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and striking an oil depot in the city of belgrade. the 2nd phase of a k with 19 locked down is underway in china's biggest city in financial hub, shanghai global markets, worried about his economic impact football teams around the world find out on friday who they will play in the group stages of the welcome been so 5 weeks into the war, ukraine says russian forces all withdrawing from errors around the capital. keefe may include hostile mal at the north, where russian troop sees the antenna of airport. in the 1st few days of the invasion, moscow announced it would scale back its military operations in the area on tuesday . but some shelling continued, and the northern city of china have came under heavy bombardments. ellis, get very latest. robert bry jones is not from levine at several. we have a little bit more clarity now on the russian withdrawal.

that's right. i mean, the russians announced that they were scaling down some of their operations in the north of the country of north of that capital. keith, apparently having achieved their objectives and that, that said, this is seems to be what we are now seeing. we're getting reports from various cities and towns, especially north of keep up towards that, the border of units withdrawing. and for example, from the a parts of on the outskirts of keep itself from a pin and from bravery. these are scenes of something very intense fighting. over the past few weeks. we're getting reports from the authorities in case of units being withdrawn from there. also this important facility, this airport at hostile mel. this was an apple web as a military facility. this was taken you remember by the russian paratroopers in the very 1st day of the invasion. a apparently with a, the intention of using this is a staging post for what was apparently going to be

a very quick taking of the ukrainian capital. it was we taken by ukrainian forces than gradually, as the russians advanced, they took hold of it. well, now there is a drone footage there circulating on social media showing a very badly damaged airport facility with no russians are being, as apparently there at the airport. also from cherokee, the city knows very close to the border with their russia or from the governor of genevieve. we are hearing that russian units of withdrawal not only from around the city but from the region itself. so it does seem as though russian units are generally pulling back what exactly they're up to. it remains to be seen at the coating to the ukrainians. they've been driven back basically. they have not succeeded in driving off their the defenders, the ukrainians have counter attack. they are forcing them back a could well be that some of these units are simply being rotated regrouped. you've got to remember that some of these units have been asked in the field now for months. they were on suppose it exercises in b. l. a. russia in russia since last november, december. and so they've been living out and, and the in under canvas

a full months now. so they would need to be in, need of repent, clannish months, new recruits added to these units to then see what the russians are going to do next. in the north, certainly in the south that the fighting is very intense than the russians say. they will concentrate on the south and east of the country. it's the great talking point, sir rob the situation. mary, poland nichols. what happens with these talks? that's right. i mean maria paula with the i c r. c, the international committee of the red cross on the ukrainians are still trying to organize this humanitarian corridor. the latest we have from the i c r c is that the 2 warring sides have agreed and in theory the to open this corridors that officials have given agreement. so it does seem to be something happening around barrier paul, there are now we understand 50 full buses by sent by the ukrainians hoping to get into the city. also the i c r c is hoping to send humanitarian aid into the city.

but until now, from the deputy matter of maria paul, he has said that until now the situation is too dangerous for anybody to be leaving . and the city had also accusing the russians. i've been the last couple of days stopping even small amounts of humanitarian aid getting into the city. all right, rob, thanks very much. i roemer bride a johnny's from live if well, an oil dep her in the russian city belgrade, on the border with ukraine is on fire. and governance says to work as have been injured in some areas of being evacuated. he says ukrainian military helicopters attack, trips with keith was not claim responsibility and ammunition. their po, near belgrade caught fire on wednesday regina gregory has more now from velgrove in russia. la la la la cadillac. previously, there were some incidents where ukrainian shells fell over some villages in belgrade region by russia says this is the 1st time an oil facility has been targeted. the governor says to ukrainian helicopters penetrated the russian air space without being noticed by the air defense systems. and targeted and oil tank

fires are still blazing at the oil facility. and the russian ministry of emergency announced that the fire fighting operations are still ongoing. with the round $200.00 fighters, using about 60 special units to fight the fires, all the people in the area have been evacuated. also, the russian ministry of emergency has mentioned that they fear the fire skin spread to 8 oil containers. the mayor of belgrade region denied the news that 2 people have been injured and received unnecessary treatment to law. so fire fighting operations are still going on. and so as to prevent any fire spread to other oil containers and tanks. and when it says russian forces are not scaling back their invasion, but regrouping to fight in east and ukraine, the battle to controlled khaki if is ongoing. and one u. s. official says that russia is not making any major gains. russia, the savings monitor in crisis is getting worse. this report by us have beg,

contains distressing images from install. there's only death here. bodies of young russian soldiers lying unclaimed, apparent victims of port tactics or so the ukrainians tell us you're watching, considering for your bill for the day it was very intensify and our guys had high morale. a special operation was plan together with a 92nd brigade. they flanked this position and then cleared the russians had poor defensive position, say the enemy's exposing them to ukrainian artillery. this was a russian defensive line. all along here you have what's left over of this intense battle burnt out. tanks, weapons left behind grenades. they didn't even have time to take some of their dead everywhere we look, there are signs of battle. why and fear of chemical

attack? ukrainian soldiers salvage what's left? the village of mother rowan is back under ukrainian control, but the cost has been high. a fierce battle pushed the russians away from the gates of hurricane porsha duffy to glare with 21 year old. u. jenny has been awarded ukraine's highest honor for destroying 5 tanks and other heroics during battle of the war. he tells us it's the 1st time he's come across the use of phosphorus, the highly flammable chemical force for a bug, but rosabelle m as with but it, it with my 1st experience with phosphorus, air strikes were not as scary as the phosphorus you saw. first they used the air strikes, then the phosphorus below my eyes were burning. i couldn't breathe through my nose . it was like really difficult to breathe those. but the equipment was burning. just gate was bad and below not because in dependency verify its use.

this is one of the main streets in this village. i was completely destroyed every building, every window. everything that you see has some sort of damage the bullet holes in the doors, the windows have been blown at the bricks all over the place. and we've been told that we can only stick to this main road because everywhere around hasn't been completely de mine because the fear is that the russians have left mines and booby traps behind, for the ukrainian soldiers take him to the states. but as you seek, there's not much left. i said bake algebra outside huck if china and the european union holding a virtual summits. the main focus is the warden ukraine. but it's also aimed at diffusing growing tensions between the 2 sides. let's speak to katrina. you joined the slide from beijing and katrina no end of things to discuss, but what is trying to get out of this summit or

shadow one to strengthen its ties with the ear. the block has overtaken a thing, is trying to the biggest trading partner in 2021. the 2 did more than $700000000000.00 worth of trade. and so as they ging sees it, it wants to under school, the mutual benefit of strengthening this relationship. now this is going to be very tense me thing because although you've got trade and things like climate change, environmental cooperation also on the agenda the year was really going to want to talk about ukraine. specifically. it's going to try to get china on board with supporting western sanctions against russia. now the problem is, china is a very friendly, strategic partner. it says of moscow just this week we had russian foreign minister, a lover of, in beijing meeting with china's foreign minister, one e and china reiterated that stance that the to have a relationship with no limits. and of course before that, just

a few weeks before the rushes invasion of ukraine, we had flooded the fusion visit beijing and speak with president she didnt king face to face. so the e u is really going to be pressing beijing during this virtual summit on its relationship with russia. it's going to want assurances the beijing is not going to become an economic lifeline for moscow. it's not going to help it sidestep west in sanctions or provide any military aid. something that agent has so far denied, it will do. that's also going to say, well, if you do any of those things, it could jeopardize. i'll trading relationship. and of course, china, your relations weren't exactly great before the ukraine crisis where they well, it's right. it's been very rocky relationship in 2019. you officially started describing their relationship with china as a systemic rival, something that aging very much took issue with. and then we had this investment

investment agreement. now this is negotiated c years. and at the end of 2020 these negotiations finally came to an end. but it kind of collapsed at that point because we had the e. u. then sanction several shin jung officials over the treatment of the muslim league population. and then china hit back with a certain reciprocal sanctions. and after that there was no further move on that investment treaty. and also we've had a lot of tensions and anger over trying to treatments of each member lithuania. china has imposed a lot of on official trade blocks on the imports of lithuanian imports. because lithuania has allowed taiwan to open a de facto embassy. and it's capital or katrina and leave it there for many thanks luck. katrina you reporting select or not 0. 365 days of no pe. i've used mine is in alabama holding the picket line and the longer strike your state's history and russia's invasion of ukraine. one of the main talking points is

world for will chiefs meet for the fee for congress? ah hi. there will have a look at south east asia and from the satellite image. you can see those dense storm clouds gathering over indo china bringing heavy rain to central areas of vietnam as well as cambodia, thailand, and louse. we could see some flooding from those heavy rains as we go into sunday. we've got stronger winds blowing, those rains down across from the nape malay peninsula where we're expecting. see some of the heavier falls, heavier falls as well for southern areas of indonesia with thunderstorms, through the weekend for jakarta. now as we move to australia, there's good news for eastern areas, new south wales is seen, the rain stop and the clean up operation can continue for the devastating floods

for a 2nd time in just a few weeks. not much of a wet and windy weather can be found in that southeast corner. we've got warnings out for rough seas as well as powerful winds around tasmania. and victoria, thanks for that low pressure, but it's an improving picture for sydney. have a look at this. we will see some sunshine come in on sunday, and the temperature will be well above the average by monday. for the west, however, it is still looking rather wet rain for perth on sunday, but we will see the sunshine come back in on monday that whoever ah, the biggest sports event on the planet is coming to the middle east for the 1st find. com to find out who your theme will be playing will be live from dough hall and across the globe. the special coverage of the fif up world cup dro. join us on

april the 1st on al jazeera key prank assessment. what are the political risk for planning rushmore? the gas for western leaders, or sanctions on russian energy exports? that's recipe for social in depth analysis of the days headlines inside story on al jazeera. ah, ah. so again, you're watching out 0. her might about top stories. this hour and ukraine says, russian forces are continuing to withdraw from areas north of give. it includes hoster mel where troop sees the airport in the 1st 2 days of the russian invasion. moscow announced it would scale beckett's military operations in the area on tuesday. an oil dep her in the russian city of belgrade on the board of with

ukraine is on fire. it's governance has 2 workers have been injured. he blames ukrainian military helicopters attacking it, but keith has not claim responsibility. a passes a heading to the besieged port city of mary, poland, southern ukraine to evacuate, trapped, residence peeve has accuse russian forces of blocking the convoy despite announcing a local seas now china's largest city of shanghai is shutting down. as authorities look to bring down numbers of covey, 19 infections locked down in the western half of the city begins on friday, and existing locked down in the east has been extended, and public transport has been cancelled. and all non essential businesses have been closed. the outbreak is affecting the country's economic output with factory production now at its lowest in 2 years. joining us live from shanghai, dan. one is a chief economist of the hang same bank in china. dan, 1st of all, it is 26000000 residents in lockdown. not to cross the threshold or even to war

dogs or put out rubbish. it must be an extraordinary thing. just give us a sense of how it is in a city of that size. well, it has been quite damaging, not just to retail and a manufacturing, but also to the morale of the general public. i live on the west side of the river, and this is my 1st day of being locked down again. i was in and out of lockdown for the past 3 weeks already by people leaving and we don't, they have to live up with a lockdown for even longer time. and aid has caused a quite a lot of damage on productivity. and for the 1st quarter of china as a g, d p growth, this is going to make a big indeed what happens to the business processes to banking processes and so forth. because it, because that still has to continue in some shape or form isn't that right everbank or what have some of their workers actually being locked up in the office building

while others working remotely from their home. h is not definitely not ideal way of doing it. for example, i have colleagues being locked up in their apartment for a long time because they live in the east side of the river. and they have to do remote trading. but you know, when you do a remote trading at home, it's very different from when you're doing it in office. and there are problems and there was a quote to do problems. and i expect that actually in the coming few days on there might be some liquidity issues in the market because those traders can only focus on the large transactions when they're doing this tedious work at home. they have to let go a lot of smaller transactions. and that can be the kind of additional pressure on the already low market competence, right? it, how far flung will the reverb reverberations of this be bad enough in shanghai within china itself, but well, it spread globally. well,

so far it just looks like china is doubling down its efforts in containing the virus. if this is a one time thing like the sean high type of lockdown is a one time thing, it only lasted for march and a part of a approach. then i would consider this something similar to the power shortage episode last year, which lasted for 2 months, but have very limited impact for chinese economy and for the global economy. so, so far the manufacturing in majority part of china is still continuing. as usual. most reports are still option up opperation rather smoothly. but if chinese method turns out, and that's a 0 call, the strategy cannot really contain the scrat of all the problem. then we have a much bigger problem just very briefly. of course, it's not solely coming from over. the invasion of ukraine must squeeze things to

the ukraine. war for sure has pushed the energy prices already even before this around the cove is we have already noticed many factories, long chinese coastal cities have shut down at least partially of their production lines. so i would say their vision risk from the war and also the possibility of not being able to contain cold. it has been the biggest challenge so far for china's economic recovery. don't why and chief economist at hang saying, brian can try to appreciate that. thank you. well, the poor malaysia have reopen their borders after 2 years of cobra. 1900 places people who are vaccinated can now visits without having to quarantine. but i'll have to show a negative cova test partially vaccinated. people will have to core and teen for 5 days. thousands of people have been crossing a one kilometer road between the 2 countries. it had been closed since a pandemic began. russia's foreign minister sag lovegrove is in new delhi for talks with his indian counterpart india, one of the few countries that increased business with moscow since invasion of

ukraine. and as a long time ally, it's refused to condemn russia's actions and has abstained from un resolutions. those, the western products would like to reduce any meaningful international issue to the crisis and ukraine, you know, edition, we do not side anything. and we appreciate that india is taking the situation in the entire affects, not just one side that way what the sporting fall out from the ukranian bull has continued at a meeting of footballs. well, governing body for ukraine says russia should be thrown out of fever, or russia says it is being unfairly treated. any richardson was that the for congress income. russia's national teams may be banned from all competitions. the countries football union was the annual congress of the sports world governing body

fee for faith. it says it can't suspend a footballing federation for actions taken by political leaders, a few not shared by ukraine's representative at the meeting in qatar. do you think it's right that the russian football federation is sitting just a few yards away from you? i think that they have to be expelled from this body since they have perpetrated the crimes they committed to general be violated all the norms of the civilization instructions. can the ukrainian football team play it this year as well? is it possible? well, it's difficult for me to say you see the situation and if the urgency petition worth of course, we'll be happy to do that. you had a few properties of them done in front, you know, the other members of football family, the other, the head of the ukrainian football association, sense of video message from keith, thanking the global football community for it supports

a community that 4 years ago had been gathering in russia for the world cup, a great success, sporting really and culturally but obviously it did not solve the problems of the world. it did not even solve the problems in the region. the man who headed up russia's welcome organizing committee in 2018 says the ban on his country's football teams is unjust. you have a case going to the court of arbitration, the sport. do you think you have a good case or to overturn the pantheon national things? yes, we you, we did go to cause or we indeed think that our players and our football fans about deserve it. and our team should have had the right to continue the qualifications. we certainly would not welcome this decision but to the board at this moment. it is what it is. faithful will now turn its attention to the

drawer for the group stages of the catapult world cup a competition that russia insists. it's been unfairly expelled from ukraine durham any consumption for a place at the finals that play off against scotland has been delayed until at least june and the richardson, al jazeera, doha or teams who qualified for the fee for well cup and cutter. this november and december we'll find out who on friday they'll play in the group stages. it is a big moment for the catherine national team and indeed for the whole region. tuscany, as his report, boys day dreams kicked around on the streets of their childhood. are now the pride and pressures of men, soon to be measured in gold, scored, and shot saved by cutters, national football team. when these 23 players take to the pitch in november, they know many might view them as a long shot. her asian co chambers, a sound going to be easy for the teams to. when it gets us,

it's will be hard for them when we make a difference. this will be the teams introduction to the world cup. as host katara will be a top seed. this is the 1st time footballs. premier competition has been held in the middle east and only the 3rd time it's been held outside europe. and the america is not a misconception about a region. it's time to to bring people are closer to each other. i think a sported and definitely full dilemma, and even more like a wilco can do so. ha ha. since 2010 cuts are one, the bid to host the 2022 world cup. the country has been in a perpetual state of construction, millions of migrant workers in the last 12 years have transformed desert into the stadiums, roads, hotels, and metro system that will make the world cup a legacy for cutter. but amnesty international says thousands of workers have died due to unsafe conditions and many were exploited by employers. country officials

say 3 people have died on the job for world cup related projects. and reforms have been implemented that have improved worker's rights greatly. this country of 2800000 people has never hosted an event on this scale. if attendance estimates, pan out, cut hours, population will swell by more than a 3rd. during the world come to assist with security. the turkish government is sending a team of 3250 people. it includes riot police, special operations forces, bomb experts and bomb sniffing dogs. it's also training about 700 countries, security personnel, no matter the outcome on game day cut. ours national team has already logged several entries in world cup history and become the embodiment of the football aspirations of this country and region. natasha her name al jazeera. doha

a little bit later we'll have a special program falling the world cup drawers. it happens like right here in dough coverage begins at 1545, gmc members of parliament, and focused on that. being debating emotion of no confidence in the prime minister run con events is expected to take place on sunday. con is under pressure to resign . after coalition partners switch sides, prime minister says he won't step down. early results of a vote by amazon employees in new york suggest most of them want to join the union . it would be the 1st of the company's sites in the us to become unionized. a vote counting continues on friday. workers as an amazon warehouse in the state of alabama also voted would appear to have rejected for me a union that result could be overturned after recount amazon as the 2nd largest employer in united states. also in alabama,

the longest strike in the us state history shows, middle sign of being result, members of the cold minus union walked off the job at april last year. they want that wages, john, 100 as this this is a portrait of patience. these miners have spent a year picketing to get their jobs back, but warrior met cole has yet to offer them even what they earned before they went on strike. a way to just get back what 5 years ago, i think i think a lot of gas would be happy with it. that's $365.00 days without regular pay. the longest strike in alabama history with 1100 miners living off a union strike fund. i had plans to build a house or to move on with my life. all that money's gone every day. they watch non union replacement workers drive to their old jobs. that's led to some confrontations by replacement workers. and by striking minors, prompting a judge to temporarily ban picketing when the strikers returned,

chris broo. baker says there'll be some harsh words for those who crossed the line . i'm sure you got me a lot of things said in the bath house. they're probably sitting beside on, out in paulding descending more than 600 meters beneath the earth for scraps of coal is a dangerous job. in 2001, my number 5 exploded, killing 13 miners. a year after the strike began. these mine workers are still out here, drawing attention to their cause, occasionally getting a hunk of support from passers by. we as warrior met cold for comment, but they didn't respond. and reason where they become a cause to lead drawing support from nationally known activists like rage against the machine guitar as tom morello, and by taking their cars on the road to new york, ah, about the miners picketed in front of black rock, a major investor and war your met, cold. the alabama miners are hoping to take part in a comeback of sorts for unions in the us, even here in the anti union south than

a so called right to work state that bands unions from collecting dues, from any worker who doesn't volunteer them. the desire for workers who here to 4, have had to give concessions at every bargaining table. discovering that they're a commodity, and they are forced to be reckoned with after $365.00 days these minor said they're not going anywhere. and we're not going back down that way. we're not back down we're, we're not gonna turn around and it was one day longer, one day, stronger. even if it takes another year. john henderson, al jazeera brookwood, alabama. oh, his is out there. these are the top stories in ukraine says, russian forces are continuing to withdrawal from air is north of kiff. it includes hostile mel where troop sees the airport in the 1st few days of the russian

invasion. moscow announced it would scale back its military operations in the area on tuesday. robert pride has more now.