ah ah ah german and please give a standing ovation to new things presidents below them as of us, he accuses russia of building a new wall in europe against freedom. ah meltzer alike from headquarters in delphi and jenny navigator also coming up russia denies bombing a theater in the ukrainian city where your poll more than

a 1000 civilians were sheltering. the russian army is trying to advance from the south, while russian warship are said to be approaching the coast. we report from the southern front line and speak to young ukrainians who are preparing to defend the historic port city of odessa. and after almost 6 years of detention in iran, british charity worker, nazarenes agari ratcliffe returns home. ah, hello ukraine's president vollmer zalinski has been given a standing ovation from germany's parliament. he's or a chancellor or so to do more to bring an end to russia's invasion on these warned that european countries care more about their economies than the lives of regular ukrainians. his address to the one to saw came a day after a speech to the u. s. congress. hello,

this is anastasia does not little 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. and the german chancellor alive sholtes has once again rolled out to any nato military action in ukraine. but he said that there would be continued support for the country. and other ways. he said moscow was bulldozing ukraine, and every one in russia should know the truth. beer didn't undivided, that crane, where on the side of the crane and also the destiny of all these young russians is affecting us in a senseless war where they had to go and attack their own neighbour. it's important,

this is known in russia. every one needs to know in russia, that only putin is responsible for that destiny. we have to continue to help the ukrainians to resist with humanitarian aid. i. nan shall help and weapons as we have already been dismissed. i'm also in berlin, the nato secretary general leon stilton burg warned against escalating the war. nato has a responsibility to prevent this conflict from escalating further. dot would be even more dangerous and would cause more suffering. death on destruction. this is preston putin's war. he must stop the war, would draw his forces and engage in the book in diplomacy in good faith. so a lot of news out of berlin today that is where dominic cane is joining us from to talk to us about the address that the ukrainian president gave to the german parliament and, and how it was received dominic many of the

things that the president spoke about and touched upon in his dress to german politicians in the bonus tag were things they would have expected him to say. and it's interesting that the sorts of language, the type of rhetoric he was using, similar in some senses, to the sorts of words he was using to the british house of commons and to the united states congress and to the other institutions you've spoken to. so when he was in london, he used the sort of language from winston churchill here in berlin. he made reference to particular elements of german history that idea about an air left to ukraine to free the skies over ukraine. the idea of no fly zones. well, that touches very clearly on the berlin airlift that took place from the western allies to west berlin. in the 1940s after the 2nd world war, when stalin, the leader of the union of soviet socialist republics closed down access here. so using language to try to as it were, target the heart strings of the politicians here. also that reference to

a wall having being built were clearly in this city. it was the epitome of the differences between the east and the west, between communism and capitalism. here in this city and he echoed that idea. calling on mister shots, chancellor shots to tear down the wall will lapse to reference to what president reagan said in the presence of the chancellor. helmut kohl back in the late 1980 standing next to the berlin wall, very close to the bonus tag, the german parliament, which back then was just a monument and is now the place where president zalinski was given the chance to make that address. and the reception he received well was very laudatory. many of the people in the bond is talk in the german parliament now feel a real sense of a fantasy, not just with president zelinski, but with his citizens. the ones who they believe are bearing the brunt of the invasion that they really vladimir putin has unleashed on ukraine. so he was very

much in many senses as it were metaphorically, at least preaching to the converted in so far as the suffering his country is going through. but in trying to appeal for a no fly zone and more besides, that's harder for him. and we know there is resistance here in germany at the upper, in the upper echelons of the german government to giving all of the things that spread. lin zalinski is asking them to give. all right, thank you so much. donna kane, reporting from berlin, while the sound of explosions have again been heard in ukraine's campus on thursday morning. at least one person has been killed after part of a missile was shot down. and it had an apartment block russian bombing in the early hours is becoming a regular occurrence in keys. moscow has kept up as bombardment of ukraine cities. that's even us talks between the 2 sides progress. a man con is in keep at the

scene of that apartment building that was heads. he says residents are incredibly shaken. 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 front of the building. there's another building about $500.00 co. i'm 500 meters over there and then another one over here. now the way these estates were designed in the sixties and seventies is they were very much designed around the 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, really frightened residents who heard the air raid siren and absolutely panic. the cleanup operations are now taking place. ah, 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 cause around here as well. now we're hearing that one person was killed. ah, 4 people were injured and 65 people i've 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 have left in the last couple of days. we've been covering these attacks now every day for last 4 or 5 days, or missiles landing artillery shells. landing missiles being intercepted overhead is all just adding to the nervousness. people are feeling in their own homes or russia has deny targeting a theater in the besieged city in southeastern ukraine. official say 100 people were sheltering in that building right there before it was destroyed in an air strike. the number of casualties is not yet known. this is the latest situation on

the ground. the areas in red are under russian control, and these are the cities that have seen the heaviest fighting on bombardment. russia says the air force has hit a ukrainian arms depot in the city of, sorry, any dots in the west of the country zane bus. rob is also in the west. he's joining us from the leave to talk to us about what happened in mario poll, because as they're saying, the russian deny the russians deny hitting that theater. any more clarity on exactly what happened. well if you go by the social media posts from local officials, there is no denying that that drama theater in mario was most certainly hit reports that there were women and children in the shelter. ready at the basement of that drama theater, and as you said, reports of unclear about the nature of casualties. we have been hearing in the last few hours though,

again from local officials on social media is that the shelter underneath the drama theater did hold. and there were survivors who are now being rescued and pulled out so far. what we know is that there haven't been any casualty, so perhaps a glimmer of hope in an otherwise very, very brutal conflict. still developing story and will of course stay across it. but we are hearing from local officials on the ground in murray awful that survivors have emerged from that shelter that did manage the hold. now there is a more broad context here, a much more violent context, mary. opal is surrounded inaccessible, and ukrainian officials, municipal officials on the ground say that they estimate that upwards of 2000 people have died so far in shelling and fighting. so even though there is a glimmer of hope, the broader context here is that those that have survived remaining. ready and. ready as long as they remain in mario currently being attacked consistently, constantly by russian forces. all right, thank you so much. miss robin reporting from the even western ukraine. all russian

forces are believed to be closing in on the port city of odessa, by land and sea, and taking ukraine's 3rd largest city would effectively cut the rest of the country off from the black sea. a local people say they're prepared at our bill, jaime has more from odessa. ah, 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, visit invalid demeanor. zalinski has called an all ukrainians who joined the war effort. and people like envy have lamb, of whose an opera singer have answered his corn. it's ugly r for dan, maybe 20 here. he thinks that it's going to be a long war despite ongoing negotiation and complaints that ukraine has been left to fight alone. i knew you could tell them which not to just,

they didn't want to help us right now. they promised weapons more active involvement of the war fighter just now the u. s. is refusing and by them hasn't delivered, they are not closing the sky. they're not taking away russia's ability to bomb our peaceful cities and annihilate women must children and be elderly enough. 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. this as under said, 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 sacrament goes of day and night, but this city hasn't been directly hit. the sandbags made at the beach surround cultural and municipal buildings. and kili, part of tells me about the efforts to preserve what there says cultural treasures. more for when you move away from grip. mm hm. oh, 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 last. so 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, which we want the world to know about, that koreans o. this has long been deprived of russia, was founded by catherine the great, the city has embraced its russian identity ever since. but with a war looming, those voices have gone all but silent in odessa that was saved by the soviets.

during world war 2 is now getting ready to defend itself from its former protectors . and at the hamid algebra, odessa, ukraine. stella had on al jazeera, searching for a safe haven. how mexico is the stepping stone for ukrainians hoping to escape the war. and nigeria is multibillion dollar plans to help boost its economy are on track, will tell you how ah, ah, look forward to brighter sky's the weather, sponsored by kettle airways. hello there. let's have a look at central asia and things have cooled down across the region. recently we've seen some snow push into beijing thursday and friday we saw that for it's moved across now towards the korean peninsula that wintry mix is going to knock

a lot of the wounds out of sold. by the time we get to the weekend, we are expecting the temperature to pick up. however, in beijing, it's a similar story for shanghai now that that wet weather has skirted across the southern areas of japan, that's going to arrive in tokyo on friday. but by the time we get to sunday, it will have dried up and the temperature will have recovered. now, a lot of that snow is going to push up across the korean peninsula. we got snow as well, from northern areas of japan. but behind that in central parts and eastern parts of china, we've seen a lot of the warmth come back in. that was a move to south asia. well, it is a hot picture. we still got those heat wave warnings and advisories for northern and western parts of india. a lot of places in rochester and good. you're touching above 40 degrees celsius, a very hot and dry. that extends across into pakistan and further south, just a few showers, kissing the coast of carola and into sher lanka. and of course the wet and windy weather can be found around the andermann and nickel islands will keep an eye on

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hello again. this hawkstern's on al jazeera, this, our russia is denying destroying a theatre in the besieged city of mario full where ukraine says hundreds of people were sheltering. casualty numbers from the alleged air strike aren't known. at least one person has been killed after part of an intercepted missile had an apartment walk in ukraine's capital achieve. moscow has kept up its bombardment of ukraine cities even as talks between the 2 sides progress. ukraine's president voluntary lensky has been given a standing ovation from germany's parliament in an address to dablin to stop, he urged chancellor olaf souls to do more to bring an end to russia's invasion. while speaking a little earlier, russia's foreign ministry spokesman outlined moscow's conditions for declaring a cease fire. the minute that is that our purpose is quite clear. key will have to realize they have to agree to carry out demilitarization and d, nationalization. the sooner the key regime realizes this, the sooner the war will end,

we call on president the lensky to think about the life of the country and its citizens, and make the necessary decisions. well, russia's economy has also been struggling. that's after western countries imposed harsh sanctions. let's go more on that from bernard smith, who's joining us from moscow. so russia was due to make an interest payment on sovereign debt to avoid an international default. bernard, what happened with that during russia made the payment, the interest payment on $2.00 european loans, a total of a $117000000.00 a miniscule amount of money in terms of the amount of money russia has at its disposal. but it symbolic, because there was a fear that if russia was gonna defaulted, because he couldn't meet the payments over the 1st time, russia's defaults defaulted since 1917. and the bolshevik revolution, russia's problem is that most of the cash, it has a lot of cash. it has is frozen. however, it decided it was able to make those payments,

and clearly russia must have decided it was in his own interest to make those payments as well rather than defaults of on them. because that is important in the future as to whether potential investors buyers of debt, consider ra, russian, russian data, reliable, a gamble. russia's got $670000000000.00, excuse me. off cash reserves, which you built up in case of sanctions in the future. but about half of those, he says, a frozen, but that still gives it $300000000000.00 at a sell still got access about $300000000.00 us in dollars, euros, and yen. and clearly from that, he was able to write this very, very modest her interest payment. so avoiding a default. ok, thank you so much. bernard smith, reporting from moscow more than 3000000 ukrainians have left their country. they're looking for a safe havens elsewhere in the world. and some have traveled 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. they say these video show the 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 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, staying in the queue to leave your brain. 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 do they watch and then let in much we saw several of the ukrainian family. 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 too, after opposing the war compensation. mike is also half ukrainian and he's frightened of being conscripted to fight against the country where he is family. 24 . february might come to a tech great, really. my brother, leave city. it's a sub 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 a tourist visa, then travel up to 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. and so far, 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 southwest mexico after he was kidnapped and beat 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 finding a safe haven. they called us from her gulf of his 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 to some other news. allan to british radians have arrived back in the u. k. after spending years in detention in iran, nelson is a very radcliffe and a new shit assured, were convicted applauding to overthrow iran government, but always denied the allegations. laura burton mentally reports. this is nazarenes ari right cliff. from spending years in an iranian prison,

she is now free and home with her family. she had arrived at the ari of bright norton, an ox, a 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 that is truly fantastic for everybody. for 6 years, nothing had enjoy detention at a 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 film girl. it's been a long journey that we've been in the doorway for court on that ordeal began in april 2016 when natalie 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 lucy assure e, 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. but to now re united naz mean and have family will look forward to a future together. laura, about manly, on to theorem. a united arab emirates flagged ship has sunk and stormy seas of iran,

southern coast. the and sudden me 6 vessel was headed for the port of m cassette and southern iraq, emergency services have rescued 16 crew members. iranian officials say strong winds in the gulf had disrupted the movement of vessels. south korea has broken its corona virus record by reporting more than 600000 new infections in 24 hours. that is the highest there. since the pandemic began 2 years ago, a doctors think the latest on the kron driven search is nearing its peak. the government's due to decide on friday whether or not to maintain so systems and guidelines. a hospital is being hurriedly built in ne china. that's where doctors are struggling to contain new corona, virus infections. these 6000 bed makes of building and the city of julian is expected to start accepting patients next week. 742 new cases were reported in the city. on wednesday, an earthquake in japan killed 4 people and injured at least

a 100 others. $2000000.00 homes were left without electricity after wednesday $7.00 magnitude quake. it struck the northern region of fukushima where soon army caused nuclear reactor meltdowns 11 years ago. tidal wave warnings were quickly lifted. this time. anteria is planning to spend tens of millions of dollars to modernize its railway network. the overhaul could boost the economy and remote parts of the country. i did these reports from lagos. ah, containers sit on narrow gateway trucks awaiting delivery to lagos, ports point 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 j. c. one, cooperate freight services. so income grow steadily along which huge growth potentials we have not even scratched the system. we have a little cut it in passing the services have a lot of carry imports even exports movements of raw materials within the country. it's so huge when you put a load on the train, just glassily. it will deliver volumes on time civ, lives in a and employment benefits at this train station in lagos. these passengers who commute daily from he bought off work and trading, catch the last train all just to year ago, there have to spend 5 hours on the road to get home. now they do that in 2

officious. now looking beyond pos to services, they've launched an ambitious program to link up with my dearest neighbors and see ports to post trade. we have developed or what to call 3000, i back with her and her brother. so that's with a harvey, the toner, on our where 2 people can go up exact montana this he says we'll deliver freight in time and he's pressure on nigeria, roach. 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 i 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 nigeria is 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 will spur growth in manufacturing and create jobs. but there are concerns about whether the government which currently own and operate the railways is capable of sustaining it. decrease al jazeera lagos, nigeria. ah, hello again. the headlines on al jazeera, the sour ukraine's president vladimir lensky hasn't given a standing ovation from germany's parliament in an addressed it had been decided. he urged chancellor, all our source to do more to bring an end to russia's invasion. is anastasia jack in us not a little. 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 you.