green lens ice sheet is melting, which is changing everything from sea levels to the way people live. and now even exposing the remnants of a cold war, ponce greenland, the melting of the frozen north on al jazeera ah, time running out for ukrainian resistance. am mario paul, also weeks of russian bombardment. as the battle for control of east in ukraine intensifies, we talk to people unable to escape their homes in a war zone. ah, i'm sammy say, dan, this is al jazeera alive from dell hall. so coming up, the 2 contenders for france, his presidency face off in a televised debate over arising prices for you, crime war. and do you policy?

hong kong ease is covered restrictions, but many businesses say the lifting of strict measures is come too late. it's the confusion and chaos. the flip flopping, that's been quite a bit of frustrating floss were may only have hours old days. left batch was the desperate plea from ukrainian commander is russian forces drive to take over the ruined city of mario, paul, us and european leaders and now racing against time to get heavier weapons. 12 numbers ukrainian troops, multiple is critical for russia to ling stafford is controlled territory in the east with russian annex crimea in the south. and does resorts out 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 most of war. life is anything but normal here. ukrainian same, are you paul, is hell on earth. the last remaining forces are holden out at one of europe's largest matter factories. for days they have ignored russia's demands to surrender . another siegel them would have 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 the abilene european council president charles michelle, is the latest you leader, to or for support in

a show of solidarity. you shall, matthew, granny, president, will admit zalinski. and can you sample as to continue providing military anal? today, we have to say 1500000000 euros military treatment. and the after do intrusion solution which you, we are trying to convince members 30 to 8, but it to us support your to mid showed it. what we provide is what you need. and we stood very precisely what our denise in ho, we are able to make sure that we can provide. we use member susan audit 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 it 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. and the 2nd way is diplomatic. so far, russia does not agree to this. the time is running out, not only for your brilliant troops, but also civilians. this video was shared by you greens as of battalion inside the

as hostile factory. hundreds of people seem cramped on the ground. somewhere in a sprawling compound cecile fletcher, 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 seated normally. 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 now. i can't cry any more. we are jesse sat here. do you block pregnancy name? on wednesday, mario pacific official said they have reached an agreement with russia to rescue 6000 civilians on buses. but because of the constant shelling on the

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 live, 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 being called the line of contacts. both sides are exchanging fire. we spoke to people living beside the fighting in the eastern don bass region. not alone of the white v z oil shows us what the exploding shill did to her home. yes, her house is a few kilometers from where russian forces are trying to advance. but being held back by the ukrainian army fellows voice theraphy. and the more i say 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 continued at the suddenly i came out of the house and i saw my son was crawling towards me. he shouted, mom, are you alive? liam? 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 are in the last few minutes or so heard shells leaving this area. the lady in this house, 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 shelled 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 the super silva. dolly of her things, my son managed to get to the basement, but i was too late. there are people who cannot leave, they are old and many disabled. they are 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 russian shell hit a platform crammed with a vacuum ease in the city of kraemer tossed, killing more than 50 people on april. the 8th. this is now the most east and train

service taking people who can or want to leave to safe areas. anna is fleeing the fighting around. don't ask with her 10 year old son cruelly. we are saving ourselves her that russians can't do to ask what they did in beecher. we left everything behind, even our dog and cat. we have no choice. we find alexander and his wife, gania, in another compartment nor yesterday or pushed him. we have come from cremmit tossed because of russia entered the city we could never live under their fascist rule. treated. 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 lawyer will sleep in her cell to night. as an invading army continues to wreck hers, and millions of other people's lives. shall strafford al jazeera eastern ukraine.

qualify thing is concentrated on the east and in southern front lines. the full toll of the warring other regions of ukraine is still unknown. under hani, it is in bottom, the anchor. it's how near keith, the scene reduced to rubble. well, if 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 bore agenda 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. 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 anymore. everything charge. 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. oh, 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 old away from year or to cave, 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 my 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 3rd month president vladimir putin says it will provide food for thought for those who threaten russia. he says each miss allison carry up to 12 nuclear warheads and can hit any target on us. defend chief say the new ethan poses no more significant threat than other elements of russia also feels. giovanni has mo, from moscow, the russian president vladimir putin, has since congratulated the defense minister. and he has said that this is sar mart. intercontinental ballistic missiles will reliably insure the security of russia from current threats, letting me put, and also said that it will make those who are trying to threaten russia to think it

is now going to be the largest nuclear capable ballistic missile that russia will have in its fleet an arsenal, and according to the defense ministry, this is this. a saw mart missile will be part of a ongoing series of tests. and then once those tests are completed, they miss all will be replacing what they already have in their arsenal. this is one of the heaviest, if not the heaviest ballistic missile in the world that will be joining russia's current stockpile. the 2 contenders for the french presidency has taken part in a televised debate ahead of sunday's election, incumbent emmanuel mclaren his far right. challenge of marine la pens, sparred over the cost of living, the crane war, and the ease, future opinion polls favor micron, but suggest a tight race. as i shamartha reports from paris, olivia, 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 to russian bank loaned the funded her 2017 campaign, was every tissue bought. 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 macros said

such a move would provoke, a civil war is as she paula daddy's only role, dollars was really, i believe the headscarf is a uniform. impose by islamists that most young women who wear it have no choice was . this is just shelton, france's country of the enlightenment of universal values would be the 1st country in the world to bound religious symbols in public space. the 1st country in the world, that is what you are proposing. wow, look at times, mcgraw seemed overconfident 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 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 doing 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 monte de la allison fiery exchanges to natural flourishes. the debates are often highly anticipated by fuels and rarely dull. over the years the protagonists and politics have changed, but one thing has remained constant and the person most widely perceived have won the debate often wins the election voters on sunday. well, now decide whether history will repeat itself. natasha butler, al jazeera, paris gregory dog castilla head on al jazeera allegations of viruses. dozens of properties are destroyed in amazon neighborhood in india's capital, plus china's fraser, and pushes back on sanctions without directly mentioning russia's invasion of ukraine. ah,

richard, he has begun the fee for world copies on its way to cattle. brook travel package today. here's your weather in a minute 15. hello everyone. great to see. let's begin in the arabian peninsula and around the eastern side, we do have some sand and dust being kicked up places like q 8, with the high 37 degrees sunshine in the forecast in doha. and we've got you in for 35, somewhat weather drifting around cobble with a height of 19 degrees, also into northern portions of boxed on his waltz. what day for bish kick and tash can tash cat? 25 degrees will be the number for you off to turkey in the northeast black sea coast of hue showers, pushing their way in here. that includes for tribes on we'll see that energy move into georgia as well. so what day for tbilisi? central africa, our usual pulses of storms here in this area,

but especially intense for areas of camera room into southern nigeria on thursday as we sides what the south south africa, the northern cape, the province had been under an extreme heat advisory. i think that will be lifted in the days. come as this temperatures come down. so up into has the height 27 degrees and we've got some pretty solid bands of rain stretching from socket into hoary summit. these will be intense. downpours to be expected in time. for the western cape, looking good and keep down with the height of 21 degrees, official ally of the journey. join the debate. there is no he job bad to go. you know, if anyone here talks about women that i had to force with seem to have been says notes. so pick it off the table. we were taught to see abortion had 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 that, where a global audience becomes a global community. the comment section is right here. be part of today's program.

this stream on al jazeera, ah ah, come back, you're watching al jazeera time. to recap our headlines now. ukrainian commander is issued merge and call for heavier weapons. as the russian military drives to take over the besieged city of mother. you both tens of thousands of people remain trapped there. russia says it's successfully tested a new intercontinental ballistic missile called the 3rd month president vladimir putin says it will provide food for thought for those who threaten rush. the 2 contenders for the french presidency of taken part. a televised debate,

heather sundays, election incumbent to manual micron this far right. challenge of marrying the pan discuss the cost of living, the ukraine war, the future of the year of the union, china as president. she ging pink spin, speaking at the annual bow forum for asia gathering on the chinese island of hey man, i use the opportunity to criticize the use of unilateral sanctions by albert global powers as get more now from katrina. you joins us live from bay ging. so was that a reference to the ukraine war? played and specifically name ukraine, but that was the strong suggestion. now this is an annual economic form that takes place in china's south, and it's mostly attended to by chinese business leaders, chinese officials. but there were some other participants from other asian countries. and really the chinese president, she jan thing,

spoke about the global economy and he said that it was facing enormous pressure. at the moment you said that supply chains were in trouble and needed to urgently be stabilized. and he said that uni lateral sanctions, or so called long jurisdiction, or any other pressure tactics, including the coupling. he said that these didn't work, and these only serve to so the damage the global economies chance of recovery following the pandemic. he also talked about how asian countries needed to help to stabilize the international economy and how china's economy itself would continue to be resilient. but of course, china's economy also is facing enormous pressure from both the ukraine war and sporadic local carbon 1900 outbreaks. and as the chinese president speaks, who got pictures emerging of what appears to be hyper sonic missile, testing by the chinese, the message being sent there. and so it's are in

$100.00. we had chinese president, she didn't thing talk about the need for world peace and countries to work together . but on wednesday we had a video which appears to be link leaked by the chinese navy and shows a hypersonic missile being launched from one of china's most advanced navy massage destroyers ships. now we've had no confirmation from beijing that they have successfully achieved this technology. but we do know that they've been working on it for some time. and if they are successful, they would be the only the 2nd country to have hypersonic missiles after russia. now, from the looks of these videos, experts say it seems that these missiles have a, a range of about 10021500 kilometers, which means they're able to target entire s strike fleets at sea. and we don't know exactly why china is really putting a lot of investment into this hypersonic missile technology, except to say that paging has been building up its military and also nuclear

capabilities over the last few years. and chinese analysts say that this is all about deterrence that china is a long way when it comes to a power c with the likes of the u. s. all with russia. but because of increasing tensions around the south trying to see around taiwan and also looking at ukraine and seeing how the u. s. and other western countries are really galvanized and sort of mobilized to support ukraine. this is making paging nother, so it's working on building up, its 2nd strike capability to deter any future attacks or counter attacks in what, what baiting sees as its own backyard. and we also have to look at the timing of this. this video was released just ahead of the 73rd anniversary of china's navy, which takes place on saturday. and also a week after the u. s. conducted some joint navy exercises with japan's military in the korean peninsula last week. thanks so much katrina, you. me

a hong kong is easing some covered 19 restrictions is impose some of the world, toughest measures of this year. after being hit by a 5th wave of from 1st day, restaurants are allowed to serve until much later in the night and has psalms and gyms can reopen. but many say it's too late for some businesses. adrian brown reports for many of the bars and restaurants in this once busy entertainment district of land. quite fun. the partial relax ation of coby restrictions has come to late. 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, diners 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 there's a spike in 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 full dinah's table. the government has been providing financial support to businesses, including kim's, but the owner of this one won't. it won't survive another locked down, lord under cash or to her? well, i think it will be difficult for us to survive with the existing cash flow. if there is a new wave of code 19, our cash flow has a limit. most of the small and medium enterprises like not recovered from the fift wait. hong kong standing as ages 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 it is more difficult to come back and they are considering the thing, i probably offer some due diligence. they realize that, you know, hong kong remains to be vibrant, financial center functions. it was once asia's busiest. it's now it required a monday no flights arrived from outside asia. airlines have been for a week if 3 or more passengers test positive recovered from the same flight. and everyone entering the territory, mis 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 current team. that, in turn, is helping their economies to grow again. but hong kong like mainland china is sticking doggedly to what it 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. israel is hit targets in garza for a 2nd time. this week. it says rockets were fired towards these ray. the town of that earlier, hollis indian say the rocket font follows israeli incursions in the sum of compounds. there are no reports of casualties on either side itself says it hit a military post in gaza and tensions remain high at the a lot. so most compound also the incursion of the jewish ultra nationalists groups and to be occupied site through the forces of some young is leaving the compound. the israeli troops, 5 rubble, bullets. one of the most windows office on through stone is a soldier. since friday, a number of interesting engine, israeli raids on the compound authorities in india,

capital have destroyed dozens of properties and predominantly poor neighborhoods. it follows violence between hindus and muslims in an area on saturday. elizabeth, for on the reports from new delhi. ah, the bulldozers moves for the john good pooty neighbourhood of north west tele, on wednesday morning, accompanied by hundreds of police and paramilitary forces. they destroyed shops for 3 hours despite a supreme court order, telling them to stop. the gate to the jungle through the mosque was also demolished while the hindu temple next to it stood intact. here during the run was it would have been a war. yes. are you getting this demolition should stop them because no one from the shops took barden, socrates violence on that day and those were creating trouble. some people asked them to stop, but they didn't, and some of them felt it's dawn. and then some young kids from this site through stolen but no one to a stone from the mos police have caught and off the neighborhood since saturdays of

violence between hindu said muslims. it started when hundreds of hindus let a procession through the largely muslim neighborhood, carrying swords and chanting hindu nationalist slogans. most of the shops which were destroyed on wednesday belonged to muslims, but some hindus lost their property to ha or, or to colleague. this is just wrong if they want to clear the roads, they should serve a notice and form us beforehand. if they don't do that, they should at least give us time to move, are things that it's just wrong to destroy people's livelihoods. law, the north delhi municipal cooperation, which is run by the hindu nationalist. part of the agenda party said wednesdays operation was part of its regular drive to remove illegally built stretches. victim . this is against some people who've encroached on government land. mario, some scrap dealers have blocked the whole road. we've come to clear that. but the demolition to taking place just 2 days after a senior member of the b. j. p told north daily's mer to destroy any illegally constructed properties belonging to people arrested in connection with saturday's

violence. 24 people have been arrested so far. most of the muslims saturdays violence follows a number of similar incidents across india and recent weeks that all occurred as hender groups were leading processions to largely muslim neighborhoods. india supreme court is expected to hear a case against demolishing properties of people suspected of violence on thursday. that's after 45 homes owned by muslims were destroyed in the state of multiplication last week. opposition and civil society groups say the bulldozing of horns owned by muslims. suspected of violence only happens in states run by the governing b, j. p. as the people of john, good pooty, pick up what's left of their shops. they say they are being punished for violence. they had nothing to do with elizabeth moran. m al jazeera new delhi. a fast moving wildfire is forced thousands of people in the u. s. state of arizona to leave their

homes. strong winds and drought conditions of driving the fire to was properties near the city of flagstaff. the size of the wildfires tripled in just a few days. u. s. forest service says navy 7000 page has been scorched. dozens of buildings have been destroyed. brazil's famous carnival is resuming after a 2 year gap because of the current virus pandemic whose clothes and dancers are back on the streets of rio de janeiro. the main event will take place this friday and saturday were members from 12 sanders schools to show off their move. ah, unless take you through saw those headlines now. a ukrainian commander is.