nice and beautiful here in san francisco and the port. come. >> our fishermen are super excited. it's great to have the public come down here and interact. >> it's a whole experience for the family, where they bring the kids and interact and say wow, the crab's alive. it's going to claw me and everything. >> they really get excited they're coming down here and posting their recipes or pictures of the food. or their kids picking up the crab. they're making a whole experience out of it. >> it is going to give the locals a part of san francisco that was taken away from them. >> now i have a reason to come back. >> i had a guy the other day come and say he hasn't been down to fisherman's wharf in 10 years. he said i'm going to come down here every weekend. i forgot >>> the tenderloin is home to families, immigrants, seniors, merchants, workers and the housed and unhoused who all deserve a thriving neighborhood to call home. the tenderloin initiative was launched to improve safety, reduce crime, connect people to services and increase investme

the port of san francisco is working with our colleagues at the port of san diego and others to remainng high but the rules benefit small, medium and large ports. california's ports have different business lines and strengths. together the state's ports are a foundational economic engine that benefit all of california and we need your help to make that mission, to send that message up to sacramento. last year thanks in large part to your efforts. the governor allocated $250 million to california's ports, to provide economic le leaf from covid pandemic. in december, awarded san francisco 56.6 million to recover losses in 2020. application for 2021 are due march 14. in april, the state land commission will distribute the remaining 130 million in available funding. staff is currently evaluating revenue losses and slated to apply over $50 million. today mayor breed introduced a resolution at the board of supervisors to allow us to accept and expand the first $14 million in funding. resolution was co-sponsored by supervisors peskin and haney. we are working with the city's real estate depar

the purpose of the port's strategic plan is to set our overall vision in the mission statement the port commission's vision and mission for the water front. the plan and sets the port's allocations of resources for the next few years. i am proud that the updates to our economic section of this strategic plan demonstrate coordinated strategy to address water front. it identifies foundational issues that must be addressed. it ensures an integrated approach to financial recovery and sets resourcing allocations. it holds leadership accountable to the team. and it communicates ongoing work. next slide, please. the strategic plan is a living document. it's a working document that will be updated to ensure the port's strategy. we ensure that the plan is updating other key documents. the ten year capital plan. city policies including the burton act and we ensure that the plan is designed to recognize the shift that covid-19 has caused and the port's unprecedented financial outlook as a result. to the next slide, please. why do we need an update in our strategic plan. it's very good to report th

of duluth the twin ports the president just visited yesterday very timely. and i wanted to make sure and hear senator baldwin who is also on that visit it was rather freezing cold as we stood outside at the port. the point of it is, it is a really good we also have the support of the port association. so we are excited about this bill, excited to hear from you today, thank you madam chair for. >> thank you setter klobuchar. again welcome to the commissioners from the federal maritime commission will start with you chairman mcveigh welcome. >> thank you very much madam chair i used to work at the port in new york pretty soon to talk about cold with great lakes ports. thank you so much cap chair cantwell, ranking member wicker, members of the committee been so honored to appear today with my colleague rebecca died to discuss best legislative proposals to strengthen them. the dramatic surge spurred reduced reliability higher cost not just in the united states but around the world. pictures of winds to container said the ranking member at mention and credit with

adam: the nearest fire crew was based just a few hundred meters from the port. uded three men from the same family, charbel karam, his brother-in-law and his wife's cousin, who was just 22 years old. as the crew left, charbel karam called his wife at home. adam: the church bells rang at 6 p.m. from his penthouse terrace, agoston nemeth was filming as the fire took hold. agoston nemeth: i saw directly that there is a building in flames. i left my phone outside to film it. adam: nearby, lina khalil and her husband imad spent most afternoons on their balcony overlooking the port. on this day, from the 11th flview of the growing fire.eir adam: at 6:04 p.m., lina filmed the arrival of the fire truck and the ambulance. the crews came in blind to a locked warehouse. adam: a paramedic on the ground with the brigade filmed the scene and captured the last footage of firefighter charbel karam. adam: what the firefighters did not know was that the warehouse held 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate. it had arrived in 2013 aboard a mozambique bound ship. the cargo was confiscated an

the commission is cooperating with the port of los angeles, the 6 week experiment to determine the information contained in their port optimizer, whether it would be useful for detention. the ultimate goal of these efforts are to require ocean carriers to change their billing systems for detention charges in the first place. for some time i have been concerned service contracts entered into between shippers and ocean carriers lack mutual commitment. this ambiguity about mutual enforceability and so-called contracts cause severe consequences to shippers especially exporters in times of high demand for cargo space, binding contracts with the space they need. i do not recommend the commission regulates service contracts, but i support the commission providing greater information to shippers on the value of mutual commitment and contracting and the availability of shippers associations to leverage volume for freight charges and service contracts. they are useful in other areas of import and could be extremely useful to medium and small exporters to band together to get good deals and commitment on

those ports are not very efficient. there's the least efficient ports in the united states actually in the world. the other dilemma that you have pedro is there's a strike that may happen in july so there's a lot of negotiations going on right now and normally and that starts those negotiations usually you start to get slow down as far as ships being unloaded. that's a concern so fortunately we haven't really seen really what needs to happen there and that's to try to clear out those wship backlogs. >> you highlight in the new york times today saying that new contractcould affect 22,000 workers employed at 29 points . >> i'm very concerned about that because there is a destruction, it's just going to be 2021 all over again. so we're going to have the same situation we have with holidays, trying to get stuff for the ports. i would say this also a lot of retailers are having issues right now trying to get their summerstock . and that's just because again, a lot of stuff they might comes from china and if they can't get that stuff thr

i had a follow up on the property and port discussion. are we getting anything from assembly member ting, certifying that they're selling the parcel to the fire department for training purposes? are we getting some kind of written agreement, letter, whatever, that we can then submit to assembly member ting that can be part of the presentation at the legislature? >> so they have yet to vote on it, so that would have to happen first, and, you know s i'm not sure how that would work, but i would imagine that would be an action item at their next commission meeting. >> commissioner cleaveland: okay. so we'd still have to vote to approve the sale? >> yes, and the port itself has been extremely supportive of us, and director forbes has been great in having her staff work with us. >> commissioner cleaveland: great. that was my question. you said you had a class of h-2 firefighters beginning soon. how many do you expect to begin to recruit into this class? >> well, we have an h-3 level two class that started yesterday of paramedics, and we current

people through humanitarian corridors, new satellite images show the extent of the damage to the besieged port city of mattie, who paul grant's president, may wellborn's russian forces. they faced a fight to the death if they try to occupy the capital here. also coming up polish volunteers step up to help you. cranium. refugees, bad authorities warn they close to breaking point, and ah, performing for peace as their city prepare its defenses, musicians in odessa make their voices heard the ukraine. ah, i'm anthony howell broke into the program. the city of levine in western ukraine has been hit by several rockets. that's according to local media, there authorities in the region. so ukraine's santa for international peacekeeping and security, close to the polish border has also come on the fire. as russian forces close in on the capital, keith, it's me, is calling on residence to prepare to fight. already shelling has reached the outskirts of the city. fire crews rushed to the scene. after a mortar struck an apartment building on the outskirts of keys. with loosen up, what was the all the artil

the phoenix actually was the port of san francisco's vessel. state harbor of engineers saw importance to bring fire protection from the water way back when the fire department took over. we gave the phoenix for $1. so that was a very kind and since that point we've had an excellent relationship with the fire department protecting our piers and commissioner brandon is here with me today and she will remember we've had many fires. pier 45, pier 29, and pier 48 and that's just in recent memory and these fireboats were here to protect us. and now i'd like to say a few words to the students at mission high. we have an existential threat of sea level rise and your generation is going to deal with it even more than we are. the leaders here today are being innovative. so she'll be here to stand the test of time and we at the port under the leadership of march breed are working on our seawall and city assessor carmen chiu is going to make sure that we get it done over time, but it's a generational investment and i want you all to hear that today because

and i'm here at the intersection of all these things. airport, ports, the river, the lake, the bridges, the highways. it's also about that historic investments we are making in the great lakes. i don't have to tell anyone here. i went to school and life guarded one of the great lakes and syracuse new york. supporting two weeks ago i visited ohio and announced an investment. all the places had to be repaired both in canada and the united states. when i announced $1 billion from the bipartisan infrastructure law exploiting the cleanup of sites where the waters in wastewater treatment at a given the great lakes to put them at great risk including between your states. we generate three to four dollars of economic benefit. there's more freshwater in the lakes than any other single place in the whole world they connect this lake to other great lakes and are a gateway connecting the things in the country to the rest of the world. it makes the steel that goes into the american made cars and appliances in january and annoud $500 million to upgrade. moving goods

i had a follow up on the property and port discussion. are we getting anything from assembly member ting, certifying that they're selling the parcel to the fire department for training purposes? are we getting some kind of written agreement, letter, whatever, that we can then submit to assembly member ting that can be part of the presentation at the legislature? >> so they have yet to vote on it, so that would have to happen first, and, you know s i'm not sure how that would work, but i would imagine that would be an action item at their next commission meeting. >> commissioner cleaveland: okay. so we'd still have to vote to approve the sale? >> yes, and the port itself has been extremely supportive of us, and director forbes has been great in having her staff work with us. >> commissioner cleaveland: great. that was my question. you said you had a class of h-2 firefighters beginning soon. how many do you expect to begin to recruit into this class? >> well, we have an h-3 level two class that started yesterday of paramedics, and we current

fighting intensifies in the streets of maria poll, ukraine's president calls the russian siege of the port city. a war crime. look, gotten him when you would do this to a peaceful city. what the occupiers did to it is a terror that will be remembered for centuries to come. ah, hello, i'm adrian for the good. this is l 0 alive from dough. also coming up. russia says it's attract ukraine with cruise missiles, from ships and the black and caspian seas, as again, used hypersonic weapons. plus, i'm a sad bag and i'm kind of keith, ukraine's 2nd largest city that's been pounded by russian forces for the last 3 weeks. and we report from a refugee camp in somalia, where many people forced to move by trout are now facing starvation. the city council or the port city of maria poll says that russia has bombed an op school where people were taking shelter. they say that $400.00 or in the building, russia has increased its attacks on the southern port city, which it sees as vital to the success of its invasion ukraine's president vladimir zalinski. as acute roy accused washing troops of committing war

right now the land is part of the port of oakland. in order for the project to move forward, it needs a vote that would eliminate its maritime use. the issue, will the ballpark development hurt the port and it future growth? last night the state's seaport committee spent several hours discussing this issue. right now, howard terminal being used for things like training port workers, storage, and truck parking. but the city and puerto fishes say the ballpark will not hurt the port, but the union that represents the workers believe the ballpark project will cost jobs and will negatively impact the surrounding neighborhood. the seaport committee ultimately voted against the deal, but it does not have the final say. that's key, it doesn't have the final say. instead, their recommendation will be considered by a different state group. the bay conservation and development commission, or the bcdc. that vote is scheduled june 2nd. that is a big day. late today i asked the a's president, david kabal, about how he felt about june 2nd. >> they ar

rita calls the wash and siege of the port city. a war crime looked at me moody. we would do this to a peaceful city. what the occupiers did to it is a terror that will be remembered for centuries to come. ah, hello, i'm adrian for again. this is al jazeera, alive from doha. also coming up. we report from ukraine's eastern front lines where russian forces have been making steady advances. i'm a sad baby and i'm kind of give you crane 2nd largest city as being pounded by russian forces for the last 3 weeks. feeding those left behind volunteers were still lives to help the most vulnerable in the capital cave and hungry and homeless . we report from a refugee camp in somalia, where many displaced by drought, a facing salvation. ukraine's president of a lot of his landscape says the washing troops are committing war crimes in mario, paul. the southern port city has been on the relentless artillery a truck and has left his people without water or power for more than a week. well this is the territory in red here. the russia at its separatist allies control about 4000 pe

cities, this is the port city. this is ukraine's biggest port. this is also very much a place, a city that russia one since part of the strategy when they have been moving along that southern coast. everyone will tell you that this is the main prize are when you asked me, how are people preparing? well, we're now officially today a month into this conflict of the city is heavily fortified, very sensitive. militarily, we're not allowed to build any checkpoints, any of the. the defenses are, if you will, then you of course have had many, many people, ordinary civilians joining what's called the territorial army, really providing back up to the military. and then we spend the morning with civilians who are non joining the territorial army, but who simply want to feel like they have a little bit more of defenses in their hands, in the sense of when it comes to operating weapons, we spoke to one man and he described himself as a seaman, he said, i've never operated a weapon. i don't want to operate a weapon. i'm still not ready to do so, but i feel lik

the port met these challenges by reducing $60 million in a number of ways. while the economy has somewhat recovered from the on set of the pandemic in march 2020, full economic recovery is expected to take five years, with tourism spending expected to return to prepandemic levels in 25-26. in february of last year, we work with speaker pelosi's office to author the american rescue plan act, and it was the first plan made available to ports nationwide. governor newsom's budget included a $250 million to the port for their loss. 14.4 million of the awarded funds are eligible to are spent in the current fiscal year. the remaining will be accepted through the upcoming budget process. last month, the port submitted a second application for 58.1 million to cover our state land revenue losses for 2021. the disbursement of those funds will be made at the next meeting of the state lands commission in april. page 9 of your packet detail spending of the $14.4 million today. page 17 of your packet includes the proposed use of funds for the entire funding package. today,

primarily in the form of port property. the site plan and the project was designed to have community facilities across the site regardless of whether it was on private or public property. there's a development agreement, covers the rule and regulations and standards associated with both these privately owned community improvements and these public jurisdictions. we call them public access open space areas. there's some detail in the exhibit i'll be giving to the standards of the used maintenance and operation of those spaces also in conjunction with the special use district that was adopted for this area. there's some process requirements around the design proposal and construction of some of the open spaces in particular. i think that's primarily what you're asking about. there's 9 or so different open spaces throughout the site plan. there's plaza, context, there's recreational open space. there's a whole suite of open space amenities provided throughout the site. the exhibit will go into details what the rules and regulat

nice and beautiful here in san francisco and the port. r fishermen are super excited. it's great to have the public come down here and interact. >> it's a whole experience for the family, where they bring the kids and interact and say wow, the crab's alive. it's going to claw me and everything. >> they really get excited they're coming down here and posting their recipes or pictures of the food. or their kids picking up the crab. they're making a whole experience out of it. >> it is going to give the locals a part of san francisco that was taken away from them. >> now i have a reason to come back. >> i had a guy the other day come and say he hasn't been down to fisherman's wharf in 10 years. he said i'm going to come down here every weekend. i forgot >> the market is one of our vehicles for reaching out to public and showing them how to prepare delicious, simple food. people are amazed that the library does things like that. biblio bistro is a food education program. it brings such joy to people. it teaches them life skills that they can a

this is it — moored in the port of trieste. a coal mining company, and the fertiliser producer eurochem, was sanctioned by the european union on march 9th. you're watching bbc news. hello. changeable weather, we will get to see some rain at times but it will not be raining all the time, there will be sunshine occasionally on the after what for many was a cloudy and damp start, it is a brightening up story and there will be sunny spells with the chance of a shower. windy throughout the weekend and getting windier still today particularly close to this area of low pressure that moves into south west england and south west wales this afternoon. an area of rain pushing its way north overnight and into this morning, this afternoon it moves into scotland and still raining at the end of the afternoon in the northern and western isles. for many other places, fine weather, broken cloud, sunshine, the chance of a shower, the weather going downhill to cornwall, pembrokeshire as we see rain and ever strengthening winds moving in. highs of

ready as fighting reaches the streets of maria poll, ukraine's liter cause the russian siege of the port city a war crime. looked at me moody, who could do this to a peaceful city. what the occupiers did to it is a terror that will be remembered for centuries to come. ah, hello, i'm adrian finnegan. this is al jazeera alive from dough. also coming up, we report from ukraine's eastern front lines where russian forces have been making steady advances. i'm a side bake, and i'm you can give you cranes, 2nd largest city as being pounded by russian forces for the last 3 weeks. feeding those left behind volunteers risk their lives to help the most vulnerable in the capital keys. and we report from a refugee camp in somalia, where many displaced by drought and now facing starvation. ukraine's president full of his zalinski is accused washing troops of committing war crimes. and maria pulled the southern port city has been on, but relentless artillery attack and has left its people without power with, with all water for more than a week. this is the territory and red here. but russia at its separ

well, alexander phenomena dw correspondent in ukraine is in the port of odessa and joined us. now, alexander, welcome to you again. i want to begin by asking how was the night where you are? well, we had to seek shelter at night and actually in the early morning hours and so with sirens, going off at least for 3 times. so you can understand that people are tired, they're on their, on dissipating, that russian attack on the port city for this could happen anytime we also spoke with the local defense forces. they told us that they are ready to meet, put in soldiers, who would fear resistance. that said, they are ready to fight to whatever a call center. what do we seeing across the city that the city has been turned into for trust with barricades checkpoints, and even tank traps? blocking the approaches to uniquely important places. alexandra, you're right in the middle of this, but how you're witnessing the people around you holding up? well, i mean, everyone is trying to find a way to, to cope with the situation. we have to have to stress that so many people have already left t

in the port city right now. o in the port city right now. so we have the financial times _ port city right now. so we have the financial times up. _ port city right now. so we have the financial times up. the _ port city right now. so we have the financial times up. the foreign i financial times up. the foreign secretary spoke of president putin's more desperate measures and this change in tactics, and i suppose the use of these hypersonic missiles, the first that have been used in combat as a possible sign of that. yes, definitely. this is a clear escalation. _ yes, definitely. this is a clear escalation, again, if true. these missiles — escalation, again, if true. these missiles travelling ten times the speed _ missiles travelling ten times the speed of— missiles travelling ten times the speed of sound, vitamin putin has said that — speed of sound, vitamin putin has said that they can bypass any air defence — said that they can bypass any air defence systems, so to see them use seemingly— defence systems, so to

the key port city on the black, they has so far, been sped fighting official suggest. the situation could change, though, with russia's military planning to attack by land and sea addresses. residents are preparing to defend their homes. the dumping correspondence, alexandra phenomena is in the port city of odessa and joins us now. alexandra, could you begin by giving us a sense of what the situation is where you are? well, the situation in the mood here in odessa is very tense. we have to say residents are on an edge and a local defense forces are anticipating their debtor. russian assault on the on the port city could happen anytime soon or we just had an air raid alarm again. our we had one at night, or in the morning or early morning hours and, and when i was in the bomb shult, i have to say that our scrolling down my telegram ab seeing bo alarmed that alarm. so we're going of in very many, many cities across ukraine, ill with n n a pull turbine, of course in eastern part of the country at that at sir, really depressing. it seems there to, there are russian forces

the mayor of hassan confirming that the black sea port city is now in the hands of invading truths. ukrainian president zalinski saying russia will pay for what it has done. also coming up tonight, ukraine and russia failed to make a breakthrough in a 2nd round of talks. plus the u. a refugee agency says over 1000000 people have now fled. ukraine will get to so vakio where women and children are confronting the reality of having to leave their home. ah, i bring gov, it's good to have you with us on this thursday. there is no progress to report. representatives from ukraine and russia have met on the bell roofs polish border for a 2nd round of talks about a possible ceasefire. ukraine is also expected to ask for the establishment of a humanitarian corridor to allow aid to get in and refugee to get out of the country. now this is just hours after the mayor of the city of harrison confirmed that russian troops took over the southern port city. this is the 1st major city to fall since russian forces began invading ukraine one week ago. ha, so home, these defiant residents of multiple a standing u

they are working on a master plan to rebuild the port. number of the engineering companies propose that we can use part of the old silos or the existing silos to take a part of it and make it as a part of the pneumonia and other experts disagree. after several seminars, discussions and meetings, we've had with experts of the order of engineers and architects. we know that any structure, no matter how damaged it is, it can be supported as if we're telling the people that they should move on with their lives as if nothing happened as if there was no crime. politicians have been accused of fielding themselves from prosecution. former official suspected of criminal negligence have refused to be question and security forces haven't implemented arrest warrant and the lead judge in the case like a previous us or has face pressure throughout the investigation. that investigation is now sold because of legal challenges, and many fear. removing the silos may bury the case altogether than a hood there. elisha zita, beirut, the number of covered 1900

a large russian landing ship off the occupied port . city of brad. yeah. it comes as russia bombards ukraine's major cities with air strikes and artillery valadez landscape urged people around the world to protest and rally for peace on la la. rock and roll in. thank you very much for making us part of your day, and i'll see you tomorrow and stick around the news asia with stories that people of the world over information. they provide the opinions, they want to express g, w on facebook and twitter up to date and in touch.

in the south of ukraine, the port city of cas song falls to russian troops. several other cities including the capital key, remain under attack. also on the program, more than a 1000000 civilians have now flagged ukraine of the you and he's wanting. this is just the beginning of bringing the latest from the border with romania where people are trying to escape the fighting and moscow crack down on independent media. continues the edison's of a 30 year old radio station say they've been closed down because they refuse to broadcast pro propaganda. ah, i'm fil gail. welcome to the program. representatives from ukraine and russia have met on the bella luce polish border. for a 2nd round of talks about a possible cease fire. you craigs, also expected to ask for the establishment of a humanitarian corridor to allow aids to get in and for refugees to get out of the country. this is just hours after the merit of care song confirmed that russian troops took over the southern port city. it's the 1st major city to fall since a russian forces began the invasion ha, home. these defiant residents of mal

nothing left but the ruins: ukraine says russian airstrikes are turning the besieged port of mariupol to dust. survivors tell of children starving to death. the leading kremlin critic facing yet more jail time — the us says it's part of russia's crackdown on dissent to hide the war in ukraine. and the women's world number one, ash barty, says she's retiring from tennis. the pentagon says ukrainian soldiers are successfully reversing battlefield momentum against invading russian forces to reclaim ground in some parts of the country. but the intense bombardment of the southern port city of mariupol shows no signs of abating, with the ukrainian president saying damage is so bad it no longer exists. a spokesman for the us defence department says there were some optimistic signs in other areas of the south. ukrainians are going a bit more on the offence now. they have been defending very smartly, very nimbly, very creatively in places that they believe are the right places to defend, and we have seen them now in places, particularly in the south, near kherson, they have tried to regain ter

flattened by russian. bob's emergency crew, still searching for survivors under the rubble and the besieged port city of money bought, rejects a russian ultimatum to surrender. also coming up, germany's vice chancellor travels to the gulf in search of new energy sources as berlin scrambles to diversify after years of relying on russian imports. and a china eastern airlines playing with 132 people on board crashes into a mountain in the south of the country. air traffic control says it plummeted suddenly from 8000 meters. ah hello everyone, i'm layla rock. thank you so much for joining us. president vladimir zalinski says ukraine will never bow to all the me ultimatums from russia, then ukrainian cities will never surrender. earlier, the besieged port city of mario bold, defied a russian deadline to lay down arms overnight. the capital key came under attack. rush and shelling destroyed a shopping mall in a residential neighborhood, killing at least 8 people. a blast that shook the entire city of keith. fires interrupted amid the wreckage of the mall that was hit by russian shelling, fire fighters

the transcome commander and had a discussion. i included a an requirement an assessment on our 17 strategic ports. the two d.o.d. strategic ports that came in last in terms of readiness was the port of tacoma and port of alaska and senator cantwell and i have been working on getting a focus both on these two ports which are interconnected in terms of commerce between our two states. we are working on a meeting with you and the commander. can i get your commitment to get that done soon? secretary buttigieg: you will get my commitment. senator sullivan: but two months ago, there has been a lot of litigation going back 20 years between more add and city of anf claims decided in favor of the municipality of the city of anchorage in this way too long litigation and they announced just last week and here's the commitment i need from you mr. secretary, notwithstanding this court decision i would like your assurance that this award is not treated as an award in lieu of any of the future grants for which the municipality is interested in applying that relate to this port. we think that would be unfair. and they are probab

my father used to spend most of his time at work at the port, so the silos was like a 2nd family. and now i think they symbolize my family, which has lost my father, which is broken, but still standing. still. the blast was one of the largest non nuclear explosions in history. it was triggered by ammonium nitrate, badly stored with highly exclusive material at a port warehouse. no one has yet been held to account, even though officials as high up as the president were aware of the dangers. the victims families say the destruction of the silos is another attempt by the political class to obstruct justice and accountability. before you about that the, the remains of the victims are still down at the pores. we won't accept the reconstruction of the pores until they finish the investigation and we know who killed the authorities say. there is no need to preserve what remains of the silos . because the forensic investigation reached an advanced stage, they are working on a master plan to rebuild the port. number of the engineering companies propose that we can use part of the old silos

clearly, the area is the| ukrainian ports that are out of action at the moment. ve ships diverted to rome mania and bulgaria. backlogs cause delays and it has a knock—on effect for that ship which is then late for the next port and the situation exacerbates as time goes on. it is early days but certainly we are starting to see signs of this affecting the shipping markets. are starting to see signs of this affecting the shipping markets. haifa are starting to see signs of this affecting the shipping markets. ., , .., are starting to see signs of this affecting the shipping markets. ., , .. ,., , markets. how significant ports in ukraine. _ markets. how significant ports in ukraine, globally. _ markets. how significant ports in ukraine, globally. the - in ukraine, globally. the ukrainian port, there is a huge amount of grain exported another exports from ukraine but that is just one amount of commodities. 0f but that is just one amount of commodities. of course, trade still goes on and all the other ports around the world as well but, nonetheless, the situation in t

it comes as russian troops moved deeper into the besieged port city of mighty, you po, for more than 300000 people, remain trapped. also coming up jewish choate, jewish children from the ukrainian city of odessa, find refuge in berlin, where they're celebrating the festival of poor ah, i'm pablo foliage. welcome to the program. dozens of ukrainian soldiers have been killed in a russian missile strike on a military base in michel live in southern ukraine. the strike is one of the deadliest attacks on ukrainian military targets since the start of the war, and it's feared the death toll could rise significantly. it comes as russia make significant military gains in ukraine, including in the besieged port city of medieval the aftermath of a russian missile attack and michel live. it's believed 200 soldiers were inside. at the time the base was struck. rescuers raced to find survivors in the rubble, but are forced to seek safety. when an air raid siren rings out, the constant threat of bombardment has forced people here underground income. like yes, that was lovely. i can't tell you how sc

the southern port city is ukraine's 3rd largest and home to more than a 1000000 people. it's on the black sea coast and host the ukranian navies headquarters, which moved thereafter. russia and next crimea in 2014, and also handles around 65 percent of ukranian c cargo. if russia were to seize a desert will effectively cut off ukraine from overseas. tre, the military aid, what are the hamid reports? when the sirens go off, people head to the shelter in odessa is deep underground. in the so called catacombs, all stone mines excavated through times leaking. her children have been coming and going from here since the beginning of the war before they have supplies ready for the long hold. i think it will just look nothing that will reduce the her look. we have water, here are the blankets we have to sleep here. his mom is with us on the mats and to inflatable mattresses and he, we keep food, a lot of different things. biscuits, live, patty, and different kinds of food. i have the passport and all the documents in my bag. as soon as i hear the sirens, i pick up the children an

vehicle loaning the besieged port city of mar, you, pull, continues to bear the full brunt of russia's bombardment. the humanitarian situation is worsening by the hour for hundreds of thousands, trapped without power running water or fresh food. in the nearby southern city melita pool, which has already been taken by russian forces, residents turned out to protest against the alleged kidnapping of their mayor. and to demand his release as fighting rages, people in and around keith will be hoping and praying that last minute diplomacy could still spare them the worst of what has happened to other ukrainian cities. elsewhere in ye crime, there are concerns that russian forces also have their sites on odessa. in the southwest, 4 days russians have bombarded the town 130 kilometers down the coastline in an attempt to advance on odessa. but ukrainian forces have repelled the attacks. the cape, what city on the black sea has so far been spared fighting official suggests the situation could change with rushes, military planning to attack by land and sea addresses, residents are preparing to d