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fuels fears the nuclear power plant and brush could be the next to be targeted. ah mer of king has warned that ukraine's capital is facing a difficult and dangerous moment. a 35 our curfew has been imposed after russian stripes on residential buildings. and a metro station killed least 5 people on tuesday turn. whole isn't leave and begins are coverage with this is harkey no longer a city of one and a half 1000000 people. many of flip the russians are raising whole residential districts to the ground. they say civilians are being used as human shields and that soldiers are hiding among the but how can they tell from up there as the bulbs continued to fall indiscriminate play

the battle to keep continues to with daily shelling that includes residential buildings from russian positions just 15 kilometers away and closer quarters, fighting on its suburban outskirts western intelligence assessments point to a ground offensive that is largely stalled with russian troops making little or no progress. but if the towns like repeated butcher and aust, amount were to fall apart, could open up for a push on the capital and russia maintains its strangle hold on maria pole, the southern port, city and other important strategic objective. it was a convoy of civilian vehicles, reportedly, 2000 of them left, a humanitarian corridor that held for a 2nd day, but still no aid supplies made it in and still hundreds of thousands exist in

conditions of unimaginable hardship. bodies are said to lie and collected in the street supplies of food, water, and medicine near exhausted easing. the flight of maria pole was a key demand of the ukrainian side in cease fire talks that continued on tuesday. but there is a lot more still to do at the menu range school not only 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 that 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 wishful thinking perhaps. but it is in a little slow doors as the delivery of the units of the people from alicia for the next republic continued to compressed in circumventing mario pole. the general advance from the east, the northern and western direction was up to 800 meters. the divisions of the russian armed forces are continuing offensive 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 he refuses to submit. fiona held al jazeera will be the prime ministers of poland, lavinia and the czech republic are and keyed to show solidarity with its people, even as russian shelling hits the capital of the 1st foreign leaders to visit ukraine since last month's invasion. the 3 said they wanted to express the european union's unequivocal support during talks with president vladimir zalinski. after

the talks hollands, deputy prime minister yara slept, kasinsky said, an international peacekeeping force should be sent to ukraine, while the polish prime minister matters. moreover, key is calling for putin to call off his attack on ukraine. this invasion has to stop the blood on this be your mothers, your children wives are safe. but those who are here by 14, they can never be forgotten and they are not for good. at the european union has still given very quickly a candidate status and more than this hostile invite your grain today, european union, and all that the fancy weapon to defend your homes. we will drive to organize orchards or to say all over the world, we will never leave you alone. we will be with you because we know that you are

fighting not only for your horse, for your freedom, for your security, but also for hours. a senior ukrainian government official says some 29000 people were evacuated from different cities through humanitarian corridors. on tuesday, around $20000.00 of them left mario po, along the corridor, extending just over 260 kilometers two's f, a risha, which is in ukrainian hel territory. that ukraine's deputy prime minister said a convoy with supplies for mario po, was stock in nearby, but the answer i said vague has more from separation when they get here, they are, those they are toys, they're given food. and here you can see donations from people from ordering ukrainians, making a massive effort to try and welcome these people that have escaped from variable. but it's not just medical that they have escape 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 it's 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 cars again have left mary approach. but that's not enough. the city has around 400000 people that has been established by the russians and the ukrainians desperately want to get into that. again, 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 the trying to get a and to doesn't cause as far as the ukrainians are concerned, isn't enough. crystal result of a death is preparing for an imminent attack. the city streets lined with hundreds

of thousands of sandbags made by people who stayed there to help both to defenses against advancing russian troops. on the hamid has more from president vladimir zalinski has worn several times that russia is getting ready to attack odessa and certainly people here have taken that warning seriously. coming into the city. they're 45 checkpoints that you have to go through with a really heavy security and then all over the city. what you would see is these kinds of road blocks. a lot of sandbags everywhere seems like half of the population maybe has gone away because this is a coastal resort. it's on the black sea, and it's actually considered the jewel of the black sea. this is the opera house, and it's the crown of odessa. odessa is a city that has a lot of russian investment is a city where a lot of russian come on holiday. the city that has openly showed support to russia

in the past. after the annexation in chrome in 2014, there were deadly rise between 4 russians and pro ukrainians. and which 40 people died. when ever you look, you will see the ukrainian colors. you will hear ukrainian music. perhaps people here have been shocked of what they've seen unfolding in the capital key, but probably even more so. but what happened in the car key, which is considered also very broad, russian as city the message coming out from a desk at the moment from what we see is that they're supporting ukraine and that could bring them punishment that you've been union has expanded sanctions on russia aiming to tighten loopholes, including more restrictions on crypto currencies. the 4th round includes ban on investments in the russian energy sector, but does not prevent countries buying oil and gas lockers. also binding the importing of steel and on products affecting an estimated $3600000000.00 worth of

goods. and european companies are now prohibited from exporting luxury items worth more than $330.00 to russia, or cause worth more than $55000.00. that's the strongest package of sanctions ever adopted by dupont union in its history. that's or 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 the sanctions. you will have new been on some exploitation leg deluxe to the goods, and we will withdraw to the russian state. the most favored mission close. within the world trade organization, russia has quit, europe's leading human rights watched on the council of europe preempting moscow's possible expulsion. his foreign ministry is also announced personal sanctions. on

13 u. s. officials including president joe biden, which banned them from travelling to russia. the list also features the secretary of state, the defense secretary at the white house press secretary and former presidential candidate hillary clinton. yes, president joe biden will travel to brussels next week to meet nato and e. u leaders . president biden has also signed a bill setting, assigned $13600000.00 of humanitarian, military and economic assistance for ukraine. the aid is attached to a one and a half trillion dollar annual spending bill. our white house correspondent, kimberly how kit has more. oh no. is that there are really going to be kind of 2 baskets that this money is going to be allocated in. one will be security and the other will be more humanitarian in terms of security. are the president was very clear. he said that this would be so that the people of ukraine would have the tools they need to defend themselves. and then with respect to the humanitarian

assistance, it would be for very practical things, just soap and drinking water and blankets and, and so that the refugee sort of crisis centers that many people fleeing and heading to whether be an ukraine or a neighboring countries that they can be wrapped up in terms of their ability to respond to this crisis, but in terms of the real details, how much money is going to each sort of allocation? there really were some big question mark. so we're now looking ahead to wednesday when the u. s. president has promised that he will be giving more specific detail a caught in moscow, his find a journalist, $30000.00 roubles, which is $280.00 for her dramatic televised protest on monday evening. marina of any cova interrupted alive, but written on state television, holding up a sign, reading stop the war. she was a senior editor at the state news platform channel one, and it only released a statement saying she was ashamed that she had promoted criminal propaganda.

president, putin spokesman, called her actions a form of hooliganism, is thought she may also risk charges carrying a penalty of up to 15 years in prison. a colleague want to thank everyone for the support, my friends and colleagues. these were uneasy days of my life because i spent 2 days without sleep. interrogation lasted for more than 14 hours, was not allowed to contact my relatives over provided with any judicial help. i was in a rather tough situation. i'll speak more tomorrow, i just need to rest today. still to come this half hour as more and more ukrainians and russians arrive at the southern us border. why some are accusing officials of discrimination plus, hey, why? protesting to southern india, after con tucker high court upholds are ban girls where he jumped to school in the state.

ah hello there. we've had record rain for since the start of the year in eastern parts of australia, such as brisbin and sidney and there's more wet weather to come. but we are going to see the severe storms roll across from the inland towards the southeast corner in places like victoria and southern areas of new south wales. we could see potential flooding, but sydney will remain wet through to the we can brisbin dry's up. but there will be more wet weather to come as we end the week. but for places like melbourne, we've got some warm air blowing up from the south. it's going to pick up the temperature to well above average. by the time we get into thursday and remains rather settled with light rain on friday, not much of the rest of the country. it's a clear dry picture, lots of heat, still dominating in the west. we'll see the temperature in perth pick up to the

early. a thirty's, now we're still seeing no storms pop off across the top and some of those intensifying across northern areas of queensland. but it is a rather of picture across central areas. and it's looking rather settled for much of new zealand from spell the sunshine and some showers affecting christ church. the temperature here below average. but for oakland, well we're well above average. yeah. we will see the weather weather coming to pay as we move towards the weekend. that's your weather update. ah no place. and so i go on, would say little press, retreated with the car about a media hug and vital vantage point. during the 1st truly televised war from the roof, we could see recreation at the american embassy, where the most iconic images of the conflict and vietnam were transmitted to the world. this was the front row sheet to the final stages of the war,

saigon caravel war hotels. on alger 0, lou. oh, wow. the one to the story here, roger 0. the matter of cave has warned that ukraine's capital is facing a difficult and dangerous moment. a 35 hour cathy has been imposed on to russian strikes on residential buildings and the metro station which killed 5 people. ponens, intellectual deputy prime minister suff cushions, cases, an international peacekeeping force should be sent to ukraine. he made the comments after a meeting of the 1st world leaders to visit ukraine. since the invasion and princess

102-9000 people were evacuated through monetary cargoes on tuesday. most of them left the besieged city variable in about 2000 cars, but desperately needed 8 supplies, still not reaching. the city was great concern over the power supply to the decommissioned chernobyl nuclear plant. ukraine's nuclear agency says russian forces damaged a cable, and then the tac last week knocking the plant off the grid and still not being repaired. russian troops also taking control of these zipper is your plant, one of ukraine's for operational nuclear facilities. one plant that still under ukrainian control is environmental near better roost. there's been a growing number of russian attacks nearby and thus increasing fear in the region. as natasha butler report, a dead forest of pine and silver birch trees lines the road to the remote counter for ash in north west ukraine. close to the border with bell rous. visible in the

distance is very from a power plant. ukraine's oldest nuclear facility. some people worry the russian forces could try to seize this plant because moscow's troops of already taken control of that parisha, one of ukraine for operational nuclear facilities, as well as to noble for 30 nuclear terrorism to noble is the commission. but it stores nuclear waste that needs to be cooled on this because there are power cut nippers, for example, region. it is your biggest nuclear plant. it has 6 reactors. so one russian forces in this sort of attach and there are many red actually on the reactors can be damaged and things can go wrong. things nearly went wrong here on monday, after ukrainian troops try to water nearby attack by russian forces should if there was a missile the above here to shoot gun an enemy drug void there. so this is happening here or there are risk supports in the washing showing also damaged in nuclear

facility. and how keep last week was school targeting is nuclear sciences, a sinister and dangerous twist in the war. the could further threaten europe and his fueling anxiety here more than 7000 people work at the power plant. so most people in this town are connected to it. in some way i nearly everyone is acutely aware of what a nuclear disaster could mean to mel vera. she's an engineer who worked at the written a plan for 25 years. he says everything's been done to protect it, were harm your corner was park when we know how dangerous nuclear energy is for the world. are we st fukushima which enables in french there's all sorts of work at the plant many skill paper, like may an engineer understand the gravity of a nuclear saw it not being secure and controlled. it could be a catastrophe. whirlpool, a memorial in the town center commemorates the victims of channel bill,

the world's worst nuclear accident took place nearly 40 years ago. people here want the international community to do more, to help safeguard ukraine's nuclear sites. so that a grim part of history will not be repeated. natasha butler, i'll jazeera fresh northwest ukraine. the russian invasion has now driven more than 3000000 people out of ukraine. almost half of them are children. the u. n says every 2nd, another child is becoming a refugee. 1.8000000 people have crossed the border into neighboring poland, where they join long queues to get supplies and catch buses is 2 biggest cities of warned. they're running out of room and towns near the border, a calling for help setting up more shelters in crow, this is only him key of an am i lose them. believe you grain is the term my mother needs therapy center. in the credit on chem drugs and all new credit, and so we ha,

maria made the decision to leave her and her continue to appear in the marshall, i think in mas to i should because come back to ha, give, and i live all every since they're even my hearts holland's president andre duda has signed a new law to allow refugees to stay and work legally. but as amos ravi reports from krakow cities are struggling to find them all shelter. poland 2nd city looks different. these days. soldiers on scooters. refugees on sidewalks, reminders of russia's war, ukraine at the consulate in krakow, hundreds of ukrainians. wait in line for hours every day. okay. news us, what's happening in ukraine is awful. it's more shooting, killing. they don't hesitate to kill anybody, but it's mentally very difficult. my mind just cannot take it,

love de moines yankee, 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. it allergies you know, recently arrived or part of the diaspora for ukrainians. uncertainty and chaos have become been are 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 has never seen an influx of so many refugees. so quickly, krakow mayor says the city has its limits of dental gear, doesn't mere 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, no matter what, we are trying to do whatever we can, this war is something really terrifying most. and so as nebraska, if i could go 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 money is in the hands of hardworking volunteers, a charities throughout the country. donations keep humming 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 to go. 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 like crock 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. they basra, vo de 0, krakow poland. a mexican border city of tianna is seeing an increase in the number

of ukrainians and russians trying to cross into the u. s. a. some refugees from ukraine have been allowed in, and that's raised accusations of discrimination from immigration advocates from home. and as in tianna, we're hearing to wander in the busiest lamb border crossing in the western hemisphere in sunny field. phoebe united states behind this be a 50 and then you can see why there is a small kind of russia. and these are people that have led their country because they oppose the war with you crying. they've been telling us a few stories as a family who had sickly off of the father, joined an anti war protest. i got arrested and was told he could go to prison for years. and so they immediately picked up the 2 suitcases and fled here. other people, others said i've got relatively trained, i talk 5 against my call gay gay since they felt they had to flee their country as well. and they've had it here that these are these officials so white at the moment

of his sleeve, these russian, a people that tactfully off the priority we have seen is a ukrainian mother and her son that have also come hit. they started the hospital and they were mediately let through in the united states that wasn't foods must be helping pre to school. so there's obviously been some schools or at least 2 big lead ukrainian group. now, why are the russians around with me here? probably been someone else. we see the place that europe is close to them at the moment. there's no flights. this is one of the only place in mexico. i can go to renew visa and then they just want to go from it. of course, for the united states. also what we're seeing numbers of russians here, and some ukraine you trying to get ah, mother news now and a british m p. 's says at naz name is gary radcliffe,

who's been detained in iran since 2016. has had her u. k. passport returned ratcliffe was arrested in terran and sentenced to 5 years in prison. her plotting to overthrow the government. new charges were filed immediately after her release last year, needing her husband to go on hunger strike. as she has always denied the allegations, a number of afghans who can't afford food and other essentials has doubled since the taliban took over last august. that's according to the world bank. about 3400000 people are displaced. the country was heavily reliant on financial aid, which was frozen when the taliban took power. the un high commissioner for refugees, for the brandy has been in cobble. he's asking the world not to forget afghanistan . when the entire attention of the world is focused on ukraine. and by the way, on the refugee crisis that ukraine, the, the ukraine war is producing and rightly so, because it's big,

it's serious. i thought it was important to pass the message that other situations which also require political attention and resources should not be forgotten and neglected. especially afghanistan. a landslide in northern peru is buried. 60 homes had a 7 people have been reported missing out a part of a hill in the town of thomas collapsed. no casualties have been reported that rescue cruise a searching through the earth. i court judges in indian set of kind of tucker have upheld a headscarf band is schools and colleges students and muslim groups say they'll take my case to india supreme court as elizabeth cronum port o students and the southern city of chin. i protest against the judgement in karnataka high court. 3 judges, including a muslim woman, dismissed petitions, challenging a ban on head scarves and the state schools and colleges. they said wearing

a headscarf is not an essential religious practice in islam, therefore, isn't protected by india's constitution, which guarantees religious freedom. the petitioners disagree. oh yeah, i me, i'll mass was part of a group from con nautica who went to the high court after a number of colleges in the state began asking students to remove their head scarves, school staff, to the young woman violating the uniform code. they were 10 stand offs between muslim students protesting against the restriction and hindu nationalists who rallied in support of the bad. the protest led to many schools and colleges of the state being closed for at least a week. and the local government banning head scarves while the high court made a decision event,

neither. one of the students lawyers told al jazeera the ruling would imply that the wearing of hindu symbols loan has been these, or christian crosses should also be banned. they will there be a government order that i knew will not when these are you will not read across menu coming coming to school and who sent you an order will pot then america, hypo would be bound by its genuine. but how likely is it that the government will pass such an order? i mean, it seems extremely unlikely, really unlikely extremely. and they really do not say other lawyers set of ruling as a set back for women's rights in a society where the female workforce participation route has fallen dramatically from the 90 ninety's. we cannot afford to shut the doors on young women. we're attempting to go to school. the students, lawyers,

and muslim groups are planning to challenge the ruling and india's supreme court. but cannot have a governance lawyer says the ruling marks a paradigm shift in the interpretation of religious freedom. that's guaranteed in the, in the constitution. there are concerns, the judgement could set a precedent and lead to similar bands and other states, especially though it was governed by the hindu nationalist body thea, jumper, party of prime minister marines, morty elizabeth, brought them al, jazeera new deli, ah. or minor the top stories around 0, the mayor of keith has warned that ukraine's capital is facing a difficult and dangerous moment. a 35 hour curfew has been imposed and russian military convoys slowly encircling the city of been russian strikes on residential buildings and metro stations. and these 5 people died in the capital on tuesday.

the prime ministers of poland, slovenia, and the czech republic are in cave, the 1st foreign leaders to visit ukraine since last month. invasion of the talks with president blue.