oh, we need to take america to trying to bring people together trying to deal with people who love beyond ah desperate conditions in ukraine. second big is city khaki and invariable where the situation is described as critical to 12 days on the siege. russia has also widened attacks targeting new cities previously considered relatively safe. ah, i'm charlie angela. this is our, is there a lie from london also coming up? russia's president approves a plan to deploy 16004 volunteers to fight with moscow backed rebels in easton,

ukraine. plus mushed. k approach. president biden says the g 7 is revoking russia's favored nation status. while the us is banding at seafood vodka and diamonds and safe at last an outpouring of support for ukrainian orphans who have made it to safety in lithuania. ah, it's de 16 of russia's war in ukraine and its forces have expanded their attacks, targeting new cities around the country and adding to the growing humanitarian crisis, russian forces appeared to be regrouping for a possible assault on the capital cave. they've encircled sumi and churn him as well as khaki and the besieged port city of maria pole, which have both come on the fierce bombardment. for the 1st time russia had attacked. denise pro, a central city once considered relatively safe. the people fleeing besieged areas

in the east is also widened. it's a tax to weston ukraine with air strikes, targeting military air fields and looks and have our new friend keeps coming. at least 2 ukrainian officers don't. a whole begins are coverage from levine. israel is called here today minus 8 degrees in the east and city of keys. 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 building starts to look much like another. they don't wait for air raid sirens anymore in hot keys. many haven't left the cities metro stations for more than a week ago when you go to the areas where i sleep,

this young woman says and over there all 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 ukrainians. 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 mer calls medieval and the president describes as tara wise. can you repeat that or this is i was driving terror blades on terror from experienced terrorists.

the world needs to know that 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 ivana 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 was for 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. jenny and her children are being relocated now to a better home in the village this tiny, rural outpost in western ukraine. like so many others throwing their arms wide open to fellow ukrainians through the war by law grace 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're able to go home journal al jazeera movie. at least one person has been killed in the central city of denise pro, following 3 asked strikes on friday. local authorities say they hit close to a kindergarten, an apartment building and a dest, and destroyed a shoe factory hot out. the heat is in denise pro, and says it's shaken residence there. when we 1st arrived here, it was

a safe place, is actually the place where the people fleeing. for example, the south where you for the 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 you have the siege and where you will at the moment it is expected that the large number of people will come out of their large number of wounded will come out of there and need for would be to place really where they could 1st stop or get their treatment and then go travel further away. so i would expect that this will cause a shock. russian force is, is surrounding the ukrainian capital, keep the cities mer, says nearly 2000000 people are still there. as troops advance on several fronts, satellite images reveal russian tanks moving into positions, breaking away from the long column seen approaching from the north in recent weeks

. step vast and is in keith and sent this report. duck in behind their barricades, their preparing for the worst case has turned into a fortress and every one has joined the fight. men were just 2 weeks ago said an offices are worked as builders and now defending their country's capital. for uli melinta king, this war has become very personal. his youngest brother was killed by russian rockets just 3 days ago. there is no order. i recognize my brother only from his clothes. there was no other way of recognizing him. a former air force officer, he left his job as a truck driver in the netherlands to fight against the russians burg. barbara born new. we're here guys who never went to war, who never fired a shot, who never even heard the sound of a rifle. but we are already trust me. my morale has never been his high. and i've never been this ready for here there. and this is what is moving towards them less

than 15 kilometers away. these images showed a russian column that was around 60 kilometers long has dispersed around to capital, possibly preparing for a full out attack soon. we can hear the sound of shelling coming closer to the city, putting the capitals defense on its highest alert with rush and force as coming closer tensions are going up by the hour. by the civil defenders are confident they'll stop them. a battle for the future key, if the main target input in war, those who remain in the city are bracing themselves for his bombs and missiles. the threat of more death and destruction has brought people to gather. alina kimbler helps the elderly and sick, who can't leave the apartments to get food, or simply to afraid to go out. 95 year old alice or peach now, where seen more than enough war in her life. should jim woodley, yeah, look,

vieja. what is the point for me to leave at my age? espn really, if you see how i walk. i had 2 surgeries, i broke my hip. i have not been to the street for 10 years. my niece wanted to take me for a walk, but i told them i want to die in my bed. just to clear, we have shelter down. she can go and like if it will be some warm, so ragged, she can't even live sure. apartments, or maybe people who can walk, at least with all them, you can, you call downstair, you can go to the shelter. but about her, i don't know alina can decide if you should leave keith with her 8 month old daughter, and go on alone and unpredictable journey. but the constant challenge and silence, i'm making her very nervous. she can only hope the ukrainian defense will hold the boil or when the battle begins, will be afraid that i know that fear will crumble very quickly. they are fighting for their land, their country, and most of all for their lives and those of their children. and grandchildren

steadfast and al jazeera q ukraine says russian soldiers have kidnapped the men of melissa pole. the government released this cctv footage, which it says shows the abduction of even federal in the top corner. it says russian soldiers entered melissa post crisis center. put a bag on them as head and led him away. natasha butler joins us live from levin natasha. russian strike seem to be widening hitting targets in the west. now. what impact is having on civilian well, it's night time now in ukraine and for many people across the country in many areas, this will be, this means one of the most terrifying parts of the, of their time because it is most likely that they will face another night or russian shelling that they'll face another night in basements in the cold, without food or water scared, unable to get out, effectively

a trapped. but here in western ukraine, this is a part of the country that's been relatively spared from some of the worst fighting . but it seems perhaps that things might change. people here certainly feeling more anxious because overnight about 24 hours ago. we had 2 attacks in western ukraine, one in the southwest, outside of the city of yvonne oh, front desk on an air field there. the mayor of the town talked about 3 large explosions, plumes of smoke seen on the horizon, and also another at an air field outside the city of looks in the north west of ukraine, not far from the bed of russian border, but also not far from the fear of where i am now a 150 kilometers north of live in the city that has become really a safe haven for so many people from across ukraine. they've been coming here to try and find refuge from other parts of the country to try and flee the fighting.

they've also been coming in on their way to the european union, mainly poland of cross across the border. but things do seem to be changing. people feeling more anxious, they are feeling the perhaps, or the conflict could be turning in this direction because of those as because of those 2 strikes on those 2 air fields. not far away from the city across the west. people are wondering what's gonna happen next to night. and can you just paint a picture of where the flash points are in the rest of the country at the moment? many in the north in the east, in the south round of course key you saw in some of the reports before but also how keys are in the east which suffered so much shelling over the past day. such tragic scenes there in the south america. maria pole again, this poor city on the sea of as of a key, a city or the russian troops have been targeting for many days now with very heavy

constant shelling. we know that 400000 people are in that city. the mayor of that city, calling them hostages. hostages of the russians because people have been unable to evacuate again to day. the deputy prime minister of ukraine said that there would be an attempt to put in place of humanitarian corridors to get people out. but they've not been able to leave, it's not been safe because the fighting continues. and me. in the meantime, of course the civilians are in the most desperate conditions, as i said is incredibly cold. at the moment. there is a very cold front going across ukraine. it is hard to imagine what it is like for those people who've had to survive night after night underground with the shelling, not knowing when they're ever going to caremark come out. and then again, another poor city, odessa, a resort on the black sea, the mer they're saying that he feels that his town could be the next target for russian forces. we've seen people are in the city putting sandbags around some of the most, a famous statues around the most famous monuments in that city. they are getting ready for what they face. fear will be

a russian attack. natasha butler reporting live there for him to live. thank you. will let speak noted dennis ganja, he's in vast. he'll give on the outskirts of keep an area which has been under heavy bombardment. dennis, thank you so much for joining us on al jazeera. can you tell us what is the situation there at the moment? and how is the moral 1st of all, sorry for the viewed behind. i'm sheltering so this is the best room i can find to speak to you. as for the key of we are sending strawn, just yesterday, our army hit back a big a very big column. the russian tanks in brother, which is in there is still the city. we have changed strong, we are ready to accept the enemy. we are ready for everything as i am speaking to right now an hour ago, there was some bombarding, but the bill used to use and we are continue our work and continue resistance and your town with one of the very 1st to be to be struck the start of the war. what do

you think the russian bombs are targeting now? 211 schools were destroyed maternity hospital in mo, but and many stadiums. university. so even have my university nearly destroyed in hard give. i think that they want to the things that they will place, some penny come on, the civilians and what they're doing is really a terrorist attacks and our country. i don't know what to say really because they're texting every thought. they will conquer us into 3 days. right now we are seeing the 16th day of war. it's hard to predict what we're trying to do, but we will fight them back, be sure. and your town has a military field and one of 4 of ukraine's controls and is, are you still in control of those? yeah, sure. most of them are under control. even you heard some use that her son is under the control of the russian troops. it's not true because they just control some central buildings,

but they didn't control the whole city because they didn't have enough forces there . so ukrainian army is trying to push really hard and believe me, the victory is here to come. and we're hearing that russian forces seem to be regrouping. they sit splintered that and column that was entering. keith, how are you preparing for the coming days? so as far as you know that your trial defends already for everything, they're really protection. keep trying to understand where to put their protective equipment protective places. they're building some real products or stops. and so i do really see and hear from our army that they are ready for everything. and they're very up to me. stick the one thing nice, which is of course not a very good news that more civilian ukrainian civilians are dead in this war than our army. it's hard even to mention this and can i ask, what is your situation in terms of food, fuel,

electricity we've been hearing in some cities that the shortages are really affecting civilians. yeah, you're speaking probably about mario polio, which is for 2 weeks with no water with no food, no electricity, no gas. it's really hard to there. but in key of so why are we are managing somehow we are accepting of humanitarian supports from all around the world. so we are doing probably even larger than anyone expected, but we still of course, need support from the west. we need your commentary and support, and we wasn't thankful. tell the partners for providing us with dentist ganja watching from vassal care. thank you for joining us. napster the un says at least 2000000 people are displaced inside ukraine and more than 2 and a half 1000000 people have now fled. refugees are facing extreme cold as they wait to cross the border into neighboring countries, including moldova and romania,

with temperatures have to minus 8 degrees celsius. sporadic cease fires in ukraine have allowed some civilians to escape humanitarian corridors, but fighting his stools. other evacuation efforts. when we came from mary, oppose, it is awful that the entire city was encircled him. no one could get in around. we prayed, as we were fleeing, god led us and we managed to get out of there. all relatives remain that we have no contact with them. we can't reach them. we are praying for god to save them because we don't know how to help them get out. children a sick now just have stomach pains, but i don't know what we're going to do next. we're moving towards uncertainty. youtube says it's immediately blocking access around the world to channels associated with russian state funded media. this is russia opened a criminal case against facebook parent company matter and moved to designated an extremist organization. after it changed, its policies allows and uses to call for violence against

a putin and russian soldiers or method is temporarily allowing some violent speech on platforms. in the context of russia's invasion of ukraine under the amended policy uses in certain countries will be able to call for the death of russian president and his better russian counterpart and russian troops. the message says it will not allow calls for violence against russian civilians. meanwhile, is out of putin has approve the use of foreign volunteers to fight an eastern ukraine. the russian president indicated they'll be sent to the don best region when moscow back separatists have declared independent republics. the kremlin says it's received $16000.00 applications from around the world to fight alongside russian troops. but smith 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 read 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, received them divest, and sponsors of the ukrainian regime. do not keep it secret if they do it openly, disregarding international law. so if you see people who want wasn't terribly bit of payment to come and help people in don't pass 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. putin says he's negotiators. tell him, there are certain positive shifts tonight because he was talking to baller 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. its board, bella roost, a similar level of functions and as russia faced with sheets and we have been overcoming the sanctions for as long as we have to build back our economy, we can do without them. we have everything to live and work, but life in russia is not normal at the moment. as a further threatened crack down on social media highlight. your 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 be 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. bernard smith, algebra moscow. ross's ambassador to the un has accused the us of helping ukraine

build biological weapons. claims immediately dismissed by washington as a false flag operation with 0 evidence. the accusations were made during a un security council meeting requested by russia screwed his boys to shake your issue. frankly. we discovered truly shocking facts of an emergency clean up by the key of regime of traces of a military biological program. it was being implemented by keith with the support of the us. russia has documents which confirm that in the territory of ukraine, there was a network of at least 30 biological laboratories, in which dangerous experiments have been conducted. they aimed at strengthening the pathogenic qualities of the plague, anthrax, cholera, and other lethal diseases. using synthetic biology. cbs kias were rushes calling for this meeting is a potential fast flag effort in action. exactly the kind we have been warning about,

including from secretary billington here and the security council. last month. russia has a track record of falsely accusing other countries of the very violations that russia itself is perpetrating. and given that and consistent with our previous statements, we have serious concerns that russia may be planning to use chemical or biological agents against the ukrainian people. or mike hannah is live for us at the united nations. mike of the russians shut themselves in the foot by calling this meeting. well, that's precisely what the ukranian ambassador contended is saying that the ab meeting instead focused on the scathing indictment of russian actions in ukraine in all, only china offered a modicum of support for russia's claim. and even that was somewhat moderated. are

the rest of the members rejected the claims outright and took the opportunity to highlight what they saw as illegal russian actions in ukraine. we also heard of from the hi representative of disarmament to state of the u. n's position, very bluntly. and there is no military biological program underway in ukraine. and we also heard a ix ix crit, increasingly, a scathing indictment from the head of peacemaking. who said that this compelling evidence that russia is carrying out cluster bomb attacks, that it is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of civilians including men, women, and children. so what was a meeting cold by russia to highlight its claims against the u. s. and ukraine instead became a real indictment of russian actions since the war began. like hannah, updating us from the un thank he will. the u. s. is announced further

sanctions against moscow, including a ban on russian seafood. vodka and diamonds is also revoking russia's favorite trading status in coordination with g 7 allies. each of our nation is going to take steps with an i most favored nation status to russia. a most favored nation status designation means 2 countries have agreed to trade with each other under the best possible terms. low tires, few barriers, trade, and the highest possible imports allowed. the french president says the e u is ready to hit russia with more sanctions. if latimer putin's forces keep bullying ukrainian cities, emanuel macro made the comments at the end of an e. u summit in versailles and warned the continent will need to prepare for counter sanctions. sanctions from russia. e. u. leaders have been meeting for 2 days of talks with fridays talks focused on reducing the blocks dependence on russian energy. 40 percent of europe's natural gas is supplied by russia. 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 diversification of supply, by massively investing and renewables. the u. k has announced asset freezes and travel bonds on 386 members of the russian parliament known as the duma. the sanction members all voted for the independence of 2 breakaway regions and eastern ukraine. the recognition of their hands con dynette can fabric, authorize the permanent presence of russian troops. they're seen as a precursor to the invasion. those targeted a band from traveling to the u. k. in business in the u. k,

or accessing any assets held there. whether you k has been criticized for only taking in about 1000 ukrainian refugee so far. unlike the european union. what is offering a 3 year residency without a visa? the u. k. is retained controls and entry, saying it's essential for security. a holocaust survivor, living in the u. k. has urged the prime minister to reconsider the policy in a message projected on to the white cliffs of dover. this is my message to maurice johnson. every single person you see in the news stories about ukraine is a human being, just like you had hopes and dreams and but for the lottery of birth, it could have been, you forced to flee for safety. with your family. i should know. it happened to me, boris johnson, please show some humanity, let some of these people in let lots of these people and these people will only

show you gratitude as so many refugees did. when they scaled from nazi germany. ukrainian human rights, great says at least 78 children have been killed in the fighting, but the real number is likely far higher. thousands of orphans are caught up in the violence, and some have now made it out of ukraine. and there's been an outpouring support for them as andy chappelle reports, it took a while to get them here, but the children made it out safely and can play or rest for a bit. there are 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 caucus you to keep the t merlin murray in us at the folk. we heard the measles fly by and it was frightening. they make a whistling sound as they pass. i'm afraid for those who didn't see though, yes,

oh cruise missiles whirling past bomb 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 along for years. i knew mining k duty. it was very difficult for the little ones. when we were leaving, they were crying because they had to leave the 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 here. 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 devastator lives of people for men and men. it nerve generations. so all the latino now experiencing good tsunami 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 locked in other words. and you can find much more on our website. the address for that is al jazeera dot com. we've got updates on the un response to russia's meeting there. ah, reminder, the top stories on al jazeera, several of ukraine's major cities are coming under continuous russian bombardment. adding to the growing humanitarian crisis, officials in khaki, even the ne say almost 50 schools have been destroyed and a psychiatric hospital has also been hit. the situation in the besieged sudden city of mary, a pole has been described as critical with hon.