the meeting is adjourned. a long record of russian lies established at the security council. the woods bay, their of survey keys, lithia b, ukrainian, permanent ambassador to the united nations. responding of course to the presentation. early wrong by the russian ambassador to the united nations security council responding to this meeting that which was called, that russia's request. in order to discuss russia's concerns about the use as russia sees it and evidence of the, of the possible use of chemical and biological weapons. as russia sees it, us efforts to support ukrainian programs related to chemical and biological weapons . well, so gay, a master the survey went on to say that ukrainian cities are the ones which are being raised to the ground. you some pretty strong language calling russian

operation, uncivilized barbaric and mean. let's go to mike hannah and mike, a very strong. once again, as he, as you would expect, a very strong rebuttal of the entire russian narrative there from the ukrainian ambassador. yes, and we also heard from the ukrainian ambassador there his allegation that russia has shot itself in the foot again as he puts it by calling for this meeting and allowing a number of states to put their position clear in terms of what they described as rushes illegal activities, invasion of ukraine, a possibly leading to war crimes charges. so very, very spirited defense from the ukrainian ambassador. we heard from several other ambassadors, a complete rejection of russia's claim that ukraine is operating a military by a weapon project along with the united states. as several ambassadors describing

that as sheer nonsense, even china was restrained in terms of its comments on the matter. so russia call this meeting to discuss it's allegation, but it didn't turn out that a number of other nations took the opportunity to further scold and criticize russia for its actions. we also had briefings at the beginning of the meeting from the secretary for peacekeeping for peacemaking. and she may very clear that the civilian toll is getting higher and higher. she said she can confirm that russia is using cluster bombs in attacks on civilian areas. we also heard from the uh, the high dip the hide commissioner for a disarmament. and she also made very clear and said very bluntly, there is no evidence whatsoever of any military biological program in ukraine. so in

a way the allegation by the ukrainian ambassador there that russia has shut itself in the foot by calling for this meeting may well be borne out in terms of that massive criticism and the detail that we heard in the course of the past few hours . or i, thanks so much my can either. now and they, 16 of russians invasion of ukraine forces have expanded the aerial attack, leading to more suffering and bloodshed, cities that once provided shelter to ukrainians. escaping the war will now be themselves a being bombed from live jo, how reports, now israel called here today minus 8 degrees in the east and city of caves. the losses are so great that reports are rendered in numbers. 400 buildings destroyed since the war began. including $48.00 schools, a $190.00 civilians, dead residential areas struck $89.00 times in

a single day. as if counting them somehow complete the picture as one bombed out buildings starts to look much like another. they don't wait for the air raid sirens anymore in hunt. keith, many haven't left the city's metro stations for more than a week ago. if you go to the asia theater is where i sleep. this young woman says over there on my things, and there is where we will sit ever more civilians are getting caught up in this war. ukraine's defense minister says russia has killed more innocent people than it has ukrainian soldiers. one day war historians may argue about which city had it worst. today, though it is surely marry a pole that is most like ukraine's stalingrad besieged for more than 10 days. hundreds of thousands, unable to escape, deprived of water, and heat, and temperatures well below 0. a red cross official in the city described children

going hungry. a black market in vegetables fights breaking out over food conditions . the mayor calls medieval and the president describes as outright and terror developing the reward. this is our right in terror blades of terror from various terrorists. we the world needs to know that not it has to admit, as when we are dealing with the terrorist statement we see by bombard, critical infrastructure continues to get hit with a special focus on military air fields like here in lutes, northeast of cave and yvonne of frank keeps in the west. as evacuation roots continue out of some embattled places. a tide of humanity is shifting across this country. and not all of it heading for the border. the united nations estimates a 1000000 people have become displaced internally seeking shelter, where they can find it. like junior, the 24 year old mother of 3 stoking the wood fire in an abandoned farm house,

600 kilometers from her home outside cave. they even brought the dog a labrador pup called gerda, but they didn't bring dad. he stayed behind to join the territorial defense. long as raj from the children know that their dad is defending the city. they understand that i believe in one year it will be over and will be able to go back. genia and her children are being relocated now to a better home in the village this tiny, rural outpost in west and ukraine, like so many others throwing their arms wide open to fellow ukrainians through the war by law the you and also estimates the 12000000 people inside ukraine will need humanitarian help, and few besides, ginia are guessing how long it might be before they are able to go home journal al jazeera leaf or well, live in the river and keith. but 1st,

let's go over to him. mon kahn. he's in ukraine's capital emron. we know the following news about this large column of russian armor. where what position is it taking right now? where it's very unclear as to exactly what position is been taken. we're relying on satellite imagery or to get us those pictures though some latest picture came out in the last 24 hours. and it showed that large, our column of russian armored actually dispersed into the woods now and other places around others are going to be a potential few reasons for that. we don't know what the actual reason that might be. it may well be a tactical regrouping ah air after ukrainian air strikes, managed to hit some of her though that armor. it may well be that um, they actually going and deploying russian armor to other front lines. now that

could be something that we are that could be happening. we have heard of that. a russian army has been sent to back up a various different front lines, but we, more than likely, but we're not entirely sure what residents here are saying is actually they're preparing for an offensive on acc here. all we really know is something significant has happened. something significant has changed. it's got residents here are spooked. you think actually we may be looking at a imminent invasion of the city. now m, ron, i know you, you're probably aware we in the days in the weeks leading up to this, we heard from the mayor of kia sang, you know, we've got this under control, we can manage this or keep the basic services going. how does it look now? well, right now, i'll show you the basic. so this is only can see the electricity on in the streets

are, but it is completely empty. ah, there's very few cars. there's a curfew that's going to stop in about an hour and a half, 2 hours time at 10 o'clock local or see these restaurants and he shops there all a shot or what the restaurant hers and her. the shifts that are doing is actually opening up those kitchens and sending food to some of the people that have been fling places like i've been and coming here to keep. now we arrived here thursday night, quite late and we saw a column of cars trying to get in or to keep. now it's actually surprisingly your boss to couple questions to find out why. cuz normally people are actually leaving . i'm, we were hearing that people in our fleeing areas that the russians getting closer to on the outskirts of care of and they're coming here. now, would they stay here? we don't know. a lot of what people are telling us is that they're coming in to pick up supplies to refuel, to go to a safer area like levine,

or even in fact leave ukraine altogether. all right, im ron con, there live from the ukrainian capital. thanks for keeping us up to date with how it looks there. it's good and fashionable now. she joins us live to, but from live that in west, in ukraine we've seen a natasha. the strikes, the russian strikes widening towards air fields in the west. right? yes sir, there were 2 a russian a strikes on 2 air fields in the western ukraine. this part of the country that is a been pretty sped in this conflict so far more or less, most of the fighting taking place in the north, in the east or in the south. but 2 air fields was struck one outside the city of arno front wisc. that's in the south west of ukraine, not far from the border with hungry and romania. there you heard the mer, talk about plumes of smoke. he said there were 3 explosions. and then another,

a large explosion, we believe a russian long range missile hitting the air field outside of litski in northwest in ukraine. our newest is a 150 kilometers from this city lafitte, where we are reporting from now and i can tell you the people in this city attorney feeling a lot more anxious than they were a few days ago. people are more worried overnight. the air raid sirens were wailing . people had to scurry downstairs, into their basements, underground, their apartments into shelters at about 4 a. m. and there were more sirens again during the day, which saw people having to leave the street and trying to find cover. so there is a feeling of people being a lot more nervy and not more a tense. and this is a city as well, cuz so many people have come to from across ukraine. they have fled other parts where the fighting has been very difficult, very intense. they've come here for refuge, sometimes to stop here in the city and in the surrounding,

sometimes to move on to poland. but for many people, they feel that this is a safe haven. but now these attacks and western ukraine, i've made some people wonder whether or not the conflict is closing in whether it could come here in the end or whether or not this war is simply changing direction . and plenty of fighting, going on. but further east from where you are as well as i shall take us through the state of play in the rest of the country. well, there are still so many fresh points across the country where there is still fighting where russian shelling continues those areas outside the capital car. hockey you saw there in jonas were poor parts of that city absolutely. are destroyed on recognizable. you know, 40 schools, kate, as you heard in his report, and then in a mario paul, the poor city on the sea of as off in the south, a city where people have been trying to evacuate now for nearly 10 days. because

the situation there is so difficult, 400000 people says the mare of maria, probing, kept hostage by russian shelling. those are his words to describe a city where people barely been able to leave their shelters under ground because of the heavy shelling where there have been bodies in the street where there are mass barrels, because there is no time to get people individual burial. so there is no time to say good bye to people's a terrible situation. then what we understand is that this is another day where people were unable to be evacuated because it wasn't safe. so how long that will go on? i don't know. i can only imagine you can only imagine how people are feeling that they must be just wondering why on earth this is happening to them. all right, thanks so much. and tasha bottler now, russian president vladimir putin. well, he's backed plans to allow foreign volunteers into east and ukraine. the kremlin says more than 16000 applications have already been received from middle eastern

countries under threat reports from moscow, from a middle east battlefield to a european one. syrian soldiers are being asked to join rushes fight in ukraine. we sacrifice our blood and soul for you, syria for you. bashar is that call to arms on the banners. it reads the great russian army. we will defeat the nazis. this is from the social media channel of russia's defense ministry. and russia's president says they're welcome to come to don bus back in easton ukraine way russian buck separatists from done yet. can ganske a fighting government forces in response to reports of foreign fighters joining ukraine's army? the russian government says it too is had requests from all over the world to join the battle regarding the gathering of soldiers from around the world for you green . we see them divest, and sponsors of the ukrainian regime do not keep it secret. they do it openly, disregarding international law. so if you see people who want all the interior

league without payment to come and help people in dumbass while we need to meet their efforts and help them reach to combat zone on the talks of ukraine. the most recent were on thursday in turkey. who tim says his negotiators tell him, there are certain positive shifts tonight. he was talking to bell russian present, alexander lucas shanker, who was in moscow. lucre shank has given russia troops an access to its territory to help the invasion of ukraine. it's bought by the ruth, a similar level of sanctions and as russia faced with sheets and we have been overcoming the sanctions for as long as you like, we have to build back our economy. we can do without them. we have everything to live and work normal, but life in russia is not normal at the moment. as a further threatened crackdown on social media highlight this. facebook says it's relaxing, it's hate speak rules in relation to rushes, invasion of ukraine. so prosecutors here won't parent company matter,

declared an extremist organisation, and facebook and instagram to blocked criminal cases have also been opened into matters staff though none a based here is the company as long resisted demands to open an office in russia. bernice algebra, moscow. us president joe biden has warned russia will pay a terrible price if it uses chemical weapons. biden was speaking as he announced, how shall sanctions on moscow said the us and its allies would also strip fresh of its trading status, which could lead to highest harris on import. each of our nation is going to take steps to deny most favored nation status. to russia and most favored nation status designation means 2 countries have agreed to trade with each other under the best possible terms. low terrace, few barriers, trade and the highest possible import allowed talk shebra can see now in

washington d. c. so how does that latest step that joe biden announce that differ from previous sanctions? and is a bit symbolic as far as the u. s. is concerned, at least because, given all the sanctions that the u. s. is already opposed on russia, it's pretty clear that russia is not a favorite nation when it comes to trade. it was interesting that joe biden said he actually had to stop congress from acting a bit earlier. this house to actually be ratified by congress in this country. because he wanted to get unanimity which had all the g 7 allies. so it seems that congress wanted to do this a little earlier, but bite and finally got that consensus amongst g 7 nations to also revoke favored nation status. and now congress will not, not when it comes to europe in nations, for example. this is a big deal for russia because they have follow trade with russia in the us. the us has relatively small amounts of trade in by and also mentioned there, the rushes lack of access now to the i,

m f and the well by danny also announced terrace and sanctions and executive order against russian goods like sea food vodka and diamonds, which will total about a $1000000000.00, again, rather small amounts. and he said he would go down. he would go off to russia to oligarchs in the us. but actually because he said there is a debate, but it is now really getting it together, especially amongst progressive circles. the daily poster here in the u. s. which is also why is the us not actually going off to the dark money in the us that we know is flooding in from rationale galks and others, which goes into private equity firms, which goes to show companies which goes into hedge funds, which is loan did through real estate and auction houses, and we haven't really seen that sort of action yet. of course, the answer is going to progressive is because whenever the white house or congress attempts to shine a light on these dark corners of the u. s. is finances, wool streets, and corporate interests, poor in the lobbying money and prevent any about happening. it's been going on for

years. so we never really know what's going on in these dark corners of the financial world in the us. we still don't know, and we haven't seen any action on those corners when we know that there's actually quite crucial to russian oligarchy and russian interests in the us. i guess we'll well know that the us is really serious when we start seeing some movement. and we understand president biden spoke to the creamy and present survey. what came up in that we've got a pretty, pretty usual standard sort of read out from the white house president biden's quote with presidents and then ski to underscore the support for the ukranian people as they continue to defend the country against russians on projects, non justified attack, president biden highlighted how the u. s. is continuing to search security, humanitarian economic assistance. ukraine. you also updated president sky on the actions, the u. s. a 2nd, then coordination with the g 70 you to further raise the costs to russia. and so we have all right, thanks so much for time. see there i'm french president emmanuel,

my call says the you is ready to hit russia with fresh sanctions if food and keeps bombing ukrainian cities who's speaking at the end of a 2 day summit in verse i. leaders have been discussing how to reduce the blocks dependency on russian energy. now 40 percent of europe's natural gas demand is supplied by russia. e. u leaders of warned of the need to defend the block against awesome russian countermeasures. missy lucy mal is that we will see what president putin says after his talks with chancellor shorts. but if he intensifies his bombardments and continues laying siege to kiva, despite insisting that things are moving forward, as we know that we will have no other choice. but to impose yet more massive sanctions. this crisis has indeed made us face up to our responsibilities in the face of a new reality. first,

our duty to continue ensuring reliable, secure, and affordable supply of energy to european consumers. in the midterm, this means getting rid of our dependency on russian gas by diagnose if occasion of supply my massively investing and renewables allow the primary care with a james base. paul's now from verse i, he wants that to be a situation where ukraine can join the you as fast as possible and certainly want to this summit to make ukraine, formerly a candidate country. that for the tracking of that status is not happened at this meeting. they didn't even mention in the statement and the formal statement, the word candidate country. what they've done instead is ask the european commission when presidents lensky put in that full mil applica cation on the day that the european parliament was meeting since then they've also europe in

commission to make it assessment of that application as quickly as possible. so that does speed things up a bit, but clearly we're not even really the star to the actual members. that membership procedure, which is when you become candidate country. and that then takes years. so what president lensky wants, or what they've offered here, the europe and leaders are not the same thing. and it's worth telling you that the meeting here be very intense. it went on very late into the night until 2 30 in the morning local time. and some of the disagreements were on that very issue. there are some countries, particularly the baltic states, who'd like to see this really foss trucks. ukraine made any as fast as possible and the u. k. a sanctioned more than 300 ac russian politicians are voting to recognise to ukrainian separate this regions in the run up to the war. the sanctions target politicians and russia's lower house of parliament, the duma. those blacklisted will be banned from traveling to the u. k. the measures

will also start them from accessing any u. k based assets or doing business in the country. andrei feather of is, the former deputy foreign minister of russia, is currently chairman of the fun for political research and consulting in russia, joins us by skype from moscow. good to have you with us. we start with the latest moose in sanctions. how much of a problem for russia? will it be the latest step that we heard from joe biden, the us president, they denying russia that permanent normal trading status? is that a big concern? oh, it's quite a big concern for number of industries like so the russian steel industry, aluminium believer is, etc, etc. but the most cedar sanctions have been sort of used previously, especially concerning our airlines. and we'd sure should return the fleet,

which is our lives in 85 percent of the airplanes should be returned to the owners in now in 2 weeks. and this means that the whole air traffic is rush. it can be blow already. russian airlines, all rational airlines are not leaving the space and space of russia. they're not allowed to fly anywhere. now. and this is one of the more serious problem for russia. the 2nd, of course, is the program of our currency reserves which are blocked. and that's why a, for example, the rate of dollar jump from 8 to roubles now to $120.00. so it is damaged a lot, all in birth expert operations and know what is much more serious. this is the problem on our energy sector because our energy loss export of

a raw materials all that center is forming about 606066 percent of the budget. now at all the currency coming and this is the problem for the future. so expert are saying that the 1st the bell, my 3 on march 16th, when there will be a technical default on russian euro bonds if russia will not be capable of pay at the oldness coupon interest. and i thought of july, i'm glad you mentioned that because i was gonna ask you, what is the likelihood of a default? ah, ah garmin says that though it will not allow mom and the same time government specialists are saying that it's quite possible because russia should be on their march 6th year, 170000000 dollars. and this is quite

a big saw some now for russia, because we have gold reserves, but we don't have nearly nothing in currents is out a blas, the current decision of united states and european union not allowing to export us dollar bills and euro bills. the russia will also great problems here. so the sanctions, oh, of course the influence of sanctions will be reasonable in russia, maybe in the early april when long majority of foreign companies. now it's as far as i remember to the, for the day, 312 companies are leaving russia or just simply freezing to the activity. and it's my, the don't, right? it's all be, it's many, many companies which influence even coca cola. so which inference every day life

and the people will see in russia and to free weeks that the sanctions are working . but as i said, one of the biggest problem is there's problems with russian airlines. because russia is a big country and without airlines, without a flat, that's flying. so the country will be simply isolated, arises, earth will be ice, les, this increase the pressure on the leadership in the country to try and resolve things as soon as possible before the end of the april date that you mentioned when you think, you know, right handles dots real, the payoff. now it says this is no, no to be for put in. my main thing is political. ah, he's her main id that within the coming to 3 weeks are from mediately point of view, ukraine should be finally defeated. and then russia will

take control over ukraine, and this will be a guy and go for week 3, a walk on political level. and she doesn't care too much at this stage. how about sanctions himself? by the way, today you said, okay, so if you lived with sanctions, or near all this history and it's a while and it was a great country. but russia is not soviet union. we are very much dependent on our western technology, especially on no supply alpha chips and many other things. so it will be very hard time at the court into our experts. now, the book on the crisis might start somewhere early, june, early june. all right, thank you so much for your analysis and thoughts on that. now still, i had an al jazeera, the orphans of war. we look at who's taking care of thousands of children who fled

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ah, you're wanting out of time to recap on headlights now. the u. s. envoy to the un. this said there's no evidence of any biological weapons program in ukraine. russia called an emergency meeting of the un security council to discuss the claims launch be dismissed by western leaders. ukraine's emergency services say 3 strikes, landed, their residential building and a kindergarten in april, killing one person. the city was once considered relatively thanks to people fleeing besieged areas of ukraine, russia, russia defensive as wide and parts of western new crime strike targeting airports and look and event francis. a crane says 2 soldiers were killed at the look.

russian president vladimir putin as back plans to allow foreign fighters interest in ukraine. the defense minister said more than 16000 applications have been received from middle east and countries. riches lights is a defense and mercury analyst that wiki strive, joins a spice guy from washington dc. good to have you with us that start with a situation in kiev. we been talking about this large column of russian armor today, withhold its been on the move. will they be able to in circle key if there's been some suggestion from somebody to try and listen, maybe they won't be able to entirely secure the southern access points to the city . right, so the convoy i could be disbursed, seen for several reasons. one, as you say, might be the obvious attempt to circle kids and that has proven difficult,

but it's certainly possible that the cranium have shown strong determination and skill to defend the city. but you would, i would think that as they go out, the suburbs, the fences may be somewhat diluted. so it is possible that that's the purpose. but they might also be going to different parts of the country. they might also be trying to give the ukrainian drones and artillery less of a target by packing all these forces together and narrow, mountainous route and made it very vulnerable. and so this dispersal could be for defensive purposes, but most likely to be attempt and circle care. and it's certainly possible for the russians to do that if they show more success than they have in the past. now there is a question here with the whole world has been looking at pictures of that column of alma sitting there. why did the ukrainians not attacking earlier?

why have they, we just have been hearing about it. you know, it's been sitting there for a while. right? so what this is, is it's, it's a combination of some armor, but a lot of supply vehicle trucks all from different units. it looks like the russians just saw that this was the ball road from the north to kia, been just sent all their forces. and you ended up with major logistics a column there. also the timing has been very bad for the russians that rose to become very mighty. and it looks like a lot of the vehicles were broken down. so in one way they would be a perfect target. but of course, the fact that the run the route is narrow mountain that surrounded by mud also makes it difficult for the ukrainians to bring forces, then to attack at their most effective means of doing so would be by air. but the russia in the air defenses and air power still pretty strong. so the ukrainians

have that as far as i can tell, engage in some ground strikes, but sending their airplanes over such a large rush and or so close the russian air defenses would be very dangerous for them. very, very vulnerable. that in that strike. all right, and then if we think about in the east of the country, of course russia has its forces in the south east part was crimea also done yet can lagonzalez between the 2 is mary paul, right? very key city because that would allow them to link up the territories in the east . they have camera poll withstand, we know it's the siege. can they conduct? can the cranes conduct operations to distract and relieve the pressure to break the siege? how do you see that situation developing the challenge, ukrainian and face is they have limited capacity for a counter strike. so they have good defense says good anti no. aramis those good

anti arm or mental but to actually launch attack to relieve the city would be difficult and said to have limited armor and tanks and air support could do that. so it looks like the city well, eventually fall the key question. we're all looking at is mostly, can they, can the civilians be removed from this process through managerial corridors or other means. but if all the cities that are russians are attacking now, i think more impose the most vulnerable to being captured. and then does that kind of set the stage for the rest of the all the major cities that is it just in other words, a matter of time before we see, i don't know if that's a how to even keep itself, not necessarily each battles a bit due to local conditions, ameria paul, as you discuss the russians have committed from multiple pants for the fall, noble,

isolated from the rest of the country. but as you get into the central parts of ukraine, the cities will be better defended. it will be harder. the russian supply lines will be more extended. so i think that i wouldn't know where i take what happens in more poll as an indication of what's going to happen to a depth our kids or other places. or we can see the map there. we've just put it out for obvious, they know what we're talking about. we would talk about my republicans, is that little packet of orange in the middle between crimea and the areas sort of a little bit above crimea and the areas above that. so don't, don't yet, can logan's co, it is about closing up the, the areas in red as we see in the math. and interesting, well, difficult development may be interesting. the wrong word was also hearing about strikes in the west of ukraine today targeting f yields. why given what you said, that we haven't seen a lot of activity lately by the ukrainian air force, is this the trying to make sure that they secure their control of ukrainian skies?

is it about concerned that maybe we'll get donations of more war planes, those mig 29 people have been talking about from poland and so on? well, these strikes are interesting because it implies the russians either see this as a long war or the western ukraine is also still there part of their objective. so we've been, it's not been clear. well, the russians just sees most of eastern ukraine, if they can kill and so on and stop or will they try and go into the rest of the country. the farther they move the west, the more difficult the campaign is. it's farther from the supply lines are closer to nato supplies. but some of these strikes, such as against war, i mean the war factories can indicate that they plan a long at least hedge and against the possible if a long campaign and thinking about how to degrade ukrainian military power over time. and of course,

the supply lines from nato and the you pass through the western part of the country so they can engage. and that, that would, what we thought would have occurred earlier. be an effort to try and interdict those supply lines or what's happening in odessa right now. you can bring math ration. sure. the russians have approached the city, particularly from the east breaking out of their crimea stronghold. there's also a naval flood tell us and the black sea off and present the landscape and other to have thought that that would be an eventual target. but for now, the russians are preparing for such an attack, but it has not occurred. this may be a strict operational pause may be some of those we're going back to discussing. beginning some of those convoys will disperse the supply network and allow other forces to move, enjoying into the depths of front. but it's still taught to be russian war

objective because one thing they would want to do is cut ukraine off from the black sea so they can occupy a desa and maro poll then the ukraine won't have a connection to the black sea. and that would be useful if the russians also for linking up with their forces and trans, nice streams, and which is part of my over. all right, thank you for your analysis on that's been good. sharing your thoughts. now russia's invasion has created 2 and a half 1000000 refugees, according to the united nations and more than half of them are children, neighboring countries, like moldova and romania have opened their doors to tens of thousands of people fleeing ukraine. the busiest border crossings are slow, vacuum hungry and poland, where more than a 1000000 and a half people have fled since the beginning of the conflict jacobson as found himself caught up in war not once, but twice. born in ukraine,

he relocated to syria when he was still a child. but when civil war broke out that he fled the country moving back to you, crane in 2012, he joins us now from key of good to have you with us. so this must be a really, must be a horrible, terrible sense for you, but something surreal to be once again on the move from a war that is totally correct. flags and bad, 24th february and fight am. it's basically when russia invaded ukraine, i started immediately having flashbacks from the whole bombing that had in syria. i witnessed everything that happened in syria until 2012 until it became really dangerous to stay there. so my family and i decided to flee, do crane and start from scratch because unfortunately we saw no future. and serious

and i'm so sad to see that history is, let's really repeating itself. the same thing that i have witness, and syriac is happening right now, which is cities are being demolished and history being wiped out. and i'm the phone me and not planning to let that happen. this time, this is there a feeling as you reflect on both his experiences, but perhaps if the world had intervened more forthright in preventing the salts of killings, deaths of civilians which have been documented by the un that perhaps situations that you're facing. now, similar situation you're facing, that ukraine might not have happened. that is really true and but still i am happy that it is happening right now in 2022 because i believe that in this year people have become the new and you cannot

hide anything like you could hided basically 10 years ago. because unfortunately, massaro had was a master and hiding of that and creating in different blogs around the country just in order to make people believe what is happening as is that he's trying to help people out. but in fact, is literally the most in history just to fit. it's big dealership. i've got to ask your in key if and you know, the, i don't want to overdrive to dramatize the situation, but the talk has been of rush and all my heading towards cave. i, i, you know, worried actually we have been hearing that like for a week now that they are planning on encircling game. that's why during the past week i made sure that my mother and my brother are away from years. i

decided to stay here and why people, why didn't you go this day? because that we want to fight back like it is now or never. and it is our time to fight back, specially realizing that the whole world is standing with us is standing with the truth. and we have to prove that to the whole world. what is life like for you right now and all the live shots we've had with the correspondence, the streets look pretty empty. i mean, what does life look like and care for you? it well, it is great too weird. i am so happy that he is still standing. our army is defending kia as much as possible. and for me, life isn't much different because i've been in that situation in syria, but i have been with the same people panicking not knowing what to do.

and here where i started helping be helping people out combing them down. because what is what happened is that russia tried to make the whole nation panic. and from my understanding, put in thoughts that he will in bade through crane pull it in 3 days. but luckily that did not happen, and we are still fighting back. and thankfully hearing that the whole world is standing with us right now and gives us so much power to keep on standing. so yeah, we will definitely fight for q. how represents the volume, sentiments of most people and i was speaking to people, you know, close up to the before the days of the war actually breaking out. and it seemed to me like many people in care of didn't really think who was going to happen. and

we're thinking of other things other than a war and fighting. yeah, of course we didn't think that war was going to happen on the 24th, but to be honest, since grania was next by russia, we've been preparing for that for the past 8 years. so yeah, we did not know that this will be happening, but we will definitely are ready for that. we'll leave it there. thanks so much for talking to us. allie jacobson from key, if early 78 children have been killed in the fighting, according to a ukrainian human rights group, or the real number is likely to be higher. thousands of orphans are also caught up in the violence with cur careers now racing to get the cameras round, now racing to get them out of the country some of made as far as the for one year. whereas under ship house reporting, it's been an outpouring of support it took

a while to get them here, but the children made it out safely and can play or rest for a bit. their orphans from easter new crane who'd spent days in a basement taking cover as russia targeted a military installation nearby, they made a 1600 kilometer journey to reach safety. in lithuania, west, literally those go christina kit deleted merlin murray in us at the po, can we heard the measles fly by and it was frightening. they make a whistling sound as they pass. i'm afraid of those who didn't see that? yes. oh, cruise missiles whirling past bon bloss in the distance, 7 and a half 1000000 children in ukraine are in danger of physical harm, emotional distress and displacement. according to save the children. go long for eugene new money, k g, g. it was very difficult for the little ones when we were leaving, they were crying because they had to leave. he teaches, it was very difficult. even my heart was broken because it's very difficult for

small children, but seeing how happy they are. i think they like it. he 44 orphans get hot food and a roof over their heads. people here in lithuania are giving what they can to help and preparing local schools to welcome them from our history. we know how doas stating could be an invasion and devastated lives of people for men and men in the generations. so all the live he now now experiencing good toonami of goodwill and support for ukraine. the children will need it to regain any sense of normalcy to move past the trauma of war. yuk, enter chappelle al jazeera. next let's take a look now of some other news from around the world. gabrielle borage has been sworn in this julio. the youngest ever lead them bar, which ran on the left wing platform and he won the country's presidential runoff

back in december. and his name, the female majority candidate for the 1st time in sheila's history. on the campaign trail, he vowed to bury chiles neo liberal economic model. the u. s. is threatening more sanctions against north korea after accusing it of developing a more powerful intercontinental ballistic missile system. the pentagon says recent launches were attempts to test the new system. north korea suspended long range tests in 2017 after launching its 1st missile capable of reaching the us. still ahead on al jazeera in sports, a pre season blow out ahead of the 1st formula, one rice of the year. and he's here with that story. ah

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ah ah, it's time to catch up on a different set of news. let's talk about sport with and the now thank you so much samuel chelsea could still be sold despite the clubs russian on a rama. brockovich being hit by series of sanctions. potential buyers have been sold to approach the u. k. government directly will chelsea plight, norwich in a primarily just hours. i abramoff it should. how does acids? frozen? government says a problem which has links the russian president vladimir preaching, but will consider office as long as the primary doesn't benefit from any deal. in that last hour, chelsea situation became even more complicated with news. the barclays is temporarily suspended its bank accounts, very upset. i trust in everybody who's in charge and i trust in to like the people

who are in charge from the government to find the solution that keeps us going, keeps us going through the season. and of course, gets us, gives us the possibility to be to be, to be in charge of our action. in summer liverpool manager, you can call us back. the government's decision says chelsea fans needs to remember who's to blame for their clubs. situation. one man is really responsible that than it's let me put in the 1st place and i don't know about drawing a brumley role in all these kind of things. but over the years you could guess said maybe he's pretty close. and then i think what a british government it is right to be 100 percent honest, but it's still not cold for the people at chelsea and fall to support us. i get that. not only a chelsea also had an arsenal or everton, there were some ownership shares by it by russian oligarchs. so this is not the only club and of course it affects everything. i mean,

it affects football to deflect the way that the gas or oil is being delivered to to europe in countries, it will impact the ended effect. everybody. ukraine's paralympic athletes continue to excel at the beijing wins games. the team is 2nd in the metals table with 9 goals. so for the see manager says it's a miracle even made it to china in time to compete. athletes from russia, belarus were banned from taking part. i am born in ukraine. i law of ukraine. i'm here in berlin. big games. i'm present. my connery difficult time. now. it's not like for, for you gray, not live for a job or not future for all the world. every everyone saw it. edna, you want do something, plays glory about god, about ukraine? ukraine based sport jealously rainy is in beijing with the team. he says he's been

amazed by their performance level, what they're doing and how well they're doing is it's a testament to their skill, not to their level of preparation. you know, i think if they were sleeping well, if they were eating properly, if they weren't reading the news every 20 minutes, you could see you couldn't do even better on the table than there right now. but they don't care. and you know, that's not, that's not the point it's, it's a really terrible experience for the athletes here. i, you know, when they, when a metal they don't smile, there's no laughing, there's no tears of joy. you know, one of the i visually impaired athletes, their guide. i shared a story with me when he called his family and he's in sunni. so he called his family, his, his wife and his young child. ah, to inform them that he just won

a gold medal. and i, you know, he was, he was in sales because their phone conversation was cut short because of bombing, they were in a bomb shelter and he could literally hear the bomb shopping around them. and so who, you know, the team doesn't really care about the metals either using the platform of in a very intense, international media focus to talk about what's going on in ukraine. the doing so low that stories have broken through. and i'm sure it brings a smile to people's faces to, to read only something small that's positive. in a flood of terrible new stories. found that alice called for tougher punishment supplies, that abuse tennis officials and als comments coming up the alexander bear of escape the band. following his disqualification from the mexican opened last month, the german was having to smash his racket against the imposture verbally, abused him as well as there of annabel,

both playing at the upcoming indian wells torn from one side. i don't want the belize asian for sasha because i i like him and they have a vague relationship with him. in the other hand, like fun of these a sport. i like to see some think how to better for, for, for, for, for this kind of fact that it's and for no one dr. nicholas, let's ill see. we'll be helping her hoping even the preseason testing isn't a sign of things to come. his williams car caught fire in bahrain will sit in a minute. i'm sure one of the towers exploded as well. i can, i did manage to escape from the vehicle with safety crushed during the final race of last season in abbey darby, that incidents allowed max to stop and to win the world side. so 1st grown pre this year, coming up next sunday. okay. more for me and a couple of hours for as i were looking for now. thanks so much and, and that's it from me, sam is a bam for this news hour. but the good news is,

charlie angela is back in the moment with another full bulletin covering all of the day's news. ah, or china in the us sleep walking their way to war in the struggle over ukraine. here is the test for president joe biden, with miss really trying to do is rewrite the security architecture in europe. if your personal united states, you seriously go to walk in through gum at the same time, your weekly pay on us politics and society. that's the bottom line. we understand the differences and similarities of cultures, the course the world. so no matter what moves here with the news and kind of falls that matter to you, living in a war zone is a risk not worth taking for most. but for a 10 year old boy, there is no where 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, each and every one of us has got a responsibility to change our personal space for the better. oh, we have to test it and we could do this experiment. and if biodiversity could increase just a little bit, that wouldn't be worth doing, had any idea that it would become a magnet, they're always incredibly rare species. they are asking for women to get 50 percent representation in the constituent assembly here and getting these people begun to collect the segregated, say the re saying this is extremely important service that they provide to the city . why don't we need to take america to try to bring people

together trying to deal with people who can look beyond oh desperate conditions and ukraine 2nd biggest city khaki and in mary a whole where the situation is described as critical after 12 days on the siege russia has also widened its attacks targeting new cities previously considered relatively safe. ah, i'm charlie on. so this is our, is there a live from london also coming up? russia's president approves a plan to deploy 16004 volunteers to.