stripping away basic civil liberties. the listening post examines the vested interests behind the content you consume on al jazeera. ah. ready nowhere is safe in car keys, that's the warning from the mayor as the ukrainian city comes at a heavy russian bombardment in the distance and to see smoke on the horizon is not hardly anybody left here because her ah, about this and this is 0 live from do have also coming up the afghan taliban orders secondary schools for girls to close. just hours after the reopened for the 1st

time in months. and a shock announcement in sports. the world number one woman's tennis player, ash marty, is retiring at the age of 25. it's 7, g and t. that's 9 am. and ukraine, 2nd largest city hockey eve, it's under relentless bombardment by the russian military. entire areas have been reduced to rubble. the most people have fled. one of the latest to be killed is a holocaust survivor who lived through 3 nazi concentration camps. i saw bag reports from a car cave silence. there was once a community here, but just as everything silence is broken by the sound of artillery. this house was just hit marcella just want regular. those who remain have become

accustomed to it just as ilda. deborah bob wallace, 10 minutes ago they were firing like crazy thought they were really pounding the area up the road. oh, this is a residential area. are you it happens a lot heavier by every half hour. they reload, was on me serious for she been a britain and across the street. we meet 69 year old lead of or been a cover, but i'm shown like watching movies. yoga dorothy, she said she doesn't want to leave a house because a husband can't walk and they don't want to be a burden on others. her neighbourhood is under constant attack, or ching, their lung again another. it's scary. they hid here and there, half the street is destroyed. ukraine save us where we're here. we're told it's unsafe. we must leave the area because of the ongoing artillery job. can hear that going. the incoming and can also hit him landing in the distance and to see smoke on the horizon does not hardly anybody left her because

her but in the shadow of war, it seems only the elderly, the left here. this school providing a vital to monitor in lifeline. last seller. our book luther system. our house is safe but a 100 meters away from us. people got killed. their bodies were in pieces. they've had people, i knew there's no marriage. not far from here. an apartment block was hit holocaust survivor forest roman jenko lived here. snazzy taking away. what's left of his body after shelling hit his flat. stephanie called girl. there was a terrible shilling. it was not a bam. more of a whistle, 3 terrible whistles. thank you. bring them roman jenko survived 3 nazi concentration camps in world war 2. vladimir putin says he's fighting nazis, but it's not,

not is that killed roman jenko. it was russian artillery. i said big. i'll dedira how to give. we can go now to i said, who's joining us from cocky asset. these are how doing stories that you've been telling us in your, in your report the, the stuff that people are going through there. you've been there for the last several hours. just talk us through what it's been like. okay, well i can tell you that it's been a very intense night. there was heavy on to the sound of heavy artillery all throughout the night on the horizon. when i looked, i could see the laws, flashes across the city when whatever was hitting, it looked like missiles, but the men of corky yesterday said that no area in this city is safe. he said that the russians continued to destroy residential, has, is an infrastructure. and he said that people should go to bomb shelters of the underground and basement to protect their lives. and also we're hearing from the

regional council here that 15000 people are taking shelter in the underground stations that we've been to those undergrad stations that many people there. the most space that 3 people even sleeping on the trains. but what i can tell you that this city used to be a city of around 1500000. now we understand a 3rd of the population has left, but we're actually the correct on this. it's very, very quiet yesterday. as you saw in that report on the outskirts, there's not many people left. and the reason for that is because they don't feel safe. this is a main square in the city. this is a region administration building. this was hit by a missile. and the 1st of march and i spoke to rescues and they said they discovered 2 bodies yesterday. and they're going to continue to search today because they feel that they are more people in size. and back in february, right before the war started, we had all their team here, and they were talking to people, asking them if they feared there was a war coming. and the answer was no, they were more concerned about covey. just a few days later, the war started. i just city things very,

very empty of. i'll swear in the east hearing that in la be john in the, in the, at the hands regents, 2 children were killed as a result of shelling. but as i said in forgive, it's still ongoing. we can still hear heavy artillery being fired. it seems non stop. i said, thank you very much indeed. i said, beg, talking to us from khaki, ukraine's president says there's nothing left of mario, paul, after nearly a months of russian bombardment, vladimir zalinski says 800000 civilians remained trapped and inhumane conditions with no food, water, power, or medicine. russian strikes have intensified after mario paul refused to surrender on monday as widespread damage with residential buildings, industrial areas, and infrastructure destroyed. ukrainian officials are making a desperate effort to evacuate people around 7000 were rescued on tuesday from surrounding areas. cholenski accused russia of blocking much needed aid by taking

bus drivers in emergency personnel hostage stand on that see dean will meet as of today. there are about 100000 people in marry, are paul in any humane conditions under a full blockade with no food? no water and no medicine under constant shelling and constant bombardment for more than a week. now we have been trying to organize, stable humanitarian corridors for mary awful residence. in almost all our attempts, unfortunately, are disrupted by the russian occupiers, by showing or deliberate terror woman there or going as big as port city odessa remains on high alert for a russian attack. families have been boarding trains to evacuate his russian warships remain off the coast. odessa has largely been spared from fighting so far though. a residential area was shelled over the weekend. ukrainian ford who say hospitals and schools are among the main targets. the health minister says 10 hospitals have been destroyed. the world health organization does another $43.00

have been damaged aid groups say more than $300.00 health facilities or in combat zones or areas under russian control. more than 60 schools across ukraine, no lie in ruins, and other 460 have been damaged save the children says an estimated 6000000 young people are trapped inside ukraine. with many sheltering and buildings that are coming under increased attacks. these pictures show a children's hospital in the city of serrano desk. in the eastern landscape region . it was bombed by russia. in the last 24 hours rescue teams were able to evacuate 7 children and 15 adults. officials say more than 2 dozen buildings in the region of damage in the last day, including a school. the united states is one of a coordinated natal responsive. one of its members is hit by a cyber attack from russia. moscow denies it's planning one. the one comes as president joe biden repairs to attend meetings with the nato, the e u and g 7th, leaders in europe. allan fisher reports us says it seeing the foundation of russian

cyber attacks on the us. it's monitoring scanning efforts. essentially, hackers probing for weak sports. national security advisor jim sullivan says any such attack on a nito member will bring a coordinated response. we could see circumstances in which a collective response by the alliance to a cyber attack would be called by an outline. that is absolutely something where we and other countries could bring capabilities to bear to help a country both defend itself and respond to a particular cyber attack. now, that's not necessarily the same thing as a military response. that response could take many different forms when president biden and put met in geneva last year. the us president said key areas of infrastructure should be off limits to cyber attack. that was in response to the 2020 solar winds, attack. federal severs were hit, 30000 private companies and public organizations impacted. washington says the

russian foreign intelligence service was behind that hack and addressing business leaders on monday. your bike want them to get ready. the magnitude of russia cyber capacity is fairly consequential. and it's coming federal government is doing this part to get ready. but let me be absolutely clear about something. it's not just if you're interested or stake with or potential use of cybersecurity, it is the national interest. the russian government denies its planning cyber attack thing. it would not resort to what it calls banditry, but officials here believe it's a way for russia to strike back at the u. s. for providing weapons to ukraine without escalating the actual fighting. alice fisher, i'll visit us at the white house. once all the world news now, the taliban has ordered girls schools in afghanistan to shut down just hours after they reopen. some girls were seen returning to classrooms of the capital tub all on wednesday morning. but a spokesman for the ministry of education has confirmed that all secretary schools

for girls will remain closed until further notice. the taliban has been widely condemned for depriving women and girls of an education. it was all with the man. i was happy and excited when i found out i was going to school. i was real hardly there for 30 minutes when they kicked us out and shut the door and left us hopeless . by that then the guard by the fair alcove. it isn't fair that boys are allowed to go to schools and girls, aunt, what have girls done wrong? we want our schools to reopen that before still had an order 0. i have is abducted organs sold and women enslaved. we'll take you inside a racks organized crime games and western leaders. slam a court ruling that will keep crumbling, critic alexi know volley behind bars for 9 more years. ah.

you're turned into your weather update for europe and africa. hello everyone. we're going to begin in iberia. rounds of rain here more centered for a southern section. so say live been valencia rate through to the south in at times, this will be heavy. other side of the mediterranean right now breezy condition, still through the boss for it's impacting it's temple sharey as well, with the hiv 8 degrees. those winds right through the g and into the eastern net. now here's a good stuff. plenty of sun walls, while sunshine, temperature is pretty close to about 20 degrees, for example, in zagreb, and budapest, in fact, we may see 20 degrees. and i think both london in paris you'll join that 20 degree club is wall at some point this week, but for wednesday we've got both of you in for high 18 degrees, some unsettled weather towards the northwest of africa. so robot into mara, cash. we're going to see some showers, but for the northeast side of the top end of africa, i think just wind. it will stay dry and kyra with

a hive. 17 degrees down toward the bottom end of africa. we're seeing that rain filling across the south africa may see some standards storms in cape town as well . but i think by and large it should stay dry here. looks like the better bet for some sunshine will be bill away with the high of 25 degrees and still rain across not a gas car on wednesday. that's it. see soon ah, with frank assessments, what are the political risks of batting russian oil? a gas for western leaders, pull sanctions on russian energy exports, recipe for such informed opinions. france is not abandoning to fight against jedi, still resumed media debt. going to be attacking from leisure 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

blue? ah, they want to go to 0 reminder, what top stories this are you train? the 2nd largest city hockey is under constant bombardment by the russian military, entire area have been reduced to rubble. most people have fled. the mayor has won, does no place is safe and everyone should go under ground. rushes intensified its attacks on your brains. port city of mario polt reducing it to ashes more than a 100000 people remain chopped with no food, water, power or medicine. and enough, janice done. the taliban has ordered girls schools to shut down just hours after reopening. a spokesman for the ministry of education is confirmed. all secondary

schools girls will remain closed until further notice babies being abducted by the nurses, other children being sold for their organs and young woman enslaved into prostitution. all major problems in iraq. please say they've uncovered 60 organized crime gangs osama. bon jovi reports from the capital baghdad for this people trafficker, it looks like a routine transaction, but this is a police thing. but detectives, boozing his fires hidden camera and the cars captured the criminal, confirming that he's selling to women for $2000.00 each once the deal is done, police arrest the trafficker and the women detective, see the women were part of the gangs to run away from their buyer then repeat their scam all over again. using recordings and other techniques,

especially unit countering people, trafficking says you were able to go to court with evidence on the seller thing. it is true that i've dealt with you and told you about the $2000.00. he confesses to have received the money in exchange for the women. the man was sentenced to 6 years in jail. it's an extraordinary web of human trafficking and more than the slavery investigators have found nurses abducting babies, children being sold for body parts and women being strapped across the u. s. deed abutment of the iraqi government doesn't meet the minimum standards for the elimination of people trafficking, the director of iraq's anti trafficking. and it says, significant efforts are being made. it looks at him to tina. we've busted around 60 organized crime networks, some with human trafficking and others within the organs. trade 2 elements are spreading. one is st. beggars using minors and the other is young, rural girls being deceived and sold to work as dancers in cafes. 17 year old 100.

that's not her real name as he met a man on facebook. but when she ran away from home to marry him, she was drugged, abducted, and raped. the iraqi teenager was sold multiple times, forced into prostitution and made to take illegal drugs. after having an abortion she lives in fear that her kidnappers will find her again. 3 years after being rescued, she told the court about the pimps who abused her. paula john come law. they came to our house with other people and threatened us to drop the case, but i refused. i have no future. i'm forced to stay home as they may kill me. i lost the respect of my relatives to no one speaks to me after what happened and his family accepted her back and now protect her. that's rarely seen in iraq and thousands of young women in shelters across the country and not so lucky. leaders in baghdad say they're serious about tackling people trafficking, but with limited resources and faced with well connected,

organized gangs. a lot more remains to be done. some of the java it elders, era, baghdad for people have been killed and a starving and car rhyming attack in the southerners. early city of the sieber, the accused of salems was shot dead by an israeli bus driver. the lion's been identified as a form of palestine and teach him how the faucet has more from western salom. the reports are as follows, that this was a pretty wide ranging attack that took place in the southern town of best shaver that the man is alleged to have attacked and stabbed a woman at a petrol station on the main road before getting in a car, driving over a cyclist mail cyclist on his way to a shopping center nearby and getting out of the car and attacking a man and woman stubbing them both. he was then confronted by a civilian with a firearm. and there is video of the 2 of them facing off with

a civilian shouting repeatedly asked him each man moving back and forth before the one with a knife. the palestinian man ends up charging towards him and isn't apparently short. he's been confirmed to be killed as well. so the reports are that there are for israelis killed and, and the israeli bedouin man, we understand. he is from a southern bed in town of horror in the negative. does it? he said to be 34 year old mohammed, our young and the reports that he used to be a teacher at a school where he and some other stuff were arrested for allegedly promoting isis ideology back in 2015. and now his actions this attack has been praised by us, which is said that the crimes of israeli occupation have been met with heroic stabbing, rubbing, and shooting. there are concerns that this could be part of a, of a wider uptick in violence in the run up to ramadan. certainly it's

a 3rd stabbing attack that we've seen inside israel within the last 3 days or so. we understand that the police chief has been sent down or is decided to go down to the scene of the attack that the prime minister natalie bennett, has also been kept up to date on the latest events. shipbuilders, from countries around the world of buying for business cutters, annual monetize defense expo event highlights the latest naval technology. this year. china, italy and turkey are hoping to use the expo to boost their defense sales. alex catalyse reports from doha, bangladesh missile corvette and a pakistani frigate both made in china. the country naval training ship bill to the unadilla shipyards and turkey. these ships, another naval equipment are on display at hummer. ported cutter was part of dim decks, the annual maritime defense expo held in doha defense companies from around the

world of gather to show the latest wears as potential buyers look for bargains that will give their navies an edge in any potential conflict. the new class of ship builder has emerged making stealthy, powerful warships at a price. many countries can afford. one of the newcomers, china is no expanding defense base was applying cheap, capable warships to its clients. you have geanargo exploding submarines to bangladesh, you know, in the southeast asia they were exploiting submarines to are you in pakistan. they're also having a footprint in africa very just certain countries which have tardies product like nigeria. so i dont not any tons of volume of these lessons. what altering tons of the tonnage of the vessels that i know now? oh, diversified it's, you know, oh, different classes of ship as well as its construction. italy too, has been building advanced frigates for egypt and has been helping cut his navy expand significantly. turkey's navy is developing rapidly under its domestic ship

building mil jen program, building. it so worships, but also perfecting how to integrate foreign weapons sensor and radar systems. the go together to make modern naval systems. so k has been building ships for a very long time. but since we did 1000000 program, we had the experience and the capability of designing our own ships, including the turkish subsystems, which can be a degree in turkey, is now built in warships for cutter pakistan and the u. e. it's sites also firmly fixed on lucrative asian markets like indonesia, hostile flexibility of the chief factors for success here. and these 3 countries are now building an ever increasing number of still the powerful warships for tomorrow's navy's alex topless out a 0, doha human rights watch as accuse uganda security services accumulating what it calls horrific abuses against government. critics. the rights groups has hundreds

of opposition. supporters have been targeted over the past 3 years, especially around last year's election. president, you ready most of any has condemned torture, but campaigners accuses government of condoning the arbitrary arrests and abuse. under my wanders, ugandan journalist he says, is difficult to know which arm of the government is responsible. it's a government that destroyed them. you see if you have different amazon government armed with guns and everyone is shooting, how do you establish culpability? that is either a, i made a police or a local defence units that shot and killed people. so there are such confusion. it is difficult to establish individual culpability. i've just been reading vishal runners report. they say they want to punish those who shot. it's difficult to even know who shot and therefore hard, individually, accountable individuals in a government now defend wealth of courses for the elections. there were a series of abductions over people considered to be political ordinance and debt. these before to be thickened even good edition facilities as well. this problem

with this one is going to be directly. they had the thugs who to call a shadow, stick to the deck. guys were coming with heavy guns wearing switch and gloves wearing so that braving civilian cause and abducting people. so it was very difficult to say that this is the police, this is the i met, this is a, the internet services the you asked me, you have condemned the court ruling and russia that's extended the prison sentence of kremlin critical exit. no vonny. it was hon. guilty of fraud and contempt of court and sentence to 9 more years. bernard smith reports from moscow. the last outspoken political opponent of russia's president appeared in a prison court room in a black prison uniform looking gold. the judge found alexei in the valley guilty of fraud and contempt of court, the sentence 9 years jail in a maximum security prison. when the valley spoke,

the video feed from the court room to journalists was cut, so his supporters posted his comments online. you can't put every one in prison, even if you ask for a 113 years, you won't skim your others like me. every person must act in their own way as they can, considering the circumstances, but act. as the van his lawyer spoke outside the prison police with loud hale as tried to drown them out, you see as the knobs cut, of course we will appeal the verdict that we were not able to use a recording device. i have digital copies of the case papers. so this was incorrect procedure on top of the fact that it was taking place in the prison, which is very rare. it's just over a year since alexi navarro only returned to russia from germany. he'd been given medical treatment after a poison attack with a nerve agent during a visit to siberia. within minutes of his plane landing the valley was arrested was he's not been out of jail since good. no,

only was russia's main opposition lead. he tried to run for president in the election in 2018, but was barred from standard. he's anti corruption foundation was declared an extremist organisation and shut down than in february last year. the valley was jailed for 2 and a half years for parole violations charges. he says we're trumped up to silence him . this is not a surprise. it's her putin would like to keep alexi in prison, for as long as he is in our, we accomplish all of this is huge thereat order to imprison alexi. ah, there were demonstrations in several russian cities against novalis treatment, particularly after he went on hunger strike. there's little chance of anything like this this year. any recent attempts to protest against the war in ukraine had been snuffed out before they started. alexei have only tried to keep up his campaigning

from prison with his lawyers, posting messages on instagram, but that's now banned here, and with no only being moved to a maximum security. prison is unlikely. we're going to hear from him many years. bernard smith, al jazeera, moscow new zealand, relaxing his corona, virus measures. as cases of the amazon variant fold and scrapping a limit on outdoor gatherings, friday of axis monday will no longer be required for some workers, including police and teachers from next month. but it's going to continue for health care and border workers. new zealand experienced weeks of protests against its strict coven 19 policy. the world's top ranked woman's tennis player ash party has announced she is retiring from the sport of the age of 25. the street and grand slam champion deliver the shock news to an instagram post. what he says is time for her to chase other dreams. it comes less than 2 months after she won this trillion open. success for me is, is knowing that i've given absolutely every,

everything i can, i'm unfulfilled, i'm happy and i know how much work it takes 2 to bring the best out of yourself. and i've said it to my team. um multiple times. it's just, i don't have that in me anymore. i don't have the, the physical drive, the emotional i want and kind of everything. it takes 2 to challenge yourself at the very top level anymore. and i think i just know that i'm absolutely. i am spent . i just know physically i have nothing more to give and that for me is, is success. i've given absolutely everything i can to, to this beautiful sport of tennis, craig, gabriel's in australian tennis journalist. and he says, bought, has made remarkable achievements in a very short space of time. she's doing all her terms. nobody else is terms. she's not injured or anything like that. she's decided,

as you just heard from her emotionally and physically she's done. she can't do it any more. and she wants something else in life now and good luck to her. busy she's achieved everything she wanted to achieve. the french open in 2019 wimbledon in 2021. the spreading open a couple of months ago. she won wimbledon. she started to this, these thoughts started to come into her mind after that she was so spent then, and then the icing on the cake was winning the australian open. it's been a remarkable career. i'll give you a couple of stats. she ended the year number 13 times and she's got the 4th longest streak of consecutive weeks at number one and she 7th overall for the most weeks at number one. and you can't knock that. she has to be spoken. busy in the same category as people like stephanie graph, monica salish, margaret, sorry,

but you don't have rattle over chris 7, even though they had much longer decided to play for greater longer periods. what ashes done in such a short time is truly remarkable. ah, this is all the 0. these are the top stories ukraine, 2nd largest city talk eve is suffering constant bombardment by the russian military and tar areas have been reduced to rubble. most people fled the mayor's warrant. nowhere is safe and everyone should go on the ground. your brains president says there is nothing left of money, a poll after nearly a month of russian bombardment, believe me as the landscape says, $100000.00 civilians remain trapped and inhumane conditions with no food. water power or medicine is accusing russia of blocking.