and society, that's the bottom line. ah ukrainian say it's hell on earth, the fight to keep russian forces from completely obliterating the port city of matter. you caught in the battle for eastern ukraine. we talk to patients who say they can't leave because they have nowhere else to go. ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. this is al jazeera live window are also coming up with russia's president sends a message with a new missile test saying each one carries multiple nuclear warheads. and the bleak outlook hong kong is encoded restrictions, but it's come too late for many businesses. if the confusion and chaos,

the flip flopping, that's been quite a bit of frustrating fause. we may only have hours or days left. that was the desperate plea from a ukrainian command does. russian forces drive to take over the ruined city of matthew polt, us and european leaders, and now scrambling against time to get heavier weapons to outnumbered ukrainian troops. but mattie, who polished critical for russia to link shepherdess controlled territory in the east with russian annexed crimea in the south. anders race will said our reports. it's equally important for the ukrainians to defend. this was life in marty report . just 2 months ago. children playing on the beach feminist strolling by. but after 2 months of war, life is and it him, but norm of here ukrainian say more, you pool is hell on earth. the last remaining forces are holden out at one of

europe's largest matter of factories. for these, they have ignored russia's demands to surrender. then the solution of the future, sir morton would do not from us. this is our appeal to the world. this could be our last appeal of our lives. we are may be facing our last days, if not ours. the enemies outnumbering us tend to one. they have advantage in the air in artillery, in their forces on land, in equipment and in tanks. while we are only defending one object. the adult style plant, where in addition to military personnel, there are also civilians who have fallen victim to this war. we appeal and plead to all world leaders to help us with abilene, european council president charles michelle, is the latest you leader to or for support. in a sure sort of verity you shall, matthew reigning president. one of them is that asking can you sample as to continue for why the mid 3? today, we have to say 1500000000 euros military treatment. and they asked to do in closer solution with you, we are trying to convince members, theories to act better,

to help support you, to make sure it's what we provide is what you need. and historically we precisely what our denise and her, we are able to make sure that we can provide, we use member says in other partners, domains that are needed in order to fight. and in order to win this war, ukraine's presences given up their city is not an option. what that might be open. in order to unblock mario poo, there are 2 ways, serious, heavy weapons that we are counting on city so far. we don't have enough of these weapons going on. the 2nd way, his diplomatic. so far, russia does not agree to this. the time is running out, not only for ukrainian troops, but also civilians. this video was shared by ukraine's as of battalion inside the as hostile factory. hundreds of people seemed cramped on the ground. somewhere in a sprawling compound cecile fletcher, my youngest child cries at every thing he twitches in his sleep. he and the oldest is starting to get depression. they miss

a peaceful life. it's been really frightening lately. frightening even to go out of the bunker to use the toilet. and they had one desperate plea for the world. leader seated dawn really. we lost our home. we lost our livelihood. we want to live a normal peaceful life. we want to get out of here. there are lots of children in here. they're hungry. i get us out of here. we beg you. we have already cried out all the tears we have not. i can't cry any more than we are. jesse sat here you block pregnancy noon. on wednesday, maria pacific official said they have reached an agreement with russia to rescue 6000 civilians on buses. but because of the constant shelling only a few managed to get out, tens of thousands of civilians are still trapped in a city that russia is determined to capture and ukrainian see. they are fully committed to defend. russ who said that al jazeera living. but russia's defense ministry says it hit more than

a 1000 targets across ukraine in the past 24 hours as part of its renewed offensive in the east. our correspondent charles stratford got near what's been called the line of contact, where both sides were exchanging fire. and he spoke to people displaced by the fighting in the eastern dumbass region. not shallow on the blue white v. zario shows us what exploding shill did to her home. yes. her house is a few kilometers from where russian forces are trying to advance queries that are being held back by the ukranian army fellows of least 3 of them all the day. it happened so quickly. yeah, i was in the house. i heard a whistling sound. she says a ship for one thing and so we don't worry, this is out going. she continues as a summary, i came out of the house and i saw my son was crawling towards me. he shouted mam um, while you alive, liam, my ears were ringing and there was debris everywhere. yes. when they, when they shoot, it's not that scary. it's the incoming. we are afraid of it. she says another

shell blasts out across the fields the ukrainians, saying that they pushing russian forces back from positions close to here. we had no way of confirming that, but we were in the last few minutes or so heard shells leaving this area. the lady in this house sessions, she's lived here 10 years and we asked her why she doesn't move because pretty much everybody from this area has already gone. and she says she basically has nowhere else to go at a hospital, a few kilometers away. we met these elderly women. they were injured when russian forces shell, the towns and villages they lived in valentino from the town of several dan etzky. she is terrified about her son, who she says was too afraid to try and escape. since we're self up on the only other thing, my son managed to get to the basement, but i was too late. there are people who cannot leave their old and many disabled.

they're desperate to get out. why can they go? stopped told us not to name the hospital because they're afraid of it getting hit. his doctor insisted we hide his identity, but told me many of the staff had fled the hospital, needed surgeons and trauma specialists. he said, medics load the injured and infirm to the once daily evacuation train. after a rushing shell hit a platform, crammed with evacuees in the city of cremmit, all sc, killing more than 50 people on a police 8th. this is now the most east and train service taking people who can all want to leave to safe areas. anna is fleeing the fighting around. don't ask with her 10 year old son. clearly we are saving yourselves so that russians can't do to us what they did in boucher. we left everything behind even our dog and cat. we have no choice. we final exam,

then his wife gave you in another compartment no use to the questions. we have come from cremmit, oscar, because of russia, entered the city, but could never live under their fashion ro. alexander says, the elderly woman sharing their compartment seems to be suffering from dementia. she's unable to speak, and he's travelling to safety alone. back near the front line, zoid will sleep in her cell to night. as an invading army continues to rec, hers billions of other people's lives. shall stratford al jazeera easton ukraine. russia says it's successfully tested a new intercontinental ballistic missile called the sar matt. president putin says it will provide food for thought, for those who threatened russia, he says each missile can carry up to 12 nuclear warheads and can hit any target them earth. but us defense t save any weapon poses no more significant threat. and other elements of russia's

ass mill and the president has russia, has underestimate the level of unity countries have shown against the invasion. you're seeing just how vital or alliances and partnerships are around the world, are stepping up and find the impact. my response is united focused and energized as every man i've never seen anyone, you know, i'm confident. my wife. i don't think that couldn't canada, being able to get me to report say president biden's expected to announce an additional $800000000.00 in military aid to ukraine this week. that would be on top of the same amount announced by the white house last week, that included helicopters, artillery pieces and armored personnel carriers. separately. nato is also supplied ukraine with tanks, helicopters, and heavy weapons. e. u. member states have contributed nearly $3000000000.00 to ukraine. poland the u. k. germany in france had been the main providers of holland

woman is a military expert from the atlantic council in washington. earlier he told me that even if russia takes matter, you pulled a number of ways ukraine can continue to fight back. if the requirements were able, there was a land bridge called across the curt peninsula, that lakes both ends of the sea of as off. if that bridge were to be destroyed, the russians would have to go around that would ruin the russian land bridge. so i think that mary, opal is much more of an emotional issue than it is a real strategic one. ukrainians need to take that bridged out and that would really destroy the ability of the russian to be able to resupply crimea, whether they are capable doing that or not. i certainly will urge that. well, i would also urge, using whatever capacity they have to destroy, the black sea fleet is vital right now to the psychological effects it will have on moscow holland. just a final thought to you earlier before russia test, why i,

what it says was if new intercontinental ballistic missile, the us says it was notified of a launch and that it's pretty routine. but how much do you think this is? raise that terrifying specter of perhaps nuclear escalation over the conflict in ukraine. well, i've raised in a column, it becomes desperate. he could threaten using nuclear weapons. and this will not be strategic weapons. but what we need to do in advance is that nato asked to say, if you use a nuclear weapon in ukraine, we in ukraine will be able to destroy your logistics and much of your military. and that will make sure that you will lose. so don't even consider using nuclear weapons in ukraine. i hope the by the administration has the courage to be able to take that stand and let moscow know what the red lines are. in this case, nuclear weapons are not going to be used. and if so, we and nato will retaliate in a way which will ensure that russia will lose in ukraine. and we have the capacity

to do that. and potent nose it israel as hit targets in garza for a 2nd time. this week it says rockets were fired towards these riley town of steroids. earlier, there were no reports of casualties on either side. israel says it had been military post, and garza and tension remains high at the alex and mos compound after the incursion of jewish ultra nationalist groups into the occupied site is ready forces of stop some young muslims in leaving the compound earlier israeli troops, fod rubber bullets that one of the muscles windows are for some ones were stone and a soldier. since friday, a number of palestinians had been injured in israeli, raised on the loss compound. also to come here now just there, including with frances future at stake. the 2 contenders for the presidency face off in a televised debate plus will tell you about a while. find the u. s. date of arizona. that's tripled in size. just a matter of days more that stay with us. ah,

he has begun the, the full world copies on its way to catherine book, your travel package today. let's go with your weather report for asia. hello everyone. great to see you beginning in india where across the country some heat of the day thunderstorms will flare up here. so where you see the blue on the map, that's where we run the risk of seen some of those thunderstorms, a wave of rain and also thunder downpours pulling in to the mall div that includes molly with the hive. 29 degrees on thursday. explosive thunderstorms around bangladesh, its capital dhaka, slumping further toward that south. so we got to be on the lookout for the potential to see some hail here. se asia looks like this. our area of concern the zone will be west java, into southern sections of sumatra. and you know, across java we've seen bursts of about a 100 millimeters of rain. so still the risk to see much of the same on thursday,

out of clouds drifting about southern china and i think as we head toward friday, these clouds will generate some more showers, but temperatures from hong kong way lind to woo hon to young joe have certainly picked up over the last few days and a plume of moisture pulling in to southern japan. so a lot of wet weather here. in fact our, our weather alerts in play, including for tokyo thunderstorm advisory damaging winds and hail tokyo. we've got yen for 21 degrees on thursday. that's it. c, as in cat, official airline of the journey. healing the debate, there is no, he job bad is am. if anyone here talks about women that i did was this, this a beer seem to have been says no. so pick it off the table. we were taught to see abortion as a one way ticket street to help all of the companies. they deny any responsibility, even though they have the resources and the power to fix it. we're a global audience, becomes a global community. the comment section is right here. be part of today's program

this to him on al jazeera. ah ah, welcome back. a quick amount about top stories here at this hour, a ukrainian commanders issued an urgent call for heavier weapons of the russian military drives to take. but the seed city of matthew polt, tens of thousands of people remained trust that russia says it successfully tested a new intercontinental ballistic missile, called the sar month. but amid hooton's says to provide food for thought, for those who threaten russia. and israel has hit target some garza for a 2nd time. this week it says rockets were fired towards the israeli town of serrato earlier. there are no reports of casualties, neither side. israel says it hidden military post in garza now the you and says

more than 5000000 ukrainians on our refugees. less than 8 weeks into the war. and people in poland are wondering just how many more could be on the way under chappelle ripple at this refugee's center in warsaw. victoria flicks past photos on her phone of her family's home in mary, a pole or what was left of it. the days she got out of the city, much has changed in nearly 2 months of war. and not much is left of her city. lou blige, humanly fear of what we cry. we all have the feeling that we've no home. we've no idea where to go. what to do where to run it's very scary. more than half of ukrainian refugees are in poland and the government is figuring out how to accommodate even more. but officials wonder when the system will break. we see the escalation in southern and eastern ukraine and there are 7000000 ukrainians or rigs displaced in ukraine. so of course, that poses

a problem. what if another way for comes and here we needs international and european solutions, we need a system in place because otherwise it will be very, very difficult to absorb more refugees. ah, it's hard to describe the enormity of the situation. a man made catastrophe for the ukrainian people are to grasp the heartache felt by the women and children who pat to say good bye to husbands and fathers, one above the william. we loved dad and keith ear and dad will be selling things and helping our heroes or army them. you might even fight. when you on the right nation, the seen a quarter of a ukraine's population and more than $12000000.00 people in total, including around $5000000.00 refugees. but also about 7100000 people inside the country had been forced to flee that harms services

a staggering amount of people that are on the had to leave their, their herms, their possessions. in some cases, family members behind the same millions of families and millions of lives have been shattered and 2 and their lives have been torn apart by by this war. with each new arrival, a tale of survival from what's become the fastest displacement crisis in europe. since the 2nd world war, enter chappelle, i'll desire the 2 contenders for the french presidency of taken part in a televised debate ahead of sunday's election, the incumbent manual macro, and his far i challenge a marine le pen spot over the cost of living the ukraine war and the eaves, future opinion polls favor micron, but suggest a tight race latasha butter report from paris, o deliveries, i could do, it didn't take long for things to become tense. soon after the start of the french presidential candidates debate, the centrist incumbent emanuel macro put the far right candidate,

marine the pen on the spot. by questioning her links to the kremlin and a russian bank loan, the funded her 2017 campaign, was every tisha, boston. you were one of the 1st european leaders in 2014, to recognize the annexation of crimea, because you depend on the russian regime. and you depend on mister putin, madame le pen, you took out a loan in 2015 from a russian bank. the 1st check russian bank, which is close to the government amendment, my boy, except the presenters repeatedly called for com is the candidates, disagreed over issues including climate change, education, immigration, and the european union. mackerel believes the blog should be stronger and the pen wants to diminish its power. the far right leader also said she would make it illegal for muslim women to wear the headscarf in public. if elected macros said such a move would provoke a civil war. as a ship, orlando, these only $1.00 was really i believe the headscarf is a uniform imposed by islamists that most young women who wear it have no choice was

. he said just shelton, france, country of the enlightenment of universal values would be the 1st country in the world to ban religious symbols in public space. the 1st country in the world, that is what you are proposing. what i'll look at times mcgraw seemed over confident or on the attack, but for most of the debate, he clearly had the upper hand, leaving the pen, looking frustrated or confused. a performance wasn't a total re run of the 2017 election debate with micro a disaster by her own admission, but it wasn't far off, although she gained ground on some social issues, including health care forward can can emma noon of the reality is during your presidency mr mac hong, it's only crazy is that make you act there. had to be a pandemic to make you realize that help workers have been in a terrible way for years. you for nearly half a century presidential candidates in france are faced off live on tv and a debate that's usually watched by millions of people and is often

a pivotal moment in the election. on monday that lot, i was a fiery exchanges to yeah, trickle flourishes. the debates are often highly anticipated by viewers and rarely dull. over the years the protagonists and politics have changed, but one thing has remained constant. the person most widely perceived have won the debate, often wins the election. voters on sunday will now decide whether history will repeat itself. natasha butler, al jazeera paris or prejudice. no hong kong is easing some. cobit 19 restrictions that impose some of the world's toughest measures early this year. after being hit by a 5th wave from thursday, restaurants are allowed to serve until much later in the night. and her salons and gyms can reopen, but many say it's too late for some local businesses. adrian brown report. so many of the bars and restaurants in this once busy entertainment district of land,

quite phung, the partial relax station of coby restrictions has come to light. one trade group estimates the by the end of april 2 and a half 1000 restaurants across the territory would have shot permanently for more than a 100 days, dine as couldn't be served up to 6 pm. and no more than 2 people were allowed to table. this steak house though remains open. the owner frustrated with a government's cobit strategy. it's not the policy itself. it's the lack of clarity . if the confusion and chaos, the flip flopping, that's been quite a bit of frustrating foss, even if the despite the number of cases, i hope the attitude is that we have to live with this. now, from thursday, his restaurant can stay open until 10 pm with up to 4 dinars. the table. the government has been providing financial support to businesses, including kim's, but the owner of this one was it won't survive another locked down. lord under cash,

although i think it will be difficult for us to survive with the existing cash flow . if there is a new way of coping 19, our cash flow has a limit. most of the smaller medium enterprises, like i have not recovered from the 5th wave. hong kong standing as asia's premier financial center was already under pressure before the 5th wave. the european chamber of commerce says that up to half its members are considering leaving hong kong in part because of its tough corona virus restrictions. one expert though doubt, settle, go through with it, is easy to leave is more difficult to come back. ah, and i, they are considering living i probably after some due diligence, they realize that, you know, hong kong remains to be a vibrant financial center. hong kong airport was once asia's busiest. it's now eerily quiet. on monday, no flights arrived from outside asia, airlines of band for a week, if 3 or more passengers test positive recovered from the same flight. and every one

entering the territory must quarantine for a week in a hotel. many other countries in asia, including singapore and south korea, have opened their borders to fully vaccinated travelers who no longer need to quarantine. that in turn, is helping their economies to grow again. but hong kong like mainland china is sticking doggedly to what he calls a dynamic 0 infection strategy. that means eliminating the virus rather than learning to live with it. it's a strategy that many economists warn, could damage hong kong, economic future. adrian brown, al jazeera hong kong. well, it's bringing allen's the man, he's chairman of the land choir font group, which is a major property developer in hong kong and parts of mainland china. he joined us via zoom. alan garage abbey, whither? so, hong kong, finally to start lifting some cobra restrictions at this will surely come as very good news for the thousands of businesses and residents of suffered terribly under this policy. well, assets for sure,

happy days are here again today. this is, i just sent the message to the chief executive oncologist thanking her for finally opening up it and it will be done in 3 stages. restaurants can open till 10 pm of april 21st, which is to day. and then the next month may 21st, the bars clubs can open up. there still are shut down. and then if everything is okay for by june 21st, then we're back in business. yeah. everyone is. yeah, i was going to say it is, it is your ring though, because i mean, you know, you mentioned restaurants, them and some ambulance say more than 2 and a half 1000 restaurants alone have been forced to shut their doors permanently. what cost us highway economy? let me just ask you what cost us hong kong economy had to pay for the government's policy and was it a price worth paying? do you think? i can tell you that it's not 2000 whoever the atlas is. i don't agree, it's about 500 that of close and, and probably by the time now i've,

i've been through this movie before been through at 997. i've been through it in, in that i've jerry lock it by central. i've been through through the protests of 2019, where many people are very despondent and we've had this virus not just hong kong, but the rest of the world had it for 3 years at this time. of course, the 5th light here. we're okay for the 1st 2 years. i basically we have the, the lowest number of, of, of infections and basically this, this was actually very, very good. those, those 2 years when the rest of the world really suffering were the. and so i think at the end of the day, of course no one wants to close down and just restaurants do start opening up. businesses do start opening up. some of course are under capitalized and they can't open up, but the government has given out subsidies. they become something called the employment subsidies scheme to all operators, which is for may, june, july. and that is a big, big help. and let me,

let me jump in that cause i push that time. what about hong kong standing as a's as leading financial hub? i mean, many businesses have threatened to leave hong kong not, not just because of china's increasing control, but also because of the tough corona virus restrictions. so has hong kong, financial standing internationally been tarnished. do you think i can tell you? absolutely not. i mean, i've been, as i said, have been at this movie before. and a list of all the businesses are here. not because the hong kong they're here because of the growth of china, the fast growing economy in the world. and you know, with our independent judiciary with the low tax base and, and, and so definitely, you know, people are here and people, some businesses will leave, but then many do come back again. okay. it, china is listed as vital. china's already said, remember to the government, the iraq, our international financial center said this 3 weeks ago, all the leaders in china warned the government that don't forget that. and i

believe that we have a new administration coming in new teachers that could have following with granite push time. let me just jump in with a final question to you. i mean, many countries in asia like malaysia, singapore, south korea have decided many to start living with the virus and open up their economies. does this show that mainland does a show that hong kong 0 covered policy like mainland china has failed and that the policy needs to change? do you think? no, not at all. i think the ideal china always wants people 1st. they don't want the, the big death seller, kurt all over the world. and so basically what we have now with the opening of businesses in april may, june and, and basically you're, you're basically living with it what every want to call. it became a political thing. and, and so a dynamic 0, every country in the world was the call that suppression china. call it dynamic 0 way to get people vaccine. and all that and wants of business is opened up force.

johnston was the one that came up with the phrase, ah, now we're going to live with a broken open cases when, when at the peak. and so that the, basically, hong kong is following the same thing. we will be living with it. do that every want to call, allen's mom, we have to leave it there. thank you very much indeed for your thoughts. thank you mr. though while fi has for thousands of people in the us state of arizona to leave their homes, the u. s. forest services, nearly 7000, act as have been scores and northern county of coconino on dry conditions. i'm making things worse. cottrell up his hold, a young reports hovering in the shadows of an arizona state wildfire. these homes are dangerously close to a fast moving blaze. it's called the tunnel fire, and already it's forced thousands of people near the city of flagstaff to flee. dozens of buildings had been destroyed, and fire fighters say hundreds of homes could face a similar fate. city leaders are urging people to leave the area and to take their

animals with them. have horses. i think i did with flames as high as 30 meters pushed to fire over a major highway. at one point, the blaze nearly tripled in size. fueled by dry conditions and wind gusts of nearly 50 kilometers an hour. like other southwestern us states hit by extreme weather. arizona is facing an early star to its well fire season firefighters worn dry grass and low humidity could make the fire grow both in size and intensity. katya locus of the young al jazeera, ah.