an al jazeera, there are some of the media stories critical look at the global news media spread on al jazeera government shut off, access to social media. ah, people are emerging alive from the ruins of a theater mario pole. but ukraine says was deliberately bombed by russia with children. how many people were in the shelter all columbus, i'd say around 800. we were preparing food night, say only a 100 or so managed to disperse. ah, i'm darn jordan. this is al jazeera ally from de also coming up the united nation says dozens of healthcare facilities have been attacked in ukraine in violation of

international humanitarian law. yes, president, your botanist, china's negotiation king about the war in ukraine and support for russia and ukraine. 3rd largest city, odessa, braces itself for invasion. as russian warships intensify their shilling from the black sea rescue crews in the ukrainian city of mattie a poll say they found survivors after rush an air strike, hitch fietta more than a 1000 people, including children where believed to be sheltering, that i've also been further strikes in the north may the capital cave out as he was rob mcbride report, some live in western ukraine after an unrelenting siege and days of being battered on all sides. the southern port city of mary, you hold one of the most porto, but targets in this grinding war and showing all the scars of conflict. thousands

of people have now managed to escape, but they've left behind a depleted and dazed population picking over the ruins of their city and their former lives. you are years of here, we have nothing to eat. it's awful, just awful, really no light, no heat, nothing gloomy. all went home. it was terrible. how can really, what was it for the, for what? what are the yourself here for this key of neighborhood? another early morning awakening from the war. an incoming missile was intercepted with falling debris, killing a resident pillow, people in cities on the front line like here in cock eve, continue to bear the brunt. parents of children, they shouted. school have come together to try and restore classrooms on the home for here for so push a little. we came to help. we heard that such a catastrophe happened and i don't know how to describe it. it's and human. and

that the main church for the military in the western city of the be a funeral for another soldier killed in conflict. while this war continues to arouse condemnation of the russian invasion on the world stage here in ukraine, each death locally seems only to strengthen the resolve to join the fight. outside live more training for volunteers. this soldier calls himself cream meaning crimea, says he left his home on the peninsula when it was seized by russian forces in 2014 and his bowing not to be moved on again. and is now the vive is my home that i'm more interested in a democracy than in a totalitarian state. 2011. these volunteers will soon join. others like former international tennis player, said, geese the kosky oldest, who says he had no choice, but to put on a uniform and pick up a gun,

even if i will be capable of shooting, killing someone is marking you on your life. so i don't believe that any of the ukrainians are willingly doing it, but we don't have a with both sides, seemingly unable to find a way out of the war, goes into its 4th week. casualties are mounting all around us. rob mcbride al jazeera live, well agencies of describe b humanitarian situation and maria poll as apocalyptic around. 30000 people have left so far. but more than 350000 are still sheltering in the city. acid bags and zapper asia, where he spoke with one family that was able to get out of that manage to escape the horror, but are still suffering from the trauma of their days. chapter mario paul, which surrounded by the russian army for us then did they slung into doesn't i can't find the words to describe that horror that we experienced.

we live in the school could win it as little from this medical, but we're still home. i just eat it was destroyed and then my son was running under rocket fired to collect water with we collected snow the billy will not get the p boil did to drink 65 year old, did he know proquest over and her husband sergey spent 20 days hiding in the basement with her from the raging battle above there fled here too is aperture taken in by their friend constantine one as well as the one do i hit their landing? we had only 2 liters till water would drink water not meant for drinkin. were boiled it on the fire and drank it as well, but only had potatoes to eat. they are not alone in this ordeal. over 400000 call the city home the so irina recalls the moment they made it out. and i'll let you

then we'll get him of jordan crossed the corner. but as what shall we steal? it was a miracle. when we heard that explosion in the center of mighty, we'll put close to the drama theatre much were jumped into the car and ran away from their living, who didn't really had a rude muscle who were just trying to get out there with me. and then we happened by chance to joins a convoy. of course, does a pretty shout, olivia lose another 40. they can't believe that this has happened to them from a people they once felt the new thing. mikhail unscheduled, she is no good or stinky. wellness. let's see, many of our people have been married and stayed in russia. we maintained relations when we have grew up here from it's our country, our motherland. we always saw that the russia is torn component, but not an enemy is not an enemy. and now wine at the nasa, just because family relations is most those political conflict through them, we talk to each other with our relatives, came to us was spent some time at the similar at all. and when the war broke out,

that when we just couldn't understand that it could be a war between 2 brothers as a chill. they can never go back. the pain is too much. her mother died when their house was bombed. he shall catch escape will share with them. i want to tell you something more astellas in that house which was born. you left my 86 year old mother. you brought the new money wrist. we're just weren't able to carry her out with 90 percent of money open is destroying us dollars. there is nothing more there than you will there. we don't have a place to go back to the can now only wait. it will be still a for love. the future uncertain, some issue is i am hoping the war doesn't follow them here up here, and let's. anyway, i said big for him as era zapper richer. meanwhile, russian warships have been showing odessa,

which is bracing for invasion. it's ukraine's 3rd biggest city on his home to more than a 1000000 people. it's located on the black sea coast and a host. the ukranian navies headquarters, which moved there after russia annex crimea in 2014 or the abdul hamid has moved sidney. this, i mean, is waiting for it's churn. anyone you speak to here tells me, well that we are absolutely sure that at some point we are going to be at the target of do russians now over the past few days. also, it had been a fleet of russian war ships that have been seen approaching the coast of odessa and then retracting an enrique re approaching. there's also been some sit shelling india this region about half an hour away from this city. all this to in the, increases the tension among people here, the anxiety of what will happen next. and i have to say that the fact that this is

a russian speaking city, that this is a city that has a lot of tides with russia historically. and even until really the beginning of this war, it doesn't count any more. people would tell you a look at what happened in my youth. what look at what have been hiking? there is no safe place in this country. at the moment. the united nations is calling for an immediate stop to strike some hospitals and ukraine doctors working there say start for under extraordinary pressure treating the injured. and when con reports now from a capital t, this used to be one of the main hospitals in ki, dealing with cove at 19 infections. it's now been re purpose to treat war casualties. this ukrainian volunteer was shot in her pain at 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 yarborough's 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 brought me to the hospital, they told me i had some shop known in my lung, but it turned out to be a police move. does it define spirit amongst doctors, nurses, administration? so who say they already working round the clock? numerous good 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 facing crisis, 43 have been attacked since the war began in the besieged city of mario pl staff. impatience were taken a hostage as russian soldiers used the hospital to fire when ukrainian forces similar scenes 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 h o. 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. m, ron kon al jazeera keith. yes, president joe biden will speak with his chinese counterpart, sheesh, and ping later today. we'll have that discussion. you a secretary of state, anthony blink and says, china appears to be open to providing military assistance to russia. we continue to call on all nations, especially those with direct influence, with russia to use whatever leverage they have to compel moscow to end this war of choice. we believe china, in particular, has a responsibility to use its influence, the president putin, and to defend the international rules and principles that it professes to support.

instead, it appears that china is moving in the opposite direction by refusing to condemn this aggression while seeking to portray itself as a neutral arbiter. and we're concerned that they're considering directly assisting russia with military equipment using ukraine. katrina, you has more from beijing on what the 2 leaders are expected to discuss. this phone call could determine the trajectory of the crisis in ukraine with these truly speaking, biden leading the charge to pressure russia and stopping the invasion. and she didn't pig seen as one of the few international leaders left who does have in the when with prison vladimir putin know china as we've just had since the beginning of the russian attack was refused to take a sided did. they said that it encourages dialogue, but at the same time, aging has made it very clear that it intends to preserve its friendship with russia, which is described as rock solid. we had that in the future and visit china and speak with president. she's in pain in person just

a few weeks before the invasion. on the 2nd day of the attack, they had a phone call. we've had china's foreign ministry of the past few days. spread these questions about us run bio labs in crane, which many consider to be russian cult. gotcha. and moist crucially, we've had paging continue to do business as usual with moscow. something that many believe could be sending out a crucial lifeline or crutch full russia at a time when many other countries are trying to economically isolate this. u. s. has wound aging that there will be consequences, for example, for evading western sanction, or even taking things a step further and supporting russia via military aid or equipment. the aging has denied that it has any intention of doing this. but at the same time, china is also thinking about its own interest here its own interest when it comes to doing trade with russia, its own interest when it comes to wanting stability and very important political

year for president. she didn't pay and they've been scathing exchanges of the un security council the world got. he got an update on the toll. the ukraine conflict is having on civilians. kristen, selena has more. the security council gathered for its 5th briefing on the situation in ukraine in 3 weeks. the united kingdom, one of 6 countries called for it. we want to continue to hold russia to account for the war crimes that being carried out there. we want to counter the disinformation and eyes as images of that bomb theatre. sheltering families and mary appall, circled the globe. 3, you and officials briefed citing at least $700.00 ukrainians killed so far in the conflict. dozens of them children, 5000000 forced to flee their homes as damage to civilian infrastructure, including 43 health facilities mounts. russia, denied bombing the theater, and targeting civilians. greatly. global initials of liquidity of ukraine always

was upon in the geopolitical struggle against russia and remained such upon still. western politicians couldn't care less about the suffering of the people and dunbar se, including women, children, and the elderly. the breathing took place a day before the security council was expected to vote on a humanitarian resolution put forth by russia. but nato, a line council members made clear they wouldn't support anything that didn't point the finger directly at russia as the source of that humanitarian crisis. so russia changed plans. we know if russia really truly cared about humanitarian crises, the one that it created, it could simply stop its attacks on the people of ukraine. but instead, they want to call for another security council meeting to use this council as a venue for its disinformation and for pump promoting its propaganda. russia now plans to discuss

u. s. bio labs in ukraine saying has new evidence to share. we have this information will, which is raging much, much on, on a much greater scale in the than the battle then on the battlefield. and i will not be surprised at anything because who wins did the information was the one wins the war, intense diplomatic activity continues. i think we have to be very realistic. a lot of this is diplomatic game play is not actually going to have a huge impact on the ground. but the u. s. in its allies are looking for every way they can't put pressure on russia. lots of talk on the part of the security council, but still no action. kristin salumi al jazeera, the united nations. i shall break here now to 0. when we come back, britain announces it's sending its new antea craft massage system to pony. and senators and argentina prove a controversial refinancing bill. people taking the strict mana steamers. ah

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a shower. 2 in 2, she nicea, and the very strong winds continue to feed their way in across sea. so hard, lots of lifted dust and sand regatta temperatures at the $34.00 celsius. therefore lagos little tri them has been recently plenty of showers. they're just around west africa pushing over towards liberia and sierra leone police showers to inter central parts of africa with some flooding there for mozambique. ah, this feels like representation of who i am and what i want people to remember me by boxing is my get out ticket is, is not even just martinez. the people around just got away from chatter the story about my life, and it's going to take 50 future to do a don't so bad will need to do the next you deep. oh ward,

with your documentary witness on out his era. ah ah. well, no matter what your mind about top stories here, this, our rescue crews in the ukrainian city of modern polls say they found survivors oft, our russian air strike hit a theatre. hundreds of civilians were sheltering inside is not clear how many people were killed. 3 un agencies, including the world health organization, have called for an immediate halt to attacks on hospitals in ukraine. 43 facilities have been targeted since the war began. and us president joe biden will speak with his chinese counterpart, sheesh and ping for the 1st time since the one ukraine began. the u. s. as it's increasingly concerned about china's support for russia. so let's get more on those

talks mountain bringing summer poorer. he's a senior fellow at the international institute for strategic studies and joins us live from singapore some years. so the invasion of ukraine has put the china russia relationship under the spotlight. how important are these talks then between president by them president she later today? do you think thanks to having me, it's a really important moment because the rest is on something of a diplomatic offensive to try to call out and even to shame china for it's somewhat mutual stones or russia invasion of ukraine. and on 24th of february. and i think in particular, the intelligence, the u. s. is publicized about the russian request for the provision of chinese military assistance will most certainly be a feature of how binding to purchase is cool, presumably to bright vision paying for even entertaining this and embracing china. not telling that back on russia during versus invasion. yes, a man, as you say,

so we've seen washington leak intelligence reports that china is open to supplying russia with military assistance. what is the u. s. hoping to achieve by preempting this and exposing china's intentions? yeah, and that's the governing term, isn't it preemption? that's always been the u. s. approach throughout this invasion of ukraine has tried to think ahead of the 1st the russian moves now potentially chinese moves. i think that's 2 things to keep in mind that the 1st is that provision of fresh military support and items by china, perhaps that could be headed off. but the china, russia relationship in economic terms is really deep. and it's, there's quite a bit his goals to grow that bilateral as volume of trade between 2 countries, substantially in the coming years. i don't think tries going to walk away from that . and i think you conclude from this that because china trades with russia, i believe it binds its crude oil. it by is it gas?

it by applies will sorts of a things that is indirectly supporting, not russia. and i think it's, it's a flights of fancy to think that china would turn its back on his economic relationship with russia, even if it stepped back from selling it the specific military piece. and it's worth pointing out, somebody, i mean, for years, russia and china had a very well established defense relationship with russia. exporting a huge amount of arms to china. how was that like you to be affected them? well, this is something's very interesting. i mean, we, the double, i dug less, usually monitor these with volumes of arms sales between different countries. and it's quite one cited in a sense that china boys, a lot of military equipment from russia, but going back the other way. it's not quite the same, or she has a very large domestic defense, an industry. so i guess what russia is asked for in recent weeks is a role reversal, which is to start buying a lot more defense equipment from china. and that in itself probably reflects the fact that russia is running into some the. ready just problems and just simply over

estimate underestimated the size of the military challenge. it bought itself with this, that so open ended invasion crane. some of the final thought to you on china and taiwan. i mean that growing concerns, but russia's invasion of ukraine could embolden china's ambitions of a tie. one, how is that likely to play out? do you think that's a really important point. i mean, like i used to work in ukraine knowing based in singapore, i never thought ukraine would be a reference point for discussions in this region where i'm sitting now around the security of taiwan. but there's a phrase going around taiwan, apparently, which is today ukraine tomorrow. so i wanna say plenty that's going to be huge, fear that the chinese military see what's happened in ukraine. perhaps think they could do a better job if they were to invade time or in the future. i pathetically in a much more the territory. just one final full on this. i think this is a very high possibility that china's met chinese military will take the opposite

lesson, which is look at the mess. russia has now made for itself with this invasion look how difficult it is given the, the advantages defend is, have against an invading force. maybe it's better to play the long game and not think about the treatments it taiwan summit period. really, really good to get your thoughts and your analysis on that. thank you very much and have some of your now the u. k. will deploy its missile defense system to poland as nato moved to increase the security of its eastern. thank you. kate defense minister ben wallace announced a deployment during a visit to the polish capital warsaw the u. k. will send the sky sabre antea missile system. along with about a 100 personnel. slack is defense minister says his country is considering offering defense message systems to ukraine will been in discussion or with united state with ukraine and also it's either l i saw on possibility to deploy or to sandra to give as 200 system to ukrainians. and we are willing to do so we're

willing to do so immediately when we have a proper basement for russia's invasion of ukraine has prompted a rush by european governments to bolster their defences, pre planned nato exercises, and norway have acquired a new significance with the military alliance aiming to send a clear message to moscow that it's ready for any assault on nato territory. is me baka, in sub 0 terrain troops from nato's very high readiness joint task force, a training for the coldest of conflicts. many the soldiers were among the alliance, his 1st responders, currently under french command. that's the place we leave, we see, and we fight. among them. polish soldier private pure to march unecc. poland has now found itself on nato's eastern flank, against a possibly hostile enemy. what does that mean for you as a polish soldier? i was sure what i was signing for, joining the army, but of course it's,

it's if difficult as a for a human human being, but ah, we were, we're just doing our job. russia's invasion of ukraine pose is the biggest threat to european security in the generation. several nato states and now rushing to ramp up their defense spending and germany, europe's largest nato country has reversed his position on sending weapons into war zones in order to help ukraine alliance top brass, v. a. russia stop playing by international norms. time will tell us whether whether the things that the russians are doing in ukraine are war crimes or not. it is sometimes difficult to think that it is all an accident of as, especially if you hear that a now more than 30 medical facilities have been hit the refugee stream and the fact that people are not allowed to flee. or even after,

after an agreement or when they are fleeing, they're still being targeted. those are all things that, that shouldn't happen. this week later warned the rushes accusations of ukraine storing biological weapons could be used as a pretext for chemical attacks. these french soldiers tasks with handling the aftermath of a chemical attack on high alert. what seemed inconceivable only a few weeks ago seems chillingly possible. giving these cold weather exercises are simply about nato bolstering. it's east and flank, then think again. in recent months, russia has been steadily reopening. it's cold haul base is in the arctic region that has 30 percent of the world's untapped natural gas. and 13 percent of its oil supplies. as europe tries to wean itself off russian energy supplies, all countries are turning to norway to make up for possible shortfalls. until the

evasion of ukraine began norway in russia had been working together to explore artic oil fields. but not any more, is feared competing claims. the natural resources will put russia and nato on another collision course. the invasion of ukraine has major consequences for european security. nato chiefs say the alliance must be primed to respond me barca, al jazeera, in central neu, some other news margin. tina's senate has approved a deal to refinance a $45000000000.00 debt with the international monetary fund. thousands of protesters gathered in the capital, but as iras ahead of the vote, many argentinians are against borrowing more money and they've been holding regular protests a more than a year. they say the terms of the debt a not realistic theresa bo has more from one desires. well, we're here right outside of congress and there's a lot at stake for the government funded medical mondays in 2 days ago. people are processing mostly because they do not trust india man,

i'm calling it sees that have been implemented in tina over and over again with economic crisis for the government negotiate with for a year over a year, visit the debt, a loan that was taken back in 2018 during the government full of our president modi's, with largest known never given to our country $57000000000.00. indian dr. tina ended up getting more thinking that is now traveling to we pay. the government says that he has an agreement in place that it will help the government to stop in id really kinda struggle with a very high inflation rate with exchange rate controls. other things that i'd like previous agreements, for example, it's not the men a reality. maybe more and pension reforms, for example. so that's why, but many of those point here today are not slots can be i, and that they're saying that the government who beat implement this um

with peruse talk constitutional court has voted to release for my president, alberto for jim murray from prison. the 8 to 3 year old is serving a 25 year sentence for human rights violations. the court reinstated departure for more we received back in 2017 aah! under the headline 0 now jesse or a rescue cruise in ukrainian city of maria, polls say they found survivors after a russian air strike hitch, a theatre. hundreds of civilians were sheltering inside at the time. it's not clear how many people were killed. the u. s. ambassador to the u, an accused russia of deliberately targeting civilians.