al jazeera, we're bringing the news and current to fast that matter to you. count his arrow. ah, ah, a city in ruins, ukraine's president says the russian siege of murder you all amounts to a war crime. ah, i've had them secret extensive coverage a day 25 will be ukraine war. i must not be in hockey city in houston, ukraine, and i'll be bringing you on the latest on the destruction here. of the city has been hard wired. russia for an appeal for hell. president volunteer. miss zalinski

tells israeli politicians that both countries are facing destruction waiting for their new moms. we look at who's caring for surrogate babies, held in a makeshift nursery in ukraine's capital. ukraine's president has called it a terror that will be remembered for centuries to come. while a dim zalinski accusing russian forces of war crimes in trying to seize control of the port city of murder, you pull, and in the past hour, he's urged israel to help protect ukraine against the invasion. we'll have more on that shortly with harry force it in west jerusalem at 1st to stephanie decker in weston ukraine with more on the battle to get people out of matter. you pull it's relentless and it's been 3 weeks of this. the neighborhoods of mary paul are

unrecognizable. now the bodies lie where they fell. it's not safe to collect them. not safe to bury them in a cemetery. small salis, for their families, the cold keeping them from decomposing cars lined the streets as people try to flee . checkpoints make sure only civilian 3 since i know and i you and i would like and i and 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 russian forces of continuously targeted this port city where weeks of shelling have kept about 400000 people hostage. local authorities say moscow's attacks have caught electricity, supplies, heating, and water. this city has shut down. russia denies its targeting civilians, but its air strikes have hit civilian buildings like this city school. and recently

a theater where people were seeking safety from bombings, survivors say life will never be the same. it's still bitterly cold outside. and this woman lost her home. but psalm no longer have the energy or the will to try to leave. she just used joseph's muscle wizard, wiley, the city now after what we've been through, we've had difficult days with bombings, hunger and cold weather. as you can see, our neighbourhood is destroyed, mutual zeniah, as russian forces continue, their assault of the city. ukrainians fiercely resist their advances. life has been put on hold for every one left behind in my report. and it's been described as a living hell. stephanie decker, al jazeera in western ukraine. oh, people living in ukraine's 2nd largest city of face constant bombardment in nearly 4 weeks of war. i said bag is in hockey with more on what they're confronting her

gave has been pounded by russian forces, day and night. so if you hear loud, that's hot, heavy artillery being fired and also in coming. but let me show you some of the devastation of what impact a bomb has. now this was hit just a few days ago and just take a look at the size of that crater. now we understand the target was a military priest building were told that the russians actually missed that and it landed here, it's destroyed. cause or we believe that the car mechanic tasted and that's been absolutely destroyed, cause have been absolutely crushed. but the building next to it was a residential building. and 2 people were killed to civilians. but just against some of the impact of this bump. it landed here, it ripped through this entire area, causing damage to the buildings here, but also take a look at that. that's a block of flats, residential people's homes. people live, completely destroyed,

known can live in there anymore. the windows have been blown out and that's the devastation of just one bump. now, across the street of the high court, the court building there, and that's been hit that's been destroyed. the windows have been blowing out this residential building, the other side of the street. they've been absolutely destroyed and across the street from where this bomb landed is a park. now there's a large crater there, a swell, a very close to the playground, again, causing absolute destruction. now, this is what's happening. the reason why we're wearing this protective armor is because people in the city don't know when the russians that strike and where they will strike and it's completely unpredictable. at the moment civilian centers, i've been hit, civilian residential building have been hit, the consent. it has been hit the shopping wallet. and the latest that we've heard from today is that in one of the areas of hurricane 5 people were killed including

a 9 year old child. now this city has held out against russian forces. ukrainian forces have managed to keep them out, but it is under constant fire. day and night. you claim president bush de ms. lansky has appealed to israel for help against russia. i will ask you the address to connect that members would be the live into the hearts of tel aviv israel has so far, ruled out sending military hardware to crate and as not joined western sanctions against russia. this is not just a military operation as moscow claims. this is a full scale, cruel war to exterminate our people, our children, our families, our country. i city are villages, everything that makes ukrainians ukrainians, the russian army disjointedness while the whole world watching israel and ukraine have a shade history of struggle for survival. and i speak now to harry faucet in west

jerusalem say, what else did the ukrainian president have to say? will you heard there are from a jewish president talking to the members of the israeli parliament, albeit not in the class at building behind us here, but via zoomed to their various locations. you had and talk about the kind of parallels that he wanted to draw between what had taken place during the world war 2. and what he said was taking place now using words like extermination. and final solution are saying that this, suppose a do not suffocation a campaign of the russians was actually much more like the nazi campaign or of 39 to 45. and really trying to appeal to people here on that basis for more support. but he quickly pivoted to a much more critical tone when he was talking about the israeli policy. these really policy has been deliberately a sort of 2 fronted really the, the prime minister natalie bennett has been a very mild, in his language,

not referring to russia by ne, not referring to it as an invasion, saying that he wants to be an honest broker between tootin and zalinski, while he's been leading to his foreign minister to have all the critical words of russia. and as far as lance is concerned, that appears not to be good enough. he said that you can't calculate in this way. i sure you can mediate, but you can't mediate between good and evil, essentially calling on israel to take sides in a much more are open and purposeful way and also being very critical of israel's policy on sanctions, which it has not so far joined and on the kind of aid that its been giving its given a good amount of humanitarian aid setting either a field hospital, but a so far not decided to hand over any weaponry. and he was very laudatory of his ready weapons technology saying that israel used to defend itself . and that it should do so or to help defend ukraine as well. and how he,

what's been the year reaction to this ammonia is rainy's. well, so far, no official reaction that we're seeing. certainly these really pulling numbers suggest of an overwhelming level of support among israelis for ukraine or in this conflict at some reports already emerging on twitter of israeli ministers or, and politicians are heading back or saying that this criticism is unwarranted and her and potentially will hear more of that in the coming hours and days, but it does really explode the argument as far as the lensky is concerned. it really does expose this argument as well as been trying to make that it is a, an honest broker that it has open access to both sides. it has friendly relations with both sides. certainly zalinski has been critical of other governments and other nations and nato in his other addresses to parliaments. but this coming from

a jewish president, making these very open references to the holocaust. and essentially trying to shame is really government into offering more and walk on of nation more aid or lethal aid, lethal weapons as well. it had a slightly different edge to it. and so this, this idea that some natalie been at the israeli prime minister can try to preserve what he needs in syria, in terms of a cooperation with russia and going after iranian targets inside syria. that's been the strategy, the calculation that he's made. so let's he saying the time is not now. if the calculation, the time is to choose, as he puts it between good and evil. how he thought a life worse in western to mr. thank. let's look at the situation in ukraine as it stands. this is the territory in red that russia and its separate us allies control around 4000 people were able to escape the fighting on saturday. capturing money you for would establish

a language for russian forces between next crimea and the separatist held the eastern region of dawn bus. the un says 10000000 people have now fled their homes in matter. you pull and other parts of the claim. that's almost a quarter of the population and has been another attack at the heart of the capital . keep. the 10 story residential building came on. the fire on sunday. thick plumes of smoke billowed from the tower in the western sky up to ship the sky district. the building and the street were destroyed by rushing, shelling cities, men says nobody was killed, but several people are being treated in hospital them with more vice more here we can see that the claim this war is to liberate people, is propaganda that bombing residential areas like in other cities, the goal is keep our capital city and we can see the consequences. they want to scare people, but they'll fail. the ukrainian people will not be scared off. these actions create even more hatred and desire to resist the attacks. a protests have been taking

place in the ukranian city of harrison against the russian invasion. i people shouted go home as they confronted to military vehicles, vehicles turned around and left the area. russia says it is now. it now controls the entire house and region. the one says more than 900 civilians have been killed since the war began. but as rob mcbride reports from levine, the actual numbers are thought to be much higher. this a latest view and the estimate for the number of civilians in ukraine and just over 900 seems to be a very conservative, very safe estimate. given the difficulty in trying to collate these figures from all of these different conflict zones, the different battle fronts around the country and with so many so many cities from khaki to molly. you, paul, still with that all of these buildings that have been raised with that teams, that bill just not been able to get to those sites too. sadly,

to retrieve bodies from underneath the model. you, paul, for example, you know, we know that there are bodies lying in the streets which, which are not have not been able to be recovered, which presumably are not in the official figures. and of course, there are still tragically these larger buildings that you, paul, and elsewhere, possibly where people have been sheltering, which have collapse and which rescue is just haven't been able to reach to. so we know that there will be hopefully a number of people to be rescued and that brought out a live. but sadly, this will is probably an underestimation of what the civilian deaths here in the ukraine when it comes to the military death. that even, it seems to be a more arbitrary, it seems to be extremely changeable depending who is giving you those figures. the russian military, for example, have the number, the official number of russian military personnel who have died, what they are calling this military operation at 498. but that number has not

changed for days. a still ahead on a da 0, thousands of indian medical students struggled to continue their studies at home, off the escaping bombs and bloodshed in ukraine climate catastrophe. somali is worst out in decades. 14 more than a half a 1000000 people homeless and says for food and ah, ah, look forward to brighter skies the weather sponsored my cattle airways. hello, we're still hanging on to that cool wintery weather across northern parts of the middle east spring. therefore the south it is warming up, it's drying up quite nicely. pretty nice celsius here in dough high with the next couple of days. i came to mar, wind easing off. so we'll feel quite pleasant, such as some showers. so maybe one or 2 wintry showers to northern parts of iraq,

northern parts of syria, just spilling out of turkey, cold enough, just around the levant, eastern side of the mediterranean, quite a keen wind blowing in here. so a real chill in the air still in place over the next couple of days for tuesday, you can see that winter weather spilling after syria across northern parts of iran . elsewhere is generally dry and 530 celsius in dough heart by that stage. nowhere near that across northern parts of africa cause with that key northerly wind showers there across the far north, egypt, libya shanicea. algeria will parson morocco, seeing some heavy showers and still some showers there and to southern parts of west africa as they should be. because the seasonal rays are of course now making their way further north was that line of heavy showers running right out of the democratic republic of congo through zambia and northern parts of mozambique. southern areas of tanza near some very heavy rain too. with the possibility of flooding for northern madagascar. oh,

the weather sponsored by cataract ways. frank assessments, what are the political risks, robotic russian or the gas for western leaders, pull sanctions on russian energy exports. this house was informed opinions. france is not abandoning to fight against jedi. still is a media going to be teaching from nisha and from chad critical debate. could china actually help in russia's invasion of ukraine in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera? ah ah. hello again. you're watching. i just get a reminder of our top stories. this out. russia has increased its attacks on matter

. you poll, ukraine's president. redeem is a lansky accusing russian troops of committing war crimes. keith says moscow has targeted a school where hundreds were taking shelter. in car cave rescue workers have been searching for survivors in the ruins of buildings. russian forces have relentlessly targeted the city. since the start of the invasion, ukraine's president philadelphia zalinski has appealed to israel for help against russia. he told politicians both countries faced the threat of destruction, and he couldn't understand why israel won't provide military 8th. ukraine's deputy prime minister says new humanitarian corridors have been agreed upon with russia and as to rescue more people who want to escape. mattie you pull hard, give and key if they miss robbie reports from love, if more people are escaping war. but getting to safety

means risking your life act of conflict zones. russian checkpoints, ukrainian, say it's difficult to know which way a safe block that me might be open o v, the blockade of marable. we go, donna, history of responsibility for war crimes alluded to do this to a peaceful city. what the occupiers did, it is terror that will be remembered for centuries to come each of us and the more ukrainians. tell the word about it. the more support we will find suite of the more russia uses tara against ukraine. the worse the consequences will be for it, and we're interested to dress zalinski warrant russian soldiers. death awaits them in ukraine, noting recent russian failures on the battlefield. and thousands of people who have fled, war torn cities, ukrainian resolve in the face of continued russian strikes. recovery work is ongoing in mic alive. a russian strike on friday killed dozens of ukrainian soldiers asleep in their bunks. and still,

no news of the $1300.00 people believe to be trapped under the rubble of murray up a theatre bomb 4 days ago. control of the strategic city is still heavily contested by melissa and overnight in kirk eve, more shelling, more destruction. evacuations have been stepped up, so have preparations at the largest reception center in louis. thousands of people have come and gone. volunteers are preparing to receive and relocate thousands more in the coming days. now we expecting people from murray poll, we are preparing places for them to relax, get food, stay for time, and go further to other regions. so broad, one family from a village near keith said the worst part of their journey was witnessing the horrors of war. no, we were passing through a rushing check point and saw a lot of bodies along near the road. some of them were shot, some missing body parts. at one check point in the village,

we were waiting for 2 buses that were part of our convoy. but they were all gone down by pro russian forces at another village. pro russian, chechen fighters hold people hostage, they say, knowing ukrainian military will not shoot at civilians. well, what, what can i say? she says i'm scared a lot. i don't want to leave they are safer now. together was happy. but once his family is in poland, flood this love says he will go back to fight. then basra b o. d 0 live a dozens of babies born to sour goods are waiting to be picked up from a makeshift nursery and keith, their parents are either unable to travel or not willing to risk the journey. maybe

the sheltering in a basement, they need constant karen, since many nurses cannot return to their destroyed homes, they sleep and work their coolness. so we have very well equipped rooms to provide comfort for children. that is everything for them to be safe in for them to be taken care of. but know we are staying here in this basement to preserve errors and the babies lives. but we are hating here from the bombing and this horrible misery took with the war. now in its 4th week, ukrainian refugees across europe are beginning to settle into a new life. far different from the one they left behind. gillian wolf reports some 2000 kilometers away from whom people in this tiny italian village have opened up their homes and businesses to the women and children flynn war in ukraine. shuster vela, on the 6th day since president putin started this war, we decided to leave our homeland because we were afraid not for ourselves,

but for the children for their future in a few days. that would be without electricity, without gas, without water. how can you explain that to them? these 2 sisters in law fled levine, leaving their husbands behind. after 3 exhausting days of travel, they arrived in the italian town of belmont and sabina home to around 50 residence . they were welcomed in by g como and his wife, patrice. cl, who own a local bed breakfast and have put the place on standby to offer them a home recent rattle. normally, my sense of you, it seemed normal to me, maybe is not the best in the world because with sheltering them with children. but the person that came to my mind is to make this available to them. first we solve their emergency situation, which must be terrible. the 2 women are among the 58000 ukrainians who have fled to italy since the war began. tanya told her daughter that their escape from war was a trip to visit her grandmother. a friend of the been a breakfast owners who also live in the small italian town at the beginning,

she was enthusiastic. but now tennis says she is beginning to miss her dad. her aunt cassia hasn't lost faith and leaves the worn come to an end soon. o, my dear mazama, we believe in future we will be able to return home and rebuild a new life. we would renew our economic life. we will rebuild the country. our future will be as peaceful as it was before. but for now, they're living every day. one step at a time, far away from home, join wolf, al jazeera. the war has force nearly 18000 indian medical students to return home. they filed a petition in the highest court, asking the government to allow their transfer to indian colleges. the students plight is highlighted in the lack of medical colleges as lives works per annum reports from or to pradesh. the you getting. the euclidean women and children much

young 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 india. permit plenty and beg him and government will pass the entrance exam last year, but i didn't have enough marks to go to government college here because they cut off for climate of very high. so the better option for me was to go overseas with them. oh, my god shanks, just as monica an entre. but he said they were forced to study overseas with fees a much cheaper. their families says they're paying half the amount of fees and ukraine than they would. and private colleges in india, online classes have begun for the sisters and some others. but they're not ideal or lame when it go on yankee. and the problem with online is that we need

a lot of practical experience, which we aren't able to do. we are a 3rd year student and practical. it's very important and the 3rd year. so it's difficult. the return of the students from ukraine 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 exam 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 a bona fide the intent to protect standards. as they said over there,

it was to protect 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 4th southern states and to west and indian states. prime minister that ends from already blamed previous governments for the lack of colleges and said his administration will increase the number. as students have 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, an order for the other news now and somalia is enduring its worst droughts 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. malcolm web. next,

some who arrived at a camp for displaced people in mogadishu? kia hussein, amen 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 margaret issue with her 4 children, their journey began on the back of a truck, then things got worse. not that 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 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 have 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 in the humanitarian agency 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 mohammed osmond with one of the 1st to arrive? she's a community leader. she'd been trying to find help with little success. halla have a 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 un 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 the support from the donor agencies from donor countries, at to the so many people, that's what we need now. meanwhile, 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 wandering if anyone will come to help. malcolm web, al jazeera,

mogadishu, somalia, in israel, hundreds of thousands of mourners have attended the funeral of a prominent ultra orthodox rabbi near tel aviv. bye bye hi m can yes, key was one of the most influential religious scholars in the country. he died on friday, a 900 for several highways and other main thoroughfare tell of even been closed to traffic towers. ah, this is just 0. let's get around now the top stories, russia has increased its attacks on mighty you poll. zalinski is accusing russian troops of committing war crimes. kias says moscow has targeted us.