[000:00:00;00] me ah ah ah, a russian strike destroyed the maternity hospital in the besieged, ukrainian city of mario pope. it is provoking global outbreak. ah, maria here in ohio to the with continuing coverage of the war in ukraine. as both sides accused each other of threatening the fragile humanitarian car doors if and

set up to get civilians on russia claims the u. s. is supporting bio weapons lab in ukraine. washington wanted deploy by moscow for a chemical attack. and also in the news, conservative unit, so kill winds of south korea type presidential election with a margin of barely one percent through a russian or strike is distorted maternity, hospital in ukrainian city of multiple no debts have been officially reported, but people are feared to be buried under the rubble and a tank which is sparked out pro is the 2 countries prepare for the highest level talk since the invasion began. 2 weeks ago, russia says ukraine was using the hospital to set up firing positions. the back of this report. the

colossal block echoes across the city of mary helpful. but this isn't a military target. it's a maternity ward and children's hospital one of the other victim heavily pregnant women, he was with serious injuries stretching through a shattered building with the elderly. the young lady to the monitor. this is the indifference of war. the explosion, so powerful the crater. it's several me to sleep. so horny. 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 is

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 as a new urgency to the ukrainian leaderships, desperate plea for more help, the pocket, i'll just say were you credit president has said this strike is further proof that a no fly zone must be imposed by nature or hasty mumble, voluntarily caught 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 this one straw city and the war was 14 days of war. now let's show you

the map where russian forces have made their gains all these areas in red, around the periphery of the country, and obviously mostly in the east. se fruits agreed for the evacuation of civilians by our only partially successful. let's take you through the residence of and her daughter, are evacuating 2 examples. people in mario, paul, we're also expected to go there, but so found the evacuation attempts have failed. and we've got the escape routes with stablished between vol, nevada, and pork roast. and then in a car, key region residents from is expected to go through to laws over now further north evacuation. if it's started from sumi into poll tarver and corridors from towns or on key levels have been agreed in all president. and she says 35000 people re evaluated from cities on wednesday. this report is from john holland. the v the 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 su me 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. 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. 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 town. oh. and from hoster mouth and my courage, where 13 people died on sunday, queuing for bread was lose you. those of us interested in the friends, these are a very difficult times for your brain. so i was wrong. 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 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. that 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 john vince nearby ball and getting ready to counter it. of 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're needed to fight. but 1st,

they must be taught how me, max is 20, the 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 and after the aunt of the war, we will meet again. have a beer, just have fun and relax. daniel over the cinema philosophy probably takes a special kind of optimism to believe those carefree days. will soon be back, jonah, how al jazeera further afield. now the u. s. is dismissed russian allegations that it is operating bio warfare labs inside ukraine. this is a series of tweets from the white house press secretary gen saki describing the claims as preposterous. and also suggesting rusher is in fact laying the groundwork for false flag operations so it can potentially use such weapons against ukraine.

saki also accused china of endorsing what she labeled russian propaganda or from shepherd tansy in washington. one of the prefects, flattery fusion 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 warfare labs. these tweets are refutation of that. but as you can tell from the tweets, china is also asking for almost, since it has 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 and see from anatol leven senior research at the quincy institute of responsible state croft, it says there may be some truth in the accusation. although it's pretty hard to verify. both sides are engaging in war propaganda. it always happens in war about, you know, 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 know just how, 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 suggests that there is something there to be worried about. but what,

whether it is what the russians are alleging why really could not say well later on thursday, the ukrainian or russian foreign ministers planned to meet in turkey. if it goes ahead. these will be the 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 rather 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 that nato standing firm in its decision not to fully intervene in ukraine skies or its battlefields. and as roseland jordan reports the u. s. in the u. k. r. instead talking up the impact of sanctions, dave 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. in $142.00, an a vote of confidence in the west response to russia's invasion tech. we have surprised 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 and conditionally the united states to canada, canada cord, and russia that's waging this or western officials are unapologetic. they call their economic strategy and extremely effective way of

holding moscow accountable for attacking ukrainian civilian. he can honestly, 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're very clear that our objective is a peach into 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 potent 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. coverage on al jazeera continues in just a moment as americans, i up venezuelan, oil supplies from russia, trying out. and us president joe biden takes a step towards regulating crypto currency. ah hello, we've got a bay contrast in the weather across the middle east at the moment. we've got some like weather in the south. but boy, we got some when she weather further north, lots of cloud, hair, snow and rain piling through the heavy snow wave of the turkish mountain, sliding over towards caucuses. temperature struggling to get 2 well, 3 celsius and anchor into the mid eighties. one way of rain coming in across the levant,

vast re 11 jordan pushing down into israel. but look at dough half 31 celsius to still into by a 35 and thursday, going on into fridays even halter still. that warm southerly wind continue to fade in, am meeting up with that when she weather spread right across the northern parts of the region across the caspian tours, afghanistan, it's cold enough to cross northern parts of egypt. northern areas of libya and dusty conditions rolling through here, charts, one or 2 showers into morocco. plenty of showers now started to show the way up across the guinea coast over the next few days, or joining the shower school central part of africa. and of course we do still have trouble cycling, making its way across the mozambique channel now. so that's going to run towards mozambique as we go on into friday. lots of wind, lots of rain. and we are looking at localized flooding right into the weekend. the

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monte, of all, no deaths reported but survive as a few buried under the rubble of russia. ukraine was using the hospital to set up fire intuition, ukrainian president. let me see, described the bombing is an atrocity that the attack is further proof that a no fly zone must be imposed by nato. and he also says 35000 people were evacuation from ukrainian cities on wednesday. humanity and heart of central around the country and had limited success with both sides, accusing each other, reaching everyone. let's hear now from out in griffin. see if the united nations humanitarian affairs chief and he told us there has been quite useful progress during talks with russia. they stone, these humanitarian corridors in ukraine. we've been bringing in supplies from the west, from poland and romania, w h o is brought in. medical supplies, the welfare program has brought and food into the west of ukraine,

and some of that is now beginning to reach kia. for example, we are w, appears, take the st. wheat flour into key of by train, what we're doing in the u. n. and our partners local and jose in special ed, jose is beginning to deploy our staff around the whole country. indeed, what we're doing is we're moving east towards the war of course, but towards where the needs are. we will hope to move our supplies to warehouses in different hubs around the country, preparatory to serving the people in those in circle cities. and separate from that . in our, our efforts to try to get these corridors working people from my office, as well as from the security side of the u. n. in moscow. and as you know, i, c r c has been talking to the russian ministry defense for some days. and now we are 2 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 military's safe passages civilians. out of those areas, safe passages, sumatran supplies in and all movements of stuff and measure insistence. now the con, the, the meetings to date in moscow, they've been gay. 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 good to move precisely who is going to move? do you have the contact the person in charge of it? do you have a hotline? in case there is movement of forces. these 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. as we know, russia's invasion has triggered europe's biggest refugee crisis since the 2nd world war driving more than 2000000 people from their homes. and according to unicef around a 1000000 of the children, many are unaccompanied, either separated from the parents or sent away by those forced to stay behind. the un has warned unaccompanied children at greater risk of suffering, violence and abuse, and it is urged the host countries to ensure their safety. his james elder spoke for unicef. he also talks about children requiring medical attention on the stage as being the most at risk. the children i see in hospitals who are on drips or incubators, it's very dangerous to try and get them out. the chip mildred under siege and in bunk is the mother i spoke to explain. she she sleeps over her child lies across not,

not for warmth because she's terrified. she thinks it will add another layer from the bombardments that keep coming. so there are millions of kids who can't flee right now. again, we might display e for humanitarian cordele for these people to get out safely. and the organizations are unicef and others to be able to get urged and supplies in. i mean, we've been taking medical supply surgical kits to these hospitals to where mothers are giving birth in poncas. this is what we're seeking to do and we have these reports of a maternity hospital being bombed. a, it's outrageous. these are not normal times. so as soon as we see a child, then it's about tracking and tracing the units of have something called blue dots that just sight spaces on this treacherous journey. and there are places where parents can get information, and if there's unaccompanied children, it's our 1st chance to register and start that process of let's find someone from their family. let's find a community member out. but again,

the enormity of this immediately a 1000000 children, all the millions who are hiding are scared. again, the scale of this is so vast happening so fast that the only way to get through it right now is for the war to stop these for these indiscriminate attacks. to stop now, venezuela's government is released to you as prisoners. once washington said, had been held like hostages, this is seen as a small, but maybe an important step. as the u. s. government looks to fill the void of russian oil mo, from a latin america at a tennessee newman, 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 nicole asthma, rudo, and 3 white house on boys. the us applause, the men's 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 the venezuela finish. layla has the world's largest oil reserves, but its industry and its economy had been crippled by how she was sanctions aimed at forcing our president, my ludo, whom washington labels a dictator. my buddha is also russian president vladimir putin staunchest regional allied policy out in the field. yes, he told top military and political leaders that talks with the u. s. would continue

adding to spoken to fellow opec members of her increasing been as well in oil production that would require the u. s. to ease or eliminate oil sanctions. de la haney. but i really started medical related. 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, for everything. for the last 3 years, washington has recognized opposition leader one why law. as venezuela's transition president, but the ukraine crisis and the sky rocketing price of fuel seemed to be setting the stage for a more pragmatic approach to us venezuela relations. if you're not in. but if you remember, there's an extraordinary correlation between major will 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 your button, you don't have the luxury right now to choose who you buy from the capital process down,

you have to pick the lesser evil. that doesn't mean that washington is close to recognizing my ludo. 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 time to look at some other world news gunman of killed 19 security personnel in an attack in the north, west, nigerian state of kept b. this was late on tuesday. the villages called kenya an attack which came a day after at least $57.00 members of a self defense group were killed by circled bandits in the same area. the indian prime minister in remote his party, the b j. p is all set to retain control of the most popular state of the pradesh. following a month, long staggered election boats have been counted in a total of 5 states. early results put the b j p ahead in 4 of them. but the biggest prize is those are pradesh where modi's party appears to have done well

despite criticism over the handling of the pandemic. and if you remember the massive farmers protests as well south korea's closest ever presidential election has been won by the conservative candidate, nunes, who killed you and will take over from the current liberal president, monday in whose single 5 year term comes to an end in may from broad reports himself, since the start of this bruising campaign, conservative challenger units that had remained neck and neck with his liberal rival, the jameel exit polls put them within a percentage points of each other. and so began a sleepless night for many in south korea following local broadcasters. animated depiction of this epic struggle until you emerged is when i am deeply grateful to all over you and the people who have supported a beginner to this point, a political newcomer. he 1st came to prominence,

the lead prosecutor and the imprisonment of disgraced former president park you and hay following her impeachment for corruption. 5 years ago. you comes into this job having held no political office, but presenting himself as a force of change politically and socially conservative. he is in stark contrast to 5 years of liberal rule. he's also promised a much tougher line with north korea, but many question, how much of that campaign rhetoric? i think a prison unit is going to choose very pragmatic, warren and national security policy, at least for a while. it comes after an increase in missile testing by the north, with the threat of launching longer range missiles of the kind that have brought the korean peninsula to the brink of conflict in the past. rub, mcbride al jazeera, so the president signed an executive order that could reshape the dollar. as we

know it, president biden's told federal agencies to examine the risks and rewards posed by christian currencies and to consider creating a digital us dollar. the goal is to support innovation in digital assets and to come down on elicit finance. value. bitcoin jumped 9 percent after the order was signed. hillary alan, professor of law at the american university, washington college of law. she says, crypt currencies must not 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 multi faceted risks post 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 crypto poses a lot of different race is very multifaceted, their environmental risk, national security risk, and i think financial stability 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 it's 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 in 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 or developers developing the 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. the makes the maker of oxycontin, which is the drug blame for fueling the u. f o p o f. a demick is urging a bankruptcy court to approve a new compensation deal that you found as owners have agreed to turn the company into a public trust. and to provide $6000000000.00 to combat the epidemic,

but some states say the specific amounts being offered to them are inadequate and funding something that's taken more than a 100 years. but the wreck of the arctic explorer, ernest shackleton ship, has finally been found. the endurance sank after being crushed by pack ice back in 1915. it's been discovered at a depth of more than 3000 meters and we'll see off the antarctic coast operations been described as the most challenging shipwrecked search ever undertaken. on the other headline, the russian air strikes destroy maternity hospital and the procedure crating. city of multiple deaths been reported that people are feed buried under the rebel russia, as ukraine was using a hospital to set up firing position. but your friends president voted me lensky