plan to rid the nation if some credit sites 11 east investigate on al jazeera ah, russia maintains its bombardment of the besieged, ukrainian city of mario paul, where a maternity hospital was destroyed on wednesday. ah . good morning from tow harvey. one. i'm come all santa maria, continuing coverage on al jazeera of the ukraine war as the top diplomats from both countries mate and turkey, but unable to agree on c spy. russia does agree though, to allow a ukrainian repaired team to reconnect power to. to novel is the un watchdog looks

to secure the nuclear science. it's a very dire situation, and we need to move fast and rushes. president vladimir putin denounces sanctions as the legal warning. i will backfire against the west. so the foreign ministers of ukraine in russia have met and failed to agree on any measures to reduce fighting in a war which is now into the 3rd week. hundreds of thousands of civilians are trapped in cities sheltering from russian air raids and shelling situation in the se in port city of mario paul is particularly dia. russian forces have kept up their bombardment adapter. an ass strike killed 3 people at a maternity hospital just wanting to talk about the report from western you kind does contain images that some of you may find distressing. in mary a pool, they are bearing their daddy in mass graves. what was

unimaginable 2 weeks ago is now daily life. there's no time for papa good buys. in the southern ukrainian city days of russian shelling have killed more than a $1200.00 people and cut water and power supplies grow at the beginning. yet we have no gas. what we are freezing. we have no food men. low tier three's. i've been caught. bodies have been buried in the yards of their bottom blogs. it's so scary. we can't leave leg this with your toner wound. good humor, re from our yo bull. we're being bombed from all directions. pray for mothers with children, please. it's very hard and is getting worse. yet another attack leaves residence in this part of the city. bewildered and wondering why russia continues to say its military is not targeting civilian areas and the ukrainian forces or infrastructure . but no one here believes that in the eastern city of hockey,

if more apartment blocks and streets are shattered. after another night of shedding and over the northern city of just a mere disguise. echo with an now familiar sound. ah sure who use me. we'll just now there was another air strike, a thermal electricity plant was damaged and a civilian building. nearly all of the windows were blown out of our main hospitals, biggest building and children's hospital. the fighting has not reached west in ukraine, but most people fear that it won't be long. outside the city of the thief, agricultural land like this is key to the war effort. this far might be far behind the front lines, but the impact of this war is already being felt. the was created a renewed sense of duty for petro and his family farms like his are essential to help feed people in the country. but he says the conflict is disrupting production

oller of an echo, but we are concerned about oh, we'll get seeds, fertilizer and fuel, because boats are now blocked, nor your club would approve. if we have delays in receiving animal feed, for example, it will affect milk production of ours. we need, we label supplies occur. ukrainians continue to do all they can to help each other and defend their country. but people are getting tired. they want the war to end user who will as if we only thing i want is with this to be finished. i don't know who's guilty, who's right people who started this. them every one of those people who started this. what do i feel? i just have to live on dreaming about the future becomes impossible when the present is a nightmare. when people spend their days battling for survival or being forced to face their worst fears. tasha butler al jazeera coolie, keith western ukraine. let's have

a look now at some of the latest satellite imagery which has come out of ukraine. we've got the fuel storage air. you see the tanks there at the anton of international airport at a congo facility with a john, anton of air freight as operate that was hit was on fire. and this image, you can see some of those planes there in the middle, which had been hit, in fact, the world's largest cargo aircraft, known as the maria was destroyed in a russian attack early in this conflict. now, what we've done is matched this area with google earth, which actually uses the same max, our satellite imagery. so those are the plans that you saw. these are the fuel tanks as we come in a little bit closer, which you saw on fine. now just for the geographical context, here's the whole airport, which is in a fairly rural looking area, isn't it? but when resume even further out, you see that it is actually only 25 kilometers as the crow flies to the center of give about 55 kilometers by road. and that is why people are so concerned about this russian advance. in fact,

half the population of cape has now left as russian forces move closer, towns on the outskirts of the capital of come under intense shelling and people escaping a telling of atrocities they say of being committed by russian soldiers set. branson has spoken to some of them chased away thy bombs and bullets. these refugees are trying to understand why their lives were destroyed in just 2 weeks. the apartments shalt and burnt they took the brunt of the russian offensive towards the capital. residence of butch and war sell in the northwest of keith were finally evacuated after being locked up in their basements for days with little food and water, their cities now under russian control. oh, what islam, the russians tell us not to be afraid, they will not hurt us, but they create conditions that are very frightening. we see that people who try to move out of the city by cars carrying their things are being shot at. we could see the front st covered in blood fit, lana,

dirtier escaped with her husband and children after russian troops shot at our house and took over the apartment block. if one of all are they are going 30 years later, they said nothing to people whose apartments they occupied to one person they said just go to the basement. one neighbor wanted to come to his flat to take some clothes before evacuating, but they did not allow him. he left with only his documents, utter stellers about russian soldiers throwing smoke grenades into basements, to force people out and ordering men and boys to strip and crawl. a woman tells us an 11 year old boy was killed doing that. they have not only managed to escape a war zone, but also the harshness of life under russian occupation. many here are too afraid to share their stories on camera instead of liberating ukrainians from naziism and flattery. me put and says he wants to do men here. say there's nothing liberating about this war, aren't you? were morgan for jerry? the russian advanced towards the capital received a serious blow when ukrainian forces destroyed part of a large column of tanks,

ukrainian air for so far as also managed to protect the give from serious attacks from the sky. that ukraine is suffering losses to lafayette nickel thought about the lucas lost our tanks bombed as well in the streets of boucher. there is a large column of destroyed russian tanks, but close to our house. there is a column of ukrainian tanks also destroy visa, florida. me escape russian occupied butcher just one hour away from keith. he says russian soldiers match people fall into the same cart on the go to my awesome guys, what are you doing here? everyone who's speaking russian, who are you trying to liberate? many here from don't mass we came in 2014. they gestured to me that they had no idea what the little while russian soldiers might not be sure about the goal of this war to many ukrainians. it's clear they believe flat me put in his aiming for

my don square in the center of keith, a symbol of a revolution 8 years ago that brought ukraine closer to europe, a price that ukraine will defend, that all they have steadfast and al jazeera keith mentioned a little bit earlier, the russian foreign minister circ a lover of meeting his ukrainian counterpart, dimitri labor in turkey, their 1st face to face talk since rushes invasion collaborate, said they discussed, even just the 24 hour c 5, but made no progress. jamal l shell isn't until he at turkey, where those talks happened. no real tangible results, despite the high profile meeting between the top diplomats, from russia and ukraine. the language used by the 2 in their separate respective press conferences, was very interesting. on the one hand, dmitri color by the from minister of ukraine, said that russia had rejected his country's request for it 24 hours. he's fire. he

said that it appeared that moscow's foreign minister didn't even have the power to make decisions for himself. 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, since it seems that there are other decision makers for this, for this matter in the russian. now, whether abouts was ukraine's foreign minister simply scoring points against his washing counterparts, or whether that's a further furthering the narrative over his country, that the invasion of ukraine and the war on ukraine by russia is in fact one that is soul. you orchestrated by president, let me put in an attempt to further isolate him. analysts will be discussing on the other side, the russian foreign minister defended his country's actions,

saying that they had taken those actions not to occupy ukraine. and so much as to the militarize. it and prevented from becoming what he described as a neo nazi states. you said you military is up. see 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 state and ukraine. of course we want ukraine to be neutral. tarkey says it will continue exhausting all the efforts and all the resources it has to try and find a peaceful solution to this ongoing war. but whilst it enjoys good relationships, both with key of and with moscow, it doesn't lock in the leverage. and the pressure needed to force concessions from either side. over the next 2448 hours, very high level talks taking place, significant talks in at least the representation this has happened here and, and tanya, but still a long way to go before we can find even the horizons of

a diplomatic solution to this ongoing war are covered from ukraine continues in a moment to british sanctions on one russian 1000000000. i mean a famous football club can no longer sell merchandise and the rest of the day's news, as well as china's top legislative body, just finished at the annual meeting. we will take you to beijing, see what's been decided ah hello, we got some other nasty weather forecasts to the east side of the us over the next couple days. latest weather system is in the process of pulling out to the way that's getting dragged out into the atlantic, but the next one that will gradually make his way a little further southwards and eastwards. we got warmer to the south of that and

we got some pretty cold air still in place across northern most part. so then but minus 7 celsius on thursday afternoon, as you can see, dallas at around 21 celsius. the code where talks by the south was 3 degrees celsius in dallas for friday. so that's something of a change. don't put away. you went to wardrobe just yet. we have got the malware started to push its way back in as we go on through saturday. so it is chopping and changing over the next couple of days at the moment. we've got some very heavy rain still around the panhandle. there's that when she makes, which will cool things off in dallas. now these 2 systems actually come together as we go on through sass day wet weather, pushing up the eastern seaboard, bumping into our line of very cold air. significant. we wet snow coming up towards that northeast corner into the eastern side of canada. so it is gonna cause some merger fraction over the next day or 2 mile across the caribbean. this modified and sunny, which is one or 2 showers. ah,

the with some of the world largest resent najia provides much of the uranium that fuels your it's nuclear power plant was it won't cost people empower, follows the uranium trail from 0 to the shores of the mediterranean and investigates the devastating effects on the planets. and all those healing habit, the industry, ha, ha ha, said you am on al jazeera with the me on out of the are, these are the latest headlines out of ukraine residents in the port city of mario,

false, a russian fall of the once again bombarding them a day after attacking a maternity hospital. marcus as a hospital that was being used by fight has not patient and russian and ukrainian foreign ministers meeting in turkey failed to agree on how to stop the fighting. is where the most high level discussions between the 2 sides, thrushes, and facial versus called a un security council meeting for friday. it wants to discuss the allegations that the u. s. has been helping ukraine to develop biological and chemical weapons. whitehouse dismissing all of this is laughable america and ukraine also suspect rusher is in fact laying the groundwork to use such weapons itself as there are muslim, looked at and you guys are all younger with their spreading lies to cover up the crimes that committing against she cried in mary, a poll and dozens of other cities in their alleging that we're developing biological and chemical weapons on the i'm very concerned because we've already seen russia accuse others and then commit the crime itself. listen to the

accusation, that's in russian mass media. it shows they capable of doing this. i'm russian military personnel, special services have already done this and other countries and they announced that they might get cancellations. and then they conducted themselves again and again. i think russia says it has allowed a ukrainian repair team to restore lost power to the chin of the nuclear side. russian troops have now seized the defunct plant, where the world's worst atomic is also happened back in 986. also taken over the nuclear pond, which is your largest development of alarm, the un nuclear watchdog. his chief had talks with russia and ukraine on thursday. one important thing is that ukraine and the russian federation want to work with us with us. they agreed to work with us and they are prepared to work with us. perhaps the gravity of my tony has to do with the revenue of the situation. i,

because it's a very dire situation and we need to move fast and i am. i am aware of the responsibility we have and he expectations that that are bennett ram bags an author on nuclear proliferation. and he says, atomic sites need to be secured and quickly. one of the ideas presented by the international atomic energy agency is too greedy 30 kilometer exclusionary zone within those other vanilla no on the military action. and this will be hit very, very, very wise. there are 4 plants in ukraine, and one of the plants is occupied now to local is just the area the 3 plants remain and it's uncertain what the russians are going to do with regard to these are or re portion days past that though russian forces were approaching one of the other plants, it's a very, very serious situation where these plants from boarded or electricity cut off. and there's other vulnerabilities associated with each and subtleties of the plant.

there of course is default because of the accident that occurred, like maybe 6 or where were there spent fuel are situated at the plant of a $20000.00 rods and situated with at the been therefore we're now decades and they're not generating that much heat. the electricity was suspended from the plant because of the russian military action. evidently, some efforts are being entertainers. and as we talked, you reconnect the plants of but there's no immediate hazard posed by this particular matter of. they're still residue hillary itself as well from the actually, we've never had a situation in the past. we've had multiple reactors in the were city that have been subject to military attack. and the russians should know better. a sense of the soviet union was involved in the worst dog interaction with the international communities ever seen that think it's a golf course on the economic side of things. the russian president has acknowledged that sanctions imposed on the country and him in fact, creating challenges. but even to overcome what he described as illegal measures

suggested there in fact, backfiring on the west, you know, just doing is 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. and he's one of the barriers more from moscow on persons plan a he had a session with a number of his ministers, including the finance minister. and they had some ideas, the 1st being that they are going to and take 500000000000 roubles from the state budget and allocated to family members. people in the country who are in need of

financial assistance for their children between the ages of 18 and 16 that will come into effect 1st of april. and they also said that they will air bring into effect at $200.00 export items that russia has at that will be banned from exporting until the end of this year. that it will include and ban on certain number of goods to $45.00 or $48.00 rather countries including countries in the e. u and the united states. the government hasn't released the exact details of that list, but there is a number of items that include and things from the automotive industry to the agriculture sector. this is indirect, a retaliation to the sanctions that they are. western governments have imposed on russia. vladimir putin saying that it is an economic warfare what they have done and the country will survive. he's a reassuring the russian public that they will find solutions to old problems and

there is no need to panic. britain meanwhile, is tightening the sanction screws? adding 7 russian, all the gods to its blacklist, ravenna brum of insurance the chelsea football covers among them. the baka has this report from london. ah, 2 year old peter hardimen got his hands on the last chelsea shirt from the club shop before it closes doors. he's wearing a piece of football history. now the roman abramoff era is over. they closed the door behind us both are and so if there's really normal in the shop and you want to fall the war sanctions at obasi and the doors close enough said the amount of money vessel really seems like he loves the club. it probably isn't just a lie pumped out by some media team of his thing or no to make him look. games will be allowed to continue. salaries will still be paid. b, u k. government sanctions have stopped. chelsea from selling merchandise and even new tickets to matches and lucrative sponsorship deals are jeopardy. abramoff

ventures own chelsea for 19 years overseeing a reversal of the clubs fortune with a massive injection of cash. but moscow's invasion of ukraine has focused the attention on his alleged ties. we vladimir putin put in the oligarch on a collision course of the british government enough to work. so i think when you look at what is happening in ukraine and you, you look to the, are the casual rejection of every norm of civilized behavior in embalming a, a maternity hospital. i think people in this country, i can see that people connected or to the putin regime a need to be sanctioned. and that's what we're doing. the sanctions our mediate, including a freeze on all assets and a travel band. it's something abramoff which appears to have seen coming, and i'm seeing the club was up for sale last week. putting some of his multi $1000000.00 portfolio of london properties on the market. abramoff, which also has a state in everest steel, had quoted in london with operations in russia and ukraine. the british government

says the company had potentially been involved in supplying steel to the russian military and use in the production of tanks. after 2 weeks of fighting in ukraine, the next is finally starting to close around some of those seen as facilitators of la putin and as such the war in ukraine. but the question is whether this is 2 weeks too late to prevent abramoff, which another oligarchs from simply shifting their money elsewhere. abramivitch also holds portuguese and israeli passports and spent a lot of time in the u. e. there were no shortage of places for him to stash his billions. as a similar story for the 6 other oligarchs added to britain's sanctions list, including alexei miller, the head of russian energy, giant gas prom eager set him the owner of ra, snapped oil company, a metals magnate, o like dairy pasco, all members of putins in a circle this being called the end of the roman empire sanctions aimed at stopping

abramoff h and others making money in the u. k. as for the club, it's future is uncertain. he needs a new well hailed owner quickly. now the most prominent russian oligarch in britain is no longer welcome neath parker al jazeera london. ok. we do have some other news to take you through china's premier, has admitted that achieving economic growth targets of 5 and a half percent will not be easy. after delegates, the country's top legislative body voted in favor of reaching that goal. his national people's congress also approves an increase in the military budget. while briefing journalists later, the premier league chang also spoke about the war and ukraine and its impact on the global economy. katrina year inviting to take us through this one premier league last annual press conference. in this role,

i understand what else to be of to say. as he mentioned earlier, kamala he was really focused on the economy now trying to set a g d p growth target of 5.5 percent for the coming year. and though it's the lowest growth target, john has said for decades, it's also been described as very ambitious given the crisis in ukraine and the continuing pandemic. now premier leak chung acknowledged that this would not be an easy target to meet or to defend the figure saying that the such a big economy it would be impossible to maintain high or medium level growth especially given that china also faces other challenges such as climate change and, and increasing income gap as well. he then went to, let's talk about how they doing, trying to achieve this growth target. he said that the ton has resisted any sort of major stimulus package since the beginning of the curve in 1900 outbreak. that the government was rolling out some measures to boost spending. that it would cut taxes

to help struggling small businesses, as well as implement some policies to encourage more jobs to help those who are employed, especially recent graduates. now he also commented, of course, on the war in ukraine. he repeated china's lines that china is deeply concerned about the situation. their hopes that it eases its aggrieved. he also called on all parties to exercise maximum restraint to prevent any humanitarian crisis. now as to china's role, he simply said that beijing would continue to one criticize sanctions, as he said that they were not helping, especially the global economy, which is still struggling to recover from the pandemic. he said that china would provide humanitarian age in china has a flag that it will provide at least $800000.00 in aid to ukraine, which is not as much as other countries, but still that's what they're giving. and he said that china will also continue to

support peace talks. but again, we, we did not hear any sort of condemnation or criticism of the invasion or even the use of the word invasion that whole. ok. the event itself, the national people's congress, it's a, it's a yearly thing, isn't it? i was this one in 2022 differing or the national people's corps is essentially china's parliament. this is about $3000.00 of the country's most powerful communist policy officials meeting every year to vote on legislation that will sort of direct the future of the country for the next year at least. now in previous years, these people have voted on laws that were open to the public. these are released made visible to public for feedback or even criticism. but in recent years, especially since corbett and especially this year, the walls have been passed by this group of people. they haven't been,

there hasn't been much transparency at all. so this year they voted on several administrative laws, mostly budget laws. but none of these details are very few. have these details have been made open to the public. and analysts that we've spoken to have said, well, this really reflects the diminishing role of the national people's congress. as more power in china, it becomes concentrated at the very top level around she gin pig and of course she's paying is later this year expected to begin his unprecedented the 3rd term in power. thank you. katrina, you with those updates from aging. the pentagon says north korea tested a new intercontinental ballistic missile system. amazon was 1st despite in 2020 and then tested in february and march of this year. north korea says the tests are focused on developing a reconnaissance satellite. alan fisher has one that well, clearly the united states is concerned if north korea was developing

intercontinental ballistic missiles. because that would do exactly what it says on the 10, which means that american cities would suddenly become within target of any north korean weapons. that is why they're watching what is going on here. they've increased surveillance in the yellow sea area. they're also telling their courses, dallas, in the area, japan and south korea that their support is absolutely iron clod. now the us seems to think that at the north koreans are using the idea of them developing a space program to test these icbm. because of course, north korea has said in the past, every country has the right to a space program and they are no different. however, the us thinks that it's simply just the cover and the cold or north korea to stop development and proliferation all these weapons. and they've called on the international community as well,

to band together to warn the north korea that they can't do this. seeing that any action like this on behalf of north korea is a clear breach of several united nations resolutions. so what is the u. s. going to do about, apart from gather together international support. bowlers, the strong possibility that there could be sanctions with talk here in washington that new sanctions against north korea could be announced at some point within the next 24 hours. ah. happens they are, and these are the latest developments out of ukraine residents in the port city of mary, a pulse, a russian forces, and once again bombarding them a day after attacking the maternity hospital in the area. moscow says that facilities be used by fighters, not patients, attack kill at least 3 people and injured only 17 others for monday, reviewing.