fled in the face of idols, advance it is one of the most serious about the violence in recent years. in some instances we are the target because we give voice to those demanding freedom the rule of law. and we always include the views from all sides. ah, rushing force is boma theatre in mario pole where hundreds was sheltering and attack a civilian convoy fleeing the city and people queuing for bread, a shot dead in china. he even as hopes a merge of a potential compromise to end the war in ukraine. ah, i'm sorry, the answer, this is out as they are alive from london. also coming up, being the leader of the world means to be the leader of space. not him as

a landscape delivers a message to you as president joe biden telling congress we need you right now. president putin insist rushes military operation is going to plan, but warms that inflation and unemployment will rise. and after almost 6 years detention in iran, british charity wilker, nasa means a guy, ratcliffe, is on her way home. along with fido jill nashville, a news ashery. ukraine is accusing russia of increasing its attacks on civilians. a russian strike on the besieged city of mariel, has destroyed a theatre when estimated 1000 people was sheltering. the number of casualties is not yet known. earlier russian rockets hit a convoy fleeing the city, injuring 5 people. this made report ukrainian, and russian negotiators have jonah, a 15 point plan,

could end the fighting. the draft deal is said to involve ukraine renouncing nato membership, promising not to host any foreign military bases and limiting its own armed forces . in return, it would get a sci fi and the withdrawal of russian troops and ukraine's president in florida. ms. lansky has reiterated his cool friend no fly zone. as he addressed the u. s. congress president biden announced he will send drones and anti aircraft weapons to ukraine from the same bus robbie reports on the day's events on the ground. the 3 weeks of war, of shelling of cities besieged and more shocking reports of attacks which have confirmed could amount to war crimes. 10 people queuing for bread internees, north of the capital, give killed in an alleged russian attack. in the southern city of nikolai, of the cost of conflict, counted and corpses. the brutality of this war is moving faster than peace talks. a

father waits to collect the body of a 37 year old son who leaves behind 2 children of his own who didn't really, really, really when he was so friendly, he had a lot of friends and got on valid everyone. if someone needed help, you never refuse, and you always wanted full capacity. foreign minister survey lab ross says russia is open to peace, but it seems will keep waging war to achieve it yourself. michelle, in our mission, aims to defend the people in don't bass region from the regime in key. if you aim to demilitarize and do not to find the region, so all ethnic groups, any grain can live in peace, you ukrainian defenses have slowed the pace of the russian advance. but battle lines continue to move to new areas. the head of the regional administration says civilian targets ins operator were hit overnight. the war following the path of more than 3000 evacuees who fled there from the besieged city of murray. awful.

russian troops reportedly using heavy artillery, honesty, 1000000000 conway on that route, wounding 5, including a child in serious condition, rush and see spar violations. ukraine's deputy prime minister says are stopping civilians from using humanitarian corridors and getting to safety. when the pump is a hope ill, yesterday they captured the emergency hospital and took 400 people hostage, medics and mary poll the shooting from inside the hospital. it is a threat for movement of people. don humanitarian corridors. we've sent a request to the red cross. under these conditions, we cannot bring people out safely. ukrainian drone strikes continue to exact a heavy price on russian forces. more russian hardware lies abandoned, following fierce fighting in neighborhoods around keith. the capital observing a 35 hour a curfew to prepare for an expected russian assault. he would you love me in the space today is a special and dangerous moment. my movement through the city is prohibited. without

special passes. you can only go out to reach a shelter the curfew will apply until 7 am on march 17. therefore, i ask all keep residents to prepare for the fact that they will have to be at home for 2 days, or in case of an alarm, and a shelter. diplomacy remains. the only way to end this war says ukraine's liter. so largely squad, and it is important, it is difficult but important because any war ends in an agreement, meetings continue as i am told that positions in the negotiations and more realistic. however, there still needs to be more time for decisions to be in the cranes interim at the west of the country has avoided the worst of the violence. but the largest single missile attack so far happened at a military training camp in yahoo. or if only about an hour's drive away from here, resident say that unless there is a cease fire, it's not a matter of if but when the fighting makes its way here. then basra b o. d 0 live. well in a moment will hear from our correspondent indeed,

but 1st to bake in the eastern city of neat pro. i said more bleak news and out of mary. oh paul, what more can you tell us? the local authority there has said that the russians have targeted this theater were around 10021200 people were sheltering now. mario pole has been under siege. this is the city of 400000 is a strategic port city that lies between the russian back separatist region of done fast to the east and a crimea peninsula to the site that was annexed by russia in 2014. that they have been several attempts to try and get aged to that city. now these humanitarian code, those are opened up on monday and continue through to choose day. but this latest news that we're hearing now is that this theater was bombed. these are the cranes, but the ukranian authorities are and around 10021200 people who are in it at the time that the on the, the so not sure how many casualties there are now. as for these humanitarian code,

those were hearing that are and 20000 people have been evacuated from mario poll. and we've also heard that a convoy was a hit by heavy artillery according to the governor of this up to richer region. and there were 5 people injured and including a child that was injured seriously. now they have been allegations against russian forces that they have been talking convoys yesterday we were in suffer richer. we spoke to many people though of coming. they were coming there that had escaped the fighting. they were exhausted and tired. and we also spoke to a bus driver who go goes into these areas to help people evacuate. and now he said that many times that they've had to stop their bosses because they've come under fire and there's been heavy shilling. so we as so current, the latest is a, we're still waiting to hear how many casualties they are, are in it at this theater. in maryville. yes. and they're still continued fighting

and ethan ukraine where you are. can you outline for us where the flash points are currently such as to the north of us, is the city of hart gave. it's the 2nd largest city in ukraine. the population was around 1500000. many people have left now that's had continued, continued bombardment. it's been shelled as visiting air strikes and cruise missiles have hit that city now. the fighting continues to take pace, their russian forces. troy have tried to enter or but the ukraine forces have managed to keep them out. so that's continued there. oh, yeah. we've had in cipher reach or to the south of us that were there's a train station, those hit by missiles or, and even harrington ne pro, yesterday, there was a massage, a hit the airport. now what's happening here is that russia are fighting on multiple fronts and even areas or cities are seen as relatively quiet, or are sometimes being hit. now what that means is that people here just don't know

what's going to happen next, where rich city is going to be hit next or, and we're the fighting grill take place next. if you right now, we're in de neutral. it's a curfew taking place here. but even in the day, the city is relatively quiet. and if you go or and there are barricades put up, there are checkpoints or forces behind her sandbags and that's happening across the region a sandbag. they're bringing us up to date from ne pro. thank you. we're the mare of the ukrainian city of met, a topple is now safe after been kidnapped by russian forces last week. the authority say even federal was free during a special operation by ukrainian forces and will soon be back at work. the ukrainian government released this video on friday, which it said, showed federal abduction in the top corner. ukraine accused russian soldiers of entering multiples, crisis center, putting a bag on federals head and leading him away. well,

the international court of justice has ordered russia to immediately cease its military operation in ukraine. ukraine filed the case against russia shortly after the invasion began. 3 weeks ago saying russia justification was unfounded. moscow had claimed it was acting in response to genocide in easton ukraine. in 2014, the russian federation must pending the final decision in the case suspend the military operations that commenced on 24 february 2022 in the territory of ukraine . in addition to the specific measures, it has decided to order the court games is necessary to indicate an additional measure directed at both parties and aimed at ensuring the non aggravation of the dispute. when the representatives from the international criminal court have been in ukraine, collecting evidence for an investigation into possible war crimes by russian forces . i. c. c. prosecutor kareem con, held talks with president lensky on wednesday,

where he said he'd found evidence of ukrainian suffering. the court launched a formal investigation earlier this month off the russian forces were accused of using cluster bombs, meeting refugees in poland. con also said he would investigate sexual abuse and crimes against children. well, him run con is life 1st in the capital. keep him and we're hearing a 15 point plan that could possibly and the fighting. what more can you tell us about the progress of those negotiations? well the 15 point plan has been reported in some media with it's not confirmed that that is actually going to be the final document. however, there's an optimism about these talks, the fact that they gone into their 3rd day, this is the 4th round of talks. the fact that actually what we're hearing is there are now subcommittees that there are talking about the various different issues and they're getting down to the nitty gritty of all of this all indicates that there may well be some sort of joint statement in the coming hours. is actually really

interesting. normally about this time of night we get a message from the ukranian presidential adviser who's leading the talk for you. great, thank the talks have come to an end or we're going to continue to morrow. all they'll be a pause and another and we haven't had that tonight so, so that could mean that the talks are still on go. the fact that they are talking is absolutely crucial. if they are getting down to the nitty gritty, we may well see some breakthrough or it's, it's worth pointing out that there is a disconnect between what the ukrainians and what the russians are. talking publicly about the russians, very much big picture. they're talking about removing the sanctions against them because of the war in ukraine. we're talking about the militarize in ukraine, allowing it to have an army and a navy, but talking about much more swedish or austrian type model in the 2 countries that they've mentioned. however, the ukrainians are saying that the russians are occupying territory,

that they need to leave that of humanitarian corridors. need to not only just open up, but we need free access into that. so much more smaller local issues where the ukrainians that may well be a sticking point. her we've heard from saga lever off the russian forum wednesday he's been talking or saying that there is progress a progress, a mid contentious talk. so the talk sound like they are very difficult, it looks likely that they're going to go into another day. so some optimism in the talk, the, what is the made in cave where you are, how are they preparing for the next 24 hours? was almost a pound rough as actually we took a ball to ms and the talks is complete pessimism on the streets. we've just coming to the end and the n slug of a curfew that took place. it was a 35 hour curfew. finishes 7 am. thursday morning it's going to move out the way. i just show you complete choir on the streets has been like this for about 24 hours.

now. no one's allowed to move around. there was a lot of concern about why that curfew was put in place. a lot of people have actually fled the city once more when the curfew just before the curfew was now because they thought the russians were about to come in. and that's where the cathy was announced, but now we're hearing that that may well have been a security operation. and that's why the security was put in place. that's why the curfew was put in place in wrong corner pointing live from keith. thank you. well, let's find out more now about the situation in ukraine's hospital as i'm joined by doctor roman fish. ok. ukrainian doctor in the city of yvonne oh fun. keeps doctor . thank you so much for joining us. can you tell us what is the situation in your hospital now? how much of it is operational and what kind of patients are you treating? i a thank you for the invitation. and so for each one of them, guest is in the west of ukraine and our hospital is pretty much preferred to

deliver help to any wounded people that do will need it as so right now, most of the in patients were discharged from the hospital and only patients in critical conditions or insight, although because of the influx of people who move from other parts of the country, we might need to re open outpatient consultations. so yeah, we're adjusting according to the needs of the day. so normally, but you are a in nose and throat specialist. how is your role changed since, since the will began? well, since the war began, i mean they're, they're my word deals pretty much with the planned cases, consultations, newborn testing. and now this has all been for, you know, for a, for, it's not done. so now basically, i'm helping with everything that's needed at the hospital and working on a national hook line or consulting patients online and via different means of

communication. so different chests, phone, so this is basically the medical work i do right now as an in d specialist. and what are you calling saying about the state of hospitals elsewhere in ukraine? we were hearing about the hostage situation in marietta were russian forces of a portly, taken hospital staff and patients hostage. what are you hearing about that? well, to me it's a disaster because you can target hospitals. this has to be in the off limits, but unfortunately it is not and those of colleagues are have to move and a lot of hospitals were destroyed. and this is really a said right now. so you know, patients can, can not get any help or care. so and my colleagues, they also have to flee and they have to find new places to work, to live and basically use fight for their lives. and i just want to ask something, i know ukraine has a quite a reputation as a hub for clinical medical trials that we understand that some international drug

companies didn't put contingency plans in pace in case of this invasion, despite doctors like you asking them to. and those experimental drugs are now running out which companies are we talking about and what is your message to them? well, unfortunately, and we've been talking to these companies for a few months. i mean, you have the experience of 2014 that you must have some sort of contingency plans, you know, risk mitigation plans for things if something happens, you know, come up with different scenarios. and ukraine has clinical trials for most of the big companies, big pharma companies like pfizer emerg. so no see ra sure your name. but unfortunately, we didn't receive any response from them about specific actions we need to take. for example, if eastern ukraine is invited or the whole country is, it's our. so we had to come up with our own plans and having the safety of our patients and the stuff as the highest priority and for them for these companies.

our message is because clinical trials is something i do on a daily basis. i run the clinical trials unit to the hospital. we want them to come back to ukraine after we win this war and come up with even larger with more trials . because ukraine has a lot of potential in this area and we hope they will continue their work and you know, bringing the work to us and innovative medications for the patients because it's all about the patients. dogs have run, infest. chuck, thank you for speaking out there. thank you. he crane's president has made an impassioned plea to american politicians to do more to protect his country against russian will planes go to ne zalinski address the u. s. congress from keith, which has been coming under more bombardment, polanski once again pushed for no flies. i'm telling congress that russia had turned the ukrainian skies into a source of death. he urged president biden to be a leader of peace and he can pad the invasion to previous attack suffered by

americans, including $911.00 and pol hava friends. americans in your great history, you have pages that allow you to understand ukrainians. now we need you right now. remember, pearl harbor that terrible morning of december 7th. 1941. when your skies turned black from planes attacking you. just remember it. remember september, the 11th that terrible day in 2001 when evil tried to turn your cities into battlefields, innocent people were attacked from the air, no unexpected, and you could not stop us. our country is experiencing the same every day, every night for 3 weeks now. us president joe biden has announced the new package of security assistance for ukraine. washington will provide $800000000.00 worth of military hardware. now once again, using my presidential authority to actively activate additional security assistance to continue to help you crime, fend off rushes, assault, additional $800000000.00 of assistance that brings the total of new us security

systems. ukraine to $1000000000.00 just this week. these are the lar, these are direct transfers of equipment from our department defense to the ukraine military, help them as they fight against this invasion. well, our white house correspondent can be how can, joins us live. we've just heard president biden speaking about president putin calling him a war criminal. what can you tell us? the u. s. president was asked to direct question about the characterization of the atrocities in ukraine and his response to that, how he would characterize the actions of the russian leader, the u. s. president. for the 1st time since the russian invasion of ukraine character rising vladimir putin as a war criminal. and of course to use that kind of labeling does have legal connotations under international law. and that has become the focus of quite

a bit of questioning. as the white house press briefing is underway right now with white house press secretary gen saki. she was asked to respond to the president's comments. what has changed to, in terms of the state department investigation into potential war crimes committed by the russian leader as the russian authorities. the press secretary saying only that the u. s. president is speaking from his heart about the barbaric actions of a brutal dictator regarding his invasion of a foreign country. but with regard to the state department's formal investigation of war crime, she says this is still ongoing. so in terms of the sort of additional step that may have changed, the president's characterization of latimer putin, the white house press secretary says simply that the u. s. president was speaking from his heart and responding to the images he saw on television. but in terms of

a u. s. formal investigation, she says that is still ongoing. and we saw that impassioned plea from zalinski to the u. s. congress, but still a flat no to those key demands of a no fly zone and the make fighter jets. that's right, and that was certainly disappointing. one can imagine to the ukrainian leader, but when it's a big but we should leave open the at the possibility for the future because that's very much what the u. s. president did, although he said no for now to the 2 things that the ukranian leader was looking for. those fighter jets, the soviet era fighter jets as well as a no fly zone. he very much left to open the possibility that in the future there may be more of what the ukrainian leader was looking for. for now. it is the $800000000.00 in additional assistance. some 2 billions is the start of the bind

administration. some 1000000000 in just the last week alone, and we know that the u. s. president is still considering the no fly zone option along with other western leaders. and this is something we know will be a topic of discussion when the u. s. president travels next week on march 24th to be precise, as he not only attends a european council meeting, but also a meeting in brussels, belgium of nato leaders. kimberly, how can i bring this up to date from the white house? thank you. well, nato defense ministers meeting in brussels say they will continue to supply ukraine with weapons. but again, ruled out implementing a no fly zone. the military alliance that it would provide significant support against russian forces through military supplies, financial help, and humanitarian aid. secretary general young stoughton, but said the war had created a new reality. nato needs to adapt the alliance once to station more troops and eastern europe and build up

a permanent eastern flank face. and you reality for our security. so we most restrict our collective defense on the terms for the longer term. today we talked our military commanders to the rollup options across all domains, law it c, cyber on space. russian president vladimir putin says he's ready to discuss ukraine's neutrality. even though he insists the military operation is going to plan in a televised address, he also acknowledge the pain west and sanctions a causing russia, but wound they will back fire in a very coldly way. there are some cultures who have leap down their bottles. the great financial brochure against russia have be noticed at we will do what we can to make sure that the new package of sanctions against russia will be met by only

turns against them. a russian woman whose storm the live television news broadcast to denounce the ukraine war says she's worried for her safety, but has no plans to flee. marina of sienna cova, who worked at stay own channel, one charged on to the set with a sign, showing an anti war message. she was arrested and find $280.00, but admits she could face jail time in the future. she joins a growing list of journalists who resigned from procurement news outlets since the stars, the invasion. ha, the war and ukraine was the final point of no return for me. it's beyond the pale and it was impossible for me to remain silent any more. an ordinary people like me, ordinary russian, women need to do something about it. every one in russia needs to do something about it. in other news to british, iranians detained in iran are on their way back to the u. k. nazarenes agari ratcliffe and a new shea assuring have been free of to spending years in detention accused of

spying. a 3rd prison, emerald toppers, has been released on furlough to his house. inter on sonia gallagher has more boarding a plane to take her home. nazarenes agari ratcliffe is now a free woman. for the past 6 years. she's enjoy detention at toronto, evan prison, a hunger strike house arrest, and a brief release followed by a re arrest 3 days later. now she can look forward to a future with a husband who had campaign tirelessly for her release. and daughter, gabriella. i mean, definitely having a lot, my thought, i'm not quite believing. i feel feel like i'm kind of in campaign mode but, but you're going to play with home with it and, and the whole family in iran or something like that here. it's been a long day. it's been a long time ago. we've been in the doorway for court on their ordeal began in april

2016 when nazareth was detained at toronto. airport was traveling back to london and was arrested on charges of spying, which is always denied up to 4 years in prison during which she went on hunger strike. she was put under house arrest at her parents home and was late to sentence to a further year in detention with a travel ban. also on the plane, leaving iran inertia, a shuree or a tide civil engineer. his family also called to his urgent release after he was arrested on charges of spying and 2017 charge. he denied against this. there was the question of a $530000000.00 debt. the u. k. owed for not completing on a deal involving the sale of tanks and military equipment to the van ruler. the shock the foreign secretary lives across, acknowledge the government had paid the debt without contributing the current

sanctions imposed by western countries. what i can't do it go into the details because that is confidential between the parties. but i have had this thoroughly checked out across government to ensure that we help you guarantees that it will be used for humanitarian purposes. soon to be re united, looking forward to the future. as a normal family. funny guy, yeah, go al jazeera and united nations appeal for aid. money for yemen has fallen well short of its target. the u. n. received only $1300000000.00 in pledges that's about $3000000000.00. short of what he monetary and chief not in griffin says, was needed. the un estimates up to 900000000 people would need food aid this year in yemen, which is entering its 7th year of civil war. griffith hasn't rolled out a 2nd funding drive later in the year. but let us be under no illusions. we hope from all we hope them all and it is

a disappointment that we weren't able as yet to get pledges. from some we thought we might hear from a magnitude 7.3 earthquake has struck off jeff and eastern fukushima coast. the traveler knocks out power 2000000 people in the tokyo area seen on the advisory was issued, but has since been lifted. the company working to decommission the fukushima nuclear poll says it's check the site and found no abnormalities. china is showing no sign of abandoning it. 0 coven strategy. is it struggles with was case with was creative ours outbreak in nearly 2 years. isolation facilities across the country and being expanded with mass testing and lockdown, ordered in several large provinces. just on the 2000 locally transmitted cases were reported on wednesday with around 3 quarters of those injured in all 24000000 residents of the northeast in provence have been told to quarantine. the surge is

being caused by the unequal invariant. the st current of ours measure, the leading to massive cues at chinese port. more workers are having to stay at home to follow government rules, leading, leading to a backlog of container ships, one of the world's biggest sports in the city of sions, and could be forced to shut if infections keep rising. ah. the top stories on al jazeera, a russian strike on the besieged, ukrainian city of mariel. paul has destroyed a theatre or an estimated 1000 people was sheltering. the number of casualties is not yet known. earlier russian rockets hit a convoy fleeing the city and during 5 people including a child, the u. s. embassy and keith says, russian forces have shot dead 10 ukrainians while they were queuing for bread and chun, he's footage broadcasts on ukrainian television to pay.