so zelinski case is not unique, pretty specific. yes. in the sense it is a unique actor who is directly who came directly from the committee to the politics in very short time. in a few months we can see. and that's uni because we're not we got you was governor of california. you was in the board in politics before it became the president of. ready united states, so since he's case use or so, so, so, but partly very specific. how can we explain my view? and it's a huge advantage when you are in, you want to be elected to become a president to use your fame, your personal thing. so if you are, your name is known from to pub, which was the case offers. lensky in quinn was very famous as a comedian, as a human resource at the t v. event in russia, but also quinn. so it's a big advantage if your name is already known, and it was also a crazy not a fake president, but he was playing his role before becoming the 2 president of the country. so maybe it has some influence about elections. but what also is important in the case of, of the lensky,

some of the meetings between zelinski and his top military staff have been described according to the theme or something out of a mob movie from the united states. apparently, they were angry quote, he was taking a larger share of this money than was going to the general. and apparently there has been fighting between zelinski and his inner circle about how the lute gets divided. now the article also goes on to describe that. well, there is a total breakdown between the white house leadership and the intelligence community that apparently there are quite a bit of disagreements within the biden administration and within the us intelligence agencies about how to conduct operations. anthony blanca apparently does not want to hear any criticism of the ukrainian government. he dismisses all the point to things like corruption and other problems on the part of lindsey and his allies being both throw. meanwhile, in here at the biden administration has no real plan for the conflict, for resident, resolving it or moving ahead in any way. at the same time, there are us troops stationed in polan

look, for instance zelinski. how do the rest on trying to corporate media insisting about his big team award is. ready it is commitment for the good against the bad rush and, and so on. and forgetting completely home his scope by louis investment is real estate properties in florida. in london, you can reach where with, by the pump up papers. but you have no mention of pandora papers and zalinski forts and how is using money laundering money and putting is money in florida. you are never kind of mentioned because it's, it has been put aside and by the you are connected. the drawing, of course, the positive message message about them. forgetting all too bad sides the darker sides of this kind of what people in the case of gentlemen sky, it's of yours for people who are nobody his biography. but if you are just a regular he called reading from time to time a newspaper. ready listening to radio, you cannot know anything about his dark past because it says been completely concealed completely. he been and it's easy t

so zelinski scarce. he's not unique. pretty specific. yes. in the sense it is a unique actor who is directly who came directly from good comedy to the politics in very short time. in a few months we can see. and that's unique because we're not we got, you was governor of california. you was involved in politics before he became a president of the united states. so since his case is or so, so, so a very specific how can we explain in my view? and it's a huge advantage when you are in, you want to be elected to become a president to use your pay, your personal thing. so if you are, your name is known from the public, which was the case of the landscaping quinn, was very famous as a comedian, as a you, maurice, them at the t v. event in russia. but also your claim. so it's a big advantage. if your name is already known, and it was also a question, not a fake president, you know, but it was playing is role before becoming due to president of the country. so maybe it has some influence about elections. but what also is important in the case of, of

for me, zelinski didn't came from nothing to do everything. you know, as i tried to explain, because it was pretty noun in the russian speaking countries such as ukraine bills and russia before his election as a, as a president. but the case of for grant arkenberg is a little bit different because she was not now and, and she suddenly appeal on the scene in the not. ready less than one year. we can explain that because she's also, she was also going to posture, offer victim. if you look at look, person precisely read that book. she, she looks a little bit like do you remember me? b t b r a t v movie for the movie or made by stephen speak about this is very friendly, sympathetic n e t. and if you look at the face of dark space, she has something in common with short, sharp tracks, the sympathy of the people because of her special face. and i think to it as like, as she is slightly, has been said, what to stick, but it gives to her some attraction to the people. because like, you know, she's attracting attention to just capacity and zealand ski.

come to kira and not only has he not visited kia rossetti would, he has not even contacted will zelinski on the telephone, so i think zelinski certainly open to see what china has to say. china has not decided i think, to play the role of middleman yet. i think it thinks that the conditions are not ripe in ukraine for the resolution of the war. that is my sense. what about the precarious position china and taiwan are in right now. well, you know, miss verba made it very clear by hinting by far hinting more than that by seeing explicitly how calamitous or war in taiwan would be. not only militarily, but also the global economy. things are very tense as you know, just stop to mr. moore. left aging china stage a very significant military exercise which included the simulated blockade of taiwan. and so the temperature certainly is rising and there is no indication of the chinese are willing to say we put the use of military force off the table. and miss burbock emphasize this. i think the chinese will very clear that they would decide how they would resolve taiwan. i don't think they want to

well, discuss this topic, do not discuss everything with zelinsky in kiev , his comrades and generalsis is impossible. absurdity ah, well, this can not be discussed, but it still gets on the tape. and not only here are the pages of the very personal page of symour hirsh, because there are media that support biden, there are media that do not support biden, because 95% of the major media have been demolished. they are under the control of the white house is absurd. well, yes, there are some small independent media but there may be tens of hundreds of thousands of them. well, you yourself know we have 330 million inhabitants in the united states, so even if the audience is about 100,000, then very few are generally very few. well, americans who know what happens when such a group does not hear everything, when you hear, yes, you understand that they are furious, they are very very unhappy, because yes, we have a very difficult economic situation. now. in general, tall infants are very. in general, everything is very expensive for us. and this half a country and a half ate. half of the c

ready to send ukraine all of its remaining. mig fighter jets on top of those already promised mr. zelinski is due to read some of the 1600000 ukrainians who sought refuge in poland since the invasion. well, i corresponded daina moran is in warsaw a welcome christie. let's start with a promise from poland. if polling gives away all of its mig jets. when does that leave becomes his defense. that's a very good question. phil. i had a conversation with a defense analyst, and she told me about what she feared was the risk of demilitarization in europe as a result of the war in ukraine. as, as western allies are chief among them, european countries have pledged and, and delivered more sort of heavy weaponry and at armory to ukraine that they were in effect at depleting their own stock piles. and she said, if you just point back to add the nato secretary general's words last year where he said the stockpiles would take years to replenish. so there are concerns that all of these efforts are really, are leaving europe in a, in a precarious position. especially if you take into account the fact that

instance, where it says you need to lease on commission or the very successful in italy or other zelinski case is not unique, but the specific yes, came directly from good comedy to the politics of california. you was involved in politics before. so back partly very percentage when you out in you want to be like, if you are, your name is known from the public restore at the t v. event in russia. but all of a president, not a fake question. some influence about elections, but is that he made a campaign. electra campaign, 19 president, and i will bring you the piece. so you made that the conflict and the crisis redraw, shut the price the soon as you was elected. but before the election, you passed on non politician as an advantage to be, i was in my, you successful and should remain early docs of good country. so he had plenty of by democracy. we can, you cannot be elected as are a symbol of thought. when i turn birds, the young, why are these people used as you know, like a singular thing, you know, as i tried to explain because it was practice and russia before his election as not now and

and apparently one thing that has gotten detractors most upset is vladimir zelinski was criticized. the ukrainian leader was apparently criticized by daniel she, anne, who is bank of america security, had of international relations and he described zelinski as a master manipulator and mimic her. and he said he had serious concern, and that us official and serious concerns about zelinski and his credibility. now the bank of america spokesperson came forward and said these were not the views of daniel, she and these were the views of others. he was simply reporting what he understands to be the views of the lindsey behind closed doors among us official. now another speaker was from the university of rhode island. it was the professor nichol petrow, and he reportedly angered some guess by going over the facts about the russia ukraine war. and he fired back in an interview with the financial times that he was not really being listened to. and that what he was saying in the speech was being misrepresented. here's what the professors that under any scenario, ukraine would be the overwhelm

course, china has put together a 12 point so called piece plan that was made public in february and zelinski was very quick to denounce that, not calling it a plan in any way towards piece. it's all to do with territory still for the ukrainians. zelinski repeatedly says that until russia withdraws from all the occupied lands, including crimea, he's not prepared to sit down, at least with the russians, and talk about a lasting solution. so as i say, this isic significant, this conversation that's been had, but there is still a lot of work to be done. it's going to be interesting to see how the european community and the white house, how the us really flesh is over this conversation and way that they interpreted in trying to form some sort of solution to at least get some potentially president zelinski and president putin, one day sitting at the same table. the u. s. in south korea have unveiled a nuclear deterrent plan to mister corporation. the face of threats from north korea becomes during the 1st state visit to the u. s. by south green precedent in 12 years. a white house correspondent, k

many i'm so we just the beginning, ambassador, if you could put us inside the mind of president zelinski a, why would he think that a phone call with the chinese president at this moment in time? why would it be of any positive significance for you crate? whoa, the time was chosen by china, so hm. you sprained ankle 2 months ago or a year ago? prisons landscape definitely would have picked up the phone because china is big enough on board. and now, and we hope that they are the despite of this so called no limit to operation was rational martin friendship with russia a see and understand who is the fire this. ready or who is the victim? so of the time was chosen by sign that they should be as the one that she's being, as we understand it did not mention russia by name or it's invasion of ukraine in this phone call with president zelinski. in fact, the read out that was given by beijing of this phone call shows that china remains rather ambiguous as ever when it comes to the war in ukraine. to it. do you think there's an ulterior motive here then in this phone call? oh i think if some are

so this was no simple task for a. 2 president lydia zelinski as well as his administration. he's, he's bacchus metropolitan pabo. the head of the key of picturesque lava was detained earlier today. he was taken heal, court hearing. he felt poorly was taken to hospital and forcefully by ukrainian security agency taken back to court. the hearing is ongoing. we know that he is being charged on 2 counts. one is sparking and finding into religious hatreds and enmity. the v of course, the subject matter the evidence we haven't seen, but also with rejecting the premise of the russian aggression which i in kit, we in kevin, whatever ukraine is seen, something is as gospel that russia is via aggressive, should be resisted everywhere. he, himself, metropolitan keith has denied these charges. yes, lazy, i have done nothing of what they are accusing me off. this is a political matter. i have never been on the side of aggression. i am against aggressions. now, i mean a crane. this is my land of the scenes from the monastery, the key of each of lava. ah harrowing for many orthodox folk fo

is the biggest religious grouping in ukraine, so this was no simple task for a president vladimir zelinski as well as his administration. he's, he's back as metropolitan puzzle at the head of the key of the chairs. lava was detained earlier today, he was taken to a court hearing. he felt poorly was taken the hospital of enforce fully by ukrainian security agents. taken back the court, we knew that he is being charged on 2 counts. one e's sparking and finding inter religious hatreds and enmity. the subject matter of the evidence we haven't seen, but also with rejecting the premise of the russian aggression, which in kevin will, over ukraine, is seen something as, as gospel that russia is via aggressive, should be resist every wet of the scenes from the monastery. the key of which of lava ah harrowing for many orthodox folk for not justin in ukraine. but all over the world, their sending shudders through worshippers of the machine is such that supports us those against the eviction and the takeover of for you kids. what have you quince? largest monasteries is that they're there, they're pray

the biggest religious grouping in ukraine, so this was no simple task for a. 2 president vladimir zelinski as well as his administration. he's, he's bacchus metropolitan puzzle. at the head of the key of picturesque lava was detained earlier today. he was taken to a court hearing. he felt poorly was taken to hospital and forcefully by ukrainian security agents taken back to the court. we knew that he is being charged of 2 counts. one, really, he's sparking and finding inter religious hatreds and enmity, the subject matter the evidence they haven't seen, but also with rejecting the premise of the russian aggression, which in kevin, whatever ukraine is seen, something is as gospel that russia is via aggressive, should be resisted everywhere. he himself, metropolitan key of has denied these charges here lately i have done and around them dancing ukrainians, dancing nationalists, sorry, radicals, chanting insults, threats of things that we can't voice so will describe on air and dancing about the joyce about this occasion. that has been very little comment from abroad, from various renews reli

you had a zelinski launch in grades using the ukranian, s b u, the security service to target ab raid search various monasteries, various members of the clergy, their homes, their workplaces will over the country. a v information turned ah, was a result of that has been scanned. and we can say that judging by the fact that the s b, u hasn't come out and shown anything damaging. nevertheless, they've been at it. they've been trying to find dirt on the ukrainian orthodox church in order to shut it down once and for all. and these, as i said, ease the culmination of these efforts. will that cross 2 independent political analysts, alice, some drew, bruno alice, under. welcome to you. the monastery has been the focus of much attention for some time. we've seen scuffles outside attempts of the fiction. now the head of it dragged off to court and put under high stress all essentially because the monks, they're just want to continuous stewardship. they've held at the holy site for years and years. how do you see what's unfolding there? thank you your hand so i think, well, the, it's very usef

china is seen as a key player in any piece process because of its close relationship with russia. zelinski has appointed a new ukranian ambassador to be g. the 1st and more than 2 years. yeah, well, you know, your wifi, people from going and hundreds of thousands of ukrainians have been called up to fight since the russian invasion last february. for most it's their 1st experience of the military did. obviously, connelly went to the front line in the east and on bus region to find out how ukraine citizen soldiers are coping in the trenches. a spring turns wet, snow to mud, keeping upright is even harder than it looks. this forest might seem empty, but it's actually full of soldiers, all on the lookout. people always it down because near here the russians are just a matter of a few 100 me to a yvonne and his friend are in a forward position. without leaves on the trees, it feels exposed release. they can see russian units when they approach soon they'll be better hidden, but so will the other side. so what will it take, or the hardest thing is, when it's too quiet to do, it means the russia

it also takes great place courage by president zelinsky because they know they are suffering casualties there. but this is an important role that's being played there in back mood for a much bigger, more strategically important attack that's going to come in a month or so. yeah, let's talk more about that given your experience, what would you suggest as a military strategy or what do you expect ukrainian forces to do in june? well, this is all about crimea crimea is a decisive terrain. you could kill every russian soldier within 100 and 50 kilometers of baku that would not change the strategic setting, you liberate crimea that changes everything. and so i think this offensive will be aimed at number the strategic setting, you liberate crimea that changes everything. and one, isolating the crimean peninsula and they begin to do that by breaking the so called land bridge that runs from rostov all the way to the peninsula. then phase two, they bring up more long range precision weapons that can begin to range all the way onto the peninsula to make it untenable for russian forces. and then

defenses. nato members of other countries gather in ramstein and germany on friday and present. zelinski requests are very clear, more modern western kit and longer range weapons that so far ukraine's allies have been reluctant to supply, but time is tight for ukraine. with the so called spring counter offensive expected in the coming weeks. john stratford al jazeera keith. harrowing image of the war in ukraine has won the world press fatal of the year. a crenan associated press photography of guinea my let god capture this image in march. last year. it shows emergency workers carrying a pregnant woman through the shattered grounds of maternity hospital in the city of my report. the 32 year old woman died of her injuries shortly after giving birth to life this body of her baby. that picture real. we're always in austin, in our mind, you know that picture you want to erase from the memory, but you couldn't. and it will start with a history as a war crime against crannies russians, military has launched a new recruitment video to bowls to troops in the front lines in ukraine. the advert de

it did not mention russia by name or it's invasion of ukraine in this phone call with president zelinski. in fact, the read out that was given by beijing of this phone call shows that china remains rather ambiguous as ever when it comes to the war in ukraine. to it, do you think there's an ulterior motive here? then in this phone call? hello. i think is some, are you craigs interest for it's i not to be ambiguous, quite frankly, because it will be good, a strong well, it will be very damaging for your graham and i think it will be the softening for the world's and it will be a very, very big mistake child, for some reason would have decided to do in the occupier this. oh, this absolutely horrific or a war answer? no, just it. okay. fire and the rest of the aggressor who is not winning this war. so i think, i think it will be just logical prudence of china, or to be a big is about the countries in the global self. and that includes the bricks, countries, brazil, russia, india, and china, and south africa. and they have not criticized russia for its invasion of ukraine. with any mind i wan

you also have the a presidential aid of, of leukemia. zelinski come out and say that this is the perfect opportunity to crack down and to cleanse the orthodox church. a unique chance when everything could be resolved very quickly and painlessly was during the 1st 3 to 6 months of the war. then it was possible to simply physically clean out many pro russians. today it is a little more difficult. but again, a little harder does not mean impossible. and today we must use legal and tough means to sweep them away. what is startling is that there has been very little reaction to abroad from yes. with such such obvious. and then you face statements that they want to get rid of an entire branch of the orthodox church, the biggest grouping religious grouping, and ukraine no less. earlier over the past month, this pressure against them has mounted and mounted. you had a ukrainian s. b, u agents, government security agents, a raid and search churches all over the country. looking full pro russian material links between us, between the clergy and russia. evidently, judging by the fact that they have

well, as you could imagine, zelinski is continued his demands for more weapons. we've already seen tens of millions of dollars worth of western cape flooding into this country over recent months. and we know that certainly there are thousands of ukrainian soldiers that have been pouring into the dorm bass region in the south in recent weeks, in preparation for this expected so called spring council offensive. so yes, zelinski are asking for more weapons, the ukrainians have been pretty candid, certainly saying that there are huge holes in their ability to defend the skies. interestingly, yesterday, germany confirm that it's pledged patriot missile system. the 2nd patriot missile system, the 1st one being american, has now arrived in ukraine. but that is nowhere near enough. we know that ukrainians are demanding, for example, more fighter jets and more surface to air missiles to try and protect the skies. friends protested, carrying flares, invented the offices of the stock market operator euro next. in the business district of paris. the protest is part of why th

defenses. nato members of other countries gather in ramstein and germany on friday and present. zelinski requests are very clear, more modern western kit and longer range weapons that so far ukraine's allies have been reluctant to supply, but time is tight for ukraine, with the so called spring counter offensive expects it in the coming weeks. john stratford al jazeera keith u. s. president joe biden has host to the columbia in the present. gustavo petro, the white house, the 2 leaders, discussed climate change, migration and columbia's don't run in conflict with rebels for true. who took office in august last year has been highly critical of washington's war on drugs. joe biden says more can be done to deepen corporation against drug trafficking on white house correspondent, kimberly how could, has more. both us president joe biden and columbia president, gustavo petro, sat in the oval office, acknowledging that it was important to deepen their friendship for variety of reasons, even as they have differences to overcome for the us. it is an interest in making sure that china does not de

armor. delaying decisions is time that is lost for pace and this by the lives of outweighs what zelinski will immediately get is more of this russian design mix. 20000000 fly to jets. donated point neighbor and later members, slovakia, they may be old stock which fired from use my slovakia last year. but ukrainian pilots are familiar with them and then go straight into services. ukraine prepares for its imminent spring offensive, but more immediate needs on defensive. russian air attacks by missiles and drones continued. 8 civilians were killed in this attack on the eastern city of sla vance last week. ukraine. an air force command now admits that it leads more ammunition, fruits, air defenses. nato members of other countries gather in ramstein and germany on friday and present. zelinski requests are very clear, more modern western kit and longer range weapons that so far ukraine's allies have been reluctant to supply, but time is tight for ukraine, with a so called spring counter offensive expected in the coming weeks. john stratford al jazeera keith. what russia's military is launched

it's all to do with territories still for the ukrainians. zelinski repeatedly says that until russia withdraws from all the occupied lands, including crimea, he's not prepared to sit down, at least with the russians, and talk about a lasting solution. so as i say, this isic significant, this conversation that's been had, but there is still a lot of work to be done and is going to be interesting to see how the european community and the white house, how the us really flesh is over this conversation. and way that they interpreted it trying to form some sort of solution to at least get some potentially presidents zalinski and president putin one day sitting at the same table. the us house of representatives has voted to raise the level of the government's debt. the republican bill increases the debt ceiling to $31.00 trillion dollars. the bill, though, has conditions to limit government spending. now goes to the senate for approval, but president biden has already threatened to veto it without agreement, the u. s. credit rating could be downgraded increasing the cost of boring when the,

it's all to do with territories still fall the ukrainians. zelinski repeatedly says that until russia withdraws from all the occupied lands, including crimea. he is not prepared to sit down, at least with the russians, and talk about a lasting solution. so as i say, this isic significant, this conversation that's been had, but there is still a lot of work to be done and is going to be interesting to see how the european community and the white house, how the us really fleshes over this conversation and way that they interpreted it trying to form some sort of solution to at least get some potentially present zalinski and president putin one day sitting at the same table also to come here and al jazeera, including guns and gangs in haiti. the un says that reaching the levels a y, brazil, former president says he isn't responsible for the storming of government buildings in john morning. ah. with their equity in beijing is surprisingly good about the wind is picked up is come out of the interior but doesn't brought much with it. but we have got to opposing winds is coming out of the glob

it's all to do with territories still fall the ukrainians. zelinski repeatedly says that until russia withdraws from all the occupied lands including crimea, he is not prepared to sit down, at least with the russians, and talk about a lasting solution. so as i say, this isic significant, this conversation that's been had, but there is still a lot of work to be done. it's going to be interesting to see how the european community and the white house, how the us really fleshes over this conversation and way that they interpreted it, trying to form some sort of solution to at least get some potentially present zalinski and president putin one day sitting at the same table, former president, president j. a boss. nora has testified to federal police as part of the investigation into post election riots. thousands of his supporters of tat government buildings in january after he lost the presidential election. on k nakeila reports from priscilla. former president abel sonata testified for almost 3 hours. he's being investigated by brazil's federal police for allegedly instigating the january

so this was no simple task for a president vladimir zelinski as well as his administration. he's. he's bacchus metropolitan paddle at the head of the key of the chairs. glover was detained earlier today. he was taken to a court hearing. he felt poorly was taken the hospital and forcefully by ukrainian security agents taken back the court, we knew that he is being charged on 2 counts. one is sparking and finding inter religious hatreds and enmity, the subject matter the evidence we haven't seen, but also with rejecting the premise of the russian aggression which in care of and whatever ukraine is seen. something is as gospel that russia is via aggressive, should be resistant everywhere he, himself, metropolitan key of has denied these charges. feel like i have done nothing or would be accusing me off. this is a political matter. i have never been on the side of aggression. i am against aggression now, i'm in ukraine. this is my land of the scenes from the monasteries the key of which of lava ah harrowing for many orthodox folk for not justin in ukraine. but all over the world, thei

but for president zelinski, it's a moment of hope. take his bonnet and we interpret this visit of the secretary general. the 1st of the full scale war is a sign that the nato alliance is ready to start a new chapter in relations with ukraine. a chapter of ambitious decisions. but the law there, i urged the secretary general to help overcome the restraint of our partners in supplying some weapons, including long range weapons, modern aviation artillery and alma. delaying decisions is time that is lost for pace and they spend the lives of outweighs what zelinski will immediately get is more of this. russian design make 20000000 flight to jets, donated points neighbor and they to member slovakia. they may be old stock, which fired from use my slovak year last year, but ukrainian pilots are familiar with them. and then go straight into services. ukraine prepares for its imminent spring offensive, but more immediate needs on defensive wash and air attacks by missiles and drones continued. 8 civilians were killed in this attack on the easte

because, so what you're saying is zelinski is buying is fueling the war on ukraine by buying russian oil in the black market. russia, russian, the diesel is roger is obviously funding a ukraine because with north stream gone, it has to be transit fees for gas and going through ukraine actually. and that's part of it there. are you know this the price of diesel, but there is still a gas line that was, was operational, i think, in the sixty's, a long time ago from russia through ukraine, into some of the countries that in western europe, old warsaw block countries. you know, the old number, the warsaw block that existed as an opposition to our nato. i guess, oh, it was. and they have to pay the transit fee pens, even every, every gets russia continues to pay a chassis fee for that pipeline. an oil does flow, but it doesn't go to your credit goes through ukraine and, but there's always been incredible complaints over the years. i mean, for decades about ukraine plug into it illegally and citing. somebody go out. but that was before the war. it's just look, i didn't know i should be a gi

and just like every now and ukrainian president holiday mirror, zelinski says he's had his 1st phone call with chinese president shooting thing since the beginning of the war and ukraine. lensky described, the conversation is long and meaningful. she met with russian president vladimir putin in moscow last month. beijing claims that his maintaining neutrality and the conflict. as charles stratford reports from key details of the call have been released by the chinese ministry of foreign affairs. president g commanded zalinski for his a want full while actual relations. the real emphasis though is on the wall as a very interesting points made. and he said that to the ukraine crisis was evolving in a complex way with huge international ramifications. he said that china's coal stance is to facilitates a peaceful solution. he went into details as well about china's neutrality in this will something that beijing has been very keen to stress since the beginning. and he's widely considered that this 12 point plan that china put together and released in february was very much weighted in rus

defenses. nato members of other countries gather in ramstein and germany on friday and present. zelinski requests are very clear, more modern western kit and longer range weapons that so far ukraine's allies have been reluctant to supply, but time is tight for ukraine, with the so called spring counter offensive expected in the coming weeks. cha, stratford al jazeera cave. russia's defense ministry says one of its warplanes accidentally fight a weapon into the city of belgrade, near ukraine. the regional governor says at least 2 people were injured in the explosion. video from this i showed piles of concrete on the street, several damaged cars. the belgrade region is one of several parts of southern russia where targets, like fuel and ammunition stores have been rocked by explosions since the war started. a harrowing image of the war and ukraine has won the well press. photo of the year ukrainian associated press photographer yevgeny maletchko, captured this image in march last year. it shows emergency workers carrying a pregnant woman through the shattered grounds of a maternity hospita

defenses. nato members of other countries gather in ramstein and germany on friday, and president zelinski requests are very clear, more modern western kit and longer range weapons that so far ukraine's allies have been reluctant to supply, but time is tight for ukraine with its so called spring counter offensive expected in the coming weeks charged for al jazeera, keep the king of fashion military to captain abraham, tara has signed a decrease of compulsory recruitment to the armed forces. a mobilization affects all young men, aged 18 and above the president. he said it has, it's to help fight armed groups. more than 10000 people have been killed in violence in the country since 2015. nicholas that brings us more from senegal capital to con britain of us. those military gentle leader admits that the military is going from losses to defeat, saying that the government forces have laws to 40 percent of its territory to arm groups linked to al qaeda and iso. since the coo, the united states, has severed military cooperation with captain ibrahim tower tories military agenda leadership. and the

clergy diplomats representing muslim majority countries and muslim members of the armed forces. zelinski used the opportunity to recognize of their contribution to the war effort. it is the money jealous, agreeable m. val, whom diversity enshrined in respect is part of the character of independent ukraine beside the game. not her act of those these meet soon, sir. in may this character always strengthen our nation and guided to good deeds going on. yes, ukraine is grateful to the muslims of our country and the entire muslim community of the world who like us, will destroy for peace, number and resist. evil is a history of it was la muslims account for one percent of the predominantly orthodox christian nation in crimea, which was illegally annexed by russia. in 2014 muslims make up 12 percent of the population. there's also a significant muslim community in the eastern don bass region. with the conflict. spending almost a decade has displeased many of ukraine's muslims resembled almost to summer cycle by say. now we will not forget grange that it was with the occupation of our crimea wor

this is actually hugely significant because as you say, it is the 1st conversation that zelinski has had with g. of course, china is russia's em, most powerful ally and em, zelinski is, is not alone in with a lot of his western allies is being very distrustful of china's role in this war. so this seems to be a clear signal for beijing that they are seemingly very invested in, eventually finding the conditions for a peaceful solution to this war. and this really could be a significant development, charles stratford. thank you very much. if you get details from the ukrainian side on what was said during the call, you'll keep a surprise. charles, thank you. a jailed russian opposition leader alexander valley has called the latest case against him. absurd. he was in court on wednesday in the early stages of a new trial on extreme isn't charges. now he's already serving 11 years in a maximum security prison and says that all charges against him are politically motivated. now only was taken to hospital earlier this month, and his spokesperson says that she can't can't rule out. poisoning a

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i think zelinsky understood this and i think it's the right call. how does ukraine win against an enemy that in the end of the day is sort of many, many times bigger? you're the defense budget is 10 times bigger than number of people putin can call in so much larger so i think winning looks like ensuring that russia doesn't achieve its goal . so when the invasion first started, of course, there were these putin's narrative was we're going to take kiev. we're gonna come in through harkey. you've come up through crimea come in through the dawn box, and we will essentially take ukraine. well when that didn't work so well, then he moved the goalposts. and now it was about well, we're going to build the land bridge from donbass down to crimea. and now he is struggling to do that. so if the ukrainians can prevent the russians from actually building that land bridge. then i think what it does is it forces putin once again to move the goalpost, and frankly, sooner or later, failure is going to be on the radar for everybody that's watching this so they don't

it's a red trip abroad during wartime for zelinski. a show of tanks for poland support for keith. holland has taken more than a 1000000 refugees, many of whom gathered outside the presidential palace where the duly does were meeting. during the visit, zalinski told reporters the situation in the besieged ukrainian town of bar, which is very difficult. it did not rule out withdrawing from the town. should ukrainian troops risking surrounded by russian forces. but mil as it military analysis still expect ukraine to launch a wider spring counter offensive cubans this is goal is to regain control of all of its loss. territory the front line near back moved. ukrainian soldiers are dug in. it's still unclear who's in control of the city. the u. s. and other bankers have advised the ukraine to pull out thing. the cost is too high. both ukraine and russia have lost huge numbers of soldiers in the battle, but ukraine and fis on defending the area as it prepares for a major spring counter offensive. gluten done, it will happen. we are waiting. w