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of critically ill children. we visit a hospital that's moved from keith because of their bombardments. also coming up, north korea is accused of launching an intercontinental ballistic missile for the 1st time in for me i'm doing the guys roscoe with sports 2 more teams qualify for the fee for world cup japan's whenever australia sees him through to the finals for the 7th straight time and also i sent the saudi arabia to kansas 2022. we don't want to fight. we just want to survive. those are the words of ukrainian president. let me zalinski and he criticizes nice ladies. the not doing enough to help. it's been one month since russia invited ukraine and worldly as a meeting in person to try and find a way out of the crisis. nato g 7, and a new summit being held in brussels. us president joe biden is among those

attending. but back in ukraine, cities continue to be pummeled troops holding off a russian advances around the capital. but there's widespread destruction across several regions. among them is the southern port of mary of home, where more than 100000 people remain trapped. let's go 1st now to brussels or where our white house correspondent, kimberly how good is standing by. it's certainly a packed agenda for the us presidents. kimberly, what is he hoping to achieve this way? can europe that, well, we know that the u. s. president came into the series of meetings hoping to coordinate across all of these meetings with world leaders on one real goal that is continuing the unity that has been seen thus far in the month that we have now watch this crisis play out in ukraine as a result of lateral putin's invasion. to that end, the u. s. president,

as he meets with nato leaders and we should point out we are standing by for a now delayed press conference with the secretary general in stoughton berg. but until we hear from him, what we do know is that the u. s. president was expected to go into these meetings, essentially making sure that nato beyond this crisis, in addition to this crisis, really had a posture towards russia that would be sustained in the long term. and other words adding to those kind of battle grounds if you will, in poland as well as the baltic states. and so we are expected to hear some more tangible deliverables as they call them with regard to that. and so we're watching very carefully for that. when the subsequent meetings that the u. s. president will be having will really be hearing more on the financial punitive side. what does that mean? that means punishing russia financially for invading ukraine. what will that look

like? elaine more financial sanctions. what we expect is that the u. s. president is expected to announce a series of new sanctions against political leaders in the russian parliament, the duma, the lower house, as well as all the works. this will add to the sanctions that are already in place . and we also expect that he's going to push european leaders to go further than they have already with respect to the sanctions that they've put in place as well. and the very quickly, we also expect the u. s. president, to work with these leaders to address the humanitarian situation. so another announcement we're watching carefully for will be additional aid, not just from the partner nations, but also from the united states. roughly 1000000000 we're hearing in new funding for food, shelter, medicine. basically, the eminent needs, as people continue to flee this conflict, but then also additional hundreds of millions about 320000000 to defend human

rights, and particularly to document potential war crimes. given the fact that the u. s. president has alleged vladimir putin is war criminal for deliberately targeting civilians in this conflict. and kimberly, while we've got you and we're waiting for those press conferences of the secretary general install shomberg, i guess we're going to say a lot of headlines and a lot of press conferences. but are there any side line discussions we should be keeping an eye on in terms of the u. s. president. what we're watching for carefully is whether or not there might be some interaction between the u. s. president and the turkish leadership type air to one. and the reason is that turkey has been the nation that has been trying to throughout this conflict, mediate some sort of resolution or piece deal between russia and ukraine. believe they've met about 4 times, give or take. i could be wrong on that,

but the bottom line is, is that, well, there seems to be the potential for an agreement. there isn't one just yet. and so . well, there is nothing on the president schedule in terms of this meeting, and we should point out that the relationship between the united states and turkey has been a complicated one for a number of reasons. not only because of the fact that turkey has purchased a wet weapon system from russia that is not necessarily compatible with us and nato systems. and that is a big sorting issue. but they also see that this could be an advantage, given the fact that turkey has this relationship with russia, that there may be a potential for mediation there and some sort of breakthrough. so again, i in terms of aside like meaning not on the calendar, but is there the potential of this could happen? absolutely, and that's something that we're watching for. no doubt you'll be across it. thank you very much. kimberly, how can we'll cross back to you a little later in the day. kimberly hook it out. what has carson a me that said to you cry now, which says it's struck

a russian occupied port facilities in the as of the city of youngs. it caused a large fire and destroyed a russian ship. the port is a major logistics hub, sir moscow's forces. russia has not confirmed the attack. meanwhile, cave is accusing russia of forcibly deporting thousands of mary poll residence to russia. ukrainian parliament says moscow is confiscating passports and ideas of people who remain trapped in the port city. it says people are being moved to so called filtration camps before being sent to rush and cds still in ukraine. and cave has accused russia of deliberately targeting hospitals. moscow denies that, that was not in doubt, is the increasing numbers of children who have been caught up in the fighting as rob mcbride reports from olivia in the frontline city of mich alive,

the maternity hospital tries to operate as normally as the war will allow. tamara craft job is close to giving birth the day before a different part of this hospital was hit by a shelf, but nobody was hurt. the very mean you guys against over time, every day you get used to it more and more, especially when explosions, sound faraway themes in another country in the western city of live, another clinic, this one treating children with critical heart conditions. this unit has just been moved from the capitol, keith, it's part of a national initiative to relocate essential services and companies away from the fighting in the east to the relative safety of the west. miss, beside would you say we are saving, kids have critical heart problem. those who would die without operations and of course each child is important. there are hundreds of them,

very stressful and was going to living and other towns and cities in the west have been dealing with the surgeon. you come as since the start of the war, many more institutions and businesses are planning to make the same move west, like this hospital most say eventually they'll move back east again, just when no one can tell. back in the maternity unit to mich alive. tamara has given birth to a baby daughter is ridiculous, and i hope she'll didn't won't see this crazy scenes and everything will be good. there is no other way, a few minutes old and delivered into a world her mother could not have imagined just a few weeks ago. melinda, robert pride al jazeera vive. let's head straight now to ukraine. second largest city car cave where i saw the bag is standing by for us aside, you've been in that city for some time now and witnessed some extraordinary sames.

what's the latest on the ground? for the latest is that for over 2 hours now, the russians have been pounded to city. now you can see behind me the smoke coming out of the city. now the latest information that we have is that shell landed those 2 people that were queueing for monetary and 8th. and the information that we have is that 4 people have been killed and many have been injured now. we've been standing here for a while now. i've been listening to those shells and those rocket been 5 in to, even though we don't know what the russians are aiming, that we don't know what the target is. the city is being hit and considerable area. you could hopefully be just behind us, the smoke coming from multiple areas, not this road behind the run in between where the, the russians off part and so we can't go any further. it's not safe to do so, but the local just pulled up and bought us this remnant of what seems to be

a rocket from the impact area. just to give you an idea of some of the things that the russians are firing into those areas. residential areas, civilian areas. yesterday, the mayor of the city that said no area in the city is safe. you told people to go into basement shelters and undergrad stations. we also heard from the authorities here that misses misses the 5 from the russian black fi fleet. they also said in the last 24 hours, 44 shelter, 5 more to sheldon tank. now obviously that's going to go up because of what's been happening over the last 2 hours. still still said over 140 missiles have been fight . and since the start of the war, 43 children have died in this city and is the 2nd largest city. it did have a population of 1500000 the streets, a very, very quiet. many people have left because it's simply just just not safe. because because you don't know where the russians with it and when they were and i said,

we've been senior report, the fall to earlier today about some hospitals and the situation there took us through what you witnessed when he went and visited people who were getting some medical treatment just we went to the hospital, had the regional hospital here and we visited those people that had been injured. we went to the i, c u ward. we went to many of the woods and essentially the hospital is overwhelmed . it's casualties from this war. the young and the old and many people in the home when, when missiles hit and shells hit them by shrub, the hurts by shrapnel and the request from many people including a 16 year old boy, you had his leg amputated. and medical staff was that they wanted the space over ukraine and the city closed because the medical officer to us that the victims that we see in the hospital a generally from shelf. and he said that the reason for that is that those that die

from miss all strike 99 percent of them died because you just divide a bomb being dropped from st. but the victims that they're seeing off from artillery fire shells, shells being flights into the city. and the doctors are sleeping at the hospital, the sleep in the corridors because they say, but if it, if the arid form goes and if there's in the top of the hospital, a big fear in or tech on hospice or that has happened like other cities that they will have, there will have to take her, take those patients and put them into the basement and they live a roving around that hospital and treating for these patients. the show does the tiny bits of shrapnel but end up killing people. thank you very much. i said it beg for that report. stay safe. i sat back live for us in ca cave let springing at stephanie decker now, who's in the port city of odessa, in that ukraine at steph. odessa has mostly escaped the intensity that ca, keith,

where our side is, was facing. so what's life like for people where you are it has, but this is a city that's very much been preparing for. what they do expect is a matter of time when the russians will attack. having said that, i mean there's been constant shelling going in and around the city. actually, just about half an hour ago, we've heard multiple loud booms from what we're told that the cities air defenses in operation this morning. the military council here are saying that fire rockets were fired towards the coast here in odessa saying it didn't hit their targets. they didn't go into more specifics than that, but you have constant error rates are ends going on. this is what they call the jewel of the black sea. it is very much russia's target when it comes to their offensive or on the southern coast of ukraine. this is ukraine's and biggest port. it is a major strategic victory. but as i said, people have been preparing, it's now a month into this war. the city has immense fortifications and when it comes to

checkpoints, barricades, anti tank mechanisms all across it. and also, you know, people have been preparing this just morning. we spend time with civilian civilians who are not joining what they all the territorial army, the civil defense, if you will, civilians joining to actively fight and support the army. these are civilians who simply want to know how to operate a weapon. if it comes down to it, we were talking to one seaman. he said, i'm a seaman. i never thought that i would be having to operate a gun. his wife and 6 year old daughter were in romania. he cheered up when he spoke to us. he said it's very difficult for me to explain to my 6 year old why we can no longer be together. and just that was pretty much the message from every one there, defiant for shore, anxious and scared because they do think it's just going to be a matter of time. but yes, certainly there's also a real psychological impact. i think here, when you do hear the sounds of war, even though it is still sort of in the distance people just waiting for when that

day will come and they do believe it's going to be soon. ok, steph, thank you very much for that update in odessa. stephanie deca la for us in the ukraine in the capital may mall. it's phased shelling in recent days in ron canfield. this report, one of those, actually, our colleagues are al jazeera arabic witnessed 1st hand. they were on the scene of a bombing that took place. the previous date was one of the biggest attacks that had taken place so far. at least 8 people have been killed. and the damage was across a massive area was a shopping mall on my colleague or my colleagues were actually stood there about to go live, or when a shell hit a car or killing one person inside that car. we've been speaking to the arabic team that were there, they said the shelling came out of nowhere. they had a loud bang. and then her they heard a huge explosion on the ground. and that was where they saw

a person who had actually died. that was one attack, not far away from that shopping all about a few kilometers. there was another attack where allegedly, a russian journalist with a killed al, this russian journalist was an opposition activist. she had connections to the opposition activists that alexi. nev only who is a key russian dissident. so she had connections to him. she was also killed in that attack. her organizational insider, a very vocal about the fact that they suggest that she may have been targeted. we have no idea where that she was or not. ah, okay, we are breaking into brussels now when nato secretary general yen stoughton bag is speaking to the media after the military alliance met in the belgian capital to discuss the role in the train ment system. there are some it, sir, of name for leaders to address sir. the biggest threats to our security in that generation. press untruth turns war against the ukraine. the people of ukraine

are assisting river courage on determination. fight thing for their freedom. and for the future, we stand with them. first, incidence came addressed us with an impassioned message, thanking nato allies for the significant support we are providing on distressing the vital importance of even more military assistance. today. natalie this agreed that we must her and will provide that further support to ukraine. will continue to impose unprecedented costs on russia and who will re enforce allied. the parents and the fence leaders approve the hour for new battle groups in bulgarian hungary romania. as

larger. these are, in addition to the, for older, the, in the baltic countries and poland. so we have 8th, a multinational nato buck groups. and now, from the baltic sea to the black sea. across europe, there are her 100000 us troops. her as the subordinate efforts on european allies on candle have also stepped off. we have $40000.00 forces under direct nato command, mostly in the eastern part of the alliance, backed by major air and naval power, including an unprecedented far that carrier start groups from the har, north to the mediterranean. to day nato leaders agreed to reset our turns on the fence for

a longer term to face and you security reality online. we will have substantially more forces in the eastern part of the lawrence at hyatt redness. with more pre positioned equipment and supplies in the air, we will deploy more jets and strengthen our integrated air and nissan defense. at sea. we will have a carriers, storage groups, submarines on significant numbers of combat shapes. on the persistent basis we will also strengthen our cyber defenses. on a hands are exercises focusing on collected offense on interoperability. i expect to will decide on the details. i thought was next summit in madrid in june . to day, allah leaders also agreed to provide further support to ukraine,

helping to uphold their from a month right to self defense. eyesore also equipping ukraine with significant military supplies into the anted tank on and offend systems and drones which are proving highly effective. as well as substantial financial on humanitarian aid. to day we agreed to do more including cyber security assistance and equipment to help ukraine protect against biological chemical, roger, logical and nuclear fits. this could include detection protection on medical supplies, as well as some training for the covenant, the contamination on crisis management. we are determined to do all we can to support ukraine,

and i welcome the concrete offers of assistance made by allies to day. at the same time, we have a responsibility to ensure the conflict does not escalate further. because this would be even more dangerous and more devastating allies agreed that we must also increase our support for older partners at risk from russia and only from the address from russian jets on interference, including georgia on bosna, on had to go over them working together and with the european union, we must help them upholders sovereignty and strengthen their resilience. we also addressed the avenging sir old in the crisis to they are loudly this cold on china to refrain from supporting rushes, war effort. china must not provide economic or military support for the russian

invasion. instead, bridging should use. it's significant infants on russia i'm promotes ah, an immediate peaceful resolution. i'll as also agree that the nurse must stop acting as an accomplice to prudence invasion. at today's meeting, leaders re a form strong, our strong commitment to naples open door policy under article 10 or to washington treaty. nato enlargement has been on historic success spreading democracy, freedom, and prosperity across europe. one month since this thought of russia's invasion of ukraine natal security environment has from the mentally changed for the long haul . and we are responding. but the kids but security doesn't come for free and doing more will cost more. so nate to leaders agreed to read double efforts to meet

the fence investment pledge been made in 2014 allies will submit additional plans on hall to meet the pledge in time for the madrid summit in june. and i welcome that the number of laws to day announced plans for significance increases in the fens spending of this dangers time, jonathan to going on. so loveday are vital europe on north america or standing and will continue to stand strong together in natal. i'm about them, it is with acre crushes. thanks shannon. hi, mr. secretary general. thank you. i'm presently lensky, and his address to nato, accused russia of deploying phosphorus, munitions. i'm wondering whether nato has seen evidence of that and what your response is or would be. and then i'm wondering, did you discuss during this meeting

a permanent basing of forces in any of these countries, such as the baltics and, and abandoning the nato russia founding act. so we are, lee said, think nasal so turns and offense, florida long term with more troops or where the more air assets and more maritime capabilities. we have all of the increased our presence in the east. and today we decided on 4 new battle groups. and that the leaders agreed to task or mentor commanders to provide options of for a long term, re settle our press and saw remitted their poster in the eastern part of the lions across the whole alliance. details will be then decided ortho, our summit in june, but that comes on top of water, all the dung. so this is a long term. we are prepared for long hold of the call. so we can all the day say that. so that's the russian vacation press and put his invasion of ukraine. air

hasn't changed our security environment or for the long term. it's a new reality. it's sir. it's a, it's a new normal. anita is a responding for a long term. we have seen on a very critical reports about the the, the use of us on these over the military force against the civilians. on the, of course is the red concern for all new dallas in between secretary gentle. thank you for taking my question. how do you believe nato will respond if china begins to support russia economically and perhaps with military suppliers? and also do you believe that there is a role to play for nato when it comes to alleviating energy costs? i'm talking about speaking directly to saudi arabia and other opec producers. thank you. made the ours are coordinating their efforts when it comes to also energy

security on. it was also dressed in a meeting today or to a step up supplies to diversify her sources of supply on the, on also us to reduce depends on the surprise from, from russia on the, on the later on today also participated the g 7 meeting and of course in different framers g 7, working with the e, u. r. a. there are different formats where nato allies address the needs and to strengthen energy security on that reduced depends on, on law, on the, on russian order and gas. or a message to china is that they should join the rest of the world and clearly calm them are the brutal war against the ukraine, and not support a russia and either with or, or whether economic support or, of course not with military support. you will go to into fact ukraine lading the

2nd row in general news agency, inter foxy crane. i would like to ask you if we're polish leadership would enter table to day for discussion. so proposal to sent this keeping mission to ukraine, and if yes, oh, what kind of discussion it was, and that is the re some conclusion. thank you. as we discussed, a wide range of issues on the message is that we have to stand united and also that we need to provide support that ukraine. but at the same time, we have responsibility then. and to ensure that this conflict do not become a full fledged war between natal and russia. on the on that sol, susan, why allies? i'm educated, we will not deploy a troops on the ground in, in ukraine. nicole. so the only way to do that is to be prepared to engage in full

ah, a conflict of with a russian, a troops financial time. thank you very much, sir. you gentle. congratulations on your annual extension. and you said in the statement that allies agree to enhance preparedness and readiness for chemical, biological, radiological, and new killer threats. is that based on credible intelligence that those threats could be imminent? and how does the alliance strengthen its protection against those threats? and so we are concerned, oh, partly because so we see the rhetoric and we see that russia is so trying to create some kind of prefix accusing ukraine, united states, they do allies for preparing to use a chemical and biological weapons. and we have seen before that these, sir, a way of accusing alders, is actually a way to crate it to get to p taste for do the same a themselves. and of course,

are a concessions against that ukraine an a dollars are absolutely false. n m n, the use of chemical weapons, wool totally changed in nature or the conflict. it will be at blatant violation of international law. ah, ah, it will have a wide spread consequences. and of course be extremely dangerous. and it will affect the people in ukraine. but there's also a risk that will have a direct effect on people living in nate, the countries because her, oh, we can see contamination. we can see the spread of and chemical agents or biological weapons into our countries. and, and we also know that russia has used chemical agents against his own opposition,

and they have used it on the natal territory in solsbury before. and we also know that russia has facilitated supported. and also there she was young when they used came philippines against it on the population. so this just highlights the importance of ending this war immediately because this is a dangerous situation. and therefore we impose the sanction. so is there for support in ukraine? ah, allies agreed to supply equipment or to help ukraine protect against the chemical, biological, read logical and nuclear threats. this could include term detection equipment protection on medical support, as well as training r 4 d to contamination and crisis management. we are also enhancing allies, says, preparedness and readiness for chemical and biological and nuclear effects. our

top military commander, general walters house, activated naples, chemical, biological or roger, logical and nuclear. the fence elements and allies are deploying additional chemical and biological and nuclear defenses to reinforce or existing and new back of hoops. so we are taking measures both to support, okay, and also to defend ourselves. we will go to, i'll just the ref, secretary general james base from al jazeera presidents, lensky when he addressed you recall the fact he 1st spoke to a month ago and he says he didn't get clear answers. so this time he asked you specifically for one percent of all your tanks, for one percent of all your aircraft, for multi launch rockets, systems, anti ship weapons and means of air defense, a very specific list. what is your clear answer?

we all listened to read it carefully to press sunset and scan the men of the leaders in the room. ha ha ha to contact with him over these weeks. also spoke with him under under the kind of defense bins participates in our the fence minutes. they are only thing at last a week and we listened carefully on of course, we took note of his but it compassionate message to all nato. alice ne darlise provide significant support to ukraine on the we provide also little weapons advanced systems and also systems that help them to shoot down planes and attack a battle. thanks. we're down to thank it. weapons, and many other types over of systems including drones, are in not to go into the details of the exact type of systems we are deploying this close conflict between ne, finalize on ukraine. but what i can say is that the allies do what they can to

support ukraine with weapons. so ukraine can defend themselves as self defense is the right and shine the do you and charter. at the same time, we have a responsibility to prevent this conflict from becoming a full fledged war in europe involving and not only of korean on russia. botha nato allies on the russia that will be more dangerous and war devastating. and i think we have to be honest about that. and that's exactly what you have been in our meeting today. and also what i say today are in the press conference now. well, what we do is that we are delivering a lot of equipment and that is an answer, but i'm not going to the defects, i don't think thus a wise for operational reasons. if i leased that exactly, walked on when on how we are delivering oh, essential equipment to ukraine in

a dollars. i have stepped up on this essential for the progress that have been able to make in the fight against the invading russian forces. thank you very much. colleagues, i know there are many questions, i'm afraid the sector general needs to go to the g 7 meeting, but there will be other briefing throughout the day. thanks so much. thank you. okay, that was nicer secretary general. yes, stoughton burg. addressing the media after a meeting of nato ladies, which lasted more than 3 hours. his press conference was delayed by at least an hour. ukrainian president for letting me zelinski address the latest, virtually in that meeting which was closed to the press. he called for more military aid and had a very specific list of requests. all this comes is today marks a month of rushes, invasion of you crime. the schedule in brussels is jammed. packed with 3 summits taking place. the meeting of nato allies, which we just heard from the in stoughton, the about as well as

a meeting of g 7 ladies, which is happening now. and then followed by a meeting of a you ladies. so nato secretary general you installed and i just spoke to the media, then about how nato has agreed to provide more military support to ukraine for the longer term he spoke specifically about 4 areas. he said that more forces will be deployed on the ground in eastern europe. he went on to say that more assets will also be used in the air at sea by way of combat ships and submarines will be deployed. he also said that the lines will strengthen its cyber defenses. he said the details of these 4 specific areas will be finalized in madrid at a summit in june. he said that the allies are also preparing for the potential for russia to use chemical weapons. so that was nato secretary general in stoughton leg

. speaking to the media after meeting over night, her late is in brussels. us president joe biden is there. he's there in an effort to keep america's allies united against russia's rule in the ukraine. so after that meeting of nato allies, it will be followed by the g 7 and then e, you made it. he faces st. challenges, the u. s. president as the allies think new measures to punish russian president vladimir perez and to break it all down for us. let's bring in our different ethnic editor, james vegas, who is in that brussels amas inside that press conference. james promises of more military support. what if from nato, will it provide ukraine's president with what he asked for? no, because ukraine's president made it quite clear the specifics that he wanted to see from a nato. he said that the thing that a paint him most

a month ago when he had 1st put his request, particularly his request to try and stop russian air craft, which he said because they had no means of stopping them. the effect of their weapon of mass destruction. he said that a what they really needed a clear answer from nato on very specific requests. and he made very specific requests in his speech in his address. i'm not sure whether nato leaders expected that speech to be made public, but it was the ukrainian mission to the united nations. and then the credit in president's office put out the video which you've seen of that speech mr. sultan burg. yes, says they would have done a great deal, which is true. and he says they'll do more, but he wouldn't answer on those specifics. his reason, a, despite the fact that presidents lensky had asked for a clear answer, is because that would be giving information to russia. what we did get more details of is what's nato's going to do to protect itself again? i think they were a green lighting, things that are already in progress. we now have 8 battle groups that are in the

countries closest to russia on the eastern flank of nato. 4 of them didn't exist before the invasion. they've been put into place now. so progress, i think some progress but not what the ukrainians would have wanted. the other bit of news we got from this was about mr. still to burg himself. he tweets he just moments before that news conference and as the final communicate from this, 1st of 3 summits came out of that he was staying on. he's going to be the u ends of the u. n. the nato secretary general for another year, his term extended into 2023. so there is a sir. is the same continuity at this time of crisis. mister stoughton burg actually, whose norwegian foreman, the which a prime minister was going to return to his country to be no wise central bank governor while he's going to stay at the helm of nato for another year, one year extension. all right,

thank you very much for bringing us up to speed that james bay's at diplomatic editor in that brussels. let's bring in and bought shaft chic now, who's also in brussels and has been listening in on to that press conference. he's a visiting senior fellow and the german marshall funds. so we heard from the secretary general ian stouter, beg about what they're going to provide further in terms of military, what did you make of what he said in that in comparison to what the ukrainian president actually asked full well, thanks for having me. this is an illustration of a unified west in action and it's quite remarkable how quickly things have been put together within nato. ready and i lost count the add something like 30 nato allies and partners, providing weapons to ukraine, very sophisticated weapons, javelin anti tank missiles, anti aircraft missiles, and not even anti aircraft batteries, which can reach higher, ah,

and with more difficulty. now i very much appreciate the sensitivities around all the individual supplies and not wanting to disclosed operational details to the fair ukraine. and present zalinski is always going to request more because they're acting, they're participating in an active conflict, active hot war defending their territory. and so i think nato nato allies and partners have provided tremendous amount of support, which is why the why the ukrainian defense forces have been able to resist and heroically performed on the battlefield. and this will continue, you know, this age will not stop until ukraine is able to prevail. but another thing that stood out for me from that press conference was the discussion around chemical and biological weapons. it came missing, pulled together in the u. s. in the event chemical,

biological weapons i used by russia, an interesting way nato is doing the same. so this really is quite a huge concern for the alliance. it is a huge concern because these of chemical weapons, which is by the way it has been witness in the recent past. unfortunately through the use of chemical weapons in syria, but also by russia on european soil and going after its own political opponents. you know, this is a real threat that they've been told is reports about russia accusing ukraine of launching such an attack and as a sort of force flag operation and a so yes, this is a very, a considerable risk as well as the unthinkable. but also plausible risk of a use of tactical nuclear weapons. and so both are obviously scenarios which would elevate this conflict to a significantly different stage. now,

both present biden and nato leaders across the board have emphasized that this would yields severe consequences against russia. and you don't want to get into the specific hypotheticals, because old to but the are depends on the specific circumstance. and again, we want to avert this from happening in the 1st place. but yes, you see nato allies and partners are preparing for this. or i think people scenario and supporting ukraine out to be able to be ready for result. but what we're saying in brussels is really a picture of unity, but there are fractions beneath the surface of that. so not do you believe that not everyone is necessarily on the same page when it comes to sanctioning russia? well, look, this is another element of policy that had had tremendous consensus and support

across the board. not only among the nato allies and partners, but across the world. countries such as japan, south korea, australia, all supporting the sections, regimes. they've been developed in collaboration with you countries, the u. k, and the united states and canada. now, it's also fair to say that some of the measures envisioned in terms of sanctions against gas and ports or oil imports, will have differential economic effect on different countries that are launching the sections. and so you want to strike a fine balance between exerting incredible economic leverage against russia and at the same time, make sure that you don't have for your own economies in the way that will be this about this advantages. and so, you know, these technical discussions are, are going on in you for it's part, has committed to getting off rushes,

gas supplies, as well as oil supplies over time, limiting gas and fords by significant amount over the next 12 months. but these are difficult issues to actually implement and practice and people are very much hard at work to try to figure out the details. i sent me i thank you for breaking down for us, but chef chick in brussels. visiting same fellow at the gym and marshall fun. thanks for your time on this news, our. my pleasure. the head of the international committee of the red cross says it's difficult to get to people caught up in the fighting in ukraine. peter morrow was speaking a news conference with russia's foreign minister said elaborate in moscow. mario paul is an it is a city which has high visibility and attention from the international community. but i also want to highlight that it is not the only place of concern. and i see or

see is trying to make efforts to see the whole frontline and challenges and to have access cindy evacuation modalities agreed upon by the parties. we have always highlighted. it's not possible to think about access or a vacuum ation, either in mario paul or another place. if we don't have solid agreement and detailed agreement between the militaries on the ground previous the legal bonus because we welcome the willingness of the red cross to use available resources to help people in need in ukraine. jeanette can the hans people's republics and we also know that the red cross traditionally strive to serve as an impartial and independent intermediary within its mandate. unfortunately, we have no particular reason to rely on the faithful fulfillment by the ukrainian authorities of their obligations under international humanitarian law. and it's make these covering developments out of moscow. hello, they've been,

and one of the main concerns of the international red cross. peter mora says he's in moscow because one of the red crosses major roles in, in any conflict situation is to seek access to deep detainees, prisoners of war, people not involved in the fighting any more to make sure that they receive humane treatment are held in good conditions and to make sure that it's easy or, or to facilitate the repatriation of the bodies of both of people killed in the fighting military and civilian and had already been in ukraine asking them for this . and now is in russia, you heard sir gay lover of saying he wasn't very rely, and really couldn't really rely on the ukrainians to keep their side of the bargain . but he said that he was willing to facilitate the red cross wanting. the red cross that they want to do is open a big distribution center in ra. stop on don. this

a big russian city not far from the border with ukraine. and they want to use our center to distribute humanitarian aid a logistics center to do district humanitarian aid into ukraine. no specific response from love rock on that question. and a be interesting to see whether the russians decide that they, they will allow the i c, r to have the presence there. and then it rushes defense minister hasn't been seen for almost 2 weeks now. but he since re surfaced, where is he been spotted? a survey? sure you is very close ally of vladimir putin often seen on television, often seen with him. he hasn't been seen much recently, and the kremlin spokesman dmitri pascall was asked about this at his daily briefing . earlier and he said, well look, you know, he's got a lot on his plate at the moment the defense minister in charge of what russia calls is special military operation. and so he said he's not really had time to

make media appearances. however, then he was seen a little bit later on at a security council briefing telling with vladimir putin telling everybody how we're told the operation is going so that he hadn't been seen for about 12 days. people wondering where he was to meet repass. gov, keen to tell people that he's a very busy man under. that's why he's not been seen, but now he house in c. indeed. all right, thank you very much for that update. then it's me flat for us in moscow. it's time now this bought his j. thanks. jama. 2 more teams have qualified for the fif of well cut finals in keta, japan, but they placed with went over australia and sent saudi arabia through in the process . japanese substitute cow auto retoma school twice in the last few minutes of the rain soaked matches sidney to give his team a to know when it sends japan into

a 7th straight world cup finals. sadie arabia who'd lead that asian qualifying group. we're short of this vote at castle 2022 with that results even though they play later, australia can still reach the finals, but i have to get through to playoffs 1st. well that leaves 15 places left and all but 3 of them will be settled in the next few days for big knockout games in european qualifying later among those yet to secure that places at the finals and cattle. italy and portugal, italy who are the european champions, are under pressure. having also missed out on the tournament in russia 4 years ago . they faced north macedonia in 1st, a semi final playoff. before potentially trick it. tricky tie against portugal as to north macedonia. this is the closest they've ever come to quantifying for a while, cup before portugal can think about a potential heavy weight decide or against it's late. they need to get past turkey . the portuguese won't have that to 1st choice center backs,

but they still have rinaldo. although the turkey coach says he isn't focused on portugal main men. first, you want to be a team for the hot challenge. we want to show that we can stand ah, that we can compare us with the big teams in europe, especially for one match. and this is why would i believe you that my team can do this completely? good news for wales ahead of back pay off against austria with style play down with bio declaring himself fits and in very good shape. wales are looking to reach the well cut the 1st time since 1958. yeah. for sure. it's gonna be one of the biggest games i i've played in for sure. no, haven't qualify for wilcock before is something that i want to achieve the country . so cheap fans want to achieve. so yes, it's definitely a massive game and yeah, it isn't the standard that we're looking forward to. we all want to do well and

yeah, just, i guess another big game that we need to get ready for. and when taken australia we always do suite and will be without saw a man last a neighbor him of ich, for their play off again to check republic. he suspended after picking up a 2nd yellow card in the last match against spain. but should the swedes get through this one? he'll be available to play poland for a place at the world cup. final candidate can book their spot in cats. are they just need to beat costa rica later? the canadians have arguably the most surprising qualifying campaign. so for a lead concrete task group and can qualify for the world cup for the 1st time since 1986, that one and only appearance i think every mom knows what's in. busy them they're in the front seat homes are on the steering wheel, they can do this, they can actually do more than just point and that's the exciting best. and i think

that's the real. busy motivated england have already qualified, and captain harry came says his team will use the platform at the world cup to improve human rights issues in capsule. is important to understand 1st, for us as players, we didn't choose why this well caught was going to be. but what it has done is raised in full and shown ally on important issues that might have been come to light. if the welcome was a net, one of the best players in the women's game has ended, have 5 years self imposed exile and returned to the new way national team a heck of burg, refused to be selective for our country since to 2017. because of what she called, a general disregard the women's game in no way. heck a bug was the 1st female winner of the ballad door. but a sound when she missed the well cup in 2019 the strike and now says she satisfied that progress has been made and she's been selected in norway scored for matches against kosovo and poland. next month,

chelsea fans will be allowed to buy tickets for their champions, re quote the final against rail madrid in 2 weeks time. that's also the u. k. government made changes to the clubs, operating license, which means they can now sell tickets for away matches and cook games, but won't see any of the proceeds. european champions had been unable to sell tickets after their rush and own a roman from which was sanctioned. his time of land, putin bought tickets for home. primula game, still subject to restrictions then as well. number one, ash boss, he wasn't giving much away when asked about what's next now that she's retired. the 3 time grand slam champion faced the media for the 1st time since making a surprise announcement and didn't rule out trying and other thoughts in the future . i just knew that for me to the tom was rod, i've given absolutely everything that i could before and i knew that wouldn't be fair to my team and the people that have invested so much time and energy to my

loss to not be 100 percent for them, but it's been a, it's been a hell of the journey. i wouldn't change a thing, and i certainly will forever be connected. i'll never stop loving this for. i'll never stop getting tennis balls. i just won't be doing it selfishly for me to try and progress my korea. it'll be for different reasons and i can't wait to get out there with young girls and young boys and contribute in different ways. they are soccer is trying to in one of the tournaments that barty clinched last year, the miami pin, and she made a successful return to the court following her emotional exit at indian wells 2 weeks ago, where she was rattled by a heckler. a soccer has been speaking with a therapist and you live at a calm and composed performance in the opening in miami. the 4th time grand slam, cham him took care of astray in esther sharma and straight and the plenty of love. and i finally started talking to

a therapist after you numerals and only took like a year after french of them. but yeah, i don't know. she kinda like told me strategies and stuff and i realize how helpful it is. and i'm, i'm glad that i have people around me that you know, told me to like, go in that direction. they are basically, i was just remembering all the things that she told me to do. and just to like, take deep breaths and reset myself when i need to in the men's miami, or you can australia, nick kerry, else was up against francis adrien marino in the 1st rounds. we used to seeing kerio do a bit of show boating, but it was mandorino. it was showing off his skills this time. it was all in vain though. as curious, went on to win in straight sets. we'll fight none the 5 seat under group left next . on the world's best go for is a competing against each other at the w gc match fight tournament in texas. among

them from wall number one, dustin johnson who's recently slipped out of the top 10 for the 1st time in 7 years . johnson picked up a window for mackenzie hughes on the opening day for my us open champion. justin rose had the shot of the day on the 17th chipping in from the canyon, but ultimately he lost his match to adam scott brooklyn. nancy korea being turned 30 on wednesday, but did he celebrate it with a wind? well, the nets were up against the memphis grizzlies, and irving led the way with 43 points of and could soon be able to play home games with new york's my reportedly set to lift the city's vaccine mandate for athletes and performers. but irvings efforts in this game on the right, not enough for the nets, who went down 132 to 120. all right, that is all your sport for now, peter will have more well cut qualifying action in another vessel. emily, thank you very much, joe. m as it may, emily, hang on for this news hour, but i'll be back in a moment with more of the days news,

including all the latest out of brussels, where nato, g 7 and e latest. amazing about the war in ukraine. stay with us. ah, it's rush hour at the local community center in lou batch of 15 kilometers from the border with ukraine. that note that cut jack is a retired russian language teacher and is collecting goods donated by people from all over europe. thought i agree are helping people on the other side of the board . the ones who stayed behind can plead since russia invaded ukraine. donato has been driving across the border every day. crossing the border is always tricky, but the women say that today they have a lucky day because the border guard is someone they know and it's going to be hopefully much easier to bring the goods in. don't know to is we leave to find

a less chaotic situation that in the past few days, people seem less exhausted just i'm, i'm not crying. as you can see. the notice mission has been accomplished for now, but you will return with more goods as long as russia's missiles and rockets forced people out of ukraine. coveted beyond well taken without hesitation, fought and died for power defines our world. we live here, we make the rule, not them, they find an enemy, and then they try and scare the people with people and power. investigate, exposes, and questions they used and abused of our around the globe on al jazeera, one of the fastest growing nations in the world news wanted. cato needed to oakland and develop that school track international shipping company to become a middle east and co trade and wanting skillfully knocked out 3 key is

up to about filling up roman, connecting the world, connecting the future while the cato gatos gateway to whoa trade, ah, nato announces new battle groups for its east in flank as they looked to prevent ukraine war spreading into europe. ah, hello, i'm emily. ang, when this is al jazeera, alive from doha, also coming up fighter jets tanks and anti ship weapons. ukraine's president appeals to night or latest for more military aids. keith says it struck a.