one, the questions answered ah, that is what we've always done. that's what we will continue to use. ah the besieged city of mary, a pole comes under more russian file after a children's hospital was bombed, an open ambush of a russian convoy of tanks near the capital turns into a fortress with half its residence. gone. ah, hello, i'm sammy. a dan. this is out just here alive from dell hall. so coming up, foreign ministers of ukraine and russia failed to reach a breakthrough to end the conflict. in the 1st high level talks in turkey,

the european union leaders the meeting and saw to consider new sanctions and ukraine's request to join the block. and britain impose his sanctions on chelsea, club owner, remo abram of inch and 6 other rationale gone with length the kremlin. it's 1700 g m t and 7 pm in ukraine, where russia's war has ended. now its 3rd week, the highest level talks between their foreign ministers in turkey ended without the breakthrough. meanwhile, on the ground, the city of mary, mary of polio, remained surrounded by russian forces for more than 400000 people, trapped without walls of food and electricity. oh, there's no way out. casual name begins are coverage, we should warn you. you may find some of the images in her report to be disturbing

. a man shoe, a child, the patterned winter coat, peak out from a black tarps that have become a funeral shroud. this narrow 25 meter long trench is a mass grave or in the besieged city of morrow pole. 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 a 100 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 a 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 suburb 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 to me that that 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. the u. n. 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 hold cemetery, natasha going to l. just what the un says at least 549 civilians have been killed in ukrainian just 2 weeks. the actual numbers likely to be much higher spin, fighting across several cities in the country. russian forces are in control of all the areas you can see there in the map colored red in mario paul, which of course has seen some of the heaviest fighting new satellite images show

the scale of devastation. take a look at this. these are the homes in the city before the russian bombardment. and this is what's left afterwards. these now was shopping centers on the outskirts of the city. but recent images show they've been almost completely destroyed. more attacks have been reported on mario poll that surrounded by russian troops, troops, ukraine says food and water is running out for about 400000 people trapped in 5. there are warnings of starvation unless russia let's a to get through. all right, let's bring in now joan, how he's live for us from ukraine, joined us from levin jonah the latest lines coming in from russian officials. now talking about that attack on the hospital, medical that describe me describing it as a staged event, something that was staged by ukrainian forces. what kind of reaction are we getting to that kind of line?

i mean, this is just one of a variety of things that have come out from russian officials talking about that attack. and you know, those comments met, frankly with outrage as expressed by the president claudia zalinski. we'll hear from him in a moment. but at the level of those talks that took place in antalya where so again, love rob, the russian foreign minister was actually giving voice to some of these ideas in front of his counterpart, ukrainian foreign minister metro coloma. i mean, there was incredulity, incredulity there, to put it mildly, mister caliber said, it was frankly, quite difficult to listen to what 2nd row had to say the russian foreign minister, talking about this attack on her maternity ward and mary whole being the fault of the ukrainians for positioning forces and military equipment, country 2 warnings that moscow had given for days about that sort of thing. going on his own spokesperson in moscow began the day as you suggested that by saying this was just fake news, it hadn't happened. this was all fabricated. mister lover of going on to say that

all sorts of other attacks on 70 and infrastructure with the fault of the ukrainians because they were using civilians. he said as human shields and other allegations that ukraine was operating, biological weapon, and chemical weapon factories funded and sponsored by the west insights in and around the capital key of it gave mister qu labor in terms of what he had to say. afterwards paused to wonder whether this was a genuine negotiating track at all, whether there was any intention to find common ground. here. he suggested that genuine negotiations might only take place when the russians feel that they had achieved enough for the battlefield or that they had achieved the surrender of ukraine. and that it wouldn't be mister leverett who decided when that moment would come. but somebody else, a clear allusion to bloody me. putin. of course, the russian president was, took a labor said ukraine cannot stop the war if the country that started it is not prepared to. and he said, ukraine would never surrender mis now,

to president lot of his lensky reacting to some of those claims by the russians or ask them about divining 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, russians were lied to give the narrative that there were nationalists who are in these positions when i'm alone. these war crimes are impossible with that propaganda. and as i'm sure you know, jonah those talks to try and arrange some kind of c 5 for evacuation that seem to have gone anywhere. what does that mean for those humanitarian corridors? are they still holding really, they will really what i can tell you is that we're not hearing anything to suggest that they're not holding the other humanitarian corridors. not married maria follicles, but others that had been opened on wednesday. and on thursday morning,

the ukrainian side suggested they would be open again. places like sue me in the north of aucker and east is you him in the east and also air pin. we've seen pictures of people again, fleeing or pin one of the sort of sub urban centers to the west of the capital key . we're not hearing numbers, there's not a sort of foot rising, tally being counted. but people clearly are having some opportunity to leave some of these centers. $35000.00 people left in total, a variety of places on wednesday. so we're not talking about a huge mass evacuation either. these are very careful, small convoys out of besieged places and perhaps similar things happening as a say on thursday. and all of those numbers contributing to a massive refugee exodus from this country. the un saying 2300000 people have left the country so far at a rate of around a 160000 every day. i and john, we've got to talk about what's going on in the capital key of we want change

pictures for days now haven't way of alma sort of lined up outside kids now. ameris, thank half the city was as left basically. so what's left them for those that half which is left? what are they facing? well, undoubtedly a city today that bears very, very little relent. resemblance indeed, to the city. it was a vibrant city of 3 to 4000000 people. people have been leaving the city since the beginning of this conflict as a slow sort of in advance and encirclement of the capital has gone on by russian forces who are present to the north, to the west who continue their attacks, but have not yet entirely managed to encircle it, but look, this has become a fortified city. no doubt about that. the men of italy, battalion cleats co, you may remember him. heavy white boxer says 2000000 people have left. that's what was half the population of the city. they would all have become part of the refugee

x, or this many would have gone to family to 2nd homes, to other cities and towns, but a city, a capital vastly emptied out, and mr. cleats goes saying, every street, every corner, every building, every checkpoint. he's now fortified and in preparation for the defense of that capital, if and when the russian in sacrament complete we'll leave it there. thanks so much, jonah. how now european union leaders, their meeting of a sigh for crisis talks. as russia pushes ahead with invasion of ukraine into my picture, they're coming in from the sy in france. it was economic impact is top of the agenda. the to day summit leaders will consider imposing fresh sanctions on moscow, but also be discussing ukraine's request to join the block of the my to get a james base joins us now from the sign front. not very positive signals coming out

of the sy about ukraine joining. the you right james? no, not very positive signals on another of a number of different issues. sammy 1st let me start, you know, what happened in those talks in turkey, no progress a told no prospect of a c spot. but we've also had a phone call with the german chancellor of schultz, the french president, emanuel macro, and well, the french president brief reporters in the last half hour or so. and the, i'm afraid it's very depressing news from the man who has spoken to president putin in the last couple of hours. i have to be honest, i am worried. i am pessimistic, said the french president, to be honest. it's not realistic that there will be a c spot in the coming hours. he does say though, that he'll have another he hopes, have another phone call with the german chancellor and the russian president and about 48 hours time on what will happen with regard to the summit. as you say,

some pushing for a fast track for membership of ukraine in the european union grew to the dutch prime minister, said there is no foss, track procedure, and some others have joined him. in fact, also manuel, manuel macros saying that it's going to be very difficult and complicated to admit ukraine when it's in the middle of a war. but he said they still had to send a strong signal from the summit. the other issue is sanctions can they do more on sanctions? some are pushing again that the you does more with regard to energy and stops russian oil imports. that certainly is the line from the lot be prime minister. christiane is collins. he says, we do not just need to isolate russia, but cripple russia. they will not be support from all members of the you that on that, that's clear. all right, james, face that still had on al jazeera,

the conservative, whose joy you jo, wind, south bridge, presidential election by the closest the margin. ah, ah, hello. we got all sorts guy across the middle east at the moment. little bit of winter, little bit of summer we have got to cloud and rain, sleet, and snow across the northern parts of the region, spilling out of the levant, running in across at east side of fabulous snow here that will cause some disruption, just clipping northern parts of syria, iraq pushing over towards iran. further south is that have the 35 celsius here

in doha heat. already on less halters, we go on into sas day, but still pretty hot enough. as it is says of the sort of temperatures we would expect in the month of may farther north, the wintry flowers should become fewer and further between the wind slowly but surely starting to ease. now still what a breeze across east some parts of the mediterranean pushing across into northern parts of africa for friday with one or 2 showers. see in some showers. there just gras, gathering round, northern parts of morocco, northern areas around syria, hama time when picking up some dustin sand pushing over towards west africa as we go on 3 fraud and plenty of showers and now started to show the hand across the gulf of guinea. joining up with the showers, we have a gl central africa, little further south, which as well. and i try who sy, klune that's making its way across northern positive mozambique with a likelihood of flooding. the frank assessments for china will benefit from the 0 call. the strategy,

if the rest of the world got informed opinions at all costs bucket fund needs an upright, stable, critical debate, wide report claims that need to do and interest, and she'll threat to russia. but it's precise. he's actions that created this insecurity in the region in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera. ah ah, i'll come back here watching our time so many capital headlines now. russia says there were no patients inside the hospital bombed on wednesday, and that strike destroyed the maternity in children's units in the deceased.

ukrainian city of merrier pop. 3 people are reported to have been killed. the highest level talk since russia invaded ukraine of ended with little find the progress focus, foreign minister hosted as ukrainian or russian council in antalya and european union lead is our meeting of the scientists and to the new sanctions and ukraine's request to join the block. and the kremlin says, the russian economy is experiencing a shock, but it's doing what it can to soften the impact of western sanctions. bugs. and dmitri past called described the meshes as an unprecedented economic war against moscow. russia economy is facing its biggest crisis since the fall of the soviet union in the 1900 ninety's. the past few hours. russia has retaliated against those sanctions with its own measures. it's banned the exports of certain raw materials and agriculture commodities to several western countries. and russia,

president vladimir putin, cold sanctions against his country. illegal. he says though they will work around them to show 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 promise us we together with our partners. those who don't recognize these unlawful actions. we will find solutions for all these problems. and emergency meetings being held on the future of chelsea football club off the sanctions were imposed on its own room and the prime of which the russian 1000000000 as planned to sell chelsea. now a whole the u. k. government is issued travel bands and frozen the assets of abram, which in 6 our wealthy russians. chelsea can still play in the premier league,

but it cannot sell tickets again. merchandise shop will be closed and it can't buy all fell players on the transfer market, beaver brown, which is worth around $12000000000.00. he also has stakes and steel giant of ross and not of nickel and other building. there are leg bhaskar. it's been hit with the same measures. he has stakes in the end plus metals group. eager session is the chief executive of oil joins ross ness and is considered hooton's right hand man. and for others, considered to be fond of futons in a circle. have also been sanction leave barker reports outside chelsea, stamford bridge in london. really depends on how you view the dogs and what their role is in relation to vladimir putin. what they appear not to be is to have any political sway or influence on vladimir putin. they're unlikely to exert any kind of pressure to get the russian president to pull back from ukraine. i think it's

easier though to see the likes over man up or move it shouldn't jerry pasco, and the long list of others, more is kind of financial repository, is not any of their own personal wealth, but also of vladimir putin, a wealth as well. so in targeting the likes of brokovich and the others, you essentially, you would essentially strangle the flows, the revenue directly to put in those immediately around him as well. but this of course is a huge symbolic blow for the likes of a bomb event. she's been in the owner of chelsea football club for 19 years presided over a real reversal of the clubs fortunes at the same time though it, what does it de 15 of the war, the moment brokovich and others seeing this iceberg coming from quite a way off and they have made attempts, of course, to shift their assets to put the club on the market to shift some of abramoff, which is huge. a property portfolio. we've got a 15 bedroom house in west london with $200000000.00,

but it's been on the market this week. it also got passports in portugal and israel and he's been in the u a a lot. he's been given a course, a huge charles to shift his cash around. the us vice president says nato is prepared to defend every inch of its territory. can la harris was speaking in poland capital after meeting the countries president? under i do that is calling for tough a sanctions against moscow. 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, due to a has described, we have been witnessing for weeks and certainly just in the last 24 hours atrocities of unimaginable proportion enough to this canada. so because they missed that goes private,

must save ukraine. ok. 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 and poland is taken in almost half of the 2300000 refugees who fled ukraine. same by the throbbing, has more from the border with ukraine. 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 in 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 europe will suddenly come crashing down right here on the, on the polish border with ukraine. now, one of the things overshadowing vice president harris's visit is no doubt discussions involving more direct. with the ukranian war effort. the delivery of polish owned russian made make 29 fighters with something that became a point of contention. colin said that it is willing to hand those over to you premium pilots because those are planes 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. russia and ukraine have collectively long been referred to as the bread basket of europe. together they account phonetic, 30 percent of global weight exports for the war in ukraine is 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 agriculture organization says egypt, im pulls around 85 percent of its wheat from the 2 warring sides level and gets 81 percent of its wheat from ukraine and 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. steve price increases in basic necessities like brand, milk, and meat can also produce food insecurity, famine,

and even civil unrest. lawrence had that is the executive director of the global alliance for improved nutrition. he says the knock on effects in terms of global food supplies could 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, of their grain to other countries. that's ultimately not going to serve any what 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 leo or south america, north america, they're going to have to find places. but the countries that are exports in grain must be sure not to restrict exports. south korea's closest to ever presidential election has been won by conservative challenger unit. so fuel human will take over from liberal liter moon j in who's 5 year term ends in may. from mcbride reports from sol. since the start of this bruising campaign, conservative challenger units that had remained neck and neck with a liberal rival, the jameel exit polls put them within the percentage points of each other. and so

began a sleepless night for many in south korea. following local broadcast is 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 as 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 a former criminal investigator in shanker is claiming the government's brought from top charges against him over the 2019 east. the bombings, shiny obvious account, was made the allegations against relying can intelligence officials, 201-9270 people were killed more than 500 injured by 7 suicide bombers and financial reports from colombo. the pharmacy id director shawnee obviously has made some explosive claim is fundamental rights petition asking the court to prevent what he says are moved to arrest him and implicate him in the isa bombing attacks. now as you can see, there's also

a group of people that have come out to defend the for my investigator. this been a read. let us not allow the government to hom shawnee. let us protect. shawnee and similar banners have come up. let's save his life. let's ensure that no one places a hand on johnny. so there is concern among human rights defenders that this senior investigator who has a missing track record of success in his investigation is somehow being so sort of set up if you like, in terms of the latest case and latest attempts to see that he's incarcerated or arrested saving chinese life is about one of our main dos. so we came to stand and fish on the i'll be do and consider the government to god will not allow you reproach shawnee and if anything happens to me,

the president the difference. i got 3 and that even the minister should ready to bad and responsible. i'm people wondering how much we're asking everyone to defend shawnee because it's only if he gets justice. we will get justice among those claims that he has made in this fundamental rights. petition is a fact that the military intelligence and the state intelligence had colluded to mislead criminal investigators. before several months before the easter attacks. what he says is they had been wilfully with all the information they had been planting evidence to mislead the investigation. so all of these things have sent a lot of concern. there's been a lot of claims and kind of claims out there. but this petition from one of the lead investigations kind of concrete eyes of those concerns the body of cricket legend shane warner's arrived back in his home town of melbourne. phone guy last.