live on like you see channels plus thousands of all programs. award winning documentaries, and in depth news reports. subscribe to you dot com forward slash al jazeera english ah. a thriving port city, reduced to rubble. after weeks of bombardment, russian troops reached the center of mario, poor. thousands of civilians are still trapped by the fighting. ah, hello there, i'm dealing with all this is sounds as you alive from and also coming up. oh, divided by front lines even in death, the ukrainian soldiers burried away from their homes, with no families to say a final goodbye u. s. president one says chinese counterpart,

there will be consequences of beijing supports russia's invasion and at a rally. some might, the anniversary of the annexation of crimea vladimir puts entails supporters the war in the trade. it's been a success. ah, hundreds of thousands of people are trapped in a major ukrainian port city that's being bombarded by russian forces as they tried to seize control. several buildings of mario poor, been reduced to rubble the battle. my reportedly approaching the city center. francis president manuel mack home, one of the few western leaders to regularly speak with russian president vladimir putin as demanded. the russian forces immediately lift their siege, allow humanity, or in access and order. a ceasefire here, stephanie decker from above. mary paul looks like it's had the life sucked out of it. people's homes now frozen in time, eerie carcases,

of war and on the ground. even the dead get no peace. it's too dangerous to bury them in the cemetery. often lying outside for days from what those left alive can't make sense of this war. yet you're sure to rip with florida . my mother in law born in 1936, she survived the lead and grab cj russian passport on had walker of russian federations fishing industry. but she is lying those killed in the bombardment of being buried in the grounds of their homes. something they never would have imagined while living here. now the little girl nibbled when you go quiet. it's disgusting. i'm not going to blame anyone. i'm disgusted. i'm scared and i'm cold. it's a horror. i have never expected this to happen in my life. like you would give me, oh,

this video has been uploaded by the chechen leader rams and cad here of fighting for russia, claiming this is an attempt to evacuate civilians, but most efforts to evacuate civilians from here have so far failed. for 3 weeks, russia has assaulted the strategic port city, tens of thousands of traps here and nothing functions any more. you william lewis looked up and running for you. we spent 2 days in the basement. she's a sick woman who had to sit on a chair all the time. i thought she wouldn't survive. then the men came on, the helped you carry around, so we are here all bundled up with blankets. it's very cold. we just want to go home. women. young faces still manage a smile in these unimaginable time. soon as she finished, she would, russian, everything is going to be okay. she tells her children, it will end soon. lad putin says russian forces are not targeting civilians.

the ground. the reality tells a very different story. stephanie decker algae 0 in western ukraine. russian forces are expanding their offensive and ukraine and hitting areas for the west. for the 1st time, the missiles landed in the city of the v striking and aircraft repair site near an airport. same bas robbie reports now from the vive. 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 l said 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 loots. 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 interim since russian rockets continued to pound the capital key as well. a nursery in school targeted on friday, killing one child in during 23 little glitch in mall. jim mood,

larissa and the aggressor always pays a high price for war and morton, but whatever happens to them it cannot revive our cities or he'll our worries. a weakness will become members of the age. you will enjoy the life or will be different now. so is my, all of those rest in peace who have given their lives for our pay. so say the enemy continues. shilling a piece won't sitting someone's attacks, hitting mostly civilian targets is proof. ukrainian officials say that russia is choosing not to fight ukrainian troops instead hitting the country's most vulnerable. yeah. how can people in russia be so stupid and let this happen? how come russians don't understand that put in it's not defending russian speaking people in ukraine. he simply went mad, that's it. this is what i think, right? because the same person would never do anything like this. in the central square of living in the countries, cultural capital and installation highlights the most innocent victims of war among the thousands of ukrainian dead. 109 empty prams symbolizing 109 infants killed

in a conflict where the death toll increases every day. zane basra v l g 0 live with warren ukraine into its 4th week now casualties on both sides. a man take some of the fierce is fighting, has been in east in ukraine when many soldiers have now died and funerals have been held for more than 20 fallen military personnel in the city of naples. from where i said bank sent us this report. a final farewell but many of these 23 soldiers don't have relatives here to london. there on the other side of the front line. their comrades stand, god paying a fine. the tribute, a dc. yeah. yep. robert push ro, chest, or they don't know. i joined this unit recently. it's an honor for me. as part of my family and stay, the mom was snatched away from our military family. we are very deeply i her car feel emotional was ashley. this gave his life for our country. may he rest in

places with whom we will always be remembered, but as a god take him to a better place because it's a holy deed when one sacrifices himself for his country cancelled with his motto, a summer with a co home, we shall plan with me oh, it's the last family they had. oh, priests say the final pres and coffins are taken on their final journey, far from the soldier's homes. with no certainty, their parents, siblings, or partners, will ever get to visit their final resting place. although we should just an observer or her just be we've got the most wealthy soldiers fell at the battle of villanova. most of them were brought here from their unfortunately some of them were very young. i'm sorry, this is very difficult for me. but very young men have died while protecting ukraine. protecting all of us the war in the east is fierce and the

russians appeared to be slowly but surely grinding the ukrainians. gang with ukrainian forces continued to resist. russian artillery has pounded the 2nd largest city club cave and the port city of mary upon the freezing graveyard of denise pro, far from killing the will to resist losses on the battlefield. further feels the anger was neither to do not wooster, bolster ticket monster, or we can think of his revenge, revenge avenging our men. this gives us motivation to protect our country. it's the only way the conflict in the east has been going on since invasion of crimean 2014. an estimated 14000 people have been killed. these latest casualties since the recent russian basia. this graveyard is full of young men that have died from this conflict, but the reality is,

as long as this war goes on, more will follow. as that bag i'll jazeera, the negro russian war ships have been shelling a debt, so which is bracing for an invasion. they say is ukraine's 3rd largest city in its home to more than 1000000000 people. it's located on the black sea colson holstein creating navies headquarters, which moved there after russia annex crimea, in 2014. it also handles around 65 percent of ukrainian c cargo. and that makes it a lifeline to the outside world. if russia sees is odessa, it will effectively cut off ukraine from overseas trade and military aid. what abdul hamid has more now for melissa? ah! when the sirens go off, people head to the shelter in odessa is deep underground in the so called catacombs, all stone mines discovery do 3 times the leak and her children have been coming and

going from here since the beginning of the war, they have supplies ready, for the long hold with her look, we have water here with the blankets. we have to sleep here with matt and to inflatable mattresses. and here we keep food, a lot of different things. biscuits, live, patty, and different kinds of food. i have the passports and all the documents in my bag. as soon as i hear the sirens, i pick up the children and come down here. this is the largest urban labrons in the world, and portions of it have been prepared for civilians to hide about a 1000 can fit in this part. down here it's a different world. you can't hear anything of what's happening above the about 2500 kilometers of tunnels and passageways. now this place has already been used as the shelter during previous wars. and during the cold war, it was designated as

a nuclear bunker sections of it could also be used by the military to move under cover. the city is under threat of a 3 pronged at that from the north east, the black sea and a northwest. my whole own uses which only cutover, casey wouldn't. you know, the main risk today is an amphibious landing rush of trying to put psychological pressure on ukrainians by showing from the sea and from the sky. we are responsible official remarks. they are trying to demonstrate their strength, they certainly habit, but our defense system is ready to repel any attack unless they are probing over defenses to find wilder gl points and mark them as targets are around the city volunteers every bang for the worst, this food, all usually bustling with tourists, is now the headquarters of the humanitarian effort sponsored by some of the most influential business people of death. the public libraries, one of the few places still open,

but here no more books in russian since the conflict started in 2014. russia's great authors can be found translated in ukrainian tucked under upper floor, a layer mm. globally. the guarantees came but ukrainian, odessa is not as small as it might seem. and there was no need to support the russian narratives that odessa was a russian city and speaks only russian. no, like, i think the people are now switching to ukrainian. so i really hope that a decimal not returned to pro russian narrative any more explosions and air sirens every more often, every day and night assigned for a distance. the light at the end of the tunnel may still be far away. what does that mean engineer? odessa, inside an ukraine or alexandria, virgina, and ski is an advisor. ukrainian president wrote me a salon scan, he gave us an update on the state of the war from the crating side. we are fearing that this one asked me to wear so far. it hasn't because the russian troops

happened facing a lot of resistance and a lot of trouble just where they already entered the countries for the north and south and east. and so far we've even managed to so recently become today we've managed to push them back around the north, kia, for example. so, so far this is not really going anywhere for them. the russian side is really suffering to be a morale issue. and the further, the more, the more aggravated the problem becomes to them. clearly they're not having any success. and they've lost serious amount of troops by our estimates or any 14 more than 14000 russian soldiers that are dead. that's close to how many troops died and the 10 years of the soviet african war, the united nation says ukraine is on course to match the numbers of people displaced during serious war. nearly 6 and a half 1000000 people are thought to have been displaced during the 3 weeks of the war in ukraine so far. that some of the 3200000 have already left the country and those numbers are for the un office for the coordinate nation of humanitarian

affairs. another 12000000 people have thought to be stranded in affected areas are unable to leave because of the dangerous involved. un refugee agency says these numbers suggest about half the country's population of 44000000 people is either internally displaced, stranded or unable to leave, or already escaped to neighboring countries. by 30000000 people have either been internally displaced or escaped to board during the 11 years of the war in syria. or more than 2000000 ukrainian refugees have now into poland since the start of brushes, invasion, but agencies see the number of people crossing borders to escape the war has flowed in recent days. that could of course rise again. fighting spreads further west, still had here on our sheila accusations fly across the u. n. russia says ukraine is conducting dangerous research. the u. s. says it's just a conspiracy. as 3 russian cosmonaut sleeve or athletic close elephant had worn

ukraine, could impact missions to the international space station. ah hello, we got more warm sunshine across march of australia we seen some very high temperatures recently into the se, hope bugging up to 29 celsius on thursday afternoon won't be quite as warm over the next couple of days. but with high pressure in chart, it is going to be settled and that several weather pushing up was a good part of victoria. much of ours is fine and dry. we do still have some showers around northern parts of queensland. some sour, they're just pushing across the top, painted to northern areas of western australia, and you might see little bit of patchy rain, grassy making his way towards perth over the next couple of days. but as you can see elsewhere, it is essentially settled and sunny always a chance to waddle, to light showers just around the eastern side of the country. the wet weather is

getting pushed further. east was new zealand looking pretty disturbed over the next couple of days by the start of next week, some heavy array coming in across a much of the country, particularly into west central and northern parts of new zealand. some rather lively weather pushing its way across japan as well as we go on through the next couple of days. some snow on the northern flank of this system. res slaten snow pushing into western parts of japan. we have got some disturbed weather wintry flurries there ensue the korean peninsula, but dryer behind ah, on counting the cost could the war and ukraine plunge the global economy right, you twice, it rush returns to china's you on to survive. sanctions pays the us dollar in danger. i'm good group co currencies help raja right financial punishment proudly

recalls all al jazeera. we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter what. when use in current for that matter to you, ah ah, ah quick reminder of our top stories here now. jesse russian forces battling to cease control of mario paul reached the ukrainian city center. frances president, manuel mccomb has asked russian leader vladimir putin to stop besieging the city, declares cease fire. or should missiles have struck an air craft repair facility merely v? if a western sissy hosting hundreds of thousands of displaced people,

the capital key is also been hit by missiles shells. while russian forces reign far on ukrainian cities, vladimir putin as praised his troops using courts from the bible and russian history. in a rare public appearance, the president address tens of thousands of people had a rally celebrating 8 years since russia annex crimea, from ukraine. the event was packed with russian flags and pro kremlin popstars. ernest smith reports now from the capital moscow. ah, 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 re unification. and everywhere the said, the sign that 1st appeared on russian military vehicles in ukraine, and has now become a symbol of support for russia's war there. i mean, it was a stage set for vladimir putin who told the crowd that the united states is using

ukraine to threaten russia. it is, is that the soldiers fighting their illustrated russian unity, bleacher beecham, shoulder to shoulder. they help each other who support each other. i easily and when needed, they shield each other from bullets with their bodies like brothers. pretty good such unity. we have not had pol on time. napoleon, boy, a survey after the 1st week of the war, showed that what the crumbling calls its 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's 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 of the west. dismiss his accusations that it wants to rip russia. paul bernard smith al jazeera moscow. russia's most powerful ally is china and u. s. prison joe biden has warranties chinese come to partridge and ping that there will be consequences if china provided some material support to russian forces attacking ukraine. the leader spoke on video conference for nearly 2 hours. china has so far, refused to condemn russia's invasion. a little chinese state media says she told biden that the war must end as soon as possible. our white house correspondent, kimberly how can as more we know that it lasted for about 2 hours or nearly 2 hours was actually a video conference type call. that took place at the white house situation room and according to a white house official,

it was some stand if it was detailed and it focused mostly on ukraine and why this call took place. had a lot to do with the concerns by the weston that essentially up until now that china had been playing both sides in this conflict. and there was a feeling that there was a need of china to socially condemn russia's actions or at least denounced them. and that had not occurred thus far, and there was a hope that that would be achieved in this phone call. but according to this read out, that has not happened and as well, what we also see in this is that there has been really no effort on the part of china to, in any way use its leverage to bring about as cease fire. and that was. 6 something that to there was at least a goal going into this is the part of the bike administration. they were hoping that they might at least be able to encourage china to try and uses economic leverage with russia to at least begin that discussion. that was also absent from

this readout. instead, what we have seen from this read out is that the u. s. president underscored this cost to china if it continues to support russia. we have had reports that there has been some support militarily, by the chinese supplying military equipment for russia, for example. so, not a lot of what the white house was hoping would be achieved from this call appears to be in the read out. instead what we know, it's a lot of reiterating. c of what we have seen in recent weeks, and that is that the white house is outlined consequences, but it has not been able to achieve sort of a moving of the needles even further in the direction that it was hoping for can be how could there the united nations security council is met to discuss russian allegations that the united states is funding, biological weapons research in ukraine. that's the claim they've denied it was the 2nd time in 2 weeks, the cancel meth on the subject. kristen st. louis has more from the united nations

. russia called the meeting to present what it described as new evidence, a u. s. supported biological research laboratory in the ukraine posed a threat to the region brochure though grace he was to go to. but when we got aboard put simply, the ukrainian authorities gave the pentagon carte blanche on the territory of ukraine to carry out dangerous biological experiments there. 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 it doesn't run the risk of hurting its own people. in the u. s. denies any chemical weapons programs exist. it is russia that has long maintained a biological weapons program in violation of international law. it is russia that has a well documented history of using chemical weapons. it is

russia who is the aggressor here. the united states also warned that russia may very well be planning its own chemical weapons attacked, using a false flag allegation to justify it. it was the 2nd time in 2 weeks that the security council met on the subject at russia's request. the union's high representative for disarmament said they had no evidence of chemical or biological weapons, but she also conceded that the united nations currently has neither the mandate nor the technical or operational capacity to investigate this invest in information. i asked the united kingdom's ambassador if that undermines their argument, if there is a genuine concern, the right thing to do would be to seal off the site. i have a ceasefire seatle for site and then allow experts in to investigate. it is not the

right thing to do to bring spurious claims to the un security council which ought debunked by every one their blue countries like china in brazil called for just such an independent investigation under the biological weapons convention which prohibits their use. meantime, daily attacks continue to batter ukraine, many of them indiscriminate according to the united nations cause of damage to civilian infrastructure and mounting casualties. kristin salumi al jazeera, the united nations protests have taken place in the philippines against wising. oil prices demonstrated the demand in government implements, price controls for fuel and basic supplies. she mill, alan dilbren was out of protest in the capital manila. oh, we're in downtown manila where several transport groups are staging a protest. they say a rising fuel prices over the last week or so, i 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 added taxes. they're also asking the government to increase the minimum daily wage rate from $10.00 to 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 since sensitive public transport drive is mostly come from the poor sector. i'm sorry to throw in a hand to mouth existence because of soaring prices. i love them. there's not much left for the vehicle. my, i had them close out 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. the thousands of drivers across the country protestors here calling from or been 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 crunchy is facing its wars, economic recession and decade. 3 russian cosmonaut. so on the way to the international space station engine doesn't have to not try and lift off adults from the russian space agency launch site in kazakhstan, they'll, russian, us and european crew members on board. one, u. s. ulster astral will return to earth alongside 2 russians. but international corporation in space is also being affected by the war in ukraine. jonathan

mcdowell is an astronomer at the harvard smithsonian center of astrophysics in the united states. and he explains, had the, was a face, could spread all the way to the i assess it's a bit awkward. the rest of the space industry has been thrown into turmoil by the ukraine war, the space programs, once rivals are now really intertwined. and so, you know, a western satellite, so we're meant to go up on russian rockets, they're now stranded. and yet at the i s s, it's as if nothing had happened. they say no, we're, we're, we're going to carry on as before. they kind of half do at some level because the one co operate with one of the russian side, colonel pro, without the american side, vice versa. they've got so much money invested in this. they don't want to give up on it easily. but i don't see how that can be sustained in the long run, and indeed, america's been trying to persuade russia to extend the life of the station project

till 2030. currently scheduled to end in 2024. i can't see how that's gonna happen now. we can that much more on our website. the address is al jazeera dot com. oh, current stories here on al jazeera, hundreds of thousands of people are stranded, a major ukrainian poured city that's being bombarded by russian forces as they try to seize control. this footage for mario poll shows the scale of devastation. shopping mall is heavily damaged and residential buildings are reduced to rubble. the battle to take mario pool has now reportedly reached the city center. frances president, manuel mccomb, one of the few western leaders to regularly speak with russian president vladimir putin as demand that the russian forces will immediately lift their siege, allow humanitarian access in order.