and pat and pasha, we tell your story. we are your voice. news, your net out here. ah, this is al jazeera. ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. you're watching all zero's continuing coverage of the war in ukraine . russia's bombardment of ukraine widens to cities previously considered relatively safe. 2000000 people put their faith in ukrainian defenses and key, which is bracing for an all out assault. in the coming days. we're not going to give any more air time to the wise that you're hearing today's. beneath this council, ross is accused of spreading disinformation about biological weapons,

but at some faster insist they have documents to prove it. unfair, as the war will worst global food shortages potentially tipping some countries into famine. russian forces have expanded their attacks bombarding civilian areas of more ukrainian cities. they're also inching towards cave and appeared to be regrouping for a possible assault on the capital, sumi and chinese have been encircled as well as hockey and the besieged port city of mary, a poll, which of both already been under fierce bombardment. for the 1st time, russia has attacked any pro, a central city once seen as a safer place with people being besieged in areas in the east and western areas. i've also been targeted with strikes that hit airfields and looked scanned, ivana frank gibbs, gender hole in lead begins are coverage. israel is called here today minus

a decrease in the east and city of keith. 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 hunt. keith, many haven't left the city's metro stations for more than a week ago for you go to the haitian areas where i sleep. this young woman says and 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 ministers has 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 maria 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 tara to me, where think there was this is, i was driving terror blades on terror from experius terrorist. the world needs to know that not it has to admit it. when we are dealing with the terrorist statement we see by bomb beyond, the 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 on his 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 western ukraine. like so many others throwing their arms wide open

to fellow ukrainians through the war by law gay, 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 movies. well, big questions remain about the safety of ukraine's nuclear power sites. ukraine's regulator says electricity supply to to novel has not been restored despite russia's energy ministry saying it was reconnected on thursday. the crane is warned of a possible radiation leak of storage units remain disconnected. is parisha plant in southern ukraine has also under russian control. it was damaged during fighting last week, but elsewhere as we heard, authorities in caci say there's no danger to civilians. after building containing a nuclear land was hit. my dad and i thought bush him says the years you can you, despite the fact that in working condition, the installation does not pose any threat. if the physical damage of this

installation takes place, it's possible that the fuel and radioactive elements would leak. and of course, it would be a big, big problem for the environment and how, how made reports now from denise pro where russian as strike struck a kindergarten and apartment building. it was 5 55 in the morning. and much of the neat pro was asleep. only to be woken to this, one of 3 explosions that rocked the city court on surveillance camera. the oak center didn't hear the air raid sirens, but the force of the blast shattered the windows and her ceiling collapsed. she lives on the 4th floor of an apartment block, facing her shoe factory and apparent target of russian missiles. we didn't expect anything, a neat pro. there are no military facilities around the rations were saying that they would only target military infrastructure here. there are only residential

blocks. the school and the kindergarten windows were hit. view kayla realty says the rockets were launch from the burnett's region, interrogating, controlled by the russian back separatist. this is the 1st time this city has been targeted since the beginning of the war. now that will have a huge impact because so far, ne pro has been a transit point for people fleeing other areas in eastern ukraine that were under heavy bombardment. the immediate impact long queues outside the train station. people standing for hours in sub 0 temperature patiently waiting to escape, despite the fear of another attack. cataract of the decision to pack up and leave. as soon as she heard early morning explosions, obama phone has been dead. it's a nightmare. nato is not doing enough. they should close the sky, right? they should do more. many of those standing here had fled the horrors of war once

before. their home towns already destroyed. now seeking safe refuge again. irina and her 2 children drove out of harkey after a russian dead fighters flew over her neighbourhood for days and the shelling became closer and louder. this conflict has torn her family apart. worse than against her to the point. the lensky won't do what russia expects from him, so we don't know what awaits us. of course, ukraine will not compromise. my son also says, no, we were living in hell in hockey for a week. and now we hate russia. although we have many relatives there. many of those leaving was doing the 2500000 refugees that have already crossed into neighboring countries. while those thing wonder what's next. that, i mean al jazeera linny pro ukraine says, russian soldiers of kidnapped the mayor of municipal, that's the city in the southeast. the government released this security camera

footage, which it says shows the abduction of ivan fetter. off at the top of the screen, it says 10 russian soldiers entered melissa poles, crisis center, but a bag over the man's head and led him away. to keep our satellite images show russian tanks breaking away from a long column and moving into positions around the city, stepped thus as more from a capital duncan behind a barricade there, preparing for the worst keep, has turned into a fortress. and every one has joined the fight men, which as 2 weeks ago, sat in offices of work as builders, and now defending their country's capital for you re mullins king. this war has become very personal. his youngest brother was killed by russian rockets just 3 days ago. because now or don't 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 russian. stark, barbara,

born with hearing guys who never went to war, who never fired his shot, who never even heard the sound of a rifle. but we're all ready. trust me. my morale has never been his high. and i've never been this ready for here. and this is what is moving towards them less than 15 kilometers away. these images show the russian column that was around 60 kilometers long, has dispersed around the capitol, possibly preparing for a full out attack soon. we can hear the sound of shelling coming closer to the city, putting the capitals, the fence on its highest alert with russian force is coming closer. tensions are going up by the hour, by the civil defense of a confident they'll stop them. a battle for the future if the main target input in for 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 too afraid to go out. 95 year old alice of each nor were seen more than the la floor in her life. shut gym. would you, could you check? what is the point for me to leave it? i age, especially if you see how i walk. i had 2 surgeries, i broke my hip, i have not been to the straight for 10 years. my knees wanted to take me for a walk, but i told them i want to die in my bed. said gesture can yet. we have sheltered down. she can go and like if it will be some moms or i could, she can't even left your apartment. so maybe people who can walk at least the with told them you can either call downstair, you can go to the shelter. but about your i dunno, alina can decide if you should leave keith with her 8 month old daughter and go on along an unpredictable journey. but the constant shelling and silence,

i'm making her very nervous. she can only hope the ukrainian defense will hold just boil or when the battle begins will be afraid for 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 m l g 0 keith. well, the u. s. has announced further sanctions against moscow, including a band on russian seafood. vodka and diamonds is also revoking. russia's favor trading status in coordination with g 7 allies. each of our nation is going to take steps in an i most favored nation status to russia. a most favored nation stairs 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 allow. well, i'm not alan fisher in washington, dc allen, so yet more sanctions heaped on russia by the years,

including taking away that favoured trading status. what is always main them? while it means that russia now joined the list with the likes of cuba and north korea, that doesn't have a fever trading status with the united states, the united states tends to do business on world trade organization rules. but if you step outside the lines, then that means there's going to be higher tariffs, the possibility of ban and imports. exactly what we're seeing now, though, as well as the bands that we had, the boat at the, the united states is also sanctioning more oligarchs. and some of those closer to put and they've been added to the list and they're seeing that there is a ban on exports of high end goods such as watches and also are cars. this is to, to really punish russia as much as possible. know, canada decided to do this last week. the united states and other use of emissions joining in this week is still got to go through congress. but with the bipartisan

support to punish russia for what it's doing in ukraine. this is almost certainly going to seal through their ellen and these sanctions are also having a blow back effect, aren't they? on ordinary americans? him and how much political pressure is biden under, over this war? well, is under pressure because inflationary in the united states is 7.9. that's a highest. it's been in 40 years that you speak to most economists. they will tell you it's really simple and really basic as supply and demand. the demand for a lot of goods has shot through the roof. after the pandemic, the supply is very short. that means the cost goes up, really simple. but when you add into that, the cost of oil at which means is more expensive. if you want to fill your car, that makes things even harder. know, joe biden is able to pinned deb vladimir putin responsible for a lot of this and 79 percent of americans. in a recent poll, see the back, the pan, the ban on russian oil. and higher fuel prices, if it brings vladimir putin to heal. but that situation isn't going to last forever

. and joe biden knows this. he also knows he's got mid term elections in november. so he really wants to start getting caught stone pretty soon. but he also wants to lead the international effort against vladimir putin at some point. the 2 of those just simply won't work. the republicans will continue to attack attack and for high prices. and in the end, americans don't tend to vote on foreign policy issues. the val and how much money they've got or will get in their pocket. and so this could really heart, joe biden, he could end up to use the words of his old boys, barack obama, who really suffered and one mid term election. he could be on the receiving end of a shall lacking. yeah. all right, alan fish in their life for us in washington, dc. allen. thank it. will rushes invasion has created 2 and a half 1000000 refugees. that's according to the united nations and more than half of those are children neighboring countries like more. dover and romania have open their doors to tens of thousands of people fling ukraine. the busiest border

crossings are slovakia, hungary and poland. where more than a milliner half people have fled since the beginning of the conflict. well, refugees are facing extreme cold as they wait to cross borders. sporadic cease fires in ukraine have allowed some siblings to escape through humanitarian corridors, but fighting as hampered other evacuation efforts. leon if we came from mary, oppose it is awful, that if the entire city was encircled him, no one could get in around both. we prayed, as we were fleeing. god led us and we managed to get out of there all our relatives remaining. of course we have no contact with them. we can't reach them when we are praying for god to save them because we don't know how to help them get out. children a sick now do they have stomach pains you. okay, but i don't know what we're going to do next. we're moving towards uncertainty or at least 70 children have been killed in the fighting. that's according to our ukranian human rights group, but the real number is likely to be higher. thousands of orphans are also caught up in the violence. some have even made it as far as lithuania,

under chappelle rebels. 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 kill 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 of those who didn't see that. 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 down for years, i knew money in k g. it was very difficult for the little ones. when we were leaving, they were crying because they had to leave the teachers. 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 in many the generations. so all the latino 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. well dennis ganja lives in basil cape. that's near the capital key, which has been under heavy attack. he says, despite the death of many ukrainians, he is confident the military will defeat russia. where's change torn?

we are ready to accept the enemy. we are ready for ever seen as i'm speaking to right now. an hour ago there was some bombarding, but we already used to use and we are continue work and continue to resist. 211 schools were destroyed maternity, hospital and mobile, and many stadiums. universities say, even have my university nearly destroyed in har give, i think that they want to the things that they will place for some penny come on, the civilians. and what they're doing is really a terrorist attacks on our country. i don't know what to say really because they're texting as the thought they will come to us in 2 or 3 days. right now we're 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, as far as you know, the tutorial defense already for everything, they're really protection chief trying to stand where to put their protective equipment protective places. they're building some real protective staff. and so i

do really see and they hear from our army that they are ready for everything and they're very optimistic. the one thing is, which is of course not a very good news that more civilians ukrainian civilians are dead in this war than our army. it's hard even to mention this. now the u. s. accused russia of using a un security council meeting to spread lies and disinformation, ambassador linda thomas greenfield said russia is playing out a potential full flag operation where it fabricates allegations about biological weapons against ukraine in order to justify retaliation. rushes calling for this meeting is a potential false flag effort in action. exactly the kind we have been warning about, including from secretary of lincoln here in 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 ukranian people. were russia colon meeting to address its allegations, which it says also involves biological activities by the u. s. in ukraine. screwed his brain to shake your issue football. we discovered truly shocking facts of an emergency clean up by the key 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 la barclays, 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. well, ukraine has repeatedly denied russia's claims,

and the un says is not aware of any biological weapons programs inside the country will in a separate alleged false flag operation. ukraine has released video, which it says shows russia is attempting to draw bella roost into the war. the video which out a 0 cannot independently verify is said to show russian fire from ukraine over the border into bella luce. so far, the beller russian defense ministry has denied any missiles. i've been launched from ukraine. russian president vladimir putin as back plans to allow foreign volunteer fighters into eastern ukraine kremlin says it's already received more than 16000 applications from people in middle eastern countries. bernard 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 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 will then tear 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 he's negotiators. tell him. there are certain positive shifts tonight because he was talking to baller russian present. alexander lucas shanker,

who's in moscow. luca shank has given russia troops an access to its territory to help the invasion of ukraine. it's a board by the roost. a similar level of sanctions and that's russia face with countries 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 crack down on social media highlight. your facebook says it's relaxing, it's hate, speak, ruled 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 of based here is the company as long resisted demands to open an office . in russia. bernard smith al jazeera moscow. not the u. k. a sanction more than 380 russian politicians are voting to recognize 2 ukrainian separatist regions that

run up to the war. the sanctions target politicians and russia's lower house of parliament, the duma, those blacklisted with ban from traveling to the u. k. the measures will also stop them accessing any u. k based assets or doing business in the country. friends present a manion macross as the e was ready to hit russia with more sanctions. if it keeps bombing ukrainian cities, he was speaking on the final day of a 2 days of a 2 day summit in versailles. leaders have been discussing how to reduce the blocked dependency on russian energy. 40 percent of europe's natural gas demand is supplied by russia. your leaders have warned the need to defend the block against possible russian counter measures. you commission president ursula vonda lion says europe must boost share of renewable energy to cut dependence on russian oil and gas. 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 mid term, this means getting rid of our dependency on russian gas by diversification of supply, by massively investing and renewables. more on a crane coming up shortly. why facebook and instagram are letting users call for violence against russian soldiers and a sport ukraine's paralympic athletes continue to excel at the games they almost missed. also had us, our former student leaders sworn in as chili's youngest president, promising to oversee a political and economic transformation monarch status. ah

hello once again, welcome to another look at the international forecast. we got some nasty weather in the forecast across north america over the next couple of days for a couple of weather systems which will bring some wintry weather, some heavy snow disruptive snow as pushes a little further east was so these 2 gathering pulling away some went with a recently around the yeah. florida panhandle. that's easing out to the way. come saturday of us to join together. we're seeing some snow. they're right up the eastern seaboard pushing up across sudden new england into that east. the side of canada. i'm pleased to say it does move through quickly though, so that is one consolation because they will be disruptive as we go through the next styles i brightest guys do come back, it will be some ice around. of course, it'll take a little while to thor out here, down towards the south. bright, dry and sunny, some snow coming back in across rockies, and there to some wet weather and some windy weather coming into the pacific northwest. and it's that western side of canada, west coast of the u. s. generally try some place at sunshine here in pleasant

sunshine to into much of mexico, all of that same weather system that will introduce some wet to weather. i will slide its way down the yucatan peninsula, southern parts of mexico after the caribbean. it's not looking bad over the next couple of days, but wanted to chance to come, ah, tens of thousands of children were born into who lived under the iceland regime in iraq and syria. now many are in camps, either orphans all with it. we don't mothers, rejected by their own communities. could you think that people are going to welcome them after that? of course, mom and you documentary his, that chilling and traumatic stories from the children throw stones at me. iraq's last generation on al jazeera dawn. ah,

ah ah ah ah ah ah ah, welcome back, a quick reminder about top stories here. this al russia has expanded its offensive into western ukraine attacking 3 cities, including denise brit desperate conditions continue in khaki. and mario poll. when all the u. s. e u escalate sanctions. taking more steps to end

e trade with russia and be kristen's, remain about the safety of ukraine's nuclear power sites. ukraine's regulator says electricity supply to chernobyl has not been restored despite russia's energy manager saying it was reconnected on thursday and the u. s is accused russia using a un security council meeting to spread lies and disinformation, ambassador linda thomas greenfield, said rushes, playing out a potential false flag operation, where it fabricates allegations about biological weapons against ukraine in order to justify retaliation. no matter the company that owns facebook and instagram could soon be banned in russia as an extremist organization. the moves in response to facebook announcing that it's relaxing its rules on colds of violence. that's now a posh an exception. when the target is russian troops in ukraine, what his part of a statement from metas global affairs president nick plague, our policies are focused on protecting people's rights to speech as an expression of self defense. in reaction to.