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ready ukraine says its forces have repelled russian assaults along the length of the front line on the eve of the 1st anniversary of the war. ah, lo i, mary, i'm noisy in london, you're watching algae 0. so coming up in the program, this, our nigerian police, a 3 political parties were targeted in civil tanius attacks which killed several people and a new goose state. including a senate candidates in saturday's election as the number killed by the earthquakes in turkey. and syrian is 50000, even those whose homes have been declared safe. a too scared to go back. ah, another massive winter storm back is a large part of the united states with blizzard warnings in california,

while others are there. is he record breaking high temperatures? ah, we begin with the latest developments in ukraine. the military is saying that its forces have repelled russian assaults along the length of the front line on the eve of the war's anniversary. the past few weeks if seen rush him out. major assaults in battles described by both sides as the bloodiest since the conflict began last february. in a couple of hours, the united nations general assembly emergency special session on ukraine is expected to vote on a resolution demanding that russia pull out of ukraine. the russian president vladimir putin is vying to step up his country's nuclear arsenal. now, you quite. it is western ally say it's a diversion from a failing russian military campaign. i wish only when you minute that you are as before, we will pay increased attention to strengthening the nuclear triad this year. the

1st launches of the saw mat missile system with a new heavy missile enter combat duty. we will continue serial production of the canal air launched hypersonic systems and begin mass deliveries of zircon c launched hypersonic missiles or china is expected to unveil a plan to end the war and ukraine. it's time to come inside with that. the 1st anniversary of the invasion crowding present already may zalinski has been hosting the spanish prime minister, padre sanchez and keith at a press conference. after that talks, zelinski said he's cautiously optimistic about the chinese paste plan. the diplomats young and white. yes. elementary. i've not seen the document, it's too early to make a diagnosis. i think that in general, the fact that china started talking about peace in ukraine. i think that's not bad . it's important for us that all states are on our side on the side of justice. but the fact that china is already talking about it,

this is some kind of 1st step. this is not bad at all. we'll jump to conclusions after seeing specifically what they offer. solid and java brings us more from moscow now on china's plan. what it is? well kept secret because china has been talking about this piece plan for the last few days, but it hasn't unveiled it as yet. this morning we've heard from the russian foreign ministry that it was not part of the discussions between china's top tip, the mud and the russian foreign minister. but it does not rule out that better. this plan has been given to both capital as moscow and key for them to have a reaction ready before china and build that. but this is where china wants to be a, an arbiter which sits in the middle and tries to negotiate between these 2 sides, which remain far apart, but it comes to how to end the war. well, members and supporters of the russian communist party had been laying floral tributes at the tomb of the unknown soldier in moscow to mark the annual defender of the fatherland de. this holiday celebrates the formation of the red army in 1918

and it is compulsory military service for most russian men. this event is even more high profile because of the war and ukraine. washer is reopened, its british of the antics crimean peninsula and ukraine allowing road and rail supplies to get through for the 1st time in 4 months. the 19 kilometer long coach bridges the may linked to deliver troops and supplies to crimea. it was bon last october to attack russia blamed on ukrainian military intelligence. the ukraine never claimed responsibility for it. and as you were saying, the next couple of hours, the general assembly is due to vote on a resolution calling for peace and ukraine shall return, sees it united nation for us. what sort of remarks are we expected to hear? and what is the sort of sequencing of events in the next few hours sir, in just under an hour, this emergency special session will reconvene. there are 6 speakers slated to, to appear before the votes, including some key non align countries,

or least south africa. for example, key bricks, nation keno, a line country, they will be explaining what their votes it will be and why they are voting as they are. then we'll have the votes. and then another fascinating element of what's to come. we have 123-456-7899 other speakers than including really keen on the lines and all nations bricks, nations of brazil, india as well as indonesia, egypt, who explained why they voted as they did. what's interesting about this selection of countries coming in the next, in the following hour, is that these are the non align nations. these are the nations who represent huge population blocks. so even when the west and the u. s. in europe, say, look, you see russia is isolated than you know often we, we, we see the repost. yes. but look 85 percent of the world's population. oh, in the countries of the represent any fibers out of operation don't have sanctions on russia for example. i have

a more nuanced view of the conflicts would be rich to see how they vote, whether they abstain what they are all given self for abstaining. the resolution itself is expected to get an overwhelming vote in favor. probably 3 quarters of the general assembly will vote in favor because e e u and ukraine have drafted it to it into a bare bones resolution, which basically is about how incontrovertibly it is against the un charter for one member state to invade. another member state, that is a position which people can get behind and we've seen before in un general assembly resolutions. anything more, anything, walk a critical, anything that sanctioning russia you failed to get even half of general assembly votes. this is something people can get behind, but we have an idea of that. the arguments are abstention. china's already spoken. and they're saying, look, if you really want to have something, something that will lead to peace in ukraine than this isn't very productive, very want to resolution, which will call for immediate peace stalks,

which will cover d confliction ending the flow of weapons into the region. the escalation, intricacies for and addressing what they often say are the legitimate security concerns with policies, meaning addressing. but causes of this conflict to, to make sure that this is truly sold on between these were very pointed savvy expansion of military blocks have been destabilizing to the region. clearly, we're talking about major moving eastwards. so that sort of the reasons why even though china and all these, all on countries, they agree that it is illegal to invite about the country. they feel that this is not the resolution that will achieve peace. i think that's the argument we're going to be hearing. all right, thank you very much. and that to special session gets under way to say in less than an hour's time. shebra tansy there at un. thank you. sham me. while here in london, the road outside, the russian embassy has been painted with the colors of the ukrainian flag. a 170 liters of yellow paint was poured out on one side of the road,

a 170 liters of blue paint on the other. passing traffic house friday across bayswater road, protested cat out by the campaign group known as led by donkeys to mock friday's 1st anniversary of the invasion. 4 people were arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and obstructing the highway elsewhere, events, visuals, taking place all over the world. on the eve of the anniversary, the eiffel tower in the french capital, perry so so at least out in yellow and blue to show solidarity with the people of ukraine. ah, now police in nigeria say attack as you killed a senate candidate from the opposition labor party targeted 3 different political parties on wednesday or, or your bow chuckle was shot dead in southeast, in a new state, or returning home from a campaign rally. police, a suspected separatist carried out simultaneous attacks on 3 parties yesterday,

killing several people. this is the latest incident and a space of violence had of that election on saturday. har matessa brings us more now from the scene of the attack. this way the man was running for senator was killed on wednesday night, as conway was traveling along this road. when it got to this area, gunmen opened fire. you could see some of the cartridges down there. he was killed and some of his party was also killed. they then set fire to the car. the car has been moved by security forces. police have issued a statement and they blamed on groups for the attack. they say young men of the region are trying to disrupt on saturday and are trying to cause panic. the street is usually vizier than this. you got a few cars that many of the shops of clothes. some of the people here say there to gauge, open this on to the nervous of the attack on wednesday. not sure what is going to

happen next. the moods here is 10. people will tell you, try not to leave the city and travel by road. they say people are getting kidnapped people ransom, and people are being attacked along the road. so generally there's a feeling of insecurity in the area. there's been lingering tensions in this part of the country for many, many years, some people here. so if you'll marginalize from the rest of nigeria, they feel that the federal government in the capital, the boucher has not done enough to develop this part of nigeria. some of them have been agitating to change some even cooling for separation independent from the states of nigeria. israel o'con columba for to nigeria, a civil war known as a bi. after all, would tell me an office in there for between 19671970. that attempt at secession in the south east home to the able homeland, ethnic group killed more than 1000000 people. but when, when you finish the retire lieutenant colonel is worried about

a new generation of fighters who say not enough people from this region have influence over nigeria, politics, security, and economy. i'm suggesting that the federal mitchell think deeply and see how they can bring us into the equation to assuage the sinners under handles the people. the boys who are warren alleged items, badly nigeria southeast has seen an increase in pre election violence, kidnappings, and continued agitation from some to split from the rest of the country. dozens of people have been killed this year in a row, you to abuse your breast lobe, you know breast it all before i believe kids, you know portal i recall, did you call for them to tell her that liberty, a free book? these are natural instincts in man what bully, breed them. so i want to be free presidential and parliamentary elections are on saturday. some polling stations will not be used because of insecurity. security

forced to say they will guarantee law and order a new to tell you how we do. it's not i'm telling you is ups. who do it on everyone. we have the liberty to aside their franchise. insecurity is not the only issue for voters. rising unemployment and economy are major concerns. this market is usually busy at this time of the day. a lot more people would be looking for good deals and bothers, but it's quiet because the shortages of cash banks often run out. and that's effectively everyday life in a geron, president mohammed, uber, harry is serving his 2nd and last term. many nigerians hope waiver takes over from him, will quickly turn around the economy and resolve lingering conflicts, harder matessa al jazeera integral nigeria aah to almost 50000 people are now confirmed

dead in the us quakes that hit her kia and syria more than 2 weeks ago. millions are in need of humanitarian aid and many survivors without shelter having to brave the cold. more than 2 and a half 1000000 have fled to safer areas, which are struggling to deal with the influx. it's been particularly tough. the syrians who've suffered over a decade of civil war, come on what it does, will had a room, i had a smartphone, we witnessed past events and the war, but nothing is as frightening as now. we are very scared with war. my family moved from one place to another safer one offered by the government with the earthquakes . it's just scary because you can't take your precautions. you just feel yourself shaking. if we can take precautions, let's say for an earthquake and le takia, we can go to a label. but the earthquake is happening in all regions. the other quakes have left one and a half 1000000 people homeless in takia,

and many of those whose houses remain standing still say they are too scared to go back in doors. as i beg, has more in this now from garcia's tap, cold and afraid fall in 3 earthquakes in the space of 2 weeks. many people don't feel safe in their homes. they're sleeping in the open areas, like park and carpet. i'm on the took my lashes when it's dark, my son starts to say, mom, can we go to the cafe mom? the chandeliers shaking. when someone touches the table, my son gets afraid and says there's an earthquake, my children feel safe for our side. so we stay at side in our cars. the fire keeps their hands warm, but it's the kindness of strangers that warms the hearts also fall to our house was marked as slightly damaged, but we couldn't enter for 2 weeks. we didn't have gas and water. we had babies and small children. so we stayed here for 2 weeks. we were lucky, this restaurant open its door to us. so instead of staying in attends or sleeping

in the car, we stayed there. may god bless her. most of the city of 2000000 have been told by authorities, the homes are safe, but many don't believe that there are no fish in numbers and how many buildings are secure and does the enter. predictions are further earthquakes and social media of heightened people's sense of fear. concern, our house was checked by the authorities and we went back in. the building was marked as slightly damaged with 95 percent non damaged, but the walls are cracked psychologically. we are afraid to go back in, especially i said, the aftershocks and the latest ether. quick, ma'am. as wife says she'd rather brave the cold than the 9th floor of the building . it shakes every time just enough to shop. we've seen residents across the city using in the cars and in the parks. they've been traumatized so much by the earthquakes that nothing can reassure them to return to their home. i said vague. i just got into the if alice is a life, am landon mosul, to bring in

a salad in morning and on strike, occupied license. that last bank towns shut up shop down to the latest deadly israeli race. what really happened in a higher investigator's release? their report is the trained derailment and toxic spill 3 weeks ago. ah, that the obvious cold in europe is actually sitting in the east where the cloud is falling into by obvious, i mean that means temperatures are blue. if you overlay the colors which means 0 or below for retired, but the sun is disappearing. and that's true of all these eastern european countries where we just had a couple of days that are sunshine. it's going to feel cold, especially where the wind is on your back. in the low countries or in germany, that breaks of lottie, straight all way down towards the coast. the black sea is much cooler in france. that slot, improving in spain. i have to say,

and you could argue at some point of view of temperatures is improving in ukraine and moldova, where it's been freezing, it's come yet, but that's including wind cloud and incoming right. so improve is maybe not right. would your okay in turkey and out of sunny's i throughout the day? so it was most countries in some to europe, not enjoying the change to clarity and increasing the cold, even steady weather for time. it will slot, improve afterwards. and then the rain comes into spain and portugal. it looks quite stormy, but it's raining, which will be reflected in once more, quite a big dump of snow, the aptis mountains. the assessment is up in morocco and rain crossing into algeria and was a slow change. a season does not increase in the rain likelihood around the coast of all these west african nations ah, in syria citizens, a collecting evidence,

a show of crimes committed against civilians. we've moved out of syria now about $600000.00 pages of material so that one day they can bring the outside regime to justice. it puts a human face on the charges. it's a dead human face. but as with fish, syria witnesses for the prosecution on al jazeera lou ah ah, welcome back. a look at the main stories were following the south. now ukrainian military says its forces of repel russian assaults, along the length of the front line. on the eve of the was anniversary, china says that it will propose a plan to end the war ukraine,

which it's expected to announce on friday. but he said no jerry's i suspected separatist who killed opposition. senate candidate to bar or you both chuckle responsible for tax on 3 political parties. 3 days before the elections, almost 50000 people and al confirm dead in the of quakes that hit turkey in syria more than 2 weeks ago. even survivors whose homes have been declared safe, say they are too scared to go back in doors and avenues, israel, his cow as strikes on the gaza strip in adorn attack. is there any forces that they were targeting hamas military sites? it came hours after 6 rockets were fired from garza into israel. the army says it intercepted 5 of them. no casualties were reported. a massa said it would respond to the killings of at least 11 palestinians during a raid by israeli forces in nablus on wednesday. palestinians across the occupied

westbank declared a total shut down in protest against the deaths. more than a 100 people who also injured in the deadliest raid for 18 years. and abraham has more now at least he made it to the that's what the mother of 11 year old uses up with old tells us he's in an intensive care unit after being wounded in his abdomen by shrapnel and by a bullet in his leg with uh, hello user says he went to a market in the old city of nablus to buy a sandwich. but he ran into is really forces a use of my verification use of didn't know these really army was reading, he went to buy some food there. he might have stayed to look on, but he's a kid. what kind of danger? a boy, his age component, 11 palestinians were killed during their eat on wednesday. thousands came to this community hall to mourn and pay their respects. among those killed was

a child and 3 elderly men, dozens of other people were wounded, and hospitals overwhelmed. it yes, as a nurse, as the wounded are being brought in, he was called to the emergency room. he tried to resuscitate a wounded man. it wasn't until that patient was declared dead that he realized it was his father. i think of them. i pulled the curtain and saw him. i didn't want to believe my eyes. i took a closer look. i turned his head. i realized it was my father. i just didn't want to believe it. these really forces see that he was aimed at members of armed groups, but with a high number of fatalities. many here say israel is trying to deter people from resisting israel's occupation. choices are very, very offered to put us. the rooms is one, either one of the 2 things, either to go on to resist and to say, no, do, to hold your, your grand, i'd be the reprice,

would be exceptionally high. all your go out on the clear that through are so in the regret you out of the fruits of people, he general strike was announced across the occupied west bank in protest against the read palestinian say they have few other options and surrendering isn't one of them. he, they abraham l jose zepada the occupied west bank. now the developments and member of israel's cabinet has officially taken charge of illegal settlements in the occupied west bank. the far right finance minister was given the authority to pause his coalition deal with the prime minister benjamin netanyahu. israel's new government had promised to make settlement expansion a top priority. between 1967 and last year 2022. israel built more than 290 illegal satellites in the occupied west bank, but i'm about 700000 satler's a living there. the settlements violate international law. the train that crashed

carrying toxic chemicals in the u. s. day of ohio 2 weeks ago was derailed by an overheated axle and the crew wasn't warned about it until just before the accident took place. these are the findings of the u. s. national transportation safety board just released in a preliminary report. local residents are still reporting symptoms like sore throat and headaches. though officials insist the water and the air a safe transportation factory paint booted edge who has face criticism over his response to the incident visited the crash side on thursday. the most important thing is, 1st of all, making sure that the residents here have what they need, something that from our piece of the puzzle, d o t. we were working on from day one and making sure we do something for the future. we can talk about process and that's fairly, that's, that's perfectly fair. but i don't want people pointing to process as a way to get away from the fundamental questions of rail safety regulation and

accountability. and whether we're going to make it tougher, or whether we're going to allow it to continue being watered down. i did. your castro joins us live now from east palestine higher. tell us more about what this report had said, particularly this point about there being some indication that it could derail because of an over heated mechanism, but to the crew. not being warned about it. right. so there is a system of warnings, as we understand from the report where is several long distance back there was incremental warnings of this wheel, barry and question, getting hotter and hotter and that this system did warn the crew of that. but the crew follow the guidelines set by the railroad company saying that those temperature elevations had not yet reached the critical point to demand action. once that critical point was reached, it was at the last 2nd, when the derailment happened, and it was too late to do anything to prevent it that appears to be the preliminary

finding of the, of this result, the national transportation safety board. but they just updated the media minutes ago saying that this was the beginning of what will be a long investigation. and in fact there, calling for norfolk southern railroad company to appear before an investigative hearing in this area in the coming weeks. so still many unanswered questions, while residents are receiving assurances from the government from the environmental protection agency that are monitoring this site, that there appears to be no hazards in the air or in the water. a lot of people, though, just not accepting that still drinking bottled water is still fearful of if nothing . if nothing, if these headaches are complaining of is not attributed to this. well, what about years down the road? what if someone developed cancer? will they raise their children here for decades to come? very tough situation for these residents to be. and right, so the official guidance is that it's safe for them to return to the homes. and yet

the residents that are reporting symptoms that they didn't have before this, this chemical leak took place. what about the clean up? how is that going? well, you can see behind me that here almost 3 weeks after the derailment happened, you can still see some of the twisted metal from the wreckage. and in fact, the soil that was contaminated by the release of the vinyl cor arrived more than 400 leaders of it. that slow remains on site is covered by plastic tarp just over the hill. the wearable company got some criticism because rather than remove that soil, they prioritized 1st rebuilding the rail tracks so that their business may continue . and throughout the day that we've been here, there have been a continuous flow of more and more railed trains going right by flying past this very site. now the company did address that criticism, saying it has

a plan to remove all of that contaminated soil. but the people here are still waiting for that to happen and they say it should have happened long ago. okay, thank you very much. from easter is palestine. hi. oh hi. did your counselor reporting that in all the news from the us? he weighs in snow storms again hitting different parts of the country, but it's where the extreme weather conditions are happening. it's causing the surprise. there is snow in the south west of the country with the 1st blizzard warning since 1989. the mountains north and los angeles between 35 centimeters and 2 meters of snow could fall there by the weekend. perhaps less surprising, but still unusually cold. the storm conditions across the north of the u. s. montana's recorded temperatures of minus 23 degrees celsius. of parts of neighboring north dakota air expecting minus 30 to some 25 degrees below the february average. and minnesota could break its wreck hold for snowfall. meanwhile,

the east coast is experiencing unusually warm weather. washington d. c. is reading temperatures of close to $28.00 degrees, which equals record high for february when it's normally about 20 degrees cooler than that. well, the brutal winter storm is wreaking havoc across the country. hundreds of thousands of homes are without power across several states. and there is travel disruption with thousands of flights grounded. and dr is also trapped on icey roads. elsewhere in the world, mozambique is preparing for floods is a deadly storm system nears tropical storm. friday is expected to mate landfall in the southern african country on friday. the lands office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs is about 400000 people live in the areas of the storms projected trajectory. at least 4 people in madagascar were killed and tens of thousands displaced when the storm moved through. the tropical site can lay on tuesday they were european commission and other institutions are banding, tick,

tock on all of their official staff devices. this is part of a move to improve cybersecurity with concerns over the chinese own video hosting service. united states ban take top from the federal government devices last year. some politicians wanted band completely from the u. s. the new commission says it made its decision independently. the reasons why this has been the decision has been taken east to protect the commission. cyber a to increase the commission cyber security you all for the measure, aims to protect the commission against cyber security threats and excellence which may be exploited for cyber effects. a gave the corporate environment of the commission al jazeera dot com for more and everything we're covering. you'll get the latest now top stories there, but also plenty of comment analysis that takes you behind the headlines.