war it cannot afford to lose. he says it's a battle he will fight out of responsibility and killed for his past crimes. and for his country. ah. as strikes an artillery taxes russian forces in circle, the ukrainian capital civilians a help to safety. as the bombardment intensifies, ah, i'm jolly angela. this is al. does there live from london also coming up on the fire and under seeds residence in the city of mario po, faced another night of bombardment without heating food. as people continue to flee

the fighting, their fears, women and children could be targeted by human traffickers and defiant protests in the city of melissa to pull up its alleged the cities. meth was abducted by russian forces. air raid sirens have rung out in cities across ukraine from live in the west to the northeast region of sue me as russian troops pushed forward with that invasion. the conflict is now in its 17th day in thousands of ukrainians are under attack. russian forces have been accused of killing 7 civilians. when an evacuation convoy was hit near the hap until keith mohammed val begins all coverage on march looms of smoke and blazing fire, aton oil deputy invested keith about 40 kilometers southwest of jeff. ukrainian immediate say the fire is the result of a rush and else like other seas of destruction. here in the northern city of

shooting heath after us and bombardment, these images from a local tv station show the impact on residential buildings and the stadium in the city. water for doors and, and also the, the enemy is continuing air and rocket shelling of the city of journey have a peaceful population is dying and there are many injured the enemy hitting civilian infrastructure where there is no and has never been any military. the ukrainian capital is also coming under heavy bombardment from 3 directions. as the russian push to reach the city intensifies. it is believed ground troops are 25 kilometers away from the half of the capital. recent satellite images seem to show that russians are adopting a new tactics, dividing their army into smaller units as sending them in different directions while trying to circle city after city across ukraine. elsewhere, new images show the heavy russian bombing of

a residential area in the city of nuclear life near the black sea. in the north, to this scene of rockets being fired by the russian army near the town of sumi. where did you throw away another, or was it a coil? on the morning of march 12, i precision long range weapons attacked ukraine military infrastructure, including the military airfield in vessel club and the main center of radio and electronic intelligence was 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 of the multi pronged offensive is visible everywhere, including here in the eastern town of nevada. what did you look? we were sitting in basement 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. the she's a grandma and i can't go up that 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. the lashing on slot has also intensified in north east, some southern ukraine bring in more death and destruction to populated cities. there have been several attempts at a ceasefire, while the human exodus within and out of ukraine continues so horny today. march 12 2022. we announce the opening of the next few monetary cardoso. i very much hope that it will be a good day. all the planned routes will be open, and russia will abide by the commitments to cease fire guarantees. i will inform during the day about the results of our humanitarian groups. these videos published by the head of the police region, the state administration. alexandra 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 party from is up

patricia on saturday. evacuation buses were seen leaving from las vegas. yeah. for saw me in the ne, ukrainian officials say 79 evacuation buses and 2 humanitarian vehicles are headed there. at least 1000000 ukrainians have been internally displaced by the war. while more than 2500000 have been forced to leave the country. how much fun, just ukrainian president vladimir lensky has again called on, well, needed for help. as russian troops edge close to, to the capital of correspondence that bass and went to his briefing and keith and sent this report. after more than 2 weeks precedence atlantic is still going strong, more than one our questions journalist was clear. he's frustrated about the lack of support by the west and by nato. the also says this war will never be a win. i'm the only victory for him. he said,

and for your brain would be there countries. so the keel if there are hundreds of thousands or tens of thousands of soldiers now being mobilized by russia and they all come with hundreds and thousands of tanks. they will end to key if we understand this, if they bond by give and decide to destroy simply array the historical memory of this whole region of the history of clear and russell, the history of europe, they will enter live if they destroy all of us, they will end to give that is the gold let them come or they will have to survive in this land alone without us, they will not find friends among us. he is stored heavily guarded. the president has just left this room, but this kind of appearance is a very important not only for the ukrainian army, for the civil defense, but also for a lot of civilians who are staying behind here in care of and in the rest of the country to fight this war of thousands of scrambling to escape keep the train station to packed as people try to flee. 6 further west, in search of

a safe haven and run con, sent this report from keith. ah, a desperate scramble to get on a train out of keith. but most of these people aren't residents of the capitol. they've come from places like i've been and butcher on the outskirts of people, places that have seen the worst of the war so far in this region. they sit in shocked silence. women like svetlana, still trying to understand what they've seen of detail in those numbers. our home was destroyed, an explosion blew up the windows doors and everything. all the people who lived in the building round to the basement. we moved to another part of the city to find a friend's house, but the bombardments continued even there. the russian tanks kept firing at our houses, and this is what they flee andres, a volunteer coordinator at the central station. his job is to make sure those fleeing from outside to peep can get help. most he says show visible signs of

psychological trauma or a priori now is a hot line. is it been, is a vulture? is a 40 is sir, gosh tallman. and this line. okay. and actually they are really shocked by all these things happening are they didn't expect the russian army to his civilians, to head there, to it in houses. and they never believed it. but they really honor a fire and doubted, sags is destroy it. so it houses many people's cue, the cities already 50 percent evacuated, most of those people actually left in the early days of the war. the priority now is to get people from other front lines like gucci, like a pain into keith, and then into this station and get them out. in many ways keep central station has become evacuation central station tis of relief and sadness as the train leaves the station. besides what few belongings they can carry,

they also carry the horrors of what they witnessed, unsure. also, when they might see their home again, whether that home will still be standing. emron. com, our desert. keep central station. well jonah hall joined us live now family. they have done a how are those efforts going to get civilians out through humanitarian corridors. they've been operating these humanitarian corridors, quite a number of them from various places for the best part of a week now with, well, you know, relative success. it has to be said, they claim the ukrainians that they've managed to evacuate. post off a 1000000 people from a range of embattled air is 100000 to those children. and certainly those corridors operating again on saturday, out of places like to me in the northeast with arteries coming out of car keys and others heading south. and in that quarter door of urban suburban centers around keys as well house to mill, pin butcher, you heard them describe the people free for those areas into the capital from where

they tried to get trains. but not it has to be said. unfortunately, without incident report reaching us in the last hour, hour and a half or so, quoting the defense intelligence agency of ukraine talks about one particular convoy and making its way towards the capital from a place called piri ma guy that's about 25 kilometers to the east, it apparently came on the fire report leave from the russian side. the convoy carrying mostly women and children. report suggests 7 of them including one child, died and a number of additional casualties. and apparently after this attack, russian forces stop. the convoy turned it around and send it right back again. and the other place that hasn't had any success at all in managing to evacuate anyone. bar a few people is mario poll. that big city port city in the south. that has been under relentless bombardment. total siege for 12 days now. it's blockaded short of water

and food. medical supplies, no heat, no electricity, dreadful cold conditions. the mayor has described a medieval city now with food fights breaking out among people and children going hungry and attempts to open a corridor there again for the 5th day in a row have failed because of ongoing shelling, an attempt to send in buses and truckloads of aid and food from is parisha has not managed to enter the city of maria poll once again. and do have any updates on the matter of melody pole who hasn't been seen since thursday. interesting developments generally across the southern coastline on the black sea, many to uphold one of those focal points. they were angry demonstrations. 2000 people taking to the main square today off as you say, their met yvonne federal was abducted by 10 russians taken away with

a bag over his head. remember, there's this sort of uneasy standoff in lots of the cities on the black sea coast, with a russian forces in town, but a still functioning civil administration. well, even federal clearly fell file of that. the president, mrs. lensky says for dora has been abducted. he is still alive, but he's being tortured. and mrs. lensky asked the international leaders who are in touch with president putin to try and secure his release. and then another little center on that same strip that southern coastline a place called hatch. so you may recall that was the 1st sizable city to fall to the russians. well, would out of cash on quoting the deputy leader, the local council. they're saying that the russians there are planning to hold a referendum. he called it a pseudo referenda to try and put a sort of veneer of public approval on the russians presence there and set up what they described as a new independent republic. this is something they did in 2014 as the separatists rolled over territory in those eastern breakaway regions. eventually they held

a referendum and claimed majority mandate among russia. speakers, people who wanted to move away from ukraine, apparently making it all look absolutely ok. and it was on that basis, of course, the president putin recognize the independence of those reasons. this could be part of a strategy now to try and cement rushes gains on that southern coast. again, a land carriage occurred, or that they would be hugely reluctant to seed in any future negotiations. turn a whole thank you for bringing us up to date, stay say well let's take a closer look now at the situation in ukraine as it stands, there's been heavy fighting north. west of keith with russian force is just 25 kilometers away from the center. the port city of mario coal is under siege and bond boardman. people trapped inside without supplies, electricity or running water. shelling has against them prevented citizens from leaving and look alive. the south west of ukraine is under heavy bombardment troops

. they're expected to move west towards the desa, another crucial port city. if it's taken, it would cut ukraine off from its coast. the attacks have widened with rays on neat pro and fields and western loads and havana, french geese. city officials in the besieged city of mariel pole say more than 1500 civilians have now died and rushing, shelling people there have been without heating, food, and power for days with nighttime temperatures draw thing as low as minus 7 degrees celsius. also reports of loosing and residents pointing over supplies, or jason stress user with the international committee of the red cross says there's not enough water even for his team members. on the one hand, you do have the, the deadliness of the conflict, and people have to stay inside and protect themselves and avoid that. and now on the other side, we're reaching a situation where adjectives just need to keep getting worse and worse,

it's catastrophic if it's apocalyptic. we're moving into a situation where people's aren't going to have water, and it's not just an 8 organization raising the bar. but in this case, there are thousands and thousands of families trapped in the city who are running out of water. and then at that point what you do even our team, the international red cross team that is in mario poll. they've effectively run out of water and they're telling us ok, now we go to a stream and collect water, we boil it, we drink it. well, how do tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people do that, especially if you're elderly, especially if you're sick and to go out and collect water in the middle of an active combat zone. this is why they were worst case scenarios still to come on, al jazeera diplomatic efforts, continue to end the war. the leaders of france and germany once again precious that inefficient to stop the shelling

ah hello. the weather is set to turn somewhat moder across many parts of europe over the next couple of days over towards the east and the day over to was to west london, for example, could touch 18 degrees. by the time we come to wednesday, the wet weather, the a windy weather that is sweeping in from the atlantic, a fair amounts of cloud and rain coming through a high freshman central parts, keeps it settled and sunny for the most part. the nova, towards the east, we will see dry, clear weather coming back into ukraine. keep it around for celsius. on sunday it will turn less cold as it go on through the next few days. there is at west a weather across western pascal falls, winds for time around the southwest approaches of england, pushing up through the odyssey into western areas of scotland. wet weather there and some snow just around the outs. and we'll see some of that snowy weather,

just pushing over towards the pyrenees as we go one into monday. cloud rain pushes across northern germany, gets into work parts of but denmark by monday. notice keep it around 7 celsius for monday afternoon. eastern parts of met. it's ready by the states should be largely dry. got a few showers here for sunday, nor the parts of africa. seeing some of that says sherry rain for a time. further south we got a thick dust haze making its way across chat neesha and northern nigeria. ah, a story of life deception life and death and israeli spine operating on the deep cover in syria. knowing that discovery would meet certain al jazeera well tells a gripping story, the most at spy, eli cohen operated under cover in syria. in the 1960 notation career that

ended in public execution, eli cohen must have agents 88 on al jazeera lou . ah, the reminder of the top stories herron al jazeera russian forces continued that, pushed to encircle the ukrainian capital keep. a civilians are evacuated from nearby towns under assault. ukrainian president loading his lensky has again called on, well, need us for help, including pressuring russia to release the city of military and more than a 1000000 ukrainians have been internally displaced by the war with reports of dire conditions and besieged cities like mary of the united nations refugee

agency, you and hcr says almost 2600000 people have fled ukraine as of friday, 1600000 of them are in poland, where the 2 biggest cities, warsaw in krakow, are running low on accommodation. on friday, the number of ukrainians arriving in poland. a dropped by 12 percent from the day before to around 76000 people. that's about the same as slovakia, where police reported a similar different numbers to 9581 people, many of whom were head west to the czech republic, while moreover, which is one of the poorest countries in europe, is asking for help more than 270300 people have crossed its border and around a 105000 of them have stayed as a 5 percent increase in its population. many of those flaying a women and children and his gillian wolf reports concerns growing about how to protect them from human traffickers. 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 man that was trying to to get the bunch of woman into a van. i cannot 100 percent say that they were throwing through them for 6 trafficking. but when we started talking to them, when we should approach them, they got nervous and they just left immediately. so we just said we were just here to help many ukrainian refugees reaching board a country seat to reunite with friends or family members across europe. or after a 5 day car journey from the bomb city of sherman heave arena, seek shelter on the sir ab 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 people. they can all fair ah, us help her for free to read, share any contrary, 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 her every couple for example, coming from ukraine, especially a woman and her youngest. to have were some preventive measures like her or i have a food charge, pottery, or to remember every time the number of the carla 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, a child and in humanitarian crises like these, those numbers go up the reef for a half when it is very high. so in times like these, when people mobilize what the reason we're either people that didn't capitalize under pain, this family's eyes very high. the challenge now was borders had been crossed, is to say safe and alert until they reached their destination hill in wolf algebra. the french and german leaders have urged vladimir putin to declare a ceasefire in ukraine. they spoke to the russian president on the phone for more than an hour. the french presidency spokesman says they did not detect any willingness by president vladimir putin to end the war. nadine baba,

falling events from london, the french president and the german chancellor, talking directly on the phone with president putin for the 2nd time in recent days . they did so on thursday, asking him or demanding an immediate see why they did so again on saturday, saying that that has to come before any structured negotiations on ending the war in ukraine. and according to the french presidential office, president putin showed no willingness to hostility to end fighting at all. it was a very down beats assessment from paris. they've said that they raise the calls on president putin, to end the siege of mary a poll, and also something that president landscape ukraine had asked them to do before the direct phone call. to ask for russia for president putin to obtain the

release of the mer of multiple who was allegedly been kidnapped in recent days in ukraine. so really no, no break through. there was a nina prokopik with coach of the ukraine task force at the german marshall fund a think tank focusing on trans atlantic cooperation. and she joins us from reagan in latvia. thank you for joining us. and then a patient had called with john from schultz and president macro today. he's also met in the past with israeli prime minister, enough totally bennett. but he's showing that he's determined to continue with this war. is that any world leader you think he might listen to who could persuade him to stand down? well, i must admit that despite be the unprecedented unity and severe response and western sanctions and be a statement where hearing which have not been a part of it, had not been a part of the conversation 2 weeks ago. it is still to week of response,

considering the magnitude of the russian russian bees, this response would have been adequate and proportional in $2141.00. ukraine was invaded by russia and on bus one. premier was at next, but right now this response has to be significantly stronger. and i do hope that that's pressing him home and other world leaders. that's a president lensky is speaking with on a daily basis will will send them their response. because right now ukraine needs a significant enhanced military support military assistance in the form of advanced air protection, air defense systems in, in the form of drones and jobs. because we need to protect our skies. but 1st and foremost, grade needs no place to be introduced in order to minimize civilian losses which

already are eligible and to safeguards critical infrastructure. benito has very clearly ruled out a no fly zone. is what other demands can ukraine make that will make a material difference on the ground? we've just seen an announcement for the u. s. that they're going to be supplying more anti aircraft system. but what more could be done on the hardware side? well, i just think that ukraine should and is right to reach raging the demand for the no fly zone. and we know that so far the was include nature was not ready to enforce that. but again, the sanctioned by seeing right now would have been unimaginable just a few days ago and now they are in force. so i believe that was should reconsider the introduction of no python for 1st and foremost, but on the other means of support for ukraine. again, in house military assistance,

we knew if the west could not protect our sky, we should do that. but we need the weapons or for that to to happen also. oh, it is critical to, to strengthen sanctions against russia and against bill ruth in the form of for cutting out for diplomatic sites for them. excluding russia and bill, who's from international organizations and alliances, disconnecting both countries from swift, introducing trade embargo with them freezing assets of there, all the guards, not just a few which were seen right now, but all of them and their families and russian leadership also bending their entry to western countries. these are the critical steps. and also of course, the financial action, of course, should like russia and billable estates on social sarah route, which they clearly are. they are terry's faith and should be treated as as elaine to pick a bank a thank you for speaking to al jazeera. thank you. well,

the un high commissioner for human rights has visited us, going to stand capital kabul. michelle busha lay has been meeting with afghan civil society organizations, she urging the taliban to end what she calls, syria human rights violations against women and girls across afghanistan. and listening to women share their experiences and those of their sisters. and in speaking to the defacto hall, this about the urgent critical need to make pro it progress towards the realization of women and girls, fundamental human rights. and to bring to an end, the many serious human rights volition to which women and girls are being subject that the you and children's agency says the number of children killed in yemen is continuing to rise. nearly 50 children were reportedly killed or injured in the 1st 2 months of this year. unicef says more than 10000 miners have died or been maimed since 2015. when the saudi led military lines launched air raids on yemen. the conflict has caused

a collapse and basic services with millions of people displays and 80 percent of the population dependent on aid. at least 60 people a dead after a freight train derailed in the democratic republic of congo. and was traveling between 2 villages and the southern lou oliver province before several carriages came off the tracks and crushed into a ravine local officials, they bodies a still trapped under the under the rubble. ah, reminder, the top stories on al jazeera, russian forces continue their encirclement of the ukrainian capital key as civilians are evacuated from nearby towns under assault. ukrainian officials say they've had some success getting people out of besieged areas for humanitarian corridors have come under attack. journal is innovative report reaching us in the last hour, hour and

a half or so quoting the defense intelligence agency of ukraine talks about one particular convoy making its way towards the capital from a place called piri mo guy that's about 25 kilometers to the east it apparently came on the fire report lead from the russian side. the convoy carrying mostly women and children report suggests 7 of them, including one child, died an unknown number of additional casualties. and apparently after this attack, russian forces stop. the convoy turned it around and sent it right back again. and the other place that hasn't had any success at all in managing to evacuate anyone. bar a few people is mario poll. that big city port city in the south. that has been under relentless bombardment, total seat for 12 days now. it's blockaded short of water and food. medical supplies, no heat, no electricity, dreadful cold conditions. the mayor has described a medieval city now with food fight spray.