ah ah ah time running out for you, cranium resistance and mario paul auster weeks of brush and bombardment. as the battle for control of parts of east in ukraine intensifies, we talk to people unable to escape the homes in the wall. so ah, i'm sammy say, dan, this is al jazeera alive from dell hall. so coming up hong kong ease is cobit

restrictions, but many businesses say the lifting of strict measures is come to light. if the confusion and chaos, the flip flopping, that's been quite sort of frustrating fause to contend is for francis presidency face off in the televised debate over rising prices, the ukraine war and the e u f . now we may and they have hours, old days left. that was the desperate plea from a ukrainian commander as russian forces drive to take over the ruined city of mario full us and european leaders, and now racing against time to get heavier weapons to our number ukrainian troops. mario full is critical for russia to links efforts is controlled territory in the east to the russian and next crimea in the south. and as result of some of the reports, it's equally important for the ukrainians to defend. this was life in mario

just 2 months ago. children playing on the beach feminist, rolling by one of the 2 must have war. life is entity, but normal here. ukrainian same, are you paul, is how on earth they are last remaining forces are holding out at one of europe's largest math factories for days they have ignored the russia demands to surrender. then that's another somewhat good enough for me. this is our appeal to the world. this could be our last appeal of our lives. we're maybe facing our last days. if not ours, the enemies out numbering us tend to one. they have advantage in the air in artillery, in their forces on land, in equipment and in tanks were only depending one object the as of sal 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 european council president charles michelle is

the latest you leader to or for support. so. so the devotee michelle matthew, granny president, will the de mer zalinski and kia samplers to continue providing military a lot. today, we have to say 1500000000 euros military treatment. and the after due inclusion solution with you, we are trying to convince members 30 to 8 brother to help support you to make sure that what we provide is what you need and history precisely. what underneath in her we are able to make sure that we can provide with the youth member, susan, or the partners domains that are needed in order to fight and in order to win this war. ukraine's presence is given up, their city is not an option. what might be open in order to unblock marie open? 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 is 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 your grains as well. battalion inside the as or still factory. hundreds of people seem cramped on the ground somewhere in a sprawling compound gym to cecile friendship. my youngest child cries, had everything 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 . she didn't know if 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. get us out of here, we beg you, we have already cried out all the tears. we have not recon kleinie more. we are jesse sat here, you clock pregnancy noon. on wednesday more you 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. russell said that al jazeera livid 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 of correspondence. charles stratford got near what's being called the line of contact with both sides for exchanging fire. when he spoke to people living beside the fighting in the eastern dumbass region, not hello, not blue, like v z oil shows us what the exploding shill did to her home yesterday. her house is a few kilometers from where russian forces are trying to advance really. but being held back by the ukranian army fellows vis, theraphy and them all the way it happened so quickly. yeah,

i was in the house. i heard a whistling sound. she says she usually thing it so we don't worry, this is out going. she continues either some way. i came out of the house and i saw my son was crawling towards me. he shouted mum while you are lively on my ears were ringing and there was debris everywhere. yet 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 have 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. 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 find alexander and his wife, gania, in another compartment. new years to the questions. we have come from cremmit, oscar, because of russia entered the city, but could never live under the fascist rule. 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, zoe will sleep in her cellar tonight. as an invading army continues to rec, hers millions of other people's lives. shall stafford jazeera,

eastern ukraine. co. the fighting is concentrated on the eastern and southern front lines, the full toll of the war. in other regions of ukraine still unknown. what that mean? it isn't. but the anchor, a town near key of that scene reduced to rubble. well, the situation is just as you can see behind me, i mean it's, it's actually difficult to describe the amount of destruction that you see in this village. a boy danica is not bigger than a village. this, these are private homes, actually, earlier, the owner of this home, an old lady called valentina, was here trying to salvage anything she could from to wreckage. and i asked her, what did you get out of it? and she just showed me a few pillows that she had put in the car. and now she told me she spent a whole war. so until the 29th of march in the basement of her house. and when she

came out, this is what she found. her whole life reduced absolutely to rubble. and then if you have a little walk around here now the, the, it has been some work to clear out all this area of piles and piles of rubble. but look at this apartment building is quite impressive. to see you can see just one block of the apartment. not there any more, everything charred. i don't think anyone can come and live here. maybe those buildings will have to be torn down and brought up again. now, driving here was about a 2 hour drive from kim. what you do see is pockets of exactly that same scene. civilian targets are houses, lives of people completely destroyed. and there's no way they could come back and live in this village, at least for the foreseeable future. and as i said, you see that in village after village all the way from here to kim, just to give you an idea of what happened here. and when you look at this,

you can imagine what's going to happen in a dumbass. you can imagine what's unfolding at the moment in more, you pull where the fight is even much more virulent than what has happened here. russia says it's successfully tested a new intercontinental ballistic missile called the sun month president rodney foods and says it will provide food for thought. for those who threaten russia. he says h, my cell can carry up to 12 nuclear warheads, can hit any target on earth. but the u. s. defense chief say the new f and pose is no more significant threat than any other elements of rushes off. china's president, she ging ping, has just been speaking at the annual bow forum for asia gathering on the southern chinese island of high 9. but they use the opportunity to criticize the use of unilateral sanctions by all the global powers. let's get more on this from katrina

. you joins us live from beijing, so we'll be making a reference to sanctions on ukraine. yes, he was without mentioning ukraine, specifically. president eugene ping was giving an opening virtual speech to this annual economic forum. it's mainly attended by chinese business leaders and chinese officials. but there were some other virtual participants from elsewhere in asia. and of course the main topic was the global economy, which president she'd been paying said was under enormous pressure at the moment. he specifically said that supply chains need to be urgently stabilized. and he criticize the use of so called unilateral sanctions, what he said was long jurisdiction. he said that decoupling or the pressure tactics, not only did they not work in his opinion, he said that they only serve to hut global recovery, as well as the international community at large. and then he went on to talk about

the importance of agent countries and helping to stabilize the international economy. although china itself, it's organ economies under enormous pressure from not only the ukraine war, but as well as the curve of outbreaks. but still, she didn't pick, defended china's economic resilience, and said that it would continue to recover and be a stabilizing force going forward this year. it's also been talking about world peace while pictures emerge. all the new generation of chinese missiles, right? katrina. that's right sir. while shooting p has been speaking to these participants in high, none. the chinese navy on wednesday appears to have leaked a video or showing a hypersonic missile being launched from one of china's most advanced, mis, all destroyers. now ton hasn't confirmed having this technology, but we do know that aging has been working on a hype to sonic missiles for some time. and if it has been successful,

china would be the only 2nd, the 2nd country to do. so to have this kind of technology after russia. now, according to these videos, analysts are speculating that these missiles have a range of about 10021500 kilometers. which means that, that capable of targeting and hitting an entire strike group at c. now, china has not given any specific reason as to why it's developing this kind of technology . but chinese analyst here say that although china is a long way from achieving power to with the u. s. or russia, when it comes to military capabilities, it is building up not only it's weapon technology, but also it's nuclear technology in recent decades as a form of deterrence. i think china is getting increasingly nervous about tensions building around taiwan tensions building around south china sea. it's also looking at ukraine and seeing how the international communities, specifically the u. s. has mobilized around ukraine,

seemingly against russia and it's getting nervous. so it's hoping that by building up a competence 2nd strike capability would deter any attacks or counter attacks in the u. s. and also we have to look at the timing of this. it comes just ahead of china's navy's 70 that anniversary, as well as a week after the u. s. and japan conducted joint military exercises of the korean peninsula. all right, thanks so much. katrina, you still had an al jazeera, the international monetary fund looks at the global ramifications of the ukraine rule. i'm with, let's go with your weather report for the americas. have one. great to see you. so some re moving across the great lakes. on the northern flank of this we've got snow,

but it, southerly push there means d. c. you're getting up to a height 22 degrees on thursday. after the west we go, calgary picked up more than 20 centimeters of snow. those temperatures of popped up a bit to 2 degrees on thursday. some rain for british columbia into the pacific northwest and that what weather is also dropping further toward the south. so this becomes destroy for california is while including san francisco with a hive, 16 degrees temperatures cold enough to see some snow in the sierra nevada. closer of cells will see toward the deep south. some of these could be intense at times. and off to the caribbean, we go out of rainfall over the bahamas into hispaniola as so for haiti and the dominican republic. certainly the risk of seeing some flooding here, top end of south america, our usual scattering of storms here and also as we look towards sternum and french, diana cayenne has a height $27.00 degrees on thursday. it is dryer for that se portion of brazil. so 30 degrees in rio de janeiro and in the days to come, this temperatures are going to shoot up. so we're up to 37 degrees on saturday.

that's well above average, that to report soon. ah, the african story from african perspective. if conditions select wireless cuz you. ready response to that one since he gave it to them on if they're short documentary from african filmmakers for booking of fossil and heading for me . it's really important to teach surprise it comes in bill something that i can be proud of. the painter and she hands bench africa direct on al jazeera. ah

ah, welcome. you're watching al jazeera, it's time to recap. those headlines. ukrainian commander is issued an urgent call for heavier weapons. as the russian military drives to take the besieged city of mario, pull, tens of thousands of people remain trapped there. russia says it's successfully tested a new intercontinental ballistic missile called the sama president brought a paper and says they'll provide food for thought. for those who threatening russian with how hong kong is easing some co b 19 restrictions imposed some of the world's toughest measures earlier this year. after being hit by a 5th wave from 1st day, restaurants are allowed to serve until much later in the night. have salanza and jim's can reopen,

but many say it's too late for some businesses. abram brown explains 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 late. one trade group estimates the by the end of april 2 and a half 1000 restaurant 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 covert 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 jim's. but the owner of this one was it won't survive another lockdown. lord, either cash or die. well, i think it will be difficult for us to survive with the existing cash flows. 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 considering leaving hong kong in part because of its tough corona virus restrictions. one expert though doubt, settle, go through with it. if you think that if monitor could come back and they are considering the thing, i probably offer some due diligence. they realize that, you know, hong kong remain are to be vibrant. financial center pumpkins airport was ones asia's busiest. it's now it required

a monday no flights arrived from outside asia. airlines were back for a week if 3 or more passengers test positive for coded 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. as fate to adrian brown, now live in hong kong. so adrian, it may have come a little late for businesses. what does it mean for day to day life?

well behind me, some of you can see a busy basketball court for the past 100 days or so. basketball has been banned in hong kong. but on thursday that restriction was lifted. but of course, elsewhere things are pretty abnormal here. and hong kong. why does this all matter? well, hong kong it's supposed to be asia's leading financial hub, but for the past 2 and a half years, it's essentially been cut off isolated from the rest of the world. and more and more business groups are beginning to ask how much longer can that continue? as i mentioned in my report, hong kong ranking as age as leading aviation hub is also now threatened at the height of the 5th wave at the height of the infection rate. hong kong, as it was, recording something like 78000 infections a day. we've had almost 9000 death. that's one of the highest in the developed world. and that has been an awful lot of anger here about the way the government has handled. it's covered strategy. on the one hand, you have big business saying we can't return to another lockdown if we return to

another lockdown, many businesses that are just hanging on will simply be wiped out. the question is, what will it take for the leadership both here and in beijing to basically not go ahead with that strategy. i think that if you see economic growth continuing to contract and the economy is slowing both here and on the mainland, that i think will be enough for leadership to say, you know what, lot downs are simply too big a price to pay. i, thanks so much shave leon brown there. i thought top saw in the war in ukraine, the international monetary fund is continuing to discuss the crisis and its global ramifications while talk further. sanctions continues is also increasing concern over the risks of isolating russia from the world's financial system. mike had reports from washington. it may be largely a virtual meeting. but this store hustle and bustle outside the i am at the

headquarters in downtown washington, and the shop focused on one dominant theme that rushes invasion of ukraine has an economic impact. far beyond those 2 countries alone compared to january forecast, we have revised our projection for global growth downwards to 3.6 percent in both 20222023. this reflect the direct impact of the war on ukraine and sanctions on russia with both countries projected to experience deep contractions. the growth outlook for the european union has been revised downward by 1 point, one percentage points. due to the indirect effects of the war. sanctions have a 2 way impact the world bank has suspended operations in russia. but the financial damage to the putin government is offset by the fact that a continues to retain a $120000000000.00 that were owed to international banks. money that's unlikely to

not be returned. and while some western leaders are seeking to expel russia from the i, m f, there is simply no mechanism to do so. the i miss articles of agreement do not mention expelling a country for waging war. a country can be expelled for falsifying data, as was the case with then czechoslovakia, in 1954, for not informing the i'm if of a change in the exchange rate. but invading a neighboring country is not grounds for expulsion. financial leaders from the u. s, canada and the u. k. boycotted the virtual meeting with russia's finance minister on wednesday. but at risk in this process of isolating russia is the entire global economic order. in particular, the future of the group of 20 nations, the g 20, which has play the dominant, rolled and rebuilding the world's economy since the recession and 2000. the date

that organisation is unfortunately defunct. now, with russia being isolated from the global financial system and trying to trying to play both ways. so there is no global economic coordinating mechanism. and that means countries will try to retreat and protect their own finance as much as possible. and that is precisely the type of dangerous unilateral action, the i m f and the g 20 within it was formed to prevent mike and i'll just 0 washington. israel is head targets in garza for a 2nd time. this week. it says rockets were 5 towards the re, the town of the routes earlier. the, the no reports of any casualties on either side. israel says it hit a military post in gaza. tension remains high at the along some of the compound after the incursion of jewish ultra nationalists groups into the occupied side. israeli forces of stops from young muslims from leaving the compound. a troops 5

rubber bullets at one of the windows. also someone threw a stone as a soldier since friday, a number of kind of simians have been injured and israeli raids on the mach compound. the 2 contenders for the french presidency of taken part in a televised debate ahead of sunday's election. incumbent emmanuel, my crime is far right. challenge a marine, la pence fall over the cost of living, the ukraine war, and the use future opinion polls favor my crown, but suggest a tight race in cash. i bought the reports 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 that funded her 2017 campaign, was every dish of thought. 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. ramona bottle boy excel. the presenters repeatedly called for com is the candidates, disagreed over issues including climate change, education, immigration, and the european union. mackerel believes the block 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 macro said such a move would provoke a civil war is a shrewd ball on thursdays only. well, dollies 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 shorten frances 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 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 macro 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 em. and you know, 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 law was a fiery exchanges to yatchuck or 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 operate or fast moving wildfire is force thousands of people in the real estate of arizona to leave their homes. strong winds and drought conditions are driving the fire towards properties near the city of flagstaff. the size of the wildfire is triple in just a few days. the rest for a service says nearly 7000 hacked hairs in scorched dozens of buildings have been destroyed to ah, let's take you through some of the headlines now. ukrainian commander is, are issuing an urgent call for heavier weapons, as the russian military drives to take the besieged city of mario paul. tens of

thousands of people remain trapped their plans to establish.