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ah, in the 960 afghan cinema was born filmmakers went on away of the dangers to come. oh, as fighting intensifies in the streets of maria poll, ukraine's president calls the russian siege of the port city. a war crime. look, gotten him when you would do this to a peaceful city. what the occupiers did to it is a terror that will be remembered for centuries to come. ah, hello, i'm adrian for the good. this is l 0 alive from dough. also coming up. russia says it's attract ukraine with cruise missiles,
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from ships and the black and caspian seas, as again, used hypersonic weapons. plus, i'm a sad bag and i'm kind of keith, ukraine's 2nd largest city that's been pounded by russian forces for the last 3 weeks. and we report from a refugee camp in somalia, where many people forced to move by trout are now facing starvation. the city council or the port city of maria poll says that russia has bombed an op school where people were taking shelter. they say that $400.00 or in the building, russia has increased its attacks on the southern port city, which it sees as vital to the success of its invasion ukraine's president vladimir zalinski. as acute roy accused washing troops of committing war crimes that look, god, me might be open to do this to a peaceful city. what the occupiers did to it is a terror that will be remembered for centuries, come in,
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and the more ukrainians tell the world about it. the more support we find, the more russia uses terror against ukraine. the worst, the consequences will be. people in the entire neighbourhood. so now trying to leave the city with fears of more strikes by the russian army. al jazeera, katya lopez, hot ion reports, a city under siege as russian forces intensify their attacks. what's left of neighborhoods and muddy a bull are shattered homes and buildings. 0 medicaid for answer across the port city. scattered bodies lay out on the street. scenes of the worst war can do. horrors, now line the streets as people try to flee checkpoints, make sure only civilians leave them. but i know and i you and i would look at i in the be i got out of the city central district with bonds and destruction. we lost her house. so now we're leaving with our children were still in shock and fearful
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russian forces charged into the port city. a place where weeks of shilling had camped about 400000 people hostage, local authority. se moscow's attacks have cut of a tricity, supplies, heating and water. russia denies its targeting civilians. yeah. he freed us from education, but airstrikes have hid civilian infrastructure like the city school. and recently a theater where people were taking refuge from bombings a miss those ravaged neighborhoods. survivors say life will never be the same. a makeshift kitchen is all that's left of this woman's home and some no longer had the energy for will to leave. she just east shift was muscle wizard, wiley, the city now after what we've been through, we've had difficult days with bombing hunger and cold weather. as you can see, our neighbourhood is destroyed. mutual said there, as all 2 lives are left behind,
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some have found shelter and local schools with another humanitarian crisis unfolding. katya lucas, of again al jazeera. we'll talk more about the situation barrier. paul, without you al jazeera is robert bryant who's in la vish shortly. but 1st let's take you to another ukranian city, which has been under always constant bombardment since the start of this russian invasion, all the serious asset beg, is in khaki leave in easton, ukraine. i said, what's the situation there now? but as you said, there has been constant bombardment we've heard have yet to re been fight all morning and actually went to the afternoon all afternoon as well. that where i am currently this faces hit the just a few days ago. this is a court house behind me. this was where the impact was made. and as you can see, the effect that it had on the building behind me. it's taken all of that out. you
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can see there's no windows pretty much remaining. that was a court house and from court houses have to move to different locations in the country. and on the opposite side of the street was residences as we understand. and again, completely destroyed the lampposts. having taken out this, why is that actually work? when i actually working night to clear that drain of some of the rubble that's been in there. and we understand that the military police building behind the russian that she missed, that hit a residence where 2 people die than 5 people were injured. but let me just show you the kind of impact that these missiles have had. sat building is completely destroyed. and behind me are a block of flats. let us take a look at that. all those windows smashed. no one can really live there anymore. and these streets, herr, where people lived completely destroyed that this is what her ukrainians here in
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the 2nd largest city of ukraine are facing to just constant bombing missiles strikes, shelling, heavy artillery. and part of the reason that we're having to wear these protective vests is because people had to thought no, what was it hit hit next, and when it will be hit, there's a talk opposite me here. it has a playground and i can tell you there's a massive crater in the middle of that pock that took out the trees. and you can see the impact across the street. and this the honey of where to see those look killed just a few days ago and clean up operations are taking place around the city. but again, this constant firing constant bonding and constant methods break from morning all throughout the day. and even throughout the night, you can constantly hear and if you hear the loud 3rd or vans taking place that the
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heavy artery be fired from the ukrainians. but also from the other side, alzheimer's as had been reporting live there from car keith and eastern ukraine. i said many thanks and dave, let's go to the west of the country now. then bringing out as soon as robin bride, who's in levin, what are you hearing from the southern port city of mario, paul, rob. yeah, mary, pole and the deteriorating situation. they're really dominates sir, things here in, in ukraine. this says sundays. it has for a number of days, just the ad deteriorating situation for the people who are a wreck and still to be inside the city. there is a, a lot of growing concerned are focusing on this sir. art school is art college and that apparently were, says shell, the authority say that 400 people were sheltering inside there. and that comes, of course, on top of the ongoing tragedy or about this theater, which was a destroyed several days before that or where the authorities reckoned that more
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than a 1000 people were sheltering. now we know that rescue as have been able to get a number of people out of there, but the fate of mate put potentially many hundreds of other people remains unknown . and the approach problem for the authorities, they tell us is that they simply can't get rescue teams close to it. now because of the intense fighting that is going on around the streets and humanitarian corridors that are in operation, people continue to leave the city. our colleagues, the team from al jazeera arabic, has there been grout given access by the russians to get into the city. seeing for themselves the situation, they are also the of checked points that surround the city of, of people leaving with russian soldiers a checking that the people leaving are indeed civilians and not soldiers or are all fighters. but the problem is also a getting humanitarian aid into the city. or we are seeing from the russian side our various clips of videos of chechen and russian soldiers helping the civilian
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population, handing out some aid. but the problem is that given the a, given the scale of the humanitarian crisis in the city, a lot more is needed and all of that humanitarian aid, the amount of actual monetary nate needed is simply not getting in at the moment alzheimer's world, brian reporting live from levine and western ukraine. rob for the moment. many thanks and date will russia says that it's once again used hypersonic missiles to attack ukraine. the defense ministry said that it hit military facilities. one of the targets was reportedly an armored vehicle repair site. in the town of niche in russia said that it fired cruise missiles from the black sea. in michel, i have a fuel dep. her was destroyed by high precision missiles fired from the caspian sea . and from crimea, russia says it also destroyed a military training center in of roche, where foreign mercenaries are based on large, if not those nonprofit. to hypersonic degraw missiles destroyed
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a large fuel depot used by ukraine's armed forces. when near the village of constantino kinds of muslin with the main supplies of fuel for ukraine's army vehicles in the south were carried out there, the high precision miss. i launched instructor training center different for you. green special forces about their foreign mercenaries were based roughly out as her as bonnet. smith has worn out from moscow. so russia's defense ministry saying it used the kin jour hypersonic missile for a 2nd time. it was targeting, particularly it says, a fuel storage site in the south. there's no way of independently verifying this. there's a bit of an arms race on between the united states. russian shine over these hypersonic missiles, meaning that they fly at 5 times the speed of sound. so rushes as it's use them for a 2nd day. it also said it is and destroyed and underground miss isle storage site on saturday with these kin jowl missiles. now, the cranes are confirmed that that place was targeted,
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although they can't say what type of missile it was hit with. and russia says, yes, it launched a cruise missiles from the black and caspian sea at targets in ukraine. in ukraine's capital. a volunteer force was emerged to help those who remained behind the network support some of cubes. most vulnerable answers him on con, joined a group as they made their daily routes. it might not look like it, but these people are providing a vital service without any external funding. anya and her friends deliver groceries and basic goods to some of the most vulnerable and keep some of the goods are donated, but most a paid for by the volunteers themselves. the move on to who i always wanted to learn can work. i don't have grandparents so this house you can say to her that it really comes from my heart. maria rarely leaves the house. she's too frail to make
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the journey. and the elevator in her building is best described as temperamental. she said in the city because she says she has no family to go to without the volunteers, i should be completely alone. and hungry and thirsty, i won't tell and i was in hospital his heart problems and my daughter died recently . i have a niece who could help my public transport, stroud so she can't get here. oh, he's right now. i don't need anything because then brought me things. but this won't last long. on. the volunteers work under the umbrella of an organization called love life, which existed before the war to help the homeless and vulnerable. now is one of the only organisations of his kind in ukraine, still operating and demand for it services for outstrips its capacity. to cope the organization has changed the way operates. it identifies the most vulnerable people and post them on a private social media channel,
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volunteers and make the deliveries navigating the cities. many checkpoints, an anti tank barricades, and it's not just home delivery, kitchens and roadside chaos have also become a frontline of salt in the war effort. most of the restaurants across the city are shut, but the kitchens are open and the chefs are working. now they might not be making their usual cuisines. what they're doing is they're making home style cuisines that then volunteers pick up and bring to distribution points like these. and it is a lifeline for many. this might be the one hotmail that they get a day american out 0 cave. so come on out a 0 awaiting collection and kiss, but it's too dangerous for the parents of these babies to collect the facing to the right to continue their education. we meet the indian students have been forced to return from ukraine. ah,
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power, and influence on al jazeera. ah ah. hello again. this is al jazeera, let's remind you of the main nearest the south officials in mario pole. so that more than 39000 people fled in the last week. russia is targeting the southern port city, which it sees as vital to the success of its invasion. russia says it's once again used hypersonic missiles to attack you frame a spokesman of the ministry of defense. so military targets with his in khaki for rescue walkers have been searching for survivors of the ruins of buildings. washing forces, relentlessly targeted the city. since the stars feverish in ukraine's capital cave,
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dozens of babies born to, sorry, goods awaiting to be collected for a makeshift nursery. their parents are either unable to travel or not willing to risk the journey. the babies are sheltering in a basement, but it constant care. and since many of the nurses can't return to their own destroyed homes, they sleep and work their nath. we have very well equipped rooms to provide comfort for children. it is everything for them to be safe in for them to be t heroes. but no, we're staying here in this basement to preserve ours and the babies lives there, hiding here from the bombing and this horrible misery to put a whole war in ukraine as force, nearly 18000 medical students to return home to india. they've filed a petition in the supreme court asking the government to allow that transferred indian colleges. the students plight has highlighted india's lack of medical colleges as elizabeth brought them reports. now from without pradesh,
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you can or you could in, in women and children. action sharma shows videos of him and his fellow students fleeing the russian bombing of car cave. the 20 year old was in his 1st year of medical school in the east in ukrainian city. he's one of nearly 800000 indian medical students evacuated from ukraine since the russian invasion began molest in the apartment number in your bag. him and government all in my past the entrance exam last year. but i didn't have enough marks to go to government college here because they cut off requirements are very high. so the better option for me was to go overseas with michael shanks just as monica an entre. but he said they were forced to study overseas, were fees much cheaper. their families says they're paying half the amount of fees in ukraine than they would. and private colleges in india, online classes have begun for the sisters and some others. but they're not ideals or later when it go on yankee. and the problem with online is that we need
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a lot of practical experience, which we aren't able to do. we are a 3rd year student and practical is very important and the 3rd year. so it's difficult the return of the students from your claim is again putting the spotlight on the lack of medical colleges in india. the number of seats available for medical education in india is far less than the number of students who leave school with the hope of becoming doctors or the 1600000. who did the entrance them last year on the 88000 and made it into the 562 medical colleges from the country. given the shortage private colleges charge, hefty fees for the much sought after spaces and receive large donations from students, families, public health experts, blame, and lack of government investment and health care. and what they call the medical council of india's arbitrary regulations to set up colleges, whether it was
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a bona fide the intent to protect standards. as they said over there, it was to predict some interests of people who are running private medical colleges . i cannot really say, however, that did result in a smaller number of medical colleges and also clustering of medical colleges in the for southern states and to west and indian states. prime minister that ends remotely blamed previous governments for the lack of colleges. and said his administration will increase the number of students who returned from ukraine, appealed to the government to find a way for them to continue their studies at home. some health experts say it's an ideal opportunity for india to tackle the dr. shortage. elizabeth per item al jazeera, great in order to produce the saudi coalition. fighting in yemen says that who the rebels have launched for attacks on the kingdom, damaging carson holmes, saudi state media report that a gas facility and commerce machine was targeted,
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as well as a power station at a ramco oil facility and a water dissemination plot pool. so targeted, the coalition says it stops in the tank on a 2nd. a remco facility in the city of young engineers here demonstrations are on the way in the capital against the drafting of a new constitution and calls for protests against julian, president k siad to new jersey and continue to struggle with unemployment, food shortages and high inflation. as evoke, my reports now from curious today is the final day. is chi sides public consultation, where he called on the technician, citizens to contribute their ideas for a new constitution. but the, the, the movement that's organized this particular demonstration have been pushing back against ty sides pretty much, ever since july. and saying that what teenage needs is to get back to democratic normality. so that we can address the, the very serious problem problems as unemployment and people are getting really
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quite angry at case side because he's sort of just focused on political change and changing the system. where is the reality is that you go into supermarket and you know, people can't find flour. i mean, every day we're seeing kind of videos and articles about shortages. there's not been rice in the supermarkets for about 2 weeks. there's a, a march which is, is trying to get to the parliament building, which has been blockaded since july 25th when police side made as power grab. but they're held back by police barriers about so 200 meters away from the parliament building, which still has an army presence inside. there's a tank inside the perimeter. and we've also seen, i supported the prey democracy unit. the movements from america youth created a new conditionality to a kneeves financial aid for teenagers saying, you know, we will give you the financial support that you need. if you return to the
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democratic par, somalia is suffering its worse drought in 40 years. more than half a 1000000 people have left their homes to seek food and water because their livestock has died and they're unable to grow crops. nor can web reports. those 5 or 600000 people of left the said of small is population of people here say in past routes, he would flee the countryside to come to the villages in worst route. people leave the villages to come to towns, but now they've got sways and populations of towns moving to the city, seeking water and food, and the mean to survive. now, to the south of here where we are now in mogadishu, along the banks in the basin of the ship belly and the rivers. people that they formed cross, they heard them live stock. but just within the last month or 2, the loss of the water in those 2 rivers has disappeared. this is an area that was
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known as the bread basket of somalia because it producing food. but now thousands of people have set off on foot to leave those places, which are now completely dry to try and seek means of survival elsewhere. a lot of them arrived here in the capital market issue where they set up, make shift come. we spoke to some of them. let's take a look at our story now. here hussein amid says when she planted her last handful of seeds on a farm. rain never came. with no food left, she started to make her way here. somali as capital mogadishu with her 4 children. that journey began on the back of a truck. then things got worse. not the truck driver said, this is my last stop. you can continue on your own to mortgage issue. we sat down under a tree, my 2 babies were in bad condition because of hunger and thirst. then all of the sudden i found they had white eyes. they had died. there was
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a lady living there who helped me to bury them by the roadside raquira and her 2 surviving children are among a rapidly growing number of people who are now staying in camps like this on the outskirts of the city. most of the people here walked for more than a week to get here, the caird, whatever they could, top orleans and sheets, that's what they've made, that shelters out of the more than a 1000 people living in this settlement. and all of these shelters have sprung up within the last 4 weeks where they've come from the situations been deteriorating and the humanitarian agencies say it's about to get much. most of them have come from the southern part of somalia, where they depended on farming and hurting livestock. until the last 3 rainy seasons failed. crops, withered and animals died. here they surviving on one meal a day. how are mohammed osmond with one of the 1st to arrive?
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she's a community leader. she'd been trying to find help with little success. holla, have a car that was guy d. c. he. the situation around here is extremely difficult. people are hungry and in poor house, people don't even have shelter. every time a car passes here, people think that somebody is coming to give them food. it's a similar story all around the outskirts of mogadishu. the u. n says more than 60000 people have arrived here in the last 4 months and across the country. more than half a 1000000 people have been displaced by the drought. humanitarian organizations say they only have 3 percent of the funds needed to help them. the solution is for everyone to act fast, we need more fun. we need more attention to the drought. we need support from donna agencies, from donor countries, at to the so many people, that's what we need now. meanwhile,
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somali as government is entangled in an ongoing and fraught electoral process, much of the world's attention is focused on the war in ukraine. people here have been left destitute there waiting and wondering if anyone will come to help. aside from the chronic shortage of funds, there were other problems, serious problems in trying to get help to the people that needed the ongoing conflict with the group. our survive, who had been fighting for years, the west and back government. this base here and more good issue. i mean it's very difficult for the government and it's western partners to distribute any kind of assistance beyond the cities and the towns that they control our ship. bob control sways of the countryside and they want to control any aid that's going to be distributed that so that means if aid can't be distributed where people live, they have to move to the towns or the cities to have any chance of getting help. a
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tool that just exacerbate the displacement problem and all of this happening at the same time, a somali as politicians are trying to select new leaders. that means at the moment that completely distracted so donations, don't even know who they'll be doing business with in a few weeks from now. so all of these things are holding up the process of delivering help. the next rain to june, april long term, weather full cost to say that not expected to deliver much water at all. and if indeed, that is the case, things from here will be expected to get even worse. i was there was malcolm web in mogadishu. in pakistan there's been a large explosion. one of us heard in the city of seattle called the fire broke out at a military ammunition deps early on sunday is not yet clear what caused the blas. it's not for me to have been any sort of attract waldron out valet stars.
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i've raised at least $180000.00 for ukrainians during a gala performance in london. ah, the leading ballerina is from russia and ukraine as well as from asia. the americans participated in the of us at the london coliseum. it was organized by 4 british royal ballet stars, including ukrainian van patrol. it is important to show that the whole world is supporting ukraine. and dennis lee crane, he at london coliseum have an incredible array of fair artists and musicians who joined from around the world. we have dances from brazil, from england, from scotland, from france, russians, ukrainians. it is important to show that russian does an equal aggression it, there's an equal to heretic scenes that are happening in ukraine right now from ballet to punk rock. the ukrainian band baton have reworked the crashes,
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hit london calling to highlight what's happening in their homeland. now i keep calling, which has been recorded me the frontline has lyrics the call on the rest of the world to support ukraine. it's fight against russia. the hoping to use the song to raise farms for the free ukraine resistance, but ah, it's good to have you with us. hello, adrian. sort of get here and go. how the headlines on al jazeera, the city council in the port city of mario poll, says that russia has bombed an art school where people were taking shelter. they say that $400.00 were in the building at the time. russia has increased its attacks on the southern port city, which it sees as vital to the success of its invasion. ukraine's president followed him as lensky as a.

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