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no matter where it takes and power and passion, we tell your story. we are your voice. news, your net back out here. ah, we know that you are fighting not only for your homes, for your feet, for your security, but also for a show of solidarity. 3 european leaders meet your cranes, president in p bus. russia continues bombing several cities. ah, hello, i am dire in jordan, this is out as a red light from dough are also coming up a 35 hour curfews underway in key. it's male warns ukraine's capital faces of difficult and dangerous moment. rescue and evacuation efforts continue in the east
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of the country as more civilians free the port city of mario and seeking asylum, y ukrainians, and russia are lining up at the us border with mexico. the leaders of 3 european countries travel to keep going to show solidarity with ukrainians, even as russian shelling continued to hit the capital, the prime ministers of poland, slovenia, and the czech republic with a 1st foreign lead as to visit ukraine. since russia's invasion began. they took a long and risky trained journey from poland to meet president vladimir zalinski. they say they've been in ukraine to express the european union's unequivocal support. when your crimes leader says their visit sends a strong message to russia. this is dustin boon. they're not concerned about themselves, they're concerned about us. they are here to support our and this is a necessary friendly stablish. and i'm sure with these types of friends with our
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neighbors are partners. we will be able to win. and the polish by minister matches smart the ascii said what's happening in ukraine is a european issue that needs a collective response. european union has to give very briefly a candidate status. and more than this has to invite your grain to the european union and all the defense if were to defend your homes. we will drive to organize or character orchestrate 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. meanwhile, thousands of people are escaping the city of mattie or pole in the southeast on an evacuation route that extends just over 260 kilometers to zachary ship, which is ukrainian held territory. but ukraine's deputy prime minister says
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a convoy with supplies for body apo stuck in nearby bird danced. peep levels have been fleeing from ongoing fighting in the 2nd largest city of, of car. keep as i said, bank now reports a survivor of one russian, a strike. and then this with panic on the streets will the uncertainty of what will be hit next. the onslaught against ukraine's 2nd largest city. her cave has been relentless. the city was home to 1500000 residence. many have now fled. leslie, would you say? yes, we have information that 2 people were killed, one person was rescued and we are clearing the rebel and we have just received information that may be more people under the rubble of o. meanwhile, russia maintains a stranglehold on the southern port city of mary. pull another important strategic
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objective, a convoy of civilian vehicles, reportedly 2000 left by a humana terran corridor that held for a 2nd day. hundreds of 1000 still remain inside. conditions are said to be apocalyptic reports of bodies lying uncollected in the st. supplies of food, water and medicine near exhausted. for those that make it out of rush and control territory. zappa richer is the 1st stop. people check to see if their relatives or friends escaped. this communist era, circus building has been converted to receive, internally displaced. people fleeing the fighting. once the here they are registered and they can receive vital supplies. people have donated close blankets, toys, make an offer, get warm food. once they come here, then moved on and re house ukrainians have mobilized to help their fellow citizens . and as they came on buses, they bought them once again to leave. it's been
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a tough journey. thrush my 1000, by your daughter young, shall not you. how it was frightening, frightening says 81 year old marine up and over with ms. walker, she sheltered for 10 days in the basement of a psychiatric hospital before making it out of the city. those are 2. would you please leave us with the why did they come to our land? why and why did they come to spill the blood of our children? nobody asked them to come. all want to leave with only their russia. why do they inflict this on us, robert? like so many other ukrainians, their homes now destroyed, heading to an uncertain future. i said vague. i'll jazeera the body shop. the u. s. senate has unanimously passed a resolution to condemn alleged russian war crimes in ukraine. earlier you as president joe biden signed a bill that sets aside $13600000000.00 assistance for ukraine. our white house
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correspondent kimberly helped get reports with calls for a no fly zone over ukraine. intensifying the white house announced you as president joe biden will head to brussels next week to attend a special nato meeting over rushes invasion of ukraine. his goal is to meet in person face to face with his european counterparts and talk about in assess where we are at this point in the conflict, the white house would not say whether that triple include any visits to the ukrainian border or meeting with ukrainian president vladimir zaleski, who has been pushing for a no fly zone over his country. nato allies, including the u. s. opposed the no fly zone, as it would put nato and russian planes in direct conflict, and potentially lead to nuclear war. still, secretary of defense, lloyd austin, is meeting with nato defense ministers for a 2 day gathering at the alliance headquarters in brussels. earlier in the
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day, zalinski addressed the canadian parliament and made his case closed. the aerospace bliss stopped the bowman and how many more causes the missiles have took full on our cities until you make this happen. the u. s. continues to send more help. on tuesday, the u. s. president signed a spending bill that included $13600000000.00 for ukrainian security and humanitarian assistance were moving urgently to further augment the support to the re people of ukraine as they defend their country are also going to be better position to provide for the rapidly growing u military and needs of the ukranian peoples. the money provides aid for ukrainian refugees in ukraine and in neighboring nations. it also gives ukraine military equipment and training. the ukranian president will make his case for no fly zone.
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when on wednesday, he addresses a joint session of the u. s. congress. kimberly help him al jazeera, the white house, the mirror of cave, as warned that ukraine's capital is facing a difficult and dangerous moment. 35 r curfew is under way. after rushing the strike from residential building and a metro station which killed 5 people, russian forces up 1000000 circle the capital m and con, went to an apartment that was hit in keys and spoke to one of its residence. this is where it's light to be inside. one of the apartments in this bond are building. it happened in the early hours of the morning. this actually child's remarks. so is the kid that normally lives her. she's actually been evacuated, but you can see the windows, the power of the bloss blew the windows and they've actually managed to tidy up a lot of the glass. get it all out a lot. there. the kids, books and things are now actually on the balcony. there's still a lot of damage here. this is watches law who lives here wrestler didn't tell us
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what happened in the morning. 05 for. busy early in the morning, are we a listener? very beek boom, and am i a smell all for gunpowder and we slip and on corridor. i like every 79 nights and i'm a jam hung this place and so absolutely the damage her room mo, with the broken window glass all the way and her own it was very, i was very afraid and but i try it will be in no, absolutely. in calm yeah. your claim here and her because i understand my girlfriend too was very afraid and old master staring. and
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i'm must be clue claim and i'm starting her. i'll call it our thinks star for, for going out to the street. a very traumatic experience. you'd not, you'd said that you've been sleeping in the corridor rather than the bedroom. yeah . will you told to do that or is this something you felt you had? oh, it was sleeping every night and corridor. it was a like a self defiance. it because we understand it's a war and a bonbon or can happen every time because we are absolutely, it was close to his shoes. her with her, our baggage for south or
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something. yeah. well, it's lucky that you were in the corridor. a lot of people in these apartments are actually sleeping in the corridors precisely because they're afraid of an attack. like this. now, i was going concern over the power supply to the decommissioned cannibal nuclear plot. ukraine's nuclear agency says russian forces damaged a cable in an attack last week, knocking the plant off the grid. russian troops have also taken control of his aperture plant on an ukraine's for operational nuclear facilities. one plant still under ukrainian control isn't barrage. that's near bella luce. natasha butler reports. a dense forest of pine and silver birch trees lines the road to the remote town for ash in north west ukraine. close to the border with belarus. visible in the distance is the reef in 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
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taken control of separation. one of your cranes for operational nuclear facilities, as well as to nato, for yet another is nuclear terrorism to noble as the commission long, but stores nuclear waste that needs to be cool numbers could find there are power continental cereal. as far as appreciate room. it is yours biggest nuclear plant. it has 6 reactors. so on russian forces, thinking in this sort of attachment, there are many restroom, but reactors can be damaged and things can go wrong. this generically, things nearly went wrong here on monday, after ukrainian troops tried to thwart a nearby attack by russian forces should have thrown the missile devereux above her to shoot down an enemy drum lord now. so this is happening here or there are risks supports in the gallery. russian shelling also damaged a nuclear facility in hockey last week. moscow's targeting of nuclear sites is a sinister and dangerous twist in the war. the could further threaten europe and is
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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. and nearly everyone is acutely aware of what a nuclear disaster could mean. the mayor of rash is an engineer who worked to the written a plan for 25 years. he says everything's been done to protect it, were harm your corner was broken. we now had dangerous nuclear energies for the world. we st fukushima and to enable in fresh there's all sorts of work at the plant, many skilled paper like may an engineer understand the gravity of a nucleus, saw it not been secure and controlled. it can 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. said that a grim part of history will not be repeated. natasha butler, al jazeera rash,
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northwest ukraine, loss monster to come here in al jazeera, including with a child becoming a refugee every 2nd. we look at the risks facing them as then we've ukraine and protests in colombo take to the streets. the shoreline has hit by its worst financial crisis and decades morning. ah ah, look forward to brighter skies the weather sponsored my cattle airways. hello there, let's look to the middle east and we are expecting a change in the weather of the next few days from much of the region. thanks to this band of cloud. that's going to bring some range of places like q 8, if you showers as well for saudi arabia. but behind that we've got a shamar when that's going to blow down, pushing those cooler conditions further south to places like q 8 and the u. a. and
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we're going to see a dramatic drop in temperature in doha, for example, if we have a look at the 3 day, we've got a drop of more than 10 degrees. by the time we get into thursday, it will be rather dusty through the weekend with plenty of hazy sunshine. now as we move across to north africa, the wind theme continues here. you can see that's the horror. sand kicked up, it's being blown across into southern areas of spain and an area of low pressure lingering around morocco is bringing wet and windy weather here. by the time we get into thursday, that's going to push across into algeria. it's going to get wetter as well. for that western corner particular for the ivory coast, we could see some flooding from that rain. there. now was we moved down to southern africa. it's much dryer for western areas. continues to be very wet in the east with heavy falls for mozambique as well as central areas of what's wanna in the days to come at to whether update. oh, the weather sponsored by casara always feeling the debate. there is no he job bad.
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russian shelling continues to hit the capital. they were the 1st foreign leaders to visit ukraine since russia's invasion began. the mayor of kiva won't ukraine's capitalist facing what he calls a difficult and dangerous murder. 35 hour curve. he was on the way, after russian strikes on residential buildings in a metro station which killed 5 people. and ukraine says some 29000 people were evacuated through humanitarian corridors on tuesday. most of those came from mary paul wright's group say desperate and needed. 8 supplies are still not reaching the city. russia's invasion of ukraine has now driven more than 3000000 people out of the country. almost half of my children. the u. n. says that every 2nd, another ukrainian child is becoming a refugee, that 70000 a day, almost one and a half 1000000 children since the war began nearly 3 weeks ago. for more than half of the refugees from ukraine had gone to poland, the polish president. and that i do that assigned a new law to allow ukrainians in poland to legally stay and work in the country.
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zane was ravi reports from krakow. poland. second 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, new or just what's happening in ukraine is awful. it's more shooting, killing. they don't hesitate to kill anybody, right? it's mentally very difficult. my mind just cannot take it in the morning and get it . 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 either recently arrived or part of the diaspora for ukrainians. uncertainty and chaos have become the norm. getting passports, having documents attested the drudgery of life admin, taking on much more significance now as many ukrainians prepared to be away from
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home for an unknown period of time. poland is never seen an influx of so many refugees. so quickly, krakow mayor says the city has its limits of dental dugger, cassidy. near 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, but it's the same number of that, like google chrome, 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 foreseen 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,
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is finding people a place to sleep in the beginning. people only slept here for one night and then left. now they're staying for 3 or 4 nights and we're looking for places for them to go. the government promised to help, but we don't know if that's going to be enough. cities like crack over dealing with wave after wave of refugees and with worsening violence in ukraine. there's no hiding from the fact they will be going home anytime soon. then bas revealed to 0 crack of poland, which are larry is a spokesman for the international organizations for migration. he says, families with young children face serious risks when they cross the borders and leave 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 the, like a logical support, particularly for children. it's huge for us and, and also for, for that, for the mothers. let's say
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a taking on the role of carrying for an entire family overnight. 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're coming 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 issuer's account that you get a safe passage for people. for example, in where i am now in moldova, along with you in a jar. and the government concerned in both mania, moved over and started regular transfer of migrants, sending buses from romania righteous southwestern border with ukraine. i'm bringing people 100 people per day. the most hon offices, whether we can be sure that they're safe and they get into romania with their ongoing and that's the other area needs to be taken care of the mexican border city of toronto, seeing an increase in the number of ukrainians and russians trying to cross into
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the united states, a small number of refugees from ukraine have been allowed in and that's raised accusations of discrimination from immigration, advocates out here as john home and reports. now from the border, we're hearing to wandering the busiest lamb buddha crossing in the western hemisphere in sunny field united states behind us. and then you can see my business model kind of rushing. and these are people that lead the country because they oppose the war with ukraine. they've been telling us a few stories is a family who had to play off to the father, joined an anti war protest. i got arrested and was told that he could go to prison for years. and so they immediately picked up the 2 suitcases and fled here. other people had to sit up, got relatively trained. i talk fight against my coffee against. they felt they had to leave the country as well. and they headed here that these are these issues. so
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wait to the vibrant, obviously these russian or people that have to leave all of her and see what we have to see is a ukrainian mother and her son sort of also come here. they started the school and they were mediately let through. in the united states, that wasn't, it must be helping ukrainians to school. so there's obviously been some sort of older, big, big lead ukrainian group. now, why are the russians around us being here? probably more than someone else. they see the place that europe is close to them at the moment. there's no flights. this is one of the only places, mexico they can go to with no visa, right. and then they just want to go from it across the united states, not with wide received numbers of russians here and some ukrainians, trying to get to safely. u. s. tv network. fox news has a camera man and producer, happened, killed near cave. the crew in the field filming when their vehicle was hit by artillery fire piazza kizusky and alexandra christian over. but traveling with the
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report at benjamin hall was being treated in hospital for his injuries. 5 journalists have not been killed since the war began. a court in moscow has find a journalist, $290.00 for her televised protest on sunday evening. marina ob sienna cover interrupted alive bulletin on state television with a sign reading stop the war. the senior editor at channel one and only released a statement, she said she was ashamed for promoting kremlin propaganda. kremlin called her actions a form of hooliganism. not by directly lucy alcholay. i want to thank everyone for their 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 older, provided with any judicial help. i was in a rather tough situation. i'll speak more tomorrow, i just need to rest today. let's bring in some other news now as rainy forces of shot dead, 3 palestinians and wounded several others in the occupied west bank of america
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desert. one man in his twenties was shot in the head in the columbia refugee camp near ramallah. in an earlier incident in nablus, israeli forces shot and killed a 17 year old boy. 21 palestinians have been killed in the occupied westbank since the start of the you. so lankin half protest on the streets of columbia against the worsening economic crisis. the governments heavily in debt and struggling to pay for central imports out as here was michelle fernandez, report from one of the main demonstrations. angry, frustrated and desperate sher lankin surrounded the president's office in colombo, fed up having to queue for food, medicine, cooking gas, and vega, fuel think 30 to 60 percent more for many items. millions are struggling to make ends meet. and blame president, go toby, roger boxer and the government. what i mean, i'd imagine i,
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i get to boy a read to pass must be chased out. that's what this river people wants them. if i live, i am in the time to go, it will all the come the i'm go to the go, the roach and the report is the, is gone month, digital media, the opposition. somebody, john, by the video organized the latest protests following weeks of similar demonstrations around the country. the, it's j. b is challenging the president to turn things around or step down. oh yes. are you ready to send this government home? is the country ready to send it home? friends with his great people's power. we will begin the journey to trace out this government. shalanda has had a worsening economy for the past 2 years. the 2019 eastern bomber tax on churches and toes killed $270.00 people. and he vital tourism revenue pandemic which followed further. hampered recovery analysts blame unsustainable debt,
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new revenue of foreign exchange crisis, financial mismanagement and corruption for aggravating di problems that did not this government because now happening, you know, the children. they have no meal this nothing while dad enjoying that life shall anchors for in reserves have fallen to the lowest levels in recent history. fuel has run out to keep a steady supply of electricity, and the government doesn't have money to pay for vital imports. after months of rejecting cause, to seek and international bailout, the government appears ready to seek help for monetary lumpkins have complained about shortages and price increases, but things have got so bad. now they say they don't have a choice, but to take to the streets. professionals, executive farmers, fishermen, housewives and de wage owners old hoping their voices will be heard. minute
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fernandez, audra 0, colombo, a report by the united nations as a choose be in mars, army of human rights violations, war crimes, and crimes against humanity after last year's crew. the human rights commission says security forces have shown a blatant disregard for life report show the army used air strikes and heavy weapons on populated areas which kill civilians since the crew. the armies faced allegations of abuse including torture and massacres, all of which it denies. were ronan lees from law for university in the u. k. he says in arms embargo is needed on me and lost military. this report actually calls for steps towards accountability and, and a stronger reference to the international criminal court at the united nations security council. straight away should be referring me and mars generals to the international criminal court. these people need to know that they will face accountability and will, will face justice. because if that's not before them,
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they will continue to target civilians. the other thing that the report calls for is limiting the ability of the generals to continue to buy weapons. the needs to be in arms embargo. it seems appalling, that after 12 months of rights violations, and the targeting of civilians by me in mass military, that they're still able to freely buy more weapons, more guns, and more bullets which they're using against their country civilians. the report calls for that. i mean there's, there's plenty here for the united nations security council to address, i think the people of me and mar, expect that they'll, that, that this will be addressed by the un security council. and i think the very confused as to why it is that when this been report after report from the u. n. documenting egregious human rights violations against ordinary people, civilians, children that there hasn't been stronger action by the security council. a landslide has buried more than 60 houses in the andes in northern peru. heavy rain
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caused a hillside in the remote town of par coin to collapse. people try to help those trap by breaking down the walls of their homes. at least 7 people are still missing . the number of afghans who can't afford food and other essentials as doubles as the taliban takeover last year. that's according to the world bank, about 3400000 people and now displaced. the country was heavily reliant on financial aid, which was frozen. and the taliban took power. ah, type a quick check of the headlines here on al jazeera, the prime ministers of poland slovenia, and the czech republic had been in cave to show solidarity when ukrainians, even as russian shelling continued to hit the capital. they were the 1st foreign leaders to visit ukraine since russia's invasion began. will ukrainian president vladimir zalinski says their visit sends a str.
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