all on the old pine plays of australia, snowy mountains, a bit of battle is taking place over whether the countries wall horses are a nationwide colin farrell, one or one east on l g 0. ah, a ukrainian military facility is hates near levine, a western city where ukrainians have found refuge from battlefields elsewhere. ah, hello, i'm emily anglin live from jo. how without here as continuing coverage of ukraine wall also coming up early morning barrages, he had a residential building in ukraine's capital killing at least one person. you as president joe biden speaks with chinese later she jim ping seeking to isolate

russia. it's most important ally. i and russia rallies national pride with the stadium show celebrating 8 years since the annexation of crimea. russian forces are expanding their offensive in ukraine and heating cities of further west. for the 1st time of their missiles landed in levine, heating, and air craft repairs sites near an airport. just 6 kilometers away from the city center. same has ravi wraps up all of today's developments from there and across ukraine. within minutes of early morning air raid sirens throughout the city, russian missiles had targets near levine international airport, shattering once again, the sense of relative safety. here in the west of ukraine. before the big position

was split, the air read boarding system working ungrateful to the armed forces as they reacted some missiles which were launched from the black sea area were intercept for miss el, hit an aircraft repair plant. as you already know, there have been some attacks in this part of the country. a training company operative last week, and a military posted in airfield, near lutes. but the friday morning, airport strike is the closest, the war has come to the city of levine. so far as you see behind me, smoke is still rising from the area that was hit. we've been stopped from going any further any closer to the areas that were hit by the strikes. the police have pushed us back twice. we've tried to go over the bridge, but we've been sent back to this area here. so we can't get a clear view of what's happening, but the smoke that continues to below, over the skies over the city certainly tells you that something definitely was hit and it's still on fire. in the eastern city of car keys, a college building was shelled,

killing one person entering 11 and trapping another in the rubble. the city is home to one of the largest markets in eastern europe and it remains on fire, sparked by shelling on thursday. another shelling and crumbs tours killed to an entrance. and the capitol also attack the mayor of key visited the nursery in school. he says was targeted by russian rockets, killing one child and wounding 23. this is janice sides of the cranium population. you have to act now. stop basil observing and stop doing business with russia. do it now? attacking mostly civilian targets is proof. ukrainian official saying that russia is choosing not to fight ukrainian troops. instead hitting the country's most vulnerable. you will go up on the enemy's strike against the city of living. is another proof that it does not fight ukrainian troops. it fights population, children and women refugee. so if there is nothing sacred for them. same basra

theology 0 love eve. that's head. see living now where rob mcbride is standing by for us. hello there. rob. what's the latest from where you are? i think there's attackers there. definitely raised a sensor of alarm here and there, there city of levine this, these rockets fell a little more than 6 kilometers from where we're standing. this is right in the center of our levine itself. this is a city which has so far, largely avoided much of the conflict that we've seen in other parts of ukraine. there have been a couple of earth as very selected attacks on military targets near by. but the feeling was and has been so far in that city of levine itself, that they have really led a pretty much a normal life. this is a very important transport hub. this is basically ukraine's doorway. if you like into, or whether it's your appear neighbors, especially poland. and we've seen here in the past few weeks,

these hundreds of thousands of refugees traveling through here on their way to poland. other refugees deciding to to stay here in the city because it's considered a relatively far safer than other parts of the ukraine. but of course, as well as a things heading out of here that there are, there is an inflow through this conduit as well. and that includes not only humanitarian aid, but in this part of western ukraine. these are the roots, are that are not being advertised for obvious reasons, but where we are seeing military equipment being sent in by the nato countries at the sophisticated anti tank and anti aircraft missiles. and i think there is a feeling here that russia knows the strategic importance of this part of the ukraine as everybody else. and there is a fair, i suppose, amongst people here that we may well see that this becomes now more targeted, that it becomes a part of more, a part of this war. and that from this friday,

that war does seem to be somewhat closer into. and rather as the sun sets behind you and another down the crane and the military, there has held their daily amazing what came out of that this is a briefing that's given by the president sir office, basically on the military situation. and it is, i think, a further indication that this war grinds along from one day to the next than the past 24 hours or so. we haven't seen much in the way of movement, according to the ukrainians. the russians are still being held. they are still pushing at various points that according to the ukrainians, their various approaches and advances have been repelled the ukrainians are claiming they have shot down 10 more air craft be. they had things like helicopters or even drones in the past 24 hours and are also claiming that the russians are putting into the battle less

a well trained recruits as they call them. and that this is a sign of desperation by the russians. now, there is no way of ever corroborating this because of course, in war time, you do have this accompanying battle. her struggle between claims and counterclaims . all right, thank you very much. rub mcbride, stay safe for us. rob mcbride in levine, russian warships have began shelling odessa, which is bracing for an invention. ukraine's 3rd largest city is on the black sea coast and a time to more than a 1000000 people. that's where hot abdel ham ed had filed this report. these russian or ships have been seen off the coast approaching and maybe sort of navigating around according to satellite imagery to be at least 3 fleets of russian war ships, including landing ships. so this city is bracing himself. the beaches have been

mind if you go around the city, this checkpoints everywhere, all the historic center of the city, just behind me there has been completely field off. you need a special permission to get in then only residence allowed to get there. and then behind me here you see you have this volunteer center you money, terry and aid being gathered and dispatch. this is actually usually a food market as food all for tours where they can try all the, the salad. well, if you go inside, it's really distracted, activity, collecting medicine, water, food maps, blankets, all sorts of things that can help. what if indeed, there is an assault on there, but also to be sent to nikolai of which is about an hour and a half or know, 2 hours i would say at least drive from here to the north east. did the russians and the ukrainian army, are there been fighting overnight from what we understand?

the green army is still holding ground and the russians are not advancing quite at a quick pace. but people watching what's happening there because there is a feeling that after nikolai, if it falls, then it will be that cistern 2 days after the bombing of the theatre in ukraine's besieged city of merrier pole, hundreds of people are still buried under the rubble. these are some of the lightest pitches from mary a pole showing a wide spread destruction president fla, tammy zalinski says, 135 people have been rescued since the theatre attack. the city says there hasn't been any debts time. ukrainian authority say russian air strikes hit the theater, where civilians were sheltering. the kremlin denies this to moscow now where rushes president vladimir putin has praised the war in ukraine as a success. he appeared before large crowds who gathered at

a concert to celebrate 8 years since russia annexed crimea. bennet smith reports from moscow. this was a powerful show of patriotism. in moscow, russia's biggest stadium was filled to its 81000 capacity to celebrate 8 years since the annexation of crimea, or as it's called here, the reunification and everywhere. the said, the sign, the 1st appeared on russian military vehicles in ukraine, and has now become a symbol of support for russia's war. there. i'd be, it was a stage set of vladimir putin who told the crowd that the united states is using ukraine to threaten russia. disease at the soldiers fighting their illustrated russian unity. political beecham showed that a shoulder, they help each other who support each other. i easily and when needed, they shield each other from bodice with their bodies like brothers. but such unity . we have not heard for a long time. napoleon,

a survey after the 1st week of the war, showed that what the crumbling cause, it's special operation in ukraine. we supported by 58 percent of russians. there have been attempts to protest against the war, but they are quickly, often brutally suppressed. but others are finding ways to voice their opposition, such as this art group called party of the dead, protesting somewhere in russia. we've heard teachers again in britain, we are practically living on a war footing. there is no way for it not to affect us any more. we have to fight this war, and those were stoking it for keeping it going and are prepared to take it to some catastrophic finale that show of descent won't get covered by russian television, but friday's flag waving in moscow. another city's will, though you won't hear that ukraine says it's fighting for survival on the west. dismiss his accusations that it wants to rip russia apart. bernard smith, al jazeera, moscow. you as president joe biden,

and china's latest sheet in pink spoke for nearly 2 hours for the 1st time since the war in ukraine began. washington wants to stop begging from providing military and economic help to vladimir putin. chinese state media is reporting she has told biden that conflict is not in any one's interest. following developments for us is our white house correspondent, kimberly hallett. hello, they, kimberly. as we mentioned the 1st time these 2 ladies have spoken since the war began. what are they trying to achieve? and were there any hints of any progress being maint? we are hoping to get a clear understanding of the telephone call the next hour when the white house holds a briefing to give us a sense of what was discussed. and so this is for reporters, so that we will have further details there. no official read out has been provided as of yet. but what we can tell you is that the goals going into this call were substantial. namely,

they were to try and nail down exactly where president she stood with regard to the relationship with russia. the concern of the west and of the united states specifically is that in the words of the white house press secretary, there's been an absence of denunciation by china with regard to russia's invasion of ukraine. and that speaks volumes. she said as so the fear is, is that essentially try to have been playing both sides and that is not sitting well. so as a result, there is the hope and desire, and this is what was conveyed in this call. we understand that it is sensually, there is the feeling that the relationship between china and russia, particularly when it comes to economic ties, could be leverage in a way that is useful to the united states in the west. even potentially bringing about a potential cease fire in this conflict. so again,

watching carefully for read out hope to have more information the next hour. those are certainly the goals going in. sounds good. ok, thank you. kimberly. and it's no secret that their relationship has been strained. and the best of times, talk us through this rookie relationship, is the rocky for years, even before joe biden, in the united states, as long had concerns about what they called back door espionage that china has the using technology and the sale of technology in the u. s, in order to steal secrets that have been in the form of business secret scientific secrets. and congress has been working hard for decades to try and correct down on this as well. that's been one major concern, but more recently, at the concerns of been about trade in the fair competitions. so much so that we saw in the previous administration, the relationship between china and the united states is very tense. even the, to

a trade war that became kind of a tit for tat with the lovely of tariffs to the tune of some 350000000000 into the united states or chinese goods as being slapped with tariffs that we should point out that show by the never lifted those. so he, he said that did chinese president, she was his friend. there was this and still is this economic tension. now, there's also a big ideological difference. the of us president says chinese chinese president, she believes that there is no future for democracy. something that joe biden does not support, so it's with these differences that they're trying to now move forward and resolve this difference when it comes to ukraine. and the fear is that china may get the idea and to the, the sites of the president on taiwan is that he could be inspired to do something similar to vladimir putin. so this is something that has also been of concern. and of course, a focus of this phone call as well. yes. let's hope that's not the case. thank you

for breaking it down for us. what has corresponding kimberly hell kit live for us there? in new york to un security council, once again became a stage for accusations and counter accusations over ukraine. the russian envoy repeated his claim that the u. s. c's funding secret, biological weapons in ukraine. western and boys dismissed it as nonsense. he is some of what's been said in the past few ounce russia put simply, the ukrainian or authorities gave him pentagon caught blanche on the territory, the crane to carry out dangerous biological experiments. that are going to go, this is not the noble assistance to ukraine, that the american representatives talk about. this is a cynical use of its territory and population for dangerous research, which washington does not carry out on its own territory. so doesn't run the risk of hurting its own people. you would you say, last week we heard from the russian representative a tirade,

a bizarre conspiracy theories. this week. we're hearing a whole lot more where that came from. things that sound like they were forwarded to him on a chain email from some dark corner of the internet. president biden has a word for this kind of talk. malarkey. as i said one week ago, ukraine does not have a biological weapon program. there are no ukrainian biological weapons laboratories, not near russia's order, not anywhere. all 3 baltic countries have ordered expulsions of russian embassy staff, estonia, latvia and lithuania, have taken the coordinated action in solidarity with ukraine. in total, 10 russian diplomats, a being expelled russia's foreign ministry, spokes woman promised a response,

accusing the countries of carry at an justified dismissals. still head on al jazeera, russia's state back news channel, as it's a broadcast license pulled in the u. k. and musical message of hope, how young rockies are in tune with ukrainians to lift their spirits. ah hello there. we've seen some unsettled condition sweep south across the middle east over the past few days, but things are going to improve. so many of the gulf states like guitar and the u. a in the days to come, but for the event, while it stays rather wet, windy and wintery. a lot of that snow, confined to eastern areas of turkey,

pushing across the caucuses and some at wet weather, dribbling down into syria and northern areas of iraq. but for saudi arabia and that's how we are going to see temperatures pickup as that wind dies down by the time we get into monday, we will start to see the skies clear. but around the red sea, while the wind is still there, coastal showers as well. and as we move over to north africa, we are going to see the coastal sha was pick up for to new zia and libya. some of the stronger winds causing sandstorms here. and if we look at the 3 day for tripoli, well, the temperature is going to dip down well below the average by monday, but the rain clears with some sunshine coming back in. now was move further south to southern africa. much of the heavy rain can be found once again in northern areas of mozambique pulling into malawi as well, where the area is already flooded. but swanner as well seen some of that heavy rain for south africa, it winds up in the south with sunshine in cape town, through the weekend. ah,

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hello you watching al jazeera, i'm emily angry, and he is a reminder of our top stories. the sour, several russian rockets have. he had an aircraft maintenance plant near the airport in the western city of levine. the city has so far escaped the worst of the bombardment seen elsewhere in ukraine. the presidents of china and the u. s. have held their 1st direct talk since november. chinese dant media reports that shooting pink, told joe biden, that conflict is not in anyone's interest. and to rush as president, letting me persian has praised the war in ukraine as a success at a concert in moscow, he appeared before large crowds who gathered to celebrate 8 years since russia annexed to crimea. britain has switched off the russian governments r t news channel. the kremlin says the decision to revoke our cheese broadcast license is madness. the u. k. regulator of com says r t cannot be considered a fit. and proper broadcaster,

the channels coverage of the ukraine war was subject to 29 separate investigations into what critics describe as state sponsored propaganda. our report in a deem barbara has been following developments from london. artie itself has been fined in the past 4 breaches of impartiality rose. now it's been off the air here in the u. k. because if you sanctions imposed over the invasion of ukraine, but it's still maintains a presence online and that's ongoing. despite this rolling by off, come that a i know i know tv, which is the licensee behind r t is not fit and proper now the, the watchdog. so i teach new laws in russia, which in its view, effectively criminalize any independent journalism that departs from the russian states. news narrative, an outcome says that means it appears impossible for our tea to comply with the

impartiality rules. here in the u. k that did reference those 29 investigations going on. as you were talking about saying that that was a fairly unusual situation. it did go to pains to stress that they had taken into account people's rights to a range of information and free speech considerations. but having to balance that with the importance of keeping public trust in the broadcasting regulatory system. now also you have responded deputy editor in chief and belkin a have said that off. com, with this judgment, has shown that despite a well constructed facade of independence, it is nothing more than a tool of government bending to its media. suppressing will scott griffin is deputy director at the international press institute. he says, the move needs careful scrutiny from our point to view any time that place is

bad or sanctioned in this way. very, very serious position, no matter the circumstances and any type of decisions such as the one that has taken should be subject to a very strict scrutiny. even if there are a precedent. having said that, i do think it is important to point out that the job to look into whether broadcasters have the license of hold basic standards, including the issue of impartiality. all calm has concluded that that is not the case for russia today. it's new, but it is in principle, legitimate for independent regulators. these issues come to the decision. now that is a different question of whether the decision itself is grounded and the right one circumstances . there is no question that russia today extremely closely made to the russian government, which is much more of aggression on a neighbor. and what is also true,

i thought, kind of pointed out environment for media freedom independent journalism in russia is under immense repression. indeed all impossible to carry out. it depend in journalism within russia. ready on the basis of this, but i did that in russia today. i cannot consider. ready it position to. ready partially ruled, let's take a look at some other world news now. and chinese authorities have launched a mass cove at 19 testing campaign. as infections continue to rise, there more than 2400 new cases were reported in the past 24 hours. nearly doubled account today earlier, china is battling its worst outbreak since the corona viruses 1st detected in wu, han. rising fuel and food prices in the philippines provoking growing anger, demonstrate is demanding. the government implements price controls to cut the cost of living jamila ellen dugan reports from manila. we're in downtown

manila, where several transport groups are staging a protest. they say arising fuel prices over the last week or so has made their situation here quite difficult. we've spoken to some leaders a say they have 3 basic demand. they're asking the government to immediately suspend the x as and value, add the taxes. they're also asking the government to increase the minimum daily wage rate from $10.00 till nearly $20.00 and to repeal the oil, the regulation law, which will finally put the power back to regulate oil crisis to the government. these demands may be simple, but everybody knows especially those transport good job demanding this for many years that this is easier said than done with the government's insensitive public transport drive is mostly come from the poor sector and i'm sorry they want

to hand to mouth existence because of sawing prices, all of them, there's not much left full vehicle. my uncle had that that my husband works is a public transport driver used to earn enough, but now most of his earnings is spent on fuel expenses. public transport drivers are also demanding that the government finally released the money promised cash assistance of a $150.00. thousands of drivers across the country, protestors here calling from oregon poor communities and they say they're extremely worried. it's all field. they say like the perfect storm there are growing geopolitical tensions. the president is expected to step down within the next few months, and the country is facing its wars. economic recession and decade. little of the city of mosul in iraq has been rebuilt, since it was destroyed by iso 5 years ago. but a group of young rockies is hoping the sound of music will give new life to the

city by forming an orchestra. and may have a message for the people of ukraine, some of in jane purple from the ruins of mosul, music as the emerged me neither some of 40 musicians who make up the water orchestra in iraq, 2nd largest city. being banned, when most was occupied by isolate committee survived, christian curd absent even as these young men and women represent the diversity of iraq. it's the 1st time they've come to practice in the destroyed or city list of us. father was a blacksmith shop and there lies withdrew and in the fight against i feel the kind of contract with them. when i see the huge destruction of the city, everything has changed so many collapsed houses. now i see a different image from what i remembered this place as

a child coming here gives me energy and grief. we hope to present most of heritage . it's old songs and melodies. i didn't know my mother kaloni to perfumed pavilion marleen studying, to become a paramedic. but her passion is music. she fled from a mostly christian area near mosul during the fighting. and now she wants other erotic girls to follow their dreams. the most common, most of what harley did, that often defeat off, i feel the society is more open. now girls have a chance to work and to play music. my message to a drug goals is that whatever difficulty you face and even their societies against you, confront them with the think you love doing. ah, none of them is a professional musician. but in just a year, they've helped 3 concepts. one of them abroad more than a 1000 people turned up to listen last month on social media, people from mostly sent messages to door, the ukraine,

assuring them as they rose from the ashes of eisen ukrainians shouldn't give up hope to be able to hear music amid the ruins of muscles all the d. feel strange, but it brings home the resilience of residents who say that despite the destruction and lack of help, they remain committed to bringing the city back to life. this is assess dot conductor and the strand maestro. he invited dentist is from all over northern europe, tested their talent, and then wrote symphonies. as someone who was born in new york city is the cultural revival of most and it has responsibility to come. i cannot describe my feeling when i returned and played in the old city. despite all this, there is a hope of happiness that the city will come back, and my favorite melody was composed while i was the refugee and turkey, and i completed it in muscle. and cold of ashes now played by the orchestra.