ah ah ah, al jazeera, with smouldering ruins, margaret seen of a military stand off on the outskirts of kids. but ukraine's military says it has the upper hand over russian forces. ah, hello, i'm marianne murphy and london. you're watching al jazeera coming up on the program

. we look at the fight for survival in a car key of intensive care unit. i talked to the nurses is struggling to treat ways of wounded residence. a death is a city largely spad from fighting, but it's always closer. people are saying they are preparing for the why and are all the headline story shopping disappointment and i've gone is don girls are allowed back to school for the 1st time in months, only for the taliban to reverse the decision. ah. hello and welcome to the program. it's been 4 weeks since russia launched its invasion of ukraine, killing an untold number of civilians and reducing cities and villages to rumble. and while russia gets more isolated, politically and economically, it also appears to be losing thousands of soldiers as ukrainians fiercely defend their country. nato estimates between 7 to 15000 russian soldiers of kill since the

war began. to put that into perspective, the soviet union lost about 15000 soldiers in afghanistan of a 10 years. meanwhile, ukraine's president says his people are unable to bury that dead. and an address to the japanese parliament, ramirez landscape said more than a 120 children are among the thousands of civilians who have been killed just over 10 days ago. and he said, 1300 ukrainian soldiers have been killed since the beginning of the war. or this war, russia is struggling to seize control of ukraine's major cities, why hundreds of thousands of civilians are trapped with dwindling access to food, water and electricity. out there is rob mcbride reports now from the city of la wave. amid reports of counter attacks against russian forces on different fronts, ukrainian troops around the capital, keith say they've, we taken territory even threatening to cut off stranded units of russians. there is through big battle and from official sources. where is the information right now?

they're ah small city mac, i am fir, almost whole or been already in the control is ukrainian soldier. russia are increasingly seems to be relying on miss island rocket attacks as its ground forces become bog down. and the russian ministry defense has released footage of its cruise missiles launched from land and sea that have been striking targets throughout ukraine. while russian forces may have been held in the north and even driven back by counter attacks according to the ukrainians in the south. greatest strength and organisation appeared to be helping russia make a big impact on the battlefields there. in the besieged city of mary you, paul, ukrainian, defenders say they still hold a perimeter in the center. but new drone footage shows the scale of the devastation

while it's still difficult for people to get out and for humanitarian aid to get in . both sides continue to operate 9 humanitarian corridors in other parts of the country. meanwhile, ukrainian president flood him is a lensky, has continued his global charm offensive this time addressing members of japan's parliament 5 video link. as without the direct appeals to the international community, he deftly tailored his message following the offensive on the zappa easier nuclear plants. earlier in the conflict, he touched upon japan's own experience of nuclear attacks to muster support for his country's course. and i saw him leave out the tire for operating nuclear power plants on our land. there are 15 nuclear units and they are all under threat. while both sides seem to be experiencing successes and set bags in the military struggle

in the fight for international support. its ukraine, that appears to be making the most recent gains with robert bride al jazeera levine . shares emerald con, joins us live now from the capital care. what's it like baron ron? well the curfew is just about to begin, but it has been a another day where strikes took place. the 1st one took place around 830 a m local time in the morning. now, what happened, where there were 2 artillery shells landed in front of 2 residential buildings of one of them. the entire front of the building was almost blown away. the entire facade of that building windows was flashed in are there were 4 people who were injured in that attack. and then there were a loud explosion. so throughout the day or up in the north or in those towns that have been the front lines or for a couple of weeks now. or then around about uh,

1 32 o'clock. or there was a shell that fell onto a car, killing at least one per while killing one person there. that was the same location or that 8 people died 24 hours earlier in a missile attack, against a residential block and a shopping. all the russians say that that was actually a carpet, restoring rockets ah, however early that something the ukrainians have denied. so in the last couple of moments though, we have heard 2 very loud explosions take place. likely, again in the north of ki, of, and that's really are the frontline or when it comes to these artillery showings in their strokes that we've seen in the, in the capital so far. now let me bring you up to date. there has been some movement in the towns outside of the mockery of and at a pin or 2 very crucial towns. there's been intense fighting. there are the

ukrainian say they've taken both of those hounds, boucher and hostile again, very closely linked to those places. any bouts, or 15 kilometers way from where i'm standing at the moment. at the ukrainian say they've actually encircled russian forces there. and they're going to try and drive them out of those places. all of those towns incredibly crucial because of the russians could have linked them up than that would have been a staging post by any attack into the capitol itself, according to most intelligence estimates and the ukrainians themselves, the russian advanced into the city. how stored in that tallies with what we're saying we've been here. i monitoring this attack or just potential invasion into keep now for about 3 or 4 weeks. and if we haven't seen and a lot of people have been surprised by that. but the russian tactic now seems to be changing. they seem to relying more on missile strikes, rocket strikes, and artillery shelling and keeping the pressure on. however,

on the ground at their offensive as definitely stalled. thank you very much from care of and ron con will you and general assembly is holding emergency session on the war. ukraine's ambassador is ash countries to vote for a humanitarian draft resolution that holds russia are responsible for the conflict . people are being killed in there at them to flee from conflict affected areas. cities are raised to the ground by selling and air strikes. neighboring countries are stretched to their limits of accommodating millions of ukrainian ravages. we ask all those who stand against the war to vote with us towards what the draft entitle humanitarian consequences of the aggression against ukraine. ok, key this ukraine, 2nd largest setting has come under intense rush and bombardment. hospitals. they're struggling to call it

a number of wounded civilians and soldiers. a warning that acid bags report from ikea hospital contains distressing images. ah, a desperate attempt to save lives. overstretched and overworked, medical staff at hockey, regional clinical hospital or under unprecedented pressure. the intensive care unit is filled with victims of this war. yes, librium, i will just you to go anywhere. i haven't treated civilians with combat injuries before. i'm overwhelmed with the amount of cases, sometimes we receive 10 people from one location, but we've learned to do it quickly, provide aid. it's our experience, the counts of, of the family, the work under constant threat to their own lives. i were standing here and listening to the sound of shilling. i don't know where it will hit the hospitals impala clear, and solar chip or destroyed in loss over the fish. hospitals don't work anymore. we

don't know what will be to day if the bomb lands the hospital will no longer exist, the children's hospital is destroyed. the center for blood donation operates from the basement. many of these people were in their homes when they were hit by shrapnel. a little bit ago. the shilling was intense. then it stopped than it started again. 3 people were killed immediately. i am the only one that survived, but have all these injuries with any other kind of injuries that you're sink downstairs, they are more patience. one of the more such as leg has been amputated. you know, actually there was a lot of patients with the serious injures right here, but the, this boy is the most strong well from all of them because most of them are crying, asking for saving their legs and arms. but he was the only one who said, just do what you think you need to do. so this is a real warrior, still heart. and he has one message for the world, goes this guy,

a motor green. these words are filled with casualties from this war. here most of patients are after artillery. it's not because most of patients was wounded by a tillery. it's just because most of patients after aircraft are dead. so this is the most hard patient in another would be fine. you have gaining telescope, he threw his body over his 8 year old son when he heard explosions from his son was unharmed, travelling above his chest and then go out. here. he was struck by shrapnel, as of the piece of shuttin that we see here were shown pieces of shrapnel by the stove. this tiny piece killed the woman custom of missed him with you him by staying here we are defending our families and work of victory. we are together, we are in a common cause. this is my bed. one for the staff here. this is their life.

they sleep in the corridors to say close to their patience and hope the walls will protect them please if the hospital is hit for you flip regarding your patients like sasha, a medical staff her have all asked for the same thing. oblivious of the politics around it, they want the air space over ukraine and this city closed because it's the damage done from the bombs are dropped from planes that are causing the most casualties. i said big algebra hark if. well elsewhere, we're watching development closely in the port city of a death area. it's on high alert for a rush, an attack, even though it's largely been spad from the fighting so far. stephanie deca is that life here now is all about preparing the city for a potential russian attack every day. a destiny come here, come together to fill up sandbags on the beaches and then fill up trucks to $4.00 to $5.00 areas of the city while we've been here. there's been shutting. we've seen

aries across the waters on fire. there is smoke. we're not exactly sure what exactly is going on there. we're not allowed to fill in anything super sensitive here when it comes to the military operations and installations, but certainly on tuesday, for the 1st time residential areas inside odessa, we're head people here are telling us that they are feeling what they say is the heat rising that potentially a russian attack could be sued, which is why people here believe that there cannot be enough sand bags filled to fortify this city. you have men, you have women all coming together here, day off today, and this is what you see. this production line sandbags being filmed, being put in trucks and then being carried around to other parts of the city. odessa is a key port. it is ukraine's biggest c port. it is seen to be one of russia's main targets or everyone here are saying they do believe something will happen. we've seen, as i said earlier in increased already in shelling in the area in the last couple of days. but certainly resolve here remain strong. everyone we've spoken to,

to will tell you that russia will not take a death. gonna bring you much more of the news as well on the program. we're looking at gum battles taking place in mogadishu on fighters. arab attempted to still my heavily fortified military base. and madeline albright, one of the wants, the highest ranking women in the history of the u. s. government dies at the age of $84.00. ah hello there. there's lots of beautiful weather to be enjoyed across europe at the moment. and there's more of that to come as we move towards the we can particularly across those central and northern areas. you've got high pressure in charge, but we're still seeing the wet and windy weather in the south for the southwest

corner, as well as the southeast. and it's the iberian peninsula that's bearing the brunt of that wet or whether we could see some flooding in the south. where the rain is heaviest eastern area, seeing some heavy rain as well, and it's a bit of a washout for madrid. things will improve, however, by next week. now, further north of this, well, it's a largely fine and dry picture. we've seen temperatures in london and paris touch up into 20 degrees for the 1st time this year and know we have some foggy starts in the morning. it does clear up by the afternoon with plenty of sunshine, essentially sunshine as well. for parts of scandinavia, we've got a bit of a wintry mix pushing into western parts of norway as well as eastern areas and bella, ruth and ukraine. but further south of this, well, it is a hot and dry picture. we've got some why fi warnings for sylvania and a lot of that dry and hot weather extends across northern areas of italy. and if we have a look at the 3 day for milan, well, be well above average in the temperature, with plenty of sunshine through the weekend. ah,

does there mind play tricks? a damper is always, is park right there, or are they really out there? and you, half of them by like they pull up a leg isn't like they're not in the car of fill me could, takes the f, b i to cool to find out approximately 33120 pages of records. i did the process. mobilize is how community as long as people are free to talk, then there is no check against the system. the feeling of being watched on al jazeera lou. ah, welcome back. look at the main developments this our, our nato is estimating

a between 7 and 15000 russian soldiers of been killed in the full weeks of war and ukraine. ukrainian president, roger may zalinski says his people have not been able to bury many of that dead. and he also said a 120 children are among the thousands of civilians kills he may us as ukrainian forces a retaking territory on the outskirts of the capitol, pushing back russian troops. russia appears to be relying more on miss san rocket attacks as its forces struggled to gain ground and a car key ukraine. second largest city has come under intense russian bombardment. hospitals are overrun, and the mayor is saying no area is safe urging people to go to bomb shelters, basements, and on to ground stations. now lives train station west in ukraine has been a hub of activity since the war began. of the more than 3600000 refugees have left the con, most of these events as a transit point, and as a fighting intensifies,

many of those just arriving spoken of the horrors they've left behind. same bas ravi has more from an of 8th dozens, thousands, millions behind the numbers used to describe what is happening here. are the people living this school, those fighting it, those fleeing it. this is the picture of displacement in ukraine's. the russian invasion has devastated city after city this family left of the fca in the da net screeching after seeing their neighbors killed the richard. the more at the moment is do us phone. i want to go back home. she

says, we left everything. there is a law we read the book, i suppose. my advice dissolves horace to you because the god leave while they show and flack of everything. there was nothing. no gas, if there's no lights, you know water, but she had no food because all the shops have been ruined already. it's impossible to live there. the levine, central train station is the last major hub for refugees from the war escaping to europe. ah air raid sirens here, pale in comparison, perhaps, to the violets they've left behind. ah, victor and rosa from a village near car keith, under russian occupation. after hiding in their basement for 2 weeks up, they found someone to smuggle them out just before the russians closed,

the check they say it was like living in a cage like you live with me and i'm not quite sure if we won the world to hear us does a free country. no one was heard here before. for me personally, i lived with a man. he is a kristin and i'm in the slim. and we live happily. ever thing was great and in one moment it ended. please stop the war with far from the fighting, but not far enough. yet. as the war begins to move west, more people are leaving the country. one person on the platform told us there's an easy way to tell where the train is going, that it's full of men. that's a domestic journey. if it's full of women and children, those are the only ones that are allowed to leave. the country trains leaving the station or pulling families apart. unluckily than ever.

so just close the skies. she says that is all some stop in levine before continuing on a chance to rest, to recharge. a brief moment of calm before the chaos of getting to the border and getting out of ukraine. ah st. basra v o g 0, levine, planning, some other stories are falling as how a noun and 6 people have died when gunman stormed and military base and somalis capital market issue. the base is inside the cities highly fortified international airport. it houses the you and several foreign missions and the african union military headquarters, somebody security forces that they kill 3 gunman trying to get inside the i'm group

i'll ship as time to have carried out the attack. malcolm web has more from mogadishu. the gum and attacks alana. com, which is sort of green zone here in mogadishu to build around the air force not far from where we are now just along the indian ocean coastline. and inside that heavily fortified area is the united nations, the african union peace keepers. the soldiers from the african union force, all of the embassies of the western countries that support this government and the african union peacekeepers, private military companies as well. it sat heavily fortified, surrounded by a thick walls of concrete. they're designed to stop attack as an explosions. now we understand that, sir. 2 will. 3 gunmen got in and engaged in a fire fight with somali police officers went on for about 2 hours before the attackers were killed and the fighting stopped. the armed group, al, sure, bob claimed responsibility as he said, it also said it had 5 more tis. now the police spokesperson said that 6 people are

being killed. 5 of them were foreigners. one of them was somali, and one of those foreigners was a soldier from the african union force. now this african union force has been here for 15 years with mixed success, the control that green zone, they control many of the key towns and cities. but the arm grew, boucher bob still dominates in, sways the countryside and frequently makes incursions into the towns and cities. but this any the 2nd time that our she bobs, attackers have actually managed to get into holiday camp. the green zone, return to school for girls in afghanistan lasted only hours of all the taliban then reversed its decision, forcing them back home. many gulls showed up for classes for the 1st time and 7 months before learning they had again been canceled. the education ministry says most secondary schools for girls will stay closed until further notice. the tory

gazing, the reports. oh, the day started so well for these girls in cobble as they returned to school for the 1st time in 7 months. i shook, i'll handle on. thank god. the taliban are also like the previous government. now i don't have any concern about what i have to wear or whether to go to school or not . my family has allowed me and thank god. now the taliban has also given us permission to go to school. we are very happy. oh, but a few hours later that sense of optimism had completely disappeared. the taliban leg government suddenly ordered most secondary schools for girls to close. students packed up their bags and headed home. yeah. was all with the man and i was happy and excited when i found out i was going to school i. but we are hardly there for 30 minutes when they kicked us out and shut the door and left us hopeless. after that, then they got by the therapy. it isn't fair that boys are allowed to go to schools

and girls, aunt, what of girls done wrong? we want our schools to reopen, like before. girls in afghanistan have been waiting for months to attend school. the taliban pledge to provide them with access to an education after it's take over in august. but since then, most girls have been banned from going to school after the 6th grade. taliban officials now say they need even more time to create gender segregated facilities on or advert yesterday. evening grew received the decision from the leadership of the slumped america to postpone the opening of girls schools after great 6 until the develop supply that is in accordance with sharia and traditions. we are committed to opening girls schools. the taliban has been widely condemned for depriving women and girls of an education. i think it's very sad to see after all those months, which is the girls in afghanistan were been waiting for dad. they did to schools where we reopen. and unfortunately, today was a very disappointment that they turned back their home without any results. it

shows that thought among are not reliable, they could most fulfilled their promises. the international community says the right to an education must be upheld. if the taliban leg government wants to receive much needed aid, victoria gay to be al jazeera chinese stanke me dear, is released new video of the site of the china. eastern airlines crashed 2 days ago . drawing pictures showed the huge bits of this mountain side made by the boeing 737 ally. now when it came down on monday, it's in a remote heavily forested area of southern china, bordered by mountains on 3 sides. one of 2 black box fight record has it been recovered? but at none of the $132.00 passengers and crew of so forth and found, she set the nazis as a child and rose to become one of the most powerful women in the history of the u.

s. government. madeline albright america's fuzzy mall secretary of state has died at the age of 80 full. rosalind jordan now looks back on her life and career without any mental madeline albright made history. when in 1997, she became the 1st woman to serve as us secretary of state discharged the duties of the office discharged the duties of the office on which i am about to enter on, which i'm about to enter. so old, right wielded her power, indirect and controversial when enforcing the un economic embargo against a rock. despite iraq's present weakness, the future threat has not been erased. iraq's behavior and intentions must change before our policies can change. otherwise, we will allow the scorpion that bid us once to bite us again, pushing us allies to back a military strike on a rock in 1998 because of saddam hussein's refusal to let you,

when weapons inspectors into the country. we have said many times that we prefer to have a diplomatic solution, but we need to resolve this problem. and or we have also said that we will take what necessary means in order to achieve those 2 objectives. and supporting the u. s. bombing of kosovo in 1999 to protect bosnian muslims. what was happening in the former yugoslavia was a far away place with people with unpronounceable names. and i felt that we did have to do something and of what people, what i'm proudest of is what we did in bosnia. and what later when our secretary state we did in kosovo. madeline cor bill was born in the former checklist. slovakia in 1937, the daughter of a diplomat, the core bell family fled to the u. s. after communist took power and prague in

1947 after university cor bell married joseph albright and raised a family. at each $39.00, she completed her ph. d and launched her foreign policy career, including serving on the national security council under president jimmy carter and serving as us ambassador to the united nations under president bill clinton. today we begin to cleanse the hatred that has torn apart. the former yugoslavia albright was criticized for pushing a tough policy on a rock that led to children dying of hunger and medicine shortages. we have heard that half a 1000000 children, a guy is the price worth it. i think this is a very hard choice that the price we think the crisis worth it. and albright failed to broker piece between the palestinians and israelis. she also couldn't stop north korea from selling ballistic missiles to other countries. nation in her later years, albright set up a consultancy taught future diplomats and became something of

a pop culture figure in the united states. she wrote a book about the messages behind the broaches. she wore i am so sorry to keep you waiting. and albright appeared twice on a t. v drama about a fictional secretary of state, circling more than anything. madeline albright will likely be remembered for holding an unvarnished view of the world and willing to confront challenges head on i was more in everything we've covered in the program, al jazeera dot com is by any to got ah, sort of bring up to date with all the latest developments in ukraine and we can see that the war's exacting a growing death toll on both sides of the conflict. nato estimate between 7 and 15000 russian soldiers have been killed in the 4 weeks since the invasion equating

present. roger mil zalinski says as people.