where ever, you know, the news ukraine's president caused by global protests to mock one month since russia's invasion began and demands an end to the military action. come from your offices, your homes, your schools and you know, was kids come in the name of peace. ah, hasn't seeker, this is educated alive from the also coming up the battle for survival in a cock give intensive care unit. dr. struggled to treat the wounded in a city on the constant bombardment. us president joe biden arrives in brussels for

talks with european and nato leaders to push for more sanctions against russia and tributes flow. for one of the most influential states women of high generation madeline albright, who died at the age of 1830 a president. while demi zaleski is calling for global demonstrations against russia's war in ukraine, before we conflict has killed thousands displaced, millions and devastated cities. despite that ukrainian troops have kept up their resistance. they say they've recaptured territory near the capital key of and now working to 45 soldiers have started digging trenches in key of province, anticipating a russian advance. rub my right begins are coverage amid reports of counter attacks against russian forces on different fronts. ukrainian troops around the capital keep say they've retaken territory even threatening to cut off stranded

units of russians. there is sort of big battle and from official sources. where is the information right now there? ah, small city mockery ampere, almost whole it been already in the control is ukrainian soldier. russia are increasingly seems to be relying on miss ireland. rocket attacks as its ground forces become bog down. and the russian ministry of 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 bigger 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 with other direct appeals to the international community, he deftly tailored his message following the offensive on the support easier nuclear plant. earlier in the conflict, he touched upon japan's own experience of nuclear attacks to muster support for his country's course. and as his english 3 d j adam, yes, there are full 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, and ukrainian forces offending off attacks by russian troops in the 2nd largest city of hockey, it's matt says, no area is safe and people should go to bomb shelters, basements and underground stations. i said, beg, visited a hospital in the city, and wanting to report contains images. the viewers may find disturbing. a desperate attempt to save lives overstretched and overworked medical stuff at her tea regional clinical hospital under unprecedented pressure. the intensive care unit is filled with the victims of this war. yes,

and then for him i would just because 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 accounts to promote their work under constant threat to their own lives. pretty much we're standing here and listening to the founder shilling. i don't know where it will hit. the hospitals impala clear in solar chip or destroyed in those over the hospitals don't work anymore. we don't know what will be today. 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. over the shilling was intense, then it stopped then it started again. 3 people were killed immediately. i'm the only one that survived, but have all these injuries. one of the kind of injuries that you're seeing

downstairs they are more patient is one of the most such as leg has been amputated . if you can have, 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 and asking for saving their legs and arms. but he was the only one who said, just do what you think you need to do. this is the real warrior, still heart, and he has one message for the world, close the sky, amount of green. these woods are filled with casualties from this war. here most of patients are, after all, tillery it's not because most of patients was wounded by or tillery is just because most of patients after aircraft are dead. so this is the most heart patient in

another ward. we find you a guinea 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. the piece of shuffling that we see here were shown pieces of shrapnel by the stuff this tiny piece killed, the woman just missed him a deal him by staying here. we are defending our families. i'm working for 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 stay close to their patients and hope the walls were protect them. if the hospital is hit for and you flip the card yup. patients like sasha and 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 if the damage turned from the bomb dropped from planes, the causing the most casualties. i said, bake algebra harvey,

if you claim president has called for demonstrations around the world against the russian invasion, starting from march 24th. exactly one months after the russian invasion from this day and after them, sol, your standing, come from your offices, your homes, your schools and universities come in the name of peace. come with ukrainian symbols to support your grain to support freedom to support life. come to your squares, your streets, make yourselves wistful and cured. see that people mentor freedom matters piece matters. ukraine matters and later plans to double the number of forces on its eastern borders. and it's also expected to send more aid to ukraine. the alliance is holding a meeting later on thursday to discuss the war with us president joe biden,

among the leaders attending. he said there's a real threat. russia could use chemical weapons against ukraine. genius for day trip. he'll meet the leaders of nato, the g 7, and the mexican james space is in brussels, where the nato summit gets on the way in a few hours. the nato secretary general saying that this is an extraordinary summit for extraordinary times. the reality is, i don't think you're going to see a lot. that's new and concrete. coming out to the summit, they will be ratifying, some of the things that have already been decided for new battle groups for nato in eastern europe. and they're also going to be talking about weapons of mass destruction with russia, saying that it has the possibility that it might use nuclear weapons if it faces an existential threat. and the possibility that nato feels is a threat that russia could use chemical or biological weapons to morrow.

i expect i would agree to provide additional support including cybersecurity assistance, as well as equipment to help your crane protect against chemical biological on read your logical and new k. that's when i press the 2nd is generally not news conference. what does yet, she mean by that? what sort of equipment is going to be supplied? and he said that would be dangerous to give the details to let the russians know the details of exactly what they're going to do with regard to that. but it's certainly quite high on the agenda for the nato allies. when they meet here, i don't think they're going to come up with the key things that precedence and then see what has asked for and will be asking, i'm sure again for here he would like to see a no fly zone. that is something no way any of the nato allies will support at this time. you'd also like to see much tougher sanctions,

particularly on the energy sector. and that's where nato, and particularly the you have a split with some countries in europe. notably, germany, very, very concerned about that. in fact, the german chancellor earlier on said that, yes, you can do that one day, but you can't do it in one day because otherwise, germany and other countries in europe would face a recession. and you can't have a sanction that harms you. nations more than it does, the leadership of russia. russia's foreign minister has worn nato sending peacekeepers to ukraine could lead to war with the west, poland as proposed sending troops, although the biden administration has ruled down to any ground presence resistance . typically, what does i tell you in the united states is playing a decisive role here. this is aimed to dramatize the situation to allow the lensky to where he's khaki shirt, to address the wolf poly minutes. and after each source address with tears and emotion, to demand again the involvement of nato,

our polish colleagues have already stated that now the time so many is going to happen. they will be sending peacemakers with. i hope they understand exactly what they're talking about. this will be the 1st class of the bush, an army, and nato ami, something that every body not only wanted to avoid. what i've been saying shouldn't take place in principle. still ahead on al jazeera call for calm on the french island of corsica. as the body of nationalist leader, yvonne colonna returns home and an unexpected declaration by a nicaraguan diplomat was denounced the government calling it a dictatorship. ah hello, there will start in north america. we seen severe storms roll across the southeast

corner of the u. s. bringing tornadoes to places like texas and louisiana. this was the scene there, causing devastation and destruction. now the threat continues, but it has pushed out further east. we could see those severe storms rolling all the way from florida up to new england with flooding rains and very strong winds. now it's worth a stretching up into the great lakes, bringing wester weather here we're going to see some more snow as well. edging into eastern areas of canada now behind it, we've also got a weather system that's moved across from british columbia. that's brought temperatures down in places like when a pagan, it's gonna hit toronto by the time we get into friday, we are going to the temperature dip right down close to the average. we've had a lot of unusual warmth ahead of that. and we could see some snow come into play on saturday. now for the western areas of canada, we are seeing wintery and wet weather. but for the south of this look at that largely fine and dry with a temperature touching up into the 30s,

potentially in los angeles. now, as we move to central america, we are going to see the rain pick up that band, a rain pushing into the yucatan peninsula, but plenty of sunshine in kingston. the, who's a sanctuary for journalists. it was a haven from the wall and shelter for civilian refugees, scattered into the garden during cambodia as bloody stuff. flooring us to me and suddenly we returning back to the canal rouge had taken anything of value out of the hotel, cambodia. let the know a new episode of war hotels on al jazeera. ah

ah. again, you're watching, i just did a reminder of our top stories. this key of mass as ukrainian forces are retaking territory on the outskirts of the capital, pushing back russian troops. russia appears to be relying on miss solid rocket attacks as its ground forces struggle to seize control of major cities, ukraine's president. what damage lensky has called for global protests to mark one months since the russian invasion began. zelinski also urged nato leaders to provide more weapons to ukraine. us president joe biden is arrived in brussels to meet nato and european leaders and talk through new sanctions by nist said there's a real threat. russia could use chemical weapons against ukraine. oliver's train

station in western ukraine has been a focal point for the flow of refugees. since russia's invasion began, as the fighting intensifies thousands of displaced ukrainians continued to make the journey to relative safety zane. best ravi reports from love, if dozens thousands, millions behind the numbers used to describe what is happening here. are the people living this war, those fighting it, those fleeing it. this is the picture of displacement in ukraine. the russian invasion has devastated city after city. this family left of the fca in the dynette screven, after seeing their neighbors killed the to go moist them, don't let us do a phone. i want to go back home. she says,

we left everything there. there's a law we read the book, i suppose. mean, my advice dissolves who are steel because when you got leave while they haven't flattened everything, there was nothing. no gas, if you know light, you know, water was and 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, hear, pale in comparison, perhaps, to the violence they've left behind. ah, victor and rosa, from a village near car keys under russian occupation. after hiding in their basement

for 2 weeks, they found someone to smuggle them out just before the russians closed, the check posts. they say it was like living in a cage like gillis with what you. 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 christine and i'm a muslim. and we lived happily. everything was great and in one moment it ended. please stop the war. with me, the way to a savannah. 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. if 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. luckily than ever. so just close the skies, she says that is all some stop in levine before continuing on a chance to rushed to recharge a brief moment of calm before the chaos of getting to the border and getting out of ukraine. ah st. basra al jazeera louise or tell the news now and lead us in the us up paying tribute to its 1st female secretary of state. madeleine albright is died at the age of $84.00. president joe biden said she turned the tide of history in his woods and has ordered flags to be flown at half mast in her honor. rosalind jordan 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 all right, wielded her power in direct 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 win 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 of state we did in kosovo. madeline corbet was born in the former checklist. vakio 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 horrible 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. to day 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 die is the price worth it. i think this is a very hard choice that the price we think the price is 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, i 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 circle. the more than anything madeline albright will likely be remembered for holding an unvarnished view of the world and willing to confront challenges head on the body of jailed corsican nationalist figure. yvonne colona has been moved to the french island following his death in half to earlier this week. alone had been in a coma to being assaulted by another prisoner, the attack spunk violent protests with demonstrators holding the government responsible. along that was jailed in 1998 for assassinating a regional official. nicholas hawk has more from a procession to honor yvonne colona in the french islands capital. i just, you very is the body of the even color, not the course that can nationalists. this wasn't organized or pre planned.

thousands of people have come to the streets in what is a spontaneous funeral procession for a man considered by the french government as a murderer, responsible for the killing of a french administrator 25 years ago. but for people here, he's a hero, he's a symbol, a monitor of the course that can national cause. and you'll see many people here carrying the national flag. his death has really united part of this islands. it's the circumstances of assess that has really shocked people, and it has caused riots in this city and other places on the island. he was killed by a fellow inmate and then in a coma for 3 weeks. and people here hold the french government responsible for his death course it can nationalists, currently held in the mainland will be now returning back into prison in

corsica. this is a move from the french government to tease the situation, but it will take much more than that. there are many questions that the course that can people gathered here. one answer, not just on the circumstances of even nice death, but on the way that this island has been treated by france with some here saying that in fact the, i'm a need some more autonomy and the french state has failed to provide. and to fulfill its promise to provide that autonomy to the people here. so it's much more than this man and it's funeral. it's about where course that guy is in relationship to friends. to make his prime minister has told the tale prince william, that his nation intends to cut ties with the british monarchy and your wholeness, met the duke and duchess of cambridge in the capitol. kingston. as part of the royal couples visit to the island, their arrival coincided with protest demanding reparations. for decades of slavery,

britain will jamaica for more than 300 years. the allan nation gained independence in 1962, but has remained within the commonwealth. with the and so i want to nicaragua, top diplomat has turned on president daniel ortega calling him a dictator. arturo mcfields has resigned. is the country's ambassador to the organization of american states or latin america editor. you see a newman has more few of any prominent nicaraguan diplomats have dared turn on president daniel ortega until now. but one of an out i know little of in

the plenary session of the organization of american states, nicaragua, ambassador arturo mac, feels as to speak in the name of more than 117 political prisoners, and 350 people killed by his government rosella bold only by denouncing the dictatorship of my country is not easy, but to continue remaining silent and defending been defensible. is impossible. i have to speak out, even if i am afraid, even if my future and my families are uncertain on you, i have to speak out, out to them, it feels has been a washington base diplomat for the government for a decade. he's surprised, decision to denounce ortega came days after former presidential candidate christiana tomorrow, was sentenced to 8 years in detention for financial crimes and so called ideological deviations. 48 other opposition figures who've been tried inside men. i was notorious and she brought to prison. have been sentenced to between 8 and 13

years in prison on what are widely described as politically motivated and trumped up charges. ambassador with feel says disenchantment with ortega is widespread. but that public servants are afraid to speak out. the essence, as those young with dorothy long days before i withdraw from the o a s, we had a virtual meeting in the foreign ministry. with a team of presidential advisors, i suggested their release at least 20 elderly political prisoners and 20 other ordinary prisoners for health reasons. i told them that it would be a humane and political intelligent action since no one should die in prison, especially if they are innocent and lack adequate medical care. they want me to shut up the last months or go. taurus who saved president ano ortega's life when they both fought to overthrow a former nigger when dictatorship died in prison. and bill mon nunez, tells al jazeera that others are in critical condition. people all the prisoners

suffering from health issues. for example, former deputy foreign minister victor hugo, to no codes in a grave condition because of a lack of medical treatment for his preexisting illnesses. not feels very public turn against ortega is not only an embarrassment for the government, but also a boost. 2 opponents who just announced they'll have to operate from abroad to remain out of prison. you see in human al jazeera of the world's top women's tennis flash. barty has spoken about her reasons for retiring from the sports and says she's not hiding anything. the 3 time grand slam champion announced her decision to step away on wednesday. 25 year old barty says her success at this year's australian open topped off a korea. she satisfied with a lot of different things that happen in my life. and that have changed my perspective and timing is everything. i'm a big believer in that. and i think after the strain open i was i was really hoping

that we would get the opportunity to play to come home pick up time. but that wasn't meant to be that wasn't the case and i just knew that for me to the thomas rod, i've given absolutely everything that i could to the sport. and i knew that wouldn't be fair to my team and the people that have invested so much time and energy into my loss to not be 100 percent committed to them. a this is a 0 now to get a round up of the top stories cubes, man says ukrainian forces are re taking territory on the outskirts of the capital, pushing back russian troops. russia appears to be relying on miss sol and rocket attacks as its ground forces. struggle to seize can.