ready to host the middle east's. biggest ever school thing event next year. i'm to the castle national. seems like it used to playing in fronts of expected home crowds lobby hoping to convince both the funds on themselves that they really all ready to take on the world. ah, streets turned into graves. russia says nadia poll says he, it's false is half deceased is suffering a humanitarian catastrophe. ah, my money, i bounce their life from day. oh, so coming up, people go leave him here, my friends leave him in this house system. so now there is no place where then get from come back, where in ukraine's 2nd largest city, what train stations have been transformed and to make shift shelters. and food is

hard to come by. a call for israel to take a tougher stand ukraine's president compassed russia's invasion to the actions of nazi germany and love in the time of war. we meet the coupling cave thus found a reason to celebrate despite the conflict whose russia is calling on ukrainian forces to lay down their arms and marry a pole at such a deadline for 2 g and t, which is just now passed. the cave says it has no intentions of surrendering the port city. moscow says a terrible humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in mario pole. all these are strewn along the road in some parts snapped where some people are being buried. ukraine's president says, the destruction is russia's doing and is calling it a will crime. meanwhile, thousands have escaped the city and are heading to the relative safety of cities

like live famous radi begins our coverage. enduring the obstacles of war, indignity in death. this is life in mario up all. now. i hope there will be some sort of a burial. this is just temporary. the military told us to put the body somewhere in the cold. the only cold place now or basements, but there are people in basements. so we bury them here with them, with the problem. it is difficult to see how life can go on for people in a place like this. look at me, my do, but we didn't. we story, the blockade or marable. we go down in history of responsibility for war crimes, to do this, to a peaceful city. what the occupiers did, it is terror that will be remembered for centuries to come more or escaping war every day. but getting to safety can mean risking your life active conflicts,

firms rush and checkpoints, ukrainians say it's difficult to know which way a safe and not everybody makes it. not about nancy loony. does right. they began to destroy our city completely house after house. battles took place on every street. george, every house became a target. murray, opal's residence fled, a city still under russian attack from levine, a plea to end the war. better. he or she young. my dear russians always. we ask you all to go home, deal with your own families of them. you have entered some one else's land. if someone else's territory with you are not liberating or you are barbarians, but we hope that you all leave and never disturb anyone ever again. julia will yeah . at the largest reception center in levine, volunteers prepare for an influx of evacuees from the wars of thousands of come and gone thousands more expected in coming days. one family from

a village near keith said the worst part of their journey was witnessing the horrors of war. no, ma'am, ma'am. we were passing through a russian checkpoint and saw a lot of bodies lying near the road. some of them were shot but 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. i want to see what can i say? she says i'm scared a lot. i don't want to leave they are safe for now. together. warm, happy. but once his family is in poland flooded slough says he will go back to

fight zane bus ravi alta 0 live if the mayor keith says residential buildings and a shopping center have been hit by russians shelling on sunday an apartment block in a western district of the capital has been heavily damaged. nobody was killed, bought, several people are being treated in hospital. meanwhile, ukraine 2nd largest city has suffered constant shelling by russian forces. although they haven't been able to take control of khaki, the bombing has cause catastrophic damage. as i said, beg reports from an eerie silence hangs over quarter keith with apocalyptic scenes. the center of the city, frozen like a page in history. standing still for the world to see. there was

a huge explosion as that my was heard all over the city's saint. i lived quite close so i am myself heard it and that there was a waltz were shaken, and after that there were several and ours are as thrice. and that in the following days, i walked in the streets thousands of times and there are so many like great little coffee shops or restaurants on the 1st floors here. and people will even hear my friends live in this house this. and so now there is no place where then cat can come back. since the start of the war, maria has refused to leave her home city in ne, in ukraine. this strikes is, was she stayed to document what the russians are doing. chris it did with here during the net, so keep press and saw even the net system during the was the baltimore to didn't destroy the buildings. and now they are in ruins because of the russians hoyle, our neighbors, people here think that one day soon the damage can be fixed and buildings

reconstructed. but the impact of the war and the minds of people in hockey would be hard to to overcome. the rush of thought the could just walk in and take this city, but they were mistaken. they were met with fierce ukrainian resistance. and as a result, to punish her gave the roof coat. it's historical hot. for weeks there's been bombing day and night. once the city of 1500000, many have left mills who some of those who remain a struggle for food. this man put frozen chickens and bread to donate to those in need to i, i hopefully will, and soon so that our children can leave. mapleton begun 55410. and as the sound of artillery fills the sky, people head to the underground station to hunker down for the night. every space is

taken this, including inside the trains of jelly matthias, even like i tell it, i saw her so i'm sleeping here. we took the mattress and pumped it up, and more or less settled down. some people sleep here on the floor. we also eat here. the foot is so, so volunteers bring it to our side. but as the doors on, the subway are closed for the night, there's hope here. the next day will bring an end to the wall. and no need to hide from the bumps. i said, beg, i'll visit her. her cave. in her self sin is a member of the ukrainian parliament. she says she has low expectations of peace dogs between cave in moscow at hopes they will lead to more humanitarian cordless. what we know, it is not genuine. on the russian side, that's for sure, because we do remember a week ago, and laboratory blatantly said that they didn't invade ukraine so that people we are

dealing with elias and logical lives and they both to tell the truth and they're unable to keep them where we are in the talks because in some ways that does lead to some minor results, like the humanitarian corridors. and also we do have hope that the russian command will recognize that they will never be able to capture ukraine food. and they allusion on the ground. and they create to surrender on the terms that with the favorable and acceptable to us. but, you know, dealing with with which right now is like making deals with people in the 948. you would never trust that and it would never trust that you know, let in that dictate to just just destroy one, eastern european country will not touch the rest of the world, just knave. so, so we, we are trusting the talks, but we are willing to continue on as long as it allows us to save life here. ukrainian president vladimir lansky has appealed to israel for help against russia . he address members of the israeli connected via zoom lensky, like the russian invasion to the holocaust,

and told politicians both countries face the threats of destruction are a force that reports from west jerusalem israelis gathered intel vive to watch his speech. the blood of me is lensky. had wanted play to politicians inside israel, connected with the parliament in recess its members joined from wherever they were by zoom. the significance remained a jewish president fighting a war in europe, appealing to what he set out as a sense of shared history or history and or survival and world war to listen to the words of the kremlin. they use the terminology of the nazi party. so it's a tragedy that they wanted to exterminate all europe. they did not want to spare any one of you. and now any of us, they call this the final solution. but it wasn't long before ukraine's president pivoted to the present and israeli government current policy. israel's prime minister, natalie bennett, has presented himself and his country as a neutral mediating force, talking frequently to both savanski and never,

far from the surface. israel's interest in keeping russia on side, continuing to allow israel to carry out air strikes in syria unopposed by duty. is it indifference calculation or mediation without choosing sides? i leave it to you to choose the answer to this question. i only note one thing that indifference kills calculations often turn out to be wrong, and mediation is only possible between countries, but not tween good and evil. so then he went on to chide israel for not adopting sanctions against russia, sending any of its high tech weapons, which he said could save ukrainian lives for weeks. now, israel's government has been arguing that its utility on the war allows it access to both sides. an honest broker, facilitating negotiations, but president landscape through the strength of his this is him, has really exploded that argument now criticizing almost every aspect it, israel's policy on the war is not the 1st time he's used such a parliamentary address in recent days to attack that country's policy,

but there was an undoubted edge to his words. israeli ministers were quoted in the local media, criticizing what they called his outrageous comparisons with the holocaust. the official line came from israel's foreign minister, repeating his condemnation of the attack on ukraine and thanking its president for sharing his feelings and the plight of the ukrainian people. hurry for said al jazeera was jerusalem. once more on the crane was still to come on out there. we meet margarita, who survived the siege of leningrad as a child. that is now we'd living the trough many crenan city decades. ah look forward to brighter skies the winter sponsored my cattle airways. hello, we have some buildings in force to parts of central china, some very heavy rain coming through here for the next few days. it's

a stationary weather system, as the name implies, not going to far too quickly. so there you go. there's a heavy re river of rain coming in from west to east pushing over to war. shanghai some big down. pause, 100 millimeters of brady, 24 hour periods. easily on the cars that where to weather will slide towards southern parts of japan's work. you should with honshu little bit of snow on the northern flank of that west for a time brightest guys to come back behind. dry brightwell celsius there for sol trotter some winter weather, pushing back towards beijing by tuesday. notice and further south, more of those showers just coming through. and we got some very heavy showers as per usual across southeast asia. quite a raft of them through the philippines, malaysia. running down into indonesia, but the wet weather up towards in their china thailand. seeing some heavy right. and you notice that circulation there just around the adam and see that could well develop into a tropical storm. maybe aside from the storm as we go one through the next couple

of days. so that's the position of the storm at the moment. making its way further northward western parts of me and mar, we'll see flooding as we go for tuesday and wednesday, elsewhere for pakistan and india. it's dry. blue weather sponsored by cataract weighs a scene army of mud barre, 16 denise infinity, submerging the homes and livelihood. 60000 people years later, little inhabitants still fighting for justice from the fracking company they blew. and the hot sledge continues to play. a witness documentary on al jazeera. ah

ah, watching out as a reminder of our top stories this, our ukrainian officials have rejected a russian called to surrender the besieged city of marble. moscow set a deadline for ukrainian forces in the city to lay down their homes. that deadline has now passed. my report continues to suffer heavy bombardment, thousands of civilians remain track that ukraine 2nd largest cities been constantly hit by russian forces to they haven't been able to take control of khaki, but the bombing has caused some major damage. he claims president luxury zalinski is appealed to israel for help against russia. a dress members of parliament, i soon as well so far, ruled out sending military assistance to ukraine and has not joined weston sanctions against russia. the un says more than 900 civilians have been

killed since the beginning of the war. the actual number is expected to be much higher. rob mcbride has moved from nif know this sir figure given by the u. n. a. there $900.00 plus. i mean, that does seem to be an extremely safe conservative figure. when you look at the, the number of different fronts where conflict is taking place are all around ukraine right now, add the piles of rubble, wood, the way they haven't been able to reach potential survivors or indeed recover their bodies or bodies from underneath. that those are destroyed buildings, obviously the figure is going to be far higher. the big question is just what will the eventual death toll amount to when it comes to military deaths. the, the figures seem almost more arbitrary if you like, when it comes to, for example, the number of russians who have died in this conflict. the official figure from the russians is $498.00. well, it is clearly a lot more than that. that figure hasn't changed now for days, but just how more it is open to question the ukrainians themselves say that the

number of russians who have died now on ukrainian soil is well over 13 or 14000 at the u. s. i put the number at somewhere bit about between the 2 round about maybe 6000 or so. so these numbers are fairly arbitrary when it comes to the number of ukrainian civilians and also ukrainian personnel who have been killed. that obviously continues to mount the big concern for the ukrainians at the moment. is there an under rescue operation? in nikolai of the city, a southern port city ad that is on the way to the more strategically important city of odessa now there has been intense fighting there. and then this and miss, i'll attack on a military batt barracks at where they are, who all was a large contingent of ukrainian marines. now in the past day or 2, there has been a big rescue. operation. pulling survivors wound injured survivors from the rubble, but also pulling increasing numbers of bodies. china's ambassador to the us

denies beijing is providing military assistance to russia. speaking on us tv, said china is against the wall. there's a additional nation about china providing military assistance to russia. we reject that. you and what, what they high know what china is doing is send food medicine, flipping backs and a baby formula. not weapons and ammunition with 2 adding party. and we danced a wiser set, you know, we will do everything to dis escalate. the crisis, you know, tongan is a senior international fellow at the ty, her institute joins, it's now from beijing. thank you for joining us. prior to the war, some commentators suggested that china would openly side with russia or seek to act

as a mediator, but so far, beijing appears to be resistant doing either. why do you think that is? well, is this, you have to look at this is 2 lenses right. now what you see here, china is against any kind of action ukraine. this is a sovereign territory. china longstanding policy, non interference in the affairs of other countries, but on longer still, i mean back in 2007 and made it very clear. he was very unhappy with the expansion of nato use continued to do that. and it seemed that this was a slow motion train. racked many chinese intellectuals that started down as a resulted because you asked, you know, action or ash was president joe biden has worn china against providing military support to russia in the invasion of ukraine, in a threats. he's warned how, how much is that?

something china we'll worry about. well, i don't know that they're that worried. i mean, 1st off the job i and is making a supposition. you saying, well, if you do that, that will cause you know that that's going to be a big problem and we're going to do all these things to get your i think, trying to see that is more for the domestic audience. you're mine as a very tough election coming up and he wants to kind of rally people around his actions. ukraine is a little difficult because he encourage ukraine, but then kind of abandoned it. but what's interesting is that you and guns interview made it very clear. he's not going to criticize the west and he's not going to criticize russia. he wants to do is try to get both sides on an off ramp to negotiate piece. and that's the only rational way of solving this from the chinese perspective. they don't see that war as being the answer to know you are in beijing. how is the war being reported locally?

what are, what are the chinese thing about the school lane it's, it's interesting. i mean, obviously people with a v, b and c, a very much western centered idea. you know, the, that, you know, this is a terrible humanitarian catastrophe, which it is within china. it's a little bit more nuanced. they talk about do lenses. one. this is, in essence a that ukraine is a big deal of problems that exist between the u. s. and in russia. so it's, it's depending on where you are and how you see it. nobody doubts that there is a humanitarian crisis going on that war. and there's tremendous some of these going that way, but the civil east can go towards russia as well because many chinese c u. s. i was using the same kind of pressure tactics against it in terms of taiwan sion, john, etc. so it's becoming an evolve, evolve you to a complex situation. as i said,

the only real way of doing this is not to criticize both sides, but to try to get them to the table. ok, thank you. fi analysis in a tang in senior international fellow at the time. her institute speaking professor well in a bed to keep the spirits as volunteers, soldiers up a wedding to placing tea in some unusual circumstances among cannibals. ah, here comes the bride. with a military gold, a moment of levity for one unit responsible for guarding the capitol keys. the units part of the territorial defense and is made up of volunteer soldiers. war often reduces humans to basics, water, food, shelter, survival law. but this territorial defense unit is celebrating the stuff that makes

life worth living ah, the proud couple hold our wedding gift as they get their pictures taken measures, of course we are the happiest. oh, we know they are a little stressed. i didn't expect so much attention under ukrainian marsh law. the unit commander can officiate a wedding, something he says he was honored to do that. so nothing one here. this is exactly why we are having the ceremony. we want to show the world that life goes on despite the war. people get married, they don't stop being happy. they don't stop smiling and they have something to look forward to for the future. it's an unusual sort of married life on one this couple will remember for a long time, the ceremony however, was brief, lost in just under 20 minutes and the unit straight back to duty. there's no time for a honeymoon or anything like that. the groom is actually going back to the front lines and everybody else is going back to their positions as well. but it just goes to

show you even more time. love can blossom around, come out 0, keep germany says as reached an energy agreement with katha announcement came, jerry and gemini, energy minister, robert hatchbacks visit to doha. and we've been seeking alternatives to end as reliance on russian natural gas since started the war in crane. he back next visit will be to the u. e. now survivor, if the siege of leningrad during the 2nd world war has been speaking about her horror as again being put up in the conflicts 8070, or margarita missouri, now lives in ukraine. second largest city call cave. she endured nazi germany is 2 and a half here located at what's now known as st. petersburg from 941 to 944. he's other than absolute clinical wrangler. i could never imagine that a new war would stars in my old age. in my worst nightmare, i could not even imagine that's such

a massacre would be repeated. it's horrible. we've been living in ukraine for almost 60 years. when we came here, it was so good. i went to the upper left, said bungler. according to it i hid from bombardments in the corridor. we took shelter in old buildings and it's the same now. once the shelling of hockey begins, when the air raid siren is on, we go to the corridor. we don't know if it will protect us or not. it's terrifying when young people die when beautiful buildings collapse. it's yellow going as happy when i recall the fun in leningrad. it was dreadful. my mom said the most scary thing is to look in your child's hungry eyes and not be able to feed them. i did it for disaster, for the russian people to their children. are dying for nothing. i'm asking what for? during the great patriarch war fine, it was clear we for fashion a different nation and here, friendly nation, common close culture or language or close?

how is it possible for something like this to happen? it's dreadful. for i want the war to be over, want them to leave ukraine in peace. ukraine is an independent country. what are they doing here? my micro thermo buildings will be rebuilt, but people who died cannot be revived. it's a disaster, but the most terrific thing is hatred. there will be hatred towards the russians. there has been hatred, is already exists for hatred towards russian. i'm not talking about hockey foot in russia or wherever people nice. they will hate each other. it is a disaster was bringing some of the days of news, u. s. supreme court justice clarence thomas is being treated for an infection. he was hospitalized on friday with flu like symptoms, sneeze of his illness comes as that it gets ready to begin confirmation hearings on monday for the 1st african american woman nominated to the talk cause. kentucky brown jackson is president joe biden's paper to replace justice stevens bry,

who is retiring. how did you? catherine can tangy brown. jackson grew up in a middle class suburb of miami, where both parents worked as school teachers and where she made a name for herself at debate competitions. by writing her name can ton g on the chalkboard for all to see. she would have to speak before largely white audiences and had to sort of bridge that gap and convey to them instantaneously in case there was any subtle bias, were just lack of familiarity with her. starting from her name, steven rosenthal was jackson's classmate from an early age. he says he never doubted that one day his charismatic friend would achieve these heights. so she just drew people toward her, and people wanted to support her and respected her. so she just had

all the tools in addition to being roja to succeed in whatever she chose to do. jackson has been a federal judge for 9 years and currently sits on the dc court of appeals. she's issued about 500 opinions, but none on the hot button, issues of abortion, gun rights, and freedom of religion. she did game fame in 2019 when she blocked president trump from shielding. former white house council don began from testifying before congress. writing presidents are not kings, joe jackson deserves to be confirmed as an justice supreme court. some republicans have accused jackson of being the favored boys of far left groups. but the same senate confirmed her to her appeals cor position a year ago with support from 3 republicans. jackson were replaced another liberal stephen briar the just as she once clerked for. and she would be the 1st black woman to join the u. s. supreme court. i can only hope that my life and career

my love of this country and the constitution and my commitment to upholding the rule of law and the sacred principles upon which this great nation was founded will inspire future generations of americans. even me, when i think about myself as a, as a lawyer, i didn't have many people to look up to that looked like i did. and so i think for young girls to be able to look at justice jackson and see where she is and, and how she's com is really, really going to be an important moment. jackson has seen her future clearly since high school telling a yearbook editor she wanted to go on to law and eventually have a judicial appointment. now on the brink of being appointed to the highest court in the land, she's also serving as inspiration for many heidi jo, castro, al jazeera,

washington. brazil supreme court has lifted its ban on messaging am telegram, the judge who ordered the block reversed the whirling on sunday, just 2 days after the mandate was issued, the decision was made up to the tech company agreed to make changes to the platform, including measures to fight this information. ah, saudis are these the top stories? ukrainian officials have rejected a russian call to surrender. the besieged city of maria pope moscow had set a deadline for ukrainian forces in the city to lay down their arms, which is now past. maria pull continues to suffer heavy bombardment and thousands of civilians remain trap their equation. second largest city has suffered constant shelling by russian forces to although they haven't been able to take control of khaki bombing has.