and more uplifting and inspiring stories, people trust volunteer to tell them what's happening in their community in a clear and, and by an african i couldn't be more proud to be part of me. ah . ready russia agrees in principle to involve the un and red cross in evacuating civilians track to marry a poll after you and the secretary general and rushes president meet in moscow. ah, i'm carry johnston. this is al jazeera life and also coming up germany agrees to send anti aircraft systems to ukraine and a major policy change. while more than 40 countries agree to meet monthly to discuss further arm supplies to keep the u. s. ones are terran that might be weeks

away from building a nuclear bomb as abide and administration continues to try to reach a deal with the wrongs. singapore executes, a mentally disabled malaysian man found guilty of drug trafficking despite international course for tenancy. russia has agreed in principle to allow the un and red cross to help with evacuation or civilians from the as off style steel plant and the besieged, ukrainian city of murray uphold the agreement was reached during talks between the un secretary journal, antonio quoterush and russian president vladimir putin in moscow. some ukrainian troops are also trapped inside the plant, but they rejected the russian ultimatums to surrender dos such as bari reports. 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 apiece. his audience, the most controversial world leader. at the moment. 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 has always supported this universal organization. and we believe that it is not just universal but unique in its kind. there is no such organization in the international community, and we strongly support the principles on which it is based and we intend to do so in the future. good, harris seemingly not mincing any words about how the united nations seize 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. it 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 30 open ocean with your objectives. that's what a lot according to the un in line with the resolutions fast by the general assembly . russia's invasion of ukraine is a violation of his very thought and integrity and against the childhood of united nations in the russian foreign minister, once again defended his country's decision league, rody shoshone will show,

show control this was happening as a result of the actions of the us and its allies and unipolar world to the guns. as for our geo political sphere, it was done in the interest of containing russia. and to that end, 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 entering the humanitarian crisis in the besieged port city of mario paul. the city is now under russian control. according to the defense ministry, but thousands of civilians are unable to leave it. something vladimir putin dismissed as mis information, cuz 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 a trial meeting with the russian president, the un says vladimir putin has agreed in principle to the involvement of the agency

along with the international committee of the red cross to oversee the evacuation of civilians. from the as of solstio plan to marry awful un secretary general seemingly managed to achieve what many worth leaders have failed to do so far. as he travels ukraine, he will be looking for officials. they're to approve this plan as well. all the while the nearly 1000 civilians continue to wait to get out of the underground tunnels, in one of europe's largest steel plants. door such a vari, al jazeera moscow. but more than 40 countries have agreed to meet monthly to discuss arming ukraine. the 1st meeting of this broad coalition was held at the u. s. air base in germany. after coming under pressure for refusing to provide cube with heavy weapons, the german government has performed a major policy. you turn set vasa reports from ramstein apis. after his surprised visit to kia last weekend,

u. s. defense equity lloyd austin told more than 40 defense ministers, an official of countries worldwide that they needed to do more for ukraine to win the war. we don't have any time to waste the briefings. let today, laid out clearly why the coming weeks will be so crucial for ukraine. so we gotta move at a speed of war. and i know that all the leaders leave today more resolve an error to support ukraine in a fight against russian aggression and atrocities. use ramstein, a base in germany, the largest us be outside of the us to bring natal ministers, but also those from the middle east, africa and asia. together. the location was significant because especially germany had been reluctant to send heavy weapons to ukraine, not anymore. guest and she does. we decided on monday to support ukraine with

a pod anti aircraft system, which is exactly what you cry needs right now to security is face from the ground. this has become clear again today the gay part or teter, 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 all of shows want 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 grandeur, 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. steadfast and from the ramstein base in germany. ukraine's government is investigating more than $500.00 suspects for

committing thousands of potential war crimes. evidence is being gathered across the country, or the immediate traveled villages, north of keith, and sent this report sanford. ever since the russians pulled out a few weeks ago, detective victoria and the mirror rover and her team have been examining bodies at least 10 day lu. i task, she never thought she would be doing when she 1st joined the police on this time. 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 good morning to the who. these are the feet, so the head is over there. she says. at 1st assessment revealed, 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. not for awning on your thumbnail population, each athenian his go to 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 ripped through the car. and inside it may have 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 char 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 junkyard, 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 property officer

the lance. oh we see again there they bombed again and again they bumped civilian infrastructure. hospitals came to honda and schools, more than 1000 into kish or institutions destroyed in ukraine water. this, of course, it's military. it is walk right near by butcher do mortgage overwhelmed refrigerator 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. a put to move her to sit 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. 2 russian soldiers saw him, ran after him and shot him twice. the russians didn't allow the body to be picked up for 3 days. fresh 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. where the bill, hamid elder, z route, north of keefe, the u. s secretary state has warned that iran that could be in a position to develop a nuclear weapon in a matter of weeks that's down from previous assessments about a year and sneak lincoln. it says a returns the 2015 nuclear deal is the best way to reduce any threat. you also said to iran has accelerated its nuclear program in recent years. we've now the test, the 2 propositions. one was the nuclear agreement. it was originally reached. and that significantly set back iranian capabilities to pursue a nuclear weapon, particularly the facade material for such weapons. and that agreement was working by all objective accounts. we've tested the other proposition,

which is pulling out of the agreement, trying to exert more pressure. and we've also seen the result and the result has been that that nuclear program, which had pushed back the breakout time to a year in terms of being able to produce his material for a weapon. that's now down to a matter of weeks when i can or has more or less from washington d. c. while the setting in which the secretary of state chose to make us information public was in a senate committee hearing the secretary of state essentially defending the bite and administration's policy to re engage with iran to attempt to put back into place that joint comprehensive plan of action which was established in 2015 and then abolished by then president trump in 2018. later in the day we heard from the press secretary jennifer saki who made very clear that the administration was deeply worried about this increased pace with which iran appears to be improving it's nuclear weapons program. at the same time, she said this was

a consequence of the previous administration, and this is why when president biden came to power, one of his 1st actions was to draw up a plan in an attempt to reengage iran. and to re establish that joint comprehensive plan of action, the secretary of state making clear that it would be better to engage iran, limited nuclear development rather than to carry on as it is at the moment with iran, essentially out in the wild with no controls through nuclear inspectors or in terms of that agreement with the u. s. and other entities. but there's another aspect to this as well. the secretary of state doing this in a public setting, making very clear that he's seeking domestic support for the biden administration program of re establishing connections with iran and re establishing that plan that was abolished and putting it in public like this is a way in which the bite and administration as

a whole can attempt to garner domestic support for a policy that is unpopular among many within congress. was to the head on al jazeera, high and dry in the himalayas. catherine dues are rapidly growing. population creates boot crisis. ah hello one place so we have got some quiet weather now starting to push his way to central parts of north america. high pressure dominating things over the next day. as our recent spell of, when she weather and sundry showers fats in the process of getting squeezed further, reese was because of that high things will start to calm down. still a few winfrey flurries into new england into the canadian maritime. you can see an improvement coming in for wednesday, across at east and 3rd of the us. so we are going to see

a few showers into central parts just pushing up towards the mountain states. we have got to know the weather system just waiting to sweeping into the pacific northwest in 2 were british columbia. you'll see that snow driving its way across the mountain, states to some lively showers into central parts of the us up towards kansas. east of that. they go fine and try not particularly war, but good to try and find them. we have seen recently 13 celsius for new york 15 celsius. therefore, dc in the sunshine bit more the wire sunshine. i'm pleased to say coming in across see great rental is cuba. hispaniola to make a not too bad chance of one or 2 shower some showers. therefore the lee was gradually pushing up across the wind was we have got plenty of showers central america. ah, the witness fair witness bravery, witness, frieda, witness slavery, witness. people,

witness. how was witness and lifetime witness and our witness man witnessed beast. witness prejudice. witness. peace, witness. love. witness. ball. witness. the world. witness. next door. witness. life. witness. arduous error. lou ah, you're watching l. just a reminder of our top story. is this how the un says moscow has agreed in principle to allow it to help with the evacuation of civilians from the ass off style. steel besieged ukrainian city of maria pal,

un secretary general antonio cherish met nauseous, president vladimir putin in moscow. at least 3 people have been killed in russian air strikes and shutting in the city. another person was killed in the rocky to attack the city of that region and austin, south eastern city on the ukrainian control. more than 40 countries have agreed to meet monthly to discuss arming crane their 1st meeting was held at u. s. air base in germany. on tuesday, the change of policy berlin says it will now provide a key with heavy weapons or more now on ukraine, where families are feeling unsafe in their own homes are trying to find shelter anywhere they can. including in repurposed industrial buildings, charles stratford reports from their live cup in russian back separatist controlled east ukraine. this bunker is built under a soviet built brick factory and it's typical of some of the joint greg cabinet

spaces underground. underneath many of the soviet built industrial plants in this region. now it's being used as a place of shelter around full families. so far, they tell us that they came down here a couple of weeks ago when the shelling in this area got particularly bad. you can see one of the areas where they stole their food he he come through. ready this in here is the main living area where people sleep where they eat. now, the reason why nobody is here is because people are afraid of going on camera. they are that nervous about being identified and potentially being targeted. and bear in mind that we were speaking to the people here earlier, and the majority of them are pensioners, but such is the degree of fear and paranoia that this russian invasion is generating amongst people. as you can see, there's

a lot of food here that has been brought down by very brave volunteers, men and women that drive into this area every few days, delivering food to people in bunkers like this fall. and this is absolutely fascinating. these photographs diagrams will put up during the soviet times and they are basically civil defense morning's advice given to people who may have to be may have had to have come here in the event of a nuclear or chemical weapons attack by the west. i'm fascinating to see that they still hear, you know, possibly more than 40 years. 40 years later. now, in all the news, we are hearing reports of heavy shelling and streaked street fighting in the towns of rubia and papa santa polka sna. i apologize.

we know that those areas a very heavily contested and we understand that russian forces controller at half the, the town of pasta and have been heavy casualties there. a lot of ukrainian soldiers have died. we know that having visited a field hospital in the area recently, the ukrainian military also saying that sir least 3 children died of their injuries as a result of shelling of the town of li man. that is north of sleeve janski's last night . and the shelling there, we understand ongoing part of the russian forces attempts to push on into the area around the city of sloppy. ernst and cremmit tossed the ukrainian military so far saying that they are managing to hold their positions and repel those attacks from russian forces. as i say, the families here have put the word out to other villages in this area. this is

a place of shelter. and they say that they expect many more families to come in. the coming days of unease now and a malaysian man found guilty of drug trafficking in singapore has been executed. 34 year old like entrance darma. lincoln had been on death wraith more than a decade after he was caught ringing, 44 grams of heroine into singapore, last ditch legal challenge out by his mother failed. well, florence louis is life in quite an impact for us now and a florence. what more do we know about the circumstances over this execution? well, we know this was a highly contentious execution and went ahead despite public outcry at home and in malaysia and also in singapore. there were candlelight vigils protests in support of ne, again, during billionaires, celebrities spoke out on his behalf. now his lawyer had argued that he ought to have been spared because he suffered from an intellectual disability. he had

a lower than average i q of 69. but the singapore high court disputed that saying that having considered expert psychiatric evidence, they found that he knew what he was doing was wrong. that he did not suffer from an abnormality of the mind at the time of the offense. and the singapore government has always maintained that again, there had been afforded do full process under the law and that he was represented by lawyers all throughout the process from trial to his numerous appeals. now the other reason why the so controversial, the execution was so controversial is because of the use of the death penalty on drug related offenses. activists and researchers announcing that there is now more evidence that it doesn't work as a deterrent that a targets drug meals more than drug lords. singapore has a 0 tolerance policy towards drugs, but they are now increasing cold for it to rethink its laws. now, on monday, 2 days before the execution, the un human rights spokesperson issued

a statement urging singapore to hold its execution of the general and other death row inmates. she said that the use of the death penalty for drug related offences is not compatible with international human rights law. and countries that have not yet abolished the death penalty can only impose it for the most serious crimes. okay, florence louis live in college. but for us there, thank you was staying with, let's bring in a song, his principal advisor at the pacific research center. he joins us from a quarter of volume in malaysia, thanks for being with us here on the al jazeera. what do you make of this execution in terms of singapore stance on the drug related crimes? i thought it once again, i it off about 2 years to send a signal to the wider world that you hold down very seriously. it's very st. dropped really loss and non punishment

meet the crimes. so. ready there was an execution for about a few weeks ago and then this is the 2nd one in a row. so this determination to try to. ready stem, our drops from seattle is once again to the world. and how does malaysia see this then has its stance on the drug crimes changed over the years? do you think? well, malaysia, a drug related all senses, but in recent years i think it was. and i saw one more already on a and i think in this particular case, the malaysian prime minister as written do this thing up all side in order to see

paul clemens commendation. but of course, well the execution was for the last carry out on malaysia has previously appeal to singapore over death, row inmates. how might this execution affect that policy going forward? why i think over the past few decades malaysian a lot on dr. relate that crime. so sometimes you learn extra thinking early on citizens to one another, certainly from a malaysia site malaysia, next friday on citizens to senior and knowing that sort of death penalties will be imposed on such as citizens. so i think even though malaysia itself is currently having a moratorium death and no d as with the present case,

you haven't seen that. you need to be sure. reaction from the malaysian side. ok. east on o at the pacific research center. thank you very much for your time here today. thank you. now and their po has plenty of water from annual monsoon rains and rivers fed by melting glasses in the himalayas. it every year the capital kathlyn do suffers shortages reactors in boot. went to find out why every morning found, am i a booster? collects water from the centuries old stone taps into a be got a suburb of cut and do once a week water. it's all feel piped into her home, but it's barely enough for her family's needs. stevenson, well, dollars a month on the line. so many people come here and wait in line to collect water. it's never empty. it's crowded in the mornings. some people come as early as 3 am dana this. across the road, women pay to use pont water to wash clothes,

cut manned is rapidly growing, population is training the city's already overwhelmed municipal water system. most people have to buy water from tankers at high prices. the city relies on aquifers fed by monsoon rains, but as it expands and demand for water rises, they're running dry. got the man to his home to 4000000 people. the 50 y 430000000 pieces of water a day. less than half that demand is being supplied, resident hope vicious and long delayed milan water supply projects to pipe water from the river to the city will reduce demands. that project is run by the public utility k u k l. that's now upgrading infrastructure to protect water supplied from the milan. q river. thought it up out to kill companies, to distribute the available water you could. and without the

minimum, without water leak is as easy as a network of got more, no valley or a more than a 100 years. so there is a lot of problem of water leak in that is, why are we out of the 15 from all nitro nunez? without undergoing no organisations like smart bonnie, are also seeking solutions to the cities, water shortages that are very many pools in cassandra valley, which are struggling to manage water and provide free water to their kids. you know? so that's why we work with public schools, where there is a dire need of water and support them with an alternate source of water by harvesting that in what that is falling on their own rooftop, just filtering it and ensuring that it can be reused. unpredictable monsoon rains under rapidly growing city are clearly big challenges here. but many hope that by conserving water they'll at least start to reduce them. from the other liberal al jazeera cut my do a stone statue dating back 4500 years,

has been found by farmer in southern garza. the 22 centimeter high limestone statue depicts the face of the ancient cannot tight diety annette. who was the goddess of love and war? it was unnerved by farmer while he was working on his land. in con, you, this posterior authorities say the statue was discovered on what wasn't important overland trade route. ah, this is out there and these are the top stories now. the un says moscow has agreed in principle to allow it to help with evacuation or civilians from the as of style steel plant, the besieged ukrainian city of mario, paul, un secretary general, and tourney. good harish met russia's president panama hootin in moscow the russian, the president described the situation in mario paul as difficult and.