ah, al jazeera, with instruction ah, escaping the bombardment. more evacuations are underway from the besieged, ukrainian city of maria pole. oh, so i am fully back to bo, this is al jazeera life from dough. how with continuing coverage of the war in ukraine, a curfew is declared in peeve as residential blocks. i hate again, 3 european leaders are visiting the ukranian capital in a show of support. russia announcer sanctions against the united states,

including on president joe biden and a dozen other top officials and the number of people fleeing the fighting tops. 3000000 with one child becoming a refugee every 2nd. thank you very much for joining us. thousands of ukrainians in the port city of mario paul, or making an escape from the russian bombardment, a humanitarian court or has been opened for a 2nd day. meanwhile, the outskirts of kiva being battered by russian shelling but 3 european leaders have gone to the ukrainian capital in a show of solidarity, the prime ministers of poland, slovenia, and the czech republic are set for talks with present. zalinski, jenna hall begins, are coverage with this report from live if the battle for the capitol continues with daily shilling that includes residential buildings from russian positions. just 15 kilometers away and closer quarters. fighting on it's 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, the major centers of this conflict continued to get pounded from artillery positions and from the air. yet more residential buildings hit in 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 ceasefire talks on tuesday may result in a more sustained local cease fire around maria 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 blockade. and bon bonded foot 2 week bodies said to lie unconnected in the st. supplies of food, water and medicine. near exhausted, should ukraine's presidency. lensky has urged russian troops to surrender on lee, but at the new res, calling 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 our own army and the way your army does not treat our people, choose. so a 2nd day of cease fire talks and separately, an adviser to president zelinski 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. but it isn't your daughter's delirium, the units of the people from the shelf that an extra public continued to compressed in sacramento, mary paul, the general advance from the east. the northern and western direction was up to 800 meters, for the divisions of the russian armed forces are continuing offense operations. 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 the whole al jazeera movies. while the regulation road from mary paul that we mentioned extends just over 260 kilometers to wrapper ratio, which is ukranian, how territory, but ukraine's deputy prime minister says a convoy with supplies for mary paul was talking nearby bare ganske,

i found babies in the apparition he met some of the people displaced from mary poll when they get here, they are, those they are toys, they've given food, and here you can see donation from people from ordering ukrainians, making a massive effort to try and 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 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 it's fighting in the east of the country has been going on since 2014. so many people left there to of a safer part of ukraine. and now again, they've been forced to leave. but the ukranian authority is saying that 2000 cause again have left mary approach. but that's not enough. this city as around 400000

people that has been established by the russian and the ukrainians 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, people taking shelter in basement. but they're trying to get a and to doesn't cause as far as the ukrainians are concerned, isn't enough. now details about the visit by the prime ministers of the czech republic, slovakia and poland being kept under wraps, iran, connie's in keys with more the 1st high level visit since the war began their coming on behalf of the european council. it's an official visit. are they likely to be talking about aid now? poland is an incredibly important route for aid coming into the country and for people leaving, it's one of the only rail lines. there's actually still operating internationally from live onto a onto and across the border into poland. now when we cross that border about week

ago, there was a lot of food loss of water being put into those trains is likely that they're going to be laying more trains on. however, i did see extraordinary sings on the trains as they were coming past me, coming from the vin into poland, packed, absolutely packed with people like us. it's a very important rule. it's likely that all of that is going to be discussed by these leaders. it's interesting that the ukraine's haven't actually said a huge amount about this visit, remaining very tight lips. those lead is going to be with prison glutamate zalinski . are they likely to talk about as i say, aide? but there's obviously going to be talk about politics as well and how the war is going and what's the europeans can do. now, one ukrainian child becomes a refugee every 2nd. according to the united nations. that 70000 a day, almost one and a half 1000000 children since the war began nearly 3 weeks ago. they went to refugee agencies as more than 3000000 people have left ukraine to escape the

fighting. more than half have gone to poland, while a significant number has moved further into western europe. and the european union has announced at more sanctions against russia. they include expanded restrictions on the defense, energy, and industry sectors. is also a ban on all transactions with certain state owned companies. that's the strongest package of sanctions ever adopted by. do you and union need history? that's a history court 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 explanation later, look to the goods and we will withdraw to the russian state. the most favored nation close within the world trade organization poll brennan has more

on those sanctions from london. well, they've been targeting investment in russia's energy sector. it's important to remind remember that 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 pin 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

now as well as european sanctions. u. k. has this, lunchtime launched its own sanctions, 370 individuals on i added to the case list of sanctioned individuals name crude names as recognizable is dimitri management. i've heard the former russian president and prime minister now says, deputy chair of push and security council, russian defendant assess chicago, and also recognizable people. dmitri pest, golf, who is putins, personal spokesman, russia's foreign ministry has announced personal sanctions on the 13 u. s. officials including present joe biden. the list also includes the secretary of state, the defense secretary, and the director of the cia rushes, retaliating after western countries sanctioned allies of president putin because of the conflict in ukraine that those sanctions come as present. joe biden is preparing to sign a bipartisan spending bill. that's bringing our white house correspondent, kimberly how kit. tell us about this spending bill and what's in it for ukraine.

kimberly, well, what's in it for ukraine is of a lot of interest to for an aide activist because there is certainly money that is badly needed right now by those who are fleeing ukraine and those that are trying to help those that remain. so in that spending bill is about $4100000000.00 to help those in crisis. that is not an issue. but what is of issue is the amount of money being spent on those that are fleeing or struggling to deal with other crises around the world. and that is where there is a bit of controversy because the money that is being allocated to those has been caught by about a $1000000000.00. about 6800000000 being devoted to all the other crises caused by natural disasters or just man made conflict. and so this has been a real shock to

a lot of activists who are now criticizing the biden administration. and also congress for whittling down and to be fair, the by the administration did in its initial request, ask for about 8 and a half 1000000000 in total. so to get to the 6800000000 number. now that the president will sign into law is a significant reduction. now, we should point out that congress members are saying look at, there's always next year and we're going to push for even more money. but in the interim, this is not sitting well. so this is the money the president will be selling it to law is going to be welcome to in terms of those that are needing help in ukraine ad with regard to those sanctions that to have been slapped on the president as well as his secretary of state and defense secretary watching very carefully in the upcoming press briefing gen saki the press secretary expected to talk about those. we expect there will be some white house reaction that press briefing said to take place in the next hour,

and we'll be checking in with you for the least updates there from washington. kimberly how kits. thank you very much. and still ahead on al jazeera, russia insist, it's not hindering efforts to revive the 2015 iran nuclear deo. so could an agreement to be in site plus, i'm sorry, the java, the northern iraq. and i'll tell you why tourists are coming back to this area. after the clued 19 pandemic in the fight against deisel. ah, ah, look forward to burly to sky's the with sponsored point cutoff at ways big thunderstorms are widespread in southeast asia now, and they stretch the far north of thailand right away to was mid west papua, but the concentration i think of the next 20 for an of the biggest challenges can be borneo, java, sumatra, plenty, malaysia. you've seen that before,

but it's still going to be pretty wet throughout the philippines and down through sort of ways. he is, well, a change of fortunes now in china. it's now from the yankees side of the temperatures are on the high side to the north. they've gone back down to about normal factors. stove falling in a good part of northern china festival. is the northeast that goes across the sea to know in japan, particularly her condo. and that is, this rain develops and brings tempt his dad and i stay in the middle of china next 24 hours. the rain has towards shanghai, along the yankee valley and snow starts to fall in beijing, 2 or 3 days worth of spirit to be honest. and the opposite side of the corn, she like no sto increasingly warm. now this is true throughout india, pakistan, afghanistan, everywhere. really south of the himalayan platter. the churches in the forty's prompt, heat wave warnings in good, you're up and down towards go as well. as you can see, the whole of india is showing red. there is that time of the year. the weather

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a reminder of the main development scene and the war in the ukraine. ukrainian authority, say 2000 cars have left mark left mario pole in the latest evacuation from a be see city that's after russia and ukraine agreed to open mind humanitarian corridors across the country. as russian bonds fall on ukrainian cities, the leaders of poland, slovenia in the czech republic are heading to the cranium capital in a show of support. and he went, refugee agency says more than 3000000 people have left ukraine to escape the fighting. ukrainian children are becoming refugees at a rate of one for seconds or more than half of those refugees have gone to poland. polish president, andre duda has signed a new law to help the huge numbers who've arrived. then bas ravi has our report from krakow. poland 2nd city looks different these days. soldiers of scooters, refugees on sidewalks, reminders of russia's war,

ukraine at the consulate and crackles, hundreds of ukrainians. wait in line for hours every day. okay, new or just what's happening and ukraine is awful. it's more shooting, killing. they don't hesitate to kill anybody. what i it's mentally very difficult. my mind just cannot take it. of the mortgage in that 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, did i lose you there recently arrived? 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 is never seen an influx of so many refugees. so quickly, crackers mayor says, the city has its limits of dental drug here, doesn't miss scott, you know, i think i'm seeing it the same as every citizen of the city, but it's

a major challenge. the most important thing is humanitarian aid. no matter want. we are trying to do whatever we can. this war is something really terrifying most. this is number of defect giggle. appropriate 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 huge 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 out of 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. we'll cities that crack over

dealing with wave after wave of refugees and with worsening violence in ukraine. there's no hiding from the fact they won't be going home any time soon. as a bus revealed 0, krakow poland. jewelry is as folks men for the in charge organization for migration . he says, families with young children face serious risks when they cross the border from ukraine while get experts that the know what they're doing and they build programs that to take care of this lat long term. and we do build this into all programming to be like a logical support, particularly for children. it's huge for us and, and also for, for that, for the mothers. let's say a taking on the role of caring for an entire family over night. what's also essential is to think about the protection of people leaving ukraine and the people in, in the ukraine as well when, when they're, when they come to us, the people leading out ukraine are very susceptible to perhaps are predators to

human traffickers and even to children. to to abduction and we would try to make the choice and candid get safe passage for people. for example, in where i am now in moldova, along with you and a jar and the government concerned in both mania, moldova started regular transfer of migrants, sending buses from romania righteous southwestern border with ukraine. i'm bringing people 100 people today. the most reasonable on top is whether we can be sure that there's a from the get into romania with their ongoing and that's the other area needs to be taken care of. the british prime minister boys johnson fancy slapping new sanctions on russia, including a ban on exports of luxury goods to the country. johnson made the announcement as he promised more support for ukraine at a summit with the leaders of baltic and nordic countries in london. the cranium present. bobby has lensky addressed anita, virtually, and called for more action to help stop the war. all boys, johnson says,

western leaders had a moral obligation to help you. crane. 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 has gravely miscalculated. he is underestimated the heroism and determination of ukrainians to resist under president zalinski. i think he's also gravely underestimated the unity of the west and president zalinski has also addressed the canadian parliament where he received a standing ovation, who the green in leaders spoke to lawmakers after canada's prime minister. jacinto announced new sanctions on 15

russian officials in a video address zalinski said ukrainians are going through hell because of russia's bombing. he said. ukrainians want to live and asked for more support including a no fly zone. is nigel, clearly we all need to do more to stop russia and protect ukraine. and by doing that to protect europe from the russian threat is that they are destroying everything. memorial complexes, schools, hospitals, housing complexes will, yeah. they have already killed 97 ukrainian children. we're not asking for much, lee, we ask him for justice, didn't for your support, which will help us to prevail and defend and save lives all over the world and you . in moscow, a court has find a russian journalist, $280.00 us dollars for protesting against the war during a live television news program. marina of the asking over interrupted the bulletin on st. tv, by holding up the assigned reading stop the war. the cramming has called her

actions a form of hooliganism, of the asking over our release this pre recorded message about her protests. this is just briefly mccraney the crystal clean irosia family of food is currently happening in ukraine as crime. russia is a country aggressor, or responsibility for this aggression lies on the conscience of one person. let me putin either my father's ukrainian. my mother is russians. they were never enemies . this necklace around my neck signifies that russia should immediately stop this fratricidal water. you are not, brotherly nations can still reconcile. unfortunately, for the last several years, i worked a channel one promoting kremlin propaganda. and for that, i am very ashamed right now that i'm ashamed that i allowed lies to be told from t v screens that i allowed russian people to be zombified. we stayed quiet when all of this was just getting started in 2014. we didn't come out to protest when the kremlin poisoned devonie. we simply continued watching in silence this in humane

regime. now the whole world turned away from us. 10 generations of our descendants won't be able to wash away the shame of this fratricidal vol. you or somebody, and russia says the u. s. has guaranteed it will be able to trade where the ron as part of an ongoing attempt to save the 2015 nuclear deal. foreign minister, sag lover off, has been meeting his iranian counterpart in moscow. 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 it look mostly that we wait for the lifting of the illegal sanctions, which were implemented by the u. s. and in part, not only around and iranian people, but many other people. the us on a daily basis is accusing us of slowing down this agreement. that's a lie of this agreement is not finalized in some capitals but the russian capital. moscow is not one of them. in other world news, people in sri lanka, protesting against the countries worsening economic crisis. the government is heavily in debt and struggling to pay for food medicine and fuel. we now fernandez,

report some colombo, the demonstrations which have spilled out onto the streets, being organized by the opposition, s j b party. the men are team that most people are talking about is bought. i'll go home as you can see, the crowds that are coming forward ah, holding aloft a mock coffin on either side read. so basically it's about our, the final nails of the coffin of this government. now, what the opposition says is if the larger box, the government cannot manage the economy, the country, and all of these issues, they should just pack up and go home. now this obviously is a little bit of wishful thinking. the larger box of government is a strong government. ah, they have a heavy numbers are in their favor in parliament. but obviously months and months of di cannot make issues,

has brought it to its knees. and this anger that you are seeing among the public is very much a manifestation of that. as much as this is a politically driven politically organized rally that a lot of people who have been having trouble with the cost of living with shortages over centro goods shortages afford of bar cooking, gas of essentials. and also that is a phenomenon skyrocketing of the cost of living. ford inflation is something like 25 percent. the government has been accused of mismanaging the economy. of this is yolanda is not the only country for san demick that he's having issues. but coupled with long of mismanagement with corruption, odd the people say that this government has made a mess of things. india's defense minister says, are there miss our systems?

are we liable and safe after one was accidentally fired into pakistan? is lamar by says, a weapon, damage a wall in a residential area when job province on wednesday, no casualties were reported. an inquiry has been ordered. india has not revealed what miss heil was launched. india needs to clearly explain the type and specifications of the missile that fell in, but sunny did it re india also needs to explain the flight part of the accidentally launched beside and haul. it ultimately turned and entered into pakistan. nugget some dummy review of the standard operating procedures for operations, maintenance, and inspection is being conducted in the wake of the incident and the attachment to the highest priority of to the safety and security of our weapons systems. and if

any shortcoming is found, it would be immediately rectified. i tory's sir, beginning to return to northern iraq after being kept away for years by the fight against i saw. and the corona virus pandemic visitors are being drawn to an unexpected attraction for the region. snow osama bin javin, re for some correct mountain in the kurdish region of northern iraq authority on the summit of the chorus mountain. this takes place almost every day and thousands of visitors have been coming here every week. it's the only mountain resort in iraq and families travel for days to get here. most jimmy last year, right, goes on. we started to receive by the weekend number of both 35024000 tourists. and normal days, we see ground up to 2000 tours per day. we have 132 residential units in this project made to 600 people. while drizzle falls at the base,

people admire the views from above. and this is what a weight some has taken horse line. this is my family's 1st visit to critic telephone. i feel very happy and the surrounding views are great. i feel happy. in the last few weeks, skiing has been made available, and tourists from abroad are invited to take part. the project was officially opened in 2013, but people soon had to stop coming. now that's changing, after suffering from the fight against isolate and the code 19 pandemic. the situation is getting better and slowly local and international tourists are coming back to northern iraq. you know, in europe, if you only realize how hard there bye things been there is no one told you about the good things. there are this train of wanted hearts when i was here for the 1st i, i'm even as big bob, if you realize that this, another city in the war on like a normal phoebe, i was actually scared to come here. and then my husband said it's way this if

you're a good the rear, it's just like india. people are very friendly. the snow is melting now and spring is on the way in government official say this mountain resort will soon become a summer refuge from iraq sweltering heat. some are bon jovi down to 0 correct mountain in iraqi kurdistan region. ah, i'm fully betty bought into her with the top stories on al jazeera, ukrainian, or thorny say, 2000 cars have left marya fall in the latest evacuation from the besieged city. that after the 2 sides, russia and ukraine agreed to open 9 humanitarian court orders across the country for a 1000 civilians manage to leave mary a fall in the 1st successful evacuation. on monday, 3 european leaders are visiting ukraine's capital. this.