many conservatives he had do that the

policy of conciliation to the north of summit meeting simply has worked. the only way to deal with those career is to be tough as even proposed that south korea would be. all right, to launch preemptive strikes against the laws if it believe that the north was about to launch missile. so when it comes to the troubled into korean relations his election, when would seem to signal a new episode in the into korean relations relations with our neighbor to the north . the president signed an executive order that could reshape the dollar, as we know it's president vitamin so federal agencies to examine the risk and rewards posed by crypt currencies and consider creating a digital us dollar. the goal is to support innovation and digital assets into clamped down on elicit finance. the value of bitcoin jumped 9 percent after that order was signed. his hillary alan, professor of law at the american university, washington college of law and says crypto currencies must now be regulated by the

government to assess the risks that come with them. think that the crypto industry is growing to the point where the multifaceted risks posed by crypto. i've gotten to the point where the government can't ignore the fact that we need a whole government approach to dealing with crypto crypto poses a lot of different race is very multifaceted, their environmental risk, national security risks, and i think financial stability, the risks are very strong i think to the extent to be 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. 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, or is the 1st step in exploring what those options are. finding something that's taken more than a 100 years. this is the record van taught him flora ernest shackleton, his ship. it's finally been found the endurance. it sank after being crushed by pack ice back in 1915. it has been discovered at a depth of more than 3000 meters in the wood, elsie of the antarctic coast and operation described as the most challenging shipwrecked search ever undertaken. ah, take you to the headlines now at half past, the russian as strike is destroyed maternity hospital in the besieged, ukrainian city of mariel. no death have been reported, but survivors,

i feel buried under that rumble. russia says ukraine was using the.