ah hole deep into a 35 iowa city wide curfew key wakes up to more explosions in week 3 of russia's invasion. ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. this is al jazeera la you from dough are also coming up. we know that you are 5 did not only for your home for your fit, for your security, but also for a show of solidarity. 3 european leaders meet ukraine's president in key was russia,

continues bombing, several cities rescuing evacuation efforts continue in the east of the country of more civilians fee, the poor city of mateo. i'm seeking asylum. why you craniums and russians are lining up with you as buddha, with mexico one ukraine has ended its 3rd week with warning sirens going off in a number of cities residence in. keep i've woken up to more shilling. smoke can be seen rising from several buildings. the capital is in the midst of a 35 alika, if you will, only of the leaders of 3 european countries, travel to keep in a show of solidarity with ukrainians. even as russians shelling continued to hit the capital, the prime ministers of poland, slovenia, and the czech republic with the 1st foreign leaders to visit ukraine since russia's invasion began. they took a long and risky trained journey from poland to meet president flor to me as the landscape. i say they've been in ukraine to express. the european union's

unequivocal support when ukraine's leader says their visit sends a strong message to russia to be sure, yes, not sure. do they are not concerned about themselves. they are 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 neighbors are partners. we will be able to win or polish prime minister much you smart. the ascii said what's happening in ukraine is a european issue that needs a collective response. the european union has to do very quickly, a candidate status and more than this has to invite you to the european union and all that the fancy work to defend your homes. we will try to organize or cared. 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 ours will cut folk as a former us ambassador to nato. he says that show of solidarity by eastern european leaders projects the image of a strong ballade, amir zalinski. well 1st, let's not underestimate the important importance of the optics for european leaders to go to key and he would present zalinski there. while the city is under siege is a tremendously important signal to ukrainian people. so you have to give them credit for that. second, they have been pushing to accelerate ukraine's membership in european union. there are some other countries in europe, in the u, in the west that have locked this and i think they are trying to build their credibility and credentials to continue to make that make that case for ukraine's you membership. and then finally, we heard from presence on sky today, a public recognition that ukraine was not making progress toward membership and

nato and stating there is a fact. but he is looking for other alternative security guarantees. and i'm sure that was the topic of discussion with these leaders today. well, 1st off that i think the last thing that once is to drag the west into his war against ukraine is military forces or bog down and performing battle. adding was to that equation for him. so i don't think that we should be the ones who are deter, from providing humanitarian assistance. i think it is bruton who ought to be cautious about engaging thousands of people are escaping the city of mario polymer se on an evacuation route that extends just over 260 kilometers to parisha, which is ukrainian held territory. but ukraine's deputy prime minister says a convoy and supplies for multiple is stuck in the by a buddy answer. the people have also been fleeing from ongoing fighting and the 2nd largest city of kata, kiva asset base. now reports

a survivor of one russian air strike. and then this panic on the streets, 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 we're doing, 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 water. meanwhile, russia maintains a stranglehold on the southern port city of murray. pl. another important strategic objective. a convoy of civilian vehicles, reportedly 2000 left via humana, terran corridors 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 russian controlled 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 hare, they are registered, and they can receive vital supplies. people have donated close blankets, toys, and they can also get warm food. once they come here, they've been 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 a tough journey. rosman throws me by ye, daughter, neutral naught you call. it was frightening. frightening said 81 year old marina inova was new. slocum, she sheltered for 10 days in the basement of

a psychiatric hospital before making get out of the city. those that you would you please leave us with the why did they come to our land? why did, why did they come to spill the blood of our children? nobody asked them to come. you all want to leave you. we don't need their russia. why do they inflict this on us, robert? like so many other ukrainians. the homes now destroyed heading to an uncertain future. i said big al jazeera zebra risha. the u. s. senate has unanimously passed a resolution to condemn alleged russian war crimes during their invasion earlier. you as president joe biden signed a bill that sets aside $13600000000.00 of assistance for ukraine. our white house correspondent, kimberly ha, get reports was 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 an 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. ah, earlier in the day, zalinski addressed the canadian parliament and made his case closed the airspace.

please stop the bowman and how many more gruesome miss hills 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. when on wednesday he addresses a joint session of the u. s. congress. kimberly help him al jazeera,

the white house. there's growing concern over the power supply to decommission channel nuclear plant, ukraine's nuclear agency says russian forces damaged a cable and i talked last week, knocking the plant off the grid. russian troops have also taken control of these apparition plant, one of ukraine's for operational nuclear facilities. one plants dilemma ukrainian control is invite osh that's near bella luce. natasha butler. of course. a dense forest of pine and silver birch trees lines the road to the remote town of rash in north west ukraine. close to the border with belarus. visible in the distance, is there even 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 separation . one of your cranes for operational nuclear facilities, as well as chernobyl for yet another is nuclear terrorism, to noble as the commission long,

but stores nuclear waste that needs to be cool numbers go from there are power, continental israel as far as upper egypt road, which it is yours biggest nuclear plant? it has 6 reactors. so on russian forces, thinking in this sort of attention, there are many restroom, reactors can be damaged and things can go wrong. this in our other things nearly went wrong here on monday after ukrainian troops try to thwart a nearby attack by russian forces should have thrown the missile that a little above her to shoot down an enemy drawn warden. so this is happening here, or there are risks across from the galleria. 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 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 her, as she is an engineer who worked to the written a plan for 25 years, he says everything's been done to protect it, were alarm, the corner was broken, we now had dangers neatly 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, northwest ukraine. let's come here and i'll just say are including with a child becoming a refugee every 2nd. look at the risks facing them as

a lead ukraine. just as in columbus taking the streets, the shoreline coast fit but worst financial crisis. and dickens more ah 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 rain to 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 we're going to see a dramatic drop in temperature in doha, for example, if we have a look at the 3 day, we 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 scene continues here. you can see that the horizon 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, particularly 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 swanner in the days to come at to whether update. ah, the take take to ships to democracy's activists to corporations, control of the message is crucial. oil companies have become very good at recognizing ways to phrase what they want into here. we care about the environment

you do to issued by our oil plea for public opinion or profit. once you make people afraid, you can use that to justify stripping away basic civil liberties. listening post examined the vested interest behind the content you could see on al jazeera lou. lou, welcome back in her mind about top stories here. this out, the warning ukrainian has entered its 3rd week with warning sirens going off in the number of cities, residents and kiva woken up to yet more shilling. the capitals in the midst of a 35 hour coaching, the prime minister's opponents, lavinia, and the czech republic had been keep to show solidarity weebly craniums. as russian

shilling continues to hit the capital. that was the 1st foreign leaders to visit the country. since russia's invasion and ukraine says some 29000 people were evacuated through humanitarian, probably those on tuesday. most of them came from medical pope rights group say desperate and needed. 8 supplies are still not reaching city. russia's invasion of ukraine has now driven more than 3000000 people out of the country, almost half of them a children. but you and 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. one more than half of the refugees from ukraine have gone to poland. the polish president, under i duda, assigned a new law to allow ukrainians in poland to legally stay and work in the country. san bizarre. the reports now o 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 and ukraine is awful. it's more shooting, killing. they don't hesitate to kill anybody, but i it's mentally very difficult. my mind just cannot take it. of 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. a little louisiana recently arrived are part of the diaspora for ukrainians. uncertainty and chaos have become the north. 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, crackers mayor says the city has its limits of dental gear,

does 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 what. we are trying to do whatever we can. this war is something really terrifying most. this is number of difficult 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. will 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. who's in basra, vo de 0, krakow poland. what joe larry is a spokesman for the international organization 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, they build programs that to take care of this 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 carrying 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'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 you know, the shores 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 wonderful on boxes. whether we can be sure that there's a from the get into romania where they're all going and that's the other area needs to be taken care of the mexican border city of towana, seeing an increase in the number of ukrainians and russians trying to cross into the united states, a small number of refugees from ukraine have been allowed in, and that's raised accusations of discrimination from immigration advocates. i'll just say was john hallman reports from the board. we're hearing to wandering the

busiest land border crossing in the western hemisphere in sunny c. c, the united states behind us, and then you can see my business model kind of rushing. and these are people that have led their country because they oppose the war with ukraine. they've been telling us a few stories. there's a family who had to play off with 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 2 suitcases and fled here. other people said, i've got relatively trained, i talk fight against my coffee again since they felt they had to leave the country as well. and they headed here that these are these issues so white to the bible, this leave these russian or people that have to leave all the priority. we have to see is a ukrainian mother and her son sort of also come here. they sort of and they were mediately let through in the united states. that wasn't,

it must be helping ukrainians before. so there's obviously been some sort of order, big, big lead ukrainian group. now, why are the russians around us being here robin 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 who are trying to get the safety. u. s. t. the network fox news says a camera man and producer happened kill near cave. the crew in the field filming when their vehicle was hit by artillery fire. pears, kizusky and alexandra cushion over traveling with reporter benjamin hall was being treated in the hospital for his injuries. 5 journalists have now been killed since the war began. i caught in moscow as find a journalist, $280.00 for a televised protest on sunday evening. arina observed cova interrupted alive

bulletin on state television with a sign reading stop. the war. the senior editor at china one had only reached a statement. she said she was ashamed for promoting, crammed, and propaganda. a criminal called directions a form of hooliganism. oh, my dear little bit is the ugly. 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, although provided with any judicial help, i was in a rather tough situation. i'll speak more to morrow, i just need to rest today. let's bring in some other news now. south korea says a missile that was fired by the north has failed shortly after launch. the object was fired from the sooner area in the pyongyang region. the u. s. calling on north korea to refrain from further d, stabilizer us is when the forces of shot dead, 3 palestinians,

and wounded several others in the occupied west bank and the mac desert. one man in his twenties was shot in the head of the columbia river g. camp near ramallah. and an owner incident in nablus is ready forces shot and killed a 17 year old boy. 21 palestinians had been killed in the occupied westbank to start the you to lancaster protested on the streets of columbia against the worsening economic crisis. the government is heavily in debt and struggling to pay for central imports. when l fernandez reports 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 to what i mean. i'd imagine. i mean, i good boy,

reggie parks must be chased out. that's what this river people want. send me a pilot. i near the time to go it will all the come to the i'm go to the go. roach and different is the is gone month, digital media. the opposition. some of you, john the by the vega. organize the latest protest 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 wow. 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 his government. shalonda has had a worsening economy for the past 2 years. the 2019 eastern bomber tax on churches and toes kill $270.00 people. and he vital tourism revenue pandemic which followed further, hampered recovery analysts blame unsustainable debt. lou revenue,

a 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. they had this nothing my dad enjoying that life shall anchors for in reserves have fallen to their lowest levels. injury st. 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 an 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 day wage owners all hoping their voices will be heard. bene

fernandez, al jazeera, colombo hi court. judges in the indian state of con, attack, have upheld a headscarf band in schools and colleges. students and wisdom groups say they'll take the case to the supreme court. veronica reports from new delhi while students in the southern city of chin, i protest against the judgment in kanaka high court. 3 judges, including a muslim woman, dismissed petitions, challenging a ban on headscarf from 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. i. oh oh yeah. my mom was part of a group from cannot go,

went to the high court after a number of colleges of the state began asking students to remove their head scarves, school staff, to the young woman of violating the uniform code. they would tend stand offs between wisdom students protesting against the restriction and hindu nationalist who rallied and supported the bad. the protest led to many schools and colleges of the state being closed for at least 2 week, and the local government banning headscarf. while the high court made the decision . one of the students lawyers told al jazeera, the ruling would imply that the wearing of hindu symbols known as been these, or christian crosses should also be banned. where will there be a government? go to that new. you will not, there is or you will not wait a minute coming, coming to school and in fact, an order of past. den america, hypo would be bound by its judgment. but how likely is it that the government will

pass such an order? i mean, it seems extremely unlikely, extremely unlikely, extremely unlikely. it really snap say other lawyers say the ruling is 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 could not governance lawyer says the ruling mock, the paradigm shifted the interpretation of religious freedom. that's guaranteed in the indian 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 of odyssey, a jumped the party of prime minister. that is morty. elizabeth for autumn al jazeera new delhi. the number of afghans who can't afford food and other essentials

has doubled since 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 when the taliban took. a landslide is buried more than 60 houses in the andes, in northern peru. heavy rain caused a hillside in the remote town of parkway, to collapse. people try to help those trap by breaking down the walls of their homes. at least 7 people, a still missing ah . put check on the headlines here now to see where the war and ukraine has ended its 3rd week with warning sirens going off in a number of cities. residents in the key of woken up to yet more shilling. the capitals in the midst of a 35 hour curfew, the prime minister's opponents libby near the check repub.