as i said, i'm going i the way that you tell the story is what can make a difference on the yellow pine plains of australia, snowy mountains, a bit of battle is taking place over whether the country's wall horses are a nationwide corn or pharaoh piss. one on one, he's on l to 0. ah, this is al jazeera ah, hello, i'm emily anglin. this is the news our live from doha, with continuing coverage of the war in ukraine. coming up in the next 60 minutes. several humanitarian cargo is in ukraine or allowing people to escape some of the russian bombardments while moscow says it's used to hypersonic ballistic missile to

strike an underground ammunition depart just over it. this is the time to meet. this is the time to speak. ukraine's later calls had talk, saying he wants his message to be heard by everyone, including russia. and the us criticizes the united arab emirates, the hosting series president busha. i'm joining go with the sport russian tenants. i. hon. i have called for politics to be kept out of force, but rational in pins, appear at approval rally alongside president vladimir putin, wearing the nationalist said symbol. ah, we begin this news with the latest developments from ukraine. it stay $24.00 of the invasion and russian forces continuing their attacks across the country. let's had

1st to marry a pole in the south east, where despite russia's heavy bombardment, another convoy of civilian buses and cars as managed to leave the besieged city. the port city has been left in ruins, though moscow reportedly wants to use mary, a pole as a link between crimea and the dumbass region mc alive is another city on the front line rescue efforts are underway there after russian attacks reduced buildings to rebel and moscow says it's been destroying ukrainian military vehicles with high precision weapons. it also says that use hypersonic missiles in west, in ukraine's the 1st time. but the use of those weapons has not yet been confirmed . we have a team of reporters standing by we have dosage bari moscow. zane does robbie in the west in ukrainian city of levine. but 1st let's go straight to acid bag in khaki. in the 8th, i said thanks for being on this news. our. the last we heard of this particular city, it was in ruins and judging by what's behind you, it remains that why,

what can you tell us about what's happening on the ground? what was up in the ground is that this city is being pounded by a russian forces. not some think that the russians thought that they could just walk into the city and there wouldn't be much resistance. but in fact they were repelled by ukrainian forces. and that's some field that they are punishing. so this is the 2nd largest city in ukraine. it did have a population of 1500000. and i can tell you the streets a very, very quiet i've driven into this city. many of the windows in the apartments i taped up to stop them getting blown out. we've seen damage to a number of buildings and streets. and even behind me, this used to be a school that russians are, in fact, russian saboteurs, as they called her, took over and were full start and he left the school in ruins. now we understand

that distill heavy bombardment going on. if you hear any loud thuds while we're on it, that's heavy artillery. that's been fight constantly. we've heard it over the last 2 hours. every 10 minutes or so. we hear large sans signs like suds that shake the ground almost. and that's heavy artillery. that stream fired, we can also see smoke on the horizon where some of the most intense fighting is taking place. but the quarter key is being pounded, but the russians side, the ukrainians are managing to hold act. now the reason administration here has said has said that they've received 17 ambulances to help in the humanitarian efforts in this city. ok, thank you very much for that update and stay safe acid bag lie for us in khaki. we've had over 2 levine now with as robbie has been standing by zane. as we mentioned at the top of the program, some merry poll residents have managed to leave the city. what else are you hearing

about the attempts to evacuate civilians particularly given that the last few times it hasn't worked. that's exactly right. there's been a lot of failed starts when it comes to trying to negotiate with russian leaders and ukrainian leaders to create humanitarian corridors, to try to get people to safety. this conflict. since this start has been something that is displaced so many people in there, all, it's all about having to deal with constricted spaces. people that are fleeing violence having to try to get through active conflict zones to safety. 6.5000000 people have been displaced, half of them have left the country and gone into europe and further afield. the other half are still displaced inside the country. but this morning, deputy prime minister ukraine did announced a 10 humanitarian corridors, have been opened and so far, all the reports are positive with every single one of these millions of people that are on the move. it's a story of some level of tragedy. so every time we hear reports of buses and trains

filled with people of convoys of cars being able to get out of the conflicts on the safety, it is a good thing. and mario poll, the violence that's happened there in the last few days is really turn it into a snapshot of the conflict, the worst hit city now by this war in ukraine. but we heard this morning that at least half a dozen buses or so have managed to get out of mario pole and go to the relative safety use upper regia. now that's about 4 or 500 people that zachary's are still remains of violent pace of conflict. or the hope is that those people can continue moving west to the relative safety of the western side of the country and then perhaps onward into europe. parisha itself came under strikes over night 9. people were killed overnight, according to reports that we heard from there this morning. okay, thank you very much for that update. same as rabbit lab for us in that live eve. as they mentioned at the top of the program, rushes military says it's used hypersonic nissans against you crank, it hasn't been confirmed, but if true would be the 1st time they've been used since the 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 wanna franka screech and ok. let's bring in our correspondent in moscow dosa jabari. hello there, dosa. so what are you hearing from the kremlin about the use of these missiles and why is it so significant? well, this is a hypersonic missile that it was unveiled by the country's commander in chief president vladimir putin. a well, he was delivering the state of nation address in 2018. he called it dismissal an ideal weapon because he can apparently go undetected by a western defensive systems. it is believed to have a um, a very, very fast delivery. it travels fairly 10 times faster than the speed of sound,

and it has a range of more than 2000 kilometers. and it is, we have to remember a missile that is capable of carrying nuclear warheads as well. this is a very new missile that has been used for the 1st time, and i think it's significant where it was used. it was used in the western region of ukraine in ivana rankoff ski, which shares a 50 kilometer long border with romania. that is a nato member country. you have to remember, a vladimir putin had said in the past that is country has the most advanced med miss aisle hypersonic missiles and that russia is really a pri, prides itself on having the advanced weaponry in its arsenal. and the use of this is significant because it really is another reminder to nato countries in, at the region that russia is willing to use whatever it has in its arsenal to

achieve its mission in ukraine. vladimir putin on friday at, during that rally that they held in moscow said that we know what we have to do. we know how to do it and we know what we have to sacrifice in order to achieve our plans. this is yet another very significant and dangerous reminder that this country is willing to use whatever it has militarily to achieve its goals. they're in ukraine. ok, thank you very much. dosa jabar live for us in moscow. following on from what dosa said, let's take a little look at exactly what is the hypersonic missile and why would moscow start using it? now? 9 in russia is kinsey. o dagger myself several times faster than the speed of sound, which makes them hard to detect. and nearly impossible to intercept since they can change caused me to flight. i miss as a part of an array of advanced weaponry, russia, and bout in 2018. china has tested similar missiles while other countries,

including the us in india, have been developing them for more on these. so let's bring in a fresh breeze partier, who is a chief strategy officer at political consultants resume nice and global. he's also a former director of policy planning and nature. thanks for being on this and use our febreeze is 1st of all, tell us a little bit about what kind of damage these nissan can do when they can do some significant expense. we have little information given that they will be using a combat the permission. so i need to see if it's true and verified. this would be a 1st and by that i think, put in just trying to say a message to obviously ukraine before the western ukraine. and he's not the century to the west that the current competition about providing a ukrainian with the system. he's not afraid of that,

and he wasn't text through the ukraine. any other furnace and why the use of the specific missiles? why does that symbolize an escalation in the conflict when i see each symbol as an escalation? because this is not, i would say to be clear, conventional time me sign is not a cruise me sign. so it's not always the nuclear weapons. there is no strategy is just below. so it is an escalation, better feasible. so potentially a sign of desperation, because i think by now he's trying to send a message to the russian people. so in that, you know, he's willing to, for the great technology, russian technology at the problem. but really, it's obvious that he's not going to be able to prevail in combat operations by using the size that you probably only has fewer there, given how expensive sophisticated they are for speaking and strategy from person's perspective. more broadly,

do you think russia would be happy with the progress it's made so far, militarily? or is it not where it would want to be sort of more than 3 weeks into this war? when you start to oversee and i would not want to speak for russian people for russia, but clearly 14 has failed already. actually. so region, a goal of decapitating the ukranian government and replacing it at minimum cost for russian friendly government. now what he's doing, instead of trying to pick up the day, the government is trying to bring the your credit population to. it's nice and that's why you see things in by you bought. you also see growing pressure on population centers be more than ukraine. and this is why i think the support we are willing to provide to students is absolutely crucial for he to resist and him to have a strong position in the current diplomatic negotiations that brings the nature of war, that new weapon systems are often used. what else could we say before this is oliver?

well, you know, scary. lee, a could see has to be engaging in nuclear, or wrapping your mind to remember at the very beginning of the operation. the russian forces have a capture channel, as well as the largest european nuclear power plant in ukraine. and this is part of the broader signally to say that, you know, we have to say out of this conflict, if we don't want to see a major escalation, same thing on chemical weapons. so clearly, base last signaling on, on the use of weapons of mass destruction or highest of the sea case workers like high personally miss. however, that doesn't mean we have to stand by and do anything. on the contrary, we have to follow a declaratory point of view, put back in order for you to not to create a precedent where in the way he's nuclear and weapons of mass destruction is

working. we have to show that these weapons are nothing to do in this conflict. while we appreciate you breaking down for us, have res partier, achieve strategy officer. thank you. russian forces have now entered the center of mary paul where several buildings have been reduced to rubble . stephanie deca found this report from western ukraine from above. my appalled looks like it's had the life sucked out of it. people's homes now frozen in time, airy carcasses 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 route with florida. my mother in law born in 1936, she survived the lead and grabbed siege russian. passport on it,

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, but one of the year 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. so 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 time soon 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. russian warships have been shelling near odessa, which is bracing for a russian embankment. the southern port c. t is ukraine's 3rd largest and home to more than a 1000000 people. it's on the black sea coast and a host. the ukranian at navy is headquarters, which moved there after russia annexed crimea,

in 2014. it also handles around 65 percent of ukrainian st. cargo. if a russia were to seize odessa, it will effectively cut off ukraine from overseas trade and military aid. as hota abdel ha meet reports, ah, 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. oh leak 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 nothing that will reduce letter. look, we have water here with the blankets. we have to sleep here, his mom is with us on the mats and to inflatable mattresses and he, 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. not. 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 at that from the north east, the black sea and a northwest. my whole own uses which only curiosity see wouldn't you know, the main risk today is an amphibious landing rush of trying to put psychological pressure on ukrainians by shelling from the sea and from the sky. we are with

global official america. 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 wilder gl points and mark them as targets are around. the city volunteers are preparing for the worst. this food role, usually bustling with doris, 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 smith, 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 is no need to support the russian narratives that odessa was a russian city and speaks on the 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 exclusions and air sirens . i 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. without the humming odessa inside the new crate, ukraine's president has criticized russia for glorifying the invasion. at fridays moscow stadium rally loaded me, the landscape said it's in everyone's interest to begin. meaningful pays talks to avoid further losses in the war just over 80. my stuff 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 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, 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. first name a rush is president. vladimir putin has laid out his demand for an end to the war during a phone call with turkish later rachel type one. according to those on the call, prudent ones came to accept that it should be neutral and not to join nato. he's demanding a face to face meeting with the ukranian president. before agreeing to a pe still a little earlier i spoke to abraham collin, whose turkeys presidential spokesman. he was part of that group that listening to the phone call and explain what he thinks will help broker a ceasefire between the 2 countries. the negotiation teams are getting closer and

closer, even though there is no a final written agreement at this point. but as they do the work on this, as they bring their positions closer to one another, i think the likes of a meeting between the 2 leaders will be increased because it's only true that strategic level meeting that a piece deal. a permanent piece of permanent fire can be established, the russian demand there for the recognition of the next session of crimea under the russia and also the recognition of that. so for the independence of the 2 republics in the dawn bus region, these are the 2 main issues and i think they, they are the most difficult compared to the other 4. and of course, as far as your brains territorial figure in subway is concerned, they are not acceptable for the grains also for the international committed that will be a violation of those principles or therefore they have, they will have to come up with some different ideas. i know some different ideas had been proposed in regards to crimea as well as at dawn. but i know it's kind of

a better idea at this at this point. but because we are in the middle of this worn out, but the misc agreement that was put together some years ago, it was designed precisely to address these issues in the don't by region. i don't see any reason why that means get agreement, even though as i said, it's been rather better than and weaker. and i should not be given another chance or something like the new agreement that will address the, the russian population living in the best region in your grade. but this has to take place in our view within the territorial integrity. and so i wouldn't be of the state of ukraine. turkey has become a sanctuary for russian anti war dissidence. turkish airlines is one of the few foreign carriers still flying to moscow. russian passport holders our lad visa, free entry for 60 days. seen him cuz he lou met some of them in the stumble. yeah. queueing to get into a charity concert and stumbles. got

a good district. hundreds. so fractions here. united in showing their opposition to their countries war in ukraine and support for the ukranian fight to stop the invasion. most of them are young and well educated russians. if you're right, the war in your face, you can go to the others, say they were arrested for joining anti war protests in cities back home. and that's sometime before i got to read because i was and some are others. and i got far as also in a stumble is elisa silva, the russian actors left moscow 2 weeks ago to crime her life to the small room in a hospital. she has a russian passport, but half of her family is ukrainian,

like many of her peers. she was born after russian president vladimir putin was elected whenever chose him way, a little a hub to a couple years ago. never wanted for this government. people feel guilty generation trying to do something fun as possible. but living in turkey means many challenges lie, a hat, the russian anti war new comers need alive to settle housing, money due to the crippling international sanctions. their credit cards don't work most have no plan. pretty nice and clean and it's good enough to even wrap up or is an ounce report. you are searcher who left russia 9 years ago. she has been in a stumble for nearly 2 years and stayed out of politics. but now she hobbs other russians have fled to get a roof over their heads. i cannot go on and do my regular daily or

something so unjust and so uncalled for the happening. father is in south exile, few for the future and prudence potential revenge. when he turns back from the war, he will turn his eyes to the people that did not support his actions and then will be war inside. as well as russians come, ukrainians also ended up in a stumble. hewick is married to a russian and cousin, but felt he wasn't safe there or in his hometown cave either. drill is dead, said sir, russian people are they worry about the economy when our people die. turkey is one of the easier destination slice gives it for russians war against war, but even a fighting in ukraine and soon russians may face if senior prism centers, if they return home because of their social media posts. and they are opposition to

the invasion. c. m q so long al jazeera, assemble. it's time now for the weather. he's everton with news of warmer weather for much of year. hello, we got a lovely spring sunshine across much of northern europe. big area of high pressure and it's going to warm up as we go through the next couple of days. it's not particularly warm at present, but that is a strong area of high pressure. it means largely clear skies early morning, frog frost, for the time big as i said, it will warm up. the unsettled weather is further south. the remnants of storm cbs still bringing some lively showers in across the western side of the mediterranean . there we go. on the temperature, so not too bad. temperature is about whether it should be for central pass or you are still a cool site down towards that southeast corner. but as we go through the next couple of days, like a sunday, 13th celsius there in berlin revenue 11 degrees in london, happy low, the average. it will warm up monday. 14 could touch 17 by tuesday,

be 19 by wednesday. and there's that warmth into central parts is gonna be absolutely a lovely then. not too bad at the moment, largely clear skies to one or 2 showers just around the low countries where to where the still in place there down across southern parts of france. that western side of the mediterranean span of port cosines and bits and pieces of cloud and re we have got some shall assess the lingering down towards the southeast and corner showers to across northern parts of africa. quite a brisk wind and showers for west africa. thank you very much, ever, tim. ok, still a hey, don't al jazeera battling to be president, form way independence. 5 is there among the election holes in 8th tame. all our tensions about the war in ukraine could threaten collaboration on the international space station and rushes. tennis plays are under pressure to speak up against persian if they want to play at wimbledon. all those details and more coming up in school,

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shared things, stories, explore and abundance of world class programming on al jazeera. ah ah the hello you watching al jazeera, i'm emily anguish. he is a reminder about top stories. the sound. 10 humanitarian cardinals, are opening up in ukraine to allow civilians to flee cities, including merry poll, keith and lou hands. several previous attempts at opening humanitarian cargoes have failed each time keith and moscow have blamed the other for breaching the questions. defense ministry says it's been destroying ukrainian military vehicles

with high precision weapons. it also says if you type of sonic missiles for the 1st time since the war began, although those claims cannot be verified. and a large scale as drank has lasted an army headquarters in the city of mich alive, killing it doesn't rescue efforts are underway to be attack would use the building to rebel russians. irony just starting to see the impact the war is having on their economy as sanctions and international isolation begins to buy from inflation to supply chain logistics. every corner of the economy will feel the effect. as bernard smith reports from moscow, every copay, counts as russians begin to feel the effect of sanctions on their economy. $1.00 bought $75.00 roubles before the war. now it buys a 100. that means high prices for imported goods, such as the fruit and veggies in this market. what guns yet they is learned, the sweets used to cause 70 roubles,

and now they cost $100.00 and she can also. we don't leave a luxury light, but the prices went had notably hotels. and actually the price of sugar went up significantly more than $10.00 doorbells. and i ran out of salt and sugar and i couldn't find ample. now to day they appeared. no my pension would be a nasty, it is not so little, but i spent almost half of it on medicines. so very little remains of everything is more expensive. sorry, fish used to be a 120 we. those now is $480.00. last time he bought buckwheat almost 200, very expensive, it's hard for us. we want to eat. russian president vladimir putin has acknowledged that sanctions mean the economy will need what he calls, deep structural changes. they won't be easy. he said before the war in ukraine inflation here, it was already over 9 percent the highest. it's been in 7 years that could now double and interest rates are 20 percent. all of this putting

a real squeeze on russian incomes ah, or the russian association of patriotic entrepreneurs. some believe there are opportunities to be hard. as western firms pull out, though 1st, there are practical challenges to work around from virginia. the whole supply chain has been damaged, yet many producers are not sending raw materials of finished products to russia, even if they are containers aren't leaving because of concerns about sanctions. so a big question for processing, industrious is, what is their logistic chain like durable dollar exchange rate is also big stress. many russians credit their president with stabilizing the economy after the collapse of the soviet union. it grew every year vladimir putin was in office until a global financial crisis. a group of international banks now expects economic output to fall by up to a 3rd. this year. bernard smith, al jazeera, moscow. you as president joe biden has worn chinese later, she jin,

paying there will be consequences if begging provides material support to russian forces attacking ukraine. the latest spoke on a video covey. nearly 2 hours on friday. china has refused to condemn russia's invasion by president. she did say the fighting in ukraine is in no one's interest . the white house hasn't specified what consequences china might face. katrina you has moved from by jean. according to chinese, read out the president. she didn't ping told ger biden, that both countries had the responsibility to de escalate tension. the fighting was in nobody's interest. and also he repeated, china's don't. 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 u. s. 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 for the us and its allies efforts to stop russia's 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 that did last we've seen nurse, i'm whatsoever that china's position has changed. and mark is a senior research fellow at the center for china and globalization. it says the

meeting appears to have been constructed. western media narrative really, which is nothing more than due to flee, being stenographers for the u. s. government has frame this as biden warning. see, but i think this is purely for domestic political consumption. if you look at the sing while read out, it notes, 3 things, one, the call was constructive. the 2nd is that both presidents agree to instruct their teams to put the china us relationship on back on the right track. this is vitally important and much more important than any decisions reached or ukraine. but the 3rd point did address the creamy conflict, and that was to say the china and the us both agreed that steps need to be taken to peacefully resolve this conflict. to other world news now in serious president busha l. a sad has visited the united arab emirates. it's his 1st trip to an arab

country since the war began back in 2011. the us state department called the visit profoundly disappointing its own nations in the region to resist normalizing relations with syria. roslyn jordan has more from washington dc. 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 sa, 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. for more analysis on this lives bringing andreas craig, he's an associate professor in the defense studies department at kings college london. thanks for being on the program. andreas, so i thought has very rarely traveled outside of syria during the civil war. as we

mentioned before, rosalind already visiting allies, russia and iran. so what's the context of this particular visit to the u a rides the, this is quite a remarkable development. obviously the you a have already for years try to get the syrians and the regime back into the fold. and i've done so fairly successfully. i mean, convincing other our partners to potentially go with a thought and endorsing him as the ride for leader in syria at the same time. i mean, we need to understand that, you know, that having obviously cannot make interest in syria and trying to benefit from what would be the rebuilding of the regime. and 3rd of all, obviously, both countries kind of align themselves intellectually and ideologically over the counter revolutionary narrative of saying, we want to bring an end to the ab spring and this kind of disruptive decade and rebuild something called return stability. but the broader due strategic context is obviously one where the mirage. so trying to send a message to the united states to say, look, you guys have left off as in the middle east in a vacuum by jo. partial withdraw,

the partnership that we have with the united state is no longer functioning. you're not delivering on the security on the security guarantees that you're giving particular as we look towards the g p a to point of being negotiated with iran and the mirage. the thing we're taking over responsibility, we want to share the burden. we're taking the burden, but we're doing it our way. and we'll, we'll take any kind of liberty as we see fit, to deal with partners that we consider to be partners. even if that goes against the interest and values of the west interest and values of the united states, i want to get to washington's role in all of these shortly. but firstly, the u. a has been normalizing kinds of aside for some time. so once you make a list of the timing of this particular visit of is it's a, it's a, it's a, it couldn't be a more daunting of timing, considering that this is not the 11th year anniversary of the start of the revolution in syria. and obviously the you are you from the beginning, they're very much against civil, a civil society mobilization. they were against the revolutions,

they were against protests. and they have always been on the counter revolutionary site and they are the leading counterrevolutionary country in this part of the world. so to that, to them kind of sending that kind of statement as sending that statement to the world saying, look, this is now the end of the arab spring, syria as president, is now back in the fold. we're inviting him, we're normalizing relations with him in this, on this very day. kind of is a clear statement that the revolutions have failed and error, auth returns stability is there to, to stay. and it's going to be led by the united arab emirates as the key counter revolutionary country. i want to get your thoughts now on washington's influence and all this. what does this meeting say about the u. s. and its influence in the middle east? well, i mean, this is a, the partnership between the united states and saudi arabia, as well as the relation but united states and the u. e, as is in a state of crisis and has been for quite some time. there is a disagreement fundamentally about the role the united states are playing in terms

of security there, the fundamental disagreement and will be about the liberal order and what the liberal orders providing to the gulf and with as the u. s. is withdrawing, it has crazed a vacuum, whether you are, you have risen, you've risen over the last 89 years into the most powerful and most influential player in this part of the world. and they've done so in the vacuum of american partial withdrawal, intellectual withdrawal from this part of the world. and the america is a kind of sending a message of saying, we're now the new, the middle power here, and we're, we're taking over responsibility. but we are pivoting away from the west and we are our consequence of this. partial you as withdrawal is a reintegration with the east. we see that new off return order developing very closely tied to moscow, very closely tied to bridging. whether you a looking for alternatives and they are already building alternative relationships outside of washington. and that means that the united states now are confronted with a situation where they have to make choices as well. what. what is the consequence of that? in terms of where the americans are going and their influence networks and it seems

like they found a part 9 castle, which is a bit more reliable that which is not are you turning? and at the same time we've got the u. a which is pivoting towards the east and that is definitely undermining u. s. soft and hot power in this part of the world. and it will be very difficult for us to rein them in now. plenty of moving pads to the story. thank you very much for giving us your insights. andreas craig there from the kings college london. appreciate your time. thank you. pose have closed an ace, tame, always citizens of ages. youngest democracy have cast a vote to elect a new president with 16 candidates in the running. there is hope the country's most competitive election in history will lead to an end of a political impasse. julian wolf has the story. the from early in the morning, nearly 1000000 voters both young and all lined up at pulling boots across the sea, more eager to elect our next president. i want to president who loves the

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kicked off last month across the country and of may's presidential election. the hopefuls include fed and en macos junior, the man of manila, and to retire boxing champion jamila ellen doug, and has more from the capital manila, the economy. president of the 3 good that they're just policies and public health are just some of the issues discussed in this national debate organized by the commission on the elections. now there are 10 presidential candidates in a multi party set up here in the philippines. 9 showed up, and that includes the leader of the opposition, vice president lennier, brad, the world's renown boxing champion mine. and my dilemma your is. what i know with everyone here is talking about the refusal of bonbon mart junior, the son of the late dictates, or former president for a dinner mark was senior. so i stand debates and grant interviews. and that is because he's the front runner,

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that 2 years ago on still ahead on al jazeera, the new formula, one season gets under way in buck rain. joe will have all those details coming up in a frank assessments for china will benefit from the 0 call the strategy if the rest, the world cannot get together informed opinions at all costs market needs enough reading from the critical debate wide report claims that need to do, and it just didn't show threats to russia, but it's precise. he's actions that created the insecurity in the region. in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera. ah

ah ah ah, and before we have the full, we have a report on those 3 russian cosmonaut who've arrived at the international space station. it's the 1st space crew to launch since roches invasion of ukraine,

and his katya lopez, holy young reports. it's raising questions about how political tensions will affect international space exploration. first through the hatch as denise matt b of 3 hours after taking off from a spaceport in context on this team of 3 russian cosmonaut submitted to the international space station or i s s 1st to hatch was course a cough. they received the warm welcome from the american and german counterparts, but back home tensions among their governments are mounting over russia's invasion of ukraine or 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 you as president joe biden. the sanctions could cause a crash if you block cooperation with us. he rode who will save the i assess from an uncontrolled d 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 was wide. all of that up in space. we can have a cooperation with our rushing char carly sh. the professional relationship, which were you asked you march in plasma? not it has it missed the b. but collaboration has weakened. the european space agency sounded suspending participation in a rushing european mission to land rover on mars space. craft launches have been cancelled and 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 half do at some level because they've got so much money invested in this, their exclusion crossville political tensions. now threatened to further weaken years of shared collaboration between russia, the us and it's western allies. as earth bound politics, winter follows into space party locus of the young al jazeera. it's time for sport, he's jo, emily, thank q rush in tennis player andrew black has called on politics to be kept out of sports, but it comes as russian and pins appeared alongside vladimir putin, at a pro rally in moscow. gymnast dina and rena evelina in for russian figures, cases appeared on stage of the loos, nicky stadium with their metals wearing the nationalist said symbol, according to local police. around 200000 people attended the rally, marking the anniversary of the annexation of crimea risky. stadium hosted the 2018 well cup final, as well as the 980 and then pick game. meanwhile,

rude lab who made headlines last month with his anti war message, has called the situation and ukraine terrible. the world number 7 reached the semifinals, the indian wells on friday. the faces an uncertain future, the season is already competing as a neutral, but may have to speak up against prudence actions. if he wants to play wimbledon this year, for the sports minister, said he talks about whether russian tennis plays should be allowed to compete. he wants assurances that they're not supported with the russian president volcano. the breaches government is like i said, i think we should the so a great example that then if out with delta the politic look the new journals for the goes where we want to compete, we were soccer funding. so many things that we don't see our family, many of the up is the change form because of the condition of the sport they are

doing. nothing. does the most important thing that we were supervising a load just to, to, to, to be able to compete to, to show that we want to do our job and that's it. if they to the well, the indoor athletics championships and ukraine has secured their 1st gold medal 20 year old yet us love. i'm a who check one the high jump clearing to point there to me to the finish. the head of a straight is elena patterson, who check as the world titles her limping bronze. she was given these done, the evasion by the crowd, as she held up the ukrainian flag over the new formula one season gets under way later with qualifying for the boring chrome pre after controversial finish. last year. all eyes will again be on defending champion max a step and, and 7 time title hold to lose hamilton. the stop with soft earlier and final practice in his red book on hamilton like pacing the cds and could only manage

you can see, you know, friday is pushing hard and very close, but that's very exciting as well. and the way to live and also what engine most tomorrow, from the really cool, why is already taken place for this week's moto g p race in indonesia raining well champion 5 year quote that i don't dominated to take poland mandolin back on track up to finishing 11th at the season opener and katara, the phoenix suns continue to fly high in the m. b a after another big win over the chicago bulls debit. booker was the saw with 28 points. the phoenix runaway with it 129 to one or 2. they are the best performing franchise in the m b a by far, well, clear at the top, the western conference, 9 games ahead of the memphis grizzlies with just 11 games last australia pulled of record run chase to reach the semi finals in women's cricket world cup the favorites chase down children 78 to be india in oakland. breaking the

previous record by 20 runs caps and make learning hit 97 for the old ease who is now 15 from 5. india needed to win the remaining 2 games if they want to make the semi the big day for the french rugby team who had just one went away from securing the 6 nations grand slam. they won all for game so far and will look to make it a perfect life against england in paris. it will be the 1st 6 nations type of 2010 . but if they fail to when they could still be picked the title by island, which is good to says before we all play the sports or experience these emotions and to win trophies. we know that when we, when a trophy, we put our name in a line that goes beyond us and that was here long before us. we just try to be part of this continuity. we're all well aware of that. i want to be able to write our history, former argentina rugby, international, frederica, erin burke has been shot dead in paris. he's reported to have been involved in an altercation and a ball in the early i was saturday, or,

and brew and 22 caps for his country. he was 42 years old and played for french clubs, barrett, pope, and young and tax, as well as scottish side glasgow warriors. i know what to pull out of a c on the as well qualified because the main majority of their players and staff tested positive coven. 19 itsyana games are being played here in cattle, where the well cut begins in november. you zealand opened up their campaign with a win against pep when you getting they want it. thanks to some quick thinking which set up and davies 15 minutes before the end. yeah. the game on friday. so fiji beat, new caledonia to one. so i do see now lovers to school. both goals for fiji. 17 in the o. c on your region are competing for just one place in the world cut into continental playoffs, which take place in june and staying here and cattle. one of the world cup stadiums hosted the 50th edition of the countries domestic, amir cup final. it was a one sided game relief international with al da hale thrashing elder f. a $51.00

is the 4th time. elder hale have lifted the trophy. all right, that is like a spot for now. we'll have more for you later. emily. thank you very much, joe. big james sport. all right, that's it for me. emily angland, but don't go anywhere. i'll have more of the day news in just a man. ah . with some of the world's largest reserve needs yeah. provides much of the uranium that fuels year. it's nuclear power power. but at what cost, people and power follows the uranium trail from nisa to the source of the mediterranean and investigates the devastating effects on the planets and all those who inhabit the industries. part. the curse of uranium part to on al jazeera dictatorships, to democracies, activists to corporations,

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also coming up. while moscow says it's used to hypersonic ballistic missiles, just strike an underground ammunition debt by watching a large scale. a strike has blasted, an army headquarters in the city is mc alive, killing dozens. and the us criticizes the united arab emirates for hosting this