with it definitely changed my life in a good way with exclusive interviews and in depth report said not hardly, but he left her because al jazeera has teens on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and lied nice ah warnings that russia is comparing for a renewed offensive in the east of ukraine with tens of thousands of troops being mobilized ah, alone, darn jordan. this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up the un security council. he has allegations at rape is being used as a weapon of war in ukraine. but russia says there's no convincing evidence. a victim of shall anchors, worsening economic crisis, hospitals face critical shortages and medicines,

and medical supplies. and every vote counts french presidential candidates hit the campaign trail to shore up support. before the final run. we begin with the war in ukraine and warnings of an escalation in the east. russia is moving military vehicles towards the front lines and low hands according to its regional governor ukraine's defense minister says moscow is almost ready to launch a major assault in the southeastern city. of matthew polt soldiers say they're preparing for last battle. after weeks of siege out there was rob mcbride reports now from live in western ukraine. a drive through the ruins of what was once a bustling suburb of mary pope. near the cities as of stealth factory, the scene of fierce fighting russian back soldiers from the break away region of dawn. yet around patrol some of conscripts like 18 year old gladys love ou salvage

. while if you live, what can i say? they called me up to go to work. i wasn't hiding from it. i came on my own volunteer all around evidence of what weeks of intense fighting has reduced much of this city to, with unexpectedly strong resistance. the one with those with well, with 3 i thought it would go better. 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 lensky, blames russia's invading army, claiming an, an address to parliamentarians in south korea that tens of thousands of people are

likely to have been killed in the city. my tuple roonan, mario paul, 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 political bought. 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. mario pope rob mcbride al jazeera live if a spokesman for the self proclaimed, amidst people's republic has hinted at using chemical weapons against cranium. soldiers in multiple this was the ukrainian president's response, shortness,

as vulgar, equal point. you today, we had a new for about a new stage of terror against our defenders. one spokesman of the enemy made a statement today that they could use chemical weapons against the mario pu defenders. we took extremely seriously own from on all the leaders of the world that the possible use of chemical weapons is already discussed. and at the time, monday was necessary to end a brushing aggression in a tougher and fast away. now to seek sanctions package has been discussed and we need to make it so powerful to even the phrase. chemical weapons is not used by russians in the urine security council has heard that rate as being used as a weapon of war in ukraine in a session. focusing on how the conflict has affected women and children. the head of the world bodies, gender equality, wing, you and women as call for independent investigation into allegations of sexual violence in the war. crystal salumi as more now from the united nations, women, children and the elderly make up the majority of the 11000000 ukrainians flee in conflict according to the united nations. they also filled the crime and tourist

train station in dennis lushin missiles struck on friday. and i must say in my 31 years as you made urine of rarely seen so much damage caused in so little time. the impact of the fighting on the most vulnerable civilians was presented to the united nations security council. on monday, in just 6 weeks nearly to nearly 2 thirds of all ukrainian children have been displaced, they have been forced to leave behind everything their homes, their school, and often their family members. families forced to split up to escape the fighting are particularly vulnerable to human trafficking and sexual abuse. according to you and experts who said accusations of sexual assault in areas held by russian forces are on the rise. we know and see and want you to hear voices that violence and rape is use now as a weapon fall by russian. they their senior print report from keith. gotcha. and

she gets reported by the survivor themselves and the by the witnesses raped by a group of occupants. multiple times was life threat to survivors, their children, their family members, in front of the family members, and other people, real cases, real people, real fact. russian's deputy ambassador denied the accusations when you bought no more than you. no convincing evidence has been presented for any of these crimes. but it's understandable that you've trampled on the presumption of innocence a long time ago. but other council members called for accountability left may be very clear, there must be no impunity for crimes against children. in order to ensure accountability, we need to collect, analyze, and store evidence on all crimes against children. more than 140 children have been killed in ukraine with hundreds more wounded. or having lost

a family member. the united nation says it can't confirm reports of women being raped or of children being sent to russia against their families wishes. but it's calling for a full investigation and respect for international law. kristen salumi al jazeera the united nations. meanwhile, the e. u has been discussing supplying more weapons for ukraine than it's war against russia. a u foreign ministers in luxembourg concerning a plan to spend more than $540000000.00 for extra munitions and arms for ukraine. the blocks foreign policy chief at barrow says more sanctions against russia also under consideration. and sanction. we continue discussing about how to implement the sanctions to avoid any kind of loopholes we measure deemed better this sanctions as having under russian economy and will continue discussing in order to see what else can be done. nothing is on the table, including sanctions,

denial, and guess, rush us, foreign minister says statement by the u. s. foreign policy chief on supply. ukraine with more weapons will change the rules of the game. so the elaborate says yes at borrows remarks confirmed that he was billing what he called a kind of collective military structure and approaching studios little's world. further, or 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 betterment 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, which is always kept moving close to our borders. contrary to all promises it gave, despite the end of the cold war and despite the warsaw pact and the soviet union's

disappearance. now a state of martial law has been enforced in ukraine since february 24th. the day the war began. our da 0 is racial said our sat down with the cranes minister of internal affairs to talk about how the government and cave reacted as russian forces move towards the capital. ah, of the recent war, this a re, sirens in kia had become almost routine cleaning government had since is powerful neighbor, russia as an existential threat, since the annexation of crimea in 2014 and prepare for war and to maintain order during the conflict. jamarcus cutters, and we cut the lot of special trade in the goal of the trainees. what's the coordination of all the law and forestman union with the army forth 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 eligible operating in ukrainian cities, vakio, alicia berkeley, or just him keeping during the 1st 2 weeks of full scale aggression. we discover it more and pull the $600.00. some of those groups from their task was to reach down down into glock law enforcement agencies in the mr. what on the state was mostly able to maintain communication within keys. cities in a more american business magnate, ellen mosque supplied ukraine with about 4000 starling terminals. similar to tv dishes duster but a model, they provide the secure satellite internet access and enable the state to keep up a surveillance with a new claim. but civilians play the most crucial role in country intelligence. i mailed them all of daily will receive it 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 constitution groaning shames, and put you marks on important building team a believe to be destroyed, including the beauty in which we are right now. ukrainian officials say russia planned to enter. keep in the 1st 72 hours of the invasion and circle the downtown area and kept her in port. the members of the cabinet. the has of national polish intelligence service, security council, and top army generals. they said 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, one of them is the lensky state in the capital. that's now widely considered to have been a crucial decision that kept ukraine. steve structure, intact, cabinet meetings, moved into

a network of tunnels on the ground was caught us and we were forced to go down to bunker, sold it. and we had many work in meetings with bunker's. that was a regular practice, including meetings with the president of aka russia deploy term, a barrick weapons in ukraine as they are considered highly effective against defenses. like bankers, i asked mean as to what measures were taken to protect the president from them a year for understandable results, so i cannot bill everything. under martial law, the state came on the military control with president zaleski, 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, been ever present nation for so said that al jazeera keith last not so to come here now does air, including after 6 years of deliberation, indonesia is parliament passes that build the tackle, sexual violence. an intention remains high in the occupied west bank,

as israel revealed a multi $1000000.00 plan to reinforce it. separation will monitor oh hello. we've got some cool weather coming in across northern parts of the middle east over the next couple of days, even here around the gothic batter cloud here that marks the boundary between the cooler air to the north and the warm air to the south. so here in doha temperature is around 40 degrees celsius. on tuesday, we're struggling to get up around 20 degrees for the lament, and it is still cold enough. the some snow across the turkish mountains, up to was the caucuses. that system makes its way through. we'll see temperatures on us. i struggling $36.00 out is a little more comfortable, shall we say as we go one through wednesday it is largely dry,

but temperature starting to recover up towards that east side of the mediterranean . i'm pleased to say not too bad across the northern parts of africa. well i, we do have some wet weather to sliding across the straits of gibraltar and northern areas of morocco. we'll see some showers, longest spells of right all the parts of algeria see little bit of wet weather as well, some heavy showers there into sierra leone to liberia, ivory coast guard sinks of chows, particularly around the coastal stretch, over towards southern parts of nigeria. and on into work, cameron shall continue across the heart of africa. still a little wet across at east side or south africa, but clearing up nicely as we go through the week. ah. but on counting the costs, biden old is what he says is unprecedented. please have oil reserves, will it bring prices down? can germany wayne itself off rush and gas in 2 years and taxing crypto currency

profits in india? how will it affect invested? counting the cost on al jazeera ah, revealing eco friendly solutions to combat threats to our planet on al jazeera. ah ah, welcome back to put them out about top stories here. this ukraine says it expects russia to launch a new offensive in the east of the country. imminently u. s. officials say they believe russia is reinforcing of re supplying its troops. the don baths, which you foreign ministers have been discussing, a plan to spend more than $540000000.00 for additional weapons for ukraine blocks.

foreign policy chief yoseph morrow says it's also to talk with new sanctions against russia. and the un security council has heard that right is being used as a weapon of war in the head of the world bodies gender equality. wing un woman has called independent investigations and to allegations of sexual violence in the war . we're back to our top story now in the war and ukraine dominated the agenda. the virtual meeting between us president joe biden, and indian prime minister there and promoted our state department. correspondent ross been short reports ukraine dominated monday summit and strategic dialogue between top u. s. and ending and officials. that's because despite nearly 7 weeks of war, delhi has refused to condemn moscow's decision to invade or back international efforts to hold it accountable. whether be a sanctions or suspension from the un human rights council. before the cameras,

u. s. president joe biden, and indian prime minister no render mowdy were quick to agree. civilians are paying the highest price, including and boucher and promoters. hm. nay. we immediately condemned to doug and we demanded an independent inquiry. we hope that the talks going on between ukraine and russia life will lead to peace on a walker. my india is humanitarian support from people ukraine or suffering. a horrific assault, including a tragic shelly transportation last week. the kill dozens of innocent children and women and civilians. attempting to flee the violence, white house aides called biden and modi's conversation can did, but they also said bite and did not make any demands of modi. the situation is complicated. deli, has a robust relationship with moscow, dating back to the cold war. despite the bush administration's launch of a security partnership with india in 2005, the u. s. has never replaced russia as india's main weapons vendor. and it's only

now that the u. s. is promising to help india find more sources of oil and gas for it's 1400000000 citizens. what's more, the u. s. needs india a member of the quad to help it check china's expansionist goals. so diplomatic pressure has to be carefully applied. for india being neutral is what it's foreign policy interests. require. we re watch what's happening in the world like any country does. said we draw conclusions on may. congress has banks. and believe me, we have a decent sense of what is in our interest and know how to protect it and advance it . the u. s. is view india's relationship with russia ah, was developed over decades at a time when the united states was not able to be a partner to india times of changed. so even after a day of high level meetings between the u. s. and india,

a lot of questions remain, is the u. s. willing to cut off one of its partners against china? because it won't cut off russia? is andy a willing to under cut its moral standing in the world? because it refuses to make economic and military plants with a country other than russia. and ultimately, what does any of this have to do with the future of ukraine? rosalyn, jordan, l, j 0, the state department. in the majors, parliament has passed a landmark belong sexual violence. the new law is said to be victim centered and provides for compensation and support. there are more than $338000.00 cases of sexual violence against woman reported in the country last year. an increase from the year before, where jessica washington joined us live now from the indonesian capital, jessica said minister se indonesia facing an epidemic of sexual violence, talk through the scale of the problem. darn, you mentioned some of those figures from last year, almost 340000 reported cases of violence against women as noted by the national

commission on violence against women. but the reality is that those numbers, as shocking as they seen, are just the tip of the iceberg. the government is aware that indonesia has a problem of under reporting when it comes to sexual violence, as is the case in many countries. most of those instances of sexual abuse happened within the household and for many, many years. there has been the perception here in indonesia that sexual abuse is a private household matter. one, requiring a discussion within a household, but perhaps not the full force of the law. but with the passing of this bill into legislation, there are hopes for survivors of sexual assault and for women's groups that going forward, there will be more avenues for survivors to seek justice against perpetrators of abuse. and jessica was this bill, sina so important, and was it taken so long that will fastly down? the reason that it has been so many years in discussion is because there has been

some backlash from conservative political parties from conservative religious groups. who say that this discussion around matters of sexual consent will promote adultery and promote extra marital sexual relations. they made these claims without evidence, of course, but it was able to slow down the deliberation of this bill. ultimately, though there was public pressure put on the president joker with dodo and onto a government ministers to ensure that this bill was passed as a priority. and really, the reason that it is such a landmark piece of legislation are for 2 reasons. firstly, that it is victims centered that now going forward. there are avenues for victims to seek compensation and also further avenues for them to seek justice against perpetrators. but secondly, it establishes a clear definition of what constitutes sexual abuse and that has what has been lacking in previous legislation. so it spells out that

a sexual harassment that happens on lion, non physical, sexual harassment, and other forms of sexual abuse are now clearly defined in a legal framework. so despite the challenges to day is a day of celebration for many women's groups for survivors groups as they look forward to creating safer conditions for women and other groups who are vulnerable to sexual abuse in indonesia. all right, jessica washington live for stay in chicago. jessica, thank you. now, daughter's inter lanka, a warning of a critical shortage of life saving drugs and medical supplies. the country's economic crisis worsens. the health ministry has now ordered state hospitals to reduce non essential procedures and minimize the use of syringes and gauze. michelle fernandez as more from columbus she lancoste national health services, the only option for those who cant afford private healthcare. these heat treatment here at the national hospital in colombo or in a network of state hospitals. but the country's economic crisis has hit them hard.

they will that will it, most people are helpless. we are told to buy everything from outside. even the needle used to check sugar levels has to be bought from outside. there is no point coming to a government hospital for treatment. doctors have been warning of an impending. busy medical disaster, as this is shortages affecting their ability to treat patients. many doctors are reluctant to speak on the record that some union members are speaking out. there may be a situation if this continues. when a paper or person come with the road traffic accident wont be able to get the surgical services. i can't exactly say when it is going to happen, but if nothing rescuer will thing happens, we may have to see one dark beer like that. the private sick days, also facing shortages of heart medication, pediatric and other drugs and consumables. patients already there panic, panic now they are getting some more to the right. it's going lower. stocks are

going aldosterone to near jewelry had last year crowd because on the salt, salt pitch and d. o. rather. oh no, no. we are going to continue this in future. the government is facing an acute shortage of foreign currency that's affecting its ability to pay for imports. the ministry of healthcare, as it is now allocated $14000000.00 to secure medical supplies. but critics say the government is risking lives ah, rocketing prices, shortages of food, cooking, gas and fuel, and 13 hour palka have brought you lankin to the streets. anger and frustration has led to continuous protest here outside the president's office for the past 3 days. the government says it's taking action, but doctors are desperate thing lives are being put in danger. and a warning that the crisis will only wasn't. if supplies are provided,

minute fernandez, audra 0 colombo. this really army is arrested 14 palestinians around janine and the occupied west bank following gun battles and arrests in the city. hundreds of people attended the funeral of a palestinian teenager who died a day after being shot by israeli forces. 14 people have been killed in a series of attacks in his room and the last 3 weeks, at least for palestinians died in recent israeli race and israel as approved a multi $1000000.00 upgrade to which separation war which cuts through and divides palestinian communities. it was deemed illegal by the humans talk court in 2004. john holman huffman, is there any government systolic hated about $93000000.00? to reinforcing this? the separation will that's between the occupied westbank and israel. now not all of it looks like this parts of it. a more rudimentary and there are holes in them. and that's what the government, israeli government wants to change. and all of this is coming off the

a series of attacks, one of which on the 29th of march, it's been confirmed that a palestinian did go through one of the holes in the wall and then killed 5 people on a city on the outskirts of tel aviv now this separation will, which runs for hundreds of kilometers, is really controversial. many israelis think it's been a vital piece of protection from attack since it was put in place in the early 2, thousands palestinians. he is in apartheid will cage. the men built along arbitrary lines and in some cases, dividing whole communities and depriving many farmers from access to their lands. they had a loose owns a billboard workshop in baca, on the israeli side, in the shadow of the wolf. i could, i would see the num, our relatives are on the other side, you can't enter it all. you can only enter through the checkpoint. we only go once a year because there are difficulties in going in and out. but since it's been

built, the walls actually become quite porous and tens of thousands of palestinians get through illegally every day to work. ms ro, they're all those in israel that say, that's a good thing. it's cheap labor and a sort of pressure of out to decrease this content in the motives for attacks. now, it seems that some of those holes could be about to be sealed off. and the question is, if that will bring more security, or if erecting more was, would just mean more obstacles to an eventual solution for the conflict here. ah, now the 2 remaining candidates in france as presidential race hit, the campaign trail just a day after the 1st round of voting incumbent. emanuel macro will face var, right candidate marine le pen on the 24th of april, macro spent the day campaigning in one of the country's poorest areas. natasha butler reports from the northern town of denner emanuel macros critiques often call

him the president of the rich. so it's not my chance at the centrist incumbent chase dinner, one of france's 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 crohn. his only for the rich of he gives millions to some people while we tighten our boats. wow, for supper. we asked to mackerel for his response. in english, please. we've been speaking to some people here. he really fail the last 5 years has been all about favoring the ranch. how are you gonna convince people otherwise versus wrong? look at, look at the facts, look at the details and so on. and i think i'm here precisely to to go to act face to face with, with this people and to convince about no,

choose what i did. but 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 foods 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 bleak. and once thriving industries have shut my corner pen will now spend much of the next 2 weeks targeting the same voters from 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 charlotteville of shaw, who came 3rd in sundays ballot. mcneish walford to rate 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 who doesn't really care about the cost of living. even if he's come here to talk about that. the level on the other side of

marine le pen who just profits from people's misery, forsooth, who dinard, you know, populous your, we suffer and deny because people don't have jobs. and in terms of the cost of living, they've lost harper. this one hope is something macros. says he represents along with stability, continuity and a promise of jobs. marine 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, france, ah. time for kitchen of the headlines here on al jazeera, ukraine says it expects russia to launch a new offensive in the east of the country. imminently u. s. officials say they believe russia's reinforcing and re supplying its troops in the don bus region in you for ministers have been discussing a proposal to him at $540000000.00 for extra weapons for ukraine. the blocks

foreign policy chief years at barrels says there's also been talk more sanctions against russia.