control of the message is crucial. for public opinion for profit, the listening post examines the vested interest by the content. you can hugh on al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera. oh, hello, i'm charlie angela. this is the out. is there a news? our life from london coming up, russian forces boma theater and mario paul, where hundreds was sheltering and attack a civilian convoy fleeing the city. and people queuing for bread. a shot dead in john, heave even his hopes and much of a potential compromise to end the war in ukraine. buddhism slipped. you. napoleon,

calling devastation or har on your current president biden brands. his russian counterpart, a war criminal, and announce is $800000000.00 of military aid for ukraine. author, an emotional peal to congress by blow to miss zalinski. and oft, almost 6 years detention in iran, british charity work, and nazarenes agari ratcliffe is on her way home, along with federal national news. ashery. i've been sport liverpool currently. imagine trying to close the gap at the top of the premier league at a booth for low back talk of it shows, friend job and organizers confirmed the unvaccinated stall can compete. had roland girls in bay. ah, ukraine is accusing russia of increasing its attacks on civilians. a russian strike when the besieged city of mary. opal has destroyed a theater or an estimated 1000 people was sheltering. the number of casualties is

still not known. earlier, 5 people were injured when russian rockets hit a convoy fleeing the city, which has been under heavy bombardment since russia's invasion, 3 weeks ago. all this is both sides say ongoing talks between ukraine and russia, all making progress. russia's foreign minister sug, lovegrove said, there's hopes for a compromise. well, ukraine's president says moscow's demands a, becoming more realistic and low to mid zalinski has reiterated. call for a no fly zone in an address to the u. s. congress. president biden announce he wilson drones and anti aircraft weapons to ukraine. he's also called russian president vladimir putin, a war criminal, and we'll have more on that shortly. but 1st name, buzz ravi in the report on the days events in ukraine. the 3 weeks of war, of shelley of cities besieged and more shocking reports of attacks which have confirmed could amount to war crimes. 10 people queuing for bread and chinese,

north of the capital give killed in an alleged russian attack. in the southern city of nikolai, of the cost of conflict, counted in corpses. the brutality of this war is moving faster than peace talks. a father waits to collect the body of his 37 year old son, who leaves behind 2 children of his own. we didn't really, really, we were when he was so friendly, he had a lot of friends and got on road everyone. if someone needed help, he never refuse. and he always wanted full capacity. foreign minister survey lab, ralph says russia is open to peace, but it seems we'll keep waging war to achieve it. said michel in our mission aims to defend the people in don't bass region from the regime and key if you're at aims to demilitarize and do not find the region. so all ethnic groups in ukraine 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 in upper region were hit overnight. the war following the part of more than 3000 evacuees who fled there from the besieged city of murray. awful. russian troops reportedly using heavy artillery, honest civilly in convoy on that route, wounding 5, including a child in serious condition. russia sees far violations, ukraine's deputy prime minister says are stopping civilians from using humanitarian corridors and getting to safety. when the total pump is hopefully yesterday they captured the emergency hospital and took 400 people hostage, medics and mary poll. they're shooting from inside the hospital. it is a threat for movement of people dante, monetary and 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 booth space today is a special and dangerous moment. 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 17th. 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 much legal squad and our version 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's still needs to be more time for decisions to be in ukraine's entrapment. 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 yavari, 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. the bus route, the oldest 0 live. well, let's bring you more on the situation in mary up hallway. as you've heard a theater and a convoy leaving the city has been targeted. thousands have managed to get out of the besieged city easing humanitarian, cordele, the hundreds of thousands remain trapped there without food or water. i said bake has more from denito. will 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 the strategic port city that lies between the, the russian back separatist region of darn bass to the east and crimea, and peninsula to the south. that was annexed by russia in 2014. that they have been several attempts to try and get aged to that city. now these humanitarian cardoso

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 kinds, but the ukranian authorities are and around 10021200 people in it at the time. and as for these humanitarian card, those we're hearing that around 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, an eye 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. there were a coming that escaped to fighting. they were exhausted, i'm 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, the mayor of the ukrainian city of mili topple is now safe after being kidnapped by russian forces last week. the authorities say even federal was freed 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 military, both crisis center, putting a bag on federal head and leading him away. 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 rushes justification with unfounded moscow had claimed it was acting to stop genocide in eastern ukraine. 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. representatives and the international criminal court have been in ukraine collecting evidence for an investigation into possible war crimes by russian forces . i see the 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 custom bombs, meeting refugees and poland. khan also said he would investigate sexual abuse and crimes against children. russian forces, i believe, to be closing in on the port city of a desert from several fronts. ukraine's 3rd largest city would be a key prize for russia effectively cutting the rest of this country off from the black sea. but his residence had had time to prepare what's been seen as an

inevitable attack. what abdul hamid has more from odessa in southern ukraine, with the russian invasion is yet to reach odessa. but here is a feeling that is just a matter of time and not much longer to wait. i visit invalid demeanour, zalinski has holden all ukrainians to join the war effort. and people like envy have lamb off was an opera singer, have answered his cold. it's ugly r for dan, maybe 20 here. he thinks that it's going to be a long war despite ongoing negotiation and complaints that ukraine has been left to fight alone. i knew you could almost no success. they didn't want to help us right now. they promised weapons more active involvement of the war fighter just now the u. s. is refusing by them hasn't delivered. they are not closing the sky. they're

not taking away rushes ability to form a peaceful cities and annihilate women must children appeal to them, but they're not protecting the humanitarian corridors from murray of the city is frantically building its defenses. civic organizers said they have so far filled more than $400000.00 sandbags. this as under said, some, several france, the russian army is trying to advance from the south while russian war ships are said to be approaching the coast. but it won't be so easy because the city is heavily fortified. long stretches of the shore line have been laid with land mines to delay any beached landing. capturing this port city would give russia control of the black sea and land lock ukraine. ah, back in town, the air service goes off day and night, and the city hasn't been there leaking the sandbags made at the beach surround

cultural and municipal buildings. and kelly, part of tells me about the efforts to preserve their says, cultural treasures. most of when you move away from grip. mm hm. oh, we're talking about saving the heritage, ukrainian european russian. it doesn't matter what saving art museum in hockey was bombed. sadly the collection that was mostly launched. it's a part of the something that has been bothering me a lot. the ukrainian museums have to protect masterpieces of russian art from the russian aggression. it is a paradox. we want the world to know about that koreans, this has long been deprived of russia, was founded by catherine de great. this city has embraced its russian identity ever since. but with a war looming, those voices have gone all but silent in odessa. that was saved by the soviets during world war 2 is now getting ready to defend itself from his former protectors

and at the law. meet algebra, odessa, ukraine, or kara roodick as a ukrainian and p and leader of the voice party in parliament. she's in keith and i spoke to her in the last half hour and began by asking her about russian advances near the capital. well, russian troops tried to progress back because we were ready, they were not able to move, chosen and get into the city. the fries are still at the outskirts of the city and there severe shelling, continuous her for the last 20 for hours we had for a residential buildings destroyed and give by a russian miss house. and one subway station partially destroyed. so as you see how we are able to protect ourselves in the ground, like when we are fighting on the land, we are able to get ready for a potential c h. this is what we have been hearing from russians that they want to do to key of. but the only thing that we can do and where we need help and support

is to protect ourselves from the ear. because the russian miss house keep destroying our sieges and they keep destroying key of also getting reports of civilians being deliberately shot in turn here and the shelters being bombed in mary apple. do you think we're seeing and even more ruthless change of tactics here by russian forces? yes, we do see the change of tactics and it's just to create the man massive destruction of for ukraine and her killing of ukrainian civilians. and this is something that we have been seeing for the last to 21 days of war, but also what we have seen that work was happening intensively over the last couple of days. i late i went to see to tell you about murray will. this is the place where are we are right now. 400000 people are being under the seizure and they

don't have enough. what did they didn't have enough food. they don't have access to medical aid. and for the last 14 days, we have been continuously asking for russians to let out the human kevin corner voice. and for that 5 times for 5 consecutive days, oh good. it's forces agreed to lead the convoys out and for 5 consecutive times when the congress were trying to get out, they would be just. busy shooting them, and this is absolutely terrifying, especially that today, the bombing of murray will continued to civilians, precise the civilians were killed. and, 0, one 0, the doctors who were trying to take the children out. ah, julia tired, i was taken as a, as a captive, and we're right now we just learned about it. we are demanding her immediate release. however, we know that was russian forces. it will be extremely hard to do. but what is

happening in mary open right now is a pure humanitarian catastrophe. and it's a pure, a genocide of, of ukrainian nation because people are started of start people are let without the water and people. i just boehmer that in this surrounded city. i cannot believe that this is happening right now in 21st century in their country in the middle of . busy europe and you men in that desperate need for the skies to be closed will, despite another impassioned speech and a standing ovation from u. s. congress to lensky is not getting those 2 things that he was hoping for. the no fly zone in the make fighter jets from poland. do you think we could see a change in those demands? that's been a flat no. from every one so far. oh, i'm sure that at some point, nato will do the writing and change the decision. my fear is that it will be too late for my fellow citizens and it will be too late to too many ukrainians. i know

what does the plan for ukraine? we plan to stand up and fight. we plan to fight with on every inch of our soil. my question is, what is need to plan for putting the will definitely not stop in ukraine. put in little definitely continue bombarding the nuclear plants in ukraine, creating a threat of the nuclear catastrophic. food is a very adamant about his plan to conquer a part of europe and fight nato. so what is nature's plan? like? what is the whole, what is the ideal, the resolution of the situation? and this is the rhetorical question, because so far i haven't heard. and this an answer from any of our allies. so i understand hope that your grade will be fighting and we are grateful for all the support and all the supplies that we are getting for the fight. but for this, a warrant to be over for this war to be over on ukrainian terms with ukrainians, victory. we will need the jazz and we will need the support so we can protect our

skies ourselves, heretic ukrainian. m p. speaking to us from keith. thank you for talking to our desert, stay safe. thank you and glory to crane. baby born to surrogate mothers are being looked after in a basement in keys. there are 21 infants in the makeshift clinic whose foreign parents can't come to get them because of the war. 2 couples have made it to key, but it's not clear when they'll be able to get that children out of the country. ukraine is a hub for, sorry to see with thousands of babies born every year and taken abroad. moves as much sort of stadium as we haven't been able to get home since the 24th of february . i'm from see me region, but i can't go there. i have my own children at home there with their grandmother. they started to bombard our city this week and i need to we wait for news every day about what is happening that i called them to check where and how they slept at night. whether they went to a bomb shelter, whether they left it,

we stayed here to look after the babies and who else will look after them or the parents are away, who will help them? so we look off to them. we can't leave them behind this. how is it even possible? they are tiny creature. poland, which has taken nearly 2000000 ukrainians, has begun issuing identity numbers, so refugees can access social services and benefit and more easily find jobs. romania is now housing, more than 400000 refugees that are being met by thousands of volunteers, as well as church and 8 organizations which provide food, shelter, clothes, and transportation. 3 weeks into rushes invasion. more than 3000000 ukrainians have now fled to fighting with tens of thousands will crossing into eastern european countries every day. on average 73000 children have left ukraine every day since the invasion. some refugee children in poland have spent the 1st day back in class . the sign on the door of this high school in warsaw. it says welcome to school in

ukrainian. it's headmaster says the priority is to make the teenage refugees feel welcome and safe. permanent education minister says 54000 children have been enrolled and poder schools so far. vertical told me, they said, well, you know, the people who find themselves in the most difficult situation are those 2 in the last and pinole, 2 years of school in ukraine, and they should be passing the baccalaureate and 4 months a year and 4 months, which is essential for the studies they pass through the polish education system, they will only be able to pass the final exam 3 or 4 years off because they won't get there sooner because of the language barrier. for them, we must quickly create ukrainian schools in poland. while coming up this news out from london, president putin insist rushes military operation is going to plan, but warns and inflation and unemployment will rise. and the journalists who stormed a live tv news bulletin, and russia says she's worried for her safety,

but will stay in the country. ah, ukraine's president has made an impassioned plea to american politicians to do more, to protect his country against russian warplanes low to mid lensky address the u. s . congress from key which has been coming under more bombardment. the lensky once again pushed for a no fly zone, telling congress that russia had turned ukrainian skies into a source of death. he urged president biden to be a leader of peace and he compared the invasion to previous attack suffered by americans, including 911 and pearl harbor, 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 it. our country is experiencing the same every day, every night for 3 weeks now. will you as president, has called vladimir putin, a war criminal there? not long after he announced that washington will give you crane $800000000.00 worth of military hardware. of course, when it might, can joined us live from washington dc. now, the president cooling, put in a war criminal. what are the implications of this? well, it's very much happening. the anti, it's interesting to note that on monday, during the white house press briefing, the question was specifically asked about how does the administration characterize putin and his actions in ukraine? the answer from the press secretary was very clear. no decision has been taken because this is

a legal definition. she said that whitehouse team was looking at the legal implications of who transactions but made very clear that at that stage they had not completed their deliberations to be able to characterize who didn't as a war criminal and his actions as war crimes. now the president biden has come straight out and said it putin is a war criminal. he says, now we do not know if the legal considerations have been completed, it's unlikely otherwise it wouldn't be in a non. so present invite in appears to have taken this decision in a way to put added pressure on to president clinton. so a major step by the, by didn't administration. words matter in this type of situation. and we saw a standing ovation from congress. but the answer to the lensky for his key demands of a no fly zone in those make fighter jets was still a flat. no. exactly that. well, there's very little bipartisan support in congress for establishing

a no fly zone. they are supporting president biden in that issue. president biden, having argued very strongly, had that to do so, would actually escalate the conflict and possibly lead to a full on confrontation between nato allies and the russia, which is something that the biden administration is intent on. avoiding this may change when president biden joins other nato leaders for natal meeting in the coming a week. that may be a will be a massive subject of discussion. but just to get back to that $800000000.00, an extra weapons that have been provided by the bite and administration very significant that the pentagon previously was quiet about what type of weapons it was providing. now, a spokesman has outlines specifically what type of weapon we is heading towards ukraine. it includes some 2000 javelin muscles, systems, $800.00 stinger missiles,

a 100 drones, which the official says packs a punch, which we can take to interpret them as being armed to drones. but being very specific, 25000 suits of armor, 25000 helmets, 400 shotguns, 400 machine guns. the pentagon clearly moving away from its position in which it didn't want to give details about these matters to actually stating specifically what they were doing. once again, as a way perhaps of ramping up pressure on russia and making very clear that the u. s . is going to back ukraine and detailing in exactly what ways it is going to continue to back it another significant step. like hannah in washington dc, bring us up today. thank you. when nato defense ministers meeting and brussels say they will continue to supply ukraine with weapons. but again, ruled out implementing a no fly zone. the military alliance wants to station more cheap in eastern europe and build up a permanent east and flank our debt. financing editor james base has more for

native headquarters in brussels. nato defense ministers heard directly from their ukranian counterpart who attended the meeting virtually about the destruction taking place on the ground. nato countries have been providing support in terms of weapons and training to ukraine, but they're not going to get involved directly. and they're not going to impose that no fly zone that the ukrainian government wants so much. they've also been bolstering those nato nations that are closest to russia, with many more extra troops than now trying to make those deployments more permanent. nato will not tolerate any attack on allied sovereignty or territorial integrity. we have all the act of a 3rd. our defense bounced to shield the alliance increase or redness and the ploy tubes. oh,

from both sides of the atlantic. there are now hundreds of thousands of forces at heightened alert across the lawrence $100000.00 us troops in europe. on their own, $40000.00 troops on the darted nato command, mostly in the eastern part of the alliance. the defense ministers meeting comes just 8 days before a summit of all the knights. how lead us here in brussels? well, there's lots more still to come this hour. a desperate plea for yemen un says, funding for the world's worst manmade humanitarian crisis, has fallen. $3000000000.00 short taiwan holds military drills off to sending aid to ukraine and, and sport a career high school of brooklyn star kyrie, of, and highlights lisa in the museum. ah,

hello there. we've seen some dramatically colored skies across the south west of europe. thanks to the horrid dust, the scene blown out of the north of africa, coloring the skies in the iberian peninsula and stretching as far as southern france. some of the ski slopes here coated in that orange dust. now we are expecting those plumes to stretch up as far north as the low countries and possibly southern parts of england in the days to come. but storm sealy caea will continue to bring the heavy rain to coastal areas of spain. we could see some flooding here, and as written, windy conditions extend out across the mediterranean, edging into morocco as well. we could see some heaviest falls in algeria by the time we get into friday. but that rain extends further north as well across france and the low countries. by the time we get to friday though, it will go to way east and we will see the large spells of sunshine in places like

paris. it clears up further east for the balkans. much of the winter weather, extending out to the black sea is going to get weather for greece and west of the southern areas of italy. but further north of this, we got some lodging, fine, and dry conditions for the north, west places like britain and ireland for scandinavia as well. we'll have some sunshine in sweden, the temperature in stock. them coming in at 8 degrees. ah, the, from the al jazeera london broke health center to people in thoughtful conversation, christine is all about trying to get a superior reputation, unprompted uninterrupted, where we find the most profound similarities is not actually in our classes living relatives. but it's in much more distant connection. hot want of right to will fool and psychologist, nic la honie, they're going to be a cooperative species you call to be beating each other up and threaten each other all beside studio be unscripted on elvis era. o mon has a rich history,

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ukrainian city of mary awful. as destroyed a theatre where an estimated 1000 people were sheltering. the number of casualties is not yet known. earlier, russian rockets had a convoy fleeing the city in during 5 people. the u. s. embassy in keith says, russian forces have shot dead 10 ukrainians while they were queuing for bread and journey. the international court of justice is ordered russia to immediately see 6 military operation in ukraine. and u. s. president joe biden has cooled. vladimir putin, a war criminal. this shortly after announcing the washington will give ukraine 800000000 dollars worth of military hardware earlier ukraine's president address the u. s. congress from keep pushing for a no fly zone to protect his country from russian. all things. russia's 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 western sanctions a causing russia, but warned they will backfire in

a very godly way. there are some cultures who have lived dull, they are part of the great financial partial against russia. have been noticed. and we will do what we can to make sure that the new package of sanctions, i guess russia will be met by our meters against them or dos. jibari has more for us from oscar, blind me put in said that's his m, military operation. the is going according to schedule and that the russian army is not targeting civilians. he also said that's all objectives for the operation in ukraine will be attained. and he said that the tactics of and hostilities are completely justified themselves. he's seemingly trying to argue that his decision was the right one. he made a case saying that the special operation is developing successfully and that the russians have reasons to believe that components of biological weapons were being

created in ukraine. this is something we've heard that the russian government accused of the ukrainian officials of before as well. but i think the most important thing he said was that although there may be russian forces outside of large cities like he of, they are not intending to go into them or to occupied him. that is not their intention. he said that they have no such purpose. they our own related their to their security concerns. and he said, prior to making this decision to go into ukraine, all the diplomatic possibilities were completely exhausted and that ukraine was given the option to talk to us. and the ukranian military was asked to leave at the dumbass region, and they didn't do so. so they really are, were responsible ultimately for letting me put his decision to go into crane. according to his irrational, he also said that the sanctions against the ordinary russians are a sign of aggression. and that the youth you ukrainian authorities have failed to

really listen to russia's concerns until now. and that this military operation will continue a russian woman who's stormed a live television news broadcast to denounce the ukraine war. so she's worried for her safety, but says she has no plans to flee. marina of sienna, clover, who worked, they own channel one charged to the set with a sign showing an anti war message. she was arrested and find $280.00. but admit, she could face jail time in the future. she joins a growing list of journalists who resigned from proclaiming news outlets since the invasion. wow. the war in 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. the u. k. prime minister says saudi arabia understands as

a need to stabilize a global oil markets. and the weight of the pandemic in russia's invasion of ukraine for, as johnson was speaking of, to holding talks with saudi crown prince for hm. and been salman in riyadh and leaders in the united arab emirates. both countries have so far ignored us, please to ramp up production to help stabilize sore in crude prices. johnson is trying to phase out you case reliance on russian oil, an increase pressure on vladimir putin. but he was criticized for visiting riyadh off to 81 men with a headed there on saturday. the largest known mass execution in the kingdoms history. i raised a human rights. his arms was i'm sure you are, you would expect will. but we also talked about what we could do to, to stabilize oil prices, to, to fight inflation, to help consumers, to help people at the gas pumps of the, of the, of the petro pumps. and, you know, the, a lot of agreement that it is important to, to, to avoid inflation, to,

to avoid the damaging economic consequences agreement that we need to work together to bring peace to ukraine, our sight of the saudis for what they're doing. they were, they were joined the view and resolution as you know, in condemning what russia has done to british. iranians detained in iran are on their way back to the u. k. nazarenes agari ratcliffe and a new shade assuring have been freed up to spending years in detention accused of spying. a 3rd prisoner moran tibet has been released on furlough to his house and to run. sonya 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 endure detention at toronto ever in 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 her husband who had campaign tirelessly for her release. and daughter, gabriella. i mean, definitely getting a lot myself. i'm not quite believing. i feel feel like i'm kind of in campaign move on to play for home. and the whole family in iran or something like the whole family here, but it's been a long day. it's been a long time. 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 shuree,

a retired civil engineer. his family also called for his urgent release after he was arrested on charges of spying in 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 sharks of the foreign secretary lives trust. acknowledge the government had paid the debt without contributing the current sanctions imposed by western countries. what i can't do is 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 these guarantees that it will be used for humanitarian purposes. soon to be re united looking forward to a future as a normal family. sonic i. yeah. go, i'll just, sarah. well roxanne farmer fall and is electra and international politics at the

university of cambridge and she joined me by skype from london. thank you for speaking to al jazeera. well this is and the men to stay for her family after so many full start, so many hopes dashed over the years. but why now? well, there are several reasons probably right now. firstly, because the british government decided to pay on a debt that it has held actually for 43 years. and finally, it has transferred the funds for the purchase of these chieftain tanks that were made at the time of the shot back at $979.00 and which were never delivered. and the british government has taken these years and it's gone through a number of court cases, but nonetheless, had chosen not to pay this debt until today. so that is, is in

a nutshell why the iranian government decided to attach the debt payment to the release of nanine and then it was paid off and she was released. why did it take so many is for the u. k. to repay this that and as a result, finance, i mean so many is of unnecessary suffering being separated from her family. well, it's interesting because the government itself calls it an extremely sorry story. it was a problem right from the beginning in terms of even what the foreign office memos were saying, and 985. that this was going to be a difficulty to repay. there was over $1300000000.00 of financial arrangements made for arms at the time with the shock. most of those were resolved . but this one, the money was paid in advance and the tanks were never delivered. and both iran and

the united kingdom went to court 3 times between 986 and 2006 and all 3 times the international tribunals and courts were in favor of the british government paying iran. but there were many, many twists and turns, and in many cases it simply came down to the fact i would speculate that the united kingdom simply did not want to pay it to such a country that they viewed was nefarious. and in fact, there were a number of elements that took place during this period is one of the courts required assurity of over half a $1000000000.00. and the u. k. put that money in surety, but they did so illegally because it's the kind of thing that has to go to the parliament. and this was never brought to the permanent or anyway,

there's no evidence of that. and an inquiry by the parliament in 2020 showed that in fact, there were many provocations and considered that this took a real toll on british reputation for not being clear in its commitments to international law and its willingness to pay agree jets books and from the found a hand thank you for speaking down there. my pleasure. thank you. a united nations appeal for aid money for yemen has fallen well short of its target. the un received only $1300000000.00 and pledges that's about $3000000000.00 show to what humanitarian chief martin griffith said was needed. the un estimates up to 19000000 people. we need food a this year in yemen, which is entering its 7th year of civil war. griffith hasn't ruled out a 2nd funding drive and later in the year. but let us be under no illusions we

hoped from all we hope for more. and it is a disappointment that we weren't able as yet to get purges from some we thought we might hear from a magnitude 7.3 earthquake has struck of japan's eastern fukushima coast. the tremor knocks out, power to, to 1000000 people in the tokyo area. a sing on the advisory was issued, but has since been lifted. the company working to decommission the fukushima nuclear plants says it's check the site and found no abnormalities. china is showing no sign of abandoning it 0 coven strategy, and it struggles with the west career of ours outbreak. in nearly 2 years, isolation facilities across the country, a being expanded with must testing and lockdown ordered in several large provinces . just on the 2000 locally transmitter 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 3rd to be caused by the on the con barons or district score and various measures are leading to massive cues. chinese poured, more workers are having to stay at home to follow government rules eating. so backlog of container ships, one of the world's biggest fought in the city of sions, and could be forced to shot if infections keep rising. china government has criticize taiwan for sending humanitarian aid to ukraine. many parallels between rushes invasion and china's threats to take control of taiwan by force. the taiwanese army has been carrying out military drills, simulating an interception of eminence enemy forces between the report. taiwanese soldiers, firewall tillery shells at a target representing advancing enemy forces. the democratically self ruled island is conducting military exercises to prepare for a potential assault by chinese forces. they folly repeated incursions by chinese

warplanes into the islands air defense zone, taiwanese leaders, sy, in when seen here watching army reservists train last week, says the war in ukraine proves taiwan. needs to be prepared to resist threats from china. in a sign of increasing tensions between the 2 countries, reservists have been mobilized for 14 days this year, rather than the usual 7 lozzo hmos. you negotiate? i think the training is very solid. we are now familiar with the nearby defensive terrain and also places we can use to fund off an attack was i think this 14 day reserves call up is very useful. trying to consider is tiwana breakaway province and has previously threatened to seize the island by force. the leadership in bay. jing has been angered by recent reports of taiwan finalizing its latest dale to buy military equipment from the united states or men. ginia fan date may what all we family, a place the sale of arms by us to taiwan. we oppose any official exchanges between

the u. s. and taiwan. the democratic progressive party authorities have repeatedly used to harden money of taiwan st. taxpayers. to buy u. s. army in an attempt to seek independence by force, but they will not succeed in ty, once capital, taipei, they've been demonstrating in support of ukraine's resistance to the russian invasion. and full 1000 boxes of medicine, food and blankets have been collected for ukrainian refugees. oh no, it's unbelievable. this is happening. we should do what we can to help. the children are innocent, their lives have been turned upside down. so suddenly, as parent, i feel so heartbroken, i want to help one regularly whole drills to prepare for a potential chinese invasion. as the warning ukraine rages on, 23000000 taiwanese are hoping the status quo where they are,

will be maintained. victoria gates and b al jazeera. another journalist has been murdered in mexico, bringing the number of media work had killed in the country this year to 8. just 6 weeks ago, armando lenora's released this video announcing that one of his colleagues had been killed. prosecutors in west, in mid show, a chance state said lenora's, with himself, shot dead on tuesday in the home city of kara. the you recently cooled on mexican president under as manuel lopez over a door to ensure the best protection of journalists, reporters without buddhist say, a 150 have been killed in mexico since 2000. 8 people had been rescued at least 15, a dead after landslide. in northern peru, and buried the 60 homes many who live in the town of portico, worked in the mines, peruse, president petro castillo, has called on the mining company, alameda to explain what caused the collapse. because extends president has proposed

constitutional reforms that will limit the powers of his office just over 2 months after protest rocks. the country cassim drama took years, has told parliament he wants to move away from what he called of presidential rules and build a presidential republic. instead, you also want to stronger parliament, a reformed electoral system, and a constitutional court. sir lank as president, has promised to work with the international monetary fund in other countries, to end its worst economic crisis in memory. it comes a day off to protest as angry go to buy a raja packs is handling. the crisis tried to storm his office in colombo july and his government is suffering from a shortage of foreign reserves, leaving it struggling to pay for imports of essential goods like medicine and food by japan. the has asked people to limit the use of fuel an electricity. a mule got a stock umbrella, the shortages of essential items. an increase in price is also the f issue, such as gas shortage is huge. what it is and power cuts. i'm also very sensitive to

the many sufferings the people have had to experience over the last 2 months. guess . i know that the situation will continue for reasons beyond our control. there will be made maximum possible efforts with regard to them getting still ahead this knees are the annual south by southwest festival in texas makes a post pandemic. we're ton with a focus on social justice issues and scoring a milestone for this russian. and it just an excel stop pizza will have the details in sport. ah.

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the annual south by southwest festival in texas is back this year after going virtual. during the pandemic concern of the global issues of turn, the festivals focus increasingly towards social justice is rob reynolds. reports from austin, texas, came in from the jungles and our names. it taught us to change him and i made it so it must tame him for assimilation in the nation. i find that lame lamb young, come to come with denise trying to get a pop artist, david shoe bonnie's lyrics, explore issues of inequality. the pandemic or this new coven night scene era has put a magnifying glass on some of the social issues, some of the ills of the world. i'm on issues that's out a working class. people go through at this year's south by southwest festival, the eclectic annual showcase of world music, film, and other forms of expression. issues of social justice, our center stage. shabani sings of immigrants and working class people struggling

to survive. the story of someone who has to worry about paying their bills live in a paycheck to paycheck, going to work and live in a life. and my family obviously is my number 11 a nation life of festivals. films include bad acts, a portrait of an asian american family facing down small town prejudice in the pandemic era, and split at the root about the horrors of family separation at the us mexico border. during the trump administration. the festival draws people from all over the world to promote their messages, fight for their causes and make connections. climate change activist maria alejandro escalante. has just arrived from columbia. we a feminist, worked towards a non hierarchical ways of operating. and i do believe that the climate crisis needs those types of solutions, another entities. otherwise, johan ali is at the festival to discuss his memoir of the immigrant experience in

the us. we carry a lot about immigration and refugee right now. i wonder why. oh it's because ukrainian they have blue eyes. 7 they have white skin. when you sit there and go, ha, how can we are so miserly? in our capacity to care about refugees, if they're jamini, if they're haitian, if they're afghan, a festival of music and entertainment, but also a forum for the world's biggest problems. rob reynolds al jazeera austin, texas. now has peter with his board. thank you charlie. we start with football. and chelsea remain on track to defend the champions league title the london side a through to the quarter finals following a full one victory on aggregate of a french team. little this of chelsea's equalizing in the 2nd leg, american forward christian politic. the golds flora he late in the 1st of march, finished to one to chelsea,

to change the viet i all levels of progress to the champ as he caught a final se spanish national team forward at jeremy moreno slotted a penalty and power. torres reacted quickest to elucidate at a corner to give the visits his some breathing space be at a l. advance for one on aggregate. surely, the title race and the premier league is on the verge of being neck and neck was a livable currently leading arsenal. to know the reds could be just one point behind leaders. manchester city level who opened the scoring on wednesday night through portuguese, forward the other jeter. and 8 minutes later they double their lead. thanks to substitute roberta for me know the pool of schedule to play. man, said he in april the french open organizers say 20 time grand slam champion, no bag jacket, which will be allowed to defend his title this year. if the corona via situation remain stable, the serb who is unvaccinated is willing to miss grand slams if they require him to get the jab, shock, which was unable to defend. he's australian oak and title in january of being the

porter from the country. but tournament director and former play emily marez mo, says there's nothing stopping jock of it from taking part at roland guerrero's. earlier this week, france lifted restrictions which prevented unvaccinated people from entering the sports venues. meal me catch manner which has eliminated italy's will number 6 matter better, teeny at indian wells. the 3rd winning 6367 and $6.00 for elsewhere. american taylor fritz has made his way into the quarter finals where he will face catch man of it, for it is the tournament 20th lead and is aiming to become the 1st american winner of the men's tournament. since andre agassi from 2001 fritz dropped the 1st to a straight is alex damon, all 63, but then a full bath when the following 2 said 64176 to advance in the california desert. in the n b a kyrie irving produced the best scoring performance of his career. brooklyn it's star racked up 60 points and they went over the orlando magic. that's

a franchise record. also the 1st time since $962.00, the players of schooled 6 the on consecutive nights of the minnesota is called anthony towns achieved the feat on monday irving and kevin to rent on now the only teammates in bay street to drop over 50 and back to back games. that's off the durance, $53.00 on sunday. yes, a might on me on a bench, but it was, ah, you know, and i'm just and his great for came in a florida game. you know a few shots probably, i shouldn't say again. let me try tough ones, you know, double team sugar teams gone and butter, you know, as i like a door to smile on my face and my teammates were too angry at me this night, worthwhile. a big milestone in the n h l to as the washington capitals alex vet can moved into 3rd in the leagues career scoring list of redskin near to the 700 and 67th girl against the new york islanders passing check. great. yet only a yard or in the old time standings. he sits behind gordie howe and wayne gretzky,

who is top of that list on 894, or which kids capitals one to win the game. for 3. england cricketers finally got there 1st. when at this year's womens woke up in new zealand, captain heb a night hit an unbeaten half century as the defending champion speaking thereby for wickets. england lost their 1st 3 games mixed up for them. it will be a match against host nations zealand and murder jeep. he will make us return to indonesia this week of the 25 years away. the country's president joe co. we dodo welcomed a group of writers to the presidential palace in jakarta, to mark the event. you also flagged off a ceremonial ride through the indonesian capital sunday's race at the new monday league. a circuit on the island of lombok is sold out. that's all the school says, charlie, it's back to you in london. thank you. please hold while you can find much more on our website on all our top stories and the address for that is al jazeera dot com

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from international politics to the global pandemic. and everything in between. it did not respect poor people and your our planet promised to ensure the safety of women. what happened just the 15th. i pulled back that people actually have more feel. why is the u. k. feel hostile to play in the mystery to all of us join me if i take on the live with men or the misconceptions and the meet the contradiction time to get up front on al jazeera, the latest news as it breaks. this is one of the growing number of chick points around the city of suffer risha. most of the men that you see here, a members of the civil defense forces. they all volunteers were detailed coverage.

workers are focusing on the most vulnerable, but many more need help from around the world. because an area that generally fees abundant rainfall, but strong winds, lack of humidity are making it easy for fire like this one to spread all across. ah, russian forces bomb a theatre in mary or pole where hundreds was sheltering and attack a civilian convoy fleeing the city. and people queuing for bread, a shot dead in turn, heave even his hopes emerge, of a potential compromise to end the war in ukraine. ah, i am charlie and for this is our is there, alive from london also coming up. foot isn't flicked, you know, polling polling devastation or har.