oh ah people scramble to escape, keith is russian forces around the capital, preparing for a feed all out assault. ah, hello, i'm emily. ang, when you're watching al jazeera coverage of the war in ukraine. another day and night of intense shelling in the besieged city of mario pole. the mer says, 12 days of russian bombardment have killed 1500 people in. the us

says it's sending more weapons to ukraine as russia threatened to target. western shipments. also ahead reports of myself by a targeting and american consulate in northern iraq. the u. s. claims the attack was launched from iran for a raid sirens and continuing across ukrainian cities. as to france says, the russian president isn't ready to make paints. rush and forces of fanning out around cave and have moved to within 25 kilometers of the capitol center. things are getting drastically worse and the besieged and bombarded city of merrier pole where civilians have been fighting over watch little supplies. the left mc alive in the south, west is also under heavy bombardment russian troops. there are expected to move west towards odessa, another port city. if that's taken,

it would cut ukraine off from its cause. we have correspondence across the country . let's begin with natasha. bout leather. zinn, loots in the north west. ah, sunrise in cave. once again, the sound of done far in the distance as russian forces come, ever closer to your cranes capital. southwest of the city plumes of smoke rise above an oil depot in vessel keith ukrainian forces said the phi began after a russian air strike. some western intelligence officials say moscow's invasion is slower than expected. but the pace of russia's true movement means little to people in places like the southern city of villa nova. ha, we're going to run the dilemma. 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 in hockey's emergency workers search for survivors in what's left of an apartment block. the eastern city has been shelled for days by russian forces, as has chairman heave in the north of ukraine, reminders of the pastor everywhere in the city. but the present is relentlessly bleak, or rudolph ruinolds the enemy is continuing air and rocker shelling of the city of tourney eve, the peaceful population is dying and there are many injured. the enemy is hurting civilian infrastructure. west and ukraine has been spared the worst of the conflict for now, but things could be changing in lute sc. a russian missile attack destroyed an air field on the cities outskirts for soldiers were filled in. the attack on the air sealed the signals of to them have just taken place in this church in the center of the city. the mayor of lusk says the people here they won't be intimidated by

russian forces. people us to little scared her. but we're no, no total panic in our city. we don't see her people leave in our city. we don't see a fiduciary in our city and we are still ah, we are still believe that ukraine or william litski is a 110 kilometers from the border with rushes ally, belarus, some ukrainian official, say better. russian troops could join the war of the site. that's unlikely than we are. don't go yoga is they want to come here, let them come, but who will destroy them and send them back in body bag up yard. when was her daughter? i hope louis will reconsider their position. there is enough. war is a massacre. a shelter in the city is now home for via ch. his love in his family.

he says they fled more than a week of unbearable russian shelling his children cried every day. litski is close to paris, but it's also not far from the polish border. patches love says they could go to germany, but for now he just feels lost. when you, when she was a brother, they took everything from me. i had a comfortable house, the kids all had their own room wellness. now where will i go? colossal money and for what? i'll have to start from scratch when her on that 20 anymore and 41. if we do the people who caught up in this war, there are painful decisions. often there are no choices. parents across ukraine are struggling, trapped in a terrible situation. they didn't create, holding their children's futures in their hands. natasha butler al jazeera litski, northwest ukraine. basses bringing more people in to keep from other parts of the country affected by the fighting. they're hoping to get on to trains and get to

safety in the west. but at the same time ration forces are moving into positions around the capitol. as a man can reports a desperate scramble to get on a train out of keith. but most of these people aren't residence at 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 short silence. women like svetlana, still trying to understand what they've seen of detail in that 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 walter, flee. andres, a volunteer coordinator at the central station. his job is to make sure those

fleeing from outside keep can get help. most he says, show visible signs of psychological trauma or a priori now is a hot line is air being is sir. vulture is a. busy vessel is sir, just normal and this line. okay. and are actually, they're really shocked by all these things happening or they didn't expect the russian army to his civilians, to his there, to it in houses. and they never believed it. but they really honor of fire, undoubted sags is destroyed. good houses, ah 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 future, like a pain in to keep 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 stanley emron con our dessert. keep central station out there and step back then has asked to ukraine's president about the mental strain he xander after more than 2 weeks of war. folemi zalinski, 2 questions from journalists. any secure component in keith? my name is step fasa from al jazeera english, a bombing, children's hospitals, or maternity wards, residential areas. there seems 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. she'll still fletcher 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. we're all apparently used to it. now i don't want to be used to it orders heavily guarded. the president has just left this room. but this kind of appearances a very important not only for the ukrainian army, for the civil, the friends, 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. meanwhile rushes military says the situation in some ukrainian cities is catastrophic. but during its latest briefing, it said keeps fighters and its allies are to blame. when you go to live should go up sooner. green you. the humanitarian situation in ukraine, unfortunately continues to rapidly watson, and in some cities has reached catastrophic proportions. armed ukrainian forces mines in the residential areas near destroying bridges and infrastructure roof as a result of those criminal actions against their own people. this is the action of

the ukrainian authorities. i do. those people are forced to survive without eating food. water, our medication will not open. the city of mary paul has been cut off from the rest of the world for 12 days now. no one is allowed in or out as fighting wages on lay a hiding reports. dozens of buses stand ready to enter. mary, a pole filled with food and water. they're trying to reach one of the areas hardest hit by showing their only protection signs on the windows, people and ukrainian they tried to go in but, or turned around and was in the order that i have to say this is paying more than murray up remains blocked by the enemy, sciences abreast of troops did not let out into the city and continued to torture out. people marry up a residence tomorrow. we'll try again. once again and food, water, and medicine for our city. for nearly 2 weeks,

no one has been able to leave the city and no aid has entered the road. we will truck underground and 2 children died nor was able to save them. these people here are desperate for help. 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 committee, the red cross team that is in mario poll. they've effectively run out of water and they're telling us, okay, 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. these satellite pictures, show industrial and residential buildings, flattened fires, still burning,

ukraine's foreign minister dmitri aqua says russia wants to capture the city at any cost. mario poa is crucially important for russia because if they seize control over the city, they will establish and rec land quarter to, to crimea from russian. and they will also cut us off from axis to see. this is why we still fiercely and heroically defended. and this why rossi so ruthlessly trying to destroy the city and capture it at any cost. ukraine says it will not surrender or retreat and attempt to reach people trapped in the city will continue young e in this dollar. so laquatta is miss. we will try to morrow again to evacuate people from mario polls. we will again do it tomorrow in front of the whole world

in front of the politicians and leaders in front of the entire planet earth. but for now, these buses remain full of aid, but empty of people who want to leave, lia harding al jazeera, more on ukraine shortly, including russia, replaces the ukranian may after they accused in dusty elected one. and his thousands of protest is called for sci fi leaders in europe. say, let me push me showing no willingness. am still a holla, we've had something of a heat wave here in the middle east recently. so you see largely clear skies across southern parts of the arabian peninsula to the south of that. that's where the heat really has been on friday afternoon in doha temperatures touch 40 degrees celsius.

unconfirmed reports of temperatures in the u. e. e. e getting as high as 42 degrees over the next day or so that temperature will ease but should be about 27 celsius this time of the year. so we are still on the warm side of that hate further north . that's where it's been a lot cooler, a little unsettled as well. some cloud and rain on sunday, coming in across to rock q 8, northern parts of iran, bits and pieces of shabby rain which was a levant. here we're still struggling to get into wet double figures and some snow there once again into turkey. similar pitcher as we go on into monday, know that where to whether we have across that eastern side of the medice, right. and will so lack on to the shoals of northern egypt, pushing across sun, northern parts of africa, by the way, across into the far north of morocco, fic dust haze, continuing just around us a hell pushing into northern parts of nigeria. heavy showers, sad just rolling in across the gulf of guinea may wallace showers will continue right across the heart of africa. and we have the risk of flooding from our old

tropical sites. i forget part of my san peak. ah. with some of the world largest resent nicky by much of the uranium the fuel your nuclear power plant walk cause people in power followed uranium trails from the mediterranean and investigate the devastating effects on the planet and all those healing habit industry you am on al jazeera oh, the me

hello you much here i'm emily, angling reminder about how stories this our russian forces. they continuing their post to encircle the cleaning and capital key intelligence report, se rushes military. it's within 25 kilometers. the cd and russia continues to show the port, city of mary awful. 1500 people have been killed in phase of bottom. and ukraine says russia wants to capture the city at any cost. so it can establish a direct land, harder to crimea than a pro is also a major target for russian bombings. it had previously escaped much of the result and become a stop of point. the people trying to flee ukraine harder, abdel hum, it is their oh, i went to another life short the mounting tool of this conflict. now in his 3rd

week, 21 year old alexander village go, was killed on the 1st day of the war. he was on the front line in guns region in the east of the country. it took 2 weeks for his body to be retrieved and brought back to his hometown. with, forgive me, my son were the last words of his grieving. father wanted to move to the show not lost a friend and a neighbor and some till i was in touch with him the day before this happened, his spirits were high. it's difficult to describe the loss. hard to express. the army didn't change him. he was the same. he was very kind perhaps on being pathetic, but he definitely loved life. sounds ironic, now. visit info the me zalinski says about $1300.00 service men have lost their lives so far met. key ukrainian cities

remained surrounded as russia seems to be expanding is target around the country. it's might take longer because the ukranian army is actually putting up a fight. but it seems that the russian strategy is to surround cities like how to keep in the north east. all mar you pull in the south, besieged them and bring them down to their knees before continuing the advance. and people here i leaving because they feel that then the pro could be next. the knee pro has targeted for 2 days straight for his rock is coming from the east, either from territory under separate his control or russia itself. this was an early warning missile intercepted over the city center that was called on mobile phone chart. ashley it occurred. the equivalent to living is the nipple of the castle on our air defense system is weaker than at the beginning of the war. the russians targeted it on the 1st day,

they tried to destroy it. we managed to evacuate staff. it's working still, but not everything is smooth support. now they fire aimlessly from a long distance. they don't come close because we still have a defense system, but they have capacity to hit from hundreds of kilometers away with. and we asked the whole of the world to close the sky, while ukraine's western allies are refusing to enforce and no fly zone is the families were left to live with their loss. what examiner had married valero? yeah, less than 3 months ago. now she's a young widow holding died, the colors her husband defended to his last breath, hoping it won't be in vain. but under hamid al jazeera denise, for ukraine, the kremlin has appointed an acting may in the ukrainian city of malli topple. that's after security video released by u cracking purported to show russian soldiers abducting the elected mer,

yvonne fedora of iran. and ukraine rather says soldiers put a bag over his head and led him away. washes new appointees says she's ready to sit . let the water, the liquor, motion of the most important task for us is to establish a new way of doing things. so we can start a new life. i asked the people of melli topple, not to react to the few people in the city that create provocations. we have been elected to serve the paypal and we have created a committee to do all the work in the city to do that. ukrainian officials say russia is planning to take full control of the zipper. read, see, and nuclear power plant. it's the largest plant in all of europe, and he's located in southeast, in new crime. the facility was hit by russians showings earlier this month. the president of ukraine's and nuclear power authority says around $400.00 russian soldiers was sanctioned at the sides. russia has denied it plan to take permanent

control of the plan. c. u. s. has announced it'll rash, another $200000000.00 worth of weaponry to ukraine. it builds on a significant shipments it sent in a laid up to the wall and on says, fabulous. congress approved an additional $13600000000.00 in emergency ain't for ukraine. allen fisher in washington, dc explains what weapons ukrainians thereafter. yes, president joe biden is at camp david this we can, but we are told he is keeping across all developments in ukraine and he approved the release of these weapons. now the ukrainians have been asking for javelin anti tank and stinger anti aircraft missiles. we expect them to be in this batch that is released along with a significant amount of small arms at these will come from existing u. s. military stock, which means that they don't have to wait for the manufacturer to deliver them and then be moved on to ukraine. this, these can go almost immediately. and this is the 3rd time in 3 months that the u. s

. military has done that part of $1200000000.00 and military aid that the u. s. has provided since january 2021. that's important, of course, because that's when joe biden became president, no secretary of state antony blinking, has praised the ukrainian saying that they are showing great skill iron will and providing courage. and we know that congress is very much in support of what is happening in a town in a city and a country that can be so often divided on party lines. there was bipartisan support just a few days ago when congress approved $13600000000.00 in aid to ukraine. but this $200000000.00. the next step for you as support of ukraine in the face of this russian onslaught. lashes has not become voiced, hiking li, delayed in c, ukraine, a fair targets. the declaration threatens to draw poland into the conflict since

it's a major entry point for weapons. same as rabby has more from eastern eastern eastern poland. rolling hills near beer cha village pied a secret and american army base less than 40 kilometers from the ukraine border the 82nd airborne, famous for its role in the liberation of europe in world war 2. here. now, to answer, if war comes knocking on poland store. so we were just at the, our move air field here in the forests near shamella, sort of tucked away behind all the trees was a heavy us military presence there. we asked to see if we could speak to anybody. we were given the contact information for their public affairs officers. we spoke to them and they said that currently that site is under a media blackout. and no one's really even supposed to know that it's there yet. farms and tourist towns unaccustomed to the sites and sounds of heightened state

security measures. hundreds of extra officers, more than twice the normal number have been stationed at polish border towns since the russian invasion of neighboring ukraine. responding to the refugee crisis, but also to respond to what the intelligence community describes as russian subversion and hybrid warfare. oh, we see there's some kind of information campaign to destabilize our society, to saw a chaos in the pro. so, and threads in or even panic in poland and a monk polished society, but the 2nd group of treads are more serious. we've seen that do ceiling up to off or, or against ukraine can also lead rations aggressors to attempt at them. for

example, organize some kind of a diverse on i thought, in full on to false frank, to fax, over ations against all odds. and in the some clinical, somewhat, somewhat us operations. recently from western countries, transits through poland, ukraine's main ally in europe, intelligence official se could also become russia's next target. you're not going to, i'm not worried. we have grid services which are protecting us. i feel safe. com words from a civilian leader in military uniform. a clear sense of the current operating environment in this city. poland is no stranger to russian aggression, and is doing more than most to support ukraine. talk of permanent bases to protect nato's eastern flank and remain a thorn in russia side. is something war saw would likely welcome cover to keep helping a neighbor with whom its fate is intertwined. is in basra. b l. g 0

sham. ashleigh eastern poland. france says there's been no breakthrough in efforts to convince russia to end the war in ukraine. french president to manuel mccomb and jim and chancellor, all of sholtes spoke with russian president vladimir, persian on the phone for more than an hour. they asked him to call an immediate sci fi in ukraine as a condition for full negotiations. if the 2nd time the ladies have tried to broker deal in the past, wait, italians have taken to the straits of florence on saturday, calling for an end to the war. thousands gathered holding venice calling for case ukraine president follow me. lansky addressed them via video link, saying the war isn't just against ukraine, but the values of all europeans, that rally and another in germany were part of an anti war initiative across the continent called cities with ukraine. at least a 1000. and the anti war protest is gathered in munich childhood for toughest

sanctions against moscow, including a total ban on russian oil and gas. while in new york, hundreds of people converged on time square. some demonstrators held signs. the boarding keith calls for a no fly zone over the sage country. he gets home to the united states largest ukrainian community in other world news now, and as many as 12 missiles having fired towards the u. s. consulate in the northern iraqi city of urban a us official said there was no impact at the consulate, which is currently an occupied. the pentagon says, and this also fired over the border from iran. satellite broadcast channel, curtis on 24. it's located near the u. s. consulate, it went on and from the studio shortly after the attack, showing shattered law and debris on the studio flow. and some of the job aid is in baghdad, with the lighted. it's the 1st time you're seeing an attack of the scale after the

i r g, p leader costs money will still in back that and ballistic missiles are fired, both in northern iraq and 2 words. us us facilities, military for the d that is in iraq. so far, no vision confirmation whether these drugs besides verified by iran. but what we're hearing from officials is that an investigation has been ordered to try and figure out where we came from. and what was the motive? what we know from us and iraqi officials that there was no damage caused by the throat, besides which had around midnight iraqi times, the outskirts of view. that is the capital of the semi autonomous region of the sun . there has been sift one nation from the good to ship prime minister monsieur, by designing calling it a terrorist attacks we're hearing from the erotic pride minute. the thing that investigation has been ordered and also condemnation from the powerful cleric who's the political block has secured the highest number of feats after october. the elections worth remembering that there is still no efficient government since

october after the elections took place. what we do not know is what was the motive behind the, the tags. there has been targeting of our gc, commanded and officials in syria in recent days. we also know that this is coming at a critical juncture of iran relations with the outside world, where the talks in vienna about nuclear, the nuclear deal have been suspended. we also know that it also comes on the heels of heightened miller, few tensions across the globe as iran continues to remain. an important ally for russia halls have closed in 2 minutes. dan's presidential election with 9 candidates competing for the top job. the president who's been in palace since 2007, called for the vote last month after announcing his resignation. local media says his son is expected to win. many international observers have raised concerns about the legitimacy of the vote. some foreign news websites blocked by the government in

the u. s. a trial has started for, for men charged with conspiring to kidnap the governor of michigan because of her corona virus laws. if convicted, they could be jailed for life. lawyers for the men say their alleged was never serious. prosecuted. say they planned to break him to governor gretchen with me as vacation home. take her away at gunpoint enforcer to face a treason trial. ah lawyer. what challenges? 0. these are the stories were following this. our russian forces continuing their push to encircle the cranium, capital cave, intelligence report, se rushes military, his age to within 25 kilometers of the cd center, and a large scale attack could happen soon. rushes military meanwhile admits the situation in some cities ease catastrophic that says keith and its allies.