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a war ha. shop is criticism so far of the russian president vladimir putin. it's come from president joe biden remarks. the kremlin describes is unforgivable. and after almost 6 years of detention in iran, the british charity work announce needs to gary ratcliffe has returned home. and i am, we are harden with sports. rafael and the dolls. perfect year continues. as he's won his 18th, straight match to move through to the quarter finals at indian wells. however, on the sound of explosions have again been heard in ukraine's capital. this thursday morning, at least one person killed off to part of a missile, which shot down and hit an apartment block. russian bombing in the early hours is becoming a regular occurrence in keith. moscow kept up it's bombardment of ukraine cities,

even as the talks between the 2 sides progress. and then there's mary paul, where russia has denied targeting a theater in the besieged city and southeast in ukraine. officials say hundreds of people were sheltering in that building before it was destroyed. in an air strike, the number of casualties is not yet known. here is the tame keeping across developments at this hour. what a deal had made in odessa zane bas robbie in the vase. there's bernard smith in moscow. but let's go to him. run, come on the ground in case one of you just tell us about what's happening behind you. well just before 5 i am in the morning, an air raid siren went off and the residence of this area left the rooms in their apartments and went into the lobby. and then a cruise missile was shot down overhead. this is where it landed, the damage is spread across

a very wide area. this building here you can see the damage the entire from the other building. there's another. busy building about 500 killer, i'm 500 meters over there and then another one over here. now the way these estates were designed in the sixties and seventies come, all is they were very much designed around a community. so you have these apartment blocks and then you have a children's play area. you had a kindergarten, you had a school. so once again, got really frightened residents who heard the air raid siren and absolutely panic. key residents are not getting used to this. you don't get used to this, but they are much more aware of attacks and missiles being intercepted over their head. the nearest frontline to here is a bovary now in the last hour or so there's been a very strong wind. naturally, that wind is carried, the noise of the shelling of the bullets being fired as good lot of residents actually spooked the clean up operations are now taking place. we just,

we were here, but 4 minutes ago when people were checking out the damage, they caused me take a look. all of these smashed cars around here as well. now we're hearing that one person was killed. her 4 people were injured and 65 people have been evacuated. now keith is actually 50 percent evacuated at the moment, but the more these attacks happen, no more. these incidents take place the more residents are leaving, or in fact we're hearing that a lot more residents are have left in the last couple of days. we've been covering these attacks now or every day for last 4 or 5 days, or missiles landing artillery shells. landing missiles being intercepted overhead is all just adding, come all to the nervousness. people are feeling in their own homes on the spot reporting with him or, and can in cave. great stuff, him and thank you. he chris present law may zalinski has been given a standing ovation from germany's parliament after it urged chance all of shots to

do more to bring an end to russia's invasion. and also warned european countries came more about their economies than the lives of regular ukrainians. his address to the bone to start him a day after his speech, of course, to the u. s. congress lancaster. she does not moodle, we are fighting for our lives and for our freedom, it is not the berlin wall. it is the wall between having freedom and not having freedom in europe with every bomb and every decision not made that could have helped us. this wall is getting bigger. we asked about what ukraine can do to join nato and getting security guarantees. and the answer we received is that it isn't on the table for now. you question whether ukraine should join the you not? yes. for some, this is politics. but for us it is souls for the new. why is that adding more on this with zane bus or avi, he's in levine, west and ukraine today. hi zane. ah, he's always so passionate with his speeches. laudermill zalinski as you would expect, but there is always a very direct request dom, i'm not, maybe not a demand,

but really speaks direct shirtsleeves and said you have to help us now that's exactly right. come all really in the beginning days when he was making these appeals via video conference to allies in the western world to leaders of different countries. it was much more of a plea for help. but that fear has translated into anger now, and he is putting of a far more robust defensive his country in making far more direct demands of western allies. now i want to get to the subtle differences between his address to congress in the united states versus his address, the german law makers. but before we get to that, a little update about the drama theater and mario, paul, what we're hearing from cranium officials on social media is that the, the, the shelter, the bunker underneath, underneath the theater was not damaged. we are hearing reports of survivals. now a survivors now of course, mario poll is completely shut off, so it's difficult to get information out of there,

but we'll stay across that story and bring you updates as we go. but that it may be a glimmer of hope for people that were in that shelter at the time of the bombing will come back to with more information on that. going back to zalinski speaking to german lawmakers when he spoke to the americans, it was a much more positive town. the united states has gone through a lot to help so far in this fight, of course not committing direct what soldiers, but a great deal of age, humanitarian and military. when he spoke to the germans, he struck a much more, a far less passive tone. if you will be making it clear to the german lawmakers that they held back sanctions from far too long, they did not quickly enough. no one of the biggest purchasers of russian energy is germany. they didn't hold back on that. they didn't commit themselves to sanction soon. enough to stop the war is what zelinski was main, cleared them, and he said that as leaders in europe as leaders in the european union as a senior members within nato. ready it is up to them to do more now to help them to combat russian aggression in this ongoing conflict in his country. he was far less friendly again saying that sanctions were too late, a little too short to stop the war from happening. but now that it is happening,

he said that they have to stop simply committing themselves to rhetoric of never again because this is happening again in europe. in his speech, he sort of drew on the violent history in this region in the past, drew on atrocities committed in europe in the past, and said that while leaders say never again, this is happening again. it's happening in his country now. and it is up to germany as a sort of a senior member of the u alliance of the nato alliance. the step in and do more to help stop the war. thank you. same bus ravi reporting from the vive. today on the news are, let's move to odessa. his hotel bill ha, made in the city harder that weights and weights and by the looks of the sandbags behind you prepares yeah, absolutely. this city is preparing and continues to prepare. we're actually here in the city center, an area that would be bustling or with cafes and restaurants and tourists from all

over the world, including a large number of russian tourists who actually love this city. where like as you can see behind me these as sand, everything is sandbags, especially the historical monuments of the city because they're very, they're basically under sea front and the biggest fear coming to the city. one of the biggest fear would be from the sea and everybody here monitors the movements of russian warships they have been seen on satellite imagery approaching to coast, then retreating. but this quite a big fleet, including landing ships that could come down the beach is further down. and then this really, the historical center would be the 1st thing they could head. so people here are taking that very seriously. we've been around a city and this is our report. oh, the russian invasion is yet to reach her desk. here is a feeling that is just

a matter of time and not much longer to wait. oh, visit invalid the mirror, 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 r 410, maybe 20. if 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 have almost no success. i didn't want to help us right now. they promised weapon much more active involvement of the war fighter just studying them . now the u. s. is refusing by them hasn't delivered enough. they're not closing the sky. they're not taking away rushes ability to form a peaceful cities, and annihilate women must children and be elderly enough, but they are not protecting the humanitarian corridors for murray of the city is

frantically building its defenses. civic organizers say they have so far filled more than 400000 sandbags are best as under threat from several fronts. the russian army is trying to advance from the south while russian warships 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 off, day and night, and this city hasn't been directly hit. the sandbags made at the beach surround cultural and municipal buildings. and kelly, pat doff, tells me about the efforts to preserve the dentist, cultural treasures. more of the 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 with the museum in hockey was bombed. sadly, the collection there was mostly lost the power 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. 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. i'm his former protectors . well, certainly when you go around the city, you do see that this ukrainian identity emerging wherever you go. there are ukrainian flags,

and people do tell you that actually it has cemented that identity among a city that was looking towards russia for very long time now. it for, for russia, this would be a strategic city to capture. it would give it control over the black sea. it would land loc, the ukraine, and it route from here you have us train road that goes straight to the south of give it is a very strategic point, really point city to get. but on the other hand, or this is also very important, because from here, most of the grain exports a leave at the country and those green exports go to a 3rd world countries go to the middle east, go to africa and go to china. so a lot of people here will tell you that, that probably it would be one of the reasons why this port city a would have been saved so far. so it is strategic for russia,

but it's also very important city to keep and back, especially the port because of his import is when it comes to global food supplies . thank you. what are bill hamid reporting from odessa? let's look at what's happening in russia speaking a little bit early. the foreign ministry spokeswoman was outlining moscow's conditions for declaring a cease fire. the minute it is that our purpose is quite clear. he will have to realize they have to agree to carry out demilitarization and the nationalization the sooner the key regime realizes this, the sooner the war will. and we call on president zalinski to think about the life of the country and its citizens and make the necessary decisions. of course, russia's economy is also been struggling after western countries imposed harsh sanctions. bernard smith in moscow to tell us about less developments a or an interest re payment on sovereign debt. bernard doesn't sound what, what you'd be talking about during a war situation. but one of the repercussions here will concern

was kemal, that with all the pressure on rushes economy from sanctions with russia cut off from many banking avenues, it wouldn't repay debts, interest jew on debts. it, sir, that would be a default. a sovereign default for the 1st time since the bullshit bolshevik revolution in 1970. today, there were 2 payments, ju and rushes, made them. there were a $117000000.00, which in the grand scheme of things, it is a miniscule amount of money. but it was a symbolism more than anything as to whether russia would pay them or whether it would decide to pay them. it was really whether russia thought it was in its interest to pay back. this interest is decided it is. there's a lot more money jew about 615000000000 in interest. payments to throughout the rest of march, russia has $67640000000000.00 in cash reserves. it says he's only got access to about half of the,

about $300000000000.00. so it's obviously been tipping it, dipping into that to pay back these interest rates and decided that it needs to pay those interest rates back to protect defense essentially is reputation in the future as whether it's a reliable place to loan money to. okay, bernard smith with the economic angle, they're from moscow. thank you, bernard. we are almost 60 minutes past this news on his what's coming up. western countries rushing to supply weapons to ukraine. question is, we'll be talking to an expert about this. is it enough to hold off the russian army and in sport, one of the fiercest rivalries all set to resume at the start of the new formula one season lia will be along a little later. ah, what british military intelligence says, russia's invasion of ukraine has stalled across the country. the resistance faced by invading forces have been staunch and well coordinated. according to this

intelligence report, let's get more with notting barber in london. what else is the ministry of defense saying? will come out this intelligence update from the ministry of defense reeds. as he was saying, the russian invasion of ukraine has largely stored on all fronts. russian forces have made minimal progress on land, sea, or air in recent days, and they continue to suffer heavy losses. ukrainian resistance remain staunch and well coordinated and it goes on to point out that most of the country remains in the hands of the ukrainian government. what on wednesday night, there was an intelligence update saying that because of those perceived russian failures so far to achieve military goals. it's likely russia was resorting to the use of older let's precise weapons which are less, militarily effective and more likely to result in civilian casualties. that was a direct quote. i think that does bear out what we see on the ground in terms of

those strikes on apartment blocks and so on. which of so horrified the world and it's clear that many convoys of tanks have become bogged down and weaponry supplied by the west has proved to be a major, stalling block for the russian advance. and on wednesday, britton's defense minister ben wallace said the country was now going to supply ukraine with something called stock street anti aircraft misdialed. previously, when you, britain had supplied short range and he tank weaponry which has been taking out some of those columns. but at the same time, when you look at what's happening in ukraine, the flip side of its failure of the russian initial aims means that for example, they are resorting to as strike small. those devastating a strike such as on a theater that we saw on wednesday. so it's coating severe chaos

and a lot of distress as well as, for example, tactics like besieging places like mario pool. the civilian population are basically being held hostage. so in terms of m, where this leads us to, it's hard to say the defense ministry and not making predictions about how long the conflict will last. they're simply stating that they think the term via the russian and game plan has not going how moscow wanted it to. that's nadine barber in london . thank you, notting. let's build on this. now countries have been delivering arms and other supplies to ukraine oversee to boost its ability to hold off the military. when i give you a little more detail, the u. s. by far, the largest supplier of 8, washington spent almost a decade, in fact, helping to trend ukraine's military and also set aside more than $3000000000.00 for weapons in its latest a package. the u. k is sent billions of dollars and equipment. and nadine was saying recently agreed to supply those sophisticated staff streak anti air systems

. several countries who refused to supply lethal aid before the war now changed their minds, notably, germany, reversing its decades old policy on shipping weapons and even online countries like sweden and finland of ditch. they quarters stance on rushers. all this ending assault rifles in anti tank weapons, gonna talk to frank edwards about the senior lecturer in military capabilities and strategy at the university of portsmouth with us from oxford today in the u. k. thank you for your time mr. led, which we keep talking about supplies and we hear monetary amounts and it all sounds impressive. i'm trying to get my head around the logistics of this. how do you get weapons or whether it be an assault rifle or an anti tank missile or whatever. how do you get that to the ukrainians in the middle of the war? all nato countries have several bought appoints for 3 or 4 that i can think of 3 or 4 countries. and they'll simply put them almost trucks. i plenty,

yes. keep going. i think you're a signal just froze for a sec, but keep going. oh, yes. oh, they will be coming across on trucks across several nato countries. borders. it's quite simple that they, the operators will be doing their very best to try and keep this covert. and as far as i know, up to now they've succeeded in doing so come up, okay. when you look at what has been supplied to ukraine and promised ukraine by various countries. how does it stack up? compared with what president zalinski has been asking for. let's take the no fly zone out of it, because i don't think that's ever going to happen. the u. s. has made that very clear and nature has as well. but everything else that president lensky has been asking for. how is this stacking up. busy on the one capability that hasn't yet been supplied, and i suspect is being asked for now and will be supplied our medium range antiaircraft missiles. now that will have far more effect if it's delivered. then

note the 15 or 20 may 29th of the subject of debate last week. and i would suspect that the countries supply knows will be bought gary romania, finland. these will be ex soviet missiles, so that ukrainian forces won't need to spend a long term training on, on a more, more modern, but perhaps slightly more effective devices. those medium, rage massage will increase ukrainian capability significantly, allowing them to threaten rushing their power for more effectively. meet him, right, which is about 15000 feet or so. on the flip side, what's your take on the, where the russian military is performing? it's, i mean that the british ministry of defense you might have just heard was saying that they believed, basically it things have stalled. is this surprising for an army of the size and strength of russia? ball, i think that what's happened here is that the russian attackers in military turns culminated its speeds made so essentially that they've gone as far as i can with

the logistics and i an ordinance if say weaponry, they have that they brought into the country. i think that that doesn't necessarily mean its stores. what we're seeing now is what's called an operational pause as they start to get and colloquial terms that act together which they have not had largely due to very. ready quote, planning assumptions in the early part of the campaign, so that the working frantically to try and get weapons or to try and get a planning sorted out until when to understand where is the going next. and of course, ukrainians have a say in light, which is why we're starting to see counter attacks by ukrainian armed forces that seem to be having some effect. frank led, which are, is with the university of portsmouth talking military strategy with us. thank you so much, frank. appreciate it. my pleasure. now you, as president joe biden has announcement extra $100000000.00 in defense assistance for ukraine, but washington was ruled out ukraine's repeated plea for that direct intervention

which at once the no fly zone over the country. and there was anger from the kremlin, which is called jo biden's comments living vladimir putin to walk criminal is unacceptable. an unforgivable more in this report from a white house correspondent kimberly hawkis after weeks of violent attacks by russia on ukrainian civilians. u. s. president joe biden, for the 1st time called roches vladimir putin. a label that until now, the white house has been hesitant to use. oh, here's a war from you being 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 images designed to evoke

a response of what ukraine looked 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, the lisky 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 niece,

i'm addressing the bread by them. you are the leader of the nation. i will be the leader of the all being the leader of all means to be the leader of is a no fly zone, could lead to a direct confrontation with russia and the 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 sergio weapons of assistance to the ukrainians and moral becoming as resource. 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. alecky wants putting the white house and some congressional leaders in conflict. while i oppose a nato no fly zone, i support enthusiastically, the sending of mig aircraft from poland to the ukranian 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 hit al jazeera, the white house, except for matthew craig. now he's that at georgetown university. his president biden was right to call. let him, i put in a war criminal, ratcheting up of the rhetoric. but i think given international law what the

russians are doing and ukraine, these are work crimes, they're intentionally targeting innocent civilian international law calls for military that we're only target legitimate military target. so i think by 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 with 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 workers. a global picture of this war and ukraine is coming up on the news on searching for a safe haven. we'll see how mexico is a stepping stone ukrainians, hoping to escape the war. and also how the was affecting food prices in lebanon and

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ah, here on the news all here al jazeera and these are the top stores. ukraine's president low to mid zalinski has been given a standing ovation from germany's parliament. an address for the one to start he urged chance allah schultz to do more to bring an end to russia's invasion. least one person's been killed off to part of an intercepted missile. hidden apartment block and ukraine's capital keith moscow's kept up its bombardment of ukraine's cities even as talks between the 2 sides show signs of progress. and russia is denied destroying a theatre in the besieged city. of mary paul where ukraine says hundreds of people at were sheltering casualty novice from that alleged a strike are not known at this stage. that's returned to odessa honish lest with us director of security programs at ukrainian prism a think tank. and we come to you hannah,

quite often to get an update on what's been happening in odessa. we heard from our correspond, adelia, i'd like to know just from you 1st of all, about the preparations and, and i, you even perhaps a little surprised that the russians haven't arrived yet already. no, we're not surprised. the question is of the a strategic position and location where they are now, they are not able to tackle just from the bigger the t v to the minds of the navy. there would be not the walking for them. the call was the landing ship as well. now there are several sheets and the anchorage of st. just you know, the trees were what they need the land work and to get the land support they need to control the whole territory from craig via to oh, that's what that's ultimately 400 kilometers and asked when i was, you can see nikolai of that sound to death, sending the son thing because we are selling here defending not on the mic alive as

well, but also from the north. luckily you go from keep till death, a control of the crane and armed forces. so as when i was washington need to be, are conducting several try for day, not only a gun that they sell, but again, just the region predominantly on the south. the trying to distract attention call while we're the new real attacks were sold again. kill our view is if you wouldn't mind explaining to them why it's so important. if odessa becomes a target, but big picture for russia and what it can do to actually take territory or claim territory in ukraine, there are 2 very important issues, balls of that person. one of the cation i've a few work on that is the biggest key word off ukraine, considering the 60 percent of our expert boy in cost to see 90 percent gray. that's 41 byte. so you can imagine what that means to control the cranium port in this way

. we have becoming cost or from law where the significant part of our economic capacities, but also in general, just the control over war from the russian federation of all the blacks, the oxygen mystery, another separate region of the cancer controlled by russian. but also, oh, that's a very what i'm sorry for the motional russian iteration because it being the 3rd biggest solid in the russian empire. who did it all the time, talking about the attraction of gifts, russia speakers or a russian history. so definitely he's passing a recipe surrounds, there will be the glory of the safety of the russian world that is returning to russia. nevertheless, being always nice because of never being a russian cd and multicultural feeding with a big community from different nation. great thing from french greece,

jewish though, gary unto valley and some craniums rush. and so that is really almost 100 nationality that created the house. but these russian inquiry he's 3, that's what you can hear very often in the president, june statement about the kind of lesson. thank you. i'll leave you there just for now because we need to go to berlin. german chancellor, shelter speaking. he's alongside the nato secretary general young stoughton is. this is the result of my discussion. all 3 has already come to many sessions in order to defense license and but our allies, we are all in there for each other. germany is contributing. having that push lawson choose, it's best we are ready to do everything necessary yesterday for dinner. karen and her defense,

guess me have her came to have her that position to defend the alliance. not only the current budget for this year and for the future has been decided, but also the special budget for the german bond is that the armed forces to contribute for the nato at 3 a $100000000000.00 investment into they've gone thunder stock, which is 80 percent of the economic ag support, which shows as strong dom deborah will power to react to the crisis. of course, we will negotiate how to become stronger as natal williamson in this was discussed yesterday. dear yes sir. thank you for your lord chance also . sol hula 1st,

sir. great to be back in berlin and thank you for your warm or welcome. i want to thank you for your leadership and your strong a commitment to, to our alliance. it is important that we consult today or just to week before our extraordinary natal summit in brussels. germany is at the heart over europe. are not the heart ro, transatlantic alliance. your leadership, her is even more important now at this defining moment for you to p in security. present hooton's war against ukraine has saturday, peace and shocked the world. we pay tribute to the brave ukrainian people on their armed forces. their courage and determination are on inspiration to us all. we continue to help them uphold their right to self defense and

shined in the un shorter. i command a germany for providing ukraine with many different types of support, military, financial, on humanitarian. and you have all ready welcomed more than a 120000 refugees to your country. demonstrated thing, gymnast, and generosity, and solidarity. nato has a responsibility to prevent this conflict from escalating further. that would be even more dangerous. i would coals more suffering, death on destruction. this is preston toot his war. he must stop the war with joys forces and engage in the boat in diplomacy in good faith. i welcome your personal efforts. a chances holds up to find a diplomatic solution,

including your direct contacts with president putin. he's paying a high price. severe sanctions are harming, is war machine. and i thank germinate for an important role you're playing in enforcing international sanctions. german is also stepping up to help protect them . defend old, the ne, dallas, with more troops in the to a now fight the jets in romania and ships on patrol. this is part or natal. swift decisive and united response to this fundamentally changed a security environment with 100 saw thousands of allied forces on high alert. and they're on 40000 troops on the direct natal command back, but major air and naval power. yesterday, the fence ministers started considering what we must do to re enforce our defense

and deterrence for the longer term. this would require major increases to defense investments, and germany is leading their way. let the commander for your political courage and determination to commit to investing more than to present or g d p in the fans starting this year. also strongly welcome your government's decision to invest in 5th generation aircraft. this is a storage turning point for you to p and security. and we cannot take peace and security for granted. europe and north america must continue to stand together in nato to protect our peace, our freedom, and our values. so shall shoals that will off. thank once again. i look forward to discussions. ah, no questions, sir. seems to be

a preamble before their discussion and maybe we'll hear more what comes out of it. but yen stella book, full, appraised for germany in the way his responded to what he calls vladimir putin is war. talking about the aid which share germany has provided. and remember, it was a major change for germany to be providing actual military support, alongside humanitarian. okay. more than 3000000 ukrainians as we now have left their country. they're looking for safe havens elsewhere in the world. some have traveled as far away as the united states southern border with mexico. john holman, has our report 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. they say these video show the hometown, nikolai and ukraine. now via moved over and remain yes. they've arrived at the met can bought a town of p one, the hope to get across the 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 because 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 her effort can still be for nothing. they've been reports of ukrainian refugees being turned away. they have to decide what they would be much and then let in. we saw several of the ukrainian families, similarly usher food and it 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 of being conscripted to fight against a country where he is family. 24 february might come to

a tech great, really. my brother, leave city. it's for me. for the russians in 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 sofa. 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 weight on the ground that told me they fled southwest 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 they wait and others go 1st think you cream, but at least exhausted ukrainians like gotcha. and better a finding a safe haven. they called us from her father's house in los angeles, was the way,

didn't this moment for a long time. we were hip the, everything, and it's like john holman, al jazeera tiquana. there's a bit of other world news now to british iranians have arrived back in the u. k. off to spending years in detention in iran as an in the gallery. ratcliffe and inertia shooter were convicted of plotting to overthrow iran government, but always deny those allegations. this report some lower burden. manley 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 at the ari of brice norton, an oxford chair in the early hours of the morning. britain's foreign secretary was there to greet her. well, 1st of all, it's fantastic to see a new se natalie and come off the plane safely back in britain for the 1st time in years. and i is truly fantastic for everybody. for 6 years,

nothing had enjoy detention at the 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 release the following day. it's been a long time ago. we've been in the doorway, forgotten that ordeal began in april 2016 when nanny 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 they to sentence to a further year and detention with a travel ban? also on the plane leading iran a new 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 the then ruler. the shove, burton's phone secretary acknowledged the government has paid the debt without contravene the sanctions imposed by western countries and good to now re united nazareth and her family will look forward to a future together. laura about manly al jazeera and to nigeria, which is planning to spend tens of millions of dollars to modernize its railway network and overhauled it could give remote parts of the country a massive economic boost. as i did just reports from lagos, containers set on narrow gauge rail trucks awaiting delivery to lagos, ports boy export. a few years ago, they would have to make the journey by road, but a multi $1000000000.00 investment to revive the countries rail system is beginning

to pay off. thanks to billions of dollars in loans from china. thousands of kilometers of royal networks have been revamped and put to use opening up opportunities for businesses and boosting the economy grid that jacey won't cooperate freight services. so income grow steadily along, which huge growth potentials we have multiple scratched the system. we have a local cut it in passing the services i would love to carry imports even exports . movements of raw materials within the country is so huge when you put a load on the train, just gossley to deliver volumes on time civ, lives in and employment benefits at this train station in lagos. these passengers who commute daily from he bought off for work and

trading, catch the last train all just a year ago, there have to spend 5 hours and drove to get home. now they do that in 2 officious . now looking beyond passing the services, they've launched an ambitious program to link up with my generous neighbors and see ports to post trade we have developed or what to call for it. the as in, i'm back with her and her brother. so that's with a harvey. the toner on how, where 2 people can go on figure continent this. he says we'll deliver freight in time and ease pressure on nigeria roads. but the plan requires a lot of money and the government doesn't have enough. it's estimated that $80.00 to $100000000000.00 is required to fix nigeria, re network, which has been neglected for decades as a result. trucks are the main means of moving heavy loads across the country. and that has taken a heavy toll on the roads which need hundreds of millions of dollars of repairs.

every year. the decline of nigerian rail system followed decades of neglect. much of the tracks were late before the country's independence. in 1960 says then there was no major investment in the sector, expert se, reviving the sector was per growth in manufacturing and create jobs. but there are concerns about whether the government which currently owns and operate the railways is capable of sustaining it. i'm a decrease al jazeera lagos, nigeria. it's a busy all day, but we've always got time for sport links. come all yellow service. some tennis in the star of that raw found the doll he's been able to hang on to his perfect season so far. he's end of the quarter finals at indian wells thinks to his 18th, straight when of the year. the 21 time grand slam champion had to work hard against american riley palka. natal was pushed to a tie break in both sets in california. the spaniard hasn't lost a singles match since august of last year. the world number 4 will now face

australia's nick curios in the last 8 when, when he's playing well and where he is inside of them will the way that the this one of the toughest opponent, without a doubt no. so tomorrow, want to be a, a thought much what we are and what the final small thing. well, snow must have 1000 the weekend. that's bank to another thing. and i, i have to speak the very tough opponent, info non tomorrow want to be and they hope to be ready for 49. it's carlos al could, as has produced, another breakthrough when the 18 year old spaniard beat gal mold feast in straight sets. he's become the youngest quarter finalists at the tournament since then. 17 year old michael chang in 1989. he'll take on defending champion cameron nori 1st spot in the semis in the women's draw number 3, see the egos to be on deck wasted little time on her way to the semi finals. the

2020 french open champion beat american madison keys in straight sets in just under an hour shall now face simona hollis for a place in chelsea may have to play the home leg of their champions, league quarter final. in an empty stadium, the london side are through to the last 8 following a for one aggregate victory over french team live. the teams russian owner has been sanctioned by the u. k. government over russia's invasion and ukraine to keep him from making more money from the club. chelsea are no longer allowed to sell tickets for any future home champions, league games this season. often, almost thanks for ruining my evening. at the moment unless you get new. i know that's the case. how much was set monkeys were well gary and we've just come up. i was in such a good mood, so yeah, this the only speak about it when it's confirmed. yeah. it is kind of fun. so let's

read for the confirmation of the confirmation. villareal have also progressed the spanish side scored 3 late goals in italy to knock out event s. villareal advancing for one on aggregate to draw for the quarter finals takes place on friday. liverpool have moved within a point of manchester city at the top of the english premier league on wednesday they be arsenal to knelt to liverpool, opened the scoring through portuguese forward. jo joetta, an 8 minutes later they doubled their lead. thanks sarah. bertha, for amino liverpool. are set to play man city on april 10th. i don't think a lot about city. that's the truth. i know that the only chance we have is to win an incredible amount of football games because our opponents win incredible amount of football game. there's no chance to, to, to, to drop, i said before, last few years. and we pushed each other on insane levels. one of the

fiercest rivalries and sport is set to resume with the start of the new formula one season max for stop in just edged out louis hamilton and last year's title race. andy richardson has that story with the new season can't come soon enough from extra snappin. last year he won his 1st form to want will title, and since month december 19, i'll be debbie. his read will timothy, building a new car in line with regulations and closing the gap between the front legs again, back of the field. red bull remain convinced the stuff and is the man's keep them ahead of the pack. ah, he's been given a new contract with more than $50000000.00 a year. yeah, i think your decision was a quite straightforward thing from both sides. you know, we wanted to continue and, you know, from the start i felt really good in the team and especially after last year and

yeah, i only saw one way forward and that was with this thing. with the 2021 title race went down to the last lap of the final race of the season, the staff and overtaking his championship rival lewis, hamilton of mercedes following a hugely controversial decision to restart the race early after a safety car. i think 2021 will go down in history of one of the all time. great years. i mean, i can't remember a year like that informal warmer it was so close between the 2 drivers from the very 1st race to the very last ah, the challenge is now to build on that. now we have that number one on the car is to keep it on the car and defend that title. you know, with max, which with a brand new set of regulations is going to be incredibly difficult. 7 time champion, hamilton admitted the way last year ended did make him consider his future in the sport. hamilton is though, back for a 16th season, the claims he's worried about how competitive his new mercedes will fe. i'm really,

really hoping when i get off this call this evening, there found some tricks. i found some ways to extract more from this car. and so there's, there's a lot of cars are looking quite fast like the alpha romero's looking fast. valerie was looking quick, obviously the rebel looks ridiculous. he class at the moment and the ferrari's. but we are the best team. oh hm. at seen, hamilton will be hoping can power him to a record breaking 8th will title. and he, richardson, algae, 0 the west indies need a good start today. 2 of their test match against england. on day one and barbados england, captain jo, routes, quarter century england will resume on $244.00 for 3 and south africa. they've maintained their perfect record at the women's world cup feeding host new zealand by 2 wickets to stay on track for a semi final spot. that's it for me back over to come all. thank you. let's see you

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