now dennis shirley is saying that in marielle for the reason it's essentially been destroyed is because people are fighting street to street house to house. he says in the last 8 years, and the groups call the as all brigade he calls in as one of national group that he's very influential in my office. he says they spend the last 8 years fortifying the city. and he accuses them of using human fields, human shield to prevent the city being taken by donuts forces backed by the russians. he also says that in response to the russian defense ministry saying that it is now going to concentrate its efforts on what they call liberating, don't bass, this eastern part of ukraine. now russia is going to concentrate on that. moving away from the greater part of ukraine, he says, that's going to make an enormous difference, a particularly in terms of russian fire power. and he means this in terms of russian app power. still ahead on al jazeera, a chinese city government apologizes for food shortages during code. 1900 restrictions and temperatures rise. cities are going to need to get a whole lot smar