all organize is getting ready to host the middle east. biggest ever sporting event next year for the castle national team, they get used to playing in front of expect and home crowds. they'll be hoping to convince both the fan and themselves. so they really all ready to take on the world . ah, ukraine says tens of thousands could have died in mariel, poor warning that areas in the east could suffer the same fate of the hands of russian forces. ah, hello there, i'm dealing with donald. this is al jazeera, alive from london, also coming up the challenge of running a government in times of war. we go inside the operation to keep you. craig functioning during rush us invasion. chabarise sharif is officially sworn in as

pakistan's prime minister replacing him. ron khan, who was, i'm still in a no confidence field and every vote camps a man. well mac home hits the county trail as he peers for a 2nd run, run off against marine the pin. ah one welcome to the program. we begin with the war in ukraine and warnings of an escalation in the east. russia is moving military vehicles towards the front lines of lance that's according to its regional governor, ukraine's defense minister says moscow is almost ready to launch a major assault in south easter mariel. paul soldier said that they were preparing for last battle. after weeks of siege. the $36.00 brigade posted on facebook saying they were running out of ammunition and expected to soon be either dead or captured . ukraine says tens of thousands of people have died in the strategically valuable port city. rob mcbride reports now from live. if

a drive through the ruins of what was once a bustling suburb of mary, you poll near the cities as of scull factory, the scene of fierce fighting russian back soldiers from the break away region of dawn. yet around patrol some of them conscripts like 18 year old gladys love who sauvage? while a, what can i say the cold up to go to work? i wasn't hiding from it. i came on my own, a volunteer. all around evidence of what weeks of intense fighting has reduced much of this city to with unexpectedly strong resistance. the one with was well with 3, i thought it would go better if i thought it would be faster. harrison is going slowly. the ukrainians are trained fighters in other parts of the city under russian control. some clearing up is underway while people try to live as best they

can. russia has blamed what it calls ukrainian nationalists for what it describes as a humanitarian catastrophe here. but ukrainian president vladimir zalinski blames russia's invading army, claiming an address to parliamentarians in south korea, the 10s of thousands of people are likely to have been killed in the city. my tuple roonan marie, opal is destroyed. there are tens of thousands of dead. but even so, the russians do not stop the offensive. they want to make an example of mario pl. several 100 people are now thought to have died in a theatre where many families had taken refuge. drone footage shows the extent of the devastation to that one building that was attacked in spite of the word deity or children. being marked clearly on the ground. president zalinski says the coming days will be crucial for ukraine with the expected renewed offensive in the east. he says the russians of a mast, an army of tens of thousands,

and have every intention of repeating what they've already done it. maria pope, rob mcbride, al jazeera live if a state of martial law has been enforced in ukraine since february. the 24th of the day, the war began, or so, so dar sat down with the queen's minister of internal affairs to talk about how the national security council kept the country functioning as russian forces pushed towards the capital ah, of the recent war, this erased sirens in keys had become almost routine. nuclear in a government had since is powerful neighbor, russia as an existential threat, since the annexation of crimea in 2014 and had prepared for war and to maintain order during the conflict near moses cutters. and we got a lot of special training. the goal of the trainees watched the coordination of all a lot forestman unified with the army force to go through different scenarios.

despite keys preparation, the size and scale of the invasion was beyond what it expected. russia forces came from the north east and south of the country, creating a front line stretching more than 2000 kilometers. and groups of saboteurs. ally to russia were allergy operating in ukrainian cities. aquila alicia portrayal. just simply, during the 1st 2 weeks of full scale aggression, we discovered it more ample, 600 sabbath. as groups from their task was to reach down down and took local law enforcement agencies from the mr. what on the state was mostly able to maintain communication within keys. cities, animal american business magnate. ellen mosque supplied ukraine with about 4000 starling terminals. similar to tv dishes, but a model. they provide the secure satellite internet access and enable the state to keep up surveillance within ukraine,

but civilians play the most crucial role in counter intelligence. i mailed them all of daily woody c with 100 on phone calls from ordinary citizens. we were informed of the behavior of certain groups who were moving toward that. what is department they can pictures of the state institution who groaning shamia and put you marks on important binki motif to be destroyed, including the beauty in which we are right now. ukrainian officials say russia plan to enter, keep in the 1st 72 hours of the invasion and circle the downtown area and capture import. the members of the cabinet has of national polish intelligence, service security council, and top army generals. they say then, russian forces wanted to take full control of the minister of defense, internal affairs and energy to force the head of state to surrender. despite at wise from greens, western allies and his own senior team, president will admit zelinski state in the capital. that's now widely considered to

have been a crucial decision that kept you clean steel structures. contact cabinet meetings moved into a network of tunnels on the ground was cut us off when we were forced to go down to bunker, sold it, and we had the menu working meetings with bunkers total that for us regular projects, including meetings with the president of arc russia, the blue term of barrick weapons in ukraine, as they are considered highly effective against defenses. like bankers i asked min as to what measures were taken to protect the president from them. a yard for us on the front. the bull results self. i cannot bill. everything under martial law, the state came on the military control with president zalinski, now commander in chief at the heart of all operations. he communicates every day with the people of ukraine, through social media videos to maintain morale and stability. despite the threat to his life being ever present. well, we can talk to wrestle search our,

he's still in ukraine's capital keith. hi, there was so. so we've heard just in the last few minutes that he crane has demanded the return of civilians taken captive by russian forces. what, what can you tell us? while the ukrainian, deputy prime minister said that the russia must on condition return, the civilian kept his 2 captives to ukraine and she added that you will not do any more exchange the sweat of their prisoners. so far, there has been several rounds of the prisoners swept between the 2 countries, but the ukrainian side was leaving the russian prisoners of war. and the russian side also was, was exchanged, returning the ukrainian soldiers. however, hear the situation is a little bit getting different. now you can is demanding the civilians to be, to be returned to q a to, to ukraine unconditionally. there are many, according to her. there are many,

many years and the actors that have been taken captive catholic had been captured by the russian forces when they were in controlling the regions particularly and around the key of last and also to the whole front line in the eastern regions in don't boss as well. now, as the demand is here, she says that this captives are not only on the ukrainian territory, but also they are being held in pieces on the rush and territories as well, claiming that russia to menu of them on its own soil. and on the other hand, she also said that russia today has below some buses, they were supposed to create this civilian. so now there are 1010 thousands of civilians, a waiting to be created in, in hard keep in money, you pull in the bus. and in many, in incremental which just 2 days ago, russian, alas, the russian messiah hit and caused

a tons of the kill tens of the civilians there. so now as the war is intensified at the eastern border. so the concern here is that it's only going to increase the human losses and civilian caught in crossfire. where so as you mention, officials and bracing themselves for that new russian assault in the east. well, russian forces, they have retreated or from keel or blast. they had a tremendous amount of troops around the capitol. so on march 14th, a majority of these forces have been retreated from these areas and then they have been rid, directed to the eastern regions, particularly alongside the borders of deer. though the front lines of don't buy so here what we can see, the medical experts are telling us that the rush, the russian forces are making preparation all the indications showing that they are

making preparation to start to initiate a new huge assault on this. on this origin, so as the russian forces are a mass in there, the concerns are, grew in, in the cities, like under the siege, like mar, you pull, which is which is besieged from all the, all the directions and the today. there has been some claims that the ukrainian forces in where you pull particularly are running out of their ammunition and destruction is quite dire there. and also there was, are telling us that by doing that, by be directing all of the forces to don bus region, russia is trying to declare a short cut victory where sell side are they are joining us live from key vessel. thank you. lou ship answering has been sworn in as pakistan's, new prime minister. the former opposition leader is succeeding emron khan, who was amsterdam in an old confidence over the weekend. should we full form

a new government until a general election is held after august of next year? as on the binge of aid has more on the prime minister from islam. but as i'm jabber, shabbots sharif has taken note as the 23rd prime minister of pakistan. mia mohammed shift shabba, should he sub is declared to have been elected as the prime minister of the islamic? ah, harry was elected with a 174 wounds. after in month one was removed in a vote of men confidence. and the opposition boycotted the election, but i'm there as well. okay. if we are to save the singing birds, what we all need is hard work and unity, unity and unity. we are beginning a new era of development to day are known in pakistan as an administrator who gets things done at the age of 70 shabba sharif was the joint leader of the opposition that toppled imminent hon in the no confidence vote should event at politics and

then lead pakistan's most populous province, and the major infrastructure projects. in his home town, the hor, he successfully brought an investment from china and turkey. he's also had good relations with the u. s. analysts say he will need to mend fences after the outgoing prime minister accused his opponents of being politically manipulated by washington shabbos. as the younger brother of former prime minister m, i sharif, who was dismissed following allegations of corruption, he's facing a money laundering case and corruption charges brought by the federal investigation agency and the national accountability bureau. both brothers say the allegations leveled under him run hans premier ship were politically motivated and in 2007 should have criticized the accountability bureau investigating him in nap, which is uncertain, a contraband should've ignorant to hitler's o gestapo, national accountable rebuttal, which does selective accounting accountability and other opposition. politicians

also accused it of being a tool used for political, which hunts in subsequent years and power. there must be government left the bureau unchanged. out of all politicians, shabba ashley is widely considered to be the most acceptable to the miller p establishment and those who came together to topple in mountains government. i'm hoping that the army will maintain what it calls it's neutral status. even if shabba sharif remains the prime minister until elections next year mark, i will still not become a prime minister who completes a 5 year term in pakistan. as none have done in the country 75 year history. some of the java down to 0 is i'm about still to come here and i'll 0 ah, shanghai residences, screaming in frustration from inside their homes. but the chinese government isn't backing down. ah,

how i was warming up now? i see now, right across here was the temperatures on the rise over the next few days. the best of the sunshine will be across central parts where we have got clear skies must be gary of high pressure in place here. but even where we have got some collaboratively, larry, of low pressure rolling in from the atlantic, we're drawing in a southerly wind. so that's gonna warm things up nicely over the next few days, although that will be some showers long spells of brain associated with that. so here we go with the temperatures 20 celsius there in paris on tuesday, 17 for berlin at heat, notting, a little feathery switch as we go one through a wednesday at on into thursday as well for the race. we have got some when she weather some wet weather, some winter weather, just to pull out of her western side of russia by some parts of ukraine. still some snow there over the turkish mountains, but black will ease for the race, was bright skies gradually coming back in as we go on through the 2nd half of the

week, there is the best of the sunshine central parts spy disguise. coming back in over towards the west, still some showers longest spells of rain lurking across at east side of spain as we go on through wednesday. some of that went to weather, also affecting the far north west of africa. got some rock out, more members of algeria and the showers continue for much of west africa. ah. harmful pathogens are increasingly affecting our lives with terrible consequences. a new document we ask whether we've learned any lessons in the h. i. v. epidemic in the fight against coven 19 how we ignored the global songs to put prophets before people. and it won't cost ah, time of pugs on all just lulu

. ah, a quick reminder about top stories here on al jazeera. ukraine says it expects russia to launch a huge new offensive in its eastern region imminently. yes, officials say they believe that russia is reinforcing and re supplying its troops in the dumbass. shabazz sharif has been sworn in his pockets, found few prime minister after being elected by the national assembly. he succeeds it mon. com, who is ousted in a no confidence fault on saturday. there's the prospect of more firepower for ukraine in its war against russia. european union, foreign ministers have been meeting in luxembourg. they've been discussing a proposal to earmark another $544000000.00 for the delivery of weapons to ukraine

. the brock's top diplomat, joseph burrell, says there's also been talk of additional sanctions against russia. after more than 6 weeks of war and sanctions will continue discussing about how to implement the sanctions. to avoid any kind of loop holes. we measure the impact of the sanctions as having on your russian economy. and we will continue discussing in order to see what else can be done. nothing yourself the table, including sanctions to norland gosh losses. foreign minister says statements by the use top diplomat on supplying ukraine with weapons, will quote, change the rules of the game. and the glitching susan little's world, full version of this is a very serious turning point, even in the policy that the e u and the west on the whole, undeniably under the united states leadership has been pursuing since the start of our special military operation. this policy reflect and betterments and even fury

in some respects. and of course, it's been determined, certainly not only by ukraine, but also by the fact that ukraine has been transformed into a foothold for completely suppressing russia and submitting russia to the global system. being built by the west of which is always kept moving close to our boulders. contrary to all promises it gave, despite the end of the cold war. and despite of the warsaw pact and the soviet union's disappearance. or damage of ari has the latest now from moscow. so good love, rob is not really happy about the comments that were made by the u foreign policy chief, after he visited the ukrainian capital on friday, joseph burrell said that the outcome of this war will be decided on the battlefield . and that is a statement that is unacceptable to the russian officials, surgery lover of saying that a e u has, is not

a military and cooperation or entity. and that to, at this statement from joseph for all a just could have been something he said, it is his personal views or that he miss spoke. he finds it very hard to believe that this is the collective view of the european union. but of course, these comments and the announcements that have come from the european union, the latest being that $544000000.00 financial aid to kiev reiterates are really rushes concerns at the foreign minister had said that. russia's security concerns were ignored for a very long time, and that nato's expansion further eastward was one of the main concerns of this country. something that the european leaders were not there discussing prior to the so called special military operation in ukraine. and now these an announcements, each one of them that are being made and the aid military and financial assistance that's going to ukraine, really are highlighting russia's position. and they use this in the narrative that

is being told on stay t, v over and over again. campaigning is underway for the 2nd and final round of voting to pick. frances next president, these are the final results for the top 3 candidates in the 1st round held on sunday encumbered manuel mccaul increased his share from 2017 by more than 3 percent. getting the most vote, he'll face a tight one off though against far right. rival marine le pen who got just over 23 percent. she narrowly blocks out left. it's leftist candidate shown luke melon chung, he's urged his voice is not to back her, but stopped short of endorsing mac home of far, right. political new. com or eric some more gained 7 percent. those voices, though will likely turn to le pen in the run off. will marina pan has been campaigning in sushi ahead of the run off warning against the men? well, mack hollins, policies which she claims have brought social destruction far right. lead us as the

president has failed to protect france from inflation. and the rising cost of living. mom is your cold shoe. i'm counting on old french voters. i'm counting on their lucidity. i'm counting on their intelligence. i'm counting on their ability to realize that we cannot continue for another 5 years in this situation, 5 years in which emanuel mac crone, if he were very elected, would feel totally free to go through with the policy of self destruction that he started during his 1st term through the loss of our country sovereignty for the benefit of a few and to the detriment of the majority. natasha butler reports now from the northern town of dna. emmanuel macros critics often call him the president of the rich. so it's not by chance of the centrist incumbent chose dinner, one of france, his poorest towns to begin his campaign for the 2nd round of the presidential election. in this part of northern france,

many people say they've been left behind. luckless booking, they're the middle classes also want to be heard. people listen to the working classes, but what about us on that we work, but we also struggle each month just like every one else. massage problem again, i'm not from a con his only for the rich. he gives millions to some people while we tighten our boats. wow, for supper. we asked to macro for his response. in english, please. we've been speaking to some people here who really feel the last 5 years has been all about favoring the rich. how are you gonna convince people otherwise versus wrong wilkinson? we're going to fax, look at the davidson's on. and i think i'm here precisely to, to go to act face to face whizzer, was this people in to convince about nudges. what i did that i want, what i want to do on home, because i don't want to leave the social question to the far right people, because i think that would be completely crazy. but many here disagree the far right party leader, one. the most votes in the 1st round and dinner,

her focus on the cost of living and promised to crack down on immigration, resonates in this town where half of young adults are unemployed prospects are oblique. and once thriving industries have shut, mike on the pan will now spend much of the next 2 weeks targeting the same voters for those who abstained in the 1st round to the millions of left wing voters who now face a difficult choice. mohammedan nor dean campaign for the far left party, candidate shouldered rella shaw, who came 3rd in sundays ballot mcneish. while for to rape the road, it's going to be very hard to make a choice between them because we have a president who cares about which people and what he doesn't really care about the cost of living. even if he's come here to talk about like the level on the other side of marine le pen who just profits from people's misery, forsooth, who don't argue populace your. we suffer and deny because people don't have jobs. and in terms of the cost of living, they've lost hope road. this one hope is something mac cross says he represents

along with stability. continuity and a promise of jobs were in the pen says, what the country needs, though, is something different. it will be up to voters to decide which vision of france they want. natasha butler, al jazeera dinner in france and mother. he's really army. his arrested 14 palestinians in a 3rd day of operations arrange in, in, in the occupied west bank. the rates follow a series of gun battles and arrests in the city. hundreds of people moved through the streets of japan for the funeral of palestinian teenager died overnight. one day after being shot by israeli forces tensions in the occupied west. bank of been rising after a series of attacks on israel killed 14 people in 3 weeks. and these for palestinians have died in recent israel upgrades. but as t, as in sri lanka have returned for a 3rd day to the entrance of the president's office, demanding that goal to via roger pox resign. and l fernandez has more. the protests

outside the presidential secretary in colombo entering its 3rd day. as you can see, protested, sitting atop barricades outside the main entrance to the secretary. usually they wouldn't be allowed to get this close. but this time they are being allowed to sort of wind their frustrations and have their st. just behind the barricade, there is a huge presence of police and special task force personnel. now people are digging in for the long haul. if i can just show you over here, stocks of water for the protests as freely available, lots of people donating these things. there's a huge amount of food we've seen cooking stations. i mean, at the moment we're not yet up to lunch time, but cooking sessions being set up and established as everybody lends their pot and the protest this seem well organized. they say they will stay intense like this camping out here. literally overnight, you do have a series of tense. if you can just see over here for people who are stuck here for

the long haul. as i said, it's day 3. and just over here, even an ambulance, essentially from a non governmental organization lending support, in the event of any emergencies, to protest as say, they're not going anywhere. they have a huge groundswell of support. in addition to those who are here, they said that a lot of people that are urging them to stay on to take the stand and to stay put until their demands for the government and for go to abby. roger proctor to go home is fulfilled. china is lacking down on how it's handling a corona virus. i break in shanghai or than 25000000 people in the city are under strict locked down and many have complained by poor access to food and essential services. katrina, you reports now from beijing. oh, it'll in shanghai losing that he since the cities corona virus lockdown video is posted in social media shall residents protesting against restrictions on their

freedom and complaining about poor access to food and essential services for the elderly authorities initially planned for the looked out to be lifted on monday, but more than 25000000 people have been told to continue isolating at harm until their neighbourhood has been cleared of positive cases. the government is defending it's heavy handed approach. bomb jose, me being b with each. with hustling, gather the dynamic, 0 covey policy does not chic 0 infection. the aims to discover and hold infections to prevent a large scale. resurgence of this is a scientific approach. and if we can make good use of it, work out the maximum benefit with the minimum cost. but the costs are mounting. dozens of quarantine centers have been set up to house those who test positive, including the majority who have mild or lower symptoms. videos circulating online sho,

pool living conditions inside hastily constructed facilities. phyllis jew counts herself among the lucky ones. she was able to buy enough food before the looked out to sustain her and her father that says others were caught off guard. no luck all gone, man. i think and one of the go press conference, she was saying that ah, shall high air wall not logged al because it's so very important city like domestically andy and internationally, all be a huge mass who's you is a community volunteer and helps with the testing and food distribution, she says organization varies from area to area. some neighborhoods a managed well, ah, well, in others, people are going hungry, and desperation is growing. this video shows people yelling in frustration from

their apartments. authorities are sensor in critical or negative online posts like these promoting. instead, images of volunteers sending much needed supplies to the city. more than 200000 cases of the be a point to on the con, varied have been recorded in shanghai since last month. but despite rising anger, chinese authorities insist on fighting this new highly infectious strain with old methods more quarantine, more testing, and more isolation. katrina, you al jazeera, they doing. ah, are mine to have our top stories, he will now to 0 grade says it.