for the past year, al jazeera, his correspondence have reported on every aspect of the far reaching consequences of russia's invasion of ukraine, upset by street fighting the destruction of townsend and the light of records. from the political maneuvering and global repercussions, the devastating impact on the lives of ordinary people are both very good. the front lines, the bomb shelters, the seats of power, and the reality of the ground from moscow give brushing could build on by and beyond, will continue to deliver in depth, unbiased, personal reporting. so you get the full story. when i was 0, ah, a america secretary of state holds talks with china state counseling,

weeks after tensions over an alleged chinese my balloon in us as space. ah, hello i mary, i'm to mozy in london. you're watching al jazeera also coming on. and there is no doubt these are crimes against humanity. the u. s. levels. it's most serious accusation yet against russia nearly a year since the invasion of ukraine. tens of thousands of dead millions homeless turkish earthquakes of i was bury their loved ones. after last week's disaster authorities and series last rebels, strong older accused of blocking aid access. ah,

american and chinese diplomats of health direct talks. weeks after attention saud over a chinese balloon, the entered american air space. your secretary of state as the blinking match, chinese state councilor, wine ye on the side lines of the munich security conference. you as president joe biden, eventually ordered the balloon to be shot down after accusing china of using it to spy on america. chinese government insists it was just an unmanned whether device that had been blown off course or my cana joins us live now from washington and tell us, what did they achieve from these discussions? is there any sense that those tensions have calmed somewhat since we saw america shoot down that chinese balloon? while the state department spokesman says that the secretary of state spoke very bluntly to china's top diplomat. making very clear that the us would not accept any

further spying activity as the u. s. puts it, as it says, happened in the past to china for its part continues to insist. and apparently during this meeting continued to insist that it was a weather balloon, that there was no intention of spying. however, this is not accepted by the secretary of state who it appears according to a spokesman, very bluntly address the chinese diplomat in terms of us fury at such a chinese action saying that it must never happen again. but the one issue is the one bright point perhaps, is that the meeting took place at all. the biden administration has been very clear that it wants to recalibrate relations with china, which have in recent weeks, been at the lowest ed been a long period of time. in fact, 2 weeks ago the secretary of state was due to travel to china for meetings there. that meeting was that trip was postponed because of the balloon incident. so at

least now there is a talking going on. the diplomats are back in contact. however, it will take a while it would appear before the relations ease or get a little bit better. i'm your secretaries. i asked the bring in also raise the warn ukraine. yes indeed. well this is another issue that may be devil relations in the future. a spokesman for the state department says that down to me blinking brought up the issue of any chinese support for russia, saying that there would be consequences as he put it. if the or a chinese give material support any form of material support to russia or what these consequences are, wasn't made clear by the spokesman for the state department. but this is another issue that could be devil relations between china and us and the weeks and months to come with the us attempting to preempt it would seem any chinese support for

russia. so a lot on the table, this diplomatic meeting, dealing with a number of issues, not just the balloon or that were shot down over u. s. territory. all right, thank you very much on washington. mike, hannah well, are that meeting taking place in munich also that us as made some serious issues. it's most serious condemnation, yet a russian invasion of ukraine officially accusing moscow of crimes against humanity, demanding justice. it was nice present. pamela harris made the statement at the security conference where wild leaders have gathered ahead of the 1st anniversary of the conflict. america already accused russia of war crimes, but crimes against humanity are considered more serious under international law. in the case of russia's actions in ukraine, we have examined the evidence. we know the legal

standards and there is no doubt. these are crimes against humanity or ukraine's foreign minister also took to the stage there in the unit to reaffirm his call for more military support european commission president. i see them on the line as told al jazeera, that the u. s. scaling up production to support ukraine's military needs and diplomatic editor james space is app and unique security conference. again, strong messages of support for ukraine from the western leaders who have spoken here many saying they now believe this will be a long war. and the problem with the war of attrition is re supplying the ukrainian forces. there's already a problem with ammunition, and particularly with artillery shells. the number of artillery shells being produced by western factories is not matching the number that are currently being

used by ukraine, particularly in the eastern part of the country. and that's an issue that i raised with the president of the european commission. ursula on the line what ukraine is concerned, i think very important is nothing about your queen without your pain. it's a sovereign country. ukraine itself has to decide when the time has come for them to make the next move. this is very important. we support fully and back fully as a piece plan of presidency lensky. and at the moment, being 100 percent support focused on the survival of ukraine. military wise, that they are strong and economically wise, and again, nothing about your brain without your. there's a problem though, isn't there about what ukraine needs. ukraine keeps saying it needs more. and one of the key things right now is ammunition. i'm told in terms of artillery shells they're using more than western factories are producing. how are you going to deal

with that? yes. what we're going to do on the european level is that we are convening the european defense industry. basically ask them, what is it, what you need to scale up to speed up. that's important. we have these infrastructure for that, the european piece facility, and they are used to do the procurement and to have the funding and important it's like we did with the vaccine to be very clear. this is a standardized production of ammunition. what is it, what you need to scale up and to speed up? we're going to give it to you with regard to the war in ukraine, there seems to be a growing consensus on one point. people here believe it's going to be a long war or united nations. investigators visited ukraine several times over the last year and say that there is evidence war. crimes have been committed. it says ukrainian forces have also been responsible for rights violations, but significantly more crimes were committed by russian troops. it's actually

butler visited the city of germany, have. this was the scene of the most one of the most toys incidence of the early weeks of the war. see aftermath of a russian attack in the northern ukrainian city of chan. the heave last year on the ground bodies of civilians. they've been queuing outside a shop for bread when they were hit by shells and rockets. 15 people were killed, dozens injured. so you are standing around here and i was always do. natasha narrowly escaped death that day by taking cover by this wall. she was in the queue with her son and mother in law. she plays me recording, she made on her phone. if you said this, lord news news, i believe we heard explosions near us. it was very close. and then we saw lots of people running everywhere. at the time, at the attack china, he was a city under siege. russian forces were surrounding it and shelled it almost daily

. they destroyed power and water supplies. evidence of what happens is still visible, lily everywhere. this is where people were lining up for bread that day. it is right in the middle of a residential area and we're prosecuted list that he says the what happened on that day is a war crime, an indiscriminate attack on civilians who are on the property of corporate law enforcement agencies. consider this a war coin because the main victims were civilians. also a pre trial investigation found no evidence of ukrainian military hardware that could be a legitimate target weapons were used indiscriminately group discovered that all this sir, mark thiel marks are the places of work. it's hid the buildings may be marina slow boat yoke works with the rights organization called truth hounds. that's helping prosecutors to build a case. it's collated, evidence amused,

open source material, satellite imagery, and social media to reconstruct what happened. her team says it's traced the killings to a russian unit that was positioned on the outskirts of the city. we identified also the commandos is sir, appreciate all that could have been who might be liable and responsible for this very kind of attack. whether o leg creek in or another officer was responsible for the attack on the bread, you might never be proved. some investigators say he's back in russia. it's clear that building legal cases and prosecuting alleged war crimes is a challenge. but for some ukrainians, pursuing justice is at least one way of honoring the was many victims. natasha butler al jazeera jenny heave ukraine. well, i already spoke to jeffrey, nice a professor of law and formerly prosecutor of slowed down milosevic at the international criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia. now,

he explained the important distinction between crimes against humanity and war crimes, with no difficulty improving the commission of these crimes against putin. why? because these were his soldiers doing what he wanted. and if people are silly un office to say, oh, you got to prove that chain of command will is blinding the obvious because putin's got a television, he could see exactly what we could see. and if he, these people weren't doing what he wanted them to do, he would have said, of nash brought them up, prosecuted them for committing crimes. he didn't, he didn't, because they were doing what he wanted, and he's a guilt him. now long carrying prime minister victor over his warning against more weapons being sent to ukraine. he's saying that europe is already and directly at war with russia, hungary borders ukraine, and is also heavily reliant on russian energy import. despite being a member of the european union, a banner, so that all dash messy,

the danger of drifting into the war has become permanent. they started with helmets, it continued with sending equipment unsuitable to kill people. but now we're sending tanks and fighter jets. they're on the agenda soon, we'll have about so called peacekeeping troops. the overpaying union, like sleep walkers, on the roofs help hallmarks on hall. on the news. the many thousands of people are still unaccounted for. more than 12 days after those devastating earthquakes, although office shots are continuing to hit the area in just the last few hours, a $5.00 magnitude quite hit central tech here at depth of 10 kilometers, which is felt in the already devastated region of the tap over 46000 people have been killed and that number is expected to rise. though neither the turkish nor the

syrian governments have said how many people are missing. the vast majority of death, more than 40000, have been in turkey and other 5000 a 100 in neighboring syria. most of them and the rebel held northwest. that's where the world food program is pleading with the authorities to give them more access. they say time and money of running out help, hundreds of thousands of survivors. the area is controlled by forces opposed to suing president bashar aside. meanwhile, the turkish authorities estimate more than a 1000000 people have been left homeless. authority say at least 345000 apartments have been destroyed. we have a team of correspondents following the story closely. we go 1st to stephanie deca. she's been in the turkish town of l based on wet and also a single building was left standing. elvis done the exact epicenter of that 2nd earthquake. the city resembles a ghost town. we've been driving around at streets. we haven't seen

a single building, left standing either collapsed, partially collapsed, destroyed, nothing remains livable here. a lot of its residents have left. there are not many tents here. and many residents also complained that help didn't come fast enough. el boston is nestled between snow covered mountains. it takes a long time to drive here. when you see nothing but mountains, it's also freezing. below 20 centigrade at night. we've also seen the turkish john got emma with a cadaver dog. the rescue operation ended. a long time ago here now, it is only about recovering bodies. some of the buildings have already been marked, zoning on it saying things like empty saying damage noted. it seems that the work to rebuild this area has already begun, but at the moment, the devastation and we've been to many cities across the south east remains beyond

comprehension. stephanie decker, al jazeera albus done in southeastern, to kia or even as the rescue operations. a winding down emergency crews are still finding some survivors. a couple of their son were extracted from under an apartment building in the tucker city of hutton. on saturday. 12 days after the earthquakes, 3 were transferred to ambulances after spending 296 hours buried in the rubble, the child later died in hospital. many survivors on our turnings her what's left of their arms. as i beg reports from chrome on marsh, which is one of the worst hit areas. they survived the earthquakes, but now they eager to save what's left over today. oh, they will have to rebuild their lives and everything matters. what can be called you to take out your belongings? the municipality worker says yeah, brother. his phone was under the rubble. how you going to reach them?

it took a life time to accumulate what people had it was taken away in a matter of minutes. my what will we be upset about our belongings? i wish all of this was gone. so i didn't have to care about it. from one of the shops they salvage what they can normally will not looters were not looted that our own goods. they say after class on this off we will try to survive. all we have is last, they let them. 11 of it is every out that what the state or people will give us in aid will only last a week and then we'll be hungry. we have children, we must survive. and what we built in the last 30 years is gone. we had 3 houses, and now we're an attempt to tell the government mirage the search continues. even at this stage, some klingon to hope as every one for silent. rescuers use their equipment to search for any sign of life. the earthquakes took away lives and homes,

but some things can't be taken. we lost everything. i took some pages of the koran out. only memories left. nothing else left. it's all gone behind. this was my shop . all the families had gone. a page of the quote online in the box in front of a tent. the mutual rivalry of this world diverts you until you visit the graves. the verses say to many, this city is now a graveyard. i said bake. i'll just either carmen, my rush southern cookie, you still had for you on the program. at the hospital, the principal of the consultant of the gun problems lies a believe enough. dickens will deduct it. ethiopian liter adiana takes a stage at the african union summit where conflict in free trade and dominating the talks. and after scottish nationalist lose their most powerful politician. what's next for that dream as an independent scotland?

ah hello, a place to say we've got quite weather now making its way across new zealand. high pressure in charge. so welcome spell of dry weather easing into the north. i'll it, at least as we go on through the next couple of days, is where the system will bring some right into the south ireland. as it bouncing too high, it will tend to weaken off, but there will be some showers here has removed the early part of next week. heavy showers continue across northern parts of australia, nor the mayor's acquainted land. pushing across into the northern territory possibility of some localized, we've been flash flooding as these heavy and sundry downpours continue here. but of a thunder bright down turn to northern parts of new south wales for the south is generally try and find pleasant sunshine in melbourne. 27 celsius could 30 degrees

on the sort of alley we saw just couple of days ago, but we are going to see it fine and try. pleasant sunshine at this stay said. penny woke there for adelaide. $35.00 degrees celsius will showers across northern parts of australia, maybe a shower to tools per se, but there's that weather weather just coming in to the south. i'll it should make our way through monday on into tuesday could be heavy at times, but the north island does stay dry stay dry across a good part of china over the next day or so. we have got some pretty wet weatherbug and wintery for japan. ah, it's the largest war in europe since world war 2. is president putin reclaiming what belong to russia was made to coming to close. and what does the end game look like? an in depth look at the war in ukraine, hooton's, blonde, or the with. with you,

craig the season on a just either lou ah, i'll come back and al jazeera life in london. amazed stories. now, he was secretary of state as hell talks with china's top diplomat weeks after alleged chinese by balloon and to the american as base antony blinkin told one ye that american sovereignty should never be violated again. and also warned china against providing support to russia and its invasion of ukraine. the u. s. is made its most serious condemnation,

yet all russia accusing moscow of crimes against humanity. at us, vice president, pamela harris, made these remarks at munich, security conference, demanding justice. and at more than 46000 people have been confirmed dead 12 days after the of quakes in turkey and syria touch authorities say that more than a 1000000 people a homeless. while the well food programs as time and money are running out to help hundreds of thousands of survivors in north west syria or 5000000 people have been affected by this, by the disaster in syria is omar herani reports from africa in the countryside. families living in dia conditions that nephew fall out of the was the entire free and we are inside the gym hall in the middle of a free and the electro countryside. this is where dozens of syrian families have taken shelter after their homes were partially, are totally destroyed by the earthquake. what we've seen here can only be described

as devastating, especially to children and the elderly cook and heather al mccann. let's hear now from one of the survivors. i'm not sure your maneuvers desert, but we have been sheltered in this hall for 12 days, but we don't have any services. we have not received any assistance. i suffer from colon cancer and back pain. i'm sleeping on this hard surface in this fiercely cold weather. it is really tough. though we survived the earthquake, we find ourselves faced with another type of disaster. the walls of our house fell on my wife and she has been in hospital for 10 days. she doesn't have anything, not even a mattress to sleep on. we have not received any medical 800, but i'm a father to fall. all of them are suffering from a constant. cough. some health organizations came over but could not even provide a cough medication to sit on it and he, a little garcia has a gun. it's nothing but harsh living conditions. but these families are left a battle. the tragic stories can be heard wherever we go. the survivors are in need

of food, shelter, and medical supplies. we've heard similar complaints in every area. we've been to have people in desperate need of help. with other dozens of trucks have passed the northern border. more relief, aid is needed, so the lack of services and shortages of supplies is all we hear and see here on the ground in northwestern, syria, him a lot of pseudo. i'm a hold on just omar herani, 0 a freen aleppo, countryside and also in syria, a baby who was born just after the 1st earthquake struck has been reunited with her uncle and aunt. the girl was found alive last week with umbilical cord still connected to her mother. she apparently gave birth while buried under the rubble of a 5 story building in the rebel held town of gender as the new born was later identified as the child of adela and lay hung. they both died in the disaster along

with that of the children. now protest have been held against israel's coalition government for a 7th success as saturday. tens of thousands gathered once again in tel aviv to demonstrate against prime minister benjamin netanyahu proposals to form the tertiary the leader wants to limit the supreme court powers and give more authority to the government. but critics say nothing. y'all was seeking to undermine that justice system and get rid of his legal was, as he stands trial for corruption. well now it's an easier government is expelled, a european trade union confederation official from the country for participating in protests against the president. thousands of trade union members demonstrated across to new jersey on friday. they accuse kind of cracking down on base it freedoms. a blame him for worsening economy and the rising cost of living side shut down parliament more than a year ago and seized most powers in accused of what he, he's accused, what he calls traitors,

price increases and shortages or conflicts and free trade dominated talks on the 1st day of the annual, a you summit in the ethiopian capital, more than 30 leaders from across the continent turn addis ababa. they've been discussing ways to tackle violence in the south region and the democratic republic of congo. and they're hoping to speed up the implementation of the deal aimed at boosting trade between african countries. the ethiopian women is to be at home at stress, the importance of african solutions to african issues. some it comes just months after his government signed a peace agreement with the tig, right people's liberation front to end their 2 year war each time we are a 3rd and real 3rd, the principal of african solutions, the african problems we are only applying the powerless wisdom of all 4 was for those illusion of contemporary charlie's alberto. the principle of

african solution globally gone problems live the believe in the africans will regarded african agency and the equality digney, york. all human beings. a bit of news from north korea at the leader kim jong and sister has been making some remarks. now she insist that mil at the military will use missiles target a south korean capital sol kim. jo, john also warned the us to stop all acts that threat in her country security. she spoke off to north korea, confirm that it tested an intercontinental ballistic miss silent saturday. state media says the miss al flew nearly a 1000 kilometers. japan's defense industry says it landed in its territorial waters. scotland, long running, pushed for independence from the united kingdom, took a blow earlier this week with the shock resignation of nicholas sturgeon. the 1st, the scottish 1st minister. the scottish national party will announce a new leader by the end of the of next month. but his origins reports from the

capital edinburgh, a face major challenges keeping their dream of full independence alive. for years, nicholas sturgeon seemed as solid as off his seat. the ancient volcano that towers over edinburgh, but political and geological era's both end office seat stopped rubbing 340000000 years ago. sturgeon's power disappeared with her resignation announcement last wednesday. good morning everyone. so the scottish national party is now looking for a new leader and a new path. they are now in a state of flux. and the key question for them is what do you do about independence? what's the independent strategy? and mckeever is a political analyst who watches scottish politics closely. it comes back to the decision that the u. k. supreme court made the backend of last year, where they said the scottish parliament did not have the power to hold a referendum by itself. nicholas surgeon's answer to that question was what she called the defect to referendum. in other words, she boutique

a national election like the general election that we expect next year. and she would turn that into a vote on independence, but many in the s n p. so this is too risky, and it looks like the tactic is now dead in the water. a special party conference where sturgeon would have argued for it has been called off for now. appetite for an imminent rerun if the 2014 referendum is falling. and recent polls suggest pro independence has become a minority view. once again, nicholas sturgeon's exit may further erode support. i hope it does. why? because i want independent you and so. busy what are your hopes for next and what i can do, i don't know how come as quite a short last mistake we'll put back cause for independence because there's never been more than 50 percent. that knows many of them will. i think

to stay in the union because we've lost the european union. we probably don't want to lose longest union in the world who have his next will have to reinvigorate the independence cause and fend off opposition, party sensing, and opportunity. the race for an u. s. and p leader and the scottish 1st minister doesn't yet have a clear front runner candidates have until friday to wednesday. and then it's a 6 week contest with a members having until the end of march. to make that choice. a choice that will in a new political age for scotland, rory collins out his era, edinburgh and the former us president jimmy carter has decided to receive hospice care at hon. according to his non profit foundation, the contest center says the 98 year old has chosen to spend his remaining time at home with family instead of receiving additional medical.