ah ah fierce fighting north west of ki wazoo, ukrainian forces try to hold off a russian advance on the capital. ah, hello again, i'm come all santa maria here in doha, continuing coverage on al jazeera of the war and ukraine. more russian attacks, more suffering in the passage city of mario pal, where there are reports now of looting and starvation. intense fighting to in the southern city of mc alive as russian forces i near by odessa,

which is pricing for an attack. and with millions of women and children fleeing ukraine. the concerns grow about human trafficking. hello, everyone. ukraine's presidents issued a defiant message to russia as its troops close in on the capital. sodomites zalinski says to take cave, the invading forces would have to compet bond the city, and kill all its residents. we'll stumble to support it from mohammed. val brought up a notch looms of smoke and blazing fire, an oil deputy invited keith about 40 kilometers southwest of kiff, ukrainian media say the fire is the result of a russian else, like the ukrainian capital itself has spent another night on the heavy artillery bombardment. as the russians pushed to reach the city intensifies satellite imagery

shows a 60 kilometer column of russian tanks breaking away in different directions in an attempt to circle the capital. kiev is already besieged from the north, the east and the west. no russian army is trying to complete the circle from the south. it is believed the ground troops are 25 kilometers away from the half of the capital. we're going to throw it away in the wrong coil. on the morning of march 12 high precision, long range weapons attacked ukraine's military infrastructure, including the military airfield, investor cup, and the main center of radio and electronic intelligence, one of the ukrainian armed forces in bravo. cory, in total, during the operation, $3491.00 objects of the military infrastructure of ukraine were disabled. the impact is visible across ukraine, including here in the eastern town of volunteer. what did you look? we were sitting in basements and they were walking around everywhere,

shooting. we couldn't leave the basement for over a day. then i walked up to a soldier and i said, boys, my mom is bedridden up there. she's a grandma and i can't go up there. the guys wanted to help me bring her down into the basement, but when we went up there she had already died. it was already too late. residential areas in give and mario paul lie in ruins. russian onslaught has also intensified in north and east and southern ukraine. bring in more death and destruction to populated cities. there have been several attempts at a cease fire, while the human exodus within and out of ukraine, continuous so horny to day march 12th 2022. we announce the opening of the next humanitarian, colorado se, i very much hope that it will be a good day. all the plan drew that will be open and russia will abide by its commitments to cease fire guarantees. i was informed during the day about the

results of our humanitarian visits. these videos published by the head of the supporters, your regional state administration. alexander started on his official telegram channel, seemed to show the progress of a column of buses and red cross vehicles on their way to mario upon from zapora asia on saturday. at least 1000000 ukrainians have been eternally displaced by the war. while more than 2500000 have been forced to leave the country. hum, advise alicio mohammed make mention just briefly in that report. the east in ukrainian town of von vaca. we are getting reports now, and this is coming from the regional mer of de nets himself that the town has essentially been destroyed. these pictures are from friday showing some of the heavy damage that had already been inflicted by russian forces. fighting apparently, still ongoing in the town to try to stop any russian advances in the region,

but the account coming from the regional marathon yet because that much of that town has been destroyed. right. i'm sure we have a look at the map then see where things stand right across ukraine. as always, the area is shaded and red are controlled by russia and it's allied, separate as fighters. moscow concentrating more forces on the outskirts of the capital cave. or you had further south rushes, taking control of the area, sounding the zapatista nuclear power plant in the north should nobile the power plant has also been seized by russian forces, but both sides are still being operated by ukrainian staff. all. so russia's taken control of her son, another of those important caught cities on the black sea. mario po, we've talked about that. it remains on the siege. it's people, they're short on food, water, and electricity. so it's happening everywhere. really is we're going to focus on keep right now with our correspondence. step fasteners and night falls on saturday

evening. president zalinski speaking a little bit earlier and in, in very passionate turns. you were there for that news conference. zealous about it . yes. a very extraordinary experience. to meet the president of a country and of a capital that it's completely under attack right now of russian forces closing in the president took more than an hour to answer or questions. it was, of course, not easy to get to him. it was a very highly secured mission. we were picked up by his so security people. we had to leave a car or phones and stuff. so behind we went into the heavily barricaded, pass it on fatty down, chill office, but there he was. he was tired. more than 2 weeks of war, he's become a symbol or so to speak. here in ukraine, florida war, florida, defiance and also for bravery every day he's sending out messages to his people and he's very much allotted for the fact that he's still here in the heart of where it

is happening. and of course, not only is the capital, the main prize for pollutants war, but there's a huge price on his own had of course, sir. and he knows that russia wants to get to him, but he's still here. and he was sir, very, my church criticizing europe and the west which he did before. he basically compared to lester and lead us with people who just sitting in cafes and restaurants, waiting until the bumps would drop on their hats. are basically criticizing them for their in activity and also saying that, you know, they could have done more. he said we tried very hard to get this no flight. so we had long discussions. we offered all kinds of alternatives, but nothing really came through. so let's have a listen to what else he had to say. children's hospitals, maternity wards, residential areas. there seemed to be part of the strategy to force you to surrender. this is clearly not working, but it must have an enormous impact on you,

mentally shuttle flu, chair and ga, regarding the children and the beautiful mothers and what happened to them. how can any normal person react to this? well, it's simply an act of terrorism. another one, unfortunately, this is like a tragic t, v series about acts of terrorism was when this is happened elsewhere in europe. like when there's been an attack on a metro station for everyone was shocked to day rule apparently used to it now. so i don't want to be yesterday. what will happen next? nobody knows. step the fighting that's happening around keith. i presume you can. i mean, i don't know how close it is, but you can, you can probably here in the background law of the tons. i cannot only hear it so we can actually smell it here. you can smell the smell of explosions, explosives, it's really strong. it's getting closer in the last days and even hours. you hear

a lot more artillery fire shelling, it's a mainly been coming from the northwest. a town called it been there's have been heavy fighting for days already. it's basically the entrance into the capital. so it's a very strategic point for the ukranian army and towns around it, and i've already fallen in russian hands. so open as a very much the last point before a russian forces can enter the capital. also under northwest flank of the capital, you can see that russian forces are closing in their coming closer. there was a huge bombardment this morning. 8 rockets were fired at an air base in the south. so it's very much a sense here that there's going to be an on circle men around the capitol. we don't know when is it going to be in the next few days? it's going to be in the next few hours. nobody knows how fast russian forces are advancing and zalinski also spoke about p. if of course he said, well, if they want the capitol, they have to kill everyone here and they won't find any friends when they arrive.

thanks. step barson in keith murray, paul, we will focus on now people in east and port city of bons, besieged for 12 days now. the city council says nearly 1600 civilians have been killed in russian shelling the temperature at night. it drops to minus 7 degrees celsius. people are already without a hazing power. and now food as well may be no surprise than that. there are reports of looting and violence in the city and what people struggle to get out of mary paul and other parts of the country humanitarian corridors are open, jonah hull has more on that from love. if the deputy prime minister, random very shook has been delivering details daily on these corridors, said the corridors were once again opened from su me and a bunch of these sub urban centers to the north of the west of kiev. and we hear that that has been ongoing without verification or verifiable numbers,

but all together the ukrainian side say they've got something like 487000 civilians out of these embattled centers this week, including a 100000 children. mary paul of course, the sort of one dreadful exception to all of this, bombing and shell far continues on that city on the black sea people living in absolutely dreadful conditions inside that city blockaded for 12 days now conditions the mayor there describes as medieval people fighting over food running short of water and basic medical supplies. and the latest we hear is that an 8 convoy trying to make its way into mary paul. today was once again frustrated because of ongoing shelf. jonah hall reporting from the v. now spoke to jason stress you so a little bit earlier media team leader at the international committee of the red cross. he says the organization is communicating with both sides, trying to reach the humanitarian crisis. i, serious,

he does have this privilege position as a neutral intermediary, a very valuable position for conflicts around the world. so the answer to your question is, yes, there are conversations that are taking place. we're not, we're not talking to a stone wall. and now it's just an issue of making the progress that we want to see . of course you or your viewers might be familiar with the approach we take, we take a bilateral one on one, a confidential approach. so there aren't more details to sharon that other than to say we are urging this to happen. those conversations are taking place. me more you credit president calling for help from world leaders to secure the release of many top those now. they have been protests in the se, in city after accusations, and there was a ducted by russian soldiers. more in this report from flint and monahan. military people is firmly under russian controls. but people aren't afraid to stand up to the new authority. they're demanding the immediate release of the city mer. even

federal hasn't been seen since thursday. ukrainian government says this video shows federal being led away with a bag over his head, escorted by 10 russian soldiers present. bodamer zalinski, once war leaders to put more pressure on russia to secure his release. he sees it as a test of the international community, the ability to change the situation in ukraine or more pasta. ryan is we demand the mabee immediately released. we're talking to france, germany, israel and others. i personally have called german chancellor schultz and french president macro. i'll talk to everybody necessary in order to get people released. we expect world leaders to show how they can influence the situation and do one simple thing. get this one person released, the very person represents the people of millet upon ukrainians are calling federal abduction. a war crime saying international law prohibits taking civilian hostages

during a war. no topple was one of the 1st cities to fall to russia. the federal lead several rallies against the invasion, some attended by thousands of people. while federal may now be detained, the protest he started likely to continue. then to monson al jazeera, the rest of the days news is coming up on al jazeera, as a former student leader. with ambitious plans is voted in its chiles youngest, ever president. ah, ah, look forward to brighter scully's, the weather sponsored boy cattle. it weighs hello. the weather is a little more mobile and it has been recently across north asia. we have got bands of cloud and re some sleep in the snow to just pushing in from west to east little

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the lightest updates for you from ukraine. the capitals been hit by explosions and gunfire is fighting intensifies on the outskirts of cleave. either president vladimir zalinski is warned, russian forces that if they want to take cave villa to comp upon the whole city and kill all its residence, the regional mare of done yet says the town of vulnerable has been destroyed. fighting's report, they still on going to stop any further russian advances in the eastern region and mario pulse. the city council says almost 1600 civilians have now been killed by russian shelling mario pulse been under siege for 12 days now with reports of looting as well as trap residents find other fruit water supplies. russian forces have also been attacking cities in western and central ukraine. places that were once considered relatively safe for people fleeing the fighting. natasha butler has more from one of those cities in the west looked sc. what is

church in the north western city? all litski is taking in people from across the country. they can come here for some food. they can get some rest, a shower. i've been speaking to a father who's here with his 6 very young children. they came from the east of the country. he told me that night after night of wash and shelling was absolutely unbearable that he can stop his children crying. and he also says that he doesn't know what he's going to do next. when it, when, if she was a brilliant woman, a door, they took everything from me. i had a comfortable house, a lot, kids had their own room. now, where will i go when i was? and what will i do at the last moment? i'll have to start from scratch. you thought i'm not 20. i'm 41. sure, yes, you will learn scares just over a 100 kilometers from the border with bella ross and some ukranian. officials say that perhaps troops from bellows could come over the border and fight alongside russian forces,

but the office of ukraine's president says that they don't believe that is the case . nevertheless, there is so much conflicting information. it's all fueling anxiety here, particularly after a russian missile strike on, and i feel just north of this city, one of the 1st major attacks on western ukraine since the invasion began. let's talk diplomacy as the french and german leaders of urged vladimir persian to declare a ceasefire and ukraine, they held a joint phone call with the russian president. it did last more than an hour. but what came of it? not in barber in london, i can't imagine a whole lot will come out though it was quite a long phone conversation, as you said, and it was just the 2nd in recent days. the 3 spoke on the phone on thursday, on thursday, or chances sholtes and president my call, called again on vladimir putin to bring in an immediate cease fire. they did the

same in their phone call on saturday. now straight after the phone call on saturday, the german government spokesman didn't give anything away saying it was just part of ongoing international efforts to end the war and said that all the participants, rather the french and the germans were not going to divulge any more details but in fact, the french have released quite a lot in the last couple of hours. the lizzie police have said that it was a difficult discussion. and that president putin did not show any willingness to end the war. and then they are, we've. busy that the french and government are accusing the russian president of lies over accusations he made against the ukrainian armed forces in terms of human rights violations, or alleged violations. what is that all about? well, the kremlin has said that in the phone call, vladimir putin presented what they call the real state of affairs. he accused

ukraine's army of extra judicial execution of dissenters taking hostages in some areas, using civilians as human shields and even disrupting operations to rescue the population in the humanitarian corridors that we keep hearing about, there is no evidence to back that up. and you've heard that very strong denunciation by paris. it just shows how far apart their view of what's happening on the ground is now we know that president putin updated the french and german leaders on discussions that moscow and care of are still having via video link that they have done in the past few days. we don't exactly what was said on those discussions, but we're hearing from the ukrainian government that they are still willing to continue with the diplomacy. at the same time, baby looking for much more support from the european allies. we heard it from president zalinski earlier on saturday. all the while he saying we welcome what

you're doing, but there's a lot more you can do. notably on sanctions and the french now after the phone call have said that the e u is now preparing a fresh round of sanctions against certain individuals are linked to president putin. and on friday, president macros said. but if the war escalates, nothing is to boot in terms of sanction. so we wait to see how far that will go now been bother with that update on the diplomatic side of things. thanks nadine. you're any false as a bath in russian troops on several fronts in the south. now people have been using sandbags trying to fortify odessa against a possible attack. it is for now still under ukrainian control and a has been sped. any of the fighting but as a major port city many think it's only a matter of time before russia launches an assault by land or by saint spoke to

hamish lest last our security studies program director at ukrainian prism a foreign policy and security think she's in odessa and says, the city is braced for a russian attack. the preparation happening from the very 1st day, all the invasion, but with some of them saw that even earlier, our mayor is the former military officer. so he has quite a good bit ground for such a crisis situation. and he started approximately a week before invasion when we saw this military build up the preparations of the shelter. so be. 8 stations with the supermarket, the big food network, so to have a supply in the to avoid any shortage. it also the preparation of the territorial defense a lot on the picture that you've been showing all the sand bags around the story co cultural buildings, but also the a mighty old b choose along with the t. and we're talking about probably 40 kilometers of the mining they choose to prevent the landing operation from the heat. we also have the

navy because the station in, you know that stuff on the high alert the are the science and the delivery is very well prepared. this and we hear each morning the shelling stephanie strikes, but it's nothing that sergeant in the earth sciences catching bab just above the he level. but also we have the all the surrounding of the seo, the main road. being prepared with the blocks with the special construction to, to limit maneuvers of the russian land operation. the united nations refugee agencies is more than 2 and a half 1000000 people have now fled ukraine in what has become the fastest exodus since world war 2. many, those fleeing are women and children, and as julian wolf reports, there are concerns growing about how to protect them from human traffic is here in the media border between poland and ukraine. former members of an elite french

military force are helping to protect refugees who may be unaware that war isn't the only thing there. fleeing from this morning we felt free, free men that was trying to, to get the bunch of woman into a van. i cannot 100 percent say that they were trying to recruit them for 6 trafficking. but when we started talking to them, when recent approached them, they got nervous and they just left immediately. so we just said we were just here to help many ukrainian refugees reaching border country, seek to reunite with friends or family members across europe via or after 5 day car journey from the bomb city of sure. and he's a rena seek shelter on the surround border between romania and ukraine. she is waiting on a friend and berlin to arrange housing for her and her 2 children, while her husband and parents stay behind, help offer by strangers who greet her and other refugees is abundant. but so are

the risks. there are many very dangerous propositions from la different deeds, well, they can offer, ah, us help for free to read share any country, but it's not true. among this border town men offering free rides to women, have been sent away, playing clothes intelligence officers are on the lookout for criminal activity, and law enforcement teams are advising women, arriving at the borders on how to stay safe. we try to discuss with the every couple for example, coming from the grain, especially a woman and her young goals are to have were some preventive measures like her or i have a food charge pottery, or to remember every time the number of the car or were there were going in a recent report by the year in commission estimates. annual global profit from human trafficking is around $32000000000.00. sexual exploitation is most common in

the $27.00 nation block, with nearly 3 quarters of all victims, female and almost every 4th. the child and in humanitarian crises like these, those numbers go up. the reef for leasing. happening is very high. so in times like these, when people mobilize what the reason we're either people that don't capitalize on the pain of this families, i is very high. the challenge now was borders had been crossed, is to say safe and alert until they reached their destination. hearing move algebra, a group of ethnic serbs in bosnia, rallied in support of russia's invasion of ukraine. members of the russian motorcycle club night wolves organized that demonstration in bonnie luka a rally is one of the very few pro russian demonstrations we've seen in europe. one

other story to bring you this our, it's from chile, which has a new president's gabrielle. busy bridge who's a former student leader promising a more inclusive society in one of the regions most socially unequal countries, his style and his cabinet, which has more women than men, has made him a leader of what many a calling the new left. a latin america additional is seen him and reports from santiago. 36 year old gabrielle bought each entered the senate hall without a ty. just one way of showing he's not changed since he was a shaggy head student leader fighting for social justice. now a decade later, he's heading country, the other former student leaders. there a new generation promising to overhaul an economic model that has contributed to deep social inequalities. oh, thousands of support who swarmed the plaza in front of the presidential palace, hoping to see and touch their new president. already a funeral doing this is like

a dream come true to him after so many years of waiting for i like birds, a slogan that hope can overcome fear. chili's youngest president cautions that the social transformations needed in health. education and pensions will take time. mama linda would give, i'm only who will goes low because we are going far, these government will not be the end of the march. it will be a long, difficult road. but to day the dreams of millions of people are pushing us forward . you know what it says, his government will champion the environment and indigenous and women's rights. some are concerned that president body may be too radical to far left, especially since the communist party makes up part of his governing coalition. but in actual fact, if you look at his program, he seems much more like a social democrat in countries like, for example, scandinavia, where social equality is taken for granted. absent from the observation with the

leaders of venezuela and nicaragua, who were not invited. instead, what each invited opponents of those he deems autocrat bed. okay. and roughly, and i hope that julian's help him to carry out a program for a different type of society. but we will raise hopes on our continents so punished by so many dictates or shoot washington's envoy a bruises your statements and defensive offices, human rights world law. i've been incredibly positive, but each news that much of the world and especially latin america, are focused on how well he can make good on his promise to create a more inclusive chile without population or sacrificing democracy. to see and human al jazeera santiago. ah.