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russian missiles hit key as the un secretary general visits ukrainian capital for the 1st time since the conflict began. i must say that i was obviously shocked when i was informed that to the side of reach to a target in cuba. ah, hello darn jordan. this is al jazeera la you from dough are also coming up to the cross to lose weight or not cheap. yes, president joe biden calls on congress to approve a crane a package worth $33000000000.00 mending ties. turkeys president makes his 1st trip to saudi arabia, india, and shanghai is covered shut down, continues. could a new round of testing mean freedom for the cities for straighten residence?

russia has spied cruise missiles at ukraine's capital keep doing a visit by the sector general of the united nations. ukraine's president flooded me as the lensky accused of kremlin of trying to humiliate the un. and one of his advisors called it a postcard. from moscow, a residential air in central cave was hit, at least one person was killed and several injured. it's antonio terrace, his 1st visit to the country, since russia's military operation began in february. what during a press conference in keith cottage called for accountability for war crimes committed in ukraine? ukraine is left the center of unbearable heart h and bayne. i witnessed that very vividly today at aunt keys. the says las loss of life, the massive destruction the unacceptable violations of human rights and the. busy laws of war, it is vital that the international criminal court and other un mechanisms conduct

that work so that that can be real accountability. whereas lewis fisher wouldn't you can there analissa guitar. it's important that the secretary general has had a chance to witness the crimes committed against the ukrainian people in the suburbs of the city of keith he is seen must occupying forces have done against our citizens. this is the true genocide, and it is important to facilitate the establishment of a special international tribunal on russian crimes. well before that press conference, antonio good headers spent thursday touring parts of war ravaged ukraine and so for himself, what he called evil and an absurdity in the 21st century. under chappelle has more than that. a tour of the villages and towns north of keith where russia is accused of committing war crimes starting and borrowed younger wear. un secretary general antonio quoterush saw for himself the scale of devastation. there is no way a water can be acceptable in the 21st century. look, brody, uncle,

like so many towns was occupied by russian forces and nearly flattened by their onslaught. ukrainian say mass graves, there are proof that russian forces are committing atrocities. then to boucher, were. bodies of civilians were found with hands tied behind their backs earlier this month when you crane recaptured it from russian forces garish. now asking russia to help find those responsible. i fully support the federal google mon, that i a view to the russian federation to accept to corporate with international good middle court. and to charge residential towers in urban, where there's been extensive damage, innocent civilian living in his building. they were paying the highest price for a war for which they have multiple people. just mental ukrainian officials were frustrated. he visited russian president vladimir putin and moscow before keith

zalinski called it ambiguous to see the aggressor before the victims. the un secretary general has been unable to get the sides to see eye to eye, but once to begin the negotiation process to stop a war that many ukrainians had hoped the un would prevent. in the 1st place, andrew chappelle al jazeera and later good had as gave an interview to al jazeera was held abdel hamid, where they spoke about negotiations to craig, a humanitarian, colorado. out of the besieged city of mario po. i went to meet, present, put in. he has agreed with me in principle that un and the i, c r c could be involved in diesel production. and today, this evening, after wrapping up your press conference, use c o u experience for yourself. keep on the air strike. do you think this was a message?

one of the president landscape advisor said untreated that that was to justify the use of these they for, for that but they haven't had. so i must say that i was obviously shocked when i was informed that the 2 besides the rich, the target to give the i was shocked with that. and i think it's very important to spend this wonderful city, keith, seeing footballs, you canadians and russians. and i hope that kids will be sped when it comes to the political check. what can you and do? and oh, we anyway close for the 2 sides to sit together to try to bring any sort of fire. the un was always kept out of invited to be part of it, and on the contrary, our presence was conceived is not useful. the end,

we are not part of the present political negotiations, but we are following them with a lot of interest and hoping that they will solve the problem. a piece will come back and it is not by chance, edge to the, bringing the parties to turkey them, ball to antalya, and the strongly supporting those political discussions. meanwhile, on the battlefield, ukraine says russia has increased the pace of it's offensive in the east. there's been fierce fighting and don bass. russian forces have taken these 2 towns in the east. they're also pushing towards the cities of lyman and proportionate on the front line defended by ukrainian troops which are strapped, but is north of sloppy and in the don bass region. where many residents of flint, the constant shilling were here in the forests, a few kilometers away from the contested town of lehman. now we were here a few days ago and things have changed quite dramatically since then. russian

forces are now in full control of a village to my left, a few kilometers in that direction. that's how called as a region if they are also contesting another village called young pill. well, they are trying to do is take full control of li man from the ukranian forces. there was a say are few kilometers in that direction and push south towards sloppy and now we've been here about an hour. they have been bullied off to volley of incoming and outgoing shells. you can hear another one there. and the shelley is getting closer and closer to sloppy and sc. another shell explodes close by, but incredibly, not a single house has been hit in the next village down the road. but it is only a few kilometers away from the slowly advancing russian army. children play on

pikes in the evening sun, a gentle straw, and the lame by the church life is almost disturbingly normal on the surface. all our family is here, so we don't want to leave. we are all from these village. our life is here. many of our friends he left, but many of them want to come home because they miss their life in the village. but like i said, he would snotty, we hope everything will be okay. and they go somewhere else or turn around and not come back from the top of a nearby coal, slack heap. you get a sense of the scale of this vast flat landscape in east and ukraine. ah, no, the shelves explodes. smoke rises from burning buildings in the distance. a missile is far to walter target potential. the thames may be hundreds of kilometers away. there are hundreds of villages like these right. the way across this region

that seemingly are directly in the line of rushes potential advance. the russian military control an area only a few kilometers in that direction and they are trying to sweep through here on their way to try and surround slum yancey. meanwhile, there are thousands of civilians in places like this, and they are terrified of the days ahead. char stafford, al jazeera, eastern ukraine. a large fire has broken out in the southern ukrainian city of curse on which is currently under russian military occupation. several houses have been engulfed by the flames. is not yet clear what caused the blaze. now casualties have yet been reported. and satellite imagery from matter you, paul is revealing the damage done by russian shelling on the as of style steel plants were up to 2000 ukrainian soldiers. a hold up putting up a final front to resistance as they're surrounded by russian forces. a 1000 civilians are also trapped with them. russia has continued its air strikes on the facility despite agreeing and principle with the un to allow evacuation. and these

one person has been killed and car keys and another 2 injured after russian shelling on a residential area. on wednesday, emergency crews went to the scene to treat the wounded and put out a fire. the crane 2nd largest city is face shelling nearly every day since the war again. so so, so to come here now just there including madonna, asked us regulators to approve its code 19 job. the children under the age of 6 more announcement. ah, let's go with your weather. sorry for the americas heavy. one good to see we have somewhat weather in the forecast for the dakota is stretching into the upper midwest in ohio river valley temperatures have come up though from where they were over the last. so bit want to take you to the west right now. some sunny spells,

but also outbreaks of showers to be expected. but our next batch of pacific rain will move in in the days to come. so the rain will intensified. millions of people across california have been told to cut water usage because of drought conditions in california that state still parched. san francisco, a hiv 19 degrees may see some storms bubble up in, throughout kentucky on friday. so i wanted to put that on your radar. and a weather front is giving us some cascading rain for southern florida into the bahamas and our seasonal rains there, lifting further toward the north. so down ports to be expected in costa rica and panama. there's been a deadly landside in brazil's northern stay pretty close to that border with cernan and also french, diana and the rain is still falling there on friday. a cold front is also sweeping across paraguay into that southeast of brazil. so south of that, look at this fresh air montevideo, just 14 sao paulo 29. but this find will drop down your temperature on saturday. that's a snapshot of your weather see soon. ah,

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welcome back to cook. i'm out of the top stories here. this hour. russia has spot cruise missiles at ukraine's capital as the un secretary general antonio cottage visits. keith, a residential area, was hit, at least one person was killed earlier detachment with ukraine's president full of them. there's lensky and toward regions me a key where russian troops have been accused of committing price. tom satellite imagery from the city of matthew pole has revealed the damage done by russian shunning on a steel plot where your cranium soldiers hold up, along with civilians. that's despite russia agreeing in principle to allow for evacuation to take place. not us president joe biden is calling on congress to approve of ukraine aid package. we're $33000000000.00. biden's as washington has no choice but to back ukraine, regardless of the financial cost. i'll just say was white house correspondent, kimberly hawkins reports as russia's war and ukraine enters the new phase. and in order to keep the military and humanitarian aid to ukraine flowing,

we need this bill to support your credit is waived for free us. president joe biden on thursday asked the u. s. congress for $33000000000.00 to support ukraine over the next 5 months. because to reduce white, it's not cheap, but k be new aggression is going to be more costly if we allow to happen. we either back ukrainian people as they defend the country or we stand by as the russians continue or atrocities and aggression ukraine. biden's request for $33000000000.00 includes more than $20000000000.00 for military assistance, like artillery and anti aircraft weaponry more than $8000000000.00 to help the ukrainian government continue to function, add another $3000000000.00 to help refugees. in addition, biden is also sending to congress a plan to crack down a russian oligarchy who laundry illegal and stolen money in the us through shadowy

purchases of yachts and other assets like high priced real estate. the proposal is aimed at streamlining the federal government's ability to seize the oligarchy. property a delani of russia has been bought through front companies. and these front companies have been able to register in the united states without knowing who their owners are. and so it's finding this property that's the enormous challenge at the moment . if approved by congress might into plan would create a new administrative process for the forfeiture of property owned by russian oligarchy. and knowingly or intentionally possessing funds gained from corrupt dealings with the russian government could become a criminal offense. well, most members of congress support president biden's proposals and more money for ukraine. there's little indication of when the plan might be debated by lawmakers

and just when the legislation might pass. kimberly hell can al jazeera, the white house, and alan fisher joins us live now from washington dc. alan, so president biden says, look, the u. s. must support ukraine at any cost, but will congress approve this latest package of a? do you think it is a huge sum of money? there's no doubt about that. in fact, the, by the 3rd of what the russian spent on defense in the last year. and why is a huge sum of money? $33000000000.00 is still falls. well short of what the ukranian president has said, he will need to rebuild his countries talking about $600000000000.00. will it go through? will you remember that the last time the u. s. announced a lot of aid and it passed with the support from both parties in congress and mitch mcconnell, the leader of the republicans and the senate said, if they want more money, then we'll give it to them. how often do you see that, that the opposite side are saying it to the president, the united states,

you want more cash, just come and ask us. so how quickly could this get through? well, the senate could discuss this next week, and there could be something on the desk of the president by me the night. they're going to present it to congress. now if it goes through what's known as a clean belt, this is just all about it for ukraine. the chances are that it will get by part of the support and go through in the nod. but a number of senior democrats have said, look, we might well tag on are covered relief bill to this support for ukraine. they want to support that. so you've got to make it a clean bill, joe biden. what he says, look, i don't care how they do it, just get it done. allen, thank you. germany's parliament is approved sending heavy weaponry to ukraine in what's been seen as a major policy shift. the decision to send a shipment of anti aircraft systems has been supported by all 3 ruling coalition

parties, as well as the opposition conservatives. for weeks germany resisted calls to provide ukraine with heavy weapons. it's long standing policy of not sending arms to conflict zones has changed completely since the start of the war and germany, chancellor says his country is preparing for a possible situation where russia stops. gas exports on schultz is in japan, on his 1st trip to asia and the roll rushes invasion of ukraine and the energy crisis. a key issues being discussed with the japanese prime minister for me because shita or vega and tried to deal with and what decision the russian government will take in this regard. one can only speculate, but it makes little sense. one has to pull here for it, and as i said, we've already started to do this before the war broke out. and we know what we have to do, and that is exactly what we will do. turkey's president is in saudi arabia for, for a visit aimed at starting a new peer within relations between ankara and red russia. type one has met king solomon and he's also met the crown prince. mom had been so mom,

this is only one's 1st trip to the kingdom in years, relations which means we are seeing some are signs that have been worked out or over months. and clearly the visit is a combination of that kind of an effort and effort that is anchored in a necessity for both countries and in a tendency by both governments improving going through dialogue with they want improve relations with iraq certainly improved their issues with coca. i know there is this improvement of relations with turkey. turkey, on the other hand, is improving relations with a lot of those countries where it's at tension over the last few years. whether it's isn't armenia sort to improve relations with certain number of countries. and now i have come for these 2 important countries improve their own relations based on, as they say, mutual respect and interest, or a friend w robert. personally,

the former us ambassador to turkey joins us from washington, d. c. and, but for the thank you for your time today to the perceived role of the united states being less visible now in the middle east and it was before. so these countries are beginning to see what they might share among themselves. yeah, i'm just this month, turkey suspended, it's trial in absentia of $26.00. saudis accused of killing the saudi critic jam alpha shoji. does this not mean that diplomacy and geo politics, overrides and human rights and accountability for the murder? is it done and dusted now? that for the trial to saudi arabia is probably a request that the saudis made in order to have this visit. and the turks agreed to do it. so i think mr. edwards blows hot and cold last year. he was hot. and now he's cool. and so i think this is all tactical, and he wishes to enhance the power and influence of turkey in the middle east. he sees an opportunity to expand a turkey shy influence,

their defense industry is growing rapidly. and he hopes that the offer of mediation between ukraine and russia in that war will give him some added prestige. andy faces, beach could boast chances for reelection at home, just to get a final thought from you and get the view from washington where you are. i mean, you are a former us ambassador to turkey, how will abide the ministration? oh, i and that san started think it washington will be happy to see this commer attitude and com or state and other than that, i think the washington will 10 your time. thank you. my pleasure. thank you. ah, now it's been a month. business is also struggling to stay afloat. katrina, you report from beijing this factory on the outskirts of shanghai normally produces around $300000.00 bicycles every month. it counts u. s. department store walmart among its many international clients. but because of

a strict corona virus lockdown, it's been forced to close for full weeks. confined to his harm manager lay go, worries about his 2000 workers. and his bottom line, to be honest, is very difficult for them. i would like to pay a little bit more. but you know, the, the last for the company hands from their apartment windows, one woman screams, give me back my freedom. still, chinese leaders insist on maintaining a 0 curve 19 policy. they are trying to contain the public discontent, but we are still working with a land is meet the has been complaints of food shortages, the separation of families, and the killing of pets by health workers. but analysts say any political blame is likely to fall on low level officials,

not president. she didn't ping or taught beijing ministers in the capital authorities, as coven 19 vaccine. the children under 6 years old, madonna says it's trial showed 51 percent effectiveness and infants and the 37 percent in children age.