issued by our oil cleared for public opinion or profit. once you make people afraid, you can use that to justify stripping away basic civil liberties. the listening post examined the vested interest behind the content you consume on al jazeera. ah, russia's accused of bombing a theater in the ukrainian city of maria po, hundreds of people was sheltering in the building. ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. this is out as they are alive from daltons are coming up. people chewing for bread, a shot dead in chinese, even his hopes emerged by potential deal to end the war in ukraine. i've years a war ha. moscow responds with fury after president biden's accusation against russian leda vladimir, frontier, and home free na settings. garvey,

ratcliff returns to the u. k. often, any 6 years in an iranian jail. moscow has denied ukrainian claims that russian troops talk of that a theater where hundreds of people were sheltering. the word children had been written on the ground outside the building and maria po, before it was destroyed in an air strike, the number of casualties is not yet known. earlier russian rockets hit a convoy fling the city in, drink 5 people. well, despite reports of progress on the diplomatic front, russian forces have continued their attacks right across ukraine. zang buzz. robbie has the days developments from live in western ukraine. the 3 weeks of war, of shelly 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 believe when he was so friendly. he had a lot of friends and got on well everyone, if someone needed help, he never refused. and the only one in full capacity. foreign minister survey lab ross as russia is open to peace, but it seems will keep waging war to achieve it yourself. michelle, in our mission, aims to defend the people in don't bass region from the regime in key if you're at aims to demilitarized and do not 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, honest, civilly in convoy 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 the safety. but when the tora farm physical berlin, yesterday they captured the emergency hospital and took 400 people hostage, medics and mary poll the shooting from inside the hospital. it is a threat for movement of people 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 space today is a special and dangerous moment. 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 much legal squad, and it is important, it is difficult but important because any war ends in an agreement, meetings continue as i am told that positions in the negotiations and more realistic. however, there's still needs to be more time for decisions to be 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 ceasefire, it's not a matter of if, but when the fighting makes its way here. then basra b o. d 0 livia. well thousands that managed to get out of mary paul using a humanitarian corridor, but hundreds of thousands remain trapped without food or water. acid bay gets more from denise was 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 a city of 400000 is a strategic port city that lies between the russian back separatist region of don 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 car doors are opened up on monday and continue through to choose day. but this latest news that we're hearing now is that this theater was bombed. these are the kinds,

but the ukranian authorities are and around 10021200 people in it at the time. and as for these humanitarian code, 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 there that had escaped the 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, shelly, russian forces, i believe, to be closing in on the port city of odessa by land and sea taking ukraine's 3rd

largest city would effectively cut the rest of the country off from the black sea. but the city is prepared. hold upto hamid as mona, 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. oh, president vladimir zalinski has called an all ukrainians to join the war effort. and people like envy have lamb of who's an opera singer. have answered his call. it's ugly over 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 could have almost no success. they didn't want to help us right now. they promised weapons more act, have been bowman of the war fighter just getting them. now the u. s. is refusing

and by them hasn't delivered them. they're not closing the sky. they're not taking away rushes ability to palm our peaceful cities and annihilate women must children and be elderly, but they are not protecting the humanitarian corridors. from mario po, the city is frantically building its defenses. civic organizers said they have so far filled more than $400000.00 sandbags 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 service goes off day and night,

but this city hasn't been directly hid the sandbags made at the beach surround cultural and municipal buildings. and clearly part of tells me about the efforts to preserve this as cultural treasures. more of the when you move away from grip lamazzo, we're talking about saving the heritage, ukrainian european russian. it doesn't matter. we're saving art in the museum in hockey was bombed. sadly the collection that was mostly lost. 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 grains o, this has long been deprived of russia, was founded by catherine. degrade, the city has embraced it's 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, president biden's common that vladimir putin as a war criminal, had been called unacceptable, and unforgivable by the kremlin biden use the term just hours after the lot of mister lensky had addressed the u. s. congress, a white house correspondent, kimberly hawk. it has more from washington really after weeks of violent attacks by russia on ukrainian civilians. u. s. president joe biden, for the 1st time called russia vladimir putin. a label that until now, the white house has been hesitant to use. oh, i hear the word from you. the president initially avoided the term given its legal implications, and an official review of put into actions by the state department is still incomplete. biden's remarks followed a morning of high drama, beginning with an emotional video shared with the u. s congress by ukraine's

president vladimir zalinski. ah, it featured image is designed to evoke a response of what ukraine looks like just weeks ago before it was attacked by russia. it was part of the ukrainian president's virtual plea to u. s. law makers to do more to help his country resist russia's military invasion. remember, pearl harbor that terrible morning of december, the 7th. 1941. remember september, the 11th. reviving memories of when the united states was also under attack, zalinski again pressed congress for a no fly zone over his country to create a no fly zone. to save people. is this too much to ask aircraft that can help ukraine helped europe? and zalinski went further appealing to president joe biden directly, even though biden has already rejected previous requests. as the leader of my

nation, i'm addressing the president bother. you are the leader of the name. given me, i wish you, me the leader of the world. being the leader of the world means to be the leader office. what bullies a no fly zone could lead to a direct confrontation with russia add to possible nuclear war. he again resisted zaleski, please, instead announcing 800000000 in additional security assistance for ukraine. anti aircraft and anti armor systems, small arms and drones, more of what the u. s. has already been providing the united states and our allies and partners are fully committed to surgery, weapons of assistance to the ukraine and moral becoming as we source additional

stocks of equipment that are all that were ready to transfer. but the new aid package stopped short of the mig fighter jets and the no fly zones. the lensky wants putting the white house and some congressional leaders in conflict. while i oppose a nato, no fly zone as support enthusiastically the sending of mig aircraft from poland to the ukrainian air force so that can be more competitive in the skies. well, president biden has rejected the idea of a no fly zone for now. it is still under consideration and will undoubtedly be a topic of discussion when the u. s. president has to brussels next week for a special meeting of nato leaders. kimberly help get al jazeera, the white house. mean, our president, putin says he's ready to talk about ukraine's neutrality. he said russia cans to meet his objectives in ukraine. he added that western sanctions against moscow will

backfire in a very cowardly way. there are some cultures who have lived down there parcels, 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, i guess russia will be met by our late orders against them last not. so to come here in our desire including we meet some of those looking for safe haven, the half a world away from the front lines in ukraine. and cambodia as government is accused of using coded 19 rules to stifle dissent. marla status ah hello there. we'll have a look at africa in a moment, but 1st to the middle east, and after a hot start to the week, it is cooling down for some of the gulf states. thanks to

a band of cloud. it's pushing its way south, as well as a shamal wind that's bringing those cooler conditions to places like guitar, as well as the u. a and saudi arabia. and we are in for some chilly nights to come . if we have a look at the 3 day full re add, look at that for degrees low coming in there. by the time we get to saturday, however, it does recover. we will see that sunshine dominating once again. now across the levant, we are seeing wet and windy weather pull east temperatures here, sitting below the average, and that's reflected as well in cross northern parts of africa. we've got an area of low pressure bringing wet and windy weather to morocco and algeria some heavier fools expected here on friday. and of course, that wind blowing up this, the horrid dust plume across into europe or rather dusty and hot. but for the south of this, it is a wet picture. it's dryer and western areas of southern africa, but it is very wet in the east heavy falls once again for mozambique as well as central areas of botswana. but further south we go,

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oh. well, come back, i picked him out about top stories here at this hour. a rush, an air strike on the southern ukrainian city of motto, has destroyed a theatre with hundreds of people. with sheltering, the number of casualties is not yet known. earlier russian rockets hit a convoy through the city, injuring 5 people. the u. s. embassy and keeps as rushman forces of shot dead, several ukrainians, while about queuing for bread and chinese international court of justice as old and russia needed to cease its military operations in ukraine. and president biden's comment that fatima putin, as a war criminal, has been called acceptable and unforgivable by the criminal bite. and also announced the u. s. give ukraine $800000000.00 worth of military hardware. not to follow that address to the u. s. congress by a lot of me as a landscape not more than 3000000 ukrainians have left the country looking for safe havens elsewhere in the world. some of traveled as far away as the united states

southern border with mexico, john home and reports from to wanna dasha her mother, 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 their hometown, nikolai and ukraine now via moved over and remain here. 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 small kind 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 than 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 wait, 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 weight on 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 hip, the interesting and it's like john holman, al jazeera tiquana, 2 british iranians of arrived back in the u. k. after spending years in detention and iran now's name is gary radcliff and new sherry were both convicted of plotting to overthrow iran's government. but always denied the allegations a 3rd prisoner moran tobias, has been released on furlough to his house in terror on lore burton money report.

this is nazarenes ari right class. from spending years in an iranian prison, she is now free and home with her family. she to ride with the aria, brice norton, an oxford chair, and the early hours of the morning. britton's foreign secretary was there to greet her. well, 1st of all, it's fantastic to see a new se anatomy and come off the plane safely back in britain for the 1st time in years. and that is truly fantastic for everybody, for 6 years, nothing had enjoy detention at to hands. evan prison, a hunger strike house rest, and a brief release followed by re arrest. 3 days later, her husband richard had campaigned tirelessly for her relief for a long journey. it's been a long journey that we've been in the doorway forgotten. that ordeal began in april 2016 when nothing was detained at to her an airport. while traveling back to london,

she was arrested on charges of spying, which she always denied. after 4 years in prison, 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 leading iran and knew, she assured lee, a retired civil engineer. his family also called for his urgent release after he was arrested the spying in 2017, a charge he denied against this. there was a question of a $530000000.00 debt. the u. k. owed for not completing a deal involving the sale of tanks and military equipment to that then ruler, the shove, burton's phone secretary acknowledged the government has paid the debt without contravene. the sanctions imposed by western countries. good to now reunited nathanael and her family will look forward to a future together. laura about manly al jazeera. now i cambodian caught

a sentence 7 leaders of a now dissolved opposition party to 10 years in jail for plotting to overthrow the government. the sentences are the 1st in a series of trials of opposition figures. human rights watches accused the ruling party of stifling dissent. fellow chang report from pen on pen. dressed for a date with destiny sang terry arrives outside non pens, 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, i'm in limited in flight those on order, but the opposition leader sam ramsey never returned. instead, a 130 government critics were arrested and now face 12 years in prison,

had shaved ready for jail. she tells us she's not afraid. she survived to come errors, 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 cairo's years, cambodia was a prison. all of it was a prison without walls turn prime minister and sin served as a commander in the cameras, military leadership in the 1970s. he defected to vietnam. before that country invaded cambodia in 1979 overthrowing the compare rouge and installing a puppet government that hunt send 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 is 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 early 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. 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. and as he hates to court, also charged with treason that might be optimistic with his party band,

his colleagues exiled and hundreds of his supporters jailed defiance. looks like a lonely snake. toni chang al 0 non pin or france. larry has been following that trial in the cambodian capital and joins us live now from calling them for florence . so just talk us through the courts. verdict and what this means for the activists . so in this further on thursday morning, a court found 7 senior party members of the c n. r p, the can bodie a national rescue party at one time the main opposition party in cambodia, guilty of incitement and conspiracy, and sentence them to 10 years in prison. now, all 7 of them are already living abroad and exile, and the judge has issued arrest warrants for them. and the remaining 14 party members of so's or their associates were given shorter suspended sentences. and this conviction is the 2nd conviction in for mass charles against people linked to the c n r p. and earlier conviction had seen 9 senior party members sentence to

more than 20 years in prison for trying to, for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government. now the trials have been criticized as politically motivated, human rights watch, described it as a which one and attacked on political opponents. then the c and r p was cambodian main opposition party and it was expected to be a strong contender in a general general election in 2018. but the year before that in 2017 can bodie supreme court ordered it to be dissolved for after choosing a fostering descent with the help of foreign countries. and it also issued a 5 year ban from politics on more than $100.00 opposition politicians. and that position effectively helped. who sends party, the prime minister, who intends party make a clean sweep at, at parliamentary polls in 2018. and proteins amnesty international basically call this trial a sham. so what does this not mean for anyone who voice is political,

dissenting, cambodia? so well, anyone who voices, political dissent in cambodia really has to be prepared to face prosecution persecution. even we've seen that space for dissenting voices shrink steadily over the last few years. and it's not just political dissent. environmentalists civil rights activists are also being targeted for highlighting issues for voicing views that are critical of the government or government policies. and considering local elections are to be held later this year and a general election due to be held next year. there's very little optimism that this is going to change. who anson has already ruled the country for 37 years and he's made no secret of the fact that he had like his son to succeed him as prime minister of cambodia. and cambodia is effectively noun a one party state, and one that's becoming increasingly intolerant of criticism. florence larry life

was there in calling about florence. thank you. now the supreme court of honduras is approved. the expedition of former president, one orlando, numbers to the united states. hernandez was arrested in mid february on drug trafficking charges. and her 3 days to appeal the judge's decision. the 53 year old lady honduras for 8 years. ah. type a quick check of the headlines here on our desert is one person has been killed in a russian missile attack in the ukrainian capital cave. emergency services say around 30 people are evacuated from the burning residential building. and a russian strike on the southern ukrainian city of maria bowl has destroyed a theater, where hundreds of people were sheltering. the number of casualties is not yet known . earlier russia rockets at a convoy fling the city enjoying 5 people.