is boost, military spending. will defense, johns reap the prophets. the war in ukraine is trailing car industry supplies. so all vehicles getting more difficult to buy and kind of google's underwater cable internet access to millions of africans. counting the cost on al jazeera ah, running for their knives, russian warplanes bomb, the vive, the western ukrainian city. thousands displaced by the war have taken refuge. ah, i'm carry johnston. this is al jazeera alive from dough, also coming up. for god's sake, this man could not remain power. the white house down plays those remarks by president joe biden saying he's not calling for regime change in russia.

oh, songs of resilience, ukrainian musicians perform at a subway, ukraine's 2nd biggest city on key. humans who key rebels announced a unilateral 3 day cease fire after saudi coalition planes retaliate by bombing major cities targeting it, ukraine. so russian, that war plains have hit the centuries old city of livid, known for its cultural heritage. up to now the western city has largely escaped serious fighting, but it's a major hub for ukrainians, fleeing across the border into poland, just 70 kilometers away. st. miss robbie is in the beef. the evening quiet in the west of u. craig, broken by the sound of russian missiles hitting their target hours after the attack

of fuel storage facility. still burning, smoke still covering the skies over levine, the capital ukrainian se may be the heart of the country. but louise with nearly 800 years of history and cultural heritage, is it? so we verse and i thought that they will not touch with you again because they were targeted mostly to the issue, grantee, event give and fixed it is in there, the for either. now they, i am taking is it character this hot of ukraine? you're the most of us. i think it's terrible. we didn't come here from cave to hear bombings swore it's real war. terrible. really because people are dying. all our seat is perfect. it is beautiful. it is no destroyed time to stop it because 21st century. what can we say about more?

there is outrage here. ukrainian say they feel betrayed by russia and despise vladimir putin national. good, even more than look woman than that, but they are the anti christ ukraine has never attacked anyone while be doing this . they don't need the people or land, they don't need anything. all they have is their meaningless ambitions. it's just hora, bled deck and despair. the role of a wild hoard, the tiny gray man has done a lot of black, horrible evil. he's a beast. the west of the country has seen some high profile attack since the russian invasion began. but levine was spared the worst of the violence. warning sirens likely to be taken more seriously. now loud suds and explosions have shattered the relative calm that levine had been experiencing throughout this war. so far, we've just heard reports that the target of the attack from which the smoke is

emanating was a fuel depot. on the other side of the city, louise has been at the center of the country's humanitarian response to the war. the wider region has also been key as a military hub. moments before the 1st attack reign, we met with the cities mayor. he says he speaks to his counterparts coping with the destruction of their own cities every day. to day all c t e knew crane or how worry now seem would our situation i dont know ways ah target or next russian missile. but my air, my, my duty to serve security, my citizens and are in the safe for refugees. a job made more difficult with attacks within levine, city limits. as night came more missile

strikes, hitting more targets. this is the closest, the war has come to the center of this city, an escalation that brings the war right to the heart of levine, or just across the border in the polish capital, the u. s. president pull no punches against vladimir putin. joe biden said the russian president cannot stain power any longer. comments that drew criticism from moscow. the white house down played those remarks. biden also said rushes war on ukraine has been a strategic failure. and our white house correspondent, kimberly hackett, has this report from warsaw. speaking from the grounds of the royal castle in warsaw, poland u. s. president joe biden forcefully declared, russian president vladimir putin must go for god shape. this man can not remain po, it's sounded like a major shifting us policy. previously, us officials,

including the secretary of state antony blinkin, have denied the united states is seeking regime change in russia. from this location on nato's eastern flank, biden also addressed the russian leader directly calling his invasion as strategic failure and warning him not to expand the conflict. drone in a fake about were not one single inch of meadow territory. rivers sacred obligations article, far to defend each and every image of nato territory. the full force more collective power. earlier in the day as biden met with poland, president, he reiterated as a member of nato, the u. s. and his partners will defend poland if it's attacked. poland shares a more than 500 kilometer border with ukraine already. more than 4000000 people have fled ukraine,

with more than half seeking refuge in poland. as bitin met with mothers at a makeshift refugee center set up in warsaw as national stadium, he reiterated his belief that the russian president is a war criminal for allegedly targeting civilians. you're doing every day with when reputed look at what he's done to be sneaky. what does it make you think is a butcher also on saturday, biden met with ukrainian defense and foreign ministers who had made a rare trip out of ukraine bite and pledge support for ukraine solver he and characterized its resistance as a battle for freedom that may be a long fight, the white house denies president biden was calling for regime change in russia, but instead says he was arguing that lot of repute cannot be allowed to exercise power over the region. still biden's message was unmistakable,

but russia's war and you praying is a battle for democracy. the free world must fight. kimberly, how could al jazeera warsaw, the criminal spokesperson has responded to biden's remarks that 15 count stain power, saying only the russian people can decide their president. earlier, the country's defense ministry said that russia had we can ukraine's armed forces nationwide. ashley hall. barbara has the latest from oscar since day. one of them is your operation in ukraine. russia has been saying that it is acting to provide protection for the population of adult bus region. and he seems that his military operation now is for his immortal, in those areas to pave the way for the forces loyal to them to further expand air territorial gains in la ganske underneath areas. now, as the conflict continues, relations b, a between the us and russia continue to be strained. their recent remarks made by

us present, joe biden very critical of president ladyman, putting a created a black backlash here. her russian nurse spokesperson of the kremlin mitre pasco, of said that those remarks won't be conducive to narrow differences between the 2 countries. and it won't help to mend the fences of russia has over the last few days and summoned the u. s. ambassador to moscow and expressed the same concern about similar remarks made by her president joe biden, from a russian perspective. those remarks, along with the herd, was military support provided for the ukrainians. the sanctions imposed on the financial institutions works of art in russia. r y d interpreted here as an attempt to silence her and further isolate or russia. this explains why most of the officials, the talking to the media are saying that this is something which will only

ultimately help consolidate our identity and bring the russians united. and they say that there is a western narrative which is misleading. according to russia, which does not a characterize the conflict the way it is supposed to be william courtney as a junk. the senior fellow at rand corporation, he served as a white house senior director for russia, ukraine. and you ration affairs. he says moscow is bound to be feeling the pressure from western sanctions. pretty clear that as president biden spread out, this war has been a strategic failure for russia. and that increases the possibility that put on his senior military leaders. senior political leaders may be held accountable by the russian people. so when the president said this man cannot remain in power, what do you seem to apply was that given the strategic failure of the military were truly devastating economic sanctions that the west is imposing. which day by day,

week by week are going to have power for faction, russia, and the prior status that russia has earned europe or a place of special interest. most russians, those factors together increase the likelihood that there could be regime change in moscow. that's uncertain. one can never predict, but it will occur or when or how it will occur. but certainly in the last 30 years of russia and a test situation in the criminal has never worked last table. now, without him is the key issue. so if he were replaced by another person who was similar to have has similar policies and wanted to keep russia. so troops in the trade of the western. busy economic sanctions would stay on for the russian economy would continue to deteriorate. so whatever new government comes to power plants to be lasting,

government really needs to shake off the western sanctions. 11, it's pulling all the troops out of ukraine or the west is not likely to lift a sanction central. busy troops or out of ukraine in his nightly address. ukraine's president once again pleaded with western powers for military support, gonna kill home. so you don't like where the russian army is consciously shooting civilians and destroying residential areas where they are targeting shelters, human schools, hospitals, universities, even churches were low, even memorials of the victims of the holocaust summer. the russian army received orders to destroy everything that defines our peoples and nation at culture national. 80 years ago the nazis did exactly the same when they tried to capture europe, this same russian occupies, are doing this. i'm on no one will forgive them. they will be held responsible for most likely not in europe berg doing, but with the same meaning. you will see it,

everybody will see it. everybody glory to our heroes, glory to you, crime, ukrainian resistance and logistical problems or sets of a slowing russian troops as they looked toward the southern port of a desa, the strategic city along the black seas. bracing for a potential russian assault. stephanie decker reports. i'd, as has been preparing for a russian assault for weeks. now we're in the city center. it is heavily fortified . you need special permission to get her in. the military is very specific, insensitive, but what we can and cannot film. that is also an element of psychological warfare happening here. we're told you can hear the shelling from the russian fleet constantly. also ukrainian air defense systems are in place and we did speak to one soldier who told us that the situation has been changing somewhat of the last couple of days. so daughter, michaela mor, this situation is heating up with her, but we are ready. we don't have another choice, we will go to the enemy bar. no one can pick odessa because, or this is you great or was still graham. and what this war has done is united

ukrainians across the country. and here in odessa many restaurants, you see this happening basically preparing food for the soldiers, for the volunteers, for the front lines, for the refugees, it is very much a shock. so when you speak to people saying that they never believed that this would have happened, but now was the time to come together and to do everything to fight the russians. certainly here in odessa, they've been preparing for a russian a seat on the city. the country's biggest c port, but everyone here will tell you that they will not be able to take it. now to our other headline story, the conflict in the yemen, they who the rebels are saying they're suspending. miss sullen drone strikes on saudi arabia for 3 days. the group says it's part of a push for lost and commitment to peace in the 7 year war, you know, be shackleton, or hardy. we unilaterally announce the suspension of missile and john strikes and all military actions towards the kingdom of saudi arabia,

by land. but see and hear you for a period of 3 days. we affirm our readiness to turn this declaration into a final ha firm and permanent commitment. if the king of saudi arabia announces and commits itself to ending the siege and stopping its errands on the territory of the republic of yemen once and for all your week is comes a day after the rebels hayton, aramco oil facility jetta. it's about 11 kilometers for the location where the city is hosting a formula, one grown pre. they also targeted areas close to king abdullah is international airport. saudi coalition carried out air strikes in who they done in retaliation booth is say oil installations in strategic port city were targeted coalition fighter planes also bombed parts of the ebony capital san are. these are scenes of the aftermath in sana, where at least 8 people were killed, who they say the coalition air strikes, hit a power plant, a fuel supply station,

and the state run social insurance office may claim un officials using a building near the insurance office left hours before the coalition operation are still ahead on al jazeera protests in afghanistan and also talk about new versus its decision to yeah. in 2nd, use rooms for girls living dangerously police officers in mexico are increasingly becoming the targets of drug cartels. ah, ah, look forward to brighter skies the weather sponsored my cattle airways. hello there. the heat continues to dominate the weather story across south asia, and there's more of that. so come, we're going to see temperatures continue to creep up across western and central

areas as those heat wave conditions continue. and if we look at nag pool in mahar, russia, we're going to see it touch possibly 42 degrees. by the time we get to choose day and those hot and dry conditions extend into raja sana for field into southern areas of pakistan, karachi, seen the temperature continue to rise. now this pre monsoon heat is expected for this time of year. these temperatures are well above the average, no further south within some cloud sweep crew through to the east. some of those coastal showers in caroline are expected to intensify by the time we get in some monday, with thunderstorms in colombo, for sri lanka, it's going to feel rather hot and humid here. now for the northeast corner of india, we are seeing some showers push out towards the futon. annabelle, with a few showers creeping into bangladesh in the days to come, now was removed to central asia. it's wet for southern areas of china. some intense rain expected in hong kong on monday,

but up in the north high pressure is in charge and we're seeing the temperature pick up in beijing. that's your weather update. oh, the weather sponsored by casara always. or china in the u. s. sleep walking their way to war in the struggle over ukraine. here is the test for president joe biden. with miss really trying to do is rewrite the security architecture in europe. if your personal united states, you seriously got a warrant to gum at the same time, your weekly take on us politics and society, that's the bottom line. what happens in new york has implications all around the world. it's international perspective with the human touch zooming way in, and then pulling back out again a ah,

you're watching al jazeera reminder now of our top stores this out. ukraine's western city of the video has been hit by russian missiles. officials say the strikes have significantly damaged city infrastructure. there is just 70 kilometers from the polish border and a major hub for fleeing ukrainians. you as president joe biden says, russia's war on ukraine has been a strategic failure. speaking in poland widened your criticism from moscow. often commented that russian, president, putin cannot remain in power. humans who the rebels say their suspending missile and drone strikes on saudi arabia for 3 days. at least 8 people were killed off the coalition. air strikes, hit the capital. so now we're staying with that story and now she line is a research fellow for the middle east. the quincy institute, she joins us from washington. d. c. thanks for being with us here on the al jazeera,

certainly there has been an up taken violence this past month. is a continued escalation inevitable? do you think? well, i think saudi is, would be wise to take these deal. they who these have said that this 3 day deal could continue if the saudis lift their blockade of yemen and stop their strengths . and this, this would be great for the saudis, they have long said they would like to get out of this or. and it could be an opportunity for them to finally stop boring, so many hundreds of billions of dollars into trying to destroy yemen. i mean the gripe groups strike on saudi arabia. to what extent do you think that was them saying look, we're still here? oh, absolutely. i mean, we've seen a big tech in the saudi led air strikes. i believe they're about $400.00 in the month, january and $700.00 in the month of february. but we're seeing this response from

the who is, i mean, in general it's, it's a bit frustrating because the, who, the attacks tend to generate a lot more news coverage. whereas the saudi or strikes are just sort of part of daily life where the you many, but clearly know who these are trying to show the saudis, that they're, if they're going to continue this. this is sort of level of destruction that they are going to pay a price. although again, with us help, especially with the recent edition of, of new patriot antimissile systems, the saudis are generally able to deflect about 90 percent of the transporter attacks. as you say, this conflict has been continuing for several years now. what are the prospects for any kind of resolution? the tool i think the most important thing would be for the saudis and the u. e to withdraw. and this would also help incentivize iran to stop providing support. essentially it's, it's a great opportunity for iran to force the saudis to just keep pouring money into

this conflict. and so for the men, for the young civil war to finally result sovereignty over the conflict needs to be returned to the many themselves. but as long as these foreign resources from all sides, including from the united states, keep pouring in the civil war is likely to continue. ok, now she line. thank you very much indeed for joining us from washington, d. c. thank you, hollis tenens and occupy the westbank have been voting in local elections. it's the 2nd phase of the municipal pilot or for 1st round in december or more than 50 percent of those eligible have cost their books. either. abraham has more from other many palestinians were sharing pictures of their fingers dipped in ink. this is one of the ways that the central election commission was ensuring that there is no voter fraud. but generally, the turnout of voters in the occupied west bank has been relatively low. many

palestinians say that these elections because they deal with bigger villages and towns and cities, that the political affiliation is much more important. we've seen in the 1st phase of these elections that were held in small villages, that the familial ties were more important. so it wouldn't be interesting to see the results of these elections because it could give us an indication of how well some of the political parties are doing in the street for her telephone. but after the legislative elections were cancelled last year, i lost trust in our democracy. i didn't even want to vote in musical elections. presidential ambitious list of elections are very important to me. as a warning party, the with

a group of afghan women and girls have marched in cobble to demand the right to go to school. the government closed all girls, secondary schools, early this week, hours off they had opened for the 1st time in more than 6 months. since returning to power in august, the taliban has undone some of the progress made by women in the past 2 decades. i not the taliban must reopen. go schools because women are ha, society to taliban cannot oppress the women of afghanistan. it was johnson emptied that themselves. a generation will be restricted from their right to education and literacy. there is no legal, religious, or logical justification for banning the women of afghanistan from education or

from political and social structures. for caea coffee is a former deputy speaker, the afghan parliament. she says that the international cruelty must take notice of what's happening in afghanistan. i hope the international pressure will continue. because i think since caught up on intern cobble, they have received a lot of, you know, protocol on attention by the wall, a money in the international community to try to make the situation, norman, and try to have an optimistic approach of the situation and up on the sun, with the hope that things would change positively, especially when it comes to the woman and goes right on to inclusivity under presentation of all in the power structure. but we know that over time that optimism changed to disappointment. especially it happened when the taliban actually turned back on guys from doors of the schools. literally. this was the biggest hope for all of us on the 23rd of march to see god going to school. and we

saw all those heartbreaking images of god's being returning, you know, from the doorsteps of your schools to the, to the home. it actually disappointed innovation to become more request upon me know lately to have not only stopped us from education, but also they have the you to be in the house conducting house such as extra arbitrarily detention a thing. c against human rights or values in principle. so i think the world must engage with what are political dialogue, which would result establishment of a broad base acceptable government. we need to talk on the political prices in other countries, anything to mexico now where police are no strangers to being targeted by drug cartels and criminal gangs. but lately the toll has been particularly high. i can the status zacatecas, where that number of police killed has tripled in 3 years on home and reports in the state of zacatecas. the police dress like this,

not against the san or cove it but because if they're identified, they risk being killed. more have died here than anywhere else in mexico so far this year. and the majority a killed when they're off duty. that's because as elsewhere in the country, they have the hand in their guns when they finish their ships. high level officials worried that they will use the weapons illegally themselves if left armed. but it's then that, that easy. pray for criminals. at the funeral for a national manuals, his family moons, the gum, and timed his murder till he just clocked off and walked out the police station again. mm hm. in the lay, the moment you want to carry a gun in your daily life, you can't. and that gives the go ahead to any criminal they can come and do anything to you because you can't defend yourself. and you don't stop being a police officer because you're unarmed, you're a police officer at $365.00 days of the year. nearly boyfriend, a police officer like her, was killed to in an ambush. this is the sure he was wearing like way back. she was

deeply traumatized. so was her family now? she's in an office ro. i will never feel of it. back on, on me. i had a situation with my son, he said to me, i'm frightened when you go i to work because i don't know if you're coming back and not parts your soul in to because it's true. we don't know if we're coming back of his has told us that a war between the sinaloa and the ha lease, go new generation. cartels is causing havoc in the state. they're forced to weave a chew sides or to fight both, and they don't have the equipment to do that, even when they orangey to melinda, that bulletproof vests are out of date, they were out of date by february 22 or helmets. and that's about 5060 percent of that original assistance with our because we're struggling with an infinity of mechanical problems. that's common in the countries, many police forces, but deadly when you're in the middle of a call tell will still the biggest problem said this officer who will need us to

hide his identity is a lack of support from the top. and basically, the bosses don't speak to us, we don't even really know with the directories the a plan strategy objectives. right now we don't have them with when we interviewed the head of one of the states municipal forces, what he sang a very different to independent the meant the either we have a lot of coordination these moments apart from the attacks on us. you can check the statistics, murders have gone down. a lot of what we have to do is lift up the values. we have as human values from the moment that we go out on the street for when a small child who still trusts us, says hello, an old lady says, you know what, god bless you. beautiful sentiments from the top. well, dozens of b cups from around the state like an ester bond, yellows, a being murdered john homan, al jazeera mexico. and finally music for peace. musicians in ukraine's hock have

have performed at a subway station for many sheltering their 2 escape russian bombings. o ukraine's 2nd largest city has been under heavy fire for weeks. the concert marks what would have been the start of his annual music festival. even though she would, amid the darkness surrounding us, now it is extremely important to show that there are eternal values and future in our country, that our country is melodious, beautiful, chris, intellectual, and will overcome all these difficulties. ah, this is al jazeera and these are the top stories. ukraine's western city of the video has been hit by russian missiles. officials say the strikes have significantly damaged city infrastructure. the viv is just 70 kilometers from the polish border and a major hub for flu.