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talks with moscow saying it's roches only chance to limit the damage from its mistakes. and the u. s. criticizes the united arab emirates for hosting serious president bush auto assa. now it's been 24 days since russia invaded ukraine and nearly 6 and a half 1000000 people are thought have been displaced by the fighting. this is the territory in red that russia and its separatist allies control ukraine's army chief says russian troops have failed to besieged the capital. key of a barrage of missiles managed to hit an airport aircraft repair facility near live in the west. on friday, though, in the south ukrainian troops are said to have stopped to russian advanced to mc alive. it's the last stand against russian forces near odessa. and ukraine says it

was temporarily, did i have access to the see of as of because of russian military activity at the fort city of murray, or po, stephanie decker, who's in weston ukraine, begins, are coverage 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 and what those left alive can't make sense of this war. richard booth resort order. my mother in law born in 1936, she survived the learning broad siege russian passport on worker 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. authority 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. you're off 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 this strategic port city. tens of thousands of traps here and nothing functions any more. you william lewis looked up what value 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 and helped you carry around to. we are here. all bundled up with blankets,

it's very cold. we just want to go home alone. young faces still manage a smile in these unimaginable times. she finished. so good question. everything is going to be ok. she tells her children, it will end soon. vladimir putin says, russian forces are not targeting civilians the ground. the reality tells a very different story. stephanie decker al jazeera in western ukraine. russia's military says it's used hypersonic missiles against ukraine. this has not been confirmed by this true. it would be the 1st time they've been utilized since this war began. was left on martha. the armed forces of the russian federation continued their special operation. on march, 18 degradation massage system destroyed a large underground warehouse, soaring ammunition of the green troops. and you want to frank, his greed,

and i've got more now from him long connie joins us live from the capitol. first of all, in rom, what are you hearing about these hypersonic missile? well, what we're hearing is that the russians are saying that they have used them. ah, what they say is recording to the into facts, news agency that it use them on saturday to destroy a large, underground depot for missiles and aircraft ammunition. and that was in ukraine's, yvonne oh frank vicks, a region. ah, now the inter fox news agency also goes on to say that it also destroyed ukrainian military radian recognizance, our centers near the postal and near the port city of odessa as well, using coastal missiles or something coming from russian navy. perhaps such is the nature of war. sammy, though often, new weapons systems are news. i've been reading several blogs, military blogs, over the last few days. they've been taking a close look at the types of weapons being used. i,

although this is the 1st time the russians are publicly saying that they've used hypersonic missiles, it may well not be the 1st time they've actually used them. now in the past few days in the key, we've seen cruise missiles shot from russian territory that been intercepted by ukrainian air defense systems as well. also hearing about the fact that the russians are introducing kamikaze drones into the conflict as well. again, that is according to their military blog. so ah, we're taking a look at our oftentimes as are ex, military people who are taking a close look at that. so a lot of new weapon system, which is the case in war a being used here. but like you say this is a 1st time that we are hearing a confirmation about hypersonic wrestles. we're all so we've got that call there from the president for talks, but talks have been ongoing, haven't they? this their concerns and worry that maybe they're about to stall. that's right.

well the talks like you say have been on going. this is the 4th round of storks. it went on all day yesterday. we don't know if they're going to be talking again. we normally found out find out around about 1 o'clock or local time or whether the talks are on going the doing this by video link. now there was some optimism just a few days ago when no one so many, one of the ukrainians was very closely talked leading the told suggested that they got into subcommittees, which meant that they were bashing out the nitty gritty. however, that seems to be a less of a concern now, because the talks seem to have a disconnect, the russians are awesome for very big picture stuff. the ukrainians are asking for the russians to leave our ukranian territory for humanitarian aid and to be taken to places. there are a desperate for it. and also that the russians actually stop occupying crimea and other pos reason i've been in crimea for by 8 years now. so there's a, there's

a disconnect there, but every single time president vladimir lensky of ukraine makes his statement. people are really looking closely that statement, picking it apart to try and figure out what he means. let's take a look now or what he had to say. his latest statement, jazz over 80, must have just, this is the time to meet, and this is the time to speak time to restore territorial integrity and fairness for ukraine. otherwise, the losses of russia will be such that you won't have any resources to get up after that i, to day in russia, they celebrate the annexation of crimea. i would like to highlight one detail. they reported that overall there were 200000 people participating. 100000 outside and approximately 95000 in the stadium. this is the exact number of the russian manpower involved in the invasion of ukraine, like 14000 dead bodies and hundreds of thousands of wounded. this is the exact number of russian forces during this war. this is the price in just over 3 weeks.

were clearly very angry words there from president vladimir zalinski politically directed out the russians for celebrating in a factor of the invasion of ukraine. once again, he's also reiterating the fact that the ukrainian demands are very clear, very simple. russia gets out of ukraine before any serious negotiations on the future of ukraine can take place. also, once again, you didn't hear it there, but once again, he's also asking the west at full more weapons, particularly at defense systems. fighter jets, one of the chit, one of the key claims, hey, now is closed the skies that's of appeal to nato for no fly zone. that's not happening, nato. the 2nd constantly said that they won't do that for fear of escalation. now the claim the, the claim seems to be changing what the ukrainians want is their own fight to just be able to close the skies themselves. what that happens or not, remains to be seen, but clearly the ukrainian position hardening when it comes to defending themselves

. all right, thanks so much im ron con. well, as we mentioned, russia's president vladimir putin has praised the war in ukraine as a success. he appeared before large crowds gathered to celebrate 8 years since russia annexed crimea. bernard 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 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. disease at the soldiers fighting their illustrated russian unity will ensure beecham,

shoulder to shoulder. they help each other 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 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, young brain, 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, 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 apart. bernard smith, al jazeera moscow, while still ahead on al jazeera, ah, we report from the catacombs of odessa, where people are taking shelter an old stone mines once used as nuclear bunkers. and how tensions about the war in ukraine could threaten collaboration on the international space station. ah hello, plenty of showers, as per usual across se, asia, it is of course, the aspirin, equinox, and the, with the sun,

making his way across the equator. that's where the majority of the showers are in that region. 140 millimeters if i just to the south of catching more the same as we go on through sunday. the shower is becoming a little more widespread to in, to the philippines or showers to into our vietnam into a cambodia and on into thailand. in this a similar picture she go through sunday and on into monday still saying some heavy downpours into indonesia should start to turn dry hair. i'm afraid it does stay on the wet side and faces at cutting dryer across said cape, your peninsula, australia, just around the far north of queensland. we still have some showers in the fall cost over the next day or so, but it will turn dry. i promise you, as we go on into this week, much frustrated is fine and royal, or we do have some clout and some rating to southern parts of w. i in that wet weather will make its way through the by till notch. its way over towards south australia as we go through monday and on into tuesday,

there's tuesdays pitch then that rain coming towards adelaide coming towards melbourne and it turned increased the wet and windy you zealand. ah, on counting the coss could the war and ukraine plunged the global economy into a new twice it. russia turned to china as you on to survive sanctions is the u. s. dollar in danger? and could crypto currencies help russia evade financial punishment? counting the cost on al jazeera, revealing eco friendly solutions to combat threats to our planning on al jazeera. ah

ah, welcome back. you're watching al jazeera time to recap, the headlines. russian forces have reportedly entered mario paul, the southern port city has been devastated by weeks of russian bombardments and thousands still cramp there. rushes defense ministry says it's been destroying ukrainian military vehicles with high precision weapons. it also says it's used hypersonic missiles for the 1st time since the war began. this cannot be verified though ukraine's president vladimir zalinski criticized russia for glorifying the invasion and of moscow stadium rally on friday. zalinski said it's in everyone's interest to begin meaningful peace talks and avoid high losses. un secretary general, antonio tallish has called for immediate action in ukraine to avoid a global humanitarian disaster in

a tweets. he said the war in ukraine is already disrupting supply chains, causing the prices of fuel food and transport the skyrocket. we must do everything possible to avert a hurricane of hunger and the meltdown of the global food system. and some of the fiercest fighting has been in east in ukraine, where many troops have been killed. in the neighbor up i said, bag witness the funerals of more than 20 soldiers. a final farewell. but many of these 23 soldiers don't have relatives here to morgan. there on the other side of the front line. their comrades stand, god paying a fine. the tribute this a yeah, yep. to the purposeful chest or the down the i'll a join this unit recently is an honor for me. as part of my family and stay, the mom was snatched away from our military family. we are very deeply her. we feel

emotional fluffy, he gave his life for our country. may he rest in peace? he will always be remembered. may god take him to a better place because it's a holy deed, when one sacrifices himself for his country, never with his motto. even, 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 researchers do not, sir, will be we've got the most wealthy soldiers fell at the battle of villanova. most of them were brought here from their little unfortunately some of them were very young. i'm sorry, this is very difficult to 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 build non 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 and estimated 14000 people have been killed. these latest casualties, a sense of 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 than april or russian warships have been shelling, odessa, which is bracing for a russian invasion. the southern port city is ukraine's 3rd largest and home to more than a 1000000 people. so on the black sea coast and host, the ukranian navies had courses which moves thereafter. russia, emacs, crimea in 2014. it also handles around 65 percent of ukranian, c, cargo. but if russia were to seize a dare say it was effectively cut off ukraine from overseas trade and military aid hood abdul, hamid explains when the sirens go off, people head to the shelter in odessa is deep underground in the so called catacombs, all stone mines excavated through times and her children have been coming and going from here since the beginning of the war before they have supplies ready for the

long hold. i think it will just look another water would you prefer? look, we have water here with the blankets. we have to sleep here with mats and to inflatable mattresses, and here we keep food, a lot of different things. biscuits, liver, 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 labyrinth 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 attack from the north east. the black sea and the northwest only hold on use of which only killers, casey wouldn't. you know, the main risk today is an amphibious landing, russia trying to put psychological pressure on ukrainians by shelling from the sea and from the sky. we are just as of what a vision a mark. they are trying to demonstrate their strength. they certainly have it. but our defense system is ready to repel any attack unless they are probing over defenses to find valuable points and mark them as targets are around. the city volunteers are preparing for the worst. this food hall, usually bustling with tourists, is now the headquarters of the humanitarian effort sponsored by some of the most influential business people of odessa, 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. good morning. the guarantees came but ukrainian odessa is not as small as it might seem, and there is no need to support the russian narratives. the odessa was a russian city and speaks only russian. no, thank you. i think the people now switching to ukrainian and i really hope that a decimal not returned to pro russian narrative any more exclusions and air sirens and heard more often every day and night assigned it for a distance from the light at the end of the tunnel may still be far away and that the humming al jazeera, odessa in sudden ukraine. the us will provide arm and vehicles to bulgaria to bolster the nato members' security in the wake of russia's invasion. the bulgarian prime minister made the announcement during a visit from us defense secretary lloyd austin, washington sent some troops to bulgaria in february before rush and launched. it's

offensive in ukraine. us president joe biden is warned. the chinese, the, the shooting thing. they'll be consequences. the staging provides material support to russian forces, attacking ukraine. the leaders spoke on the video call from any to hours on friday . china has refused to condemn russia's invasion of president. she did say the fighting in ukraine is in no one's interest. we have a range of tools that could be considered and sanctions are certainly one tool in the toolbox as they are for other countries as well. even if we as we have not outline specific consequences and we'll, we'll communicate those directly to china. and of course with our european partners and counterparts, katrina, you has more from aging. according to chinese read out the president, she jin pink told ger biden, that both countries had the responsibility to de escalate tensions. that fighting

was in nobody's interest. and also he repeated china stopped the sanctions would not be effective in ending of the war, and would only serve to damage the global economy that was already struggling to recover from the pandemic. now in or for the us part, that job related emphasize that there would be material costs or there would be consequences for materially supposing russia in its efforts to invade ukraine, although the us did not state what the consequences would be. us officials have asserted that russian officials have off china and military support military aid in the form of equipment in terms of helping to engage in this was something that both moscow and beijing have denied prison blood also went on to share his own view of the war and put forward the u. s. and its allies efforts to stop rushes

invasion and presumably tried to get china on board with that. however, we have seen no indication whatsoever that he was successful in this. and in fact, by the end of this course, all of that did last. we've seen no sign whatsoever that china's position has changed. 3 russian cosmonaut serv arrived at the international space station is the 1st space crew to launch, since rushes invasion of ukraine. and as cattle opposite, a yan reports, phrasing questions about how political tensions will impact international space exploration. first, through the hatch is denise murphy of 3 hours after taking all from a spaceport in context. on this team of 3 russian cosmonaut made it to the international space station, or i asked us 1st to hatch, was course the cough. they received the warm welcome from the american and german counterpart, but back home. tensions among their governments are mounting over russia's invasion

of ukraine. we're less than 30 minutes away from us sanctions targeting moscow space program have been followed by threats from russia. the country space agency chief supports the war and has warned us president joe biden. the sanctions could cause a crash if you blog cooperation with us. he wrote, who will save the i assess from an uncontrolled di orbit and falling on the us or europe international approach. the u. s. provides the i assess with power and rushes. equipment maintains the correct orbit, keeping it away from space junk. nasa is downplaying the threats. despite all of that. up in space, we can have a cooperation with our russian char colleagues, the professional relationship which when you asked you march in plasma watch. it has it miss the b, but collaboration has weakened. the european space agency said it suspending

participation in a russian european mission to land rover on mars space. craft launches have been canceled in contracts broken over the war. it's a bit awkward. the rest of the space industry has been thrown into turmoil by the ukraine war, 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 have to at some level because they've got so much money invested in this. the exclusion cra political tensions now threatened to further weaken years of shared collaboration between russia, the us and its western allies. as earth bound politics, winter follows into space, party aloofness, of the young, and which is here. i'll to all the news now. serious president bashar assad has visited the united arab emirates. it's his 1st trip to an hour of country since the

war began in 2011. the us state department called the visit profoundly disappointing. it surging all nations in the region to resist. normally, normalizing ties with syria also and jordan has more from washington d. c. the u. s. government is condemning the united arab emirates for welcoming the syrian liter boshra law side to both of dubey and dubai. on friday, the u. s. has long tried to isolate boshra law, sought in his government because of their handling of the civil war, which has been raging in that country since 2011, tens of thousands of people have been killed. more than 3000000 people have been driven out of their homeland and at least a 150000 people have been disappeared during the conflict is started as part of the arab spring. now there are some countries including the ui and saudi arabia, which have been trying to re welcome bosher, all asada and syria,

back into the fold of middle eastern countries. one of the leaders in the united arab emirates set on friday that syria was a critical part of the region and should be encouraged to take part in regional affairs. however, the u. s. which has placed sanctions on boshra law side and members of his family as well as on members of his government. say that he should rather be facing a trial for having committed war crimes. and they say that there will be no removal of any sanctions against syrian leadership or against the syrian government writ large until the war is over, until the political peace has been negotiated until bashar assad is out of power. how nearly a 1000000 people in east timor have voted to choose their next president. recent opinion polls suggests former president and nobel peace prize. laurie at jose ramos horta is in the lead. he's facing 15 other candidates,

including the incumbent francisco with harish who seeking us early results are expected. later on saturday. our china has reported its 1st cove at 19 deaths in more than a year. the 2 fatalities were in the northern gillian province, where authorities are battling to contain a surgeon, infections the nation. my death toll is now risen to more than 4600 chinas facing its worst outbreaks since the pandemic emerge 2 years ago. ah, let's take you through some of the headlines now. russian forces have reportedly entered mario paul, the southern port city has been devastated by weeks of russian bombardment and thousands are still track that. russia's defense ministry says it's been destroying ukrainian.