not actually in our classes living relative in much more distant connection. part one of right there will through anti colleges nicholas re, honey, you're going to be a corporate species. you call each other up and threaten each other all the time. to d, a be unscripted on algebra? ah, russia is accused of destroying a theater in ukrainian city of money. you poll. hundreds were sheltering in the building. ah. hasn't speak of this? is it alive from dollhouse coming up? people queuing for bread, a shot dead in chimney, of even his hopes emerge, of a potential deal to end the war in ukraine. more anti aircraft systems and drones for ukraine. that's off the president,

the landscape emotional speech to the u. s. congress also had free at last name's the audi radcliffe is on her way home to the u. k. after being detained in iran since 2016 through human costs are mounting in ukraine as russia's invasion. and since it's 4th week, a russian strike on matthew paul has destroyed a theater, where hundreds of civilians were sheltering. the number of casualties is not yet known. and while the war rages on, there are signs of progress on the diplomatic front report, se ukrainian or russian negotiators have come up with a 15 point draw piece plan. it involves ukraine renouncing nato membership. in return it would get a ceasefire. and the withdrawal of russian troops, ukraine's president. while a dim is lensky, address the u. s. congress,

and re it's repeated, his court for a no fly zone. the also compared the invasion to previous attacks suffered by americans, 911 and po, hama, 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 one expected it and you could not stop at our country is experiencing the same every day every night for 3 weeks now . when all long after that speech she us president joe biden publicly denounced rushes actions calling. let me put in a war criminal will get an analyst analysis on all that in a moment. but 1st zane bas robbie, with the days developments from the vive, in western 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 waged 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 gotten valid. everyone, if someone needed help, he never refuse. and you always wanted full capacity. foreign minister survey lab ross as russia is open to peace, but it seems we'll keep waging war to achieve it. said michelle in our mission, aims to defend the people in don't bass region from the regime in key. if you're at

aims to demilitarize and do not to find the region, so all ethnic groups, any grain can live in peace. 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, honestly, 1000000000 conway on that route, wounding 5, including a child in serious condition. rush and sees far violations. ukraine's deputy prime minister says are stopping civilians from using humanitarian corridors and getting to safety. when the tora pump is hoping, 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 keefe, 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 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 little 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 still needs to be more time for decisions to be in ukraine's entrapment to 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 ceasefire, it's not a matter of if, but when the fighting makes its way here. then basra b o g 0, levine, a russian forces are believed to be closing in on the port city of a desa from several fronts. ukraine's 3rd largest city would be a substantial gain for russia effectively cutting the rest of the country off from the black sea. people there have had time to prepare for an attack. what i have made has more from odessa in subbing ukraine. oh, 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. oh,

president vladimir zelinski has called an all ukrainians who joined the war effort . and people like envy have lamb, of whose an opera singer have answered his cold, uglier 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 on you. you can tell on which not to just i 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 and biden hasn't delivered. they are not closing the sky . they're not taking away rushes ability to bomb our peaceful cities and annihilate women must children and be elderly, but they are not protecting the humanitarian corridors from mario paul. the city is frantically building its defenses. civic organizers said they have so far filled more than 400000 sandbags or best as under threat from several fronts. the

russian army is trying to advance from the south while russian war ships are said to be approaching the coast. but they 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 simon goes of day and night, but this city hasn't been directly hid the sandbags made at the beach surround cultural and municipal buildings and killy. pat of tells me about the efforts to preserve their says cultural treasures. most of when you move away from group memory, so we're talking about saving the heritage, ukrainian european russian. it doesn't matter. we're saving art. yeah,

the museum in hockey was bombed. sadly the collection there was mostly lost the prover. there's 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. now we want the world to know about that koreans o. this has long been deprived of russia. was founded by catherine the great, the 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 its former protectors . under the law, me algebra odessa, ukraine non is addressed to the u. s. congress, the ukraine's president, made an impassioned plea to american politicians to do more, to protect his country against russian attacks from on those developments and join our by matthew chronic. he is a professor of government and foreign service at georgetown university. joseph via

skype now are from washington. thanks for being with us. um. so what did you make of a landscape speech in which he called for many of the same things that he's been calling for? no fly zone more. a fighter planes, but he's not going to get them at this point. it was a really powerful speech. anyone who heard it was, was very moved. he compared 911 in pearl harbor. he was saying that in ukraine they're having at 911 in the pearl harbor every day. so i think he's already seen as a war hero in washington. this increased his stature, even more desire to help even more. but as you say, he's not going to get what he wants, the administration was still very clear even after the speech that a no fly zone off the table. they're also not going to provide more advance their defenses for fire. just so i think he didn't achieve what he wanted, but it was,

it was a moving speech. and we saw rochelle by bought bipartisanship rather in, in washington, from, from the us, congressmen and senators there, but they are divided on they, on what biden should be doing in response. absolutely. right. i think their united in support for zalinski admiration for the one sky support for ukraine, a desire for the united states to do more to help. but they are divided over by the handling of the response. so far, democrats are mostly supported, a republican think he's being a little bit too cautious. they think he should be providing the missile defenses. the are, sorry, the air defenses, the fire just, they're thinking that, you know, this argument that providing more advanced weaponry is going to lead to escalation, maybe nuclear escalation with russia. they think it is just a little bit again that the administration is being

a little bit to and should be doing more. and not long after that we had in the us president and notable in the fact that he called, put in a war criminal, what do you, what did you make of this? and the russians of, of responded in kind. we're seeing a real ratcheting up of the rhetoric here. what do you make that? yes. the ratcheting up of the rhetoric, but i think given international law, what the russians are doing and ukraine. these are were crimes. they're intentionally targeting innocent civilian international law calls for military that were only target legitimate military target. so i think by and this is correct to say this. obviously the russians don't like it took offense and they're looking to criticize washington. but this is one of the other areas of bipartisan consensus. congress is working. i mean, what smart, by the way, for zalinski to speak to congress because congress does have some independent

authority to act in the u. s. system. and this is one area where they're working on legislation about war crimes and how to deal with work could to talk to you matthew chronic thanks so much for being with us boys. the pleasure. thank you. are still ahead on edge 07.3, magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of northern japan leaving 2000000 homes without power. plus, i'm rob reynolds in austin, texas with the report on how social justice issues are taking the forefront of this years south by southwest arts and music that ah hello there. let's have a look at the weather across the u. s. and we've got 2 storm systems that we're

watching. one is pulled across the deep south bringing some flash flooding here. it's not working its way across the east coast, moving its way north, bringing those conditions to the mid atlantic. now behind it, we've got another storm system. it's appearing as a winter storm pulling across the 4 corners states dumping heavy snow in colorado as well as new mexico. by the time we get in to friday, it hits that warm air and turns into some severe storms rolling across kansas and missouri. we could see tornadoes, hail, flooding rains as well as very strong winds. now the temperatures recover in the southwest as that system pulls away a time we get to friday. however, a lot of that warmth is going to be knocked out of southern areas as well as areas around the great lakes toronto coming down rather dramatically by 10 degrees celsius. but along that east coast for washington, dc and new york, we are going to see the warmth come back in. if we look at the 3 day for washington dc, we will see some sunshine with a few scattered showers on saturday. that was move to central america. it's

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ah. again, you're watching. i just had a reminder on top stories this down, a russian strike on the cranium, city of marty. you. paul has destroyed a theater where hundreds of people were sheltering. number of casualties is not yet known as early a russian rockets hit a convoy fleeing the city, injuring 5 people. the u. s. embassy says russian forces have shot dead 10 ukraine while they were queueing for bread into mere international court of justice. has ordered russia to immediately cease its military operation. and you claim president joe biden, and now the us will give you $800000000.00 worth of military hardware by and also called letting me put in a war criminal. i comes after ukraine's president demons. lansky made an impassioned plea to american politicians to do more to protect his country.

nato chief, yes, sultan bags. as the alliance is looking to boast of forces in eastern europe, but repeated, the troops will not be sent to ukraine. later, defense ministers have been holding talks in brussels. are diplomatic added to james bass, is there. nato defense ministers, her directly from their ukrainian 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 de activated our defense vance, to shield the alliance increase or redness and the ploy tubes are from both sides of the atlantic. there are now hundreds of thousands of forces at heightened alert across the alarms. 100000 us troops in europe. and around $40000.00 troops on the dialect, nato command, mostly in the eastern part of the alliance. the defense ministers meeting comes just 8 days before a summit of all the nato leaders here in brussels. a russian president vladimir putin says he's ready to talk about ukraine's neutrality. and he said, russia can still meet the aims of what he describes as moscow special military

operation in a televised address. he warned that western sanctions against russia will backfire in a very cowardly way. there are some cultures who have lived down their portals. the great financial pressure against russia have been noticed. and we will do what we can to make sure that the new package of sanctions and yes, russia will be met by our meters against them dos and your body has more from moscow. let me put in said that his m military operation, the is going according to schedule and that the russian army is not targeting civilians. he also said that 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. a, 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 earl, 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 more than 3000000 ukrainians have now fled the fighting with tens of thousands more crossing into eastern european countries. every day remaining is now housing more than $400000.00 refugees. they're being met by thousands of volunteers as well as churches and 8 organizations that are providing food and shelter. poland has taken the most refugees, almost 2000000 ukrainians. there comes at least to me, see my son stay to defend ukraine. i will definitely come back to see him. he was supposed to get married. on the 10th of june, we were going to be there, his fiance over there. still, we survived everything we were in hospital. russia has bombed out the whole city.

there is no more hostile. our house is gone. my father and my brother. and you know, because they can to go somewhere from your brain. very bad because many russian army to tell we're and we're not totally in my a be care 5 till, you know very bad babies born to surrogate mothers in ukraine are being looked off day in a basement in cave 21 infant sign the make shift clinic the foreign parents can't come to get them because of the war ukraine. it is a hub facade cassy with thousands of babies born every year and taken abroad. 2

couples have made it to keith, but it's not clear when they'll be able to get the babies out of the country. moves as much sediment. 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 course we wait for news every day about what is happening. i called them to check where and how they slept at night, whether they went to a bomb shelter, whether they left it. if we stayed here to look after the baby and who else will look after them, not the parents are away who will help them. so we look up to them because leave them behind how is it even possible? they are tiny creature, which is not the news. now, a to british, iranians detained in iran are on their way back to the u. k. as any of the audi radcliffe and new share assurity have been freed off the spending years in detention accused of spying a 3rd prisoner what i was was released on furlough to his house,

into iran. so you can go reports boarding a plane to take her home. now the means of already 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 fitting a lot myself. i'm not quite believing. phil, phil floyd, i'm kind of in campaign robot. yeah. he's on a plane from a home with living on and, and the whole family in iran or something like no family here from phillips. it's been a long day. it's been a long family that we've been in the doorway for court on their ordeal began in

april 2016 when nasa nene was attained at to her on 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 a sentence to a further year in detention with a travel ban. also on the plain leaving iran inertia, a 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 shock of yours, the foreign secretary, liz cross acknowledged the government had paid the debt without contravene 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 reunited. looking forward to a future as a normal family. sunny guy. yeah. go out a 0. a humans who the rebels say they are open to talks with the saudi lead coalition. and humans internationally recognized government that they say discussions must take place in a neutral country. and restrictions on yeah, many port should be lifted at follows or force the g. c. c. was considering inviting the who these and other yemen, the parties for consultations in later this month. the united nations appeal for aid money for yemen has fallen well short of its target. the un received on the $1300000000.00 in pledges that's about $3000000000.00. less than what humanitarian

chief martin griffin said was needed you and estimates up to 19000000 people will need food a this year. in yemen. griffith has ruled out a 2nd funding drive later in the magnitude 7.3. earthquake has struck off japan's eastern fukushima coast. the german knocked out power to 2000000 people. a c nami advisory was issued, but has since been lifted. company working to decommission the fukushima nuclear plant, says it's checked the site and found no abnormalities. covered 19 restrictions are on their way out. in japan, all measures in the capitol, tokyo and 17 other prefixes to be lifted in a week's time for i missed the food you can shoot us as the country will slowly star returning to normal as infection rates for the annual south by southwest festival in texas. is back this year, go after going virtual because of the pandemic concern over global issues has

turned the festival focus increasingly towards social justice. rob reynolds reports from austin came in from the jungles and our names. he taught us to change him. and i may as is say, when must tame him force assimilation in the nation. i find that lame when young come to come. gun is trying to get a pop artist, david shoe, bonnie's lyrics, explore issues of inequality. the pandemic. are this new coven night scene era? has put a magnifying glass on some of the social issues, some of the ills in a world. i'm on issues that are the 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 are 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, living paycheck to paycheck,

going to work and live in a life. and my family obviously is my number 11 a mation in life. the 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 are feminist work towards a non hierarchical ways of operating. and i do believe that the climate crisis needs those types of solutions, and i'll turn that this while there was a hot the all lee is at the festival to discuss his memoir of the immigrant experience in the us. we care a lot about immigration and refugee is right now. i wonder why. oh,

it's because ukrainian they have blue eyes. 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 africa with a festival of music and entertainment, but also a forum for the world's biggest problems. rob reynolds al jazeera austin, texas. ah, it's got a round up now about top stories on edge. is it a russian strike on the cleaning city of mighty you, paul, as destroyed a theatre where hundreds were sheltering, the number of casualties is not yet known. early a russian rockets hid a convoy fleeing the city, injuring 5 people. the u. s. embassy and keep says russian forces have shot their 10 ukrainians as they were que.