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hello, i'm darn jordan. this is al jazeera nie from dough also coming up. italy's national cyber security agency warns thousands of computer servers around the world have been hacked. will be live in ecuador, where polls of now closed in a referendum, the aims to help battle crime and environmental problems. on the venice carnival is back in full force after years of scale down celebrations due to covered 19 much rituals. ah, we begin in ukraine where president blood, amanda lansky says he expects a major russian offensive in the coming weeks. in his nightly address to lensky said moscow's intensifying pressure on several fronts ahead of the 1st anniversary of the war. on february 24th, the battle for control of the eastern city of buck mood has been intensifying with russia deploying more troops. same basra, the reports in a capital case,

ukrainian soldiers defending buck boot, enter the fray, knowing they are out numbered, and more russian fighters are on the way. but what is the major flash point on the eastern front right now? ukraine's president has promised he won't let the city fall without a fight. but believe me or zelinski may also be preparing his people for a worst case scenario. that that is the sort of, she knew, the who in the course of $346.00 days of this war, i often had to say that the situation at the front was stuff and that the situation was becoming tougher. it is once again, that kind of key there, ukraine's army says had gone down as many as 200 russian mercenaries from the wagner group in a recent attack. but russian forces are gaining ground as they push to surround the city. the worry for keep, now russia could be close to successfully cutting off the main highway into the

city. currently ukraine's main supply line that could be a decisive moment in the battle for buckman. russian missiles are also hitting more civilian targets along the eastern front air strikes and car keys hit a university and a residential block. recently there was a strong blast and everything happened so quickly. we were saved by the furniture that fell on us because of that we are alive. she's only lived in car keith, a few months homeless and displaced for a 2nd time. during this war. the siege of buck, mood has emptied out the city. but some refused to leave, seeking refuge in prayer. woman is the 1st one most i know there is a chance i might die last night itself into my garden. all the vendors were blown out. boots linda, my house this morning. it will have to keep me in the head or lightest flitting.

they will die in any case now or in 2030 years. it is not important. the main thing is how i present myself to god. like those jumped vanessa. i pray for our country for all ukraine, for my children, for my family, for all ukrainians, for all i pray. oh, but will ukrainian lines remain as unbreakable as their faith? both likely to be tested in coming days, as russian forces escalate? their campaign for bomber 30 zane basra, the older 0 keith, and there are reports that ukrainian defense minister alexey resonate. gov is set to be replaced by the head of military intelligence. resonant coff has come on the increasing pressure after his ministry was tainted by a corruption scandal involving food contracts, commenting about his possible dismissal at

a news conference earlier on sunday. resnick of had this to say. julio, stand pleasure web should ask me when i entered public service for the 1st time in 2014, i was then the secretary of the key of city council. and i immediately told everyone that no official is in his chair for ever would. you came on the decision to be the minister to fence or not is made by one person according to the constitution. it's the commander in chief and the president of the country, florida me zalinski levels. let's bring in william courtney. he's a senior fellow at the ran corporation and a former special assistant to the president for russia, ukraine, and eurasia. he joins us live from washington, d. c. at william good to have you with us. so the ukranian seemed to be playing down speculation surrounding their defense minister. but how significant would a change at the top of ukraine's chain of command be against the backdrop of a possible it renewed russian offensive. i mean it wouldn't be good timing that would it well the timing is not so important. busy the main thing is that the new minister of defense be capable of several years ago, rand corporation,

where i work, wrote a report advising that it is important not for the minister defense to try to do the job of the chief of the general staff and vice versa that had been a problem some years ago. the new minister of defense would have to be the representative of the messy defense to the parliament, to the router, to the presidency, and also too many in the west. alexi risen coff has enjoyed a good reputation in the west as an effective minister of defense who understood the broad political implications of what was going on. hopefully a new minister will perform the same role and not seek to duplicate the military strategy. functions of the very capable of chief of general staff general solution . and william ukraine is still awaiting more supplies and it's western allies mean key wants longer range. precision missiles, we could see germany and british tanks finally be deployed on the ground,

but with no end in sight, the war. how long can the west keep supporting ukraine with billions of dollars until don't fatigues? that's in there is no sign of don't or fatigue. at this point, the western leadership has emphasized that it will support ukraine as long as you cray once help rushes aggression in ukraine is shattered. european security order and the west caesar great importance in helping ukraine of offend off this russian aggression. and the main flat point is now the city of back moves and in the east, russia seems to be throwing everything into the fight to take a city, how much of a strategic and political blow would this be to ukraine if the city falls? because it's a be a huge victory. the putin wouldn't not much of a blow. oh, it has been puzzling all along. why the russians are throwing so much effort at

back moot. it is not a city of great strategic consequence, but it appears that pre goshen, the head of the wagner group has wanted to show that his ex convicts that he employs can do something. and so they have focus on a back moot. but it is not a, a strategic point, as far as ukraine is concerned, the russians really wasting a lot of soldiers and military equipment and that effort. william just a final thought you, i mean, we're now approaching the 1st anniversary of the war. there's no end in sight the fighting it's, it's, can you become at perhaps the war of attrition, which the accelerated at the global food and energy crisis. what do you see happening as 2023 plays out while the world economy is becoming adjusted to the impact of the war so well before under energy impacts are going to lessen as the market response. but. busy looking for the

military aspect of this could be a war of attrition, but there could be other r comes as well. the kremlin, the putting a leadership in the kremlin is under greater stress than ever before. there could be changes there, the russian motor, how could collapse, potentially, because they're losing just an enormous number of soldiers. there are other potential developments. so it's really not possible to predict, but certainly for the time being, it does look like a traditional warfare. william connie really good to get your thoughts and your analysis. thank you very much. and he for talking to that, is there a thank you with him there grow. welcome. now italy is national cyber security agencies warning that thousands of computer servers around the world. i've been hacked. the ransomware is said to have affected dozens of companies in italy. the agency says servers in france, finland, the us, and canada have also been compromised. us cybersecurity, official say they're assessing the impact of the incidence. well, a boyfriend is

a cyber security and intelligence analyst. he said this likely the attack targeted companies across several different sectors. a little details being released, but the fact that it italian cybersecurity authority is warning about this is a good indication that this could be as at large scale and hitting lots of places, it looked like it might well be a technical technical, a server issue that it was supposed going about on friday and saturday as well in some circles, in which case, if that's, if that's the one, then it will be hitting service across all sectors depending on what their update status is. what are they running? the latest versions when they run system safely, etc. and that's not dependent on what secretary they're working in. it requires that systems are kept up to date. that software is made correctly in the 1st instance, which it always is in practice. most of the attacks that do happen can be prevented

because they did the system sneer, the ransomware attacks attack known from the abilities, things that have been fixed for a while already. so if it's the thing up, the internet was talking about on friday and saturday, then it's something that was discovered in 2021 and is, is fixed in the newest version of software. protests are being held in iraq. ultra young, you to blogger, was killed by her father. he admitted a strangling t, but alley on wednesday advocate said she would still be alive if the government did more to protect young women in iraq. lockwood up to wad reports in the capitol bagdad. these protesters in the rocky capitan are demanding justice for the killing of a young iraqi youtube star lebell alley. she was a strangled by her father in the southern. the city of d, one e on to his day, the attack is being described as a so called owner killing lieber. l allie had reportedly left her home in iraq and

was living in to kia against her family's wishes. we dialed on the other. we want laws to criminalize domestic violence, the state must guarantee our safety. when we report domestic violence, we submitted many proposals, the government, but they've all gone unheeded. teaberry turn it to her home town after her mother reportedly asked her to come back. activists have launched a campaign on social media with the hash tag, libras riot that demanding a change to iraq's laws, which they say give light sentences to defendants charged with similar crimes. my to new i via jasmine order the parliament is to blame for this because it's a legislative body that issues was to criminalize violence against women. how can i but the parliament itself is a male dominated body. was partly based on tribal consideration. moment of that's part of the problem. according to activists,

the victim went to the interior ministry for help. but it is not clear if she received any assistance at all in a conservative and patriarchal society like iraq active is to say, there are no effective laws to protect women from domestic violence. there is also no clear mechanism to provide shelter for women trying to escape of use. so many cases like plea but alley go unreported. with do i have that pose of clothes in ecuador, constitutional referendum and local elections? the national referendum was proposed by president m a last so the battle of crime, wave and address environmental concerns. over 13000000 people were registered to participate, the opposition led by former associates by the raphael korea as an urgent vote as to reject the proposed reforms. let's go live to alexandra pissy in the capital kito alice sanchez, ecuadorian a being asked

a long shopping list of questions in this referendum covering many different topics . is this like a confused vote? somewhat? absolutely there and indeed we have spoken to voters who. busy told us that they were confused by their long and that number of questions they were, they were expected to respond to. and also by the fact that each question came with the number of annexes, which the opposition say is where at the, the most troubling her elements of this referendum ally, they're saying that in particular are the questions that have to do with the transformation of institution such of a congress in, in the country would have affected the check and balances that exist in ecuador as a democracy. and also there were, there is a question that has to do with the so called the people's participation council, which was created at with the 2008 constitution at which has been an important than

citizens oversight. institution here in ac. whether and also participates in the election of a, a number of official such as the attorney general. also consider the fact that besides the referendum boaters were all selecting a long list of local officials and other officials of other institutions there today. and they had to vote on 7 different the paper ballots. and i sandra bill position as urge voters to reject the reforms proposed by president lasso and any early indications yet as to which way the vote could go. well so far we have seen a couple of private exit polls made by a private companies and they actually go in different directions. one has the the read the yes. in the referendum

a winning by at 57 percent. and then we saw another one that instead had that no winning pretty much around at the same percentage. so it's probably too early at to tell. we knew that this would have been a close to both. the national electoral counsel said that at that the 1st the a quick counter em results for local a may years and provincial governors. the will start a arriving in roughly half an hour or probably an hour to get the 1st projections at when we look at the at the referendum president lasso. im self said he will speak after 8 p. m local so that probably a will be at least 2 or 3 hours or a from from now, which gives us any day, an idea that it will probably be a long night here before we get a clear idea of who won. i was on rom,

petty there in the ecuadorian capital key to alexander. thank you. all right, just a short break here now to sierra, when we come back wildfire continued to rage across finance firefighters, back in the flames under a series summer heat way. and we'll take you to india where different kind of olympic games is on the way mana ah, yeah, to get has gone now long way north, which means temperatures are at least rising. this is the afternoon on monday, not in new york, still sub 0 in toronto, but that's not extremes. i'm sure you'll agree. some snow might still fall out of the sky, but largely speaking, it's a brightening day. the next bout of winter is coming in through the plain stays is not severe a toll, but it's coming in all the same with snow for the rockies. california is sunny

after what looks like a fairly wet sunday, but by monday, seattle and places to the north will see incoming wind and rain instead of course easier, higher ground. when the cold comes up against the warm, you tend to get this line of thunderstorms, a repeat procedure, then through arkansas and texas. as you will see, you pledge the big thunderstorms snow on the north head of it, mainly for eastern canada. nothing extreme about this at all. as the caribbean, the winds blowing steadily frequent light showers the most part bit more rain the coast in nicaragua and heavy showers. i think going through the bahamas during the day. in south america, we have still got showers of rain anywhere from ecuador down towards the southeast of brazil, its lofty drive south of that. i'm afraid this no helpful change the weather in the hot bit of central chile. ah, the 1970s was

a pivotal time to send them our own theater in the middle east and north africa. back in the 2nd of a 2 part series al jazeera world meets the creative risk takers who broke new ground for censorship. and developed their own voice in the 70s in the arab world stage and screen on al jazeera lou. ah, welcome back. everybody at the top stories here. this out of the battle for control of the eastern ukrainian city of buck moved as heating up just weeks before the 1st anniversary of the russian invasion comes. as reports from keith suggested crane's

defense minister is set to be replaced by the head of military intelligence. italy's national cybersecurity agencies wanting the thousands of computer servers around the world, been hacked around somewhere centre of effective service in italy, france, finland. the us and canada and boats are now being counted in ecuador constitutional referendum. i'm local elections. the national referendum was proposed by the president. we are mulatto to battle a crime way, an address and fundamental concepts. new european union restrictions, which limit the price of russian oil have now come into effect. the measures are aimed at reducing moscow's ability to fund bits war and ukraine law, preventing a surgeon prices if russian oil stops floating to global markets. premium products like diesel and jet fuel be capped at a $100.00 a barrel of products. the trade below the price of crude would be kept at $45.00. that person has more now from amsterdam. well, let us predict that the impact of the embargo which is implemented today on oil

products like diesel and the price cap will be higher than what happened after the embargo and crude oil, which was implemented last december. many countries here in europe, we're fairly much depending on russian diesel. for example, for example, the german government has bought more than 600000 tons of diesel just in january to stock up for it is possible embargo to be implemented. other european countries have done the same. this shows that they were very much still depending on this, russian oil product. germany, for example, around 13 percent. and it also means that they don't expect a huge price hike immediately because there's enough stock. they say here in europe, but what they are predicting is that in the next few months there could be higher prices. so the truck drivers of people who work with diesel, we have a real need for diesel, which is quite an important part of the economy here in europe,

of course that there will be higher prices as well. and there's also this fear because a lot of refineries here in europe have closed down over the last couple of years because of climate reasons that they will need to go elsewhere to refine these oil products. and it could be going to asia to the middle east, maybe to china. so that means that there will be more higher prices because of all this. and also this is a serious fear that the could be shortages in the next few months. something that the energy minister saudi has pointed out that these embargoes will eventually lead to shortages. but that's something that here a lead us in a european union, they'll say, won't be the case. they say we need to set a very santa varies from message to russia. to make clear that they can profit from this war. and that's why this embargo after long the bait within the european members because some of them wanted the price cap that was going to be much lower.

now it's decided on $100.00 for these oil products is high quality or products. so they decided they needed this embargo to send this message to russia. china has won the us of serious repercussions and says it seriously violated international practice. when it shocked down a spectrum surveillance balloon off the coast of south carolina, the u. s. as china was using the balloon to spite, but it did not pose a military or physical threat. beijing, and since the balloon was monitoring weather and had blown, of course, it was shot down over the atlantic on saturday, maybe vessels and working to recover the daybreak is when the government has approved the construction of a new township near the border with garza her noon which is located on the outskirts of the gaza strip is sent to accommodate 500 families. and i says, the move is a dangerous escalation and not bring security or stability. israel's new government, which is said to be the most right wing in the country's history. as promised to make sacrament expansion, top priority to children have died in a fire at

a refugee camp in northern iraq's kurdish region. the children age one and 4 were brothers. and living at the jamika refugee camp in the city of zach with other internally displaced people. authorities are investigating the course of the 5 at least 24 people have died in chile as hundreds of wildfires spread almost a 1000. others have been injured. heat wave is complicating efforts to control the flames, which are burning across 3 regions in the middle of the country. to nicole soon sharif has more. hello, spreading class boon. everything in there park forest, farms and homes are 2300 fire fighters have been deployed to control hundreds of wild fires, nearly half of them a burning out of control. if the water under the media yet we are working on

multiple sources of forest fires that added to the weather high temperatures and a lot of wind give caused great destruction bought in vegetation and buildings. the fires began on wednesday, destroying nearly 100000 acres of land. helicopters have been deployed too late to save some dozens of homes. more than 1000 people are staying in shelters yourself. good luck with tommy was. i left my house with only the clothes i was wearing. there was no time to set up a firebreak nothing. i think every one here went through the same situation. the wind speed changed very fast and everything suddenly started to burn. it was all very fast. chili's government is now seeking international support a to a do they like and see eddie out? we have spoken to several governments to reinforce the efforts there were previously being made with the companies that provide the services. these requests include to search for equipment to bolster to fleet of brigades that can reinforce

the work on the ground. we are in contact with several countries in the region such as brazil, argentina, and uruguay present, gabrielle borage, cut short as some of vacation, his government, extending a state of disaster. it allows the military to mobilize to help battle the fires, as the number of dead on continues to rise. who may consume should ease, under sierra security sources in between a fast o c. at least 12 people have been killed in an attack in the north of the country. the incident took place in bonnie, a town in this whole region. but in a fossil has been battling on groups linked to al qaeda and i shall since 2015 at least 2000000 people have fled their homes since the violence again the united nations peacekeepers been killed and another wounded when their helicopter was attacked in eastern democratic republic of congo. it happened during a flight to go man officials in the air and said the helicopter was able to

eventually land. but the source of the attack was still unknown. conflict between the countries armed forces and m. 23 rebels has been ramping up in spite of a peace deal agreed in july. the venice carnival is back in full swing for the 1st time in 4 years, thousands gathered in the italian city to witness the canal parade. a rat shaped sculpture lead the procession followed by dozens of people dressed as unicorns, prisoners, and clowns. the to be carnival has been scaled down over the past few years. due to pandemic restrictions or neglect to low as the events manager for the carnival. he says the event is regaining its pretty pandemic spirit. i can see or hear event to think good as far as we can observe, that people is happy to gather in the street in the square after the restriction connected to the funding mach period. and it's nice to see how the people and mostly lot of families with children attending to the carnival st show, which is one of our main events around the town. and also the opening parade that

was how that last night. and the provision i wrote both parade this morning, had an interesting participation along the sides of the main waterway advantage, which is the ranking out. we have a good participation of the 1st week and this is called the rolo good because he's not really the peer that currently we have the science from that reservation. good feedback from public transport. so we are pretty sure that the weather allows the weekend, reach people, danny period levels. well now to something that sounds familiar there. lympics, but not the summer or winter games are talking about the indian rural olympics. the 3 day competitions is hundreds of athletes compete and traditional but also bizarre sporting events. we just don't recall. oh, it's a saturday morning in india's northern punjab. oh, and with sports like hockey and athletics on the itinerary,

it looks like any other local sporting get together. oh, with one or 2 rather unique events like this tie rolling contest? well, you ain't seen nothing yet. the indian rural olympics features events that are part of the traditional olympic movement, but also traditional punjabi martial arts and games. this dare devil. strong man, successfully break some iron chain with his body. oh my god, what triggered my passion was the thought that what's the point of living if one does not do anything remarkable in life, one should do something for which he remembered even after death. i wanted to make a name for myself so that even after my death, people remember that there lived such a person father. and how about this man? oh yes, he is actually pulling 3 men sitting on a motorbike with a rope tied to his teeth. and this fellow is about to lift 92 kilograms of weights

with his ear. oh look what he has made though of their well agreed. again, the 1st and foremost dangerous to the spinal cord and also to the bone at the back of the neck. even that can get damaged and as far as the air is concerned, you can see that it's bleeding the gains last 3 days and organizers say any one who can turn any kind of skill into a sport is welcome to come and demonstrate peter stem. it al jazeera and a quick reminder you can catch up with all the news on our website. there it is on your screen. the address audio dot com, that's al jazeera dot com. ah, for a picture of the headlines here in al jazeera, the battle for control of the eastern ukrainian city of bat moved, is hitting up just weeks before the 1st on of.