oh is shifting says the marginalization of national people's congress since to be inevitable gentler. the theme of this year's gathering was economic and social stability. leaders say, addressing china's growing income gap and modernizing the countryside, our top priorities. modernizing the military is also on the agenda with defense spending jumping to 7 point one percent. the communist party wants to minimize surprises over the next few months. paving the way for what it hopes would be a smooth leadership transition during its party congress later this year. katrina, you are to 0 dating. ah, this village is there on these. the top stories. ukraine's emergency services say 3 airstrikes landed their residential building and the kindergarten internet pro, killing one person. the city was once considered relatively safe for people fleeing

besieged areas of ukraine. or that the ultimate has more from denito. when we 1st arrived here, it was as safe place is actually the place where the people fleeing. for example, the south that where you was upper region or from the north is hoping would come here as a transit point on their way out of the country on their way west of the country. so it was very important, it is very important to keep it safe, especially that that you have that siege and where you will at the moment. it is expected that a large number of people will come out of their large number of wounded will come out of there. and nibble would be the place really where they could 1st stop or get their treatment, and then go, oh, travel further away. so i would expect that this will cause a shock. new satellite imagery shows a large russian convoy that's been sitting outside the capital key if has been moved. parts of earth ought to be shelling the city of labianca. people to marry

a pole are struggling for food and fuel of the days of rush and bombardment. grain says more than 1300 people have been killed in the poor city. ukraine's president is accusing russia of war crimes. european union lead is a meeting for the final day of a summit in france. the rolled out fast tracking ukraine's request for a membership, but a considering tough sanctions. russia says it's allowed a ukrainian repair team to restore lost power to the chernobyl nuclear site. russian troops now controlled the defunct hands. the u. s. is threatening more sanctions against north korea, accusing it of developing a powerful intercontinental ballistic missile system. north korea suspended long range missile tests in 2017 not to launch his 1st missile capable of reaching the u . s. was the headlines. news continues on al jazeera right off that the stream and talk to al jazeera. we ask, do you believe that the threat of an invasion of ukraine is currently the biggest

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i have family. okay. it has been 2 weeks since russia invaded ukraine and getting humanitarian aid into ukraine. is becoming beginning to be increasingly difficult. so that is our focus today and we start without 0 correspondent, charles strafford. underground metro stations is where many people hide young and old stand patiently in line for food served by volunteers, bowl soup salad and bread. ah elona and her 12 year old daughter, nastier show us the train carriage where they've sheltered since their home was destroyed. she was did you know the name of it's dotted 12 days ago? a house was destroyed and is

night. we don't know where to live any more. i don't know where to go with my child . honestly help us. it is no. 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 humanity, terry, and work on the front lines of the ukraine conflicts right now, valley 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 to our stream. audience. tell. tell them why you're relevant to today's conversation. ernie. i'm all, you know, if i go founder and board member of it. awesome. and we are dealing with the emergency crisis response right now in ukraine. we have our established in 2014 and we've been working on ukraine and worry of projects from i t to fashion. but right

now, all of our assets are the, the voted to humanitarian assistance and also evacuation of children with special needs. oh yes, we're looking for to hear more from you in just a moment. yes. get to having here on the screen. please introduce yourself to our global audience. yeah, hi i'm, i'm jan. so i'm a spoke shortly for the united nations humanitarian coordination office in geneva. 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, as we just saw on your clip. oh, absolutely. hello, step get to have you on board. please introduce yourself to our global audience. i am a step fast and i'm currently in queue for the capital of few grain covering the story for elton or 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 gents or oh, year now is a really good time to ask them. you're watching things on the news and it's not making sense for you. you want to help you on a had talk about humanitarian aid and humanity. workers comment section right here . be part of today's program or a oh yeah. that story of the mom who is living in a, in a carriage under ground, that is one story. and to really understand the impact we can kind of have to do person by person. it's not a mass of people. is every individual person and a family. what would you tell us to also help us understand the kind of what you're doing and why it's 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 you have been successful in creating a lot of them. but unfortunately at 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 us, 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 inquired or established thorn that the poor people are mighty open can leave. and i hope that these 2 families that we 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, vestibular as 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 earth disasters. 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 our, our assistance ramped up. we, we, we did have before or before the 24th of february. of course a you an infrastructure if you like a few military and a program, a inside ukraine, that is now being beefed up very, very fast. we have a hat like that so many others had to leave or areas in active fighting. that did not mean that we left ukraine, not at all. we want to stay. we have now got our, our, our staff in 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 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 human a tarion 8 is going on, but it's also being shot at the people who bring in aid. they risk 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 to 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 shelling 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 they're, they're very 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 happened to and then i'm going to go to you too because we got some questions to keep against. and for the 1st, he's done a whole ah, a day of relative calm along temporary avenues of escape. war came suddenly to the people of ukraine getting away from it is much harder from cities

like sumi in the north where residential buildings were struck. and from enter godsa in the east liberal of the 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, another 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 humana, terry, and workers. when you are coming under threat from fighting, thank how are you able to do that? yes. to want to start an hour. you can pick up. 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 c of civilians were in very dire in dire need. it's our job is our obligation to do so. 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 team are in moscow now. talk it through to 2 officials there to get a system in place where, where this can happen. the 2nd thing that we need is then for aid to move in to 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 humanitarian 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 is awfully telling us allen. we have movers that it all comes out. but you have to make this happen. who are you talking to right now? because i see monitoring 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 we 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 college, quite some experiencing how to set this up. so we don't a job at eyes,

people's lives uneasy as they have 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, and moscow to get the agreement to get the things such a standard operating procedures in place for them to implement that will lay about their clearly 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 and 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 the ask in to close the sky. and there is that beg, humanitarian need. and that as while there's a need to protect the civilians to ensure that the squire doors are not violated. 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 set me go 1st, go ahead. yeah. 1 what i just wanted to add that they really feel abandoned at the moment by the world. 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 the ukraine and 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 grounds. we have people on the ground are very close. friends are volunteers who have been working with us for years. but you know, when you all over the country and my grandmother who is 80 years old, has the full,

has the refugees. and by turn, ukraine, even, she's doing her part and i think this is a call to international community. the yes we do appreciate the support, incredibly, emotional support is huge, but emotional support doesn't give tangible support doesn't, doesn't protect ukrainian, pupils from the doesn't, it's attacked them from starving. doesn't protect them from being stuck in these confessions why they cannot help proper care. let me just bring in a new voice tackle the station. 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 the 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. oh yeah, how are you, valentin staying on the ground? we go again, seen the big, the big part of the screen because yes, you will 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. what, what about you want to change on the band? what do they want? my volunteers, my volunteers. i work in 247. they sleep or, you know, the driver one here is that we have, they, they go to the state is they pick up the children with disability as their families . they transport them. they sleep together at the best friend locations where they

can get, you know, a place to sleep. it's a very tough work and these guys are essentially also mon belies. so monday i called to the army or territorial defense. they will be gone. and so, yes, essentially, as you've 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 now has psychological, a fact far reaching, even outside of your crime are based on the you, us, all of our a team is extremely mobilized. i'm a scientist and for 2 weeks now i just cannot do my work. because all i can think of is getting children off to safety. and so many of my co workers, i, i doing the same that you there laughter. a job took locations, the young neglecting their families. and this is the fact that the world now on you to bryan says international humanitarian law is supposed to protect civilians

while they asked strikes, targeting residential areas and what is being done to ensure accountability. i feel like i want to split this question between step and yet, and you explained the process by which you create humanitarian cordele. you talked to generals on both sides. no one is listening. this is illegal against that. well ever. 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 at the have stayed the vast majority of our staff are ukrainians, earn the internationals we have. they have stayed in 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 send 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 you 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 the day of asked me, why are 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, there's 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 in 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. ready ukrainians who 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 and 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 audi and also 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? and this is always a 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 directions you want to give our audience. i really a call on the international community to unite and keep providing military assessments to ukrainian government and unite to close ukraine, the sky to arrange for a non fly zones. this is really important, but the, the, to save the civilians and to get

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 your premium government, ukraine, young people are all extremely united right now. and everybody is doing everything they can to stop the thrash and invasion into 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 yansa shocking. we 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 ask is purely humanitarian. i want to say 2 things. first of all, we have seen the neighboring countries to ukraine receiving over 2000000 or

refugees. that is harry welcome. i asked of those people to also open their hearts to or 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 our 3 guess whenever you need to on social. this is ransom for ukraine. will you find? oh, it's work. oh, your co founded this organization is his. 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 you. i will see you next time. take care. ah. the important thing if you were walking around in beirut was not to be in the line

of fire from the holiday. paula, we heard gunshots. i was the 1st one to flee. the hot in the battle lasted 3 days and 3 nights and there were no prisoners at the control holiday in and you controllers the region around. and that's why i was such a bloody battle. an icon of conflict at the heart of the lebanese civil war, bay route holiday in war. whoa towels on al jazeera living in a war zone is a risk not worth taking for most but for a 10 year old boy, there is nowhere else to go. in the absence of his parents, his grandmother dedicates herself to his upbringing. never knowing whether the next explosion will echo one step closer to the place they call home the distant barking of dogs. a witness documentary on al jazeera, ah, allow government knowledge is iraq,

where ever you are. oh, i brush an asteroids on the ukrainian city of denise bro land, near a kindergarten killing, at least one person and airports and 2 western ukrainian cities are also targeted as roches military offensive widens. ah, i'm kid vanelle with continuing extensive coverage of the ukraine war. they've already endured hardship now, the anxious wait for people trying to say safe in ukraine's capital.