changed my life in a good way with exclusive interviews and in depth reports. not hardly him, but he left her because al jazeera had teens on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and live news. ah ukrainian say it's hell on earth and they fight to keep russian forces from completely taking the city of my home. the me, you're watching all your life or my headquarters in del heim, daddy and obligated also coming off the battle in eastern ukraine. we talked to patients who say they can't leave because they have nowhere else to go. the tension in the occupy the compound is 18.

palestinian worshippers are injured by is really true. and the 2 contenders for the french presidency. go head to head in a heated televised debate hello ukrainian commanders and their last outpost in the port city of r u. paul said they may only have ours left as russia looks to take full control of the besieged city. that battled for maria pole goes on as british intelligence, as russia is now advancing, in its wider offensive in the east. so russia has steadily expanded its control and eastern ukraine since february capturing mario pole is critical for moscow to link separatists control territory in the east with russian antics crimea in the south. and as reeseville started our reports, it's equally important for the ukrainians to defend. this was life in mario, just 2 months ago. children playing on the beach,

feminists rolling by. but of the 2 most of war, life is ended him, but norm of here, ukrainian same are you pool is hell on earth. they are lost. remaining forces are holden out at one of europe's largest math factories. for these they have ignored russia, demands to surrender. they're not learning of the future. so most people 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 hours, the enemy is outnumbering as $10.00 to $1.00. they have advantage in the air in artillery, in their forces on land, in equipment and in tanks were only defending one object, the as old 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 sure sort of verity michel matthew. granny president will demo zalinski and kia

and pledge to continue providing military anal. today, we have to say 1500000000 euros military treatment. and the after the intrusion solution was you, we are twins, 2 twins members, $32.00 at butter. 2 else support your to mid showed it. what we provide is what you need. and we stood very precisely what underneath in her 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 the mighty open. in order to unblock mario ple, 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 your grins, as of beth helene, inside the as hostile factory. hundreds of people seem cramped on the ground

somewhere in a sprawling compound which the satilla flushed. my youngest child cries of 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 not. i can't cry any more. we are just sat here. you block pregnancy name. on wednesday, my are you post city 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 you green, you see, they are fully committed to defend. russ, who said that al jazeera living, or russia's defense ministry, says it's hit more than a 1000 targets across ukraine in the past 24 hours. that's part of it's renewed, offensive in the east, which british intelligence says is advancing. our correspondent charles stratford got close to what's being called the line of contact, where both sides are exchanging fire. and he spoke to people living near the fighting in the eastern dumbass region. not shallow, no blue white ve xhylia shows us what exploding shill did to her home. yes. her house is a few kilometers from where russian forces are trying to advance 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 air ship casual, a thing it so we don't worry, this is outgoing. she continues either some way. i came out of the house and i saw

my son was crawling towards me. he shouted, ma'am, 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 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, 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. valentina is 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, unholy. 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're desperate to get out. why can they go? stopped told us not to name the hospital because they're afraid of 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 evacuees in the city of cremmit, also killing more than 50 people on a police 8th. this is now the most eastern 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 ourselves 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, if gania, in another compartment new or used to the question. we have come from cremmit, oscar, because of russia entered the city. we 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 al jazeera, eastern ukraine, or russia saying that it successfully tested a new intercontinental ballistic missile called the sar mats president vladimir

putin says, will provide food for thought, for those who threaten russia. he says each miss all can carry up to 12 nuclear heads and can hit any target on earth. military analyst, harland omens has nato must make it clear to russia in current use nuclear weapons in ukraine. well, i've raised in a column, it becomes desperate. he could threaten using nuclear weapons and this is, these will not be strategic weapons. but what we need to do in advance is that nato has 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 put knows that russia has presented a draft document to ukraine, outlining its demand for peace. ukraine is reviewing their proposals and that comes as the un secretary general and tony of the terrorists pushes the presidents of both countries to meet our diplomatic editor james base is at the un headquarters with more the un has sent separate letters to the craniums and the russians requesting that they arrange a trip by the secretary general to keep and to moscow if they say yes, this could be one of the most important developments since the start of the war. there have been talks between the 2 sides, but they have gone nowhere. this would mean the u. n. leader. effectively carrying out shuttle diplomacy. his spokesman gave more details. we're going to take things one step at a time, so the letters were sent. the idea would be for him to go to both capitals to

moscow, into care, to meet with both presidents to discuss whatever urgent steps can be taken to stop the fighting. i'm not going to give him a label in terms of what he will be doing, but this is, this remains part of the secretary general's good offices, which he has been talking about really for, for quite some time. it follows a call by the secretary general for a 4 day humanitarian pause of orthodox easter. that's something the craniums reacted to positively. but there's been no official response from moscow that has been criticism of the secretary general in recent days. more than 200 former un officials wrote a letter calling on him to step up his personal diplomacy or risk the future of the united nations. the international monetary fund is warning the war and ukraine is having global ramifications. and it says,

low income countries are in or near death distress. some nations are calling for russia to be expelled from the i. m. s. my kind of reports from washington. it may be largely a virtual meeting, but this still hustle and bustle outside the i am at the headquarters in downtown washington and their 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 reflects the direct impact of the war and ukraine and sanctions on russia with both countries projected to experience steep 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 it continues to retain a $120000000000.00 that were owed to international banks. money that's unlikely to now 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 m. s. articles of agreement do not mention expelling a country for waging war. a country can be expelled for falsifying data. who as was the case with then czechoslovakia, in 1954 for not informing the i. m. f 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 in 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 fella had on al jazeera, china's president pushes back on sanctions without directly mentioning russia's invasion of ukraine details coming up the

here's her whether in a minute 15 still disturbed weather for the western mediterranean. so that means outbreaks of rain around the valley, eric into corsica and sardinia, and also top to bottom for the west coast of italy, weather alerts in play for not only the rain, but also wind showers are moving across the re added fee into western areas of the bulk in so showers to be expected in variable with the high, $13.00 degrees on thursday and improvement in conditions for its stumble. more sun on thursday turkey's ne bike seat coast than showers that's pushing into georgia. so what day for tbilisi on thursday with the high of 20 degrees after the northwest, a few clouds drifting around the islands of ireland and britain. but the stellar's touch of there continues for scandinavia. this picture perfect day in our slow with the high of 18 degrees, so that disturbed weather round the western mediterranean. it's dropping down some

rain and wind for northern algeria and tunisia. and it seems like sand and dust storms very likely for western libya. now for south africa, the northern cape, there was an extreme heat advisory in play. i think that's going to be lifted as we look toward thursday. those temperatures coming down in up into in $27.00 degrees and a band of rain stretching from sockets, a hoary, some of that will be heavy at times. ah frank assessments, what are the political risks? automatic wash, nor the gas for western leaders? will sanctions on russian energy exports. harrison was informed opinions. france is not abandoning to fight against jedi, still resumed media. yeah. going to be marketing from nisha and from chad. critical debate. could china actually help in russia's invasion of ukraine in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera

o. a. hello again. the top stories on al jazeera, this, our russian forces in your poll had been targeting the cities last ukrainian defender and to hold up and is still planned for buses. hearing civilian evacuees have left the besiege port city on wednesday. i'm british intelligence is saying that russia is advancing in don bos towards promised worth. the u. k says moscow likely wants to make significant gains and eastern ukraine before russia has annual victory day celebrations on may, the 1000000 russia saying is successfully tested

a new intercontinental ballistic missile president vladimir putin says each miss all can carry up the 12 nuclear warheads and can hit any target on earth. well, is there any forces have injured 13 palestinians by using rubber bullets and a further 5 palestinians are suffering from pepper spray inhalations. this all happening at the mouth compounds i. it's been days of height, intention at the sites and occupied in jerusalem, incursions by jewish ultra nationalists groups have for the reasons. unrest. let's find out what's happening right now with the occupied holy side and bringing stephanie decor, joining us from occupied east jerusalem. stephanie well we've been hearing for the last couple of hours done grenades rubber bullets we know being fired, also fireworks coming out of the mosque. 18 injured. now, this is,

as you said, coming off the back of a week heightened tension. today's the last day is that these right wing jewish groups are being allowed access to the site. it is hugely controversial. justina videos posted on social media as well, of them praying. now this is really the red line, the status quo, which is what was agreed upon. between jordan and israel. jordan is the custodian of the muslim holy sites was that muslims were allowed to play prey and non muslims to visit. now what people will tell you, palestinians, and other experts that have been monitoring this over the years, is that the agreement of non muslim is accessing the site, is change in the sense of the, the, the nature of the visits has changed over the years with these increasing number and increasing radical right wing nationalist jews calling for the right to pray on the site openly, trying to pray on the side, you have groups that are going as far as to call for the rebuilding the building of a 3rd temple on the site. so all of this is extremely insightful behavior for the

palestinians, and this is why you will see them try to resist in some kind of form. when you do have the entry, the incursions of these groups onto the alexa most compound. so we're about, we've got about 10 more minutes of these tours. we've seen about 11 groups entering this site today. and as i said the however, now these really government has been, this is usual pro the procedure when it comes to ramadan banning. now, non muslims from entering the combat until the end of ramadan, in an effort to decrease these tensions as well. and stephanie, what is happening over in gaza? because their report, the israel has carried out air raids on the gaza strip and, and rockets were fired from garzon to southern israel as well. is, is one rocket fired initially, the israeli army said there were 4 rockets fired. it was actually one in the end. a which caused a slight damage to a home ins dorado. there were no injuries. the israeli army targeted hamas weapons

depo overnight. but still this within the realm of if you will, the usual language between the 2 groups, no injuries, both sides saying they don't want escalation, hamas had, i issued warnings to israel because we were expecting a what you call a right wing. again, flag march, yesterday of the group, the organizers wanted to go through damascus gate and occupied his jerusalem. what often hop happens with these flag marches as they are hugely inciteful out there. they say they slant anti arab slogans are very racist. but basically the police yesterday cordoned off all the roads to damascus gate, not allowing any of these marches to get there are also some of the right way members of parliament who wanted to join even the prime minister. naturally, bennett going as far as to say that benevita is one of these members of aren't, was not allowed to enter the old city. so goes to show that they tried really to com or what was a potential escalation on the ground with her. my saying if this flag march reached

anywhere that it would retaliate, i think the bigger picture is this no side. when it comes to israel garza once is kind of escalation, things are calm. so as i said one rocket, hamas also will tell you that there are many other rogue groups or other groups inside god's that often fire rockets. there was a statement recently from the factions in gaza, hamas particularly saying that any rocket fire should be coordinated with hamas, but they haven't stated exactly as to who was responsible for this one launch. okay, thank you. stephanie decker reporting from occupied east jerusalem. china's president, as, as government backs talks to resolve international disputes, but opposes the use of sanctions. so in the video message to the annual a bow for him, for asia, she jumping warned, against what he called a cold war mentality. and unilateral sanctions, it comes a day after a leaked video from the chinese navy showing an advanced anti ship miss all designed to destroy aircraft carriers. katrina,

you has more from beijing and one had 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 missile destroyers ships. now we've had no consummation 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 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 air strikes 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 power c with the likes of the u. s. or 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 aging 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. hong kong is easing some, if it's covered 19 restrictions for their 1st time in 4 months. many schools are resuming in person classes. jim cinemas on other public facilities are reopening on thursday. but as adrian brown reports, many say it's too late for some businesses. 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 diners. the table. the government has been providing financial support to businesses, including hymns. but the owner of this one warns it won't survive another lockdown

load on your cache or die. 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 smaller medium enterprises, like i have not recovered from the 50 way. 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 the market could 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 pumpkins, their pool was once asia's busiest. it's now it required a monday no flights arrived from outside asia. airlines, a band for a week if 3 or more passengers test positive for cobra from the same flight. and

everyone entering the territory miss quarantined 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, the 2 contenders for the french presidency have taken part in a televised debate ahead of sundays election, the incumbent to my new and my con is far right challenger marina pan, spar it over the cost of living, the ukraine war, and the use future opinion polls favor micro but suggests

a tight race and tosh. butler reports from paris a syllabus like to 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 loaned the funded her 2017 campaign, was every tisha 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 macros said such a move would provoke, a civil war is as she voluntarily only well, dollars was really i believe the headscarf is a uniform imposed by islamists that most young women who wear it have no choice. this is a just shelton france 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. 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. her 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 curriculum. 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 the 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 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 of one the debate often wins the election. voters on sunday will now decide whether history will repeat itself. natasha butler al jazeera paris for president. ah, hello again. the headlines on al jazeera.