talk to al jazeera, we also do you believe that the threat of an invasion of ukraine is currently the biggest threat international peace and security? we listen, we are focusing so much on the humanitarian crisis that we forget the long term development we meet with global news makers. i'm talk about the stool restock matter on al jazeera. ah, russia is accused of destroying a theatre in the southern ukrainian city of mother. you pope. hundreds of people was sheltering in the building. ah, i'm has him seeka, this is edge. is it a lie from the also coming up? people queuing for bread or shot dead in chinese, even as hope see much of

a potential deal to end the war in ukraine. more anti aircraft systems and jones for ukraine. that's off the president zalinski emotional speech to the u . s. congress. also ahead home free. now as a needs, a harvey radcliff arrives in the u. k. of to been detained in iran for the last 6 years. human costs are mounting in ukraine as russia's invasion enters its 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. 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 draft 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 demi zalinski addressed the u. s. congress, and repeated his call for a no fly zone. he also compared the invasion to previous attacks suffered by americans. 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 and battlefields, innocent people were attacked from the air, no unexpected. and you could not stop at our country is experiencing the same every day. every night for 3 weeks now, following that speech, us president joe biden cord of lead even put in a war criminal. as we mentioned, russian forces have continued to bombard ukraine saying bas robbie reports from the

viv. 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 a 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 it

aims to demilitarize and did not find the region. so all ethnic groups in ukraine 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 see spar violations. ukraine's deputy prime minister says are stopping civilians from using humanitarian corridors and getting to safety. when the 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 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 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 partially 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. 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 livia, a russian forces are believed to be closing in on the poor city of death from several fronts. you claims, 3rd largest city would be a substantial, gainful russia, effectively cutting the rest of the country off from the black sea. the people there have had time to prepare for an attack. what i've done, i mean, has more from odessa in solving 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 zalinski has called an all ukrainians to join the war effort. and people like and the have lamb of who's an opera singer, have answered his call. it's ugly, we're for dad. 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 could have almost no success. they didn't want to help us right now. they promised weapon it's more active, been bowman of the war fighter just getting them. now the u. s. is refusing and 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. lots of children appealed to them like they are not protecting the humanitarian corridors. from mario, the city is frantically building its defenses. civic organizers say 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 beach 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, but this city hasn't been directly hit. the sandbags made at the beach surround cultural and municipal buildings. and kelly pat of tells me about the efforts to preserve what there says cultural treasures. most of when you move away from group name, you know, we're talking about saving the heritage, ukrainian european russian. it doesn't matter. we're saving art. we. 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. if we want the world to know about that grains, others 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 and at the law. meet algebra. odessa, ukraine. a russian president, vladimir putin says he is ready to talk about ukraine's neutrality. but he said russia can still meet its object military objectives in ukraine, in a televised address. he said, western sanctions against russia will backfire in

a very godly way. there are some countries who have lived down their portals. 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 against russia will be met by our leaders against them. nato chief yen stoughton berg says the alliance will bolster forces in eastern europe, but said again, that truce will not be deployed to ukraine. later, defense ministers have been holding talks in brussels. diplomatic editor james base is them. 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 de activated, our defense plans to shield the alliance increase or redness and the ploy tubes, oh, from both sides of the atlantic. there are now hundreds of 1000 so forces at heightened alert across the alarms. 100000 us troops in europe and around 40000 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 nato leaders here in brussels are still ahead don, i do see it as $7.00, magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of northern japan, leaving millions without power plus head of a key court decision in cambodia, the government is accused of using coven 19 rules to stifle dissent. ah, look forward to brighter skies the winter sponsored my cattle airways. hello there. it's all about the heat when it comes to south asia, in particular. for india, where we've got those heat warnings and alerts, continuing over the next few days for the north and western areas where temperatures have been an excess of 40 degrees celsius. and a lot of those hot and dry conditions will continue to push west into pakistan. we

seen above average temperatures in afghanistan in places like cobble as well. and of course, eastern areas of india and the south continuing to see hot and dry conditions. now if there is any rain, it's going to creep into western areas of india, places like carola, seeing a shower or 2. and of course, southern areas of shank is still seeing some of those heavier showers as we move towards friday, but a largely fine dry and hot picture. and as we move across to central asia, we've seen some excessive heat in beijing recently. well that is about to change, we've got a winter system pushing its way further east. that's gonna bring snow to beijing on thursday and friday we'll see the temperature dipped down. and of course is going to get very wet in shanghai, but it moves away rather quickly. a lot of that wet weather, edging into southern areas of japan and tokyo is likely to see that wet weather. by the time we get into saturday, the temperature sitting around the average for the weather sponsored by katara

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a theater where hundreds of people were sheltering. number of casualties is not yet known. earlier russia, rockets hit a convoy fleeing the city, injuring 5 people. u. s. and ukrainian thought to say russian forces have shopped at several civilians while they were killing for bread and chimney. international court of justice has ordered russia to immediately cease its military operations in ukraine. the president joe biden has announced the us, we'll give you $800000000.00 worth of military hardware and also cold. let me put in a war criminal. it comes off, the cranes president de ms. lansky made an impassioned plea to american politicians to do more to protect his country. i'm of the 3000000 ukrainians have left the country looking for safe havens elsewhere in the world. now, some have travelled as far away as the united states southern border with mexico,

john home and reports from tijuana, dasha her, mum, vera and dad are about to try and complete more than 10000 kilometer journey. this is what they fling from. i think they say these video show the hometown nikolai and ukraine now via move over and remain yet they've arrived at the met can bought a town of p one the hope to get across that line. and in the united states, i was, it's been for you, it was hard. we was sleeping in the car by 3 night, staying in the queue to leave ukraine. i mentioned to you the english speak. you haven't a lot of the logistics that she's 14. but all horrific can still be for nothing. they've been reports of ukrainian refugees being turned away. they have to decide what do they want much and then let in much,

we saw several of the ukrainian families, similarly, usher food. seems here. the blue passports become the ticket 3, by the way. and the red, one of russia is proving less effective. a smoke of dissidence from that country was stuck outside the gate asking for asylum to after opposing the war compensation . mike is also half ukrainian and he's frightened to being conscripted to fight against the country where he is family. 24. february might turn to a tech great, really. my brother. leave city. it's so good for me. for the russian, see, europe isn't an option. flights and countries are close to them, but not mexico, where they can get in by tourist visa then travel up to the one us. there are far more of them than ukrainians here. sleeping rough outside the entry point to try to

pressure officials to let them in. so for the only word has been white, the united states has a public health folder in place because of the pandemic, which says that it can reject just about anyone who is asking for asylum apart from unaccompanied children. and what that means in practice, at entry points like this one is that it can really pick and choose who it let's in . and it seems that at the moment that's ukrainians. yes. this is the russians like the ones in the camp, not so much on the mexicans and central americans that say they've been living in unofficial conflicts over the years now with next to no hope of getting into the u . s. we found this family of 17 watching as the ukrainians went in ahead of them. their green passports carry little white, the ground that told me they fled south with mexico after he was kidnapped and be out of the way the rest of the family friend. that was 2 months ago. you feel bad

because you can see that they give priority to another country. how am i going to feel that? but what can we do? that's going to be a constant question for the desperate in countries neighboring the united states. as a white and others go 1st, i think you cream but at least exhausted ukrainians like gotcha. and better a finding a safe haven. they called us from her gulf of his house in los angeles. was the wind in this moment for a long time. we were interested in it's like john holman al jazeera tiquana are 2 british iraq. all of these now 2 british iranians have arrived back in the u. k. after spending years in detention in iran lesson is a harley radcliffe, and anesha surely were convicted of plotting to overthrow iran's government, but always denied the allegations. a 3rd prisoner more turbos was released on

furlough to his house into iran. sonya gaga has more on what led to the gallery, ratcliffe's release, boarding a plane to take her home. nazarenes agari ratcliffe is now a free woman. for the past 6 years, she is endure detention at terrence ever in prison. a hunger strike house arrest and a brief release followed by a re arrest 3 days later. well now she can look forward to a future with her husband. mad campaign tirelessly for her release. and daughter gabrielle are up with so i mean, definitely having a lot my thought, i'm not quite believing. phil. phil floyd, i'm kind of in campaign mode, but we're gonna close on the way home with her and, and the whole family in iran or something like the whole family here been celebrated. it's been a long day. it's been a long time that we've been in the doorway for quite on their ordeal,

began in april 2016 when nazareth was attained 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 later sentenced 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 shock is 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 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. when i thought about this more now with the traitor parssi executive vice president at the quincy institute, he joins us via skype. now from rest in virginia. good to talk to you again. so obviously great news to see these 2 people back home and, and reunited with their families after so long. but why now? well, clearly this is linked to the nuclear negotiations. to hope, of course, had been they would not just be these 2, but also the additional $43.00 of them are 4 of them actually american citizens.

and that they would all be released in tandem with the j c. p. way. it is a bit surprising that the 2 british citizens have been released at this point, but hopefully it's just a preparatory stage for the others to be released as well as the nuclear deal is coming to some form of a conclusion. positive or negative. of the british foreign secretary who we heard from in that report list trust. she also said that the change in government, in iran last summer was it was a factor in getting this done and moving these talks forward. how does that, what do you make of that given that the, the, the recently elected president abraham racy is, is seen as a, a hard line up really difficult to know exactly what the secretary was indicating with that statement. what is very clear, however, is that the case that now is, i mean for certain that i'm more familiar with. she was never aspire. this was all

and we're deal because of the death that the u. k owed. and the completely immoral step taken by the running government of taking are essentially a hostage. so just looking at this more broadly, then he referred to the fact that this is, this is tied to, to the iran nuclear deal and, and wanting to get that revived. and, and with, with the, with the conflict in ukraine right now, how, how important it was it to get to get more improve relations with a wrong well, the nuclear deal stands on its own lakes in the sense that preventing even from having a way to a nuclear weapon has always been the essential and, and the neutral deal was working before trump pulled out of it. and we've seen that disaster that will happen if there isn't a renewal, but now you have additional factors. you have extremely high oil prices,

likely to go up even further, and you have the opportunity of bringing you already know back onto the market. that lease will reduce these high somewhat, and reduce the inflationary pressure that exist in the west and protection of the united states. so all of these factors are coming together and making it even more important than even more urgent to make sure that the steel is struck as soon as possible. it's already taken and 11 months to negotiated. i am of the view that actually could have been done much easier if the bible ministration had just sort executive order decided to go back into the agreement just as it did with the parish treaty and other treaties that it did go back into on day one. office, but nevertheless we are here now and in the next couple of days we will find out whether that will be a positive conclusion to this for now. and does all of this in your view gets a wrong closer to having sanctions against the lifted factors we certainly have to be lifted in order for there to be a new deal. that is one of the essential gives and takes between the 2 sides. the

question of course, is even with sanctions lists that will invest meant to be flowing to the wanted market. and this time around it does not appear as it will be, particularly strong investment. so precisely because of the fact that this steel is still, even if it's revive, will be hanging on a stretch because it's very much depends on who will become president united states in 2025. if it is a republic, and there is a significant risk that dr. presidents will walk out of an exit to steal, just as much as trumpet. good to talk to treat a party, joining a staff from rest in virginia. thanks for being with us. thank you, robert. i know jiri a gun men have killed 11 security personnel into attacks. the 1st initial states, montgomery district was a raid on a police station. in the 2nd, in the gussy area of neighboring can't be state 500 attackers. on motor bikes

invaded a factory. lisa was an attempt to adopt foreign workers. a magnitude 7.3 earthquake has struck off japan's eastern fukushima coast. the tremor knocked out power to 2000000 people. soon ami advisory was issued but has since been lifted . companies in working to decommission the fukushima nuclear plot, but says it's check the site and found no abnormalities. a covered 19 restrictions are on their way out in japan, all measures in the capital, tokyo and 17 of the pre factors are to be lifted in a week's time. prime minister, whom you heat us as the country will slowly start returning to normal as infection rates for a human rights watch has accused the cambodian government and using coven 19 rules . new online restrictions and national security legislation to stifle dissent. and

it comes as a corporate pairs to deliver its verdict. in a case involving opposition. activists accused a plotting to overthrow the ruling leadership. tony chang reports from prom claim dressed for a date with destiny sang terry arrives outside nonsense, municipal court. the human rights activist and lawyer is wearing the dress she wore to the opera with the number 9 inked on her arm date when cambodia is opposition, leader was due to return from exile and they said that the thing that i have in i submitted invites me those are the order, but the opposition leader sam ramsey never returned. instead, a 130 government critics were arrested and now faced 12 years in prison, had shaved ready for jail. she tells us she's not afraid. she survived cameras,

prison camp is a child and she sees disturbing similarities to day without exaggeration. can board . it currently is a prison without wall the same way that during the come irish years, cambodia was a prison. all of it was a prison without walls turn prime minister and sen served as a commander in the cameras, military leadership. in the 19 seventy's, he defected to vietnam. before that country invaded cambodia in 1979 overthrowing the commer rouge and installing a puppet government that hunt sent lead in 1985. he's been in power of a since, in what many fear is now a one party state. and it's not just the political opposition, her being shut down. the government's been increasingly strict on workers who are trying to protest their conditions, arresting a clothing them down with the security services. the demonstrations have attracted

international attention. but united nations observe as a, bustled out of the area by the police, behind the cover of a bus. the protest as a put on board and taken out of the area. they faced detention and fines for what the government says. a violations against coven 19 measures. a cries ignored. as journalists, a hustled out of the way. and the only major opposition leader who hasn't fled into exile is also under the threat of jail palmer. and normally every one knows what the cambodian court is like, my i do not need to comment, but it depends on the repressive atmosphere. if the political environment works well, i believe the court will make a good decision mit and as he head to court, also charged with treason that might be optimistic with his party band, his colleagues excelled, and hundreds of his supporters jailed defiance. looks like a lonely stand. toni chang al,

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