the few geez, and many of those who remain in ukraine are already very vulnerable, especially women and girls, protecting them from abuse and exploitation of all kinds. much to be a top priority. people are hosting government and for all international organizations. you said president, today i have 3 urgent requests. first, we added the security council toward for an immediate cease fire. and the political solution pro longer conflict is in nobody's interest and will only prolong the suffering of the most vulnerable the life saving medicine we need right now is this 2nd,

we added, you all, don't notice to support the response to the money. didn't need this in ukraine and neighboring countries, which are immense and escalating every day. thanks to donors who front loaded w just contingency funding for emergencies. we were able to respond immediately, deploying this fund to switch mounted by additional funding from the u. n. central emergency response fund surf, however, to sustain the response we call on donors to fully fund the united nation is the emergency appeal. as the under secretary general said, it's only 76 percent so far funded. we time those donors will have already placed funding to meet the needs of people in ukraine and

said, although you claim is rightly the focus of the willingness attention, i added you not to lose sight of the many other crisis in which people are suffering in afghanistan more than half the population is in need was widespread mud nutrition. and a serge enemies was among many other challenges in ethiopia. that blockade of 6000000 people in te gray for almost 500 days has created a catastrophe. food and health crisis in the seed and out of the public, more than toilet meal and people are in need of health assistance. almost half of them children. and in yemen, roughly 2 sections of the population. more than 20000000 people are estimated to be in need of health assistance. is that president?

in every case, the only solution is peace. i repeat. in every case, the only solution is peace and our world means peace more than ever. as if co, vb is not enough to have that. if i stating would like this is dangerous for the world, i thank you and but you escort at ductility of ebay assigned care enough to get his his for he sent the hank f and give the flyer now to those counselors who wish to make statements can i give the floor to the represent a kid and with that of the united states. thank you, mr. president. and thank you to the briefers for your briefing today. just 3

weeks ago, russia launched it's unprovoked, unjustified unconscionable, full scale invasion into ukraine. an assault on democracy. now, over $3000000.00 refugees had fled the country, creating a devastating humanitarian crisis, felt around the world. these refugees are mostly women and children. they stuffed their lives into backpacks and left their homes and everything they knew behind. to day, many of them know that their apartment buildings and streets have been bomb to rubble. and the horace continue. for those who remain in ukraine, we just heard from the w h o d g. that 43 hospitals have

been attacked by russia. 43 hospitals and health facilities. a p reporters on the ground showed the world a mass grave in mary, a pool. a narrow trench filled with the bodies of children. yesterday russian forces dropped a powerful bomb that had a marapoo theater where hundreds of civilians were hiding. the russian word for children was written outside the theatre both front and back in large white letters that could have been seen from the sky. yet russian forces bombed it anyway . local officials have told families to lead their dead relatives lying outside on the streets exposed to the world because it is simply too dangerous with the

bombs and showings to ho funerals. i just met with ukrainian civil society leaders. they reported that people standing in a bread line trying to get food to feed. their families were shot dead by russian soldiers. they reported tara, the tara, that russia is inflicting across ukraine on the ukrainian people. russia will be held accountable for his atrocities. there's only one way, one way to in this madness, president putin stop the killing. withdraw your forces, leave ukraine once and for all. yesterday i listened to precedence president zalinski speech to the united states congress. and i was so moved by his words, his bravery,

and his calls for help and for peace. immediately afterward, president biden announced another $800000000.00 in security assistance to help ukraine defend itself. that's more than $1000000000.00 in the past. week alone. we're not doing this by ourselves. our allies in partners are fully committed to surging assistance to the ukrainians. and we are grateful to all of our allies in partners who have opened their boarders and their hearts, and welcome ukrainian refugee. we're also going to continue to provide humanitarian relief to support people within ukraine and those who had been forced to flee, including the $186000000.00 and additional assets assistance that secretary blinkin announced on tuesday. here at the united nations. we believe the best way

to address the humanitarian crisis is through a resolution in the un general assembly. the resolution in the general assembly will reflect the views of the overwhelming majority of you and member states, an ukraine itself. the international court of justice issued a profound and important order yesterday to the russian federation, and we call on russia to comply immediately. russia has clearly violated international law by violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of ukraine . russia's broedell tactics have killed civilians, medics, and some of the journalists who have been showing us all the truth of this war. russia has attack so much of what we hold sacred and everything. everything the

united nations stands for. russia's actions must be condemned in no uncertain terms. as president biden said, ukraine, we'll never be a victory for putin. no matter what advances he makes, no matter whom he kills or what cities he destroys. ukraine will never be a victory. for him. the united states stands with ukraine and the ukrainian people and we will do everything everything in our power to in this tragic unnecessary war. thank you. as good method, latoya, kentucky, representative of the united states at for her statement and the floor to the representative albania. thank you, mr. burton. so we are a watching a united nations security council meeting. we have just heard from the us

ambassador to the you, anderson the thomas green field urn and a little earlier we heard from the you in h a c r, and the world health organization. just giving a picture of the continuing development sir from that country. let's go to kristen salumi now who joins us from the united nations in new york and kristin, we're still waiting to hear from a couple of the other countries are that called this meeting. and then also crucially, we'll probably hear from ukraine and russia, but this is into a meeting where there's going to be a vote. so what did we actually learn from it? has anything come out of this meeting that we didn't know? yeah, really interesting. this is the 5th meeting, actually the 6th meeting, i believe, since russia launched its assault on ukraine. about 4 weeks ago us another meeting that was on the organization, furs, cooperation in europe,

also focused heavily on the situation in the ukraine. a, you know, the situation on the ground has gotten worse day by day and what we've been seeing is an attempt by the security council to keep the attention focused on the situation on the ground in an attempt to alleviate the suffering of the people there. and hopefully bring an end to the violence, but things have only escalated on the way into the meeting. the u. k. ambassador barbara woodward spoke and she was one of the ambassadors that called for this meeting and. and she talked about what they were hoping to do. here she said the point was to hold russia to account to call attention to war crimes. she mentioned specifically that theatre attack and marry a poor where it's believed a number of civilians have been trapped under the rubble and to call out misinformation russian miss in it. witness information i of course russia has said

that they're not targeting civilians that they're trying to protect separatist in the country and so on. so this was the intention stated of the security council members. and we've heard again, the escalation of rhetoric as the fighting has escalated from joe biden yesterday, using war crimes accusing who and of war crimes. now we're hearing that the security council as well. the u. k. is saying war crime. so what's interesting here to me is to hear the you ends assessment the u. n. is supposed to be the non political, a body here in the experts way in i as these various sides present their points of view. and we heard from rosemary to carlo, who's the under secretary general for police all affairs, talking about that theater attack and she said it's another civilian i it's, there were civilians there it, it looks really bad. we don't have an assessment on exactly what happened. but she went on to say that clearly there have been

a number of civilians killed in this conflict that now the number that they've confirmed is over 700, with dozens of children in that number. and, and the reality is likely much higher. we also heard from the director general of the w h o, and he talked about the fact of 43 health facilities have been struck. and the fact that this is a violation of international humanitarian law. so an attempt to show what's happening on the ground, free of the spin from any of the sides in this and show that civilians in ukraine are indeed suffering. and, and of not to mention all of the ones that have had to leave the country some to 5000000 people on the move. 3000000 of them more than 3000000 of the now have left the country. so while we don't expect a vote or an outcome here, this is clearly an attempt to keep a focus on the situation, put the pressure on russia and show that they're isolated. absolutely,

and just to remind the viewers who might have missed that the usaa ambassador to the u. n said that russia will be held accountable for everything that's happened and asked prudent to stop the killing will. speaking of russia, all of this is happening ahead of a meeting cold by russia for tomorrow, for friday. absolutely fascinating diplomacy at work here, both in front of the cameras and behind the scenes. yesterday, russia decided announced that it was going to call a vote on a humanitarian resolution. now france and mexico had been working on a humanitarian resolution in the security council. it became clear that russia was not going to support this because their resolution essentially blamed russia for most of most of the damage there and, and held them accountable for the aggression at russia was not going to sign off on that. they withdrew the resolution. they're planning to take it to the general

assembly where russia does not have veto power. but russia claims it wants a humanitarian resolution. it wants people on the ground to be protected. so, and so they are putting forward their own resolution that's going to be voted on on friday, was right after that this meeting was called. now in terms of that resolution, what we're hearing from the west is if russia is concerned about humanitarian conditions on the ground than they need to stop the war that's. that's the line that we're hearing over and over again from the united kingdom, the united states, ireland, norway, nato allies, basically in the council, are clearly not looking to support rushes resolution on this. even though they say they want a humanitarian resolution. they're not going to support one that's being put forth by russia. that does not mention russia as the aggressor. so lots of talking going on. lots of pressure, but it shows the limits of the un security council where world powers these 5 great

powers. have vito power and no agreement can be reached as long as one of them disagrees. chris is salumi with the latest there from the united nations of that meeting that is still going on, of course will bring you more from that, especially when we hear from ukraine and russia was 3 you and agencies, including the world health organization or calling for an immediate halt to attacks on hospitals in ukraine. doctors there say the health care system is already under extraordinary pressure treating the war wounded him on con reports now from the ukrainian capital keith. this used to be one of the main hospitals in key dealing with cove 19 infections. it's now been re purpose to treat war casualties. this ukrainian volunteer was shot in a peanut north of keep while defending the capital from intense russian attacks. despite being shot 3 times, he wants to go back to the front lines. yeah. belongs to those of course i want to

fight again. i will join the territorial defense hearing keith. as soon as i can, by your most, i went to join my friends in the fight. when they pulled me to the hospital, they told me i had some shopping only my lung, but it turned out to be a police move. does it define spirit amongst doctors, nurses of administration? so who say they already working round the clock? numerous cu key will definitely sustain all medical services. on top of that, the ukranian army and the territorial defense are keeping the enemy from entering the city. we're ready to give emergency medical and rehabilitation services to all in any that are suffering from this horrible war. despite the defiance, hospitals nationwide are facing crisis, 43 have been attacked since the war began in the besieged city of murray, helpful staff and patience were taken hostage as russian soldiers use the hospital to fire when ukrainian forces similar things across the country of provoke

condemnation from the world health organization to attack the most vulnerable babies, children, pregnant women, and those already suffering from illness and disease and health workers, risking their own lives to save lives is an act of unconscionable cruelty. that's an incredibly strong statement from the w joe. but with the war intensifying around the capitol, many are wondering where the hospitals like this, and the ones that are left will become overwhelmed. emron khan al jazeera keith or your secretary of state antony blinkin says he believes russia has committed war crimes in ukraine. he listed a number of incidents where civilians appear to have been targeted, including wednesday's attack on a theater in mariel, paul were hundreds, were seeking shelter. the word shoulder had been written in russian in giant white letters on the pavement outside the building. so that you could know from the air,

there were children inside. russian forces also opened fire on 10 civilians who were waiting in line for bread. these incidents joined a long list of attacks on civilians, not military locations across ukraine. intentionally targeting civilians is a war crime. after all the destruction of the past 3 weeks, i find it difficult to conclude that the russians are doing otherwise. rosin jordan joins us live now from washington. d. c. rosen strong wards there of course, from anthony blink in the u. s. secretary of state. what else did he have to say? well, not only did john antony blake and call what has been happening. and maria poll. busy war crimes, he also said the u. s. is committed to helping other countries including ukraine, gathered the evidence that could lead to a referral of the russian government to the i. c. c for prosecution on war crimes,

which of course are a violation under international law. he also talked about the fact that the u. s. president joe biden will be speaking with the chinese president. she jumping on friday. stressing that to the u. s. is essentially going to put pressure on china to not be a neutral party. and to was stand with the u. s. with europe, with other countries in condemning rushes behavior and in enforcing. what is and expanding sanctions regime against president vladimir putin and members of his inner circle. we also did hear the secretary repeat that the u. s. is stepping up its military and humanitarian contributions to ukraine. as of this, a war goes into the 4th week. rosalind jordan with the latest air from washington d. c for the moment was thank you. where you cranes, president,

has invoked the berlin wall and the holocaust while delivering a fierce address to the german parliament. being seen as direct criticism of pro russian politicians in germany, which is russia's biggest energy buyer follow the me zalinski was greeted with a standing ovation. he directly urged that chancellor all of shots to do more to bring an end to russia's invasion. and he is warned that european countries care more about their economies than the lives of regular ukrainians. his address to the brandish target came a day after a speech to the u. s. congress. the nurses does not moodle, we are fighting for our lives and for our freedom. it is not the berlin wall. it is the war 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. now you question whether

ukraine should join the, you know, yes for some, this is politics. but for us, it is souls for the new wall or russia's president has admitted western sanctions or hurting his country's economy. but vladimir putin insist that measures could also create new opportunities. yes. assume yes or no. yes, i do not in the least can them those who are the villas in miami or the french riviera who cannot make do without war. gra, oysters are gender freedom as they call it. that is not the problem, not at all. the problem again is that many of these people are essentially over there in their own minds and not here with our people and with russia, in their opinion, it is a sign of belonging to the superior cast, the superior race. the collective west is trying to divide our society using to its own advantage, combat losses, and is socio economic consequences of the sanction. and to provoke civil unrest in russia and use its 5th column and an attempt to achieve this goal. while turkey has

renewed its push to bring the leaders of the crane and russia to the negotiating table, bernard smith has more now for moscow air. reggie type bird wine has continued talking with vladimir putin. and he has said that it's time for vladimir zalinski and vladimir putin to meet face to face. there are certain issues that they need to talk about face to face is the 2nd time is offered to host talks in turkey between the 2 leaders. but it seems the prospect of that could be a very long way away. we're also having western nurse source is quoted by reuters earlier today saying that while the talks are continuing on, both sides are serious in their talks. very large gaps remain between the 2 size and you've just heard the foreign ministry spokeswoman saying are that the, the long standing demands of russia are what they call de,

get rid of nationalist groups in ukraine. this is what russia long been using as his excuse for it's, or what he called his special operation in ukraine. he says, ukraine must get rid of these groups, denart, suffice than another word, russia, or has used in terms of describing the government of vladimir lensky. so that sort of talk is an indication of while the 2 sides are talking, there's a huge gap between but what both sides want particulars, we know that russia wants crimea, and donnette is going to lose ganske recognized. i crimea recognize as part of russia. i don't that says, no guns recognized as independent states. lee effects of the war in ukraine are rippling across the globe. lebanon which relies heavily on russia and ukraine for wheat exports. now risks and even worse food crisis, while in grapples with an economic meltdown. rising food prices are causing hundreds of thousands of lebanese children to go hungry. the un says that under

fives are suffering the most from malnutrition center, 100 reports now from they looked. it's one of the world's worst economic collapse in history. at least 2000000 lebanese are struggling to put food on the table. that's nearly half the population. the situation is no different among the hundreds of thousands of syrian refugees living here. we don't have enough food at home because my father doesn't earn much money, so we get food from here. cases of malnutrition, nearly unprecedented in this once middle income country are on the rise. a recent survey by the united nations on children under the age of 5 is causing concern. 9 out of 10 children are not getting the diversity of food that they need money, children are actually going to bed hungry. for example, i spoke to a child last week in the school, and the child had just returned to school after

a long, long absence. but the child had not eaten for 2 days. there are many similar stories, vassal says he is unable to provide the basics for his 3 children because work is hard to come by. in this household, they eat once a day, and milk is substituted with water and sugar was, i'm not with them. sometimes i collect plastic and cans from the 3 to 7, or sometimes i work as a keynote, but the bay isn't enough to make clear multiple feel that the nearly bankrupt government has been promising assistance to the most vulnerable for months. with the help of the world bank, it will give cash assistance to 150000 families. the anal about our program will help reduce the burden the lebanese phase from the difficult living conditions. her prices have increased by more than 1000 percent of the final van miguel 2019 award

ukraine is making the situation worse as we've prices rise and authorities warn they may no longer be able to subsidize red charity. see, they can no longer keep up with growing demands. they say those who used to assist now need help themselves. sorry, not that he been sidney. now for now we are feeding 840 pounds, but allowed to 1500 people approached us for help and we can't do anything for not the poverty rate continues to rise to the opposite of a government economic recovery plan. already 94 percent of children aged 6 months, the 2 years are not getting enough foot center could their l. shahita, beirut, one of the many side effects there of the war in ukraine, also having a huge impact in lebanon. you can find that much more on that and the impact across the world on our website. the address al jazeera dot com see with us. so i'm going

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