represent the diversity of iraq to be able to hear music, i mean the ruins of muscles, old city, feel strange, but it brings home the resilience of residents who say that despite the destruction and lack of help, they remain committed to bringing the city back to life ah, russian forces continue to bombard chair and a half and the skirts of keep a day after promising to radically scale back operations there. mm hm. car cave is also under relentless attack. we get access to a special ukrainian police force as it patrols the streets after curfew. oh, hello there. i'm dealing with donald. this is al jazeera live from london,

also coming up un says more than 4000000 have now fled ukraine. almost all of them are women and children. as victims of the latest attack in israel and laid to rest security forces raised the west bank village, the attacker ah one welcome to the program. ukrainian officials say russian forces have continued to bombard the outskirts of keith and the northern city of chair and a half. thus, despite the kremlin pledging to radically scale back military operations in those areas to help build trust in the peace talks, there have been explosions and fighting in the suburbs around the capitol while ensure to have official se, markets, libraries and homes are being destroyed. some russian units have been deployed to the eastern city of zoom, where attacks have also ramped up. and then the red cross says it's building in the besieged southern city of mario pool has been hit. well,

these are images from chair and a half where the mayor says russian attack sup actually intensified over the past 24 hours. more than 800000 people are trapped in the besieged city was supplies lacked to last about a week. now, bombings were also reported in the west of the country with an advisor to ukraine's president's as a vote ceiling. a prospective agreement with russia can only be held after russian troops who back shows what we think is group mosel's, mom, european group of you. as i understand in order to take a step forward, they said they will significantly cut back military activities in the journey hip and key of regions. unfortunately, we're not seeing a significant cut back yet. we're saying that everything continues as it used to be attacks on our cities are ongoing, that a separate signs that some units are withdrawing, but it's not massive. lisco live that man khan, who is in chief, i there in ran. so russia said on tuesday that it was fine to reduce it sensitivity

near keith. but what was the reality on the ground right now? mildly? well, the reality is that the shelling still continues. now we were in bro, very a town or to itself. that's not that far away from here, and there were overnight attacks there on a food distribution warehouse actually the 3rd time that food distribution warehouse has actually been attacked in the north of kiva shelling house can continue to let me just divide up all the towns for you on the edge of that. so we take of firstly, mockery of and other peam. those of seem fierce fighting in the morning, mercury, of particularly as they the pushed out the ukrainians, pushed out russian forces. they're doing the same in a pin. but as the russian forces are leaving, they are still fighting back in austin l, an in butcher. they say the ukrainian say they've got people encircled russians encircled within that thing and within those towns and they're trying to push them

out. but it's a much tougher fight than perhaps they thought, but it is say the ukrainians, something that is happening now. the ukrainians also say that actually they are seeing evidence of russians withdrawing of a significant change article here and keep and shania. however, we are seeing much more intense shelling going on. but judy, i have to say, there is a skepticism to the russians motives for all of this. let's take a look. smoke disappears into the sky after yet another night of destruction in towns around the capital. keep it from places like this. the russian military commanders say they will withdraw from part of an agreement made with ukraine during talks in turkey on tuesday. would you let us know those on this ukrainian commander says some russians are withdrawing. was mack at the horseshoe when the money will your some size they are maneuvering their size of the grow. but

the situation is unclear because we cannot trust them. so we will observe the russian soldier never just with ross. he steal in lute and we have evidence of that happening. he, these people have fled their homes and have come to bravo, a town hall to register as a vacuum ease. they welcome the russian withdrawal announcement and hope to return home. but they have no idea where the home survived. the missiles, rockets and artillery shells were useful. we will definitely go home and rebuild our city because it's our home that honestly, it's very painful to be in a strange place with strangers. i really just want to go home. the russian withdrawal plan has been met with skepticism as russian selling continues and scenes like this occur every day. this warehouse was hit in the early hours of wednesday morning is actually the 3rd time the warehouse has been hit by shilling. now president vladimir lensky welcomes the russian moves. he says that they're positive, but he also says they don't drown out the sound of the shelling. m wrong con out

zera. on the outskirts of bravery, rushes defense ministry insistence. new focus in ukraine is the east and dumbass range and hash ma bar is following developments from moscow on the miniature front, the russian army saying that it has achieved its goals in the kia region and shown ago, and that its troops are now regrouping with a focus shifting to words, liberating the don't bus. thus where you have the 2 e, some provinces of the guns and on the asked. and it seems that will likely to see further emphasis on the done the ask where the army has been seeing that a controls 50 percent of that territory that the i can to, if they're pushed to further expand their control on the diplomatic front. foreign minister of foreign affairs, sir gay lovell said that the the, our size of progress in the tools with the ukrainians, and that the russians have received commitment from the ukraine years about ukraine

. not joining nato, not acquiring weapons of mass destruction, and not allowing any more funding military bases to be built in ukrainian, the future, and that the ukrainians understand that you crimea and the dumbass. ah, i find the lights are closed, an indication that the rushes are not going to offer any compromise. as far as those 2 issues are concerned, we have to remind our viewers that says the slot with a better operation. the russians have been insisting that the ukrainians have to recognize crimea as russian, and they have to recognize, look guns. and don, yes, as independent states, russian forces have also continued their relentless attacks on ukraine. second largest city, that's car kid. a 3rd of the population has managed escape. thousands of people. i still trapped. the city's mayor says no area is safe. i said beach was given access

to a special police unit patrol city kirk eve burns at night and there is no plaza. this is the reality for many ukrainian still left in the country. second largest city, either shelled by russian forces whilst they slept, emergency services stretched to capacity by as shells rain down in the middle of the night. i was here for you with our night starts with police as they patrolled the streets on the lookout for what they say, our russian saboteurs. we've been given access to the special unit of the police force that the troll the city past curfew. making sure there's no threats behind those front lines. reassuring people. but the police are still operating

and taking care of her gift. but nothing has prepare them for what they are doing now. oh goodness, it was always. yeah, they're the ones that were there. this is my 1st time at war. haven't experienced anything like this before. i've been to, jeanette can, lo, hunter. but what i've experienced here shocked me. we work with the people, retain looters. we caught saboteurs. we never did anything like this. if we were not guarding the rear, it would be difficult for the ukrainian military on the front line. we can do it if we come across a burning house. the constant 3rd from russian artillery is ever present at scott scott. then we see a flash of light in the sky. look in coming, he shouts, the police arrive on the scene. so the shell is just hit. the police have

arrived at the lane. people know that they're here to help us and making sure everybody is okay. i just want to just said one little little for little ha, has it just hit? he asks, i needed to thank you for this order. yes, i'm not crying. i'm not crying. she says quiet quiet. he says it's going to be okay . we're here now what you while you across the street? mendoza blown out. be a nice love to you. you are. yeah. are you alive? she shouts. yes, come to reply. i'm elijah. know that the unhurt either. it could have been far worse. police here reports of another building being hit where the 1st there, it's unclear if there are any casualties. his shock survivors leave the block of

flats. huh. probably don't my mom and that need to get out of there. can somebody call them the police tried to distract the children and make them feel better? a moment of laughter amongst the madness that and caesar ran them. one woman refuses to go to the underground station used as a bomb shelter. this is her home would be she would birthday explosion here. my wife was thrown out of the bed. we came out and the entrance was on fire. more buildings burn. suddenly there's more in coming shelling. ah, we make a run for it. oh but for the people who live here, there is no escape. they face being hit by russian bombardment at any time.

at any place. i said bake a da 0 particle. the red cross says one of its facilities has been destroyed by shelling in mario pool. the agency said his building was marked with a red cross on a white background indicating the presence of wounded people, a civilian cargo. it's not known if there were any casualties. the red cross released a statement saying it's been unable to bring in more supplies since earlier this month, due to the intensity of fighting and no agreement on the safe passage of humanitarian aid. the mayor of marrow, paul says a 160000 people are currently trapped in the besieged city with very little food, power, and water. oh, lou ends refugee agents. he says the number of people leaving ukraine has reached a new milestone. you and hcr commissioner phillip, who grandy has been innovative, looking at how to increase support for refugees to day we reached for media and

register from ukraine. bugs are you observed or so on the border with colin. it's not like before now fewer people at this moment are going out of the country and refugees arriving in poland have described seen bodies and minds on the roads traveling out of ukraine. sure, cool. and then this is what we got through. thank god, everything was okay. driving there was so horrible, the dead bodies are on the roads. no one bothers to take them away. on the road sides, there are mines in the fields. there are mines and one was in the middle of the road up here. i'm one of those who are you collecting my number? just those. who knows how will turn out for us? do you think that the children the children don't have a future rush? it's hard to talk about this. it's best at home, but what can you do? well, still to come this half an hour,

a temporary cease fire begins in yemen as talks to end, the war get underweight, and saudi arabia. mr. lumpkins are facing 13, our power cups is the government runs out of foreign currency to buy food. all that more when we come back. ah. hello there. after pleasant spring weather, last week, europe's fortunes have changed. things have turned colder and more wintry, particularly up in the north. down in the south. however, we are seeing unsettled conditions, and they are going to intensify to end the week. but if we start up in the north west, we're going to have wintery showers across britain, an island, thanks to cool arctic air that's blowing down and a weather front that's taking those i think conditions across into the low countries spreading out for the east. now we're still going to see some snow sh

across scandinavia, but it is much clearer though colder. by the time we get into friday, you can see that wintery mix moving its way further. it's going to knock temperatures down in paris for example, 3 degrees by friday with snow, but it starts to clear up on saturday. no further south of this. we still got rain affecting spain and portugal, but much of the wetter and unsettled weather can be found for the east, across the mediterranean, we're going to see some heavy rain for a silly wind warnings across some of the islands. and that's going to push it across the balkans. as we go into friday, we could see some flooding rains here, but further east of this for greece and turkey, while plenty of sunshine and clear skies, ah, the rock, a nation riddled with landmarks and an expert dedicated to defusing them,

one by one. equipped with only a month on the pair of warrant, the faces death every day but does his work make him a hero or talk witness. d minor on a just 0. lou ah or mine to about top story here on al jazeera, this been more russian shelling in northern ukraine a day after moscow promised to scale back operations surround churney on the capital. overnight strikes destroyed markets, libraries and homes in germany on the northwest of kiva,

seen explosions and fight. russian forces are relentlessly attacking car cave. 3rd of the population is managed to escape. ukraine's 2nd largest to the mayor says, no part of it is safe for you ends. refugee agency says the number of people leaving your crate has now passed. 4000000 in the world. food program says the process of negotiating, humanitarian access inside the country, has not complete. well, we can speak now to maria. most glencoe, she's from mario pool has relatives and friends still trapped in the city. maria joins us live now from the vive region and maria, thank you so much for joining us. i know that we spoke to you a few weeks ago and you describe what the situation was like for your family then walks happening with your family now. you're still not altogether as they escaped from mario called my parents and their relatives and some friends.

but some people which i know are still there because there is no way out without any recall and without resolve to car. and so they are just waiting for someone or i know for example, people who just walked away by food even by food and bumps because it's dangerous to stay there. and actually there is no place to stay there now. so maria, does that mean for your friends still in mary paul, how would you describe their day to day life at the moment? how are they managing to get by there just to seat them in a bomb shelter and scare and to go out and to just void him for sound long to risk? is them maria met?

sorry to interrupt you, maria. i'm, i'm just wondering mentally how was helping people to, to be able to cope is there still that feeling of you know, community and being able to rally around and help each other even under these desperate circumstances. yeah. as far as i know. so church trying to help them like drive in and given food, water and supplies for those with state and all saw, i know that there is, there is not a lot there are not locked. there are well in your, in their core who are trying to help maria argue or a family now out of the city. and do you know anything about your own family home?

yeah. i so for jose and it is burned out. daughter lives just every sin and it is very hard to see those pictures and understand that's where homeless it's a very strange feeling that you just don't have home anymore. you don't have to reach john. and i even don't know if i will be able to return anywhere and any and in time and know, maria, is there a feeling at the moment around whether the so called diplomatic efforts are going to bring any progress? is there any sense of, of hope or optimism around those if

you saw mario, paul, you wouldn't ask the question because there is no c t. i didn't know how, how, how it's it could be or, or in a way to, you know, they just re aries it every 2nd home and just just everything. how i can read maybe as a or would or russian want. so like grade to deny that there is some like that there and ah, i don't feel any whole pool of all this situation because i feel hopeless. don't hold one because i just can't do. i can't do anything

to deal with it. and that's i feel and so totally destroyed, but someone just doesn't destroy my life for nothing. maria, thank you so much for joining us in and describing your experience. thank you. ah, israel's prime minister says the security services will ramp up intelligence operations after 3 attacks killed 11 people in a week. naphtali bennett also announced the creation of a new boarder brigade unit. oh, is really piece of relief. this body can video of the most recent attack showing officers confronting the gunman and tuesday, shooting 5 people were killed and been

a brack when they outskirts of eastern television. thousands of people have attended their burials and the security forces remain on high alert to the tax have been claimed by i so well, harry faucet in west jerusalem have been a number of announcements about increased security as far as era is really perspective is concerned, but yes, for many palestinian israelis and the palestinians in the occupied west bank concerns about what that could mean for them. i mean if we start there, we're talking about things like administrative detention, which is detention without charge. and there was a report just a little earlier that the defense minister, if any guns had approved such measures against 2 men from to palestinians from east jerusalem occupied east jerusalem, who alleged as hamas links. obviously this is something that could be used in greater measure as well. and more military and police presence of friction points,

12 battalions announced to be moving into the occupied west bank into the area around garza, a 1000 troops to swell the ranks of the police as well. and as well as that there is the potential risk of reprisal attacks from far right groups. there were people chanting death, the arabs and the like. after the attacks on tuesday night. now as for the the, those events that the, the 5 people who were killed 4 of them civilians, one of policemen, there had been mass funerals in benet brock, this ultra orthodox area. 2 of them were jewish residents from there, 2 of them were ukrainian foreign workers understood to be working in construction. and this rarely please have identified the shooter as 27 year old. the harsher from the occupied west bank and raided his whole village, needed it for him. when c abad, where his father and other residents have gathered. i don't know what is

going on. why did the the go with these people say. 6 did they say that living under occupation? that situation has only been getting worse for them and all these people want now is an end to the israeli occupation. this issue that nobody. i don't want israel to govern me. if i the older man don't want to be controlled like that, imagined the youth when a soldier humiliates them an oppressive. a settler with a gun can go on a shooting spree against the young and old. they want to block road, even the most senior official can't pass it. is that ok? one of the year reads was that he sure television did not only tell you what their family says that they had no idea of, of the art husband plotting anything. they say he spent nearly 3 years in his

really deals. there hasn't been an increase of attacks in israel lately. and with it diplomacy efforts to try and diffuse tension ahead of the holy month of ramadan . but these ready arm is expected to be back here in yarbrough to demolish the offs families home. this is a standard practice by israel against perpetrators of attacks that human rights organization called collective punishment. and that could only lead to more attention some breaking news now, and she says he is president, has announced on state television that he's decided to dissolve parliament earlier . kai side condemned attempts at holding what he described as co, illegal meetings of the body. he's accused members of quote, conspiring against state security, said suspended parliament and dismiss prime minister hytcher mitchell g. last july . he's denied the qu allegations and promised to uphold rights and freedoms won. in soon as he as 2011 revolution that triggered the arab springs uprisings across the

region and will bring me more on that story as we get it live. a temporary cease far has begun in yemen on the 1st day of talks to end the war, which took place without the who the rebels. now the group is boy, causing the negotiations because they're being held in saudi arabia, one of the main players in the war. despite though not attending the who these have offered a prisoner swap and a 3 day hold 2 attacks. while the saudi led coalition has announced the cease fire for the muslim holy month of ramadan, the discussions are being hosted by the 6 nation gulf co operation council within voice from the u. n. and the u. s. also in attendance. i have been encouraged by the enthusiastic participation of gemini political parties, components experts and says, besides a representative in this process, across the plurality of voices, a common message has emerged. yemenis won't the war 2 ends and they won't

adjust and durable peace or mohammed, alas, up is in the em any capital santa and says past experience has taught people there not to expect too much from the government sees far yemen. he's in more than occasion the they have witnessed unheard about declarations of cease fires by warring sides. sometimes we have heard from the host these the some kind of twos of times of the have heard from the saudi lit quality of the truce. but on the ground, with their experience over the 747 years, we haven't found any change in the ground. so the wellness, the, the continuation of the war, the bombing, the, the continuous, the continuation of the fight between political factions and the country. busy busy for the hokies of themselves, they say that the they wouldn't consider the saudi to quality and declaration of

the succession of its military actions. and yemen. unless it lifts its blockade, it lifts its air, see the ground blockade the se. the v is the most important and vital and the points of their, of their. busy of their initiative that was a ticket declared. busy put, put forward by the president of the supreme political council. my did my shop during his speech when he declared the 3 days truce. so far the say that if they haven't witnessed such err, see on ground left of the blockade, they would continue their attacks against saudi arabia. this is they would have been also reiterated by the different speeches by their leaders. it will ensure longer and i'm facing 10 hour daily power costs, which will be extended to 13 hours on thursday. the government claims

a few shortage for the crisis, for the lack of foreign currency, leaving them unable to pay for fuel shipments. the countries also one out of hydro electric power shall anchors experiencing its worst economic crisis since independence in $1000.00. 48 with foreign exchange reserves down 70 percent in the past 2 years. or you can find out much more about the stories we're following on our website at al serra dot com. ah. our current top stories on al jazeera chin as he is president, has announced on state television that he's decided to dissolve parliament. earlier . chi side condemned attempts to hold what he described a school illegal meetings of the body is accused. its members of court conspiring against state security side suspended parliament and dismiss prime minister hytcher mitchie. last july is denied the co allegations and promised to uphold the.