award winning documentaries. and to get these reports. subscribe to you chief dot com, forward slash al jazeera english ah . graves by the street. russia says mario paul is suffering a humanitarian catastrophe. sets a deadline for the city to surrender. ah, sammy's a dan. this is al jazeera alive from dell hall. so coming up, people will even hear my friends are leaving in. this house is in solid. now, there is no place where then get can come back. where in ukraine, 2nd largest city way trained stations have become makeshift shelters,

and food is hard to come by. call for israel to take it off. the stand ukraine's president compares russia's invasion to the actions of nazi germany, plus lou lava made war. we me to a couple in care of, of found reason to celebrate. despite the conflict a deadline set by russia for the ukrainian city of mario paul to surrender has now passed. moscow says a terrible humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in the city. it is attacking the cranes prime minister in a fresh joke, says it can be no talk of any surrender on thousands of escape the city and are heading west to cities like live zane, basra. b begins, are coverage,

enduring the obstacles of war, indignity, and death. this is life in mario up. well now what use 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 of mary up or we go down in history of responsibility for war crimes. to do this, to a peaceful city, what the occupy as 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 conflict sounds rushing checkpoints. ukrainians say it's difficult to know which way

a safe and not everybody makes it. not about 90 loon each does right. they began to destroy our city completely house after house of battles took place on every street lodge. every house became a target. murray, opal's residents fled a city still under russian attack from levine, if a plea to end the war better. he arossi young rebel dear russian. so if 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, what we hope that you all leave and never disturb anyone ever again. you fool you the wrong. yeah. at the largest reception center in review, volunteers prepare for an influx of evacuees from the war zone. thousands have 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, 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 checkpoint in the village, we were waiting for 2 buses that were part of our conway. 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. the look what, what can i say? she says i'm scared a lot. i don't want to leave they are safer now. together. warm, happy. but once his family is in poland flood his laugh says he will go back to

fight. then basra v o. d 0. live if the mayor of kev says residential buildings and a shopping center being hit by russian shelling on sunday. an apartment block in a western district of the capital has been heavily damaged. nobody was killed, but several people are being treated in hospital. it was 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 keys our capital city. and we can see the consequences that want to scare people, but they'll fail. the ukrainian people will not be scared off these actions create even more hatred and desired to resist the attacks. how ukraine 2nd largest city is suffered constant shelling by russian forces. although they haven't been able to take control of hardcase bombing has cause catastrophic damage. is acid bag explains. 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 if that might was heard all over the city's saint. i lived quite close so i myself heard it and that they were, the walls were shaken. and after that, there were several and as i asked thrice, and in the following days, i walked in the streets thousands of times. and there were so many i great little coffee shops or restaurants on the 1st floors here. and people will even hear my friends live in this house. and so now there is no place where then cats can come back. since the start of the war, maria has refused to leave her home city in ne, in ukraine. this tries was,

she stayed to document what the russians are doing. great, sit there with here during the net, so keep pace. and so even the net says you're in the, with the vault were 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 on the minds of people in harkey would be hard to to overcome. the russian thought the could just walk in and take the city, but they were mistaken. they were met with fierce ukrainian resistance. and as a result, to punish her, keep the risk out. it's historical hot. for weeks there's been bombing day and night. once the city of 1500000, many have left knows who some of those who remain a struggle for food. this man brought frozen chickens and bread to donate to those

in need. joy, i hopefully will end soon so that our children can leave. mapleton begun by 14 and as the sound of artillery filled the sky, people head to the underground station to hunker down for the night. every space is taken, including inside the train, some little jelly mother. i seem to like, i can't, 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 and the subway are closed for the night, there's hope here. the next day will bring an end to the war. and no need to hide from the bumps. i said, beg, i'll just eat her heart, give ukrainian president vladimir zalinski as appeal to israel for help

against russia. he addressed members of these railey kinessa via zoom, lansky likened the russian invasion to the holocaust. hurry for such reports from west jerusalem. israelis gathered in television to watch his speech that blood amuse. zalinski had wanted played to politicians inside israel's connected, but 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 said out the sense of shared history. all the lucy, the we are history and our 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, what they call this, the final solution there. 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 know to one thing that indifference kills calculations often turn out to be wrong. a mediation is only possible between countries, but not between good and evil. so he went on to chide israel for not adopting sanctions against russia, sending any of its high tech weaponry, 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 and honest broker, facilitating negotiations. but president landscape through the strength of his criticism 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 cranial people. hurry for said al jazeera western were un says more 900 civilians have been killed since the beginning of the war. the actual numbers believes to be much higher from brian has more from live. know this sir figure given by the u. n. of the $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 has taken place are all around

ukraine right now, add the piles of rubble, but 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 and obviously the figures got to be far higher. the big question is just what will the eventual death toll an amount to when it comes to military deaths the, the figures seem, are 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 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. and 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 an an rescue operation in mich ally 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 miss aisle attack on a military batt barracks and where they're who all was a large contingent of ukrainian marines. now, in the past day or 2, there's been a big rescue operation. pulling survivors wound injured survivors from the rubble, but also pulling increasing numbers of bodies. i'll still had here and al jazeera heading to the front lines we hear from a former journalist who's joined the fight to defend keith. last confirmation hearings begin on monday for the 1st black woman nominated to the highest court in the us. ah

hello received some very nasty where they're pulling away from the east, the seaboard of the us, eastern parts of canada, dry weather now coming back in behind, high pressure coming in quite adding things down just for a little while. we got this mass of cloud over the rockies, that's going to slip its way further southward. introducing some cooler egg. see that cooler in place here. there's that warms 27 celsius there for dallas, denver, and casper actually into the mid to high teens for sunday afternoon. but the cold air does show his hand as we go on. it's a monday just for celsius at that stage, and it will continue to slip a little further east was as we go on into tuesday. so is that cooler way just makes its way further. east was bumping into that warm air will moist air coming out of the gulf of mexico big down pause. they will return. that's a recipe for some violent storms. large hail damaging winds, possibly the or tornado and it will slowly make its way further. east was so make

the most of the dry weather the have just around the eastern seaboard over the next couple of days. finding dry me while across western parts. there we go, still some mountain snow there just around the rockies. meanwhile, some lively showers across northern parts of the caribbean to slipping down towards the central america. but for much of the caribbean is fine, dry and sunny. ah. with jealousy, grace, she just quizzes gay clamor. it's part of our culture to, to look our very best for a special occasion. and for that people who spend money, everything you see on the cut will they do it here, is going to be longevity. think john will have to come in and tell me things and my, my jerry on al jazeera ah

ah, all come back. you're watching al jazeera time. to recap our headlines now. ukrainian officials have rejected a russian coal to surrender the besieged city of mario full moscow set a deadline for ukrainian forces to the city to lay down their alms. that that blind has now paused. mateo pull continues to suffer heavy bombardment. thousands of civilians remain trap that cranes. second largest city has seen constant shelling by russian forces haven't been able to take control of hot gift, but the bombing has caused major damage. ukraine's president followed them is that

unexcused appeal to israel for help against russia. he addressed members of parliament by soon it's royalists so far. rule doubt, sending military assistance to ukraine, has not joined weston sanctions against russia. nato has sent patriots air defense systems to slovakia. countries defense minister says it will provides ukraine with its s $300.00 long range missiles systems. if the units were replaced, ukraine's president vulgar means the landscape directly appealed to the u. s. frontier systems to protect its ass base against russian warplanes and missiles u. s. president joe biden is due to visit poland this week following a meeting of nato leaders in brussels. the alliance is likely to consider further aid for you, crime of they'll have longer term issues to discuss. rosalind jordan has more from washington d. c. the nato meeting convened by the secretary general. this coming thursday in

brussels will include the world leaders of the military alliance. and certainly they're going to be discussing the best ways to improve security assistance to the ukrainian military. but the world leaders, including the u. s. president joe biden, and the british prime minister boris johnson, are also going to have an opportunity to talk about ways of trying to keep diplomacy on track. russian and ukrainian diplomats are supposed to meet on monday to try once again to find a way to get to a cease fire. but the bigger question of how to reach a lasting peace between the 2 countries is certainly already top of mind in world capitals. there's also the question of trying to make certain that the economic sanctions package is actually taking effect in russia, and that it is somehow having an impact on the way that vladimir putin,

the russian president, is prosecuting this war. but certainly, they're going to have to start thinking about what happens once the war and how should the west engage with russia if vladimir putin is still in power? china's ambassador to the u. s. denies beijing is providing military assistance to russia. speaking on u. s. t. v he said china is against the war. there is a disinclination about china providing military offices to russia. we reject that. what they know, what china is doing is, and foods madison slipping backs and the baby formula. now the weapons and ammunition to adding party. and we against the war either said, you know, we will do everything to escalate the crisis.

i'm a tangle is a senior international fellow. the tire institute need says china hopes to avoid criticism and focus on road maps of peace. but what's interesting is, and chin guns interview, made it very clear. he's not going to criticize us and he's not going to criticize russia. he wants to do is try to get both sides on and off ram to negotiate. peace . that's equally rational way of solving this from the chinese perspective. they don't see that war as being the answer. i 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 victim of problems that exist between the us and 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 this tremendous sympathies going that way. but the, some of these can go towards russia as well because many chinese see us 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. ukrainians from all walks of life as joined the fight against russia. tatiana, children of all is the widowed mother of to her husband was killed during fighting in east in ukraine in 2014. she was a journalist and then a member of the ukrainian parliament. now she's serving in an anti tank unit.

so what would you say to the police? it wouldn't be who could show you why she was in the bunker when they could. we saw tanks appearing and we literally randall our position. i random my operator. see, well, it's not really a c, but rather a case because to repair the little i switch it on and see tanks on my screen. they just entered within the range of my missile. i took aim and destroyed the 1st tank . interestingly though, the rocket was flying for quite some time. perhaps the tanks registered the rockets launch and managed to turn back, but i shot it right at the fuel tanks and the ammunition load has detonated the tank literally flew off the road. and now it is somewhere in the road ditch in the forest. after that we came under fire. not for long though, all during this time the russian military vehicles returning back and escaping.

it's better that they just don't come here. they'll end up buried here if they will become fertilizer, better they go home and not listen to their evil government. survivor of the siege of leningrad during the 2nd world war has been speaking about her horror being caught up in conflict again. 87 year old marguerite tomatoes over lives in ukraine, 2nd largest city. how to cave, she and jude nazi germany, 2 and a half year blockade of the city now known as saint petersburg. he's either absolute, penny 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 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 and i 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. and silicon is 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 or did the it's a disaster for the russian people to their children are dying for nothing. i'm asking what for? during the great pottery arctic war, fine, it was clear we for fashion, a different nation and here friendly nation, common close culture or language is 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? remark, there was, a lot of 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 russians. i'm not talking about harkey, but in russia or wherever people nice, they will hate each other. it is a disaster then a bid to keep the spirits of volunteer soldiers onto a wedding took place and give in some unusual circumstances. among con reports. 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 voluntary 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. oh, the proud couple hold their wedding gift as they get their pictures taken measures, of course we are the happiest. oh really? yes. they are a little stressed. i didn't expect so much attention on the ukrainian marshal law. the unit commander can officiate a wedding, something he says he was honored to do that shell not say one. 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 is 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 in wrong out there. give how the u. s. senate is going to begin confirmation hearings on monday for the 1st african american woman nominated to the top cold. it's angie brown. jackson is president joe biden's picked to replace justice thief and brier. who's retiring? aga joe castro reports can tangy round. 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 and debate competitions. by writing her name contain 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 celerity with her just 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 again from testifying before congress. writing presidents are not kings, judge action deserves to be confirmed as an act just as supreme court. some republicans have accused jackson of being the favored choice of far left groups.

but the same senate confirmed her to her appeals cor position a year ago with support from 3 republicans. jackson will replace 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 the, as a lawyer, i didn't house 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 been appointed to the highest court in the land, she's also serving as inspiration for many. heidi jo, castro, al jazeera washington. hong kong will abolish its flight ban on 9 countries from april. the 1st, almost social distancing measures in hong kong will stay in place until the 20th of april. ah, a psyche through some of the headlines now. ukrainian officials have rejected a russian call to surrender the besieged city of mario full. moscow sent a deadline for ukrainian forces in the city to lay down their arms, but it has now passed. mario pole continues.