going to the so anyway, it's going to be a race to the bottom. so countries like lebanon will have to find other places to buy their grain. and there are many, many places to buy grain. whether it's a strayer 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. ah, reminder the talk stories are now to 0. ukrainians in the port city of mary paul say, russia has resumed its aerial bombardment a day out of the devastating attack on a maternity hospital. there were the 400000 people have been under siege by russian forces for more than a week. there's no electricity or heating, and food, and water is running out. ukrainian officials warn those stuck in the city will starve if aid isn't allowed in. president let him is. lensky is accused russia of

spreading misinformation about the attack or rational bombard, divining in the bombing of the maternity ward and hospital in mary all calls. we lost 3 people among them. one girl, 17, others were wounded, including children, woman and medical workers on russian tv. they mentioned it, but they didn't give a single word of the truth. they lied saying there were no patients, women or children in the war. russians are lied to him with the narrative that there were nationalists in these positions. these war crimes are impossible without propaganda. pianos, ukrainian forces have destroyed several tanks and armored vehicles in an attack north of keven thursday. watch him a little bit, but the audio is an intercept of a russian officer reporting the ambush. he says the regiment commander has died in the strike. mayor of caves has half of the capital population has now left as russian forces edge, closer to the city. quite level talks between russia and ukraine have ended in

turkey without progress towards a ceasefire. ukraine's foreign minister to be true, labor met his russian counterpart, sagel of ross. the leaders didn't secure an agreement to hold the fighting, so aid could reach civilians. but russia's defense ministry now says it will open the humanitarian corridors to evacuate ukrainians to russia. at 700 g m t every day . and european union leaders are currently holding to de cross this talks in which you are expected to be dominated by the was economic impact. leaders will consider imposing you sanctions on moscow. and we'll look at how to reduce europe's dependence on the russian energy stories to stay with us algebra. the stream is up next, looking at the humanitarian crisis in ukraine. i'll be back straight up to that with more news. thanks for watching. we don't simply focus on the pallets of the conflict. it's the consequence of more the human suffering that we report on it is

one of the most serious about the violence in recent years we brave bullets and bomb because we give voice to those demanding freedom. the rule of law, and we always include the views from all sides with high us. i mean, okay, it has been 2 weeks since russia invaded ukraine and getting humanitarian out in t crane is becoming beginning to be increasingly difficult. so that is our focus today, and we start without 0 correspondent chow strap it underground. metro stations is where many people hide young and old stand patiently in line for food served by volunteers, bowl soup salad, bread elona

and her 12 year old daughter. nastier show us the train carriage where they've sheltered since their home was destroyed. to institute with news dotted 12 days ago, our house was destroyed and you know, we don't know where to live anymore. it's. i don't know where to go with my child. honestly help us. it is not, there are many here like us who have lost everything. what a question to have to ask the well and who do you ask for help humana, terry, and work on the front lines of the ukraine. conflicts right now, that is what we're talking about. we're going to be doing that with olivia and yes and step. so welcome to all 3 of you. thank you for making time. i know you're

super busy. oh yeah. please introduce yourself. try stream audience. tell. tell them why you're relevant to today's conversation. i'm only going to go find there and board member of it. awesome. and we are dealing with the emergency crisis response right now in ukraine. we have a stablished in 2014 and we've been working on ukraine and more yes. projects from i t 2 fashion. but right now, all of our efforts are the, the voted to humanitarian assistance and also evacuation of children with special needs. oh yes, we're looking for team offering just a moment yet. get to have you here on the screen, please introduce yourself to global audience. yeah, hi i'm, i'm, yes, i'm a spoke shortly for the united nations humanitarian coordination office in geneva. so. so what we do is helping all the international organizations, whether it's un or non governmental organizations want to help in ukraine get

coordinated so that they can provide the best help to those people still desperately needed as we just saw on your clip. oh absolutely hello step get to have you on board. please introduce yourself. drag live audience. i am a step. fasten. i'm currently in queue for the capital, a few grain. they're covering the story for algebra english. and i've also covered a story on the other side of the border in poland for the last couple of weeks. if you have questions 1st step or dance or oh yeah. now as a really good time to austin, you're watching things on the news and it's not making sense for you. you want to help you want to talk about your military and aiden's manager and work as comment section right here. be part of today's program. all right, oh yeah, that story of the mom who is living in a, in a carriage underground. that is one story. and to really understand the impact we kind of have to person by person. it's not

a mass of people. it's every individual person and a family. what would you tell us to also help us understand the kind of what you're doing a white needed within ukraine? i absolutely agree with your right now. millions of people are of fact that the ukraine. but we cannot just think about numbers, we need to think that it's each individual person and each of these lives and value both. and there is the story behind each of that part. and they have been dealing with about uniting families of children who have the threat or genetic disease, spinal muscular atrophy. we have worked with them before and they're not really while the been successful in evacuating a lot of them. but unfortunately of some of them are currently stock and muddy or the 30 eastern. you claim that as heavily shall right now the last message i have

from this family the 9 days ago, it's asked why we have no food. you have not electricity. we have no madison and i, you know, you just feel completely trapped and you don't know what you can do and how can you, how these people. and i just pray and hope that there won't be a face human, that area, a quarter door established thorn that the poor people are mighty open can leave. and i hope that these 2 families that the have a face. yes. oh yes. if you don't know what we can do and how we can help these people, that is your job. that is, you and archers job focusing on what's happening and what the needs are in ukraine . when you look at the country, how will you planning to help people? where are you? what are you doing? yeah. first of all, you're at absolutely right. it's, it's, it's not the numbers, but still the numbers does give, don't give a sense of how, how bad it is. it is,

it is a crisis where we estimate that some 12000000 people are in need of assistance inside ukraine. that's not 112000000. that's 12000000 individual, dis asked those. it's a crisis that went from relatively bad conflict, but slightly slow burning or india in the east a couple of days ago into now having reached apocalyptic proportions. and we are doing what we can or to get, or our assistance ramped up. we, we, we did have before or before the 24th of february. of course, are you an infrastructure if you like, if you military and a program or inside ukraine, that is now being beefed up very, very fast. we have had like so many others had to leave or areas in active fighting. that did not mean that left ukraine, not at all. we want to stay. we have now got our, our,

our staff and places where they can actually regroup at, think about what can we do to get the, to get the assistance going, because it's critical and it's getting worse by the minute us. and as we are here, that, what if you look at the humanitarian crisis that's happening in ukraine? how would you share that with our audience? have you been showing that without william's well, i think the very, very 1st needs that people have here is some safety. and you can't really help people if there's a war going on and also cease fires are being violated. so what we've seen is that as an evacuation from, from towns that are under fire, that are being shout by russian forces right now that they have also been hampered by continuous shooting. so unitarian 8 is going in, but it's also being shot at the people who bring in aid. they risked their lives at the moment. so what they really need is safety. and everyone will have who i have

been speaking to in the last days and weeks actually is saying to me, please close the skies. that is a really strong demand. strong wish from people here in ukraine. they say close the skies. they say we can fight these thanks, but we can't stop bombs falling, falling from the sky. and i was in a place not far from, from here in the she told me, and 3 residential areas were completely destroyed by russian shalon by rockets, by missiles that came down, including a school. a lot of schools have been destroyed. hospitals, as we know, have been destroyed and as nothing people can do, they wake up in the morning by a huge shout and their, their village, their neighborhood is destroyed. i'm going to, i want to go to some reporting from john a whole from out there because he mentioned a hospital thing under attack. and jonah also saw that happen to and then i'm going

to go to you too because we got some questions to ask if against and for over the 1st. he's done whole the day of relative calm along temporary avenues of escape. war came suddenly to the people of ukraine getting away from it is much harder from cities like sumi in the north where residential buildings were struck. and from an godaddy in the east waters, or even from murray, a pole in the south, among the most embattled of all, their fleeing seems like this. the remains of a maternity hospital and other inexplicable tragedy in conditions the red cross describes as apocalyptic. for many civilians still trapped in the ruins of their cities. there is no respite nor for medical teams in hospitals where the injured arrived. daily and unusual,

we've got questions about how do you protect the humanitarian workers when you all coming under a threat from fighting. but how are you able to do that yet? you want to start and then oh yeah. you can pick out. yeah, it's, it, thanks very much because it's very, it's a very critical question right now because everybody wants to help all these hundreds or thousands of city of civilians. we're in the very dire in dire need. it's our job is our obligation to do so are. so we need to get a system in place whereby we can insure 2 things. first of all, that those who are in those encircled earth cities while we're on the fire, have a safe passage out in a direction of their own choosing. we are, we are talking to both sides of the conflict. we have a t, a in moscow now talk it through through officials, there should get a system in place where,

where this can happen. the 2nd thing that we need is then for aid to move inch where the most critical needs are, there will be people are in, in a city, even if there is a safe passage out who, for whatever reason or will stay, they will need to monitor and assistance of all kinds and we need safe a passage in we need the agreement from the men with guns or that they do not shoot on us. and to make that happen, they need to understand what it is we do when we do it, why we do it. and hopefully ellen does allen. we have meliss, it'll come as that. but you have to make this happen. who are you talking to right now? because the humanitarian coin, as we keep hearing on the news. well, there was supposed to be one, but then people waiting in a line to get brag, were killed, or people causing a bridge were killed. so you, you an archer and people wondering who is doing this, you have to do it, you have to talk ukrainians, you have to talk to russians. can you explain a little bit more about how you do that?

yeah, and, and we do so those corridors were agreed between the russian federation and the ukrainians. that the united nations, it was not and is not operationally part of it. and that is why we go in, i think we actually have us and also our red cross colleagues quite some experiencing how to set this up. so we don't a job at eyes people's lives uneasy or they had to. so tell us how to do it. so we speak to the military commanders on the ground. we speak to a military commanders and a foreign ministry officials in the capitals here and, and moscow to get the agreement to get the thing such a standard operating procedures in place for them to implement that will let lay about. they clearly have yet they're clearly not and not listening because what we've seen is her evacuation bosses being shot at human

italian workers, especially here in ukraine. what i've seen so far is mostly local organizations, local volunteers. i mean, everyone in ukraine who hasn't flat the country is basically now a volunteer. they're all helping they're collecting food, they're collecting clothes from friends, from relatives, and they're risking their lives going into the most front line cities to the where the battles are really raging on. and many of them, of course, risk their lives and also our shot at so far we haven't seen that any agreement has been held so far. people are really stuck and of course they're, they're terrorized right now. oh yeah. go ahead. i for this is and i would also would like to go back to the point stephanie brought out that ukrainians are asking to close the sky. and there is that beg humanitarian need and that while there's a need to protect the civilians, to ensure that the squire doors are not why later to ensure the these bombs are not

falling when the is the children's and the time the hospital's and that's innocent civilians are not killed, people are trying out for birth and barrow. i'm sure many creative solutions to that. and people ukrainian, the asking for the global community to come together and to solve that. and then no fly zone is essential, is essential to preserve the lives of innocent children and the people. oh yeah. when you have the, let me go 1st go ahead. yeah. what i just wanted to add that they really feel abandoned at the moment by the world. the. busy you know, they feel like the world is watching while they are cities, their schools, their hospitals are being bombed and they, they appreciate all the attention and now in the west, on this war. but they feel like there's a lot of words, but no action. so really desperate to please for help. i hear all the time. oh yeah . when i think that's the ukrainians have

a lot to show to the world and inspire the world and the way of action. a stephanie describes people are organizing in the ground. the have people on the grounds are very close. friends are volunteers who have been working with us for years that younger renewal over the country. and my grandmother was 80 years old, had the full have the refugees. and by turn your crying even, she's doing her part and i think this is a call to international community. the yes, we do appreciate the support and crowd ugly. that emotional support is huge, but the emotional support doesn't give tangible support doesn't, doesn't, protects ukrainian pupils from the doesn't attack them from starving. doesn't attack them from being stuck in these condition. why they cannot help proper care. let me just bring in a new voice conversation. this is lauren co. ruth unknown can roof is looking at

ukraine humanitarians but looking at it from a local level, let's have a listen. let's have a look. i think we need to provide equitable services support and protection to local aid workers, ukrainians for the most part who were doing relief work on the ground. local a workers typically receive a fraction of to pay benefits, training and security services that ex pat international aid workers receive. they get fewer security details, less armor, less life insurance, less health care, and less mental health care services. but they perhaps need them even more or your how your volunteer staying on the ground. we caught you in the big the big part of the screen because yes, you know, your team have, have support. they have backup. they have, you know, you can switch them and you can switch them out, they're going to get time off eventually when they get out of compassionate leave, etc, etc. oh yeah. but what, what about your volunteers on the ground?

what do they all my volunteers, my volunteers. i work in 247. they sleep who are every, you know, the driver will and here is that we have they, they go to the say it is. they pick up the children with disability as their families. they transport them, they sleep together at the best friends location or they can get, you know, a place to sleep. it's a very tough walk and these guys that are essentially all stuff mobilized. so monday i called to the army or territorial defense. they will be gone and so yes, essentially, as you said, there is no rest for them. and i would like to say that i think that's going on. and my usual ukraine has not, has psychological, a fact far reaching, even outside of ukraine. we are based in the us. all of our team is extremely more belie. i'm a scientist and for 2 weeks now i just cannot do my work because all i can think of

is getting children to stay. and so many of my co workers are doing the same that you the last 3rd job to cation, the young neglect in their families. and this is the fact that the world now on youtube, brian says international humanitarian law is supposed to protect civilians while the air strikes targeting residential areas. and what is being done to ensure accountability. i feel like i'm going to split this question between step and yet if you explain the process by which you create a humanitarian corridor, you talk to generals on both sides. no one is listening. this is a legal against god. well, absolutely, this is, this is not something new, this is a, this is an obligation for countries or in, in the world. and, and i just want to address a couple of things because the, the frustration is,

is it is, it is very high. i understand that the united nations, the have stayed, the vast majority of our staff are ukrainians, earn the internationals we have. they have stayed in ukraine. they have all been moved. earth to true to safe locations. so i feel we're, we're in the same boat here on the message about stop shooting on, on, on aid workers. when they tried to go in and help. i could not agree more, but we need to sent that message in the right direction. and we are amplifying that message, or we can, but we are also our ourselves, as united nations humanitarians. we are under the same conditions as every one else . and i think it's, it's important to understand that that there is a united nations that worked if you like, under conflict how to stop the conflict. and then there's the united nations that what in the conflict for as long as it goes on,

because we cannot leave people behind. so we are, we are doing what we can to make this safe passage of people out safe passage offer office supplies in or hadn't, it would have happened days ago. i fully agree, but we keep working at it and hopefully in, you know, in coming days we will see some progress on this that well, why are rockets falling down on the residential areas that it's exactly the question that many of these residents civilians have. they have asked me why we are not a military target to vladimir putin is saying we're only hitting military targets. obviously not. this is a school, this is a neighborhood. and we were called brought us the russians called us brothers. and now our brothers are doing this to us. so there is this complete despair and an unreal feeling that in 2 weeks time, this does this,

a huge destruction village is destroyed, city is destroyed, and people are still trying to comprehend why, why and how is this possible? so there's all these questions and of course the government here is calling it a war crime and a genocide and a lot of people are agreeing are agreeing with that. so these business spare, i think, is something that the is really, really present in the whole of the country right now. earlier we spoke to layla, mata she is from the region refugee council. and this is what she told us. there needs to be an immediate cease fire to enable life saving relief for people in ukraine. one of the biggest challenges for delivery to the millions of ukrainians to find themselves at the front lines of the senseless war is an 8 workers themselves. are having to flee from attacks. my colleagues within a region repartee council in the ukraine. tell us that they're having to hide for

hours and nice and cold in our bomb shelters. and they can save lives when they're under a constant barrage of bombs and grenades. and that's a huge problem because the needs in ukraine are rising by today. on here, i want to show an or out is not a, a graphic, a map, it's on my laptop right now. let me explain what it is. it's can be compiled by 2 news agencies, the a s p and reuters. and they looked at all of the countries that are either providing military or humanitarian a to ukraine. so that is what we're seeing at the moment as of this week. so you can see the out pouring of how do we help ukraine, as is always the question that we're off every time we do an episode like face people are watching and they're thinking now what do we do? oh yeah. what direction do you want to give our audience? really a call on the international community to unite and keep providing military assistance,

ukrainian government, and unite to quote, ukraine, the sky, to arrange for a non fly song. this is really important. but the but the, to save the civilians and to give a chance to ukrainian military to you know, to the found to the find the ukraine. and i don't believe ukraine, ukrainian army. and so you're praying on government. ukraine. young people are all extremely united right now. and everybody is doing everything they can to stop the thrash and invasion and to ukraine. and i would ask everybody in the world reach out to your governments, ask them to support ukraine and tangible life. and we really hope that this will be don very on. yes,

i'm showing you have less than one minute left. so i'm going to ask you in a sentence from you and archers perspective, what would be your off to the international community watching right now? i think our asked is purely humanitarian. i want to say 2 things. first of all, we have seen the neighboring countries to ukraine receiving over 2000000 refugees. that is all very well come, i asked, or those people to also open their hearts to, to the ukrainians. thank you so much once and step. i know you will continue to see steps reporting on al jazeera and also, oh yeah, thank you so much. i'm gonna send you back here to my laptop that you can continue to follow al 3 guess whenever you need to on social. this is random for ukraine. will you find? oh, it's work. oh yeah. co founded this organization. this is yes, he will keep you up to date for sure. what's happening in ukraine and co step. that is her job. thank you for your insightful questions and comments. we do appreciate

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