and reconciliation commission for this former warlord, liberia has become the frontline of a drug war. it cannot afford to lose. he says it's a battle he will fight out of responsibility and killed for his past crimes. and for his country. ah. the un sexy general holds face to face talks with russia's president who's agreed in principle to let the un and red cross help evacuate civilians from ru pole. and germany is to send antea croft tanks to ukraine in a major policy shift over 40 countries agree to meet monthly to discuss arming, keith. ah, i'm learning this is out. is there a life in london? was it coming up?

rejoined detectives, leading up bodies in the hunt for evidence of war crimes in ukraine. ah, kim's own vows to ramp up north korea's nuclear arsenal. to minutes he parade, showing off its largest intercontinental ballistic missiles, and beijing extends its cobit testing to 20000000 people. as it races to avoid a crippling lockdown at the one in shanghai. ah other russia has agreed in principle to allow the un and red cross to help evacuate civilians from the as of style steel plant in the besieged city of mary pole. the agreement was reached during talks in moscow between the united nations sector general antonio quoterush and russian president vladimir putin. on it talks in germany, the u. s. and its allies have promised to send more heavy weaponry to ukraine.

we're 40 countries agreed to meet monthly, to discuss arming keys and after weeks of threats, russia says it will turn off the gas to poland and bulgaria on wednesday because they refuse to pay for it and rubles, though strawberry begins are coverage with this report from moscow the world's most senior diplomat is in moscow on a mission, un secretary general, antonio gutierrez says he has come to the russian capital as a messenger of peace. his audience, the most controversial world leader. at the moment, civil russian president vladimir putin who received the secretary general with high praise for his organization. russia, as one of the founding countries of the united nations and a permanent member of the security council as always supported this universal organization. and we believe that it is not just universal but unique and it's kind, there is no such organization in the international community, and we strongly support the principles on which it is based on we intend to do so

in the future. good, harris seemingly not missing any words about how the united nations sees russia so called special military operation in ukraine with i understand these grievances. but from our perspective, the grievances must be solved according to the different instruments that the un charter has at its disposal. and the one thing that we firmly believe is that the violation of the territorial integrity of the country is completely out of order in relation to the charter. earlier in the day. but harris kicked off his trip with a meeting at the russian foreign ministry and a working lunch with survey lover of the 2 officials discussed for nearly 2 hours. the situation in ukraine. they emerged from what was described as a frank conversation. that is clear that there are due to different positions on what is happening in ukraine, according to the russian federation. what is taking place is a special new 3rd,

your promotion with your objectives. that's what a lot according to the un in line with the resolutions fast by the general assembly roches invasion of ukraine is a violation of his very thought of the integrity and against the charge. that of united nations in the russian foreign minister, once again defended his country's decision league, rody shoshone will shoshone conclude this was happening as a result of the actions of the us and its allies and unipolar world to the gums. as for our geopolitical sphere, it was done in the interest of containing russia and to that, and for many years green has been used as a springboard to restrain our country. one of the main initiatives put forward by the secretary general involved ending the humanitarian crisis in the besieged port city of mary, your pulse. the city is now under russian control. according to the defense ministry that thousands of civilians are unable to leave it. something vladimir

putin dismissed as miss information was harris has proposed setting up a contact working group made up of russian, ukrainian, an un members to ensure that all residents wishing to leave can do so. and to allow aid into the area after to our meeting with the russian president, the us says let me put has agreed in principle to the involvement of the agency along with the international committee of the red cross to overfeed the evacuation of civilians from the as of the steel plant and mary o pole. the un secretary general seemingly managed to achieve what many world leaders have failed to do so far. i see travel ukraine, he will be looking for officials there to approve this plan as well. all the walls and you are the 1000 civilians continue to wait to get out of the underground tunnels, in one of europe's largest steel door. such a bar al jazeera and the 3 people have been killed and 7 injured and malicious

russian air strikes and shilling in the city of hockey's of us. according to the regional governor, ukraine's 2nd largest city has seen some of the worst fighting since russian forces withdrew from ron key. b cranes as russian rockets flew at a low altitude over europe's largest u. k. a power plant before hitting a nearby commercial center in the city is parisha killing. one person reaches the last large city under ukrainian co control in the southeast. many ukrainians for the front lines have headed there. but reinforcements are being sent and trenches, being dog and expectation of us an assault ukraine's state run. atomic energy company has wound the lo fi missiles risk, causing a nuclear catastrophe. more than 40 countries have agreed to meet monthly to discuss arming ukraine. the 1st meeting of the broad kurdish was held at the ramstein airbase in germany, where the u. s. and its allies promised to send more heavy weaponry to ukraine.

among them was the german government, which in a major policy you turn said it would send anti aircraft tanks. so fasten was there after his surprised visit to key if last weekend u. s. defense faculty, lloyd austin, taught more than 40 defense ministers and official of countries worldwide that they needed to do more for ukraine to win the war. we don't have any time. the waste a brief range left today laid out clearly why the coming weeks will be. so crucial for ukraine. so we got to move at the speed of war. and i know that all the leaders leave to day more resolved than ever to support ukraine in its fight against russian aggression and atrocities used ramstein air base in germany, the largest u. s. air bees outside of the u. s. to bring ne to ministers, but also those from the middle east, africa and asia. together. the location was significant because especially germany

had been reluctant to sent happy weapons to ukraine. not any more. we hum guest on and she does fear, do we decided on monday to support ukraine with capehart anti aircraft systems, which is exactly what you cry needs right now to security. a space from the ground from this has become clear again today which given the gay part or cheetah anti aircraft systems are not the combat. thanks. ukraine had asked 4 weeks ago, but it is seen as a breakthrough after the german government was worried about being drawn into a war with russia. and chancellor olive shoals warned a few days ago for the possibility of a nuclear war. while many in europe are looking at germany to lead efforts to support your grain, united states has now stepped in. with this meeting on german soil, united states has managed to convince countries like germany who were still reluctant to send happy weapons to make a turn around. but the main question now is how nervous this will make people hear

that the war will expand beyond ukraine? that fasten from the ramstein base in germany. i'll gary as energy ministry says there's no need for restrictions on its gas consumption yet. that's despite russia announcing it's halting supplies to bulgaria and poland from wednesday. and the 1st suspension since president putin worn last month. that unfriendly foreign buyers would have to pay stay turned gas from in rubles instead of dollars and euros. or gary an official say they have alternative arrangements for natural gas deliveries . and poland says, flows from other directions will replace gas pump supplies, all chew, mileage for takia, a garage visit. we have received threats from the russian federation, from gas promo. they are related with the method of payment in poland, sticks to the arrangements, and perhaps russia will try to punish poland in this way. as i have emphasized many times, poland had previously prepared, diversified gas applies, and to obtain gas from various directions. and even before the baltic gas pipeline

is launched, will be able to protect our economy, protect households, and polls against such a dramatic step by russia. i order it. crane is investigating more than $500.00 suspects for committing thousands of potential war crimes. evidence has been gathered across the country. i don't know how mead traveled to towns, north of keith, where detectives assisting through the rubble clamps ever since the russians pulled out a few weeks ago. detective victoria namir rover and her team have been exhibit bodies at least 10 day leave. at dusk, she never thought she would be doing when she 1st joined the police. a few on this day, her team is unearthing the body of a person buried in the backyard of a house. they carefully dig, carving around the body, trying to figure out how it's positioned a bit more to the who. these are the feet, so the head is over there. she says at 1st assessment reveals it's

a man who appears to be in his sixties. it's only when they flip the body over that she finds a clue into the cause of death. more. what awning on your thumb lamp affiliation, each a senior. he's got a wanted the back of the hat. most likely it's from a bullet because he had blood coming out of the mouse. the body is the composing, and the skin is stuck to the clothes. so in order not to damage it more, we will take him away and then the forensic expert will investigate further. the found his fawn, we will charge it and hopefully find out more about him. the full scope of what happened when the russian soldiers left the towns north of keith is still not clear, but the trail of destruction left behind is evident. civilians have been telling about how they were diagonally targeted as they were trying to flee. they had bullet holes all over this windshield, but this car was hit by some large caliber ammunition from the

side here. and you can see still the remains of what appears to be a white flag marking the fact that they were civilians in this vehicle. and then here on this side of the car, you see the point of exit, of whatever rip through the car. and inside it's mayhem, you still actually have blood stains everywhere. and in the middle of all that, a passport it belongs to a young man who was born in september 1990 children who, who killed all our business number and jar children. but again, we don't. it's another example of a ledge war crimes. among the thousands of cases that investigators have been documenting says, ukraine's prosecutor general. she has dispatched teams around the country to gather evidence here and bro. danco, they set up in a classroom and is full of people telling their stories. again, killing civilians,

samo them over, after tortured torture civilians. we are now started to prosecute sexual crimes raped we see eat unfortunately with the then they talk with the property officer, the lance. oh, we see again there they bombed again and again they bumped civilian infrastructure . hospitals came to harder and schools more than 1000 into kish or institutions destroyed in ukraine. water. this, of course it's military. it is what crime knew by boucher do. mortgage overwhelmed refrigerated trucks are also overflowing with bodies. olga finally found her husband. after coming here for several days, he was killed while she was away in poland or put to move her sister there. for the lowest of the neighbors called and said me, he was shot on march 22nd. he was going to the garage to get some food to russian.

soldier saw him, ran after him and shot him twice. the russians didn't allow the body to be picked up for 3 days. ah, russia denies committing any atrocities suggesting they've been staged. but do you and human rights offers says, there is growing evidence of war crimes committed by russian soldiers and fears. many more could emerge as the fighting continues in the east and south of the country. for the bill, hamid elder 0 north of keefe. a ukrainian nightclub owner has helped more than 200 people escape the besieged. you have multiple 36 year old and the carlo parisha drove his van into port area 6 times last month to get civilians out. he repaired his van between trips after strikes, destroyed the windshield side windows and door, where he shifts as he house people in his clubs, bomb shelter until it was safe enough to drive out of marian year. just so it so

happened that i was bringing insulin and food over and i wanted to have, i create some people, but i couldn't leave for 6 days in those 6 days every day i went around and gather people. i went to barb shelters where conditions were wars where there were pregnant woman the children. i took them from their bro, them to my bumps shelter. this is how 163 people turned into 200. all of them stayed in my shelter, and all of these 200 people were able to get out. still to come, this are far more diverse steps up, security after new explosions, targeting radio mass in the russian bathroom regulations, mystery of region. and coming face to face with ancient goddess garza and farmer us for our 1000 year old canaanites dating ah

hello, we have seen some very heavy rain recently into our central australia tuesday. in the south australian outback, we had 69 millimeters of brain though, wet a single day for 33 years. that where to where that now moves a little further southwards denise, which sweeping across victoria the south wells. we'll see some lively shouts and there's more rain where that came from this cold front over to ward. so south australia pushing across certain parts of western australia will sweep through some rain coming through here them as we go. 13 weapons de 21 celsius in perth. and notice from where to weather. once again, into a good part of new south wales into the out, back here, eating over towards sidney will continue to drive its way further eastwards. tasmania also see some of that shower and a few showers there into were victoria and good scattering a shower towards the western parts of sand. far north of the cape york peninsula

for new zealand, it's largely dry. high pressure dominates the weather here, so it does keep it lossy settled and sunny over the next couple of days. just bits of fair weather cloud. we will grace you see sunny weather making its way back into japan after a very wet spell of weather on wednesday. brightest guys come back in behind the heavy shasta central china. ah. the african stories from african perspectives. i'm a marine biologist, a business when a short documentaries from african peel. i'm going to do the prompt south africa, ethiopia, and nigeria. we been to go over some stuff in this class. she saw this as my, and my old on africa direct on al jazeera lou

. ah, one of the top stories here, which is 0 united nation sector general antonio terrace, has met russia's president vladimir putin in moscow. the un says moscow has agreed in principle to allow it and the red cross to help with the evacuation of civilians . from the as of star steel plant in the besieged city of mar, you pull. over 40 countries have agreed to meet monthly to discuss arming ukraine. at the 1st meeting of a broad coalition was held at the u. s. s. ranch time in germany. at least 3 people have been killed and 7 injured in ongoing russian asterix and shedding in the city of hawkins. another person was killed in a rocket attack on the city of separation. the last,

southeastern city on the ukrainian control holdover says it's stepped up security after 3 explosions in 24 hours in the break away region of trans nice trip to soviet era. radio mass, a military unit, and a state security ministry were targeted. the presidents, as the acts aren't attempt to destabilize the country, sorry, the legal report, the aftermath of explosions in the capital of a self declared territory of trans in history. and on soviet era radio and 10 i used to broadcast russian radio. a military unit was also targeted. this small sliver of land that sits on the mold domon border with ukraine is on high alert since the start of the war. moldova has feared that it could be in danger of being pulled into the conflict with russia. because here in this unrecognized breakaway state, is home to some 1500 russian troops that moscow called peacekeeping forces. 470000

people, mostly russian speakers live in a strip of land, while not internationally recognized. it has its own currency and its own leader rather closer sales ski. there is also a military guard, but what's causing concern is not just the russian troops who have been here since the civil war in the early 19 ninety's. it's also the $40000.00 tons of weaponry and ammunition that remain at norm's depot. here, since the collapse of the soviet union, although as president my asunder vowed a peaceful negotiation but condemned what she said, what any attempts to ruin the country with neutral status. and when we remain open to continue dialogue so as to solve the conflict in the region in a peaceful manner negotiated through diplomatic channels. when that would offer people in moldova, including those in the region of trans nice drea, a chance to

a peaceful and prosperous life. ukraine has warned a false flag attacks by moscow. last week, a senior russian commander said the next goal in it's offensive was to access trans anesthesia to seize control of southern ukraine. further increasing tensions, even so it remains a huge tactical risk for russia to right over into the conflict. russia would need to have a successful offensive in solving ukraine. was you mean major cities, a mccully which is currently about a ground. odessa, which is even bigger battleground, would have to fall 1st. and then they could think of making lambert's gesture so long as it after remains outside of russian hands. that's illusory. goal right now . meanwhile, many watch and wait to see what will happen here in this territory that could define the next phase of russia's campaign. sonia eagle al jazeera, the u. s. has warned that iran could develop a nuclear weapon in weeks. that's down from previous development times about one

year. it says a return to the 2015 nuclear deal is the best way to produce any threat. the fact is that right now around the breakout time, it is far shorter than we would like. were we to reenter the j. c p. away and more precisely, we're iran to once again be subject to the most stringent verification of monitoring regime. ever negotiating, negotiated that breakout time would be extend my calendar on the slide, but from washington d. c might go one more, the white house had to save us. well, the white house press secretary addressed this issue directly during the daily briefing, saying that this is something that certainly does worry the bite and administration . he also said the fact that the president, president biden, that is, started working towards out resuscitating that particular agreement. the joint cut barron of action was because of the fact that iran was accelerating it's nuclear

weapons development. after us had walked away. and the tramp from that particular deal. so jennifer saki saying that this is one of the reasons why the us wants to get back to the steel. she was echoing something said by the secretary of state. earlier in the day, antony blinkin was giving evidence to a senate committee. i, he said as well that the matter of time in which iran could develop a nuclear weapon has dropped from a year to a matter of weeks. this. he also said as a consequence of ben president, trans decision to pull out of the joint comprehensive plan of action. so antony blinking using this opportunity to make this public to the senate, no doubt as well with an i to getting domestic support for the bided and ministrations intention to resuscitate at that joint a comprehensive plan of action. this is not necessarily

a popular thing among many members of congress and blinking perhaps using this particular example as a way to encourage and increase support for the by the administration's attempts to get the joint comprehensive plan of action back on track mckenna. thank you very much. indeed, athena suicide bomber has killed at least 4 people and injured several others in southern pakistan. the blast ripped through many bass traveling near the university of karachi. please say 3 chinese nationals employed at the confucius as it were. killed a separatist group known as naep. ash liberation nami has claimed responsibility. a prominent opposition figure and politician in sudan has been released from prison. former covenant mr. hunted, my usa was freed on bail on tuesday. it was one of several politicians arrested in february, 4 months officer take over by the military leaders who shared power with the civilian coalition. yourself as a member of the sideline group,

the forces of freedom and change, and was working towards a solution to dance political crisis before his arrest. north korea is bound to ramp pop its nuclear arsenal with maximum speed. need him drone made the announcement during a military parade which showcase the country's largest and newest intercontinental ballistic missile. rob mcbride reports from neighboring south korea. the parade march. the 90th anniversary of the founding of north korea's military. and it was meant to show off the power of its modern de weaponry on display with some of the newest weapons. it has recently been testing such as hypersonic missiles and a more advanced longer rain submarine launched ballistic missiles. after several years of attempted negotiations aimed at the nuclear rise ation leader kim jong and seems to have abandoned all such efforts that conciliation him was she me in the

world today were powers our fears, the clashing with other powers, national dignity, sovereignty and true peace can only be guaranteed by strong self defense to overcome enemies. north korea is dara. the show was what it says is it's the most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile. to date, the 4 songs 17, it's the same type of weapon. it says it launched at the end of march, the 1st fully fledged test of an icbm since 2017 it things north korea has nothing to lose by putting on a big show of military force right now. us and south korean forces have gone ahead with that joint spring exercise in south korea has just chosen the conservative administration that's likely to take a much tougher stand with the north. and us president joe biden will soon be visiting northeast asia. president biden will be attempting to bolster support from

the united states allies, south korea and japan. but they mounting speculation that north korea might even be planning a return and to underground nuclear weapon testy for the 1st time in 5 years. and would have yankee once had the basic mission of our nuclear capabilities to deter war. but our nuclear weapons are not just for the sole mission of deterring study. if any attempts are made to usurp our interests, we might have no choice, but to call on those weapons, pyongyang seems as determined as ever to be accepted by the international community as a nuclear power to be reckoned with. rob mcbride al jazeera, so aging has extended its mass testing drive to almost all its 21000000 residents. as the city struggles to contain a surge in corona virus cases, people have been panic buying it. supermarket stocking up on food, an essential items. hearing a city wide lockdown like the one imposed on shanghai,

china's capital has rolled out strict measures under the country, 0 covey policy. katrina, you has more from beijing. well, baiting authority say they found cases in 8 new districts across aging, bringing that person of ac chrome of ours cases identified here in the capital since friday. so what that means that there's mandatory testing order has been extended to law district and basically will cover most of the people living in beijing. and that includes more than 20000000 people who will have to go from math testing. so far they've tested about 4000000 in this initial round, including myself and our team as well. and we're still waiting on our results from that initial test. now here's the thing we will have to do just once this week, not twice. we'll have to do the test 3 times before the weekend. i think that's a recognition that this is the highly infectious on the chrome strain and it's very

difficult to catch at time. now, after all the test results, the after those 3 rounds of test results are discovered and collated on the weekend . it we're expecting on sunday that authority will make a judgment call as to whether there'll be any lockdown or any further restrictions imposed a global fund crisis. is looming, urgent action isn't taken us according to the united nations environment program warning and status report that the world is using a found a foster that it can be replaced. global demand search to 50000000000 times a year because of population growth and innovation. sand is the world's most consumed war material after water is the primary substance used in the construction of roads, bridges, and land regeneration projects. the un calling for band on beach extraction and new rules for sand mining. a stone statue, dating back for the last 1000 years, has been found by a farmer and southern garza. the 22 sent me to high limestone statute depicts the

face of the ancient canaanite deity. annette, who was the goddess of love and war. she was on earth by a farmer while he was working on his land in hon. eunice. posterior authorities say the statue is discovered on what was an important overland trade route for several early civilizations. anymore few any time on our website and a 0 dot com. ah, one of the top stories on how to 0. russia has agreed in principle to allow the un and red cross to help directly with a safe evacuation of civilians from the as our style. steel plant in a besieged city of murray. you pulled that according to the united nations secretary general, who's held a face to face meeting with vladimir putin in moscow. russia president describe the situation in multiple as difficult and tragic. it's believed at least

a 1000 civilians remain trapped to the plant where ukrainian troops, making a last stand in. the devastated city routine says quoterush has been.