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i'm sammy's a band with more extensive coverage of the war. new crane, an open ambush of a russian convoy of tanks near give the capital turns into 4 trust. with half the residence gone, foreign ministers of ukraine and russia failed to reach a breakthrough in the 1st high level talks in turkey. style of the top english football club is off, it's russian 1000000000. the owner and chief cheerleader has been hit with new sanctions for now the highest level talk since russia invaded ukraine of ended with little sign of progress. ukraine's foreign minister says his russian counterpart refused to commit to a c 5. it's only 24 hours long. and mario poll, ukrainian official, say, shouting is prevented the humanitarian convoy from reaching the besieged city. our diplomatic at the james base will be up shortly from the sy. joan hall is standing

by in livermore, in western ukraine. but 1st natasha, when i am, has a roundup of developments should warn you. you may find some of the images in her report to be disturbing. a man shoe, a child thief, patterned winter coat, peak out from a black tarps that have become funeral shroud. this narrow 25 meter long trench is a math grade. in the besieged city of merrill poll, the mayor says more than 1200 people have been killed. there are no basic services, aid groups or warning of a humanitarian catastrophe. use this one is one percent of the only thing i want is for this to be finished. i don't know who's guilty, who's right, restarted this, damn them. all those people who started this 3 more humanitarian corridors were expected to open on thursday, according to the ukrainian government. 35000 people found safe passage on wednesday,

but thousands more remained trapped. turkey hosted the highest level of talks between russia and ukraine. since the invasion began, the foreign ministers of both countries met in the city of antalya. russia did not commit to a cease fire or a humanitarian corridor in marrow pool. i did my best to at least find a diplomatic solution. we also raised the issue of assist fire 24 hour fire to resolve the most pressing humanitarian issues. we did not make progress on this in the south of the country. soldiers fought in the street in a suburb of the capital keys, journalists reported intense fighting over night. the ukrainian government says

russia continues to advance with the goal of surrounding the capital. we said humility is up to you. we don't want militarization of ukraine. you can do it even without nato. we don't want the preservation of the tendency to create a new nazi's state and ukraine. of course we want ukraine to be neutral in the u. s . has now verified that $516.00 civilians have died since russia invaded ukraine. 2 weeks ago, but says the actual toll will be much higher. in morrow, paul, more burials are expected. so far. 70 people, some who died of natural causes have now been laid to rest. in this mass grave, inside one of the small cities, old cemetery natasha going to l just 0. 1 more attacks have been reported on marion home that surrounded by russian forces. ukraine says food and water is

running out for about 400000 people who are trapped inside of john hall is live for us in livers. that's go to him. there's joanna. first of all, we heard the russian foreign minister talk about how that hospital that was hit in my hold. it didn't host patients that hosted combatants. what's been the cranium reaction to that kind of line? absolute outrage as i'm sure you can imagine. and even as reports come in, that humanitarian convoys trying to reach mary paul has come under fire and had to turn back. so no rest, spite for the civilians there. and we'll hear from him as a landscape, expressing that outrage in just a moment, but incredulity as well on the part of the ukrainian foreign minister. looking at this negotiating track in entirely a demetrius cou labor, saying that frankly, it was quite difficult to listen to saturday. love wrote his russian counterpart

and some of the things that he was saying, mr. lab rovers you said this is that essentially you kind of brought this attack on the maternity hospital, mario paul upon itself because it was stationing military assets and personnel, including quote nationalist fighters in the vicinity of the hospital. indeed, mister la robes own spokes person in moscow. began the morning by denying it had happened at all fake news, she said. and then he went on miss elaborate to blame the ukrainians themselves for a tax on other hospitals and civilian installations, accusing the ukrainians of using civilians as human shields. he said other things like ukraine was operating, bio, biological and chemical warfare. factories funded by the western locations in and around the capital keys and listening to the foreign minister speak. ukrainian foreign minister. that is, it's clear that he finds it slightly incredulous that there is even a negotiation of any validity taking place at all with any hope or even intention

of success on the part of the russians. there's a sort of parallel reality going on here, and he suggests mister caliber, that they will only be serious negotiations once the russians have decided either that they've achieved enough on the battlefield or that they forced ukraine's surrender. and even then it would be mr. level, who makes that decision? but someone else, a clear allusion to vladimir putin. mr. labor said ukraine cannot stop the war if the country that started it isn't prepared to. and he said ukraine would not surrender. we'll take us now to what? let me ask you the, you can, the president did say in response to those russian comments about the bombing in mario, or asked him about the winding in the bombing of the maternity ward and hospital and married. we lost 3 people among them. one girl, 17 others were wounded, including children, women, and medical workers on russia, tv, they mentioned it, but they didn't say a single word of the truth. they lied,

saying they were no patient to me and our children in the ward, the russians were lied to get the narrative that there were nationalists who were in these positions when i'm alone. these war crimes are impossible. with that propaganda. i get just to reiterate what the president is saying, they're the pictures we saw. we looked at them in the aftermath of that attack. very clearly. that was a hospital being used as a hospital and as a maternity ward, very clear pictures of pregnant women, mothers in extreme distress clutching children to their breast. a woman very pregnant being carried away, hideously wounded on a stretcher. and as mister zalinski said, the 3 people reported dead including one child. all right, we're going to thank jonah for that. continue this though. plenty more to talk about the sco between diplomatic attitude james base. he joins us now from verse sigh and james, the leaders of the countries meeting their what are they looking at? are we about to see for the tightening or escalation?

yeah, the 27 e u countries are meeting their leaders are being greeted by president macro france has the presidency of the european union at the moment. i think they'll be looking to what more they can do already. they've got very tight sanctions in place, and there are things they've ruled out, particularly in the energy sector, because that would be too damaging to the consumers and businesses of europe. as the leaders, you can see the motorcade pointing up behind me as they arrive here though, i think one of the other things that they will be discussing is the possibility of ukraine becoming a human. but that's something that's not going to happen anytime soon. but some of them a saying that ukraine should be made a candidate country. others i think would not want to go that far wants instead some sort of political that corporation because there are problems. what do you do about other countries like moldova and georgia? and even if they were to make you cry and the kinds of the country would be as

symbolic move. but it wouldn't happen anytime soon that when you have a you enlargement. it's a very long winded process. there are lots of criteria to be made. lots of boxes to take. got plenty of diplomacy going on. tell us what we know at this point about those, those movements to, to get president putin on the phone call with european leaders. yeah, i mean i'm afraid it's a very depressing picture when it comes to the diplomacy, actually to try and get peace or even to get a temporary c spot for humanitarian corridors. because we're really hearing the same thing from lots of different routes. direct talks, as you know, have taken place in turkey between the russians and the ukrainians know progress that there was a call that's taken place with president macro and the german chancellor of schultz

. and that was when the president putin, directly they urged him to put a ceasefire in place right now. but no progress that either the russians clearly at this point, believing that they need to prosecute their military campaign and not favor diplomacy at this time. so all the diplomacy that is going on here at this e use summit is going to be among the leaders further efforts to try and isolate russia, but nothing that is going to stop this war, i'm afraid. all right, that's our dislike to get to james space in the sy. now on the ground in ukraine, we're, here's where things stand on. de, 15 of russia's war, russian forces are in control of all the areas you can see them on the map. in rad, this fighting across several cities right across the country. as you can see, let's take a look at this in the besieged city. mary paul had seen some of the heaviest fighting. well now the new satellite images show the scale of devastation. these

are homes in the city before the russian bombardment. they go, that's once left afterwards. these were shopping centers on the outskirts of the city. and now, recent images that they show you, if almost completely been destroyed, members of your crime, state emergency service have disarmed a bob, a bomb rather internal have using only their bare hands and a bottle of water. take a look at this the amnesty international is accusing russia of using unguided, aerial bombs, all dumb bombs in the city. one strike last week killed 47 people may constitute a war crime. according to its investigators. the kremlin admits russia is experiencing an economic shock, but spokesman dmitri pasco says it's doing what it can to soften the fact of

western sanctions. he says the economy's turbulent bob is confidence. it will stabilize. russia is facing its biggest financial crisis since the fall of the soviet union in the 1900 ninety's. president vladimir putin says the sanctions are illegal. you noticed in it, showing you a machine with regards to countries making hostile steps towards this. they are calling on their citizens to save and dress warmly, which shows that the sanctions they are introducing against us impact their own economy. we want to stress that we are filling all our energy supply obligations in full. everything we have to supply, we are supplying to our consumers in europe, 100 percent. that on the us, we together with our partners. those who don't recognize these unlawful actions. we will find solutions for all these problems. will fill ahead on al jazeera, praying for pace we hear from read just need is in america's largest ukrainian community.

conservative. who is over the joy you p. o. when south korea presidential election by the closest margin. ah, ah, look forward to brutus guys with sponsored by capital airways. hello, we've got some lovely spring sunshine coming into japan over the next couple of days. we have a little bit of winter weather, wet weather, just sliding at northeast and parts of china for a time. having said that, we've got a cold front of it was at east side of russia that will just push its way through some showers. maybe sleepy showers, just coming to the far west of a kind, a large you find a dry across much of japan, around 18 celsius in tokyo for friday,

saturdays. would still 20 celsius as a little bit more like it. but there is some wet weather just coming towards the yellow sea spinning out of china code. we're talking you behind basing around 13 degrees celsius. that is a little bit of snow them into that bottle. decent corner of china, southern china, on the other hand, largely dry and fine, dry weather stretching its way down into indo china. but we got some, a line of storms coming out of the philippines just pushing towards the south china sea. and we will grassy see some wet weather coming to south vietnam as we make away through friday and saturday sunshine, his showers elsewhere cross malaysia and indonesia. now we got some showers and longest spells afraid pushing the way towards us will anchor over the next day. also the about as adam and on as also seeing some way whether last you find a try for much of india and also the pakistan the weather. sponsored by katara always doing the debate. there is no hid job bad.

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of mario paul. 3 people are report has been killed. the mayor of kids says, half the city's population, and that's about 2000000 people. for weeks long, russian convoy of tanks has been heading towards the premium capital banking phase of an assault. the highest level told since russia invaded ukraine and with little sign the progress turkeys, foreign minister hosted his ukrainian or russian count and analia. the us vice president is praising poland to taking in more than a 1000000 reclining and refugees on a visit to also come. harris also promised increased nato support. what is at stake this very moment? are some of the guiding principles around the nato alliance. and in particular, the issue and the importance of defending sovereignty and territorial integrity in this case of ukraine. as president do that has described,

we have been witnessing for weeks and certainly just in the last 24 hours atrocities of unimaginable proportion. now, poland president is calling for tougher sanctions against moscow in just to the school knowledge. so because they missed that goes, but obviously we must save ukraine. we all understand that we must have all hands on deck, yet most we have to keep unity within nato, which we have to maintain solidarity and speak in one voice as well as in the european union and other international organizations. we need to introduce more sanctions against russia. we cannot tolerate such military actions which are akin to crimes against humanity. because nobody can have any doubt. if people should rockets and drop bombs on hospitals, that is the barbarity that is akin to genocide. issue. poland has taken almost half of the 2300000 refugees who fled ukraine. sabbath ramsey has more from the

border with the crime. one of the most important things, no doubt that the polish prime minister in president are probably discussing with the us, vice president. if not just the humanitarian need of helping the refugees across. but here at the border with ukraine, where the refugees crossed into poland. going the other way, it is, nope. and secret that allies that are providing weapons to ukraine. they come into poland and then they cross in on cargo trucks as well as trains going that way into ukraine. now what the polish government definitely wants to see is, is a successful ukraine, a successful resistance of the russian invasion, because they know that if your crane falls to the russians, that the front line of the fighting, the frontline of the threat that is post by russia to europe will suddenly come crashing down right here on the, on the polish border with ukraine. now, one of the things overshadowing vice president harrison visit is no doubt discussions involving more direct involvement with the ukrainian war efforts. the

delivery of polish owned russian made make $29.00 fighters with something that became a point of contention whole and said that it is willing to hand those over to you premium pilots because there's a plane that ukrainian pilots can actually fly with the united states. they want them involved as well in this they want the united states committed to this kind of transaction. of course, the us saying that that kind of thing is untenable. since that might be perceived by russia as a direct involvement in the conflict and therefore could spark a broader direct conflict between russia and the united states. now hundreds of people on the outskirts of care the trying to flee intense rush and shelling. people have been crossing a small river in the district of pinta head into the capital. the area has come on the sporadic more to find recent days, killing a number of people. many planned to go to kids, railway station to capture, trying to the west of the country. many people live in basement their houses, the apartments, and try to leave from european from butcher. and this is the place where people are

crossing the breech, which is destroyed. and from here they have a creation starts here, territorial defense work, i member of territorial defense. ok. so we are helping people just to get to the cars, to buses and to move now russia and ukraine, while they've collectively long been referred to as the bread basket of europe. together they account for about 30 percent of global we thanks paul's, of the more in ukraine, it's pushing up the price of grain around the world, especially in heavily dependent regions like africa and the middle east. the united nations food and agricultural organizations says egypt imports around 85 percent of its wheat from the 2 warring sides, lebanon gets 81 percent of its weight from ukraine. other countries like iran, libya, and turkey are also heavily reliant. food shortages could affect the lives of millions of people, particularly in developing countries. feet price increases in basic necessities

like brands, milk and meat, and also produce food insecurity, famine and even civil unrest. lawns had that is the executive director of the global alliance, improved nutrition. he says the knock on effects in terms of global food supplies can be huge. we're going to see increases, and the prices of staple foods and mine, people are buying food and they're spending so much of their income already on food . it's going to create civil unrest. so we've got a very serious situation here where we have food prices going up. energy prices going up. it's, it's really a rerun of 2008, 2009, which is a harbinger of the arab spring. because invasion is happening in not just the bread basket of europe. it's one of the biggest spread baskets in the entire world. and what needs to happen now is that all the trade flows need to remain open. the

tendency attempt taishan for policymakers trying to protect their own citizens is to close down borders to restrict exports of their a bare grain to other countries. that's ultimately not going to serve anybody. it's going to be a race to the bottom. so countries like 11 and we'll have to find other places to buy their grain. and there are many, many places to buy grain. whether it's a straight layer or south america or north america, they're going to have to find places. but the countries that are exporting grain must be sure not to restrict exports and emergency meetings being held on the future of chelsea football cloth, the sanctions were imposed on it's billionaire russian, ona roman abram, of which is plans to sell. chelsea well the noun home. the u. k. government is issued travel bands and frozen b brown, the fiche, and 6 of the wealthy russians. chelsea can fill plain the english premier league,

but it can't sell tickets. the game, it's merchandise shop is closed. come mile cell players, either football. right. gavin hamilton says, even if chelsea is put up for sale, bio will be hard to find. he has lent the club 1500000000 pounds over the course of his own shit. and he was prepared to write those debts off, but now the assets are frozen. chelsea, r officially 1500000000000000 pounds in debt and unable to repay that. and no potential owner is going to be prepared to take on a club with that sort of mindset. and when the assets have been frozen in the future, so uncertain. so it leaves the plans very chaotic at the moment. i'm really uncertain as to where chelsea how chelsea finished this thing and let alone pair for the parent. the future. the government has given chelsea a license to carry on paying the players. but the problem that chelsea have is that there's no money coming into the club. the biggest source of revenue is tv. money,

then sponsorship money and get money. but that if any of those companies go into a frozen bank account and so there are questions now about how chelsea will manage to pay their staff, not just the players, but all the stuff and how long they can continue doing that. and at some point, if this continues for a few weeks, there's a very strong possibility. i think the chelsea will be forced into administration and. and that would be a very painful process for everybody concerned. new york is home to about 150000 ukrainians. the largest community in the us, religious leaders of various sites that come together in solidarity, calling for peace. gabriel, amazon, the has more, they came to pray for peace. there was a rabbi and an archbishop and followers of other religions all gathered in the ukrainian orthodox cathedral to offer support to the ukrainian faithful and to call for one thing an end to the war. it was the largest interface prayer service of its

kind in new york since russia invaded ukraine. this was a way to come together with other people, pray together, be and sell a lot. everybody is together and the saying innocent people cannot be mercy. were 3 murder, then i'm acceptable. according to all faith traditions, if you have no faith traditions, it's in human, it's indecent. it's immoral. the russian orthodox church, patriarch, creal, and ally of vladimir putin has justified the invasion during his sermons saying it is a struggle again. sin, religious leaders here flatly reject that will lead to leaders of russia and especially a peer to to justify this invasion in this bloodshed. this is acceptable and i think the russian people deserve less and leadership,

both political and religious. for some of the religious leaders, they say this mass was just the beginning. and if they hope and the coming days and weeks they can travel to the region themselves to offer prayers and support in person to those that needed the most. gabriel dondo. i'll just hit new york now some of the years around the world now south korea is closest to ever presidential election, has been won by conservative challenger units of kill you and will take over from liberal lead moon j in his 5 year term. and in may from the front reports from sol since the start of this bruising campaign, conservative challenger units that had remained neck connect 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 as 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 parky and hey, 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 threats of launching longer range missiles of the kind that have brought the korean peninsula to the brink of conflicts in the past. rub, mcbride al jazeera, so now indian prime minister there under modi's policy, the b j. p is retained control of the most popular state ought to print dash votes being counted in 5 states provisional results, put the b j p head in 4 of them. the congress party is expected to lose power in con job to the a p. the results the seen as an important test ahead of national elections in 2024 was withdrawn. him is unlocked now the capital of for the state. she explains what this victory means for the b j. p. looking ahead, parliamentary elections in 2024 with this is a huge boost when it was there, but there it goes into the next general election and 2 years that the big for 3rd

success and victory. and that would know strong national opposition party the b j t is a party which is winning regardless of states of the country that the economy is not doing. was lotion will tell you that this is franklin with unemployment. it is traveling with the rising cost of living the size of the $19.00 pandemic. and yet people tell us in many that they vote for the b j. b. j. like here with the for this, the hindu mom to leave the state yogi. and this cannot, and they 5 prime minister in the morning, one of the really striking is the chanting of hinders logan the us of him, paris, and maybe a everywhere. it almost looks like a religious valley as much as a primitive valley providence. and that in the morning and managed to galvanize to the majority population of the country. now the congress party is still trying to promote ideas of a more secular india and most of the other regional pasha ship date. but the big

question they be able to credible strong, national opposition ahead of the next general election.