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ah ah ah! escaping the bombardment more evacuation zoned away from the busy, easy training and city of mario pole. ah, i'm about to say, this is obviously the life. doha also coming up a curfews declared in key as residential blocks are hit again. 3 european leaders had to the capital and a show of support for ukraine's leaders raising hope about iran's nuclear deal. russia says that a viable of the agreement is in the home straight and want to be derailed by
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sanctions. and another news in australian court overtones on landmark ruling that requires the government to protect children from climate change. they've been tapped without food running water and electricity for days. now thousands of ukrainians in the port city of mario poll. i'm making an escape from the russian bombardment to humanitarian. colorado has been opened for a 2nd day. the evacuation route extends just over 260 kilometers. mario paul does appreciate which is ukrainian held territory, but ukraine's deputy prime minister has set a convoy with supplies for medea. paul was stuck in near by bell jones out his ears . i beg his ins up, patricia, he's mad. some of the people displaced from multiple when they get here, they are closed, they are toys, they given food. and here you can see donation from people from ordering ukrainians,
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making a massive effort to try to welcome these people that have escaped from medical. but it's not just medical that they have escaped from the surrounding areas. it is fighting, taking place and the people that we've spoken to many are shocked and traumatized. many have lived in the hands of villages all their lives and have no nothing else. and now they've been forced to leave, but we also have people that have been displaced a number of times because this fighting in the east of the country has been going on since 2014. so many people left there to say for part of ukraine, and now again, they've been forced to leave. but the ukranian authority is saying that 2000 cause, again, have left marital but that's not enough. the city has around 400000 people that has been established by the russian and the ukrainian desperately want to get into that city. and the situation that we've been hearing from inside my report is that there's a lack of food, water, lack of heating,
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people taking shelter in basement. but the trying to get a and to doesn't cause as far as the ukrainians are concerned, isn't enough. in a surprise, move 3 european leaders have gone to the ukranian capital, despite ongoing shelling on the outskirts of the city, the prime ministers of poland, sylvania and the czech republic. i set foot off the president devoting me as lensky hall reports from leave. the battle for the capital continues with daily shilling that includes residential buildings from russian positions, just 15 kilometers away and closer quarters, fighting on its suburban outskirts western intelligence assessments point to ground offensives that have largely stalled with russian troops making little or no progress towards strategic objectives, but if towns like a pin butcher and hoster, malware to fall apart could open up for a push into key of itself. in the meantime,
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the major centres of this conflict continue to get pounded from artillery positions and from the air. yet more residential buildings hit in our cave and chinese and russia maintains a stranglehold of merrier pole in the south. a convoy of vehicles was able to leave the besieged port city on monday, but no aid supplies made it in. the resumption of cease fire talks on tuesday may result in a more sustained local cease fire around mario pole where it's clear relief cannot come too soon. hundreds of thousands of people are trapped in conditions of unimaginable hardship in a city blockaded. and bon bonded for 2 weeks. bodies said to lie unconnected in the st. supplies of food, water, and medicine. near exhausted, should ukraine's president zalinski has urged russian troops to surrender lieber at
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the manual grade school and on behalf of the ukrainian people, we give you a chance to live. if you surrender to our forces, we will treat you as humans have to be treated with dignity. the way you have not been treated by your own army. and the way your army does not treat our people to choose. so a 2nd day of cease fire talks and separately, an adviser to president zalinski has said he believes the war will be over by may at the very latest. a prediction based on intelligence reports of slower than expected, russian progress, larger than expected russian losses. its forces spread increasingly thinly across the vastness of north south and east, a new crime, vivica wishful thinking. perhaps for this thing it was a georgia state killing of the units of the people's militia that an extra public continued to compressed in sacramento, merrier pole. the general advance from the east, the northern in western direction was up to 800 meters for the divisions of the
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russian armed forces are continuing offensive durations. there are reports that russia has already prevailed on allies like china and syria for help. but all the heart in this fight belongs to ukraine, and it refuses to submit your whole al jazeera movies. there were taking your life to process and i need to achieve gen stolen bug is giving a press conference ahead of living or defense ministers. in this of critical equipment including anti tank and air defense weapons, jones, i'm an ition and fuel this training and equipment is helping crane to defend itself. ukraine has for them right to self defense enshrined in the un shorter and they to all eyes and partners will continue to help your crane uphold right. by providing military equipment and financial on
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humanitarian assistance. natal score task is to protect and defend all analysts. we have responded to this crisis quickly activating our the fence dance, raising our redness and deploy in the nato response force for the 1st time. for collective defense. there are now hundreds of thousands of forces song heightened the lurch across the lines. 100000 u. s. troops in europe and their own 40000 troops on the dialect. nate the command, mostly in the eastern part of the alliance, backed by major air and naval power. as well as air defenses. the u. s. is currently deploy painted mattress to poland and germany and the
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netherlands are also deploying patriots to slaughter all of this sense. an unmistakable message. an attack on one ally will be met with a decisive response from the whole alliance. russia invasion of ukraine and it's military integration, belarus, crates, and use security reality on the european continent. so we need to reset nate, those military posture for this new reality. to morrow ministers was thought an important discussion on concrete measures to re enforce our security for the longer term in old domains. online. this could include substantially more forces in the eastern part of the alliance. at higher edna's, i would more prepositioned equipments. you also consider major increases to our
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air and naval deployments. strengthening our integrated air on missile defense, reinforcing our cyber defenses. on holding more and larger exercises, i expect to, we will tall sk naples military commanders to develop options for our madrid summit in june. major reinforcements or defense will require major increases in investment. i welcome to germany and all the allies. how old did announce their stepping out? and i encourage all our laws to spend the minimum 2 percent o g d p on the fence. we must do more. so we must also invest more to protect peace and freedom on uphold our values at this critical time. i'm in
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that them ready to take your questions. okay, we thought with us he and then thank you. i'm wondering whether you can say whether the nato alliance has seen evidence that china has been providing out russia with any kind of assistance that would help it on the battlefield. whether that military equipment or m. r e z and food for troops. anything of that kind and also out with regard to the situation that we saw earlier that week with russia, i targeting a military base very close to poland border. i'm wondering what you can say about the kind of red lines and whether there would be any kind of consequences. if a missile, for example, were accidentally to enter nato territory or on purpose think so, natal score responsibility. our main responsibility is to protect on the found the all a nate wallace of 1000000000 people in 30 different the countries on to a and sure that we also do doubt do that. so now in a more danger,
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securitization, in europe, her close by the invasion of ukraine by russia and we have increased the presence in the eastern part of the lions. we have increased retina, so troops on we are deploying more capabilities, especially to these them portals. so an attack on will not ally will triggered responsible the whole alliance, and we are there to protect on the event every in shall nato, a large territory. and when we see more military activities, when we see actually fighting, going on close in a to borders, there's always, there is, for instance and accidents. and therefore we have to make sure every effort to prevent such incidents and accidents. and if they happen to make sure that they don't spite auto control and create really dangerous situations, and we are very closely monitoring ah, a space or, and, and the, and the, the border areas around natal, on the remainder command is also have a,
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the lines to the russian commanders to help to prevent instance accidents on the house to prevent them from spine are spiraling out of control. if they happen. and on china, the china should join the rest of the world condemning strongly the brutal invasion of ukraine by russia. ah, a, any support to russia, military support and the other type of support will actually help russia conducts a brutal war against an independent sovereign nation ukraine. and helped them to continue to wage war, which is causing a death, her suffering and her an enormous amount of destruction. i saw a china house or an obligation as a member of the units are good to counselors,
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actually support and uphold in natural law. on the rush invasion over over a ukraine is a blatant violation of international law. so we call on rochelle too, and clearly condemn ah, the invasion and of course not support or russia. and we are closely monitoring or any and, and as signs of a support from or channel to, to russia. and that's been achieved in stoughton bargaining. a press conference, this is coming ahead of a meeting of neutral member country defense ministers, which is due to be happening in the next few hours or so was trans conference coming from brussels. interestingly, in response to the question posed to him by one of the journalists, has china been providing russia with any assistance on the battlefield? and sultan bug didn't give a specific answer as to whether or not there was any evidence that that was happening. he did, however, say that john should join the rest of the world in the condemnation of russia's
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invasion of ukraine. he also responded to the question about possible consequences if a russian missiles entered and nitro area. this is following a recent attack. and just a that happened very close to the polish border just within the last 24 hours. so he said that natal had a responsibility to protect member countries and there was always a risk of incidence and accidents. we like to hope to make sure that they don't spiral out of control. that meeting is going to be taking place amongst those defense ministers tomorrow. and we will probably be bringing you coverage of that. when it happens, the mayor of came says, this is a difficult and dangerous moment as russian strikes continue to hit, his city is called an ukrainians to help defend the capital not to go back. as of today, the 15th of march, 20100 hours martial law. it's not allowed to move around the city without special
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permission until 7 am on the 17th of march. yes, what about the book? i'm asking everyone, your old men who have not returned yet. please come back. we need to defend our city in our future. ukrainian children are becoming refugees at a rate of one per 2nd according to the un knots almost one and a half 1000000 children in total since the war began. that's been 3 weeks ago. the us refugee agencies has more than 3000000 people have escaped the fighting in ukraine, or more than half of those refugees have gone to poland, polish president on re do the has signed a new law to help the huge numbers of refugees who arrived st. socket reports from cargo. poland. second city looks different. these days. soldiers are scooters. refugees, and sidewalks, reminders of russia's war and ukraine, at the consulate and crock of hundreds of ukrainians. wait in line for hours every
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day. in your just, what's happening in ukraine is awful. it's more shooting, killing, they don't hesitate to kill anybody. it's mentally very difficult. my mind just kind of take us love to move in because i have no idea when this will end. i think that it will take a long time before it's over. lots of people will die. this is horrible. deliveries recently arrive are part of the diaspora for ukrainians. uncertainty and chaos have become the nor getting passports, having documents attested the drudgery of life admin, taking on much more significance now as many ukrainians prepared to be away from home for an unknown period of time. poland his never seen an influx of so many refugees. so quickly crackles mayor says, the city has its limits of dental dog, your cousin, miss scott, you know, i think i'm seeing it the same as every citizen of the city, but it's a major challenge for the most important thing is humanitarian aid,
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no matter want. we, we are trying to do whatever we can. this war is something really terrifying most. and so is number of the vehicle for public housing for refugees is near capacity. the mayor says his city needs more government funds to keep helping people. for now, the fate of many is in the hands of hardworking volunteers, a charities throughout the country. donations keep coming around the clock, volunteers working throughout the night to pack supplies, most headed for keys, the besieged ukrainian capital, foresee a use originally from ukraine. this is personal. the 2nd floor of this charity has been turned into a temporary shelter for mostly women and children. the biggest challenge he says, is finding people a place to sleep in the beginning, people only slept here for one night and then left it. now they're staying for 3 or 4 nights. we're looking for places for them to go. the government promised help, but we don't know if that's going to be enough. work cities that crack over dealing with wave after wave of refugees and with worsening violence in ukraine. there's no
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hiding from the fact they won't be going home any time soon. who's in basra, vo de 0, krakow poland. their opinions announced more sanctions against russia. they include expanded restrictions and the defense energy and industry sectors. was also ban on all transactions with certain state owned companies. that's the strongest package of sanctions ever adopted by dupont union in its history. that's a history call. decision will have more than 600 russian people being targeted by those sanctions. you will have a large part of the financial system being targeted by those sanctions. you will have new ban on some exploitation leg looks to the goods and we will withdraw to the russian state the most favored nation close within the world trade organization. paul brannon has moral sanctions from london. well,
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they've been targeting investment in russia's energy sector. it's important to remind, remember that was the europe is dependent on russian energy. so what this rafters, new sanctions targets is investment by the west into russian energy infrastructure . they're also banning luxury good exports from europe into russia. so that's any luxury good worth, more than around $330.00 us dollars. any call worth more than 5 worth more than $55000.00 us dollars. that will no longer be allowed to be exported into russia. and the other area where the repeated union has decided to sanction is a ban of imports of steel products from russia in to europe. and it's estimated that that will be somewhere like $3600000000.00, sorry, dollars worth of russian steel products. a significant impact on the market that
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now as well as european sanctions. the u. k. has this, lunchtime launched its own sanctions. 370 individuals are now added to the case list of sanctioned individuals name. crude names as recognizable is dimitri med who's the former russian president and prime minister now says deputy chair of fusion security council, russian defense minister, chicago, and also recognizable people to me to pest golf. who is putin's pestle spokesman u. k prime minister bowers johnson says he slapping new sanctions on russia, including about an exports of luxury goods to the country. johnson made the announcement as the problem promised more support for ukraine at a summit with the leaders of baltic and naughty countries in london, ukrainian president flooding zalinski address that it is virtually, and called for more action to help stop the war. we all are the targets of russia and everything will go against europe if ukraine won't stand. so i would like to ask you to help yourself by helping us, you, you know,
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the kind of work and we need every one knows, you know, what kind of her defense or measures when age, you know, you know, what we, that i need is the fighter jets and without your support, it would be very difficult. speaking at that summit bar, as johnston said, western leaders had a moral obligation to help ukraine. and nobody wants to be engaged in a direct military confrontation between the west and russia. clearly that's not something that any boss i wanted to see. i, but we recognize that it is our duty to support the ukrainian people in their hour of need already. it is clear that a putin whose gravely miscalculated he's underestimated the heroism and determination of ukrainians to resist under president zalinski. i think he's also gravely underestimated the unity of the west or russia says the u. s. has
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guaranteed it will be able to trade with iran as part of an ongoing attempt to save the 2015 nuclear deal. bought a mr. sagel love rose, been meeting his iranian counterpart in the russian capital, france, germany and britain have said a series of last minute russian demands and its invasion of ukraine put the whole deal at risk. but at midnight, so do we wait for the lifting of the illegal sanctions which were implemented by the us and impact not only iran and iranian people, but many other people because of the us on a daily basis is accusing us of slowing down this agreement. that's a lie, but this agreement is not finalized in some capitals, but the russian capital. moscow is not one of them. you know, he knows everybody has more than those talks from moscow. according to the russian foreign minister, certainly love rob. they have now and gotten a written guarantee that has been written into the an nuclear deal of 2015 that once that is reinstated,
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then at the trade issues that russia will have around iran's nuclear program will not be affected by the sanctions. this countries under, from the united states, this was something that the russian foreign minister raised on march 5th, saying that the russians want to know for sure that the americas will not hinder russia's relationship with iran when it comes to the future. of that very important nuclear job, i'm there is a final draft of the a 2015 nuclear deal on the table in vienna. and there was a sudden pause according to the a, the high representative of the european union. joseph ral, on friday, march 11th, saying that they were going to have a break because of external factors. now, the american sates, because of russian demands the russians now saying we have actually gotten their written guarantees that we were asking for. it is really the americans who are blaming us in the buying time because they can't make a decision. so it's
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a very significant point in the nuclear negotiations that have been ongoing for the past 11 months. and now the rains and the russians seeming very united in their stance at putting the pressure and own us back on the u. s. government as to what will happen next. in historian courts overturned a landmark ruling, requiring the environment minister to protect children against climate change. the original class action was brought by a group of teenage students and a nun trying to block or coal mine and new south wales. so talk reports cause it a duty of key. the federal court ruling was unanimous tray judges on the full bench agreed that while the evidence of climate change was undisputed, as well as the dangers to the world and humanity, the environment minister should not be held personally accountable to protecting children against its impact. as to the positive duty of ki, before court is unanimous in the view that the duty should not be impart on the minister. the 3 judgements of the court as different emphases as to why
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this conclusion should be reached outside the court. there were tis and anger, the group of teenagers who took the original class action to stop the expansion of a coal mine side. i devastated by the decision, but it will not deter us in our fight for a sake feature climate. an action has devastating consequences. the young people and we will continue to demand that there is in power fight, the doris, who emerged in my last year, this group of young climate activists made headlines around the world. when a judge ruled that the environment mr. had a duty of care to protect children when assessing fossil fuel projects. the group said they took the matter to court on behalf of all australian children. and while they filed to stop the expansion of a coal mining new south wales, it was a landmark when they would open an avenue for legal challenges to the governments. future decisions on coal projects. this case was young people stepping up,
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while the judgment didn't go away today. this case demonstrates that young people are determined to be heard on this issue, whether by school strikes, social media or through our legal system. we are proud of the arguments that we put forward and for representing all young people in australia is running. government currently lists around $120.00 major coal and gas projects under development. not everyone will be given the go ahead, but it's an indication that fossil fuel development continues despite the government committing to 0 net emissions by 2050. they're growing cold for the federal government to do more to address climate change with parts of the country's east coast deluge by floods this month. and bush vas which ravaged the country 2 years ago. these climate activists haven't given up and considering an appeal in the high court. sarah clark, our da 0 brisbin, australia, about his jobs in some indian classrooms has been upheld by the high court. the
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court said waiting head scarves is not an essential religious practice from original bond by schools. in the con, i talked a space sponsor, a wave of protests which caused colleges to close for 3 days in february and is muslim. minority says it violates the religious rights. people who depend on the child for their livelihoods are struggling as attacks by armed groups continue. the violence is pushed authorities into countries surrounding the lake to limit cross border traffic. and that's affecting the economy of the entire region. morgan reports on the shores of lake shot this boat was once loose about a. com. it's only source of income at trader from chad. he says he used to transport goods between his country and my area through lake chad. now he only come to check on it and clear out water that has seeped in santa i didn't thought of trading between here and nigeria. the only job i know then the car came from nigeria and
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read that are really 3 people and injuring others. you know, i used my boat to get people out of the village and came here. now has nowhere. because i can transport goods to deny june side of the lake anymore. lake tad is a fresh water source for millions of people in nigeria. me, jerry, chad and cameron, all of which surround the lake. it's also a source of livelihood for hundreds of thousands. chad in traders used to transport goods on both to nature area. many here say it was more cost effective, and fishermen rely on the lake to supply local markets. but since 2015 book her on violence in northeastern nigeria has spilt over the border to the lakeside village, that surrounded authorities were forced to close the borders in response. many here say that caused a disruption in the market and lead to increase in price of goods. the attacks by vocal her am, have restricted trade between countries surrounding lake chad and limited areas for fishermen to fish. and so that's also put
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a strain on the local economy. the violence has also changed the pattern of movement between countries surrounding the lake, where people once more freely, now hundreds of thousands have been forced to leave to escape the attacks. the shores of the lake here on the canadian side was once bare. now dozens of houses have been built for those displays by poco. her arm book i and his family are some of those who had to flee from king l. m. island in chad, to the sure of the lake. your one kid i see. i used to work back woman, my village is a farmer. but because of attacks by book god, am i been displaced, my village, and now i have no job. they stole all my belongings, been deleted. about 6000 chatham soldiers happened, deployed on the lake to deal with the threat local authority state. they're working with 8 organizations to help those who've been displaced and re open crucial trade routes as yahoo! realistically, today, i think the security situation is now stable, but up to now the route between nigeria and trout can't be opened because we can't
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guarantee security. we need to continue combing the lake and places that traitors usually move around to guarantee their safety for the nigerian authorities and i are working on it and we hope to succeed in the coming months. but until the routes are safe, again, most assess his boat will remain on shore. he hopes that authorities will be able to end book a heart attack soon, so that he can once again earn a living. heber morgan, alta 0 lake. chad. ah, this is al jazeera, these are the top stories, ukrainian authorities say 2000 cars of left mateo, paul, and the latest evacuation from the besieged city. that's after the 2 sides agree to 9 humanitarian corridors across the country. earlier. 4000 civilians most to leave mario pole in the 1st successful evacuation. on monday, 3 european leaders are on their waves of the ukrainian capital, despite ongoing shelly on the out.

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