and rivers in iraq and the street asked how societies can respond to global warming the climate emergency. a season of special programming. anal josie with western allies say they'll send more artillery. an anti chunk weapons to ukrainian forces are facing a russian assault in the east. ah, hello and darn jordan, this is out as they are alive from de also coming up explosions at 2 schools in afghan has down's capital kill at least 15 people, including students. i leased by one protest as in sri lanka,

as the kind of strong government pushes for an international monetary fund. bailey, i acknowledged the hurt, and the younger britain's prime minister says, sorry to him, he's a breaking coven 19 laws. i'm impressed opposition labeled the statement. a joke the u. s. british and canadian leaders had promised to send more artillery to ukraine to help prepare for what's been called a battle for don bass. russian forces have begun their assault in the eastern region, which if successful, could essentially slice ukraine in 2 hours. he was as at bay report, who instead of what russia refuses to call a war, has now entered its 2nd faith and its being dubbed the battle for don bass. oh sir authoration in the east of ukraine is in as was announced from the very beginning to fully liberate that the near 2nd law grounds. republics in this

operation will, will continue with this beginning. i mean, another stage of this operation is beginning and then sure this will be a very important moment on this. and those facial of the rich ukrainians caught up in the fighting are forced to flee. as russian forces pummeled cities and towns ukraine's president says, russia will not be successful. in then seni voice. when you are a he is key. he's the intensity of fire by russian troops in the harkey direction in the dumbass and in the neat pro petrosky region has increased significantly yesterday the same as before. they consider ordinary residential housing to be normal military targets. in this war, the russian army will forever inscribe itself in world history as perhaps the most barbaric and inhumane army in the world, aro, ukraine says its repulse number of russian attacks in the east, a 2nd ultimatum issued by russia for ukrainian soldiers in marrow. paul,

to surrender has passed. moscow had said the lives of the soldiers inside to steal works would be sped if they see what it called. senseless resistance said no, no sir. okay, we're going to release up on those 3 united states and western country and doing everything to drag out a special meeting operation as much as possible. the growing supplies of foreign weapons, clearly signal the intention to provoke the key regime to keep fighting until the last ukraine, where the european union is considering more sanctions on russia. we call on russia, we continue to call in russia to stop all the illegal and illegitimate or actions connected to weeds aggression against ukraine. and when it comes to next around the sanctions, i think the, you highest representatives, the leaders of that you and also the representatives of the member states. they're very clear that we continue to work on further sanctions. and when the time will be right, they will be announced so far calls for

a cease fire or the threat of sanctions have not stop this war. and although russia may have failed to take keith, the battle for the east is one. russia cannot be seen to loose aside beg, i'll jazeera and russia again urging ukrainian troops. hold up in mary polls as of styled steel plant to surrender and come out. it is now offering them a 3rd cease fire to give up safely. moscow says the truce will begin at $1100.00 gmc on wednesday. well, to the east charles stratford reports now from inside. don, yes, one of the 2 provinces where russia is focusing it's offensive in the areas that we visit. is it close to here for cross go quite a long area along the front line. some of the heavier shelly, if not the heavier shelly so far since the invasion started out according to some of the military and people that we've spoken to in this area. and our understanding

certainly what we were listening to today was evidence of grad missiles, rocket launchers, heavy artillery, being used over sustained a period of time. and as a say, a very large area. what's also so incredible in town like this is that there are so few people here seemingly any more local authorities, barcroft saying they're made around 70 percent of this. the population of the city have already left businesses. homes boarded up, people told to close their curtains at night and avoid putting their lights on. so we'll see as you can imagine, people in this area taking this push by the russian forces very seriously indeed. and we also visited the train station here in pa cross. they have a, a daily train now taking those that are wants to leave the area out into safe areas. and as i say,

very few people on it. i spoke to one young mother with her 10 year old son. she said that she basically could, could, could, could, can contain her fears any, any longer living in the area that she was a, that she'd escaped from. and she said that she didn't want her son to become a victim, like the many people we saw killed in boucher well more now on the extra weaponry that western allies a promise to send to ukraine to help its eastern defences. the pentagon has given further details about what's being sent. we have helped deliver, not just from our stocks, were from stacks of other nations, more than 50000000 rounds of small army ammunition of various calibers 50000000. and that's the kind of stuff that ukrainians are literally using every single day absences, invasion began. so all of that will also be factored into this dis package going forward. we'll live now to alan fischer in washington, dc. alan. so the u. s. and a number of other western allies are pledging more military support for ukraine.

what have you been hearing that will you remember as a week ago, the joe biden announced that they were going to send $800000000.00 of military aid to ukraine. that has already started to arrive, that's come from the drop down on military supplies here in the u. s. john kirby seeing it somewhere in the region of 40 to 72 hours to get those weapons there. and joe biden, in the last years, has said that he is willing to send even more weapons to ukraine. and in fact, the report circulating in washington that there could be another $800000000.00 package about to be announced at by the white house in the next couple of hours. now on top of that, we've also seen joe biden speak to a number of his eyes, including the u. k. germany and the canadians, and all of them have pledged to send more weapons to the ukrainians, including more artillery rounds and more artillery systems. that's right. at the top of the list as far as presidents zalinski is concerned,

but also sending anti tank and anti aircraft missiles, as well as the small rounds that join kirby has spoken about. so it's clear that even though the reports at the end of last week that the russians had expressed in a diplomatic note, they were concerned at the weapons being sent to ukraine by the u. s. and its need to allies, they are not backing or from this. meanwhile allen, the un security council has been meeting to discuss the worsening humanitarian situation in ukraine. what came out of that while the united nations chief until you get out as has said that he would like to see a cease fire of 4 days cease fire in ukraine to coincide with the orthodox christian easter holiday. he wants it to start on thursday. he says it's critical to get humanitarian resources and supplies into areas that have been under attack under a boat to be under attack, also to get a number of civilians out of those idiots. it should be remembered though,

that the un secretary general has made calls for the fighting to stop. and those have fallen on deaf ears are at alan fish alive for us there in washington. d. c. allen. thank it. ukraine's nuclear agency has released videos showing positions abandoned by russian forces in the chernobyl exclusion zone. they took control of the defunct facility, a nearby air. as at the start of the war, the site of the world's worst atomic disaster is still highly radioactive, including the soil at russian soldiers dug trenches in ukraine's government says this would have exposed the troops to significant doses of radiation. will ukrainians, who fled are being worn to wait longer before returning? even if it seems things are safer in key than western parts of the country in berlin. step last and spoke to some of those who decided to go home. this ukrainian refugees have made a very difficult decision to go back home. they're taking a 25 hour long journey, not knowing what they're going to find. although they were warmly welcomed here

after the russian invasion. they now can't wait to go back. and we were in use our parents watch rad it well, where i day they are home by the day. okay. and why re and i am very glad the day. okay. that i assume alive is really it's really earth scary that some, some parents are dying and some children see alone, and it's like it's terrible the security situation. and he has seem to have improved in the past few weeks. but these last few days, there were a strikes again, that's why the mare and kia actually asked people not to return yet, but that doesn't deter these people. there isn't ansley over you on griffin. think we are afraid him, but the fighting is mostly in the east of the country. but there are still airplanes flying over keys. not rockets being fired people running for their lives and children are disturbed when they sleep. alarm children then can do a bunch lathan of him after living as refugees for nearly 2 months here in germany,

they're now going on a long and uncertain journey back home, hoping that it's safe enough to stay and they're not gonna be forced to flee again . any time soon? that's not so to come here. now just here, including trying to make a mock once again, the revolutionary heroes. fine for the presidency and east timor. i'm trying to find a solution to the mountains of waste created by and damage protection in hong kong florida. steamers ah hello, we still have spring struggling to break for across ne parts of the u. s. across much part of the us actually added the a good parts of canada. this nor'easter brought some very heavy snow around 25 to 50 centimeters. the snow for parts of new england. and in 2 were southern parts of

ontario that swept through. those would go on 3 wednesday. brightest guys come back in behind signs of an improvement. i am pleased to say still some lively storms across the plains, pushing up towards the lake, still a chance of some snow into central parts of canada, and up to was western canada pacific northwest. quite a bit of snow rolling in here as you go on through the next couple of days coming in across the cascades. this year in nevada's and grassy pushing further east was thursday, thus the local, a little unsettled into central parts of the u. s. at brighter skies started coming across the eastern seaboard and temperatures responding nicely at long last week on spring friday in new york, temperatures could touch 20 celsius with some lovely sunshine coming through many a sunshine to across a good part of central america. not too bad for the eastern islands of the caribbean, but for the greater antelli, southern parts of cuba into jamaica into hispaniola some heavy rain over the next couple of days, which would lead to some flooding. ah.

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we'll come back a quick amount about top stories here. this our western allies, a promise to send more artillery to ukraine, to help in what is being called a battle for don bass, rushing forces of become their assault in the eastern region. which if successful could essentially slice the pregnant to. the un security council must met and discussed the worst thing humanitarian situation in ukraine. secretary latonya attended school for a full day troops of orthodox easter, saying more than 12000000 people. they are in dire need of age. but more not from moscow, where russia's foreign minister and defense officials have been discussing how the conflict is progressing, his dosage, a bar, the russian foreign minister circle of raw that was asked whether or not at the russian military you would ever consider using their tactical nuclear weapons that they have in their military arsenal. and the foreign minister was adamant that the russian military will continue to use what he called conventional weapons during

this conflict in ukraine. at the russian defense minister survey. chicago has also been speaking to a number of military personnel at a meeting here in moscow. and according to the russian defense minister, the reason that this conflict is continuing to drag on for so long. this is now day $55.00 of the so called special military operation, which began on february 24th. the reason for the fact that it's taking this long is that according to the defense minister, the united states continued to supply weapons and aid to the government in kiev is really very issue at the heart of this conflict. dragging on for this long at survey chicago saying that the united states has a really continue to pour weapons into ukraine to try and drag this conflict as long as possible in an attempt to air continue to destabilize and weaken russia and its influence in the region. now students are among at least 15

people were killed by bombs that were set off at 2 schools in afghanistan. capital, it happened in a neighbourhood where many of the ship hosario community live before the 19th century has ours were thought to be of gunners, guns, largest ethnic group making up around 2 thirds of the population. but the numbers have dwindled during decades of massacre, slavery, oppression, and force migration. today that thought to make up between 10 and 20 percent of gun stones, 38000000 people. more than 1200 had been killed in just the last 7 years. during the salts on mosque schools on maternity wards, before it took power, the taliban was accused of attacking his arrows were now targeted by isolate linked fighters. fenton mona had report blood on the streets of cobble explosives designated near this school. as children were leaving their morning classes. several people are dead and children are among the injured for georgia,

we are close to the school. i quickly came to the side when the 1st bloss happened to see if everything was okay. i went to the top of my house to see what was going on. there was a crowd of people over there. i was standing on the roof of my house and cold my children to enter the harm. suddenly the 2nd blast happened and i got injured. the victims are members of the has ara a, she a minority group. there community and this neighborhood have previously been targets of ice will attacks the governing taliban says the security situation is under control, but i was sworn that violence may be on the rise. the most important thing that we have to talk about we have to consider is the franchise nature of the security. it can easily be disrupted, it could easily be in danger as we have seen today. so therefore, i think a lot has to be done on the part of the taliban to, to, to provide if you please could do to, to the entire population. one is done, but it is going to be impossible for them. because if you see the economic hardship did this in for jasmine in the public discontent that is going with,

with every passing day, all those things combined together. i think it was going to be really difficult for them. back at the school security forces arrived to seal off the area. the taliban has been cracking down our groups since it came to power in august. but this latest attack is a reminder that security remains one of its biggest challenges that mon in al jazeera shrunken police fire live rounds to scatter protesters. kidding. one person injuring up to 20 others. it's the 1st death in weeks of demonstrations over the dyess tank of the economy. they also want the resignation of the president got to buy a raj packs. it was government is trying to negotiate a financial rescue when finance supports from columbus shock and tara is police open fire against a non protesters in rumbled financial anchor. the protested had blocked a railtrack as after the government raised fuel prices by more than 130 percent on

tuesday. $24.00 people were injured including 8 policemen. many of them bleeding heavily were taken to the hospital. in an audio statement, police spokesman the hotel, do a blame protested for the violence police in the used minimum force to stop the group from trying to set fire to an oil tanker full of fuel. would rights activists have expressed skepticism at this explanation. they said there is no justification for using live ammunition against protesters. similar protests were organized across the country as protest as barricaded access roads against the worsening economic conditions. present got our barrage, patsy's facing increasing demands to step down in a campaign called gotta go home, which is seen thousands of protesters around his office for more than a week. he's refused to quit, but appointed a new cabinet on monday. but that doesn't seem to have worked. senior doctor has

joined colleagues outside the largest children's hospital to protest again, shortages of medicine and other medical supplies. depleted for in reserves means the government has no money to buy basic medical requirements. we have an order to commit you to right now, so you have to go do some surgery for keep the whatever the available who committed are only 40 my just just an example. list is very long. thousands of people joined a protest march organized by the national people as power coalition that reached colombo from barrow lane, the south reno, nevada radio. debbie things are getting worse day by day and it's affecting the kitchen and we can't face it any longer. a position party said they're working on a no confidence motion against the government and considering introducing a constitutional amendment. seeking to reduce the powers of the executive presidency, protested say they won't be fooled by quick fixes. bonaire fernandez,

ojo 0 colombo votes, are being counted to determine the next president of east timor and independence hero and former president is favored to beat. the incumbent was a noted figure from the resistance era. jessica washington report as he just youngest country goes to the polls, all trifles face off once again in the final round of presidential elections, incumbent francisco. look with that if says he is focused on the economy and improving people's quality of life. when you think i want a prosperous economy will try not to incur unnecessary debt except to improve people's lives. in march, 16 candidates contested round one of the elections. gutierrez, one only 22 percent of the votes. while his opponent nobel laureate josie ramos horta got nearly high politics in east timor, also known as timor, listy is dominated by older men who are respected for their roles in the countries fight for independence from indonesia, occupation. both candidates are from

a generation of what a widely viewed as revolutionary heroes, who now make up the political elite. they competed in elections in 2007 to which ramos horta one is low, respectful, the out a politician. there's a lot of respect for their resistance, generation, and veterans, but people are asking the question, are how long can this generation dominate all's extreme or was that as he cast his own ballot ramos horta said he would prioritize building regional ties. ag, falling policy from absolute priority is a water ashi on membership around 40 percent of people in east timor live in poverty as people queued in the sun waiting to have their say many a hoping for solutions to high unemployment and improvements to health care and education political stability is on the minds of many voters to a long standing rivalry between the 2 major parties has created

a political deadlock that prevented the government passing a budget. i think the book and i hope that no one will forget their promises made during the campaign. we'll have to keep reminding them, said those promise is a well implemented in the community. some analysts say the growing number of young voters are getting tired of the political dramas of the past being continually dredged up. and that's putting them off supporting the 2 biggest parties. sienna, te and franklin. i don't think they see themselves represent in representing in their agendas, and i think that's something that boats the inner t m. frightening, are struggling with with their representation of young people. for now, voters have a choice between 2 candidates, both played important roles in the nation's past, and hope they will to in future. jessica washington al jazeera, now a war crimes trial and the central african republic has been postponed off the defense lawyers failed to show up on day one. they complained that the court was

miss treating their clients. the child related to the 2019 massacre of 46 people in to northern villages prosecute to say, members of a rebel group called 3, are brazenly kill civilians. the court will reconvene next week. british prime minister barak johnson as apologize to parliament for breaking his own government's coven 19 lockdown laws and being fined by the police. but it wasn't enough for his political opponents labeled johnson the statement, a joke and demanding. he quit. john hall as the latest from london. it was the 1st time that for his johnson had spoken to n p's about the fine that he received during the easter recess. one of a number of fines handed out to senior figures in downing street by the metropolitan police as part of their ongoing investigation into allegations of rule breaches. specifically parties. in downing street during periods of cobit lockdown, he repeated the public apology. he made at the time,

acknowledging people's hurt and disappointment, saying they had a right to expect more from their leaders from the very people who made those rules in the 1st place. but did he think he actually done anything wrong? let me also say not by way of mitigation or excuse, but purely purely because it explains my previous words in the times that he did not occur to me. then, all subsequently the day gathering in the cabinet room just before a vital meeting on cobra strategy could amount to a breach of the room. i repeat that was my mistake. and i apologize for it on reserve at lee. that will infuriate many of his critics, including m. p. 's within his own party, of course, who will likely continue to feel that boris johnson is failing to give this issue

the gravity it deserves. and that he continues to seek to lessen to minimize to trivialize his own misconduct. here was the leader of the opposition labor party. kia, stop will take even now. as the latest mealy mouthed apology stumbles out of one side of his mouth, a new set of deflections, a distortions paul from the other perils still lies ahead to full bars. johnson, of course, there remains the likelihood that more fines will be handed out by the metropolitan police as its investigation continues. indeed, boris johnson himself may yet receive more fines, and the local elections in may loom at which the conservative party is expected to fare badly. if he does that could be held up as the public's judgment of boorish johnson. and at that point his position could be tenuous. indeed. now the bible

administration is looking at challenging a court ruling which scrap requirements to wear masks on public transport. in the meantime, the white house, as people should keep wearing masks, from planes and trains to help avoid catching covet your centers for disease control and prevention extended the mandate, citing rising infections, but a federal judge and florida rule. the cdc had overstepped. and so 40 agencies are reviewing step next steps, including department of justice. i traditionally following court decision back and take a couple of days. we a sentence start that our code response should be guided by the science and data and by experts and edison. as a reminder, when we had made this announcement, the cdc said it needed 15 days to assess the impacts of an uptick. in cases on hospitalizations, death, and hospital capacity. we feel still feel that is entirely reasonable based on the latest science and public health decisions shouldn't be made by the courts. the

hong kong is one of the only places in the world still trying to maintain as 0 cobit policy. tens of thousands of people have been in quarantine, and this is added to environmental problems. brianca group to explains how remote controls, pillows, cutlery, almost everything in this quarantine hotel in hong kong that can be touched by people's hands. it's wrapped in plastic. the government is determined to keep the krona virus out, seemingly at any cost. every single one of the staff members here was so p, p, you know, the gowns, the glass, the cheese, the hats, and that every staff member and on every school. even just that in itself, the huge amount of wasted, a huge amount that's being thrown in, you know, to the been and none of that is able to be recycled. hong kong dumps more than 2300 tons of plastic waste every day. most of it is disposed in these landfills. since

the pandemic, disposable waste has been piling up, even along it's white, sandy beaches. the process. oh, fall recycling. wait. while crawford, ah scrap. if the boat will open percent those us more presented. and so to was nearly 90 percent, all your policy ways is either and up in our own feels or you end up in the later these hastily made quarantine facilities cannot be used long term for housing and are also adding to the problem. everything is non standards, the ground formation decide formation is non standard. it doesn't comply with any particular building standards. we have in hong kong. the structure set up placement top are temporary, so they have a short lifespan. and then already we have seen issues when the reserve heavy rain,

we have flooding issues and so on. last week, the government's environmental advisors suggested ways to change hong kong through a culture. but many are concerned the pandemic and the territories 0 corporate strategy. me heard those efforts, bianca. i'll to sarah. and a quick reminder you can catch up with all the news on our website. there it is on the screen. the address out a 0 dot com. ah, i have a quick check of the headlines here on al jazeera western the allies. i promised to send more artillery to ukraine to help in what's been called the battle for don bass. russian forces have begun their assault in the eastern region, which if successful could essentially slice ukraine in tune. we have helped deliver not just from our stocks for from stocks of other nations, more than 50000000 rounds of.